selected
past
performances
May 20, 2023 - 7:00pm
Vista Marietta High School Choir Concert | guest artist
John Rutter: Magnificat | soprano soloist
Zachary Krug, conductor
University of Redlands, Memorial Chapel
May 7, 2023
Inland Master Chorale | guest artist
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana | soprano soloist
Joseph Modica, conductor
University of Redlands, Memorial Chapel
May 5, 2023
Coaxial | Residency Concert of Elise Roy | guest artist
Jeffrey Holmes: Rider of Darkness - world premiere
with Elise Roy, flute
Coaxial, Los Angeles CA
December 7, 2022 - 5:00pm
Student composition readings
11 pieces for soprano, piano, and percussion
Chapman University, Orange CA
November 17, 2022 - 8:00pm
Choral Concert | guest artist
Alberto Ginastera: Chacarera
Manuel de Falla: Nana
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Think of Me from Phantom of the Opera
W. A. Mozart: Der Hölle Rache from Der Zauberflöte
with Jonathan Keplinger, piano
UC Riverside Theater
September 16, 2022 - 7:00pm
Faculty Recital
The Blacksmith, arr. James Macmillan
with Margaret Worsley, clarinet
San Bernardino Valley College, Auditorium
May 7, 2022 - 7:30pm
UC Santa Barbara Faculty Concert | premiere performance
Andrew Watts: Silicon Valley Requiem (2022)
Studio Theater, UC Santa Barbara
April 30, 2022 - 3:00pm
Hear Now Festival of New Music | chamber music concert
Kevin Zhang: while twigs make minor adjustments (2015)
Shatto Chapel, First Congregational church of Los Angeles
April 17, 2022
recording session | premiere recording
Andrew Watts: Silicon Valley Requiem (2022)
UC Santa Barbara
March 10, 2022
micro-operas | premiere performances/recordings
UCR ARTS, Riverside CA
March 5, 2022
Afternoon Concert Crawl | Desert Hot Springs Classical Concerts
Kaija Saariaho: Changing Light
Jeffrey Holmes: Rider of Darkness (movements 1-2)
Gaetano Donizetti: Mad Scene cadenza from Lucia di Lammermoor
with Elise Roy, flute
Desert Hot Springs, CA
January 19, 2022
Solo Concert + Presentation | Florence Bayz Concert Series
UC Riverside, Riverside CA via Zoom
AUGUST 29, 2021
Recording Session | HEAR NOW Festival of New Music
Jack Van Zandt: El oro de los tigres
Glendale, CA
MARCH 17, 2021
Recording Session | Music of Parisian composers
Jean Claude Risset: Inharmonique
Irvine, CA
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Recording Session | film score: The Unholy
West LA, CA
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Recording Session | film score: Malignant
music by Joseph Bishara
Lake Arrowhead, CA
MARCH 4, 2020
WEDS7 | suddenly drenched with dawn
Karin Rehnqvist: Puksånger/Lockrop
with Susan Narucki, soprano and Sean Dowgray, percussion
UC San Diego, Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, La Jolla CA
FEBRUARY 22, 2020
San Diego New Music | The Visceral Infinities
Christopher Warren: The Six Perils of Fractured Time | world premiere
Bread & Salt, San Diego CA
JANUARY 5, 2020
MicroFest Records | recording session
Jeffrey Holmes: Myrkritha/Ljosleitha | premiere recording
Chapman University, Salman Recital Hall, Orange CA
DECEMBER 5, 2019
An Evening of Micro-Operas | workshop performance
University of California, Riverside CA
NOVEMBER 20, 2019
Guest Artist | Fall Opera Scenes
György Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
California State University, San Bernardino CA
JULY 28-30, 2019
Recording Session | MicroFest Records
Jeffrey Holmes: Myrkritha/Ljosleitha
Chapman University, Orange CA
JUNE 9, 2019
UC San Diego Undergraduate Voice Students | Spring Opera Production
Thomas Pasatieri: Signor Deluso
