Music for 18 and NARAL Gala

I forgot to post here that I recently performed Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians with Crossing 32nd Street at Paradise Valley Community College. There’s no flute in the piece, so I was teamed up with 3 other wonderful instrumentalists-turned-vocalists for this piece. There are rumors we will perform the piece again in a few months, and I will be sure to post about that before hand.

On Nov. 9th I will be performing (flute) at the NARAL Pro-Choice Arizona Annual Gala at Bragg’s Pie Factory. The program is all about lady composers.

Remember, if you want to receive emails about what I’m doing, just click here. The emails are very infrequent.

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Orange Theatre Fall Mixer!!

Orange Theatre is having a preview of ‘Blood Wedding’ a new work based on the play by Federico Garcia Lorca on September 13th and 14th. After the show on the 14th, it’s party time. I’ll be performing some wicked flute stuffs around 10:30. The show is pay-what-you-can, so bring a few bucks or more if you are able.

EVENT INFO

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New Projects

I’m back from Italy. It was fun (go figure).

And now for current events:

I have finished my new piece for Bassoonist Stephanie Patterson’s trio. The 20-minute work for violin, viola, bassoon and fixed media will be premiered in January.

I currently working on a project with Megan Weaver, and MFA theatre student at ASU. The immersive theatre work titled “The Seven Layers of Bastian Bachman” rotates around the fictional composer Bastian Bachman. The projected premiere dates are still TBA, but may be as soon as January. Let’s just say the influences range from Andy Warhol to Bach to David Bowie to Philip Glass.

For anyone interested in new commissions- since “The Seven Layers of Bastian Bachman” is a music-heavy work, I will only be taking commissions that fall ON or UNDER the 7×7 rule. Meaning, new commissions can only be for 7 or fewer performers (including fixed media), AND 7 or fewer minutes. I will resume taking on “normal” commissions in February 2014.

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Haus Concert June 25th 7:30pm!!

I’m having a concert at greenHAUS (222 E Roosevelt St., Phx) on June 25th, 7:30pm! It’s gonna be me on flute and maybe a few friends. There will be WINE, vegan cupcakes from TREEHOUSE, and other goodies.

Here is the official event page. Please feel free to invite yourself and ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS!!

It is officially a send-off and benefit concert for me, as I leave for Europe (soundSCAPE festival!!) the next day.

Thanks to an additional tuition reduction (due to some works I will perform on the 25th) and because I’ve been able to save more money than expected, I only need a total of $1,000, vs. the $1,600 listed on my crowd-funding profile.

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