Current Season and Projects

 

 

     
     

January 25, 2024: Kiskadee
Louisiana Philharmonic, Matthew Kraemer, cond, The Orpheum Theatre, New Orleans, LA

 

  
     
 

February 3, 2024: Cricket-Viol
Wendy Richman, Viola and Voice, Soundwaves New Music, Santa Monica, CA

 

  
     
February 22, 2024: Art of Lightness 
Lisa Nelsen, Flute, Donne - Let Her Music Play Marathon, London, UK		  
     

February 24, 2024: Cricket-Viol
Wendy Richman, Viola and Voice, Stull Hall, Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin, OH

 

  
     

February 24, 2024: Kiskadee
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, Stilian Kirov, cond, Ozinga Chapel, Palos Heights, IL

  
     
April 16, 2024: Meditation on Violence
Riot Ensemble, George Bell, cond, University Concert Hall, Cardiff, UK		  
     
 

 

April 25-28, 2024: Composer residency and performance of Insects in Amber

Wuhan Conservatory of Music, China

  
     
  April 28, 2024: Butterfly House
Cardiff University Symphony Orchestra, Margarita Mikhailova, cond, St George's Hall, Bath, UK		  
     

May 10, 2024: Kiskadee
Wheeling Symphony, John Devlin, cond, Capitol Theatre, Wheeling, WV

  
     
 

June 15, 2024: Whitman Fragment** Anssi Karttunen, cello
Domaine Forget Académie, Quebec

  
     
 

July 1, 2024: Surrounded Ground* (Spanish Premiere), Quinteto Casulana with Daniel Labrada, clarinet, Serenates Festival, Claustre de La Nau, Valencia, Spain

  
     
 

 

September 23, 2024: Avian Mirrors Ensemble NEWSRQ, First Congregational Church, Sarasota, FL

  
     
 

October 31, 2024: A Conflict of Opposites Nelly Rodriguez, clarinet, Jerry Yue Zhuo, piano, 13th European Clarinet Assocation Festival, Teatro Pasolini, Salerno, Italy

  
     
 

November 14, 2024: Butterflies Remember a Mountain Lontano, 9th London Festival of American Music, The Warehouse, London

  
 

Projects 
     
  Arlene Sierra, Volume 5
A new addition to the critically-acclaimed Bridge Records portrait series, Arlene Sierra Volume 5 will focus on the composer's latest symphonic works.		  
     
Arlene Sierra, Volume 4
A new addition to the critically-acclaimed Bridge Records portrait series, Arlene Sierra Volume 4 will focus on the composer's work for piano featuring soloists Sarah Cahill and Steven Beck.		  
     
  Kiskadee – Detroit Symphony / Toulmin Commission
A new work for the Detroit Symphony, with further performances scheduled with four additional US orchestras as part of the Toulmin Commissioning programme		  
     
  Birds and Insects, Book 3
A new piano album based on the latest research into female birdsong. Commissioned by the Barbican Centre, London for soloist Sarah Cahill		  
     
Maya Deren series
Continuing from her successful rescorings of the films Meditation on Violence and Ritual in Transfigured Time for Lontano and the Goldfield Ensemble respectively, Sierra recently completed Studies in Choreography, the third in a series of new scores for chamber ensembles, set to Maya Deren's expressive and surreal films from the 1940's and 50's. The next score in the series will be set to Deren's masterpiece At Land.