Sean and Thomas McManus, of USC’s Kaufman School of Dance, curate an evening-length concert of collaborations between the Thornton School of Music and the Kaufman School of Dance.

Danny Holt will premiere a new solo work for piano and percussion.

Boston Court
Pasadena, CA

More details coming…

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Premiere of a major new work for NOW Ensemble at UCLA

Premiere of new cello concerto with Mike Kaufman and the Eastman Wind Ensemble.

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.

Musiqa Ensemble.

Line C3 Percussion premieres my 30-minute percussion quartet, “Four Streets”, commissioned by Chamber Music America.

Shapeshifter Lab
18 Whitwell Pl. (Gowanus/Park Slope)
Brooklyn, NY
646-820-9452

The low low price of $15 gets you admission to both Line C3 and GLANK. See you there!!!

Line C3 Percussion premieres my 30-minute percussion quartet, “Four Streets”, commissioned by Chamber Music America.

Shapeshifter Lab
18 Whitwell Pl. (Gowanus/Park Slope)
Brooklyn, NY
646-820-9452

The low low price of $15 gets you admission to both Line C3 and GLANK. See you there!!!

Line C3 Percussion premieres my 30-minute percussion quartet, “Four Streets”, commissioned by Chamber Music America.

Shapeshifter Lab
18 Whitwell Pl. (Gowanus/Park Slope)
Brooklyn, NY
646-820-9452

The low low price of $15 gets you admission to both Line C3 and GLANK. See you there!!!

Camerata Pacifica performs “Velvet Hammer.”

Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert

Hahn Hall
Music Academy of the West
Santa Barbara, CA

Camerata Pacifica performs “Velvet Hammer.”

Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert

Hahn Hall
Music Academy of the West
Santa Barbara, CA

Camerata Pacifica performs “Velvet Hammer.”

Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert

Zipper Hall
The Colburn School
Los Angeles, CA

Camerata Pacifica performs “Velvet Hammer.”

Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert

The Huntington
San Marino, CA

Camerata Pacifica performs “Velvet Hammer.”

Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert

Temple Beth Torah
Ventura, CA

Pianist Danny Holt will premiere a new work for piano and percussion commissioned by Piano Spheres.

REDCAT
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles, CA

LINE C3 Percussion will premiere a new 30-minute work for percussion quartet.

Details TBD

HOCKET Piano Duo will premiere a new commissioned work.

Details TBD

NOW Ensemble will premiere a new 25-minute work.

Details TBD

Saxophonist Jeffrey Siegfried and pianist Liz Ames will perform a short concert of my music at the World Saxophone Congress in Strasbourg, France.

http://webtv.saxopen.com/event/the-music-of-sean-friar-performance/

The Music of Sean Friar
World Saxophone Congress
Cité de la musique et de la danse – Salle 22
Strasbourg, France

Alarm Will Sound will reprise my piece In the Blue, which they and Ensemble Commissioned in 2013.

http://cantaloupemusic.com/?q=tours/alarm-will-sound-at-cleveland-state

Cleveland State University

Cleveland, OH 44115

The Debussy Trio will perform my Two Solitudes, for flute, viola, and harp.

Schoenberg Auditorium
UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Los Angeles, CA

I’ll give the keynote speech at the inaugural meeting of the Eureka Musical Minds Graduate Student Conference at UC Santa Cruz.
If you’re interested in presenting, check out the website: http://eurekagraduatemusicconference.sites.ucsc.edu/

UC Santa Cruz,
Santa Cruz, CA

The LA Phil premieres a newly commissioned piece, conducted by John Adams.

Green Umbrella
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles, CA

The Madera Wind Quintet plays my Short Winds.

Texas Music Educators Association Convention
San Antonion, TX

The Madera Wind Quintet plays my Short Winds.

Texas A&M University – Kingsville
Kingsville, TX

The Madera Wind Quintet plays my Short Winds.

Del Mar College
Corpus Christi, TX

The Madera Wind Quintet plays my Short Winds.

Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi, TX

The Madera Wind Quintet plays my Short Winds.

Stephen F. Austin University,
Nacogdoches, TX

The Madera Wind Quintet plays my Short Winds.

Banter Bistro
Denton, TX

The Madera Wind Quintet plays my Short Winds at University of Texas, Tyler.

University of Texas, Tyler
Tyler, TX

Composer Adam Schoenberg and I discuss what the word “symphony” means in the 21st century with host Brian Lauritzen of KUSC. This pre-concert talk is followed by the LA Phil’s concert which includes the US premiere of Gorecki’s Fourth Symphony.

http://www.laphil.com/tickets/gorecki039s-fourth-symphony/2015-01-16

6:45PM
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles Philharmonic

I’ll be a composer-in-residence at the Carlsbad Festival, where the Thornton Edge Ensemble will play my piece, In the Blue.

Details coming soon!

Carlsbad Music Festival
Carlsbad, CA

The terrific Thornton Edge Ensemble (led by Don Crockett), performs Thornton Composers: The Younger Generation. The concert will feature my piece In the Blue and music by my extraordinary “younger” colleagues, Ted Hearne and Andrew Norman.

Free

Newman Recital Hall
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA USA

Pianist Steven Vanhauwaert will play my Wind-Up Etude, along with other etudes.

Steven Vanhauwaert

More details to come.

REDCAT
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles, CA

Cellist, Mike Kaufman, will perform my solo work, Teaser.

Saddleback College
Mission Viejo, CA

Cellist, Mike Kaufman, will perform my solo work, Teaser.

Classical Revolution
Silverlake Lounge
Silverlake, Los Angeles, CA

My Scale 9 will be performed at the exquisite Music Academy of the West, in a concert curated by Joshua Roman.

Details HERE

Hahn Hall
Music Academy of the West
Santa Barbara, CA

My piece In the Blue, co -commissioned by Ensemble Modern and Alarm Will Sound in 2013, will be featured on the Klangspuren International Ensemble Modern Academy, where Hans Abrahamsen and Wolfgang Mitterer will be composers-in-residence.

Full program is HERE

More info TBA.

September 2-17, 2014
Schwaz, Austria

Cellist, Mike Kaufman, will perform my solo work, Teaser.

Sunset ChamberFest
St. Thomas the Apostle Church on Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA

Le Train Bleu performs my, Little Green Pop.

Galapagos Art Space
DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY

Hope Mohr Dance Company presents a choreographed version of my piece, Velvet Hammer.

ODC Theater
San Francisco, CA

Hope Mohr Dance Company presents a choreographed version of my piece, Velvet Hammer.

ODC Theater
San Francisco, CA

Hope Mohr Dance Company presents a choreographed version of my piece, Velvet Hammer.

ODC Theater
San Francisco, CA

Hope Mohr Dance Company presents a choreographed version of my piece, Velvet Hammer.

ODC Theater
San Francisco, CA

Danny Holt and Claire Brazeau perform my Etude for English Horn and Prepared Piano.

Free

Thayer Auditorium
Colburn Conservatory
Downtown Los Angeles, CA

Danny Holt and Claire Brazeau perform my Etude for English Horn and Prepared Piano.

CalArts
Valencia, CA

Danny Holt and Claire Brazeau play my shredfest Etude for English Horn and Prepared Piano.

http://sierramadreplayhouse.org/playhouse/

Sierra Madre Playhouse
87 W Sierra Madre Blvd
Sierra Madre, CA 91024

The Los Angeles Philharmonic premieres a newly commissioned work, conducted by John Adams.

http://www.laphil.com/tickets/next-on-grand-green-umbrella-adams-conducts-new-works/2015-05-26

Green Umbrella
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles, CA

Pianist Danny Holt and English Hornist Claire Brazeau will play Etude for English Horn and Prepared Piano on a concert featuring works by UCLA composition faculty and performances by the extraordinary UCLA performance faculty.

UCLA Faculty Composers Concert
Schoenberg Hall
Schoenberg Music Building
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

The HEAR NOW Festival of Los Angeles Composers will feature my Etude for English Horn and Prepared Piano, a piece I self-proclaim as the most metal music ever written for English Horn.

More info coming soon. The festival runs May 2-4, 2014.

First Lutheran Church of Venice
Venice, Los Angeles, CA

Ransom Wilson will lead Le Train Blue in my Breaking Point, a frenetic tour de force for electric guitar and ensemble. The incredible young guitarist, Jordan Dodson, will take the lead. Also on the program is music by Ted Hearne, Chris Cerrone, and Randy Woolf.

CONCERT INFO

DROM
85 Avenue A
New York, NY
10009

Sean will be in residence with the New World Symphony the week of April 21, leading up to the premiere of a newly commissioned work for flute, viola, and harp on a concert entitled New Work.

More details to come.

New World Symphony
New World Center
Miami, FL

I will give a colloquium on my music at San Francisco Conservatory.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic will perform my music on their Green Umbrella Series.

MORE INFO HERE

Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles, CA

Composition colloquium on my music.

Cal State Long Beach
Long Beach, CA

Composition colloquium on my music.

Booth 100
Thornton School of Music
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Madera Wind Quintet plays Scale 9.

UNT on the Square
Denton, TX

The Madera Wind Quintet reprises Short Winds.

Banter
Denton, TX

Collage New Music plays Scale 9!

