UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:

Aug.12th, 13:00 start, in Tokyo Music University,The Next American Piano,

Kentaro Noda, piano

Justin Henry Rubin Monumentum pro Giacinto Scelsi ad annum C (2005, Japan Premiere)
Kyle Gann Private Dances (2000-2004,Japan Premiere)
Larry Polansky tooaytoods #1-11 (2001-2004/2005;1,2,3,5,8,9,11=Japan Premiere &4,6,7,10=World Premiere)
Dary John Mizelle Piano Sonata no.4 (2001,World Premiere)
Dary John Mizelle Transforms 1-34 (1975-1995, World Premiere of complete performance)

 
Thursday, November 30, 2006, 8:00 pm
The Orchestra of Our Time Presents:
The Music of Dary John Mizelle
Symphony Space
Broadway at 95 th Street
NYC

RECENT LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCES

Monday, June 26th, 2006 8:00 pm.
In Memoriam Miles Davis
International Street Cannibals Concert
St Mark's Church
131 East 2nd Avenue at 10th St.
NYC

World Premiere of Lament for Fallujah
for flutes, oboes, and guitar plus computer music.
 
Performed by: The Constellation Trio
Reflections of America concert
composed and improvised music by Sidney Marquez Boquirem, Elliott Carter, Terry Keevil, Dary John Mizelle, and Linda Wetherill Smith
 
July 1, 8:00pm
at the historic Vail Leavitt Music Hall Theatre
Peconic Ave. and Main St.
Riverhead, NY
 
sponsored by the New York State Arts Council
and Long Island Consortium of Arts Councils

Forbidden Colors II performed by Linda Wetherill and Chamber Orchestra, Joel Thome conductor Conference for Music and Neurological Function Dec. 6, 2003 . Hudson Theatre West 44th St. New York City

***Tuba Mirum for trumpet and computer music performed by Ivano Ascari, trumpet May 13, 2003, - Sala Filarmonica, Trento Italy The Highest Notes Are Hard to Hear performed by Linda Wetherill, bass flute August 6, 2000 CUNY Staten Island

Forbidden Colors with Cannon Loops performed by Linda Wetherill, flute with computer music July 7, 2001 Adelphi University

My Beginning Is My Beginning and My Ending Is My Middle for tumpet and computer, Graham Ashton, trumpet February 27, 2002 University of California, Irvine campus.

Spellbound for Solo Marimba Rina Okubo, marimba New York University Frederick Loewe Theatre March 6, 2000

Three performances of Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate, Dary John Mizelle, voice at the Joyce Downtown Theatre with Gabrielle Kroos Dance Company in January of 2001

Spellbound for Solo Marimba Rina Okubo, marimba, Gloria for Midi trumpet and computer, Jim McElwaine, Midi computer Dary John Mizelle, Midi trumpet, Improvisation in Freedom Rina Okubo, percussion, Jim McElwaine, saxophones, clarinets Dary John Mizelle, Trombone, trumpet, percussion. shakuhachi, didjiridu performed at Tonic Essex St. New York City June 6, 2001.

** Rilke Elegy I performed by Seung-Ah lee, soprano, Will deVos, horn at New York University German Club Apr. 12, 2002 "A Tribute to Rainer Maria Rilke" with poet Galway Kinnell, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, artist, and Dary John Mizelle, composer, a reading, music performance and exhibition opening.

* Fanfare 2000 commissioned by the International Trumpet Guild for performance by the U.S. Army Herald Trumpet ensenble at the International Trumpet Guild Conference Purchase Pepsico Theatre May 24, 2000 http://www.trumpetguild.org/2000conference/wednesday/w1230.htm

Rilke Elegy I performed by Seung-Ah Lee, soprano, Will deVos, horn, at Rutgers Book Art Symposium Newark, N.J. June 2002 made in conjunction with Ilse Schreiber-Noll of Purchase College Visual Arts http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/spcol/bookarts/photographs/pictu res6.html

Silverwind, The Highest Notes are Hard to Hear, Piece for Flute performed by Linda Wetherill and students when I was guest composer at Adelphi's Summer Flute Repertoire Class in July, 2001

 

SOME IMPORTANT PERFORMANCES BEFORE 2000

Metalsong II performed by Margaret Leng Tan, toy pianos and alumaphone on New Sounds Live series at Merkin Hall, New York with simultaneous live broadcast over WNYC fm Feb. 5, 1998

Winter Suite performed by Linda Wetherill North East Conference of College Music Society premiere of Winter Suite in spring of '97 Trinity College, Connecticut

The Abysm of Time performed by Linda Wetheril, flute at University of South East Missouri, March 1998

The Abysm of Time performed by Linda Wetherill, flute and alumaphone University of Ohio Columbus, Ohio March 1998

"Interpretations Series" Merkin Hall, New York City Feb 9, 1995 ** Transmutations and Metamorphoses for percussion ensemble performed by the University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble Michael Udow, director

Violin Fantasy, performed by Mia Rose Wu violin and dance * Transmutations and Metamorphoses also performed at University of Michigan and Purchase College

the same week Silverwind performed by Linda Wetherill at Nicholas Roerich Museum. New York City in fall '99

*The Highest Notes are Hard To Hear performed by Linda Wetherill at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan in Staten Island, New York in July of 1998 and CUNY Staten Island in recital in school year 1998-99 and in summer workshop in 1999

* Cadenza of Forbidden Colors II Linda Wetherill, flute Premiered on the New York State Commission of the Arts (NYSCA)-sponsored "Celebrations Series" in Bay Shore, NY October of 2001, and at Wilkes Barre University fall of 1997.

Winter Suite performed by Linda Wetherill, flute at the Essential Music 10th aniversity concert June 1997 The Kitchen, New York City Also on the same series, Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate, Dary John Mizelle, voice Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate performed by Dary John Mizelle, voice with intermedia artist Jack Ox at Podeville Arts Center, Berlin Germany March 1995

Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate performed by Dary John Mizelle, voice with intermedia artist Jack Ox at National Arts Club, Gramercy Park NYC summer 1994

Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate performed by Dary John Mizelle, voice with intermedia artist Jack Ox at Dru Arstark Gallery NYC fall 1994

Private performance for German art patrons of Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate performed by Dary John Mizelle, voice with intermedia artist Jack Ox at Sutton Place, NYC winter 1994

Amore for Two Violins, Sun/The Gentle, Elegy, Violin Fantasy Mia Rose Wu, violin and dance Miho Matsuno, violin New Violin Music May of 1994 Lotus Art Space, NYC

Violin Fantasy performed by Mia Rose Wu, violin and dance at Bard College March 1995

Three Easy Pieces, TRANSFORMS, Sonata II Polyvalence, I W Standing Quite Close To Process Bridget Convey, Justin Rubin, Gary Klein, Dary John Mizelle, piano New Piano Music at Lotus Art Space, NYC in June of 1994

Lake Mountain Thunder performed by the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, Peter Jarvis, conductor and Esther Lamneck soloist, Pro Musicis Concert Miller Theatre at Columbia University January, 1991

Sound performed by Dary John Mizelle bass trombone * Silverwind, performed by Chagit Rosmarin, flute Sonata II - Polyvalence, performed by Gary Klein, piano Greenwich School, Renee Weiler Auditorium NYC May 5, 1991

* Metacontrasts (14 minute excerpt) performed by the Contrasts Trio Esther Lamneck, clarinet Tom Hrinkuw, piano Yuvall Waldman, violin at Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadly MA March 1991

25-Year Retrospective Concert October 25, 1988 Symphony Space, New York City seven compositions perfromed, three world premieres Concerto for Contrabass and Orchestra, performed byThe Bronx Symphony, Dary John Mizelle, conductor, Diana Gannett. contrabass March 1985, Lehman College, Bronx. New York

Chroma II, one hour of music and theatre for various combinations of instruments and three vocalists, North Texas University, Denton TX fall 1984

The Music Of Dary John Mizelle Symphony Space October,1981 six compositions performed. three world premieres

 

SOME PURCHASE COLLEGE PERFORMANCES SINCE 2000

Endless Melody performed by Purchase Symphony Orchestra , Jesse Levine, coductor Recital Hall Performing Arts Center May 12, 2000

Lake Mountain Thunder performed on PurchaseContemporary Ensemble, by Purchase Percussion Ensemble, Dominic Donato, conductor November 25, 2002

MUSIC HEAR NOW AND BEYOND SERIES

Forbidden Colors II for solo flute and Chamber Orchestra performed by Linda Wetherill, flute Joel Thome, conductor November 6, 2002

*MetaContrasts April 1, 2004 by Ayako Oshima, clarinet Sarah Watkins, piano and Bryony Stroud-Watkins, violin

*String Quartet VII - Music of Dark Beauty April 8, 2004 by the Scorchio Quartet with Computer Music

Slide for 12 Trombones and computer performed by Purchase Trombone Choir, Jim Pugh, director Dary John Mizelle, conductor May 8, 2004 with recording session for Furious Artisans records

MUSIC FROM THE EDGE
Computer Music from Purchase College

May 12, 2004 Computer Music from Purchase College Slide computer music 6 minutes, *Pulse computer music 4 minutes and *Melos computer music 6 minutes (There were several other performances of my computer music on this series.)

4.6.2005 - World premiere of Shadows  for Clarinet Choir (Eb, 2 Bb, Bassett Horn, Bass, and Contrabass) with 5 percussion and piano.  Wednesday, April 6, at 8:00 pm at Purchase College Music Recital Hall.  Also on the program will be works by George Crumb and Joel Thome. 

RECENT FACULTY RECITALS
at Purchase College

Faculty Recital: Piano Music of Dary John Mizelle 2.15.2001
*Autumnal Equinox, Bircu Aktas, piano * Zach's New Blues, James McElwaine, piano Three Easy Pieces, Dary John Mizelle, piano * Transforms for Piano Laurie Hudicek, piano

Faculty Recital 2.27. 2001
*Forbidden Colors I, Atsuko Ballard, bass clarinet
Excerpts from Up from Under 1.)Vow of the Marvelous and 2.) Finale (Tilumnaxj Pecwaps) Dilshad Khambatta, Seung Ah Lee, Dary John Mizelle, voice
Polyphonies I, Dary John Mizelle, shakuhachi with live electronic music *ZNV, Brian Knox , piano Atumnal Equinox, Bircu Aktas, piano Zach's New Blues, James McElwaine, piano * Mister B.B. Joe Ferry, electric bass, Richie Castellano, guitar Jared Appuzo, drums Jerry Mitkowski, piano Jim McElwaine, soprano sax Dary John Mizelle, trombone

Faculty Recital 3.6.2002
* Aubade, Nocturne and Bacchanaal, Esther Lamneck, clarinet
* Forbidden Colors II for Solo Flute and Chamber Orchestra Linda Wetherill, flute Joel Thome, conductor My Beginning is My Beginning and My Ending is my Middle performed by Graham Ashton, trumpet with computer music
* Earth Tones III Andre Vida, contrabass clarinet
* Rilke Elegy I Seung Ah Lee, voice, Will DeVos, horn, Artur Ortenblad, oboe

Faculty Recital 4.21.2003
* Piece for Solo Tuba, Cassidy Donohue, tuba
* Autumn Suite (1. Chioroscuro, 2. Autum Stroll, 3 Fantasy) Ayako Oshima, clarinet I Was Standing Quite Close To Process, Bridget Convey, piano
*Forbidden Colors with Canon Loops solo flute with computer music, Linda Wetherill, flute Corroboree David Gluck, Agon Mizelle, Dary John Mizelle didjiridus (world premiere of 3 didjiridu version)

Faculty Recital 2.26.2004
*Suite Number. One for Unaccompanied 'Cello Dan Barrett, 'cello *Slide for 12 Trombones and Computer Purchase Trombone Choir, Jim Pugh Director Dary John Mizelle, conductor In Memoriam Igor Stravinsky, Gerard Hecht, piano In Memoriam Pablo Casals, Dan Barrett, 'cello In Memoriam Thelonious Monk Dary John Mizelle, piano In Memoriam Gerry Mulligan, Brett Ryan, baritone saxophone In Memoriam Miles Davis, Dary John Mizelle, trumpet
*Lament for Humanity Roy Campbell, Rod Kissler, Scott Mason, Joel Thome, Dary John Mizelle percussion with computer music *denotes world premiere
** New York premiere *** European premiere Two-hour Radio Interview WJFF fm Jeffersonville New York Labor Day 2002 15-minute Internet Radio Interview April 25, 2004 http://www.outsight.mu/