2024:

July 27: Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival.  “Viaje” for Soprano, 2 violin, viola, cello, and double bass.

Feburary /25, 3pm, South Berkshire Concerts at Bard College, MA. Momenta Quartet Performs “River of Life” for string quartet

Fri. 2/23, 5pm, Binghamton University Art Museum, NY – Momenta Quartet performs “River of Life” for string quartet

April 30. LA Philharmonic, new music ensemble  will present “Columnas de Luz” at Walt Disney Hall.

2023:

October 5: Momenta Quartet Festival at Americas Society. Momenta Quartet performs “River of Life” for string quartet.

September 6: Symphony Space NYC.  (7:30 pm)  Miranda Cuckson performs “The Road not Taken“, and works by Victoria Bond, and other composers.

April 25 : Premiere of “The Road not Taken” by Miranda Cuckson (violin), Williams College, Brooks Roger Hall

April : Hope is the thing with feathers for violin, cello, and piano. Performance by counter)induction at George Washington University, Flaggs Hammer Auditorium, Washington DC.

March 10: Berkshire Symphony premiere of “Marejadas” for Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Ronald Feldman.

March 3: Premiere of my 2 solo marimba pieces “Grasshopper Trance” and “Caribbean Scribbles” by Matt Gold at Williams Chamber Players concert, Brooks Rogers Hall.

2022:

November 3: Seraphic Fire Choir Performance of “Tu, Paz Mia” by Seraphic Fire choir, conductor Patrick Dupre, St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church., Miami, FL. Program “Music of Love and War.”   

Nov 4, 8:00pm | Coral Gables | Church of the Little Flower. Tu Paz Mia, Seraphic Fire

Sat, Nov 5, 7:30pm | Ft. Lauderdale | All Saints Episcopal. Tu Paz Mia, Seraphic Fire.

Sun, Nov 6, 4:00pm | Boca Raton | St. Gregory’s Episcopal | Tu Paz Mia, Seraphic Fire.

October 22. counter)induction. University of Maryland, Baltimore. “Hope is the thing with feathers” for vl, cello, and pno.

April 18: counter)induction ensemble premieres “Hope is the thing with feathers” for vl, cello, and pno at Williams College.

October 6: Teatro Esperanza (Esperanza Arts Center), Philadelphia. Orchestra 2001, Concert “Conexiones Cuba” performs Zunzun.

March 27: Seraphic Fire choir performance of Viaje for male choir, at Miami Beach, All Souls Church, FL.

March 26: Seraphic Fire choir performance of Viaje for male choir, at Fort Lauderdale, All Saints Church, FL

March 25: Seraphic Fire choir performance of Viaje for male choir, at Coral Gables, Miami, St. Philips church, FL

March 24: Seraphic Fire choir performance of Viaje for male choir, at Vanderbilt Presbyterian, Naples, FL

March 23: Seraphic Fire choir premiere of Viaje for male choir, at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church in Miami, FL.

January 13: I/O Music Festival, Clark Art Museum, Williamstown. Vitrales for piano, performed by Doris Stevenson.

January 9: “Here and Now Festival” at the Bargemusic,  in New York City/ Brooklyn. Vitrales for piano, performed by Doris Stevenson.

2021:

December 19: “Here and Now Festival” at the Bargemusic,  in New York City/ Brooklyn. Premiere of Vitrales for piano, by Doris Stevenson.

October 29: Premiere of “Reaching Out” for cello, by Intersection Ensemble.

April 20, 7:30 pm New World Symphony. Concert Percussion Latin Groove, April 20, 7:30 pm.  Un ser encantado, aguas saladas, y piedras infinitas

https://www.nws.edu/events-tickets/concerts/percussion-perspectives-latin-grooves/

April 27, Joanna Kurkowicz premiere of “Birds’ view”  for solo violin,   live-streamed from Distler Performance Hall at Tufts University, and Williams College on April 29.

