Erin Gee

Associate Professor of Composition

Brandeis University

erinegee_at_gmail.com

Education

2007 Ph.D. Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Graz, Austria.

2002 M.A. in composition, University of Iowa, Lawrence Fritts. Minor: Music Theory Pedagogy.

1997 Honors and highest distinction, B.M. in piano performance, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

 

Advanced Study

2001 to 2004 Postgraduate studies in composition with Beat Furrer, Graz, Austria.

2003 Akademie Schloss Solitude, master classes: Chaya Czernowin, Steve Takasugi, Stuttgart, Germany.

2002 Klangwege, master classes: Mathias Spahlinger, Graz, Austria.

2000 and 2002 International Summer courses for New Music, Darmstadt, Germany.

1999 June in Buffalo Music Festival, master classes: Aaron Jay Kernis and Jukka Tiensuu, New York.

 

Selected Awards and Grants




2023 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts

2022 Arts and Letters Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

2019 Koussevitsky Award for a commission with JACK Quartet

2017 Fromm Foundation Award and commission with Earplay

2017 Chamber Music America Grant with Ensemble Dal Niente

2017 Residency, Yaddo Artists Community

2015 Charles Ives Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Letters

2015 Residency, Yaddo Artists Community

2013 John Hargraves and Nancy Newcomb Fellow at the MacDowell Colony

2012 Lydian String Quart Competition, Honorable Mention.

2011 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Italy.

2010 Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.

2010 Residency, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, California.

2009 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, New York City.

2009 Grant, Austrian Ministry for Culture.

2009 Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2008 Composition Prize, City of Graz, Austria.

2008 Featured Composer, 4020 Festival, Linz, Austria.

2007 Samuel Barber Rome Prize, The American Academy in Rome, Italy.

2007 UNESCO Picasso-Miró Medal (Rostrum of Composers) for Mouthpiece IX, Paris, France.

2007 Gianni Bergamo Prize, Tage für Neue Musik, Zurich, Switzerland.

2007 Teatro Minimo Prize (First Round), Zurich Opera House, Switzerland.

2006 Meet the Composer Grant.

2006 SCI/ASCAP National Student Competition, 3rd Prize.

2005 Look & Listen Festival Prize, New York, New York.

2005 Jerome Foundation Commissioning Grant.

2005 Publicity Prize 2005 for composition, SKE Fond, Vienna, Austria.

2005 Astral Career Grant, NFAA.

2005 Resident Composer, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan.

2005 Composer Assistance Program Award, American Music Center.

2005 Government Scholarship for Composition, Austria.

2005 Scholarship from the University for Music, Graz.

2004 Impuls Composition Prize, Graz, Austria.

2004 Rislov Foundation Scholarship.

2003 Scholarship for the Summer Academy Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.

2003 Michael Ziehrer Scholarship, Graz, Austria.

2002 Scholarship, University of Music, Graz, for Darmstadt Summer Courses.

2002 Rislov Foundation Scholarship.

2001 Scholarship, Huddersfield Festival of New Music, England.

2001 Graduate College Research Grant, University of Iowa.

2001 Performance Award, Graduate Student Senate, University of Iowa.

2001 Graduate Student Senate Research Grant, University of Iowa.

2000 Pelzer Award for composition, University of Iowa.

2000 Scholarship from the Darmstadt Summer Courses.

2000 Fine Arts Grant, University of Iowa.

1992 to 1997 Full Scholarship, B.M. in piano performance, University of Iowa.

 

 

Selected Commissions

2022 Emiliano Gavito from Collective LoveMusic

2021 Collective LoveMusic

2020 Ekmeles Ensemble through Chamber Music America

2019 Grossman Ensemble through the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition

2019 JACK Quartet

2018 Argento Ensemble

2018 Ensemble Dal Niente through Chamber Music America

2017 EarPlay Ensemble

2017/18 Kronos Quartet

2017 Frauke Aulbert

2016 Tanglewood Music Center, Festival of Contemporary Music

2016 Musikprotokoll, Graz Austria

2016 DePaul Humanities Series

2016 Colin Gee, music for dance at Abrons Art Center, NYC

2016 Tulane University, composer in residence

2016 Shillim Foundation, Western Ghats, India

2016 Tak Quartet with Charlotte Mundy

2015 Ryan Muncy and Ross Karre of ICE Ensemble, New York City.

2014 Argento Esemble, New York City.

2014 Arditti Quartet for Musikprotokoll, Graz, Austria.

2013 Spektral Quartet, Mobile Miniatures.

2013 Mouthpiece XVIII for Unter 4 Ohren, Ensemble Chronophonie, Freiburg, Germany.

2013 Mouthpiece XXI for the North American Saxophone Alliance, 2014.

2012 Mouthpiece XIX for “Cercle – Konzertreihe für Neue Musik”, Arnold Schoenberg Center, Vienna.

2012Mouthpiece XVI for Ensemble Ascolta, Stuttgart.

2011 Mouthpiece XX for Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna.

2011 Mouthpiece XV for Daniel Gloger, of the Neuevocalsolisten, Stuttgart.

2011 “…in the first place…”, an EMPAC electro-acoustic performance/installation, dir. Colin Gee. New York.

