Past performances & events
2021
AUGUST 26, 2021 7:30PM
Seth Parker Woods & Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
Music by Abtan, Adkins, Carter, Joachim, Lewis, Tremblay Gifford
Mary Flagler Cary Hall, New York USA
AUGUST 6, 2021 11AM
World-premiere of Around [Mobile 2021]
for any number of performers and any number of dancers
KANEKO, Omaha USA
MAY 25, 2021 7PM
Seth Parker Woods performs
works by Abtan, Adkins, Carter,
Joachim, Tremblay and Gifford
7 May 2021 7:00PM [Encore performance]
Difficult Grace [video version]
Seth Parker Woods, cello and voice
SOUND/SITES University of Chicago Presents
22 MARCH 2021 7:30PM
Loom II [Mobile 2019, video version]
Chicago College of the Performing Arts Faculty Composition Recital
26 FEBRUARY 2021 7:00PM
Difficult Grace [video version]

2020
5 NOV 2020 7PM
Translating the Atrocities of Our Past,
Composing the Language of Our Future
In depth: A talk with music curator Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti & Seth Parker Woods
Music by Abtan, Adkins, Gifford, Joachim and Tremblay
15-18 JUL 2020
Co-technical Director
[Cancelled due to Covid-19 Pandemic]
18 MAR 2020 7:30PM
STELE
Matt Oliphant & Kevin Harrison perform as part of
CCPA Composition Faculty Recital
Ganz Hall, 430 S. Michigan Ave., 7th Floor Chicago
[Cancelled due to Covid-19 Pandemic]
9 FEB 2020 SUN 6PM
Difficult Grace (World-premiere)
Seth Parker Woods performs new music by Abtan, Adkins, Carter, Gifford, Joachim, Tremblay
Octave 9: Raisbeck Music Center - Benaroya Hall, Seattle Symphony
2019
DEC 2019
Guest Artist, Composition
Hochschule für Musik, Leonhardsstrasse 6, 4009 Basel
7 NOV 2019 THU 8PM
Stellae IV
World-premiere of Stellae IV for ensemble
University of North Dakota New Music Ensemble
Josephine Campbell Recital, Hughes Fine Arts Center
28 SEP 2019 SAT 7PM
Dal Niente Season Opener
Music by Page, Bauckholt, Çamci,
Santos, Gifford, Lu & Choi
Holtschneider Performance Center, Chicago
AUG 2019 – MAY 2020
Artist Faculty, Composition 2019-2020
Chicago College of Performing Arts
Roosevelt University, Chicago 60605
06 SEP 2019 FRI 7:30PM
Pros and Cons of Live Food
La Bestiaire and other beasts
Liz Pearse, voice and piano
23 JUL 2019 TUE 8PM
Pros and Cons of LIve Food
Ann Arbor Festival of Song
Kerrytown Concert House, Ann Arbor, MI
Liz Pearse, voice and piano
AUG 2 2019 FRI 7PM
Ensemble Dal Niente: Solos and Duos
Ensemble Dal Niente performs chamber music by Evans, Fujikara, Gifford, Jones, Ko, Mumford and Takemitsu
Holtschneider Performance Center, Allen Recital Hall; 2330 N. Halsted St., Chicago
28 JUN – 03 JUL 2019
Summer Residency for New Music
DePaul School of Music
Residency for New Music with Ensemble Dal Niente and Carola Bauckholt, Christopher Jones, Fredrick Gifford
26 JUL 2019 FRI 6PM
Omaha Under the Radar Festival, Kaneko
Matt Oliphant and Kevin Harrison perform Stele (Mobile 2017)
28 JUN – 2 JUL 2019
Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble records Lang's love fail (producer)
Wild Sound Studios
22 JUN 2019 SAT 8PM
Shadow Play
Festival at Centre for Present-Day Music
Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig
23 MAY 2019 THURS 7:30PM
Liz Pearse in Recital
World premiere: the pros and cons of live food (2018)
Liz Pearse, voice and piano
First Trinity Evangelical-Lutheran Church, 535 N Neville St, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
4 MAY 2019 SAT 7:30PM
Wood feeds the fire that consumes it
Hasco Duo and Fredrick Gifford perform a multimedia concert including works by: Lena Nietfield, Tomás Gueglio, Guilluame Dufay and Fredrick Gifford
Leonardo da Vinci Festival
Bancroft Street Market, 2702 South 10th Street Omaha, Nebraska
12 APR 2019 7:30PM
Chicago Electro-Acoustic Music Festival
World-premiere of Headpin Talkie (4-channels, 2019)
The Chicago Electro-Acoustic Music at Roosevelt University, April 11-12
Ganz Hall, 430 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago
22 FEB 2019 FRI 7:00PM
27 States (World-premiere)
Jesse Langen, electric guitar
Works by Czernowin, Gifford, Grisey and Robin
Allen Recital Hall, 2330 N. Halsted Ave., Chicago
2018
24 NOV 2018 SAT 19:30
Shadow Play
Collect / Project meets the art of poetry slam: The compositions pick up texts by writers and dress them in fine and transparent sounds. As a contrast to the abstract music we invite two protagonists of the local poetry slam scene to perform with us and create a musical dialogue between words and sounds
Kraftwerk Bille – Hamburg, Germany
*Support from Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg and Hamburgische Kulturstiftung
30 OCT - 3 NOV 2018
Dartmouth College Residency
Guest residency with Sonic Arts students
"Strategies for integrating performer choice and interactive electronics in recent works”
15 OCT 2018 MON 7:30PM
STELE
Kevin Harrison, Tuba with guest, Matt Oliphant, horn
Program includes music by Hindemith, Kraft & Gifford
Armerding Center for Music and the Arts 132 Recital Hall, Wheaton College Conservatory of Music
7 OCT 2018 SUN 8:30PM
STELE (world-premiere)
Matt Oliphant and Kevin Harrison perform new music for Horn & Tuba
Constellation 3111 North Western Avenue Chicago, IL
6 OCT 2018 SAT 7:30 PM
Alas, but notwithstanding
The Athens Saxophone Quartet featuring works by Constantinides, Demos, and Gifford. With guest artists Mia Hynes, Michael Bersin, John Rutland, Carrie Turner, and Duncan Winslow
Wittmore Recital Hall, University of Missouri
4 OCT 2018 THURS 7 PM
Alas, but notwithstanding (world-premiere)
The Athens Saxophone Quartet featuring works by Constantinides, Demos, and Gifford.
With guest artists Mia Hynes, Michael Bersin, John Rutland, Carrie Turner, and Duncan Winslow.
Hart Recital Hall, Warrensburg, MO
4 MAY 2018 FRI 8PM
Grrrr for Bass Trombone and Percussion
North American Premiere:
Wm. Riley Leitch, trombone
Ethan Martin, percussion
DePaul Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago
11 MAR 2018 SUN 4PM
Hanging Gardens Project
Kayleigh Butcher, mezzo soprano, and Christopher Narloch, pianist, present Schönberg's masterpiece, Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, a 15-movement song cycle (Running Time - roughly 25-30 minutes) depicting a failed love affair between two teenagers in an idyllic garden. Eventually the woman leaves and the garden perishes. Using texts by Schönberg’s friend and poet, Stefan George, this work marked Schönberg's first shift from traditional musical order to 'pantonality'.To accompany this iconic work, Chris and Kayleigh have commissioned 15 one-minute pieces from American composers all over the country who were inspired by specific movements of Schönberg's masterpiece. The composers included are: Bethany Younge, Evan Williams, Steven Rice, Jessie Marino, David Grant, Jenna Lyle, Brian Penkrot, Alex Temple, Jonathan Sokol, Cara Haxo, Jonathan Hannau, Adrian Montúfar, Elliot Cless, Fredrick Gifford, and Pamela Stein Lynde.
10 MAR 2018 SAT 7:30PM
2018 UNK New Music Festival
Closing concert will include Amanda DeBoer Bartlett performing 100 Not-Songs for John Cage
23 FEB 2018 FRI 8PM
Hasco Duo
Program includes: One, Everyone (2013) for voice and electric guitar and the World-premiere of 127
for voice and guitar
800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago IL
26-27 JAN 2018
SPLICE Festival is a two-day festival that blends engaging live performances with new technologies. Composers, performers, and composer/performers gather for a weekend of concerts and presentations covering topics such as aesthetics, technology, and issues of performance practice, with the goal of inspiring, educating, and sharing information amongst the attendees and the students at the host institution. SPLICE Festival is designed to foster community and to create bonds between performers and composers dedicated to music that involves dynamic, live performance with technology. The inaugural SPLICE Festival will take place at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI on January 26th and 27th of 2018.
07 JAN 2018 8:30PM
Holes and Tunnels
Ensemble Dal Niente Presents: Holes and Tunnels
New music by Sivan Cohen-Elias, Michelle Lou and Fredrick Gifford
Constellation 3111 North Western AvenueChicago, IL, 60618United States
2017
9 NOV 2017 SUN 8:30PM
Hanging Gardens Project
Kayleigh Butcher, mezzo soprano, and Christopher Narloch, pianist.
To accompany Schönberg's iconic work, Book of the Hanging Gardens, Chris and Kayleigh have commissioned 15 one-minute pieces from American composers all over the country who were inspired by specific movements of Schönberg's masterpiece. The composers included are: Bethany Younge, Evan Williams, Steven Rice, Jessie Marino, David Grant, Jenna Lyle, Brian Penkrot, Alex Temple, Jonathan Sokol, Cara Haxo, Jonathan Hannau, Adrian Montúfar, Elliot Cless, Fredrick Gifford, and Pamela Stein Lynde.
13 OCT 2017 FRI 7:30PM
Shanna Pranaitis (Gutierrez), flute; Eva Zöllner, accordion; Francisco Castillo Trigueros, electronics
Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall, Northwestern University 70 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston
23 SEPT 2017 8:30PM
SEE
Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble season opener with premieres of new works by Dave Reminick and Fred Gifford, along with music by Laura Steenberge, Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, and Cara Haxo. Matthew Oliphant will open with a piece by Jonathon Kirk
Constellation Chicago, 3111. N. Western Ave
7 AUG 2017 MON 7:30PM
from 100 Not-Songs for JOHN CAGE
Amanda DeBoer Bartlett performs a new version of Not-Songs for voice & electronics
OutrSpaces, 528 S 24th Street Omaha, NE
19 MAY 2017 FRI 8:30PM
100 Not-Songs for JOHN CAGE
OpenICE
Concert includes improvisations by Peter Evans and Levy Lorenzo, and the world-premiere of the multi-media collaboration: 100 Not-Songs for JOHN CAGE (Tony Arnold, soprano, Ross Karre, projections, Fredrick Gifford, composer and sound designer)
Constellation Chicago 1311 N. Western Ave. Chicago
28 APR 2017 FRI 7:30PM
Concert includes music by Rameau, Wolff, Shapey, Martinu and Dufay (arr. Gifford)
Piano Forte Studios, 1335 South Michigan Ave., Chicago
28 JAN 2017 SAT 8PM
New Ear Satellite Series
Shanna Pranaitis (Gutierrez), flute: recital featuring works by Stroppa, Radulescu, Mahnkopf, Gifford & Steinhauer
La Esquina 1000 W 25th St, Kansas City, MO
15 JAN 2017 SUN 8:30PM
DUALITIES
Dualities: Mabel Kwan, piano and Shanna Pranaitis (Gutierrez), flute
Chou Wen-Chung: Cursive
Olga Neuwirth: Verfremdung/Entfremdung
Alex Temple: Willingly
Fredrick Gifford: Shadow Play
Frequency Series; Constellation Chicago, 3111 N. Western Ave., Chicago
8 JAN 2017 SUN 8:30PM
Musical Sculpture (Duchamp, arr. Gifford, 2016)
Ensemble Dal Niente Presents works by Chin, Diez-Fischer, Carrizo, Lyle, Cohen Elias, Gifford
Constellation 3111 N Western Ave., Chicago, IL
2016
OCT 13-21, 2016
Mobile 2016 Shadow Play
COLLECT / PROJECT
TRANSFORMED REALITIES TOUR
OCT 13 Western Michigan University
OCT 18 University of Central Missouri
OCT 21 University of California, Berkeley
Program:
Francisco Castillo Trigueros (b.1983): New Work for voice, flute(s), and electronics (13’)
Fredrick Gifford (b.1972): Shadow Play (2016) for open-hole bass flute and live electronics (8’)
Alexander Schubert (b.1979): Your fox’s, a dirty gold (2011) for one performer with voice, e-guitar, electronics, motion sensors, and lights (9’)
Nomi Epstein (b. 1978): New Work (2016) for voice, flute(s), and electronics (variable, 8-10’)
Luciano Berio (1925-2003): Altra Voce (1999) for mezzo-soprano, alto flute and 6-channel live- electronics
OCT 30, 2016 SUN 3PM
RADIO VOLTAIRE
New Music at the Green Mill presents: RADIO VOLTAIRE – a real fake
Music and poetry by and after Emmy Hennings, Hugo Ball, Marcel Duchamp, Fredrick Gifford
Featuring:
Amanda DeBoer Bartlett
Jesse Langen
Mabel Kwan
Liz Pearse
OCT 9, 2016 SUN 1PM
Shadow play
Shanna Pranaitis (Gutierrez) premieres MOBILE 2016, Shadow play, for bass flute and electronics as part of the Ear Taxi Festival.
