Performer: Tiffany Ng

In 2013, North Korea released its new phone, the Arirang. It is named for the folk song of the same name, well known throughout both North Korea and South Korea. Treviño composed Future Calendars as a prolation canon in three different simultaneous tempi on the theme of Arirang, with the fastest statement in the treble bells and the slowest statement in the bass. The deceptively simple-sounding yet polyphonically complex piece explores what it means for a song with so many meanings to be played on a public instrument.

Jeffrey R. Treviño's "Future Calendars"

Christopher Rountree (conductor)
Scott Paulson (UC San Diego Geisel Carillon), Red Fish Blue Fish, and La Jolla Symphony Orchestra

Commissioned by Steven Schick
2015 Thomas Nee Commission Award

The Moon in La Jolla (2015) for string quartet, percussion quartet, telematic carillon and orchestra

Low standards for white people. That's what's killing us.

One Buzzy Evening explores the gradual transformation of a dramatic percussive dialogue into an indigenous pitch spectrum that is common in the music of the Baganda people of Central Uganda. (CL)
World premiere at the Sterkfontein Composers Meeting 2017, Nirox Foundation, South Africa given by Ivo Nilsson (trombone) and Jonny Axelsson (percussion).

"One Buzzy Evening" for trombone and percussion (2016)by Charles Lwanga

Harbor Locks

If Stones Fell Like Leaves was commissioned by Campus and Student Life at the University of Chicago. The piece is written for Dean Elizabeth Davenport as she departed from Rockefeller Chapel after ten years of serving as Dean. The piece was premiered by Joey Brink on November 18, 2018 at Rockefeller Chapel. This is the premier recording.

If Stones Fell Like Leaves (2018)

Meditation To Start Workshop/Class - 2min

Performed by the UT New Music Ensemble
Ben Stonaker, conductor

Spellbound for sinfonietta

Enjoy this recording of the 2020 Let Freedom Ring Carillon Concert.

2020 Let Freedom Ring Carillon Concert Audio

Tiffany Ng gives concerts for cities from the tops of towers. She is University Carillonist and Associate Professor of Carillon at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. An advocate of diversity in contemporary music, she has premiered 60+ pieces by living composers, including works for carillon and live electronics. Her concert career has taken her to fifteen countries in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, including the CICO Portugal Festival, the University of Chicago Rockefeller Carillon New Music Festival, Canberra International Carillon Festival, Stanford Live, the International Carillon Festival Barcelona, the Bok Tower International Carillon Festival, and the 2008 Post-Congress Festival of the World Carillon Federation. Tiffany’s research explores the carillon as an instrument of Cold War diplomacy between the Netherlands and America; other research interests include urban soundscapes and classical music in contemporary China. She holds a diploma from the Royal Carillon School “Jef Denyn” where she studied with Geert D’hollander, a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (Musicology & New Media), a master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with William Porter (Organ), and a bachelor’s degree from Yale University (English and Music), where she curated a museum exhibit of bells. She is former Assistant Director of the Women in Music Festival and the Contemporary Organ Music Festival in Rochester, New York, and author of the multimedia catalog of the Municipal Carillon Museum of Mechelen, Belgium.

Jeffrey R. Treviño's "Future Calendars"

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