Thomas Rosenkranz will be in residence at the soundSCAPE Festival in Maccagno, Italy from July 4th-16th. In addition to teaching classes on contemporary performance practice, he will lead an improvisation ensemble and perform new works by Josh Levine, Lei Liang, Richard Carrick, and BGSU alum Andreas Carrizo. http://soundscapefestival.org/

He will be at McGill University in Montreal Canada from July 17th-20th to record a new album with Tony Arnold, voice and Aiyun Huang, percussion featuring works by Mark Applebaum, Josh Levine, Lei Liang, Richard Carrick and Anton Webern.

From August 1st-8th He will be in residence at FaceArt in Shanghai, China for a series of lessons, masterclasses, workshops on improvisation, and a concert featuring works contemporary works. http://www.faceart.co/

On August 9th-11th He will be a featured performer at the HELL/HOT Festival in Hong Kong sponsored by the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. He will be performing the complete Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano by John Cage and will present a reading of student works. In addition, he will be giving a piano masterclass to students at the University of Hong Kong. http://www.hknme.org/

Assistant Professor of Piano, Thomas Rosenkranz was in Miami, Florida recently to debut with his newly formed piano and percussion group, Hammer/Klavier on April 28th. The concert was part of the Saint Martha-Yamaha series. In addition to Rosenkranz, The group consists of acclaimed percussionists, Svet Stoyanov and Gwen Burgett and pianist Michael Sheppard. This group recently commissioned Princeton University Professor and electronic music guru, Paul Lansky for a large-scale work for their 2012-2013 season.

Assistant Professor of Piano, Thomas Rosenkranz was recently in residence with Musicians from SoundScape at UMBC from April 8th-12. The residency included masterclasses, a composer reading and a performance including contemporary works by Albinger, Aperghis, Berio, Scelsi, Foss, as well as a premiere by the New York based composer, Richard Carrick.

The ensemble consists of Thomas Rosenkranz piano, Aiyun Huang, percussion, Lisa Cella, flute and Tony Arnold, voice. This ensemble was formed in 2010 in order to highlight aspects of the SoundScape Festival in Italy which celebrates contemporary music through collaborations between composers and performers.

For more information about the SoundSCAPE Festival please visit: http://soundscapefestival.org/

Dr. Liu just completed an intensive three-day recording session of Gregory Mertl’s Piano Concerto with the University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble, conducted by Craig Kirchhoff. Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment and expressly written for her, the concerto is a 40-minute tour de force for soloist and ensemble. The concerto will be the main work in a CD of Mertl’s music recorded by the University of Minnesota. It will be released by Innova Records in 2013.