Conducting the world premiere of George Lewis’ Soundlines with Steve Schick and ICE, Disney Concert Hall. Photo: Stephanie Aston
Recording Katharina Rosenberger’s SHIFT with wasteLAnd and RAGE THORMBONES. Photo: Katharina Rosenberger
conducting
What I love about conducting is the sense of collaboration. Whether I am working with an ensemble of professional colleagues or with students, I cherish the sense of community that I feel when making music with others. As a conductor, I am passionate about performing both new and old music. Premiering a brand new work brings the thrill of learning to hear and understand new sonic relationships, and performing older work allows the opportunity to reconsider the experiences of music that was written for a different time. My conducting teachers have been Russell Guyver, Lucas Vis, Harvey Sollberger, and Steve Schick. My primary engagements as a conductor are currently at California Institute of the Arts and with wasteLAnd ensemble. At CalArts, I am the director of the Instrumental Arts Specialization where I teach conducting and composition and run “The Ensemble” which is a chamber orchestra/new music ensemble. I am the co-founder and current co-director of wasteLAnd ensemble and concert series where I conduct (when a conductor is needed), and collaborate in programming, production, and fundraising endeavors.
I co-founded wasteLAnd in 2013 with Scott Worthington. We started as a concert series, but became something more like a hybrid ensemble/series. Our first concert was in February of 2014 and since then, we have presented over 50 concerts comprising over 200 pieces, more than 40 of which have been world or US premieres. wasteLAnd’s original mission was to present the music we love to Los Angeles and to shine a light on the incredible musicians who live in this city. Most of our concerts have been centered around chamber music, but about once every season, we have expanded to present music for larger ensembles. Though we are proud of the premieres we have had the opportunity to present, our focus has been in second or third performances of music that has been premiered and then forgotten. The current directors who run wasteLAnd with me are Matt Barbier, Dustin Donahue, and Rachel Beetz.
Commercial Recordings as a Conductor
Selected Live Videos
Selected Pieces Performed and/or Recorded as a Conductor
* World premiere
+ US Premiere
Adler, Christopher - Violin Concerto *
Barber, Samuel - Capricorn Concerto
Berio, Luciano - Kol Od
Blecharz, Wojtek - Cartography for 11 players *
Bowler, Laura - My Friend Annie *
Brahms, Johannes - Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Burkhardt, Rick - Calf +
Burns, Charles - Apeiron *
Deyoe, Nicholas - Finally, the cylindrical voids tapping along *
Deyoe, Nicholas - Lullaby 6 “For Duane” *
Deyoe, Nicholas - Lullaby 6C “For Duane” *
Feldman, Morton - The Viola in My Life (2)
Ferneyhough, Brian - Etudes Transcendantales
Ferneyhough, Brian - Terrain
Frey, Jürg - Vielleicht bin ich Wirklich Verloren *
Gadenstätter, Clemens - Iconosonics III/Pictures at an Exhibition +
Gentilucci, Marta - Radix Ipsius for ensemble and electronics *
Gerhard, Roberto – Libra
Griffeath-Loeb, Brian - ...on a par with grass & twigs *
Grisey, Gérard – Vortex Temporum I II III
Haydn, Joseph - Symphony No. 102 in B-flat
Haydn, Joseph - Symphony No. 52 in c minor
Iturralde, Carlos - aN oy +
Ives, Charles - The Unanswered Question
Lachenmann, Helmut - "...zwei Gefühle..." Musik mit Leonardo
Lentz, Daniel - Continental Divide
Lentz, Daniel - Ending(s)
Lewis, George - Soundlines *
Ligeti, György - Konzert für Violine und Orchester
Lou, Michelle - In the Land of Milk and Honey *
Lou, Michelle - Opening +
McCallum, Clinton – Murder, Woman, and Hanged One *
McLaird, John - Meditations: Mt. St. Vrain *
Momi, Marco - ICONICA II for ensemble *
Mozart, WA - Sinfonia Concertante in Eb K364
Myers, Jon - Plenitas II *
Pax, John - Where the Quiet Rests *
Richter, Ben - Unearth *
Rosenberger, Katharina - SHIFT +
Rosenboom, David - In The Beginning V (The Story)
Rush, Toby - Concerto for Clarinet and Winds
Scelsi, Giacinto - I Presagi
Scelsi, Giacinto - Rotativa
Schnittke, Alfred - Concerto Grosso No. 1
Schweinitz, Wolfgang von - The Cantata or, You are the start in God's eye (revised ensemble version) *
Shatil, Assaf - Hitgalut *
Shostakovich, Dmitri - Symphony No. 1
Smith, Andrew - Terrain *
Sullivan, Tim - Spiralling through *
Tenney, James - Changes: 64 studies for six harps *
Tenney, James - Clang
Thorvaldsdottir, Anna - Streaming Arhythmia
Vivier, Claude - Kopernikus
Wagner, Richard - Siegfried-Idyll
Wannamaker, Rob - Tract +
Young, Katherine - Master of Disguises
Zender, Hans - Modelle für variable besetzung
