Recent Peter Flint Performances

Recent Events and Past Performances

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April 2006, NYC
- premiere of Fantastic Music for a Fabulous Time by Avian Music at the Tenri Cultural Institute
July 2006
- Goooooooooal!!! performed at the Stone by Avian Music
September 2006
- premiere of Microconcerto:Spontaneous Combustion; performed by Blair McMillen and Avian Music at the Tenri Cultural Institute
May 2005 and January 2006, New York City
- Ten Thirteenths, a short piece for tenor saxophone and piano was performed by Andrew Sterman and Mick Rossi at St. Peter's Chelsea and in Staten Island.
May 2005, Boston
- My string quartet, Dance Dance Dance, was given a scorching performance by the New England Conservatory Honors quartet, the Hudson Quartet. This piece actually won the honors composition contest at NEC four years before in 2001, but had never been performed there so this was a very satisfying homecoming!
Oct 2004, Brooklyn and Manhattan
- My opera scene, John Brown, was presented in concert form by both American Opera Projects with three singers and piano on two nights in early October, and by Avian Music with a small chamber ensemble and singers for two nights in late October.
May 25, 2004, New York City

American Opera Projects presented several of my songs as part of a concert of music from their ongoing workshop, Composers and the Voice, in which I have been taking part. The concert was at Symphony Space and was part of City Opera's larger Vox and Friends festival. For more information about American Opera Projects, visit www.operaprojects.org

March 2004, New York City

The Serafin String Quartet performed Dance Dance Dance on a concert at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall. The Serafin have been performing this piece for over a year and this was a landmark concert for them and the closest I'll get to Carnegia Hall for a while yet.
January 2004, New York City

Avian Music presented another in their series of themed concerts. This one, Play Ball, focused on sports-inspired music and featured the world premiere of my piece, Gooooooooooal!!!, along with new music by many other composers in the atmospheric setting of a 19th century gymnasium with panoramic views of the city.
November 2003, Boston, MA
Boston's acclaimed new music group, Dinosaur Annex, will be performing several movements of my piece, Migratory Routes, with choreography by Nicola Hawkins Dance Company. For more info, visit www.dinosaurannex.org.
July 2003 - Performance of Bait and Switch for two cellos

Performed by Douglas McNames and Alan Whear at the Carmel Bach Festival, California.

March 2003 - Performances of Dance Dance Dance by the Serafin String Quartet

The Mid-Atlantic based Serafin Quartet performed this string quartet twice in Camden, NJ and Wilmington, Delaware to enthusiastic audiences.

February 2003 - World premiere of Eroding The Helix for full orchestra

The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble premiered the overture, Eroding The Helix, in Brooklyn as part of their regular concert series with Petr Kotik conducting. Kyle Gann described the piece as "snazzy and slickly orchestrated" in the Village Voice.

February 2003 - World premieres and performances by The Avian Orchestra

NYC's Avian Orchestra premiered the new works, The International Lover and The Filthy Pleasure, a series of songs on love, lust, sex, and jealousy, as part of their Valentine's Day concert, Love Machines & Shameless Hussies. In addition to the premieres, the group also resurrected Flint's older works, Lust in Action and Jealousy #2, written in collaboration with Conrad Cummings. These concerts marked a watershed moment for Peter Flint as they coincided with the his premiere performance of his Eroding the Helix by of the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, thus being the first time in his career that he had two different premieres taking place at the same time in the same city. Visit

May/June 2002 - World premiere of Migratory Routes, for mixed sextet

Migratory Routes, which was inspired by the great annual circular bird migrations in the Western Hemisphere, was premiered in New York City at the HERE Arts Center on May 31 and June 1 by the Avian Orchestra.
The performance received an encouraging review in the New York Times by critic Paul Griffiths.

August 2001 - European premiere of Dance Dance Dance, for string quartet

Dance Dance Dance

March 2001 - Premiere of Dance Dance Dance, for string quartet

Dance Dance Dance, which won the New England Conservatory Honors String Quartet Composition Prize, was first performed in March 2001 in Delaware by the Delaware Symphony Orchesta String Quartet. It is scheduled to be performed in the 2001/2002 season in Boston's Jordan Hall by the NEC Honors String Quartet.

October 2000 - Premiere of Two Angles on a Calm Sea, for solo piano

Calm Sea

October 2000 - Macbeth at the Delaware Theatre Company

Macbeth

May 2000 - Premiere of The Dark Lady and Jealousy for baroque quartet, soprano, and baritone

Conrad Cummings

May 2000 - Premiere of All for None, for saxophone quartet

Peter Flint's first saxophone quartet was premiered at New England Conservatory of Music by the New England Conservatory Saxophone Quartet. Inspired by years spent listening to Tower of Power and other 1970's horn funk bands, this piece was part of an ongoing attempt to capture some of the tightness, precision, and soul in the music of those groups.

December 1999 - Premiere of Three Sonnet Songs, for soprano and piano

A mini song cycle, which includes the song How Oft..., as well as two other songs, Shall I Compare Thee... and Full Many A Glorious Morning..., using texts from Shakespeare's sonnets, was premiered in December 1999 at the New England Conservatory of Music. The songs were performed by soprano Jessica Cooper and pianist Melissa Marse, to an enthusiastic reception.

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