January 1
Mark Alburger's History Phases. Seattle, WA
January 5
Music of Mario Lavista: Marsias and Cinco Danzas Breves. Trinity Chapel, Berkeley, CA.
January 7
Xtet in Donald Crockett's Whistling in the Dark, Oliver Knussen's Cantata, Carlo Boccadoro's Bad Blood, and Earl Kim's Exercises en Route. Zipper Hall, Los Angeles, CA.
January 23
Gil Shaham and Akira Eguchi in William Walton's Sonata for Violin and Piano and Joachim Rodrigo's Sonata Pimpante. Zellerbach Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
January 27
Christopher Taylor in Olivier Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus. Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
Philadelphia Youth Orchestra in Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2. Upper Darby Performing Arts Center, Upper Darby, PA.
About Me
- Mark Alburger
- Mark Alburger (b. 1957, Upper Darby, PA) is an award-winning, eclectic ASCAP composer of postminimal, postpopular, and postcomedic sensibilities. He is Music Director of San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra and San Francisco Cabaret Opera, Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music and New Music, and Professor Emeritus in Music Theory and Literature at Diablo Valley College. His principal teachers were Gerald Levinson, Joan Panetti, and James Freeman at Swarthmore College (B.A.); Jules Langert at Dominican University (M.A.); Christopher Yavelow at Claremont University (Ph.D.); and Terry Riley. Dr. Alburger has composed 406 major works over the past 48 years, including chamber music, concertos, oratorios, operas, song cycles, and symphonies. His complete catalogue is being issued on discs from New Music. Alburger's multiple blogs include: markalburger.blogspot.com, markalburger2022.blogspot.com, markalburgerworks.blogspot.com, markalburgerevents.blogspot.com, markalburgermusichistory.blogspot. com, 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com