Steed Cowart, conductor or rehearsal director
(incomplete listing
of performances)
March 8 and 10, 2013
Signal Flow Festival (Mills College)
Tim Black: Pineal Activation
Sam Withrow: Afterimage
December 5, 2012
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Pauline Oliveros: Rock Piece
Dylan Neely: Christmas
Stories: Music and Dialogue
Stephan Haluska:Yawn with the Wind - A
meditative piece for mixed chamber ensemble and tape
Eric Glick Rieman: Knitting #6, #7, #8
Frederic Rzewski: Main Drag – a
road story for 9 or more players
October 5, 2012
Pauline OliverosŐ
80th and John CageŐs 100th Birthday Celebration
John Cage: Sixteen Dances (1951)
The Mills Performing
Group
Flute: Tod Brody, Trumpet: Owen Miyoshi, Percussion:
William Winant, Anna Wray,
Scott Siler, Nava Dunkelman, Piano: Chris Brown,
Violin: Roy Malan, Cello: Joan Jeanrenaud,
Conductor: Steed Cowart
Pauline Oliveros: Rock Piece (1979)
Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Tess
Filbeck Bates, Brian Baumbusch, Brett Carson, Rachael Evans, Stephan Haluska,
Marie Hunt, Joshua
Marshall, Jon Myers, Dylan Neely, Ryan Page, Eric
Glick Rieman,
Scott
Siler, Peter Sloan, Shanna Sordahl, Eli Wallace, Andrew Weathers, Steed Cowart: Director
May 2, 2012
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Alvin Lucier: Opera with Objects
Eric Glick Rieman: Knitting
Katie Harrell: Quarry
Alvin Lucier: Canon
Ryan Ross Smith: Study #2
Philip Glass: Music in Contrary Motion
January 28, 2012
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
John Cage
Musicircus/CalArts Alumni and Friends
Walt Disney Family
Museum, San Francisco
John Cage: Concert for Piano and
Orchestra
November 30, 2011
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Christopher Luna: The keeper of the sheep / part XIV
(Homage to Alberto Caeiro)
Rachel Trapp: Okay
Yaman Palak: Parted from the Source
Ralph Lewis: Ruckus from the Quiet Zone
Shanna
Sordahl, Rachel Trapp and Sam Withrow (music)
Judene Small (choreography): cog
John Cage: Concert for Piano and Orchestra
Katie Harrell: Heavy Metal
September 22, 2011
The Mills College
Art Museum
Inauguration of
Alecia A DeCoudreaux as the 13th Mills College president
John Cage: Credo in US
Choreography:
Molissa Fenley
May 4, 2011
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Ralph Lewis: Heavens Help Us
Want Crackers?
Fold Up
Other Hearts, Other Fingers
Christina Stanley: Pathways
Adam Lowdermilk: For CW
Daniel Steffey: Concerto for Contrabass Clarinet
and Nine Instruments
Eric Glick Rieman: Nursery and Machine Houses
February 26, 2011
Music by Christian
Wolff
(Christian Wolff,
guest composer)
Metal & Breath (2007) (American Premiere)
Mills Contemporary Performance
Ensemble (Steed Cowart, director)
Mills Music
Improvisation Ensemble (Zeena Parkins, director)
Mills Percussion
Group (William Winant, director)
February 5, 2011
Mills Performing
Group
Homage to the music
of Robert Erickson
Roddy (1966) for tape
Trio (1953) for violin, viola, piano
Pacific Sirens (1969) for
ensemble and tape
Gianna Abondolo: cello, Jen Baker: trombone,
Tod Brody: flute, Rachel Condry: bass clarinet,
Tom Dambly: trumpet, Peter Josheff: clarinet,
Adam Lowdermilk: contrabass, Daniel Steffey: percussion,
William Winant: percussion, Richard Worn: contrabass,
Anna Wray:
percussion, Steed Cowart: conductor
Summer Music (1974) for violin
and tape
The Idea of Order at Key West (1979)
for soprano, flute, clarinet, trumpet, viola, cello
Christine Abraham: soprano, Tod Brody: flute, Peter Josheff: clarinet,
Tom Dambly: trumpet, Nils Bultmann: viola, Gianna Abondolo: cello,
Steed Cowart: conductor
December 1, 2010
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Christina Stanley: Medusazoa (2010)
Ernesto
Carcamo-Cavazos: Paloma Pasajera
(2010)
Erick Glick Rieman: The Cloud Thief (2010)
Maggi Payne: Shh (2009)
Alvin Lucier: Heavier Than Air (1999)
Nicholas Kanozik: EXPERIMENT: Quartet no. 1 (image 0047)
(2010)
Ralph Lewis: When You Were Music (2010)
Terry Riley: Autumn Leaves (1965)
May 11, 2010
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Christina Stanley: Lingo
Wayne Grim: R7
Ralph Lewis: Killer Hair
Justin Philip Nash: The Star Rover (Darrell Standing)
February 27, 2010
Mills Performing
Group
Luciano Berio: Folk Songs (1964, commissioned by Mills
College)
Christine Abraham:
mezzo soprano, Angela Koregelos: flute,
Jerome Simas:
clarinet, Nanci Severance: viola, Joan Jeanrenaud: cello,
Karen Gottlieb:
harp, Anna Wray and William Winant: percussion
Steed Cowart:
conductor
February 20, 2010
Mills Performing
Group
Music by Julia Wolfe
Believing (amplified ensemble) (1997)
Lick (amplified ensemble) (1994)
Aram Shelton:
clarinet/soprano saxophone, Gyan Riley: electric guitar,
Ed Garcia:
percussion, Keisuke Nakagoshi: piano/electric keyboard,
Gianna Abondolo:
cello, Kristin Zoernig: bass
Steed Cowart:
conductor
my lips from speaking (six pianos) (1993)
Karen Rosenak, Belle
Bulwinkle, Regina Schaffer,
Kanoko Nishi, Lona
Kozik, Justin Nash
Steed Cowart:
conductor
December 4, 2009
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Daniel J. Wolf: Large Ensemble
Dorothy Berry: S.O.S
Ralph Lewis: Return to Bloland
Justin Nash: The Trout - A Piece for CPE Mills
Ben Taylor: Environment2
Eric Glick Rieman: Circle House and Chutes
Christopher M.
Skebo: Three Suspicious Dots
Roscoe Mitchell: Parisian Dream
Fred Frith: Nine
October 30, 2009
Mills Performing
Group
Jos Maceda: Sujeichon a Korean Court music for Four
Pianos (2002)
Chris Brown, Belle Bulwinkle, Regina Schaffer,
Robert Schwartz
Steed Cowart, conductor
May 1, 2009
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Bernard
Rands: Walcott Songs (2004)
Christopher
M. Skebo: Two Devices of Torture (2009)
Jason
Hoopes: six lullabies of varying degrees of emotion
by which to put your pretensions to bed (2009)
Jacob
Zimmerman: 29. Ambient Music of Lorel II
Benjamin
OŐBrien: Integers (2009)
Bernard
Rands: Éas all get outÉ (1972)
Roscoe
Mitchell: Spirits Among Stones
(1987)
Muhal
Richard Abrams: PIYH (1999)
December 5, 2008
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Roscoe Mitchell: Nonaah
James Tenney: In the Aeolian Mode
Jacob Zimmerman: Hawlee
Erik Glick Rieman: Helix Aspersa III
Jason Hoopes: Cycles v.2
Luciano Chessa: Launisch
May 1, 2008
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Christopher
Skebo: Tri-Cycle (2008)
Maggi
Payne: Slide (2008)
Eric
Glick Rieman: Ghost House, N.M.
