Past Events
Doctoral Lecture Recital
Conducted György Ligeti’s Kammerkonzert für 13 Instrumentalisten with Eastman Musica Nova
APRIL 7, 2023 IN KILBOURN HALL AT THE EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
TIME:SPANS Festival
Assistant Conductor for Ensemble Signal’s premiere of George Lewis’ Tales of the Traveller and Darian Donovan Thomas’ Spiral
AUGUST 19, 2022 AT THE DIMENNA CENTER FOR CLASSICAL MUSIC
Eastman Musica Nova
Conducted Georg Friedrich Haas’ …Einklang freier Wesen…
December 7, 2022 IN KILBOURN HALL AT THE EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Eastman Musica Nova
Conducted movements from Zihan Wu’s Seven Scenes after the World Falls into Darkness
OCTOBER 28, 2022 IN KILBOURN HALL AT THE EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Judd Greenstein’s A Marvelous Order
Associate Music Director for the premiere of Judd Greenstein’s opera A Marvelous Order
October 20, 2022 in Eisenhower Auditorium at Penn State University
Eastman Musica Nova
Conducted Oliver Knussen’s Songs Without Voices
October 3, 2022 in Kilbourn hall at Eastman School of Music
TIME:SPANS Festival
Assistant Conductor for Ensemble Signal’s premiere of George Lewis’ Tales of the Traveller and Darian Donovan Thomas’ Spiral
August 19, 2022 at the Dimenna Center for classical music
Conducting Fellow, Mostly Modern Festival
Conducting Fellow at the Mostly Modern Festival under guest conductors JoAnn Falletta, Peter Bay, and Scott Terrell.
Masterclass repertoire included Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, and Claude Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Performed works by Robert Patterson and Zachary Detrick, and recorded excerpts of Christopher Rouse’s Flute Concerto, Paul Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis, and Leonard Bernstein’s On the Waterfront.
June 5-25, 2022 in Arthur Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College
Nico Muhly’s Third Bird
Conducted Nico Muhly’s premiere ballet Third Bird as a cover for Ensemble Signal in collaboration with the Guggenheim’s “Works and Process” performing arts series
June 3-5, 2022 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, NY
OSSIA New Music
Conducted Ned McGowan’s Garden of Iniquitous Creatures
May 1, 2022 in Ray Wright at the Eastman School of Music
Eastman Opera Theatre, Into the Woods
Assistant conductor of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods
April 7-10, 2022 in Kodak Hall at Eastman School of Music
Eastman Musica Nova
Conducted Jessie Cox’s Existence Lies In-Between and Olga Neuwirth’s spazio elastico
April 4, 2022 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Eastman Musica Nova
Conducted Iannis Xenakis’ Palimpsest and selections from Frank Zappa’s The Yellow Shark
March 2, 2022 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
OSSIA New Music
Conducted Tyshawn Sorey’s Sentimental Shards
December 7, 2021 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Eastman Musica Nova
Conducted Andile Khumalo’s Invisible Self
November 22, 2021 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Eastman Opera Theatre, Here be Sirens
Assistant Conductor to Kate Soper’s Here be Sirens
November 4-7, 2021 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Eastman Musica Nova
Conducted Julia Wolfe’s Tell Me Everything
October 25, 2021 in Kodak Hall at Eastman School of Music
Julia Wolfe’s Oxygen, Carnegie Hall
Conducted Julia Wolfe’s Carnegie Hall Residency virtual premiere studio recording of Oxygen
October 10-12, 2021 in New York City
OSSIA New Music
Conducted Carolyn Chen’s Oceans in oceans
October 4, 2021 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Eastman Musica Nova
Conducted Toru Takemitsu’s Rain Coming and Hilda Paredes’ Ah Paaxo'Ob
September 23, 2021 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Rochester Summer Opera, Die Fledermaus
Conducted Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus
August 25, 2021 at Rochester Memorial Art Gallery
OSSIA New Music
Conducted Sarah Nemtsov’s Seven Colours
April 29, 2021 in Kilbourn Hal at Eastman School of Music
Eastman Musica Nova
Conducted Beat Furrer’s spur and Daniel Kidane’s Inner Voices
April 28, 2021 in Kodak Hall at Eastman School of Music
Apple Orchard Release
Recorded vocals and piano in a cover of Beach House’s Apple Orchard
Cello recorded by Samuel Boundy
March 29, 2021
Emma Gierszal, percussion recital
Performed Alvin Singleton’s Greed Machine for vibraphone and piano
March 24, 2021 in Hatch Hall at Eastman School of Music
Eastman Musica Nova
Conducted Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Entropic Arrows
March 17, 2021 in Kodak Hall at Eastman School of Music
OSSIA New Music
Performed Molly Joyce’s Bite the Dust
March 4, 2021 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Eastman Musica Nova
Conducted Pierre Boulez’s Derive 1 and Andy Akiho’s Erase
February 26, 2021 in Kodak Hall at Eastman School of Music
Visual Music 3.0
Performed and recorded six world premieres for orchestra by Eastman composers in the Contemporary Media and Film Scoring Department
February 4, 2021 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
M&O (Mills & O’Brien) Ensemble
Conducted John Adam’s Shaker Loops for string orchestra
NOVEMBER 13, 2020 AT EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Eastman Percussion Ensemble Concert
Performed Alejandro Viñao’s Water with Eastman Percussion Ensemble
NOVEMBER 10, 2020 IN KILBOURN HALL AT EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Graduate Composers Sinfonietta
Conducted Zachery Litchfield’s Imagining the Stars
NOVEMBER 3, 2020 IN KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
OSSIA New Music: Refraction Aberrance
Conducted Angélica Negrón’s Doabin. Performed works by Judd Greenstein and Michael Laurello.
