various collections of sounds
not comprehensive, yet somewhat indicative!
2025
10 AUG
listening (as)
Premiere: Kintai, Lithuania, as part of Kintai Music Festival
for prepared piano, prepared electric guitar, electric bass, and radio
Paula Bagotyriūtė, prepared piano; Deividas Skridaila, prepared guitar/electric bass; Ethan Blackburn, radio
28 MAY
a thousand and one plateaus
for mixed sax quartet
Premiere: Vilnius, Lithuania
for soprano saxophone, 2 alto saxophones, and tenor saxophone
Artiom Zalizko, Kornelijus Pukinskis, Gregory Kharaneka, Liudas Mockūnas
30 MAR
music for peripatetic people
for small ensemble
Premiere: Reggio Emilia, IT
for bass flute, bass clarinet, electric guitar, percussion, piano, and harp
Ensemble Icarus vs. Muzak
02 FEB
disquiet: introduction / epilogue
for small orchestra
Premiere: Conservatorium Maastricht
orchestra + soloist quartet (keyboards, horn, saxophone, harp). addendum to
disquiet
from June '24.
Nefelibata Orchestra, cond. Hon Ning Cheung
2024
09 FEB 2024
16 lovesongs
for ensemble
Premiere: ContemPLAY festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
Instrumentation: soprano sax, alto sax, piano, percussion, 2 violins, double bass
ContemPLAY ensemble · Vykintas Baltakas, conductor
APR 2024
i speak german
for improvising trio
Premiere: Conservatorium Maastricht
Improvisation workshop overseen by Christoph Ogiermann and Germaine Sijstermans
Ethan Blackburn, piano · Ethan Mileski, keyboard · Gregory Kharaneka, saxophone
APR 2024
three interruptions
for any saxophone
Premiere: Conservatorium Maastricht
Gregory Kharaneka, alto saxophone
JUN 2024
no end.
for 2 (or more) players
Premiere: Conservatorium Maastricht
mimetic ode to Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ethan Blackburn & V Noel
JUN 2024
WHAT IS?
for jazz trio
Premiere: Conservatorium Maastricht
mimetic ode to Chick Corea
performed by Ethan Blackburn, Finn Grah (b. fl, b. cln), Christoph Götzen (gtr.)
JUN 2024
somethings that are numberless
for chromatic harmonica and claviola
Premiere: Conservatorium Maastricht
mimetic ode to E.E Cummings
performed by Ethan Blackburn, Hon Ning Cheung
JUN 2024
disquiet
for alto saxophone, horn, harp, and keyboards.
Premiere: Conservatorium Maastricht
mimetic ode to Fernando Pessoa
cond. Hon Ning Cheung
JUN 2024
in everything and there are
for clarinet quartet + electronics
Premiere: Conservatorium Maastricht
mimetic ode to Gertrude Stein
Trio Quartet + Ethan Blackburn, electronics
JUN 2024
abject,,/object
for piano trio
premiered June 15, 2024 at Banka Studios, Maastricht
as part of Maastricht’s chapter of Dag van de Componist.
performed by Ensemble 88
JUN 2024
abject,,/object no. 1.43
for any three players
premiered June 15, 2024 at Banka Studios, Maastricht
as part of Maastricht’s chapter of Dag van de Componist.
performed by Ethan Blackburn, Asja Kadić, Jorge Gómez Josa
2023
DEC 2023
lullabies for the grand canal
a week-long artistic takeover of a bookstore in Maastricht
in conjunction with Maastricht-based collective ars culus.
DEC 2023
quem está falando?
for soprano, speaking clarinetist, and speaking pianist.
SEP 2023
SONATA
for page turner and two pianos
premiered at Conservatorium Maastricht, September 2023. 2 performances.
APR 2023
which stutter and sing
for solo cello
Premiere: AINSI (Intro in Situ)
Second performance: Darmstädter Ferienkurse, August 2023
cello studio of Lucas Fels
APR 2023
rondo
for bass clarinet and ensemble + electronics
Premiere: Festival Images Sonores, Liège
Second performance: AINSI (Intro in Situ), May 2023
Ensemble Hopper project with Centre Henri Pousseur
Rudy Mathey, soloist · François Deppe, conductor
2022
APR 2022
i become new spring
for chamber orchestra
Premiere: St. Michael's and All Angels Episcopal Church, Studio City, CA
St. Michael's Chamber Orchestra · Nur Fahlevi Pratama, conductor
JUL 2022
white nights
for ensemble
Premiere: CSUN
Instrumentation: flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello
Brightwork newmusic
2021
APR 2021
after silence, that which comes nearest
for pierrot ensemble
Brightwork newmusic
JUL 2021
vocalise/landscape
for orchestra
Premiere: St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra · Juri Lebedev, conductor
2019
APR 2019
little corona
for piano and clarinet
Premiere: CSUN
Brightwork newmusic · Brian Walsh, clarinet · Aron Kallay, piano
NOV 2019
in the ephemeral moments
for flute, violoncello, and percussion
Premiere: CSUN
Brightwork newmusic