2024
December 7, 2024: Songs from December; Hannah Rice and Benjamin Beckman on a private salon concert, Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere)
November 15, 2024: [since feeling is first]; Open reading by HEX Ensemble for USC Composition Department Composer’s Forum, Ramo Hall, Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere)
November 3, 2024: towards the lonely tree [II, III, IV]; Chloe Owens and Benjamin Beckman on the USC Composition Department Fall Showcase, Ramo Hall, Los Angeles, CA
September 20, 2024: Contrails: Ben Smollen [fl], Maia Jasper White [vln], Meredith Crawford [vla], Charles Tyler [vcl], Virtual Happy Hour presented by Salastina (Virtual Premiere)
July 26, 2024: Hartley Songs; Lena Goldstein and Benjamin Beckman for Park City Opera at the Meyer Gallery, Park City, UT
July 25, 2024: Hartley Songs; towards the tree [IV]; Lena Goldstein and Benjamin Beckman for Park City Opera at Temple Har Shalom, Park City, UT
July 23, 2024: Hartley Songs; Lena Goldstein and Benjamin Beckman for Park City Opera at the Park City Library, Park City, UT
June 21, 2024: towards the lonely tree; Lisl Wangermann [I], Lena Goldstein [IV] and Benjamin Beckman (pf) for Park City Opera at Our Lady of the Snows Center, Alta, UT
June 20, 2024: towards the lonely tree; Lisl Wangermann [I], Lena Goldstein [IV] and Benjamin Beckman (pf) for Park City Opera at the Park City Senior Center, Park City, UT
June 19, 2024: towards the lonely tree; Lisl Wangermann [I], Lena Goldstein [IV] and Benjamin Beckman (pf) for Park City Opera at the Trove Gallery, Park City, UT
March 21, 2024: Two Voluntaries; Daryl Robinson (organ) on the 2024 Philadelphia Organ Festival, Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, PA (World Premiere)
March 2, 2024: Dance Forms; Francis Fedora [III and IV] (World Premiere, Partial); towards the lonely tree; Lena Goldstein and Addy Geenen (sop) and Taylor Chan (pf) on the Hot Air Music Festival, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, CA (World Premiere)
2023
December 10, 2023: dream logic; New York Youth Symphony Jazz led by Michael Thomas, Birdland Jazz Club, New York, NY (World Premiere)
May 20, 2023: Hartley Songs (piano version); Lena Goldstein (soprano) and Benjamin Beckman (piano) at the Yale School of Music, New Haven, CT
May 1, 2023: The Ghost’s Aria from Passage; Lena Goldstein (soprano) and Benjamin Beckman (piano) on the Shen Curriculum Concert of New Musical Theater, Off-Broadway Theater, Yale University, New Haven, CT
April 20, 22, and 23, 2023: Passage; presented by the Opera Theater of Yale College, Saybrook Underbrook, Yale University, New Haven, CT (World Premiere)
April 1, 2023: in another place, in another time; the Yale Symphony Orchestra, led by William Boughton, Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT (World Premiere)
March 28th, 2023: Fanfare for Hope; Javier Salinas on his Trumpet Doctoral Chamber Recital, Butler School of Music, Austin, TX
February 17th, 2023: VOYAGE (complete) in live performance, performed by Roshan Nayar (saxophone) and ensemble at the Frost School of Music, Miami, FL (World Premiere)
February 14, 2023: Hartley Songs (piano version); Lena Goldstein (soprano) and Benjamin Beckman (piano) at the Yale Saybrook College Mellon Forum, New Haven, CT (World Premiere)
February 2, 2023: Hartley Songs (orchestral version); Lena Goldstein (soprano) and the Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (World Premiere)
2022
December 2, 2022: Selections from VOYAGE (Departure, Harrower, Zenith) performed by Roshan Nayar (saxophone) and ensemble at WDNA Miami Studios (also radio broadcast)
July 14, 2022: from below to above (מלמטה למעלה); Melissa Frisch (clarinet), Chloe Yang (violin), Isabelle Nichols (cello), and Bella Berman (piano) at the Zodiac Music Festival, Valdeblore, France (World Premiere)
July 13, 2022: Dance Forms; Isabelle Nichols [I] and Nathaniel White [III] (World Premiere, Partial); wandering, remembering, run…; Nadira Novruzov (fl) and Benjamin Beckman (pf) at the Zodiac Music Festival, Valdeblore, France (World Premiere)
April 23, 2022: Synchronicities; Max Hammond and the Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra, led by Benjamin Beckman; Saybrook Underbrook, Yale University, New Haven, CT (World Premiere)
April 17, 2022: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer; Nikhil Harle (tenor) and Benjamin Beckman (piano) on Nikhil Harle’s Junior Recital, Pierson College, Yale University, New Haven, CT
April 19, 2022: Chaparral Music I; Max Hammond (pf) at the Saybrook Underbrook, Yale University, New Haven, CT (World Premiere)
April 9, 2022: thoughts before drowning; Lena Goldstein (soprano) and Ben Beckman (piano) on Lena Goldstein’s Junior Recital, Yale University, New Haven, CT (Live Premiere)
