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April 5, 2025
Landscape with Changes
UNK New Music Festival
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Kearney, NE
March 26, 2025
Veil/Flame
Isaac Casal, cello
New Music Miami
Florida International University
Miami, FL
March 25, 2025
The Moon’s Funeral (first performance)
Justin Vickers, tenor; Geoffrey Duce, piano
RED NOTE New Music Festival
Illinois State University
Normal, IL
March 15, 2025
Soif
Sini Virtanen, violin
CAMPGround25 Festival
Tampa, FL
March 8, 2025
Adrift
Duo Axis
Guarneri Hall
Chicago, IL
March 6, 2025
Adrift
Duo Axis
Illinois State University
Normal, IL
January 21, 2025
Moon Song (first performance)
Shadow Figures (first performance of revised version)
Shaoai Ashley Zhang, piano
Illinois State University
Normal, IL
October 22, 2024
Veil/Flame (first performance)
Eric Moore, cello
Illinois State University
Normal, IL
March 26, 2024
Forgotten Song II (first performance)
Ensemble Dal Niente (Andrew Nogal, English horn; Ben Melsky, harp; Ammie Brod, viola)
RED NOTE New Music Festival – Illinois State University
Normal, IL
February 26, 2024
Adrift
Duo Axis
Union College
Schenectady, NY
November 28, 2023
scamper
Ball State University Electroacoustic Ensemble
Ball State University
Muncie, IN
October 7, 2023
O Clarissima
Michelle Rahn, viola; Yerin Kim, piano
CWU New Music Festival
Central Washington University
Ellensburg, WA
September 24, 2023
An Elemental Music
ISU Symphony Orchestra
Glenn Block, conductor
Illinois State University
Normal, IL
March 19, 2023
An Elemental Music (first performances)
La Jolla Symphony
Michael Gerdes, conductor
Mandeville Auditorium
La Jolla, CA
March 18, 2023
An Elemental Music (first performances)
La Jolla Symphony
Michael Gerdes, conductor
Mandeville Auditorium
La Jolla, CA
October 21, 2022
Adrift
Duo Axis
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO
October 19, 2022
Adrift
Duo Axis
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
August 18, 2022
Forgotten Song (first performance)
Breckenridge International Festival of Arts
Breckenridge, CO
August 1, 2022
Bloom
Charles Ives Music Festival
Keeler Tavern Garden Museum
Ridgefield, CT
May 31, 2022
Chamber Concerto (first performance)
Shadow Figures (original version)
Adrift
Shaoai Ashley Zhang, Duo Axis, and friends from UC San Diego
Steven Schick, conductor
UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA
May 31, 2022
Landscape with Changes
UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA
May 8, 2022
Adrift (first performance)
Duo Axis
Tenri Cultural Institute
New York, NY
[Cancelled]
TBA March 2022
Bloom
ISCM World New Music Days
Shanghai and Nanning, China
February 15, 2022
Lecture on my music
Stanford University composition seminar
Palo Alto, CA
February 2, 2022
Shadow Figures (first performance of original version)
Shaoai Ashley Zhang, piano and synthesizer
UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA
[Cancelled]
August 12, 2021
Forgotten Song
Kate Hatmaker, Jemmie Robertson, and Steven Schick
Breckenridge Music Festival
Breckenridge, CO
April 30, 2021
Landscape with Changes
Music for Car Radios
Live-streamed event featuring original video art by Anqi Liu
UC San Diego Department of Music’s 2021 “(not quite) Springfest” series
Online event (link)
March 16, 2021
Reflection
HOCKET
Piano Spheres Core Artist Recital
Online event (link)
[Cancelled]
August 10, 2020
Bloom
Artist-Faculty of the Charles Ives Music Festival
Charles Ives Music Festival
Ridgefield, CT
[Cancelled]
August 4, 2020
Forgotten Song
Breckenridge Music Festival
Breckenridge, CO
August 3, 2020
Reflection (first performance)
HOCKET
Online event (link)
July 10, 2020
Roundtable with Steven Schick, Leon Joseph Littlebird, Lisa Atkinson, and Tobin Chodos
Breckenridge Music Festival
Online event
March 1, 2020
Heel, Skull
Dance work by Marcos Duran with electroacoustic sound by Alex Stephenson
HHII Dance Festival
Santa Barbara, CA
January 29, 2020
Cantus (first performance)
Palimpsest
Steven Schick, conductor
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA
January 23, 24, 25, 2020
Performer/composer in Marcos Duran’s dance work The Underground
Sheila & Hughes Potiker Theatre, UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA
[Cancelled]
January 17, 2020
Jeu-Parti
Dimitris Paganos Koukakis, piano
Theocharis Papatrechas, electronics
Juneau Arts & Culture Center
Juneau, AK
November 14, 15, 16, 2019
Heel, Skull
Dance work by Marcos Duran with electroacoustic sound by Alex Stephenson
Theater for the New City
New York, NY
November 14, 2019
Jeu-Parti
Dimitris Paganos Koukakis, piano
Theocharis Papatrechas, electronics
Conrad Prebys Experimental Theater, UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA
August 2, 2019
Bloom (first performance)
Flux Quartet
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Santa Fe, NM
May 16, 2019
Soif (first performance)
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Conrad Prebys Experimental Theater, UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA
April 19, 2019
Conducting Sammi Jo Stone’s St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness (first performance)
Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall, UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA
April 14, 2019
calling, crying
Chloë Schaaf, mezzo-soprano
Stuart McDonald & Jacques Gadway, violins
Lucas Goodman, viola
Sarah Schoeffler, cello
National Sawdust
Brooklyn, NY
April 11, 2019
calling, crying
Chloë Schaaf, mezzo-soprano
Stuart McDonald & Jacques Gadway, violins
Lucas Goodman, viola
Sarah Schoeffler, cello
László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building, Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
February 24, 2019
O Clarissima
Joshua Lohner, viola
Sar Shalom Strong, piano
St. David’s Episcopal Church
DeWitt, NY
July 15, 2018
calling, crying
Rebecca Printz, mezzo-soprano
New Fromm Players
Seiji Ozawa Hall
Lenox, MA
July 13, 2018
O Clarissima
Joshua Lohner, viola
Sar Shalom Strong, piano
Cazenovia First Methodist Church
Cazenovia, NY
May 24, 25, 2018
Heel, Skull (first performance)
Dance work by Marcos Duran with electroacoustic sound by Alex Stephenson
Molli and Arthur Wagner Dance Building, UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA
April 29, 2018
Jeu-Parti
Dimitris Paganos Koukakis, piano
Alex Stephenson, electronics
UC Santa Cruz Music Center
Santa Cruz, CA
April 21, 2018
Jeu-Parti
Dimitris Paganos Koukakis, piano
Alex Stephenson, electronics
Conrad Prebys Experimental Theater, UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA
November 5, 2017
O Clarissima
Joshua Lohner, viola
Robert Auler, piano
Grace Episcopal Church
Syracuse, NY
September 10, 2017
Etude for Royaumont (first performance)
Ensemble Multilatérale
Léo Warynski, conductor
Abbaye de Royaumont
Asnières-sur-Oise, France
July 16, 2017
Jeu-Parti
Wei-Han Wu, piano
Alex Stephenson, electronics
NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival
National Sawdust
Brooklyn, NY
April 6, 2017
Conducting Tristan Murail’s Ethers
OSSIA New Music with Zack Osinski, flute soloist
Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music
Rochester, NY
November 9, 2016
Jeu-Parti (original version)
Wei-Han Wu, piano
Alex Stephenson, electronics
Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music
Rochester, NY
October 6, 2016
Conducting Daniel Fígols-Cuevas’ Väri
OSSIA New Music
Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music
Rochester, NY
June 18, 2016
calling, crying (first performance)
Jennifer Beattie, mezzo-soprano
Argus Quartet
New Music on the Point
Salisbury, VT
February 25, 2016
Conducting Ezra Sims’ Musing and Reminiscence
OSSIA New Music
Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music
Rochester, NY
November 24, 2015
O Clarissima
Bridget Kinneary, viola
Alex Stephenson, piano
Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music
Rochester, NY
May 18, 2015
O Clarissima
Waibun Chan, viola
Dylan Perez, piano
Silk Street Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music & Drama
London, United Kingdom
March 30, 2015
Religion
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble
James Weeks, conductor
Milton Court
London, United Kingdom