2012

December 2, 7, & 8,  2012 - San Francisco, CA

December 2 - All Saints Episcopal Church (Palo Alto) - 7:00pm - $10-25
December 7 - St. Mark’s Lutheran Church (San Francisco) - 8:00pm - $10-25
December 8 - David Brower Center (Berkeley) - 8:00pm - $10-25

Volti, a six-time winner of the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, will include Dipukų Rauda on three of its concerts in the San Francisco area. Tickets may be purchased here.

November 18, 2012 - Houston, TX
First Cumberland Presbyterian Church - 4:00pm - FREE admission
Pianist Linda Angkasa will perform Panji Fantasy at the Foundation for Modern Music’s annual Introductions concert, which features new works by young Houston composers.

November 13, 2012 - Houston, TX
Hirsch Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University - 7:30pm - FREE admission
An all-Halka concert (and final DMA recital)! Six Miniatures for brass quintet will finally get its premiere, Panji Fantasy for solo piano will get a repeat performance, and more new works for clarinet and percussion, string quartet, and fixed media will be performed.

November 10, 2012 - San Francisco, CA
Community Music Center - 8:00pm - $10-15
Por la Fuerza las Tierras will be featured on the San Francisco-based new music collective Wild Rumpus’ opening concert.  Also on the program are works (three of which are world premieres!) by D. Edward Davis, Andrea La Rose, Elizabeth Lim, and Nicole Murphy.

November 4, 2012 - Antwerp, Belgium
deSingel - 8:00pm
The final concert of the ISCM World Music Days 2012 will feature Dipukų Rauda for a cappella choir. Performing the work will be the Aquarius Chamber Choir.

October 17, 2012 - Mexico City, Mexico
Fonoteca Nacional - 7:00pm - FREE admission
ONIX Ensamble will hold an open rehearsal and seminar discussion of the work they commissioned in 2010, Por la Fuerza las Tierras.

October 7, 2012 - Nashville, TN
The Brick Factory - 5:00-8:00pm - $10-20
Live Bass Improv will be featured as a sound installation at Soundcrawl: Art of the Future, one of the many events at the Soundcrawl 2012 festival (October 6-11) in Nashville.

September 19-22, 2012 - Michoacán, Mexico

September 19 - Escuela de Artes (La Piedad) - 7:30pm
September 20 - Teatro Obrero (Zamora) - 8:30pm
September 21 - Casa Social de la Parroquía del Sagrado Corazón (Sahuayo) - 7:30pm
September 22 - UNAM Campus Morelia (Morelia) - 7:00pm

ONIX Ensamble will perform the work they commissioned in 2010, Por la Fuerza las Tierras, on its 4-day tour of the state of Michoacán.

September 15, 2012 - Houston, TX
The Menil Collection - 3:00pm - FREE admission
Live Bass Improv will be performed along with dozens of other works at Da Camera of Houston’s Musicircus concert in honor of John Cage’s 100th birthday.

August 20, 2012 - Lake George, NY
Caldwell Presbyterian Church - 7:00pm - FREE admission
Round and Round will be performed at the annual Lake George Music Festival in upstate New York. The work won 2nd Place in the festival’s composition competition.

August 12, 2012 - San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
San Miguel de Allende International Chamber Music Festival - concert time TBA - from $15
ONIX Ensamble, the Mexican ensemble that commissioned and performed the 2010 premiere of Por la Fuerza las Tierras, will perform the work at the 34th annual San Miguel de Allende International Chamber Music Festival.

August 5, 2012 - Scranton, PA
Anthracite Heritage Museum - 12:00-5:00pm - $5
The filmed live premiere of Julius will be shown at the Anthracite Heritage Museum’s 5th Lithuanian Heritage Day. Additionally, soprano Maryte Bizinkauskas and pianist Michael McAndrew will perform live an aria from the the opera.

July 31, 2012 - Pavia, Italy
Santa Maria Gualteri - 9:00pm
Rupture, a new work for string quartet, will be premiered by Quartetto Maurice at the highSCORE Festival (July 23 - August 4) in historic Pavia, Italy.

June 9, 2012 - Boston (Cambridge), MA
The Lily Pad - 8:00pm
Trio for violin, cello, and piano will be part of the Boston New Music Initiative’s final concert of its 2011-2012 season.

May 17, 2012 - Houston, TX
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston - 6:30pm - FREE admission
Commissioned by Musiqa, Street for clarinet and percussion will be one of six premieres at Musiqa’s Alternate Tracks concert.  Each of the six pieces will serve as new audio tracks to accompany clips from well-known (and not so well-known) films.

May 11-13, 2012 - Houston, TX
Winter Street Studios - $15

May 11 - 8:00pm
May 12 - 2:00pm and 8:00pm
May 13 - 2:00pm

Por la Fuerza las Tierras will be choreographed in Frame Dance Productions’ CONTEXT performance. This is a multimedia and family-friendly show with music, dance, and video, so bring the whole family!  There are both evening and matinee performances.

May 10, 2012 - Boston, MA
Hope Central Church - 7:00pm - FREE admission
Dipukų Rauda for a cappella choir will receive its U.S. premiere at Boston Metro Opera’s Contemporary AmericanaFestival alongside the works of several other living composers from around the world.

April 27, 2012 - Los Angeles (Northridge), CA
Valley Performing Arts Center, California State University Northridge - 8:00pm - $5-10
The California State University Northridge Symphony will give the world premiere of Scherzo for orchestra. The performance will be part of the orchestra’s first concert in CSUN’s newly completed Valley Performing Arts Center.