WENDY REID
Composer
treepieces.net
EDUCATION
1982 | Stanford University, CCRMA, Post-graduate study | |
Workshop in computer-generated music with lectures by | ||
John Chowning, Max Mathews, John Pierce and Jean-Claude Risset | ||
1978-80 | Mills College, M.A. in Music Composition | |
Composition with Terry Riley, Robert Ashley and Charles Shere | ||
Violin and chamber music with the Kronos Quartet | ||
1975-77 | Ecoles D'Art Americaines, Palais de Fontainbleau and Paris, France: | |
Composition with Nadia Boulanger; | ||
Classes in analysis, harmony, counterpoint, composition; | ||
Solfege with assistant Annette Dieudonne | ||
1970-75 | University of Southern California, School of Performing Arts, B.M. in | |
Music Composition, minor in Violin Performance | ||
Composition with James Hopkins, Halsey Stevens and film composer | ||
David Raksin / Violin with Claire Hodgkins -assistant to Jascha Heifetz
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EMPLOYMENT
1990-2023 | Mills College Music Composition Instructor / Visiting Composer, lecturer (1990) |
1980-2023 | Holy Names University PMD Violin Instructor/Ensemble/Composition |
1988-1996 | Oakland Museum/NSS/SFAI Producer of New Music Series: |
New Music With Birds, Frogs And Other Creatures | |
1991 | Oakland Arts Council Judge for Composer Fellowships |
1987-1991 | Nature Sounds Society Board of Directors |
1974-1976 | Los Angeles Arts Programs Producer of new music concerts |
AWARDS, GRANTS, and COMMISSIONS
Meet The Composer/California |
Meet The Composer/New York |
Subito Composer Grant |
ASMC Grant |
Paul Merritt Henry Award |
Hellman Award |
The Oakland Museum |
The Nature Company |
Sound/Image Unlimited |
Graduate Assistantship |
California State Scholarship |
Honors at Entrance USC |
National Merit Award Finalist |
National Educational Development Award Finalist |
Commission, Brassiosaurus (Tomita/Djil/ Heglin):Tree Piece #52 |
Commission, Joyce Umamoto: Tree Piece #42 |
Commission, Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio: Tree Piece #41 |
Commission, Tom Dambly: Tree Piece #31 |
Commission, Mary Oliver: Tree Piece #21 |
Commission, Don Buchla: Tree Piece #17 |
Commission, William Winant: Tree Piece #10 |
DISCOGRAPHY/ YOUTUBE/VIMEO
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)
YOUUTUBE TREE PIECE SINGLE #4 AMBIENT BIRD 433 (WENDY REID 2019)
TREEPIECE SINGLE #5 BIRDS WITHOUT BORDERS (WENDY REID 2020)
TREE PIECE SINGLE #6 BIRD HAIKU (WENDY REID 2020)
TREE PIECE SINGLE #7 BIRDS WITHOUT BORDERS#2 (WENDY REID 2021)
TREE PIECE SINGLE #8 BIRDS WITHOUT BORDERS #3 (WENDY REID 2021)
TREE PIECE SINGLE #9 AMBIENT BIRD-LIVE OAK (WENDY REID 2022)
TREE PIECE SINGLE #10 AMBIENT BIRD-MOSSWOOD (WENDY REID 2023)
VIMEO BIRD COLLECTION (WENDY REID 2022):
Twittering Machine / Gungles / Tree Piece #21 /lulu variations/ambient bird
PUBLICATIONS/SCORES
Scores
ONES, (2022) an anthology of solo compositions by Frog Peak Composers edited by Jody Diamomd and Wendy Reid, published by Frog Peak Music:
Ambient Bird for solo violin, Tree Piece #8 for solo percussion -Wendy Reid
Ambient Bird Collection 2019-2013
Tree Pieces Collection 1980-2023
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
Bird Etudes (WIP, W. Reid)
Studies in Timbre, Bird Diary, Frog On Rock and other works (WIP, W. Reid)
INTERVIEWS
https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/oakland-composer-birds-make-beautiful-music-together
"Noisy People Podcast #8: Wendy Reid", interview by Tim Perkis, June 23, 2015,
noisypeople.net
audio mp3:08_wendy_reid.mp3
Center for New Music : Mills Grist -composers from Mills College talk about their music
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_go 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,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
CATALOGUE OF WORKS* and selected performances* 1968-2023
*ambient bird - mosswood (2023) with sfSOUND and the bird ensemble: Lulu, african grey parrot, Wendy Reid, Krys Bobrowski, Brenda Hutchinson, Aurora Joshepson, Ron Heglin, David Samas, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, Diane Grubbe, Brendan Lai-Tong, Matt Ingalls Mosswood Sound Series: Wendy Reid & Toshi Ichiyanagi, Mosswood Chapel, Oakland (1-8-23)
*ambient bird - live oak (2022) with sfSOUND and the bird ensemble: Lulu (African grey parrot), Wendy Reid, Krys Bobrowski, Brenda Hutchinson, Aurora Josephson, Ron Heglin, David Samas, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, Diane Grubbe, Brendan Lai-Tong, Matt ingalls, Kyle Bruckmann Live Oak Park, Berkeley (9-22-22)
*birds without borders 3 (2021)) international ensemble online: Biggi Vinkeloe (Sweden), Barbara Held (Barcelona), Thea Farhadian Berlin), Barbara Golden (Nova Scotia), and USA ensemble: lulu, Wendy Reid (Berkeley), Brenda Hutchinson (San Fransisco), Aurora Josephson (Portland), Krys Bobrowsi, Ron Heglin (Oakland) *Center For New Music: Beyond Borders: birds-improvisations-environments (8-14-21)
*birds wthout borders 2 (2021) international ensemble online: Biggi Vinkeloe (Sweden), Barbara Held (Barcelona), Thea Farhadian Berlin), Barbara Golden (Nova Scotia), and USA: lulu, Wendy Reid (Berkeley), Brenda Hutchinson (San Fransisco), Aurora Josephson (Portland), Krys Bobrowsi, Ron Heglin (Oakland) HNU Alumni, Faculty and Friends Concert, Holy Names University (2-28-21)
*ambient bird online: birds without borders (2020) international ensemble online: Biggi Vinkeloe (Sweden), Barbara Held (Barcelona), Thea Farhadian Berlin), Barbara Golden (Nova Scotia), and USA: lulu, Wendy Reid (Berkeley), Brenda Hutchinson (San Fransisco), Aurora Josephson (Portland), Krys Bobrowsi, Ron Heglin (Oakland) Network Music Festival -UK: Sound Without Borders (7-17-2020)
*Tree Piece #67 'bird haiku' for bird and open ensemble (2020) the bird ensemble: Lullu (african grey parrot), Wendy Reid, Krys Bobrowski, Brenda Hutchinson, Aurora Joshepson, Ron Heglin, (last live concert before covid) Holy Names University - Studio Theatre: Faculty and Friends Concert (2-8-2020)
*Ambient Bird 433 (2019) for 3 open ensembles and African Grey Parrot (performers list: website-home page) Frank Ogawa Plaza, the forum: Wendy Reid, Lulu, and Friends -ProArts Sunday April 14, 2019
*Tree Piece Collection (2019) with Lulu (parrot), Wendy Reid, Brenda Hutchinson, Aurora Josephson, Ron Heglin Garden of Memory, walk through event (S. Cahill): Bird Works (6-21-2019) Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland
*Lulu Variations 5 (2018) for open ensemble and African Grey Parrot with the Mills Performing Group (website: performers list-Steed Cowart) Mills Performing Group Concert Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College (11-17-18)
*Ambient Bird 433 (2018) for 3 open ensembles and African Grey Parrot (performers list:website-home page) Frank Ogawa Plaza, the forum 11-10-2018 (-rescheduled to 4-14-19)
*Tree Piece #34 “frog ostinato” for oboe and percussion Kyle Bruckmann, oboe and Christopher Froh perc., Pitzer Center Recital Hall: Faculty Recital UC Davis (11-19-2018)
*Tree Piece #66 (2018) for open ensembe with Lulu (Afican grey parrot), WendyReid, Brenda Hutchinson, Aurora Josephson, Ron Heglin Garden of Memory, walk through event (S. Cahill): Bird Works (6-21-2018) Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland
*Tree Piece #65 "lulu variations 4" (2017) with Lulu, African grey parrot), Wendy Reid, Aurora Josephson, Ron Heglin CNMAT: Silvia Matheus-Tim Perkis-Wendy Reid 1750 Arch St UC Berkeley (11-19-2017)
*Tree Piece #65 "lulu variations 3" (2017) with Mills Contemporary Performance Ensemble (Steed Cowart) Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College (11-29-2017)
*Nothing Piece (2017) for Don Buchla Peter Apfelbaum (virtual: lulu, Wendy Reid, Don Buchla William Winant) Don Buchla Memorial Concert, Gray Area Foundation, San Francisco
*New Bird-Tree Pieces (2017) with Lulu (African greyparrot), Wendy Reid, Brenda Hutchinson, Aurora Josephson, Ron Heglin Garden of Memory, walk through event (S. Cahill): New Bird Works (6-21-2017) Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland
lulu variations 2 (2010) for bird, violin, buchla lightning, and trumpet lulu (bird), Wendy Reid, Tom Dambly Trinpin at Stanford-DIY Tailgate-Demostration, White Plaza, Stanford Universiy (4-10-2011)
*Tree Piece #55 lulu Variations 2 (2016) with Lulu (African grey parrot), Wendy Reid and Ron Heglin Turquoise Grotto: music for birdwatching ( David Samas), San Francisco (3-18-16)
