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2011
Devil's Lake was performed December 4 as part of Access Contemporary Music's New Beginnings Festival at the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.
Jenny Greene premiered Fifth Blackbird on November 13 at Jan Hus Church, New York, NY as part of her 15 Minutes of Fame concert. Video and scores from the program are available on the Vox Novus web site.
Windchimes for John Cage was premiered by Ensemble Décadanse on October 29, 2011 at Les Instants Chavirés in Montreuil, France, as part of their Cage 99 project.
Beth Griffith premiered Soaring on September 25, 2011, at Jan Hus Church, New York, NY as part of her 15 Minutes of Fame concert.
a very small consortium premiered Signaling for solo clarinet and Tiny Cheesehead Fanfare the Second at their concert on September 24, 2011, at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
ASCAP has awarded David a standard award for 2011.
Verbum caro factum est was presented with the 360 degrees of 60x60 Video (Sanguine Mix) b-movie, a video collaboration with Pedro Pinheiro, on May 25 in Hamburg, Germany.
Devil's Lake was performed March 19, 2011 at Portland State University, Portland, OR, as part of Cascadia Composers concert series In just spring.
thingNY performed Tiny Cheesehead Cynicism as part of SPAM v. 2.0 on February 25, 2011 at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.
Tiny Cheesehead Fanfare was performed by the UW-Green Bay Faculty Brass Trio on February 20 on Sunday Afternoon Live from the Chazen, with live broadcast on Wisconsin Public Radio.
Verbum caro factum est was presented with 360 degrees of 60x60 Video (Sanguine Mix) on February 10 at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ, and on February 11 at California State University, Long Beach.
Puer Natus was performed on January 30, 2011 by Viva la Gamba in Laufen, Germany.
Verbum caro factum est was presented with 360 degrees of 60x60 Video (Sanguine Mix) (a video collaboration with Patrick Liddell) on January 27 at Cafe OTO in London, UK.
2010
Puer Natus was performed on December 15 by the Kinnelon (New Jersey) High School Chamber Singers directed by Charles Linnell.
Video is available of October's Portland performances of Forgotten at Dawn... and many other works by Cascadia Composers. The October 30 performance (video 2) is stronger.
Verbum caro factum est was presented with 360 degrees of 60x60 Video (Sanguine Mix) (a video collaboration with Patrick Liddell) on December 2 as part of "12 Nights" at the Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, FL, and on December 3 at Folkwang University, Essen, Germany.
Verbum caro factum est was presented with 360 degrees of 60x60 Video (Sanguine Mix) (a video collaboration with Patrick Liddell) on November 1 at Kansas City, Kansas Community College Performing Arts Center and on November 6 at the Fresno (CA) New Music Festival. The Sanguine Mix without video was presented the afternoon of November 7 at Western Washington University PAC Concert Hall in Bellingham, Washington.
Forgotten at Dawn... was performed on October 29 and 30, 2010 in Hillsboro and Portland, Oregon on concerts organized by Cascadia Composers. Thanks to Dawn Weiss, Barbara Heilmair, Justin Mackewich, and Diane Chaplin for their excellent performances.
Tiny Cheesehead Fanfare was premiered October 16 by the UW-Green Bay Faculty Brass Trio at Fort Howard Hall in the Weidner Center as part of UW-GB’s “Evening of Miniatures” progam. This is the first piece in the Tiny Cheesehead Music series to actually be performed in Wisconsin, and I am delighted that the performance took place in Titletown.
Verbum caro factum est was included with an installation of all six 360 degrees of 60x60 mixes on October 16 at Electronic Music Midwest in Romeoville, IL. It was also presented with video by Patrick Liddell in a program of four 60x60 mixes on October 20 at Rodan in Chicago.
ASCAP has awarded David a standard award for 2010.
Verbum caro factum est was presented with 360 degrees of 60x60 Sanguine Mix on September 23 at the KIBLA Multimedia Center in Maribor, Slovenia.
Verbum caro factum est was presented with 360 degrees of 60x60 Sanguine Mix on August 6 as part of "ton:art" at Galerie Margit Haupt, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Verbum caro factum est was presented at Supermarket in Toronto on July 20 as part of 360 degrees of 60x60 Sanguine Mix in a concert presented by THE AMBiENT PiNG. The same mix of pieces was presented weekly from July 10 to September 18 at Atelier Rouge Aubépine in Lodève, France as well as being programmed at Lodève's yearly poetry festival "Voix de la Méditerranée" on July 21.
Verbum caro factum est was presented with 360 degrees of 60x60 Sanguine Mix on June 29 at New Life Church, Denton, Texas, and on June 17 at KiBar in the KIBLA Multimedia Center in Maribor, Slovenia.
On May 22, Verbum caro factum est was a small part of Dance Parade's DanceFest 2010 at Tompkins Square Park in New York City.
A one-minute electronic piece, Verbum caro factum est, was included in the 360 degrees of 60x60 installations at ICMC 2010, June 1-5 in New York.
thingNY performed Tiny Cheesehead Spam as part of SPAM, the largest commission of experimental music in the history of email-submitted spam, on December 19, 2009 at The University of the Streets in New York City. The program was presented again as SPAM (v. 1.2) on April 18, 2010 at The Tank.
2009
The New York Miniaturist Ensemble performed David’s soundtracks to five short films by the Edison Film Company (without the films) on September 25, 2009 at The New York Performing Arts Library's Bruno Walter Auditorium in Lincoln Center.
ASCAP has awarded David a standard award for 2009.
The performances from New Music Hartford's Evening of Miniatures are now available on YouTube: Attack of the Tiny Cheesehead Music and Revenge of the Tiny Cheesehead Music.
Several of David's works were broadcast on Future Notes, a new music program hosted by Charles Savage on Radio Free Appalachia, internet radio from Ohio University Zanesville. The program aired May 18-24 at 9am and 7pm Eastern Daylight Time.
2008
Revenge of the Tiny Cheesehead Music and Attack of the Tiny Cheesehead Music will be performed December 5, 2008, in Hartford, CT, as part of New Music Hartford's Evening of Miniatures.
The Chicago Miniaturist Ensemble will premiere another tiny piece, Lux Aeterna, on December 4, 2008, at the Ossia Fine Arts Space in the Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Avenue.
Improvisation for solo viola was performed November 21, 2008, in Belgrade as part of the 17th International Review of Composers sponsored by the Composers Association of Serbia.
Gorham Nocturne and Improvisation for solo viola were performed by the Sonict Ensemble November 10, 2008, at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater along with works by Keith Carpenter, Laura Schwendinger, Jeff Herriott, and Jon Welstead.
One of David's dewdrop photographs will be shown at the Pyle Center in Madison during October and November 2008 as part of the Center for Photography at Madison's Wisconsin Waters show.
Seventeen Years Underground was part of the 60x60 Midwest Minute Madness installation at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, October 16-18, 2008, at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois.
Echoes was broadcast on The Latest Score, Canary Burton's new music show on WOMR-FM in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on September 30, 2008.
Tiny Cheesehead Music Under the Stars was premiered September 27, 2008, by the Chicago Miniaturist Ensemble.
The New York Miniaturist Ensemble performed five of David’s soundtracks to short films by the Edison Film Company on September 25, 2008.
The Cadillac Moon Ensemble performed selections from the Tiny Cheesehead Music series on September 20, 2008, at Waltz-Astoria performance space in Queens.
ASCAP has awarded David a standard award for 2008.
Martina Skalova premiered Improvisation for solo viola on May 7, 2008, as part of the UW Viola Project. The concert took place at Mills Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Seventeen Years Underground will be presented again with 60x60 Midwest Minutes April 26, 2008, at Webster University, Webster Groves, MO.
B.C. Brown's short film The plight of the north american bipeds, featuring excerpts from Liberal Media, will be screened May 31, 2008, at the Milwaukee Short Film Festival.
Seventeen Years Underground will be presented again with 60x60 Midwest Minutes April 4, 2008, at Collective: Unconscious in New York with video by Zlatko Cosic.
