Concerts
April - May 2024
Friday, May 10 - Private Residence, Napa
Saturday, May 11 - The Finnish Hall, Berkeley
Sunday, May 12 - Marin Museum of Contemporary Art
Tuesday, May 14 - Pacific Union College, Angwin
Thursday, May 16 - di Rosa Contemporary Art Museum
Friday, May 17 - Petaluma Arts Center
Thursday, May 23 - City Heights Performance Annex, San Diego
Friday, May 24 - Coronado Library, Winn Room
Side-by-Side Tasting: The music of Kaija Saariaho
Giuseppe Colombi | Chiacona (1670)
Kaija Saariaho | Dreaming Chaccone after Colombi (2010)
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Klaus Huber | Transpositio Ad Infinitum (1976)
Kaija Saariaho | Spins and Spells (1996)
~ Intermission ~
Kaija Saariaho | Lullaby for cello (2020)
Andrea Casarrubios | Seven (2020)
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Kaija Saariaho | Seven Butterflies for cello (2000)
Eric Moore | Postlude - Homage to K. Saariaho (2016)
August 16-18, 2024
New Music Decanted Festival:
Kaija Saariaho Retrospective
Giuseppe Colombi | Chiacona for Solo Cello (1670)
Saariaho | Dreaming Chaccone after Colombi for Solo Cello (2010)
Saariaho | Etincelles for Solo Cello (2016)
Saariaho | Oi Kuu for Bass Clarinet and Cello (1990)
Saariaho | Im Traume for Cello and Piano (1980)
Saariaho | Je sens un deuxième coeur for Piano, Viola and Cello (2003)
Saariaho | New Gates for Flute, Harp and Cello (1996)
Saariaho | Serenatas for Cello, Piano and Percussion (2008)
Napa Valley College
Concert Archive
2022 Premiere of the 38-minute Cello Quintet I composed.
Solo Cello & Chamber Music
Performed 2019-2023
(for a more comprehensive solo cello repertoire list, click here)
Peter Ablinger
Echtzeit for separated cello and delay (2007)
Ohne Titel I-X for two performers (2005)
Song for Less (2012/2020)
JL Adams
Three High Places for solo cello (2007)
Lera Auerbach
24 Preludes for Cello & Piano, op. 47 - excerpts (1999)
Luciano Berio
Les Mots Sont Allés… for solo cello (1976)
Sequenza XIV for solo cello (2002)
Giulio Castagnoli
Quattro Poemetti for solo cello (1993)
Anna Clyne
Rest These Hands for solo cello and tape (2009)
John Corigliano
Fancy on a Bach Air for solo cello (1996)
Sergio Cote
Paar for cello and horn (2016)*
Franco Donatoni
Lame for solo cello (1982)
Henri Dutilleux
Trois Strophes sur le nom “Sacher” for solo cello (1976)
Alireza Farhang
A Capella for solo cello (2017)
Philip Glass
Songs and Poems for solo cello - excerpts (2007)
Michael Gordon
Industry for Amplified Cello and Electronics (1992)
Nima Hamidi
Bleached for solo cello (2014)
Jonathan Harvey
Chant for solo cello (1994)
György Kurtág
Homage to John Cage (Faltering Words) for solo cello (1999)
Kroó György in Memoriam for solo cello (1998)
Dongryul Lee
Szygy for cello and horn (2016)*
Alvin Lucier
Step, Slide and Sustain for cello, horn, and piano (2014)
Missy Mazzoli
A Thousand Tongues for cello and electronics (2011)
Eric Moore
…and death i think is no parenthesis for solo cello: II. l(a (2019)
Lullaby for Violin and Cello (2019)
Mantras for Solo Cello (2021-ongoing)
Nine Clouds for solo cello (2020)
Postlude - Homage to K. Saariaho for solo cello (2016)
Soliloquy for 5 Cellos (2022)
Song Without Words no. 1 for solo cello (2018)
Song Without Words no. 2 for solo cello (2020)
Song Without Words no. 3 for solo cello (2021)
40 Variations on “Schindler’s List” for solo cello, Cycles I, II, IV (2014-2020)
Pauline Oliveros
Earth Ears for two performers (1989)
The New Right of Spring for solo performer (1977)
Daniel Pesca
Glass Passions: Homage to Kazuo Ishiguro for solo cello - excerpts (2004/2008)
Harlequin Serenade for cello and piano (2007)
In Solitude for solo cello (2020)
Matthias Pintscher
Now II for Solo Cello (2015)
Evan Premo
Echo Lake for solo cello (2009)
Steve Reich
Clapping Music for two performers (1972)
Yann Robin
Draft IV for solo cello - excerpts (2017)
Kaija Saariaho
Mirrors for flute and cello (1997)
Sept Papillons for solo cello (2000)
Wolfgang von Schweinitz
Plainsound Litany for solo cello (2004)
Salvatore Sciarrino
Ai Limiti Della Notte for solo cello (1979)
Bright Sheng
Seven Tunes Heard In China for solo cello - excerpts (1999)
Mark Summer
Julie-O for solo cello (1988)
Eric Tanguy
Invocation for Solo Cello (2009)
Sonata for Violin and Cello (2002)
Augusta Read Thomas
Venus Enchanted for solo cello (2017)
Martin Torch-Ishii
Reflection for solo cello (2016)
Anna Þorvaldsdóttir
Transitions for solo cello (2014)
William Walton
Passacaglia for solo cello (1982)
Reza Vali
Folk Songs, Set #9 for Flute & Cello (1991)
Nina C. Young
Meditation for Violin and Cello (2013)
CLASSICS
JS Bach
Unaccompanied Cello Suite #1
Unaccompanied Cello Suite #2
Unaccompanied Cello Suite #3
Unaccompanied Cello Suite #4 - excerpts
Unaccompanied Cello Suite #6 - excerpts
Unaccompanied Violin Partita #2 - Chaccone (arr. Moore)
Benjamin Britten
Suite #1 for Solo Cello - excerpts (1964)
Frederic Chopin
Sonata for Cello and Piano - excerpts (1846)
Claude Debussy
Sonata for Cello and Piano (1915)
Syrinx for Solo Flute - arr. Moore (1913/2021)
Luigi Dallapiccola
Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio for solo cello (1945)
Morton Feldman
Two Instruments for cello and horn (1958)
Paul Hindemith
Solo Cello Sonata, op. 25 #3 - excerpts (1923)
Maurice Ravel
Sonata for Violin and Cello (1922)
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Sonata for Solo Cello - excerpts (1960)