I'm honored to be a guest artist at the 2011 Gaudeamus Festival. The provocative Ensemble Klang will premiere a new piece of mine commissioned by the Festival. Also programmed is my quartet Ghostpsace. More information available soon!

The new new-music community center of Brooklyn - "think Darmstadt meets Cheers" reads their website - hosts an informal show featuring songs from my new project Delusion Story. An augmented and fired up band including Timo Andres, Leah Coloff, James Ilgenfritz, Nathan Koci, Taylor Levine, Ron Wiltrout and yours truly on vocals.

Philip White and I perform selections of our raucous new collaboration, R We Who R We, as part of Dither Electric Guitar Quartet's annual Extravaganza! This year's celebration features a star-studded cast of performers, including the classiest Marc Ribot, playing a set of music by John Cage.

Volti, the charismatic contemporary vocal ensemble under the soulful direction of Robert Geary, performs my piece Privilege at the national 2011 ChorusAmerica conference.

Pianist and composer Timo Andres premieres my new work Parlor Diplomacy, commissioned especially for this concert. Alongside this and his own work, he'll perform pieces by Chris Cerrone, Derek Johnson, Ingram Marshall, and Jacob Cooper (also a world premiere). Purchase tickets here.

The Chicago Children's Choir premieres Room For Something, a new commissioned work based on text by writer and activist Jonathan Kozol. Josephine Lee conducts.

Philip White and I perform our raucous new collaboration, R We Who R We, at this performance presented by the Electronic Music Foundation. Philip also premieres his newly commisioned work, /.

Pianist and singer Laura Ball performs some of my earliest songs - "Blue," "My Love is Building a Building," "This Time" and "Blessing for the Soul's Release" (which I wrote when I was 14 years old) - as part of her Unedited Series.

The Opus Zero Band from the Department of Music at Williams College performs my piece Katrina Ballads, with film by Bill Morrison. Tom Bergeron conducts.

I conduct the Red Light Ensemble in the premiere of Christopher Cerrone's long-awaited opera, Invisible Cities.

I conduct the Wet Ink Ensemble in Chambered Music by Simon Steen-Andersen and new works by Sam Pluta and Lewis Spratlan.

The Colla Voce choir of Head-Royce school, under the direction of Robert Wells, premieres my piece Away.

My piece Is it dirty is a part of the 2nd Liederabend, a night of songs produced by Beth Morrison Productions and VisionIntoArt.

The Yale Glee Club and Yale Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Jeffrey Douma, premiere my 20-minute piece Partition, commissioned especially for this, their 150th Anniversary performance. The text comes from two sources: the Palestinian-American scholar and theorist Edward Said, in his conversations with Daniel Barenboim called "Parallels and Paradoxes;" and a record of street and business names on a diverse and developed stretch of road on either side of the Yale campus in New Haven, CT.

Philip White and I unleash a series of collaborative compositions, on Kathleen Supove's renowned new music series at the Flea Theater. Philip's work, performed on a series of homemade electronic instruments, is gripping. Dafna Naphtali and Jonathan Chen are also featured on the program. Admission is FREE.

My longtime friend, the versatile and surprising soprano Mellissa Hughes, will premiere my song i carry your heart, a dark setting of the classic love poem by e.e. cummings. My almost-as-longtime friend, the "free-spirited" Timo Andres, accompanies. The duo, who together performed Ives at my wedding, will also play new works by Jacob Cooper, Corey Dargel, Gabriel Kahane and Matt Marks. Admission is $10.

The excellent San Francisco-based vocal ensemble Volti reprises their sensitive and emotional performance of my piece Privilege, which they commissioned from me last year, and which they'll be releasing on their next commercial recording. Also on the concert are works by David Lang, Kui Dong, and Tamar Diesendruck. Purchase tickets here.

My music is presented alongside works by Andy Akiho and a set by the NYC-based, ManhattanSchool-founded ensemble Loadbang who will be performing Chris Cerrone, Richard Harrold and Adrian Knight. Purchase tickets here.

J.G. Thirlwell performs my arrangements of pieces from his Manorexia project. Also performing are the supurb Calder Quartet and special guest Boys Like Us (Rostam Batmanglij of Discovery and Vampire Weekend).

Red Light New Music and DITHER! For the first time ever, two of my favorite groups will be collaborating on a performance. I'll be conducting Red Light in a newly composed score to the classic silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, featuring musical vignettes from a lineup that includes Vincent Raikhel, Scott Wollschleger, Chris Cerrone, Kyle Hillbrand, Derek Muro, Nathan Koci, Ayaka Nishina and many others. Also, DITHER will be performing several pieces, including those by David T. Little, Jascha Narveson and a movement from my new piece that will be premiered next year.

The daring dudes of DITHER perform a movement of my new electric guitar quartet at their Incubator Workshop. Alongside works of Tristan Perich, Eve Beglarian and Nick Didkovsky, this should be a fabulous show of new works.