AIYUN HUANG: THE DREAM FEED @ UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY
Acclaimed percussionist Aiyun Huang performs Zosha’s The Dream Feed for percussion and electronics at the University of Canterbury. More info forthcoming.
Acclaimed percussionist Aiyun Huang performs Zosha’s The Dream Feed for percussion and electronics at the University of Canterbury. More info forthcoming.
Violinist Emmanuel Vukovich performs Zosha’s Patina for solo violin as part of his RESILIENCE Project launch at Ferme Cadet Roussel in Mont-Sant Grégoire, Quebec. This concert marks the launch of Les Concerts St. Grégoire.
RESILIENCE is inspired by the musical legacy of Béla Bartók.
Violinist Emmanuel Vukovich performs Zosha’s Patina for solo violin as part of his RESILIENCE Project launch at Stony Brook University’s Staller Centre for Performing Arts.
RESILIENCE is inspired by the musical legacy of Béla Bartók.
Violinist Emmanuel Vukovich performs Zosha’s Patina for solo violin as part of his RESILIENCE Project launch at Barnard College at Columbia University, as a workshop/performance in collaboration with Barnard Movement Lab. More info forthcoming.
RESILIENCE is inspired by the musical legacy of Béla Bartók.
Zosha has written a new work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic that will receive its world premiere on April 16 by the LAPhil New Music Group conducted by John Adams. Titled Noctiluca, the work is scored for 8 celli, accordion, piano, and percussion. The program also includes the LA Phil Etudes: Book I and a work by Anthony Davis, with soloists Anthony McGill and Earl Howard.
Zosha will also participate in LAPhil’s pre-concert talk series, Upbeat Live, at 7:00pm prior to the performance, moderated by Sarah Cahill.
More info & tickets here.
Acclaimed percussionist Aiyun Huang performs Zosha’s The Dream Feed for percussion and electronics at Northern Illinois University. The program also includes works by Chris Mercer, Kotoka Suzuki, David Bithell, Nicole Lizée, and Javier Álvarez.
More info and tickets here.
Acclaimed percussionist Aiyun Huang performs Zosha’s The Dream Feed for percussion and electronics at Northwestern’s Bienen School of Music. The program also includes works by Chris Mercer, Kotoka Suzuki, David Bithell, Nicole Lizée, and Javier Álvarez.
This is a free event. More info here.
The Calgary Philharmonic, conducted by Earl Lee, performs Zosha’s Pentimento on March 1 and 2, 2024, at Jack Singer Concert Hall. More info and tickets here.
The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) will perform Zosha’s In the Half-Light, a song cycle for soprano and orchestra written for Barbara Hannigan, with a libretto by Tash Aw. The concerts will be on February 28 and 29, 2024, conducted by Rafael Payare. More details here.
The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) will perform Zosha’s In the Half-Light, a song cycle for soprano and orchestra written for Barbara Hannigan, with a libretto by Tash Aw. The concerts will be on February 28 and 29, 2024, conducted by Rafael Payare. More details here.
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Earl Lee, performs Zosha’s Pentimento on February 24, 2024 at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. More info and tickets here.
Pianist and composer Chen-Hui Jen performs Zosha’s The Untellable Hour of Quiet in a concert of cutting-edge music for cello (Jason Calloway), piano, and electronics (Jacob Sudol) as part of the XXVII New Music Miami ISCM Festival. A pre-concert discussion with the artists will also take place at 7:00pm.
Acclaimed percussionist Aiyun Huang performs Zosha’s The Dream Feed for percussion and electronics at Vanderbilt University’s Blair guest artist series.
This is a free event. More info here.
Zosha has created a new arrangement of her work Sprung Testament (originally written for violin and piano) for flute and piano, which will be performed by flutist Geneviève Savoie and pianist Fabienne Gosselin, as part of E27 Musiques Nouvelles. The concert will take place in Québec City and include works by Valerie Coleman, Rachel Laurin, Jocelyn Morlock and Kaija Saariaho. More details forthcoming.
The Symphony Nova Scotia, conducted by Karl Hirzer, performs Zosha’s Pentimento on January 11, 2024, which marks the work’s Canadian premiere. More info forthcoming.
Violinist Emmanuel Vukovich presents the official launch of his debut album, RESILIENCE, in two events: a concert on Monday, December 18th at 7pm at the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) in Montreal, and a concert on Tuesday, December 19th at the CMC in Toronto. The evening will feature a performance of excerpts of the album, which includes Zosha’s Patina for solo violin, and include a brief presentation on the contemporary significance of Béla Bartòk’s historic transcriptions of Folk & Peasant Melodies.
More info here.
CMC Montreal: 2150 Rue Crescent, Montréal (Québec) H3G 2B8
CMC Toronto: 20 St Joseph St, Toronto, ON M4Y 1J9
The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra will perform Zosha’s time>>T. - - I. - - M.(time) - - E on November 30, 2023 at 7:30pm at the Winspear Centre. The program will also include Derrick Skye’s Flames Nurtured the Rose, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Saltat sobrius: Fantasy upon Sederunt Principes, and the world premiere of a work by Ben Gartly. More details forthcoming.
Violinist Olivia De Prato performs a program featuring new works for violin and electronics. The concert celebrates the recent release of her two solo albums Panorama (New Focus Recordings) and I, A.M. – Artist Mother Project (New World Records). Balconies by UK-based composer Samantha Fernando receives its World Premiere, while Zosha’s The Dream Feed is presented in the UK for the first time. The Dream Feed explores the intersection of the role of motherhood and the pursuit of artistic endeavours, addressing a theme closely aligned to De Prato’s own experience and creative curiosities.
Canadian violinist Emmanuel Vukovich celebrates his debut album release, RESILIENCE, at the Canadian Music Centre in Toronto on November 10, 2023 at 6pm. More info here.
The event features Canadian artists, including Zosha’s Patina for solo violin, pianist Katherine Dowling and baritone Philippe Sly performing Dinuk Wijeratne’s Sonata for Violin & Piano, and a world premiere of Sheila Silver’s Resilient Earth Caprices.
Inspired by Béla Bartók’s legacy of cross-cultural musical exploration, RESILIENCE centers around Bartok’s monumental Solo Violin Sonata and also includes a selection of Bartok’s Turkish & Serbo-Croatian Folk & Peasant Melodies arranged by Vukovich.
Zosha’s The Thinking Eye for solo piano will be performed at Adam Sherkin’s “Composers in Play” series as part of Piano Lunaire on October 28, 2023 at Tenri Cultural Institute in NYC. More details forthcoming.
UToronto’s Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME) will perform Zosha’s time>>T. - - I. - - M.(time) - - E on October 24 at Walter Hall. More info here.
Zosha’s The Thinking Eye and The Untellable Hour of Quiet for solo piano will be performed at Adam Sherkin’s “Composers in Play” series on October 20, 2023 (evening time TBD) at Toronto’s Canadian Music Center. With works by Di Castri, Ricketts, Saariaho, Suzuki, and Sherkin.
Violinist Olivia de Prato performs at a concert alongside bass clarinetist Anna Koch at Vienna’s St. Rupert’s Church. Olivia’s program celebrates the recent release of de Prato’s album, I A.M. - Artist Mother Project, which explores the intersection of the role of motherhood and the pursuit of artistic endeavors, including Zosha’s The Dream Feed, which Olivia also performs in concert. The program also features BASSticcio, a multimedia microcosm of contemporary works for solo bass clarinet.
More info and tickets here.
Two of Zosha’s compositions for solo piano, Anssi de suite… and The Thinking Eye, will be presented as part of Columbia Global Centers | Paris Reid Hall’s reopening and dedication ceremony in Paris, France on June 8. President Lee Bollinger will be a featured speaker, with the Grande Salle renamed for Paul LeClerc, the past director of the Center, and his wife. More info forthcoming.
Zosha will join the University of Victoria’s 2023 Sound Genres conference, “Exploring Sound as Foundational Practice,” on May 27 and 28. Zosha will moderate the “Representing Craft in Sound Genres” panel, respond to the “Supporting Creative Hybrids: Bridging Diverse Practices Through Music Technology” keynote, and cellist Jane Chan will perform Zosha’s Dream Feed.
More info and full schedule here.
The Vancouver Symphony will present a concert with Assistant Principal Trumpet Marcus Goddard leading an intimate ensemble of VSO musicians on an exploration of his own compositions as well as Zosha’s Sulla mappa concava del buio for string quartet, soprano, and electronics, and Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang’s Simple Song #3. Tickets and more info here.
Columbia University's Program in Hellenic Studies, with the Heyman Center for the Humanities, presents “Archive of Desire,” a poetic symposium on the works of C.P. Cavafy, which features a free concert based on Cavafy’s poetry at Miller Theatre. Jeffrey Zeigler will conduct the National Sawdust Ensemble in a program that includes Zosha’s Work and Day, paired with poets performing either Cavafy poems in Greek and/or Arabic or new writing prepared for the occasion. Other composers on the program include Sofía Avramidou, Marcos Balter, Stylianos Dimou, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Lena Platonos, and Georgios Poniridis.
More info here.
Soprano Alexandra Smither and the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sarah Ioannides, perform Zosha’s Dear Life, based on the short story of the same name by Alice Munro. The program also includes Schubert’s Ave Maria, the Overture to Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni, and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9.
More info and tickets here.
The IU Jacobs School of Music New Music Ensemble will perform Zosha’s time>>T. - - I. - - M.(time) - - E on April 13, 2023. Maggie Kinabrew, soprano, and Paul Armitage, trumpet will perform, and the program also features works by Ligeti and Youngje Cho.
Zosha will also be visiting IU Jacobs as a guest composer, participating in forums, lectures, and lessons, culminating with the concert. More info on the concert here.
Violinist Olivia de Prato returns to Miller Theatre with a program of personal importance, featuring new works for violin and electronics. The concert celebrates the recent release of de Prato’s album, I A.M. - Artist Mother Project, which explores the intersection of the role of motherhood and the pursuit of artistic endeavors, including Zosha’s The Dream Feed, which Olivia also performs in concert. The program also features a world premiere by Miya Masaoka, and works by Jen Baker, Katherine Young, Angélica Negrón, and Missy Mazzoli.
More info and tickets here.
The Vancouver Symphony will perform several works by Zosha and Missy Mazzoli on March 23, 2023, at 7:30pm. The program features Zosha’s Phonotopographie and TIME>>T. - - I. - - M.(TIME) - - E. (TIME-TIME-TIME), as well as Mazzoli’s In Spite of All This, Ecstatic Science, and Violent, Violent Sea. The concert will be conducted by Andrew Crust. More info and tickets here.
The McGill Percussion Ensemble performs Zosha’s Manif, on a program that also includes works by Robert J. Damm, Jesse Plessis, Ann Southam, and Lily Koslow, conducted by Kristie Abrahim.
The MDI Ensemble, based in Milan, performs Zosha’s La forma dello spazio as part of the Montreal/New Musics Festival, produced by Société de musique contemporaine du Québec. The concert will be at Salle Pierre-Mercure in Montreal’s Centre Pierre-Péladeau on Saturday, March 4 at 7:00pm. More info and tickets here.
Violinist Olivia De Prato presents a program at Vienna’s Brick 15 of new works for violin and electronics. The concert celebrates the recent release of De Prato’s album, I A.M. - Artist Mother Project (New World Records) which explores the intersection of the role of motherhood and the pursuit of artistic endeavors. Her recent album was highlighted as Best Classical Release of 2022 (VAN magazine, The Whole Note magazine).
Clarinetist will join Olivia onstage, presenting her own solo works and improvisations.
More info about the concert here.
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