Seventeen Years Underground will be presented again with 60x60 Midwest Minutes February 5, 2008, at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, and February 21 at Grand Valley State University Art Gallery in Allendale, Michigan.
Seventeen Years Underground was presented as part of 60x60 Midwest Minutes January 17, 2008, at Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama.
2007
The New York Miniaturist Ensemble premiered Passaic Falls and Lower Falls, Grand Canyon on December 8, 2007, at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, NY, as part of a concert of new compositions to accompany short films by the Edison Motion Picture Company. The films (without music) are available online from the Library of Congress: Passaic Falls, Lower Falls, Grand Canyon.
Seventeen Years Underground, a short piece based on recordings of cicadas, has been selected for 60x60 Midwest Minutes. The project was premiered October 9 at the Kentucky New Music Festival in Lexington and October 12 at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival in Kansas City, Kansas. Further performances took place November 14 in Georgetown, Kentucky and November 29 at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington.
ASCAP has awarded David a standard award for 2007.
The New York Miniaturist Ensemble will premiere Mysteries of the Tiny Cheesehead Music and Attack of the Tiny Cheesehead Music on August 10 at the Brooklyn Center for Contemporary Music.
17 Years of Silence, David’s field recording of Brood XIII cicadas, was featured on the New York Miniaturist Ensemble’s podcast StaticMusic | Drones for the week of July 7.
Tubist Viktor Moricz performed Dig This, ____* on October 14, 2006, at Haegse Huus in Stellendam, The Netherlands.
The New York Miniaturist Ensemble premiered Return of the Son of Tiny Cheesehead Music on May 12 at the Chelsea Art Museum.
2006
The New York Miniaturist Ensemble premiered Tiny Cheesehead Haiku on December 14 at the ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn.
Twenty-four was performed November 21 at the University of Oregon by The Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble.
ASCAP has awarded David a standard award for 2006.
The New York Miniaturist Ensemble premiered Beneath the Planet of the Tiny Cheesehead Music on August 15 at the Chelsea Art Museum.
Erik Carlson of The New York Miniaturist Ensemble premiered Revenge of the Tiny Cheesehead Music on July 9.
The New York Miniaturist Ensemble premiered Curse of the Tiny Cheesehead Music on May 31 at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn.
On May 18, Con Vivo premiered Battipalo, a new work commissioned by the ensemble and scored for clarinet, horn, bassoon, cello, and bass.
The New York Miniaturist Ensemble premiered Tinier Cheesehead Music on May 15 at Juilliard.
The New York Miniaturist Ensemble's first program of tape music featured a Tiny Cheesehead Music remix called Chase Etude Is My Niche. The concert took place May 3 in Manhattan.
The New York Miniaturist Ensemble premiered another tiny piece on March 27 as part of Frank Oteri's 21st Century Schizoid Music series. That one is called Shadow of the Tiny Cheesehead Music.
The New York Miniaturist Ensemble performed one of my tiny little pieces on February 23 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York. The focus of that program is the premiere of 1. Natürliche Dauern by Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Philip Dawson, Josep Miralles, and Marta Hatler performed Liberal Media again on February 10, 2006, as part of the “Música contemporània” series at the Es Baluard Contemporary Art Museum in Palma de Mallorca.
2005
The New York Miniaturist Ensemble premiered another new piece at their concert on December 10, 2005. This one was called Tiny Cheesehead Music, Episode II.
De Profundis was performed November 9 at Annett Recital Hall as part of the La Crosse New Music Festival.
The New York Miniaturist Ensemble performed a tiny new piece called Whispers at their concert on August 31, 2005.
Thanks to George at Eclectic Mix for featuring my work on his podcast.
Con Vivo has commissioned a new piece for quintet to be premiered in May of 2006.
My former student Jeff Stanek has won a BMI Student Composer Award. Congratulations, Jeff!
Kevin Ducey, with funds from the Puffin Foundation, has commissioned incidental music for his play Dust Music.
ASCAP has awarded David a standard award for 2005.
Liberal Media was performed May 9, 2005, in Palma de Mallorca by Philip Richard Dawson with members of the Orquestra Simfonica de Balears.
L’Ensemble Portique premiered Microcast in four concerts: April 29, 2005, in Oak Park and Wilmette, IL; April 30 in Milwaukee; and May 1 in Madison. Thanks to Lisette Kielson, Pasqualé Lorino, Jennifer Barron, and John Chappel Stowe for excellent performances.
2004
Thanks to B.C. Brown for spinning a few tracks on Radio Literature, special Winter Solstice edition, on WORT 89.9 FM in Madison.
L’Ensemble Portique has commissioned a new work to be premiered in April, 2005.
Liberal Media will be performed May 9, 2005, in Palma de Mallorca by Philip Richard Dawson and other members of the Orquestra Simfonica de Balears as part of the orchestra's chamber music series.
ASCAP has awarded David a standard award for 2004.
2003
Electricity was performed by Tara Kelly on November 11 at the La Crosse New Music Festival, Christ Episcopal Church, La Crosse.
ASCAP has awarded David a standard award for 2003.
2002
A short setting of Puer Natus in Bethlehem was performed by the Grace Church Chancel Choir as part of a pre-service musical presentation on Christmas Eve.
On April 20, the Oakwood Chamber Players with Bill Lutes premiered Twenty-Four, a new work for chamber ensemble with narrator. The text for the work is Kevin Ducey's updated paraphrase of the 24th canto of Dante's Inferno. Twenty-Four was commissioned by the Madison Chapter of the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers.
ASCAP has awarded David a standard award for 2002.
A new work in memory of September 11 victims, De Profundis for clarinet, cello, and piano, was premiered January 27, 2002, at the First Unitarian Meeting House.
2001
I Look from Afar, an adaptation and arrangement of the Sarum chant Aspiciens a longe, was sung by the Grace Church Chancel Choir as part of an advent lessons and carols service on December 2, 2001.
Turmmusiken for two trumpets was performed by David Cooper and Kory Dahlen at the La Crosse New Music Festival on November 14, 2001.
Dig This, Spieser for solo tuba was performed by David Spies on September 28, 2001, at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin.
Liberal Media and Devil's Lake were broadcast on The Latest Score, Canary Burton's new music show on WOMR-FM in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on June 19, 2001.
ASCAP has awarded David a standard award for 2001.
Black Water was performed May 18, 2001, in Toronto by Carson Cooman.
A new recording of Liberal Media by the Oakwood Chamber Players can be heard on their CD Scenes.
Echoes was performed March 31, 2001, by Justin Richardson, Clay Wachholz, Sean Greene, and Jamie Mitchell at the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers Conference.
Black Water was performed March 4, 2001, by Jill Forrest at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Devil's Lake was broadcast January 19, 2001, on A New Stage, on NPS Radio 4 in The Netherlands.
2000
Dig This, Chris was performed November 15, 2000, at the La Crosse (WI) New Music Festival.
Black Water was performed November 12, 2000, by Jill Forrest at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Black Water was performed September 3, 2000, by Richard D. Gegner on the Mary M. Emery Memorial Carillon in Mariemont, OH.
Echoes for tuba quartet was broadcast August 5, 2000, on Kalvos and Damian's New Music Bazaar on WGDR 91.1 FM in Plainfield, Vermont.
ASCAP has awarded David a standard award for 2000.
Y2K Bugs was performed by Ensemble Decadanse in Lunel, France on May 28, 2000, as part of their concert "2000 Miniatures for the Year 2000."
Echoes was performed April 15, 2000, at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.
Black Water was performed February 20, 2000, by James R. Lawson on the Arvella Schuller Carillon at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, CA.
Echoes for tuba quartet was included in the Internet new-music show Mappings for the week of February 20, 2000.
Devil's Lake was performed by Ensemble GREEN on the Society of Composers, Inc., Region VII conference January 29, 2000, at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.
1999
Snowflakes was broadcast on December 20, 1999, on FOLDOVER, a new-music show by Tom Lopez on WOBC 91.5 FM in Oberlin, Ohio.
Perspectives was broadcast on December 9, 1999 on "Vast Field (not to scale)," a new-music show produced by Ernesto Diaz-Infante on KAZU 90.3 FM in Pacific Grove, California.
Devil's Lake was broadcast on December 5, 1999, on RTQE, Gregory Taylor's show on WORT 89.9 FM in Madison.
Y2K Bugs, a set of 14 miniatures for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, was premiered November 17, 1999, at the Pumphouse Regional Arts Center as part of the La Crosse New Music Festival.
Echoes for tuba quartet was broadcast October 2, 1999, on Kalvos and Damian's New Music Bazaar on WGDR 91.1 FM in Plainfield, Vermont. Visit their site for a Real Audio archive of this and many other wonderful shows.
Liberal Media and Devil's Lake were broadcast on The Latest Score, Canary Burton's new music show on WOMR-FM in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on September 28, 1999.
Millennial Stew, for violin, clarinet, horn, piano, bass, drum set, and narrators, was premiered by the EmergOrchestra on September 24, 1999, at St. Francis House in Madison.
Black Water was performed twice by Charles Semowich: July 16, 1999, at Middlebury College and July 29 at First Presbyterian Church in Stamford, Connecticut.
ASCAP has awarded David a standard award for 1999.
Liberal Media, for flute, viola, and bass, was premiered by the Oakwood Chamber Players on May 22, 1999. The piece was commissioned by the Madison Chapter of the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers.
Black Water was performed April 17, 1999, by George Matthew, Jr., on the Harkness Memorial Carillon at Yale University.
1998
Echoes was performed in December 1998 by The Dutch Tuba Quartet, and has been added to the list of pieces for the ITEC 2000 tuba quartet competition.
Devil's Lake was performed November 7, 1998, at Winona State University's first Festival of New Music.
Forgotten at Dawn, Snowflakes, Finding Time, and Perspectives were broadcast on The Latest Score, Canary Burton's new music show on WOMR-FM in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on August 11, 1998.
Snowflakes and Perspectives were performed August 8, 1998, by the Musical Diversions Society in St. Louis.
As Incredible As Is America was performed July 25, 1998, by the EmergOrchestra as part of their Sound Off! concert. All works on the program were settings of texts from the "Sound Off!" column of Madison's Capital Times newspaper, where readers submit their own editorial comments by telephone.
David attended the Digital Soundscapes Computer Music Workshop on Csound July 13-17, 1998. The workshop was presented by the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, and was led by Jon Christopher Nelson. Partial support for the trip was provided by a Travel Fund Grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board.
Black Water was performed by Lyle Anderson on the University of Wisconsin Memorial Carillon on May 31, 1998, as part of a Wisconsin Sesquicentennial program.
Devil's Lake was performed May 16, 1998 at the First Unitarian Meeting House in Madison on a MadWAC benefit concert.
Devil's Lake, for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, was premiered by Music St. Croix, a concert series based in Stillwater, Minnesota, on February 21, 1998.
1997
A short prelude for carillon titled Black Water was premiered by Lyle Anderson on the University of Wisconsin Memorial Carillon on December 3, 1997. The piece was published in the Albany Carillon Book.
Electricity, for solo flute, was performed by Elizabeth Heetmann on October 18, 1997, at Elizabethtown (Pennsylvania) College, as part of the Society of Composers, Inc. Region III Conference.
Echoes was performed by the Tuba Tzars on a Sound--the Alarm! concert on May 13, 1997, at the Hyde Park Theater in Austin, Texas.
Electricity was performed at the Ear & Now concert on April 6, 1997, at Canterbury Booksellers & Coffeehouse.
A short new piece, Fanfare: Christ ist erstanden for two trumpets and horn, was performed as part of Easter services at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison. A version for three trumpets is now also available.
Forgotten at Dawn... was performed by Synchronia, the St. Louis new music ensemble, on February 9, 1997.
