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.
"Taxonomies of Pulse," for two pianos, commissioned by IMTA/MTNA. Premiere at Sweetwater Sound, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
World premiere of "Microvariations" for two alto saxophones
Invited Talk (presentation on Pathways for Orchestration). Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Performance of "Looking at You" arrangement.