Pickman Concert Hall
Longy School of Music
Boston, MA

Alarm Will Sound will premiere In the Blue, a work for large ensemble co-commissioned by Ensemble Modern and Alarm Will Sound.

http://www.cresc-biennale.de/de/programm/samstag-23-11-2013

Cresc Biennale
Frankfurt LAB
Frankfurt, Germany

My Scale 9 will be featured on the Bang on a Can Summer Marathon, which is always an exhilarating and incredibly fun show! My piece will be played by members of the Bang on a Can All-Stars and students of the BOAC Summer Music Festival.

Details coming soon.

MassMOCA
North Adams, MA

TRANSIT will be ensemble-in-residence at this year’s Wild Shore Festival in Homer, Alaska.  They’ll perform my Scale 9 on a floating stage!

Wild Shore Festival for New Music
Halibut Cove Live’s Floating Stage
Homer, AK

More info HERE

Psappha Ensemble will perform Scale 9 as part of their residency at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Academy Recital Hall
Hong Kong

The USC Thornton School of Music Contemporary Music Ensemble will play my piece, Scale 9, conducted by Frank Ticheli.

More details coming soon.

Thornton School of Music
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Wendy Raines-Grew performs my piece Oboemobo for oboe and effects pedals as part of her dissertation lecture recital.

Harris Auditorium
Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN

TRANSIT will be ensemble-in-residence at this year’s Wild Shore Festival in Homer, Alaska.  They’ll perform my Scale 9.

Wild Shore Festival for New Music
Mainstage Concert
Homer, AK

More info HERE

The inimitable Marin Alsop will conduct the premiere of my new orchestral work, Noise Gate, commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival.  I will share the program with Kronos Quartet, and composers Brett Dean and Thomas Newman.

More information HERE

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Santa Cruz, CA

The winners of the Renee B. Fisher piano competition will perform my piece Wind-Up Etude.  The piece was commissioned by the piano competition and performed by all of the competitors in the High School Division.

Winners Concert
Renee B. Fisher Piano Competition
Neighborhood Music School
New Haven, CT

TRANSIT Ensemble will be playing my piece Scale 9 again along with works by Ryan Brown and Ryan Carter on their New York/Denmark concert (featuring half New York composers and half Danish).  It should be a great mix of music!
The Actors Fund Arts Center
@ The Schermerhorn
160 Schermerhorn Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Contemporary Los Angeles Winds (CLAW) will play my wind quintet, Short Winds, at the Blue Whale in downtown LA.
Blue Whale is a hip venue with good food and drinks, and of course, music.

Blue Whale
123 Astronaut E S Onizuka St,
Los Angeles, CA 90012

What’s Next? Ensemble will perform my Scale 9 as part of their two-week festival, LA Composers Project.  I will also participate in a pre-concert discussion.

More info coming soon!

LA Composers Project
Boston Court Performing Arts Center
Pasadena, CA

QuadrATOMIC Saxophone Quartet will play my Short Winds at Adelphi University.

MORE INFO HERE

Concert Hall
Adelphi University Performing Arts Center
Garden City, NY

Present Music will premiere my new 10-player piece, Breaking Point.  Other music on the program by Ted Hearne.

MULTITUDES

Turner Hall Ballroom
Milwaukee, WI

My wind quintet, Short Winds, will be performed on the Vista: A Fresh Look at Chamber Music series at the Yale School of Music.  Other works by Ravel, Prokofiev, and Loeffler.

More info HERE

FREE
Morse Recital Hall, Sprague Hall
Yale School of Music
New Haven, CT

Ransom Wilson will conduct the Purchase College Chamber Orchestra in a performance of my junk car percussion concerto,Clunker Concerto.

Details coming soon.

Madera Quintet celebrates the release of their new album Five at Play on Crescent Phase Records. The album features a recording of my woodwind quintet, Short Winds.

Green Space Arts Collective
529 Malone St Ste A,
Denton, Texas 76201-2778

Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble premieres a new work of mine.

TICKETS: $15 (general), $12 (Museum members), $5 students (22 and under w/ ID)
Staten Island Museum
75 Stuyvesant Place
Staten Island, NY

Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble performs my piece, Short Orbit, originally written for Janus Trio.

TICKETS: $15 (general), $12 (Museum members), $5 students (22 and under w/ ID)
Staten Island Museum
75 Stuyvesant Place
Staten Island, NY

Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble performs a TBD work of mine.

TICKETS: $15 (general), $12 (Museum members), $5 students (22 and under w/ ID)
Staten Island Museum
75 Stuyvesant Place
Staten Island, NY

Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble performs a TBD work of mine.

