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Performance of one or more works at the Zodiac Music Academy & Festival in Côte d'Azur, France, from July 2-15. These performances will take place while directing the composition course at the academy.
Performance of two works at the Lunigiana International Music Festival in Fivizzano, Tuscany, Italy, from July 18-28. These performances will take place while teaching composition, giving seminars, and directing the Contemporary Music Ensemble and Contemporary Music Program with Victoria Paterson. Up to eight composers from around the world who have new or recent works performed by the Contemporary Music Ensemble will be selected to take part in this program.
Residency at Avaloch Farm Music Institute with writer and librettist David Cote to work on In Real Life, an evening-length show that combines and reworks In Real Life I, In Real Life II, and Extraordinary into a new theatrical work.
Masterclass, coaching, and lecture at Louisiana State University School of Music, of the College of Music & Dramatic Arts. This will culminate in a performance of works later in the semester.
Performance of Dark Mountains by Robert Paterson, as well as American Modern Orchestra, featuring Ward Stare, conductor, and Bradley Adam Bascon, violin, one of the two winners of AMO’s first annual concerto competition.
World premiere of String Quartet No. 2 by the Euclid String Quartet at the 2019 Mostly Modern Festival in the Arthur Zankel Music Center., as well as Mostly Modern Festival Institute composers and other 21st century works.
Performance of Suite for String Orchestra by the American Modern Orchestra (AMO), featuring maestro David Amado.
Performance of Enlightened City by Robert Paterson, also featuring works by MMF Composer and others, lead by Maestra Ruth Reinhardt.
Performance of Elegy for Two Cellos and Piano on the Danbury Music Centre’s Charles Ives Concert Series, featuring Ives Series Artist-Faculty.
Guest composer and performances of Ghost Theater and Closet Full of Demons by the IU New Music Ensemble, David Dzubay, Director/Conductor.
Guest composer at Augustana College, including an all Paterson concert and guest lectures, with Victoria Paterson. Works include Suite from A New Eaarth, Braids, Joy Ride, and Tongue & Groove, as well as a discussion about each piece from the stage.
Performance of The Book of Goddesses by Archaea Tree Ensemble at the Troublesome Gap Festival.
Composer-in-residence and performance of The Book of Goddesses at the new Troublesome Gap Festival, a collaborative composer retreat, with the Archaea Tree Ensemble (Erin Brooker, harp, Jennifer Shanahan, flute, and Andy Miller, percussion), hosted at the Azule retreat center, in Hot Springs, N.C.
American Modern Ensemble performs The Thin Ice of Your Fragile Mind at James Madison University as part of the 33rd Annual JMU Contemporary Music Festival. AME and Robert Paterson are guest artists. Tickets can be purchased here.
James Madison University Choir performs Do not stand at my grave and weep and Four Walden Canons at James Madison University. as part of the 33rd Annual JMU Contemporary Music Festival. AME and Robert Paterson are guest artists. Tickets can be purchased here.
Performance of Deep Blue Ocean at James Madison University. as part of the 33rd Annual JMU Contemporary Music Festival. Tickets can be purchased here.
American Modern Ensemble performs The Thin Ice of Your Fragile Mind at Layfayette College, Williams Center for the Arts. Free Admission.
Faculty, performance of Winter Songs, faculty at Atlantic Music Festival Composition Program.
Composer-In-Residence. Performance of Deep Blue Ocean for two pianos.
World premiere of a new work entitled Shard for Ensemble Aleph's 30th Anniversary Birthday Concert.
Colorado premiere of Eating Variations and Joy Ride, both performed by Young Artist Seminar Faculty on the Music in the Mountains Faculty Concert Series.
World premiere of two new commissions for the Chamber Choir of Europe conducted by Nicol Matt during the 2011 European Festival of Church Music in Schwäbisch Gemünd, South Germany, on this program entitled "Dreams and Visions." The first piece is entitled Life is But a Dream, a multi-lingual fantasy based on Row, Row, Row Your Boat, the second is entitled A Dream Within A Dream with text by Edgar Allen Poe. This concert will be recorded and broadcast by the SWR-Radio station.
