On Monday, April 27th, 2009 I will be performing my In Celebration of Sunrise for flute/alto saxophone/actor (one performer), electronics, and film, at the Wired for Sound 2009 Festival, to be held at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA. Wired for Sound is part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival.

This multimedia work for soloist, electronics, and film is based on a Postmodern view of a Native American sunrise ceremony. The opening flute is purely improvised, while the later saxophone melody is presented in heterophony with the electronic tracks. In performance, the soloist performs both alongside and within the film by standing behind a scrim, interacting with the on-screen action. This was my collaboration with Uzbek film maker Nikolay Leonuv, and had its premier at the Omnibus Black Box Music and Vision Festival in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in February 2008.

Other composers featured on the concert include Eric Chasalow, David Ianni, Russel Pinkston, and Justin Casinghino. The concert will take place at Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA on April 27th, 2009 at 8PM.

Through a joint sponsorship by the Hellenic Culture Society and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, I will present a concert of new solo, electroacoustic, and multimedia works by living Greek composers, including Michalis Adamis, Akis Daoutis, Nickos Harizanos, Marinos Koutsomichalis, and myself. The presentation will also include a discussion of my numerous Greek related projects, as well as my other international cultural initiatives.

To be held at the Media Center at O’Leary Library at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, April 26th, 2009 at 2PM.