2011 Mouthpiece XVII for Hackbrett, to be performed in Basel, Switzerland, 2013.

2010 IMTA, Piano Solo for Réne Lecuona, Ames, Iowa.

2009 American Composers Orchestra for Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall, New York.

2009 Repertorio Zero for the Tage für Neue Musik Zürich, Switzerland.

2009 Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, Esa-Pekka Salonen, California.

2008 Witten Festival of New Music, Klangforum Wien, Germany.

2008 Featured Composer, Linz 4020 Festival, Austria.

2008 Two new works for Koto, 4020 Festival, Linz, Austria.

2007 Cornelia Hermann, Jeunesse Concert Series, Vienna, Austria.

2007 Zurich Opera House, Switzerland.

2006 Klangspuren Festival/Austrian Broadcasting Co. for Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna.

2006 Klangspuren Festival for Latvian Radio Choir, Schwaz, Austria.

2006 Petra Stump / Heinz-Peter Linshalm, Clarinet Duo.

2005 Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan.

2005 Bludenz Tage für Zeitgemäße Musik (Festival of Contemporary Music) Bludenz, Austria.

2005 Mozart Anniversary 2006, Vienna, Austria.

2004 Impuls Prize Commission for Ensemble Klangforum Wien, Graz, Austria.

2004 Klangforum Wien, Vienna, Austria.

2004 Player Piano, Minoritensaal Graz, Austria.

2004 Janne Rättyä, Accordion.

2003 University for Music, Graz, Brass Quintet.

2000 Duo Contour, Trumpet and Percussion.

 

Academic Experience

2023 - Professor of Composition, Brandeis University

2020 - 2023 Associate Professor of Composition, Brandeis University

2017 -  2020                Assistant Professor of Composition, Brandeis University

2012 - 2017                 Assistant Professor of Composition-Theory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2011-12                        Lecturer, MIT, Music Theory

                                     Senior Lecturer, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Graz, Seminar: “The Female Voice after 1950”.

1999 – 2001                Teaching Assistantship, Undergraduate Theory and Musicianship Courses I – IV,

            University of Iowa, Iowa City.

 

Selected Performances

2022

Dec 4 : American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, 3pm

Dec 3: Mouthpiece 28, TAK Ensemble, Kravis Nightcap Series, Lincoln Center, NYC

Dec 3 - 31: Mouthpiece 37 collective lovemusic, New Music Show, BBC 3.

Nov 25: Mouthpiece 37, collective lovemusic, Arsenal Concert Hall, Metz, France.

Nov 22: Mouthpiece 37, Collective LoveMusic, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, St. Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield, UK

Nov. 21: Lecture, Brown University Info

Nov. 18: Mouthpiece I, Lotte Betts-Dean, voice, National Gallery of Art, London, UK. Free Concert Info

Nov. 10: Mouthpiece 39, JACK Quartet, Ernst C. Steifel Concert Hall at Arnold Hall, The New School, NY Tickets Here

Nov 9: Mouthpiece 39, JACK Quartet, University of Iowa.

Oct 28: Mouthpiece 36, Ekmeles Ensemble, Church of the Intercession, New York City.

Oct. 7 Mouthpiece 39, JACK Quartet, Boulez-Saal, Berlin.

Oct 6: Mouthpiece 39, Premiere, JACK Quartet, Bludenzer Tage Zeitgemäße Musik, Bludenz, Austria

Sept. 24: Mouthpiece IX (excerpt), Radio ORF, Ö1, “le week-end - Musical Herstories.” Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Austria.

Sept 18: Mouthpiece 38, Premiere, Emiliano Gavito, lovemusic collective, Musica Festival, Strasbourg, France

Sept. 8: Mouthpiece I, Lotte Betts-Dean, voice, VOICE ELECTRIC, Britten Pears Arts, Festival of the New, Aldeburgh, UK.

Aug 16: Mouthpiece XI, Argento Ensemble, Erin Gee, voice, Timespans Festival, New York City.

June 23: Mouthpiece 28, TAK Ensemble, Dimenna Center, New York City.

June 21: Mouthpiece 37 for Collective Lovemusic, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France

June 19: Mouthpiece 37 Collective Love Music, Strasbourg, France.

June 12: Erin Gee on Radio France

June 5: Mouthpiece 33, ATTACCA Festival, Musik-Akademie, Basel, Switzerland

May 27: Mouthpiece 36, Ekmeles Ensemble, New York City.

May 17: Mouthpiece II, Sarah Grace Graves, Voice, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France

May 1: Mouthpiece 28 TAK Ensemble, Bang on a Can, Long Play Festival. New York City.

