Wavefield Ensemble premiere UNFEELING in New York City

New York City’s Wavefield Ensemble gives the premiere performance of UNFEELING (She sketches out her dreams on his skin.) at the Zürcher Gallery in New York City on Friday, March 1, 2024 at 8pm. The program, curated by Amadeus, will feature pieces by Tonia Ko, Wolfgang Rihm, Kaija Saariaho, José Manuel Serrano, and Wavefield Ensemble’s percussionist Dennis Sullivan. In addition to UNFEELING, flutist Roberta Michel will give the East Coast premiere of Amadeus’s breathless work for solo piccolo Pendant. You can find more information at the ensemble’s website HERE.

And also at the gallery’s website HERE.

2022 Fromm Music Foundation Commission Recipients Announced

In November 2022, Amadeus was awarded a 2022 Fromm Commission for a new work for the New York City-based Wavefield Ensemble to be premiered in 2024/25. You can read about the award and see the complete list of recipients at the Fromm Music Foundation’s website.

Amadeus joins EMPAC as Music Curator

Starting in September 2022, Amadeus joins the curatorial staff at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York as the Music Curator. Renowned for its state-of-the-art performance spaces and groundbreaking productions, Amadeus will shape the sound-based programming, collaborating with the Time-based Visual Arts Curator and EMPAC Associate-director Vic Brooks and the Senior Theater & Dance Curator Ashley Ferro-Murray as well as the expert production and administrative staff. The curatorial program invites artists from all over the world to research, develop, and perform work, utilizing the time, space, and resources offered at EMPAC.

You can read about the appointment and learn more about EMPAC HERE.

Talea Ensemble performs And now, removed from air, I simulate the Breath, so well—

The Talea Ensemble will perform And now, removed from air, I simulate the Breath, so well—, performed by Adrian Morejon, Sae Hashimoto, and Chris Gross on their “Encores!” program on June 2, 2022 at 7:30PM at the Americas Society in NYC. The piece will be performed alongside works by Felipe Lara, Inti Figgis-Vizueta, Septian Dwi Cahyo, Sarah Hennies, and Wang Lu.

Update: You can view the concert in its entirety HERE.

Wavefield Ensemble presents the concert premiere of RIGOR

New York City-based Wavefield Ensemble and violinist Erica Dicker will perform RIGOR on their program, “the impossibility of nostalgia, part 2: DAWN CHORUS” on June 4, 2022 at 7:30PM at the Dimenna Center in NYC. The piece—originally and commission and collaboration between Amadeus, violinist Jessica Ling, and artist Nicolas Rupcich—will be performed alongside pieces by Jen Baker, Greg Chudzik, Liza Lim, and Giulia Lorusso.

You can find more information at the Wavefield Ensemble website.

Talea Ensemble performs Inexpressible v. 2 at Vancouver New Music

The stalwart contemporary music group Tale Ensemble performs Inexpressible v. 2 on Saturday, April 23, 2022 as part of Vancouver New Music’s 2021-22 season. The program also features the work of Raven Chacon and Olga Neuwirth alongside premieres of commissioned works by William Kuo and Brandon Chow.

You can find more information at Vancouver New Music.

The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players premieres At the end, breathless and clothed in fire

Commissioned as part of their 51st Season, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players will premiere At the end, breathless and clothed in fire at the ODC Theater in San Francisco, CA on Saturday, April 2, 2022. Written specifically for the individual members of SFCMP and scored for twelve instrumentalists, the piece is a virtuosic homage to the ensemble. It will be presented alongside works by the renown composer Sofia Gubaidulina, who celebrated her 90th birthday in 2021.

You can find more information at SFCMP.org.

UCBSO performs Skin, stretched upon the frame

The University of California, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra performs Skin, stretched upon the frame on Friday and Saturday, December 10-11, 2022 in Hertz Hall at the UC Berkeley Department of Music. You can find tickets at the orchestra’s website.

