SAKURA plays Donald Crockett's Carving an Alphabet at LA Harbor College, March 14 at 8pm.

Thornton Edge new music ensemble, under the direction of Donald Crockett, presents a concert of outstanding women composers including Jennifer Higdon, Jessie Montgomery (with violin soloist Laura Gamboa), Hannah Rice, Julia Moss and, in honor of Sarah Gibson, the West Coast premiere of her pas de deux for double woodwind quintet and piano. Newman Recital Hall, USC campus, 7:30pm March 5.  Admission free as usual, but RSVP required as this is a Dean's Signature Event.

The Last Possibilities of LIght Ritornello-Variations for flute and piano receives its premiere performance on a faculty recital by Conor Nelson.  The work was commissioned by Conor Nelson with the support of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.  Conor will be doing a premiere run and recording of the work during the 23/24 season and beyond. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Thursday February 1. 

USC Thornton Edge presents a concert of wildly varied vocal music by Thornton graduate student composer/performers Timmy Peterson, V.C.R. and Anuj Bhutani, opening with the classic sinfonietta overture by Don Freund, Hard Cells, conducted by Donald Crockett. Feb 27, 7:30pm, Newman Recital Hall.

Donald Crockett's String Quartet No. 4 Traveling Symphony will receive its Los Angeles premiere performance by the Lyris Quartet at this year's Hear Now Music Festival. Thursday April 25, 8pm, at 2220 ARTS + ARCHIVES in Los Angeles. Hear Now, in its 13th season, runs from April 24 - 28 this year.

Donald Crockett returns to the Chamber Music Conference, now held at Colgate University in New York, as Senior Composer in Residence, working with Resident Composers Sarah Gibson and Carlos Simon.  The Last Possibilities of LIght, written for Conor Nelson, will receive a performance with Conor and pianist Audrey Andrist on Saturday August 3 at the Colgate University Chapel, 8pm.

Donald Crockett leads Thornton Edge in a Sarah Gibson Tribute Concert featuring three wonderful pieces by Sarah: You are still here, Soak Stain and I prefer living in color.  October 8, 7:30pm Newman Recital Hall, USC campus. 

Donald Crockett conducts Brightwork newmusic in Arash Majd's Continuum: Cause and Effect and Kay Rhie's Threshold in this concert sponsored by the Hear Now Music Festival as part of the inaugural California Festival of new music. Thayer Hall, Colburn School, Friday November 17, 8pm. 

Donald Crockett conducts Thornton Edge in a concert featuring the world premiere of Mark Weiser's Lumina, Nina Shekhar's Quirkhead for soprano and string quartet, Britta Bystrom's A Walk on Green Streets, and Frederic Rzewski's iconic Coming Together.  Newman Recital Hall, USC campus. Tuesday October 3 7:30pm.

Donald Crockett's duo for violin and viola, to be sung on the water, returns to Aspen on Saturday August 19 in Harris Hall for the final Chamber Music concert of the 2023 Aspen Music Festival season. The piece will be played by violinist Herdis Gudmundsdottir and violist Felix Vester, members of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (ACE). Harris Hall, Aspen Music Festival, 4:30pm Saturday August 19.

The Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (ACE) performs Donald Crockett's duo for violin and viola, to be sung on the water, on the Music with a View concert at the Aspen Art Museum, 6pm July 20.

Donald Crockett returns to conduct the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (ACE) in the opening weeks of the Aspen Music Festival, performing in Harris Hall and working with the Aspen composition fellows.  Britta Bystrom's A Walk on Green Streets is featured on the July 1 concert in Harris Hall, 4:30pm. 

Donald Crockett workshops and conducts pieces by the talented young students in the esteemed Composer Fellowship Program of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, directed by Andrew Norman and associate Sarah Gibson.  May 20: initial day-long workshop at Disney Hall.  June 2: rehearsals.  June 3: final concert at the YOLA Center.

SAKURA cello quintet offers the Orange County premiere of Donald Crockett's new work, Carving an Alphabet.

Chamber Music OC, 23666 Birtcher Drive, Lake Forest, CA. 7:30pm

Donald Crockett leads Thornton Edge in a concert supporting Ukraine, curated by Adam Karelin.  The program includes music by Valentyn Sylvestrov, Ivan Karabyts, and the world premiere of Adam Karelin's Forget Your Past for two vocalists and sinfonietta. Newman Recital Hall, USC campus, 7:30pm.

