Conferences, Festivals, Residencies & Workshops...
(selected listing & highlights)

ISAW, Subtropics Festival, Audiotheque, Miami FL 2015

Sonic Frontiers, University of Alabama with Anthony Braxton, February 25, 2015

High Zero Festival, Baltimore MD  2014

Seattle Improv Festival, 2013

ICTUS Festival , NYC, The Stone, 2012
Celebrating 30 years of Ictus Records, Andrea Centazzo, Producer.

New Music Circle-St. Louis, MO, February 12, 2011  Trans Duo

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT  2010
Guest Artist:  "Moi Viola"  Concert & Lecture, guest residency
classroom facilitation of free improvisation sessions

ISIM Fourth Annual Festival/Conference 2009
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA 
Dec 3-6, 2009 Improvisation, Diversity, and Change:
Uncovering New Social Paradigms Through Spontaneous Musical Creativity  

ISIM Third Annual Conference 2008
Lamont School of Music, University of Denver, Colorado USA
December 5-7, 2008
Improvisation and Identity: Discovering Self and Community in a Trans-Cultural Age

International Society of Improvised Music, ISIM Inaugural Conference 2006
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA  December 1-3, 2006
Time, Sound, and Transcendence: Forging a New Vision for Improvised Music

The Pioneer Days: 1977-1999

"Symposium on Improvisation" University of California, San Diego (UCSD) 1999

New Music Gallery, workshops with kids, Toronto, Ont. Canada. l994.

Contemporary Arts Center, Teen Project Arts, Sante Fe. NM l993;

Moderator, "Improvisation Panel" Exploratorium, New Music America, San Francisco, CA 1992

Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussells, Belgium (Contemporary workshop for children); 1984

Princeton University, Princeton NJ; 1982

Improvisation Symposium, UCSD Center for New Music Experiment, LaJolla CA l983;

Bard College, Red Hook, NY: 1982

Lake Erie College for Women, Cleveland OH l980;

Mississippi College for Women (MSCW), Columbus, MS

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa  1974-1984   "Improvisation Company,"  
"Transcendprovisation,"    "Raudelunas Pataphysical Revue," concerts, exhibitions & parades

Improvisation Workshops for Students

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT   2010
"Comprovisation"-facilitating group improvisation
for college students, mixed instrumentation.

American String Teachers Association, Kansas City, Mo 2006
"Comprovisation"-facilitating group improvisation and extended string techniques,
International Society of Improvised Music, ISIM Inaugural Conference 2006
 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA  December 1-3, 2006
Time, Sound, and Transcendence: Forging a New Vision for Improvised Music
Improvisation & Extended String Techniques for Suzuki Students

American String Teachers Association, Reno, NV  February 2005
"Comprovisation"-introduction to composing in the moment,
free improvisation and extended string techniques, facilitating group improvisation"

Michigan State University  2002, American Composers Forum
     Improvisation Workshop for Suzuki Students:  "Not all Frogs are supposed to be Green"

Central Pennsylvania Suzuki Institute, Elizabethtown, PA 1995-1999 Violin, Group Lessons, Yoga

Millersville University 2000-2008 faculty:  Violin repertoire, free improvisation, jazz improvisation,  

Hershey School, Hershey PA  2009      faculty: Suzuki Violin repertoire,  Comprovisation

James Hutchins Suzuki School, Chevy Chase, MD.  Improvisation weekend 2006

Philadelphia Suzuki Association, Suzuki Workshop & Improvisation workshop 2006

Louisville School of the Blind, Louisville KY   1996
Comprehensive improvisation workshop for blind children, TransMuseq & Ut Gret

Lincoln Copiah Community College, Wesson, Mississippi 1995
Guest Artist in Residence: three disciplines: ceramic sculpture, music improvisation,
and creative automatic writing

Auburn Suzuki Institute, Auburn, Alabama, 1993,1994 Faculty:  Improvisation, Suzuki repertoire, art

Performances & Concerts (selected listing)

ICTUS Festival , NYC, The Stone, 2012
Celebrating 30 years of Ictus Records, Andrea Centazzo, Producer.

Louisville, KY  Outsider-Noise Mini-Festival , 2012

New Music Circle-St. Louis, MO, February 12, 2011  Trans Duo with Davey Williams

Fringe Festival, New Orleans, LA, Harold's Performance Garden, 2011

the improvisor festival , "Celebrating Thirty Years" of the improvisor,
the international magazine journal of free improvisation, a month long festival
from Birmingham Alabama and 5 American Cities:
The Stone-NYC,  Seattle, Atlanta, Athens, Chattanooga, August 1-31, 2010.

Trenton Performance Art Festival, Trenton, GA, September 11, 2010

Experimental Music, Greencup Series, Birmingham AL 2009
(Andrew Dewar, Tatsuya Nakatani, Claire Barratt, Killick, Stella Nystrom, Davey Williams,
 Johnny Coley, Sister Love & others)

2009, European Tour with Misha Feigin as "Stringtrek"
    Germany: Stuttgart, Koln,

High Zero Festival, Baltimore MD, September 2005
Birmingham Improv Festival  1994-1999 (present)

Company Week (London) 1991 Derek Bailey

NOW Concert, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.  L.S.D. Trio, 1990 

Hartford Jazz Festival 1990 with L.S.D. Trio (Anne LeBaron, Akue Dixon)

Moers International Jazz Festival 1980

Performances & Tours  (selected listing)

New Music Circle-St. Louis, MO, February 12, 2011  with Davey Williams

Harold's Performance Garden, New Orleans LA, November 2011.

What is Performance Art? Cleveland, OH 1992


Countries Visited

CHINA:  Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Suzhou International School (ASTA), 2002

INDIA:  Karnataka Region, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu 2014-2015