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Echo Flute received an Honorable Mention in the Outward New Music call for scores.

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

 

August 15, 2026

Enosburg Falls, VT

Cold Hollow Sculpture Park

1 pm & 4 pm

 

A new commissioned, Tuning, Timing, Resonance will be performed at David Stromeyer's sculpture "Potluck" at Cold Hollow Sculpture Park. There will be two performances at 1pm and 4pm, as well as two public workshops at 11am and 2:30

Event information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tuning-timing-resonance-1-pm-performance-tickets-1986644814118?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Past Performances

 

June 3, 2026 - Stone Theatre, Ruston, LA

  New Music on the Bayou

  Echo Flute

  Elizabeth McNutt and NMB musicians

April 25, 2026 - ASU, Tempe, AZ

  Five Poems for Piano

  Gala Garrido, piano

April 21, 2026 - Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ

  Echo Flute

  Elizabeth Buck and the ASU Community Flute Ensemble

 

February 28, 2026 - ASU, Tempe, AZ

  Prisms New Music Festival

  Echo Flute

  Elizabeth Buck and the ASU Flute Ensemble

March 21, 2025 - Penn State, State College, PA

  Penn State New Music Festival

  Echo Flute

  Other Arts Ensemble

January 18, 2025 - Williams College, Williamstown, MA

  I/O Festival

  Five Poems for Piano (premiere)

  Jacob Hertz, piano

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November 9, 2024 - Boston Court, Pasadena, CA

  Quiet & Immense (premiere)

  Chris Castro, double bass

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February 9, 2024 - UC Davis, CA

  Three Chords for Agnes Martin (premiere)

  Chris Froh, percussion

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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

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October 1, 2020 - Tufts University, Medford, MA

  Piet's Keys (premiere)

  John McDonald, piano

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August 11-25, 2018 - Cold Hollow Sculpture Park, VT 

  Artist Residency

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July 5, 2018 - University of Oregon, Eugene

  Interlude

  Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium

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May 25, 2018 - UC Davis

  Wind Chime Waterwheel

  Chris Froh and students

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May 20, 2018 - UC Davis

  All in a Gaze

  Empyrean Ensemble

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February 1, 3, 5, 2018 - Berkeley Piano Club & San Francisco Conservatory

  Reverent Murmurs

  Sarah Cahill and Eric Zivian, pianos

  Left Coast Chamber Ensemble

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January 18, 2018 - UC Davis

  Quiet Streams

  St. Louis Symphony, David Roberston conducting

  Revision/s Festival

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June, 2017 - University of New York, Buffalo

  Sinking into Focus

  Ensemble Dal Niente

  June in Buffalo 

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June, 2016 - New England Conservatory

  Disintegration #2

  SICPP Festival

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May, 2016 - UC Davis

  On the Diagonal

  Empyrean Ensemble

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