Mikel Kuehn - Activities

Activities 2019

  • November 20, 2019, 6pm - Crosstalk (2014, flute and violin) performed by Anat Kardontchik (violin) and Octavian Moldovean (flute). Toledo School for the Arts, Toledo, Ohio.
  • November 12, 2019, 8:00pm - Crack (2001, flute, saxophone and electroacoustics) performed by Jacob Braslawsce (alto sax) and Taylor Francis (flute).  Bryan Recital Hall, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
  • November 6, 2019, 8:00pm - Chiaroscuro (2007, cello and live electronics) performed by Brian Snow. Bryan Recital Hall, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
  • November 3, 2019, 8:00pm - Constructions for flute quartet (1987, flute quartet) performed by the BGSU Graduate Flute Quartet at the UA Flute Day Festival, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.
  • October 19, 2019, 8:00pm - World premiere of Sfumato (2019, large orchestra) by Emily Freeman Brown (cond.) and the Bowling Green Philharmonia on the 40th Bowling Green New Music Festival.  Kobacker Hall, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
  • October 12, 2019, 10:00am - Severance (2018, film by Zoë Kuehn, music by Mikel Kuehn) screened at the All American High School Film Festival. Times Square, New York, New York. 
  • October 7, 2019, 7:00pm - Resonances (2007, soprano saxophone and piano) performed by Tommy Davis (saxophone) on a master class with John Sampen.  McGill University, Tanna Schulich Hall, 527 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 1E3, CA
  • September 21, 2019, 8:00pm - Rite of Passage (2014, bass clarinet and live electronics) performed by Daniel Boeke. Casa Cava, Matera Intermedia Festival (MA/IN), Matera, ITALY.
  • September 21, 2019, 2:00pm - Severance (2018, film by Zoë Kuehn, music by Mikel Kuehn) screened at KinoDrome: an International Motion Picture and Screenwriting Festival. Cleveland, Ohio. (Severence received an honorable mention in the category of "Animated, Experimental, and Alternative Techniques")
  • August 18, 2019, 1:00pm - Recording session of Colored Shadows (2012 for viola and live electronics) with Doyle Armbrust (viola) and Paul Eachus engineer. Conn Audio, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
  • July 7, 2019, 7:45pm - presentation on Mikel Kuehn's orchestral work Deus ex machina (2002, large orchestra).  This presentation was shared with Lex Williford (writer) and Tara Elliott (poet).
  • July 2019 - 4 week residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA).
  • June 30, 2019, 7:00pm - Colored Shadows (2012, viola and live electronics) performed by Nick Revel. Darien Library, Darien Connecticut.
  • June 11, 2019, 1:00pm - Karikatur (2018, tenor saxophone and piano) performed by Jeffrey Vickers (saxophone) and Krista Wallace-Boaz (piano) and broadcasted on Radio 90, WNMU-FM 90.1 in Marquette, Michigan (wnmufm.org). [rebroadcast)
  • June 7, 2019, 8:00pm - Karikatur (2018, tenor saxophone and piano) performed by Jeffrey Vickers (saxophone) and Krista Wallace-Boaz (piano) and broadcasted on Radio 90, WNMU-FM 90.1 in Marquette, Michigan (wnmufm.org).
  • April 23, 2019, 8:00pm - Rite of Passage (2014, bass clarinet and live electronics) performed by Marianne Gythfeldt. New York University, New York, New York.
  • March 28, 2019, 9:00pm -  ...lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings...  (2010, Mikel Kuehn sound, Jean Detheux, image; Deborah Norin-Kuehn, voice) screened at Diffrazioni 2019, Firenze Mutimedia Festival. Concert Hall of Le Murate.Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Piazza delle Murate, Florence, ITALY.
  • March 22, 2019, 7 pm - Karikatur (2018, tenor saxophone and piano): Performed by at  Jeff Vickers (Saxophone) and Krista Wallace-Boaz (piano). Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan, USA.
  • March 13, 2019, 8:30pm - Rite of Passage (2014, bass clarinet and live electronics) performed by Marianne Gythfeldt. Talea Enesmble Concert. The Stone at the New School. Glass Box Performance Space: 55 West 13th Street, New York, New York
  • February 23, 2019, 7:00pm - Colored Shadows (2012, viola and live electronics) performed by Nick Revel. Sunnyside Reform Church, Brooklyn, New York.
  • February 22, 2019, 8:00pm - US Premiere of Karikatur (2018, tenor saxophone and piano): Performed by BGSU DMA students Christopher Murphy, saxophone and Humay Gasimzade, piano. Bryan Recital Hall, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
  • February 22, 2019, 8:00pm - Footprints of Debussy’s Trois Chansonsde Bilitis  (2019, flute, alto saxophone, piano, celesta): World premiere of I. La flûte de Pan (2019) and US premiere of III. Le tombeau des Naïades (2018). Performed by BGSU DMA students Octavian Moldovean, flutes; Nicholas Zoulek, alto saxophone; Jonathan Oliveira, celesta; Humay Gasimzade, piano. Bryan Recital Hall, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
  • February 10, 2019, 3:00pm, Double Labyrinth (1999, flute and marimba). WGTE Toledo, Living American Composers: New Music From Bowling Green, recorded live for broadcast. Performed by Kenneth Cox, flute; Henrique Batista, marimba. Kuhlin Center Recording Studio, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
  • February 8, 2019, 8:00pm - Undercurrents broadcast on WGTE Toledo.  "BGSU Roundup:" Ensemble Dal Niente; Michael Lewanski, conductor; Object/Shadow; New Focus Recordings FCR160. Distributed internationally through the Public Radio Exchange (PRX)
  • February 6, 2019, 6:00pm - Table Talk (2018, violin and viola) recording session, Yu-Fang Chen (violin) and Mei-Chun Chen (viola). Sursa Hall Recording Studios, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
  • January 31, 2019, 8:00pm - US Premiere of Table Talk (2018, violin and viola) performed by Yu-Fang Chen (violin) and Mei-Chun Chen (viola). Sursa Hall, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

