Upcoming Performances

March 23, 2024

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Lansing Symphony performs to make this mountain taller

Lansing, MI

Ludwig van Beethoven’s influence was far-reaching and ushered in a movement of music that was picked up and further developed by composers like Wagner and Strauss. Beethoven’s one and only Violin Concerto has become an audience and performer favorite, filled with delicate melodies and stunning poignance. This concert opens with a premiere by Los Angeles-based composer Sarah Gibson, which the League of American Orchestras commissioned with the generous support of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. The concert scampers to an exciting finish with Richard Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, a lively, comic work about the conflict between stern forces of repression and the irrepressible spirit of freedom.

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April 8, 2024

Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall @ 7:30pm

Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall

UGA Contemporary Chamber Ensemble

Athens, GA

The University of Georgia Contemporary Chamber Ensemble celebrates the life of Don C. Gillespie (1936-2019). A graduate of the UGA School of Music (now Hugh Hodgson School of Music), Gillespie worked for the prestigious international music publishing house C. F. Peters for 31 years where he championed the work of 20th Century composers such as John Cage, George Crumb, John Becker, and countless others. CCE honors his life-long advocacy for new music with a concert of 20th-Century masterworks including Gibson's "I prefer living in color."

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April 19, 2024

7pm & 9pm

Octave 9

VanderKolk premieres Gibson's new work for oboe & piano

Seattle, WA

Principal Oboe Mary Lynch VanderKolk leads a program of works that includes a new sonata by Sarah Gibson as well as two other pieces written for VanderKolk as part of Through Her Window, an ongoing commissioning and performance project that brings together some of the most eloquent female-identifying musical voices of our time to expand the canon, share stories and reflect on life in the world today. Inspired by the well-known quote attributed to Claudia Alta Johnson, “Art is a window to the soul,” Through Her Window works to undo the historic silencing of women by raising women’s voices through music.

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May 21, 2024

UCLA Nimoy Theater

Photoplay Music: New Works for the Silent Film Era w/ HOCKET

Los Angeles, CA

HOCKET revives the silent film era with their new project Photoplay Music: New works for the Silent Film Era, a cinematic concert experience. Featuring icons of French Surrealist Silent Film, Photoplay Music features newly commissioned works for three classic films by some of today's most innovative composers Ian Dicke, José Martínez, and Gemma Peacocke.


Harkening back to the early days of Hollywood when a pianist accompanied every silent film screening, HOCKET will use two pianos and a myriad of other instruments including toy pianos, melodicas, electronics and more to highlight these new film scores. Known for their exuberant performance style, HOCKET members Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff breathe new life into classic works of cinema, creating a concert experience that will delight both film and music aficionados.

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