January

FardanceCLOSE / for piano, Anne Rainwater, January 13 / Maybeck Studio, Berkeley, CA, USA

Ayre: towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of / for Flt (b. flt) Cl (b.cl) Perc. Pno Vln Vla Vcl, Recherche Ensemble, January 17 / Berlin Ultraschall, Berlin, Germany.

Guardian / for cello and large orchestra, Simone Young, Severine Ballon, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, January 20 / Ultraschall Festival, Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin, Germany.  

Amber / for orchestra, Staatsorchester Darmstadt, Kerem Hasan (conductor), January 20 / Staatstheater, Großes Haus, Darmstadt, Germany.

Amber / for orchestra, Staatsorchester Darmstadt, Kerem Hasan (conductor), January 21 / Staatstheater, Großes Haus, Darmstadt, Germany.

for solo violin / for violin, Alexandra Greffin-Klein, January 25 / Hochschule fur Musik und Theater, Munich, Germany.

Adiantum Capillus Veneris I / for soprano, Brittany Hewitt January 29 / Peter Jay Sharp Theater, New York, New York, USA.

Adiantum Capillus Veneris I (Arr. Severine Ballon) / for cello, Pierre Strauch, January 31 / Fondation suisse / Pavillon Le Corbusier Paris, France.

February

​The last leaf / for oboe solo Megan Kyle, oboe  ​February 9 / Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall University of Buffalo New York USA  

Adiantum Capillus Veneris I / for soprano Shari Feldman, February 22, /Studio Gallery Dupont Circle, DC, USA.

Manoalchadia / for 2 female voices and b flute, WasteLAnd Ensemble, February 16 / ArtshareLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Sahaf / for sax, e guitar, piano, percussion, Ann Unju Yi (piano), Thomas Snydacker (sax), February 22 / New Music DePaul, Allen Recital Hall, DePaul University, Chicago, IL.

Adiantum Capillus Veneris I (Arr. Severine Ballon) / for cello, Severine Ballon, February 19 / Konzertreihe für aktuelle Musik, Lauschvisite, Historica-Gewölbe, Montabaur, Germany.

March

Irrational (World Premier) / Loadbang, March 7 / NYC Opera America, New York, New York, USA.

FardanceCLOSE / for piano, Caroline Grivellaro, March 9 / Casa del Lago, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico.

Winter Songs Version II: Stones / for 20+ instrumentalists, DePaul Ensemble, Conductor: Michael Lewanski, March 14 / Gannon Concert Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center, DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, IL, USA.

Sahaf / for sax, e guitar, piano, percussion, HINGE Ensemble, March 16 / Times Two Series, The Record Company, Boston, MA, USA.

Anea Crystal: Seed I / for string quartet, Ilia Shestani, Patrick Evans, Alexander Botin, Nikos Palamaris, March 17 / The Athinai, Athens, Greece.

Anea Crystal: Seed II / for string quartet, Ilia Shestani, Patrick Evans, Alexander Botin, Nikos Palamaris, March 17 / The Athinai, Athens, Greece.

Anea Crystal: Anea / for string octet, Ilia Shestani, Patrick Evans, Alexander Botin, Nikos Palamaris, March 17 / The Athinai, Athens, Greece.

The Last Leaf / for sopranino sax, Alex Richards, March 19 / University of Louisville School of Music, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

Sahaf / for sax, e guitar, piano and percussion, Hypercube, March 20-24 / Now Hear This Festival, Admonton, Alberta, Canada.

Sahaf / for sax, e guitar, piano, percussion, Seattle Symphony, March 24 / Octave 9, Raisbeck Music Center, Seattle, WA, USA.

HIDDEN / for quartet and electronics, Jack Quartet and IRCAM, March 25 / Monday Evening Series, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Ayre: towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of / for Flt (b. flt) Cl (b.cl) Perc. Pno Vln Vla Vcl, Ensemble Contrachamps, Michael Wendeberg (director), March 29 / Communal Hall of Plainpalais, Geneva, Switzerland.

Black Flowers / for e guitar, Ruben Mattia Santorsa, March 29 / MISE-EN_PLACE, Brooklyn, NYC, US.

While Liquid Amber / for 3 piccolos, Trio Taco, March 31 / COPPER OWL, Victoria, BC, Canada.

April

Sahaf / for sax, e guitar, piano, percussion, HINGE Ensemble, April 5 / MIS-EN_PLACE, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

FardanceCLOSE / Nanyi Neil Qiang  Group 113, April 4 / CCRMA Stage Stanford University Ca, USA

FardanceCLOSE / Nanyi Neil Qiang  Group 113, April 8 / Center for New Music, San Francisco, USA.

Black Flowers / for e guitar, Petur Jonasson, April 8 / Saint James Church, London, UK

FardanceCLOSE / Nanyi Neil Qiang  Group 113, April 12 / New Music Concert Series, Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Black Flowers / for solo E guitar, Yaron Deutsch, BBC concert series Open Ear April 13/ St. Luke, London, UK

Manoalchadia / for 2 female voices and b flute, Peridot Duo, April 26 / Gallery 263263 Pearl Street, Cambridge, MA, USA.

FardanceCLOSE / Humay Gasimzade, April 28 / Bowling Green State University, OH, USA.

Sahaf / for sax, e guitar, piano, percussion, HINGE Ensemble, April 29 / Framingham State University, MA, USA.

May

Sahaf / for sax, e guitar, piano, percussion, Ossia New Music Ensemble, May 1, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NYC, USA.

Adiantum Capillus Veneris / for voice and breath, Juliet Fraser, May 15 / Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk, UK.

Adiantum Capillius Veneris, / Helena Ciara Kunkel, May 21 / Kleiner Saal, HfMDK, Frankfurt, Germany

June

Manoalchadia / WasteLand Stephanie Aston - soprano Leslie Leytham - mezzo-soprano Rachel Beetz- bass flute, June 1st/ Walt Disney Hall, LA, USA.

For Violin Solo/ Alexandra Greffin-Klein June 1/ Columbia University in NY Reid Hall, Grande Salle, Paris, France   

Ayre: towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of / for Flt (b. flt) Cl (b.cl) Perc. Pno Vln Vla Vcl, Ensemble Paramirabo June 8/ Domain Forget Canada .

While Liquid Amber for three picollos , Students of Domain Forget/ June 8/ Domain Forget Canada

Sahaf / for sax, e guitar, piano, percussion, Ensemble Tropi June 9/ Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Irrational / Loadbang, June 9 / Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music of Bard College, MA, USA.

Black Flowers / for solo E guitar, Pieter-Jan Vercammen June 13/ The Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, Belgium

FardanceCLOSE / Churen Li, June 16, 19:30 / Lee Hall, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK.

FardanceCLOSE / Churen Li, June 16, 21:15 / Lee Hall, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK.

Adiantum Capillus-Veneris : Etude in Fragility nr. 1 / for Bass baritone Tyler Bouqu voice., June 20th/ Isabella Gardner Museum Boston USA.

August

Anea Crystal / for 2 string quartets, The New Fromm Players and other Fellows, August 10 / Tanglewood Music Center, MA, USA.

Seed I from Anea Crystal / for string quartet, The New Fromm Players August 10 / Tanglewood Music Center, MA, USA.

Seed II from Anea Crystal / for string quartet, TMC students, August 10 / Tanglewood Music Center, MA, USA

HIDDEN / for quartet and electronics, Jack Quartet and IRCAM, August 11 / Time Spans Festival, DiMenna Center for Classical Music, NY, NY, USA.

Sahaf / for sax, e guitar, piano, percussion Nikel Ensemble, August 12 / New York, Time spans festival USA.

Guardian / for cello and large orchestra, Severine Ballon, Ostrava New Orchestra Johannes Kalitzke conducting August 25 / Ostrava New Music Days, Czech Republic.

Adiantum Capillus Veneris I (Arr. Severine Ballon) / for cello, Severine Ballon, August 30 / gallery Hošek Contemporary / Berlin, Germany.

September

Sahaf / for sax, e guitar, piano, percussion, Tropi Ensemble, September 7 / Primer Encuentro Nacional de Composición Musical at the Instituto Universitario Patagónico de las Artes (IUPA), Rio Negro, Argentina.

Sahaf / for sax, e guitar, piano, percussion, Hinge, September 12 / Durgin Concert Hall, UMass Lowell, MA, USA.

Habekhi (World Premier) / for 9 instruments and singer, SWR Experimental Studio, Detlf Heussinger (conductor), September 21 / Friedenskirche, Freiburg, Germany.

Adiantum Capillus Veneris I / for soprano Juliet Fraser September 21 / Musica Festival, Strasbourg France.

