UPCOMING EVENTS (click green text for details)

2023 - 2024 season to include:

  • Invited guest artist at the University of Buffalo, Bucknell University, Penn State, and the University of South Florida for the 2024 CAMP GROUND Festival
  • Teacher at the Sao Paolo Contemporary Music Festival
  • Miniature concert tour with Mathieu D'Ordine (cellist) performing "... on top of a frosted hill ..." and "Colorful Open Space" (both works composed for him) as well as works by Debussy, and others
  • Residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts
  • World premiere of "Kick It" for string quartet, commissioned by Shelter Music Boston
  • Various CD releases (to be announced)
  • Various publications (to be announced)
  • World premiere of a new work for young voices, commissioned by Boston Public Schools in partnership with Rising Tide Music Press and Castle of our Skins
  • Invited to participate in a music and organoids conference (Berlin)
  • Completing "For Bayard" for cellist Seth Parker Woods, commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation
  • More exciting performance, international travel, and writing to be announced!

CURRENT PROJECTS/COLLABORATIONS/MISCELLANEOUS

Julia Stoschek Collection Düsseldorf . May the moon ... (VR experience by Rindon Johnson)

5 June 2022 - 10 December 2023
JSC Düsseldorf
Schanzenstraße 54
40549 Düsseldorf
Germany

June 2023 to January 2024
Centre Pompidou-Metz
1 Parv. des Droits de l'Homme
57020 Metz
France

For the WORLDBUILDING GAMING AND ART IN THE DIGITAL AGE exhibition (curated by Hans
Ulrich Obrist), a collection of artists "examine the relationship between gaming and time-based
media art with a journey through various ways in which artists have interacted with video games
and made them into an art form".

Included in this exhibition is a video work by Rindon Johnson titled May the moon meet us
apart, may the sun meet us together. This new virtual reality video work incorporates a sound
experienced created by Anthony R. Green (concept and score creation) and the Honourable
Elizabeth A. Baker (realization and recording).

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DIGITAL CONCERT . 2 Vocal Works; Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg, Germany)

View performance HERE.

Ema Nikolovska (mezzo-soprano) and Joseph Joubert (piano) perform 3 Quotes of Shakespeare (2010) and Sojourner Truth, the third and final movement of the song cycle ... all that is good ... (2019) for the digital concert titled »I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings«. This concert is the second in a digital series titled »Celebration of Black Music«, curated by Louise Toppin and Thomas Hampson.

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2021 FROMM COMMISSION. New Work for Seth Parker Woods (cello); Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)

View announcement HERE.

Recently awarded a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation of Harvard University. With this commission, I will compose a new work for solo cello and multimedia that celebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin. This work will be composed specifically for the internationally acclaimed cellist Seth Parker Woods.

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PAST EVENTS (selection)

2022 - 2023 season highlights:

  • Performance of "I Was Shot By a Cop" excerpts (new opera)
  • Performances of short opera "S L E E P" (libretto by Clio Montrey) in vocal/piano version as well as with an orchestration by Ryan Turner, produced by the Longy School of Music
  • World premiere performance of multimedia opera "It must all be done in darkness ...", produced by Castle of our Skins (review HERE)
  • World premiere of opera "Tenderhooks" (libretto by Mark Labowskie), produced by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
  • Portrait Concert, produced by Castle of our Skins, at Longy School of Music, featuring mostly vocal works performed by Veronica Williams
  • Invited guest artist at the University of Florida (Gainesville), which included lectures, masterclasses, and a portrait concert
  • Invited guest artist at the University of South Florida (Tampa), which included lectures, masterclasses, and a performance of Dona Nobis Veritatem (excerpts)
  • Invited guest artist at Syracuse University, sponsored by the Society for New Music, which included lectures and performances of three works, including a world premiere of "... chiamo la Morte ..."
  • Invited guest artist for Boston University's composers forum
  • Jack Thorpe (saxophone) Doctoral Thesis lecture recital featuring four of my saxophone works
  • Headlining performance of Indexical's Black Sound Symposium; I performed works by myself, Renée C. Baker, Ed Bland, and deVon Russell Gray (dVRG)
  • Kimmel Center (Philadelphia) debut with Dr. Louise Toppin & Kyle Walker (piano) performing song cycle "... all that is good ..." (which had its official world premiere in December 2022)
  • Lincoln Center (New York) debut with Christie Echols (contrabass) interpreting my piece "Arrival", which accompanied dance choreographed by Jordan D. Lloyd
  • Two residencies: Loghaven (Knoxville) and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (Nebraska City)
  • Mentor in the first perfocraZe International Artist Residency mentorship program (Kumasi, Ghana)
  • Invited speaker for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
  • Guest program notes writer for the Minnesota Orchestra
  • Performances of "The Baldwin Sonata" by Jason Hardink, with an official recording in the works
  • World premiere of "Color Conversation" for the Primary Duo (Sarah Bob, piano; Aaron Trant, percussion), commissioned by the New Gallery Concert Series
  • World premiere of "Colorful Open Space", written for and performed by Mathieu D'Ordine (cello) and myself (piano), as the 2023 Colorado State Music Teacher's Association commissioned composer. Performance at CSU Pueblo
  • Teacher and lecturer at the Vienna Summer Music Festival's Composers Forum