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   -Christopher Dilts, The Keystone
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LISTENING CENTER
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ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
Snapshot: for orchestra
Expansion: music for ballet
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MUSIC FOR THE STAGE

SUCKER: opera excerpt
The Ballroommusic for dance

VOCAL MUSIC
Unfulfilled
: vocal music
Songs of Issa: vocal music

CHAMBER MUSIC
Short Stories
: sax & piano
Crush: flute & marimba

 
NEWS & PERFORMANCES

SMASHED Libretto Reading January 30 - FREE Admission
Directed by Shela Xoregos, Tim Braun's libretto for SMASHED: The Carrie Nation Story will have an actors reading at the Brooklyn Lyceum at 8pm. Following the reading, a performance of scene 4 from the opera will be heard.

New Opera - SMASHED: The Carrie Nation Story

Beginning in November 2011 I will start a new one-act opera with librettist Timothy Braun commissioned by Opera On Tap, SMASHED: The Carrie Nation Story. The NYC premiere will take place fall 2012, and later taken on tour to several of the organization’s national chapters during the 2012-2013 season. More to come about this project over the next year.

SNAPSHOT opens the Holyoke Civic Symphony Season!
« Sunday, October 16 at 3pm. Program includes works by Gwyneth Walker and Brahms conducted by David Kidwell.

New work for Brandon High School Orchestra's 45th Anniversary
« Premiere February 25, 2012.

New VIDEO of Expanding Circles
« Performance by the University of South Carolina Cello Choir @ the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.


SNAPSHOT opens the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra (TN) concert
« Saturday, April 30 at 8pm.
« Program includes works by Barber, Bernstein & Copland, Dan Allcott, conductor.
« Click Here for more info.

EXPANSION PREMIERE - DAYTON BALLET / New Music for New Dance
Cydney Spohn, choreographer; Dayton Ballet Orchestra, Tim Olt, conductor.
« Thursday, March 24 at 8pm
« Friday, March 25 at 8pm
« Saturday, March 26 at 3pm & 8pm
« Sunday, March 27 at 3pm
Tickets $20 at ticketcenterstage.com
Click to take a listen to the computer demo.


VIDEO: Interview with Cydney Spohn, choreographer of EXPANSION
Check out the in-studio interview with Cydney as she talks about the creative process and working with the Dayton Ballet dancers.


EXPANDING CIRCLES
at The Tennessee Cello Workshop.
« TCW Cello Ensemble conducted by Dan Allcott.
« February 20, 2011, J Cox Auditorium @ 4:00pm.
« The School of Music at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

SNAPSHOT: Tennessee Premiere
« Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, Wattenbarger Auditorium @ 7:30pm.
« Dan Allcott conducts the Tennessee Tech University Orchestra.
« Here is a link to the press release.

EXPANSION
was selected as a winner in the Dayton Ballet's
New Music for New Dance. Performances run March 24-27, 2011, Victoria Theatre, Dayton, OH.

VIDEO: Always On My Mind, from Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY performance. Cameron Russell with members of Opera on Tap.


The return of OPERA ELVIS: A Lament for the King
American Opera Projects: Opera Grows in Brooklyn
Monday, October 18 @ 8:00pm, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

Cameron Russell performs my arrangement of Always On My Mind with members of Opera on Tap.
 
EXPANDING CIRCLES VIDEO. Live performance by Cellospeak.


OPERA ELVIS: A Lament for the King
Opera on Tap & Anti-Social Music join forces to present "The Elvis Tribute to End all Elvis Tributes."
Cameron Russell performs my arrangement of Always On My Mind for soprano, piano, guitar, bass and three back-up singers.
August 16 @ 8pm, City Winery, New York City
Click Here for details and ticket information.


PREMIERE: EXPANDING CIRCLES, a new work for cello choir!!

Commissioned by Cellospeak
for their 10th Anniversary.
Friday, July 30, 2010, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA

VIDEO excerpts of my opera SUCKER now online!
Click Here to view all scene excerpts.

SHORT STORIES performance @ the
2010 North American Saxophone Alliance Conference 

Friday, March 5, 2010,
University of Georgia
, Athens, GA. Saxophonist Stacy Maugans 

NEW AUDIO posted. Two new audio recordings.
Click to hear an excerpt of Afterglow by the Kutztown University concert band.


Click to listen to new fantastic performance of Unfulfilled by soprano Amberleigh Aller at Greenwich House in NYC.


THE BALLROOM: Video and Pictues now online.
The dance music section of Adam Kraar's play Shipwrecked.

Reading of my opera SUCKER
by OPERA ON TAP!!!!
Friday, December 12, 2009
Scenes from my one act opera will have a reading on the American Opera Projects, Opera Grows In Brooklyn series at
Galapagos Art Space by Opera on Tap. Click here for all the details - tickets go on sale November 12.  


 








 

 
 
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