Spring 2010

June 12: Young People's Chorus of NYC, Francisco Nunez, conductor at the 92nd Street Y. Premiere of "Bright is the Ring of Words" and "A Lad That Is Gone," both TTBB songs.

May 25-27: Orchestra of St. Luke's, Rossen Milanov, conductor at Carnegie Hall www.carnegiehall.org. Premiere of Drumlines (for large orchestra and drumline group) and Come to Play (designed for orchestra and audience to sing and play together). Six performances during the school day - it's not a ticketed or advertised event; contact Thomas at this website or the folks at the Weill Music Institute if you are interested in attending.

May 25: Mechanicals at Steinway Hall; Michael Shinn and Jessica Chow, for piano four hands.

May 19: University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra - Drumlines, Come to Play

May 4: St. Louis Symphony - Drumlines, Come to Play

April 21: West Michigan Symphony - Drumlines, Come to Play

March 25: Carnegie Hall (West Virginia) - Drumlines, Come to Play

March 19: Albany Symphony Orchestra (Georgia) - Drumlines, Come to Play

March 17: Omaha Symphony - Drumlines, Come to Play

March 5: Meridian Symphony (Mississippi) - Drumlines, Come to Play

March 4-5: Fort Worth Symphony - Drumlines, Come to Play.

Spring 2009

June 4 & 11: Music Unlocked at 92YTRIBECA. Premiere of I Can't Get You Out of My Head for flute, clarinet, viola, harp and actor.

April 27- May 8: It's All True tours various educational venues in NYC; more info at hilaryeaston.com or lcinstitute.org

April 25: Three Sabbaths for chorus and orchestra is reprised by the Columbia University Bach Society, David Rosenmeyer, conductor. Details at bachsociety.com

March 23-26: It's All True at the Clark Theater @ Lincoln Center  in NYC; more info at hilaryeaston.com or lcinstitute.org

March 18: Mechanicals for piano, four hands at the Morse Recital Hall @ The Juilliard School in NYC; more info at juilliard.edu. Program includes pieces by John Corigliano, Robert Beaser, Eric Ewazen and Behzad Ranjbaran.

Winter 2009

February 18-22: The Reclamation at the Ailey Center, NYC (55th Street and 9th Avenue) More info at hilaryeaston.com

February 14: The Reclamation at Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington, MA. More at hilaryeaston.com

January 25: Carnegie Hall presents Music Unlocked at the Abrons Arts Center, NYC. 3 pm performance. More info at www.carnegiehall.org

January 22: The American Plan by Richard Greenberg opens at the Manhattan Theatre Club. More info at: mtc-nyc.org

January 10: APAP showing of excerpts from The Reclamation by Hilary Easton & Co. Showings at 12 & 1 pm. More info at
hilaryeaston.com

Fall 2008

November: It's All True tours for the Lincoln Center Institute in NYC lcinstitute.org

November 14: Preconcert lecture at Carnegie Hall for the New York Philharmonic. www.carnegiehall.org

November 2: Premiere of Searching for Kristallnacht @ the JCC in Manhattan. More info at www.jccinmanhattan.org

October 25: Performance of Bernstein's Mass at the United Palace Theater in NYC; 400 high school students form mass choir. More info at www.carnegiehall.org

October 19: Concert of new works created by high school choirs in NYC @ Carnegie Hall.  Project devised by Thomas Cabaniss. More info at www.carnegiehall.org

October 20-23: It's All True @ the Lincoln Center Institute lcinstitute.org

Summer 2008

July: It's All True @ the Lincoln Center Institute lcinstitute.org

Spring 2008

May 7 – June 1:    OLD COMEDY, based on Aristophanes’ THE FROGS, adapted by David Greenspan, directed by David Herskovits, had 32 performances at the Classic Stage Company. More info at www.targetmargin.org.

May 8 - 10    NOISE + SPEED, a third collaboration with choreographer Hilary Easton premiered at Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery at East 9th Street and 2nd Avenue. The recorded score is for string quartet, percussion, piano and melodica. More info at hilaryeaston.com

June 5   MUSIC UNLOCKED: a new ensemble debuted at the new 92Y Tribeca at 200 Hudson Street, including performances of Vistas by Mark  O’Connor (featuring violist David “Doc” Wallace) and my Three Dance  Grooves for string quartet along with the gorgeous Brahms Clarinet Quintet (featuring Richard Mannoia).

June 11 MUSIC UNLOCKED: the new ensemble’s second concert featured music of Janacek and Poulenc along with my Departures, a duo for flute and piano featuring Tanya Witek.

Fall 2007

I hosted two concerts in Philadelphia: The Rite of Spring on October 2, and Haydn's Military Symphony on October 25 (www.philorch.org). I have also started teaching a new class at The Juilliard School: Concepts of 20th Century Music and Beyond. (www.juilliard.edu) -- that's in addition to the class for dancers that I've taught for the last ten years.

Summer 2007

I worked on choral pieces for a future recording, created accompaniments for compositions written by 4th and 5th graders at a public elementary school in Manhattan, and began work on Hilary Easton's NOISE + SPEED. I facilitated a seminar at the American Symphony Orchestra League's National Conference in Nashville (June 20) and conducted workshops for the Complete Choral Musician at The Juilliard School (June 27-29).

2006-2007

As Animateur for the Philadelphia Orchestra, I hosted four Access concerts, created a theatrical frame for the Shostakovich 9th Symphony for families and schools, and worked on a fascinating outreach program in Camden, NJ that resulted in a variety of collaborative performances by the community and the Orchestra. Symphony Magazine did a feature about my role in the Spring of 2007.

Hilary Easton and I created "It's All True" for dancers, one actor and 5 musicians; text by writer Dorothy Barnhouse. The premiere was at The Duke in Times Square, May 31-June 3. Thanks to everybody who came and supported the piece! More info about It's All True and our collaborations at www.hilaryeaston.com

2005-2006

You can read about my work as animateur at the Philadelphia Orchestra in the Philadelphia City Paper:  Click here. The February 23 Access Concert review is here. More info at www.philorch.org

I composed a duo for viola and clarinet for my friends Rachel Shapiro and Richard Mannoia. Face Me is about 4 minutes long, and it contains an interactive segment which was performed at the Soho Club on April 26, 2006.

Three Sabbaths, written for conductor David Rosenmeyer and the Columbia University Bach Society (more info at bachsociety.com Click here) premiered on Saturday, April 22, 2006 at 8 pm. Thanks to everyone who came. The work is for chorus and string orchestra; it is based on three texts by Kentucky poet Wendell Berry.

Hilary Easton and I began work on a new piece, entitled It's All True. We presented a short fragment at the 92nd Street Y on April 7, and we are working towards a half-hour presentation for November 06.

2004-2005

May 2005: The Short-Cut by Hilary Easton premiered on Thursday, May 19, 2005. Read the NY Times review: Click here. Read the Village Voice review: Click here. Musicians included Justin Hines and Javier Diaz (percussion); Eric Huebner and myself (piano); and Jennifer Choi, Jane Chung, David Wallace, and Jeffrey Ziegler (strings). The sessions were at Sear Sound with Scott Lehrer as engineer.

I wrote a set of songs based on texts by Robert Louis Stevenson for baritone and piano -- "She rested by the broken brook" "Spring-Song" and "Romance."

I wrote a new song for the Young People's Chorus of New York City, and we workshopped it on Saturday, April 16 culminating in an evening performance at St. Monica's Church in Manhattan with combined forces of over 150 kids! It's called "Only Believe," and it's SATB and piano (with optional bass and percussion). More info at www.ypc.org