2023
December:
November:
Tickets available here.
November 5: The Four Horsemen Tuba-Euphonium Quartet will premiere the quartet they commissioned, FLIGHT, at Memphis University. Concert info here!
October:
Red Clay Saxophone Quartet will premiere Jörmungandr on the UNCG Collage Concert, October 28th!
September:
The South Florida Chamber Ensemble give two performances of the newly edited and re-engraved version of Frustrations for solo horn.
July:
NEW(ish) works now available!
Frustrations for solo horn was originally composed in 1998. This edition is newly edited and re-engraved and includes a 2023 re-imagining of the work that may be performed using any number of performers.
Radio Fabric for marimba, fixed media, and film first took shape in the summer of 2020 and completed this June. The work is inspired by a skipping CD stuck in a loop and left to play unnoticed by the radio station DJ.
June:
April:
The University of Central Arkansas Tuba-Euphonium Quartet performed Jörmungandr on a tour through Mississippi.
Tubist Dr. Stephanie Fairbairn Ycaza and her colleagues will perform Murder Hornets be Damned on a UNI School of Music faculty recital. Saturday, April 8, 6pm, Davis Hall. Video here.
Winnfield Quartet will join Dr. Steven Stusek for a performance of Murder Hornets be Damned on the UNCG Saxophone Studio Recital. April 3, 5:30pm, Organ Recital Hall. Concert recording here!
Winnfield Quartet will be joined by saxophonist, Dr. Steven Stusek for a performance of Murder Hornets be Damned on the Salem College New Music Concert. April 1, 7:30pm, Shirley Hall
March:
East Chapel Hill High School (artEAST) String Orchestra gave an incendiary premiere of Thor Fishing for Jörmungandr. Video here.
February:
Murder Hornets be Damned will receive a performance on the UNI New Music Festival, February 24-25.
January:
Winnfield Quartet will be guest ensemble in Residence at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro on January 27th. While in residence, WQ will give a reading session of student composer works.
2022
December:
Winnfield Quartet will be in residence at UMKC on December 1-2. They will give a recital of compositions by UMKC student composers and give a presentation in Composition Forum.
November:
Tubist, Chris Fiol, will perform Until Then Skål on their Master’s recital at The University of Wisconsin Madison on Sunday, November 13th at 6pm.
September:
The University of South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Luis Víquez, placed second for The American Prize in the category of Orchestral Performance featuring Observations on and in Response to.
July:
The University of South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Luis Víquez, is selected as a finalist for The American Prize in the category of Orchestral Performance with works by Eddie Mora and Observations on and in Response to.
June:
April:
March:
Winnfield Quartet will perform a recital and lecture-recital
at the 2022 Southeastern Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference
hosted by Kennesaw State University. (archived livestream)
SERTEC 2022
A chamber version for tuba, bass, percussion, and piano is also available. (Video of SERTEC Premiere)
February:
2/27 and 3/2: Ave and Nomen est Omen will be presented in addition to a short interview about the pieces
on Kansas City’s 91.9 Sound-Currents.
https://www.kcur.org/show/sound-currents/2022-02-25/moon-songs-steve-landis
Live recording of Winnfield Quartet premiering Murder Hornets be Damned! at The Crown Theatre on Dec. 17.
Winnfield Quartet will perform Murder Hornets be Damned
on the UNCG Faculty Composer Concert,
Feb. 15, 7:30pm Tew Recital Hall
Event Page
Winnfield Quartet will present a full recital of 21st century chamber music at
Campbell University on Feb. 4, 8 pm.
For more info please visit the event page.
2021
January:
Haiku Shards (from the Unordered Suite) will be presented on the Sound Currents podcast hosted by 91.9 Classical KC.
2021
December:
November:
October:
Songs of Love and Immolation will be performed by members of KC Vitas on their upcoming Halloween concert.
September:
I am excited to announce that after a successful audition,
I have been invited to join the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra double bass section.
June:
April:
Evocations, nocturnes in mobile form
for vocal duo was commissioned and performed by Avimimus Duo (Lauren McAllister, mezzo-soprano and Alexandra Kassouf, soprano)
Reflections, for flex ensemble performed by Mars Hill University,
Misty Theisen, conductor
Observations on and in Response to… premiered and recorded by
The University of South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Luis Víquez, conductor
March:
https://aas.uncg.edu/events-explore-the-interaction-between-space-and-sound/
Percussionist Erik Schmidt premiered the blurred edges between now and then, composed for artist Stephen Skorski’s sound-sculpture, Manifestation at The Weatherspoon Museum on the campus of UNCG.
Percussionist Masatoshi Enomoto performed and recorded three movements from The Unordered Suite at The University of Florida. In addition to premiering the movement Artefact in Metal, Masa also performed Invocation and Haiku Shards.
January 2021:
Megan Ihnen performed Breach Breach Breach as part of nienteForte’s Virtual Concert Series.
Late Fall 2020:
Percussionist Colton Morris released a video of The Binding of Fenrir,
for solo snare drum from The Unordered Suite for solo percussionist.
https://polaristicpictorials.bandcamp.com/album/polaristic-pictorials
An album of constrained, mutated double bass duets.
Steven Landis – double bass
David Menestres – double bass
Jonathan Wall – mutation
Nick Rich – mixing and mastering
September – October 2020
2020
August 22: Two new chamber orchestra scores available featuring FLEX winds and strings! Please contact me for FLEX options. Original versions are available in the store.
August 21: Curve for Tenor Sax and Fixed media is the title track on the new release by Out & Gone. The work was performed and recorded by saxophonist, Nicolas Lira.
All proceeds go to help artists in the Triangle and Triad areas of NC affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.
