WENDY REID
composer - violinist - teacher
treepieces.net
Work Experience:
2018- 2024 Current composition projects: Ambient Bird site-specific work/performances at Live Oak Park, Ogawa Plaza forum, Mosswood Chapel, Dresher studio, online international locations; book of bird etudes for solo instruments(wip); teaching projects include the performance of Bartok’s 44 Duos & selected Berio Duetti, Messiaen, with students this Spring and Fall (2024)
1990-2023 Mills College: music composition instructor /lecturer, music composition classes (’90)
1980-2023 Holy Names University PMD: violin-ensemble-composition instructor
1988-2023 Oakland Museum / SF Art Institute: ‘New Music with Bird, Frogs, and Other Creatures’ -producer of new music series
1991-1992 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 (Barnsdall Park, Starlight Bowl)
Education:
1982 Stanford University: CCRMA, post-graduate study/computer music workshop with John Chowning, Max Mathews, John Pierce, Jean-Claude Risset
1978-1980 Mills College, M.A. music composition: composition with Terry Riley, Robert Ashley, Charles Shere; violin, chamber music with the Kronos Quartet
1975-1977 Private study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris / Ecoles D’Art Americans, Fontainebleau: classes in composition, analysis, harmony, counterpoint; solfege with assistant Annette Dieudonne
1970-1975 USC, school of performing arts, B.M. 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
Commissions/Grants*:
Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio (Tree Piece #41), Don Buchla (Tree Piece #17), Mary Oliver (Tree Piece #21), Brasiosaurus (Tree Piece #52), William Winant (Tree Piece #10), Tom Dambly (Tree Piece #31), Joyce Umamoto (Tree Piece #42); Oakland Museum (concert series); *Awards/Grants: Meet the Composer/ New York, Meet the Composer/California, City of Berkeley/Innova, Oakland Museum, National Educational Development Award, National Merit Finalist, Nature Company, Subito Composer Grant, ASMC Grant, Sound Image, Paul Merritt Henry, Hellman, Graduate Assistantships, 4-year California State Scholarship, Honors at Entrance-USC
Discography (LP, CD, cassette, Youtube, Soundcloud):
Tree Pieces (LP, cassette - Frog Records,1988)
Tree Pieces (CD - Frog Records 2002)
Tree Pieces - volume 2 (CD - Niente, 2004)
Tree Piece Singe #1: Lulu Variations (Niente, 2009)
Tree Piece Single #2: Lu-Shoo Fragments (Niente, 2010)
Tree Piece Single #3: Lulu Variations 2 (Niente, 2014)
Tree Piece Single #4 Ambient Bird 433 (Youtube 2019)
Tree Single #5 Birds Without Borders (Youtube WR 2020)
Tree Piece Single #6 Bird Haiku (Youtube WR 2020)
Tree Piece #7 Birds Without Borders #2 (Youtube WR 2021)
Tree Piece Single #8 Birds Without Borders #3 (Youtube WR 2021)
Tree Piece Single #9 Ambient Bird -Live Oak 2022 (Youtube WR 2022)
Tree Piece Single #10 Ambient Bird - Mosswood (Youtube WR 2023)
Tree Piece Single #11 Ambient Bird - West Oakland (YoutubeWR 2023)
Tree Piece Single #12 Ambient Bird -Live Oak 20 23 (WR-2023)
Beyond Borders : BIRDS-IMPROVISATIONS-ENVIRONMENTS, Youtube - Center for New Music (10-14-21)
AMBIENT BORDERS 2019-2021 ambient bird collection (live and online) (Youtube WR 2021)
Wendy Reid - Tree Pieces (see Youtube for lists)
Bird Collection (WR-2022): Twittering Machine / Gungles / Tree Piece #21 / lulu variations / ambient bird 433 (Soundcloud - private)
Interviews / Articles / Reviews**
*Wendy Reid Taps into the Ambience of the Natural World interview by Lou Fancher, San Francisco Classical Voice Preview -Lou Fancher: https://www.sfcv.org/articles/preview/wendy-reid-taps-ambience-natural-world-her-music (9-19-2023)
*Democratic Birdsong: Wendy Reid makes music with nature https://eastbayexpress.com/democratic-birdsong/
https://treepieces.net/files/1235032/eastbayexpresswendyreid.pdf
https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=2873cada-027b-4c5a-9dc0-1aa195d28a24 \\Democratic Birdsong | East Bay Express | Oakland, Berkeley & Alameda -East Bay Express (7-19-23) https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=2873cada-027b-4c5a-9dc0-1aa195d28a24
