UPCOMING SHOWS
UPCOMING SHOWS
Soul Echoes
Soul Echoes is a 30 minute vocal drama – choreographed for dance and scored for string quartet, two voices and fixed media/electronics – that amplifies the voices of migrant children who were detained at the U.S.-México border from around 2017 to 2019.
Volatile Signaling
"Volatile Signaling" is a performance in delving into plant intelligence and inter-species relationships to explore lessons for stewarding Houston's ecological future.
Helah World Premiere - Houston Grand Opera
Houston Grand Opera presents the world premiere of my work helah. The work will be conducted by Patrick Summers and is presented as part of their “Seeking the Human Spirit” multi-year initiative. The work will be presented at the Rothko Chapel.
Desert Shelter - Performing Arts Houston
Performing Arts Houston presents the world premiere of my work for string sextet and choreography, Desert Shelter. The work is part of their New/Now Commissioning program.
You can read more about this program, and buy tickets here: https://performingartshouston.org/events/new-now-the-houston-artist-commissioning-project-2023-02-24-730-pm
Desert Shelter World Premiere - Performing Arts Houston
Performing Arts Houston presents the world premiere of my work for string sextet and choreography, Desert Shelter. The work is part of their New/Now Commissioning program.
You can read more about this program, and buy tickets here: https://performingartshouston.org/events/new-now-the-houston-artist-commissioning-project-2023-02-24-730-pm
MAZE Opera Scene
American Opera Projects premieres my operatic work MAZE, with libretto by Troy Defour, in Manhattan, NY.
American Opera Projects premieres my operatic work MAZE, with libretto by Troy Defour, in Brooklyn, NY.
Tickers and more here: https://www.aopopera.org/events/2023/10/cv6scenes
MAZE World Premiere
American Opera Projects premieres my operatic work MAZE, with libretto by Troy Defour, in Manhattan, NY.
Tickers and more here: https://www.aopopera.org/events/2023/10/cv6scenes-n5rfn
Naves de Estrellas - Foundation for Modern Music
Foundation for Modern Music performs my work Naves de Estrellas for their first concert post-pandemic.
PAST EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
DESERT SHELTER
June 16, 2023
POST
Houston, TX
Desert Shelter was a work that told the stories of migrants who cross the Sonoran Desert, and the way that their bodies are subjected to deep atrophy and decay as they make their way onto a different country. The work is scored for String Sextet and is for choreography, which was provided and performed by NobleMotion Dance. The musical performance was conducted by Maura Tuffy.
Helah is a chamber opera in the cuicatl-opera style that tells the story of an indigenous mother who dies while giving birth to a mestizo daughter. The work occurs in a place outside of time and space, as they both imagine each other. This works marks the first time that cuicatl was performed on U.S. soil, and it marks many other firsts in the United States, including the first time that the nahuatl poem adapted for the text of the work (by the pre-contact poet Tlaltecatzin of Cuauhchinanco) has been activated in performance style in the entire history of the United States.
Double Refraction was a work that explored the effects of social technology through a unique blending of music and choreography. The work was made in collaboration with Genene Wallis-McGrath, who choreographed and performed the work. I used the wearable music technology/instruments MiMu Gloves and Instrument of Things’ SOMI-1 Bands to create a work where the performer (a keyboardist) and a dancer/choreographer were totally dependent on each other to create sound.
Desert Shelter was a work that told the stories of migrants who cross the Sonoran Desert, and the way that their bodies are subjected to deep atrophy and decay as they make their way onto a different country. The work is scored for String Sextet and is for choreography, which was provided and performed by NobleMotion Dance. The musical performance was conducted by Sheila del Bosque and musicians affiliated with the Ponce Project.
HELAH
May 18, 2023
Rothko Chapel
Houston, TX
DOUBLE REFRACTION
March 30, 2023
Axelrad
Houston, TX
DESERT SHELTER
February 23, 24, 2023
Wortham Theater
Houston, TX