April 2: Mouthpiece 28, TAK Ensemble, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

Mar 29 - Apr 2: “Moloney” with Angie Smalis, Colin Gee and the Irish Chamber Orchestra with Diane Daly and Aoife Nic Athlaoich, Dance Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Mar 22 - Mar 26: “Moloney” with Angie Smalis, Colin Gee and the Irish Chamber Orchestra with Diane Daly and Aoife Nic Athlaoich, Negagh Arts Centre, Ireland

Mar 14 - Mar 19: “Moloney” with Angie Smalis, Colin Gee and the Irish Chamber Orchestra with Diane Daly and Aoife Nic Athlaoich, Irish Chamber Orchestra Studio, Limerick, Ireland

Mar 7 - Mar 12: “Moloney” with Angie Smalis, Colin Gee and the Irish Chamber Orchestra with Diane Daly and Aoife Nic Athlaoich, Glor Theatre, Ennis, Ireland

Feb 17: Mouthpiece XXIV Michael Mitterlehner-Romm, Schlagzeug, University Mozarteum, Solitär, Salzburg, Austria

Feb 16: Mouthpiece XXIV Michael Mitterlehner-Romm, Schlagzeug, Minoriten Kloster, Wies, Austria

Feb 14 - Mar 5: “Moloney” with Angie Smalis, Colin Gee and the Irish Chamber Orchestra with Diane Daly and Aoife Nic Athlaoich, Firkin Crane, Cork, Ireland

Feb 7 - 11: “Moloney” with Angie Smalis, Colin Gee and the Irish Chamber Orchestra with Diane Daly and Aoife Nic Athlaoich, Dance Limerick, "What Next Dance Festival, Limerick, Ireland

Jan 18: Mouthpiece 28, TAK Ensemble, broadcast on WKCR-FM

Jan 7- Feb 4: Mouthpiece IX on BBC Sounds “Freakzone Playlist” curated by Pamela Z

2021

 

2 JAN

Mouthpiece 33 Collective Love Music. Stras’ Culture, Strasbourg, France.

2 JAN

Mouthpiece 33 Collective Love Music. Facebook Live.

19 FEB

Mouthpiece XXIV Zürich Collegium Novum, stream on Idagio Global Concert Hall

23 FEB

Mouthpiece XIV Julia Den Boier, pianist. Livestream, Roulette, Brooklyn

2 JULY

Mouthpiece II Felicita Brusoni, voice. Sound Spaces 2021. InterArts Center, Malmö, Sweden.

15 AUG

Mouthpiece 33 Collective Love Music. Strasbourg, France.

13 OCT

Mouthpiece II Felicita Brusoni, voice. Inter Feral Arts/ New Music Festival, Malmö, Sweden.




2020

 

4 FEB

Mouthpiece 29a and Mouthpiece 29b Erin Gee, voice, Arete, Brooklyn.

5 FEB

Mouthpiece 29a and Mouthpiece 29b Erin Gee, voice, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City.

27 FEB

Panel presentation and Mouthpiece I, Vertigo Form, IRCAM, Paris, France.

Feb 26 – April 20

Mouthpiece 34: Shillim, Neurones, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.

7 MAR

(cancelled) Mouthpiece XIV, Julia Den Boer, Pianist, Columbia GlobalCenters, Paris, France.

28 AUG

Mouthpiece 33, Lovemusic Ensemble, Strasbourg, France

3 OCT

Mouthpiece 33, Lovemusic Ensemble, Festival Musica, Strasbourg, France

28 NOV

Mouthpiece 33, Lovemusic Ensemble, Festival Sintèse, Covilhã, Portugal CANCELED

29 NOV

Mouthpiece 33, Lovemusic Ensemble, Festival Sintèse, Guarda, Portugal

CANCELED

 

 

2019

 

10 JAN

Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter, SoundON Festival, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA

8 FEB

Portrait Concert, with premier of Mouthpiece 33, Erin Gee + Sharon Harms, voice, Argento Ensemble. Roulette, Brooklyn, NY.

22 FEB

Mouthpiece 28, TAK Ensemble, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota

2 MARCH

Mouthpiece 28, TAK Ensemble, Cluster Festival, Winnipeg, Ontario, Canada.

30 MARCH

Mouthpiece XXIV, Ryan Muncy, Ross Karre, Opera Omaha, One Festival, Omaha, NE

4  APRIL

Mouthpiece X, Mouthpiece I, Erin Gee, voice, Le Nouvelle Ensemble Contemporain, Archipel Festival, Geneva, Switzerland

5  APRIL

Mouthpiece X, Mouthpiece I, Erin Gee, voice, Le Nouvelle Ensemble Contemporain La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

11 MAY

Mouthpiece 29, Mouthpiece I, Yamaguchi Mouthpieces, Erin Gee, voice, Sound Icon, Rose Museum, Brandeis University.

 17 MAY

Mouthpiece XXIV, Festival ME_MMIX, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

1 JUN

Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter, Dal Niente ensemble, LA Philharmonic Noon to Midnight concert series, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA.

15 JUN

Mouthpiece X, Mouthpiece 29, Mouthpiece II, Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter, Mouthpiece Remix, Erin Gee, voice, Seattle Modern Orchestra, The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA.

16 JUN

Mouthpiece I Anna Maria Pammer, voice. Sammlung Hoffman, Berlin.

21 JUN

Mouthpiece XXIV Nuno Silva, Saxophone, Pedro Paixão, Percussion. Zeeland, Netherlands.

