TRANSITIONS in Streaming Audio on NEC's website, from the 2008 Commencement Concert in Jordan Hall.

August: Beginning the PhD program in Composition at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.

12 September, Y Define Festival, 295 Douglass Street, Brooklyn, NY (TBA): NEC-affiliated musicians/ grads shatter the barriers between any and all musical genres. Works, improvisations, collaborations, and other projects. Stay tuned for more details!!

2008

18 May, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (3pm): Commencement. Receiving the M.M. in Music Composition (woohoo!).

17 May, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (8pm): Commencement Concert. To include Transitions for flute/alto flute, trumpet, and piano.

14 May, Boston University CFA, Boston, MA (6:30pm): Horn recital by Laura Carter. Including You, Create a Diversion....

7 May, Fletcher Recital Hall, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (8pm): Horn recital by Laura Carter. Including You, Create a Diversion... for solo horn, commissioned by and written for Laura.

29 April, Brown Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (7:30pm): Tuesday Night New Music. Premiere of Six Short Pieces for Two Pianos, a collaborative work by Travis Alford and Steve Kukla. Travis and Steve performing.

9 April, Keller Room, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (9pm): Travis performs with The Forge. New works, projects, and improvisations by ensemble members. Premiere of Blown (Gamepiece) for any number of bottle blowers.

8 April, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (8pm): Graduating Composers Concert. Premiere of Quartet (a setting of the American Bill of Rights) for Soprano, vln, vla, vcl.

5 March, Brown Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (6pm): ElectroNEC. Electroacoustic works by NEC composers. Premiere of Somewhat for trumpet and live electronics.

3 March, St. Botolph Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (8pm): The Music of Anthony Green and Travis Alford. Including the premiere of You, Create a Diversion... for solo horn, commissioned by and written for Laura Carter.

2007

9 December, Pozen Center, Mass College of Art, Boston, MA (7pm): "Exciting Concert(TM)". Works by NEC-affiliated composers, including Fo(u)r Winds.

4 December, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (7pm): Tuesday Night New Music concert. New works by NEC composers. Premiere of 8'00" (version for seven handbells).

20 November, Keller Room, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (9pm): Travis performs with The Forge. New works, projects, and improvisations by members. Premiere of Fo(u)r Winds. Part of NEC's Keller Series.

16 October, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA (8pm): Tuesday Night New Music concert. Travis performing on the premiere of a new work by Anthony Green.

18-23 June, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA: Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice, or "Sick Puppy" to its following. Travis's Transitions workshopped/ performed. Stephen Drury, artistic director and Walter Zimmermann, composer-in-residence.

12 May, Hope Fellowship Church, Porter Square, Cambridge, MA (7pm): Reflections of Grace performed by Anthony Green (piano) and Bianca Garcia (flute) as part of Hope Fellowship's Third Annual Arts Festival.

2 May, The Lily Pad, Inman Square, Cambridge, MA (8pm): "The Forge" end-of-year concert, featuring original works, projects, improvisations, and performances by ensemble members. Including PREMIERE of Travis's improvisation piece Cage(D).