Title: when the great fires were lit on the other side of the ocean
Commission: 2023
Completed: 2024
Instrumentation: Flute (C and bass), clarinet (B-flat and contrabass), violin, voice, percussion, electronics
Premiere Location: May 21, 2024 at Roulette...
Texu Kim (김택수, b.1980, he/him) is “one of the most active and visible composers of his generation” (San Francisco Classical Voice), writing fun, sophisticated, and culturally connected music. Drawing on his affinity for humor, his background in science...
Title: Nox
Commission: 2023
Completed: 2024
Instrumentation: Prepared piano, electronics, and projection
Premiere Location: Los Angeles, CA
Premiere Ensemble: Vicky Ray
Taylor Brook writes music for concerts, electronic music, music for robotic instruments...
Praised as “a real talent” (The Seattle Times) with “vivid, dramatic” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “enjoyable” (Gramophone Magazine) scores, and “an incredible span of compositional tool box” (American Record Guide), Shuying Li’s compositions have been...
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Renaissance Society, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, REDCAT...
Miya Masaoka is a composer, sound artist and musician with works that include pieces for orchestra, acoustic phenomena, video, electronics and installation. Her work explores the natural world, bodily perception of vibration, movement, and time while...
Title: nineNine and the 2000
Commission: 2023
Completed: 2025
Instrumentation: Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello, Bass, Voice, Trumpet, Piano, Drums, and Electronics
LaTasha Bundy (b. 1992) is a native New Orleanian composer and electronic music performer...
Ivette Herryman Rodríguez - composer, educator, and pianist - was born in the Island of Youth, Cuba, in 1982 and came to the United States in 2011. As a composer, Ivette is interested in writing music that is soulful, inspired by her Cuban roots, and that...
Vermont-based composer/performer Chris Fisher-Lochhead has blazed an idiosyncratic path through the landscape of contemporary music, creating works that have been lauded as “an imaginative tour de force” (Boston Globe), “cheerfully anarchic stuff”...
Chris Castro is a composer, double bassist, theorist, and educator residing in Southern California. He was awarded Chamber Music America's 2021 Classical Commissioning Award, where an anonymous juror described his music as being "on par with Varèse." His...