Black Flowers / for e guitar, Ruben Mattia Santorsa, September 21 / ZeitRäume Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Irrational / Loadbang, September 23 / Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music of Bard College, MA, USA.

Once I blinked nothing stayed the same / for orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor), September 26 / Scotland.

October

Ayre: towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of… / for Flt (b. flt) Cl (b.cl) Perc. Pno Vln Vla Vcl, Ensmble Meitar conducted by Andre valade, October 6 / Tel Aviv Museum Asia Hall Tel Aviv, Israel.

Duo Leat / for 2 bass clarinets in Bb, David Angelo and Shannon Leigh, October 11 / The Lilypad, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Sahaf / for sax, e guitar, piano, percussion, Synthesis Ensemble, October 13 / National Art Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Lovesong / for mixed ensemble, London Sinfonietta, conducted by Geoffrey Paterson, October 15 / Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

Ayre, towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of… / for Flt (b. flt) Cl (b.cl) Perc. Pno Vln Vla Vcl, Riot Ensemble conducted by Aaron Holloway-Nahum, October 22 / University Hall, Nottingham Trent university, Nottingham, UK. Read more

Adiantum Capillus Veneris I / for alto, Noa Frenkel, 27 October / Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

For Violin Solo (Cello Transcription) / for cello, Stefan Buchmiller, October 28 / Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

November

Black Flowers / for e guitar, Ruben Mattia Santorsa, November 4 / Contemporary Insights Series, Leipzig, Germany.

Ayre, towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of … / for Flt (b. flt) Cl (b.cl) Perc. Pno Vln Vla Vcl, The Boston Conservatory Contemporary Classical Music Ensemble: contraBAND, directed by Vimbayi Kaziboni, November 5, Studio 401, Boston Conservatory, Boston, MA.

Duo Leat / for 2 bass clarinets in Bb, Pink Noise Ensemble, November 14 / Saint John’s in the Village, NYC, USA. Read More

Heart Chamber (World Premier) / for 5 singers, 5 instrumental soloists, choir, large orchestra, and electronics, Deutsche Oper Berlin, November 15 / Berlin, Germany.

Algae / A monodrama for bass and piano, Richard Steinert (Bass), Valentin Pfalzgraf (Piano), November 19 / Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main (HfMDK), Frankfurt, Germany.

Heart Chamber / for 5 singers, 5 instrumental soloists, choir, large orchestra, and electronics, Deutsche Oper Berlin, November 21 / Berlin, Germany.

Adentium Capillus No 1 / for Mezzo-Soprano, Lucy Dhegrae, November 23 / National Sawdust, NYC, USA.

Ayre: towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of... / for Flt (b. flt) Cl (b.cl) Perc. Pno Vln Vla Vcl, Ensemble Ilinx, November 24 / UdK, Bundesallee, Berlin, Germany.

Lovesong / for mixed ensemble, Ensemble Ilinx, November 24 / UdK, Bundesallee, Berlin, Germany.

Fardance CLOSE / for piano, Ensemble Ilinx, November 24 / UdK, Bundesallee, Berlin, Germany.

Heart Chamber (World Premiere)/ for 5 singers, 5 instrumental soloists, choir, large orchestra, and electronics, Deutsche Oper Berlin, November 26 / Berlin, Germany.

INA/ for amplified bass flute and recorded flutes, ​Moscow Contemporary Ensemble,  Clairmount Hall Tel Aviv university​, November 26/ Tel Aviv, Israel.

Heart Chamber / for 5 singers, 5 instrumental soloists, choir, large orchestra, and electronics, Deutsche Oper Berlin, November 29 / Berlin, Germany.

Adiantum Capillus Veneris I (Arr. Severine Ballon) / for cello, Severine Ballon, Philharmonie Luxembourg, November 30 / Luxembourg. Read More

December

Heart Chamber / for 5 singers, 5 instrumental soloists, choir, large orchestra, and electronics, Deutsche Oper Berlin, December 6 / Berlin, Germany.

Duo Leat / for 2 bass clarinets in Bb, David Angelo and Shannon Leigh, December 6 / The Lilypad, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Ayre: towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of... / for Flt (b. flt) Cl (b.cl) Perc. Pno Vln Vla Vcl, Directed by Yorgos Ziavras Konzertsaal (Köln), Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, December 11 / Cologne, Germany.