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Featured in Echofluxx 16 International Film Festival

Video Premiere of "Mediums" will be featured in the Echofluxx 16 International Film Festival in Prague. Echofluxx is an annual festival of new media, art and music, presents a free spectrum of experimental art. 

Video Premiere of "Mediums" will be featured in the Echofluxx 16 International Film Festival. Echofluxx is an annual festival of new media, art and music, presents a free spectrum of experimental art. Echofluxx 16 International Film Festival features works by Michael Crosswell, David Bird, William A. Brown, Joao Pedro Oliviera, Maxime Corbel-Perron, Maggi Payne, Mike Vernusky and Daniel Muldanado, Eric Souther, Panayiotis Kokoras, Christopher Coleman and Jamsen Law, Don Burton, and Paolo Germiniani. 

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Featured on Yarn​/​Wire​/​Currents Vol. 3

Recorded and produced on November 6-8, 2015 at EMPAC in Troy, NY. Yarn/Wire/Currents is a yearly project that serves as an incubator for new experimental music. Their collaborations with composers explore the intersections of composition, technology, installation, live performance, music theater, and much more. 

Yarn/Wire/Currents is a yearly project that serves as an incubator for new experimental music. Their collaborations with composers explore the intersections of composition, technology, installation, live performance, music theater, and much more. 

Recorded and produced on November 6-8, 2015 at EMPAC in Troy, NY

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2016 Gaudeamus Award Nominee

The jury, consisting of Seung-Won Oh (KOR), Pierre Jodłowski (FRA) and Jeths (NLD), examined all the entries for the Gaudeamus Award, a total of 175 scores from composers from 28 different countries. In consultation with representatives of ensembles Amsterdam Sinfonietta (Willem de Bordes), Silbersee (MaNOj Kamps) and Ensemble Modelo62 (Ezequiel Menalled) five young composers have been nominated for the Gaudeamus Award in 2016.

The jury, consisting of Seung-Won Oh (KOR), Pierre Jodłowski (FRA) and Jeths (NLD), examined all the entries for the Gaudeamus Award, a total of 175 scores from composers from 28 different countries. In consultation with representatives of ensembles Amsterdam Sinfonietta (Willem de Bordes), Silbersee (MaNOj Kamps) and Ensemble Modelo62 (Ezequiel Menalled) five young composers have been nominated for the Gaudeamus Award in 2016.

* AMONG AM A by James O'Callaghan (1988, Canada)
* Drop by David Bird (1990, USA)
* From a Standing Forest of Mirrors by Anthony Vine (1988, USA)
* Madhye II by Shih-Wei Lo (1985, Taiwan)
* Organismo Aperto No.1 by Giulio Colangelo (1986, Italy)

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Selected for Ensemble Proton Bern's Protonwerk No. 6 .

The following composers, Maurizio Azzan, David Bird, Paul Clift, Andreas Eduardo Frank, and Ulrike Mayer-Spohn, have been selected for Ensemble Proton Bern's Protonwerk No. 6.

The following composers, Maurizio Azzan, David Bird, Paul Clift, Andreas Eduardo Frank, and Ulrike Mayer-Spohn, have been selected for Ensemble Proton Bern's Protonwerk No. 6.

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Winner of Loadbang's 2015 Call for Scores

Loadbang is a New York City-based new music chamber group. Since their founding in 2008, they have been praised as ‘cultivated’ by The New Yorker, ‘an extra-cool new music group’ and ‘exhilarating’ by the Baltimore Sun, ‘inventive’ by the New York Times and called a 'formidable new-music force' by TimeOutNY. Loadbang will premiere my work "Dyson Poems" at The National Opera Center on May 2nd alongside works by Per Bloland, Christina Green, Angelica Negron, Gary Philom, and Beth Weimann.

Loadbang is a New York City-based new music chamber group. Since their founding in 2008, they have been praised as ‘cultivated’ by The New Yorker, ‘an extra-cool new music group’ and ‘exhilarating’ by the Baltimore Sun, ‘inventive’ by the New York Times and called a 'formidable new-music force' by TimeOutNY. Loadbang will premiere my work "Dyson Poems" at The National Opera Center on May 2nd alongside works by Per Bloland, Christina Green, Angelica Negron, Gary Philom, and Beth Weimann.

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