Upcoming Events
4.23.24 Guest Artist Recital
Baird Recital Hall, University at Buffalo / Buffalo, NY / 7:30pm
Performing new works for saxophone by composition students
4.24.24 Media Studies Concert
Black Box, University at Buffalo / Buffalo, NY / 7:30pm
performing Duo for tenor saxophone and computer by Cort Lippe
4.27.24 Guest Artist Recital
AlloSphere, UC Santa Barbara / Santa Barbara, CA
performing Ted Moores saccades for saxophone, video, and electronics
4.29.24 Guest Artist Recital/Masterclass
Cal State Fullerton / Fullerton, CA
with Kendra Wheeler
4.30.24 Guest Artist Recital/Masterclass
UCLA / Los Angeles, CA
with Kendra Wheeler
5.1.24 Guest Artist Recital/Masterclass
San Diego State University / San Diego, CA
with Kendra Wheeler
5.10.24 Cinémathèque
Pinhook / Durham, NC / 9pm
with ¡Tumbao!
5.18.24 Cinémathèque
Martin's Downtown / Roanoke, VA / 10pm - 1am
5.24-26.24 Joey Crane Portrait Concerts
Open Eye Theatre / Minneapolis, MN
Performing new works by Joey Crane, including Mauscheln, Learning the Trick and The Engastrimyth
5.31.24 Alma del Core
Community High School / Roanoke, VA / 6pm
Performing with Sheldon Johnson, saxophone
6.16-22.24 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
TBA / NYC
7.7-13.24 International Computer Music Conference
Hanyang University / Seoul, South Korea
7.27.24 Cinémathèque
Floyd Fest / Floyd, VA / 2:30pm
7.28.24 Cinémathèque
Floyd Fest / Floyd, VA / 3:45pm
8.1.24 National Flute Association Convention
Henry B. González Convention Center / San Antonio, TX
Strains Ensemble performs the world premiere of Virginia Triple Crown by Charles Nichols
8.16.24 Cinémathèque
Twisted Track / Roanoke, VA
8.17.24 Cinémathèque
Eastern Divide / Blacksburg, VA / 5pm - 8pm
8.24.24 Cinémathèque
Westwind Apartments / Roanoke, VA / 5pm - 7pm
8.30.24 Cinémathèque
Sweet Donkey Coffee / Roanoke, VA
10.2-4.24 New Music + Technology Festival
Cube, Moss Arts Center / Blacksburg, VA
10.8.24 Concerto Soloist with VT Philharmonic Orchestra
Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech / Blacksburg, VA / 7:30pm
10.26.24 Cinémathèque
Eastern Divide / Blacksburg, VA
11.7-9.24 College Music Society National Conference
Washington, D.C.
Workshop Free Play: Towards a Pedagogy of Improvisation
Baird Recital Hall, University at Buffalo / Buffalo, NY / 7:30pm
Performing new works for saxophone by composition students
4.24.24 Media Studies Concert
Black Box, University at Buffalo / Buffalo, NY / 7:30pm
performing Duo for tenor saxophone and computer by Cort Lippe
4.27.24 Guest Artist Recital
AlloSphere, UC Santa Barbara / Santa Barbara, CA
performing Ted Moores saccades for saxophone, video, and electronics
4.29.24 Guest Artist Recital/Masterclass
Cal State Fullerton / Fullerton, CA
with Kendra Wheeler
4.30.24 Guest Artist Recital/Masterclass
UCLA / Los Angeles, CA
with Kendra Wheeler
5.1.24 Guest Artist Recital/Masterclass
San Diego State University / San Diego, CA
with Kendra Wheeler
5.10.24 Cinémathèque
Pinhook / Durham, NC / 9pm
with ¡Tumbao!
5.18.24 Cinémathèque
Martin's Downtown / Roanoke, VA / 10pm - 1am
5.24-26.24 Joey Crane Portrait Concerts
Open Eye Theatre / Minneapolis, MN
Performing new works by Joey Crane, including Mauscheln, Learning the Trick and The Engastrimyth
5.31.24 Alma del Core
Community High School / Roanoke, VA / 6pm
Performing with Sheldon Johnson, saxophone
6.16-22.24 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
TBA / NYC
7.7-13.24 International Computer Music Conference
Hanyang University / Seoul, South Korea
7.27.24 Cinémathèque
Floyd Fest / Floyd, VA / 2:30pm
7.28.24 Cinémathèque
Floyd Fest / Floyd, VA / 3:45pm
8.1.24 National Flute Association Convention
Henry B. González Convention Center / San Antonio, TX
Strains Ensemble performs the world premiere of Virginia Triple Crown by Charles Nichols
8.16.24 Cinémathèque
Twisted Track / Roanoke, VA
8.17.24 Cinémathèque
Eastern Divide / Blacksburg, VA / 5pm - 8pm
8.24.24 Cinémathèque
Westwind Apartments / Roanoke, VA / 5pm - 7pm
8.30.24 Cinémathèque
Sweet Donkey Coffee / Roanoke, VA
10.2-4.24 New Music + Technology Festival
Cube, Moss Arts Center / Blacksburg, VA
10.8.24 Concerto Soloist with VT Philharmonic Orchestra
Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech / Blacksburg, VA / 7:30pm
10.26.24 Cinémathèque
Eastern Divide / Blacksburg, VA
11.7-9.24 College Music Society National Conference
Washington, D.C.
Workshop Free Play: Towards a Pedagogy of Improvisation
Recent Events
4.15-17.24 Guest Artist Residency
Arizona State University / Tempe, AZ
Teach saxophone masterclass, composition seminar, workshops with student composers, and perform premieres of new student works with Fonema Consort
4.9-13.24 VT New Music + Technology Festival
Cube, Moss Arts Center / Blacksburg, VA
performing Leah Reid's Jouer on the SEAMUS @40 Constellation Event
4.6.24 CUSP
Convivium 33 Gallery / Cleveland, OH / 8PM / $15
featuring Binary Canary
3.16.24 VT Woodwind Day
Virginia Tech / Blacksburg, VA
3.13-14.24 The Golden Ass
University at Buffalo / Buffalo, NY / 7:30pm
Two performances of The Golden Ass a chamber opera in one act, by Tiffany M. Skidmore
3.2.24 Cinémathèque ***cancelled***
Sipe Center / Bridgewater, VA
3.1.24 VT Jazz Ensemble
VT CID-LLC / Blacksburg, VA / 7:30pm
featuring Drew Zaremba
2.27.24 SMILES Concert
Blacksburg, VA
with VT Jazz Ensemble
2.24.24 Shockingly Modern Saxophone Festival
Augustana College / Rock Island, IL
Guest lecture, Q&A, Masterclass, and Recital featuring music by Tiffany M. Skidmore; Elizabeth A. Baker, Margaret Schedel, and me!
2.17-18.24 Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention
Hilton Washington Dulles Airport / Herndon, VA
Recital with Elizabeth Lantz, flute, and Shannon Wettstein, piano, including works by Charles Nichols, Stacy Garrop, and Kent Holliday
2.15.24 SMILES Concert
Christiansburg Middle School / Christiansburg, VA / 9:15am
with Shannon Wettstein, piano
2.2.24 Art Rat
Art Rat Studios / Roanoke, VA / 8pm
trio set with Ben Hudson (electric guitar), Jamiel Allen (keys/synths), and Sam Lunsford (drumset)
1.29.24 Guest Artist Recital/Masterclass
University of Northern Iowa / Cedar Falls, IA
1.27-28.24 113 presents
Studio Z / St Paul, MN
New music for video and chamber ensemble by Kelley Sheehan, Bethany Younge, Tiffany M. Skidmore, Anna Louise Walton, Caroline Louise Miller, and Max A. Friedman. Improv Party featuring graphic scores by Todd Harper and Valsamara Ionanna.
1.25-26.24 MNmade Festival
St Cloud State University / St Cloud, MN
Workshop with students. Lecture It Will Take Two Ladders: 113 Composers Collective in convocation. Portrait concert of Alvin Lucier with faculty and students (conduct Chamber Choir on Six Geometries). Concert of music by, of, and for 113 (Crane Mauscheln with Tiffany M. Skidmore; Hutchins are we all lost like you?; Duffy Aliasing (Heterodyne)).
1.19.24 Virginia Tech Honor Band-A-Rama
Fife Concert Hall, Moss Arts Center / Blacksburg, VA / 7:30pm
Performing John Williams Escapades
1.16.24 Guest Artist Recital
Radford University / Radford, VA / 7:30pm
Performing with Ann Bradfield
1.16.24 Convocation Recital
Recital Salon, Virginia Tech / Blacksburg, VA / 2pm
Performing with Ann Bradfield
1.14.24 Guest Artist Recital and Masterclass
University of North Carolina Greensboro / Greensboro, NC
Performing with Ann Bradfield
1.12-13.24 US Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium
George Mason University / Fairfax, VA
Lecture with Tiffany M. Skidmore on the William Blake cycle: unseen, unbodièd, unknown, and recital of select works from the cycle (Tharmas the father, Enion the mother and Vala/Luvah) with Sheldon Johnson and Jeffrey Siegfried
1.11.24 New Mexico Music Educators Association
University of New Mexico / Albuquerque, NM
Presenting clinic Growing Up Your Saxophones from Middle School To College with Caitlin Schmidt
1.6.24 All-VA Clinic ***cancelled due to weather***
Cave Spring High School / Roanoke, VA
12.22.23 The Midwest Clinic
McCormick Place / Chicago, IL
Presenting clinic Growing Up Your Saxophones from Middle School To College with Caitlin Schmidt
12.21.23 The Midwest Clinic ***cancelled***
McCormick Place / Chicago, IL
Performing with h2 and Capitol Quartets
12.16.23 Cinémathèque
Parkway Brewing / Roanoke, VA / 5:30-8:30pm
12.12.23 Guest Artist Masterclass/Recital
Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa / Lisbon, Portugal
Recital with Kendra Wheeler
12.8.23 Roundtable Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Saxofonistas
CICCA Cultural Center / Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Gender perspectives on the saxophone world
12.6.23 World Saxophone Congress
CICCA Cultural Center / Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Recital with Kendra Wheeler
12.2.23 Cinémathèque @ Crozet Winter Brews Festival
Crozet Park / Crozet, VA / 2:30-5pm
11.25.23 Cinémathèque
Martin's Downtown / Roanoke, VA / 10pm-1am
11.17.23 Guest Workshop
University at Buffalo / Buffalo, NY
11.16.23 Guest Artist Recital
University at Buffalo / Buffalo, NY / 7:30pm
Performing saccades by Ted Moore, Jouer by Leah Reid, ICD-10CM R55 by Elizabeth A. Baker; Gonna cut you up by Barry Moon; and world premieres of Duo for tenor saxophone and computer by Cort Lippe, and metanoia by Margaret Schedel
11.14.23 Soloist with VT Wind Ensemble
Fife Concert Hall, Moss Arts Center / Blacksburg, VA / 7:30pm
Performing John Williams Escapades
11.2-4.23 SPLICE Festival
Berkelee College of Music / Boston, MA
Performing Jouer by Leah Reid
10.28.23 Cinémathèque
Parkway Brewing / Salem, VA / 5:30-8:30pm
Halloween Bash!
10.27.23 Cinémathèque
The View at 777 / Salem, VA / 5-7:30pm
10.21.23 Cinémathèque ***Rescheduled to 2024***
Berglund Center / Roanoke, VA / 2-5pm
International Wine and Food Festival
10.20.23 Cinémathèque ***Cancelled due to weather***
Private Event / Salem, VA
10.17.23 SMILES Concert
St John Neumann Academy / Blacksburg, VA / 9:30am
Performing with h2 Quartet
10.16.23 Faculty Recital
Recital Salon, Virginia Tech / Blacksburg, VA / 8pm
Performing with h2 Quartet
10.10.23 Cinémathèque
Grandin Theatre / Roanoke, VA
10.7.23 Cinémathèque
Fishburn Mansion / Roanoke, VA
Private event
10.5.23 Art Rat
Art Rat Studios / Roanoke, VA / 8pm
Set with Kill All Kings (Charles Nichols, electronics)
10.2.23 Guest Artist Recital
Tennessee Tech / Cookeville, TN / 7:30pm
Recital with Kill All Kings (Charles Nichols, electronics)
9.25-27.23 VT New Music + Technology Festival
Cube, Moss Arts Center / Blacksburg, VA / 6pm
World premiere of Jouer! for soprano saxophone and 140-channel spatial electronics by Leah Reid and To St. Augustine for chamber ensemble and electronics. Also performing Emerging by Charles Nichols.
9.23.23 Cinémathèque
Eastern Divide / Blacksburg, VA / 5-8pm
9.15-16.23 Synaptic Soiree
Torpedo Factory / Arlington, VA / 7-10pm
World premiere of Emerging: Wuhan-Hu-1 by Charles Nichols for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and electronics
9.8.23 the William Blake cycle: unseen, unbodièd, unknown
Slee Concert Hall, University at Buffalo / Buffalo, NY / 7:30pm
by Tiffany M. Skidmore, directed by Amanda Nelson, with Ted Moore, technical director and Dalia Chin, flutes; Rebeccah Parker Downs, cello; Sheldon Johnson, saxophone; Jeffrey Siegfried, saxophones; Derek Shapiro, conductor; Annie Stevens, percussion; Shannon Wettstein, piano
9.5.23 Guest Workshop
University at Buffalo / Buffalo, NY / 6:30pm
Saxophone workshop for composition studio
8.31.23 VT Faculty Chamber Ensemble Concert
Creativity + Innovation District / Blacksburg, VA / 7:30pm
World Premiere of Expressions by Joel Love, and performance of Grief by Juhi Bansal
8.26.23 Cinémathèque
Twisted Track / Roanoke, VA / 7-10pm
Arizona State University / Tempe, AZ
Teach saxophone masterclass, composition seminar, workshops with student composers, and perform premieres of new student works with Fonema Consort
4.9-13.24 VT New Music + Technology Festival
Cube, Moss Arts Center / Blacksburg, VA
performing Leah Reid's Jouer on the SEAMUS @40 Constellation Event
4.6.24 CUSP
Convivium 33 Gallery / Cleveland, OH / 8PM / $15
featuring Binary Canary
3.16.24 VT Woodwind Day
Virginia Tech / Blacksburg, VA
3.13-14.24 The Golden Ass
University at Buffalo / Buffalo, NY / 7:30pm
Two performances of The Golden Ass a chamber opera in one act, by Tiffany M. Skidmore
3.2.24 Cinémathèque ***cancelled***
Sipe Center / Bridgewater, VA
3.1.24 VT Jazz Ensemble
VT CID-LLC / Blacksburg, VA / 7:30pm
featuring Drew Zaremba
2.27.24 SMILES Concert
Blacksburg, VA
with VT Jazz Ensemble
2.24.24 Shockingly Modern Saxophone Festival
Augustana College / Rock Island, IL
Guest lecture, Q&A, Masterclass, and Recital featuring music by Tiffany M. Skidmore; Elizabeth A. Baker, Margaret Schedel, and me!
2.17-18.24 Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention
Hilton Washington Dulles Airport / Herndon, VA
Recital with Elizabeth Lantz, flute, and Shannon Wettstein, piano, including works by Charles Nichols, Stacy Garrop, and Kent Holliday
2.15.24 SMILES Concert
Christiansburg Middle School / Christiansburg, VA / 9:15am
with Shannon Wettstein, piano
2.2.24 Art Rat
Art Rat Studios / Roanoke, VA / 8pm
trio set with Ben Hudson (electric guitar), Jamiel Allen (keys/synths), and Sam Lunsford (drumset)
1.29.24 Guest Artist Recital/Masterclass
University of Northern Iowa / Cedar Falls, IA
1.27-28.24 113 presents
Studio Z / St Paul, MN
New music for video and chamber ensemble by Kelley Sheehan, Bethany Younge, Tiffany M. Skidmore, Anna Louise Walton, Caroline Louise Miller, and Max A. Friedman. Improv Party featuring graphic scores by Todd Harper and Valsamara Ionanna.
1.25-26.24 MNmade Festival
St Cloud State University / St Cloud, MN
Workshop with students. Lecture It Will Take Two Ladders: 113 Composers Collective in convocation. Portrait concert of Alvin Lucier with faculty and students (conduct Chamber Choir on Six Geometries). Concert of music by, of, and for 113 (Crane Mauscheln with Tiffany M. Skidmore; Hutchins are we all lost like you?; Duffy Aliasing (Heterodyne)).
1.19.24 Virginia Tech Honor Band-A-Rama
Fife Concert Hall, Moss Arts Center / Blacksburg, VA / 7:30pm
Performing John Williams Escapades
1.16.24 Guest Artist Recital
Radford University / Radford, VA / 7:30pm
Performing with Ann Bradfield
1.16.24 Convocation Recital
Recital Salon, Virginia Tech / Blacksburg, VA / 2pm
Performing with Ann Bradfield
1.14.24 Guest Artist Recital and Masterclass
University of North Carolina Greensboro / Greensboro, NC
Performing with Ann Bradfield
1.12-13.24 US Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium
George Mason University / Fairfax, VA
Lecture with Tiffany M. Skidmore on the William Blake cycle: unseen, unbodièd, unknown, and recital of select works from the cycle (Tharmas the father, Enion the mother and Vala/Luvah) with Sheldon Johnson and Jeffrey Siegfried
1.11.24 New Mexico Music Educators Association
University of New Mexico / Albuquerque, NM
Presenting clinic Growing Up Your Saxophones from Middle School To College with Caitlin Schmidt
1.6.24 All-VA Clinic ***cancelled due to weather***
Cave Spring High School / Roanoke, VA
12.22.23 The Midwest Clinic
McCormick Place / Chicago, IL
Presenting clinic Growing Up Your Saxophones from Middle School To College with Caitlin Schmidt
12.21.23 The Midwest Clinic ***cancelled***
McCormick Place / Chicago, IL
Performing with h2 and Capitol Quartets
12.16.23 Cinémathèque
Parkway Brewing / Roanoke, VA / 5:30-8:30pm
12.12.23 Guest Artist Masterclass/Recital
Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa / Lisbon, Portugal
Recital with Kendra Wheeler
12.8.23 Roundtable Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Saxofonistas
CICCA Cultural Center / Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Gender perspectives on the saxophone world
12.6.23 World Saxophone Congress
CICCA Cultural Center / Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Recital with Kendra Wheeler
12.2.23 Cinémathèque @ Crozet Winter Brews Festival
Crozet Park / Crozet, VA / 2:30-5pm
11.25.23 Cinémathèque
Martin's Downtown / Roanoke, VA / 10pm-1am
11.17.23 Guest Workshop
University at Buffalo / Buffalo, NY
11.16.23 Guest Artist Recital
University at Buffalo / Buffalo, NY / 7:30pm
Performing saccades by Ted Moore, Jouer by Leah Reid, ICD-10CM R55 by Elizabeth A. Baker; Gonna cut you up by Barry Moon; and world premieres of Duo for tenor saxophone and computer by Cort Lippe, and metanoia by Margaret Schedel
11.14.23 Soloist with VT Wind Ensemble
Fife Concert Hall, Moss Arts Center / Blacksburg, VA / 7:30pm
Performing John Williams Escapades
11.2-4.23 SPLICE Festival
Berkelee College of Music / Boston, MA
Performing Jouer by Leah Reid
10.28.23 Cinémathèque
Parkway Brewing / Salem, VA / 5:30-8:30pm
Halloween Bash!
10.27.23 Cinémathèque
The View at 777 / Salem, VA / 5-7:30pm
10.21.23 Cinémathèque ***Rescheduled to 2024***
Berglund Center / Roanoke, VA / 2-5pm
International Wine and Food Festival
10.20.23 Cinémathèque ***Cancelled due to weather***
Private Event / Salem, VA
10.17.23 SMILES Concert
St John Neumann Academy / Blacksburg, VA / 9:30am
Performing with h2 Quartet
10.16.23 Faculty Recital
Recital Salon, Virginia Tech / Blacksburg, VA / 8pm
Performing with h2 Quartet
10.10.23 Cinémathèque
Grandin Theatre / Roanoke, VA
10.7.23 Cinémathèque
Fishburn Mansion / Roanoke, VA
Private event
10.5.23 Art Rat
Art Rat Studios / Roanoke, VA / 8pm
Set with Kill All Kings (Charles Nichols, electronics)
10.2.23 Guest Artist Recital
Tennessee Tech / Cookeville, TN / 7:30pm
Recital with Kill All Kings (Charles Nichols, electronics)
9.25-27.23 VT New Music + Technology Festival
Cube, Moss Arts Center / Blacksburg, VA / 6pm
World premiere of Jouer! for soprano saxophone and 140-channel spatial electronics by Leah Reid and To St. Augustine for chamber ensemble and electronics. Also performing Emerging by Charles Nichols.
9.23.23 Cinémathèque
Eastern Divide / Blacksburg, VA / 5-8pm
9.15-16.23 Synaptic Soiree
Torpedo Factory / Arlington, VA / 7-10pm
World premiere of Emerging: Wuhan-Hu-1 by Charles Nichols for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and electronics
9.8.23 the William Blake cycle: unseen, unbodièd, unknown
Slee Concert Hall, University at Buffalo / Buffalo, NY / 7:30pm
by Tiffany M. Skidmore, directed by Amanda Nelson, with Ted Moore, technical director and Dalia Chin, flutes; Rebeccah Parker Downs, cello; Sheldon Johnson, saxophone; Jeffrey Siegfried, saxophones; Derek Shapiro, conductor; Annie Stevens, percussion; Shannon Wettstein, piano
9.5.23 Guest Workshop
University at Buffalo / Buffalo, NY / 6:30pm
Saxophone workshop for composition studio
8.31.23 VT Faculty Chamber Ensemble Concert
Creativity + Innovation District / Blacksburg, VA / 7:30pm
World Premiere of Expressions by Joel Love, and performance of Grief by Juhi Bansal
8.26.23 Cinémathèque
Twisted Track / Roanoke, VA / 7-10pm