Signature Elaine Chew

performances : premieres and selected new music performances
[ music bio | concerts | premieres | discography | repertoire | reviews ]

Chen Yi (b.1953)

2000 May 12 Ba Ban (2000) - Boston premiere, Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts Concert, Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
[ release, review1 (World Journal) | review2 (Asian American News) ]

Peter Child (b.1953)

1998 Sep 12 Doubles III (1998): Three Chinese Songs, private concert @ home of Tan Chin Nam, Singapore
1998 Nov 13 Doubles III (1998) - US premiere, Friday the Thirteenth Concert @ Killian Hall, MIT, Cambridge, MA
2001 Dec 3 Doubles (1999): Prologue, Doubles III (Prelude + 3 Chinese Songs + 3 Malay Songs), Epilogue - west coast premiere, Music Of Changes @ Zipper Hall, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Sep 12 Doubles III (1998): Three Chinese Songs - UK premiere, ICMAI, Reid Hall, U. of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1997 Oct Trio for violin, clarinet and piano (1996), Composer's Conference @ Killian Hall, MIT (with Asher Davison, cl; Grant Ho, vln)
1998 Feb 28 The Great Panjandrum: Seven Songs for Young Listeners (1989) - Sounds of the XXth Century @ Killian Hall, MIT (with Janna Baty)

Edward Cohen (1940-2002)

1998 Feb 28 Helen for soprano and piano (1997) - Sounds of the XXth Century @ Killian Hall, MIT (with Janna Baty, sop)

Chris Dench (b.1953)

2002 Feb 7 Eigenmomenta for ensemble (2000-2001), Music Of Changes @ Zipper Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Tilt for solo piano (1985), Music Of Changes @ Zipper Hall, Los Angeles, CA

Tamar Diesendruck

2007 Jan 24 Sudoku Variations (2007) - world premiere, in the Mathematics in Music - a performance and conversation with Elaine Chew, part of Visions and Voices, USC's Arts and Humanities Initiative Event, Alfred Newman Recital Hall, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Feb 27 Sudoku Variations (2007) - Canadian premiere, in the Mathematics in Music - a performance and conversation with Elaine Chew, part of the Women Scholars Lecture Series, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
2007 Mar 16 Sudoku Variations (2007) - Asian premiere, in the Mathematics in Music - a performance, computer demonstration, and conversation with Elaine Chew, part of the Techno Arts Festival, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2008 Mar 24 Sudoku Variations (2007) - East Coast premiere, in the Mathematics in Music @ NCSU Arts Now Series, Raleigh, NC

Ding Shande (b.1911)

2000 Mar 10 Children's Suite - US premiere, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center (CMAC), Cambridge MA

John Harbison (b.1939)

1994 Feb Cello Concerto (1994) - preview of world premiere by Yo-Yo Ma, Killian Hall, MIT [ review (Tech-Talk) ]

Jiang Wenye (1910-1983)

1998 Feb 9 Poems of the Home Village (1950) - US Premiere, Impressions @ Killian Hall, MIT
1998 Sep 12 Poems of the Home Village (1950), private concert @ home of Tan Chin Nam, Singapore
2000 Nov 3 Poems of the Home Village (1950) - Canadian premiere, lecture-recital at the Toronto2000 AMS Meeting, Toronto, ON

Cecilia Heejeong Kim (b.1968)

2001 Mar 25 Illusions 3 movements for piano (1990) - LUVME(Lehigh University Very Modern Ensemble)'s Concert of Contemporary Korean Music, Zoellner Arts Center, Bethlehem, PA

Alba Lucia Potes Cortes (b.1954)

2002 Apr 3 Tres Piezas Breves para Piano (1993-1997) - Music Of Changes @ Zipper Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Siete Haiku para soprano (o tenor) y piano (1994) - Music Of Changes @ Zipper Hall, Los Angeles, CA

Elena Ruehr (b.1963)

1998 Feb 28 Of Water and Clouds (1986) for flute and piano - Sounds of the XXth Century @ Killian Hall, MIT (with Michael Horowitz, fl)

Eric Sawyer

1999 Mar 7 Quartet for piano and strings (1997) - Quaintly, Quartets @ MIT's Ashdown House, home of Beth and Vernon Ingram

Paul Schoenfield (b.1947)

2003 Jun 22 Boogie from Peccadilloes (1995) - west coast premiere, Renaissance at the Wellington, Laguna Hills, CA
2002 Mar Six Improvisations on Hasidic Melodies (1985), Epstein Department Naming Banquet, Beverley Hills, CA
2002 Feb 23 Trio for clarinet, violin and piano (1990), Xine and Friends' Parkinson's Benefit Concert, Samuelson Chapel, Cal Lutheran U., Thousand Oaks, CA (with Lynn Maxine Rosen, vln; Tad Calcara, cl)

Wang Lisan (b.1933)

1998 Feb 9 Impressions of Paintings by Higashiyama Kaii (1979) - US premiere, Impressions @ Killian Hall, MIT
1998 Sep 12 Impressions of Paintings by Higashiyama Kaii (1979), private concert @ home of Tan Chin Nam, Singapore
2001 Jun 9 Impressions of Paintings by Higashiyama Kaii (1979) - Scandinavian premiere, ICMS7, Imatra, Finland
2000 Nov 3 Impressions of Paintings by Higashiyama Kaii (1979) - Canadian premiere, lecture-recital at the American Musicological Society Meeting, Toronto2000: Musical Intersections, Toronto, ON

Rodney Waschka II

2008 Mar 24 A Simple Gift for Elaine (2008) - world premiere [ audio ], in the Mathematics in Music @ NCSU Arts Now Series, Raleigh, NC



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