Buffalo State
Louis P. Ciminelli Recital Hall
Rockwell Building

confessions, musique concréte with film

Andrew Bender: alto saxophone and movement
Jeffery Kyle Hutchins: alto saxophone voice, and movement
Tejas Jagdhari: wooden flute, acoustic guitar, electric bass, seaboard, voice, and movement
Michael Mills: pump organ, acoustic guitar, banjo, trumpet, trombone, ears, and movement
Kainen Phillips: tuba, voice, bone cracks, and movement
Olivia Sears: flute, piccolo, voice, and movement
Clare Suess: violin, boxes, and movement
Caden Vandervort: horn in F, pocket horn in F, conch, ocarina, bone cracks, and movement

Collaborative Electroacoustic Music Concert Series - VII Edition

Virginia Tech University
Perform Studio at the Moss Arts Center
Listening Studio

confessions, musique concréte with film

Andrew Bender: alto saxophone and movement
Jeffery Kyle Hutchins: alto saxophone voice, and movement
Tejas Jagdhari: wooden flute, acoustic guitar, electric bass, seaboard, voice, and movement
Michael Mills: pump organ, acoustic guitar, banjo, trumpet, trombone, ears, and movement
Kainen Phillips: tuba, voice, bone cracks, and movement
Olivia Sears: flute, piccolo, voice, and movement
Clare Suess: violin, boxes, and movement
Caden Vandervort: horn in F, pocket horn in F, conch, ocarina, bone cracks, and movement

New Music + Technology Festival

Augustana College
Bergendoff Hall of Fine Arts
Larson Hall
Event Page @ Augustana College

Tharmas the father/Enion the mother, for solo sopranino saxophone

Kyle Hutchins, sopranino saxophone

Free and open to the public

Performances by Tiffany M. Skidmore of Performing Emily and Six Geometries by Alvin Lucier at the St. Cloud State University MN Made Festival

St. Cloud State University Performing Arts Center

FREE and Open to the Public

Performances by Tiffany M. Skidmore (soprano) and Kyle Hutchins (alto saxophone) of Mauscheln by Joey Crane at the St. Cloud State University MN Made Festival

St. Cloud State University Performing Arts Center

FREE and open to the public

More information:

https://today.stcloudstate.edu/2024/01/24/scsus-department-of-music-to-host-mn-made-new-music-festival/

Lecture by Tiffany M. Skidmore at the MN Made Festival: Resonant Spaces: An Introduction to the Music of Alvin Lucier

MORE INFORMATION COMING SOON!

George Mason University
deLaski Performing Arts Building
Choral Room

Tharmas the father/Enion the mother, for solo sopranino saxophone

Vala/Luvah, for saxophone trio

Kyle Hutchins, tenor saxophone
Sheldon Johnson, alto saxophone
Jeffrey Siegfried, alto saxophone

Sclavonian Winds
for alto saxophone duo
performance by the Hutchins/Wheeler Duo

Kyle Hutchins, alto saxophone
Kendra Wheeler, alto saxophone

Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa
Campus de Benfica do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
1500-651 Lisboa, Portugal

Sclavonian Winds
for alto saxophone duo
premiered by the Hutchins/Wheeler Duo at the XIX World Saxophone Congress

Cicca Cultural Center
Alameda de Colon
1, 35002 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Las Palmas, Spain

Kyle Hutchins, alto saxophone
Kendra Wheeler, alto saxophone

program

performance of chime for solo percussion with tape by percussionist Patti Cudd

The University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Baird Recital Hall
250 Baird Hall
Getzville, NY 14260

FREE and Open to the Public

Lecture by Tiffany M. Skidmore as part of Duo Gelland’s 2023 American Tour, including performances of Skidmore’s 64 and cistern . anechoic . sonolucent by Duo Gelland

Gonzaga University Music Annex
FREE and Open to the Public

New Music and Strings Colloquium lecture by Tiffany M. Skidmore as part of Duo Gelland’s 2023 American Tour, including performances of Skidmore’s 64 and cistern . anechoic . sonolucent by Duo Gelland

