December 9, 2021 – Azusa, California

Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra

Corelli: Christmas Concerto (Melody Hung, graduate conductor)

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves (Raphaela Lacerda, graduate conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from The Nutcracker

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 November 12, 2021 – Azusa, California

Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra

Alex Russell, violin

“Beethoven at Lunch”

Name Day Overture

Romance in G (Flora Xing, graduate conductor)

Symphony No. 5

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November 6-8, 2021 – Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

“Rachmaninoff, Reich, and Adams” – interview with John Adams

Pre-Concert lecture for the Los Angeles Philharmonic

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October 29, 2021 – Glendora, California

Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra

Michele Zukovsky and Darkson Magrinelli, clarinets

Mussorgsky: Prelude to Khovanshchina (Ekaterina Myshliaeva, graduate conductor)

Krommer: Concerto for Two Clarinets

Hovhaness: Symphony No. 2 “Mysterious Mountain”

Smetana: The Moldau

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 October 14-17, 2021 – Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

“Dudamel Conducts Strauss”

Pre-Concert lecture for the Los Angeles Philharmonic

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 October 2, 2021 – Azusa, California

Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra

Shuo Ma, cello

Mozart: Symphony No. 34 (Flora Xing, graduate conductor)

Kaija Saariaho: Forty Heartbeats

Dvořák: Cello Concerto (I) (Raphaela Lacerda, graduate conductor)

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 “Reformation”

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 September 2021

Judge in the final round of the Golden State International Music Competition

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August 2021

Judge in the final round of the 1st MAP International Music Competition

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 July 29, 2021

Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra

Bach/Stokowski: Little Fugue in G minor (online video release)

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June 21, 2021

Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra

Ibert: Divertissment (online video release)

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May 2, 2021

“Enter the Weirdly Wonderful World of Galina Ustvolskaya”

Featured recording on Slipped Disc, the #1 Classical Music News Site

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April 29, 2021

Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra

Ustvolskaya: Symphony No. 5 “Amen” (online video release)

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 March 26, 2021  – Shenzhen, China (postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic)

Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra

Suli Xue, violin

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture

Bruch: Scottish Fantasy

Ives: Symphony No. 2

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 March 6, 2021

Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra

Dvořák: Legend for Orchestra (online video release)

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 February 17, 2021

Guest appearance on the “Classical Top 5” podcast based in London to discuss American Orchestral Works