Gentle Gazzetta Readers, It was only a matter of time but I’m traveling again – full bore. Throughout last year, as we were crossing our fingers that this plague would eventually wind down, I did venture out on several occasions – to the East Coast and even, at one point, to Europe. But, for the most part, I stayed pretty consistently at home in San Francisco. But that ends now. I’m at the beginning of the longest touring bout I’ve been on in a very long time. l'inizio del viaggio I’m writing you from a hotel room near the campus of Florida State University, where I’m actively engaged in their Festival of New Music. And, directly after this, I’ll head to Austin for a visiting artist residency at UT’s College of Fine Arts, and then yet another in Baton Rouge, at LSU’s Experimental Music & Digital Media Center. And, from there, I head back to Rome! I’ll Spend five and a half short weeks there, trying to make up for a fraction of my lost Rome Prize time, and I’m certain that those weeks will fly by "in un batter d’occhio”. Although I’ll return from Roma to my San Francisco studio for a brief moment, I’ll almost instantly turn around and head back out the door (with wild abandon), for far flung US locales, stopping back home only briefly, in between them, until I’ve consumed Spring in its entirety. Only then, will I finally slow down a bit and try to get in some quality studio time. hard work and its rewards Meanwhile, I had a very active and productive time from fall to winter, bookended by performances in two extraordinarily beautiful and architecturally bold venues – the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. At the Elbphilharmonie, I performed solo works for voice and electronics on a shared concert with ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble), who played my Attention on that program. And at Disney Hall, Nathalie Joachim and I curated an evening of works that included the premieres of commissions for both of us, performed with the LA Phil New Music Group. I also did two record release concerts – one in New York and one in San Francisco – celebrating my two 2021 solo albums. And, in the midst of all of this, I've received some prestigious awards. In December of 2021, the Third Coast International Festival of Audio gave me the AUDIO UNBOUND award for my radio work Simultaneous. Then, in January, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts honored me with the 2022 Dorothea Tanning Award in Music/Sound. hearing...and seeing I composed a ridiculous number of new chamber works and, as is my usual, I saw (and heard) a fair amount of art, since my last writing – partially online, partially in-person, and largely very engaging. I saw Splinter Reeds (my favorite reed quintet) in a beautiful performance of Amadeus Regucera’s Absence in Relief, at the Paul Dresher Ensemble Studio.		ACME performing Attention in Elbphilharmonie's Kleiner Saal Elbphilharmonie's Grosser Saal Exterior of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Hall Nathalie Joachim, Michael Tilson Thomas, Pamela Z, and Jenny Wong backstage at Disney Hall Meredith Monk Ensemble at Mills College Theo Bleckmann at Herbst Theater Charles Amirkhanian and PZ hosting the live stream of Other Minds 25 Colin Gee performing at Roulette, NY
Splinter Reeds at Paul Dresher Studio
And I attended Meredith Monk’s Indra’s Net in Oakland, at Mills College’s Littlefield Concert Hall, and a Theo Bleckman concert at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater. I also saw all the 2021 Other Minds Festival concerts – through the lens of live-stream co-host alongside the indefatigable Charles Amirkhanian. I attended some experimental sound events at Center For New Music in San Francisco, and enjoyed performances by Rome Prize alumni at the Society of Fellows' "Salone" at Roulette in New York.
Detail of a Joan Mitchell Painting (photo Elena-Mariá Bey)	On the visual art front, I saw the enchanting Joan Mitchell retrospective at SFMOMA, and an extraordinary Jennifer Packer exhibition at the Whitney. And I attended several of the monthly art openings in the newly designated 3rd Floor Exhibition Space at DE (the artist building where I live and work).
Detail of Mitzi Pederson's installation at DE's 3rd Floor Exhibtion Space	Ronald Chase Paintings on DE's 3rd Floor
I know I’ll have many more opportunities to experience good art during my current travels, and I’m taking great care to avoid contracting the virus, as I go. I hope you’re all safe and well, and I hope to maybe catch a glimpse of your masked faces during my upcoming events! (Scroll down for details.) Love, PZ

Photos by: Elbphilharmonie Photographer, Pamela Z, Joshua Robison, Elena-Mariá Bey. top
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The FSU College of Music and the UMA Concert Series Present The Twentieth Biannial FESTIVAL of NEW MUSIC Featuring INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE and PAMELA Z Friday-Saturday, February 4th & 5th, 2022 Opperman Music Hall Florida State University College of Music, Tallahassee
Friday, February 4th, 2022, 7:30pm Pamela Z will perform a set of her solo works for voice and electronics on a shared program with works by FSU Composers, Liliya Ugay, and Clifton Callender Saturday, February 5th, 2022, 7:30pm ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) with Pamela Z, Burgin Quartet, and cellist Greg Sauer will perform works by Pamela Z
PROGRAMME: Mario Diaz de Leon: Mysterium Brittany J. Green: Intersections Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Sequences Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Firing Squad Pamela Z - Featured Composer: – Four Movements for Cello and Delays – Twenty Answers – The Unraveling   FSU FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC Opperman Music Hall FSU College of Music 122 N. Copeland St Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA top
UT Austin Butler School of Music presents PAMELA Z in a Concert of Works for Solo Voice & Electronics Tuesday, February 8, 2022 8:30pm B. Iden Payne Theatre, Austin
Pamela Z will perform a solo concert of works for voice, electronics, and video, as the culminating event of a visiting artist residency at the University of Texas at Austin's Butler School of Music. Free Admission University of Texas Butler School of Music B. Iden Payne Theatre 300 E 23rd St, Austin, TX 78712, USA	.
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The LSU School fo Music's Experimental Music & Digital Media Program presents PAMELA Z in Concert Friday, February 11, 2022 7:30pm LOUISIANA DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER DMC Theatre, Baton Rouge
	Pamela Z will present an evening of solo works for live voice and electronics, and a multi-channel fixed media work, at the LSU Digital Media Center Theatre – an intimate venue with a 92 speaker immersive sound system. Z will make use of the theatre's immersive system to spatialize sound in her performance.
Free admission Louisiana Digital Media Center 340 E Parker Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA EMDM Goes Up to 11, featuring PAMELA Z Friday, February 12, 2022 7:30pm Hartley-Vey Studio Theatre at the Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge The LSU School of Music’s Experimental Music & Digital Media program celebrates its eleventh anniversary with a special pair of new media concerts and gala events, featuring renowned composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z Hartley Bay Theater Shaw Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA   top Pamela Z with Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble Saturday, February 26, 2022, 6pm Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome Pamela Z and the PMCE (Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble) will perform a program of Z's music in collaboration with choreographer Francesca Pennini as part of the EQUILIBRIO festival at Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, RM USA Auditorium Parco della Musica Viale Pietro de Coubertin 30, Rome, RM top
PAMELA Z Artist Talk as part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series Thursday, March 31, 2022 5:30pm Pamela Z gives a live, in-person artist talk: Crossing Disciplines | Blurring Boundaries, in which she discusses her work as a interdisiciplinary composer/performer and media artist.
M Stamps School of Art and Design University of Michigan MICHIGAN THEATER, ANN ARBOR 603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA top
Pamela Z + Contemporary Directions Ensemble University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance presents: Friday, April 1, 2022 Hankinson Hall
An evening of Pamela Z's works for solo voice & electronics and chamber works (with the Contemporary Directions Ensemble). Earl V. Moore Building Hankinson Rehearsal Hall 1100 Baits Dr. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2085
PAMELA Z solo works for voice & electronics and choral works with Next Ensemble and Peabody Camerata Friday, April 8, 2022 An evening of Pamela Z's works for solo voice and electronics, alongside some of her choral works performed by Next Ensemble and Peabody Camerata. Peabody Conservatory Joe Byrd Hall 1 E Mt Vernon Pl, Baltimore, MD 21202
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