Eastern Washington University
Music Building, Room 248
Cheney, WA 99004

FREE and Open to the Public

Duo Gelland in Concert

University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Baird Recital Hall
250 Baird Hall
Getzville, NY 14260

FREE and Open to the Public

Program:

Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
Lied ohne Worte (1882)
A-minor and B-major

Tiffany M Skidmore
64 (2014)

Erika Förare
En sorgescen (2002/03)

Mikael Forsman
Variationer över Norrskenet böljar (2021)

Birgitte Alsted
Zweigeigen (2001)

Tiffany M Skidmore
cistern . anechoic . sonolucent (2016)

Hans-Joachim Hespos (1938-2022)
aglaja - dem engel "katastroph" zum angedenken (2019

Lecture by Tiffany M. Skidmore as part of the University at Buffalo Baird Lecture Series: “The William Blake Cycle”: Metaphysical Abstraction and Instrumental Embodiment

The William Blake Cycle: Unseen, Unbodièd, Unknown
by Tiffany M. Skidmore

Fully-staged 60-minute saxophone opera
with 16-channel spacial audio and video projections

Lippes Concert Hall
TICKETS

The Book of Ahania for bass flute and baritone saxophone
The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy for tenor saxophone, flute, and electronics
Vala/Luvah for saxophone trio and electronics
Tharmas the Father/Enion the Mother for solo sopranino saxophone
The Spectre of Urthona for two soprano saxophones, cello, piano, percussion, and electronics
The Book of Ahania for bass flute and baritone saxophone
The Book of Urizen for alto saxophone and piano

Soloist Kyle Hutchins, saxophone

with

Dalia Chin, flutes
Rebeccah Parker Downs, cello
Sheldon Johnston, saxophone
Derek Shapiro, conductor
Jeffrey Siegfried, saxophone
Annie Stevens, percussion
Shannon Wettstein, piano
Ted Moore, technical director
Amanda Nelson, director

About The William Blake Cycle:

Since 2015, composer Tiffany M. Skidmore and saxophonist Kyle Hutchins have been collaborating on a cycle of electroacoustic instrumental chamber pieces centered around the saxophone that considers text and characters created by William Blake. Each movement explores relationships between mythological characters in the Blake universe, nonbinary gender identity, sexual politics, and gender stereotypes.

The Book of Ahania acts as a refrain throughout the cycle. Ahania, the female emanation of Urizen, is his soul. Urizen becomes jealous and ashamed of his own feminine emanation–he sees her as “sinful” and hides her away until she becomes an unembodied shadow that wanders the earth, becoming “the mother of Pestilence.”

The focus of Blake’s characterization of the first female, Enitharmon, represents “female domination and sexual restraints that limit the artistic imagination.” The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy reinterprets Blake’s poem, conceiving of it as a commentary on sexual oppression/suppression using restrictive pitch/rhythmic materials. Musically, the foundational vocal melody can never develop. Live instrumental lines begin to sprout from above and below the foundation, always forced to loop back due to musical constraints. Electronic snippets of a romantic underlying melody and poetic text emerge periodically from the textures, while a prolonged electronic whisper eventually envelops all other musical elements.

In Vala/Luvah, Vala and Luvah are feminine and masculine emanations of a single entity. Vala/Luvah loves and hates him/her/themself with a fiery, apocalyptic intensity.

Tharmas the father/Enion the mother explores Tharmas’s masculine persona at multiple simultaneous “ages” — he is both a bearded old man and a young man with wings. At the same time, the ecstatic, wailing music of Enion, this being’s feminine persona, gradually fades away, disappearing over the course of the piece.

The Spectre of Urthona depicts the erotic encounter that gives birth to a world full of lush flowers and poisonous fruit.

The Book of Urizen is focused on the character Urizen, who features prominently in Blake’s Europe: A Prophecy. In Blake’s universe, Urizen represents the first living entity. He is intensely destructive, yet simultaneously “the embodiment of conventional reason and law." This piece explores Urizen’s multifaceted character and story through a complex, wordless setting of passages from Blake’s poem.

