A new electronic work by Daixuan will be performed on this concert alongside with other Jacobs electronic music students.

A 30-minute guided meditation and electronic music session experience curated by composer/performer Daixuan Ai and violinist Grace Mckenzie. This session leads audiences to reflect on indigeneity, the sufferings that had come with exploiting our enviroment, and ways we can heal our relationship with the ecosystem through contemplation, deep listening, and interactive music making.

“Year of The Dragon” for Bb clarinet and alto saxophone (commissioned by East Zodiac) will be premiered on this concert by clarinetist Samuel Hsieh and saxophonist Walter Puyear

A new work written for IU New Music Ensemble’s 2023 commission prize will be premiered on this concert.

Curated and organized by Daixuan Ai, sponsored by Indiana University Asian Cultural Center and Jacobs Office of Entrepreneurship and Career Development, This event will feature performance of Daixuan’s sinfonietta Silent Theater, poetry reading, and digital visual art created by IU student artists in response to the attack and racial hate.  After the artists' performances, there will be a special brief talk and discussion about ways to heal and move forward which will be led by guest speaker, Helen Zia, author of Asian American Dreams and cofounder of the Vincent Chin Institute.

Baldwin Wallace University Symphonic Wind Ensemble and conductor Brendan Caldwell will be premiering Planetarium Trilogy. Cleveland-based videographer and photographer Kevin Ng will be documenting the process of bringing this work to life and the premiere performance for his new documentary/music video Planetarium.

The Sound Ensemble performs 3 Xiangxi Folk Songs.

Daixuan’s Schumann Fragments (for soprano & piano) will be premiered on this concert
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Performance of ode to drinking water from my hands from Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude - 4 Poems by Ross Gay.

A new sinfonietta commission for NOI+F will be premiered on this concert.

Chicago Civic Orchestra will be performing Childhood Memories (2022) as part of the 2023 Civic Fellowship program. The piece will later be recorded and released on CSOtv.

“The Farm” ballet and Variation On A Love Songs (for trumpet, english horn, and 2 dancers; choreography by Jaya Dhand) will be featured on this program.

A new piece for trumpet and English horn written for Barton will be premiered on this recital.

This is a collaboration project between Bloomington Fairview Elementary School, Jacobs School of Music, and Indiana University ballet department. Through this project, 8 IU composers take a story written by Fairview students and set to music, which will then be choreographed and performed by dancers.

An IU Student Composers’ Association collaboration recital created and organized by Daixuan. Come and hear 5 world premiers by IU composers in Bloomington’s beautiful Morgenstern Bookstore and engage with the musicians through an Q&A session after the performance!

A new piece written for Limestone Brass Quintet, percussionist, and electronic will be premiered on this recital.

The Moon (for orchestra) will be performed by Indiana University’s Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Dzubay, as one of the winning pieces of IU’s 2022 “New Voice” orchestra works contest.