2025

Megan Arns Solo Percussion Recital - 5 World Premieres

March 31, 2025; 7:30pm CT

Sinquefield Music Center, University of Missouri | Columbia, MO

Premiere performance of voices on the surface commissioned by Megan Arns

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house on fire trio

January 25, 2025; 5pm

Conrad Prebys Concert Hall | UC San Diego, CA

Performance of Heartwood (2024) commissioned and performed by the house on fire trio

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2024

Sonic Meditations: Performance & Workshop

November 23 & 24, 2024

MCASD (Museum of Contemporary Arts San Diego) | La Jolla, CA

Collective exploration of Pauline Oliveros’ practice with the Sonic Meditations where participants are invited to experiment with sound and voice. The workshop includes a presentation of my Sonic Habitat text-score project to share a compositional process informed by Oliveros' Deep Listening practice. The event is presented by Amy Cimini and Charissa Noble as part of the PST ART Weekend.

Learn more about the event HERE 

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peel-lit reading

November 22, 2024; 7:30pm

Brown Building | San Diego, CA 

A new iteration of Falling: drops and a breeze (2024) will be performed with Natalia Merlano Gómez in collaboration with visual artist, Kate Gorman.  at a poetry reading series organized by peel lit

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house on fire trio

November 8, 2024

rasp.la | Los Angeles, CA

Premiere performance of a new work, Heartwood (2024), written for the house on fire trio

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Day of Music

September 29, 2024; 11am - 6pm

Jacob Music Center | San Diego, CA

Presenting an installation of sound-video work Falling (2022) in collaboration with visual artist, Kate Gorman.

The event is hosted by San Diego Symphony in partnership with Project [Blank] to celebrate the newly renovated Jacobs Music Center.

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Neofonía, Festival de Música Nueva de Ensenada

Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) | Ensenada, Mexico

September 23, 2024; 7pm

Presenting a selection of Sonic Habitat (2022-24) pieces performed by Contemporary Music Ensemble of the UABC directed by Álvaro G. Díaz-Rodríguez 

Learn more about the festival HERE​

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OC Zine Fest

September 7, 2024; 11am - 4pm

Anaheim Central Library | Anaheim, CA

Showcasing original zines at the Orange County Zine Fest in partnership with Anaheim Public Library

Learn more about the event HERE

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a night of sound art

August 24, 2024; 7pm

The Brown Building | San Diego, CA

Performance of eyes/earth/ease (2024) in collaboration with Ilana Wanuik;

sound art concert curated by Preston Swirnoff

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Duo Lingua & Bogotana Records

July 17, 2024; 7:30pm

Matik Matik | Bogota, Colombia

Performance and recording of Sonic Habitat no. 68 presented by Duo Lingua (David Aguila & Natalia Gomez) and Bogotana Records

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HEAR NOW Music Festival 2024

April 28, 2024; 4pm

Schoenberg Hall, UCLA | Los Angeles, CA

Performance of Inhabited by air (2023) by UCLA Philharmonia

Learn more about the event HERE

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Regenerate! Orchestra

April 27; 7:30pm & April 28; 2pm, 2024

Ypsilanti Freighthouse | Ypsilanti, MI

Performance of Sonic Habitat #93 by Regenerate! Orchestra presented by UMS (University Musical Society)

Learn more about the event HERE

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PROJECT [BLANK]: Salty Series

March 15, 2024; 7:30pm 

Bread & Salt | San Diego, CA

Performance of In the language of the bloom (2021) by Camilo Zamudio (percussion), David Aguila (trumpet), Ilana Wanuik (violin), Natalia Merlano Gómez (voice)​

Learn more about the event HERE

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Coming Together

March 10, 2024; 5pm 

The Eleventh Hour | Melbourne, Australia

Performance of In the language of the bloom (2021) by Aditya Bhat (percussion), Ronan Apcar (piano), Maria Zhdanovich (flute), Jack Overall (cello)

Learn more about the event HERE

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Ensamble Cepromusic

January 27, 2024; 8pm at Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City

