Bridge To Everywhere

Boston Court Pasadena, 70 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA 91106, USA 901 Boston Ct, United States

Bridge To Everywhere conducted by Derrick Spiva Jr. Music by Derrick Spiva Jr and Friends

Salastina Music Society: The Four Seasons x 2

Pasadena Conservatory of Music, 100 N Hill Ave #105, Pasadena, CA 91106, USA 2 N Hill Ave, United States

World Premier of a new work for Salastina Music Society

Salastina Music Society: The Four Seasons x 2

Pasadena Conservatory of Music, 100 N Hill Ave #105, Pasadena, CA 91106, USA 2 N Hill Ave, United States

World Premier of a new work for Salastina Music Society

Berkeley Symphony

Cal Performances, 101 Zellerbach Hall #4800, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 61 Quail Ave, United States

World Premier with Berkeley Symphony

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Dr, Costa Mesa, CA 92626, USA 601 Town Center Dr, United States

World Premier of Prisms Cycles Leaps Part III: To Be A Horizon with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Alex Theatre, 216 N Brand Blvd, Glendale, CA 91203, USA 301 Brent Pl, United States

World Premier of Prisms Cycles Leaps Part III: To Be A Horizon with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Los Angeles Master Chorale

Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA 101 S Grand Ave, United States

Los Angeles Master Choral performs the World Premiere of Anthems of A Crowd Part 4 

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Royce Hall, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA 10603 Rose Ave, United States

World Premier of Prisms Cycles Leaps Part III: To Be A Horizon with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

The Granada Theatre, 1214 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA 2 State St, United States

World Premier of Prisms Cycles Leaps Part III: To Be A Horizon with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Mother of Bravery + Mind The Rhythm (World Premiere)

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

Virtual Premeire

Glimpse of Elation will premiere as part of Yale Glee Club's Project 14.

Bridge To Everywhere

2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90057 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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

TBD in accordance with COVID guidelines

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...

Gospel Blues Masterpieces

First Congregational Church of Los Angeles 540 S. Commonwealth Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

"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...

Where can we go, from here?

ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/CALARTS THEATER 631 WEST 2ND STREET, Los Angeles, CA, United States

An Electric Acoustic Opera.

Current: Equilibrium

Boomtown Brewery 700 Jackson St, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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.

Prism, Cycles, Leaps

Southam Hall 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Canada

"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,...

Prism, Cycle, Leaps (Livestream)

Virtual Premeire

"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,...

To Be a Horizon

Wentz Concert Hall

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...

To Be a Horizon continued

Symphony Center

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

University Presbyterian 2203 San Antonio St, Austin, TX, United States

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

Evans Auditorium 101 Pleasant St, San Marcos, TX, United States

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...

Song of the Ambassadors

Lincoln Center, Starr Theater, Alice Tully Hall 1942 Broadway at W 65TH ST, New York, NY, United States

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 (UK Premiere)

Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London, United Kingdom

"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

Calderwood Hall 25 Evans Way, Boston, MA, United States

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...

We Gather: Black Life in Santa Monica (film screening)

Santa Monica Public Library 601 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA, United States

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

Barrett Hall at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music 100 N. Hill Ave, Pasadena, CA, United States

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

Library Community Room 1115 El Centro Street, South Pasadena, CA, United States

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

First Presbyterian Church 1220 2nd St., Santa Monica, CA, United States

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

Barrett Hall at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music 100 N. Hill Ave, Pasadena, CA, United States

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

The Pompeian Room at the Doheny Mansion 10 Chester Place, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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...

Song of the Ambassadors

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

Koerner Hall 273 Bloor St W, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage | Carnegie Hall 57th Street & 7th Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

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...

But, we press on…

Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA 101 S Grand Ave, United States

(world premiere)

Prisms, Cycles, Leaps

Philharmonie Haarlem | Het Concertgebouw Lange Begijnestraat 11, Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands

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...

Prisms, Cycles, Leaps

Philharmonie Haarlem | Het Concertgebouw Lange Begijnestraat 11, Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands

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...

Prisms, Cycles, Leaps

Philharmonie Haarlem | Het Concertgebouw Lange Begijnestraat 11, Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands

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

Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall 615 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

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

St. Wilfrid of York Episcopal Church 18631 Chapel Ln, Huntington Beach, CA, United States

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...

Deliverance

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts: Spanish Courtyard 149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY, United States

(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,...

Nova Plexus

Royal Albert Hall Kensington Gore, London, United Kingdom

BBC Commission: World Premiere

AN EVENING WITH ELLIE GOULDING

Kings Theatre 1027 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Wordless Music Orchestra Derrick Skye, conductor Ellie’s vision to perform with orchestra will come to life on the concert stage at this intimate show, giving fans a rare opportunity to...

AN EVENING WITH ELLIE GOULDING

Kings Theatre 1027 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Wordless Music Orchestra Derrick Skye, conductor Ellie’s vision to perform with orchestra will come to life on the concert stage at this intimate show, giving fans a rare opportunity to...

Ellie Goulding with Orchestra

Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA 101 S Grand Ave, United States

Hollywood Bowl Orchestra Derrick Skye, conductor Ellie Goulding has a voice that can pierce through bass-heavy club music, dance atop piano ballads, and breezily run up the hill of artsy...

Deliverance

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts: Music Room 149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, NY, United States

(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, originates from...