*Nature of Music 18 - Other Minds: Wendy Reid The Nature of Music - Other Minds (7-13-230)
*Oakland composer, birds make beautiful music, -Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle datebook(11-9-2018) https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/oakland-composer-birds-make-beautiful-music-together
*NOISY PEOPLE - interview by Tim Perkis: https://timperkis.bandcamp.com/track/wendy-reid / audio mp3:08_wendy_reid.mp3 (2-23-15)
audio mp3:08_wendy_reid.mp3
*Meet Lulu: Parrot Musician and Muse. -Jesse Hamlin SFChronicle Interview -2-18-2014 https://www.sfcv.org/article/meet-lulu-parrot-musician-and-muse - San Francisco Classical Voice (2-18-14)
*BAMM: "Lounging with Lulu" (Voodoo Riffs), Interview with Micah Dubreil, 9 June 2014
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcasts/running-the-voodoo-down/id8546077970 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK6yL0OTZWU
*Center for New Music : Mills Grist -composers from Mills College - Wendy Reid (27:43) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKvnr16XXqg -Sudhu Tewari ( 4-14-22)
*Teacher Feature: Wendy Reid -director Katherine Baird interviews violin instructor and composer Wendy Reid at Holy Names University PMD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uDFBeuDIg8&t=230s (3-11-21)
*”Minding the Frontier of New Music", by Whitney Phaneuf, East Bay Express, 26 February 2014 East Bay Express 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] San Francisco Bay Guardian article
http://www.sfbg.com/noise/2014/02/26/and-one-african-grey-parrot-
*Other Minds 19 festival pre-concert talk with Charles Amirkhanian and composers, San Francisco Jazz Center, 3-1-2014: link to page https://archive.org/details/OMF_2014_03_01_C2
*Djerassi Institute with Other Minds 19 Festival, interview/talk with Wendy Reid -Charles Amirkhanian, moderator, 2-24-2014
*Women in Creative Music: Wendy Reid Interview by R. Unterseher, Pauline Oliveros 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
*KALW broadcast: Other Minds Live! hosted by Liam Herb
*KPFA-Airplay/Interviews (1978→2022): Hosted by Marina LaPalma, Charles Amirkhanian, Kris Welch, Jane Heaven, Sarah Cahill, Barbara Golden, and others
*KALX Interview (1991) -hosted by Fred Lomberg-Holm / *KALW Interviews, airplay: Music of Other Minds / Richard Friedman, Sarah Cahill
*"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, NorCal 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
*”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/
Reviews**(excerpts with links)
* "Composers of Northern California, Other Minds 19" - “Tree Piece #55 “lulu variations: Reid’s Tree Pieces are an ongoing set of compositions incorporating nature with live performance. This is not unlike Pauline Oliveros’ work that involves careful listening by musicians within defined parameters of these sounds. Lulu, the parrot, improvises with sparse notes on the violin and muted trumpet…a whimsical experience” -perkutooth, (3-4-14) New Music Buff (3-6-2014)
* "To Soothe the Savage Beast" - “Wendy Reid’s Tree Piece #21 performed by David Abel, violinist and William Winant, percussion on Friday evening includes a Pacific parrotlet… beginning with sounds of water joined by the bird. On stage next to Winant, surrounded by rows of finger cymbals and half-filled glasses of water, was what looked like a Joseph Beuys sculpture: a pitcher of water, with foam rubber taped to the bottom, with small rocks and tops of salt shakers. Next to it was a pot with a package of dry macaroni, and bits of hardware, objects for Winant to drop into the pitcher... For Abel, this included bouncing the bow on the violin strings, playing harmonics, pizzicato, playing on the bridge ….the bird had obvious presence …bird and performers…a fascinating interplay between randomness and structure in which the bird is the star…with a reverence for nature reflected in each work gave the program a pleasurable coherence.” - Sarah Cahill, East Bay Express (10-26-90), http://www.treepieces.net/files/eastbayexpress1990.jpg
*“Wendy Reid: Tree Pieces LP, four Tree Pieces (#s 34,8,10,21); one piece creates a landscape of performers playing with an ostinato of croaking frogs and is quite arresting: cell-like units of sound growing into seemingly endless phrases; another, a dialogue of sparse and delicate timbres of William Winant’s solo percussion, and the final piece is a 19-minute score of bird-like motifs played with the song of a Pacific Parrotlet, This whole record mirrors Reid’s professionalism, substantiates her deserved recognition, and succeeds in her objective to “reflect nature’s manner of operation”-Jack Jordan, Sound Choice No.16 (Winter, 1991),http://www.treepieces.net/files/treepiecereview-2.jpg
*"Players End Series on High Note” -“One piece of musical herpetology on the program provided a relief..Tree Piece #34 has oboist William Banovetz and percussionist William Winant skillfully imitating, reflecting and otherwise interacting with sounds of a frog until both instruments assume something like frogness. With the design influenced by the Fibonacci series, there is an allegory to be inferred about music being reduced to a naturalistic state” - Robert Commanday, San Francisco Chronicle (5-9-91 http://www.treepieces.net/files/sfreview9101.jpg,
*“Tree Pieces CD”-“ Ace percussionist William Winant finds himself surrounded by frogs, birds, and humans with the Fibonacci series providing much of the structure. Reid’s sharp ear for timbre and pacing keeps these four compositions following the austere path of musical intrigue. Tree Piece #21, which sounds like Feldman, Messiaen, and Malcolm Goldstein accompanying the bizarre chirps of a Pacific Parrotlet insists on being heard over and over.” -Fred Lomberg-Holm, Sound Choice No.13 (Winter, 1990), http://www.treepieces.net/files/treepiecereview-1.jpg,
* "Music Goes Round but Comes out Obscure” - “A tremulous nervous bowing of a violin..vocal grunts and occasional words..sound of breaking glass..noise of a bunch of junk falling on the floor…These were only some of the ingredients of last night’s program, The Music of Wendy Reid at the New Performance Gallery. It’s evocative writing, partly irritating, partly, soothing, rarely at rest.” -Scott Beach, San Francisco Chronicle (5-30-84) http://www.treepieces.net/files/sfchroniclereview84bw.jpg
* “Unusual Music” - “Saturday night brought new music of a very different kind to the On Broadway in San Francisco where ‘Marvelous Unusual Sounds in Concert’ (M.U.S.I.C.) was in its second night, “Wendy Reid’s Tree Piece #14 was more interesting…using widely separated piano, violin, and percussion with occasional spoken words.” -Charles Shere, Oakland Tribune (12-6-82) http://www.treepieces.net/files/oaklandtribunereview82bw.jpg
“I am very happy to recommend to you Wendy Reid. During the 10 years that I taught composition at Mills College, I encountered no finer composer in my classes. She is original and has great insight in realizing her forms. Her settings for Paul Klee drawings particularly impressed me, Each one of her realizations expressed with parallel brilliance Klee’s unique statements…I consider her one of the most important composers of her generation.* -Terry Riley ( ASCAP grant recommendation) https://treepieces.net/interviews-etc-1 Copies of letters of recommendation,Terry Riley, Don Linsdale-Oakland Museum, Natalia Ivanova-Pro Arts, etc can be found a this link
CATALOGUE OF WORKS* and *selected performances* 1968-2023
*Ambient Bird - Live Oak 2023 w/ sfSOUND & 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, John Ingle =Live Oak Park (9-22-23)
*Other Minds Nature of Music 18: Wendy Reid talk/performance *ambient bird - west oakland (2023) with the bird ensemble: Lulu. african grey parrot, Wendy Reid, Krys Bobrowski, Aurora Josephson, Ron Heglin, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, David Samas -Nature of Music 18 with Charles Amirkhanian, Dresher Studio, Oakland (7-13-23)