Splinter Reeds premieres the concert version of Absence in relief

Originally commissioned and conceived prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Absence in relief (audio and visual studies in intimacy), was reimagined as an audio-video installation for Radius Gallery and Indexical in Santa Cruz during the spring of 2021. Composer Amadeus Julian Regucera and Splinter Reeds now present a live performance of the piece for the first time at the Paul Dresher Ensemble studio. The work, developed in close collaboration with the performers, engenders conversations about consent and trust, complicity and gaze, and power dynamics in performance. You can buy tickets HERE.

New collaboration RIGOR with violinist Jessica Ling & video artist Nicolás Rupcich goes online

A new collaboration, created during the quarantine period, marries a solo work for Berlin-based violinist and close friend Jessica Ling with striking video by Leipzig-based artist Nicolás Rupcich. The piece, an unapologetically aggressive reflection pm the physicality of performance and the intersection of bodies — that of Jessica’s and the violin itself — can now be view online HERE.

To learn more about the piece and the circumstances behind its creation, you can hear an interview podcast between Jessica and Amadeus HERE.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players presents IMY/ILY as part of their “Sound Encounters” collaborative concert with UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music & Audio Technologies

This year's SF Contemporary Music Players in the COMMUNITY series concert features two works that are fully electronic and audio-visual in concept - a piece by Finnish composer Maija Hynninen, with a new video accompaniment by film artist Olivia Ting, and a newly expanded work by California-based composer Jon Kulpa, who’s developed both the audio and visual aspects of the piece. Joining us to create a live performance element as counterpoint, is none other than the incomparable Andy Meyerson - artistic director, and one member of the powerhouse duo that is The Living Earth Show, based in San Francisco. Andy gives us a highly personal stamp on two great works for single percussion instruments, James Tenney’s piece for solo tam-tam, on having never written a note for percussion, and Amadeus Regucera’s IMY/ILY for solo bass drum. We hope you’ll enjoy this concert - the first in a collaborative effort that’s all about exploring and stretching the boundaries of sound creation.

For more information on the free May 23, 2021 online concert, visit the SFCMP website HERE.

Celebrated violinist Jennifer Koh commissions and premieres the new work While you were away at Lincoln Center

Famed violinist Jennifer Koh has commissioned a new work, While you were away as part of her Alone Together project and a program entitled Our Time is Now at Lincoln Center. For this specially-commissioned production, Ms. Koh has created an hour-long salon that addresses the ongoing trauma borne by New York City’s AAPI and Black communities and their shared response of creative excellence in the face of adversity. Koh will be joined on stage by poets Cindy Tran and Simone White in a performance that juxtaposes spoken word with the world premieres of four works newly composed for Alone Together by Bryan, LaTasha Bundy, Ken Ueno, and Amadeus Regucera. The performance is dedicated to George Floyd and all victims of racial discrimination.

For more information on the May 25, 2021 concert, visit the Lincoln Center website HERE.

The Living Earth Show premieres video performance of Brian Ferneyhough’s Renvoi/Shards; post-premiere discussion moderated by Amadeus Regucera — Thursday, March 18

Renvoi/Shards was composed in 2007 by Stanford professor Brian Ferneyhough and given its United States premiere by The Living Earth Show in 2013. Christened “the favourite bogeyman of modern music” by The Telegraph in London, Ferneyhough crafts music that finds and annihilates the boundaries of performative complexity in contemporary music. Renvoi/Shards, Ferneyhough’s first and only piece that features the quartertone vibraphone, offers a stunningly diverse array of musical material in a union of virtuosity and physicality.

This discussion will be moderated by composer Amadeus Regucera, who composed IMY/ ILY, for Andy in 2018-19. Amadeus holds degrees in Music from the University of California, San Diego (B.A. 2006) and the University of California, Berkeley (PhD, 2016) where he lectures in the Department of Music. He currently serves as the Artistic Production Director for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and UC Berkeley’s Eco Ensemble.

You can watch the discussion HERE.

Absence, in relief, a new work for 5-channel audio and video, commissioned by Splinter Reeds and Indexical to premiere at the Radius Gallery in Santa Cruz, California

Amadeus Julian Regucera and Splinter Reeds bring to you a new piece, commissioned by the ensemble prior to COVID-19, and reimagined as an audio-visual installation for Radius Gallery and Indexical in Santa Cruz. The work – Absence in relief (audio and visual studies in intimacy) – is part of a series developed in close collaboration with performers, engendering conversations about consent and trust, complicity and gaze, and power and dynamics in performance.

Absence in relief will run during normal gallery hours at 45-minute intervals (12pm - 5pm, Wed. - Sun.) from April 9, 2021, through April 24, 2021. Indexical is also facilitating a series of RSVP-only evening showings at 7pm and 8pm on Friday and Saturday nights, April 9 and 10, and April 16 and 17. Showings are free for Indexical members, and $10 for non-members.

Capacity for showings will be limited to 10 audience members. Masks and social distancing are required, seating is in fixed positions, and time will be provided for circulating air between showings. More details at Indexical’s website HERE.

You can watch the artist talk with Amadeus and Splinter Reeds oboist, moderated by Indexical’s Andrew Smith HERE.

You can learn more about the piece HERE.

Video essay Between breaths, between beats published in March 2021 as part of Sarah Cargill’s Lucid Dreams of the Apocalypse, commissioned by SFMOMA’s Open Space

Amadeus’s first full foray into video art sees the premiere of Between breaths, between beats, an essay produced, directed, and edited by Amadeus along with collaborator Sarah Cargill. It’s a surreal and strange reflection on the nature desire and (its) absence during these desperate days of slow annihilation and the space between (beat and drop). The soundtrack features a remix of 2015’s OPEN, and features a fresh beat by newcomer Tate Egon.

You can see the premiere of Sarah’s residency, Lucid Dreams of the Apocalypse, on SFMOMA’s YouTube page and read more about the associated pieces, including Between breaths, between beats HERE.

Resonant Bodies final album includes Duo Cortona’s premiere performance of If Only After You Then Me

After eight years, the world’s premiere festival of vocal music, Resonant Bodies, is coming to an end. A new digital record, produced by Lucy Dhegrae, Rachel Doehring, Fanny Wyrick-Flax, and released by New Focus Records, will drop on March 12, 2021. The track listing includes performances by Julia Bullock, Pamela Z, Sarah Maria Sun, Tony Arnold, Arooj Aftab, Kamala Sankaram, Caroline Shaw, Gelsey Bell, Rachel Calloway, Lucy Shelton, Anaïs Maviel, and Sofia Jernberg. The premiere performance of If Only After You Then Me from the 2015 edition of the festival is featured as one of the tracks, performed by Duo Cortona (Rachel Calloway and Ari Streisfeld). You can purchase and download the album from New Focus Records’s Bandcamp site.

2020 Composers Conference Anti-Racism in New Music Symposium with artists Sarah Cargill, Anthony Green, and Shalini Vijayan

The Composer Conference 2020 roundtable discussion brings together musicians/artists Sarah Cargill, Anthony Green, Shalini Vijayan, and Amadeus Regucera to discuss the themes of agency, BILPOC futures, imagination, performance practices, education, and mentorship within the frames of anti-racism and new music.

You can view this vital and important conversation at the Composer Conference YouTube channel HERE.

2020 Composers Conference goes digital (July 30 – August 9, 2020), featuring 10 premieres by Composer & Performance fellows as well as a performance of Portraits (for a quiet end)

The 2020 edition of the historic Composers Conference–its 76th season–will be presented digitally this summer. Ten composition fellows have written new pieces for the CC performance fellows which will be premiered in concerts that will prove to be captivating and imaginative online presentations. In addition to these premiere concerts, the conference will open its various forums to the public via YouTube: fellows will discuss their current and previous work in composition forums; faculty performers will present masterclasses and live performances; faculty composers Linda Catlin Smith and Amadeus Regucera will discuss their work; archival performances will be shown; and a roundtable colloquium regarding Anti-Racism & Whiteness in Contemporary Music and Art Practice will allow a panel made up of Anthony Green, Shalini Vijayan, Sarah Cargill, and Amadeus Regucera to address and speak on how the country’s current socio-political climate can, has, and will affect the creation of contemporary music. A full schedule and a link to the Composers Conference YouTube channel can be found HERE.

Soprano Laurel Irene and violinist Xenia Deviatkina-Loh premiere new video for If Only After You Then Me at the 2020 N.E.O. Voice Festival

As part of an online festival exploring the many diverse and innovative approaches to the voice and contemporary vocal music, soprano and founder of VoiceScienceWorks Laurel Irene and violinist Xenia Deviatkina-Loh premiere a striking new music video performance of If Only After You Then Me.

You can view the video and see the rest of the concerts on YouTube HERE.

And learn more about the N.E.O. Voice Festival and its partners HERE.

New music video for IMY/ILY featuring Andy Meyerson

A new music video for IMY/ILY filmed in the fall of 2019 and shot, produced, and edited by me is now available on YouTube. The video was created to give the piece another level of meaning away from the concert stage and attempting to capture the mood and meanings behind the music. This was the my foray into “video art” and hope that it conveys the piece in a new and provocative way.

You can see the video HERE or on YouTube HERE.

New Music Listening Club podcast features Inexpressible v.2 alongside works by Judd Greenstein and Sky Macklay

Hosted by Dan Ketter, cellist and educator, and Emlyn Johnson, flutist and presenter, along with various guests hosts, New Music Listening Club takes a deep dive into various pieces of contemporary music providing their thoughts and insights on the work. You can find the episode featuring Inexpressible v.2 as well as past and future episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or their website.

Inexpressible v.2 featured on the opening concert of San Francisco Contemporary Music Players’ 50th Anniversary season

As part of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players’ 2020-2021 season, its historic 50th, Amadeus’s piece Inexpressible v.2 will be performed alongside works by Pamela Z, Andrew Norman, John Adams, and a newly commissioned work from Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw:

"For our on STAGE series and the opening concert of a milestone 50th anniversary season, we shine a spotlight on West Coast composers to celebrate some of the brightest luminaries from the Bay Area. Resident rockstar John ADAMS demonstrates his technical prowess in the riveting, large-ensemble work Son of Chamber Symphony. We experience a new work by Caroline SHAW commissioned by the Contemporary Music Players written for instrumental quartet and celebrated Bay Area sound artist and vocalist PAMELA Z. The inexpressible Amadeus REGUCERA thrills us with textual utterances and deep breaths and Los Angeles’ Andrew NORMAN takes us on a sonic journey visiting the interior light of the Basilica of Saint Sabina.”

Get more info at SFCMP.org

Amadeus joins the Guest Faculty of the 2020 Composers Conference

Amadeus will join the historic Composers Conference for the 2020 edition at Brandeis University as a guest faculty composer under the new Artistic Director Kurt Rohde. Amadeus, who attended the CC as a fellow in 2011, will be joined by composer Linda Catlin Smith and will lead group seminars, teach individual lessons, give lectures, and have their music performed by the Conference Ensemble, directed by James Baker (Talea Ensemble, NYC). The conference is a remarkable opportunity for composers and performers alike to learn and grow in a collaborative and inclusive environment, build relationships and professional friendships, and perform with or have your work performed by a dedicated and amazing collection of performers who specialize in the contemporary music. You can read more about the Composers Conference and apply for this unique HERE. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2020.

Third Sound releases Heard In Havana on Innova Records featuring Inexpressible v.2 among others

Ensemble Third Sound will release the long-awaited album Heard In Havana, a studio recording of the concert program from the inaugural American Composers Forum artist delegation to Havana, Cuba in 2016. The program features the piece Inexpressible v.2 performed by Sooyun Kim, Karen Kim, and Michael Nicolas (flute, violin, cello, respectively) and marks Amadeus’s first commercial recording appearance. The album also features work by composers Jennifer Higdon, Michael Harrison, Spencer Topel, Kati Agocs, Cindy Cox, Ingrid Arauco, Christopher Wendell Jones, Jeremy Gill, and Kai-Young Chan. Third Sound is Sooyun Kim, Romie de Guise-Langlois, Orion Weiss, Karen Kim, Michael Nicolas, and Patrick Castillo. Heard in Havana will be released on Innova Records on February 14, 2020. You can check out the album details at the Innova Records website HERE.

