I am excited to join the Avanti musicians for the 2022 festival entitled “Body Language.” Each concert has its own unique design – setting up sympathetic resonances and contrasts to create unfolding sonic journeys. New American music abounds. Historic renegades sit side by side with music hot-off-the press. Many of my own works will be performed in Finland for the very first time, including Steel Hammer featuring the magical voices of Trio Mediaeval, and riSE and fLY with the rapid-fire body percussion of Colin Currie, Cruel Sister, Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (version for orchestra), among others…
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Norfolk %26 Norwich Festival
Monday, March 4, 2024 – 12:00pm
‘Forbidden Love’ performed by So Percussion at Long Play Festival
Brooklyn, NY
2022 Artistic Director of Finland’s Avanti! Summer Sounds Festival
Avanti! Festival playlist
Shelter (2005) 65'
music by Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe; text by Deborah Artman
3 Sop, fl, ob, cl, bn, hn, tpt, tbn, tba, pno, egtr, eb, perc, 2 vln, vla, vc, cb [all instruments and voices amplified]
The Next Wave Festival of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, musikFabrik and Kunstiftung NRW
Lad (2007) 17'
nine bagpipes
the River to River Festival
my lips from speaking (1993) 15'
6 pianos
the Huddersfield Festival
Fountain of Youth (2019) 9'
3(3).3.3.2(cbn)/4.3.3(btbn).1/timp.perc.pf/strings(ebgtr)
Fountain of Youth was commissioned by the New World Symphony — America’s Orchestra Academy — and by Carnegie Hall, with additional support from a consortium of orchestras: Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony. The World Premiere was given by the New World Symphony at the New World Center in Miami Beach, Florida on April 26, 2019.
Tell me everything (1994) 8'
111asx.1/1110/2perc/hp.pf/str
La Camarata
singing in the dead of night (2008) 18'
fl.cl/perc/pno/vn.vc
Eighth Blackbird