Donald Crockett leads Thornton Edge in the world premiere of My Time Machine by Celka Ojakangas, as well as Kaija Saariaho's Quatre Instants and Jihyun Kim's Once Upon A Time...Newman Recital Hall, USC Campus, 7:30pm.

Donald Crockett conducts the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (ACE) in the Aspen Music Festival premiere of his Violin Concerto, with soloist David Bowlin.  This concerto was co-commissioned by the Aspen Music Festival and Oberlin Conservatory.  Aspen Music Festival, Harris Hall, Saturday August 20 at 4:30pm.

Donald Crockett workshops and conducts pieces by the talented young students in the esteemed Composer Fellowship Program of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, directed by Andrew Norman and associate Sarah Gibson.  May 21: initial day-long workshop at Disney Hall.  June 2-3: rehearsals.  June 4: final concert at the YOLA Center.

Phillip Bush presents the world premiere of Donald Crockett's Piano Sonata Red Leaves of Night at the Here and Now festival at Bargemusic in Brooklyn on September 2, 2022 at 7pm.  

Donald Crockett's nonet, Camera Oscura, commissioned by the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East for its 75th Anniversary season, receives its world premiere at the Conference on Saturday July 30, Colgate University, 8pm.

Donald Crockett is in residence at the Aspen Music Festival for the first three weeks conducting the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (ACE) in readings and performances as part of the Chamber Music concert series at the Festival. July 2, blackportrait by Michael Frazier; July 9, Meanwhile by Stephen Hartke; July 16, Quatre Instants by Kaija Saariaho.  Aspen Music Festival, Harris Hall 4:30pm.  

He returns August 8 for the final two weeks of the festival, conducting ACE in First Glimpse concerts featuring new music by the Aspen Composition Fellows on August 11 and 18 at 2:30pm, Harrison Birtwistle's Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum on August 13 at 4:30pm, and the Aspen premiere of his Violin Concerto with violinist David Bowlin on August 20 at 4:30pm.  Aspen Music Festival, Harris Hall.

Donald Crockett's The Cinnamon Peeler, a dramatic setting of Michael Ondaatje's remarkable, colorful poem, will be performed by Thornton Edge featuring Thornton composer/vocalist Mingjia Chen in a program also including Olly Wilson's A City Called Heaven and Witold Lutoslawski's Chain 1. Donald Crockett, conducting.  Newman Recital Hall, USC campus, April 12, 2022 at 7:30pm.

Violist Kate Vincent presents the first complete performance of Donald Crockett's Cataclysm for viola and percussion, together with Luciano Berio's classic Naturale, on a faculty recital at the Colburn School.

April 8, 7:00pm, Thayer Hall, Colburn School, Los Angeles.

Donald Crockett will be featured as a guest composer at the University of Nevada Las Vegas November 14 and 15, with a concert by Nextet including Crockett's Capriccio II for two pianos, Extant in a version for saxophone and ensemble, and his piano trio, Night Scenes.  UNLV campus, November 16, 7:30pm.

Donald Crockett directs the USC Thornton Edge new music ensemble in a concert featuring music by Tigran Mansurian, Libby Larsen, Reza Vali and Sebastian Fagerlund. A set for voice and electronics by Thornton MM composer/performers Mingjia Chen and Rohan Chander concludes the evening. Newman Recital Hall, USC campus 7:30pm, LIVE-STREAMED.

Donald Crockett returns to conduct the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (ACE) in the opening weeks of the Aspen Music Festival, conducting works by Sydney Hodkinson (Bricks, Concerto Fantasia), Olly Wilson (A City Called Heaven) and Inti Figgiz-Vizueta (Open work, knotted object/ Trellis in Bloom/ lightning ache) and working with the Composition Fellows in new works for ACE.  June-July 2021

Donald Crockett was to return to the CMC as Senior Composer in Residence for the 75th Anniversary season, to be held in summer 2020 at Colgate University in New York.  He is one of the composers commissioned in celebration of the CMC's 75th anniversary, along with Hannah Lash, Kurt Rohde and Elizabeth Ogonek.  His piece, Camera Oscura (It. 'darkroom') a nonet for ww quintet, violin, viola, cello and bass, was to be premiered at the faculty concert on August 1, and coached in participant ensembles all four weeks of the festival.  The Chamber Music Conference 75th Anniversary is POSTPONED due to the COVID-19 pandemic to July-August 2021.  

