Performances
 
   
     

 

Sometimes a Pianist...

Street sign outside a Southern Illinois bar, as part of the

offerings during OUTSIDE THE BOX - 2008...

 

Performing Pierrot Lunaire with the Altgeld Chamber Players

11 April 2008, at a local bar...

 

A live broadcast of Secrets of War with the Romanian Radio

Orchestra during the"Saptamana Muzicii Contemporane

festival, May 2008 in Bucharest...

 

Rehearsing SINFONIA COLIBRI with Mexican guitarist Gabriel Peña

in 2006 at the Instituto de Bellas Artes in Mexico...

 

Performing Three Pieces for Clarinet and Piano with Eric Mandat

at the "Aula Uniunii Compozitorilor si Muzicologilor

din Romania" in Eastern Europe...

 

Performing A Love Imagine at Teatro de Los Heros

in Chihuahua, Mexico...

 

After the premiere of The Persistence of Honor in the Netherlands...

 

Tom Zirkle checking his mulit-percussion set up,

preparing to perform Panic 2000...

 

With tenor Gustavo Flores after the premiere of Sinfonía Colibrí

in Mexico...

 

With Executive Director Barbara Heroux

and composers Mark Winges and Tom Flaherty before a

performance of A Brief Message From Makanda, Illinois by VOLTI

in San Francisco...

 

Trying out the new piano in the new recital hall of

Fundacíon Valparaiso in Mojácarm Spain...

 


 

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

 

New York City

by night my mind

for four-part choir and piano solo
and
Prizewinning Composition of the

2010 CANTICORUM VIRTUOSI COMPOSITION COMPETITION

20 March 2011
by the
NEW YORK VIRTUOSO SINGER
Harold Rosenbaum, Artistic Director
Christopher Oldfather, piano

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San Francisco

A Brief Message From
Makanda, Illinois


for mixed , unaccompanied choir
Performed in the San Francisco Bay Area by
VOLTI
Robert Geary - Artistic Director
5 November - St. John's Episcopal Church, Marin County

6 November - St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Berkeley

7 November - St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco

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OUTSIDE THE BOX Festival - 2010

Le Maître Du Marteau

31 March 2010
by the
ALTGELD CHAMBER PLAYERS
Christopher Morehouse, conductor
Frank stemper, "accordion"

Douglas Worthen, flute/picc.    Eric Mandat, clarinet
Jon Goodman, bass clarinet     Dick Kelley, alto saxophone
Jen Presar, horn   
Chris Combest , tuba

David Lyons, piano    Ron Coulter, percussion

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The Netherlands

The Persistence of Honor

commissioned by the
HET WAGENINGS ORKEST 'SONANTE'
Melvin Margolis, Music Director,
to commemorate
their 25th Anniversary
Premiered 7 November 2009

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OUTSIDE THE BOX Festival - 2009

1963

First Performance 27 March 2009
by the
ALTGELD CHAMBER PLAYERS
Diane Coloton, mezzo soprano
Douglas Worthen, flute/picc.
Eric Mandat, clarinet/bs. cl.
Michael Barta, violin
Eric Lenz, 'cello
Junghwa Lee, piano
Ron Coulter, percussion

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France and New York

Global Warning
World Premiere 26 February 2008 - Orleans, France

and the
American Premiere 21 June 2008 - Carnegie Hall
by Junghwa Lee, pianist

 

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San Francisco

Isolated Criteria
Four new competition pieces for the Klein International String Competition, 10-15 June 2008 in San Francisco.  Listen to Grand Prize Winner, Tessa Lark, perform
Isolated Criterion No. 4

LISTEN

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Contemporary Music Week 2008
Bucharest, ROMANIA

Three Pieces for Clarinet and Piano
European Premiere 26 May 2008
Eric Mandat, clarinet and Frank Stemper

Blue
European Premiere 26 May 2008

Frank Stemper, piano

Secrets of War
Broadcast Live on Radio Romania
for piano and orchestra
28 May 2008
by the Romanian Radio Orchestra
with Frank Stemper, solist
in Bucharest, Romania

•••

Budapest
HUNGARIAN NATIONAL RADIO - BARTOK III


String Trio

First Performance 21 May 2008
by Michael Barta, Meng-Chun Chi and Eric Lenz
Hungarian National Radio - Bartok I

•••

Teatro de Los Heros - MEXICO


Sinfonía Colibrí

First Performance 8 June 2007
by Chihuahua Philharmonic with Gustavo Flores, tenor
Commissioned by the Mexican Government

•••

Baton Rouge, Louisiana


So It Goes

Performed 26 February 2007 by

PASTICHE

at the

63rd Festival of Contemporary Music, Baton Rouge, LA

•••

I.S.C.M.

Bucharest, ROMANIA


(Seven) Seperate Ways

Performed 12 December 2006

by

The Archaeus Ensemble, Liviu Danceanu, Music Director

at the International Society for Contemporary Music

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THE HAPPENING
Calgary, Alberta - CANADA

2304: Between the Alley and the Shorewood Sanitarium

Canadian Premiere

24 February 2006 by Todd Rewoldt, alto sax and electronics

Festival Canadian Perspectives on New Music

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Dalton Center - Kalamazoo, Michigan

A Love Imagined


Matthew Chellis, tenor
Heidi Louise Williams, piano

18 January 2006

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"Nueva Musica de Frank Stemper en Chihuahua"

MEXICO

(Seven} Separate Ways

Four Piano Pieces

War Dance

A Love Imagined

A Brief Message From Makanda, Illinois


Performed 10 November 2005

by members of the Chihuahua Philharmonic,

Frank Stemper - conductor

and the Belle Artis Chor, Gustavo Flores - conductor

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Vorarlberg Landeskonservatorium

Feldkirk, AUSTRIA

2304: Between the Alley and the Shorewood Sanitarium


European premiere 31 January 2005

by Roland Stillhard, alro sax and electronics

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Cagliari, ITALY

"Festival Spaziomusica"

(Seven} Separate Ways


Performed 23 November 2004

by the Archeus Ensemble, Liviu Danceanu - Music Director

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"Imagine II" Memphis, TN

2304: Between the Alley and the Shorewood Sanitarium


Performed 13 November 2004

by Todd Rewoldt, alto sax and electronics

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JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER

Washington, D.C.

Hope & Rock Bottom


Performed 8 August 2004 by CELLIOLAPIA on the

Milennium Stage of the

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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