Activities 2018

  • November 16, 2018. Rite of Passage [Hyperresonance V] (2014, bass clarinet and live electroacoustics) released on Marianne Gythfeldt: Only Human. Performed by Marianne Gythfeldt with Mikel Kuehn, live electroacoustics. New Focus Recordings (FCR 220). 
  • November 7, 2018, 7:30pm - my mind is.. (2010, fixed media).  Allan Schindler Memorial Concert, Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester New York.
  • October 19, 2018, 10:30am - Double Labyrinth (1999, flute and marimba) performed by Kenneth Cox, flute; Henrique Batista, marimba. BGSU New Music Festival, Bryan Recital Hall, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
  • October 4, 2018, 8pm - Mexican premiere of Color Fields performed by Hypercube at the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez.  Auditorio Blas Galindo, Centro Nacional de las Artes. Mexico City, MEXICO.
  • August 9, 2018, 3:30pm - World premiere of Table Talk (2018, violin and viola) performed by Yu-Fang Chen (violin) and Mei-Chun Chen (viola) at the Thailand International Composition Festival. Mahidol University, Bangkok, THAILAND.
  • August 3, 2018, 7:30pm - Pre Premiere of Table Talk (2018, violin and viola) performed by Yu-Fang Chen (violin) and Mei-Chun Chen (viola). marTeaux Cafe, Taipei, TAIWAN.
  • July, 22, 2018, 3pm - The Scarbo Saxophone Quartet performs Etchings (2009, SSTT saxophone quartet) at the Royal Juillet Musical de Saint-Hubert. Église Saint-Paul, Arville, LUXEMBOURG.
  • July 19, 2018 8pm - Colored Shadows (2012, viola and live electronics) performed by Nick Revel. New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), Abrons Art Center, NYU, New York, New York.
  • July 12, 2018, 1:30am - World premiere of Le Tombeau des Naïades (2018, flute, alto saxophone, piano, celesta) by Quatuor Apollinaire (France). 18th World Saxophone Congress, Academy of Music, Blagoje Bersa Hall,  Zagreb, CROATIA.
  • July 11, 2018, 5:30pm - World premiere of Karikatur (2018, tenor saxophone and piano) by Jeff Vickers and Hannah Creviston. 18th World Saxophone Congress, ACADEMY OF MUSIC Svetislav Stančić Hall, Zagreb, CROATIA.
  • June 13, 2018, 8pm - Presentation on the music of Mikel Kuehn at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire.
  • May 18-June 29, 2018 - Residency at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire.
  • May 14, 2018 - Recording session at the Oberlin Conservatory for Chimera (2017, flute and piano).  Performed by Conor Nelson (flute), and Thomas Rosenkranz (piano). Oberlin, Ohio.
  • May 2018 - Awarded an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council for String Quartet No. 1 (2016) and Entanglements (2016, guitar and harp).
  • May 12, 2018 - Recording session at the Oberlin Conservatory for Double Labyrinth (1999, flute and marimba). Kenneth Cox, flute; Henrique Batista, marimba. Oberlin, Ohio.
  • April 13, 2018, 6pm - Celebratory remarks given at the 90th birthday celebration of Samuel Adler. The Temple, Sylvania, Ohio.
  • March 31, 2018, 8pm - Polyvalence I (2017, piano and interactive electroacoustics) performed by pianist Daniel Koppelman. Society for Electroacoustic Music in the U.S. (SEAMUS) National Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
  • March 19, 2018, 7pm - The Scarbo Saxophone Quartet performs Etchings (2009, SSTT saxophone quartet) on the Klara Festival's Supernova Concert. Théâtre du Vaudeville, Brussels, BELGIUM.  Live broadcast on Musiq'3
  • March 2, 2018, 1pm - Saxophonist Leslie Wong and pianist I-An Chen perform Intersections & Resonances (1999, alto saxophone, violin, piano) at Mahidol University, Bangkok, THAILAND.
  • February 14, 2018, 8pm ..lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings...  (2010, visual music with images by Jean Detheux) screened at the Faculty Composers' Forum. Bryan Hall, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
  • January 26, 7:30pm - Between the Lynes (1994, flute, cello, and piano) performed by Ensemble Dal Niente. A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall, East Carolina University, Greenville, South Carolina.
  • January 21, 4:00pm - Entanglements (2016, guitar and harp) performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) (Dan Lippel, guitar and Nuiko Wadden, harp). National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY.