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I am with the Maia Quartet and Michael Norsworthy participating in the CNM tour concerts at The University of Wisconsin at Madison, The University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and The University of Iowa on April 15-17, 2011. Together we performed Shulamit Ran's 1987 sextet, Concerto da Camera II.
From left to right are Elizabeth Oakes, violist, Tricia Park, violinist, Michael Norsworthy, clarinetist, Hannah Holman, violoncellist, myself and Petr Maceček, violinist. View the CNM tour concert page.

I am with cellist Wolfgang Panhofer and violinist Wolfgang Dávid following our 2010 trio tour concert on February 23rd in New York City. On the left is the director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City, Andreas Stadler.

With Irina Dukova, who hosted the event "Dialogues" for a Russian public that was held in Myakovsky Hall at the Moscow Conservatory on December 21, 2009.

I am on stage with Irina Dubkova, explaining to the audience how Ikon was composed from an image of a 19th-century Russian icon of St. Nicholas.

With the violinist Stas Malyechev, after our performance of Ikon.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a recording session of
my Violin Concerto in London's Henry Wood Hall on December 9, 2009.

Wolfgang and I with Conductor Emmanuel Siffert following the recording of the Violin Concerto.

Wolfgang is eye to eye with Peter Zazofsky rehearsing Spirals.

Wolfgang and I with the UI Symphony Orchestra conductor, William LaRue Jones, following a performance of the Violin Concerto on October 27, 2009.

Wolfgang and I in Vienna with director, Joseph Dangerfield, and Christopher Gainey following a Coe College Orchestra concert at the Wiener Konzerthaus on June 27, 2009.

Wolfgang and I performing in Frankfurt on June 21, 2009.

My reception of an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City on May 20, 2009.

With me is violinist Wolfgang David and conductor Emmanuel Siffert following a premier performance of my Violin Concerto by the Ecuador National Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, April 30, 2009.

In the Pusey Room in Memorial Church in Harvard Square, we are being photographed with Carson Cooman following our concert there on Friday, October 3, 2008.

In the front row, the five contestants in the second annual "Iron Composer Omaha" competition are: Elizabeth Lim, George Lam, Hermes Camacho (winner), Greg Simon and Joe Trapanese. With me in the back are James Arey, Bob Fischbach and Ken Bales, the organizer of the event. Read the review.

A photo after our performance at the Estonian Academy of Music in Tallinn on June 3. From left to right is the composer Toivo Tulev, Peep Lassmann (Rector) and Wolfgang David.
A photo after our performance in Frankfurt on June 1 at the Kuenstlerclub. To my left is our host Patricia von Blumröder and Wolfgang David.
A photo after the recording session of Crossed at the Gnessin Academy, Moscow, on May 20. To my left is Mona Haba, Sergey Kolesov, Stanislav Malyshev and recording engineer Peter Kondrashin.
A photo after the recording session of Spirals (trio version) at the Gnessin Academy, Moscow, on May 20. From left to right is Mona Haba, Ekaterina Fomitskaya, myself and Stanislav Malyshev.
A photo after a concert of American works at the Moscow Conservatory in Rachmaninoff Hall, on Monday, May 19, 2008. To my left is Mark Kilstoft, Luke Dahn, Ching-chu Hu and Joseph Dangerfield.
A photo after a concert of ensemble works I conducted on Sunday, May 4, 2008 in Clapp Hall at the University of Iowa. Beside me are composers Joseph Dangerfield, Noel Zahler, and Curtis Curtis-Smith; clarinetist Michael Norsworthy and composer John Griffin.
A photo after the first performance of Spirals in Durres, Albania, on Friday, April 18, 2008. Conductor Emmanuel Siffert and I flank Wolfgang David and Nevila Kalaja, the two violin soloists. View the full ensemble.
A photo at a reception at the home of Bernard Rands and Augusta Reed Thomas following a Contempo concert in which Butterfly Dance was performed by Eighth Blackbird on March 16 at the Chicago Cultural Arts Center. On my right is Shulamit Ran, professor of composition at the University of Chicago and director of Contempo.
A photo following our tour concert on March 5th in New York City. On the right is the director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City, Andreas Stadler and between Wolfgang and myself is composer Noel Zahler.
A photo following a tour concert in February at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Rome. With Wolfgang and myself, to our left, are the director of the Austrian Cultural Forum at Rome, Astrid Harz, Wilhelm Pfeistlinger and composer Noel Zahler.
A photo following a tour concert in February at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Rome. Between Wolfgang and myself is composer and Director of the Music School at Carnegie-Mellon, Noel Zahler.
A photo following a tour concert in November at the University of Saskatchewan. With Wolfgang Dávid and myself are Greg Marion and Glen Gillis, the saxophonist who performed in my composition, Crossed.
A photo following a tour concert on October 26 at NorthWestern College in Iowa. With Wolfgang Dávid and myself are two former students, Luke Dahn, now Professor at NorthWestern and Joseph Dangerfield, Professor at Coe College.
A photo following a tour concert on October 25 at the University of Chicago. With Wolfgang Dávid and myself is my long-time friend and associate, Thomas Christensen, Professor of Music Theory and Musicology at the University of Chicago's School of Music.
A photo following a concert on October 21 at Clapp Recital Hall at the University of Iowa. Shown with me, on my left, are Peep Lassmann, guest pianist, and guest composers Ketty Nez and John Elmsly.
A photo following a tour concert at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC on October 5, 2007. With Wolfgang Dávid and myself are composer Noel Zahler (on our right) and Enrica James and Mr. Schmidinger with the Embassy.
Another photo following our tour concert at Eastman Music School on September 24, 2007. With us are Barry Snyder (at the left), Kathy A. Liperote (between us) and Richard Grunow, Professor of Music Education.
We are with David Liptak, the head of the Composition Department at Eastman Music School.
With composer Ching-Chu Hu after the tour concert on September 19, 2007 at Denison University.
Seated between Wolfgang Dávid and myself is Glenn Watkins, my long-term mentor. Also shown are (standing, from left to right) Geoffrey Stanton, Jeff Lyman, Evan Chambers, Michael Daugherty, Joseph Dangerfield and Ching-Chu Hu. Erik Santos is seated at the right.
Here I am performing my recent composition, Outside Cage, for piano and electronics at the next_generation: "Music in Space" Festival on Thursday, June 21, 2007 in the ZKM_Cube Theater at ZKM, Institute for Music and Acoustics, Karlruhe, Germany.
Wolfgang Dávid and I performing my new composition, Echoes, and the Brahms Violin Sonata (A major) at the Kunstler Club in Frankfurt, Germany, on Sunday, June 10, 2007.
The CNM ensemble performing at Ferguson Hall at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, on March 31, 2007. With me on the right are my former students, Joseph Dangerfield and Ching-chu Hu, composers of two of the four new works presented at this performance.
Following a performance on March 27, 2007 in the Mali Zal of the Moscow Conservatory, appearing with me are (from my left to the right) Peep Lassmann, pianist, Irina Dubkova, composer, John Muriello, baritone, and Constantin Volostnov, organist. Peep Lassmann is also the rector of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn.
At the University of Santa Barbara in March 2007, I am shown with (from left to right) Leslie Hogan, Composition Professor at UCSB and fellow doctoral student at UM, my long-time friend Robin Gowan whom I met in Nigeria in the '70s, and Bruce Tiffney, Dean of the College of Creative Studies at UCSB and husband to Robin.