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November 20-29, 2009 | Huddersfield, UK | As part of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2009 pianist Philip Thomas performs a program of music by American experimental composers including Joe Kudirka, Christian Wolff, Larry Polansky, Travis Just, Craig Shepard, Mike Winter, Michael Pisaro and G. Douglas Barrett.

November 15, 2009, 10:00 pm | The Stone | Avenue C and 2nd Street, New York City | Aaron Meicht, trumpet, Katie Porter, clarinet, Dan Joseph, guitar, and Harvey Weissman, speaker present compositions and readings from Craig Shepard's On Foot.

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Thursday, September 24, 8:00 pm | Listen/Space, 195 Skillman Ave, Williamsburg | Craig Shepard, trombone, Christian Kobi, saxophone, and Beat Keller, guitar, perform Antoine Beuger's Peckinpah Trios. Inspired by Sam Peckinpah's Ballad of Cable Hogue.

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Tuesday, September 22, 10:00 pm | Ontological-Hysterical Theater, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Avenue), inside St. Mark's Church |Three duos: Shepard/Just, Kobi/Keller, Porter/Maxwell, perform Christian Wolff's Pairs, Basel_, Grete, and Larry Polansky's Christian Music.

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Sunday, September 20, 6:00 pm | Listen/Space, 195 Skillman Ave, Williamsburg | Sean Meehan, snare drum, and Christian Kobi, saxophone, each performs a solo improvised set, often, but not always, very quietly.

Saturday, September 12, 2009, 3:00 to 9:00 pm | Moments Musicaux | Kutlur & Kongresshaus Aarau | Jürg Frey, clarinet, and Stefan Thut, cello perform Craig Shepard's Weehawken, July, 8, 2008 together with works by Luc Ferrari, Michael Pisaro, Tim Parkinson, Manfred Werder, Stefan Thut, Taku Sugimoto, Taylan Susam, Howard Skempton, Antoine Beuger, Jürg Frey, Tom Johnson, Anastassis Philippakopoulos, Mark So, Pierre Thoma, Eliane Radigue, and Peter Ablinger.

April 25-26, 2009 | Huddersfield University, UK | Nothing New? Understanding Newness in Medieval and Contemporary Music, a conference held at the University of Huddersfield. The Edges Ensemble, directed by Joseph Kudirka and Aaron Cassidy perform works by Craig Shepard, Jason Brogan, Mike Winter, Michael Pisaro, G. Douglas Barrett.

March 28th, 2009, 15:45 | Seepromenade, Zürich, Switzerland | Trompetensee | A chain of 18 trumpets stretching from Seefeldquai to the Arboretum along the Lake in Zürich performed a new work by Craig Shepard. Corrado Bossard, Andreas Wulf, and Jean François Michel will be joined by their trumpet students. Presented by the Musikpodium der Stadt Zurich.

March 19, 2009, 20:00 | Kunstraum Düsseldorf | Himmelgeister Straße 107 E, 40225 Düsseldorf | Craig Shepard, trumpet, Antoine Beuger, flute performed Craig Shepard's Weehawken, July 8, 2008, Two-Voice Canon #1 and Antoine Beuger's un lieu pour être deux.

March 18, 2009, 20:00 | Klang im Turm | Claude-Lorrain-Straße 26, München | Craig Shepard, speaker and pocket trumpet, presented text and music from On Foot.

Saturday, March 7th, 2009, 9:00 pm | 540 West 21st St, NYC | MIXER: EXPO | Craig Shepard, trumpet, Doug Barrett, electronics, Sean Meehan, snare drum improvise within the structure of Mark Shepard's Hertzian Rain.

December 4th, 2008, 8:00 PM | Issue Project Room | Book Release Celebration for On Foot | Craig Shepard, speaker, Christian Wolff, melodica, piano, Jeremy Lamb, cello, Katie Porter, clarinet, Zach Seldess, walker.

In the sound project On Foot, Craig Shepard walked 250 miles across Switzerland. Every day he composed a new piece, wrote it down and performed it on the pocket trumpet at 6 p.m. All concerts took place out-of-doors in public spaces such as squares, harbors, intersections, sidewalks, and mountain-tops. This evening celebrates the release of the book about the project published by Edition Howeg, Zurich. Buy the book now.

April 24, 2008 | Roulette, 20 Greene St, NYC | Part of the Interpretations Series | Christian Wolff, piano + melodica, Jürg Frey, clarinet, Larry Polansky, electric guitar, Craig Shepard,trombone, Jeremy Lamb, cello, Marco Capelli, electric guitar | performing Christian Wolff's MICROEXERCISES and Jürg Frey's les tréfonds inexplorés des signes.

March 8, 2007 | Kunstraum Düsseldorf | Eva-Maria Houben, piano | performed Craig Shepard's March

Words Move Music performed in the series Klang im Turm, Munich and Kunstraum Düsseldorf.

Awarded grant from Change, Inc.

On Foot performed at Kunstraum Düsseldorf.

16 Trompeten | Toni Molkerei | Craig Shepard, artistic director, Antoine Beuger, music, performed by the trumpet classes of Corrado Bossard and Andreas Wulf | presented by the Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich.

Curated the Further series at the Schlosserei Nenniger in Zürich.

String Quartet #1 performed by the Bozzini String Quartet at the Kunstraum Düsseldorf.

Conceived and realized On Foot, a 31-day concert tour of Switzerland.

Jane, for two pianos commissioned by Tanja Masanti.

Trombonist with Collegium Novum Zürich (2001-2005).

Research into listening dispositions published in the Schweizerische Musikzeitung.

Artistic Director of Vor und Nach.

Artistic Director of Wolff Weiter, a concert tour with Christian Wolff.

Composition Heartbeat performed by Maulwerker at TESLA, Berlin.

Commissioned by the Kantorei of the City of Solothurn to compose the work They Can Tell You for choir, two cornetts and two sacbuts.

Performed on Alfred Zimmerlin’s Or-bit at the ISCM World New Music Days.

Collaborated on the project Wir suchen überall das unbedingt in the Atelier Christoph Nicolaus, München.

Curated the Cage Weiter series at the Schlosserei Nenniger in Zürich.

Conceived and executed the research project Hördispositionen (Listening Dispositions) at the Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich.

Empty : Open commissioned by the Gesellschaft für Literatur, Kunst und Musik Romanshorn.

Performed with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Conceived and realized the 21-day project Ears to Hear at the Bellevue See-Promenade in Zürich.

Collaboration on the project 120 Tage Kunst im Bunker, München.

Composition Wind (3) performed at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

Compositions October and December premiered by Guy van Dromme in the Kunstraum Düsseldorf.

Performed Baroque trombone on the recording Ave Maria with the Vokalensemble München.

Performed Manfred Werder’s Stück 1998 in the Galerie Mark Müller Zürich and Stadtbibliothek Aarau.

Premier of November by Jongah Yoon at the Kunstraum Düsseldorf.

Premier of Orchard by Tobias Liebezeit and Marcus Kaiser at the Kunstraum Düsseldorf.

Lines (6) performed by Caspar Glättli at the Gallerie Mark Müller Zürich.

Collaborated on Zehnmal Eins / Einmal Zehn (John Cage’s Music for Ten) in the Kunstraum Düsseldorf.

Joined the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble.

Lines (1) premiered in the Gallerie Mark Müller Zürich.

Lines (2) premiered by the Singeborgs at the Kunstraum Düsseldorf.

Presented more than 20 performances of experimental music in self-renovated textile factory in Vernon, Connecticut.

Received the Northwestern School of Music Dean’s Grant to perform and travel in Europe.

Awarded Bachelor of Music, magna cum laude from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, studying trombone with Frank Crisfulli and composition with Michael Pisaro, Amnon Wolman and Alan Stout.

Contact: craigdanielshepard [at] gmail [dot] com