john ritz | composer

5/10: The Experimental Music Ensemble will perform on Thursday, May 6 at the Louisville Beer Store on Market Street in Louisville.

4/10: The Experimental Music Ensemble will perform a collaborative concert with the Moving Collective modern dance troupe on Friday, April 16 at the University of Louisville. I will conduct an improvisation, as well as perform on cello, guitar and laptop.

4/10: The Experimental Music Ensemble will perform a collaborative promo show with the Moving Collective modern dance troupe on Tuesday, April 13 at ear X-tacy on Bardstown Road in Louisville. I will conduct an improvisation, as well as perform on cello, guitar and laptop.

4/10: carry stress in the jaw, for bass flute and live electronics will be premiered by Lisa Bost on Thursday, April 1 at the University of Louisville.

4/10: Strained Jaws, a collective improvisation with Krzysztof Wolek, Ryan Ingebritsen and Lisa Bost, will be performed on Thursday, April 1 at the University of Louisville. I will be playing live laptop electronics.

12/09 Nine Secrets, recorded by Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne has been released on the compact disc Forum 2008 on ATMA Classique.

11/09: 4WayStop, a collective improvisation with Krzysztof Wolek, Allison Ogden and Jaroslaw Mamczarski, will be performed on Tuesday, November 10 during the University of Louisville New Music Festival. I will be playing cello and live laptop electronics.

4/09: Slowly Growing Deaf, for electric guitars and live electronics will be premiered during a concert by The Moving Nows, on Monday, April 6 at the University of Louisville. I will also perform live laptop electronics on several pieces and improvisations during the concert.

4/09: I will give an invited lecture to the Composition Seminar at the University of Louisville on Wednesday, April 1. The topic of my presentation will be "The emergence of form through micro-time sonic design in the works of Xenakis and Di Scipio."

11/08: i need 5 minutes alone, for flute, saxophone, guitar, piano and live electronics will be premiered by Ensemble ULIE during the annual University of Louisville New Music Festival on November 10.

11/08: In the Very Eye of Night, for electroacoustic music will be performed at the University of Iowa on November 1. The Electronic Music Studios concert is in conjunction with the SEAMUS Electroacoustic Music Month.

8/08: In the Very Eye of Night, for electroacoustic music will be performed at the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) on August 1 in Berlin, Germany.

4/08: thought-forms, for piano and live electronics will be performed by Pei-I Wang on April 2 at the University of Louisville.

3/08: Nine Secrets, for chamber orchestra and adaptive digital signal processing will be premiered by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, conducted by Lorraine Vaillancourt, on March 16 during the Biennale Musique en Scène in Lyon, France. Technology support will be provided by GRAME, the Centre National de Création Musicale.

3/08: I will participate in several composer forums and give an invited lecture at the University of Lyon, March 4, 6, 11, 13.

2/08: In the Very Eye of Night, for electroacoustic music will be performed on February 20 at the University of Louisville.

2/08: Dark River, for 5-string violin and live digital signal processing will be performed by violinist Yao-Tsu Lu on February 7 at the University of Illinois.

2/08: I will give an invited lecture to the Composers Forum at the University of Illinois on February 7. The topic of my presentation will be approaches to creating live interactions in sound.

1/08: The 21st Century Piano Commission Concert will be on January 17 in the Great Hall at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Several of my pieces will be performed on the concert, including The Last Wave for alto trombone and piano, Cesàro Summability for electroacoustic music, Carne Cruda Squarciata dal Suono di Sassofono for alto saxophone, piano and percussion, a well-devised trap for string quartet and live electronics, In the Very Eye of Night for electroacoustic music, and the premiere of the commissioned piece, thought-forms for piano and live electronics.

12/07: The commission from Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne is finished. Nine Secrets, for chamber orchestra and adaptive digital signal processing, will be premiered by Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne at the International Forum 2008 on March 16 in Lyon, France.

11/07: The 21st Century Piano Commission is finished. thought-forms, for piano and live electronics, will be premiered by Pei-I Wang at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on January 17 in Urbana, IL.

09/07: Dark River, commissioned by Chia-Ying Hsu for 5-string violin and live digital signal processing, was premiered by Ms. Hsu at the 28th Annual San Diego New Music and Arts Festival.

06/07: Commission from Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne for 15 players and live electronics. The new piece will be premiered in Lyon, France in March 2008.

05/07: Declared winner of the Ninth Annual 21st Century Piano Commission Competition with pianist Pei-I Wang. The new piece will be premiered in January 2008.

03/07: a well-devised trap for string quartet and adaptive digital signal processing will be performed at the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) National Conference on March 10 at Iowa State University.