Residency at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada
The summer of 2014 I attended the Roots & Rhizomes Percussion residency at the Banff Centre. It was an excellent week-long intensive …
X-ing 32nd Street performs Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians
This work, which can be described as an aura of perpetual propulsion is an evening-length sixty minute piece of music exploring some of Reich’s trademark process-music techniques: build-ups, melodic shifts, pulsing swells, and melodies generated out of resultant patterns …
Phoenix Art Museum
Another performance of my solo work for Berimbau and computer (Quocíente : Laços), this time at the Phoenix Art Museum …
World Premiere of Lunsqui’s “Materiali”
This May 1st 2013, Rob Esler and I gave the world premiere of Alexandre Lunsqui’s new duo for percussion entitled Materiali: Dentro do Dentro. The concert focused on “found and re-purposed objects” …
ASU West Electro-acoustic Festival
The ASU West 3-day Electroacoustic Festival was presented this April of 2013 by the Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance. I performed with Crossing 32nd Street to give a concert as part of this festival …
Fourth International Symposium on Latin American Music
Recently, I participated in the 4th International Symposium on Latin American Music held at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. This was a three-day event of musicians, dancers, musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and scholars from Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, United States, and Venezuela …
PASIC 2012: John Cage Focus Day
This November I participated in the PASIC Focus Day that was held in Austin, TX. I performed as part of a simultaneous realization of John Cage’s 27’10.554″ for a Percussionist that included six of us performing our own sections and versions from this work condensed into about a little over ten minutes or so …
Play! A Festival of Arts and Technology
This festival was produced by urbanSTEW, an arts and technology collective. A lot of urbanSTEW’s work is through interdisciplinary arts (music, dance, installations, etc.) while using technology as an extension of these ideas. The theme of this festival was disability perception – limiting the art to the human body and technology …
Crossing 32nd Street 10th Anniversary Concert (2011)
This past October 15th, Crossing 32nd Street celebrated its 10th anniversary by inviting many past performers/collaborators to perform. It was quite an honor to be a part of such a group of talented musicians! …
Composer Glenn Hackbarth’s 60th birthday concert
Great concert of electro-acoustic music, all composed by Glenn Hackbarth and featuring Ben Hackbarth’s Open End, for vibraphone and electronics. Jenny Waleczek (piano) and myself participated by wrapping up the concert with Passage, for piano, percussion, and electronics …