(2008)
Bruno
Maderna: Serenata per un Satellite
(1969)
John
Cage: Branches (1976)
December 2, 2007
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Roscoe Mitchell: Cards – For
Chamber Orchestra Opus 1 (2007)
Terry
Riley: In C (1964)
September 29, 2007
Mills Performing
Group
Roscoe Mitchell: White Tiger Disquise
Lynne
Morrow, mezzo-soprano;
Graeme
Jennings and Cynthia Mei, violins; Charlton Lee, viola;
Joan
Jeanrenaud, cello; Richard Worn, contrabass;
Steed
Cowart, conductor
Charles Wuorinen: Bearbeitungen ber das Glogauer Liederbuch
Tod
Brody, flute; William Wohlmacher, clarinet;
Graeme
Jennings, violin; Richard Worn, contrabass;
Steed
Cowart, conductor
Aaron Copland: Sextet
Robert
Schwartz, piano; William Wohlmacher, clarinet;
Graeme
Jennings and Cynthia Mei, violins; Charlton Lee, viola;
Joan
Jeanrenaud, cello; Steed Cowart, conductor
June 21, 2007
John Cage: Credo in Us
William Winant
Percussion Group
Steed Cowart,
conductor
at Garden of Memory Summer Solstice Event
May 29, 2007
John Cage: Atlas Eclipticalis, with Winter Music,
Song Books, and Music for Amplified Toy Piano
Steed Cowart,
conductor
James Tenney: Swell Piece #2
Steed Cowart,
rehearsal director
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
February 23, 2007
Jonathan Brenner: Variable Chaconnes
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Steed Cowart,
conductor
December 1, 2006
Robert Morris: Oracle (Premiere)
http://ecmc.rochester.edu/rdm/notes/oracle.html
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Steed Cowart,
rehearsal director
November 4, 2006
Olivia Block: Squall
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble with
Olivia Block,
electronics
Steed Cowart,
conductor
October 2, 2006
Mills Performing
Group
Morton Feldman: For Samuel Beckett
Tod Brody, Stacey
Pelinka, flutes; Laura Griffiths, Sarah Rathke, oboes;
Peter Josheff, Bill Wohlmacher, clarinets; Rufus Olivier, Carolyn
Lockhart, bassoons;
Glen Swarts,
Meredith Brown, horns; Jeff Biancalana, Charles Metzger, trumpets;
Toyoji Tomita,
Jennifer Baker, trombones; Zachariah Spellman, tuba;
Karen Gottlieb,
harp; Karen Rosenak, piano; William Winant, vibraphone;
Roy Malan, Kate
Stenberg, violins; Ellen Ruth Rose, viola; Joan Jeanrenaud, cello;
Richard Worn, bass
Steed Cowart,
conductor
April, 2006
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Jon Brenner: Prisms
Steed Cowart,
rehearsal director
Christian Wolff: Exercises #2 and
#12
Steed Cowart,
rehearsal director
Michael Byron: A Living Room at the Bottom of a Lake
Steed Cowart,
conductor
April, 2006
Maurice Delage: 4 Pomes Hindous
Steed Cowart,
conductor
February 28, 2005
Mills Performing
Group
Jos Maceda: Music for Two Pianos and Four Percussion
Groups
Kanoko Nishi and
Quentin Sirjacq: pianos; Shayna Dunkelman, Sam Ospovat, Ches Smith, Seth
Warren, William Winant: percussion
Steed Cowart,
conductor
John Bischoff: Rondo
Kanoko Nishi: piano,
Shayna Dunkelman: percussion, Steve Adams: flute,
Peter Josheff:
clarinet, Toyoji Tomita: trombone, Theresa Wong: cello,
John Bischoff:
electronics
Steed Cowart,
conductor
October 28, 2005
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Terry Riley: Tread on the Trail
Terry Riley: Olson III
Steed Cowart, rehearsal
director
February 19, 2005
James Tenney: Septet for Electric Guitars
Myles
Boisen, John Finkbeiner, Fred Frith, Steve Kirk, Brian Pardo,
John
Shiurba, electric guitars; Andy Nathan, electric bass guitar
Steed Cowart,
conductor
James Tenney: Form 2 (In Memoriam John Cage)
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Steed Cowart,
rehearsal director
November 30, 2004
Mills Contemporary Performance Ensemble
Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together
Jukka Tiensuu: Rubato
Terran Olson: Four Legs, One Wing
Steed Cowart,
conductor
May 4, 2004
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Matt Volla: Tennis Music
Martin McGinn: Stained Resonances
Steed Cowart,
conductor
April 27, 2004
Alvin Curran 65th
Birthday Concert
Alvin Curran: SHOFAR...Or None of the Above
Steed Cowart,
conductor
February 14, 2004
Meredith Monk: Memory Song
Meredith Monk,
Allison Sniffin, and Dina Emerson, voices;
Fred Frith, electric guitar; Matt Ingalls, clarinet; Shayna Dunkelman,
vibraphone and keyboard;
Kanoko Nishi, piano and keyboard; Theresa Wong, cello; Lisa Mezzacappa, contrabass
Steed
Cowart, conductor
Meredith Monk: Night (Instrumental Version)
Mills Contemporary Performance Ensemble and Guests
Steed Cowart,
conductor
October 13, 2003
Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together
Berkeley Arts
Festival, Berkeley, CA
Dean Santomieri,
narrator
Sarah Cahill, piano
Steed Cowart,
conductor
August 15, 2003
Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together
Old First Church,
San Francisco, CA
Dean Santomieri,
narrator
Sarah Cahill, piano
Steed Cowart,
conductor
June 8, 2003
A Tribute to Lou
Harrison
Hertz Hall,
University of California, Berkeley
Lou Harrison: Simfony #13 (1941)
Fugue (1942)
Steed Cowart,
conductor
May 31,
2002
Pauline Oliveros
Retrospective
Pauline
Oliveros: Four Meditations for Orchestra
I. From
Unknown Silences
II.
Tuning Meditation
III.
Interdependence
IV.
Approaches and Departures
Sounding
the Margins Orchestra
Steed
Cowart, rehearsal director
June 1,
2002 8:00 PM
Pauline Oliveros
Retrospective
Pauline
Oliveros: The Heart of Tones
Sounding
the Margins Orchestra
Steed Cowart,
rehearsal director
April 23. 2002
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Pamela A. Madsen: What's That
Steed Cowart,
conductor
Not Just Yet: an ensemble improvisation
Steed Cowart and
Fred Frith, conductors
September 30, 2001
Wadada Leo Smith 60th Birthday Celebration
Wadada Leo Smith: Crossing on a Southern Road
Wadada Leo Smith,
trumpet; Fred Frith, guitar; Shelly Burgon, harp; Brett Larner, koto;
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Steed Cowart,
conductor
April 7, 2001
Amy Denio: Memories Dissolved
Amy Denio: Long Song
Amy Denio: Ambaraba Ci Ci Co Co
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble with Amy Denio, accordion and voice
Steed Cowart,
conductor
December 12, 1999
Improvisation: Unforeseen Events
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Steed Cowart and
Fred Frith, conductors
April 27, 1999
John Zorn: Aporias (V. Camaron)
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Daan Vandewalle,
piano: Jennifer Curtis, Russell Greenberg, Peter Valsamis, and William Winant,
clappers
Steed Cowart,
conductor
David Behrman: Unforeseen Events
David Behrman,
interactive electronics; John Ingle, solo saxophone
Michael Baumgarten,
percussion; Matt Calvert, trombone; Eli Crews, contrabass;
Angela Davis,
flute; Wayne Grim, electric guitar;
Lindsey Ott, flute;
Keely Rogers-Free,
clarinet; Greg Saunier, piano; Ches Smith, percussion;
Erika Torchia,
violin; Daan Vandewalle, piano; Mimi Fillion Wilson, flute
Steed Cowart,
conductor
April 25, 1999
Mills Concert Series
Luigi Dallapiccola: Due Liriche di
Anacreonte
Elizabeth Eshleman, soprano; Belle Bulwinkle, piano; Peter Josheff,
clarinet;
Rane Moore, clarinet; Ellen Ruth Rose, viola
Steed Cowart, conductor
November 1, 1997
Luc Ferari: Madame di Shanghai
Steed Cowart,
conductor
May 6, 1997
Lou Harrison 80th
Birthday Concert
Lou Harrison: Simfony #13
Steed Cowart,
conductor
April 4, 1997
Fred Frith: The Previous Evening Part I
Fred Frith: The Previous Evening Part II
Fred Frith: Traffic Continues
Fred Frith: Announcement
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Steed Cowart,
conductor
May 7, 1996
Earle Brown: December 1952
Christian Wolff: Exercises #2, #3, #9
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble
Steed Cowart,
rehearsal director
April 19, 1996
Christian Wolff: Changing the System
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble with Christian Wolff and guests
Steed Cowart, rehearsal
director
November 16, 1995
Here Comes
Everybody: The Music,
Poetry, and Art of John Cage
(A conference at
Mills College)
John Cage: Double Music
Daniel Kennedy, Ward
Spangler, Mark Veregge
William Winant,
percussion
Steed Cowart,
conductor
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 2
Joel Davel, Daniel
Kennedy, Ward Spangler, Mark Veregge
William Winant,
percussion
Steed Cowart,
conductor
John Cage: Credo in Us
Daniel Kennedy, Ward
Spangler, William Winant, percussion
Julie Steinberg,
piano
Steed Cowart,
conductor
John Cage: Thirteen
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble and Guests
David Abel, viola;
William Banovetz, oboe; Leslie Clyde, violin;
Thomas Dambly,
trumpe;t Joel Davel, percussion; Danielle DeGruttola, cello;
Erica Haskell,
flute; Paul Hanson, bassoon; Matt Ingalls, clarinet;
Bevin Kelley,
violin; Brian Pearson, percussion; Toyoji Tomita, trombone;
Peter Warhaftig,
tuba
Steed
Cowart, rehearsal director
September 30, 1994
30th
Anniversary Performance
Terry Riley: In C
Mills Contemporary Performance
Ensemble with guests David Abel, George Brooks, Chris Brown,
Trevor Dunn, Phil
Franklin, Ben Goldberg, Don Howe, Maggi Payne, Wendy Reid, John Schott,
Julie Steinberg,
Toyoji Tomita
Steed Cowart,
rehearsal director
May 16, 1992
John Cage: Lecture on the Weather
Mills Contemporary
Performance Ensemble and guests
Audio recording by
Maryanne Amacher; film by Luis Frangella
Performers: Charles
Amirkhanian, Paula Cekola, Steed Cowart, Alvin Curran, Joel Davel,
Liza Kitchell, Greg
Lenczycki, Donna McCabe, Jeff Phillips, Suzann Ruscigno,
Tom Sherman, Tim
Walters, Barbara Wolf
Steed Cowart,
rehearsal director
1988-1989
The Club Foot
Orchestra performing music to
accompany silent
films in tours around the United States and
Canada, including
the Mill Valley Film Festival, New Music America
in New York, and
featured on "Entertainment Tonight" with
Leonard Maltin.
Richard Marriott:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Richard Marriott and
Gino Robair: Nosferatu
Erik Satie (arr. by
Steed Cowart): Entr'acte
Steed Cowart,
conductor
1987
Morton Subotnick: Parallel Lines
San Francisco
Contemporary Music Players
Steed Cowart, guest
conductor
1981-1984
Bernard Rands: Deja
Robert Erickson: The Idea of Order at Key West
Phil Collins: Seven Haiku
Luciano Berio: O King
Paul Dresher: Channels Passing
Igor Stravinsky: Eight Instrumental Miniatures
George Barati: And the Shadows
were Filled with Light
Ensemble Nova
(University of California, Santa Cruz)
Steed Cowart,
conductor
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