Trevor Babb

Guitarist – Composer

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)

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