*Tree Piece #17 ‘nothing is more real than nothing’ (1991) for two or more instruments Lulu (African greyparrot), Wendy Reid, Brenda Hutchinson, Aurora Josephson Garden of Memory, walk through eve (6-21-2016) Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland
* Tree Piece #56: FROGPOND 433, 17 sonic haiku (see website: 17 composer-performers Berkley Arts Festival: frogpond haiku for african grey parrot & volin (5-30-2015)
*Tree Piece #55 "lulu variations 3" (2014) f or african grey parrot, buchla lightning, violin, & trumpet with Lulu (parrot), Wendy Reid and Tom Dambly Other Minds Festival, the Jazz Center, San Francisco Djerassi Institute talk 2-24-14 / Concert 3-1-2014
*lulu variations 2 (2010) for bird, violin and trumpet lulu (bird), Wendy Reid, Tom Dambly the ivy room Berkeley,CA (6-3-2013)
*lulu variations (2008) for african grey parrot, violin, buchla lightning virtual: lulu and Wendy Reid Pixilerations Festival, Brown University (10-2-2010)
*lulu variations (2008) for African grey parrot, violin, buchla lightning & trumpet lulu (African grey parrot), Wendy Reid, Tom Dambly Thingamajigs Festival: Vessel Gallery, San Francisco (2010)
*lulu variation (2008) for African grey parrot, violin, buchla lightning & trumpet lulu (African grey parrot), Wendy Reid, Tom Dambly On The Nature Of Nature, Oakland Museum with photographs of A.Tingley (10-12-2008)
*Tree Piece #58 "lu-shoo fragments" (2010-12) with African Grey Parrot, Buchla Lightning, violin
*Tree Piece #52 "19 variations on 19 variations (2003-05) for trumpet, trombone & tuba Tom Djll, Toyoji Tomita, and Ron Heglin Trinity Chapel, Berkeley (3-4-2003)
*Tree Piece #52 "19 variations on 19 variations (2003-05) for trumpet, trombone & tuba Tom Djll, Toyoji Tomita, and Ron Heglin Atelier Niente Berkeley, CA (8-10-2005)
*Tree Piece #51 "lightning dog variation" (2004) for violin, buchla lightning and dogs Wendy Reid, dogs:Twinkie, Hazelle Live Oak Park (1-14-2004)
*Tree Piece #50 "19 variations" (2001) for violin and percussion Wendy Reid and William Winant, with Ronnie Baker, butoh dancer Spring New Music Series: Small Ensembles, Big Ensembles ODC Theatre San Francisco (3-24-2001)
*Tree Piece #17 “nothing is more real than nothing” for two or more instruments Wendy Reid, Ariel Tingley, DanJoseph, Phillip Gelb, with Ronnie Baker, butoh dancer ODC Theatre & Living Music Present: Spring New Music Series; Small Ensembles, Big Ensembles San Francisco (3-24-2001)
Tree Piece #8 for solo percussion score with recording of percussionist William Winant Communication and Technology Cluster - Tree Piece installation Oakland, CA (9-24-1999)
*Tree Piece #46 "...sound of water" (1998) violin and percussion Wendy Reid, William Winant, Ariel Tingley In Your Ear New Music Festival, Berkeley Art Center (7-12-1998)
*Tree Piece #44 ‘frog persona’ (1994) for two or more instruments Wendy Reid, Don Buchla, George Lewis American Music Week: New Music Worlds (New Music Works, Phil Collins), Santa Cruz (11-7-1994)
*Tree Piece #44 ‘frog persona’ (1994) for two or more instruments Wendy Reid, Don Buchla, George Lewis Prieto Gallery, Tree Piece Scores installation: visual scores / musical collage with a performance in the forest Mills College (11-11-1994)
*Tree Piece #43 ‘studies in timbre’ (1996) for violin, koto and percussion Wendy Reid, Miya Masaoka, Gino Robair Sound Culture Festival, James Moore Theatre, Oakland Museum (4-7-1996)
*Tree Piece #42 (1992/94) ‘tree collage’ for two sound collage sculptors Ariel Tingley and Wendy Reid sound and visual collage construction/installation commissiond by Joyce Umamoto Noh Sculpture - Asian American Theatre Company San Francisco (8-29-1992)
*Tree Piece #41 (1992) ‘bird Y’ for violin, piano and percussion (with recorded bird) David Abel, Julie Steinberg, and William Winant (premiere), commissioned by the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio Littlefield Concert Hall Mills College (4-11-1992)
*Tree Piece #37 (1992) canon for two instruments Wendy Reid and Don Buchla Live Oak Park (12-18-1993)
*Tree Piece #34 “frog ostinato”(1985) for oboe and percussion written for William Banovetz and William Winant San Francisco Contemporary Music Players Green Room, SFMOMA (5-7-1991)
