selected performances, broadcasts & lectures, from ’06
** = world premiere
Performers and venues, please email to have your performance information included here
Carducci Quartet, University Concert Hall, Cardiff
November 21, 2011: of Risk and Memory
Quattro Mani - Alice Rybak and Susan Grace
The Tenth Annual Classical Recording Foundation Award Ceremony, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, NY, NY
November 17, 2011: Lecture-Recital featuring Arlene Sierra
Including US Premieres of song cycles
Hearing Things - Yunjin Kim, soprano, Emi Okumura, piano
Streets and Rivers - Thomas Lehman, baritone, Lisa Gonella, piano
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY
November 11, 2011: Scenes from Faustine
OPERA America New Works Forum, Center for Contemporary Opera
Conductor: Michael Fenelly, Musical Preparation: Michael Pilafian; Devil: Marshall Coid, Muriel: Kathryn Allen, Ella: Kala Maxym, Anna: Megan Weston, Harry: Dominic Inferrera
Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College, New York, NY
November 8, 2011: Colmena
New Juilliard Ensemble, Joel Sachs, conductor
Alice Tully Hall, NY, NY
July 21, 2011: Truel 1
The Peabody Trio, Yellow Barn Music Festival, Putney, VT
July 8, 2011: Insects in Amber
Carducci Quartet, UK premiere at the Cheltenham International Music Festival
May 14, 2011: Scenes from opera-in-progress Faustine**
New York City Opera VOX Contemporary Opera Showcase
Conductor: Ryan McAdams, Musical Preparation: Lynn Baker
Devil: Jason Abrams, Muriel: Jennifer Roderer, Ella: Deanna Breiwick, Anna: Amanda Pabyan, Harry: Ian Greenlaw
April 8, 2011: Insects in Amber
Carducci Quartet, East Coast premiere at the Cinema Arts Center, Huntingdon, NY
April 3, 2011: Insects in Amber**
Carducci Quartet, Stanford Lively Arts, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford, CA
March 27, 2011: Art of Lightness
Lisa Nelsen, flute, University of Ottawa, Freiman Hall, Canada
March 25, 2011: Canadian premiere of Art of Lightness
Lisa Nelsen, flute, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
March 15, 2011: Cricket-Viol
Wendy Richman, viola and voice, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, OH
February 27, 2011: Truel I
The Fidelio Trio, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
January 24, 2011: Cricket-Viol**
Wendy Richman, viola and voice, Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, NY
January 16, 2011: Continental premiere of Art of Lightness
Eric Lamb, flute , Spiegelsaal in Clärchens Ballhaus, Berlin, Germany
October 21, 2010: of Risk and Memory American premiere
Shirley Yoo and Stephen Buck, pianos, LotUS League of the Unsound Sound Premiere Concert, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA
October 5th and 6th, 2010: Lontano Festival of American Music
Art of Lightness**, Rowland Sutherland, flute
Counting-Out Rhyme, Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez, artistic director, The Warehouse, London
October 2, 2010: World Premiere Broadcast of Piano Concerto Art of War, BBC Radio Three's contemporary music program Hear and Now, performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Huw Watkins, piano, Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor
September 9, 2010: Piano Concerto Art of War**
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Huw Watkins, piano, Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor, Vale of Glamorgan Festival, BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
July 17, 2010: American premiere of Two Neruda Odes
Susan Narucki, soprano, Kacy Clopton, cello, Michael Bukhman, piano, The Big Barn, Yellow Barn Music Festival, Putney, Vermont
June 2, 2010: Continental premiere of Hearing Things, Frauke Aulbert, soprano, Thorsten Kuhn, piano, U.S. Consulate General, Hamburg, Germany
March 9, 2010: Welsh premiere of Counting-Out Rhyme,
Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez, artistic director, University Concert Hall, Cardiff
February 8, 2010: Boston premiere of Cicada Shell, Collage New Music, David Hoose, conductor, Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA
February 6, 2010: UK premiere broadcast of Aquilo , BBC Radio Three's contemporary music program Hear and Now, in a performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac Van Steen, cond.
December 19, 2009: Game of Attrition, New York Philharmonic, Magnus Lindberg, conductor, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
December 17, 2009: Game of Attrition**, New York Philharmonic, Magnus Lindberg, conductor, CONTACT, the New York Philharmonic New Music Series, Symphony Space, New York
December 7, 2009: Hearing Things, Claire Booth, soprano, Andrew Matthews-Owen, piano, Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts, Town Hall, Cheltenham
December 1, 2009: Hearing Things, Claire Booth, soprano, Andrew Matthews-Owen, piano, University Concert Hall, Cardiff
November 27, 2009: Hearing Things, Claire Booth, soprano, Andrew Matthews-Owen, piano, University of Hull Concert Series
September 4, 2009: Truel I, Fidelio Trio, National Portrait Gallery, London
June 10, 2009: Hearing Things**, Claire Booth, soprano, Andrew Matthews-Owen, piano, Louise Blouin Institute, London
March 27, 2009: Tiffany Windows, Great Noise Ensemble, Armando Bayolo, cond, Catholic University Ward Hall, Washington DC
March 13, 2009: Miller Theatre Composer Portrait Series Concert
Colmena** (Miller Theatre Commission), Ballistae [U.S. Premiere], Surrounded Ground [U.S. Premiere], Neruda Settings** (expanded version), Cicada Shell [U.S. Premiere]
International Contemporary Ensemble [ICE], Susan Narucki, soprano, Jayce Ogren, cond.
February 10, 2009: Surrounded Ground, Chroma, University Concert Hall, Cardiff
February 5, 2009: Public Lecture "Notes from Across the Pond", Kings College, London
November 5, 2008: Le Chai au Quai** London Contemporary Music Group, Oxford, England
June 8, 2008: Surrounded Ground (complete)**, The Chroma Ensemble, Park Lane Chapel, Norwich, England
May 3, 2008: Cicada Shell *broadcast*
Cicada Shell is broadcast on BBC Radio Three's contemporary music program Hear and Now, in a performance by the New Music Players.
April 23, 2008: Streets and Rivers, Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone, Nigel Foster, piano, Victoria Rooms, Bristol, England
April 22, 2008: Streets and Rivers, Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone, Nigel Foster, piano, University Concert Hall, Cardiff
April 12, 2008: Neruda Settings, Great Noise Ensemble, Kara Morgan, soprano, Armando Bayolo, cond., Unitarian Universalist Church, Silver Spring, MD
April 6, 2008: Selections from Birds and Insects, Karis Stretton, piano, Acton Hill Church, London
March 3, 2008: IMR Composition Day, Royal Academy of Music, London
Professor Simon Bainbridge (RAM), Dr Arlene Sierra (Cardiff University), Professor Robert Saxton (Oxford University), and Professor Martin Butler (Sussex University)
January 24, 2008: Aquilo [European Premiere], BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac Van Steen, cond., St David’s Hall, Cardiff
December 4, 2007: A Conflict of Opposites** (version for Violin and Piano), Alexandra Wood, violin, Huw Watkins, piano, University Concert Hall, Cardiff
December 3, 2007: Opera Genesis Showcase of Arlene Sierra’s music
A Conflict of Opposites, Three Descriptions [European Premiere], Selections from Birds and Insects, Two Etudes After Mantegna, Streets and Rivers**
Pete Furniss, clarinet , Marie Vassiliou, soprano, Daniel Becker, piano, Robin Michael, cello, Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone, Nigel Foster, pian, Royal Opera House Lunchtime Chamber Series, The Crush Room, Covent Garden, London
November 7, 2007: Truel I, The Fidelio Trio, Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway University of London
October 24, 2007: A Conflict of Opposites, Pete Furniss, clarinet and David Jones, piano The Warehouse, London
August 22, 2007: Cicada Sketch and Titmouse from Birds and Insects, Karis Stretton, piano, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, St. Andrew's & St. George's Church, Edinburgh
July 19, 2007: Cicada Sketch and Titmouse from Birds and Insects, Karis Stretton, piano, St. Olave's Church, London
July 4, 2007: Cicada Sketch and Titmouse from Birds and Insects, Karis Stretton, piano, St. Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church, London
May 31, 2007: Arlene Sierra “Spotlight” *broadcast*
Aquilo, Neruda Settings: Oda a la lagartija, Truel I, Titmouse, Cicada Shell
WNYC encore broadcast of “Spotlight on: Arlene Sierra” part of the American Music Festival 2007.
To hear the show visit the dedicated page on this site.
May 20, 2007: Truel I *broadcast*
Truel I is featured in KCSC-FM Oklahoma’s The Composer Next Door
May 19, 2007: of Risk and Memory *broadcast*
of Risk and Memory is broadcast on BBC Radio Three's Hear and Now: Dutch Connections I, in a performance by Daniel Becker and Huw Watkins, pianos.
February 27, 2007: Truel I, The Schubert Ensemble, Tuesday Evening Concert Series, University Concert Hall, Cardiff
December 1, 2006: Titmouse, Clive Williamson, piano, One Minute Wonders Launch Concert, The Warehouse, London
November 21, 2006: Cicada Shell, New Music Players, BMIC Cutting Edge Tour, University Concert Hall, Cardiff
November 2, 2006: Cicada Shell**, New Music Players, BMIC Cutting Edge Series Concert, The Warehouse, London
November 2, 2006: of Risk and Memory, Daniel Becker, Huw Watkins, pianos, BMIC Cutting Edge Series,
The Warehouse, London
October 28, 2006: of Risk and Memory, Daniel Becker, Huw Watkins, pianos, Kings College, Cambridge, England
July 24, 2006: Truel I, Contemporary Consort, King's Lynn Music Festival, Town Hall, King's Lynn, England
July 23, 2006: Truel I, Contemporary Consort, Petworth Music Festival, Petworth, England
July 19, 2006: Truel I, Contemporary Consort, Leasowes Bank Arts Festival, Shropshire, England
June 6, 2006: Scarab, Douglas Finch, piano, Spitalfields Festival Concert, Wilton's Music Hall, London
March 14, 2006: Surrounded Ground (Preamble)**, Chroma Ensemble, Tuesday Evening Concert Series, University Concert Hall, Cardiff
March 5, 2006: of Risk and Memory**, Karl Lutchmayer, David Alexander, pianos, The Warehouse, London
January 30, 2006: Truel I, Contemporary Consort, Royal College of Music, London
January 25, 2006: Truel I, Gemini, Bristol University Lunchtime Concert, Bristol, England
January 18, 2006: Truel I, Gemini, Surrey University Lunchtime Concert, Guildford, England
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