InterMusic SF Grant with Splinter Reeds

Composer Amadeus Regucera and new music woodwind quintet, Splinter Reeds were awarded a 2019 InterMusic SF Grant. The new collaborative multimedia project will explore the relationship between the individual and the collective both within the ensemble and between the musicians and the audience through performative intervention and invitation. You can read more about the project in the announcement here.

The project will see its premiere in the summer/fall of 2020 with help from Indexical, an arts organization in Santa Cruz, California.

intra.sonant premiered by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble

intra.sonant, an interactive hybrid between performance and participation, was premiered by members of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble at the Douglas Adams Gallery in Berkeley, California on April 26, 2019. Spearheaded by frequent collaborator, flutist, and Feldenkrais practitioner Stacey Pelinka, the project was the result of a ten-plus-year artistic relationship between Stacey and Amadeus. Feldenkrais can be thought of as a movement practice which centers on the awareness of oneself and one’s surroundings. The music of intra.sonant is interactive—it responds directly to movements and embodied gestures “performed” by the Feldenkrais practitioners/audience members during the guided 45-minute session and in turn, the practitioners act as “composers,” dictating the sonic texture of the piece and the room.

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble was ensemble-in-residence at the Douglas Adams Gallery during the spring of 2019.

UCBSO premieres Eternity Will Be Velocity

The University of California, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra premieres Eternity Will Be Velocity on Friday and Saturday, April 5-6, 2019 in Hertz Hall at the UC Berkeley Department of Music. You can find tickets at the orchestra’s website.

Eco Ensemble premieres RAW, co-commissioned by Cal Performances

David Milnes and the Eco Ensemble premieres the new piece RAW for piccolo, oboe, percussion, violin, and double bass on March 2, 2019 in Hertz Hall at the UC Berkeley Department of Music. The concert, sponsored by Cal Performances, will also feature works by incoming composition faculty composer, Carmine Cella, and UC Berkeley alumni Sivan Eldar and Matthew Schumaker. You can find tickets through Cal Performances.

Andy Meyerson (The Living Earth Show) premieres IMY/ILY

On December 7, 2018, percussionist Andy Meyerson of The Living Earth Show will premiere IMY/ILY (“I miss you, I love you”) in a workshop “proof of concept” show entitled “Humble Servant” at the Center for New Music in San Francisco, California. The program also features works by Adrian Knight, Sarah Hennies, and Christopher Cerrone. You can find details about that show here. Then, on January 8, 2019, Andy will take the program to New York City performing the program again at 1 Rivington in Lower Manhattan in a series curated by Cerrone and presented by the Metropolis Ensemble. You can find details about that show here.

Submission in Five Acts, an interdisciplinary collaboration with Indira Allegra, Sarah Cargill, & Melissa Panlisigui, and The trauma you pass along… with Stacey Pelinka at the SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco

Bay Area-based artist, flutist, and curator Sarah Cargill presents But Tell Me How It Feels: The Erotic Practice of Liberation in May 2018 at the SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco. The two-day interdisciplinary performance festival featured The trauma you keep safe is the pain you pass along with flutist Stacey Pelinka and a new project, a collaboration between artist Indira Allegra, Sarah Cargill, conductor/musician Melissa Panlisigui, and Amadeus Regucera entitled Submission in Five Acts.

Read more about Sarah’s work here and read interviews about the project, Submission…, with Open Space/SF MOMA here and with the New Life Quarterly here.

Read more about Indira Allegra here.

Torso of Air | Stapled Flesh is premiered by Ensemble Linea at Festival Musica

Commissioned by Festival Musica and Ensemble Linea, the large ensemble piece Torso of Air|Stapled Flesh is given its premiere on October 10, 2017 at the Auditorium de France 3 Alsace in Strasbourg, France. The commission award was the result of winning the honor of academie laureate at the 2015 edition of Philippe Manoury’s Composition Academy at Musica.

You can stream the program – which also features music by French composers Daniel D’Adamo and Philippe Hurel – at the France musique website here.