*Tree Piece #34 “frog ostinato”(1985) for oboe and percussion written for William Banovetz and William Winant premiere, New Langton Arts: Wendy Reid and Jin Hi Kim San Francisco (11-16-85)
*Tree Piece #55 “lulu variations” (2008 - 2014)
African Gray Parrot, Buchla Lightning, violin and muted trumpet with real time/ digital mix:
Other Minds Festival lulu, Reid, Dambly (3-1-2014) San Francisco
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) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oObhwOMUk5k
*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 miix : 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)
*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, 12-18-04
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 (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)
Trimpin at Stanford: DIY Tailgate Musical Instruments Demonstration/Performance (Lulu, W. Reid, T. Dambly)White Plaza, Stanford University (4-10-11)
*Tree Piece #41 “bird Y” (1992) for violin, piano and percussion -commissioned by the Abel-Steinberg-Winant TrioAbel-Steinberg-Winant Trio Concert
Concert Hall, Mills College (premiere 4-11-92)
Prieto Gallery “Tree Pieces: Visual Scores”, Mills (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 (student)
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 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 (Reid, 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, 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) Japan Tour (Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio) (11-90)
Mills College Alumni Concert, (Abel-Winant) (10-12-90)
Dream of Wild Animals, Ruth Botchen Dance Co., Oakland (12-90) 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)
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Tree Piece #17 “nothing is more real than nothing” -Beckett (1990) for 2 or more instruments -commissioned by Don Buchla
Merkin Recital Hall, NYC ( Interpretations Series) (D. Buchla, M. Goldstein, premiere 1-9-92) Electro-Acoustic Music Concert, Mills (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 (11-4-92)
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, 3-24-01)
Music Teacher’s 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, premiere 3-31-82)
New Performance Gallery, SF (5-29-84)
Mills Contemporary Ensemble, Concert Hall (12-4-90) 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) The Ivy Room, Berkeley (DJ Performance, 6-3-12)
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 (W. Reid, premiere 12-28-81)
Tree Piece #2 (1980) for paired instruments Mills Contemporary Ensemble Concert
Wendy Reid, David Rosenboom, William Winant, premiere 12-4-80)
7th Species Series, Ensemble Room, Mills College (12-4-93)
Tree Piece #1 “Gungles” (1980)
for mixed ensemble with small yellow bird in a cage 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 as score for film “On The Track” by L. Yam (1980) San Francisco Film Festival short) - film by L. Yam (1982)
The Ivy Room, Berkeley (DJ Performance, 6-3-12)
Game of Tree (1980)
for one or more players of the game
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 (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), 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 (1979)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 ensembles
Composition Departmental Recital, USC (5-10-76)
*Experiments (1974) for chamber orchestra
*Sonata (1974) for alto flute and piano
New Works (B.M. Recital), USC (4-21-75)
*Five Sketches (1974) for mixed ensemble
New Works (B.M. Recital), USC (4-21-75)
*Elegy (poem by Anne Lindbergh) (1973) for soprano and piano
Barnsdall Arts Festival, 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 (1973)
*3 haiku (1972) for soprano, claves and piano
Barnsdall Arts Festival, Los Angeles (10-12-74) New Works (B.M. Recital), USC (4-21-75)
New Works, USC (4-21-75)
Starlight Bowl, Burbank (6-6-75)
Students of Boulanger, Palais de Fontainbleau (8-75)
*3 Pieces (1972) for tenor, cello and piano (texts: E. Dickinson, L. Cohen, W. Stevens) (1972) f cello
Composition Departmental Recital, USC ( 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.Fiasca, 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
Advanced Theory Class Concert, USC (premiere 4-71)
*Piece for Violin (1968), for Shotsi Reid