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MAY 2014 - Details TBD
Major collaboration with Leslie Leytham and Anna Lavatelli - two amazing artists residing in San Diego.
This is going to be nasty!
 Location TBD

  • Currently under development.
  • Details are entirely confidential! All you need to do is keep checking for updates and get pumped!



    • APRIL 2014 - Details TBD
    My final work at UCSD
    ... call it a "dissertation" if you will
     The Black Box Theater at The Conrad Prebys Music Center, La Jolla, CA

  • There will be lots of me... lots... and some of you. Please stay tuned.




    • AUGUST 2013 - Date TBA
    Devotion of Union, Collapse of Pleasure
    composed by Clint McCallum
    At Space4Art
     325 15th Street
    San Diego, CA 92101

  • Part cabaret, part sound installation, part religious ceremony, this new concert length piece by Clint McCallum (of local bands Penis Hickey and Aquapuke) explores ecstatic experience in the context of contemporary social and political identifications.
  • Composed by Clint McCallum, technology by Kevin Larke. Soloist: Leslie Leytham, soprano. Conducted by David Medine. Also performed by Batya-Macadam Somer, Jonathan Piper, Clint Davis, Leah Bowden, and myself!
  • This performance is a reprisal of a work we all premiered at Spring Fest, April 18, 2013.It is awesome. One word: Thundersheets!



    • past projects



    APRIL 13, 2012
    THE SEVEN TRAGEDIES OF SPACE TRAVEL
    three transits through space, time, and identity
     The Black Box Theater at The Conrad Prebys Music Center - La Jolla, CA

  • A three-act solo piano opera that featured three world premieres of works by Clint McCallum (technology by Kevin Larke), Nicholas Deyoe, and Aaron Helgeson
  • Collaborations with Jason Ponce (Visual Design and Technology), Leslie Leytham (Costume and Movement Design), and Joe Mariglio (Sound Design).
  • Voice work done by my lovely mother, Thao Nguyen.
  • Other works by Franz Schubert and Jean-Philippe Rameau.
  • Featuring Todd Moelllenberg, An Nguyen, and Nicolee Kuester.
  • Media from this event coming soon!



    • APRIL 2011
    SALAMANDER LEVIATHAN
    a bit-pop musical by Krista Knight and Barry Brinegar - WORLD PREMIERE
     The Baldwin New Play Festival - La Jolla, CA


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