oCtober 15, 2020 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Georgia Mills & Raina Arnett, duo recital
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
Performed works by Arvo Pärt, George Enescu, Kaija Saariaho, Oliver Knussen, and Gabriel Faure
MAY, 2020 IN ROCHESTER, NY AND NEW YORK, NY
Georgia Mills, conducting recital
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
Conducted works by W.A. Mozart and Timo Andres
APRIL 18, 2020 IN THE EASTMAN FISHBOWL AT EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Story Time Live: Empire Film & Media Ensemble
Performed film scores The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan for orchestra with the Empire Film and Media Ensemble
March 1, 2020 at the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, NY
OSSIA New Music
Conducted Lei Liang’s Ascension for brass quintet and percussion
February 26, 2020 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Stephen Hartke Residency Concert
Performed Stephen Hartke’s Wulfstan at the Millenium for ten players
February 18, 2020 in Hatch Hall at Eastman School of Music
Eastman Musica Nova
Conducted Tansy Davies’ Inside Out 2
February 10, 2020 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
OSSIA New Music
Conducted James O’Callaghan’s Subject/Object
December 2, 2019 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Stephen Hartke Residency Concert
Performed Stephen Hartke’s Gradus for chamber ensemble
November 19, 2019 in Hatch Hall at Eastman School of Music
Eastman Musica Nova
Conducted Michael Gordon’s Lovebead
November 15, 2019 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Eastman Musica Nova
Conducted Alvin Singleton’s Again; Performed Steve Reich’s Radio Rewrite
October 17, 2019 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
OSSIA New Music
Conducted Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s Run
October 3, 2019 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Nief Norf Summer Festival 2019
Performed works by Eric Wubbels, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Tristan Perich, Andrew Hamilton, Tigran Hamasyan, and Zac Fick-Cambria
June 10 – 24, 2019 at University of Tennessee Knoxville in Knoxville, TN
Georgia Mills & Daniel Schreiner, duo piano recital
Performing works by John Adams, Nina Young, Donnacha Dennehy and Tigran Hamasyan
MaY 26, 2019 at shapeshifter lab, BROOKLYN, NY
Eastman Musica Nova
Performing Olga Neuwirth’s Un posto nell’acqua, Stefan Prins’ Fremdkörper #3, and Alexander Schubert’s Serious Smile
April 8, 2019 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Edo Frenkel, DMA conducting lecture recital
Performing Stefan Prins’ Fremdkörper #3, and Alexander Schubert’s Serious Smile
April 8, 2019 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Diego Vega Residency Concert
Performing Diego Vega’s Diferencias for chamber ensemble
April 7, 2019 in Hatch Hall at Eastman School of Music
Amy Victoria Thompson, composition recital
Premiering Amy Victoria Thompson’s Pseudospheres for two pianists and two percussionists
April 6, 2019 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Noel Holloway, percussion recital
Performing Movt. 3 & 4 of Philippe Hurel’s Tombeau for percussion & piano
March 28, 2019 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Oliver Xu, percussion recital
Performing Chris Cerrone’s Double Happiness for percussion & piano
March 7, 2019 in Hatch Hall at Eastman School of Music
Eastman Musica Nova, George Lewis Concert
Performing George Lewis’ Anthem, A Will to Adorn, & Creative Construction
March 4, 2019 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Inter-studio Recital
Performing J.S. Bach’s Prelude & Fugue No. 20 in A Minor BWV 990, Well-Tempered Clavier Book II
February 23, 2019 in Ciminelli lounge at Eastman School of Music
Raina Arnett, violin recital
Performing George Enescu’s Impressions D’Enfance for violin & piano
February 16, 2019 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
WXXI Classical 91.5 with Empire Film & Music Ensemble
Performed film music from holiday movies such as Nightmare Before Christmas, Home Alone, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas for WXXI Classical 91.5 Rochester’s Backstage Pass
December 13, 2018 at WXXI Classical 91.5 in Rochester, NY
Gordon Fry, percussion recital
Performed Missy Mazzoli’s Still Life with Avalanche and Thomas Meadowcrofts’s Walkman Antiquarian