January 31, 2024; 7pm at UC San Diego, CA​

Performance of How the Sky Holds the Sun (2018) by Ensamble Cepromusic

Learn more about the event HERE

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PROJECT [BLANK]: WORKING TITLE

January 11 - 13, 2024

St. Paul’s Cathedral | San Diego, CA

Performance and installation of Moon Greeting (2021) performed by Ilana Wanuik

Learn more about the event HERE

 

2023

Score Follower FMS23 Fall

Inhabited by air (2023) selected for Follow My Score 2023 fall season produced by Score Follower

Watch the video HERE

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Westside Chamber Players

October 20, 2023 ​

All Saints Episcopal Parish | Hoboken, NJ

Performance of Inhabited by air (2023)- selected as Call for Scores Winner by Westside Chamber Players

Learn more about the event HERE

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La Hora Acusmática

August 18, 2023 ​

Buenos Aries, Argentina

Presentation of On the breath (2019) 

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VU Symposium 

July 5 - 7, 2023

Park City Library | Park City, UT

bits of self, at once, in fragments (2021) was selected out of a call for works, papers, and presentations to be a part of the VU experimental, electronic, and improvised music symposium.

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New Music Gathering 

June 22 - 24, 2023

Portland State University | Portland, OR

The soundwalk, Tuning to the open air (2022), was selected out of a call for proposals for the conference on the theme of "purpose." The piece was presented on June 23, 2023; 9am in downtown Portland and remains available for a self-guided version HERE. Learn more about the event HERE

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Next Festival of Emerging Artists EarShot Reading & Composer/Choreographer Workshop

June 5 - 9, 2023

New School Tishman Auditorium | New York City, NY

Premiere performance of Inhabited by air (2023) for string orchestra presented by The Next Festival of Emerging Artists performer fellows. This workshop will also include collaboration with early-career choreographers, creating artistic and collaborative synergy between the musical and dance arts. Learn more about the program HERE

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2023 MATA Festival

May 31, 2023; 8pm

Roulette | Brooklyn NY

Performance of Moon Greeting (2021) presented by Found Sound Nation as the Artists in Residence of the 2023 MATA Festival. The piece will be featured on the first evening of a four-day festival titled "Sound, Space, Ritual" featuring pieces that call for a ritualistic space for deep listening, meditation, and improvisation.

Learn more about the event HERE

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Futures Exchange - Rubiks Collective

May 5, 2023; 8pm 

Tempo Rubato | Melbourne, Australia

Performance of In the language of the bloom (2021) presented by Rubiks Collective.

Learn more about the event HERE

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Penn State International New Music Festival & Symposium

March 24 - 25, 2023

Penn State University, PA

Performance of glistening ray ["kintsugi"] (2019) by Mivos Quartet. Learn more about the festival HERE

 

The Hibernation Project - EARS HAVE EYES

March 8, 2023 

90.9FM Calgary, Canada

In the language of the bloom (2021) was selected for an open call submission to EARS HAVE EYES, a monthly sound art radio program run by The Hibernation Project on CJSW 90.9 FM in Calgary/Mohkinstsis.

Listen to the archive of the radio show, click HERE

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re:natura #02: Ratio

March 9, 2023

music album compilation release

Rippling walls of cells (2021) was selected to be published as part of re:natura's album compilation.

Listen to the album on bandcamp HERE

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2022

AMAT femfestival 2022

November 26, 2022

Florence, Italy

glistening ray ["kintsugi"] (2019) was selected for the final round of femfestival, 2022 edition of Women Composer Competition, Second Edition. Learn more about the competition HERE

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New Feathers Anthology

November 2022

Online exhibition

Time Gradient (2020) was selected to be featured in the Winter 2022 issue of the New Feathers Anthology.  Access the online publication HERE

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Sonic Cartography

October 28 - 30, 2022

University of Kent, England

CrOsS-sEcTiOn (2020) was selected for presentation at the symposium "Sonic Cartography: Soundscape, Simulation and Re-enactment" organized by the Department of Music & Audio Technology at the University of Kent, England. For more details about the conference, click HERE

