applause
Premiere with Pi-Hsien Chen (piano), Taipei Chinese Orchestra, En Shao (conductor),
April 14, 2011, Taipei National Concert Hall


Concerts and Events: 2012

12.29.2012, Memories of Xiaoxiang (saxophone and tape), Noa Even, saxophone, HaTeiva, Tel Aviv, Israel

12.17.2012, Composition Colloquium, Chinese Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China

12.12-14, 2012 Residency (lectures and masterclass) at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shanghai, China

12.8.2012,
Garden Eight (piano solo), Joanna Chao, Argento Chamber Ensemble, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City

12.1.2012,
My Windows (piano solo), Anna Kijanowska, Williamsburg Library, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

11.30.2012,
A Journey into Desire (guitar solo), Steve Lin, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

11.27.2012, Composition Colloquium, University of California, San Diego

11.26.2012,
My Windows (piano solo), Anna Kijanowska, the Modlin Center, University of Richmond, VA

11.16.2012,
Piano, Piano (for an improvising pianist), Seda Röder, “Tales from the Silent Lands...” University of California, Davis, CA

11.16.2012,
Garden Eight (arranged by Samuel Solomon for percussion ensemble), “Very Soft / Very Loud.” Boston Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA

11.14.2012,
Lakescape (trio), Tony Arnold (soprano), Thomas Rosenkranz (piano), Aiyun Huang (percussion), soundSCAPE ensemble, Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego, CA

11.10.2012,
Aural Hypothesis (sextet), San Francisco Contemporary Players, Steven Schick (conductor), 2012 Festival of New American Music, California State University, Sacramento, CA

10.28.2012,
My Windows (piano solo), Anna Kijanowska, Kosciuszko Foundation, New York City

10.26.2012,
Piano, Piano (for an improvising pianist), “Looking East / Looking West - Omaggio a John Cage,” Agnese Toniutti, piano, Contemporanea 2012, Festival di Nuova Musica - sedicesima edizione, Udine, Italy

10.26.2012, Panel Discussion, “Young American Composers and the Legacy of John Cage,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Screening Room, San Francisco, CA

10.25.2012,
Aural Hypothesis (sextet), San Francisco Contemporary Players, Steven Schick (conductor), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, San Francisco, CA

10.13.2012,
My Windows (piano solo), Anna Kijanowska, California State University at Northridge, Los Angeles, CA

10.7.2012,
My Windows (piano solo), Anna Kijanowska, Sudler Recital Hall, William Harkness Hall, Yale School of Music, New Haven, CT

9.3.2012,
Composer Portrait: Lei Liang, Trio (piano, cello, percussion), In Praise of Shadows (flute solo), My Windows (piano solo), Toho Gakuen, Tokyo, Japan

9.2-3.2012,
Composer-in-Residence, Toho Gakuen, Tokyo, Japan

8.31.2012,
My Windows (piano solo), Joanna Chao, St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London, UK

8.14.2012,
Five Seasons (pipa and string quartet), Carpe Diem String Quartet and Yihan Chen (pipa), Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA

8.9.2012,
RENGA:Cage:100 Project (percussion), Third Coast Percussion, Museum of Modern Art, New York City

7.31.2012,
Gobi Gloria (string quartet), the Ying Quartet, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA

7.14.2012,
Lake (flute duo), soundSCAPE festival, Auditorium Città di Maccagno, Maccagno, Italy

7.11.2012, Lakescape (trio), Tony Arnold (soprano), Thomas Rosenkranz (piano), Aiyun Huang (percussion), soundSCAPE festival, Auditorium Città di Maccagno, Maccagno, Italy

7.11.2012,
A Journey into Desire (guitar solo), soundSCAPE festival, Auditorium Città di Maccagno, Maccagno, Italy

7.10.2012,
Piano, Piano (for an improvising pianist), Seda Röder, soundSCAPE festival, Auditorium Città di Maccagno, Maccagno, Italy

7.7-12.2012, Guest Composer at soundSCAPE festival in Maccagno, Italy

6.27.2912, Lecture at Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, Dresden, Germany

6.10.2012,
My Windows (piano solo), Anna Kijanowska, School of Music Concert Hall, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia

5.31.2012,
Lake (version for violin and viola), Ensemble Résonance, “les Voix du prieuré” Festival, L’Ensemble de Six Voix Solistes, Bourget-du-Lac, France

5.30.2012,
Aural Hypothesis (sextet), Trio, In Praise of Shadows (flute solo), Some Empty Thoughts of a Person from Edo (harpsichord solo), Alter Ego Ensemble (Italy), American Academy in Rome, Villa Aurelia, Rome, Italy

5.25.2012,
RENGA:Cage:100 Project (percussion), Third Coast Percussion, Mayne Stage, Chicago, IL

5.20.2012, In Praise of Shadows (flute solo), Manuel Zurria, the Centro Studi Ferruccio Busoni, Pontorme, Empoli, Florence, Italy

5.11.2012, Lecture at the
Hamburg Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg, Germany

5.6.2012,
My Windows (piano solo), Anna Kijanowska, Budapest Conservatory of Music, Budapest, Hungary

5.4.2012,
My Windows (piano solo), Anna Kijanowska, St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London, UK

4.29.2012,
A Journey into Desire (guitar solo), Civitas Ensemble of Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Pritzker Pavilion, Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL

4.17.2012, Lecture at the American Academy in Rome, Italy

4.15.2012,
Gobi Gloria (string quartet), Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, Kammermusiksaal of the Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany

4.15.2012,
A Journey into Desire (guitar solo), Steve Lin, University of Rhode Island, RI

4.15.2012,
Five Seasons (pipa and string quartet), Civitas Ensemble of Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

4.14.2012,
Piano, Piano (for an improvising pianist), Seda Röder, 11th Annual Boston Turkish Film & Music Festival, Goethe Institute, Boston, MA

4.13.2012,
Five Seasons (pipa and string quartet), Shanghai Quartet, Wu Man (pipa), Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada

3.26.2012,
Serashi Fragments (string quartet), Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, San Francisco War Memorial Performing Arts Center, The Green Room, San Francisco, CA

3.22.2012,
Serashi Fragments (string quartet), Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA

3.18.2012,
Gobi Canticle (violin and viola), Wei He, violin, Yun Jie Liu, viola, Bridge Chamber Virtuosi, Angelica Hall, Dominican University of California Graduate Humanities, San Rafael, CA

3.18.2012,
Parts for a Floating Space (saxophone and percussion), Jan Baker, Stuart Gerber, North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, School of Music, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

3.9.2012,
Gobi Gloria (string quartet), Winged Creatures (harpsichord, 2 violins and cello), My Windows (piano solo), Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, American Academy in Rome, Villa Aurelia, Rome, Italy

2.6.2012, lecture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

2.4.2012,
Messages of White (nonet for saxophone quartet, Chinese ensemble and percussion) by PRISM Quartet and Music from China, First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2.3.2012, World premiere of
Messages of White (nonet for saxophone quartet, Chinese ensemble and percussion) by PRISM Quartet and Music from China, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York City

2.2.2012,
Messages of White (nonet for saxophone quartet, Chinese ensemble and percussion) by PRISM Quartet and Music from China, Chatham Square Library, New York City

2.1.2012,
Verge (string orchestra), Palimpsest Ensemble, Steven Schick, conductor, Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA