The 2016 PROTOTYPE Festival presents the New York premiere of DOG DAYS.

The 2016 PROTOTYPE Festival presents the New York premiere of DOG DAYS.

The 2016 PROTOTYPE Festival presents the New York premiere of DOG DAYS.

Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik Leipzig [FZML] presents the EU premiere of Party Pieces, an evening-length work co-written by 125 composers according to a compositional model created by Cage in 1945. DTL fragment will presented alongside fragments from William Bolcom, Jason Eckardt, Annie Gosfield, Lei Liang, Keeril Makan and others. Underwritten by Pierre Boulez.

David T. Little curates and hosts and evening of vocal works, presented by the venerable New York Festival of Song.

Jeffrey Zeigler presents the world premiere cello version of “Two Songs from Artaud in the Black Lodge,” as part of his record release evening at National Sawdust, alongside music by Philip Glass, John Zorn, Paola Prestini, Gity Razaz, and Felipe Perez Santiago.

Conductor, Merijn van Driesten; Director, Klaus Hemmerle; Scenography, Tilo Steffens; Dramaturgy Daniel Westen

Conductor, Merijn van Driesten; Director, Klaus Hemmerle; Scenography, Tilo Steffens; Dramaturgy Daniel Westen

DTL is a featured composer on this year’s Apples & Olives Festival in Zurich, Switzerland.

The ever-vital eighth blackbird performs the world premiere of Ghostlight–a ritual for six players, commissioned for them for the Fortas Chamber Music Concerts at the Kennedy Center.

University Of Michigan Symphony Band performs East Coast Attitude

Conductor, Merijn van Driesten; Director, Klaus Hemmerle; Scenography, Tilo Steffens; Dramaturgy Daniel Westen

Capital City Symphony, Victoria Gau, conductor, performs Haunted Topography alongside Mahler’s Symphony No. 4.

Cristiano Fioravanti, director / Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin / Martin Schelhaas Theater, Schwerin, Germany

Cristiano Fioravanti, director / Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin / Martin Schelhaas Theater, Schwerin, Germany

eighth blackbird performs Ghostlight, a new work developed throughout the course of the ensemble’s residency at the MCA, and commissioned by the Kennedy Center. Show will also feature an expanded version of Bryce Dessner’s “Murder Ballads.”

eighth blackbird performs Ghostlight, a new work developed throughout the course of the ensemble’s residency at the MCA, and commissioned by the Kennedy Center. Show will also feature an expanded version of Bryce Dessner’s “Murder Ballads.”

Third Coast Percussion performs Haunt of Last Nightfall

eighth blackbird performs Ghostlight at Shenandoah Conservatory.

Conductor, Merijn van Driesten; Director, Klaus Hemmerle; Scenography, Tilo Steffens; Dramaturgy Daniel Westen

Cristiano Fioravanti, director / Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin / Martin Schelhaas Theater, Schwerin, Germany

Conductor, Merijn van Driesten; Director, Klaus Hemmerle; Scenography, Tilo Steffens; Dramaturgy Daniel Westen

Cristiano Fioravanti, director / Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin / Martin Schelhaas Theater, Schwerin, Germany

Mannes Opera students perform excerpts from Dog Days, archaeology, To A Stranger, and selections from Songs of Love, Death, Friends, and Government. Susan Woodruff Versage, Curator

Los Angeles Philharmonic presents Two Songs from Artaud In The Black Lodge.

Conductor, Merijn van Driesten; Director, Klaus Hemmerle; Scenography, Tilo Steffens; Dramaturgy Daniel Westen

Fort Worth Opera presents the world premiere of David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s new grand opera JFK; directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, conducted by Steven Osgood.

Sentieri selvaggi presents the Italian premiere of Shock Doctrine.

Fort Worth Opera presents the world premiere of David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s new grand opera JFK; directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, conducted by Steven Osgood.

Fort Worth Opera presents the world premiere of David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s new grand opera JFK; directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, conducted by Steven Osgood.

Third Coast Percussion performances the new wind arrangement of RADIANT CHiLD at Carthage College.

Cristiano Fioravanti, director / Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin / Martin Schelhaas Theater, Schwerin, Germany

Opera Philadelphia presents a scene from Dog Days, as part of its Double Exposure program.

American Modern Ensemble performs.

World premiere of a musical responses to Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, an iconic sacred work of the German Baroque consisting of seven cantatas. The Crossing will perform the new works in repertory with Buxtehude’s 17th-century work with two leading ensembles in their respective fields of performance: Robert Mealy’s Quicksilver Baroque and Claire Chase’s International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). This first night of performances will feature Buxtehude’s Cantatas 1-4 (feet, knees, hands, and side)and the responses of David T. Little, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Caroline Shaw, and Hans Thomalla.

Jeffrey Zeigler performs as part of the Rites of Summer Festival

The fellows of Banglewood 2016 perform sweet light crude as part of the summer marathon. Justine Aronson on the mic.

New York premiere of a musical responses to Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, an iconic sacred work of the German Baroque consisting of seven cantatas. The Crossing will perform the new works in repertory with Buxtehude’s 17th-century work with two leading ensembles in their respective fields of performance: Robert Mealy’s Quicksilver Baroque and Claire Chase’s International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). This first night of performances will feature Buxtehude’s Cantatas 1-4 (feet, knees, hands, and side) and the responses of David T. Little, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Caroline Shaw, and Hans Thomalla.

Jeffrey Zeigler and Ian Rosenbaum perform Two Songs from Artaud in the Black Lodge (cello version).

In advance of San Diego Opera’s performance of Soldier Songs, join Nicolas Reveles in an intimate discussion with the creator of the work, how it was developed, and about the unique style of Little’s music.

What Is Noise Ensemble performs “descanso (waiting)” on tour.

What Is Noise Ensemble performs “descanso (waiting)” on tour.

What Is Noise Ensemble performs “descanso (waiting)” on tour.

Faculty and Students at the University Michigan School of Music Theater and Dance perform a concert of chamber music by David T. Little, as part of his William Bolcom Residency. Works include:
Raw Power (2010) for sax quartet and kick drum
Red Scare Sketchbook (2005) for saxophone and percussion
Descanso (waiting) (2004) for quintet
and the sky was still there (2010) for solo violin and electronics
Spalding Gray (2009) for quintet

University of Michigan Contemporary Directions Ensemble performs selections from Dog Days, as part of Little’s William Bolcom Residency

Kenneth Kiesler leads the University Symphony Orchestra in a performance of CHARM, as part of Little’s William Bolcom Residency.

Featuring performance by Lauren Worsham, Marnie Breckenridge, Cherry Duke, James Bobick, Eileen Mack, and James Johnston, with appearances by Royce Vavrek, David T. Little and more.

Michael Haithcock conducts the University of Michigan Symphony Band

Soldier Songs makes its west coast debut at San Diego Opera, in a production by GLMMR and starring David Adam Moore. Steven Schick conducts, in his company debut.