Seth Parker Woods – Past Concerts

Program includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Fredrick Gifford, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Giacinto Scelsi, Nathalie Joachim, Monty Adkins, Alvin Singleton, Conrad Beck, Carlos Simon, and Chinary Ung.

Carlos Simon — Four Black American Dances
Nathalie Joachim — Had To Be (NY premiere)
David Baker — Kosbro
William Grant Still — Symphony No. 4 "Autochthonous"

Carlos Simon — Four Black American Dances
Nathalie Joachim — Had To Be (NY premiere)
David Baker — Kosbro
William Grant Still — Symphony No. 4 "Autochthonous"

Curtis Stewart — Essay #1: Leave the People (world premiere)
Michael R. Dudley Jr — Selected works (world premiere TBA)
Peter Askim — Selected works (world premiere TBA)
Rebecca Saunders — Ire: Concerto for Cello, Strings, and Percussion (East Coast premiere)
Andrea Casarrubios — Herencia

Florence Price — Piano Quintet in A minor
Krzysztof Penderecki — Ciaccona for violin and viola
Jeffrey Mumford — Four Dances for Boris (for solo piano)
Zoltán Kodály — Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7
Errollyn Wallen — Five Postcards (for violin & viola)

Program includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Giacinto Scelsi, Fredrick Gifford, Nathalie Joachim, Monty Adkins, Conrad Beck, Andrea Casarrubios, and Chinary Ung.

Anna Thorvaldsdottir — Ubique (world premiere)

Frédéric Chopin — Selected works
Chad Lawson — Selected works

Freida Abtan — My Heart Is A River (extnded version)

Freida Abtan — My Heart Is A River (extnded version)

Freida Abtan — Selected works
Monty Adkins — Selected works
Fredrick Gifford — Selected works
Ted Hearne — Selected works
Devonté Hynes — Selected works
Nathalie Joachim — Selected works
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay — Selected works

George Walker — Perimeters for clarinet and piano
George Walker — Cello Sonata
George Walker — Five Fancies for Clarinet and Piano Four Hands
George Walker — Bleu
George Walker — Violin Sonata No. 1

Seth Parker Woods performs the triple role of cellist, narrator/guide, & movement artist in this evening-length, multimedia concert tour de force featuring music written for him.

Fredrick Gifford – Difficult Grace
Monty Adkins – Winter Tendrils (with film by Zoë McLean)
Nathalie Joachim – The Race: 1915 (with images of Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series)
Freida Abtan – My Heart Is A River
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – asinglewordisnotenough 3 [invariant] (with choreographer/dancer Roderick George)

Chamber ensembles from Kaufman Music Center's Special Music School High School perform movements from piano trios & string quartets; cellist Seth Parker Woods joins for Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1.

Teen musicians of Kaufman Music Center's Face the Music youth new music program perform Anthony Braxton’s Composition No. 69b, Mauricio Kagel’s Con Voce, & a brand-new imagining of Seth Parker Woods’ Kazaguruma.

Monty Adkins – Winter Tendrils (2014/2020)
Nathalie Joachim – The Race: 1915 (2019)
Alvin Singleton – Argoru II (1970)
Fredrick Gifford – Difficult Grace (2019)

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Brett Dean – Testament
Tyshawn Sorey – For Roscoe Mitchell for Cello & Orchestra (world premiere)
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60

Conor Abbott Brown – Enmeshed
Elizabeth A. Baker & Nathan Corder – invisible seams
George Lewis – Not Alone (2015)
Freida Abtan – My Heart is A River (2020)