Past Concerts
September 2024
Contemporaneous - The History Of Life Act I - Kaatsbaan Cultural Park - Tivoli, NY
Performance of the first act of Dylan Mattingly’s The History of Life.
May 2024
New Haven Improvisers Collective - Never Ending Books - New Haven, CT
Performance of Anthony Braxton’s Composition No. 193 with Matt Sargent
March 2024
Contemporaneous - Residency at Colgate University - Hamilton, NY
Participate in performance workshops with students
Play for student conducting clinic
Play for readings of student compositions
Concert including performances of music by Harriet Steinke and Kara-Lis Coverdale
February 2024
Contemporaneous - Songs at Night - Roulette - Brooklyn, NY
Performance of Dylan Mattingly’s The History of Life in Reverse
September 2023
Faculty Recital - Vassar College - Poughkeepsie, NY
Program of chamber music in rock quintet formation including works by Eastman, Matthusen, Cage, and the world premiere of Severe Itch by Trevor Babb.
2023 UB International Guitar Research Conference
Lecture Recital on transcribing solo cello repertoire for electric five string bari-tenor guitar.
April/May 2023
Cappella Festiva Community Choir - Poughkeepsie, NY
Two performances of Ola Gjielo’s The Lake Isle
October 2022
Boston Cantata Singers - Artists for Humanity - Boston, MA
Performance of music by Golijov, Abela, Mondonville, and Purcell.
April 2022
Contemporaneous Earth Day Concerts - New York Botanical Gardens - Bronx, NY
Performance of music by Glass, Konte, Martynov, and Beglarian.
March 2022
21st Century Guitar Conference - Ball State University - Muncie, IN
Virtual Premiere of Breaking and Mending for two electric guitars.
Live performances of works by Anselm McDonnel and Matt Sargent.
October 2021
University of Rhode Island Guitar Festival
Community Performance with Connecticut Suzuki Guitar Academy Ensemble A
March 2021
21st Century Guitar Conference - VIRTUAL
Virtual performance of Glaze by Nikolaus Gerswezski
Virtual Lecture “Compositional Potential in Free Improvisation”
Panelist on Improvisation
Ferbruary 2020
Yale Guitar Extravaganza – Yale School of Music – New Haven, CT
Performance by Connecticut Suzuki Guitar Ensembles under direction of Trevor Babb
ModFest Honorary Adene and Richard Wilson Concert - Vassar College - Poughkeepsie, NY
Performance of Steve Reich’s 2x5
September 2019
Welcome Concert for the Class of 2023 - Vassar College - Poughkeepsie, NY
Performance of original solo guitar arrangement of Nicole Murphy’s Isa
August 2019
The 21st Century Guitar Conference - University of Ottawa - Ottawa, ON
Performed twelve premiers for mixed guitar orchestra
Presented Lecture titled “The Electric Guitar is Dead: Long Live the Electric Guitar” discussing innovative compositional approaches to the electric guitar in the 21st Century
Chaired a roundtable discussion on contemporary composition for the guitar.
February 2019
Dublin Guitar Symposium – DIT Grangegorman Campus – Dublin, Ireland
Lecture Recital: Checking Aural Baggage - Early Repertoire for Solo Electric Guitar
January 2019
Yale Camerata – Congregational Church of Naugatuck – Naugatuck, CT
Performance of Carol Barnett’s The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass on banjo with Yale Camerata, Marguerite Brooks, conductor
Neighborhood Music School Faculty Recital – New Haven, CT
Performance of works by Bach and Vleggaar
November 2018
Yale Camerata – Church of the Redeemer – New Haven, CT
Performance of Carol Barnett’s The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass on banjo with Yale Camerata, Marguerite Brooks, conductor
October 2018
“A Day at Vassar” Recital – Vassar College – Skinner Recital Hall – Poughkeepsie, NY
Music department faculty recital for annual alumni day.
August 2018
New Hampshire Music Festival – Silver Center for the Arts – Plymouth, NH; Kingswood Arts Center – Wolfeboro, NH
Guitar on Leonard Bernstein’s Mass; two performances.
July 2018
Tinnitus Quartet – Best Video – Hamden, CT
Live improvised film score to Carl Theodore Dreyer’s Passion of Joan of Arc.
April 2018
Black House SoCal New Music Workshop – UC Irvine – Irvine, CA
Premiere performances of seven new works for chamber orchestra.
September 2017
DMA Recital – Yale School of Music – New Haven, CT
· Music by Cretella, Janacek, Trigos, Bach, Kerekes, and Vleggaar.
August 2017
CD Release Concert – Firehouse 12 – New Haven, CT
· Featuring Music from Debut CD, Warmth on Innova Recordings
May 2017
Original Gravity Concert Series – Idle Hands Brewing Company – Malden, MA
· Music of Paula Matthusen
April 2017
Mountain Chamber Music Society – St. Andrew's Episcopal Church – Denver, CO
· Prize winners' concert for Denver Classical Guitar Competition.
· Premiere of a new work by Chris Cretella.
February 2017
Uncertainty Music Series – Never Ending Books – New Haven, CT
· Improvised music for solo electric guitar and electronics.
December 2016
New England Chamber Players – Loring-Greenough House – Jamaica Plain, MA
· Music for guitar and winds by Robert Beaser and Ferdinand Rebay.
November 2016
Electric Guitar Music Before 1980 – Firehouse Space – Brooklyn, NY
· Recital of early electric guitar music by Feldman, Zorn, Nordheim, Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Bryars, and Fox.
September 2016
Music for a Sustainable Planet – Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall – New York, NY
· Performance of Yuri Boguinia's In All with Aeon Ensemble
Music for Guitar and Organ – St. Thomas's Episcopal Church – New Haven, CT
· Recital of guitar and organ music with Simon Jacobs featuring music by Diblasio, Krouse, Fox, Eespere, Pinkham, and Jacobs.
June 2016
Performance Fellow at the Nief-Norf Summer Festival – University of Tennessee, Knoxville – Knoxville, TN
· Two week festival of contemporary music with various performances in several different venues throughout the city of Knoxville.
May 2016
Solo recital – Deerfield Presbyterian Church – Deerfield, NJ
· World Premiere of XII Variaciones y fuga sobre la folia de España by Juan Trigos.
April 2016
New Haven Guitar Quartet – Quinnipiac University – Hamden, CT.
March 2016
Lecture Recital – International Guitar Research Centre Conference – University of Surrey – Guildford, UK
"New Modes of Listening and an Embrace of Rock in Tristan Murail's Vampyr!"
February 2016
New Haven Guitar Quartet – Suzuki Music School of Westport – Westport, CT
January 2016
Solo Electric Guitar Performance – Spectrum – New York, NY
World premier of Paul Kerekes's trail.
December 2015
Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra – Capital Community College – Hartford, CT
· Performance of Derek Bermel's Canzonas Americanas
November 2015
Princeton Sound Kitchen – Taplin Auditorium – Princeton, NJ
· Performance of Yuri Boguinia's In All with So Percussion and the Aeon Ensemble
October 2015
Caution Tape Sound Collective – Array Music Space – Toronto, ON
· World Premieres of works by Jason Doell, Bekah Simms, and Patrick Arteaga.
September 2015
New England Chamber Players – Kings Chapel – Boston, MA
· Performances of works by Kreuzter and Piazzolla.
Simon Jacobs – Organ Recital – St Thomas's Episcopal Church – Hamden, CT
· World Premiere of Simon Jacobs' Sonata for Electric Guitar and Organ.
July/August 2015
Bang on a Can Summer Festival Fellow
· Three-week music festival with various performances including several world premiers.
April 2015
Solo Concert Tour in Maryland and Virginia
· Frederick Presbyterian Church – Frederick, MD
· St. Bridget's Catholic Church – Richmond, VA
· Harman Chapel at Bluefield College – Bluefield, VA
Concerto with Yale Band
· Ice by Elizabeth Kelley for electric guitar and wind ensemble
March 2015
Solo Electric Guitar Concert
· Razzo Hall at Clark University – Worcester, MA
Solo Classical Guitar Recital
· Trumbull Congregational Church – Trumbull, CT
February 2015
Yale Concert Band – Woolsey Hall – New Haven, CT
· Banjo/Guitar on Kurt Weill's Little Threepenny Music
January 2015
First Presbyterian Church – Boulder, CO
· Solo repertoire and English songs with tenor, Steven Soph
October 2014
KEYS Program Fundraiser Concert
· Salem Lutheran Church – Bridgeport, CT
June 2014
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival New Music Workshop
· World premieres of new works by Jenny Beck, Bekah Simms, and Nicole Murphy.
May 2014
Church of the Redeemer – New Haven, CT
· Carol Barnett's "The World Beloved – A Bluegrass Mass"
April 2014
Stamford Chamber Music Group – Pound Ridge, NY
· Private House Concert
February 2014
Music by Van Stiefel – Yale Guitar Extravaganza
· Smoke and Mirrors by Van Steifel
Music of Jack Vees – Yale School of Music Faculty Composer Recital
· Refutation of Gravity (The Reputation of the Masses) by Jack Vees
December 2013
Yale Guitar Chamber Music
· US Premiere of Duell by Jörg Widmann.
May 2013
Conservatoire de Musique de Genève – Geneva, Switzerland
· Solo guitar music by composers living in Switzerland
· World Premiere of D'un Reve II by Nicholas Bolens
March 2012
New Music New Haven – Yale School of Music
· World Premiere of hedgehog by William Gardiner
December 2011
Vista Concert – Yale School of Music
· Poèmes de la mort by Frank Martin
April 2011
Yale Recital Chorus and Orchestra
· Oceana by Osvaldo Golijov
November 2010
Yale In New York – Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall – New York, NY
· Music by David Lang and Benjamin Verdery
April 2010
Benson Forum on Creativity – Eastman School of Music – Rochester, NY
· World Premiere of Lenten Music by Eugene Astapov
November 2009
Apeiron Chamber Choir – Rochester, NY
· Music by Britten and Castelnuovo-Tedesco
October 2009
WXXI Backstage Pass – Rochester NY
· Music by Harry Partch with Ossia New Music
Ossia New Music – Rochester, NY
· Zwei Gefuhle by Helmut Lachenmann Obituary – “kunst” and il pleut sur la vi(ll)e floating (wo)man by Justin Hoke (World Premieres)