March 31, April 1, April 2, 2022: Incidental Music for No Exit; Yale College Arts production of No Exit directed by Claire Donnellan, Morse-Styles Crescent Theater, Yale University, New Haven, CT (World Premiere)
March 28, 2022: in another place, in another time; (open reading) the Yale Symphony Orchestra conducted by William Boughton
March 5, 2022: Exaltations; Epongue Ekille [violin] and Benjamin Beckman [piano] on the Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra’s Student Composers Concert, Silliman College, Yale University, New Haven, CT (World Premiere)
February 26, 2022: Lamentations; the Yale Cantata Project at Dwight Hall Chapel, Yale University, New Haven, CT (World Premiere)
2021
November 18, 2021: in merciful shadow (בצל רחום); Jacob Miller (viola) and Gregory Llewellyn (cello) at the Morse-Styles Crescent Theater in New Haven, CT (World Premiere)
August 13, 2021: Roundabout; Parker Nelson on the 53rd International Horn Symposium (Digital Premiere)
July 2, 2021: arborealisms; The Mammoth Trio (Elly Toyoda [violin], Ashley Bathgate [cello], and Lisa Moore [piano]) on the Yale Norfolk Summer Music Festival’s virtual New Music Workshop concert (Digital Premiere)
June 20, 2021: light pours through the quiet interstices and we measure this transient world; Boston New Music Initiative at 960 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, MA
June 14, 2021: Untitled Art [I and III]; Eric Aaron (piano) virtually on the 2021 fresh inc. festival’s virtual salon concert
May 23, 2021: The Basement Among the Stars; The Opera Theatre of Yale College; Jacqueline Kaskel (Henrietta Swan Leavitt), Lena Goldstein (Annie Jump Cannon), Lucy Ellis (Willimina Fleming), Peter Sykes (piano) (Digital Premiere)
May 15, 2021: four lightscapes; Mia Rolland-Bezem on the Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra’s virtual spring concert (Digital Premiere)
April 2, 2021: Untitled Art [I and III]; Eric Aaron (piano) virtually for University of Maryland recital
March 1, 2021: Fanfare for Hope; University of Kentucky Faculty Brass Quintet, United Methodist Church, Lexington, KY
2020
December 6, 2020: petalwing; Supriya Weiss on the Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra’s virtual fall concert (Digital Premiere)
November 15, 2020: thoughts before drowning; Jennifer Lindsay (soprano) and Stephen Karr (piano) on the Long Beach Opera’s 2020 Songbook (Virtual Premiere)
June 20, 2020: for three corners; Emmy Rozanski (trombone), Alex Goodin (bass), and Remi Ha (piano) on the 2020 virtual fresh inc. festival (Digital Premiere)
June 12, 2020: Untitled Art; Benjamin Beckman (piano) virtually on the 2020 fresh inc. festival’s virtual salon concert (Digital Premiere)
March 3, 2020: Exaltations; (reading) Music at the Copland House (Curt Macomber [violin] and Michael Borskin [piano])
February 12, 2020: The Life of Man’s a Play; LUCERIS Vocal Ensemble (Emma Simmons [alto], Harry Castle [tenor], Joel Thompson [bass]) at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT (World Premiere)
2019
November 21, 2019: Fanfare for Hope; Lux Brass at Cross Campus, Yale University, New Haven, CT
November 6, 2019: with violets in her lap; Matthew Woodard (violin), Russell Fisher (steel pan) at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT (World Premiere)
August 10, 2019: Occidentalis; NYO-USA conducted by Antonio Pappano at the Royal Concertgebouw, Amsterdamn, NL
August 6, 2019: Occidentalis; NYO-USA conducted by Antonio Pappano at the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK (European Premiere)
August 1, 2019: Occidentalis; NYO-USA conducted by Antonio Pappano at Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, Lenox, MA (World Premiere)
July 26, 2019: The Basement Among the Stars; Opera Elect at the Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy, Boise, ID; Jordan Bowman (Henrietta Swan Leavitt), Edith Grace Dull (Annie Jump Cannon), Madeleine Bowman (Williamina Fleming), Chad Spears (piano) (World Premiere)
June 23, 2019 (reading): colored lines, gray lines; Peter Davies (oboe), Scott Sanders (horn), Miranda Lucas (viola), Roric Cunningham (cello), Ashley Kim (piano) at The Performing Arts Center, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY
June 1, 2019: freeway observations; The Thorton Edge conducted by Donald Crockett at the REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere)
May 28, 2019: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer; Benjamin Beckman (baritone) and Sara Shakliyan (piano) at Rugby Theater, Los Angeles, CA
May 19, 2019: Skyline/Skyscape; Harvard-Westlake Upper School Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mark Hilt at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere)
May 11, 2019: the creatures, oblivious below; (reading) the American Youth Symphony conducted by Paulo Bortolameolli
May 5, 2019: Three Views; Alyssa Park (violin), Luke Maurer (viola), Timothy Loo (cello), Vicki Ray (piano) at First Lutheran Church of Venice, Los Angeles, CA
April 26, 2019: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer; Mack Rodgers (baritone) and Mac Merchant (piano) at Grusin Hall, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO (World Premiere)
April 7, 2019: Three Views; Takumi Taguchi (violin), Jacqueline Liu (viola), Sarah Kave (cello), Benjamin Beckman (piano) at the Breman Jewish Museum, Atlanta, GA
February 22, 2019: Suite from A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Sarah Moon (flute), Clara Ross (violin), Megan Chang (viola), Chase van Amburg (percussion), Benjamin Beckman (piano) at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere)
February 8, 9, and 10, 2019: Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Sarah Moon (flute), Clara Ross (violin), Megan Chang (viola), Chase van Amburg (percussion), Benjamin Beckman (piano) for Harvard-Westlake School production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rugby Theater, Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere)
January 12, 2019: light pours through the quiet interstices and we measure this transient world; Lyris Quartet at Choral Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere)
2018
December 15, 2018: Plato and Aristotle; Benjamin Beckman (horn) at Ahmanson Theater, Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere)
December 1, 2018: Always, the Light Falls Softly; Harvard-Westlake Chamber Singers conducted by Zanaida Robles, Benjamin Beckman and Peter Sykes (percussion), Sara Shakliyan (piano) at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere)
October 7, 2018: to have flown; Lauren Senden (soprano) and Ben Marti (piano) at Our Lady of Good Counsel Chapel, Mankato, MN (World Premiere)
August 7, 2018: and the wind, and the waves…; Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra conducted by Ken-David Masur at the Koussevitsky Music Shed, Tanglewood, Lenox, MA (World Premiere)
August 5, 2018: Electric August; Audrey Emata (flute), Cameron Slaton (oboe), Hector Noriega (clarinet), Eden Stargardt (horn), Asha Kline (bassoon), James Adams (percussion) at West Street Theater, Lenox, MA (World Premiere)
July 29, 2018: Fanfare for Hope; Triton Brass at Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, Lenox, MA (World Premiere)
June 2, 2018: everywhere, the impossible is happening; Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra at BP Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere)
June 2, 2018: Roman Love Songs [II]; performed by Karen Wemhoener (soprano) and Jared Schwartz (piano) at Canyon Creek Presbyterian Church, Richardson, TX
May 21, 2018: in perpetuum; Alex Davila and Charles Connon (tenor), Peter Sykes (baritone), and Benjamin Beckman (bass) at Rugby Theater, Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere)
March 31, 2018: ascendance, descandance; Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Ruth Reinhardt at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA
March 27, 2018: warm, night, wind music; Khoi Dinh (fl), Madeleine Hammer (euph), Benjamin Beckman (pf/synth, tape) at Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere)
March 25, 2018: night music; Benjamin Beckman (horn) on the YoungArts Los Angeles Masterclass Series, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere)
March 24, 2018: ascendance, descandance; Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Ruth Reinhardt at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere)
February 22, 2018: Three Views; Clara Ross (violin), Allison Hong (viola), Madeleine Kim (cello), Benjamin Beckman (piano) at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Los Angeles, CA
February 20, 2018: Three Views; Paige Towsey (violin), Abba Hason (viola), Kyle Stachnick (cello), Chen-Hui Jen (piano) at Clark Recital Hall, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2017
May 22, 2017: Three Views; Mann-Wen Lo (violin), Linnea Powell (viola), Nicholas Mariscal (cello), Thomas Kotcheff (piano) at Choral Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere)
2016
August 6, 2016: Two Dances; Adair Kelley (ob), Benjamin Beckman (pf) at Dendrinos Chapel, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI (World Premiere)
July 29, 2016: Prayer; Symphony Koss and Mitchell Cloutier (violins), James Marshall (viola), Hagen Bell (cello) at the Shed, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI (World Premiere)
July 15, 2016: Roman Love Songs; Karen Wemhoener (soprano), Benjamin Beckman (piano) at the Shed, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI (World Premiere)
February 19, 2016: Clockwork; Sarah Moon and Tierni Kaufman (flutes), Jenna Wong (oboe), Jenny Yoon and Joanna Im (clarinets), Kevin Im (tuba), Benjamin Beckman (piano) at the Saperstein Theater, Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere)