League of American Orchestras Panelist
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Bridge To Everywhere conducted by Derrick Spiva Jr. Music by Derrick Spiva Jr and Friends
Bridge To Everywhere conducted by Derrick Spiva Jr. Music by Derrick Spiva Jr and Friends
World Premier of As I Heard When I was Young for String Quintet with Salastina Music Society
World Premier of As I Heard When I was Young for String Quintet with Salastina Music Society
World Premier of a new work for Salastina Music Society
World Premier of a new work for Salastina Music Society
World Premier with Berkeley Symphony
World Premier of Prisms Cycles Leaps Part III: To Be A Horizon with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
World Premier of Prisms Cycles Leaps Part III: To Be A Horizon with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Los Angeles Master Choral performs the World Premiere of Anthems of A Crowd Part 4
World Premier of Prisms Cycles Leaps Part III: To Be A Horizon with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
World Premier of Prisms Cycles Leaps Part III: To Be A Horizon with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Mother Of Bravery Mother of Bravery is a piece that explores the emotional transformations that are possible with the sensation of fear. Inspired by the 4,096 ancestors that each person...
Glimpse of Elation will premiere as part of Yale Glee Club's Project 14.
Bridge to Everywhere performs new music by ensemble members Derrick Skye, Yvette Holzwarth, Chris Votek, James Waterman, and Philip Graulty. The festival also features LA-based artists Jon Hatamiya’s Big Band,...
As Water, Freedom is an exploration of the layers of intersecting identities that we have as individuals and collective groups, and how these fluid identities shift and develop. Musical influences...
"Maestro Vince Womack leads the nationally acclaimed Afro-American Chamber Music Society Orchestra in a performance of Skye Masterpieces. Skye's symphonic kaleidoscopic colors are culturally diverse representing the folk music of...
An Electric Acoustic Opera.
Composer and LACO artistic advisor Derrick Skye presents CURRENT: Equilibrium, a hand-picked selection of works—including three world premieres—that invites audiences to experience the euphonic groove of Electro-Acoustic classical music.
"Prisms, Cycles, Leaps, a dazzling musical travelogue that links North Indian Hindustani classical music with the music of the Balkans and the Volta region of Ghana. This is a gorgeous,...
"Prisms, Cycles, Leaps, a dazzling musical travelogue that links North Indian Hindustani classical music with the music of the Balkans and the Volta region of Ghana. This is a gorgeous,...
As in the previous two parts of the three part Prisms, Cycles, Leaps suite, To Be A Horizon continues to integrate musical practices from numerous cultures into a Western classical...
As in the previous two parts of the three part Prisms, Cycles, Leaps suite, To Be A Horizon continues to integrate musical practices from numerous cultures into a Western classical...
Black Ocean explores the human experience of the universe as being simultaneously vast and open, yet intimate and personal on an individual level. The text of the piece are fragments...
Penta, meaning 4, is a piece that draws inspiration from melodic and rhythmic techniques found in Indianclassical music and blues, as well as the form of Ravel’s Bolero, with its...
What goes on in the mind of Lincoln Center's Chief Artistic Officer Shanta Thake during a concert? See for yourself at Song of the Ambassadors, a groundbreaking opera in development...
"Prisms, Cycles, Leaps, a dazzling musical travelogue that links North Indian Hindustani classical music with the music of the Balkans and the Volta region of Ghana. This is a gorgeous,...
god of the gaps is a piece that navigates the connections between Persian classical music, West African music,Western classical music, and experimental electronic music. The form of the piece is...
Production: The film presented is We Gather: Black Life in Santa Monica told through Music, Visuals, and Narrative. Also referred to simply as We Gather, the concept of this film...
As I Heard When I Was Young is based on the free-form instrumental and a cappella gospel blues music that I heard in churches and at home when I was child....
We Begin is a two movement work that explores the act of rising from sleep and navigating an emotional balance throughout the day. The first movement begins with melodies strongly...
We Gather is about the will of a community to strengthen, grow, and change. There are three movements. Across all the movements, the percussion and electronic percussion represent the energy...
As I Heard When I Was Young is based on the free-form instrumental and a cappella gospel blues music that I heard in churches and at home when I was...
American Mirror reflects on the coming together of cultures in our society, which consists of many generations and descendants of refugees, immigrants, and slaves, and how intercultural collaborations are essential to...
Conceived by K Allado-McDowell, Song of the Ambassadors reimagines opera as a musical ritual producing scientific understanding about the effects of music on the body and mind. It is first and foremost...
god of the gaps is a piece that navigates the connections between Persian classical music, West African music,Western classical music, and experimental electronic music. The form of the piece is built...
Neither Separated, Nor Undone navigates the complexities of shifting and at times contradictory opinions an individual may hold over the course of their lifetime. The piece is influenced by rhythmic...
(world premiere)
Premiered by the Los Angeles chamber Orchestra Prisms, Cycles, Leaps is an orchestral piece that bridges the space between the music of the Balkans, the Volta Region of Ghana and North Indian...
Premiered by the Los Angeles chamber Orchestra Prisms, Cycles, Leaps is an orchestral piece that bridges the space between the music of the Balkans, the Volta Region of Ghana and North Indian...
Premiered by the Los Angeles chamber Orchestra Prisms, Cycles, Leaps is an orchestral piece that bridges the space between the music of the Balkans, the Volta Region of Ghana and North Indian...
End of Beginning is inspired by Ali Akbar Khan’s 1995 recording of Rag Sindu Bhairavi from the album “Morning Visions.” End of Beginning is written in Rag Sindhi Bhairavi from...
Glimpse Elation interweaves the rhythmic complexities of spoken word with chanting qualities of call and response. The text refers to the many perspectives from which someone could derive a sense...
(World Premiere) Deliverance is a transcultural classical string quartet that blends Persian classical melodic systems with rhythmic elements from West and North African music. The inspiration behind the title, Deliverance,...
BBC Commission: World Premiere