WENDY REID
COMPOSER
treepieces.net
EDUCATION
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1982 |
Stanford University, CCRMA, Post-graduate study |
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Workshop in computer-generated music with lectures by |
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John Chowning, Max Mathews, John Pierce and Jean-Claude Risset |
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1978-80 |
Mills College, M.A. in Music Composition |
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Composition with Terry Riley, Robert Ashley and Charles Shere |
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Violin and chamber music with the Kronos Quartet |
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1975-77 |
Ecoles D'Art Americaines, Palais de Fontainbleau and Paris, France: |
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Composition with Nadia Boulanger; |
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Classes in analysis, harmony, counterpoint, composition; |
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Solfege with assistant Annette Dieudonne |
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1970-75 |
University of Southern California, School of Performing Arts, B.M. in |
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Music Composition, minor in Violin Performance |
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Composition with James Hopkins, Halsey Stevens and film composer |
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David Raksin
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AWARDS, GRANTS, and COMMISSIONS
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Meet The Composer/California |
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Meet The Composer/New York |
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Subito Composer Grant |
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ASMC Grant |
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Paul Merritt Henry Award |
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Hellman Award |
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The Oakland Museum |
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The Nature Company |
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Sound/Image Unlimited |
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Graduate Assistantship |
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California State Scholarship |
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Honors at Entrance USC |
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National Merit Award Finalist |
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National Educational Development Award Finalist |
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Commission, Brassiosaurus (Tomita/Djil/ Heglin):Tree Piece #52 |
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Commission, Joyce Umamoto: Tree Piece #42 |
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Commission, Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio: Tree Piece #41 |
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Commission, Tom Dambly: Tree Piece #31 |
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Commission, Mary Oliver: Tree Piece #21 |
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Commission, Don Buchla: Tree Piece #17 |
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Commission, William Winant: Tree Piece #10 |
DISCOGRAPHY
LP/Cassette: TREE PIECES (FROG RECORDS,1988/ FROG PEAK)
CD: TREE PIECES (FROG RECORDS, 2002 / FROGPEAK)
TREE PIECES volume 2 (NIENTE, 2004 / FROGPEAK)
TREE PIECE SINGLE #1: LULU VARIATIONS (NIENTE, 2009)
TREE PIECE SINGLE #2: LU-SHOO FRAGMENTS (NIENTE, 2010)
TREE PIECE SINGLE #3: LULU VARIATIONS 2 (NIENTE, 2014)
PUBLICATIONS
Scores
Tree Pieces/Frog On Rock/Game of Tree/Klee Pieces/Glass Walls/Early Works
(Frogpeak Music/Sound-Image/W. Reid)
Wendy Reid, Tree Piece #8 (visual score),
in Notations #21, by T. Sauer, published by M. Batty
Studies in Timbre, Frog On Rock and other works (WIP, W. Reid)
INTERVIEWS
"Noisy People Podcast #8: Wendy Reid", interview by Tim Perkis, June 23, 2015,
noisypeople.net
audio mp3:08_wendy_reid.mp3
SFChronicle Interview -2-18-2014
"Meet Lulu: Parrot Musician and Muse" interview by Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 February 2014
https://www.sfcv.org/article/meet-lulu-parrot-musician-and-muse
"Minding the Frontier of New Music", by Whitney Phaneuf, East Bay Express, 26 February 2014
San Francisco Bay Guardian article
"Synthesizers, saxophones, and one African grey parrot: The Other Minds music festival is a magnet
for the avant-garde", Interview by Micah Dubreuil, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 26 February 2014]
http://www.sfbg.com/noise/2014/02/26/synthesizers-saxophones-and-one-african-grey-parrot-other-minds-music-festival-magn
"Lounging with Lulu" (Voodoo Riffs), Interview with Micah Dubreil, 9 June 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK6yL0OTZWU
Other Minds 19 festival pre-concert talk with Charles Amirkhanian and composers, San Francisco Jazz Center, 3-1-2014
https://archive.org/details/OMF_2014_03_01_C2
link to page
Djerassi Institute with Other Minds 19 Festival, interview/talk with Wendy Reid,
Charles Amirkhanian, moderator, 2-24-2014
San Francisco Bay Guardian podcast, Micah Dubreil, 27 May 2014
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcasts/running-the-voodoo-down/id8546077970
Women in Creative Music: Wendy Reid Interview by R. Unterseher, Fall 1997,
oliverosinterview.pdf
La Communauté électroacoustique canadienne e-Contact! 12.2-interviews: "25 Years of Crack-O'Dawn",
http://cec.sonus.ca/econtact/12_2/interviews_golden.html
KPFA: Crack O'Dawn interview, Wendy Reid, June 5, 2015 Hosted by Barbara Golden
https://kpfa.org/episode/crack-o-dawn-june-5-2015/
audio MP3 file: cracko-wendy-150605.mp3
KPFA-Airplay/Interviews (1978→2010): Hosted by Marina LaPalma, Charles Amirkhanian, Jane Heaven,
Sara Cahill, Barbara Golden, and Dean Suzuki
KALX-Airplay/Interview (1991)
Hosted by Fred Lomberg-Holm
KALW Airplay (2014)
Music of Other Minds, produced by Richard Friedman
ARTICLES/REVIEWS
"Follow Your Beak: Bird, Bird, and More This Weekend", (Other Minds, 2-26-14).
