Spaces Real or Imagined, for clarinet and piano, will be performed at the Music Teachers National Association National Conference in Chicago at a special session featuring the composer as the 2025 Thomas Ediger Distinguished Composer of the Year.
The South Bend Chamber Singers, under the direction of Nancy Menk, will perform The Lily and the Bird, for oboe, string quartet, and choir. The piece was commissioned by the Lutheran Summer Music Academy for its 40th Anniversary and was premiered in 2022.
Sunday, March 22, 2026, 3pm
Leighton Concert Hall
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
University of Notre Dame
Gary June and Christina Giuca Krause premiere Spaces Real or Imagined for clarinet and piano. Michigan Music Teachers Association annual conference @ Saginaw Valley State University.
Kalamazoo Symphony/American Composers Orchestra EarShot readings and premiere of Silent City.
Peter Gach, who commissioned the work, will give a full performance of the eight-movement cycle Not a Thing but a Movement at Palomar College’s Howard Brubeck Recital Hall in San Marcos, CA.
Event Link:
https://uh.edu/kgmca//music/events/calendar/?view=e&id=650140#event
The full premiere of the final version of the eight-movement cycle “Not a Thing but a Movement,” for solo piano, will be given in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 16, 2025.
Pianist Peter Gach, who commissioned the work, will perform the work in conjunction with brief talks about the work’s inception and inspiration.
The Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra premieres “Brief as the Lightning” under the baton of Kevin Suetterlin. Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, Appleton, WI. September 21, 2024.
Johannes Brahms
Sonata No. 3 in D minor for Violin and Piano
Benjamin Krause
Clarinet Quintet (world premiere)
Johannes Brahms
Clarinet Quintet
Peter Gach performs Bach, Chopin, and Krause at “Music in the Zendo” at the Hidden Valley Zen Center.
San Marcos, CA.
https://www.groupmuse.com/events/13060-music-in-the-zendo-pianist-peter-gach-performs-bach-chopin-and-krause
LYNX Project: beautiful small things
featuring songs from “Defined by Words” for voice and piano
For more event information:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/events/156862/lynx-project-beautiful-small-things-in-person
LYNX Project “Amplify Series” presents two songs (“Rap About Girls,” “Lake Erie”) by Benjamin Krause at Lewis University, Romeoville, IL.
Livestream link:
https://www.luartsandideas.org/streaming_2021-22/LYNX_2-21-2022.html
Invited presentation on “Pathways” (chamber orchestra) at the International Conductors’ Guild 2022 conference @ Cincinnati Music Hall.
The Atlanta Chamber Players performs the six-movement suite, “Notes from Inside,” for clarinet, violin, viola, and cello.
First Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, GA.
4x5 (Christina Giuca, Ben Krause) premiere 16 new works as a part of the 2021 Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium.
ICO performs “Pathways” as a part of the ISU Contemporary Music Festival, Terra Haute, IN.
Performance of Subitus for cello and piano.
Outside the Box 2020 New Music Festival
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL
Anderson Chapel, North Park University
5149 N Spaulding Ave
Chicago, IL 60625
The Chicago premiere of Defined by Words, a song cycle commissioned by Lynx Project for its 2020 Autism Advocacy Series.
North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference. Carolyn Bryan and Stacy Maugans, alto saxophones. Tempe, AZ.
Performance of Defined by Words, a set of five songs commissioned by the Lynx Project.
Cincinnati, Ohio.
more information here: https://www.lynxproject.org/tickets
Stacy Maugans and Carolyn Bryan, alto saxophones. Georgia Southern University.
Shepherd School of Music Composition Seminar.
University of Houston Composition Seminar.
Stacy Maugans and Carolyn Bryan, alto saxophones. Duesenberg Recital Hall, Valparaiso University, Indiana.
Performance of “Solitaire,” on a poem by Amy Lowell. Performed by Angela De Venuto, soprano, and Christina Giuca Krause, piano.
@ The Promontory, Hyde Park, Chicago.
Hosted by Fourth Coast Ensemble and Sparks & Wiry Cries.
Performance of Taxonomies of Pulse, Christina Giuca & Ben Krause, pianos. Spokane Convention Center, Washington.
Performance of “Vintage,” on a poem by Amy Lowell. Pianoforte Studios, Chicago, IL.