Past Iditarod Programs

2019

Guest Composer: (Michael Finnissy)

• Andersen-Liederkreis
• Not Envious of Rabbits
• Notre Dame Polyphony
• Post-Christian Survival Kit
• Unknown Ground

New Works Program:

• Addie Camsuzou – Desert Glass
• Jude Duane – S.S.T.
• Paul Fake – Waking in Winter
• Philip Golub – Amtrak 71
• Eren Gumrukcuoglu – Lattice Scattering
• Cara Han – Tainted
• Matthew Jaskot – Breathe
• Vasiliki Krimitza – Gra-V
• Eunice Lee – flux
• John Rot – be created or
• Declan Siefkas – A Ranch in the Far Desert

Other Repertoire:

• Alban Berg – Clarinet Pieces Op. 5
• Julius Eastman – Evil ******
• Julius Eastman – Stay On It
• Morton Feldman – Two Pieces for Three Pianos
• Beat Furrer – lotofagos
• George Lewis – Anthem
• Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians
• Kaija Saariaho – Serenatas
• Nick Vines – Indie Ditties – 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, & 10

2018

Guest Composer: (Julian Anderson)

• Bach Machine
• Lucretius
• Prayer
• Ring Dance
• Scherzo (With Trains)

New Works Program:

• Josiah Tayag Catalan – Fractal Tracing
• Noam Faingold – A Ghostly Blues
• Michael Flynn – Smitten
• G. Blake Harrison-Lane – stands among them
• Dongryul Lee – quasi una macchina
• Will Myers – Habits
• Brian Riordan – Recorded Ruins
• Bahar Royayee – Kitchen
• Barry Sharp – Moon Setting
• Ryan Suleiman – Mists and Sparks
• Christopher Vu – Ngan’s Sketches

Other Repertoire:

• John Adams – Hallelujah Junction
• Georges Aphergis – 7 Crimes de L’Amour
• John Cage – Music for Amplified Toy Pianos
• George Crumb – Makrokosmos III
• George Crumb – Night Music I
• Morton Feldman – Two Pieces for Three Pianos
• Morton Feldman – Voice, Violin, and Piano
• Vinko Globokkar – Dos a Dos
• Lee Hyla – We Speak Etruscan
• Charies Ives – Sunrise
• Lukas Foss – Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbord
• Mark Menzies – Six Little Quartets
• Nico Muhly – Object Songs
• Steve Reich – Piano Phase
• Frederic Rzewski – Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
• Alfred Schnittke – Piano Quintet
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Refrain
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Setz die Segel dur Sonne
• Nicholas Vines – Indie Ditties
• Christian Wolff – Three Pieces
• Scott Wollschleger – Bring Something Incomprehensible into This World

2017

Guest Composer (Georg Friedrich Haas):

• in nomine
• ins Licht
• petit hommage a un grand maitre
• String Quartet #2
• Tombeau

New Works Program:

• Lisa Atkinson – from my window, a lighthouse
• Lydia Brindamore – through a mist, lightly
• Simone Cardini – Apolide, esilio tra confini lacerate
• Henri Colombat – arrivee, gestes, melodie
• Paul Fake – The Bells of Cologne Cathedral
• Daniel Godsil – Reinforced
• Christopher Mitchell – Primal Scream
• Bahar Royaee – Tomb Stone
• Quentin Tschofen – untitled
• Tiange Zhou – hEArt

Other Repertoire:

• Louis Andriessen – Worker’s Union
• Luciano Berio – Folk Songs
• Harrison Birtwistle – Dinah + Nick’s Love Song
• John Cage – ear for EAR
• John Cage – Postcard from Heaven
• George Crumb – Madrigals, Books II & III
• George Crumb – Makrokosmos III
• Marti Epstein – liquid, fragile
• Morton Feldman – Two Pieces for Three Pianos
• Morton Feldman – Viola in my Life
• Sofia Gubaidulina – Duo Sonata
• Lou Harrison – Suite
• Lee Hyla – Ciao Manhattan
• Charles Ives – Sunrise
• Lisa Lim – Ehwaz
• Alvin Lucier – Braid
• Kaija Saariaho – Miranda’s Lament
• Kaija Saariaho – Trois Rivieres
• Giacinto Scelsi – Okanagon
• Giacinto Scelsi – Rucke di Guke
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Erwachen
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Refrain
• Christian Wolff – For Si
• Christian Wolff – Sonata for Three Pianos
• Iannis Xenakis – Morisma-amorisma

2016

Guest Composer: (Vinko Globokar)

• Blinde Zeit
• Dos a Dos
• Kvadrat
• Terres brûlées, ensuite…

New Works Program:

• Philip Acimovic – Disintegration #2
• Aaron Butler – glacial mass
• Linda Dallimore – Anthropogenic Weather
• Nicole Gutman – Let’s Keep In Touch
• Charles Halka – Potato Face Blind Man
• Andrew Harlan – arctic frostpool
• Andrew Maxbauer – Study – gasping
• Brian Riordan – K.
• Nina Ryser – False Awakening
• Hallie Smith – Axis
• Todd Swingle – Inferno
• Quentin Tschofen – In the Rain
• Jon Yu – Putrefact

Other Repertoire:

• William Albright – Pit Band
• Pierre Boulez – Structures II
• John Cage – Wonderful Widow
• George Crumb – Madrigals 1, 2, & 4
• George Crumb – Makrokosmos 3
• Morton Feldman – Viola In My Life 3
• Lee Hyla – We Speak Etruscan
• Charles Ives – Piano Trio
• Gyorgy Kurtag – Einige Sätze aus den Sudelbüchern Georg Christoph Lichtenbergs
• Yori-Aki Matsudaira – Brilliancy
• Kaija Saariaho – Miranda’s Lament
• Karlheiz Stockhausen – Erwachen
• Edgard Varese – Ionisation

2015

Guest Composer: (Rand Steiger)

• Resonateur
• Mourning Fog
• Light on Water

Other Repertoire:

• Lowell Fuchs – Oil Stained America
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Kreuzspiel
• Thomas Reeves – Meditation
• Steve Reich – Double Sextet
• Giacinto Scelsi – Dharana
• Celeste Oram – rupture | rapture
• Ori Talmon – Learning from the Laughing Man
• Katherine Young – so the moss glows
• George Katehis – Thravsma
• John Cage – Litany for the Whale
• George Crumb – Ancient Voices of Children
• Christian Wolff – For Morty
• Clara Latham – I am the beat that waits for you to see me.
• Carolyn O’Brien – Coil, Recoil
• Lucas Foss – 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
• George Crumb – Apparition
• Louis Andriessen – Hoketus
• Nicholas Vines – King’s Manifesto
• Mark Goldstein – Den Magiska Ponnyn
• Rzewski Winnsboro – Cotton Mill Blues
• John Zorn – All Hallows Eve
• Morton Feldman – 2 pieces for 3 pianos
• Nizan Leibovich – There is No Utterance There are No Words Whose Sound Goes Unheard
• Yeung-ping Chen – Sonic Engraving: Fugue of Distances
• Lucas Foss – Ni Bruit Ni Vitesse
• Kurtag – Hommage a Schumann
• John Zorn – Cobra

2014

Guest Composer: (Roger Reynolds)

• Chatter/clatter
• Elliott
• Surprised Accords
• What’s to Come
• brain ablaze

Other Repertoire:

• Chaya Czernowin – Duo Leat
• Christian Wolff – Exercises
• Earl Kim – Now and Then
• Earle Brown – Corroboree
• Galina Ustvolskaya – Composition No. 1
• George Benjamin – Viola, Viola
• George Crumb – Ancient Voices of Children
• George Crumb – Madrigals Book I
• Giacinto Scelsi – Okanagon
• John Cage – ear for EAR
• John Cage – she is asleep percussion
• John Cage – Wonderful Widow
• John Zorn – For Your Eyes Only
• Lee Hyla – Ciao, Manhattan
• Lee Hyla – In Double Light
• Louis Andriessen – Workers Union
• Lucas Foss – 13 ways of looking at a blackbird
• Pierre Boulez – Sonatine

2013

Guest Composer: (Rand Steiger)

• 13 LOOPS
• Trio in Memoriam

Other Repertoire:

• Charles Ives – Piano Trio
• Earle Brown – TIMES FIVE
• Frederic Rzewski – Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
• George Crumb – Makrocosmos III
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Refrain
• Luciano Berio – Folk Songs
• Luciano Berio – LINEA
• Matthias Spahlinger – musica impura
• Morton Feldman – 2 pieces for 3 pianos
• Roger Miller – Vines4music
• Scott Deal – Goldstream Variations
• Steve Reich – Tehillim

2012

Guest Composer: (Christian Wolff)

• Merce
• Berlin Exercises
• Sonata
• Tilbury
• Pieces for Julius
• Exercises

Other Repertoire:

• John Cage – Concert w/ Aria
• John Cage – Wonderful Widow / Nowth Upon Nacht
• John Cage – Experiences I
• John Cage – Three Dances
• John Cage – String Quartet
• John Cage – Postcard from Heaven
• John Cage – She is Asleep
• John Cage – Forever and Sunsmell
• Morton Feldman – False Relationships and the Extended Ending
• Linda Dusman – Magnificat I
• John Zorn – Amour Fou
• John Zorn – Music for Children
• Lee Hyla – House of Flowers
• Steve Reich – Drumming
• Luciano Berio – Linea
• George Crumb – Music for a Summer Evening (Mak. III)
• George Crumb – Vox Balaenae
• George Crumb – Madrigals Book IV

2011

Guest Composer: (Tristan Murail)

• Feuilles
• Ou Tremblent
• Transsahara Express
• Winter Fragments
• Ethers

Other Repertoire:

• John Cage – Ryoanji
• Elliott Carter – Cello Sonata
• George Crumb – Otherwordly Resonances
• George Crumb – Madrigals III
• Lukas Foss – Paradigm
• Gerard Grisey – Solo pour deux
• Philippe Hurel – Tombeau in memoriam Grisey
• Gyorgy Kurtag – Homage a r sch
• Kaija Saariaho – Adjo
• Giacinto Scelsi – Rucke di Guck
• Alfred Schnittke – Hymn I
• Stockhausen – Kreuzspiel
• Stockhausen – Refrain
• Christian Wolff – For Morty
• Christian Wolff – Dark as a Dungeon
• Isang Yun – OstWest Miniatur I
• Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians
• Nicolaus Huber – Oh Dieses Lichts

2010

Guest Composer: (Chaya Czernowin)

• Afatsim
• Sahaf

Other Repertoire:

• George Crumb – Quest
• Norio Fukushi – Silica
• Kaija Saariaho – Cendres
• Morton Feldman – 4 Songs to e.e. cummings
• Christian Wolff – Malvina
• Frederic Rzewski – Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
• John Psathas – Matre’s Dance
• George Crumb – Makrokosmos IV: Celestial Mechanics
• Louis Andriessen – Hoketus
• Christian Wolff – Sonata for Three Prepared Pianos
• John Luther Adams – Dark Waves
• Luciano Berio – Naturale
• Morton Feldman – False Relationships and the Extended Ending
• Tan Dun – Silk Road
• Steve Reich – Piano Phase

2009

Guest Composer (Jonathan Harvey):

• Be(com)ing
• Clarinet Trio
• Dialogue and Song
• Flight-Elegy
• Pastorale
• Quantumplation
• Round the Star and Back

Other repertoire:

• John Adams – Hallelujah Junction
• Luciano Berio – Folksongs
• Elliott Carter – Cello Sonata
• George Crumb – Night Music I
• Franco Donatoni – Cloches III
• Morton Feldman – 2 Pianos, Intermission VI
• Morton Feldman – 2 Pieces for 3 Pianos
• Morton Feldman – Piano 4/3 Hands
• Morton Feldman – Vertical Thoughts I
• Lukas Foss – Ni Bruit Ni Vitesse
• Charles Ives – Vote for Names
• Lei Liang – Parts for a Floating Space
• Steve Reich – Piano Phase
• Niels Ronsholdt – Die Wanderin
• Niels Ronsholdt – Drink Me Make Me Real
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Kreuzspiel
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Refrain
• Toru Takemitsu – Toward the Sea
• Chinary Ung – Tall Wind