Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee

A short list of performances known to the composer

2007

• February 3, 2007 University of Missouri-Columbia
  Sonata No. 1, Ji hye Kim's senior recital (Student of Larvick)
• March 2, 2007 Tours, France, L’Hotel de Ville (Town Hall)
  “Anahid's Musing” Quartet, World Premiere
     “Belgian Piano Percussion Quartet”
     Diane Andersen and Nadine Delsaux, pianos
     Gerald Bernard and Louison Renault, percussion
• March 10, 2007 The College of St. Catherine
  Sonata No.4 Dr.Arlene Goter, pianist
• March 2007 “YOUTUBE”
  Sonata No.2, student of Dr. Walden Hughes
• March 27, 2007 MTNA Conference Toronto, Canada
  Phantasie-Variations, Phyllis Lehrer, pianist
  Tango, Diane Andersen, pianist
  Lecture presentation of works by Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee
• March 31, 2007 Rivers Contemporary Seminar, Weston, MA
  “Mischievous Melange” Op.150, (commissioned for seminar)
  Rivers Upper School Orchestra: viola, celli, flutes, marimba, horn, 2 pianos, Magdalena Richter, conductor
• April 4, 2007 Lille, France Conservatoire
  Sonata No.2 Eric Henon, pianist
• May 4, 2007 Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA
  The Andreassian Music Fund Benefit Concert The SHENTIL Foundation
  Prelude Op.88 and Prelude “Intchu” Karine Bagdasarian, pianist
• June 7, 10 & 20, 2007 Lille, France July 2007 Bourgogne, France
  Sonata No.4 Eric Henon, pianist
  
• July 8, 2007 Bibliotheque, Chateau de Saint-Senoch, Varennes, France
  World Premiere : 2 Songs “Feu Follet” & “Ses Yeux” Poems by Therese Planiol
  Teodora Gheorghiu, soprano; Nadine Delsaux, piano
• August 12, 2007 Flute Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  Romance Op.154 Flute & piano Mimi Stillman, flute
• September 5 & 8, 2007 International Encounteres for Contemporary Music
  Foundation, Artistic Director: Alicia Terzian Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Sonata No.4 Diane Andersen, pianist
• September 30, 2007 Roussel Festival, Northern France
  Racines D’ici et D’illeures, Maison Contesse Adele de Messines
  Sonata No.4 Diane Andersen, pianist
• October 6, 2007 Saint-Gabriel, Cyran du Jambot, 36700 France (Loire Valley)
  Mosaic Op.26 Stella Ane Zedro and Ali Viger, Duo Pianists
• December 4, 2007 Boston University, Boston, MA
  Two piano works… Triptyck and Mosaic (Class of Maria Clodes)
• December 8, 2007 New England Conservatory Masterclass workshop, Boston, MA
  2-piano ensembles: 14 Students
  Mosaic; Odyssey; Rhapsodie” Urartu” ; Little Suite; Prelude Op 68, No1; Triptyck; Toccata
• December 11, 2007 New England Conservatory Recital of 2-Piano Music
  Mosaic; Odyssey; Rhapsodie” Urartu” ; Little Suite; Prelude Op 68, No1; Triptyck; Toccata
• December 12 & 19, 2007 Lille, Belgium Contemporary Art Exhibit
  Sonata No.4 Eric Henon, pianist
• December 15, 2007 New England Conservatory, Williams Hall
  2-piano works , Dianne's 70th birthday celebration
• December 16, 2007 Brussels Conservatoire, Belgium, Beethoven Birthday Concert
  “Anahid’s Musings” Belgian Piano Percussion Quartet, Diane Andersen and Nadine Delsaux, pianists
  “Ses Yeux” and “Feux Follet” Planiol Songs Theodora Georghiu, Soprano
  

