January through early March, 2012 are proving to be a busy time for me. The year began with the official kickoff of the Atlas New Music series and kicks into overdrive on Friday, January 20 and Saturday, January 21, 2012 with two concerts conducting Great Noise Ensemble at the 2012 New Voices Festival at [...]

I have been named the new Curator for New Music at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C. This allows me to bring even more exciting new music to the District of Columbia through what I hope will be an innovative and exciting series of performances by some of the best artists in [...]

Armando Bayolo has received a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University to fund the creation of a new work for solo electric guitar. The work, Little Black Book, will be 13 discreet pieces for solo electric guitar and electronics and will be premiered during the 2012-13 season by guitarist and composer [...]

08.31.2011– Composer Armando Bayolo will make his Carnegie Hall debut, Sunday October 9 at 7:30pm, with the premiere of Lullabies, commissioned by clarinetist Marguerite Levin for Trio Montage at Weill Recital Hall. Premieres from Valencio Jackson, Jr., Allen Feinstein, Brian Balmages, and Joseph Ness will also appear on the program, entitled “Five Premieres Inspired by [...]

The American Modern Ensemble, under the direction of Artistic Director Robert Paterson, will perform Armando’s 2002 sextet, Action Figure on Monday, December 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, NY.  This marks Armando’s New York debut, so you don’t want to miss this fantastic ensemble’s performance of this very challenging early work. 
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Orfei Mors, Armando’s 2009 cello concerto, will be presented twice in 2011.  First by the Columbia Civic Orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Stefan Freund, on February 26, 2011 in Columbia, Missouri.  A little over a week later, on March 5, 2011 Great Noise Ensemble, under Armando’s direction, will present the Washington, D.C. premiere of [...]

The Peabody Wind Ensemble, Harlan Parker, Music Director, presents Armando’s Fanfares (2004) for wind ensemble on Wednesday, February 16, 2011.

Armando’s new trombone concerto, Absolute Music, will receive its world premiere by trombonist Philip Brown and the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra, under maestro Maximiano Valdez on January 21 and 23, 2011 in Sorderborg, DK.

Caprichos, a new work commissioned by Dutch group Hexnut, will receive its world premiere on January 11 at the Karnatic Lab, Amsterdam.

Armando will be the guest composer at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY on December 7, 2010, presenting two Beatles-inspired pieces: Calm Down, Ringo! (1998) for four drum sets and Two Beatles, based on songs from the “White Album,”  commissioned by LeMoyne College’s chamber orchestra.