2025
April 27
Fun & Games: A multidisciplinary composed theatre show with live performance, sound sculptures, audience participation, and many surprises.
Evanston Art Center, April 27, 2025, show from 4pm-5:30pm, party to follow until 9pm. Thanks in part to a fundraising campaign via 3Arts and to the generosity of the Evanston Arts Center, admission is FREE and open to the public.
2024
February 10
Re: Duo, featuring Wilson Poffenberger, saxophone, and Elsie Bae Han, viola, perform Coil, Recoil for alto saxophone and viola at the New Music Festival at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Studio T401, 31 Hemenway Street, Boston, MA 02215. February 10, 9pm EST
March 15
Thomas Snydacker performs Cavort for soprano saxophone from Suite for One Player of Many Saxophones at the 2024 North American Saxophone Alliance Conference at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Time/location TBA.
Re: Duo, featuring Wilson Poffenberger, saxophone, and Elsie Bae Han, viola, perform Coil, Recoil for alto saxophone and viola at the 2024 North American Saxophone Alliance Conference at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Time/location TBA.
PAST EVENTS:
2024
January 12-13, 2024
Re: Duo, featuring Wilson Poffenberger, saxophone, and Elsie Bae Han, viola, perform Coil, Recoil for alto saxophone and viola, International Saxophone Symposium hosted by the US Navy Band at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.
January 10
Re: Duo, featuring Wilson Poffenberger, saxophone, and Elsie Bae Han, viola, perform Coil, Recoil for alto saxophone and viola, Valdosta State University.
January 9
Re: Duo, featuring Wilson Poffenberger, saxophone, and Elsie Bae Han, viola, perform Coil, Recoil for alto saxophone and viola, Georgia State University.
2022
October 25 - December 9, 2022
Crowdfunding via 3Arts from October 25-December 9, 2022 for my show A Day in a Park, September 2023.
2018
September 2018
Residency at Willapa Bay AiR September 1-28.
February 27, 2018
Colloquium presentation, Texas State University, School of Music. 3:30-4:50pm, location TBA.
February 26, 2018
Colloquium presentation, UT Austin, Butler School of Music. 4:00-5:30pm, MRH 2.634.
April 22, 2018
Performance of Thing Contained for saxophone quartet, by Nois Quartet. NUNC3! Conference, Northwestern University, Bienen School of Music. 12:00pm, Regenstein MCR.
2017
August 23 , 2017
Ookpik, comprised of a subset of Edmonton based septet, Bass Line Road, performs Coil Recoil II for clarinet and viola, at the Edmonton FRINGE Festival, Edmonton, Canada, August 23, 2017.
January 15, 2017
Kinetic Suite, duo for multiple flutes, toy piano, music boxes and gong tree. Mabel Kwan and Shanna Gutierrez. Constellation Chicago, 3111 N. Western Ave, Chicago, IL, 8:30pm
March 4, 2017
newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Caprice for violin, Kansas City, MO 8pm
May 5, 2017
Outer Ear: Kinetic Suite, duo for multiple flutes, toy piano, music boxes and gong tree, Mabel Kwan and Shanna Gutierrez. Experimental Sound Studio, 5925 N. Ravenswood Ave., Chicago, IL. Doors at 7:30. Concert 8pm August 19-21, 26-28, 2016
Thrust! Opening performance of Tap Man Productions 2016-17 season. Double feature of Tap and Modern Dance, by Tristan Bruns and Kate O'Hanlon. Stage 773, 1225 Belmont Ave. Chicago, IL. Friday and Saturday, 7pm, Sunday, 3pm
2016
August 17, 2016 Fulcrum Point New Music Project, Discoveries Series. Ritornello for string quartet. Concert, talk, audience Q&A. Gottleib Hall at Merit School of Music, 38 S Peoria, Chicago, IL, 6-7:30pm
October 8, 2016
Ear Taxi Festival, Plectra for Chicago Harp Quartet, Harris Theater Chicago, IL 7:30pm. Purchase tickets here.
November-December, 2016
Fall/Winter fellowship at MacDowell Colony.
July 8, 2016
Omaha Under the Radar, Thomas Snydacker performs Tethergrowl for baritone saxophone, Milk Run, 1907 Leavenworth St, Omaha, Nebraska, 8pm
June 4, 2016
Eve Boltax, viola and Mary Joy Patchett, saxophone of Patchtax perform Coil, Recoil for alto saxophone and viola at Mobius, 55 Norfolk Street, Cambridge, MA, 8pm
March 17, 2016
Composition Symposium, led by Prof. Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, with performance of Caprice for violin, by Hanna Hurwitz, and Thing Contained for saxophone quartet by students of Prof. Chien-Kwan Lin from the ESM Saxophone Studio. Howard Hanson Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, 3:30pm
March 11, 2016
Doctoral Recital featuring: Tristan Bruns, Shanna Gutierrez, Meret Bitticks, Mabel Kwan, Jesse Langen, Ellen McSweeney, Thomas Snydacker, Scott Carter Thunes, and Carrie Frey, Myra Hinrichs and Helen Newby of Ensemble Chartreuse. Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall, Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, Northwestern University, 70 Arts Circle, Evanston, IL, 7:30pm
November 20, 2015
Hartford New Music Festival, Thing Contained, for saxophone quartet, 50 Bartholomew Ave Hartford, CT, 7:30pm
October 29, 2015
Lecture at Washington University, composers colloquium, St. Louis, MO
October 5, 2015
Peep Show: The Instant Choreography Series, Caprice, for solo violin gets an instant choreography treatment by Striding Lion Choreography Group, Links Hall At Constellation, 3111 N. Western Ave.Chicago, IL, 60618, 7:00pm
Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP) Marathon concert, New England Conservatory, Brown Hall, June 20, 2015, 4pm to 12 midnight.
