NEXUS Chamber Music will perform Seeing Through for viola and piano. Concert will be in the Logan Performance Penthouse.
mycelium new music presents a performance at Fulton Street Collective which explores connections between music and poetry. The program centers the premiere of a new version of Bobby Ge's Picture Whimsies, which celebrates the intersection of visual art and music, paired with readings by Chicago-based poets. The performance will also feature works by Chicago-based composer Ania Vu and ensemble members Paul Novak and Jonathan Hannau.
program
a diagnosis for two sopranos and sextet - Paul Novak (preview)
Isolated Houses for sextet - Jonathan Hannau
Strange Birds for soprano and sextet - Ania Vu
Picture Whimsies for sextet - Bobby Ge (premiere of new version)
w/ readings by Chicago-based poets TBD
The Orchestra of the League of Composers will present the NYC premiere of through depths and shadows for sinfonietta at the DiMenna Center in NYC.
Calliope Brass will perform Intersections on their recital at the International Women’s Brass Conference at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, CT at 11:15am.
UChicago New Music Ensemble Spring Quarter Concert
Repertoire TBD.
Justin will attend the Aspen Music Festival Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies as a composition fellow in the Summer of 2025.
The Ear Taxi Festival will present their commission of a new work for String Quartet (KAIA String Quartet) and Soprano on their festival in October 2025. Exact Performance Date TBD.
Akopolis Reed Quintet will premiere “Reflective Contours” as part of the RED NOTE Music Festival in Normal, IL.
The Contemporary Art Music Project will present Four Harmonies: Reflections of Monet on their 2025 CAMPGround Festival in Tampa, FL. Exact performance time TBD.
UChicago New Music Ensemble Winter Quarter Concert in the Logan Performance Penthouse at 3pm.
Jacqui Armbruster - new piece for singing string trio
Cory Turnbaugh - new piece for pierrot quintet
Justin Weiss - neither together nor apart for violin and piano
Darlene Castro - Desire Paths for soprano, flute, clarinet, percussion, guitar, bass
Paul Novak - reflected tides, ii. for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, percussion
Feldman - The Viola in My Life 1 for solo viola and flute, violin, cello, piano, percussion
Calliope Brass will perform Intersections as a part of their masterclass at Manhattan School of Music.
UChicago New Music Ensemble fall quarter concert.
Shih-Hui Chen: Flashback Moments for erhu, violin, cello, piano (in collaboration with the Jade Chinese Music Ensemble)
Matt Schultheis: Intermedio for ensemble
Andrew Stock: Untitled (Kertész-Quartet) for 4 instruments
Nathan Friedman: Barcarolle
Julius Eastman: Stay on It
In its debut performance, Mycelium New Music presents a program of new and recent works which center identity and experimentation. Composer and avant-folk vocalist Annika Socolofsky, praised for her “unbearably moving” (Gramophone) music, joins the ensemble in a performance of her song cycle of "feminist-rager lullabies for a queer era." The program also features new and recent works by emerging composers Seare Farhat, Grace Ann Lee, and Christian Quiñones.
program
ASMR Music for sextet – Christian Quiñones (premiere of new version)
Arrival for sextet - Seare Farhat
Amplified for sextet - Grace Ann Lee
Don’t say a word for mezzo-soprano and sextet - Annika Socolofsky
Calliope Brass will perform Intersections on their Fall Benefit Concert at St. John’s in the Village in NYC.
Calliope Brass will perform Intersections on the MacDowell Recital Series in Mt. Tabor, NJ.
Calliope Brass will perform Intersections on William Paterson University’s Midday Recital Series in Shea Auditorium.
Justin will present a guest lecture to the NYO-USA Composer Apprentices and work with them on their recent compositions.
Performance of Intersections for brass quintet with Calliope Brass on their spring recital at St. John’s in the Village.
Premiere of a new work with musicians from the Albany Symphony as a part of the “First Draughts” Reading Session, conducted by Albany Symphony music director David Alan Miller.
The final concert of the UChicago New Music Ensemble’s 2023-2024 season will feature premieres by UChicago undergraduate composers alongside a performance of Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto
Justin will present on his music at the Manhattan International Composers Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.
The TAK Ensemble will premiere Four Harmonies: Reflections of Monet alongside pieces by Kari Watson, Benjamin Martin, Ryan Garvey, and Andrew Stock at the Logan Center Penthouse at the University of Chicago.
Willow Myers will premiere Of Stone and Spring for solo viola and electronics at CHIMEfest at the University of Chicago.
The Uchicago New Music Ensemble will perform at CHIMEfest at the University of Chicago, featuring Kaija Saariaho’s Lichtbogen for nine instruments and electronics.
Justin will present his research, Listening to Listening: Silence in the Music of Rebecca Saunders, at the joint Music Theory Southeast/South Central Society for Music Theory Conference in Nashville, TN.
The UChicago New Music Ensemble will present our winter concert featuring works by Paul Novak, Benjamin Martin, Kari Watson, Xiaofeng Dong and Bernard Rands, and centering around Berio’s O King.
Calliope Brass will perform my brass quintet, Intersections, on the concert portion of their masterclass at New York University.
Allison Balcetis will perform my solo soprano saxophone piece, Still Fields, on her solo recital in Edmonton, Canada.
Justin will conduct a concert of Paul Novak’s music featuring Duo Diorama alongside Chicago new music performers for Tea-Time Concert in Fulton Recital Hall
Calliope Brass will premiere my new piece for brass quintet, Intersections, at the Music House Museum in a concert presented by Interlochen Public Radio.
Calliope Brass will record my new piece for brass quintet, Intersections, at a residency supported by the Interlochen Arts Academy and Interlochen Public Radio
The UChicago New Music Ensemble will present a concert featuring Luciano Berio’s O King, a premiere by Will Myers, The Clarity of Cold Air by Jonathan Bailey Holland, Untitled/mark of cain by Andrew Stock, and Justin’s piece, Three Pieces for Clarinet and Cello.
A new piece to be premiered by the Grossman Ensemble with Georgia Mills conducting. The concert will be at the Logan Performance Hall in Chicago, IL and will feature three other premieres.
I will be attending Les Ecoles d’Art de Fontainebleau in Fontainebleau, France this summer. Projects will include a new piece for the resident musicians and collaborations with the Architecture and Fine Arts students.
Spring quarter performance of the University of Chicago New Music Ensemble with four premieres by undergraduate composers from the University of Chicago. The concert will also feature Louis Andriessen’s Workers Union.
After being postponed since 2021, Ekmeles and Sandbox finally come together for a performance of my piece My Life in Branches with text by Susan Lewis.
Open recording session with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago conducted by Timothy Weiss of my new piece, Multitudes, for Orchestra.