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Faye Spanos Concert Hall at the Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific

Stockton, CA

Joélle Harvey, Soprano
Allen Perriello, Piano

Program to include Purcell, Mozart, Clara Schumann, Grieg and the world premiere of my new work, Vanitas, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the ASCAP Foundation Charles Kingsford Fund

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World premiere of Strange Loops, for violin and cello

Stefani Matsuo, violin

Hiro Matsuo, cello

Mercantile Library

414 Walnut St #1100

Cincinnati, OH 45202

World premiere of Strange Loops, for violin and cello

Stefani Matsuo, violin

Hiro Matsuo, cello

Mercantile Library

414 Walnut St #1100

Cincinnati, OH 45202

4 Pieces for two pianos

Daria Rabotkina and Bill McNally, pianos

Intermezzo for cello and piano

Karla Hamelin, cello and Michael Ippolito, piano

And music by Richard Hall and Thomas Clark

Mobile Chamber Music

The Laidlaw Performing Arts Center - University of South Alabama
5751 USA South Drive
Mobile, Alabama 36608

Franz Schubert

• Quartettsatz in C Minor, D. 703

Antonín Dvořák

• Cypresses, B. 152

Michael Ippolito

• Big Sky, Low Horizon (2013)

Ludwig van Beethoven

• String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95, "Serioso"

Hugo Wolf

• Italian Serenade

Giacomo Puccini

• Crisantemi, SC 65

Ludwig van Beethoven

• String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 133, "Große Fuge"

Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival

Amelia Baptist Church
1167 Buccaneer Trail
Fernandina Beach, Florida 32034

Franz Schubert

• Quartettsatz in C Minor, D. 703

Antonín Dvořák

• Cypresses, B. 152

Michael Ippolito

• Big Sky, Low Horizon (2013)

Ludwig van Beethoven

• String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95, "Serioso"

Johannes Brahms

• Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B Minor, Op. 115

THE ST. FRANCIS AUDITORIUM AT THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART

SUNDAY, JANUARY 13 | 3PM

• SCHUBERT Quartettsatz, D. 703
• DVOŘÁK Cypresses
• MICHAEL IPPOLITO Big Sky, Low Horizon
• BEETHOVEN Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95, “Serioso”
• WOLF Italian Serenade
• PUCCINI I Crisantemi
• BEETHOVEN Grosse Fuge, Op. 133

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Juventas New Music Ensemble presents This Land Is Your Land

Commemorating the 50th anniversaries of the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act and the National Trails System Act, with new music inspired by American landscapes, in collaboration with The Landscape Music Composers Network

First Church Boston
66 Marlborough St. at Berkeley St.

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John Lynch leads the Sydney Conservatorium Wind Ensemble in the Australian Premiere of Machine Become Music

more details to come

San Diego Symphony, Edo de Waart conductor

Nocturne, for orchestra

Copley Symphony Hall

San Diego, CA

San Diego Symphony, Edo de Waart conductor

Nocturne, for orchestra

Copley Symphony Hall

San Diego, CA

The Divertimento Project
c/o chamber orchestra

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Divertimento in F Major, K. 138"
Emile Bernard "Divertissement op. 36"
Michael Ippolito "Divertimento"
Bela Bartok "Divertimento Sz. 113"
Jacques Ibert "Divertissement"

Jesus Christus Kirche Berlin

Hittorfstraße 23, 14195 Berlin, Germany

Tickets 15 Euro / 12 Euro
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Keiko Tokunaga play my Partita along with works by Beethoven, Tartini, Saint-Saëns and Hirai

Libro Hall

Tokyo, Japan

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The Counterpoint Vocal Ensemble, Nathaniel G. Lew, director

Elizabeth Reid, Viola

Caledonia Grange #9, Church Street

East Hardwick VT

The Counterpoint Vocal Ensemble, Nathaniel G. Lew, director

Elizabeth Reid, Viola

Church on the Hill, Lawrence Hill Road

Weston, VT

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The Counterpoint Vocal Ensemble, Nathaniel G. Lew, director

Elizabeth Reid, Viola

First Congregational Church of Lebanon

10 South Park Street

Lebanon, NH

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The Counterpoint Vocal Ensemble, Nathaniel G. Lew, director

Elizabeth Reid, Viola

Unitarian Church of Montpelier

130 Main Street

Montpelier, VT

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Catherine Rand leads the University of Southern Mississippi Wind Ensemble in Machine Become Music. 

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Musicians from the Florida Orchestra play Smoke Rings at their Classical Revolution concert at SubCentral At The Iberian Rooster. 

Smoke Rings, for string quartet

Yuan-yuan Wang, Zubaida Azezi, violins

Derek Mosloff, viola

Fred Gratta, cello

475 Central Avenue, Suite 100

Saint Petersburg, Florida 33701

Texas State University Wind Symphony | Saturday, March 24, 3:00 pm

Caroline Beatty, Conductor

PROGRAM REPERTOIRE

Lollapalooza (1995) – John Adams/trans. (2005) James Spinnazola

“Now All Lies Under Thee” from Symphony No. 9 (2011) – David Maslanka
~In memoriam, David Maslanka~
CBDNA Premiere

Preludes, Op. 34 (1933) – Dmitri Shostakovich
No. 16* trans. (2016) Jordan Stern
No. 14 trans. (1988) H. Robert Reynolds
No. 6* trans. (2016) Jordan Stern
* CBDNA Premieres

Machine Become Music (2017) – Michael Ippolito
Prelude
Scherzo
Passacaglia
CBDNA Premiere

“Elegy" and "Tarantella” from Symphony No. 4 (1992) – Alfred Reed
CBDNA Premiere

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Michael Francis conducts world premiere of Triptych

Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 7:30pm – Ruth Eckerd Hall

Clearwater, FL

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Michael Francis conducts the world premiere of Triptych

Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 8:00pm – Mahaffey Theater

St. Petersburg, FL

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Michael Francis conducts world premiere of Triptych

Friday, February 23, 2018 at 8:00pm – Mahaffey Theatere

Saint Petersburg, FL

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NOTUS: Contemporary Vocal Ensemble

Auer Hall

Indiana University School of Music

Bloomington, IN

“Echoes & Storms”

Dominick DiOrio, conductor, 
with Grant Farmer & Joshua Harper, conductors

Rex Isenberg, composer (guest artist)
Aram Arakelyan, piano
Edward Gazouleas, viola
Kurt Muroki, double bass
Matthew Recio, composer
Monroe String Quartet
Susie Koh, violin
Sofia Kim, violin
Andrew Collins, viola
Marta Guðmundsdóttir, cello

Denique Isaac, soprano
Maya Vansuch, soprano
Joseph Ittoop, tenor

Repertoire
Parola: this view of life (2013)
Siegel: Saguaro (2007)
Ippolito: Rain Song (2016)
Choi: Ang Tren (2015)
Feliciano: Pamugun (2002)
Recio: Echo (2016, premiere)*
Isenberg: Feathers in the Wind (2016)

*2017 NOTUS Student Composition
 Contest 3rd Prize Winner

c/o in the New Year
20 January 2018, 18:00
Evangelische Kirche am Markt, Mühlenberger Weg 64A, 22587 Hamburg

with the Hamburg Trio:
Mitsuru Shiogai, Violin
Vytautas Sondeckis, Violincello
Eberhard Hasenfratz, Piano

Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Michael Ippolito: Divertimento (World Premiere)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C Major Op. 56 for Violin, Violincello, Piano and Orchestra

Tickets: 10 bis 32 €
On sale from 8. January at the Kirche Am Markt, Gemeindehaus, Tel. 866250-0

c/o: Debuts
19 January 2018, 19:30
Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche, Hauptstr. 47, 10827 Berlin-Schöneberg

with the Hamburg Trio:
Mitsuru Shiogai, Violin
Vytautas Sondeckis, Violincello
Eberhard Hasenfratz, Piano

Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Michael Ippolito: Divertimento (World Premiere)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C Major Op. 56 for Violin, Violincello, Piano and Orchestra

Tickets 15 Euro / 12 Euro
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Artistic Director Hiro Matsuo leads an exploration of the Fugue, a compositional technique used through the ages, featuring J.S. Bach’s Art of the Fugue, NY-based and Cincinnati-bred composer Michael Ippolito’s String Quartet No.4, and the colossal Grosse Fugue by Ludwig van Beethoven. Choreographer Jimmy Cunningham of the Cincinnati Ballet will provide visual representation of Bach’s Art of the Fugue.

Cincinnati Art Museum

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Artistic Director Hiro Matsuo leads an exploration of the Fugue, a compositional technique used through the ages, featuring J.S. Bach’s Art of the Fugue, NY-based and Cincinnati-bred composer Michael Ippolito’s String Quartet No.4, and the colossal Grosse Fugue by Ludwig van Beethoven. Choreographer Jimmy Cunningham of the Cincinnati Ballet will provide visual representation of Bach’s Art of the Fugue.

Cincinnati Art Museum

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Chamber Music at The Barns

Wolf Trap

Vienna, VA

FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN (1732-1809) String Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4
I. Allegro di molto e scherzando
II. Adagio
II. Menuetto
IV. Finale: Fuga a tre Soggetti

MICHAEL IPPOLITO String Quartet No. 3 “Songlines”

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132
I. Assai sostenuto; Allegro
II. Allegro ma non tanto
III. Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in the lydischen tonart: Molto adagio; Neue Kraft fühlend; Andante
IV. Alla marcia, assai vivace
V. Allegro appassionato

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