*Garden Of Memory, walk-through solstice event /performances *Ambient Bird - epitaph klee (2023) with the bird ensemble: Lulu. african grey parrot, Wendy Reid, Krys Bobrowski, Aurora Josephson, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, David Samas - Sarah Cahill, Lucy Mattingly, Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland (6-21-2023)
* Mosswood Sound Series: Wendy Reid & Toshi Ichiyanagi: *Ambient Bird - Mosswood (2023) 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 -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 1-3 (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) works by Wendy Reid, Silvia Matheus, Aurora Josephson, Biggi Vinkeloe, Pauline Oliveros, first piece: *Birds Without Borders 3 (2021) for two ensembles: online International ensemble: 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)
*HNU Alumni Faculty and Friends Concert (online performances) *Birds Wthout Borders 2” for two ensembles international ensemble: 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) Holy Names University (2-28-21)
*UK Network Music Festival: Sound Without Borders* (online events) *Ambient Bird - 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) -Shelly Knotts, Charles Hutchins NMF2020 (7-17-2020)
*Tree Piece #67 ‘Bird Haiku' for bird and open ensemble (2020) on *‘The Faculty and Friends Concert’, 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 (2-8-2020)
*Ambient Bird 433 (2019) for 3 open ensembles and African Grey Parrot, at the Frank Ogawa Plaza Forum: ‘Wendy Reid, Lulu, and Friends’ , performers list: website-home page, Natalia Ivanova, produces -ProArts Oakland, Sunday (4-14-19)
*Garden Of Memory, walk-through solstice event /performances *Tree Piece Collection / Bird Works (2019) with Lulu (parrot), Wendy Reid, Brenda Hutchinson, Aurora Josephson,Ron Heglin, Sarah Cahill, Lucy Mattingly, Chapel of the Chimes (6-21-19)
*Lulu Variations 5 (2018) for open ensemble and African Grey Parrot: *Mills Performing Group Concert, with the Mills Performing Group (website: performers list-Steed Cowart), 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)
*Faculty Recital, University of California Davis -Pitzer Center Recital *Tree Piece #34 “frog ostinato” for oboe and percussion Kyle Bruckmann, oboe and Christopher Froh percussion -,Pitzer Center Recital Hall, Davis (11-19-2018)
*Tree Piece #66 / Bird Works (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
*CNMAT: SILVIA MATHEUS — TIM PERKIS — WENDY REID Tree Piece #65 “Lulu Variations 4" (2017) with Lulu (African grey parrot), Wendy Reid (violin), Aurora Josephson (voice), Ron Heglin (tuba) -Center for New Music and Technology, 1750 Arch St, UC Berkeley (11-19-2017)
*Mills Contemporary Performance Ensemble (Steed Cowart, director) *Tree Piece #65 “Lulu Variations 3" (2017) for African gey parrot and open ensemble, Lulu (parrot),Wendy Reid (violin), Soo Yeon Lyuh
(haegeum), Tony Genaro (percussion), Naomi Harrison-Clay (saxophone), Michael Jones (percussion), Erick Glick Reiman (melodica), Mathew Robidoux (guitar), Kevin Schwenkler (piano), Jess Tambellini (trumpet), Marc Zollinger (guitar) -Steed Cowart, Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College (11-29-2017)
*Don Buchla Memorial Concert -Gray Area Foundation Event *Nothing Piece (2017) for Don Buchla, Wendy Reid, Peter Apfelbaum (saxophone), with virtual: Lulu, Wendy Reid, Don Buchla, William Winant -San Francisco (4-23-17)
*Garden Of Memory, walk-through solstice event /performances *New Bird-Tree Pieces (2017) with Lulu (African grey parrot), Wendy Reid, Brenda Hutchinson, Aurora Josephson, Ron Heglin -Sarah Cahill, Lucy Mattingly, Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland (6-21-2017)
*TRIMPIN AT STANFORD: DIY TAILGATE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS DEMONSTRATIONS / PERFORMANCES -White Plaza **Tree Piece #55 - Lulu Variations 2 (2010) for bird, violin, buchla lightning, and trumpet (and other Tree works): Lulu (bird), Wendy Reid, Tom Dambly, Ron Heglin -White Plaza, Stanford Universiy (4-10-2011)
