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!