Selected Events

2007

January 18, 2007
TRACES for solo piano will be premiered by Lang Lang at the Montalvo Festival in California

January 27 and 28, 2007
IN MY SKY AT TWILIGHT, Orchestra 2001, Philadelphia, PA.

February 16 and 17, 2007
PIANO ETUDES, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.

March 5, 2007
PIANO ETUDES, Merkin Concert Hall, NYC.

March 6, 2007
SPIRIT MUSINGS for violin and orchestra, Hartt College of Music, Anton Miller, soloist.

March 13, 2007
PIANO ETUDES, Smith College.

March 25, 2007
...a circle around the sun..., Brooklyn Philharmonic.

March 27- 29, 2007
Resident Composer, SIUC, Carbondale, Illinois.  Works played include: THE REWAKING for chorus; FRUIT OF MY SPIRIT for chorus; MAGNETICFIREFLIES for band; DIAGONALS for solo clarinet; INCANTATION for solo viola; PULSAR for solo viola, BELLS RING SUMMER for cello; PIANO ETUDES.

April 21, 2007
CREDENCES OF SUMMER for orchestra will be performed and recorded by the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Orchestra.

April 23, 2007
Guest Composer, Buffalo, NY Seminary.

April 26, 2007
Guest Composer, Philadelphia Music Project.

April 26, 2007
WORDS OF THE SEA for orchestra will be performed by the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine in France, Kirill Karabits, conductor.

May 3,4,5,6, 2007
HELIOS CHOROS I will be premiered by the Dallas Symphony, Sir Andrew Davis, conductor.

May 6, 2007
Voices of Change, in Dallas, will perform a concert of Augusta's chamber music, including: INCANTATION for solo violin; SIX PIANO ETUDES; PULSAR for solo viola; AMONG DAWN FLOWERS for voice and piano; RUMI SETTINGS for violin and viola; SUN THREADS for String Quartet.

July 12, 2007
LOVE SONGS will be performed by the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, Odaline de la Martinez, conductor, in Dublin.

July 12, 2007
CHANT for cello and piano was performed by Joshua Gordon and Randall Hodgkinson at the Goethe-Institut, Boston.

July 31, 2007
MEMORY: SWELLS for two guitars, European Premiere at the Oberste Stadtkirche in Iserlohn as part of the 16th International Guitar Symposium.

August 4, 2007
CAPRICE for solo violin will be performed by Valentina Voskresenskaya at the Taras Shevchenko National Museum festival in Kyiv, Ukraine.

September 28, 2007
LOVE JITTERS for solo piano will be performed by Nicola Melville at Carleton College.

October 7 - 14, 2007
Augusta is a guest artist at the Aspen Music Festival, Colorado.

October 13 and 14, 2007
MURMURS IN THE MIST OF MEMORY will be performed by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane conducting.

October 18, 2007
World Premiere of TERPSICHORE'S DREAM, for chamber orchestra by the Utah Symphony, Cliff Colnot conducting.

October 18, 2007
Visiting artist lecturer at the University of Utah and at Brigham Young University.

October 21, 2007
World Premiere of DANCING HELIX RITUALS for violin, clarinet and piano, The Verdehr Trio, at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.

October 21-22, 2007
World Premiere of SCHERZI MUSICALI, for brass quartet, premiered by Charles Geyer, Barbara Butler, Michael Mulcahy, and Gail Williams on the Chicago Chamber Musicians series, Chicago, IL.  This work was commissioned by and is dedicated to Gail Williams.

October 27, 2007
World Premiere of JUGGLER OF DAY, for womens chorus, at Cornell University, Scott Tucker conducting the Cornell University Glee Club.

November 6, 2007
RUMI SETTINGS for violin and cello will be performed by Wendy Sharp and Scott Kluksdahl at Yale University.

November 9, 2007
World Premiere of SCAT, for oboe, string trio, and harpsichord, by the Walden Chamber Players, Smith College in Northampton, MA.

November 11, 2007
World Premiere of SCAT, for oboe, string trio, and harpsichord, by the Walden Chamber Players, The Hampshire County House of Corrections.

November 11, 2007
World Premiere of SCAT, for oboe, string trio, and harpsichord, by the Walden Chamber Players, Clark Art Museum in Williamstown, MA.

November 17, 2007
MAGNETIC FIREFLIES for band, Jack Delaney conducting the Columbus State University Band, for both a conducting symposium as well as a concert.

November 18-21, 2007
Residency at the University of North Texas.

November 19, 2007
SCAT, THE SOUL IS LIGHT, and D(i)agon(als), played by the NOVA ENSEMBLE, University of North Texas, Dr. Elizabeth McNutt, Director.

November 22, 2007
PIANO ETUDES will be played by James Giles at the Sound Ways festival in St. Petersburg, Russia.

November 26 and 28, 2007
SUN SONGS for female voice and 3 percussion, performed by Debra Siebert on the NEXTET concert at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in Doc Rando Hall.

December 12, 2007
HELIOS CHOROS III commissioned by the Orchestre de Paris, at Cité de la Musique, in Paris, Orchestre de Paris, Christoph Eschenbach conducting.

December 14, 2007
INCANTATION for solo violin; BELLS RING SUMMER for solo cello; SILENT MOON for violin and viola; performed by the Millennium Chamber Players, artistiic director Robert Katkov-Trevino, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chicago, IL at 7:30 PM.

December 23, 2007
MEMORY: SWELLS for guitar duo will be performed at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, by the Fader/Anderson Duo.

TBD in 2007
World Premiere of SILENT MOON for violin and viola, Almita and Roland Vamos.