JUL 8, 2016 FRI 6:00PM
SATIRISE
Soundboard plays Omaha Under the Radar
MAY 20, 2016 FRI 8PM
Graft Blossom
Mabel Kwan performs part 3 of respirateur – Graft Blossom – for clavichord, toy piano & electronics New Music DePaul 800 W. Belden Ave. Chicago
MAY 15, 2016 SUN 8:30PM
Patchwork and Jesse Langen
Program:
Nucleus by Alex Mincek
Preach Now / Spank Not Death by Nick Didkovsky
Axamer Folio by Eric Wubbels
Frame by Marc Codina
A Rayas Y Cuadros by Pablo Chin
Iwater. Inight. by Morgan Krauss
(ep)Scra'p by Julien Malaussena
Mobile 2010 by Fredrick Gifford
Constellation 3111 N Western Ave Chicago
MAR 26, 2016 SAT, 3PM
hinge
Parlour Tapes+ releaese Inventions by Danny Clay and Mabel Kwan
Mabel Kwan performs Clay, Bach and Gifford
Saki Records, 3716 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60647
FEB 21, 2016 SUN, 8:30PM
WASTE
Pesedjet plays music by Philip Schuessler, David Grant, LJ White, Megan Beugger, Andres Carrizo, including my WASTE for soprano, prepared piano, electric guitar and live electronics.
FEB 11, 2016 THU 8:30PM
Adage of Spontaneity (US premiere)
Sonic Hedgehog performs Dikstra, Dufay, Gee, Gifford, Hijmans and Hirs
JAN 31, 2016 SUN 8:30PM
SATIRISE
Ben Melsky performs new music for harp, harp and guitar, and harp and voice (with Jesse Langen & Amanda DeBoer Bartlett) at Northwestern University's McClintock Auditorium
JAN 23, 2016 SAT 8:30PM
SATIRISE
Dal Niente Presents: Ben Melsky and Jesse Langen perform a program of newly commissioned works for harp and guitar.
Elastic Arts, 3429 W Diversey Ave #208, Chicago
JAN 3, 2016 SUN 8:30PM
Graft Blossom
Dal Niente Presents: Mabel Kwan premieres part 3 of respirateur –
Graft Blossom – for clavichord, toy piano & electronics
Constellation, 3111 N. Western Ave., Chicago
2015
SEPT 28, 2015 MON 7:30PM
MOBILE 2015
Columbia University
Sherwood Music Hall
1312 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago
Ben Melsky and Jesse Langen: New works for Harp and Guitar Duet
Program:
Kasia Szczech: Librancer (2015)
Tomás Gueglio: One Baroque (2015)
Drew Baker: New Work (2015)
Fredrick Gifford: Mobile 2015 (2015)
24 SEP 2015 THURS 7PM
hinge for clavichord and electronics (from respirateur)
Comfort Music:
Parlour Tapes+with Eric Fernandez, Mabel Kwan, and Lia Kohl / Nick Meryhew
Comfort Station, 2579 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60647
9 SEPT 2015 WED 7:30PM
100 Not-Songs for JOHN CAGE
Resonant Bodies Festival
Merkin Concert Hall
129 W. 67th St.
New York
Tony Arnold premieres solos from the 100 Not-Songs collection
AUG 8, 2015, SAT 3PM
MOBILE 2014
James Fusik, soprano saxophone
Contemporary Music Potluck (CMP) Lansing, Michigan
JUL, 10, 2015 FRI 7PM
27 Sonorities; Gesualdo di Venosa – Mercè grido piangendo (arr. Gifford)
Omaha Under the Radar, Bancroft Street Market
APRIL 12, 2015, SUN, 8:30PM
Crack the Shell
Pesedjet
Frequencey Series
Constellation – 3111 N. Western, Chicago
FEBRUARY 20, 2015, FRI 8PM
MOBILE 2014
Jim Fusik, soprano saxophone
New Music Depaul, 800 W. Belden Ave, Chicago
2014
NOVEMBER 21, 2014, FRI, 7:30PM
JANUS (mobile 2011)
Shanna Pranaitis (Gutierrez), flute & Jesse Langen, guitar
Ganz Hall, 430 S Michigan Ave. 7th Floor, Chicago
SEPTEMBER 20, 2014
MOBILE 2014
James Fusik performs at the Minot Modern festival, North Dakota
SEPTEMBER 17, 2014, WED, 8PM
Adage of Spontaneity
Infinity Stairs
Fie Schouten, Shanna Pranaitis (Gutierrez) & Wiek Hijmans
Het Bethaniënklooster, Barndesteeg 6b, 1012BV, Amsterdam, Netherlands
AUGUST 10, 2014, 09:30 AM
Aurea Silva Trio
World-premiere of BREATHE for flute, bassoon and prepared piano, National Flute Association Convention, Chicago
11 JUL 2014, FRI, 8PM
Pesedjet
World-premiere of Crack the Shell for voice, guitar and clavichord as part of the Omaha Under the Radar Festival
JULY 11, 2014, FRI, 7PM
Works from the MOBILE, including the world-premiere of this year's model by James Fusik and Janus (MOBILE 2011)
JUNE 14, 2014 SAT, 08:30 PM
Spektral Quartet Sampler Pack
Concert includes the world-premiere of new arrangements of two songs by Johannes Ciconia
APRIL 14, 2014 MON, 07:30 PM
ANODE in Chicago
One, Everyone is included in this program of new works, part of Constellation Chicago's Frequency Series
APRIL 10-12, 2014
ANODE 2014 Festival and Symposium, New Orleans
Co-hosted by Tulane University and Coup d’Oeil Art Consortium
MARCH 30, 2014 SUN, 6 PM
Jesse Langen, Electric Guitar Recital
World-premiere of Broadcast for Telecaster Guitar
CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS
2013
DEC 01, 2013 SUN 08PM
Parlour Tapes+ at the Whistler
Double Monody is performed as part of the CD release: *AND
NOV 08, 2013 FRI, 8PM
Double Monody
Mabel Kwan and Jesse Langen perform as part of New Music DePaul
OCT 27, 2013 SUN 2PM
12 pages for Bass Clarinet
Przemyslaw Bosak performs at the Green Mill, Chicago
AUG 22, 2013 THU 7:30PM
World-premiere: Double Monody
Mabel Kwan and Jesse Langen perform in the Chicago Temple Building
MAY 28, 2013 TUE 08PM
World-premiere: GRAIN
The New Music Ensemble at Chicago Academy of the Arts performs, Curtiss Hall, 410 S. Michigan Ave
MAY 22, 2013 WED 07PM
World-premiere: One, Everyone
Amanda deBoer Bartlett, voice and Jesse Langen, electric guitar
perform the closing concert of Chicago's Unfamiliar Music Series at the Empty Bottle
MAY 03, 2013 FRI 08PM
Letterludes
Shanna Pranaitis (Gutierrez), fl., Jesse Langen, gtr., and Greg Beyer, perc., perform at DePaul University
FEB 02, 2013 SAT 08PM
MOBILE 2009
Chicago Academy for the Arts
Mabel Kwan performs works by Eliza Brown, Ray Evanoff, LeeHyla and Fredrick Gifford
JAN 31, 2013 THU 07:30PM
World-premiere: Letterludes
Dal Niente Presents: Voices
Nicholls Hall, Evanston
2012
JUL 28, 2012 SAT 05PM
aegjlns; corpse fragments
Jesse Langen in recital at the Darmstadt Ferienkuese für Neue Musik
JUL 25, 2012 WED 06PM
musicircusmobile
Stage:Cage at the Darmstadt Ferienkuese für Neue Musik
JUL 11, 2012 WED 8PM
soundSCAPE festival
Tony Arnold, selections from 100 NOT-SONGS for JOHN CAGE, Maccagno, Italy
MAY 25, 2012 FRI 06:30PM
World premiere: 100 NOT-SONGS for JOHN CAGE
Tony Arnold, soprano, premieres selections from 100 NOT-SONGS for JOHN CAGE at Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
JUN 1, 2012 FRI 08PM
corpse fragments
Ensemble 61 performs at studio Z, St. Paul
MAY 12, 2012 SAT 08PM
US premiere: MOBILE 2012
Ensemble Dal Niente hosts "The Party", Logan Square/Avondale Arts Center
MAR 11, 2012 FRI 08PM
MEASURE (hommage à Messiaen)
Ensemble I & D, Teatro Helena Sá e Costa, Porto, Portugal
FEB 26, 2012 SUN 07:30PM
Portrait: Fredrick Gifford, works for flute and guitar
Shanna Pranaitis (Gutierrez), flute and Jesse Langen, guitar
Sala Teresa Maceda, Porto, Portugal