Roger Reynolds









PERFORMANCES 2019 – UPCOMING

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Update 20 August 2026

ALTERNATIVES ... in Curious Contexts
19 May 2027
Adrian Morejon, Solo Bassoon
Talea Ensemble, James Baker, Conductor
Brooklyn, New York


ALTERNATIVES
Spring 2027 (TBA)
Adrian Morejon, Solo bassoon
Video by Kyle Johnson & Roger Reynolds
Saint Bartholomew Hall
Brooklyn, New York


Autumn Island
24 February 2027
Steven Schick, Percussion
Conrad Prebys Music Center
La Jolla, California


Here and There
24 Februray 2027
Steven Schick, Percussion
Conrad Prebys Music Center
La Jolla, California


Sanctuary 1: Chatter/Clatter
24 Februay 2027
Steven Schick, Percussion
Conrad Prebys Music Center
La Jolla, California


Autumn Island
4 January 2027
Wesley Fowler, Percussion
Conrad Prebys Music Center
La Jolla, California


Articulate Circles
9 December 2026
Aiyun Huang, Percussion
Video by Kyle Johnson and Roger Reynolds
Conrad Prebys Music Center
La Jolla, California


from Flight : II "Preparing"
from Flight : IV "Perspective
"
15 November 2026
Arditti Quartet
SIGMA Project
w e i t ! 2026 [13 – 15 November]
neue musik weingarten festival
PH Aula, Weingarten, Germany


Watershed I
30 September 2026
Steven Schick, Percussion
Conrad Prebys Music Center
La Jolla, California


Shadowed Narrative (1978-81)
19 January 2026
Earplay Ensemble
Mary Chun, Conductor
Noe Valley Ministry
San Francisco, California


Études by Chopin, Debussy, and Reynolds
15 November 2025
Eric Hubner, Pianist
Institute of Current World Affairs
Cosmos Club
Washington, D.C.


WATERSHED V
22 July 2025
Solo Percussion, Stereophonic algorithmically generated "Shimmer"
Sisco Aparici, Percussion
Festival Internacional PERKEXIC
Alhama de Murcia, Spain


JOURNEY
25 May 2025
Solo Oboe [with an optional addition of English horn], Fl (Picc), Cl, B-cl, Bsn,
Horn, Trp, Tbn, Perc, Pf (concert grand), Vln, Vla, Vc, Db
Jacqueline Leclair, Solo Oboe
League of Composers, Louis Karchin, Conductor
New York


JOURNEY
22 May 2025
Solo Oboe, Fl (Picc), Cl, B-cl, Bsn,
Horn, Trp, Tbn, Perc, Pf (concert grand), Vln, Vla, Vc, Db
Jacqueline Leclair, Oboe
Orchestra of the League of Composers, Louis Karchin, Conductor
Cary Hall, Dimenna Center for Classical Music in Manhattan
New York City, New York


CO-EXISTENCE... framed [CO-EXISTENCE extended] (2025)
First performance: 26 April 2025
Instrumental Septet and Computer Sound
Talea Ensemble, James Baker, Conductor
Conrad Preybs Concert Hall
La Jolla, California


Sleight of Hand (2025)
First performance: 14 April 2025
Percussion
Kosuke Matsuda, Percussionist
Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California


Autumn Island
21 February 2025
Solo Marimba
Sisco Aparici, Percussionist
Conservatory of Jaén
Andalusia, Spain


DICKINSON ... THE FILM
First showing: 6 February 2025
by Kyle Johnson in collaboration with
Roger Reynolds and Baritone Jonathan Nussman
Guerilla Opera presents "Guerilla Underground 2025"
a virtual festival
Boston, Masssachuettes


Watershed IV
25 November 2024
Solo Percussion, Real-time computer sound spatialization
Gavin Ryan, percussionist
Hankinson Hall, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan


Ariadne's Thread
25 August 2024
String Quartet, Computer generated sound
Arditti String Quartet
Arditti Quartet 50th Anniversary, 2024
Suntory Hall, Blue Rose Hall
Tokyo, Japan


