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Past Performances

December 10, 2024

The Washington Heights Community Choir premiered Evening: New York, for SATB choir and piano.

April 16, 2024

kon.trip premiered cityscape, for saxophone, double-bass, and vibraphone, in concert at Scholes Street Studio.

 
 

April 4-19, 2024

Brandon served as sound designer/composer for Sonnets From a Sin-Eater, a solo play by Kara Hadden presented in the New York City Fringe Festival.

May 17, 2023

Brandon graduated from NYU Steinhardt with his Master’s in Music Theory and Composition.

May 8, 2023

The NYU Contemporary Ensemble premiered Diary: 12/29/22.

May 7, 2023

Brandon presented an evening-length concert of his works. The program included the premiere of two songs cycles, Endings and Beginnings, and Passage. The concert also featured Interludes, a new multimedia work for video and electronics.

November 20, 2022

Cascade, received a performance at Provincetown Playhouse. The solo piano work was performed by Sylvana Au Yang.

 
 

September 24, 2022

Morgan Griffin performed Amethyst Dreams at University Settlement, as part of a group show by The Dragon’s Egg Studio.

 
 

May 10, 2022

The BlackBox Ensemble premiered Drift, a new work for Pierrot Ensemble, at Provincetown Playhouse in New York.

May 4, 2022

The NYU Composer’s Ensemble premiered Brandon’s trio, Sudden Dawn, for violin, clarinet, and piano.

April 30, 2022

The Rhythm Method premiered Brandon’s new string quartet, Restless Abandon.

February 20, 2022

Cascade, for solo piano premiered at the NYU Steinhardt BlackBox Theatre. The piece was performed by pianist Christian Brossard-Douglas.

December 8, 2021

Brandon’s dance piece for electronics, Amethyst Dreams, premiered at the Marlene Meyerson JCC in New York. The piece was performed and choreographed by Morgan Griffin.

September 2, 2021

Brandon started his Masters in Music Theory and Composition at NYU Steinhardt.

June 7, 2020

Brandon graduated from Williams College with Highest Honors in Music. He was awarded the Robert G. Barrow Memorial Prize in Music Composition and the Ruth Scott Sanford Memorial Prize in Theatre.

February 26, 2020

Brandon was interviewed by The Williams Record about his opera Actaeon, or the hunter. Brandon discussed his composition process and the inspiration behind the piece. Read the full interview, here.

January 28, 2020

Scene II from Actaeon, or the hunter was performed as part of the 2020 Williams Opera Workshop in Williamstown, MA.

 
 

January 24, 2020

Brandon’s musical The Sanguinary Revenge of a Hitman’s Daughter, with book and lyrics by Jack Romans, premiered at the Whitney Center for the Arts in Pittsfield, MA.

 

Design by Maye McPhail

 

January 18, 2020

A recitative and aria from Brandon’s upcoming opera, performed with full 6-piece orchestration, premiered at the 2020 I/O New Music Festival.

Photos by Keith Forman Photography

November 8-9, 2019

The first act of The Sanguinary Revenge of a Hitman’s Daughter, written with Jack Romans, received a staged reading as part of the Purple Valley Play Festival. The performance was at the ‘62 Center for Theatre and Dance in Williamstown, MA.

Photos by Keith Forman Photography

January 12, 2019

Brandon’s string quartet, Cacophony, premiered as part of the 2019 I/O New Music Festival.