2021-2022
*premieres
October 24, 2021
Ramin Akhavijou: Be New Too
Elizabeth Brown: Wild Apples
Ryan McMasters: Like Glue, His Dead Body Holds Me
Emily Cook: til the gossamer thread
November 21, 2021
Composer of the Year
Nicole Mitchell: Transitions*
Courtney Bryan: In the Heart of God
Tomeka Reid: Somewhere in this Global Garden
Brittany Green: There is Only You and I
Yvette J. Jackson: Doubt
Nicole Mitchell: Cult of Electromagnetic Connectivity
March 20, 2022
Rebecca Clarke: Prelude for Clarinet and Viola
Elizabeth Brown: Wild Apples
Courtney Bryan: In the Heart of God
Jessie Montgomery: Duo for Violin and Cello
Li Tao: Frore River
Emily Cook: til the gossamer thread
Emily Cook: Across the Blue Mountains*
Kate Soper: Rondeau: The Rose Once Blown
March 27, 2022
She Scores
Tania Leon: Four Pieces for Solo Cello
Sungji Hong: Exevelen
Brittany J. Green: Sonatina
Anna Louise-Walton: Basket of Figs
Rebecca Saunders: Vermillion
Emily Cook: Across the Blue Mountains
Kate Soper: Rondeau
Liz Gre: Miniatures
Christine Burke: Fat Sunset
April 15, 2022
Dayton Kinney: The Satin Dress
James Budinich: Separate Realities
Brittany J. Green: Intersections
June 17-18, 2022
Julia Werntz: The Strange Child*
With Quince Ensemble, Eugene Perry, and Robert Frankenberry.
July 8-9, 2022
Curtis Rumrill: In This Styrofoam Room
Max Johnson: Spangled Dots
Yaz Lancaster: pearl, 2178, and bootlace
Liz Gre: Miniatures
Erin Rogers: On View
Anna Louise-Walton: Basket of Figs
Elizabeth Brown: Wild Apples
Ramin Akhavijou: Be New Too
Elizabeth Brown: Wild Apples
Ryan McMasters: Like Glue, His Dead Body Holds Me
Emily Cook: til the gossamer thread
November 21, 2021
Composer of the Year
Nicole Mitchell: Transitions*
Courtney Bryan: In the Heart of God
Tomeka Reid: Somewhere in this Global Garden
Brittany Green: There is Only You and I
Yvette J. Jackson: Doubt
Nicole Mitchell: Cult of Electromagnetic Connectivity
March 20, 2022
Rebecca Clarke: Prelude for Clarinet and Viola
Elizabeth Brown: Wild Apples
Courtney Bryan: In the Heart of God
Jessie Montgomery: Duo for Violin and Cello
Li Tao: Frore River
Emily Cook: til the gossamer thread
Emily Cook: Across the Blue Mountains*
Kate Soper: Rondeau: The Rose Once Blown
March 27, 2022
She Scores
Tania Leon: Four Pieces for Solo Cello
Sungji Hong: Exevelen
Brittany J. Green: Sonatina
Anna Louise-Walton: Basket of Figs
Rebecca Saunders: Vermillion
Emily Cook: Across the Blue Mountains
Kate Soper: Rondeau
Liz Gre: Miniatures
Christine Burke: Fat Sunset
April 15, 2022
Dayton Kinney: The Satin Dress
James Budinich: Separate Realities
Brittany J. Green: Intersections
June 17-18, 2022
Julia Werntz: The Strange Child*
With Quince Ensemble, Eugene Perry, and Robert Frankenberry.
July 8-9, 2022
Curtis Rumrill: In This Styrofoam Room
Max Johnson: Spangled Dots
Yaz Lancaster: pearl, 2178, and bootlace
Liz Gre: Miniatures
Erin Rogers: On View
Anna Louise-Walton: Basket of Figs
Elizabeth Brown: Wild Apples
2020-2021
*premieres
November 8, 2020, 7 pm
inti figgis-vizueta: older blood
Marcos Balter: delete/control/option; a vis
Camila Agosto: Chain Reaction
Rebecca Saunders: O, Yes & I
*Devon Osamu Tipp: Tokyo Shift Response (text by Elico Suzuki)
She Scores 2021
March 28, 2021
Matinee: Kassia Ensemble
Closing Concert: Kamratōn
Nicole Mitchell: Water, Lifegiver
Ann Cleare: eyam iii
Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh: Song, for a particular space, lingering while dissipating
Inga Chinilena: Sky Every Day
Angelica Negron: Dust
*Erin Rogers: On View
May 16, 2021
*Julia Wertz: Scene and Aria (from The Strange Child)
Jessie Montgomery: Three Pieces for violin and cello
Yaz Lancaster: intangible landscapes
Barbara White: My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon
Bára Gísladóttir: Nið(ur)
Julius Eastman: Prelude to The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc
Nicole Mitchell: Symbology
inti figgis-vizueta: older blood
Marcos Balter: delete/control/option; a vis
Camila Agosto: Chain Reaction
Rebecca Saunders: O, Yes & I
*Devon Osamu Tipp: Tokyo Shift Response (text by Elico Suzuki)
She Scores 2021
March 28, 2021
Matinee: Kassia Ensemble
Closing Concert: Kamratōn
Nicole Mitchell: Water, Lifegiver
Ann Cleare: eyam iii
Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh: Song, for a particular space, lingering while dissipating
Inga Chinilena: Sky Every Day
Angelica Negron: Dust
*Erin Rogers: On View
May 16, 2021
*Julia Wertz: Scene and Aria (from The Strange Child)
Jessie Montgomery: Three Pieces for violin and cello
Yaz Lancaster: intangible landscapes
Barbara White: My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon
Bára Gísladóttir: Nið(ur)
Julius Eastman: Prelude to The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc
Nicole Mitchell: Symbology
2019-2020
*premieres
#cancelled due to COVID-19
November 24, 2019
Ramin Akhavijou X to the Power of 4
Christine Burke For 5+ Performers
Judd Greenstein At the End of a Really Great Day
*Kyle Grimm (T.S. Eliot) 4 Instances of Eliot
*Emily Cook (Walt Whitman) Til the gossamer thread
February 29, 2020
Music on the Edge: Microtonal Music Festival
Catherine Lamb parallaxis forma
*Curtis Rumrill What is death to some fish eggs?
#She Scores Festival 2020
March 21-22, 2020
#Opening Concert: Mazumal
#Women+ Experimental
Experimental and improvised music and sound-based performance art by Kamratōn, Olivia J. P. Harris, Felicia Chen, Michele Cheng, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, and Erin Rogers.
#Matinee: On View
Gilda Lyons Between Dog and Wolf
inti figgis-vizueta older blood
Angelica Negron Dust
Rebecca Saunders O, Yes & I
Liza Lim Inguz
*Erin Rogers On View
#Closing Concert: Kassia Ensemble
#June 28, 2020
"Refamiliar" with Gilda Lyons
Judith Weir Blue-Green Hill
Barbara White My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon
Gilda Lyons Works TBD
*Aaron Wyanski And Yet You Have Seen
Ramin Akhavijou X to the Power of 4
Christine Burke For 5+ Performers
Judd Greenstein At the End of a Really Great Day
*Kyle Grimm (T.S. Eliot) 4 Instances of Eliot
*Emily Cook (Walt Whitman) Til the gossamer thread
February 29, 2020
Music on the Edge: Microtonal Music Festival
Catherine Lamb parallaxis forma
*Curtis Rumrill What is death to some fish eggs?
#She Scores Festival 2020
March 21-22, 2020
#Opening Concert: Mazumal
#Women+ Experimental
Experimental and improvised music and sound-based performance art by Kamratōn, Olivia J. P. Harris, Felicia Chen, Michele Cheng, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, and Erin Rogers.
#Matinee: On View
Gilda Lyons Between Dog and Wolf
inti figgis-vizueta older blood
Angelica Negron Dust
Rebecca Saunders O, Yes & I
Liza Lim Inguz
*Erin Rogers On View
#Closing Concert: Kassia Ensemble
#June 28, 2020
"Refamiliar" with Gilda Lyons
Judith Weir Blue-Green Hill
Barbara White My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon
Gilda Lyons Works TBD
*Aaron Wyanski And Yet You Have Seen
2018-2019
*premieres
September 2018: Pittsburgh Festival of New Music
Georges Aperghis Récitation
Ryan McMasters Like Glue His Dead Body Holds Me
Laura Kaminsky The Full Range of Blue (excerpts)
November 2018: be new too
Annie Gosfield Cranks and Cactus Needles
Miniatures on “New”
*Lucie Vítková ONE
*Christine Burke Duo
*Gay Kahkonen Take the Place
*Roger Dannenberg Duet on Stein
*Marina López to come to
*Brian Riordan New 6
*Devon Tipp New
*Benjamin Cornelius-Bates As far. / So far.
*Andrés Carrizo Interrupted
*Zvonimir Nagy [a]new (excerpt)
*Emily Cook Not so far as to mean
*Erin Cameron When
*Ramin Akhavijou Be New Too
February 2019: Favorites at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Nancy Galbraith Ruby's Ascent
Miniatures on "New"
Ramin Akhavijou Be New Too
Georges Aperghis Récitation
Julia Adolphe Nine Lives
March 2019: Women+ Experimental
Experimental and improvised music by Kamratōn, Laura Schwartz, and Lucie Vítková.
Laura Schwartz Music for Fans
Lucie Vítková Experimental Folklor Piece
Lucie Vítková Post-apocalyptic Piece
March 2019: She Scores 2019
*Elizabeth Brown Wild Apples
Laura Kaminsky The Full Range of Blue
Kaija Saariaho Changing Light
Unsuk Chin Advice from a Caterpillar
Augusta Read Thomas Silent Moon
May 2019: Her Holiness: The Winter Dog
*Curtis Rumrill/Zachary Webber Her Holiness: The Winter Dog
with
Quince Ensemble
Shana Simmons Dance
Georges Aperghis Récitation
Ryan McMasters Like Glue His Dead Body Holds Me
Laura Kaminsky The Full Range of Blue (excerpts)
November 2018: be new too
Annie Gosfield Cranks and Cactus Needles
Miniatures on “New”
*Lucie Vítková ONE
*Christine Burke Duo
*Gay Kahkonen Take the Place
*Roger Dannenberg Duet on Stein
*Marina López to come to
*Brian Riordan New 6
*Devon Tipp New
*Benjamin Cornelius-Bates As far. / So far.
*Andrés Carrizo Interrupted
*Zvonimir Nagy [a]new (excerpt)
*Emily Cook Not so far as to mean
*Erin Cameron When
*Ramin Akhavijou Be New Too
February 2019: Favorites at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Nancy Galbraith Ruby's Ascent
Miniatures on "New"
Ramin Akhavijou Be New Too
Georges Aperghis Récitation
Julia Adolphe Nine Lives
March 2019: Women+ Experimental
Experimental and improvised music by Kamratōn, Laura Schwartz, and Lucie Vítková.
Laura Schwartz Music for Fans
Lucie Vítková Experimental Folklor Piece
Lucie Vítková Post-apocalyptic Piece
March 2019: She Scores 2019
*Elizabeth Brown Wild Apples
Laura Kaminsky The Full Range of Blue
Kaija Saariaho Changing Light
Unsuk Chin Advice from a Caterpillar
Augusta Read Thomas Silent Moon
May 2019: Her Holiness: The Winter Dog
*Curtis Rumrill/Zachary Webber Her Holiness: The Winter Dog
with
Quince Ensemble
Shana Simmons Dance
2017-2018
* premieres
October 2017: 'Burgh Sounds I
*McMasters Like Glue His Dead Body Holds Me
*Fromm The Earth is Breathing
*Rumrill In This Styrofoam Room
*Ishizaki Prism
November 2017: She Scores I
Saariaho Lohn
Saunders To and Fro
*Burke 6 fingers: we go there by any road we take
*Li excerpts from "Red"
January 2018: Microtonal Music Festival
Djordjević Manje te u Majke Groze
Brown Arcadia
March 2018: New Music @ Kent State Stark
March 2018: She Scores II
*Galbraith Ruby's Ascent
*Schwartz/Schwartz An Anatomical Study on Escape
Wolfe Cruel Sister
Saariaho Miranda's Lament
May 2018: 'Burgh Sounds II
Rosenblum Falling
Moe Siren Songs
Williams Ligamy
*Zahab Shades of Hegemony
June 2018: Re:Sound New Music Festival
*McMasters Like Glue His Dead Body Holds Me
*Fromm The Earth is Breathing
*Rumrill In This Styrofoam Room
*Ishizaki Prism
November 2017: She Scores I
Saariaho Lohn
Saunders To and Fro
*Burke 6 fingers: we go there by any road we take
*Li excerpts from "Red"
January 2018: Microtonal Music Festival
Djordjević Manje te u Majke Groze
Brown Arcadia
March 2018: New Music @ Kent State Stark
March 2018: She Scores II
*Galbraith Ruby's Ascent
*Schwartz/Schwartz An Anatomical Study on Escape
Wolfe Cruel Sister
Saariaho Miranda's Lament
May 2018: 'Burgh Sounds II
Rosenblum Falling
Moe Siren Songs
Williams Ligamy
*Zahab Shades of Hegemony
June 2018: Re:Sound New Music Festival
2016-2017
* premieres
October 2016: A Fall Concert
Sticks Christian Wolff
Stones Christian Wolff
Romanian Folk Dances Béla Bartók arr. Zoltán Székely
I. Stick Dance
II. Sash Dance
III. In One Spot
IV. Dance from Bucsum
V. Romanian Polka
VI. Fast Dance
*Selections from the Out of Doors Suite Bela Bart.k arr. Emily Cook 5 min
II. Barcarolla
I. With Drums and Pipes
Selections from Games and Messages György Kurtág
In nomine
Rimma Daloš: Ljubov ́ na mesiats [Hommage à Tristan]
Rozsnyai Ilona emlékezete
Doloroso
Bref message à Pierre Boulez
Kroó György in memoriam
Jauchzet und frohlocket! – Auf! Schwung!
Versetto [apokrif organum]
*Translucency Continuum Aaron Myers-Brooks
December 2016: Electric Sounds
Rapture for Clarinet in B-flat and Tape Anna Clyne
Tuning Meditation Pauline Oliveros
Oi Kuu “For the Moon” For Bass Clarinet and Cello Kaija Saariaho
String Quartet Ruth Crawford-Seeger
Separation Logic for Flute and Computer Roger Dannenberg
Communication for small ensemble Karlheinz Stockhausen
T’filah (Prayer) for violin solo Lera Auerbach
Pièce pour violon et clarinette Claude Vivier
*Void Brian Riordan
February 2017: Listening to Everything All The Time
Three Latin Prayers Giacinto Scelsi
Ixor for solo oboe Giacinto Scelsi
Ko-Lho for flute and clarinet mvt. I.& II. Giacinto Scelsi
Duo for violin and cello mvt I. Giacinto Scelsi
Lilitu for soprano Giacinto Scelsi
Wind Horse Pauline Oliveros
*Corvus Alchemistarum David Gerard Matthews
*the thin man. the narrow house. Jeff Weston
March 2017 : TheSound Show with Guests Patchwork
*Phoenix Alchemistarum David Gerard Matthews
Nine Lives Julia Adolphe
1987 Anna Clyne
*Void 2 Brian Riordan
May 2017: Local Color
*Duty, Thoreau, & Walt Whitman Charles Ives, arr. Cook
Density 21.5 Edgar Var.se
Theme from Symphony No.1 for Solo English Horn Mark Fromm
Quaver for cello and bass clarinet Mark Fromm
*Excerpt from " In this Styrofoam Room" Curtis Rumrill
An Apparatus for Rotating Blades Laura Schwartz
*Le soleil ne sait rein l'ombre Jean-Patrick Besingrad
Sticks Christian Wolff
Stones Christian Wolff
Romanian Folk Dances Béla Bartók arr. Zoltán Székely
I. Stick Dance
II. Sash Dance
III. In One Spot
IV. Dance from Bucsum
V. Romanian Polka
VI. Fast Dance
*Selections from the Out of Doors Suite Bela Bart.k arr. Emily Cook 5 min
II. Barcarolla
I. With Drums and Pipes
Selections from Games and Messages György Kurtág
In nomine
Rimma Daloš: Ljubov ́ na mesiats [Hommage à Tristan]
Rozsnyai Ilona emlékezete
Doloroso
Bref message à Pierre Boulez
Kroó György in memoriam
Jauchzet und frohlocket! – Auf! Schwung!
Versetto [apokrif organum]
*Translucency Continuum Aaron Myers-Brooks
December 2016: Electric Sounds
Rapture for Clarinet in B-flat and Tape Anna Clyne
Tuning Meditation Pauline Oliveros
Oi Kuu “For the Moon” For Bass Clarinet and Cello Kaija Saariaho
String Quartet Ruth Crawford-Seeger
Separation Logic for Flute and Computer Roger Dannenberg
Communication for small ensemble Karlheinz Stockhausen
T’filah (Prayer) for violin solo Lera Auerbach
Pièce pour violon et clarinette Claude Vivier
*Void Brian Riordan
February 2017: Listening to Everything All The Time
Three Latin Prayers Giacinto Scelsi
Ixor for solo oboe Giacinto Scelsi
Ko-Lho for flute and clarinet mvt. I.& II. Giacinto Scelsi
Duo for violin and cello mvt I. Giacinto Scelsi
Lilitu for soprano Giacinto Scelsi
Wind Horse Pauline Oliveros
*Corvus Alchemistarum David Gerard Matthews
*the thin man. the narrow house. Jeff Weston
March 2017 : TheSound Show with Guests Patchwork
*Phoenix Alchemistarum David Gerard Matthews
Nine Lives Julia Adolphe
1987 Anna Clyne
*Void 2 Brian Riordan
May 2017: Local Color
*Duty, Thoreau, & Walt Whitman Charles Ives, arr. Cook
Density 21.5 Edgar Var.se
Theme from Symphony No.1 for Solo English Horn Mark Fromm
Quaver for cello and bass clarinet Mark Fromm
*Excerpt from " In this Styrofoam Room" Curtis Rumrill
An Apparatus for Rotating Blades Laura Schwartz
*Le soleil ne sait rein l'ombre Jean-Patrick Besingrad
2015-2016
*premieres
October 2015: Raining Cats and Dogs
*Ludes for Kamratōn I, II, & III Alan Racadag
*Subtle Whining Jim Plantania/Christine Burke
*Fallen Stephen Barr
*Prelude Op. 28, No. 15 Frederic Chopin arr. Alan Racadag
*On a Hot Tin Roof Eric Bable
Ko-lho Giacinto Scelsi
Nine Lives Julia Adolphe
February 2016: Winter Landscapes
*Des Pas Sur La Niège Claude Debussy arr. Emily Cook
Dark Landscapes Richard Feliciano
Vermont Counterpoint Steve Reich
*Canon from Lyric Pieces, Op. 38 Edvard Grieg arr. Noah Rectenwald
Drifting Over a Red Place Marilyn Shrude
Winterspring Roger Zahab
Bapu Asha Srinivasan
June 2016: Up to the Minute
*Liquescence Zvonimir Nagy
Chris and evergreen Roger Zahab
Fallen: A Lament Stephen Barr
Duos for flute and clarinet Robert Muczynski
*This Season’s Wreath Noah Rechtenwald
Becoming...again Michael Boyd
*Ludes for Kamratōn I, II, & III Alan Racadag
*Subtle Whining Jim Plantania/Christine Burke
*Fallen Stephen Barr
*Prelude Op. 28, No. 15 Frederic Chopin arr. Alan Racadag
*On a Hot Tin Roof Eric Bable
Ko-lho Giacinto Scelsi
Nine Lives Julia Adolphe
February 2016: Winter Landscapes
*Des Pas Sur La Niège Claude Debussy arr. Emily Cook
Dark Landscapes Richard Feliciano
Vermont Counterpoint Steve Reich
*Canon from Lyric Pieces, Op. 38 Edvard Grieg arr. Noah Rectenwald
Drifting Over a Red Place Marilyn Shrude
Winterspring Roger Zahab
Bapu Asha Srinivasan
June 2016: Up to the Minute
*Liquescence Zvonimir Nagy
Chris and evergreen Roger Zahab
Fallen: A Lament Stephen Barr
Duos for flute and clarinet Robert Muczynski
*This Season’s Wreath Noah Rechtenwald
Becoming...again Michael Boyd