March 23 Kamarimusiikkikonsertti – Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.   Moon tides.     23.3.2021 14:00.    Ala-Malmin tori 1, 00700 Helsinki, Finland. (Rescheduled due to Covid in Helsinki)

January: Premiere of Grasshopper Trance for marimba by Matt Gold at the I/O virtual Festival.

2020:

October 17, 2020: Performance of “Treading a path with vision and hope” for string quintet by Eureka Ensemble. Conductor Kristo Kondakci, violins: Gabriely Diaz and Matthew Vera, Noriko Futagami viola, Alan Toda-Ambaras cello, and Sarah Wager bass.

TBA: Performance of “Un ser encantado, aguas saladas, y piedras infinitas by New World Symphony, Miami during their next concert season. 2020-2021

August 8, 2020: Musica Nueva concert in Nashville, TN. Ensemble Intersection (large ensemble from the Nashville Symphony Orc.) performs music by Ileana Perez Velazquez , Tania Leon, and a guitar concerto premiere by Leo Brouwer.

http://www.intersectionmusic.org/musicanueva.html

July 10-20  Composer at the Seal Bay Festival, ME. Performance of “River of Life” by Cassatt Quartet.

July, 2020: “Vuelo” for soprano, 2 violines, viola, cello, double bass, piano, and conductor. Commissioned by the Sonor Ensemble and Maestro Luis Aguirre (conductor) from Madrid, Spain, and mezzo-soprano Gudrun Olafsdottir. Premiere in the Hafnarborg Songfest,Reykjavík, Iceland.

May 5, Boca Raton FL, St. Gregory’s Episcopal. Premiere of new piece commissioned by Grammy Nominated Seraphic Fire Vocal Ensemble

May 6, Miami, FL, Beth David Congregation. Premiere of new piece commissioned by Seraphic Fire Vocal Ensemble

May 8, Coral Gables, St. Philips Episcopal. Premiere of new piece commissioned by Seraphic Fire Vocal Ensemble

May 9, Ft Lauderdale, All Saints Episcopal. Premiere of new piece commissioned by Seraphic Fire Choral Ensemble

May 10, Miami Beach, All Souls Episcopal. Premiere of new piece commissioned by Seraphic Fire Choral Ensemble

April 29, 2020: Williams College. Sonor Ensemble, “Vuelo” for soprano and ensemble.

April 25, 2020: Segovia, Spain. Jornadas de Musica Contemporanea. Performance of “The window that opens your soul”  by Nuevo Ensemble de Segovia.

April 19, 2020: Momenta Quartet performs “Elegia” at McConnell Auditorium, Bard College at Simon’s Rock.

https://simons-rock.edu/events/index.php?eID=6213

April 7, 2020: Ancuza Aprodu Recital, premiere of new piece for solo piano. Williams College.

April 2020: Musica Nueva concert in Nashville, TN. Ensemble Intersection performs music by Ileana Perez Velazquez , Tania Leon, and Leo Brouwer.

http://www.intersectionmusic.org/musicanueva.html

January 25, 2020: Concert”Powerful Women Composers”by Western Washington University Ensemble: Performance of “Night Songs” at the  Whatcom Museum, Old City Hold. Bellingham, WA

https://cfpa.wwu.edu/event/hill-concert-powerful-women-composers

2019:

December 6: Clark Arts Institute, Williamstown, MA. Premiere of new string quartet “River of Life” by Cassatt Quartet.

https://www.clarkart.edu/ImportedEvents/1543-65750

December 5: Deerfield Academy, NH. Premiere of string quartet “River of Life” by Cassatt Quartet

November 10: Festival UNEAC International de Musica Contemporanea, Havana. Confluencias, fixed media.

November 17: Madrid, Spain. Performance of “The window that opens your soul” in Festival COMA (International Festival of Contemporary Music) by Nuevo Ensemble de Segovia.

November 2: “Nanahual” performed in the concert “Environmental issues reflected by music” at Middlesex Community College, Bedford, MA

https://www.middlesex.mass.edu/worldofmusic/

October 7, Bilbao, Spain. Festival Kuraia. Performance of “The window that opens your soul” by Nuevo Ensemble de Segovia.

September 20, 8pm. “32 Festival de Musica Española de Leon”, Spain, Auditorio Angel Barja. Premiere of “Columnas de Luces” for ensemble by Sonor Ensemble.

https://www.sonorensemble.com/agenda/

https://www.diariodeleon.es/articulo/cultura/leon-pone-musica-partituras-silenciadas/201909100202481937525.html

August 8,  Radio Program dedicated to my music, I was interviewed by Jose Schiller. Radio MED FM|99.3 MHz – Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. 23:30 hour.

July 30: Performance of “Encantamiento” for piano. Performed by Edward Neeman at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth, Australia

May 3: Performance of “Encantamiento” for piano. Faculty Recital at the  Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, by Faculty Edward Neeman.

April 11, 12, 13, and 14: Premiere of “Tu, paz mia…” for choir in South West Florida (Florida International University, Coral Gables, Naples, and Ft Lauderdale), commission from Seraphic Fire, Patrick Dupre (conductor and artistic director), and William Jaume.

April 5, performance of string quartet “Elegia” by Momenta Quartet at Williams College, MA. Performance of Vuelo for Soprano, string quartet, and piano. Sharon Harms, soprano, Momenta Quartet (strings), Christopher Oldfather (piano)

March 29, Momenta quartet performs “Elegia” at the Olin Concert Hall. Bates College, Maine.

 

February 6. Wortham Theater Center, Grand Foyer. Houston, Texas. “A little day music” Concert, “Classical Cuba”. “Entre la ternura y el intenso azul“Hasmik Vardanyan, cello

https://www.dacamera.com/?event=little-day-music-9

 

2018:

•  Nov. 6     31st Int. Festival of Contemporary Music, Havana, Cuba. The Window that opens your soul, piano: Sally Pinkas, clarinetist: Patricia ShandsNov. 13
  Salão Nobre da Reitoria da UFBA, Salvador, Brazil. The Window that opens your soul, piano: Sally Pinkas, clarinetist: Patricia ShandsNov. 15
  X RioWinds Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Window that opens your soul, piano: Sally Pinkas, clarinetist: Patricia Shands
  • April 6 at 8pm: Lights of Lives flowing from your Eyes, for quintet, premiere by Miranda Cuckson and Nunc at Chapin Hall, Williams College, MA.
  • February 2: University of the Pacific, Conservatory of Music. California. The Window that opens your Soul for clarinet and piano, performance by Sally Pinkas (piano) and Patricia Shands (clarinet).
  • January 17: Premiere of Elegia, written for the Amernet String Quartet in Miami, FL on January 17, commissioned by the Fromm Foundation of Harvard University. The concert will be part of my residency at the Betsy Writer’s Room, participating in the FIU NODUS program, and Festival New Music FIU.
  • January 12: I/O Festival, Williams College. Performance of “Lega Celu yen di Splendor” for fl, cl, bs, pno, perc., harp, guitar, vl, vla, vc, and Db.
  • Texas Public Radio, 01/06/2018 at 8:52 pm. : “Night Songs“/ Moon Tides from album A Cascade of Light in a Resonant Universe, Albany Records.

  2017:

  New CD: A Cascade of Light in a Resonant Universe (Music of Ileana Perez Velazquez), released on September 2017 by Albany Records. Recordings by Miranda Cuckson and Nunc, Adrian Morejon, Nuno Antunes, Molly Morkowski, Momenta Quartet, Matt Gold and Doris Stevenson.

  • November 13: performance of Fire of the Heart and Mindat the International Festival of Contemporary Music UNEAC, Havana, Cuba.
  • November 8: Premiere of The Window to your Soul new composition for clarinet and piano commissioned by the Hopkins Center of Dartmouth College. Premiere scheduled on November 8 at Dartmouth College by Sally Pinkas (piano) and Patricia Shands (clarinet).
  • November 10: Performance of The Window to your Soulfor clarinet and piano at Williams College. Piano: Sally Pinkas, clarinet: Patricia Shands.
  • November 2: Performance of Alma de Guijeby the Amernet String Quartet.
  • October 1: Celia(fixed media) performed at Kontakte Biennale fur Elektroakustische Musick and Klangkunst, Akademie Der Kunste, Berlin, Germany.
  • June: Conservatorio Statale di Musica A. Buzzola, Italy. Ensemble Namaste, Flora Invernal. Flute: Andrea Bianchini, saxophone: Michele Bianchini.
• Spirits, for two voices (bass:Stefan Szkafarowsky, bass baritone: Adrian Rosas) and clarinet. Premiere in Key West, FL on April 13, 14, and 15. Music composed by Ileana Perez Velazquez, lyrics by Justen Ahren,  originally created as part of Key West Reverie, Wendy Taucher concept/director/choreographer
• Fire of the heart and mind for violin and piano. Premiere by ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) at Williams College on April 7.

Radio performances: Brazil: March 5: “Our sacred space” for guitar. Radio program “Américas em Concerto” by Jose Duarte Miller Schille,  21h (Rio de Janeiro and Brasília) Roquette-Pinto, 94,1 Mhz.                                            Portugal: first week of April: Program about Cuba, recorded on March 7 by composer Daniel Bruno Schvetz, including my “Concerto for violin and orchestra”, Program Antena 2: Portuguese public radio focused on classical music and culture. 

2016:

• Flora invernal, for clarinet and tenor saxophone. October 8. Milan, Italy, Auditorium G. Di Vittorio.  Ensemble Namaste. Flute: Andrea Bianchini, saxophone: Michele Bianchini.
• Soft watches for flute, viola, and harp. October 3. St John’s University. Queens, NYC. flute: Linda Wetherill, viola: Sophia Sun Sun, and organ: Jared Aragon.
• Naturaleza viva by the Sunshine City Opera, at The Studio @ 620, St. Petersburg, FL, September 16.
• Premiere of Lightning Whelks by Miranda Cuckson (violin solo) and Nunc: Chris Gross (cello), Nuno Antunes (clarinet), Adrian Morejon (bassoon), Molly Morkoski (piano), Bill Solomon (percussion), and Benjamin Grow (conductor), at Williams College Chapin Hall, Williamstown, MA, April 18.
• Night Songs performance by Adrian Morejon (bassoon), Nuno Antunes (clarinet), Molly Morkoski (piano), and Jacqueline Kerrod (harp), at Williams College, Chapin Hall, Williamstown, MA, April 18.
• Duendes Alados for string quartet, by the New World Symphony in special event !Fiesta Cubana! at the New World Center, Miami, FL on March 18.

2015:

Ileana P.V. has been awarded a 2015 Commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard.

Alma de guije, for string quartet  at WQXR, New York Public Radio on November 11, 2015, Living Composers Program at 7:37 PM (live performance by Momenta Quartet in the Americas Society)         http://www.wqxr.org/#!/musicians/ileana-perez-velazquez_/

Alma de guije, for string quartet  at WQXR, New York Public Radio on September 24, 2015, “Her Music”  Program at 12:25 AM (live performance by Momenta Quartet in the Americas Society)

• The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra “Liquid Music Concert Series” Miranda Cuckson’s performance of “Un ser con unas alas enormes…” on November 13, and 14. St. Paul, MN.
• Composer/ performer of “Blood Wedding” music. Theater production, direction by Kameron Steele. Williamstown, MA October 15, 16, and 17
• Premiere of “Soft watches” for flute, viola, and accordion commissioned by the Snow Mask Trio, Vendsyssel Festival, Denmark. Sunday August 9, 2015.
• Premiere of “Soft watches” for flute, viola, and organ, at the Chamber Music Festival in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy on July 30

2014:

• Concerto for violin and orchestra premiered by the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra, at Chapin Hall, Williams College on November 21, 2014. Violin: Joanna Kurkowicz, Conductor: Ronald Feldman
• Un ser con unas alas enormes performed by Miranda Cuckson at Spectrum, NYC, NY on November 13, 2014.
• Del falso amor impuro performed by Ensemble Dal Niente at Williams College, on October 2014
• Light Echoes performed in the XXXVI Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez, Mexico City, on May 26, MUAC, by Ensamble OKHO.
• Night Songs for bassoon, harp, piano, and clarinet was performed at the Adrian Morejon Recital during the International Double Reed Society Conference– August 9, at 10am – Judson Memorial Church, New York City, by Adrian Morejon, Nuno Antunes, Molly Morkoski, and Kristi Shade.
• Bassoneando for bassoon and piano. Premiered at the Longy School of Music, at the Edward Pickman Concert Hall Boston, MA,  February 28,  by Adrian Morejon and Wayman Chin.
• Light Echoes was performed by the Williams Chambers Players at Williams College on May
• Moon-tides for bassoon, clarinet, and harp. Premiered at the “Composers Now Festival, NYC”, at the“Music Melange” concert series at the “Blessed unrest theater”. New York City, on February 24, 2014 by the Gene Project: Adrian Morejon, Nuno Antunez, and Kristi Shade.
• Alma de guije (Guije’s soul)  for string quartet. Performed at the New York City “Composers Now Festival”, Fire House, Brooklyn on February 20, 2013 by the Momenta Quartet.
• Un ser con unas alas enormes performed by Miranda Cuckson at the I/O Festival, Williams College on January, 2014

2013:

• Del falso amor impuro  for Soprano, violin,saxophone alto,percussion, and piano, Commissioned by the MusicArte Festival, premiered by Dal Niente ensemble from Chicago, in Panama City, Amador Theater, Panama, June 2013 as part of this Festival.
• Del falso amor impuro Performance by Dal Niente at the Latino Music Festival in Chicago: Program Ancient and New, Pritzker Auditorium at the Harold Washington Public Library. November 14, 6pm.
• Alma de guije (Guije’s soul) premiered by Momenta Quartet at the Americas Society, New York City, on May 30, 2013.
• Alma de guije Upcoming performance by Momenta quartet at Williams College, November 13, 2013
• Aurora Premiered at the 62 Center for the Arts, Main Stage, Williams College. Performed on May 3 and 4, 2013 by Doris Stevenson and Elizabeth Wright, pianists.
• Zunzun. Performed at the I/O Festival, Williams College, January 2013 by Matt Gold,
• Un ser con unas alas enormes Museum of Contemporary Art, Panama City, Panama. Performed by Graciela Nuñez (violin)

2012:

• Naturaleza viva Premiered by Orlando Cela, I/O New Music Festival February 2012, Williams College
• Confluencias, fixed media ICEM Concert “Des Cercles en Cercle”, Beijing, China (October 22-28)

2011:

• Idolos del sueño  Performed at Merkin Hall, New York City by CONTINUUM, on May 1^st, 2011, Concert in celebration of the 45^th Anniversary of CONTINUUM.
• Idolos del sueño Performed at Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington, IN, on October 23, 2011, Auer Concert Hall, at the closing concert of the Cultural Counterpoints Conference and celebration of the 50^th Anniversary of the Latin American Music Center.
• Entre la ternura y el intenso azul (between tenderness and an intense blue) Performed at the Puente Sonoro Latin American Music Festival, Williams College, February 2011 by Ana Ruth Bermudez, cellist
• Un ser con unas alas enormes November 17, 2011, Bargemusic Concert Hall as part of the Here and Now series, New York City, 8pm, Miranda Cuckson, violin
• Un ser con unas alas enormes   – May 15^th, 2011, at Thalia Theater, Symphony Space, New York City by Miranda Cuckson, the Azure Azure Ensemble Concert.