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2026-27 Season
World Premiere of ASTRAL ILLUMINATIONS — HOMMAGE TO EMILY DICKINSON for Solo Violoncello and Orchestra, premiered by The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Ryan Bancroft. This work is co-commissioned by several orchestras including the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, and other orchestras to be announced.
SEASON, 2026
World Premiere of ASTRAL KALEIDOSCOPES for Percussion Quartet - Homage to Claude Debussy, Bill Evans, and Miles Davis. Two Kaleidoscopes played without pause — I: SUN RIBBONS and II: DANCING LUMINOSITY — performed by Third Coast Percussion. Commissioned by and dedicated with admiration and deep gratitude, to Third Coast Percussion.
2026-27 Season
World Premiere of LIGHT PEARLS THROUGH PRISMS for solo piano premiered by Marianne Parker.
2026-27 Season
World Premiere of MAGICAL FLIGHTS OF THE ADARNA BIRD for solo violoncello premiered by Alexander Hersh.
October 19 - 23, 2026
Co-commissioner World Premiere of NEW WORK for solo cello and orchestra, premiered by cellist Alban Gerhardt, The Swedish Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Brett Dean. This work is co-commissioned by several orchestras including The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Ryan Bancroft, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, and other orchestras to be announced.
WINTER 2027
World Premiere of NEW WORK for 3 players: Ah Young Hong, soprano, Miranda Cuckson, violin, and Chris Gross, violoncello, setting a text by Alcestis:
Euripides, 438 BCE, chorus of men of Pherae, translated by Rachel Kitzinger. Special gratitude to composer Michael Hersch.
MAY 21, 2027
World Premiere of NEW WORK for 13 players performed by The Grossman Ensemble conducted by Timothy Weiss, Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
MARCH 7 & 8, 2026
OF PARADISE AND LIGHT for orchestra performed by the New Albany Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Luis Biava at the McCoy Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
MARCH 11 – 15, 2026
Jury Member: Concours de Genève. The other jury members are Unsuk Chin, Chair; Toshio Hosokawa; Magnus Lindberg; and Katharina Rosenberger. Geneva. Switzerland.
MARCH 18, 2026 – 12:15 PM
DREAM CATCHER for solo violin performed by Benjamin Baker on the At the World’s Edge 2026 Chicago Festival of chamber music, on the Dame Myra Hess Concerts, Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago, IL.
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