Stephen Feigenbaum
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Hatch Shell
Upcoming performances

On April 14, 2012, The Yale Symphony Orchestra will premiere a new orchestral adaptation of Landings.

In fall 2012, the Yale Glee Club will premiere a new piece written for them.

Recent performances
2011 performances

December 17, 2011, at a recital at the Pro Musica Series in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, violinist Andrew Sords (accompanied by pianist Elizabeth deMio) performed Elegy.

November 20, 2011, the University of New Orleans Wind Ensemble performed Rooms by the Sea at the Louisiana Music Educators Association State Convention, Baton Rouge, LA.

November 18, 2011, the University of New Orleans Wind Ensemble performed Rooms by the Sea at the University.

October 23, 2011, at the Northern Essex Community College Tech Center in Haverhill, Massachusetts, the Essex Chamber Music Players performed Spread the News.

October 17, 2011, Rooms by the Sea was performed by the Eastman Wind Ensemble in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY.

September 11, 2011, at the Hatch Shell in Boston, a program marking the tenth anniversary of 9/11 included an arrangement by Stephen of God Bless America to be performed by the Boston Pops Brass Ensemble and the Boston Children's Chorus.

June 12, 2011, at Holy Cross Church in Santa Cruz, California, and on June 18, 2011, at Mission Santa Clara de Asis in Santa Clara, California, the Choral Project performed Grant us Peace. in their Voices of Crystal concert.

May 19, 2011, the Albany Symphony Orchestra read Murmur in its Composer to Center Stage program.

May 13, 2011, Molly Yeh premiered Life and Death of a Toy in her senior recital at the Juilliard School.

May 6, 2011, the University of New Orleans Wind Ensemble performed Rooms by the Sea.

May 6, 2011, the Vancouver Chamber choir premiered The Fieldmouse, based on the poem by Cecil Frances Alexander, in their Youth and Music 2011 concert at Ryerson United Church in Vancouver, British Columbia.

April 28, 29, and 30, SiC InC, co-founded by Stephen, performed a new piece of his in their spring show at Yale.

April 5, 2011, the JACK Quartet premiered Parachute Dance at Beinecke library at Yale.

April 1, 2011, Grooves and Ruts was performed in a show called Internal/External Combustion, presented by Contemporaneous, at Bard College (Chapel of the Holy Innocents); repeated on April 2 at Colony Cafe (Woodstock, NY).

March 24, 25, and 26, 2011, Yale undergraduates performed an original musical adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, with book and lyrics by Matthew George and music by Stephen Feigenbaum, at the Off Broadway Theater at Yale.

February 25, 2011, the Berkeley College Orchestra premiered Sketch of a Windy Beach in the Berkeley College Dining Hall at Yale.

February 19 and 20, 2011, Sacra/Profana performed Clair de Lune in San Diego.

February 9, 2011, Ashley Tini and Jude Mollenhauer performed Landings at the University of Kansas.

January 8, 2011, Andrew Sords (accompanied by Anita Pontremoli) performed Elegy at the Flagler College Auditorium (presented by the EMMA Concert Assocation); also performed at the Bethel Methodist Church on the island of Anguilla on Feburary 2, 2011.

January 30, 2011, Dinosaur Annex performed Tread in a concert at the Goethe Institut-Boston in Boston, Massachusetts.

January 4, 2011, TwoSense (Lisa Moore and Ashley Bathgate) performed Suspended Animation at (Le) Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village.

2010 performances

October 15, 2010, the Chamber Orchestra of Boston performed Serenade for Strings and The Last Straw on First Church in Boston.

October 8, 2010, the Yale Concert Band premiered Rooms by the Sea at Woolsey Hall in New Haven, under the direction of Thomas Duffy.

September 26, 2010, in the Grand Montgomery Chamber Music and Concert Series, Montgomery, NY. and October 2, 2010, at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, Lisa Moore and Ashley Bathgate premiered Suspended Animation in a concert produced by TwoSense.

September 20, 2010, Isaac Pastor-Chermak performed Push Comes to Shove in the Albert Elkus Room, Morrison Hall, University of California, Berkeley.

August 4, 2010, Nick Bleisch, violin, Clare Monfredo, cello, and Naomi Woo, piano, performed Landings at the Studzinski Recital Hall in the Bowdoin International Music Festival.

August 3, 2010, Matthew Weber, doublebass, and Naomi Woo, piano, performed Streetlight Promenade at the Studzinski Recital Hall in the Bowdoin International Music Festival

July 14, 2010, Rachel Koblyakov, violin, and the composer, piano,
performed Elegy at the Studzinski Recital Hall in the Bowdoin International Music Festival.

July 11, 2010, Alex Barstow, accompanied by the composer, performed Tread at the Studzinski Recital Hall in the Bowdoin International Music Festival.

July 10, 2010, Brian Ellingsen performed Escape Velocity in the Never Ending Music Series at Never Ending Books in New Haven.

July 5, 2010, Isaac Pastor-Chermak performed Push Comes to Shove in the Plaza Concert Series at the 1912 Center in Moscow Idaho.

June 5-6, 2010, the Nashua Chamber Orchestra, conducted by David Feltner, performed Speak, Sing, Whale, in their Whales and Mermaids concert.

May 20, 2010, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Robert Bernhardt, conductor, performed Serenade for Strings in Enmax Hall, Winspear Centre.

April 30 2010, the College Choir of Naugatuck Valley Community College performed Songs of Sorrow and Hope at the St. Thomas More Chapel at Yale.

April 29, 2010, the student-run Berkeley College Orchestra premiered Murmur, on its final concert of the season, in Battell Chapel at Yale.

April 18, 2010, the Battell Chapel Choir premiered Easter Wings in the Sunday morning service at Battell Chapel at Yale.

April 11, 2010, the Quincy Choral Society performed Songs of Sorrow and Hope at the Holocaust Remebrance Day ceremonies at Temple Israel in Boston.

February 28, 2010, the Yale Camerata premiered The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls at Yale's Woolsey Hall in New Haven.

February 21, 2010, Stephen conducted the Jonathan Edwards Chamber Orchestra in the premiere of his piece, Fanfare for a New Day, in Battell Chapel at Yale.

2009 performances

December 13, 2009, Brian Ellingsen performed Escape Velocity
at a New Music Hartford concert, at the Church of the Good Shepherd Community Ballroom.

 

December 11, 2009, Tommy Mesa and Konstantine Valianatos performed Tread in a recital at Morse Recital Hall, Juilliard.

November 10, 2009, Fifth House Ensemble performed a horn trio, All's Swell, at a concert at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

November 1, 2009, Songs of Sorrow and Hope was performed by the New England Conservatory YouthChorale at the Terezin Chamber Music Foundation gala in the Higginson Ballroom at Symphony Hall in Boston.

October 13, 2009, trombonist Achilles Liarmakopoulos premiered Krakatoa in a recital at Sprague Hall at Yale.

September 2, 2009, the Quincy Choral Society performed Songs of Sorrow and Hope at a concert at Orchard Cove Retirement Community in Canton (Mass.).

August 7, 2009, The Quincy Choral Society performed Songs of Sorrow and Hope at the Lobkowicz Palace in Prague, Czech Republic.

July 15, 2009, We All Need Our Space, for clarinet and flute was performed at the Concert Hall of the New Synagogue, Berlin, Germany.

June 14, 2009, Boston Landmarks Orchestra performed Speak, Sing, Whale at Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachuestts.

May 31, 2009, Monsoon Season, commissioned by the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, was premiered by the Orchestra in Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University. The Orchestra also performed the work on June 20 in Dunsmuir, California, and June 22 in Ashland, Oregon (at the Utah Shakespeare Festival), June 27, 2009, at Sanders Theater at Harvard, June 28 in Battell Chapel at Yale, June 30 at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City, and July 3 at the Baltimore Art Museum.

May 24, 2009, Entreaty was premiered at the Yale Divinity School Commencement in New Haven.

May 4, 2009, Molly Yeh and Liam Burke premiered Focusing, for clarinet and marimba, at the Juilliard School.

May 2, 2009, at Lindsey Chapel at Emmanuel Church (15 Newbury St., Boston), and May 3, 2009, at St. John's Episcopal Church (74 Pleasant St., Arlington, MA), the Cambridge Chamber Singers, in their O Joyous Spring! concert performed Clair de Lune, winner of their 12th annual composition competition.

