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Phil Acimovic is a composer and gamelan musician from Easthampton, MA. He writes quiet, austere concert music for soloists and chamber ensembles. In 2018 he served as the
first Artist-In-Residence at the Cold Hollow Sculpture Park in VT. Acimovic directs the Javanese Gamelan Ensembles at Smith College and Yale University.
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Upcoming Performances
February 2026
Echo Flute for solo flute and open instrumentation will be performed at the Prisms Festival at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.
Summer 2026
Cold Hollow Sculpture Park, Enosburg Falls, VT
A new work called Tuning, Timing, Resonance will be performed in and around David Stromeyer's sculpture "Potluck" at Cold Hollow Sculpture Park during the park's 2026 season.
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Past Performances
March 21, 2025 - Penn State, State College, PA
Penn State New Music Festival
Echo Flute
Other Arts Ensemble
January 18, 2025 - Williams College, Williamstown, CA
I/O Festival
Five Poems for Piano (premiere)
Jacob Hertz, piano
November 9, 2024 - Boston Court, Pasadena, CA
Quiet & Immense (premiere)
Chris Castro, double bass
February 9, 2024 - UC Davis, CA
Three Chords for Agnes Martin (premiere)
Chris Froh, percussion
February 12, 2023 - UC Davis, CA
Echo Flute
Empyrean Ensemble
June 19, 2022 - Surry Arts at the Barn, Surry ME
Piet's Keys
Microludes
Julian Drummond, piano
October 1, 2020 - Tufts University
Piet's Keys (premiere)
John McDonald, piano
August 11-25, 2018 - Cold Hollow Sculpture Park, VT
Artist Residency
July 5, 2018 - University of Oregon, Eugene
Interlude
Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium
May 25, 2018 - UC Davis
Wind Chime Waterwheel
Chris Froh and students
May 20, 2018 - UC Davis
All in a Gaze
Empyrean Ensemble
February 1, 3, 5, 2018 - Berkeley Piano Club & San Francisco Conservatory
Reverent Murmurs
Sarah Cahill and Eric Zivian, pianos
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
January 18, 2018 - UC Davis
Quiet Streams
St. Louis Symphony, David Roberston conducting
Revision/s Festival
June, 2017 - University of New York, Buffalo
Sinking into Focus
Ensemble Dal Niente
June in Buffalo
June, 2016 - New England Conservatory
Disintegration #2
SICPP Festival
May, 2016 - UC Davis
On the Diagonal
Empyrean Ensemble