Jacques Offenbach: Scenes in English from La Perichole
Produced and Directed by Kirsten Ashley Wiest
Music Direction by Dr. Kyle Adam Blair
Lighting Design by Jessica C. Flores
Costumes by Natalie Barshow
UC San Diego, Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, La Jolla CA
JUNE 6, 2019
Reading Session | Vocal pieces by Undergraduate Composers
UC Riverside, Riverside CA
JUNE 1, 2019
Los Angeles Philharmonic | Noon to Midnight
with Accordant Commons
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles CA
MAY 16-20, 2019
Recording Session
Lei Liang: Inheritance
UC San Diego, La Jolla CA
MAY 15, 2019
Joe Garrison & Night People | Wed@7
Joe Garrison: Prayers & Mantras *world premiere
UC San Diego, Conrad Prebys Music Center, Concert Hall
MAY 8-11, 2019
Seeking Antonia | kallisti chamber opera
Antonia Bembo: Lamento della vergine
UC San Diego, Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater
MAY 2, 2019
In the Land of Forgotten Dreams | San Diego New Music
Kaija Saariaho: From the Grammar of Dreams
with soprano Susan Narucki
Athenaeum, La Jolla CA
APRIL 13, 2019
NIGHT | DMA Dissertation Recital
Jeffrey Holmes: Mara *world premiere
Joseph Bishara: Black Sunday *world premiere
Gérard Pape: Being Beauteous
James Erber: Phoenix
Kaija Saariaho: Leinolaulut
with Dr. Kyle Adam Blair, piano
UC San Diego, Conrad Prebys Music Center, Concert Hall
MARCH 3, 2019
Joe Garrison & Night People | House Concert
Joe Garrison: Prayers & Mantras
Oceanside, CA
FEBRUARY 9, 2019
Spiritual Forest and Other Chamber Pieces of Nature | Recording Session
Koji Nakano: Spiritual Forest
California State University, San Bernardino, San Bernardino CA
FEBRUARY 8, 2019 - 7:30pm
Spiritual Forest and Other Chamber Pieces of Nature | Opera
Koji Nakano: Spiritual Forest *world premiere
Directed and sung by Stacey Fraser, soprano
California State University, San Bernardino, San Bernardino CA
JANUARY 27, 2019 - 7:00pm
Joe Garrison & Night People | House Concert
Joe Garrison: Prayers & Mantras *soft premiere
San Diego, CA
JANUARY 17, 2019 – 5:00-8:00pm
kallisti + San Diego Symphony + San Diego Master Chorale | The Great Learning
Cornelius Cardew: The Great Learning
Sarah Nemtsov: Träne
Nicola LeFanu: "Here's my story...." and "Very old are the woods" from A Penny for a Song
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA
DECEMBER 6, 2018 – 8:00pm
Micro-Operas by UCR Graduate Student Composers | world premieres
Aram Adajian: Indelible in the Hippocampus
Ethan Castro: Aurora
Elyse Douglas: A Brush with Love
Christiaan Clark: Reading Day
UC Riverside, Riverside CA
NOVEMBER 18, 2018 – 5:30pm
Dissertation Concert: Elisabet Curbelo González
Elisabet Curbelo: Betrothal for solo soprano with ASL *world premiere
UC San Diego, Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater
NOVEMBER 5, 2018 - 7:00pm
Being Beauteous | Solo Recital
Sarah Nemtsov: Träne (2016), for soprano and 4 gongs
Hanns Eisler: Selections from Hollywooder Liederbuch (1942-43)
Nicola LeFanu: A Penny for a Song (1981)
Gérard Pape: Being Beauteous (2018) *world premiere
with Dr. Kyle Adam Blair, piano
Recital Hall, Conrad Prebys Music Center, UC San Diego
OCTOBER 24-27 2018 - 7:00pm
Chamber Opera | World Premiere run
Lei Liang: Inheritance (2018)
Experimental Theater, Conrad Prebys Music Center, UC San Diego
OCTOBER 7, 2018 - 4:00pm
National Association of Composers USA | Los Angeles chapter concert
Richard Derby: "The Plan" from A Theme for My Song (2013)
Matthew Hetz: Summer Roses (2018)
with Ashley Zhang, piano
St. Athanasius Church, Los Angeles CA