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Cities and Memory - Well-Being Cities

October 19 - 21, 2022

Buenos Aires, Argentina

A collaborative project between Cities and Memory and C40, a global network of mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities collaborating to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis. For more details about the project, click HERE​

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Tuning to the open air - Thurston Pond Soundwalk

June 26, 2022; 10:30am

Thurston Nature Center | Ann Arbor, MI (map)

Launch of one-hour soundwalk, Tuning to the open air, in collaboration with Virago who will accompany soundmaking acts throughout the walk. For more details, click HERE

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soundpedro2022

June 4, 2022; 7 - 10 pm 

Angels Gate Cultural Center, CA

The installation piece, Breathe with the Wind (2021) was selected to be presented at the soundpedro2022 on-site event. A new audiovisual work, The sun rustled through (2022) was premiered at an online event along with an audio piece, CrOsS-sEcTiOn (2020).

For more detail about the program, click HERE

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Nomadic Soundsters 2022 - 2023

Online residency program

For more detail about the program, click HERE

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Fifteen Minutes of Fame

January 15, 2022 | 8pm EST

Online concert

Premiere performance of a ringing terrain, a gush of summer(蝉時⾬) for solo hichiriki by Thomas Piercy

For more detail about the concert, click HERE

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2021

Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium 2021

International Composition Institute of Thailand (ICIT)

December 13 - 17, 2021

Bangkok Art and Culture Centre + Virtual

Premiere performance of Deep Beneath the Feet (2021) for mixed ensemble.

For more detail about the program, click HERE

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UC Riverside: Audiovisual Frontiers

November 20, 2021 (exhibition launch date)

Online exhibition

Swimming Under Water In Our Bodies (Sheltering in Epidermis) (2021) was selected for a call-for-work submission to the Audiovisual Frontiers project curated by the Department of Music at UC Riverside.

For more detail about the exhibition, click HERE

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soundpedro: UnƧightly [Sound Poetry]

November 18, 2021 

Online event

An original sound poem, sss ko mmmm (2021) was selected for an open call submission to UnƧightly [Sound Poetry] project curated by soundpedro. 

For more detail about the project, click HERE

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Dancer-Citizen: Issue 13 & "In The Moment"

Online exhibition

breathe with the wind (2021) was selected to be featured in Issue 13 of the Dancer-Citizen, an online scholarly journal that explores works by socially engaged dance artists. Another work, bits of self, at once, in fragments (2021), was also chosen for their "In the Moment" archival collection of works. 

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Albiero New Music Collective: call-for-proposal winner

TBA

For being selected as a winner for call-for-proposal submission, a work is commissioned to be premiered by the Albireo New Music Collective. For more detail about the organization, click HERE

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Opera NexGen: Production Editor

2021-2022 Season

For more detail about the organization, click HERE

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SOUND & SILENCE: Experiments in Contemplative Music and Contemplative Silence

November 7, 2021; 9pm

Canterbury House (721 E Huron St), Ann Arbor, MI

In the language of the bloom (2021) was performed as part of a monthly concert series that centers on the themes of contemplative music, contemplative silence, and how music can prepare us for an encounter with silence. For more detail about the program, click HERE

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Resonance FM broadcasts In the language of the bloom (2021)

October 4, 2021; 10pm GMT

104.4 FM London, England

In the language of the bloom (2021) was selected for an open call submission to Gwaith Swn's Sonic Darts radio show. To listen to the archive of the radio show, click HERE

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Silkroad’s Global Musician Workshop 2021

August 8 - 14, 2021

Online workshop

For more detail about the program, click HERE

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Nief-Norf Composer-Performer-Improvisor Summit

July 26 - August 1, 2021

Online workshop

Premiere performance of Rippling walls of cells (2021) written for solo melodica by Mina Esary.

For more detail about the program, click HERE

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breathe with the wind - virtual immersion for summer

July 3, 2021; 8pm EST

Online concert

The Regenerate! orchestra premiered the breathe with the wind - virtual immersion for summer (2021) as a part of a concert series curated by Clay Gonzalez.

