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MAY 23, 2014 @ 8 PM - VANITY RUN AMOK
At the Mandeville Auditorium, UC San Diego All information is here: www.vanityrunamok.tv Major collaboration with Leslie Leytham and Anna Lavatelli - two of the finest artists residing in San Diego.


past projects

APRIL 8, 2014
A setting of "Harawi" by Olivier Messiaen
with soprano Bonnie Lander
A production of UC San Diego's Springfest, with Lighting Design by Lily Bartenstein
The Black Box Theater at The Conrad Prebys Music Center, La Jolla, CA

  • "Harawi" is a concert-length duo for singer and pianist


    April 18, 2013
    Devotion of Union, Collapse of Pleasure
    composed by Clint McCallum
     The Black Box Theater at The Conrad Prebys Music Center, La Jolla, CA

  • Part cabaret, part sound installation, part religious ceremony, this new concert length piece by Clint McCallum (of local bands Penis Hickey and Aquapuke) explores ecstatic experience in the context of contemporary social and political identifications.
  • Composed by Clint McCallum, technology by Kevin Larke. Soloist: Leslie Leytham, soprano. Conducted by David Medine. Also performed by Batya-Macadam Somer, Jonathan Piper, Clint Davis, Leah Bowden.


    April 13, 2012
    The Seven Tragedies of Space Travel
     The Black Box Theater at The Conrad Prebys Music Center, La Jolla, CA


    • music performances

    September 2014
     Musica Sacra, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    Echoi Ensemble
    Tickets and Info
     World premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Roger Reynolds.

  • Monday, May 5, 2014 at 8 pm
     Monday Evening Concerts
    Echoi Ensemble
    MEC Tickets and Info
     Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School, Los Angeles

  • Works by Thomas Meadowcroft, Joseph Andrew Lake, Simon Steen-Andersen, Sabrina Schroeder, Timothy McCormack, Rick Burkhardt.

  • past performances

    Monday, December 9, 2013 at 8 pm
     Monday Evening Concerts
    Kondo and Feldman, Season Premiere
    MEC Info
     Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School, Los Angeles

  • For nearly half a century, the Japanese composer Jo Kondo has been writing works which quietly ask us to listen to music in new ways. Kondo's friend Morton Feldman stated that Under the Umbrella for 25 cowbells "is going to be another kind of classic as the years go by." Feldman's setting of Beckett's radio play receives a very rare public performance. One of his final compositions, Words and Music defies simple categorization, but contains what the composer saw in both his and Beckett's work: "this saturated, unending longing."
  • With friends Jonathan Hepfer, Dustin Donahue, Ryan Nestor, Kjell Nordeson, Steve Solook, Ashley Walters, Christine Tavolacci, Rachel Beetz, and others.


    • Wed@7 Series with red fish blue fish
    UCSD Box Office
    UC San Diego CPMC Concert Hall, La Jolla

  • Contemporary chamber music with percussion ensemble red fish blue fish. Performance of Luciano Berio's "Linea" with Stephen Schick, Aleck Karis and Eric Derr.


    • Friday, June 21, 2013 at 10:30 am
    Solo Piano Performance for Charity
    Gluck Outreach Concerts
    Spring Valley Community Center, San Diego


    Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 2:30 pm
    Solo Piano Performance for Charity
    Gluck Outreach Concerts
    Gary and Mary West Senior Wellness Center, San Diego


    Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 7:30 pm
    Ojai North! Festival of Dance and Music
    with ensemble red fish blue fish
    Oaji North! Mark Morris, music director
    Hertz Hall at UC Berkeley

  • Another exciting collaboration with red fish blue fish. I'll be performing Lou Harrison's Concerto for Organ with Percussion Orchestra. Conducted by Joshua Gersen.


    Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 11:45 pm
    Solo Piano Performance for Charity
    Gluck Outreach Concerts
    Bayside Community Center, San Diego


    Sunday, June 9, 2013 at 4:30 pm
    Evening Concert I
    with ensemble red fish blue fish
    Ojai Music Festival
    201 S Signal St, Ojai, CA

  • Another exciting collaboration with red fish blue fish. I'll be performing Lou Harrison's Concerto for Organ with Percussion Orchestra. Conducted by Joshua Gersen.


    Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 7:30 pm
    Affiliated Artists Series
    San Diego New Music
    The Athenaeum
    1008 Wall Street, La Jolla, CA

  • Chamber and solo performances with Jisun Yang, Sarah Skuster, Arianna Lamon-Anderson and Christopher Adler. Works by Schnittke, Lutoslawski, David Lang, Carter, and my dear friend Nicholas Deyoe.


    • © brendan nguyen 2013