Travis Alford

NEW AUDIO AVAILABLE: Closer for solo tape and Blown (Gamepiece) for any number of bottle blowers.

14 May, Boston University CFA, Boston, MA (6:30pm): Horn recital by Laura Carter. To include You, Create a Diversion....

17 May, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (8pm): Commencement Concert. To include Transitions for flute/alto flute, trumpet, and piano.

18 May, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (3pm): Commencement. Receiving the M.M. in Music Composition (woohoo!).

16-21 June, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA: Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (Sick Puppy).

FALL 2008: Beginning the PhD program in Composition at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.

2008

7 May, Fletcher Recital Hall, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (8pm): Horn recital by Laura Carter. Including You, Create a Diversion... for solo horn, commissioned by and written for Laura.

29 April, Brown Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (7:30pm): Tuesday Night New Music. Premiere of Six Short Pieces for Two Pianos, a collaborative work by Travis and Steve Kukla. Travis and Steve performing.

9 April, Keller Room, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (9pm): Travis performs with The Forge. New works, projects, and improvisations by ensemble members. Premiere of Blown (Gamepiece) for any number of bottle blowers.

8 April, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (8pm): Graduating Composers Concert. Premiere of Quartet (a setting of the American Bill of Rights) for Soprano, vln, vla, vcl.

5 March, Brown Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (6pm): ElectroNEC. Electroacoustic works by NEC composers. Premiere of Somewhat for trumpet and live electronics.

3 March, St. Botolph Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (8pm): The Music of Anthony Green and Travis Alford. Including the premiere of You, Create a Diversion... for solo horn, commissioned by and written for Laura Carter.

2007

9 December, Pozen Center, Mass College of Art, Boston, MA (7pm): "Exciting Concert(TM)". Works by NEC-affiliated composers, including Fo(u)r Winds.

4 December, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (7pm): Tuesday Night New Music concert. New works by NEC composers. Premiere of 8'00" (version for seven handbells).

20 November, Keller Room, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (9pm): Travis performs with The Forge. New works, projects, and improvisations by members. Premiere of Fo(u)r Winds. Part of NEC's Keller Series.

16 October, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (8pm): Tuesday Night New Music concert. Travis performing on the premiere of a new work by Anthony Green.

18-23 June, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA: Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice, or "Sick Puppy" to its following. Travis's Transitions workshopped/ performed. Stephen Drury, artistic director and Walter Zimmermann, composer-in-residence.

12 May, Hope Fellowship Church, Porter Square, Cambridge, MA (7pm): Reflections of Grace performed by Anthony Green (piano) and Bianca Garcia (flute) as part of Hope Fellowship's Third Annual Arts Festival.

2 May, The Lily Pad, Inman Square, Cambridge, MA (8pm): "The Forge" end-of-year concert, featuring original works, projects, improvisations, and performances by ensemble members. Including PREMIERE of Travis's improvisation piece Cage(D).