TICKETS: $15 (general), $12 (Museum members), $5 students (22 and under w/ ID)
Staten Island Museum
75 Stuyvesant Place
Staten Island, NY

Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble performs my Velvet Hammer. (The piece is recorded on NOW Ensemble, Awake, released by New Amsterdam Records).

TICKETS: $15 (general), $12 (Museum members), $5 students (22 and under w/ ID)
Staten Island Museum
75 Stuyvesant Place
Staten Island, NY

QuadrATOMIC Sax Quartet plays my Short Winds during their residency at Adelphi University. More info to come.

Adelphi University
Garden City, NY

QuadrATOMIC Sax Quartet plays my Short Winds at the Navy Band Sax Symposium. More info to come.

Navy Band Sax Symposium
Harris THeater
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA

The incredibly ambitious, up-and-coming Contemporaneous will perform my junk car percussion concerto in New York City, along with works by Judd Greenstein, David Lang, Andrew Norman, and Jeremy Podgursky.

Presented by Neighborhood Classics
P.S. 142 (100 Attorney Street, NYC) — F to Delancey or J, M, Z to Essex
Tickets $15 in support of P.S. 142 — Purchase here or at the door

The incredibly ambitious, up-and-coming Contemporaneous will perform my junk car percussion concerto at Bard College, along with works by Judd Greenstein, David Lang, Andrew Norman, and Jeremy Podgursky.

Olin Hall
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Mariel Roberts‘ new album nonextraneous sounds is officially released on Innova Recordings (distributed by Naxos of America).  Available on Amazon.com, iTunes, Innova, and more.

Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble will perform my music at the Staten Island Museum’s 62nd Annual Fence Show.
FREE ADMISSION
Snug Harbor Cultural Center
Staten Island, NY

The Aura Ensemble, led by Rob Smith, will perform my Scale 9.
MORE DETAILS SOON
Houston, TX

The winners of the Fisher Piano Competition will perform a new solo piano piece of mine, commissioned by the competition as part of its repertoire list.

Cello phenom, Mariel Roberts, celebrates the release of her album, nonextraneous sounds, on Innova Records, which includes my piece, Teaser.

BUY TICKETS to Issue Project Room, New York City, NY

ECCE ensemble will perform my music at the closing concert of the La Pietra Forum for Contemporary Music.

Villa La Pietra
Florence, ITALY

Present Music‘s Season Finale party will encompass art in various forms including video projections, modern dance, visual art displays and, of course, contemporary music.  Present Music has commissioned a new ensemble piece from me, which will receive its premiere.  Also, music by Ted Hearne and Hannah Lash.

Turner Hall Ballroom
Milwaukee, WI

Ransom Wilson will lead the SUNY Purchase Orchestra in a performance of a revised version of my junk car percussion quartet concerto, Clunker Concerto.

More info coming soon…

NOW Ensemble plays my Velvet Hammer at the Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival at BAM! Also on the roster for that evening are So Percussion, Tyondai Braxton, Victoire, The Antlers, and more!

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building
BAMCAFÉ
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
BUY TICKETS

Alter Ego will perform my ensemble work, Scale 9, at the one and only Venice Biennale! Alvin Lucier will be their guest composer for the concert.

PURCHASE TICKETS
Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, Venice Biennale, Venice, ITALY

The inimitable Argento Ensemble will be performing my Scale 9 at Cornell University as part of their Music: Cognition, Technology and Society Conference, which takes place May 11-13.

Music: Cognition, Technology, Society Conference
Barnes Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

The inimitable Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic will perform a concert featuring my music, including the world premiere of my new 25-minute octet, One-way Trip! Cellist, Richard Duven, will also perform my piece, Teaser, for solo cello.

Villa Aurelia
Largo di Porta San Pancrazio, 1
00153 Roma, Italia
FREE

Quintet of the Americas picks up my wind quintet, Short Winds, for a performance at Random Access Music‘s 1st Annual Queens New Music Festival, a fantastic-looking 4-day festival!

eGarage
44-02 23rd St.
Long Island City, Queens, NY

More info coming soon!

Sean Friar and Claire Brazeau give a concert of solos and duos for piano and oboe, focusing on contemporary American music. Music by John Adams, Aaron Copland, David Lang, Charles Ives, Tom Johnson, Steve Reich, Luciano Berio, and Friar.

Salone
American Academy in Rome
Via Angelo Masina 5, Rome, ITALY
Free!

Psappha Ensemble plays Scale 9 again!

More info coming soon!

Bristol, England

Cellist Richard Duven of the Berlin Philharmonic gives the German premiere of my piece Teaser, for solo cello. Also on the program is music by Kurt Rohde and Lei Liang.

Kammermusiksaal (Chamber Music Hall)
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert-von-Karajan-Str. 1 10785 Berlin, Germany

TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION