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September 2011
September 11, 2011, 3:00 pm
Tufts University Granoff Music Center, Distler Performance Hall,
20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA.
Sunday at Tufts - Community Concert Series
9/11 Memorial Concert - TEN YEARS LATER: Musical Responses to 9/11
Guest artist Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone and faculty artist Donald Berman, piano, are among the featured soloists.
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Tufts Composers present a concert featuring the world premiere of Diana Dabby's entire September Quartet, commissioned by the Tufts New Music Ensemble in 2002. Also featuring works by Stefan Anderson, William Kenlon, Kevin Laba, John McDonald, Kevin Warren, and guest composer Stephen Hartke’s piano quartet Beyond Words.
June 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011, 3 pm
Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn, NY 11201.
Festival for Toy Piano — also includes electronics, singers and spoken word parts.
Featuring John McDonald's Two Formican Lullabies, toy piano, grand piano, and mezzo-soprano, and Four Stand-ins, toy piano, and works by Phyllis Chen, Karlheinz Essl, Konrad Kaczmarek, David Claman, Matthew Malsky, Atsush Yoshinaka.
February 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011 8:00PM,
Jordan Hall, Boston, MA.
Kenneth Radnofsky, Saxophone (see: Boston Musical Inteligencer)
With guest artists John McDonald, piano; Marco Granados, flute; Diana Flores, cello; Juan Ruiz, bombo leguero, Sharon Cohen<, violin, Shaw Pong Liu, violin, Sarah Darling, viola, Michal Shein, cello.
Includes the premiere of John McDonald’s Reunion In Solos And Duets: Suite For Flute And Alto Saxophone, Op. 464 (2010/2011)
Friday, February 25, 12:00 Noon
Tufts University Granoff Music Center, Distler Performance Hall,
20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA.
Tufts Composers New At Noon Series.
New Chamber Music by Tufts Composers featuring trombonist/composer Nathan Curtis and cellist/composer Jason Coleman.
Stefan Anderson: Montage Variations (piano solo); Four Aquatic Creature Songs (baritone voice and piano)
*Nathan Curtis: Decoupling (for trombone and cello)
William Kenlon: Ashes (for flute, violin, cello, and piano)
Kevin Laba: Surfaces, Apertures, Interludes (for trombone and cello); work for piano solo
John McDonald: Three Pieces from Piano Album 2011
David Molk: AoF (piano solo)
October 2010
Friday, October 29, 12:00 PM
Tufts University Granoff Music Center, Distler Recital Hall, 20 Talbot Avenue,Medford, MA
Inauguration of the 2010-2011 Tufts Composers Friday Noon Series.
Pianist David Holzman in a Recital/ Discussion, featuring music of Wolpe, Harbison, John McDonald, Robert Pollock, Elmar Lampson, and others.
Tuesday, October 19, 8:00 PM
Tufts University Granoff Music Center, Distler Recital Hall, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA.
Tufts Composers Fall Overture: A Chamber Music Overture
Jeffrey Means, Matt Sharrock, and Nick Tolle, percussion; Tufts faculty members John McDonald and Thomas Stumpf, piano; and William Kenlon, voice.
Kicking off a season of exciting new music performances featuring piano music by Stefan Anderson, Kevin Laba, John McDonald, and David Molk; vocal music by William Kenlon; percussion works by Kevin Warren.
The previously announced performance of Daniel Asia’s Sonata for Violin and Piano will take place in Spring 2011.
Thursday, October 14, 2010, 7 PM
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Gustave Courbet: Dreaming the Modern
McDonald’s Courbet, Op. 449, a solo cello score, is featured in its function as music for Judith Wechsler’s film Gustave Courbet: Dreaming the Modern, premiering as part of the Opening of the Exhibition "Courbet. A Dream of Modern Art".
Sunday, October 10, 3:00 PM
Tufts University Granoff Music Center, Distler Recital Hall, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA.
Tuba soloist Michael S. Milnarik presents a recital with pianist/composer Sanae Kanda, featuring McDonald’s Milnarik Quartet, Op. 353g (2001).
Friday, October 8, 4:30 PM
Wolfinsohn Room, Zabriskie House, at the Longy School of Music
Open Studio Recital
John McDonald presents a version of his Open Studio Recital, featuring new piano pieces from Piano Album 2010, Op. 455, for the Longy Composition Seminar’s weekly meeting.
September 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010, 3:00 pm
Tufts University Granoff Music Center, Distler Recital Hall, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA
Sunday at Tufts; Community Concert Series
Pictures: A Piano Recital by Thomas Stumpf
At the center of Performance Faculty pianist Thomas Stumpf's recital program is Mussorgsky's monumental suite Pictures at an Exhibition. He will also be performing the world premiere of a work by Tufts faculty member John McDonald, written especially for this occasion and in relation to Mussorgsky's work.
Friday, September 24-Sunday September 26, 2010
Monte Carlo, Monaco
Principal Keyboardist in Tod Machover's "Death and the Powers"
Thursday, September 23, 8:00 PM
Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Great Hall. Brookville, NY (Info: 516-299-2474)
David Holzman, pianist
Program to include Brahms, McDonald, Lampson, Pollock, and Bartok.
Sunday, September 12, 2010, 3:00 PM
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Screening of two films by Judith Wechsler, with music composed and/or performed by John McDonald. Gustave Courbet: Dreaming The Modern (2009; score for solo cello) and Le Dessein Des Nympheas (On Monet; 2007; score for solo piano [Chopin, McDonald, Schubert]).
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Center for Performing Arts Medicine at Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas.
Soprano Karol Bennett and pianist Tali Margulis perform McDonald’s song Some Days (Op. 50, No. 1; poem by James Baldwin) on a recital presented by Musiqa.
June 2010
July 26-August 4, 2010
Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston.
Keyboardist & coach, pre-production of Tod Machover's opera "Death and the Powers,"
Sunday, June 13 at 4 PM
Wordsong IV
Sarah Pelletier, soprano and John McDonald, piano
Presenting settings of Theodore Roethke’s poem My Papa’s Waltz by Howard Frazin, John McDonald, Thomas Schnauber, and Andy Vores.
Concert, Discussion, and Recording
Saturday, June 12 at 9 AM
The Chapel, Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio
John McDonald awarded The Waring Prize for 2010
Brief Solo Piano Performance: Tierniad, Op. 455, No. 22 and Morning Practice Fom The School Of Appling, Op. 446, No. 3 (two original piano miniatures)
Established in 1972 to honor faculty master J. Frederick Waring, the Waring Prize - the highest honor accorded a graduate of the Ohio's Western Reserve Academy - was awarded this year to John McDonald. The award is given to "an alumnus or alumna of Western Reserve Academy who, by his or her way of life and achievements, whether at the beginning, middle or near the end of his career, represents the human and individual values the Academy strives to foster, as well as the many graduates known or unknown who have similarly made their contribution to society." Past recipients include alumni from various walks of life including poets, educatiors, scientists, writers and clergy. More.
2010 Waring Prize Speaker - John McDonald '77 from Western Reserve Academy on Vimeo.
Thursday, June 10 at 1:30 PM
Tufts University Granoff Music Center, Distler Hall, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA.
Osher Program Presentation
John McDonald presents Brief Solo Piano Performance and Discussion of the Tufts Composition Curriculum
Pieces: Tierniad, Op. 455, No. 22 by McDonald; Marooned by Alexander Lyon, Tufts Class of 2012; Epicede For Louise Bourgeois, Op. 455, No. 39 by McDonald.
Other June projects
Working as Keyboardist and Coach for upcoming productions of Tod Machover’s new opera “Death and the Powers,” alongside many wonderful colleagues. Rehearsals at MIT Media Lab June 7-27; Pre-Production July 26-August 4 at Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston.
Summer Composition Projects: Modest Companion, a solo piano piece for pianist Thomas Stumpf; to precede Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition at Stumpf’s September 26 Tufts Faculty Recital
Pieces for Piano Album 2010, Op. 455
Archive Project assembling short piano works, 1984-2010
May 2010
May 17-18, 2010
John recorded an Album of Works for Violin and Piano (1085-2008) with soloist Joanna Kurkowicz at Distler Hall, Tufts University. Stay tuned for release info soon.
February 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009, 3:00 pm
Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA.
Schubert's Singing Saxophone: A New Winter Journey, by John Mcdonald
Philipp Staeudlin, Saxophone, & John McDonald, piano.
Saxophonist Philipp Staeudlin performs the role of Schubert's muse Johann Michael Vogl in a wordless rendition of Schubert's monumental song cycle Winterreise. Composer and pianist John McDonald offers his award-winning work Staeudlin As Vogl: Preamble To A Winter Journey to set the stage for this unusual collaborative performance. Join Staeudlin and McDonald to experience the resiliency of Schubert's masterwork in this uniquely poignant afternoon of vocal music played through the saxophone.
February 2008
Sunday, February 3, 2008, 3:00 pm
Distler Hall, Perry & Marty Granoff Music Center, Tufts University, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA:
The Creatures Choir: Songs and interludes for voice and piano, opus 424, by John Mcdonald Jessica Bowers, mezzo-soprano, & John Mcdonald, piano.
Sundays @ Tufts: The Community Series presents a work based on poems by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, translated by Rumer Godden.
Postcards from the zoo in bright, primary colors (Matthew Guerrieri, Boston Globe, April 13, 2007)
November 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 8:00 pm
Distler Hall, Perry & Marty Granoff Music Center, Tufts University, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA. Tufts Composers with Trevor Weston ('89)
An evening of music by Tufts Alums, Faculty, Emeritus Faculty & Students.
Tufts Music celebrates Trevor Weston’s three day residency with the department with a special concert of chamber music written by Tufts Composers, past and present. New chamber and piano works by Weston will be featured alongside compositions of faculty and emeritus faculty (Anderson, DeVoto, McDonald, and Aylward), as well as recently written works of undergraduate, graduate, and alumni Tufts composers (Worthley, Veiga, Safer, Van Lenten, Stallings, Bruno, and Foo).
Thursday, November 15, 2007, 8:00 pm
Distler Hall, Perry & Marty Granoff Music Center, Tufts University, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA. Leaps And Bounds
A Tufts Choral Extravaganza with The Tufts Chorale & Chamber Singers, Andrew Clark, Conductor, The Boston Children’s Chorus, and Trevor Weston ('89). Conductor Anthony Trecek-King and the Boston’s Children’s Chorus come to Tufts to join the Tufts Chorale and Chamber Singers, with conductor Andrew Clark, for an evening of new and old choral music. Works by Trevor Weston (‘89) will be performed along with music by Monteverdi, Byrd, Steven Stucky, and others. John McDonald’s "Ways to Jump" will also be featured.
October 2007
Thursday, October 21, 2007, 3:00 pm
Tufts University Perry & Marty Granoff Music Center, Distler Hall, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA.
The Sounds of Autumn
Elizabeth Reian Bennet, shakuhachi, Ayakano Cathleen Read, koto, and John McDonald, piano. Premiere of McDonald's Haunt, Op.431 (2007) for shakuhachi and piano.
Thursday, October 11, 2007, 8:00 pm
Distler Hall, Perry & Marty Granoff Music Center, Tufts University, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA.
The Tenor of Boston Composers
Thomas Gregg, tenor, and John McDonald, piano.
A fascinating program of mostly new art songs by local composers, featuring works by Larry Bell, Thomas Gregg, John McDonald, Richard McIntyre, Daniel Pinkham & Andy Vores. Premiere of McDonald's "Ammons Quintet " and featuring songs from "The Creatures Choir".
June 2007
Saturday, June 16, 2007, 3:00 pm
Worcester Inc. presents Sounds of Summer featuring the music of Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Josquin des Prez, Irving Fine, and John McDonald with The Worcester Chorus under music director Andrew Clark. Premiere of McDonald's Ways to Jump. Music Worcester (508) 754-3231. Worcester Telegram & Gazette
April 2007
Friday, April 13, 2007, 8:00 pm
Boston Conservatory, Concert Room, 8 The Fenway, Boston, MA.
Florestan Recital Project presents The Creatures' Choir with Jessica Bowers, mezzo soprano, and John McDonald, piano. John McDonald's elegant evening-length song cycle, The Creatures' Choir, sets 26 poems by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, translated from the French by Rumer Godden. (World Premiere Performance). Preconcert talk with the composer. John McDonald, 7:30.
December 2006
Friday, December 1, 2006, 8:00 pm
Longy School of Music, Edwin M. Pickman Concert Hall, 27 Garden St., Cambridge, MA:
Marti Eptein's and John McDonald's Piano Cavalcade.
Featuring the music of composer/pianists Marti Eptein and John McDonald with pianists Donald Berman, Paul Carlson, Wayman Ching, Yoko Hagino, Andrew Rangell, and Chaden Yafi. Premieres of Epstein's Haven and McDonald's Disappearences.
October 2006
Thursday, October 5, 2006, 8:00 pm
Tufts University, Alumnae Hall, 11 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA:
Chamber music recital by Tufts Applied Music faculty
Edith Auner, piano, Andrea Ehrenreich, soprano, Diane Heffner, clarinet, Anne Howarth, horn, Dana Russian, trumpet, Scott Woolweaver, viola, Karma Tomm, violin, Chaden Yafi, piano, Hans Bohn, trombone, Steven Morris, piano and David Patterson, guitar.
Featuring Poulenc - Brass Trio, Mozart - Kegelstatt Trio, Paganini - Sonata Concertata, Schubert - Shepard on the Rock, and Mcdonald - Above the Palm Tree (World Premiere Performance).
Monday, October 16, 12:00 pm
Tufts University, The Parlour, 48 Professors Row, Medford, MA:
Tufts Composers – Harpsichord Day (or Tufts Composers go for Baroque).
For six years, our Parlour Music series has found its home in the parlours of two of Tufts’ historic houses on Professors Row. Join us as we have one last Parlour Music on Professors Row event before we move to our new building. Founder John McDonald and members of Tufts Composers create and perform new works for harpsichord as part of Harpsichord Day 2006.
September 2006
Sunday, September 10, 2006, 3:00-5:00 pm
Traina Center for the Arts, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA:
Faculty Concert by Peter Sulski, viola & John McGinn, piano.
Featuring the music of Rebecca Clarke, Kevin Allen, John McDonald, John McGinn and Paul Hindermith
Sunday, September 17, 2006, 3:00-5:00 pm
Traina Center for the Arts, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA:
QX String Quartet -
Krista Buckland Reisner, Rohan Greogory, Peter Sulski & Jan Müller-Szeraws.
Featuring the music of Matt Malsky, Bela Bartok, David Claman, Anton Webern, & John McDonald
Sunday, September 30, 2006, 8:00 pm
Longy School of Music, Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, 27 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA: Septemberfest 2006, Celebrating the art of teaching - The Art of Inspiration
August 2006
Saturday, August 6, 2006, 3:00 pm
Cornish School Auditorium, Parsonfield, Maine.
Saco River Festival
Elizabeth Anker, Scott Woolweaver and John McDonald.
Featuring Brahms Two Songs, Op.91, for Contralto, Viola and Piano and numerous new works.
May 2006
May 4: Tufts Composers at Goddard Chapel, Medford, MA
May 6: Rebecca Brentano Sacks Composition Recital, at Goddard Chapel, Medford, MA
May 7: Vivian Taylor Celebration, Alumnae Hall, Medford, MA
May 19: "Chronicling at the Keyboard" concert at the Piano Factory, MA
April 2006
Saturday, April 1, 2006, 7:30 pm
St. Clement's Shrine, 1105 Boylston Street, Boston, MA:
The Concordia String Trio with
Marcia Henry, violin, Leslie Perna, viola, Darry Dolexal, cello and John McDonald, Guest Pianist. Featuring McDonald's Six Poems of Paul Celan for Piano Quartet, and music by List, Colson and Reger.
Saturday, April 8, 2006, 8:00 pm
St. John's Episcopal Church, 705 Hale Street, Beverly Farms Massachusetts:
A Musical Celebration of the Life of Gardner Read,” with
D'Anna Fortunato, John McDonald, Janet Packer and Scott Woolweaver.
