This Sunday, Juventas hits the road, bringing “Emergence” to Montpelier, Vermont.  The program pairs the music of three emerging composers with works by the luminaries who inspired them. Oliver’s piece In the Direction of Dreams (clarinet, cello, piano) will be performed alongside music by his former teacher Dalit Warshaw.  The other composer-teacher pairs are Jonathan Bailey Holland and […]

Hartwick College will host Oliver for a residency this coming week. On Friday, September 27, Oliver will talk at a 3:30pm Composer Roundtable in the Anderson Theater. At 7:30pm that evening, the Hartwick College Faculty Octet will perform his piece Krummholz Varations.  Saturday, the Faculty Octet will studio record Krummholz Variations for a forthcoming album. And Thursday, October […]

Oliver’s art song “The Big Deception” is being performed at the Paramount Theatre. Friday night and Sunday afternoon. It will be featured in a set of songs on immigration, performed as a prelude to the word premiere of Jorge Sosa Ortega and Cerise Jacobs’ powerful new opera I Am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams. Commissioned by […]

On Saturday, Juventas New Music Ensemble will perform Oliver’s trio “Connect All. We All Connect.” The piece sets poignant lyrics by Master Palindromist Barry Duncan, probing the strength and fragility of human connection. Anne Howarth commissioned Connect All for soprano, horn and piano. In this performance, the horn line has been transcribed for Wolcott Humphrey on clarinet.  Soprano […]

Sunday at 3pm, join Soprano Kelley Hollis and pianist Julia Carey will perform Oliver’s The New Colossus at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod in South Yarmouth. The program, entitled “100 Years of American Songbook,” also includes Barber’s beloved “Knoxville: Summer of 1915” and works by Aaron Copland, Lee Hoiby and Steven Serpa. Sunday August 18, 3:00pm […]

White Snake Projects will premiere Oliver’s newest piece The Big Deception (soprano, mezzo, cello, piano) on August 1, 8 and 22. The Big Deception, sets the story of Irene Da Silva and Ivete Souza, as told in their own words. Irene was approved for a United States Green Card and instructed to return to her native […]