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/other+minds+19/144711213d13c881, http://www.treepieces.net/files/followyourbeak.pdf, http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/om19-info.shtml
"The outre music festival called Other Minds", by Andrea Abney,
SFGate, 26 February 2014,
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/The-outre-music-festival-called-Other-Minds-5270684.php
"Other Minds 19 Embraces Improvisers, Nor Cal Composers",
SFGate, 26 February 2014,
www.sfgate.com/music/article/Other-Minds-19-embraces-improvisers-NorCal-5270683.php
"Minding the Frontier of New Music", by Whitney Phaneuf,
East Bay Express, 26 February 2014
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/minding-the-frontier-of-new-music/Content?oid=3848945
"Composers of Northern California, Other Minds 19", by perkustooth, New Music Buff, (4- 3-14), http://newmusicbuff.wordpress.com/tag/otherminds/
"Coming Up, Other Minds 19 at the SF Jazz Center", (2-16-14) http://newmusicbuff.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/coming-up-other-minds-19-at-the-sf-jazz-center/
"Players End Series on High Note", San Francisco Chronicle (5-9-91} http://www.treepieces.net/files/sfreview9101.jpg,
"Music Goes Round but Comes out Obscure", San Francisco Chronicle (5-30-84) http://www.treepieces.net/files/sfchroniclereview84bw.jpg
San Francisco Examiner (5-9-91 / 5-30-84 "Unusual Music", Oakland Tribune, Charles Shere, (12-4-82), http://www.treepieces.net/files/oaklandtribunereview82bw.jpg
"To Soothe the Savage Beast", East Bay Express (10-26-90), http://www.treepieces.net/files/eastbayexpress1990.jpg
Sound Choice (Winter, 1990), http://www.treepieces.net/files/treepiecereview-1.jpg, (Winter, 1991),http://www.treepieces.net/files/treepiecereview-2.jpg
"Contemporary Trio Plays Fresh Program", Japan Times (12-2-90), http://www.treepieces.net/files/japantimes199001.jpg
Japan/Europe Reviews
RELATED WORK
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1990-2016 |
Mills College; Lecturer, Music Composition Instructor / Visiting Composer (1990) |
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1980-2016 |
Holy Names University PMD, Violin/Ensemble/Composition Instructor |
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1988-1996 |
Oakland Museum/NSS/SFAI, Producer of New Music Series: |
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New Music With Birds, Frogs And Other Creatures |
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1991 |
Oakland Arts Council, Judge/Panelist for Composer Fellowships |
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1987-1991 |
Nature Sounds Society, Board of Directors (member) |
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1974-1976 |
Los Angeles Arts Programs, Producer of new music concerts |
CATALOGUE OF WORKS and selected performances 1979-2014:
TREE PIECES:
Tree Piece #55 "lulu variations 3" (2016)
African Gray Parrot, violin, and muted trombone with digital mix
Chapel of the Chimes Festival, Oakland, California
(Lulu, B. Hutchinson, A Josephson, R. Heglin, W. Reid, 6-21-16)
music for birdwatching
Turquoise Grotto, San Francisco
(Lulu, W. Reid, R. Heglin, 3-18-16)
FROGPOND 433/ Tree Piece # 56 African Grey Parrot and Violin (2015)
Wendy Reid and friends present 17 sonic haiku each with a duration of 4' 33" or less.
The concert concludes with John Cage's silent work 4' 33".
Proceeds benefit the Save The Frogs organization.
Berkeley Arts Festival (5-30-2015)
Tree Piece #55 “lulu variations” (2008 - 2014)
African Gray Parrot, Buchla Lightning, violin and muted trumpet with real time/ digital mix
Other Minds Festival 2014
San Francisco Jazz Center,
Lulu Variations 2 (Lulu, T.Dambly, W.Reid, 3-1-14)
Djerassi Institute (W.Reid, 2-24-14)
On The Nature of Nature,
Oakland Museum Garden,
with photographs by Ariel Tingley
(Lulu, Shoo-Shoo, W. Reid, T. Dambly, premiere 10-12-08)
Thingamajigs Festival,
Vessel Gallery, Oakland(Lulu, Shoo-Shoo, W. Reid, T. Dambly, 9-25-10)
Pixilerations Festival
Brown University (10-2-10)
The Ivy Room, Berkeley (Lulu, W. Reid, R. Heglin, 2-12-12)
The Ivy Room, Berkeley (Lulu, W. Reid, T.Dambly, 6-3-13)
Trinpin at Stanford: DIY Tailgate Musical Instruments Demonstration/Performance
White Plaza, Stanford University (Lulu, W. Reid, T. Dambly, R. Heglin, 4-10-11
Tree Piece #58 “lu-shoo fragments” (2010-11)
African Grey Parrot, Pacific Parrotlet, Buchla Lightning,violin, muted trumpet, and bird whistles,
real time/digital surround mix
Trimpin at Stanford: DIY Tailgate Musical Instruments Demonstration/Performance White Plaza, Stanford University (Lulu, W. Reid, T. Dambly, R. Heglin,4-10-11 The Ivy Room, Berkeley (Lulu, W.Reid, R. Heglin, 2-12-12) The Ivy Room Berkeley (Lulu, W. Reid, T. Dambly, 6-3-13) Other Minds Festival 2014: San Francisco Jazz Center, fragments/variations mix: Lulu Variations 2 (Lulu,T. Dambly, W.Reid, 3-1-14)
Tree Piece #52 “19 variations on 19 variations” (2005)
for trumpet, trombone and tuba commissioned by Brassiosaurus (Tomita-Djil-Heglin)
New Works for Brassiosaurus,
Trinity Chapel, Berkeley (T. Tomita, R. Heglin, T. Djil, premiere, 3-4-03)
Atelier Niente, Berkeley ( Brassiosaurus, 8-10-05)
Tree Piece #51 “lightningdog variations” (2004)
for violin, Buchla lightning and dogs
Live Oak Park, Berkeley (W.Reid, Twinkie, Hazelle)
Atelier Niente, Berkeley (W. Reid, Twinkie, Hazelle, 1-14-04)
Tree Piece #50 “19 variations” (2001)
for violin and percussion
ODC Theatre and Living Music Inc. Present:
Spring New Music Series, Small Ensembles / Large Ensembles
San Francisco (W. Reid, W. Winant, premiere 3-24-01)
Tree Piece #46 “old pond frog leaps in sound of water” -Basho (1998)
for violin and percussion
In Your Ear New Music Festival, Berkeley Art Center
(A. Tingley, W. Reid, W. Winant, premiere 7-12-98)
Tree Piece #44 “frog persona” (1994)
for 2 or more instuments
American Music Week, “New Music Worlds”, New Music Works,
Santa Cruz ( D.Buchla, G. Lewis, W. Reid, premiere 11-7-94)
Forest, Mills College,Tree Pieces installation / performance Prieto Gallery,
(D. Buchla, E. Buchla, G. Lewis, W. Reid 11-11-94)
Tree Piece #43 “studies in timbre” (1996) for violin, koto and percussion (1996) Sound Culture ’96, James Moore Theatre, Oakland Museum (M. Masaoka, G. Robair, W. Reid, premiere 4-7-96)
Tree Piece #42 “happy birthday joyce” (1992) visual and sound installation commissioned by Joyce Umamoto Noh Sculpture, Asian American Theatre Company, San Francisco,(A. Tingley / W. Reid, premiere 8-29-92) Prieto Gallery “Tree Pieces: Visual Scores”, Mills (11-11-94)
Tree Piece #41 “bird Y” (1992)
for violin, piano and percussion
commissioned by the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio
Abel-Steinberg- Winant Trio Concert
Concert Hall, Mills College (premiere 4-11-92)
Prieto Gallery, Mills College, Tree Pieces installation (reception, 11-11-94)
Tree Piece #37 (1993)
for 2 instruments
Live Oak Park (12-18-93)
Prieto Gallery, Mills College, Tree Pieces installation (reception, 11-11-94)
Communication Technology Cluster, Oakland, CA, Tree Pieces installation (reception, 9-24-99)
Tree Piece #34 “frog ostinato” (1985)
for oboe and percussion written for William Banovetz and William Winant
New Langton Arts (premiere,Banovetz, Winant, (11-16-85)
New Music with Birds, Frogs & Other Creatures,
Oakland Museum (W. Banovetz, W. Winant, 4-9-88)
San Francisco Contemporary Players, Museum of Modern Art,
Green Room, (W. Banovetz, W. Winant, 5-7-91)
Mills College, Graduate Recital ( Evelyn,2002)
The Ivy Room, Berkeley (DJ Performance, 6-3-12)
Tree Piece #31 “one eye sees, the other feels” -Klee (1992) for trumpet and percussion
commissioned by Tom Dambly
A Concert of New Works for Trumpet, Mills College
( T. Dambly, J. Davel, premiere 4-11-92)
New Sound Works, Art Gallery Mills College (5-11-92)
In Your Ear, New Music Festival, Berkeley Art Center (7-12-98)
Dance Naganuma, Session House, Tokyo, Japan (1-16-2000)
Tree Piece #24 “bird music 2” (1992)
for violin and percussion
PMD-HNU Faculty Recital, Chapel, Holy Names University
(W. Reid, R. Revelli, K. Bobrowski, premiere 9-27-92)
Tree Piece #21 “bird music” (1985)
for violin and percussion
commissioned by Mary Oliver
Avant-Garde Violin Concert,
New Performance Gallery (Mary Oliver, W.Winant, premiere 9-18-85)
Langton Arts: Wendy Reid/Jin-Hi Kim, San Francisco (11-16-85)
Exploratorium: YLEM -Artists Using Science & Technology (1-23-90)
Abel-Steinberg- Winant Trio Concert, Mills College Student Union (4-16-90)
Mills College Alumni Concert, (Abel-Winant) (10-12-90)
Japan Tour of Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio (11-90)
Dream of Wild Animals, Ruth Botchen Dance Co., Oakland (12-90)
Prieto Gallery, Mills College, Tree Pieces installation (reception, 11-11-94)
Contemporary Music Competition, (Vancoillie Van Der Vekens (V!P),
Antwerp, Belgium (2-26-04)
V!P Concert (Vancoillie/ Van Der Vekens), Antwerp Belgium (3-04)
Tree Piece #17 “nothing is more real than nothing” -Beckett (1991) for 2 or more instruments commissioned by Don Buchla
Lincoln Center Merkin Recital Hall, NYC, Interpretations Series(D. Buchla, M. Goldstein, premiere 1-9-92)
Electro-Acoustic Music Concert, Mills (D. Buchla, W. Winant,10-8-92) Bird-Frog Concert, Oakland Museum (4-5-92)
International Computer Music Conference, San Jose
(D. Buchla, M. Goldstein, 10-15-92)
Cornell University Music Department ( 11-2-92)
Drew University Music Department, (11-3-92)
Center for Music Technology, Rudford University (11-7-92)
Mills Contemporary Ensemble Concert (4-11-93)
Prieto Gallery, Mills College, Tree Pieces installation ( reception,11-11-94)
Communications Technology Cluster, Oakland, CA, Tree Pieces installation (reception, 9-24-99) 15th Annual Avant-Garden Music Festival, Santa Cruz (6-11-95)
ODC Theatre and Living Music Inc. Present:
Spring New Music Series: Small Ensembles / Large Ensembles
(P. Gelb, D. Joseph, W. Reid, A. Tingley, R. Baker, 3-24-01)
Music Teachers Convention of California, San Francisco
(G. Tingley, W. Reid, R. Baker, 7-3-01)
Vimeo: Downbeat Means Attack (10-26-10)
The Ivy Room, Berkeley (DJ Performance, 6-3-12)
Tree Piece #14 (1982) for mixed ensemble
M.U.S.I.C. Festival, On Broadway, San Francisco(W. Reid, W. Winant, premiere 12-4-82)
Tree Piece #10 (1982)
for 2 or more instruments commissioned by William Winant
New Commissioned Works for Percussion, Concert Hall
(W. Winant, W. Reid, premiere 3-31-82) New Performance Gallery, SF (5-29-84)
Mills Contemporary Ensemble, Concert Hall (12-4-90)
Seventh Species Concert, Mills Ensemble Room
(C. Asplund, G. Galindo, G. Noland, G. Tingley, W. Reid, 10-30-91)
Night of the Living Composers: New Music Works Concert,
Veterans' Memorial Auditorium, Santa Cruz (12-8-01)
The Ivy Room, Berkeley (DJ Performance, 6-3-12)
Tree Piece #8 (1984)
for solo percussion
written for William Winant
New Performance Gallery, SF (W. Winant, premiere 5-29-84)
New Langton Arts, SF (11-16-85)
San Francisco Art Institute, Bird-Frog Concert (3-12-89)
Ton Art ’89, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland (11-25-89)
Dream of Wild Animals, Ruth Botchen Dance Co., Oakland (12-90)
The Frog Peak, Roulette, NYC (Essential Music 5-7-95)
Frog Peak Concert, Town Hall, NYC (1995)
SoundCulture Festival, Oakland Museum,(G. Robair, 4-7-96)
In Your Ear Festival of New Music, Berkeley Art Center (7-12-98)
Tree Piece #4
“two poems by Shotsi Reid ”(1981) for voice, violin and musicbox
Recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills (1881)
P.A.S.S., New York City (Reid, premiere12-28-81)
Tree Piece #2 (1980)
for paired instruments
Mills Contemporary Ensemble Concert
(W. Reid, D. Rosenboom, W. Winant, premiere 12-4-80)
7th Species Series, Ensemble Room, Mills College (12-4-93)
Tree Piece #1 “Gungles” (1980) for mixed ensemble with yellow bird/ birdcage musicbox
Recording, Mills (W. Winant, S. Ashley, B. Golden, W.Reid, 4-80) New Performance Works, Mills Student Union,as a live composition with musicbox (4-25-80) San Francisco Art Institute, score for film “On The Track” by L. Yam (1980) San Francisco Film Festival shorts - film by L. Yam (1982)
Game of Tree (1980 - 2004)
for one or more players
New Performance Gallery, San Francisco(T. Tomita, B. Golden, W. Winant, C. Maher, W. Reid, 5-29-84) Graduate Composition Seminar / Mills Contemporary Ensemble,Concert Hall, Mills College (C. Asplund, E. Osborn, G. Galindo, W. Reid, 12-4-90)
Niente Gallery, Berkeley (A. Tingley, W. Reid, 1-1-2004)
EARLY WORKS and selected performances 1968 - 1979:
Glass Walls (1979)
for String Quartet and Tape
Kronos Quartet (premiere), ASMC Special Event, Mills Concert Hall (2-13-80)
San Francisco String Quartet, New Performance Gallery, SF(5-29-84)
San Francisco String Quartet Readings, S.F. Conservatory (10-8-81)
Mills Quartet (1st movement), New Works , Chapel (12-11-78)
Klee Pieces (1975 - 79)
for mixed ensembles
ASMC Special Event, Mills Concert Hall
(Ensemble Klee, premiere 2-13-80)
PMD Faculty Recital, Studio Theatre, Holy Names University
(Faculty Ensemble for “Twittering Machine”, 6-4-97)
USC Contemporary Ensemble (Klee 3), Hancock Auditorium (1975)
"Tapping on Miracles", musical score for a film by L. Rindner (1978)
for mixed ensembles
UCLA, Los Angeles (10-79)
Mills Concert Hall (2-13-80)
Reflections on Klee (1976)
for mixed ensemble
Composition Departmental Recital, USC (5-10-76)
Experiments (1974)
for chamber orchestra
New Works: Wendy Reid, B.M. Recital, USC (4-21-75)
Sonata (1974)
for alto flute and piano
New Works: Wendy Reid, B.M. Recital, USC (4-21-75)
5 Sketches (1973)
for mixed ensemble
New Works: Wendy Reid ,B.M. Recital, USC (4-21-75)
Elegy (poem by Anne Lindbergh) (1973)
for soprano and piano
Barnsdall Arts Festival, (C. Tyrrell, Los Angeles (10-12-74)
New Works (B.M. Recital), USC (4-21-75)
Variations on a Poem by Shotsi Reid (1973)
for soprano and piano
Barnsdall Arts Festival, Los Angeles (C. Tyrrell,10-12-74)
New Works,B.M. Recital, USC (4-21-75)
3 haiku (1972)
for soprano, claves and piano
New Works, B.M. Recital, USC (C. Tyrrell, 4-21-75)
Starlight Bowl, Burbank (C. Tyrrell 6-6-75)
Students of Boulanger, Palais de Fontainbleau, France (8-75)
3 Pieces (texts: E. Dickinson, L. Cohen, W. Stevens) (1972)
for tenor, flute and cello
Composition Departmental Recital, USC (D. Crockett, premiere10-23-73)
New Works (B.M. Recital), USC (4-21-75)
“when god...”(-e.e. cummings) (1972)
for voice and flute
Barnsdall Arts Festival, Los Angeles (C. Tyrrell, premiere 10-12-74)
Variations for Violin and Piano (1971)
New Works, B.M. Recital, USC (4-21-75)
Pirandello’s Henry IV (1970)
for violin and piano
Theory/Composition Recital, USC (premiere 4-71)
Piece for Violin (1968)
written for Shotsi Reid