24 JUN

Mouthpiece XXIV Nuno Silva, Saxophone, Pedro Paixão, Percussion. Concertzaal, Tilburg, Netherlands.

5 SEP

Mouthpiece 29, Mouthpiece: Segment of the 3rd Letter, Mouthpiece I, Yamaguchi Mouthpieces, Erin Gee, voice, Argento Ensemble. Resonant Bodies Festival, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY.

6 NOV

Mouthpiece 32, Dal Niente ensemble, Northern Illinois University New Music Festival, Dekalb, IL.

2018

 

13 JAN

Portrait Half-Concert (30 min.), Anna Maria Pammer, Oesterreisches Ensemble für Neue Musik, Salzburg, Austria.

22 FEB

3 Scenes from the Opera SLEEP. Ekmeles Ensemble. Crypt of the Intercession, NYC.

24 APR

Mouthpiece XXII, JACK Quartet, Duke University.

3 MAY

Mouthpiece 29, Mouthpiece XXIV, Mouthpiece I. Original Gravity Concert, Down the Road Brewery. Everett, MA.

11 MAY

Mouthpiece I. Alexandra Porter, voice. Contemporary Undercurrent of Song Project, All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Princeton, NJ.

12 MAY

Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter. Michael Lewanski, conducting. Centro de Experimentación y Producción de Música Contemporánea. Sala Manuel M Ponce, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.

19 MAY

Mouthpiece 28, New Music Gathering, Boston Conservatory of Music, Boston.

20 JUN

Mouthpiece 28, Nief-Norf Festival, Knoxville, Tenessee.

4 JUL

Mouthpiece 30premier. Frauke Aulbert, voice. Greek National Opera, Alternative Stage. Athens, Greece

23 SEPT

Mouthpieces for solo voice, Alexandra Proter, Voice. St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, New Hope, PA.

30 SEPT

Mouthpiece 32premier. Dal Niente Ensemble, Constellation, Chicago.

6 OCT

Mouthpiece XIXc, Dal Niente Ensemble, Centro de Experimentación y Producción de Músical Conemporánea. Sala Manuel M Ponce, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.

18 OCT

Mouthpiece I, Danielle Buonaiuto, voice, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.

30 OCT

Mouthpiee 28, TAK Ensemble, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

2 NOV

Mouthpiece 32, Dal Niente Ensemble, UC Davis, California.

25 NOV

Yamaguchi Mouthpiece I + III, Peyee Chen, voice. Huddersfiedl Contemporary Music Festival, UK.

26 NOV

Mouthpiece 28, TAK Ensemble, Boston University.

 

2017

 

13 JAN

Mouthpiece 28, TAK Ensemble, Williams College.

27 JAN

Mouthpiece 28, TAK Ensemble, Dimenna Center, NYC.

7 FEB

3 Scenes from the opera, “SLEEP” Ekmeles Ensemble, Syracuse University, NY.

9 FEB

3 Scenes from the opera, “SLEEP” Ekmeles Ensemble, Dimenna Center, NYC.

15 FEB

Mouthpiece XXIV, Sonic Illinois Festival, University of Illinois.

6 APR

Mouthpiece 28,Niente/Forte Festival, TAK Ensemble, Tulane University, New Orleans.

27 MAY

Mouthpiece XXII, JACK Quartet, KLANG Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark.

13 JUN

Mouthpiece 30, Frauke Aulbert, Unerhörte Musik, Berlin, Germany.

18 JUNE

Mouthpiece 30, Frauke Aulbert, Summer in Stuttgart, Theaterhaus, Stuttgart, Germany.

1 JUL

Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter, Chamber Cartel, Orpheus Brewing, Atlanta, GA.

JULY

Mouthpiece XXII, JACK Quartet, Banff Institute, Canada.

7 AUG

Mouthpiece XXII, JACK Quartet, Chataqua Institute, New York.

25 AUG

Mouthpiece XXII, JACK Quartet, Lucerne Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland.

19 OCT

Mouthpiece XXII, JACK Quartet, Miller Theater, New York City.

26 OCT

Mouthpiece XXII, JACK Quartet, University of Missouri.

18 NOV

Mouthpiece 30, Frauke Aulbert, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany.

9 DEC

Yamaguchi Mouthpiece I and Mouthpiece II. Peyee Chen, voice. University of Leeds, UK.

 

2016

 

8 JAN

Mouthpiece XXIV, Ryan Muncy and Ross Karre of International Contemporary Ensemble, New Music Gathering, The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

6 FEB

Mouthpiece XXIV, Ryan Muncy and Ross Karre of International Contemporary Ensemble, OpenICE concert, Chopin Theater, Chicago.

15 MAR

Mouthpiece XIXc, ECCE Ensemble, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

11 APR

Lobe (Mouthpiece XXVI) for voice and actor. The DePaul Humanities Center: Making the Novel Novel. Chicago.

3+6 MAI

Mouthpiece XIXc, ECCE Ensemble, the Dimenna Center, NYC and La Laboratoire, Cambridge, MA.

6-8 MAI

Music for “They Go Out in Joy”. Colin Gee and Angie Smalis. Abrons Art Center, NYC.