• 2008

• February 2, 2008 New England Conservatory Festival of Contemporary Music
  Preludes Op.68 #1; Op.68#2; Op.120#1&3; Op.122; Op.123; Op.138; Op.140 #1&2;
  performed by Essay Students from Preparatory Division
• February 3, 2008 New England Conservatory Festival of Contemporary Music
  Little Suite Op.72 for 2 pns.; Mosaic 2 pns; Toccata (from Concerto) 2 pns.
  performed by Students from Preparatory Division
• February 20, 2008 Worcester Senior Center
  Prelude “In Memoriam”; Ballade Op.111; Toccata Op.128 from Sonata No.4, Sima Schwartz, pianist
• March 13, 2008 Brussels, Belgium
  10+10 for 4 Hands, Kornelia Ogorkowna, pianist
• March 2008 New CD released
  10+10 for 4 Hands, David Pearl and Rubi Miyachi, pianists
• March 16, 2008 Performing Arts Series, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Monmouth County, Lincroft. NJ
  “Honoring Women Composers”
  Clarinet Sonata Jan Dash, clarinet & Elaine Held, piano
  Soliloquies for Violin solo Joel DeWitt, violin
  Sonata No.1 Gretchen Cook, pianist
• March 2008 Limoge, France
  Phantasie-Variations Phyllis Alpert Lehrer, pianist
• April 5 & 6, 2008 Rivers Contemporary Seminar
  Rivera Piano students and violin students of Magdalena Richter (Soliloquies); Oboe Premiere “Reflections”
• May 4, 2008 Longy School Contemporary New England Composers Program
  Mosaic” and Scherzino; students of Wilkinson and Yardley Beers performed.
• May 6, 2008 Tours, France
  Tango for 2 pianos Diane Andersen & Nadine Delsaux, pianists - World Premiere
  June 5, 2008 Tours, France: Récital salle Ockeghem, place Chateauneuf
  "Inspirations Espagnole" (2 pianos :Ravel-Infante-Dikovee-Goolkasianworldpremiere-Piazzola) Diane Andersen & Nadine Delsaux
• May 9, 2008 7:30pm, St. Stephens Church, NYC
  Concertino No.1 with string orchestra performed by Sharon Jin, aged 8 (contest winner)
• May 2008 Taiwan
  Sonata No.4 Deborah Nemko, pianist
• May 17, 2008 Trinity Episcopal Chrch, Hartford, CT
  Sonata No.1, Op.25 Lee Hagon, pianist
• May 18, 2008 Sauxillanges, France Church Concert
  Tango, Diane Andersen, pianist
• June 8 & June 15, 2008 70th Birthday Celebration Marathon
  Rivers School Conservatory, Weston, MA
• June 25, 2008 Portland Maine Piano Festival
  Sonata No.1 Op.25, Will Bristol, pianist
  
• June 29, 2008 St Senoch castle Library: France Recital
  World premiere of Goolkasian-Rahbee, Diane Andersen and Nadine Delsaux, pianists
• July 27, 2008 Sunday, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Maine
  Sonata No.1 Op.25 Will Bristol, pianist
• August 13, 2008 Centre Artistique De Piegon, France
  Concert de Musique Française du XXème siècle : Flûte traversière Daniel Pannetier et Piano Eric Hénon.
  Gaubert, Goué, Potrat, Goolkasian Rahbee - Tango Eric Hénon, pianist.
• August 19, 2008 Tournus (Bourgogne) Summer Course
  Tango Eric Henon, pianist
• August 31, 2008 Lille, France
  Tango Eric Henon, pianist
• September 21 St Senoch castle library :France
  Recital "Tango à la carte" (Stravinski-Goolkasian-Rahbee-Piazzola-Terzain etc..)
  *** Premiere of Tango (duet version)
• September 26,2008 Millsap College, Jackson, Mississippi “Bell Piano Series”
  Sonata No.1 Op.25 William Westney, pianist, professor Texas Tech University
• October 2008 El Salvador
  Phantasie-Variations Phyllis Lehrer, pianist
• ARMENIA October 19, 2008 Yerevan, Armenia, Aram Khatchaturian Concert Hall
  World premiere of GOOLKASIAN RAHBEE Piano concerto dedicated to Diane Andersen and Urartu Rhapsodie for piano and orchestra, soloist Diane Andersen, with Yerevan Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor David Alexander Rahbee (usa)
• Nov. 7, 2008 Metro State University, Denver CO
  Sonata No.1, Op.25 William Westney, pianist, professor Texas Tech University
  
• Nov.8, 2008 Brent Evans Piano Shop, New Haven, CT.
  Tango for 2 pianos Rebecca Raffaelli & Tom Martin, pianists
• Nov. 8, 2008 Steinerts , Boston, MA
  Sonata No.1 Op.25 Michelle Kelley, pianist
• Nov. 19, 2008: University of Southern Denmark (Sønderborg)
  Sonata No.1, Op.25 William Westney, pianist, professor Texas Tech University
  
• Nov. 22, 2008: Conservatory of Music, Esbjerg, Denmark
  Sonata No.1, Op.25 William Westney, pianist, professor Texas Tech University
  
• Nov. 26, 2008: University of Southern Denmark (Ødense)
  Sonata No.1, Op.25 William Westney, pianist, professor Texas Tech University
• December 7, 2008 Lexington National Heritage Museum
  20th Anniversary of Armenian Earthquake
  “In Memoriam” Karine Bagdasarian, pianist
• December 23, 2008 Yerevan. Armenia Chamber Concert
  World Premiere “Reflections Op.164 ” and Tango Hayk Melikian, pianist

• 2009

• Jan, 10, 2009: Texas Tech University (Lubbock) - faculty recital
  Sonata No.1, Op.25 William Westney, pianist, professor Texas Tech University
• Jan.30, 2009 Hotel in Cassel, France
  Tango and Sun Flowers Eric Henon, pianist
• February 8, 2009 Unitarian Church, Belmont, MA
  Powers Music School, celebration concert for Ellen Powers, founder’s 90th birthday.
  World Premiere of commissioned work “Contemplation”Op.174, Veda Kogan, pianist
• February 11, 2009 Tokyo, Japan
  Sonata No.4 Diane Andersen, pianist
• March 7, 2009 NH Plymouth State University, Contemporary Piano Festival
  Ballade #2, Kai Chen, pianist
• March 7, 2009 Franco-American Heritage Center
  Sonata No.2 Op.25 Will Bristol, pianist
• March 21, 2009 Manchester Music School Piano Competition, Manchester, NH
  Sonatina Op.41 ( movements II and III ) Erin Tellier, pianist
  Ballade #2 Kai Chen, pianist,
• April 24, 2009 Moscow, Russia
  Armenian Genocide Concert, Nelson Sahakjan, Tenor
  “To My Fatherland” “Heirenig” Issahakian, poet
• April 26, 2009 Amazing Things Arts Center, Framingham (MA) Community Center
  Recital of Music by Goolkasian Rahbee, Sima Schwartz, pianist
  US Premiere of “Reflections”Op.164; Phant. Var.; Ballade Op.111; In Memoriam; Prelude Op.5 #3; Twilight Op.69; Champagne Prelude Op.140, #1; Imploration Op.140, #2; Tango Op.126; Sonata No.1 Op.26; Sonata No.4 Op.128
• May 2-3, 2009 Rivers Conservatory Contemporary Music Seminar, Weston, MA
  Premieres: Etude in 2nds Op.149, No.1 & Jumping Triads Op.146, No5, Jai Malhotra, pianist
  Premiere: Duet Folk Dance Op.146, No.4 James Ossam & Ashwini Vytheswaran, Pianists
  Reflections”Joys & Sorrows” Op.164
• May 9, 2009 Manchester Community Music School and Mila Filatova Piano Academy, NH
  Festival of Music of Goolkasian Rahbee: 32 works performed by students
• May 14, 2009 W.Springfield MA First Cong. Church
  May 17, 2009 Utica, NY Fine Arts Museum
  May 24, 2009 Natchez, Miss. Presby. Church
  Mosaic Op.26 (2 pianos) Stella Zedro & Ali Viger, pianists
• June 28-July 2 EPTA Prague Conference
  Presentation on the 36 Preludes: Dianne spoke and Rebecca Raffaelli performed selected Preludes.
  Mariann Abraham also presented 3 Preludes written for her.
• July 9, 2009 Goodnow Library, Sudbury, MA
  Solo Recital by 12 year old Rick Jeet Gangopadhyay
  Three Close Friends Op.182 Trio with Justin Liu & Vikram Gopal
  Sonata No.1 Op.25 “Toccata”
• July 28, 2009 Wavre, Belgium International Piano Week
  Sonata No.4 Diane Andersen, pianist
• October 3, 2009 MMTA Conference Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH
  Massachusetts Commissioned work: World Premiere
  Trio “Three Poems Op,187” (Poems by Therese Planiol), Katharina Radberger, violin; Susanne Friedrich, cello; Janet King Ainsworth, piano
• October 18, 2009 From Boston and Beyond Concert Series
  Ballade Op.111, Kathryn Rosenbach, pianist
• November 4 & 5, 2009 Tajikistan
  Phantasie-Variations, Phyllis Alpert Lehrer, pianist
• November 12, 2009 Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH
  Commissioned work as part of a grant from the Endowment for the Arts
  World Premiere: Sonata No.5, Op.185 “ The Kiss of Peace” George Lopez, pianist

• 2010

• January 17, 2010 The Judith K. Record Memorial Conservation Fund
  Celebrating Belmont’s 150th birthday
  Three Bagatelles Op.186 for flute, clarinette & string quartet - World Premiere
  Andrea Mason Nolin, flute; Ray Jackendoff,clarinet; Colin Davis and Lena Wong, violins; Kenneth Stalberg, viola; Sarah Freiberg, cello
• January 17, 2010 The Judith K.Record Memorial Conservation Fund Celebrating Belmont's 150th birthday
  World Premiere: Three Bagatelles Op.186 for flute, clarinette & string quartet; Andrea Mason Nolin, flute; Ray Jackendoff,clarinet; Colin Davis,violin; Lena Wong, vilin; Kenneth Stalberg, viola; Sarah Freiberg, cello
  In Memorial Ted Hennesy Prelude Op.116; Toccatina No.1; Prelude Op.138 “Escape to Inner Space” for Mildred Freiberg;  Kathryn Rosenbach, pianist
• January 30, 2010 New England Conservatory
  Festival of Contemporary Music Keller Room
  World Premiere “Pastel Sketch” Op.191,  Yoo Min Lee, pianist (student of A.Ramon Rivera)
• March 6, 2010 Indian Hill
  Ballade Op.111 No.1, Michelle Kelley, pianist
• April 6, 2010 Longy School, Cambridge, MA Alice Wilkinson, pianist
  World Premiere: Op.188 “Triptych” About Edward Charles “ED” Wilkinson
  Commissioned by Alice and Harold Wilkinson in memory of their son
  Part 1 A treasured Christmas gift with sparkling diamond-like eyes full of promise
  Part 2 A tragic accident
  Part 3 Happy Memories
• April 10, 2010 Wellesley College Club
  Memorial service for Babette Samelson Whipple
  World Premiere " Remembrance Op.199 Elise Jackendoff, pianist
• April 11, 2010 Rivers School Conservatory Contemporary Music Seminar, Rivera Recital Hall PREMIERE "Pastel Sketch" Op.191 for Angel Ramon Rivera, George Teng, pianist
• April 17, 2010 Bloomingdale Music School NYC 110 years of Modern Music Project
  Sonatine Jasmine Ogiste, pianist (student of Judith Olson)
• April 23, 2010 Steinerts, Boylston Street, Boston - 150th Anniversary of the Steinway Piano
  Pianist Michelle Kelley performed a program of contemporary Boston area composers, including works by John Craig Cooper, Marti Epstein, Donal Fox, Ruth Lomon, John McDonald and Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee: BalladeNo.1, Op.111
• April 2010 Longy School Wilmington, North Carolina at UNCW
  "Triptych" Op.188 About Edward Charles "ED" Wilkinson, Alice Wilkinson, pianist
• April 25, 2010 Plymouth State Univ. NH
  Carleen Graff Song Poem Trio Vl. Cello & pn.
• May 1 –May 2, 2010 NPR Radio Broadcast 99.5 FM, "From The Top,"
  National Public Radio's program profiling talented young musicians.
  Sonata No,1 Toccata, Will Bristol, pianist
• May 9, 2010 Jordan Hall on Mother's Day
  The Rivers Symphony Orchestra and Rivers Upper School Chamber Orchestra
  Angel Ramon Rivera, solo pianist
  US Premiere of the "Urartu Rhapsodie " Op.80 with a new cadenza written for this performance.
  