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​Montreal Contemporary Music Lab

June 1- July 2, 2021

Virtual workshop

For more detail about the program, click HERE

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​This Soft Eclipse

April 29, 2021

Melbourne Recital Centre, Australia

Commissioned by the Kinds of Kings as a 2020 Bouman Fellowship recipient

Premiere performance of In the language of the bloom (2021) by Rubiks Collective

For more detail about the concert, click HERE

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Socially Distant Art residency program: Liminal Beings 

April 24, 2021 (exhibition launch date)

Virtual exhibition

Premiere work of bits of self, at once, in fragments (2021) in part of the residency in the Socially Distant Art program. For more details about the exhibition, click HERE

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Breathe with the Wind - sound installation & sound ceremony

April 11 - 18, 2021

Thurston Nature Center, Ann Arbor, MI

Premiere performance of master's thesis project, Breathe with the Wind (2021), at the University of Michigan

For more details about the project, click HERE

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Penn State New Music Festival & Symposium

March 19-21, 2021 

Online

Performance of Elapsed (2020) by Hudson Webber

For more details about the project, click HERE

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Golden Hornet's String Quartet Smackdown​​ VII

March 13, 2021 

Online concert

For being selected as one of the sixteen finalists, glistening ray ["kintsugi"] (2019) was performed by the Vórtice Ensemble String Quartet. An NCAA basketball-style tournament competition brings original four-minute string quartet compositions head-to-head in front of a live, participatory audience directed Felipe Pérez Santiago in partnership with Alamo Drafthouse.

For more details about the project, click HERE

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2020

Kinds of Kings' Bouman Composer Fellow 2020-21

For being selected as a Bouman Composer Fellow, a new work was commissioned by Kinds of Kings to be performed by Rubiks Collective. 

For more details about the Bouman Fellowship program, click HERE.

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2020 Composers Conference

July 30 - Aug 9, 2020

Online program

Selected as a 2020 Fromm Foundation Composer Fellow

Premiere of a solo cello work with fixed media, Elapsed (2020), performed by Jacob MacKay

See the full schedule and concert dates HERE

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Sonic Scenographies: Staging Place

May-August 2020 

Research project

Research program/interdisciplinary collaboration at the intersection of performance, music, theatre, dance, architecture, and digital space. Initiated by the University of Michigan's School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning. 

Watch an overview of the project HERE

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2019

"A World Beyond: Re-Imagining Activism Through Performance"

November 7, 2019; 8pm

Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI

Premiere performance of STAKES (2019) in collaboration with a choreographer, Shannon Nulf

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soundSCAPE Festival

July 8 - 20, 2019

Cesena, Italy

Premiere performance of glistening ray ["kintsugi"]  (2019) for a string quartet written for FLUX Quartet

Watch the performance HERE

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Spring Soiree Concert

June 2, 2019; 8pm

UC Irvine, CA

Premiere performance of The Phrases of the Moon (2019) for a voice and violin

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UCI Opera: Die Fledermaus

May 11 & 12, 2019

Irvine Barclay Theatre, Irvine, CA

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B.A. Voice Recital

April 28, 2019; 2pm

UC Irvine, CA

Listen to the performance HERE

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2018

UCI Contemporary Ensemble Concert

December 11, 2018; 8pm

UC Irvine, CA

Performing with UCI Contemporary Ensemble directed by Michael Dessen

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LA Fest: LA's Newest Music

October 9 & 11, 2018

Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA

Performing with UCI Chamber Singers for a premiere of Ellen Reid's Oscillations | 100 Years and Forever

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Atlantic Music Festival

July 1 - 15, 2018

Colby College, Waterville, ME

Premiere performance of How the Sky Holds the Sun (2018) for a Pierrot ensemble piece conducted by Dean Whiteside. 

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UCI Opera: Suor Angelica

May 12 & 13, 2018

Irvine Barclay Theatre, Irvine, CA

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