Calendar: Concerts

New adaptation of film score to Dear Leo (dir. Emma Rappold, 2018) to premiere at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as part of the Capital Orchestra Festival in Washington, DC. The HB Plant High School Orchestra (cond. Steven Bossert) commissioned me to make this adaptation of my film score for string…

Join UCLA composers as they host chamber ensemble Bridge to Everywhere in the Mancini Studio, Schoenberg Music Building B648. Led by UCLA alumni Kim Tran and Derrick Skye, the ensemble will present their own work, then workshop three brand-new compositions by Ph.D. composers Austin Ali, Carlos Durán and Qiren Lu. Following the performance, the group will engage…

All-stars Thacher Schreiber (oboe) and Sydney Wang (piano) take the stage at UCLA’s Ostin Ensemble Room (the very same venue I hosted my Master’s Recital) for the WORLD PREMIERE of Enceladus, the Bright – Oboe Version. The piece, originally commissioned and premiered by Benjamin Bradburn (soprano saxophone) has found new life with a brand-new version for…

UCLA Music Department and the Division of Composition present Quatuor Diotima The Diotima Quartet Yun-Peng Zhao, Léo Marillier, violins Franck Chevalier, viola Alexis Descharmes, violoncello in a Concert of Works by UCLA Composition Students Sunday, 20 October, 2024, 2:00 pm Ostin Ensemble Room __ Austin Ali (b. 1997) String Quartet No. 1: Chiaroscuro (2022) III.…

Come join Los Angeles’s chamber music jewel, Salastina, for a night of world premieres of composers under 30 from around the globe. The livestream will be available at : https://www.salastina.org/concerts/happy-hour-no-124-sounds-promising-part-1 __ Program Note: Groove, Meditation, and Fugue is a piece I always wanted to write—a chamber composition that genuinely fuses my interdisciplinary musical background as…