*Turquoise Grotto: music for birdwatching (David Samas, producer) *Tree Piece #55 lulu Variations 2 (2016) with Lulu (African grey parrot), Lulu (parrot), Wendy Reid (violin), Ron Heglin (tuba) -San Francisco (3-18-2016)
*Garden of Memory, walk-through solstice event / performances **Tree Pieces (#s 10, 17, 55) Lulu (African grey parrot), Wendy Reid (violin), Brenda Hutchinson (long tube), Aurora Josephson (voice), Ron Heglin (tuba) -Sarah Cahill, Lucy Mattingly, Chapel of the Chimes (6-21-2016)
*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)
*OTHER MINDS 19 FESTIVAL at the San Francisco Jazz Center **Tree Piece #55 “Lulu Variations 3” (2014) for African grey parrot, buchla lightning, violin, & piccolo trumpet, Lulu (parrot), Wendy Reid (violin, lightning) and Tom Dambly (piccolo trumpet); works by Mark Applebaum, John Bischoff, Don Buchla, Joseph Byrd, Charles Hutchins, Myra Melford, Roscoe Mitchel, Wendy Reid, John Schott -produced by Charles Amirkhanian, San Francisco (3-1-2014)
*Djerassi Institute: talks with Other Minds 19 composers: Mark Applebaum, John Bischoff, Don Buchla, Joseph Byrd, Charles Hutchins, Myra Melford, Roscoe Mitchel, Wendy Reid, and John Schott Tree Piece #10 and #55 - Director, Charles Amirkhanian, Woodside, CA (2-24-14)
*New Music At The Ivy Room: *Lulu Variations 2 (2010) for African *Grey Parrot, violin and muted trumpet, Lulu (parrot), Wendy Reid, (violin), Tom Dambly (trumpet), -the Ivy Room, Berkeley,CA (6-3-2013) /(Lulu, W. Reid, 2-12-12)
*Brown University: Pixilerations Festival: *Lulu Variations (2008), for african grey parrot, violin, buchla lightning virtual: Lulu and Wendy Reid - Providence, RI (10-2-2010)
*Thingamajigs Festival at the Vessel Gallery (-Edward Schocker) *Lulu Variations (2008) for African grey parrot, violin, buchla lightning & muted trumpet Lulu (African grey parrot), Wendy Reid (violin), Tom Dambly (trumpet) -Oakland (9-25-2010)
*On The Nature Of Nature - Oakland Museum - 4 sound artists *Lulu Variation (2008) for African grey parrot, violin, buchla lightning & trumpet, with photographs of A. Tingley Lulu (African grey parrot), Wendy Reid (violin, lightning), Tom Dambly (trumpet)/ works by Krys Bobrowski, Dan Dugan, Guillermo Galindo, Wendy Reid -Oakland Museum (10-12-2008)
*Tree Piece #58 "lu-shoo fragments" (2010-12) with African Grey Parrot, Buchla Lightning, violin
*A Concert of New Works for Brassiosaurus, Trinity Chapel *Tree Piece #52 "19 variations on 19 variations (2003-05) for trumpet, trombone & tuba (premiere) -commissioned by Brassiosaurus: Tom Djll (trumpet), Toyoji Tomita (trombone) and Ron Heglin (tuba) - Trinity Chapel, Berkeley (3-4-2003)
*Tree Piece #52 "19 variations on 19 variations (2003-05) for trumpet, trombone & tuba (informal performance, recording)Tom Djll, Toyoji Tomita, and Ron Heglin Atelier Niente Berkeley, CA (8-10-2005)
*Tree Piece #51 "lightning dog variations” (2004) for violin, buchla lightning and dogs Wendy Reid, dogs:Twinkie, Hazelle -Live Oak Park (1-14-2004)
*ODC Theatre and Living Music Inc. Present: Spring New Music Series, Small Ensembles / Large Ensembles San Francisco *Tree Piece #50 "19 variations" (2001) for violin and percussion, -premiere performce by Wendy Reid and William Winant * *Tree Piece #17 performed by Wendy Reid, Ariel Tingley, Philip Gelb, Dan Joseph, and Ronnie Baker (Butoh dancer) - Dan Joseph, producer ODC Theatre 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)
*IN YOUR EAR FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC - BERKELY ART CENTER *Tree Piece #46 "...sound of water" (1998) violin and percussion -(premiere) Wendy Reid, William Winant, Ariel Tingley -Marvin Saunders, producer Berkeley (7-12-1998)
*Sound Culture Festival, James Moore Theatre, Oakland Museum *Tree Piece #43 ‘studies in timbre’ (1996) for violin, koto and percussion (premiere) Wendy Reid (violin), Miya Masaoka (koto), Gino Robair (percussion) - Oakland Museum (4-7-1996)
*American Music Week: New Music Worlds -NMW (Phil Collins) *Tree Piece #44 ‘frog persona’ (1994) for two or more instruments Wendy Reid, Don Buchla, George Lewis -New Music Works, Phil Collins Santa Cruz (11-7-1994)
*Wendy Reid: Visual Scores - Musical Collage Prieto Gallery *Tree Piece #44 ‘frog persona’ (1994) for two or more instruments (premiere) Wendy Reid, George Lewis, Don Buchla, Ezra Buchla -installation of Tree Pieces (visual scores) in the gallery, with a performance in the forest _-Prieto Gallery, Mills College (11-11-1994)
*An Evening of Contemporary Music with the CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE: works by James Tenney, Wendy Reid, Peter Garland, Harold Shrapnel, David Kwan, and La Monte Young *Tree Piece #17 ’nothing is more real than nothing’-Beckett (1991) for two or more performers, ensemble: Eva Baumgartner (marimba, glockenspiel), Don Buchla (thunder, lightning), Steed Cowart, (glasses, pebbles), Miya Masaoka (koto), Wendy Reid (violin), William Winant (percussion), Mark Wyman (piano) -Mills College Concert Hall (5-11-1993)
*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)
*ABEL - STEINBERG - WINANT TRIO CONCERT - MILLS COLLEGE *Tree Piece #41 (1992) ‘bird Y’ for violin, piano and percussion, with bird -commissioned by David Abel (violin), Julie Steinberg (piano), and William Winant (percussion), who gave the premiere at 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)
*San Francisco Contemporary Music Players -Green Room, SFMOMA *Tree Piece #34 “frog ostinato”(1985) for oboe and percuss,ion written for William Banovetz (oboe) and William Winant (percussion) - Stephen Lucky Mosko, director SFMOMA (5-7-1991)
*NEW LANGTON ARTS: JIN HI KIM AND WENDY REID -composers *Tree Piece #34 “frog ostinato”(1985) for oboe and percussion written for William Banovetz and William Winant (premiere) -San Francisco (11-16-85)
*Tree Piece #34 “frog ostinato” (1985) -other performances:
*New Music with Birds, Frogs & Other Creatures, Oakland Museum (W.
*Mills College, Graduate Recital, Eva Baumgartner
*The Ivy Room, Berkeley, DJ performance (6-3-12)
*Tree Piece #55 “lulu variations” (2008 - 2014)
African Gray Parrot, Buchla Lightning, violin and muted trumpet (real time/ digital mix)
*Tree Piece #51 “lightningdog variations” (2004) for violin, Buchla lightning and dogs Live Oak Park, Berkeley, 12-18-04
Atelier Niente, Berkeley, Don Buchla, Wendy Reid, virtual dogs: Twinkie, Hazelle (1-14-04)
*A Concert of New Works for Trumpet, Mills College Concert Hall *Tree Piece #31 (1992) “one eye sees, the other feels” -Klee (1992) for trumpet and percussion, commissioned by Tom Dambly: premiere by Tom Dambly (trumpet), Joel Davel, (percussion), -Mills College (4-11-92)
*Tree Piece #31(1992) -other performances:
*New Sound Works, Art Gallery Mills College (5-11-92)
*In Your Ear, New Music Festival, Berkeley Art Center (7-12-1998) *Dance Naganuma, Session House, Tokyo, Japan, virtual (1-16-2000)
HNU Faculty Recital, Chapel, Holy Names University PMD *Tree Piece #24 “bird music 2" (1992) for violin and percussion, Wendy Reid (violin), Krys Bobrowski (percussion), HNU Oakland (9-27-92)
*Avant Garde Violin: Cage, Reid, Kim -New Performance Gallery *Tree Piece #21 “bird music” (1985) for violin and percussion, commissioned by Mary Oliver, premiere: Mary Oliver (violin), William Winant (percussion) -San Francisco ( 9-18-85)
*Tree Piece #21 ‘bird music’ (1985) -other performances:
*Exploratorium: YLEM -Artists Using Science & Technology (1-23-90) *Dream of Wild Animals, Ruth Botchen Dance Co., Oakland (12-90) *Tree Piece #21 ‘bird music’:Contemporary Music Competition: Vancoillie, violin and, Van De r Vekens, percussion Antwerp, Belgium (2-26-04),
V!P Concert: Ann Vancoillie / Van Der Vekens, Antwerp Belgium (3–3-04)
*JAPAN TOUR: ABEL - STEINBERG - WINANT TRIO (11-90): *Tree Piece #21 “bird music” (1985) for violin and percussion, David Abel (violin), William Winant (percussion), see reviews, Japan (11-90) —-Other performances of this piece by Abel and Winant: *Mills College Alumni Concert: Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio (10-12-90) *Mills College Student Union: Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio (date?)
*Interpretations , Merkins Recital Hall NYC *Tree Piece #17 “nothing is more real than nothing” (1991) -Beckett (1990) for 2 or more instruments -commissioned by Don Buchla -premiere by Don Buchla and Mark Goldstein, part of Tom Buckner’s Interpretations Series, -NYC (1-9-92)
*Electro-Acoustic Music Concert, Mills College Concert Hall (10-8-92) *Tree Piece #17 (1991) commissioned by and performed by Don Buchla (lightning) and William Winant, percussion -Mills, College (10-8-92)
*Tree Piece #17 (1991) -other performances of this work:
*New Music with Birds, Frogs and Other Creatures, Don Buchla, William Winant - James Moore Theatre, Oakland Museum (4-5-92) *International Computer Music Conference, Don Buchla, Mark Goldstein, San Jose (10-15-92) *Cornell University Music Department, Don Buchla, Mark Goldstein ( 11-2-92)
*Drew University Music Department,Don Buchla, Mark Goldstein(11-3-92)
*Center for Music Technology, Rudford University, Don Buchla, Mark Goldstein (11-4-92)
*Mills Contemporary Ensemble Concert Wendy Reid, Don Buchla, Mills student ensemble -Mills Concert Hall (4-11-93) *Mills Contemporary Ensemble Concert Mills Concert Hall performed by Don Buchla, William Winant, Wendy Reid, Steed Cowart, Miya Masaoka, and student ensemble -Mills College (12-4-90)
*Prieto Gallery, Mills College, Tree Pieces installation (11-11-94) *Communications Technology Cluster, Oakland, CA, Tree Pieces installation (reception, 9-24-99)
*15th Annual Avant-Garden Music Festival, (Phil Collins), Santa Cruz (6-11-95) Wendy Reid, ensemble (6-11-95)
*ODC Theatre and Living Music Inc. Present: Spring New
Music Series: Small Ensembles / Large Ensembles
Wendy Reid, Philip Gelb, Dan Joseph, Ariel Tingley (3-24-01)
*Music Teacher’s Convention of California, San Francisco
Wendy Reid, George Tingley, Ronnie Baker-butoh dancer (7-3-01)
*Vimeo: Downbeat Means Attack Ensemble (10-26-10)
*The Ivy Room, Berkeley, DJ Performance (6-3-12)
*Tree Piece #14 for mixed ensemble (1982)
*Marvelous Unusual Sounds In Concert’ Festival, On Broadway SF *Tree Piece #2 San Francisco Wendy Reid (violin), William Winant (percussion) premiere M.U.S.I.C. festival -San Francisco (12-4-82)
*New Works for Percussion - Mills Concert Hall *Tree Piece #10 (1982) for 2 or more instruments -commissioned by William Winant -premiere by Wendy Reid (violin) and William Winant (percussion) Mills College (3-31-82)
*Tree Piece #10 -other performance:
*New Performance Gallery: Music of Wendy Reid, performed by Wendy Reid. William Winant, Toyoji Tomita, Chris Maher, Barbara Golden -San Francisco (5-29-84)
*Mills Contemporary Ensemble, Concert Hall (12-4-90)
*Night of the Living Composers: New Music Works Concert (Phil Collins, producer), Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium, Santa Cruz (12-8-01) *The *Ivy Room, Berkeley (DJ Performance (6-3-12)
*New Performance Gallery: Music of Wendy Reid San Francisco *Tree Piece #8 (1984) for solo percussion -written for William Winant who gave the premiere on this concert -San Francisco (5-29-84)
*Tree Piece #8 -list of other performances:
*New Langton Arts, William Winant, percussion SF (11-16-85)
