2021
September (tentatively); Marimba + Voice Festival goes Virtual, Faculty Member and Presenter
2020
December 5; UMD Percussion Faculty Masterclass, via Zoom, 10 am to 12 pm; students who wish to participate in the masterclass should sign up here
November 14; Percussive Arts Society International Convention, New Music/Research Presents 2020: Music for Percussion and Voice with hosts Bonnie Whiting and Lee Hinkle, 1 pm: register for PASIC here.
October 16; 21st Century Consort: S P A C E D O U T, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
Watch the full concert here.
View the concert program here.Â
Read the review here in the Washington Post. Â
May 9; University of Maryland Wind Orchestra: Classically Dope, Dr. Michael Votta, conductor, The Clarice, Dekelboum Concert Hall, 8 pm* Concert will feature rapper and hip-hop artist Koshens the MC* Drum set soloist for Daniel Ziporyn’s new concerto for Drum Set and Wind Ensemble entitled Impulse Control *cancelled due to COVID-19
April 19;Â Washington Master Chorale: Poetry Into Song, The Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D.C., 5 pm, ticketed *cancelled due to COVID-19
April 18; 21st Century Consort: A Time For…, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., 5 pm *cancelled due to COVID-19
March 14; 21st Century Consort: H2O Water Music, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 6 pm, ticketed
* percussion-heavy concert featuring Tan Dun’s Water Music & Berio’s Circles
Watch the full concert here.
Read about the concert here in the Washington City Paper.
2019
October 2019 to January 2020; A Chorus Line, Signature Theatre, ticketed
November 13-16; Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Indianpolis, IN
* preparatory meetings for hosting “New Music/Research Presents” concert series at PASIC 2020 with colleague Bonnie Whiting
November 9;Â 21st Century Consort: Time Out of Mind, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C., 5 pm, free
October 17-19; Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education Conference, Iowa State University, Papa John Center for Entrepreneurship, Ames, IA
* research and meetings to prepare my new course “Entrepreneurship for Arts Leaders,” part of the new Arts Leadership Minor Program at UMD launched this fall 2019
July to August 2019; American Insitute for Musical Studies Orchestra, Graz, Austria
June 20-22;Â Marimba + Voice Festival, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT, Faculty Member (lecture on entrepreneurship, solo recital, masterclasses)
April 13;Â 21st Century Consort: Black Angels, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 5 pm, FREE
March 2; Faculty Artist Series: Lee Hinkle, Percussion, The Xylophone Poems as Solo Opera, The Clarice, Gildenhorn Recital Hall, 5 pm* World premiere performance of Stuart Saunders Smith’s recently expanded The Xylophone Poems *cancelled due to injury
February 16;Â Â 21st Century Consort: All You Need Is Love, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 5 pm, FREE
2018
December 8;Â The Passion of Scrooge (2018) Film Screening; Zen Violence Films & 21st Century Consort, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 3:30 pm, FREE
December 8;Â 21st Century Consort: Between Worlds, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 5 pm, FREE
November 14-17;Â Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Indianapolis, IN
November 10; Teatro Lirico, Los Gavilanes, Columbia Heights Community Center, 7 pm, ticketed
October 20; Â 21st Century Consort: Sites Unheard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 5 pm, FREE
October 12;Â American Pops Orchestra, Meridian Ball, Meridian House/Meridian International Center, private event
October 6;Â Horatio Algers Awards, Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theatre, featured marching snare drummer, private event
* Featuring Reba McIntyre, headlining artist & Jane Seymour, MC
August 14 – September 23;Â Passion, Signature Theatre, ticketed
April 21;Â 21st Century Consort: Memory Lane, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 5 pm, FREE
February 11; Faculty Recital, University of Maryland – College Park, the Clarice, Gildenhorn Recital Hall
* Premiere performances of works by Andrea Clearfield and Baljinder Sekhon
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Archived Events
2017
January 30;Â Mason Bates’s KC Jukebox: Ravishment, Kennedy Center, Atrium, 7:30 pm, ticketed
February 4; 21st Century Consort: Dancing Stone, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 5 pm, FREE
February 11; Maryland Music Educator’s Association Convention, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD, Percussion Techniques for Music Directors, 3:40 pm-4:50 pm, Room 321
February 12; National Symphony Orchestra Family Concert, The Man with the Violin with violinist Joshua Bell, Kennedy Center Concert Hall, 2 pm, World Premiere of The Man with the Violin by Anne Dudley
March 5;Â Washington Master Chorale, Time and Memory, National Presbyterian Church, 5 pm, World Premiere of Ruminations by Jennifer Higdon
March 11;Â Adjudicate Percussionists, Anne Arundel County Solo and Ensemble Festival
March 25; 21st Century Consort: Color School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 5 pm, FREE
March 30;Â Violin Portraits, Recent Music of Stuart Saunders Smith with Violinist Airi Yoshioka, UMBC Department of Music, Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall, 7:30 pm
April 1;Â MD / DE Chapter Percussive Arts Society “Day of Percussion,” University of Maryland – College Park, School of Music & the Clarice, Event Host
April 8; Pertout, Andrián. Illuminoso Concertino-Doppio for Alto-Saxophone, Marimba, and String Orchestra,Takoma Ensemble, Church of the Ascension, ticketed, World Premiere
April 29; Origins Concert Series with Carrie Rose, flutist, Church of the Ascension, 8 pm, ticketed
May 1;Â UMD Percussion Ensemble Concert, Dekelboum Concert Hall, the Clarice, 8 pm, FREE
May 21-23; Recording Session, Stuart Saunders Smith’s The Authors (marimba opera) for Smith’s upcoming five CD set of retrospective works; UMBC recording studio, Alan Wonneberger, recording engineer
August 8 – October 15;Â A Little Night Music, Signature Theatre, ticketed
November 7 – January 14; Crazy for You, Signature Theatre, ticketed
November 9;Â Solo Performance at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, 9 am, Focus Day, Wabash Ballroom, Indianapolis Convention Center, Indianapolis, IN
* Stuart Saunders Smith’s The Authors (marimba opera), can be heard on my solo CD available here.
December 16;Â 21st Century Consort, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 5 pm
2016
February 6;Â 21st Century Consort, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 5 pm
* Bartok’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Percussion and Berio’s Circles
February 21;Â Corigliano’s “Conjurer: Concerto for Percussionist and String Orchestra,” University of South Florida Symphony Orchestra, Tampa, FL, 2 pm
February 27; Percussion Concerto with the UMD Wind Orchestra
* the Clarice, Dekelboum Concert Hall, 8 pm
March 6;Â Washington Master Chorale, Song of the Beloved, 4 pm, The National Presbyterian Church
March 12;Â 21st Century Consort, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 5 pm
April 9;Â MD / DE Chapter Percussive Arts Society Day of Percussion; Towson University, Baltimore, MD
* Solo Snare Drum Competition, Headling Artist: Casey Cangelosi
April 18;Â Mason Bate’s KC Jukebox Concert:Â New Voices, Old Muses, 8 pm, Atrium
April 20;Â Northwestern High School, Hyattsville, MD, Percussion Master Class
April 30;Â 21st Century Consort, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 5 pm
* Cage’s Imaginary Landscapes II with the UMD Percussion Ensemble
May 6; The Versatile Viola: Gritty, Modern and Mellow, Faculty Recital, Kathy Murdock, Viola, the Clarice, Gildenhorn Recital Hall, 8 pm
October 8;Â Steven Stucky’s Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble, University of Maryland Wind Orchestra, the Clarice, Dekelboum Concert Hall, 8 pm, ticketed
October 23;Â Mason Bates’s KC Jukebox: Mercury Soul, Kennedy Center, Atrium, 7:30 pm, ticketed
November 4 & 6; Teatro Lirico, Agua, Azucarillos y Aguardiente, Theatre of the Scottish Rite, ticketed
November 9-12;Â Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Indianapolis, IN
- Performance by UMD Percussion Ensemble, Focus Day, Thursday November 10, 1 pm, Wabash
- Robert Schroyer, D.M.A. candidate @ UMD, PAS Marimba Solo Competition finalist, Thursday November 10, 9:30 am, Room 205
- Laurin Friedland, M.M. candidate @ UMD, PAS Mock Timpani Audition, Thursday November 10, 2 pm, Room 205
December 2 & 3;Â Cirque Musica, Tampa, FL Amelia Arena and Orlando, FL, Silver Spurs Arena, Tampa POPS Orchestra, ticketed
December 5;Â UMD Percussion Ensemble: Drama, Dekelboum Concert Hall, the Clarice, 8 pm, FREE
December 13, 2016 – January 29, 2017;Â Titanic, Signature Theatre, ticketed
December 17;Â 21st Century Consort: Museum Music, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 5 pm, FREE
