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Premiere of new work for the Partch Ensemble, Los Angeles, June 2026Recordings:
Concert of works for Violin and Electronics with Miranda Cuckson at the Time:Spans Festival in New York City, 8/11/25
Premiere of Introspective Trilogy by the JACK Quartet at the Time:Spans Festival in New York City, 8/12/25
Premiere of For Robert Erickson for just-tuned vibraphones, cymbals and electronics, Steven Schick in La Jolla (4/23/25) and Los Angeles (5/4/25)
Premiere of new work for bassoon and electronics, Rebekah Heller, Boston, April 2025
Fromm Distinguished Scholar at Harvard University, April 2025, including portrait concert featuring Rebekah Heller, Miranda Cuckson, and Josh Rubin
Performances of Limonalities by the Talea Ensemble, April 2025
Premiere of Rage/Resolve for the JACK Quartet presented by Art of Elan in La Jolla, CA, 12/10/24
Premiere of new work for Viola and Piano, Brian Chen and Rieko Uchida, 5/16/24
Complete works for String Quartet, JACK Quartet, release in Fall 2025
Coalescence Cycle released by International Contemporary Ensemble
Tundra/New Focus Recordings tun013 (2019)
includes Cyclone, Beacon, Mourning Fog, Light on Water and Concatenation
featuring Josh Rubin, Claire Chase, Kive Cahn-Lipman, Jacob Greenberg and Rebekah Heller
Rebekah Heller released Concatenation on her fantastic new CD
Excellent video documentation of the Coalescence Cycle directed by Ross Karre
Metafagote on New Focus Recordings tun006 (2017)
International Contemporary Ensemble DigitICE
A Menacing Plume, New World Records 80747
Portrait CD including Résonateur, A Menacing Plume, Elusive Peace, Elliott's Instruments, and awhirl
Ecosphere, Music for instrument and electronics, EMF Media 078
Portrait CD/DVD including Dreamscape, Ecosphere and TraversingPrism Quartet has released a excellent recording of Maxine on their new CD Beneath Breath
John Fonville has released a wonderful recording of For Marnie Dilling on his new CD Flue on Einstein Records
Premiere of new work for the Flux Quartet at the 2018 La Jolla Music Society Summerfest
Premiere of orchestral version of Template for Improvising Trumpeter by Peter Evans, Steven Schick, and the La Jolla Symphony, June 2018
Keynote address at Brian Ferneyhough 75th Birthday Celebration
Premier of Inward by the JACK Quartet, November 29, 2017
Post-Truth Lament for 2 pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart, premiered at the Tanglewood Festival
Undone (string octet) premiered by the JACK and Arditti Quartets at the 2017 Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik
Nimbus an installation created with Yuval Sharon and the Industry, for the L.A. Philharmonic, was running in Walt Disney Concert Hall for the entire 2016/17 season
Beacon for flute and electronics was premiered by Claire Chase at the Mostly Mozart Festival and recorded by PBS Faculty Composer at the 2016 Vipa Festival in Valencia, Spain
Featured Composer at the 2015 Festival Image Sonores at the Centre Henri Pousseur
performances of Light on Water, Dreamscape, Concatenation, and other works (November 2015, Liege, Belgium)Awarded 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship
Appointed to the Conrad Prebys Presidential Chair
at UC San DiegoComposer-in-Residence at the 2015 Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice
performances of Résonateur, Elliott's Instruments, Coalescence, Mourning Fog, and Light on Water and
the premiere of Template 2 for Improvising Violinist and Ensemble (June 2015, Jordan Hall, Boston)
Performances by ICE at the 2015 Ojai Festival
Template for Improvising Trumpeter and Ensemble, and Concatenation (June 2015)Sweet Thunder Festival, April 24-27, 2014, San Francisco
Co-directed festival of electro-acoustic music with Steven Schick
featuring ICE, JACK Quartet, SFCMP and red fish blue fish
Composer-in-Residence at the 2014 SoundScape Festival in Maccagno, Italy
featuring the premiere of a new work for Tony Arnold, Aiyun Huang, and Thomas Rosenkranz
Concert on the Miller Theater Composers Portrait Series
featuring the International Contemporary Ensemble conducted by Steven Schick
presenting the premiere of 6 new works for instruments and electronics
Composer-in-Residence at the 2013 Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice
performances of Résonateur, A Menacing Plume, 13 Loops, Trio in Memorium, A Good Diffused, and Woven Serenade
Appointed Composer in Residence at Calit2
July 2010 - 2012Profile in Chronicle of Higher Education
Composer-in-Residence at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, May 2011
Tim Weiss will lead performances of Elliott's Instruments, A Menacing Plume and Double Concerto (can't wait! first performance in over 20 years!)Visiting Professor at Harvard University Department of Music, Fall 2009
New York Times review of Cryosphere
Review of Elliott's Instruments
Audio Recording of Conference Presentation: On the Future of Computer Music and Computer Musicians
RIM2007 Conference, IRCAM, June 2007Ecosphere Documentation added to the Ircam Documentation Server project: http://mustica.ircam.fr
review of the New York Premiere of Ecosphere on Steve Smith's Night after Night blog: http://nightafternight.blogs.com/night_after_night/2006/05/remake_remodel.htmla goal for the past 20 years....finally comes to fruition:
a new building and concert hall at UCSD