MAY-OCT

Mouthpiece XXVII as part of the “Höhenrausch” Installation at the Kulturquartier in Linz, Austria

10 JUN

Mouthpiece X. Wet Ink Ensemble. NYC.

3+4 JUN

music for "Frontier"written/directed/performed by Colin Gee, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Brooklyn, NY.

23 JULY

Mouthpiece 29. Tanglewood Music Center, Festival of Contemporary Music.

28 JUL

Mouthpiece XI. Alarm Will Sound. Mizzou International Composers Festival, Columbia, MO.

29 JULY

Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter. Walden Players, Dublin, NH.

29 JULY

Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter. Mizzou International Composers Festival, Columbia, MO.

8 SEPT

Mouthpiece 28. Tak Ensemble. Resonant Bodies Festival, Roulette, NYC.

8 OCT

Mouthpiece XXVII. Ensemble Nova.Musikprotokoll Festival, Graz, Austria.

15 OCT

Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter. Chamber Cartel, Atlanta, Georgia.

4 DEC

Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter, Mouthpiece XIXc, Center for New Music, University of Iowa. Invited as one of 9 Alumni to celebrate the opening of the new Voxman School of Music Building.

8 DEC

Mouthpiece I, Justine Aronson, voice. New York Festival of Song, National Sawdust, Brooklyn, New York.

9 DEC

Mouthpiece XXII, JACK Quartet, Voxman Auditorium, University of Iowa.

2015 

6 FEB

Mouthpiece I, Viola Yip, voice. Arts Village, Bowling Green State University.

MAR

Mouthpiece I, Viola Yip, voice. Hong Kong

11 APR

Mouthpiece I + II, Charlotte Mundy, voice. Spectrum, NYC.

22 APR

Mouthpiece XXIV, Ryan Muncy and Ross Karre of International Contemporary Ensemble, Abrons Arts Center, NYC.

24 APR

Mouthpiece: Segment of the 3rd Letter, Ecce Ensemble. Dimenna Center, NYC.

22 MAY

Mouthpiece I Erin Gee, voice. Brooklyn Dance Space, Brooklyn NY.

 24 JUL

Mouthpiece XXIV, Ryan Muncy and Bonnie White. The Walden School. Dublin, NH.

23+24 NOV

Mouthpiece XXV. Sonic Hedgehog. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

 

2014

27 JAN

Yamaguchi Mouthpiece I + II Peyee Chen, voice, University of Huddersfield, UK.

30 JAN

Mouthpiece XX, Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna.

3 FEB

Mouthpiece I + II Peyee Chen, voice, Blackheaths Hall, London, UK.

16 FEB

Mouthpiece VI+1 with video + actor, Fonema Consort, Chicago.

28 FEB

Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter, Dal Niente, Fromm Concert, Harvard University.

5 MAR

Mouthpieces for solo voice Dartmouth College.

7 MAR

Yamaguchi Mouthpiece I + II Peyee Chen, voice, University of Leeds, UK.

21 MAR

Mouthpiece XXI, North American Saxophone Alliance, University of Illinois.

29 MAR

Nomo ne, Spektral Quartet, Chicago.

12 APR

Mouthpiece: Segment of the 3rd Letter, Eco Ensemble, Berkeley, California.

2+4 MAY

Mouthpiece XIXb Argento Ensemble, Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC

27 MAY

Mouthpiece I + II, Dave Broome, New York City.

28 AUG

“Dance an Impossible Space” with Molissa Fenley and Co. David Rubinstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, NYC.

14 SEPT

“Dance an Impossible Space” with Molissa Fenley and Co., Judson Church, NYC.

10 OCT

Mouthpiece XXII, Arditti String Quartet, Musikprotokoll, Graz, Austria.

18 OCT

Mouthpiece I + II, Peyee Chen, voice. Coventry University, Coventry, England.

 

 

2013

28 MAR

Mouthpiece: Segment of the 3rd Letter, University of Illinois.

6 APR

“…in the first place…”, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, NY.

12 APR

Mouthpiece: Segment of the 3rd Letter, MGMC, University of Chicago.

27 JUN, 5 JUL

Mouthpiece XVIII, Unter Vier Ohren, Freiburg and Cologne, Germany.

2-5 OCT

Music for “Found Object”, Molissa Fenley choreographer, New York Live Arts, NYC.

25-27 OCT

Mouthpiece I, Hunters Moon Festival, Carrick on Shannon, Ireland.

2 DEC

Mouthpiece XIX, “Cercle – Konzertreihe für Neue Musik”, Arnold Schoenberg Center, Vienna.

2012

 

8 MAR

Mouthpiece XII, Mouthpiece: Segment of the 3rd Letter, Mouthpiece I, Yamaguchi Mouthpieces, Ars Musica Festival, Ensemble Le Balcon, Brussels.

15 MAR

Mouthpiece XV, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Daniel Gloger, Stuttgart, Germany.

22 APR

Mouthpiece VI, Empyrean Ensemble, Vanderhoef Studio Theater, Mondavi Center, UC Davis.

