Armando conducts the Washington, D.C. premiere of Louis Andriessen’s monumental music theater work, De Materie (1984-88) with Shane Hurst, tenor, Tracy Cowart, soprano, Alexandra Philips, speaker (”De Stijl”) and Pamela Witcher, actress (”Marie Currie”), with the Peabody De Materie Chorus and Great Noise Ensemble.  This is the first professional performance by an American ensemble of [...]

Armando’s 2007 orchestral diptych, Colorfields, will be presented by the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, Maximiano Valdez, conductor, at the Interamerican Festival for the Arts in San Juan on Saturday, September 4, 2010.

Armando has become a regular contributor to the Sequenza 21 new music blog.  Look for his writings at www.sequenza21.com and at http://www.sequenza21.com/forum/

Why is the new music community so focused on New York, with the rest of the U.S. seemingly ignored by those working in that city?  Read Armando’s article for New Music Box about the “New York Problem” to find out: http://newmusicbox.com/article.nmbx?id=6483

Armando Bayolo is the recipient of two new commissions: a trombone concerto for Philip Brown and the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra of Denmark, to be premiered in January, 2011 and a symphony, Canto America, for a consortium of wind ensembles led by the University of Oregon Wind Ensemble, Robert Ponto, Music Director, to be premiered during [...]

Cellist Philip von Maltzahnn joins the Western Piedmont Symphony, John Gordon Ross, Music Director, for the second of two world premiere performances of Bayolo’s cello concerto, Orfei Mors on April 10, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.  For more information on and tickets to this performance please visit http://www.wpsymphony.org/

Armando Bayolo and cellist Philip von Maltzahnn will join the Society for New Music in Syracuse, New York, for the first of two world premiere performances of Orfei Mors, Bayolo’s cello concerto written for von Maltzahnn and co-commissioned by the Society for New Music and the Western Piedmont Symphony.  The performance, part of the Society’s [...]

Armando Bayolo and Great Noise Ensemble return to the National Gallery of Art on Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. for the premiere of his cantata in memory of Russian American artist Mark Rothko, Kaddish:Passio:Rothko.  Commissioned by the Music Department of the National Gallery of Art, Kaddish:Passio:Rothko is inspired by Rothko’s Harvard murals and [...]

The saxophone and harp duo, Pictures on Silence, will present Bayolo’s “Crudely Spun Tales” at the International Saxophone Symposium at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia on January 16, 2010.  Pictures on Silence (Noah Getz, saxophone and Jackeline Pollauf, harp) premiered “Crudely Spun Tales” at the Mansion at Strathmore in November, 2009.  For more information [...]

Armando was prominently featured in an October 14, 2009 article of the Washington Post on the rise of alternative classical ensembles and performance practices in the new music community.  Anne Midgette’s article, “Roll Over, Beethoven,” can be read at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/13/AR2009101303565.html