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NEWS & EVENTS
Our Options Have Changed [2022]
Read about HOCKET's #What2020SoundsLike here

Murmurations
 featured on Brightwork newmusic's Lost and Found, Again concert series

​Pareidolia premiered on the 2019 Barcelona Obertura Spring Festival by Ensemble Funktion

Here Come the Waterworks has won the 2018 Earplay Donald Aird Composers Competition 

Jonah Sirota releases Strong Sad, featuring Here Come the Waterworks, on National Sawdust Tracks

Julia Heinen premieres Murmurations at the 2018 European Clarinet Festival in Györ, Hungary

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Listen to excerpts of recent premieres of Air, Ear, Ire, Hour, Aura and Doppelgänger
PAST PERFORMANCES

Friday, February 28, 2020 • 7:30pm
Ventilator
~Nois​
University of California, Santa Barbara

Wednesday, February 26, 2020 • 7:30pm

Ventilator
~Nois​
Cypress Recital Hall, California State University, Northridge

Tuesday, June 25, 2019 • 8pm
Murmurations
Brightwork newmusic
Tuesdays @ Monkspace
Los Angeles, CA


Monday, April 8, 2019 • 7:30pm
Here Come the Waterworks
Earplay

Taube Atrium Theater
San Francisco, CA


Sunday, March 10, 2019 • 7:30pm
Murmurations
Brightwork newmusic
Cypress Recital Hall, California State University, Northridge


March 10 & 12, 2019
Pareidolia [world premiere]
Ensemble Funktion
Barcelona Obertura 2019 Spring Festival


Tuesday, March 5, 2019 • 3:30pm
Murmurations
Brightwork newmusic
Marvin Laser Recital Hall
California State University, Dominguez Hills


Sunday, March 3, 2019 • 3:30pm
Murmurations
Brightwork newmusic
Sound and Fury Concerts
Church of Truth, Pasadena, CA


Wednesday, February 27, 2019 • 7:30pm
Doppelgänger
HOCKET piano duo
Cypress Recital Hall, California State University, Northridge

Sunday, February 24, 2019 • 7:00pm
Murmurations
Brightwork newmusic
Drinkward Recital Hall, Shanahan Center
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA

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January 24, 2019
Air, Ear, Ire, Hour, Aura
Lorenz Gamma, violin; Erika Kirkpatrick, cello; Dmitry Rachmanov, piano
ChamberFest @ CSUN
California State University, Northridge
Northridge, CA

August 29, 2018
Murmurations [world premiere]
Julia Heinen, clarinet; Luca Ferrini, piano
ECA 8th European Clarinet Festival
Festival Hall
Györ, Hungary

July 26, 2018
Reflections on Beati Quorum Via
Christina Jennings, flute; Rodney Lister, piano
Greenwood Music Camp
Cummington, MA

June 26, 2018
Here Come the Waterworks
Jonah Sirota, viola; Molly Morkoski, piano
National Sawdust
New York, NY

June 12, 2018
Here Come the Waterworks
Jonah Sirota, viola; Kathryn Eames, piano
Art Share L.A.
Los Angeles, CA

June 11, 2018
Here Come the Waterworks
Jonah Sirota, viola; Kurt Knecht, keyboard
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Kansas City, MO

June 10, 2018
Here Come the Waterworks
Jonah Sirota, viola; Kurt Knecht, keyboard
The Bay
Lincoln, NE


April 26, 2018
Thank You for Waiting
UCLA Philharmonia; Neal Stulberg, conductor
2018 Hear Now Festival
Schoenberg Hall
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

April 25, 2018
Air, Ear, Ire, Hour, Aura [world premiere]
The Light Matter Trio (Clara Kim, violin; Joann Whang, cello; Karl Larson, piano)​
California State University, Northridge
Northridge, CA


February 26, 2018
Doppelgänger
HOCKET Piano Duo (Thomas Kotcheff & Sarah Gibson, pianos)
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA

December 9, 2017
Ventilator [world premiere]
Project Fusion
Church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square
Philadelphia, PA

May 23, 2017
Doppelgänger [world premiere]
HOCKET Piano Duo
Zipper Hall, Colburn Conservatory
Los Angeles, CA


April 17, 2017
Here Come the Waterworks [world premiere]
Jonah Sirota, viola
California State University, Northridge

Northridge, CA

March 12, 2017
Stop is the new Go
Project Fusion
California State University, Northridge

Northridge, CA

May 3, 2016
Rusticity
Michael Gratovich, Ines Thomé, Stephen Krishnan, & Spencer Artwick, guitars

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA


March 13, 2016
Rusticity
Michael Gratovich, Ines Thomé, Stephen Krishnan, & Spencer Artwick, guitars

California State University, Northridge
Northridge, CA

September 12, 2015
This Is What Really Happened No. 2

Lorenz Gamma, viola
Valley Performing Arts Center
Northridge, CA

March 15, 2015
worst of all is to begin

Thomas Kotcheff, piano
California State University, Northridge

Northridge, CA

November 21, 2014
Motormouth
American Composers Orchestra

Carnegie Hall
New York, NY

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  • Home
  • About A.J.
  • News & Events
  • Music
    • Orchestral >
      • Motormouth
      • Thank You for Waiting
      • Notes from the Underdog
      • A Long Hard Look at a Good Swift Kick
      • Between homage and homily
    • Chamber & Solo >
      • Our Options Have Changed
      • Please Scream Inside Your Heart
      • Pareidolia
      • Air, Ear, Ire, Hour, Aura
      • Ventilator
      • Murmurations
      • Doppelgänger
      • Here Come the Waterworks
      • This Is What Really Happened
      • Rusticity
      • Stop is the new Go
      • Better Living through Repetition
      • I used to be____________, but now I'm _______________
      • worst of all is to begin
    • Choral & Vocal >
      • The Butcher Boy
    • Pop Music >
      • Planes Intersect
      • Please Leave a Light on When You Go
    • Theater & Film
  • Teaching & Outreach