27-28 APR

Mouthpiece VII, with Hope Mohr Dance Company, Shotwell Studios, San Francisco.

15 JUN

Mouthpiece XVI Ascolta Ensemble, Schloss Solitude, Guibal Saal, Stuttgart, Germany.

SEPT

Mouthpiece XV Daniel Gloger, Germany.

6 NOV

Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter, Talea Ensemble, Contempuls Festival, Prague.

 

2011

 

 

17 OCT

Mouthpiece I, Yamaguchi and Akiguchi Mouthpieces, Miller Theater, Sonic Festival, NYC.

3 JUL

Portrait Concert, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.

3 JUN

Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter. Spring Festival. Either/Or Ensemble, The Kitchen, NYC.

2010

 

22 FEB

Mouthpiece I, Yamaguchi and Akiguchi Mouthpieces, NYU, New York.

16 MAR

Mouthpiece I, Yamaguchi and Akiguchi Mouthpieces, Tufts University, MA.

24 APR

The left wing of inhale no. 37, Totally-Trompete Festival, Berlin, Germany.

1 MAY

Mouthpiece VI, Wet Ink Festival, Roulette, NYC.

6 JUN

Mouthpiece XIV, IMTA National Conference, Réne Lecuona, Ames, Iowa.

27 AUG

Yamaguchi Mouthpieces, Montalvo Arts Center, CA.

SEPT - OCT

Mouthpiece XIV for piano, Réne Lecuona, six concert series in Brazil and Columbia.

3 OCT

Mouthpiece I, Yamaguchi Mouthpiece 3, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

25 OCT

Mouthpiece I + II, Yamaguchi and Akiguchi Mouthpieces, 3x3, Stuttgart, Germany.

23 NOV

Mouthpiece I, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, “Festival Shorts”, Peyee Chen, Huddersfield, England.

13 NOV

Mouthpiece I + II, Yamaguchi and Akiguchi Mouthpieces, 3x3, Kassel, Germany.

6 NOV

Mouthpiece I + II, Peyee Chen, York, England.

 

 

2009

 

25, 26, 31 JAN

SLEEP: an opera, Zurich Opera House, Switzerland.

7 APR

Mouthpiece XI, Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, Esa-Pekka Salonen, cond., Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA.

30 APR

Die fliegende Untertasse und der sterbende Baum, The left wing of inhale no. 37,

Duo Contour, Freiburg, Germany.

30 OCT

Mouthpiece I+II, Yamaguchi and Akiguchi Mouthpieces, Whitney Museum, NYC.

7 NOV

Mouthpiece XII, Repertorio Zero, Zürich Tage für Neue Musik, Switzerland.

19,20 NOV

Mouthpiece X, Metropolis Ensemble, New York.

30 NOV

Mouthpiece XIII: Mathilde of Loci Part 1, American Composers Orchestra, Zankel

Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York.

3,4 DEC

Dakota, SPIELART Festival, Munich, Germany.

 

 

2008

 

25 APR

Mouthpiece X, Klangforum Wien, Wittener Tage für Neue Musik, Witten, Germany.

26 APR

Yamaguchi and Akiguchi pieces, Wittener Tage für Neue Musik, Witten, Germany.

9 MAY

Mouthpiece IV, Mouthpiece Topology for choir, Latvian Radio Choir, 4020 Festival, Linz, Austria.

10 MAY                        Mouthpiece for Koto and voice, 4020 Festival, Linz, Austria.

 

2007

 

11 to 15 SEP

Across the Road, Dublin Fringe Festival, Ireland.

5 NOV

Crim, Mouthpiece Remix Nuovo Consonanza, Rome, Italy.

18 NOV

Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter Tage für Neue Musik, Ensemble Recherche, Zürich, Switzerland.

2006

 

5 MAY

Yamaguchi pieces, Akiguchi pieces solo voice Look & Listen Festival, New York, New York.

1 JUL

Yamaguchi and Akiguchi pieces solo voice Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan.

10 to 16 SEP

‘Dakota’ for voice and electronics Dublin Fringe Festival, Dublin, Ireland.

17 SEP

Mouthpiece Topology, Mouthpiece IV, VII, Yamaguchi pieces for choir, Mouthpieces I, II and IV, VII, Yamaguchi and Akiguchi pieces solo voice Klangspuren Festival Schwaz, Austria.

30 SEP

Mouthpiece IX for orchestra Klangspuren Festival Schwaz, Austria.

8 OCT

Mouthpiece IX for orchestra Musikprotokoll Festival Graz, Austria.

 

 

2005

 

14 to 15 JAN

Mouthpieces I, II and IV solo voice "ludic space" Zagreb, Croatia.

19 FEB

Mouthpiece VII for ensemble Helmut-List Halle, Klangforum Wien, Graz, Austria.

24 FEB

Mouthpiece VII for ensemble Wiener Konzerthaus, Klangforum Wien, Vienna.

25 JUN

Mouthpieces I, II and IV, VII, Yamaguchi Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan.  

7 to 11 SEP

‘Dakota’ for voice and electronics PS 122, New York, New York.

19 NOV

Mouthpiece VIII Vienna Mozart Year 2006 Radiokulturhaus, Vienna, Austria.