Donald Crockett was to return to the Aspen Music Festival to conduct the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (ACE) in the opening weeks of the festival, performing works by Maria Schneider and Steven Stucky.  All in-person events of the 2020 Aspen Music Festival were CANCELLED due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The 2021 Aspen Music Festival is currently under construction!

Donald Crockett conducts USC's new music ensemble, Thornton Edge, in a program featuring the premiere of the sinfonietta version of Kalevi Aho's Clarinet Concerto, featuring Thornton Artist Diploma clarinetist, Yasmina Spiegelberg.  Also on the program is the premiere of a new work for sinfonietta and electronics by Dan Caputo, and Steve Mackey's classic Indigenous Instruments.  Newman Recital Hall, USC campus, Tuesday March 3 at 7:30pm.

Soprano Lisa Stidham and guitarist Stephen Aron perform Donald Crockett's Occhi dell'alma mia in a faculty recital at Oberlin Conservatory on February 16.  

Donald Crockett conducts Thornton Edge in recent music from Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.  Newman Recital Hall, USC Campus, 7:30pm.

Chicago's terrific Fifth House Ensemble is carrying Donald Crockett's Night Scenes again this season.  The next performance is at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, IL on November 7.

The Felici Piano Trio - Rebecca Hang, violin, Brian Schuldt, cello, Steven Vanhauwaert, piano - perform Donald Crockett's Night Scenes on a concert with music by Clara Schumann and Beethoven entitled Ode to Joy.  Saturday September 28, 7:30pm at Cerro Coso College in Mammoth Lakes; and Sunday September 29, 4:00pm at Cerro Coso College in Bishop.

Donald Crockett returns to the Atlantic Music Festival as a resident composer, where he will teach composition students and coach performance fellows in his music. Colby College, Watertown, Maine.  July 8 - 14.

Donald Crockett conducts microtonal music for multiple pianists (HOCKET - Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff - Vicki Ray and Steven Van Hauwaert) by Ivan Wyschnegradsky during the 2019 Other Minds Festival.  The US premieres of Cosmos and Ainsi Parlait Zarathoustra, after about 80 years, will be on June 16, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

Donald Crockett conducts Thornton Edge in a program of new mixed ensemble works by the sixteen intrepid young composers of the LA Phil's celebrated Composer Fellowship Program directed by Andrew Norman with assistance from Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff.  Noon to Midnight, REDCAT at Disney Hall, June 1 in the afternoon.

Gloria Cheng's Garlands for Steven Stucky tour continues with a performance of the 32 works composed in honor of Steve including Donald Crockett's Nella Luce.  University of Missouri-Kansas City, Thursday May 9.

Fifth House Ensemble continues to carry Donald Crockett's Night Scenes for piano trio.  This performance will be at Southeast Missouri State University on April 28, 2019.

HOCKET (Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff) and Thornton Edge perform Donald Crockett's new concerto for duo pianists and chamber orchestra, And the River, conducted by the composer, in an Edge concert also featuring Sean Friar's Dynamics for cello solo and chamber winds with soloist Michael Kaufman, and Morten Lauridsen's Lorca Songs.  Newman Recital Hall, USC campus, 7:30 pm.

Donald Crockett leads Thornton Edge new music ensemble in recent works from the US, including Andy Akiho's Karakurenai, Keith Fitch's Midnight Rounds and Sarah Gibson's Outsider.  The intrepid piano duo, HOCKET, returns to USC as Thornton Edge's ensemble-in-residence for Spring 2019; they will appear in Andy Akiho's and Sarah Gibson's pieces on this concert. Newman Recital Hall, USC campus, 7:30 pm.

Donald Crockett's piece for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet, Tracking Inland, will be performed by the Arctic Philharmonic, Timothy Weiss, conductor, in a program with Ravel's Introduction and Allegro for the same instrumentation, and Stravinsky's Three Japanese Lyrics.  Narvik, Norway.

Thornton Edge new music ensemble, conducted by Donald Crockett, will perform a program of American music (Charles Ives, Elizabeth Ogonek, David Dzubay) on this concert at Newman Recital Hall on the USC campus, Tuesday November 13 at 7:30pm.

Donald Crockett's new concerto for duo-pianists (HOCKET) and chamber orchestra, And the River, continues its premiere run at Oberlin, with the Oberlin Sinfonietta conducted by Tim Weiss, and HOCKET again as the soloists.  Oberlin Conservatory, November 9.

Donald Crockett conducts the USC Thornton Edge new music ensemble in a concert featuring music by (mostly) European composers Pierre Boulez, Hans Abrahamsen, Judith Weir, Anton Webern and Toru Takemitsu.  Newman Recital Hall, USC campus, Tuesday October 2 at 7:30pm.

The stellar faculty of the Bennington Chamber Music Conference will perform Donald Crockett's Night Scenes for piano trio at the Saturday night faculty concert. Greenwall Auditorium, Bennington College, 8pm.

Donald Crockett returns to conduct the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival for the opening three weeks.  ACE will play in the weekly Chamber Music concerts in Harris Hall, and offer events at the Chapel Series and elsewhere in Aspen in Summer 2018.  Additional details soon.

Donald Crockett has been commissioned by the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra for a new work for HOCKET: 4 hands in and around a piano etc. etc. plus a conductorless chamber orchestra of nineteen musicians.  HOCKET is Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff, composer-pianists, collaborating with Kaleidoscope from the Steinway.  The concerto, And the River, is a co-commission with Kaleidoscope, Aspen Music Festival and Oberlin Sinfonietta; stay tuned for additional details.  The premiere will be with HOCKET and the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Saturday May 12, 2018 at 10pm, Los Angeles Theatre Center; Sunday May 13 at 2pm, First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica.

Donald Crockett leads the USC Thornton Edge new music ensemble in the world premiere of a violin concerto by Patrick O'Malley, with soloist Clara Kim, together with Veronika Krausas' analemma for 11 musicians and Jacob Druckman's classic Come Round.  Newman Recital Hall, USC campus, 7:30pm.

Fifth House Ensemble plays Night Scenes at the Grand Teton Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on February 2.

Donald Crockett leads Thornton Edge in a concert of toe-tapping music for ensembles large and small, including music by Dan Visconti, Don Freund, Sean Friar and Sarah Gibson.  Newman Recital Hall, USC campus, 7:30 pm.

The third of this brief tour by Gloria Cheng of Garlands for Steven Stucky, including Nella Luce, before Gloria goes into the recording studio for this project, which will also include works by Steve himself.  An extended tour will follow the release of the recording; stay tuned.  Gloria Cheng plays Garlands for Steven Stucky, Cooperage Project, Honesdale, PA, November 12th at 5pm.  

Pianist Gloria Cheng has asked thirty-two composers to offer Garlands for Steve for a recording and concert tour in honor of our late friend, composer Steven Stucky.  My offering, Nella Luce, is named after Steve's beautiful string quartet, Nell'ombra, nella luce (In Shadow, in Light), and has kernals embedded from two Stucky new music classics, Boston Fancies and The Stars and the Roses.  Gloria Cheng in Recital: Garlands for Steven Stucky, Brown University, Granoff Center, Martinos Auditorium November 10 at 8pm.  

Pianist Phillip Bush plays Pilgrimage again this season in a faculty recital at the University of South Carolina School of Music.  Friday October 27th at 7:30pm.

Donald Crockett leads USC's new music ensemble, Thornton Edge, in a program devoted to vocal music from the early third millennium.  Featured are Of Being Is A Bird by Augusta Read Thomas, Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say by Kate Soper, Death Speaks by David Lang, Those Quiet Evenings by Albert Behar, and carpet of flowers/for the first time today by Tamzin Elliott.  Newman Recital Hall, USC campus, 7:30 pm.

Donald Crockett returns for his sixteenth season as Senior Composer in Residence with the Bennington Chamber Music Conference at Bennington College, Vermont, where he will work with Resident Composers Marc Mellits, Harold Meltzer and Susan Botti, Composition Fellows, CMC participants and performance faculty.  He will also present a seminar, 'Composing String Quartets,' on Thursday August 10.  Visit cmceast.org for details of the 2017 conference.

The Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts has commissioned Donald Crockett for a new string quartet, String Quartet No. 4 'Traveling Symphony,' on behalf of the Argus Quartet, Caramoor's 2016-17 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence. The new quartet will be premiered at Caramoor's 2017 Summer Season on the evening of July 14.

Donald Crockett returns to the Aspen Music Festival and School in Summer 2017 to lead the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (ACE) for the first three weeks of the festival in concerts and reading sessions. ACE performs on the weekly Chamber Music concerts in Harris Hall at 4pm.
July 1 - 'Polish Folk Songs' by Lee Hyla
July 8 - 'Whistling in the Dark' by Donald Crockett
July 15 - 'Ophelia Dances Book I' by Oliver Knussen
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July 6 - 'Nachtlieder' by Esa-Pekka Salonen on the Aspen Chapel Chamber Music Series 4:15 pm

Donald Crockett's piano trio, Night Scenes, will be featured in the touring repertory of Chicago's outstanding new music group, Fifth House Ensemble, during its 2016-17 concert season.
Upcoming performances: April 3, Carolina Strings Academy, Aiken, SC; April 8, Elastic Arts in Chicago; April 21, PianoForte in Chicago

Donald Crockett's guitar concerto, En La Tierra, receives its New York premiere at Alice Tully Hall by the Riverside Symphony and guitarist Robert Belinic, conducted by music director George Rothman.  Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, 8pm. 

Capriccio II is again in the sure hands of HOCKET in a featured concert at Webster University in St. Louis.  March 9 at 8pm.

Continuing the premiere performance run of Donald Crockett's Capriccio II, the duo composer/pianists Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff, aka HOCKET, perform this work which was written for them on a concert at UCLA on February 24, hall and time TBD.

Donald Crockett conducts Hans Abrahamsen's hour-long, intricate set of canons for nine players, Schnee, on a Jacaranda series concert on November 19 at 8pm, First Presbyterian Church, Santa Monica.

The wonderful Dilijan Chamber Music Series, presented by the Lark Musical Society, has commissioned Donald Crockett for a new string quartet to be premiered in the 2016/17 season on a concert including music by Haydn (Emperor Quartet) and Beethoven (Archduke Trio).  The world premiere of String Quartet No. 3 Cortege will take place on the Dilijan subscription series concert at 3pm on Sunday, October 16 in Zipper Hall of the Colburn School in downtown Los Angeles.

Donald Crockett conducts his USC new music ensemble, Thornton Edge, in classic works by Joan Tower (Breakfast Rhythms I and II), and Harrison Birtwistle (Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum), together with recent music by Timo Andres and Thornton faculty composer, Sean Friar.  Newman Recital Hall, USC campus, 7:30 pm. 

The piano duo Hocket, Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff, will premiere Donald Crockett's Capriccio II for two pianos, written for Hocket in celebration of the launch of the duo.  The concert also features Stephen Hartke's Sonata for Piano Four Hands.  Newman Recital Hall, USC campus, 7:30 pm.

Donald Crockett returns for his fifteenth summer as Senior Composer in Residence at the Bennington Chamber Music Conference at Bennington College, Vermont, for three weeks, July 24 - August 14.  In addition to working with Resident Composers Jesse Jones, Sean Friar and Amy Williams, he will work with the composition fellows, coach conference participants, and work with the performance faculty.  

On July 30 at 8:00 pm, the CMC faculty will perform Donald Crockett's piano quartet, 'The Ceiling of Heaven,' in Greenwall Auditorium on the Bennington College campus as part of the Faculty Concert Series.  'The Ceiling of Heaven' was the first Jacob Glick Memorial Commission (2004) from the Bennington Chamber Music Conference.  Other Glick commissions to date are by Gabriela Lena Frank, Paul Moravec and John Fitz Rogers.

Donald Crockett will be a resident composer on the faculty at the Atlantic Music Festival July 17 - 24 at Colby College in Maine.  In addition to working with the composition students at the festival, he will give talks about his music, master classes, and hear performances of his works by AMF students.

Donald Crockett serves as a judge for the 2016 JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Competition in Buffalo, New York.  The finals, with orchestra, take place on Saturday, June 11.

Pianist Phillip Bush takes the Pilgrimage program to New York City on April 18, playing in Benzaquen Hall at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music at 7:30 pm.  The program includes Sweelinck's Fantasia in D, Chopin's F minor Fantasy, Dutilleux's 1948 Sonata, and Pilgrimage.

In the final concert of the 2015/16 season, Donald Crockett conducts Thornton Edge in a program featuring music from composers, including dear friends, who have recently left us.  The program includes David Stock's Quick Opener, Pierre Boulez's Notations, and Steven Stucky's The Stars and The Roses.  Also on the program is music by George Crumb and Sofia Gubiadulina.  The concert is in Newman Recital Hall on the USC campus on April 13 at 7:30 pm.

Donald Crockett conducts works by Thomas Ades and Gerald Barry on the Jacaranda concert series in Santa Monica on January 30.

The New York-based vocal ensemble, C4, will reprise Donald Crockett's Daglarym/My Mountains in two concerts in New York City on November 19 and 21.  Following these concerts, the ensemble will record the piece for their second album.

Donald Crockett will be at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music presenting his music at the Composition Studio Class, and give masterclasses and lessons to Conservatory composition students. 

Donald Crockett conducts the annual New Music for Orchestra concert with the USC Thornton Symphony on Friday, October 16, 7:30 pm in Bovard Auditorium on the USC campus.  Over the years, Crockett has conducted over 125 world premieres of orchestral music by talented Thornton student composers.  Many of the works have gone on to win awards, commissions and subscription performances around the nation.

Donald Crockett's Ceiling of Heaven will be performed by Charles Wetherbee and friends at the Academy, Boulder CO. Written for piano quartet, the title is inpired by a line from a Kenneth Rexroth poem - "...the hawks scream, playing together on the ceiling of heaven" - Signature of All Things. Ceiling of Heaven was Jointly commissioned by Bennington Chamber Music Conference, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts and Xtet. 

Donald Crockett's new orchestral CD, Blue Earth, was recently released by BMOP/sound.  The recording opens with a virtuosic overture titled Wedge, inspired by the infamous wave break on the West Coast. Viola Concerto  a highly colourful and evocative work, features soloist Kate Vincent with concertino (Firebird Ensemble) and orchestra. The title work of Blue Earth in an expansive sinfonia concertante for full orchestra. All performances by Gil Rose (conductor) and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.  Blue Earth is now available on Amazon and at bmop.org.

Commissioned by the Guitar Foundation of America, Donald Crockett's 'Fanfare Studies' is the 2015 new work played by all contestants at the GFA International Competition held in Oklahoma City during June 22 - 26.  The winner of the competition will play Fanfare Studies on tour internationally as part of the first prize award.  In addition, Donald Crockett will conduct the Festival Orchestra in a concert of guitar concertos on Friday, June 26 at 8 pm.

Donald Crockett's Roethke Preludes for orchestra will be performed by the Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra, Robert Hasty, conductor, on Saturday evening, May 2.

As part of the University of Wisconsin's George Crumb Festival, March 20-23, the UW Contemporary Chamber Ensemble will perform Donald Crockett's Whistling in the Dark on Saturday, March 21 at 8pm.  Also on the program is music by George Crumb and Cindy Cox.

Donald Crockett will be in residence at the University of Missouri-Kansas City during the week of March 9 - 13, conducting the UMKC Musica Nova in 'to airy thinness beat' with soloist, Meredith Treaster, and giving masterclasses and a composition forum on his music. 

Donald Crockett conducts USC Thornton Edge new music ensemble in a concert featuring music by Jonathan Harvey, Frederick Lesemann, Pierre Jalbert and Stephen Hartke in Newman Recital Hall on the USC campus.  The concert is at 7:30 pm.

A dramatic duet from The Face, an opera by Donald Crockett and David St. John, will be performed at the Provost's Distinguished Writers Series event featuring poet David St. John.  The performers are Katherine Beck, soprano, Jonathan Mack, tenor, and guitarist Brian Head; David St. John will read this poem, among other works, and music by Frank Ticheli and Chris Sampson will also be featured.  This USC Visions and Voices event is at 6:30 pm in Doheny Library on the USC campus. 

Ithaca College, Ford Hall

Clarinetist Richard Faria joins the Ithaca College Wind Ensemble and conductor Steve Peterson in a performance of Donald Crockett's Dance Concerto at Ithaca College's Ford Hall at 8:15 pm.
 

