Elliott Grabill

Past Performances

September 21st 2023 at Perimeter College and October 20th, 2023 at Eventide Brewery in Atlanta, GA

• Performance of Hide and Seek, for alto saxophone and fixed media by Paula Van Goes
• Part of Prof. Van Goes’ Of Dreams and Nightmares Series

 

July 8th, 2023, ClarinetFest in Denver, CO

• Second performance of Reed Quintet No. 1, “Heroes and Villains”
• Performed by the Civitasolis Quintet

 

June 22nd, 2023, Meetinghouse Church in Edina, MN

• Live premiere of Psalm 23 at the Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers (CFAMC) Conference
• Conducted by J. David Moore featuring Maryne Mossey on viola da gamba

 

June 4th, 2024 in Atlanta, GA

• Premiere of Birds of Lethe for alto saxophone and electronics by Paula Van Goes

 

October 14th, 2022, the Hargrove in Baltimore, MD

• Premiere of Reed Quintet No. 1, “Heroes and Villains”
• Performed by the Civitasolis Quintet

 

June 21st, 2022, online

• Online premieres of Psalm 23 and Liewe eier Feinde in Pennsylvania Dutch
• Featuring Laura Snyderman, John Scherch, Elliott Grabill, and Marie Herrington on vocals
• Featuring Loren Ludwig on viola da gamba

 

July 29, 2021, online

• Premiere of Flowers of Resurrection, for flute, piano, violin, and cello
• Performed by Music and Friends Chamber Ensemble

 

April 9, 2021, Perimeter College, Georgia

• Premiere of Hide and Seek, for alto saxophone and fixed media
• Performed by Paula Van Goes

 

November, 19th, 2020, online

• Premiere of Teacher Tales, for mezzo soprano and piano, performed by Taylor Boykins and Aaron Thacker
• Premiere of Grief Never Leaves, for soprano, oboe, and piano, performed by Laura Snyderman, Lydia Consilvio, and Lior Willinger

 

October 9th, 2020, online

• Premiere of Deep Purring, for reed quintet and fixed media
• Performed by the Civitasolis Quintet

 

July 27th, 2020, online

• Premiere of The Dragons are My Children, for cello and contrabass
• Performed by Subin Lee on cello and Ji Sun Mun on contrabass
• Part of the Music&Friends Chamber Ensemble Online Performance project

 

June 15th, 2020, online

• Premiere of All the Little Kittens, for flute and viola
• Featuring Pedro Vizzarro Vallejos on viola and Justine Sedsky on flue
• Part of the Music&Friends Chamber Ensemble Online Performance project

 

May 1st, 2019 in Chestertown, MD

• Premiere by Lynn Hileman of Mother Earth, for bassoon and electronics
• Performance at Bethel AME Church as part of the National Music Festival
• Made possible by Dark in the Song‘s NewBassoon Institute
• Written using Ableton Live and the Keith McMillan SoftStep foot pedal

 

October 19th, 2018 in Baltimore, MD

• Solo set at Reverb at 8:00 pm
• Performance of Wildflowers, Ocean Mermaid, Divine Blaze, and Kombucha
• Live electronics on laptop track pad, synthesizer, and MIDI controllers

 

October 18th, 2018 in Baltimore, MD

• World premiere of Mountain Piques at the Black Cherry Puppet Theatre
• Commissioned by the Pique Collective
• Stephanie Ray, flutes; Jeremy Lyons, guitar; Peter Kibbe, cello; Lisa Perry, percussion and live electronics
• Choreography by the Black Cherry Puppet Theatre

 

February 10th, 2018 in Jacksonville, FL

• World premiere of Enkidu, for baritone saxophone and live electronics
• 10:00 pm at Endangered Wise Men Studios
• Tae Ho Hwang, baritone saxophone

 

August 13th, 2017 in Rutland, VT

• Performance of Pluto
• 7:30 pm at the Rutland Unitarian Universalist Church
• Andrew Im, clarinet
• Elliott Grabill, electronics

 

June 23rd, 2017 in New York City

• Performance of Darl at the New York City Electronic Music Festival
• Abrons Art Center, 4pm
• Hila Zamir, clarinet

 

May 20th, 2017 in Orange, NJ

• Performance of Pluto at the Music City Festival
• Curated by Douglas Farrand and the University of Orange
• Andrew Im, clarinet
• Elliott Grabill, live electronics

 

April 23st, 2017 in St. Cloud, MN

• Premiere of Ocean Mermaid for laptop and MIDI controller
• Performance of Pranayama
• Outdoor guerrilla concert at SEAMUS 2017
• Hosted by St. Cloud State University

 

April 20th, 2017 in St. Cloud, MN

• Performance of Darl at SEAMUS 2017
• Andrea Cheesman, clarinet

 

April 8th, 2017 in Baltimore, MD

• Performance of Nightingales at Amplified Cactus
• Andrew Im, clarinet
• Elliott Grabill, electronics

 

March 11th, 2017 in Baton Rouge, LA

• Performance of Planet Heart at NSEME 2017
• Hosted by Louisiana State University
• Chase Mitchusson, clarinet

 

March 10th, 2017 in Baton Rouge, LA

• Performance of Un Jardin at NSEME
• Late night concert at the Tin Roof Brewery

 

February 25th, 2017

• Premiere of Pluto in its entirety
• Centre Street Performance Studio at the Peabody Conservatory
• Andrew Im, clarinet
• Elliott Grabill, live electronics
• Concert also featured Nick Dulworth, Matthew Sullivan, and Allison Clendaniel

 

February 1st, 2017 in Baltimore, MD

• Performance of Escape at the Peabody Conservatory
• Clifton Joey Guidry, Mateen Milan, Caitlin Oldham, and Kika Wright, bassoons

 

November 18th, 2016 in Norman, OK

• Performance of Darl at inner sOUnscapes | clarinet
• Hosted by the University of Oklahoma
• Zachary Peterson, clarinet
• Angelos Mitsios, electronics

 

October 20th, 2016 in Charlottesville, VA

• Performance of Gravity at the University of Virginia Technosonics Festival
• Shawn Earle, clarinet

 

October 19th, 2016 in Charlottesville, VA

• Airing of the third movement of Pranayama on WTJU, 91.1 FM
• Programmed on “A New Sound,” hosted by Kyle Chattleton

 

August 11th, 2016 in Toronto, Canada

• Premiere of Planet Heart, for clarinet and live electronics
• Michele Jacot, clarinet
• At the Geary Lane performance venue
• Part of the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (TIES)

 

July 6th, 2016 in Rochester, NY

• Premiere of Escape for bassoon quartet
• Performed by Dark in the Song
• Winner, Dark in the Song Prize, 2016

 

July 1st, 2016 in Kalamazoo, MI

• Premiere of Darl, for clarinet and live electronics
• Hila Zamir, clarinet
• Part of the SPLICE Institute Recital Series

 

May 4th, 2016 in Baltimore, MD

• Premiere of Alarm
• Peabody Computer Music Department Recital
• Elizabeth Milligan, flute
• Elliott Grabill, electroacoustic realization

 

April 23rd, 2016 in Baltimore, MD

• Performance of Gravity in the Peabody Conservatory’s Friedberg Hall
• As part of Peabody’s Thursday Noon Recital Series
• Melissa Lander, clarinet
• Elliott Grabill, electroacoustic realization

 

February 11th – 13th in Statesboro, GA

• Presentation of After the Storms
• SEAMUS Planetarium Concert

 

December 3rd, 2015 in Baltimore, MD

• First performance of Gravity
• Melissa Lander, clarinet
• Elliott Grabill, electro-acoustic realization

 

November 16th, 2015 in Baltimore, MD

• Presentation of Ceres
• Part of the Peabody Student Electro-Acoustic Recital Series

 

October 21st, 2015 in Baltimore, MD

• Performance of Kings Highway / Stillwell Ave., Elliott Grabill at the piano
• Peabody Conservatory Composition Department Recital

 

October 7th, 2015 in Baltimore, MD

• Reading of Making the Year by the Baltimore Choral Arts Society

 

October 5th, 2015 in Baltimore, MD

• Presentation of Acousmatica
• Part of the Peabody Student Electro-Acoustic Recital Series

 

August 3rd, 2015 in Pavia, Italy

• Performance of Hemp by Quartetto Apeiron

 

June 1st, 2015 in Buffalo, NY

• The Meridian Arts Ensemble performs Rust Belt, for brass quintet.
• Part of the June in Buffalo new music festival at the University at Buffalo.

 

May 5th, 2015 in Baltimore, MD

• Melissa Birkhold and Elliott perform selected compositions for bassoon and trumpet.

 

April 27th, 2015 in Baltimore, MD

• The Baltimore Choral Arts Society records Making the Year
• Work for mixed choir, text by Bauke Kamstra

 

January 5th, 2015 in Washington, DC

• Performance of selected movements of acousmatic work Kitchen Sink at BloomBars in Columbia Heights.
• Movements included “Mashup #1,” “Oort Cloud,” “Max Matthews,” and “Titanian Trees.”

 

August 15th, 2014 in Belgrade, Serbia

• Acousmatic work Crnogorska featured as part of the Savamala Soundwalk sponsored by improvE 2.0.
• Crnogorska written using only sound samples of the Savamala neighborhood in Belgrade.
• Participants in the Soundwalk listened to Crnogorska while walking a specific route through Savamala.

 

June 30th, 2014 in Washington, DC

• Mr. Grabill returned to BloomBars to deliver a freely improvised performance using a synthesizer and various audio patches he created with AudioMulch.

 

May 5th, 2014 in Washington, DC

• Performance of Death by Water, art song with interactive computer-effects, sonified data, and computer processed sound.
• Text from The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot.
• Performed by the composer at BloomBars.

 

 

April 28th, 2014 in Washington, DC

• Performance of Wandrers Nachtlied II, an art song with interactive computer-effects, sonified data, and computer processed sound.
• Text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
• Performed by the composer at BloomBars.

 

April 21st, 2014 in Washington, DC

• Premiere of Snowy Shore, an electroacoustic piece for narrator and computer processed sound.
• Four short movements corresponding to a four section poem, “Snowy Shore.”  Poem written by the composer.
• Performed by the composer at BloomBars.

 

February 26th, 2012 in Washington, DC

•  World premiere of Uriel,  a piece for voice and keyboard controller.   Terry Johns, tenor, and Elliott Grabill, keyboard
•  World premiere of Katharos, for piano
•  Screening of After the Storms, Pranayama, music by Elliott Grabill and film by Vin Grabill
•  Live performance of Kings Highway/Stillwell Ave. with film by Vin Grabill as backdrop
•  3:30  at the Church of the Holy City, 1611 16th St. NW, , Washington, DC 20009

 

November 18th, 2011 in Washington, DC

• World Premiere screening of After the Storms, a film by Vin Grabill to the music of Sapa
• Screening of Un Jardin, Pranayama, Kings Highway / Stillwell Ave. 
• 7pm at the Vitruvian Gallery, 734 7th St. SE, Washington DC 20003

 

November 14th, 2011 in Washington, DC

• Open rehearsal of the November 18th screening
• During yoga class
• 6:30 at the Vitruvian Gallery (see above for address)

 

November 12th, 2011 in Arlington, VA

• Screening of Kings Highway / Stillwell Ave., Brooklyn
• 3:45 at the Rosebud Film Festival
• At Artisphere, in Rossyln, 1101 Wilson Blvd.

 

August 3rd, 2011 in Huddersfield, England

• Performance of Un Jardin at the ICMC 2001 Late Night Concert
• 10:30pm at the Graduate
• University of Huddersfield Student Union

 

August 3rd, 2011 in Huddersfield, England

• Screening of Pranayama at the ICMC 2011
• 9am – 7:30pm, Listening Room 3b in the Business School
• Visuals created by Vin Grabill

 

July 25th, 2011 in Washington, DC

• A live performance of Residue featuring dancer/choreographer Danielle Greene and Elliott on keyboard and soundboard
• 8pm at at Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE

 

July 26th, 2011 in Washington, DC

• The premiere performance of Residue with Danielle Greene
• 7pm at Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE

 

May 8th, 2011 in Baltimore, MD

• Screening of Frontier, a film by Vin Grabill, music by Elliott and Martín Gendelman.
• 2:30pm the Charles Theatre, 1711 N Charles St., Baltimore MD.
• Thanks also to Terry Johns for conducting Hathors, a choral work by Elliott featured in the film.

 

May 7th, 2011 in Baltimore, MD

• Screening of Frontier at the Windup Space
• 12 W North Ave at 7:30pm
• Participated in a post-concert discussion panel.

 

May 6th, 2011 in Philadelphia, PA

• Performance of Sapa, a dance piece choreographed by Danielle Greene, music by Elliott Grabill
• 7:30pm at the Conwell Theatre on Temple University’s main campus