Past Performances 2023
21-23 Jan 2023 Santa Rosa Symphony | Green Music Center, Santa Rosa, CA
04 Feb 2023 Eco Ensemble | works by Toshio Hosokowa, Amadeus Regucera, Ken Ueno, Edmund Campion & Cindy Cox | Hertz Hall, Berkeley CA | 8PM
12 Feb 2023 Empyrean Ensemble | works by Pablo Ortiz, Phil Acimovic and Frederic Rzewski | Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, UC Davis | 7PM
19 Feb 2023 sfSound Mosswood Series | improvisation w/ Chris Cooper, Jacob Felix Heule, Matt Ingalls Lisa Mezzacappa & Ken Ueno | Mosswood Chapel, 3630 telegraph Oakland | 7PM
10 & 12 Mar 2023 Ives Collective | Grazyna Bacewicz’ Trio for Oboe, violin and cello | St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, and Old First Concerts, SF
23-24 Mar 2023 Splinter Reeds | a program of works by Haxo, Godoy, Cetilia, Nourbakhsh & Matthusen, and a second program premiering new works by UNM student composers | John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium, presented by UNM Robb Musical Trust | Keller Hall, UNM, Albuquerque, NM
25-26 Mar 2023 Splinter Reeds | works by Haxo, Godoy, Nourbakhsh & Matthusen | presented by Chatter New Music | Santa Fe & Albuquerque, NM | 10:30AM
1-2 Apr 2023 Stockton Symphony | Atherton Auditorium, 5151 Pacific Ave, Stockton, CA
05 Apr 2023 Gino Robair: Radical Divination | FULL series at BAMPFA | Berkeley, CA | 7:30PM
07 Apr 2023 Quinteto Latino | works by Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Felipe Nieto-Sáchica, and Gabriela Ortiz, and the premiere of “The Spanglish Dances” by Victor Márquez-Barrios
| Center for New Music | 55 Taylor, SF, CA | 8PM
08 Apr 2023 Quartet w/ Darren Johnston, Madalyn Merkey & Larry Ochs | North Berkeley house concert – email for address and to reserve tickets | 8PM
11 Apr 2023 Orlando Jacinto Garcia‘s una luz en la neblina distante for oboe and four percussionists | UOP Percussion Studio Recital | Stockton, CA | 7:30PM
13 Apr 2023 San Francisco Contemporary Music Players | works by Brian Baumbusch, Conlon Nancarrow, Esa-Pekka Salonen | Taube Atrium Theater, Wilsey Center, SF War Memorial | 401 Van Ness Ave, SF, CA
27 Apr 2023 Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet | Davis, CA
30 Apr 2023 Quinteto Latino | Orlando Jacinto Garcia composer portrait | Old First Concerts, SF | 4PM
06 May 2023 Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet | 50th Anniversary Celebration | University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA | 2PM
21 May 2023 Empyrean Ensemble | UC Davis graduate student compositions | Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, UC Davis | 7PM
25 May 2023 Quinteto Latino | works by Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Gabriela Lena Frank, Gabriela Ortiz, and Victor Márquez-Barrios | The Mansion at Strathmore |
27 Jun 2023 Quinteto Latino | Noontime Concerts | Old Saint Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. | SF, CA | 12:30PM
01 Aug 2023 Duo w/ Sara Schoenbeck, and mixed improvisational groupings w/ gabby fluke mogul, Madison Greenstone, DoYeon Kim, and Nate Wooley | Sisters, 900 Fulton St. | Brooklyn NY | 8PM
03-06 Aug 2023 Pamela Z’s Simultaneous | MoMA | NY
18 Aug 2023 Splinter Reeds | 10th Anniversary Celebration | featuring premiere of Zachary James Watkins’ Treatment V | Dresher Ensemble Studios, Oakland CA | 7PM
16 Sept 2023 Nomad Session | free outdoor pop-up concert for Noe Music | SF, CA | 5PM
17 Sept 2023 Quinteto Latino | free outdoor concert | Menlo Park, CA | 2PM
23 & 24 Sept 2023 Stockton Symphony | Atherton Auditorium, 5151 Pacific Ave, Stockton, CA
03 Oct 2023 Faculty Recital w/ student collaborators | works by Dorothy Chang, Reena Esmail, and Samuel Coleridge Taylor (arr. Katherine Needleman), and the premiere of Adam Zolty’s Rise for oboe and fixed media, commissioned by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music’s Alumni Support Initiative | Stockton, CA | 7:30PM
15 Oct 2023 SF Music Day | free, all-day music marathon produced by InterMusic SF | performances w/ Quinteto Latino and Where the Sun Grows (electro-acoustic quartet w/ Darren Johnston, Ernst Karel and Larry Ochs) | SF, CA
15 Oct 2023 Empyrean Ensemble | premiere of Zachary James Watkins’ Treatment VI | Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, UC Davis | 7PM
18-20 Oct 2023 Splinter Reeds | Mizzou New Music Initiative residency | readings of student compositions, and a recital of works by Ned McGowan, Eric Wubbels, Nilofar Nourbakhsh, Jon Yu, and Paula Matthusen, along with the premiere of Stefan Freund’s LEAD/LEAD, commissioned by the Barlow Endowment | Columbia, MO
25 Oct 2023 Chamber Music of Viet Cuong | performances with faculty and student collaborators, including Suite for two oboes and English horn (2010) | University of the Pacific, Stockton CA | 7:30PM
4-6 Nov 2023 Santa Rosa Symphony | Green Music Center, Rohnert Park, CA
11 Nov 2023 San Francisco Contemporary Music Players | George Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children, along w/ works by Raven Chacon, Chinary Ung and Olivier Messaien | Grace Cathedral, SF, CA| 8PM
16-17 Nov 2023 Splinter Reeds | residency at Oregon State University, including the premiere of Dana Reason’s …a poet you must become (2023) for oboe and electronics | Corvallis, OR
18 Nov 2023 Splinter Reeds | master classes, performance and chamber music coaching at University of Oregon | Eugene, OR
20 Nov 2023 Varied Ensembles Recital, including a performance w/ student collaborators of Andrea Clearfield’s Love Song (1995) | University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA | 7:30PM
03 Dec 2023 Stockton Symphony | Atherton Auditorium, 5151 Pacific Ave, Stockton, CA
17 Dec 2023 Oakland Reductionist Orchestra | w/ Ben Richter (solo accordion) | sfSound Mosswood Series | Mosswood Chapel, 3630 Telegraph | Oakland, CA | 7PM
20 Dec 2023 Quinteto Latino | Posadas community event | North Fair Oaks Library, Redwood City, CA | 5PM
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