Bovard Auditorium, USC campus 7:30 pm

Donald Crockett conducts the USC Thornton Symphony in the annual New Music for Orchestra concert featuring premieres of orchestral works by outstanding Thornton composition students.  Under the direction of Donald Crockett, NMO  has premiered over 125 orchestral works in the past quarter century, many of which have gone on to receive major performances and prizes nationwide.  The concert is on Thursday, October 23 at 7:30 pm in Bovard Auditorium on the USC campus.
 

Carlsbad Music Festival, 4pm

Donald Crockett conducts USC Thornton Edge at Matt McBane's Carlsbad Music Festival in a program including Sean Friar's 'In the Blue,' Andrew Norman's 'Farnsworth: Four Portraits of a House,' Ted Hearne's 'crispy gentlemen,' David Lang's 'Increase,' and his own 'Whistling in the Dark.'  The concert is at 4pm at the festival's Main Stage, the Carlsbad Village Theater.
 

Bennington College, Vermont

The Faculty Artist Series of the Bennington Chamber Music Conference will present Donald Crockett's 'Celestial Mechanics' for oboe and string quartet, featuring stellar faculty of the Conference.  The concert is at 8pm in Bennington College's Greenwall Auditorium.
 

Monk Space, downtown Los Angeles

Guitarist Brian Head offers a concert of new and recent music for guitar, including selections from Donald Crockett's set of preludes, 'The Falcon's Eye'.  The concert is at 8pm at Monk Space, 4414 W 2nd Street, Los Angeles 90004.
 

Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor, will record Blue Earth for an all-Crockett CD upcoming on BMOP Sound.  Support for this project comes from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.
 

Newman Recital Hall, USC campus

Donald Crockett conducts the USC Thornton Edge new music ensemble in works by Don Freund, Frederick Lesemann, Jordan Nelson, Jonathan Harvey and Donald Crockett.  7:30 pm, Newman Recital Hall on the USC campus.
 

Bovard Auditorium, USC campus

Donald Crockett conducts the USC Thornton Symphony in its annual New Music for Orchestra concert featuring five new works by Thornton student composers.  Donald Crockett has premiered over 125 new works leading NMO over the past 25 years.
 

Bogliasco, Italy

Donald Crockett will be in residence at the Liguria Study Center of the Bogliasco Foundation for a month of creative work as a Fellowship Advisory Committee resident.  He was the Aaron Copland Fellow at Bogliasco in 2006 and is now on the fellowship advisory committee for the Bogliasco Foundation.
 

Bennington College, Vermont

Donald Crockett will return to the Bennington Chamber Music Conference as Senior Composer-in-Residence, where he will work with Resident Composers Caroline Mallonee, Jeffrey Mumford and John Fitz Rogers, composition fellows, conference faculty and participants in the Composers' Forum activities.
 

UC Davis

Firebird Ensemble performs Night Scenes in residence at UC Davis.

Donald Crockett, music director and conductor
music by Stephen Hartke and Frank Ticheli
University of Southern California, Los Angeles

USC Thornton Symphony
Donald Crockett, conductor
new orchestral music by USC student composers

Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory, Boston

World premiere.  Commissioned by JFNMC
Kate Vincent, viola
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor

Thayer Hall, Colburn School, Los Angeles

The Panic Duo - Nic Gerpe, piano and Pasha Tseitlin, violin, perform Wet Ink on a concert of American music.

Donald Crockett, conductor
music by Joan Tower, Dai Fujikura and Stephen Hartke

Donald Crockett, conductor
music by David Dzubay, Lukas Foss and Stephen Hartke

recording session
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Gil Rose, conductor
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston

world premiere performances
co-commissioned by Patricia Wylde and Firebird Ensemble
Japan America Theatre, Los Angeles
Daniel Norman, tenor; Thomas Meglioranza, baritone; Jane Sheldon, soprano; Janna Baty, mezzo soprano
Kate Vincent, producer
Yano Iatrides, stage director
Gil Rose, music director and conductor
Laurent Schneegans, lighting designer
Brian Head, guitar
Firebird Ensemble

More information: www.thefaceopera.com

Donald Crockett, music director and conductor
music by Stephen Hartke and Frank Ticheli
University of Southern California, Los Angeles