April 13

• Recipient of Fulbright and Mellon scholarships, Michel Galante presents Modern Prometheus sung by a 'sprechtstimme' actress/singer and an accompanying video images extracted from the Edison company’s 1910 short film Frankenstein. Argento Chamber Ensemble performs.
• Columbia University professor of music Fred Lerdahl presents his compositions Chasing Goldberg based on the famous “Aria” of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and Duo for Violin and Piano.
• Steven Takasugi, composer and founding editor of Search Journal for New Music and Culture, presents Iridescent Uncertainty, a computer assisted electro-acoustic “tape piece” composed using thousands of pre-recorded samples of Japanese koto , shamisen, Hardang fele (Norwegian Hardanger fiddle), and cello.
• Victoria Bond’s Bridges, is a quartet for clarinet, bass clarinet, Chinese erhu (Wang Guowei), and pipa (Zhou Yi). Inspired by four bridges, including the Brooklyn and Golden Gate, the work has an accompanying film using historic footage.

April 20

• Composer, pianist, and educator William Bolcom has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, and three Grammy Awards. His composition Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano, is a meditation on the inevitability of war and tragedy. Meighan Stoops (cl), Renee Jolles (vn), and Molly Morkoski (pno) perform.
• Composer, Derek Bermel is the winner of the Rome Prize. His composition Language Instruction is based on the rhythms and gestures of language tapes. Meighan Stoops (cl), Renee Jolles (vn), Maxine Neuman (vc), and Molly Morkoski (pno) perform, Rhoda Levine directs.
• Korean-American composer, Paul Yeon Lee, a recipient of the 2001 Helen F. Whitaker Commission from the American Composers Orchestra, presents Three Images for B-flat Clarinet and Cello. Thomas Piercy (cl) and Maxine Neuman (vc) perform.
• 2007/08 Phoenix Symphony Composer-in-Residence and innovative sound designer, Mark Grey, presents
• A Rax Dawn inspired by the breathtaking early morning colors illuminating the Rax Alpen, a mountain range just southwest of Vienna, Austria. Molly Morkoski (pno) performs.
• New-music writer and music Bard College instructor, Kyle Gann presents his rhythmic collection of Private Dances. Justin Kolb (pno) performs.

April 27

• Gabriela Lena Frank’s composition Cinco Danzas de Chambi (Five Dances of Chambi) is inspired by the first photographer to achieve international acclaim by producing more than 18,000 glass negatives depicting the customs and festivals of twentieth-century Peruvians. Daniel Panner (vla) and Molly Morkoski (pno) perform.
• Celebrated composer Steven Stucky was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Second Concerto for Orchestra. He presents Tres Pinturas, for violin and piano, a suite inspired by paintings of Mexican master Rufno Tamayo (1899-1991). Renee Jolles (vn) and Molly Morkoski (pno) perform.
• A former student of Steven Stucky, Chinese-American composer, Xi Wang presents Rhapsody, a result of Wang’s reaction to a series of unexpected events in her personal life. John Haines-Eitzen (vc) performs.
• Composer Andrew Waggoner was awarded the Lee Ettelson Composer’s Award, has been nominated for two prizes from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2005. Waggoner presents Songbook composed with the help of his students by integrating favorite pop songs into a “classical” setting. Molly Morkoski (pno) performs.