UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
PAST PERFORMANCES
Music Meeting Festival, Nijmegan, Holland
May 28, 2023
4:45 p.m.
Multifarious with
Sue McKenzie, saxophones
Susan Mayo, cello
Paul Elwood, banjo
October 20, 2023
8 p.m.
Dimenna Center for Classical Music, New York City
Featuring new compositions by Paul Elwood
With pianist Kathleen Supove
Pianist Lena Elwood
Pianist Ivana Muncan
Violinist Sarah Off
Composer/Electronics with Paul Elwood
November 5, 2022
House Concert
Greeley, Colorado
7 pm
featuring new winter songs by Elwood and
English singer Alice Simmons.
September 2 and 3, 2022, 7:00 pm.
Greeley, Colorado
University of Northern Colorado
Campus Commons Performance Hall
As part of Through Lines, an interdisciplinary evening with an installation by Brian Hapcic, Perdida is a stage production featuring Jolie González Masmela, with script and music by Paul Elwood, poetry by Masmela, direction by Rand Harmon, and choreography by Kim Clay. The script focuses on a love triangle and features singing assassins, dancers, a geometry lecture, and fast food.
May 7, 2022
Farm Concert
stage near
Peabody, Kansas
October 8, 2021, 7 pm
Solo House Concert
Greeley, Colorado
September 22, 2021, 4 pm
Performance of Nebulae for solo flute and piano with
James Hall and Susie Maddocks.
Flute Center of New York
Online streaming
September 20, 2021, 7 pm
Performance of Nebulae for solo flute and piano with James Hall and Susie Maddocks.
Opera America, Scorca Hall
New York City
September 1, 2020, 7 pm
Performance of Nebulae for solo flute and piano with
James Hall and Susie Maddocks.
Dazzle
Denver, Colorado
August 22, 2021, 8:30 pm
THING-THING
for electronics and cajón
performance by Patti Cudd
Constellation, Chicago, Illinois
June 22, 2023, 8:30 pm
THING-THING
for electronics and cajón
performance by Patti Cudd
New York Electroacoustic Music Festival
July 17, 2021 4 pm
Premiere of Nebulae for solo flute and piano with flutist James Hall.
Église Saint-Merry
76 Rue de la Verrerie
Paris, France
July 29, 30, 31, 2021 7 pm
d’une rives à l’autres with Cie Skalen dance.
La Marseillaise Journal,
la Rotative, 15 Cours Honoré d’Estienne d’Orves
Marseille, France 13001
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July 9, 2021, 5pm
d’une rives à l’autres with Cie Skalen dance.
La Marseillaise,
15 Cours Honoré d’Estienne d’Orves
Marseille, France 13001
September 10, 2020
Performance with Cie Skalen dance company. Bastia, Corsica. 
COVID-19 CANCELLATION June 26, 2020 (time TBA)
Concert with mezzo-soprano Alice Simmons and Paul Elwood, banjo/compositions,
Merchant’s House, Marlborough, UK
COVID-19 CANCELLATION June 25, 2020 (time TBA)
Concert with mezzo-soprano Alice Simmons and Paul Elwood, banjo/compositions,
Lauderdale House, London, UK
COVID-19 CANCELLATION June 24, 2020, 9 am
Eurydice Alvarez performs Un Teatro de Reflejos, for oboe and piano, at the University of Iowa, on the International Double Reed Society Convention. Her recital is titled: From Latin America to the World: New Works for Oboe.
COVID-19 CANCELLATION – April 25, 2020 (time TBA)
Katowice, Poland, JazzArt Festival with MULTIFARIOUS
March 12, 2020, 7:30 pm
Patti Cudd performs “Thing_Thing” for cahon and electronics, Buffalo State University, New York.
March 3, 2020, 7:30 pm
Open Space Festival of New Music, University of Northern Colorado Campus Commons. Performance of Émissions Transparents. Socrates Garcia, electric guitar solo, Julie Strom, percussion, Dana Landry, piano, Romina Monsanto, cello, Daniela Paez, electronics, Dawson Dowdy, piano, Alberto Rodriguez, conductor.
February 26-27, 2020 (times TBA)
MULTIFARIOUS (trio) with Sue McKenzie, saxophone, Susan Mayo, cello, and Paul Elwood, banjo.
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
November 10, 2019, 3:00 pm
University of Iowa Percussion Ensemble under the baton of Daniel Moore performs my 1996 composition “A Bowl of Light” for four percussion (including bubble wrapping). Voxman Music Building Concert Hall, Iowa City, Iowa.
November 22, 7:30 pm and November 24, 2 pm, 2019
The Taming, premiere of an opera with libretto by Brian Clay Luedloff, music by Paul Elwood, based on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, with a less misogynistic ending. The University of Northern Colorado, Campus Commons.
October 28, 2019, 7:30 pm
Music of Paul Elwood, University of Northern Colorado, Campus Commons. Includes the premiere of “Six Questions” for oboe and cello for Romina Monsanto and Pablo Hernandez; guest mezzo-soprano from London, Alice Simmons and violinist Aimée Niemann from Brooklyn performing Safernoc and Raindrips to Rethfernhim; conductor Inéz Rodriguez is flying in from Mexico to premiere “Podium” for solo conductor; and Spanish pianist Mireia Frutos will premiere “Ten Nocturnes,” and more!
June 23, 2019, 6 pm
St. Michael’s Church, Axford, UK, Axford Open Gardens Concert. Mezzo-soprano, Alice Simmons, and Violinist Tam Coates perform parts of Safernoc for voice and violin.
May 26, 2019, 2 pm
SAFERNOC for mezzo soprano Alice Simmons and violinist Tamasin Coates, Burgh House, London, UK.
May 25, 2019, time TBA
Premiere of SAFERNOC for mezzo soprano Alice Simmons and violinist Tamasin Coates, St. Katharine’s Church, Savernake, Marlborough, SN8 3BG, UK. The program focuses on trees and forests with other compositions such as John Dowland’s “O Sweet Wood” (with mezzo and banjo), and Handel’s “Here Among the Shady Woods. “Safernoc,” the old-English spelling of Savernake Forest, is a three movement song cycle about the forest.
April 18, 2019, 8 pm
Premiere of DARK GEOMETRIES for solo violin and piano. Bélen Hernandez doctoral violin lecture-recital with pianist Ivana Muncan. University of Northern Colorado, Milne Auditorium.
March 26, 2019, 7:30 pm
Premiere of GHOST THEATRE for four percussionists. University of Northern Colorado Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Mike Truesdell.
March 23, 2019, 2 pm and 7:30 pm
Premiere of two scenes from THE TAMING, an opera-in-progress with librettist Brian Luedloff (the full opera to be premiered November 22 and 24), at the University of Northern Colorado. Scenes at the UCCC, Greeley, Colorado.
March 6, 2019, 7 pm
Open Space Festival Festival of New Music concert of the music of Paul Elwood featuring LULU OF THE PLAINS for mezzo-soprano, chamber ensemble, electronics, video, and dance; and Emissions Transparent for solo electric guitar and chamber ensemble. Features UNC alumna, soprano Sharon Harms. At the Moxie Theatre in downtown Greeley.
January 18, 2019, 7 pm
Performance of “7:30” for two violins by Du.0 (Aimée Niemann and Charlotte Munn-Wood). Third Street Settlement Music School, New York City.
November 30, 2018
Premiere of “Colorful Colorado and the Apparition of Virgil” by the University of Northern Colorado Uncommon Ensemble under the direction of Anne Lanzilotti. A graphic score created on a 1976 road map of Colorado, the players are free to interpret the composition in a variety of ways.
October 10, 2018
Premiere of Lulu of the Plains, for mezzo-soprano, chamber ensemble, electronics, video, and dance. The Roxy, Wichita, Kansas. The composition is an abstract homage to silent film star Louise Brooks, who spent several years of her adolescence in Wichita.
July 12, 2018
Elwood performs improvs with saxophonist Sue McKenzie and cellist Susan Mayo, World Saxophone Congress, Zagreb, Croatia. Specific time and location TBA.
July 11, 2018
Elwood performs deconstructive Appalachian tunes and original jazz with saxophonist Sue McKenzie and cellist Susan Mayo, World Saxophone Congress, Zagreb, Croatia. Specific time and location TBA.
July 8, 2018, 3 pm
Soprano Alice Simmons with pianist Anna Le Hair performs “Nowhere Too” from “Raindrips to Rethfernhim” based on a text from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Tring, UK, Parish Church, Piano & More Series.
July 5, 2018, 7 pm
Elwood, saxophonist Sue McKenzie, cellist Susan Mayo, and Art Ensemble of Chicago percussionist/legend Famoudou Don Moye play on the roof of Le Corbusier, Marseille, France.
July 4, 2018, 7 pm
Elwood, saxophonist Sue McKenzie, cellist Susan Mayo, perform at Le Jam, 42 rue de Trois Rois, 13006 Marseille, France.
April 14, 2018, 2 pm
CJ Armbruster plays “Dark Wood” for solo snare drum, Ulrich Recital Hall, University of Maryland.
April 2, 2018, 7 pm
Briana Meyers and Aimee Niemann premiere “Left Handed Compliment,” for box, violin case, iPhone tone tone generators, and bird calls. University of Northern Colorado.
March 17, 2018, 7:30 PM
Music from the Baroque to the 21st Century
Holy Cross in Ramsbury, Ramsbury:
Holy Cross Ramsbury
Dyers Yard, Back Ln, Ramsbury, UK
Alice Simmons, mezzo-soprano, premieres “Raindrips to Rethfernhim,” for voice with pianist Clare Toomer. Elwood also performs his “A Footbridge Over the Abyss,” for bowed banjo, bowed rin bells, bird whistles, and electronics. Other featured performers include the Savernake Ensemble with Tamasin Coates, violin, Alice Simmons, voice, and Kevin Bates, piano. Cellist Susan Mayo performs also works by Bach and on “Alien Trees,” by Elwood.
November 24-27, 2017
UiTM University Technologia MARA. Performances of various works while visiting to give lectures, master classes and concerts, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Pianist Mireia Frutos premieres Alternate Constellations in three movements, November 25.
November 20-24, 2017
Chulalangkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Lectures on Wednesday, November 22 and 23 featuring a couple of works for banjo and electronics.
September 25, 2017
The University of Akron, DARK WOOD for solo snare drum performed by Joseph van Hassel at The Noble Snare Festival. The Nobel Snare is an anthology of works for snare drum published by Smith Publications.
September 25, 2017
New England Conservatory of Music, EMISSIONS TRANSPARENT, the Callithumpian Consort with electric guitar soloist Pablo Gomez, Stephen Drury, conductor.