March 17, Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (8pm, free): Premiere of ...from the brazen lungs..., written for the Talujon Percussion Quartet. Part of New Music Brandeis.

April 26-28, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (TBA): Premiere of Ponder, a work to be performed around a body of water. Made possible in part by the Office of the Arts at Brandeis. Part of the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Arts.

April 29, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (TBA): Performance by The Gentlemen's' Very High Art Society of South Waltham (Travis, trumpet). Part of the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Arts.

May 5, Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (8pm, free): Performance of [whitespace] for trombone, piano, and percussion. Part of New Music Brandeis.

Spring 2012, Park Street Church, Boston, MA (TBA): Premiere of Rest for SATB choir a cappella, written for Thomas Brooks and the Park Street Choir. Performed by the Park Street Chamber Choir.

NEW RECORDING of the premiere of Rapscalian Tendencies, commissioned and performed by the Wild Rumpus New Music Collective at the ODC Theater in San Francisco, 12/10/11.

NEW RECORDING of Self, Analyzed. Winner of the joint ECCE/ L'Arsenale 2011 Call for Scores. Performance by members of both ensembles at the Fenway Center in Boston, 5/3/11.

NEW RECORDING! Chapel Music for trumpet, viola, and piano. Recorded at Fraser Studio, WGBH in Boston, MA 7/18/11, as part of a pilot for a new web series featuring emerging composers. Performance by Travis Alford (tpt), Tanya Kalmanovitch (vla), and Borey Shin (pno).

NY Times Review of Transitions, performance by members of the Second Instrumental Unit at Symphony Space, June 17, 2009. Read the review HERE.

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12/10/11, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA (8pm, $15/10): Premiere of Rapscalian Tendencies for flute(s), clarinet(s), piano, electric guitar, violin, and violoncello. Commissioned by the Wild Rumpus New Music Collective.

12/5/11, East Carolina University AJ Fletcher Recital Hall, Greenville, NC (8:30pm, free): Performance of Ping for two trumpets, as part of a graduate recital by Kipp Hodnett.

12/1/11, Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA (6:00pm): Performing solo improvisations as part of the 20th annual presentation of Medicine Wheel, a 24-hour art installation/ vigil by Michael Dowling commemorating the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic.

11/18/11, Park Street Church, Boston, MA (7pm, free): Musical Offerings Chamber Music Series. Performance of Honegger's Intrada with pianist Alexander Lane.

11/18/11, Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (3pm, free): Brandeis Music Department Friday Afternoon Concert. Performance of Honegger's Intrada with pianist Alexander Lane.

10/22/11, Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (8pm, free): Performance of Chapel Music by Travis, Peter Lane, and Christian Gentry. Also performing a new work by Sangwon Lee for trumpet and electronics, and an improv piece by Christian Gentry. Part of New Music Brandeis.

7/18/11, The Lily Pad, Cambridge, MA (TBA): Benefit concert for the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, curated by Tanya Kalmanovitch. Tanya, Travis, and others performing. Includes premiere of Travis's Chapel Music for trumpet, viola, and piano.

7/16/11, Worcester, MA (7:30pm): Northeast Italian Band concert.

6/26/11, Gloucester, MA (6pm): St. Alfio's Band concert.

6/23/11, Auditorium Sede Museale di Santa Caterina, Treviso, Italy: Performance of Self, Analyzed by members of L'Arsenale and the East Coast Contemporary Ensemble. Winner of the 2011 ECCE-L'Arsenale call for scores.

5/8/11, Gordon College, Wenham, MA (7pm, free): Gordon Composers Guild Spring Concert. Works by Gordon College student composers.

5/3/11, Fenway Center, Boston, MA (7:30pm, free): Performance of Self, Analyzed by members of L'Arsenale and the East Coast Contemporary Ensemble. Winner of the 2011 ECCE-L'Arsenale call for scores.

5/1/11, Cary Auditorium Memorial Hall, Lexington, MA (4pm, $20): Travis, Lauren, and others perform for Songs of Hope, a benefit concert for the Accelerated Cure Project for MS, directed by the fabulous Ann Assarsson-Krentz!

4/17/11, Park Street Church, Boston, MA (8:30am & 11am, free): Park Street Brass performs the "Gloria" from Milton Babbitt's Music for the Mass (arranged for brass) at the morning services.

4/1/11, Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (8pm, free): Premiere of [whitespace] for trombone, piano, and percussion. Commissioned for Benjamin Herrington's "Little/Big Project". Performance by Ben Herrington (tbn), Geoffrey Burleson (pno), and John Ferrari (perc).

3/5/11, Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (8pm, free): Premiere of Melange Mine Own [Whitman Fragments] for vocal sextet (SSATBB), performed by the New York Virtuoso Singers. Part of New Music Brandeis.

6/27/10, Gloucester, MA (6pm): St. Alfio's Band concert.

5/27/10, New York, NY: ASCAP Concert Music Awards. Recipient of a 2010 Morton Gould Young Composer Award (woohoo!).

5/8/10, Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (8pm, free): Premiere of Self, Analyzed for flute, bass clarinet, percussion, guitar, and toy piano. Part of New Music Brandeis.

3/23/10, St. John's Church, Jamaica Plain, MA (7:30pm, $10): COMPROVISED Music Series. An evening of indeterminate, indiscriminate, and improvised music.

7/19 - 8/2/09, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA: Composers Conference. 2009 Conference will include a performance of a new work by Travis, who has been selected as one of 10 Fellows for the summer.

6/26/09, Rutman's, Boston, MA (8pm, $10): COMPROVISED Music Series Concert. Featuring the music of Travis Alford, Jason Belcher, Ami Mills, Randy Pingrey, and more!

6/20/09, New England Conservatory (Brown Hall), Boston, MA (TBA): Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice Marathon Concert. Performance of You, Create a Diversion... for solo horn by Kristen Dirmeier.

6/17/09, Symphony Space (Thalia), New York, NY (7:30pm, $12): ACA 2009 Summer Music Festival. Opening night concert included the New York premiere of Transitions for flute, trumpet, and piano by members of Second Instrumental Unit.

6/2/09, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (4:30pm, Free): June in Buffalo. Performance of kakophonia for brass quintet by the Meridian Arts Ensemble.

5/27/09, The Center for Arts in Natick, Natick, MA (8pm): Travis performs with Test Pattern for the premiere of a new piece by Dan VanHassel. Also on the program is Travis's Change of Heart. Embryonic NOISE Concert Series.