Featuring the music of Gardner Read and a tribute to the composer by McDonald.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006, 8:00 pm
Tufts University, Alumnae Hall, 11 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA:
Tufts New Music Ensemble, co-directed by Donald Berman and John McDonald.
Features improvisations and Terry Riley's IN C.
Thursday, April 20, 8:00 pm
Tufts University, Alumnae Hall, 11 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA: "
Hitting and Exceeding the High Note" by
Tufts Flute Ensemble and Tufts Composers.
McDonald plays solo and chamber works by Geoff Brown, Jason Coleman, Kris Coombs, Michael Finnissy, and Thomas Keidel.
Friday, April 21, 7:30 pm
Salle Pierre Miche, Chassieu, France:
Wilhem Latchoumia performs McDonald's Several Lunes and a Whitney for piano/toy piano (from Piano Album 2005).
Monday, April 24, 7:00 pm
Seully Hall, Boston Conservatory, 8 Fenway Boston, MA
Assortiment de Fromages Affines: Songs from Childhood
the Florestan Recital Project with Aaron Engebreth, baritone; Amanda Forsythe, soprano; John McDonald, piano, Linda Osborn-Blaschke, piano; Karl Paulnack, piano.
Featuring Poulenc, Stravinsky, Mussorgsky, Brahms and McDonald (3 songs from The Creatures Choir).
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Tufts University, Alumnae Hall, 11 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA:
Benefit concert for the Marty Guterman Award in Mathematics
Ray Jackendorff, clarinet, John McDonald, piano, and guests Beth Guterman, viola, Irina Muresanu, violin and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner, piano.
Presented jointly by the Depts. of Mathematics & Music and featuring the music of Mozart, Bartok, Niculescu, Dediu and McDonald's Echo Fantasy Upon Mi, LA for clarinet and piano.
March 2006
Wednesday, March 1, 2006, 6-7:30 pm
Berklee College of Music Lecture/Recital, Room 2E 1140 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Chronicling at the Keyboard featuring premiers by Cleary, List, Lisak and McDonald and works by Epstein, McDonald, Stoianova and Xu.
Sunday, March 12, 2006, 6:00 pm
Dardilly, France)
Minimos Concertos. Private concert,
Wilhem Latchoumia, piano/toy piano.
European premiere of McDonald’s "Formican Lullabies".
February 2006
Sunday, February 12, 2006, 2:30 pm postponed
Weston Public Library, Weston, 87 School Street, Weston, MA: E
lizabeth Anker, contralto; Scott Woolweaver, viola; John McDonald, piano.
Featuring McDonald’s Forerunner (piano solo) and Mockingbird of Mockingbirds (contralto, viola, and piano setting of poem by Denise Levertov).
Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 19:30
Salle des Expositions, Chassieu, France,
Wilhem Latchoumia, piano/toy piano (born 1974, Lyon, France).
European premiere of McDonald’s piece for piano/toy piano, Several Lunes And A Whitney (from Piano Album 2005). With music by Boucourechliev, Cage, Essl, Smith, Soleillant and others.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006, 12:00 pm
Tufts University Music Dept., Parlour, 48 Professors Row, Medford Campus, MA
Tufts Composers play Tufts Composers.
Music by McDonald and Tufts graduate and undergraduate composers. Each composer will play someone else’s piece(s).
Wednesday, February 22, 2006, 8:00 pm
Tufts University, Alumnae Lounge, 11 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA.
The Politics of Fear: EPIIC International Symposium, February 22-26, 2006.
John McDonald on piano plays pieces composed for the symposium.
Sunday, February 26, 2006, 7:00 pm
Longy School of Music Faculty Recital, Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, One Follen Street, Cambridge, MA.
Elizabeth Anker and Friends. Repeat of some repertory from February 12 (see above).
Monday, February 27, 2006, 8:00 pm
Harvard Musical Association, 57A Chestnut Street, Boston, MA.
Piano Recital by Yoko Hagino. Features three pieces from McDonald's Piano Album 2005. With music by Haydn, Liszt, Schubert.
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