25 to 26 NOV

Mouthpieces I, II and IV, VII, Yamaguchi + Akiguchi pieces solo voice, Mouthpiece VIII Tage für Zeitgemäße Musik, Bludenz, Austria.

10 to 11 DEC

Mouthpieces I, II and IV, VII, Yamaguchi Mouthpieces solo voice with Ensemble Chronophonie, Freiburg, Germany.

2004

 

16 JAN

Mouthpieces I, II + IV solo voice Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria.

3 SEP

Mouthpiece VI for voice and ensemble Klangforum Wien, Vienna, Austria.

14 to 16 OCT

Mouthpiece I, II + IV solo voice, Canary Variations Diskurs Festival 04, Giessen, Germany.

 

 

2003

 

16 to 17 MAY

Mouthpiece I+II solo voice Klanggriffe, Karlsruhe, Germany.

8 JUL

Mouthpiece I + II Die Lange Nacht Der Toleranz, Cultural Capitol of Europe, Graz.

25 AUG

Mouthpiece III Ensemble Surplus, Summer Academy Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart.

11 NOV

Mouthpiece III Klanforum Wien, Klangwege 2003, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria.

 

LIST OF WORKS

2022 Mouthpiece 37 [B fl, B cl, perc, elect. gtr, vln, vla]

2022 Mouthpiece 36 [six voice ensemble]

2021 “Moloney” [vln, vla for video installation]

2020 Mouthpiece 29b [voice and chamber ensemble]

2019 Mouthpiece 34 [audio/video]

2019 Mouthpiece 33 [B fl, B cl, elect. gtr, cello]

2018 Mouthpiece 32 [voice+ensemble]

2017 Mouthpiece 31 [string quartet]

2017 Mouthpiece 30 [solo voice]

2016 Mouthpiece 29 [voice+ensemble]

2016 Mouthpiece 28 [voice+ensemble]

2016 They Go Out In Joy [music for video]

2016 Mouhtpiece XXVII [vocal ensemble]

2016 Mouthpiece XXVI [solo voice]

2016 Mouthpiece XIXc [voice+ensemble]

2015                 Mouthpiece XXIV                                                               [tenor sax and perc]                         8 min.

2014                 Mouthpiece XXII                                                                [string quartet]                                  10 min.

2014                 Mouthpiece XIXb for soprano                                        [soprano+ensemble]                        8 min.

2014                 Mouthpiece XXI                                                                  [tenor sax, perc, voice]                     9 min.

2013                 Nomo ne: Ringtone for Spektral Quartet                   [String Quartet]                                  38 sec.

2013                 Mouthpiece XX: Mathilde of Loci Part 2                     [voice and orchestra]                        13 min.

2013                 Mouthpiece XIX                                                                  [tenor, vln, tbn, pno]                       7 min.

2013                 Mouthpiece XVIII                                                               [Bass Flute]                                         3 min.

2013                 Mouthpiece XVII                                                                 [Hackbrett/Voice]                             7 min.

2012                 “…in the first place…”                                                    [elect. acoustic]                                 15 min.

2012                 Mouthpiece XVI                                                                  [chamber ensemble]                        7 min.

2011                 Mouthpiece XV                                                                    [voice solo]                                          5 min.

2010                 Mouthpiece XIV                                                                  [piano]                                                 7 min.

2009                 Mouthpiece XIII: Mathilde of Loci                               [voice+orchestra]                              8 min.

2009                 Mouthpiece XII                                                                  [voice and ensemble]                       8 min.

2009                 Mouthpiece XI                                                                   [voice+large ensemble]                    10 min.

2008                 SLEEP: an opera                                                                [Mixed voice + Ensemble]              27 min.

2008                 Sawari Guchi – The Spinning Mouthpiece               [Koto]                                                    7 min.

2008                 Sawari Mouthpiece for Koto and Voice:                    [Koto]                                                    10 min.

The Buzzing Mouthpiece

2008                 SLEEP: an opera                                                                 [2 solo voices, choir, chamber ensemble]       27 min.

2008                 Mouthpiece X                                                                      [voice + ens.]                                   18 min.

2007                 Four Variations on a Mouthpiece                                  [voice + piano]                                7 min

2007                 Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter                      [voice + ens.]                                   8 min

2007                 Music for “Across the Road”                                         [elect. acoustic]                               15 min.

2006                 Mouthpiece IX                                                                     [voice + orch.]                                  15 min.

2006                 Mouthpiece IV for choir                                                   [choir]                                                 6 min.

2006                 Mouthpiece VII for choir                                                 [choir]                                                 3 min.

2006                 Yamaguchi Mouthpieces for choir                              [choir]                                                 7 min.

2006                 Mouthpiece Topology                                                      [vocal ensemble]                             9 min.

2006                 Inside the forrester, heights are misled                    [clarinet duo]                                   7 min.

2005                 Aki Mouthpieces                                                                [voice solo]                                       15 min.

2005                 Yama Mouthpieces                                                           [voice solo]                                       9 min.

2005                 Mouthpiece VIII                                                                 [voice + ens.]                                   15 min.

2005                 Canary Remix                                                                     [elect. acoustic]                              4 min.

2004/05                        Music for “from Dakota”                                   [voice + elec.]                                 40 min

2004                 Mouthpiece VII                                                                   [voice + ens.]                                  8 min

2004                 Inside the forest, heights become wide                     [acc., organ]                                   4 min

2004                 Mouthpiece VI                                                                    [voice + ens.]                                 6 min

2004                 Mouthpiece V                                                                     [voice + ens.]                                 6 min

2004                 Mouthpiece IV                                                                   [voice solo]                                     3 min.

2003                 Take a little in a water and put the In on the inside bit [player piano]                      4 min.

2003                 Mouthpiece III                                                                  [ensemble]                                      15 min

2002                 Mouthpiece remix                                                           [elect. acoustic]                            3.5 min

2002                 Mouthpiece for 9                                                             [ensemble]                                     9 min

2002                 Quill.h.                                                                               [vln,vla]                                          13 min

2002                 Mouthpiece II                                                                  [voice solo]                                     5.5 min

2001                 Das fliegende Untertasse und der sterbende Baum       [perc. .solo]                         7.5 min

2001                 formmask                                                                        [ampl. fl, cello]                              8 min

2001                 Crim                                                                                 [elec. acoustic]                                3 min

2000                 The left wing of inhale no. 37                                  [tpt, perc.]                                      6 min

2000                 Mouthpiece I                                                                [voice solo]                                      2 min

1999/2003         Sift        (a)                                                                  [cl., alt. sax., cello]                        4 min

                                    (b)                                                                   [clar. Klav. Cello]                          4 min

 

Discography

  1. Three Scenes from the opera SLEEP. A Howl That Was Also A Prayer, Ekmeles, 2019.

  2. Mouthpiece 28 Oor, TAK Ensembke. 2017

  3. Mouthpiece XXIV ism, Ryan Muncy, 2016

  4. Portrait CD, Mouthpieces, col legno, January 2014.

  5. Yamaguchi Mouthpiece Part 3,The Believer Magazine, Music Issue with CD, 2011.

  6. Mouthpiece IX (parallel version) 102 Masterpieces: ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra miniatures, 2010. Label: Capriccio.

  7. Akiguchi Mouthpiece. Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, 2008.

  8. Yamaguchi Mouthpiece. Enstpannte Gleichzeitigkeit – Hammer Records, 2006.

  9.  Mouthpiece VIII. Wiener Mozartjahr Österreichische Rundfunk, (ORF) 2006.

  10.  Mouthpiece Remix. Soundreport 2002. Institute for Electronic Music (IEM), Graz, Austria.



 

Radio and other Media (Selected)

2014

FEB     Release of the game app Blek, with original music. #1 selling game app in May.

FEB     Composer Portrait, 1 hour, Zeitton ORF (Austrian Broadcastin Corp.)

JUN     Freies Radio Stuttgart

AUG    Q2 NYC

AUG    Iowa Public Radio

 

 

Publications

Mouthpiece 28. Project Schott New York (PSNY),

Mouthpiece XXIV. Project Schott New York (PSNY),

Mouthpiece XXII. Project Schott New York (PSNY),

Mouthpiece: Segment of 3rd Letter. Project Schott New York (PSNY), 2012.

Mouthpiece: Segment of 4th Letter. Project Schott New York (PSNY), 2013.

Mouthpiece VI. Project Schott New York (PSNY), 2013 (forthcoming).

 

Other Publications

“The Notation and Use of the Voice in Non-semantic Contexts: Phonetic Organization in the Vocal Music of Dieter Schnebel, George Aperghis and Brian Ferneyhough” in Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities. Ed. Christian Utz and Frederick Lau. Routledge Press, 2012.

 

Professional Experience

2022

Feb 24 Lecture at McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2014     

May                  Juror, New Music USA Grants.

MAR 3              Lecture, “Paper Engineering and Music Scores”, MIT Music Library.

MAR 5              Lecture/Class, “Free Improvisation based on memory techniques”, Dartmouth College.

APR 9              Lecture, UC Berkeley Composers Colloquium.

APR 11             Lecture/Class “Space”, Mills College.

APR                 Juror, Martirano Competition, University of Illinois.

APR 18             Lecture, Illinois State University, Bloomington, Illinois.

APR 12-13        Guest Composer, Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, University of Chicago.

2012     

FEB                  Juror, MATA Festival, New York City.   

FEB 17              Lecture, MIT Composer Forum.

2011     

NOV 28            Lecture, Composition Colloquium, Harvard University.

2010     

FEB 17               Lecture/Concert, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

FEB 22-26        Visiting Faculty, NYU, New York.

MAR 24             Lecture, Composition Seminar, Tufts University, Cambridge, MA.

APR 15-16         Lecture and Composition Masterclassses, University of Iowa.

APR 20             Presentation, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.

OCT 2               Lecture and Composition Seminar, University of Western Ontario.

2009     

MAR 16               Lecture, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Graz, Austria.

2006    

JUN 15              Lecture, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan.