From up north down to the south and back…

on June 20, 2017July 27, 2018

(Originally posted last 04 June 2017 on Facebook) It's really great to be part of the New Music on the Bayou this year! I met new friends (and new browwwws to count 33 lines with...ummm I should stop this lol), heard lots of music and conversations, mess around with crawfish for the first time (good thing seafood [...]

The New Music on the Bayou is drawing near…

on May 16, 2017July 27, 2018

Hi friends and visitors! We're counting two weeks more before the New Music on the Bayou festival starts in Monroe, Louisiana! As I finalize my travel arrangements, I can officially say now that my work Gandingan sa Kagiliran (for percussion duo) will have its 5th performance during the festival on 02 June 2017, 1:00PM @ the Northminster Church (2701 Lamy [...]

Two more world premieres for the month of April 2017!

on April 25, 2017July 27, 2018

The month of April isn't quite done yet, as I have more exciting news on my end. Firstly, my "piano concerto" Pagkukumahog / [Sa] Paglilok ng Batong Hindi Nakikita (Urgency / [In] Sculpting an Invisible Rock) will receive its world premiere as a finalist entry in the 5-Minute Piano Concerto Competition of the 29th Music Biennale Zagreb. Pianist Filip Fak [...]

Activities at a glance…

2020 (TBA): Premiere of a work for clarinet and accordion. Presented by Martin Carpentier (clarinet) and Joseph Petric (accordion) in collaboration with the Canadian Music Centre (Toronto; Montreal).
24 – 26 October 2019: Paper presentation of “Concentric Circular Spaces: Xenakis and Maceda on Diffusing, Translating, and Decentralizing Musical Thought in Southeast Asia” at the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies Conference at McGill University (Montreal).
27 September 2019: Paper presentation of “Nomadic Sound Worlds: Towards the Transitory and the Migratory” at the Study Day: Transnationalism and Transculturalism in Canadian Music, 1969-2019 (Ottawa).
29 July – 23 August 2019: Artist residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (Nebraska City, Nebraska).
26-28 July 2019: Premiere of Time moves, straightforward… in the music drama Cries of the Earth. Presented by the Art Song Collaborative Project 2019 (Toronto).
30 June 2019: Performance of A Study in Exile (No. 3): Home is not a place on a map… at the Ontario Contemporary Circus Sessions (Toronto).
09 June 2019: Performance of the quartet version of Pangkur (Los Angeles). Concert hosted by Non de Gen.
03 June 2019: Scheduled talk with Soundstreams in “Encounters in Exile,” along with an excerpted performance of A Study in Exile, No. 4: Paagos (Toronto).
04-07 April 2019: Premiere of Paagos, an acousmatic soundscape/documentary in 6.1 surround. Commissioned for “Paagos” by dancer Sarah Maria Samaniego, and presented by Tangente Danse (Montreal).