• May 19 Cambridge Music Club 2010
  "Triptych" Op.188 About Edward Charles "ED" Wilkinson, Alice Wilkinson, pianist
• May 19, 2010 The New School, Cambridge, MA
  "Escape to Inner Space", Kathy Rosenbach, pianist
• May 19, 2010 The Cambridge Musical Club , MA
  Triptych Op.188, Alice Wilkinson,pianist
• June 2010 Brookhaven, Waltham, MA
  "Triptych" Op.188 About Edward Charles "ED" Wilkinson, Alice Wilkinson, pianist
• August 20, 2010 Belgium (Dworp) Drove s to Piegon, France (Provence)
  Concert August 25th Centre Artistique de Piégon
  Diane Andersen performed with Damien Topp, tenor
  Premiere of "Infini" and Bagatelle for George
• August 29, Sunday concert of music for 4 pianos St Senoch bibliotech, France
  Diane Andersen, Nadene Delsaux, Faculty of Mons Conservatoire performed.
  Tango and Premieres of "Rosegarden" dedicated to Martins. for 2 pianos;
  "Three Close Friends" for (six Hands)
• September 26, 2010 AIWA Armenian International Womens Assoc. Armenian Cultural Foundation, Arlington
  A Tribute to me with a program of my music.
  World Premiere of Musical Drama (one act) "Robbery' text by Diana DerHovanessian
     Noune Karapetian Soprano, Nune Hagopian,piano;
  Miriam Gargarian, pianist, Tango and Preludes Op.68;
  Lilit Karapetian Shougarian, pianist short works;
  George Lopez, Sonata No.5 "Kiss of Peace";
  Magdalena Richter, vioinist Sonata Breve
• October 17, 2010 Guildhall School of Music , Barbican, London
  Memorial Concert for Carola Grindea (1914-2009)
  Premiere of "Portrait"Op.149 In Memoriam
  Arranged for duet; Nancy Lee Harper and Diane Andersen pianists
• October 18 Romanian Cultural Institute, London
  "Portrait"Op.149 In Memoriam
  Arranged for duet; Nancy Lee Harper and Diane Andersen pianists
• November 7, 2010 Saratoga,Florida
  "Triptych", Alice Wilkinson, pianist

• 2011

• January 22,2011 NEC Masterclass for my Compositions for Contemp. Festival
  Sonata No. 5 Mvts. 2 and 3 and misc. short pieces
• Jan. 29, 2011 NEC Contemporary Festival
  Several pieces performed by NEC students
  Four Preludes: Lullaby for Elias" Op.87,No2, Olivia Mills; "Running Around" Op.105, No.4, Hannah James; Whim Op.62, Bianca Trombetta; Adventurous Journey Op.133, Jacquelyn Ho.
  Sonata No.5 Op.185, II. Scherzino Kadar Qian; III. Adagio Molto espressivo, Eric Liu
• January 29 & 30 2011 Aviero University, Portugal & February 5, 2011 Schott Music Shop, London, UK
  Diane Andersen & Nancy Lee Harper 2 Recitals of Rahbee's works for 2 pianos
  Mosaic Op.26; Three Preludes Op.68; Little Suite Op.72; Rhapsodie Op.80a "Urartu";
  Tango Op.126b; Triptych Op.114; 10+10 Op.48; Portrait Op.189 "Carola Grindea";
  Odyssey Op.148; Toccata Op.118
• March 18, 2011 First Parish of Watertown, MA Maria Gambarian Piano Recital
  Prelude Op.116 "In Memoriam"
• March 26, 2011 All Saint's Church, Belmont Powers Stein Chamber Music Festival
  Tango Two Flutes and piano Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin & Molly Lowrie flutes, Miles Goldberg, piano
• April 2-3, 2011 Rivers School Conservatory, Weston, MA Contemporary Seminar
  World Premiere "Tanguito" George Teng, pianist
  Exploring & Catch Me, Zachary Zhang, pianist
• April 10, 2011 The Portland and Rossini Club
  Tango String Quartet
• April 16,2011 Portland Conservatory of Music, Maine
  Tango for String Quartet
• April 17, 2011 Wellesley Hills Congregational Church
  "Triptych" Alice Wilkinson, pianist
• April 19, 2011 New England Conservatory , Keller Room 8:00pm
  Students from Musikschule Margereten, Vienna, Austria
  Tango for 4 hands Lea Ionce and Elisabeth Eschwe, pianists
•  April 2011 Events in New Jersey Rutgers University
  In the New York Times:
  NEW BRUNSWICK American Women Composers Concert, including music by Amy Beach, Florence Price, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Diane Goolkasian Rahbee, Annie Gosfield, ...

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