December 7, 2018 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Chaithu Natarajan, saxophone recital
Performed Olivier Messiaen’s Vocalise Etude and Graham Fitkin’s Hard Fairy
December 1, 2018 in Hatch Hall at Eastman School of Music
Eastman Percussion Ensemble, fall concert
Performed Brad Lubman’s Journeys in Three Movements with the Eastman Percussion Ensemble
November 27, 2018 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
OSSIA New Music, Paths and Patterns
Performed Missy Mazzoli’s Still Life with Avalanche
October 1, 2018 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Recording Session, Fever Dream by Sebastian Zel
Recorded Sebastian Zel’s Fever Dream
Released December 7, 2018
Nief Norf Summer Festival 2018
Performed works byEvan Ziporyn, Federico Garcia-De Castro, Sidney Boquiren, George Lewis, Ivan Trevino, Christopher Adler, Iannis Xenakis and Carolyn Chen
June 11 – 25, 2018 at University of Tennessee Knoxville in Knoxville, TN
Recording Session, Floral Patterns by Aaron Garcia
Recorded Aaron Garcia’s Floral Patterns
Released November 6, 2018
Andrew Koss, composition recital
Performed Andrew Koss’ Paper, Feather, Glass and walking a thin line
May 14, 2018 at Provincetown Playhouse at New York University in New York, NY
Samn Johnson, composition recital
Performed Samn Johnson’s de consolatione Philosophiae
April 25, 2018 at Scholes Street Studio in New York City
Kevin Zetina, percussion recital
Performed Kevin Zetina’s arrangement of Animal Collective’s Alvin Row
December 7, 2017 in Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music
Ensemble Signal, Music for 18 Musicians
Performed Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians with members of Ensemble Signal
September 19, 2017 at University of Buffalo in Buffalo, NY
Bang on a Can Summer Festival 2017
Performed works by George Lewis, Valentin Jost, Louis Andriessen, Aaron Garcia, Dmitri Tymoczko, Julia Wolfe, Meredith Monk, Connor D’Netto and Steve Reich
July 14 - August 3, 2017 at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA)
Nief Norf Summer Festival 2017
Performed works by Marc Mellits, Tyler Eschendal, Christopher Adler, Julius Eastman, Steve Reich, Anthony Vine, Janice Giteck, Shao Zheng and Nina Young
June 11 – 25, 2017 at University of Tennessee Knoxville in Knoxville, TN
Georgia Mills, piano recital
Performed works by Tristan Murail, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Andrew Niess, Sebastian Zel, and Tigran Hamasyan
May 3, 2017 at Black Box Theater at New York University in New York, NY
NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble, New Works Concert
Premiered works by Aaron Garcia, Kyle Tieman-Strauss, Phong Tran, Stephen Casellas, Alison Yun-Fei Jiang, Shelley Washington and Andrew Noseworthy
April 14, 2017 in Frederick Loewe Theater at New York University in New York, NY
Words & Sounds
Premiered her original work like activity
April 15, 2017 at Provincetown Playhouse at New York University in New York, NY
Sebastian Zel, composition recital
Performed Sebastian Zel’s Motion and Rips
May 15, 2017 at New York University in New York, NY
Composers Collective, spring concert
Performed her own original work Glossolalia and Sebastian Zel’s Motion
March 31, 2017 at New York University in New York, NY
Pulsing & Shaking 2017
Performed David Lang’s Sweet Air, Nico Muhly’s Doublespeak, Andy Akiho’s NO one To kNOW one, Andrew Noseworthy’s Empty-Blank-Perfect and Sebastian Zel’s Motion
February 21-22, 2017 in Frederick Loewe Theater at New York University in New York, NY
Rose Egan, percussion recital
Performed Andy Akiho’s NO one To kNOW one
December 9, 2016 at New York University in New York, NY
NYU Percussion Ensemble, fall concert
Performed Ginastera’s Cantata para America Magica
December 5, 2016 in Frederick Loewe Theater at New York University in New York, NY
NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble, Steve Reich concert
Performed Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians
November 21, 2016 in Frederick Loewe Theater at New York University in New York, NY
Tutte le Corde: Piano Music After 1970
Performed Louis Andriessen’s Workers Union
February 19, 2016 in Black Box Theater at New York University in New York, NY
Honors Recital
Performed Ferruccio Busoni’s piano transcription of J.S. Bach’s Chaconne in D minor, BWV 1004
December 13, 2015 in Black Box Theater at New York University in New York, NY