Alarm Will Sound premieres CRVD (“Carved”) at the Mizzou International Composers Festival

Renowned new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound, led by Alan Pierson, will premiere the new work CRVD for chamber orchestra on July 29, 2017 at the Missouri Theater in Columbia, MO as part of the 2017 Mizzou International Composer Festival. The piece is a reworking and expansion of an earlier work SKRWL and explores the musical implications of a single sonic gesture. The performance will be the result of two weeks of close work and rehearsals with the ensemble and festival faculty, Georg Friedrich Haas and Dan Visconti. More information about the schedule is available here.

Skin, stretched upon the frame and the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra tours Spain

The UCBSO will perform Skin, stretched upon the frame on their tour of Spain in May and June, 2017, performing at concert halls in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, and Granada.

World premiere of Skin, stretched upon the frame by the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra

The University of California, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, led by David Milnes, gives the World Premiere of the orchestra piece Skin, stretched upon the frame on March 16 & 17, 2017 in Hertz Hall at UCB’s Department of Music. You can find more information about the performances on the orchestra’s website.

Ensemble Intercontemporain reading of OPHELIA. Her heart is a clock in Berkeley

The Ensemble Intercontemporain, while in-residency at UC Berkeley, will give a reading of the ensemble piece OPHELIA. Her heart is a clock in Morrison Hall, Room 250 on November 5, 2016 The session is made possible by the UCB Department of Music and Cal Performances.

Voix Nouvelles residency at the Royaumont Foundation and the premiere of SAFE by EXAUDI

From August 21 - September 9, 2016, Amadeus will participate in the prestigious Voix Nouvelles program at the Royaumont Foundation in Asnières-sur-Oise, France. While there, he will develop a new work – SAFE – for vocal sextet written for the acclaimed EXAUDI vocal ensemble and participate in masterclasses with composers Pierluigi Billone and Raphäel Cendo.

Academie Manifeste in Paris – Ensemble Intercontemporain premieres SKRWL and a reading of surface|division by l’Orchestre philharmonique de France

From June 22 - July 2, 2016, Amadeus will participate in the Academie Manifeste in Paris, presented by IRCAM. He will develop a new work, SKRWL, for members of the Ensemble Intercontemporain under the guidance of composer Rebecca Saunders as well as have a reading of a new orchestral work – surface|division – by the Philharmonic Orchestra of France.

American Composers Forum Artist Delegation to Havana, Cuba

Amadeus has been chosen to be a member of the American Composers Forum music delegation to the Festival of Contemporary Music in Havana, Cuba from November 15 - 21, 2015. While there, the New York-based ensemble Third Sound will premiere a new version of Inexpressible v.2 for a trio of flute, violin, and cello under the direction of Patrick Castillo. You can learn more about the trip and the concert, which featured nine other American composers, here.

OPHELIA. Her Heart is a clock premieres at the 2015 Academie Musica in Strasbourg

From September 18 - October 3, 2015 Amadeus has been selected to participate in the Académie de Composition Philippe Manoury-MUSICA as part of the historic music festival MUSICA in Strasbourg, France. The Ensemble Linea, directed by Jean-Philippe Wurtz will premiere a new work for ten players title OPHELIA. Her heart is a clock. The academy’s final concert will be held on Saturday, October 3 at 11:30am in the Salle de la Bourse where a laureate will be announced. The academy laureate will receive a commission to write a piece of their choosing for a subsequent edition of Festival Musica.

Duo Cortona premieres If only after you then me at the 2015 Resonant Bodies Festival

Rachel Calloway and Ari Streisfeld (Duo Cortona) will give the world premiere of a new piece If only after you then me at the 2015 edition of New York City’s Resonant Bodies Festival, a new music event which showcases vocalists who specialize in the performance of new and cutting-edge work.

Experimental dance piece Schlachtfeld is workshopped and performed at the 2015 Hong Kong Modern Academy

In a new approach to movement art, performance art, and music composition, a new work for solo performer—Schlachtfeld—is created alongside choreographer Elysa Wendi as part of the Hong Kong Modern Academy in June-July 2015. The work will be performed by the composer at the Goethe Institut in Wan Chai, Hong Kong on July 14, 2015.