Autumn Island (Islands from Archipelago: II)
8 May 2024
Yongyun Zhang, Marimba
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
La Jolla, California


ACTIONS [SHARESPACE V]
26 March 2024
Reynolds 90th Birthday Concert
Eric Huebner, Pianist
Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Musician
Slee Hall, University at Buffalo - SUNY
Buffalo, New York


Piano Études: Book II
First performance Book II (complete)
26 March 2024
Reynolds 90th Birthday Concert
Eric Huebner, Pianist
Slee Hall, University at Buffalo - SUNY
Buffalo, New York


SKETCHBOOK
(for The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera)
19 March 2024
Liz Pearse, Voice and Piano
Paul Hembree, Computer musician
Winona State University
Winona, Minnesota


KNOWING / NOT KNOWING
First performance: 17 March 2024
Narrator, recorded voices, mixed chorus, 2 percussionists,
trombonist, 8-channel sound and video projections
UC San Diego Park & Market
San Diego, California


PASSAGE 13
Performed Lecture date: 10 March 2024
A presentation on CNMAT’s "Roger Reynolds at 90" Celebration
Roger Reynolds, Jacob Sundstrom, Peter Ko
The Pearson Theatre at Meyer Sound, U.C. Berkeley
Berkeley, California


PERSISTENCE [SHARESPACE VI] (2019-2022)
9 March 2024
Peter Ko, cellist
A presentation on CNMAT’s "Roger Reynolds at 90" Celebration
Jacob Sundstrom, computer musician
CNMAT, U.C. Berkeley
Berkeley, California


ACTIONS [SHARESPACE V] (2018-2020)
30 October 2023
Solo Piano, Real-time algorithmic transformation
Eric Huebner, Pianist
Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Musician
Library of Congress
Washinton, DC


WATERSHED V
25 September 2023
Solo Percussion, Stereophonic algorithmically generated "Shimmer"
Mathias Reumert, Percussion
ALICE
Copenhagen, Denmark


WATERSHED V
25 August 2023
Solo Percussion, Stereophonic algorithmically generated "Shimmer"
Mathias Reumert, Percussion
Musikhuset København
Copenhagen, Denmark

CO-EXISTENCE
First performance: 21 May 2023
Instrumental Septet, computer processing
WasteLAnd
Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Musician
Nicholas Deyoe, Conductor
Experimental Theater
CPMC, UC San Diego
La Jolla, California



DICKINSON (2020-2021)
14 May 2023 - Movements 1, 2, 7
Jonathan Nussman, Baritone and Almglocken
Project[BLANK], Bread & Salt
San Diego, California


JOURNEY
First performance: 4 May 2023
Concerto for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra
Jacqueline Leclair, oboe soloist
Ekkozone and Esbjerg Ensemble, Mathias Reumert, conductor
Offbeat Music Festival
Koncertkirken
Copenhagen, Denmark


Mistral
4 May 2023
2 Tpt, 2 Tbn, 2 Hn, Amp Hpd, 2 Vln, 2 Vc, 2 Db
Ekkozone and Esbjerg
Mathias Reumert, Conductor
Offbeat Music Festival
Koncertkirken
Copenhagen, Denmark


Transfigured Wind III
4 May 2023
Solo Flute, Chamber Orchestra (14 players),
Quadraphonic computer processed sound
Kerstin Thiele, Solo Flute
Ekkozone and Esbjerg , Mathias Reumert, Conductor
Offbeat Music Festival
Koncertkirken
Copenhagen, Denmark



ACTIONS [SHARESPACE V] (2018-2020)
19 April 2023
Eric Huebner, Pianist
Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Musician
Department of Music, UC Irvine
Irvine, California


ACTIONS [SHARESPACE V] (2018-2020)
18 April 2023
Eric Huebner, Pianist
Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Musician
Santa Cruz Festival
Department of Music, UC Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California


PASSAGE 12: "ALLIANCES, SHARING, UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT, ANOTHERWORLDLY INTERSECTION, BENEDICTION, THE SPACE OF SILENCE, CONTEXT OR FEATURES?"
16 April 2023
(referencing Xenakis, Takahashi, Takemitsu, Arditti, Cage, Czernowin, and Tiensuu)
Intermedia Performance by Roger Reynolds
Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Musician
April in Santa Cruz Festival
Department of Music, UC Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California


Chatter/Clatter
13 April 2023
Percussion & Computer-processed sound
Kasuke Matsuda, Percussion
Theocharis Papatrechas, Computer Musician
Experimental Theater
CPMC, UC San Diego
La Jolla, California


PERSISTENCE [SHARESPACE VI] (2019-2022)
Cello and Computer Musician
Premiere: 30 March 2023
Peter Ko, cellist
Jacob Sundstrom, computer musician
IDEAS Event in the Auditorium for California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
La Jolla, California


imAge/violin
3 February 2023
“1, 2, 3, 4, 5"
Irvine Arditti, Violinist
Arditti Quartet
Jake Arditti, Countertenor
Wigmore Hall, London, U.K.


PERSISTENCE [SHARESPACE VI] (2019-2022)
2 December 2022
Cello and Computer Musician
Robert Jędrzejewski, Cellist
Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Musician
Spatial Sound Sphere
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Vilnius, Lithuania

PERSISTENCE [SHARESPACE VI] (2019-2022)
First performance: 29 November 2022
Cello and Computer Musician
Robert Jędrzejewski, Cellist
Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Musician
Chopin University Electronic Music Studio
Academy of Music
Warsaw, Poland


Here and There
Text from "Texts for Nothing IX" by Samuel Beckett
22 May 2022
Speaking Percussionist
Dániel Matei, Percussion
Degree Recital
Manhattan School of Music
Manhattan, New York


WATERSHED I
18 April 2022
Solo Percussion
Wesley Fowler, Percussion
Berklee College of Music
Boston, Massachusetts


FOR A REASON The Film
A Reynolds video documentary by Kyle Johnson
30 March 2022
In person and on ZOOM, Followed by Q&A
Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media, and Technology
Schulich School of Music
McGill University, Montréal
Ontario, Canada


FOR A REASON The Film
A Reynolds video documentary by Kyle Johnson
28 November 2021
The Royal Danish Academy of Music
Copenhagen, Denmark


Here and There
19 November 2021
Speaking Percussionist
Text from "Texts for Nothing IX" by Samuel Beckett
Steven Schick, Percussionist
Fresh Sounds (Final program in Bonnie Wright's 25-year Series) Liberty Station
San Diego, California


FOR A REASON The Film
A Reynolds video documentary by Kyle Johnson
11 November 2021
Dumke Hall, University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah


Here and There
11 November 2021
Speaking Percussionist
Steven Schick
Text from "Texts for Nothing IX" by Samuel Beckett
Percussive Arts Society International Convention
Indianapolis, Indiana


Piano Études: Books I and II (selections)
29 October 2021
Ramez Mhaanna, Pianist
OFFBEAT Festival
Roger Reynolds / Philippe Manoury / Ekkozone
Koncertkirken
Copenhagen, Denmark


Dionysus (1990)
27 October 2021
Chamber Ensemble (8 players)
Fl (Picc), Cl (B-cl), Hn, Tpt, B-tbn, Perc, Pf, Db
Mathias Reumert, Conductor
OFFBEAT Festival
Roger Reynolds / Philippe Manoury / Ekkozone
Koncertkirken
Copenhagen, Denmark


Positings
27 October 2021
Flute/Piccolo, French Horn, Violin, Cello, Piano, Real-time sound spatialization
Mathias Reumert, conductor 
OFFBEAT Festival 
Roger Reynolds / Philippe Manoury / Ekkozone
Koncertkirken
Copenhagen, Denmark


The Promises of Darkness
27 October 2021
Fl, Cl, Bsn, Tpt, Hn, Tbn, Perc, Pf, Vln, Vc, Db
Mathias Reumert, Percussionist
OFFBEAT Festival
Roger Reynolds / Philippe Manoury / Ekkozone
Koncertkirken
Copenhagen, Denmark

VOICESPACE: III (ECLIPSE) (Multimedia version with Ed Emswiller's video)
27 October 2021
Text fragments by Issa, Melville, Stevens,
Borges (The Moon, The Other Tiger ["...in the sun or deceptive moonlight..."]), Joyce, García Márquez
Quadraphonic electroacoustic work using voices and computer-synthesized sound
OFFBEAT Festival
Roger Reynolds / Philippe Manoury / Ekkozone
Koncertkirken
Copenhagen, Denmark

imagE/violin & imAge/violin
7 October 2021
Irvine Arditti, Violin
Traiettorie 2021
Parma, Italy

Autumn Island (Islands from Archipelago: II)
9 October 2020
Kunihiko Komori, Marimba
Les Percussions de Strasbourg
Nagakute Cultural Center
Nagakute, Japan

WATERSHED V
First performance: 1 September 2020
Stereophonic algorithmically generated "Shimmer"
Mathias Reumert, Percussion
SV-FESTIVAL
Copenhagen, Denmark

Here and There
31 March 2020
Text from "Texts for Nothing IX" by Samuel Beckett
Speaking Percussionist
Steven Schick, Vocals & Vibraphone
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska


Here and There
12, 13 March 2020
Text from "Texts for Nothing IX" by Samuel Beckett
Speaking Percussionist
Louis Pino, Vocals & Vibraphone
Array Space, Toronto
Ontario, Canado


MARKed MUSIC
3 March 2020
Kathryn Schulmeister, Contrabass, Alexandria Smith, Computer Musician 
Concert Hall, Conrad Prebys Music Center
UC San Diego
La Jolla, California


...the serpent-snapping eye...
27 September 2019
Tpt, Perc, Pf, Quadraphonic computer synthesized sound
Allen Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center
DePaul University
Chicago, Illinios


Variation
11 June 2019
William Fried, Piano
Indiana Historical Society
co-sponsored with Indiana University University - Perdue University (IUPU)
Indianapolis, Illinois



imagE/guitar
2 May 2019
Pablo Gómez Cano, Guitar
Curated by Susan Narucki
Atheneum Library
La Jolla Music Society
La Jolla, California



imagE/flute
26 April 2019
Camilla Hoitenga, Flute
Art Space Claudia Delank
Berlin, Germany



imAge/violin
15 April 2019
Irvine Arditti, Solo Violin
Kammermusiksaal
Hochschule für Musik
Würzburg, Germany

Here and There
22 March 2019
Text from "Texts for Nothing IX" by Samuel Beckett
Speaking Percussionist
Steven Schick, Percussionist
Manhattan School of Music Manhattan, New York

Here and There
1 March 2019
Text from "Texts for Nothing IX" by Samuel Beckett
Speaking Percussionist, Percussionist
Steven Schick
Cross-Wired Master Class
Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater
University of California San Diego

Here and There
First performance: 27 February 2019
Text from "Texts for Nothing IX" by Samuel Beckett
Speaking Percussionist
Steven Schick, Percussionist
University of California, San Diego
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
La Jolla, California

Dream Mirror
16 February 2019
Solo Guitar, Real-time algorithmic transformation
Pablo Gómez Cano, Guitar, Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Musician
Espacio Sonoro, UNAM
Mexico City, Mexico

Variation
12 February 2019
William Fried, Piano
Central Piedmont Community College 12:30 Series
Charlotte, North Carolina

Variation
11 February 2019
William Fried, Piano
Winthrop University Guest Artist Series
Rock Hill, South Carolina

Variation
10 February 2019
William Fried, Piano
Davidson College
Davidson, North Carolina

Toward Another World: LAMENT
30 January 2019
Anthony Burr, Clarinet
Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Musician
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California