January 31, 2026
World premiere of blood of infinity (2025), for percussion, performed by David Schotzko of the Array Ensemble, as part of New Encounters III, Arraymusic, Toronto (composer/curator in attendance)
February 24, 2025
World premiere of ex aliis matres, commissioned and performed by The Isabel Quartet, The Isabel Centre for the Performing Arts, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON (composer in attendance)
January 9-11, 2025
Loss, US premiere of the multimedia performance work at Under the Radar Festival, The Apollo Stages at Victoria, Harlem, New York City (composer, music director and live piano/synth performer on stage)
November 23, 2024
For Celine (1995) and “Fourths + Fifths” (2012, from Children’s Suite), performed by Piano Lunaire as part of Composers in Play XII: Still Reeling, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York City
November 16, 2024
Perhaps Bells, piano solo/duos portrait concert performed by junctQín keyboard collective, featuring the world premieres of perhaps bells do not play tunes (2005-09), Two Dances (1996), Continuo (1994) and a two-piano version of Madra (1999), Arraymusic, Toronto (composer/curator in attendance)
November 14, 2024
Artists in Conversation: Bruce A. Russell with Stephanie Chua of junctQín keyboard collective and Adam Sherkin of Piano Lunaire, includes performed selections from Russell’s solo piano music, Arraymusic, Toronto
November 10, 2024
World concert premiere of For Celine (1995) and first standalone performance of “Fourths + Fifths” (2012, from Children’s Suite), performed by Piano Lunaire as part of Composers in Play XII: Still Reeling, Arts & Letters Club, Toronto
June 28, 2024
Appearance as an improvising ensemble performer (as El Mahboob) in Exit Points #50, Arraymusic, Toronto
June 23, 2024
ex tempore, national radio broadcast of Arraymusic premiere, In Concert with Paolo Pietropaolo, CBC Radio
April 20, 2024
World premiere of Sequences (2000 rev. 2024), for synth and percussion, performed by The University of Delaware Percussion Ensemble, Dr. Gene Koshinski dir., Newark, DE
March 30, 2024
World premiere of cane (2023), for double reed trio, commissioned and performed by Artemis Musicians’ Society, Notional Space, Vancouver, BC
February 1, 2024
World premiere of ex tempore, for quintet, performed by The Array Ensemble, as part of New Encounters, Arraymusic, Toronto (composer/curator in attendance)
January 29, 2024
we have lived before, performed by Gryphon Trio, University of Toronto New Music Festival, Walter Hall, UofT (composer in attendance)
October 21-22, 2023
US premiere of Madra, performed by Mill City String Quartet, Minnetonka, MN and Waverly, IA (three concerts in total)
June 14-18, 2023
Premiere of Loss, a multimedia work written by Ian Kamau and Roger McTair, Luminato Festival, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto (composer, music director and piano/synth performer)
April 20 + 22, 2023
World premiere of ex harmonia, for quintet, commissioned and performed by The Array Ensemble, Arraymusic, Toronto (composer in attendance both nights)
February 28, 2023
Madra, for string quartet, premiere of 2009 edition, performed by The Isabel Quartet, The Isabel Centre for the Performing Arts, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON (composer in attendance)
June 23, 2022
World premiere of in the sea of being, for sextet, commissioned and performed by Thin Edge New Music Collective, 918 Bathurst (composer in attendance)
March 6, 2022
we have lived before, performed by Gryphon Trio, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, St. Catharines (composer in attendance)
February 19, 2022
World premiere of Dream of a Blue Elf for piano, performed by Stephen Clarke of the Array Ensemble
July 28-29, 2021
we have lived before, performed by Gryphon Trio, Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, Ottawa Chamberfest, Ottawa (composer in attendance)
July 16, 2021
World premiere of we have lived before, for piano trio, commissioned and performed by Gryphon Trio, Koerner Hall, Toronto (video w/introduction by the composer)
May 17, 2021
Video release of the revised version of Kalimba Canon (four additional measures composed October 31, 2020), performed by Prism Percussion, YouTube
November 21, 2020
The Music of Bruce A. Russell, livestreamed portrait concert by the Array Ensemble, including the world premieres of Companion (2019), Children’s Suite (2007-2014), aix (2004) and limina (1996), Arraymusic, Toronto (composer in attendance)
October 30, 2020
Live world premiere of Kalimba Canon, performed by Prism Percussion, KatzenGarten, The Mission, San Francisco, CA
July 17, 2020
Prerecorded world premiere of Kalimba Canon (1999), for two alto kalimbas, performed by Second Note Duo as part of “A Day in the Life,” YouTube
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