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 - 8:00pm
Chamber Concert | Blacklisted
Hanns Eisler: Hollywooder Liederbuch excerpts
with Dr. Kyle Adam Blair, piano
Theatricum Botanicum, Topanga Canyon CA
APRIL 29, 2018 - 5:00pm
Anne LeBaron: Is Money Money
First Lutheran Church of Venice, Venice CA
APRIL 21, 2018 – 7:00pm
Kallsti | Vocal Chamber Music | QUEEN OF THE ETHER
Karin Rehnqvist: Puksånger/Lockrop
Kirsten Ashley Wiest & Hillary Jean Young, sopranos
Sean Dowgray, percussion
Elisabeth Angot: Piece for 6 Female Voices
Katharina Rosenberger: "Vive faville" & "Tratti confluenti"
Ana Sokolović: Six Voices for Sirens
Karin Rehnqvist: Vishentens lov (In Praise of Wisdom)
Lauren Jones and Jasper Sussman, sopranos
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UCSD, La Jolla CA
APRIL 17, 2018 - 7:00pm
Kallsti | Vocal Chamber Music | QUEEN OF THE ETHER
Karin Rehnqvist: Puksånger/Lockrop
Kirsten Ashley Wiest & Hillary Jean Young, sopranos
Sean Dowgray, percussion
Elisabeth Angot: Piece for 6 Female Voices
Katharina Rosenberger: "Vive faville" & "Tratti confluenti"
Ana Sokolović: Six Voices for Sirens
Karin Rehnqvist: Vishentens lov (In Praise of Wisdom)
Lauren Jones and Jasper Sussman, sopranos
Ensenada, Mexico
APRIL 13, 2018 - 8:00pm
Accordant Commons Concert
works by Kaija Saariaho, Evan Johnson, Leah Reid, Deborah Kavasch,
Carolyn Chen, Denis Pousseur, and John Cage
Automata, Los Angeles CA
MARCH 20, 2018 – 8:00pm
Tuesdays @ Monk Space | A PHENOMENAL HUM IN CRACKED TIME
Wiest/Lee & HOCKET
Jack Van Zandt: Apples and Time Crack in October (2015)
Bill Alves: A Sonatina (2016)
Jeffrey Holmes: Fragments (2010)
György Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre (1991)
with Siu Hei Lee, piano
Monk Space, Los Angeles CA
FEBRUARY 25, 2018
La Jolla Symphony | Young Artist Winner's Recital
György Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
with Siu Hei Lee, piano
Private Residence, La Jolla CA
FEBRUARY 24, 2018
House Concert | Private Event
works by Brahms, Delibes, Van Zandt, Charles, and traditional folk tunes
with Siu Hei Lee, piano
Private Residence, Laguna Beach CA
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
Student Compositions | Reading and Recording Session
Chapman University, Orange CA
JANUARY 18, 2018
LUMINOUS | solo recital
Jack Van Zandt: Apples and Time Crack in October
James Erber: Phoenix
Jeffrey Holmes: Fragments
György Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
with Siu Hei Lee, piano
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UCSD, La Jolla CA
JANUARY 16, 2018
San Diego Symphony | It's About Time Festival
Steve Reich: Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ
Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego CA
DECEMBER 9-10, 2017
La Jolla Symphony | Concentric Paths
Guillaume de Machaut, arr. Felipe Rossi: Je vivroie liement
Conducted by Steven Schick
Mandeville Auditorium, La Jolla CA
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
New Horizons Concert Series | DAWN: solo recital
music by Juhi Bansal, Jack Van Zandt, Bill Alves, Jeffrey Holmes, and György Ligeti
Salmon Recital Hall, Chapman University, Orange CA
OCTOBER 29, 2017
Harvey Mudd Concert Series | DAWN: solo recital
music by Juhi Bansal, Jack Van Zandt, Bill Alves, Jeffrey Holmes, and György Ligeti
Drinkward Recital Hall, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA
SEPTEMBER 3, 2017
UnSUNg Concert Series
Jack Van Zandt: Apples and Time Crack in October | world premiere
Bill Alves: A Sonatina
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Glendale CA