About Kyle Hutchins:

Hailed as “epic” (Jazz Times), "formidable" (The Saxophone Symposium), and "gripping" (Star Tribune), Kyle Hutchins is an internationally acclaimed saxophonist, improviser, and educator. He has appeared across five continents at major festival and venues in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, the Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Scotland, South Korea, and across the United States including Carnegie Hall, National Sawdust, The Walker Art Center, World Saxophone Congress, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, International Computer Music Conference, among many others. He has recorded over two dozen albums on labels Carrier, Noise Pelican, Klavier, GIA, farpoint, Avid Sound, and Emeritus, and his work has been recognized by awards and grants from DOWNBEAT, New Music USA, American Protégé International Competition, Music Teachers National Association, Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, and others.

Kyle has presented over 200 premiere performances of new works by emerging and established composers and sound artists. He is a founding member of 113 (One Thirteen), a collective of composers and performers of experimental new music who curate concerts, educational programs, festivals, seminars, and masterclasses around the world. He is one half of Binary Canary, a woodwind-laptop improvisation duo alongside electronicist Ted Moore.

Kyle has served as Artist/Teacher of Saxophone at Virginia Tech since 2016 where he teaches classical and jazz saxophone, directs the Jazz Lab Band and New Music Ensemble, and is the Artistic Director of the Spatial Music Workshop and New Music + Technology Festival at the Institute of Creativity, Arts, and Technology.

Kyle has a Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degree from the University of Minnesota, and Bachelors of Music in performance and Bachelors of Music Education degrees from the University of North Texas. His teachers include Eugene Rousseau, Eric Nestler, Marcus Weiss, and James Dillon.

Kyle is a Yamaha, Légère, and E. Rousseau Mouthpiece Performing Artist.

Performance of chime for solo percussion with electronics by Patti Cudd at the New York City Electronic Music Festival

THE SHEEN CENTER FOR THOUGHT & CULTURE
18 Bleecker Street New York, NY 10012

FREE and Open to the Public

New Music for andPlay Duo by Joey Crane, Benjamin J M Klein, Sam Krahn, Josh Musikantow, and Tiffany M. Skidmore

Studio Z
TICKETS

New Music for andPlay Duo by Joey Crane, Benjamin J M Klein, Sam Krahn, Josh Musikantow, and Tiffany M. Skidmore

Studio Z
TICKETS

Open Air – Concerto for Violin, Viola and String Orchestra (2023) / Jörgen Dafgård

Lund Magle Konserthus
Lund, SE

Efter uruppförandet den 7 maj i Malmö och den danska premiären den 13 maj, framförs nu Jörgen Dafgårds nyskrivna dubbelkonsert Open Air för violin, viola och stråkorkester i Lund. För framförandet, som sker i Magle Konserthus den 14 maj kl 16, står Duo Gelland och Kammarorkester Öresund under ledning av Lennart Fredriksson.  Open Air har skrivits speciellt för solisterna Martin och Cecilia Gelland – Duo Gelland – och har beställts av Kammarorkester Öresund och Norrbottens Kammarorkester med stöd från Kulturrådet och Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse.   PROGRAM:   W A Mozart: Divertimento nr 3 i F-dur, KV 138. Allegro – Andante – Rondo, Presto   

Kurt Atterberg: Intermezzo   
Tiffany M Skidmore: 64   
Kurt Atterberg: Suite nr 3, op 19. Preludium – Pantomim – Vision  

Paus, med presentation  

Jörgen Dafgård: Open Air – Concerto for Violin, Viola and String Orchestra (2023).
I. Con freschezza
II. Grave
III. Giocoso ed avventuroso (c:a 26 minuter)   

Under repetitionerna har Duo Gelland och bildläraren Lena Persson arbetat interaktivt med elever från kulturskolan i möte med orkestern. Bilder från workshopen presenteras i anslutning till konserten.

https://www.kammerorkester-oresund.com/sv/2023/02/20/brobygning-i-toner-og-billeder-2/

Danish premiere by Duo Gelland of Jörgen Dafgård’s new double concerto Open Air for violin, viola and string orchestra!

Musikhøjskolen
Frederiksberg School of Music and Culture
Smallegade 12
2000 Frederiksberg

FREE and Open to the Public

PROGRAM:

W A Mozart: Divertimento nr 3 in F major, KV 138. Allegro – Andante – Rondo, Presto
Kurt Atterberg: Intermezzo
Tiffany M Skidmore: 64, for violin duo
Kurt Atterberg: Suite nr 3, op 19. Preludium – Pantomim – Vision

Intermission, with presentation

Jörgen Dafgård: Open Air – Concerto for Violin, Viola and String Orchestra (2023).
I. Con freschezza
II. Grave
III. Giocoso ed Avventuroso

With support from the Swedish Cultural Council and the Helge Axson Johnson foundation.

Duo Gelland

Palladium Malmö
Södergatan 15
211 34 Malmö

TICKETS

Nu är det dags för uruppförande av Jörgen Dafgårds nyskrivna dubbelkonsert Open Air för violin, viola och stråkorkester!

PROGRAM:

W A Mozart: Divertimento nr 3 i F-dur, KV 138. Allegro – Andante – Rondo, Presto
Kurt Atterberg: Intermezzo
Tiffany M Skidmore: 64
Kurt Atterberg: Suite nr 3, op 19. Preludium – Pantomim – Vision

Paus, med presentation

Jörgen Dafgård: Open Air – Concerto for Violin, Viola and String Orchestra (2023).
I. Con freschezza
II. Grave
III. Giocoso ed Avventuroso

New Chamber Music I

Studio Z
FREE and Open to the Public

Approximations by Anna-Louise Walton
Quest by George Crumb
Drömbokken by Tiffany M. Skidmore

featuring performances by Milana Zarić, Zeitgeist, Nina Dante, Kyle Hutchins, and Maja Radovanlija

conducted by Adam Zahller

The William Blake Cycle: Unseen, Unbodièd, Unknown 
(World Premiere)
by Tiffany M. Skidmore

Fully-staged 60-minute saxophone opera
with 128-channel spacial audio and 365º video projected onto the Cyclorama 

The Cube
Virginia Tech
TICKETS

The Book of Ahania for bass flute and baritone saxophone
The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy for tenor saxophone, flute, and electronics
Vala/Luvah for saxophone trio and electronics
Tharmas the Father/Enion the Mother for solo sopranino saxophone
The Spectre of Urthona for two soprano saxophones, cello, piano, percussion, and electronics
The Book of Ahania for bass flute and baritone saxophone
The Book of Urizen for alto saxophone and piano

Soloist Kyle Hutchins, saxophone

with

Dalia Chin, flutes
Rebeccah Parker Downs, cello
Sheldon Johnston, saxophone
Derek Shapiro, conductor
Jeffrey Siegfried, saxophone
Annie Stevens, percussion
Shannon Wettstein, piano
Ted Moore, technical director
Amanda Nelson, director

About The William Blake Cycle:

Since 2015, composer Tiffany M. Skidmore and saxophonist Kyle Hutchins have been collaborating on a cycle of electroacoustic instrumental chamber pieces centered around the saxophone that considers text and characters created by William Blake. Each movement explores relationships between mythological characters in the Blake universe, nonbinary gender identity, sexual politics, and gender stereotypes.

The Book of Ahania acts as a refrain throughout the cycle. Ahania, the female emanation of Urizen, is his soul. Urizen becomes jealous and ashamed of his own feminine emanation–he sees her as “sinful” and hides her away until she becomes an unembodied shadow that wanders the earth, becoming “the mother of Pestilence.”

The focus of Blake’s characterization of the first female, Enitharmon, represents “female domination and sexual restraints that limit the artistic imagination.” The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy reinterprets Blake’s poem, conceiving of it as a commentary on sexual oppression/suppression using restrictive pitch/rhythmic materials. Musically, the foundational vocal melody can never develop. Live instrumental lines begin to sprout from above and below the foundation, always forced to loop back due to musical constraints. Electronic snippets of a romantic underlying melody and poetic text emerge periodically from the textures, while a prolonged electronic whisper eventually envelops all other musical elements.

In Vala/Luvah, Vala and Luvah are feminine and masculine emanations of a single entity. Vala/Luvah loves and hates him/her/themself with a fiery, apocalyptic intensity.

Tharmas the father/Enion the mother explores Tharmas’s masculine persona at multiple simultaneous “ages” — he is both a bearded old man and a young man with wings. At the same time, the ecstatic, wailing music of Enion, this being’s feminine persona, gradually fades away, disappearing over the course of the piece.

The Spectre of Urthona depicts the erotic encounter that gives birth to a world full of lush flowers and poisonous fruit.

The Book of Urizen is focused on the character Urizen, who features prominently in Blake’s Europe: A Prophecy. In Blake’s universe, Urizen represents the first living entity. He is intensely destructive, yet simultaneously “the embodiment of conventional reason and law." This piece explores Urizen’s multifaceted character and story through a complex, wordless setting of passages from Blake’s poem.

About Kyle Hutchins:

Hailed as “epic” (Jazz Times), "formidable" (The Saxophone Symposium), and "gripping" (Star Tribune), Kyle Hutchins is an internationally acclaimed saxophonist, improviser, and educator. He has appeared across five continents at major festival and venues in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, the Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Scotland, South Korea, and across the United States including Carnegie Hall, National Sawdust, The Walker Art Center, World Saxophone Congress, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, International Computer Music Conference, among many others. He has recorded over two dozen albums on labels Carrier, Noise Pelican, Klavier, GIA, farpoint, Avid Sound, and Emeritus, and his work has been recognized by awards and grants from DOWNBEAT, New Music USA, American Protégé International Competition, Music Teachers National Association, Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, and others.

Kyle has presented over 200 premiere performances of new works by emerging and established composers and sound artists. He is a founding member of 113 (One Thirteen), a collective of composers and performers of experimental new music who curate concerts, educational programs, festivals, seminars, and masterclasses around the world. He is one half of Binary Canary, a woodwind-laptop improvisation duo alongside electronicist Ted Moore.

Kyle has served as Artist/Teacher of Saxophone at Virginia Tech since 2016 where he teaches classical and jazz saxophone, directs the Jazz Lab Band and New Music Ensemble, and is the Artistic Director of the Spatial Music Workshop and New Music + Technology Festival at the Institute of Creativity, Arts, and Technology.

Kyle has a Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degree from the University of Minnesota, and Bachelors of Music in performance and Bachelors of Music Education degrees from the University of North Texas. His teachers include Eugene Rousseau, Eric Nestler, Marcus Weiss, and James Dillon.

Kyle is a Yamaha, Légère, and E. Rousseau Mouthpiece Performing Artist.

Preview performances of the book of Urizen and Tharmas the father/Enion the mother by Shannon Wettstein and Kyle Hutchins.

Studio Z

FREE and Open to the Public

Performances of Alvin Lucier’s Performing Emily, Intervals, Theme, Six Geometries, and Memory Space by Tiffany M. Skidmore at the Zeitgeist Early Music Festival

November 17, 18, 19, and 20
TICKETS AND DETAILED PROGRAM INFORMATION

Performances of Alvin Lucier’s Performing Emily, Intervals, Theme, Six Geometries, and Memory Space by Tiffany M. Skidmore at the Zeitgeist Early Music Festival

November 17, 18, 19, and 20
TICKETS AND DETAILED PROGRAM INFORMATION

Performances of Alvin Lucier’s Performing Emily, Intervals, Theme, Six Geometries, and Memory Space by Tiffany M. Skidmore at the Zeitgeist Early Music Festival

November 17, 18, 19, and 20
TICKETS AND DETAILED PROGRAM INFORMATION

Performances of Alvin Lucier’s Performing Emily, Intervals, Theme, Six Geometries, and Memory Space by Tiffany M. Skidmore at the Zeitgeist Early Music Festival

November 17, 18, 19, and 20
TICKETS AND DETAILED PROGRAM INFORMATION

Lecture by Tiffany M. Skidmore at the Zeitgeist Early Music Festival: Resonant Spaces: An Introduction to the Music of Alvin Lucier

TICKETS AND DETAILED PROGRAM INFORMATION