RE:duo will be premiering a new work by New York based composer reinier potgieter, paired with an improvisation at the 2024 North American Saxophone Alliance biennial conference held at Oklahoma State University.

RE:duo will present a recital at the 2024 International Saxophone Symposium hosted by the US Navy Band at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.

Our program will include Coil,Recoil by Carolyn O’Brien, the world premiere version of seagrass/reed by Carrie Frey for saxophone and viola, and a free improvisation.

SPLICE Festival is a three-day festival that blends engaging live performances with new technologies. Composers, performers, and composer/performers gather online for a weekend of concerts and presentations covering topics such as aesthetics, technology, and issues of performance practice, with the goal of inspiring, educating, and sharing information amongst the attendees and the students at the host institution. SPLICE Festival is designed to foster community and to create bonds between performers and composers dedicated to music that involves dynamic, live performance with technology.

SPLICE Festival 5 will be hosted by the Berklee College of Music from November 2-4, 2023. Activities will include concerts, presentations, and hands-on workshop sessions. Concerts will feature performances selected from submitted works and a curated concert by the SPLICE Ensemble. Lectures and workshops will be presented by participants and SPLICE faculty.

I will be performing Badie Khaleghian’s Became Aware Of This Moving Of Life for baritone saxophone and multimedia.

This August, join us for an evening of powerful storytelling and artistry at Unchained: A Collaborative Intermedia Tribute to Women’s Stories of Resilience. This two-night event, hosted by Musiqa at the Midtown Arts & Theater Center in Houston, features a trio of captivating works composed by Iranian-American composer Badie Khaleghian.

Tahirih the Pure is a 15-minute performance interweaving solo piano and live painting, bringing to life the tale of the renowned Middle Eastern poet, theologian, and women’s rights activist, Tahirih Qurratul-ayn. Performed by Caroline Owen on piano with live painting by Kyle Sharkey, this piece narrates Tahirih's courageous departure from traditional religious ideologies, culminating in her daring decision to unveil her hijab before an assembly of men – a heroic act that led to her execution.

Half-told Stories is a unique dance performance born from a collaboration between NobleMotion Dance and Badie Khaleghian. The piece blends dance with the personal narratives of four talented dancers, each of whom contributed their individual experiences to shape the structure and narrative of the work. Khaleghian's compositions, as varied and rich as the stories themselves, provide a versatile auditory backdrop, elevating each dancer's emotive movements. “Half-told Stories” is an exploration of the human spirit, with each dancer's movements expressing their own stories in a wordless language.

The final work of the evening, Electric Sky Blue, is a collaborative exploration of immersive and interactive sound and color written exclusively for Caroline Owen. A multi-sensory experience, the work enables both the performer and audience to engage with the artwork on a multidimensional level. The interactive visuals within the performance are intricately linked to both the dance movements and piano playing. Through an interplay of motion-capturing and amplitude-following technologies, Owen's choreography and piano performance is transformed into an immersive visual experience, curated in real-time by Khaleghian. The genesis of the work's structure stems from Owen's poetic reflection on the color, electric sky blue. This poem serves as the foundation of the piece, which unfolds across ten scenes, each of which is based on a line of Owen’s poetry.

Unchained is a celebration of women's stories, strength, and resilience, artfully brought to life through live music, digital and physical visualization, and dance within an immersive setting. We invite you to be part of this unique experience as we honor the powerful narratives of women through the lens of innovative, collaborative artistry.

Boston Conservatory at Berklee High School Composition Intensive is a two-week program designed to challenge and engage students who are serious about music composition. Young composers will receive individualized lessons and coachings from acclaimed faculty and guest artists who will help them build a toolbox of techniques essential to developing a compositional voice. By the end of the program, each student composer will have developed a portfolio of three works that includes properly notated scores and accompanying audio recordings, performed by the program’s professional ensembles in residence. Students will leave the program with greater confidence in their skills and creativity as composers.

I will be reading and workshopping student compositions for the BoCo high school composition intensive.

RE: Duo has been awarded an ensemble fellow position at the 2023 Cortona New Music Sessions held in Cortona Italy!

Works by Arias, Oliveros, and Borcherding