*San Francisco Art Institute, Bird-Frog Concert, William Winant, percussion (3-12-89)
*Ton Art ’89, Kunstmuseum, William Winant, percussion -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, Gino Robair, percussion -Oakland Museum,)(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)
New Performance Gallery - San Franciso String Quartet Glass Walls string quartet (1980) performed by the San Francisco String Quartet (Nathan Rubin) -San Francisco (5-29-84)
*Tree Piece #4 “two poems by Shotsi Reid” (1981) for voice, violin and musicbox
*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)
*Gungles (1980 -Wendy Reid at P.A.S.S., NYC -musicbox w/ virtual ensemble: William Winant, Sam Ashley, Wendy Reid, Barbara Golden premiere -New York City (12-28-81) / Student Union - Mills College, Oakland (12-4-82)
*Mills Contemporary Ensemble Concert *Tree Piece #2 (1980) for paired instruments
Wendy Reid, David Rosenboom, William Winant, premiere (12-4-80)
*Glass Walls (1980) for string quartet - premiere by Kronos Quartet *Klee Pieces (1980) for mixed ensembles, premiere *ASMC Special Event: Music by Wendy Reid Mills Concert Hall
Ensemble Klee, Kronos Quartet premieres (2-13-80)
*HNU PMD Faculty Recital - Studio Theatre: Twittering Machine, from Klee Pieces, Faculty Ensemble for “Twittering Machine”, -Holy Names University (6-4-97)
*USC Contemporary Ensemble: ‘Reflections on Klee’, premiere, Hancock Recital Hall, USC, Los Angeles (5-10-76)
*Musical Score for ‘Tapping on Miracles’, 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 (see Klee Pieces) ensemble Klee. -Hancock Recital Hall, USC
*USC Composition Recital: Music of Wendy Reid:
*Experiments (1974) for chamber orchestra USC (4-21-75)
*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
*Variations on a Poem by Shotsi Reid (1973) for soprano and piano
*Variations for Violin and Piano (1971)
New Works (B.M. Recital), USC (4-21-75)
*3 haiku (1972) for soprano, claves and piano: *New Works, USC (4-21-75)
*Starlight Bowl, Burbank (6-6-75)
*Palais de Fontainbleau: Students of Boulanger (8-75)
*3 Pieces for tenor, cello and piano (1972) (texts: Emily Dickinson, Leonard Cohen, Wallace Stevens), Donald Crockett t(enor): *Composition Departmental Recital - Hancock Recital premiere by Donald Crockett (tenor) -Los Angeles; (10-23-73) / *Music of Wendy Reid -USC, Los Angeles(4-21-75)
*Barnsdall Arts Festival: New Works *“when god...”(-e.e. cummings) (1972) for voice and flute, Catherine Terrell Fiasco (soprano), Brice Martin, flute Los Angeles (10-12-74)
*Pirandello’s Henry IV (1970) for violin and piano Advanced Theory Class Concert, USC (premiere 4-71)
*Piece for Violin (1968), for Shotsi Reid
Scores / Publications
*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 2018-2024 (list on website)
*Tree Pieces (individual scores, on website)
*Klee Pieces (score, on website)
*Glass Walls for string quartet (score, on website)
*Frog On Rock/Game of Tree/Klee Pieces/Glass Walls/Early Works
*Notations #21, by T. Sauer, published by M. Batty: Wendy Reid, Tree Piece #8 (visual score):
*Bird Etudes (WIP, W. Reid)
*Studies in Timbre, Bird Diary, Frog On Rock (WIP, W. Reid)