Coil Recoil, for alto saxophone and viola
Tom Snydacker and Danika Paskvan, Northwestern University, June 9, 2015, Regenstein Hall, 8pm
Coil Recoil, for alto saxophone and viola
RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Workshop, Momenta Quartet April 1, 2015, Illinois State University Kemp Hall, 7:30pm
Ritornello for string quartet, premiere
UNK New Music Festival, March 9, 2015, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Fine Arts Recital Hall, 7:30 pm
Coil Recoil II, for clarinet and viola.
Elaine Clark, violinist from Concorde Ensemble January 25, 2015, RHA Gallery, Ely Place, Dublin, Ireland. 2:30 pm
Caprice for solo violin.
Bent Frequency's Jan Berry Baker and Tania Maxwell Clements December 3, 2014, Goat Farm Arts Center Foster Street, NW Atlanta, Georgia. Preconcert talk.
Coil, Recoil for alto saxophone and viola.
Ari Streisfeld, violin, performs Caprice for solo violin, June 11, 2014, Lake Dunmore, VT. Salon Concert
Caprice, for solo violin
Sean Hurlburt, alto saxophone and Erin Rafferty, viola, May 31, 2014, Northwestern University
Coil, Recoil for alto saxophone and viola
ab duo premiere, March 16, 2014, Spectrum in NYC.
Nocturne for contrabass flute and djembe
ab duo premiere, March 13, 2014, Oberlin Conservatory of Music - Warner Concert Hall
Nocturne for contrabass flute and djembe
ab duo premiere, March 10, 2014, Ludwig Recital Hall, Kent Campus - Music and Speech Center
Nocturne for contrabass flute and djembe
ab duo premiere, December 1, 2013, Green Mill, Chicago, IL
Nocturne for contrabass flute and djembe
Graeme Jennings, premiere February 2013, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Caprice for solo violin, 2013
Dinosaur Annex, October 28, 2012, Boston, MA
Conveyance for alto flute, bass clarinet, and piano, 2005
World Saxophone Congress, July 2012, St. Andrews Scotland,
Coil, Recoil, for alto saxophone and viola, 2012
Lick-Wilmerding High School Orchestra, December 2011, San Francisco, CA,
Three Movements for Chamber Ensemble, 2011
Dal Niente Presents, commissioned for world premiere, June 2011, Evanston, IL
Escapement, for flute (alto/picc), oboe and baritone saxophone
Anubis Saxophone Concert, commissioned for world premiere, May 2011, Chicago, IL
Thing Contained, for saxophone quartet
Music10 Festival of New Music with eighth blackbird, June 2010, Blonay, Switzerland
Impromptu, for piccolo, cello, percussion and piano
GAMMA-UT Conference, UT Austin, TX, March 2009
Electrum for piano trio
Trio Phonos: Harry Sparnaay, Peter Bacchus, Jean Pierre Dupuy, Barcelona, Alicante and Madrid, Spain, November-December, 2008
Conveyance for alto flute, bass clarinet, and piano
San Francisco Community Music Center Ensemble, San Francisco, CA, May 2008
Three Movements for String Quartet
SCI National Conference, neoPhonia New Music Ensemble, Atlanta, GA, Winter 2008
Formicary, for piano quartet
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Binghamton, NY, March 2008
Electrum for piano trio
63rd Annual Composers Conference at Wellesley College, Summer 2007
Electrum for piano trio
Empyrean Ensemble, University of California at Davis, Spring 2007
Electrum for piano trio
Bent Frequency Call for Scores, Atlanta, GA, October 2006
Conveyance for alto flute, bass clarinet, and piano
Music ’06, Cincinnati Conservatory Music Festival, Summer 2006
Conveyance for alto flute, bass clarinet, and piano
Empyrean Ensemble, University of California at Davis, Spring 2006
Widget for viola, string bass, and piano
Empyrean Ensemble, University of California at Davis, Spring 2005
Conveyance for alto flute, bass clarinet, and piano
Arianna String Quartet, University of California at Davis, Spring 2005
Reciprocal Aspects for string quartet
SFSU Chamber Music Ensemble, San Francisco State University, Spring 2003
Solace for piano trio
New York New Music Ensemble, San Francisco State University, Fall 2002
Ephemera for Pierrot ensemble
Karen Wells, San Francisco State University, Spring 2002
Subsume for bass clarinet
Left Coast Ensemble, San Francisco State University, Fall 2001
Observations for string quartet