Selected Upcoming Concerts

Selected Previous Performances
and Recording Sessions

May 11, 2007: Queen Victoria's Journey was commissioned and premiered by Diller-Quaile faculty in New York City. This 27-minute song cycle with words by Dorothy Louise, was sung by Kathleen Yiannoudes, with Steven Graff at the piano.

February 11, 2007: Five Ghost Tangos for soprano sax, viola, bass clarinet and piano, was premiered at the Mount Joy Mennonite Church as part of "Beyond Ourselves." Performers included Doris-Hall Gulati on bass clarinet.

February 3, 2007: Carpe Diem for orchestra was given its premiere by Brian Norcross, conductor, leading the F&M Philharmonia, in Lancaster, PA.

March 18, 2007: Different Ghosts a percussion concerto with wind ensemble, was given a performance by Joel Bluestone, percussionist, with the Pacific Crest Wind Symphony, in Portland, Oregon.

September 16, 2006: Six Spanish Songs for soprano and piano, settings of poems by Federico Garcia Lorca, were performed at the CMS National Conference, San Antonio, Texas, by Colleen Gray, soprano and Nanette Solomon, piano.

January 22, 2006: Six Spanish Songs for soprano and piano, settings of poems by Federico Garcia Lorca, were performed by the Front Range Chamber Players in Fort Collins, Colorado, by Karen Lauer-Anderson, soprano and Roberta Mielke, pianist.

January 19, 20 and 21, 2006: Benjamin, John Carbon's comic opera to a libretto by Sarah White, was given a full production as part of the National Franklin Tercentenary Celebration. Baritone Stephen Kalm recreated the role of Benjamin Franklin, Lorraine Ernest was Madame Brillon, Valerie Bernhardt was Deborah Franklin and Kristen Leich sang the role of Benjamin Younger at Franklin & Marshall College, in Lancaster, PA. Zimbel Recordings will release a 2-CD set recording of the live performance in the fall of 2007.

September 25, 2006: Ghostly Flickerings was given its UK premiere by pianist Trey Hargrove at the Maxwell Davies Tribute Concert, St. Paul's, Ealing, outside of London.

June 13-17, 2005: Six Spanish Songs for soprano and piano, settings of poems by Federico Garcia Lorca, were performed at the College Music Society International Conference in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, by Colleen Neubert, soprano, and Nanette Solomon, piano.

June 11, 12, 13, 2004:
John Carbon was Composer in Residence at the 2nd annual Santa Barbara Chamber Music Festival. The festival featured three evenings of American chamber music, and three Carbon works were performed during the course of the festival: Icarus, for solo piano, and Ghost Town Sketches, for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, were performed, and Land's End for cello and piano was given its world premiere. Performers included the Rainer Quartet (Ron Patterson, Ella Marie Gray, Roxanna Patterson, Walter Gray), Edith Orloff, piano, David Peck, clarinet, and Stephen Balderston, cello.

Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003, 8:00 p.m.: Julie Brodie & Friends:
Holmberg-Eichmann Dance Studio at the Roschel Performing Arts Center,
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA.
An original choreography by Julie Brodie was presented using John Carbon's Rasgos for Violin and Chamber Orchestra (recorded by Maron Alsop with Concordia Orchestra).

Sunday, October 19, 2003, 3:00 p.m.: Trio Fedele performed Carbon's Fantasy Impromptu for flute, violoncello and piano, as well as Crumb, Poulenc and Martinu. Barshinger Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA.

Saturday, November 1, 2003, 8:00 p.m.: Soprano Gwynne Guyer premiered
Spring is Almost Everywhere from Carbon's opera, Foolproof, (in progress, to a libretto by Dorothy Louise). Barshinger Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA.

Endangered Species for doublebass and orchestra was recorded in November of 2002 in Bratislava by Richard Fredrickson and the Slovak Radio Orchestra under the direction of Stephen Simon for a forthcoming release on the MMC recording label.

Presented as part of "Músicos del Norte," Fantasy for Harpsichord and String Quartet was performed by harpsichordist María Teresa Chenlo on March 24, 2003 at Casa de América-Palacio de Linares in Madrid.

On Sunday, February 23, 2003, pianist William Wright presented the world premiere of Six More Spanish Lessons in the Barshinger Center for the Musical Arts in Hensel Hall at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA.

On Sunday, February 10th, 2002, at St. Peter's Church, 54th and Lexington, New York City, soprano Kristin Samuelson, cellist Robert LaRue and Colette Valentine, pianist presented the premiere of Abigail Adams Songs.

On Sunday, October 21, 2001, at 3 PM, at the Trinity Center for Urban Life, 22nd and Spruce St., Philadelphia, Network for New Music presented the world premiere of Crossing Over,for clarinet, violin and piano, with clarinetist Doris Hall-Gulati, violinist Hirona Oka and pianist Linda Reichert.

On Sunday October 28, 2001 at 3 PM, Crossing Over was performed by Network for New Music in the Barshinger Center for the Musical Arts in Hensel Hall at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa.

On Thursday, May 24, 2001, at 8 PM, in Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, selected arias from Carbon's 1987 comic opera Benjamin were sung by Stephen Kalm, Constance Beavon and Tonya Currier, accompanied by clarinetist Doris Hall-Gulati and pianist Steve Graff. The program also included pieces commissioned by F&M College from composers Thea Musgrave, Joan Tower and Tobias Picker.

On Saturday, March 24, 2001, the Philadelphia Trio with Barbara Sonies, violinist, Deborah Reeder, cellist and Elizabeth Keller, pianist, performed Do Not Go Gentle at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts, Bucknell University, Pa.

The Alaria Chamber Ensemble, with special guest clarinetist Doris-Hall Gulati, premiered Dream Spiral in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, May 6, 1999.

Pianist William Koseluk gave the European premiere of John Carbon's new Piano Concerto in Smetana Hall, Prague, in the Czech Republic, with Vladimír Válek conducting the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra on May 3, 1999.

The Harrisburg Chorale Society gave the new orchestral version of John Carbon's oratorio Adam and Eve and the Animals its American premiere, with conductor Simon Andrews at the helm.

The New York Chamber Symphony in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center presented the NY premiere of Notturno, for Trumpet, Harp and Strings, with trumpet soloist Jeffrey Silberschlag, conducted by George Manahan on April 28, 1999.

The Czech Radio Symphony gave the Piano Concerto (1999) its US premiere in Boston's Symphony Hall, with William Koseluk at the piano and Vladimír Válek conducting on November 28, 1998.

The New York Chamber Symphony premiered Rhapsody for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, with clarinet soloist Doris-Hall Gulati, conducted by Gerard Schwarz on April 27, 1997.