May 1, 2009, the Vancouver Chamber Choir premiered Songs of Sorrow and Hope at Ryerson United Church (2195 West 45 Avenue at Yew Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada). The composition was a finalist in the College/University category of the Vancouver Chamber Choir's 9th Biennial Young Composers Competition.

April 5, 2009, Resignation, a work for Palm Sunday based on a text by J.D. McClatchy, was premiered by the Yale Camerata at Woolsey Hall in New Haven.

On April 2, 2009, at Throckmorton, Mill Valley, California, and on April 6, 2009, at the Green Room, San Francisco, Boiling Point (the 2008 winner of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Composition Competition) received its West Coast premiere by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble.

March 3, 2009, Argento Chamber Ensemble premiered Focusing at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale.

March 1, 2009, Stephen Chen and the Ezra Stiles College Wind Ensemble premiered Tread, a piece for solo alto saxophone and wind ensemble, at First and Summerfield United Methodist Church, New Haven.

February 27, 2009, Anthology, a women's quartet based in Boston, premiered Hymn, at the First Parish Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The performance was repeated on March 1, 2009, at Christ Church in Andover, Massachusetts, and on April 19, 2009, at the First Parish Church in Cohasset, Massachusetts.

February 25, 2009, Colin Brookes performed Trap at the Juilliard School.

February 5, 2009, Damian Blattler, Ezra Seltzer, and Dennis Petrunin premiered Cut and Grow, a work inspired by the photography of Jan Groover, at the Yale Art Gallery.

February 3, 2009, New Triad for Collaborative Arts premiered Catalyst, a new art song based on a poem by Rebecca Dinerstein, at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale.

2008 performances

December 11, 2008, Cursory, based on a poem by Rebecca Dinerstein, was premiered by Emily Misch and Lee Dionne in the Silliman College Common Room at Yale.

December 10, 2008, the Yale Percussion Group premiered Gear Shift for percussion ensemble at Whitney Humanities Center auditorium at Yale.

December 8, 2008, a song for musical theater was premiered by Miles Jacoby at Whitney Humanities Center auditorium at Yale.

November 19, 2008, Woolsey Hall at Yale, the Yale Concert Band premieres an arrangement of Grooves and Ruts.

November 8, 2008, Warble and Wail was premiered in recital by Alison Hale, in Brattleboro, Vermont.

October 24, 25, and 26, 2008, the Cincinnati Pops performed Serenade for Strings at its Pops Weekend--Pops from the Top concert at Music Hall in Cincinnati.

October 12, 2008, John Richards performed Trap at St Stephen's Church (120 West 69th Street) in Manhattan at a concert hosted by North/South Consonance.

July 16, 2008, Speak, Sing, Whale, commissioned by the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, was premiered by the Orchestra at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade, Boston.  

June 26, 2008, New Music Recitals at Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Norfolk, Connecticut, premiere of Grooves and Ruts.

May 24, 2008, Blacksmith House, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Loosely-coupled independent dame, a song for which Paul Turner wrote the lyrics, performed by Bonnie MacLoed at a songwriters showcase sponsored by the Boston Cabaret Association.

May 13, 2008, Upper Arlington High School Auditorium, Upper Arlington, Ohio: Serenade for Strings performed by the Upper Arlington High School Symphony Strings.

May 10, 2008, Tribeca New Music Festival at The Flea Theater, New York City: Performance of Landings.

May 4, 2008, Duncan Recital Hall, Rice University, Houston: Premiere of Tread for bassoon and piano by Tracy Jacobson.

April 30, 2008, New Haven: Premiere of a piece for piano, prepared piano, and choreography, featuring Annie Rosen, soprano, choreographer.

On April 11, 2008, at Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory, Serenade for Strings was performed by the Chamber Orchestra of Boston.

In Transit was premiered on April 6, 2008, at Sudler Hall at Yale in a performance by Kensho Watanabe, violin, and Lee Dionne, piano.

Clair de Lune was premiered on March 2, 2008, by Yale Camerata at Woolsey Hall, New Haven.

Landings was premiered on February 28, 2008, at Whitney Humanities Center, New Haven, by counter)induction and performed by The Anonymous Three in Moscow, Idaho, on February 29, 2008, at the Music School Recital Hall.

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