August 14:
Despite the quarantine, I got to participate in a virtual faculty recital at the Music Academy where I teach double bass.
10:45 – Cavatine Op. 76, Franz Simandl for double bass and piano, Amy Zigler piano
17:33 – As the Hostas Return for solo bass, Steve Landis
July 14: New sounds for the summer!
July 13: Cypress Knee Fulcrum for six unspecific wind parts and four percussion parts [all parts may be doubled] (2019) now available. This work incorporates the performance space and physical distance between performers. [video here]
July 12: The web store is now open and scores are available for purchase! Please visit the list of works page and use the drop down menus at the bottom of each section to search available titles.
July: Updating the site to include a proper paypal store. In the meantime here are two new pieces…
March – June: Music composed while under the Coronavirus lockdown:
Murder Hornets be Damned for tuba, double bass, marimba, and piano
Radio Fabric for marimba, fixed media, and film
Elektronische Vorspiel I for fixed media
Stir Crazy for amplified tuba and drum set
Curve for tenor saxophone and fixed media
PSA four miniatures for tuba and mixed percussion
Enola Gay for english horn, narrator, fixed media, and live processing
https://www.facebook.com/shaltisw/videos/737571006013/
Erik Schmidt, kalimba
June 1-7: The Unordered Suite for solo percussionist has been selected for performance on the June in Buffalo Music Festival. [POSTPONED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS]
May 19-21: Danny Rowland will perform From a Blue Bird’s Window at the 2020 South-Central Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference (SCRTEC) hosted by Okhlahoma State University. [CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS]
May 14-16: Danny Rowland will perform From a Blue Bird’s Window and The Four Horsemen Tuba-Euphonium Quartet will premiere Flight at the 2020 Midwestern Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference (MWRTEC) hosted by The University of Kentucky. [CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS]
May 1: The Unordered Suite, for solo percussionist will receive a complete performance on the A la Carte Concert Series in Greensboro, NC. Erik Schmidt, soloist. [CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS]
April 2-4: The Winnfield Quartet will perform Five Scenes in Mobile Form, From a Blue Bird’s Window, and Under a Gibbous Moon at the 2020 Southeastern Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference (SERTEC) hosted by Kennesaw State University. [CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS]
April 1: SQUIRREL!!! for alto saxophone and piano will receive a performance at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro by saxophonist, Tucker Daniel. [CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS]
March 26-28: IMPACT for snare drum and percussion trio will be performed at the Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference hosted by UT Arlington. [CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS]
March 1: Flash Points for solo trumpet and flugelhron received a repeat performance by the LSU New Music Ensemble. Fil Starostka, trumpet and flugelhorn
February 25: The Unordered Suite for solo percussionist and Under a Gibbous Moon for tuba and marimba will be performed on the UNCG Faculty Composer’s Concert.
February 11: Dr. Will Gray Beach and Erik Schmidt will perform Under a Gibbous Moon for tuba and marimba on a guest artist recital at Eastern Carolina University. Info here.
You can catch the livestream here.
January 30 and 31: Love Notes from the Skeletons in my Closet will be performed at the Greensboro Fringe Festival. Details soon!
November 23: Colton Morris will premiere The Binding of Fenrir for solo snare drum from The Unordered Suite for solo percussionist on his Doctoral recital at George Mason University. Event page here
November 23: Reprise performance of Love Notes from Skeletons in my Closet. 7:30 pm Greensboro Project Space, sliding scale donation
event page here
November 17: The Constantinides New Music Ensemble at LSU will perform Flash Points for trumpet and flugelhorn
November 16: The Winnfield Quartet performs at Winthrop University
November 10: A video The Viquez-Wadley duo’s performance of Hemingway was a bomb maker.
October 16: The score for Songs of Love and Immolation is now available!
October 1: The Viquez-Wadley Duo will perform Hemingway was a bomb maker. for bass clarinet and drum set on a University of South Dakota Faculty recital.
September 27 – 28: The Winnfield Quartet will makes its debut and perform Five Scenes in Mobile Form at the West Fork New Music Festival hosted by Fairmont State University. Breach, Breach, Breach for live narration and fixed media has also been selected for performance.
September 24 – 29: Tubist Dr. Daniel Rowland is touring the Southeast U.S. with a recital program featuring newly commissioned works, including, From a Blue Bird’s Window.
September 29: Georgia Southern University-Armstrong
September 28: Florida State University
September 27: Auburn University
September 26: Valdosta State University
September 24: Kennesaw State University
September 15: Darin Wadley’s performance in Sioux City will include, As the Hostas Return, from the unordered suite for solo percussionist.
September 7: Hemingway was a Bomb Maker for bass clarinet and drum set and the new Unordered Suite for solo percussionist have been selected for performance on the Great Plains New Music Festival hosted by the University of South Dakota.
September 6: Guest lectures and master class at The University of South Dakota
August 30 and 31: Love Notes from the Skeleton in my Closet
7:00 pm, Greenhill Gallery downtown Greensboro, NC
Dylan Reddish and Nicole Lawson, choreography and dance
Erik Schmidt and Steve Landis, music
July 21: Premiere of The Blacktop Truth Through Samarcand for Guitar Orchestra commissioned by the Eastern Music Festival and Guilford College.
New live video of BOOM!!! …for Real!, from the 2019 U.S. Navy Band Sax Symposium featuring Steven Stusek as the saxophone soloist.
New video of Invocation, from the Unordered Suite for solo percussionist. Performance and video by Dr. Brett William Dietz.
June 6-8: Three works are scheduled for performance at the 2019 New Music on the Bayou Festival, including the premiere of Cypress Knee Fulcrum, a site-specific work for the Black Bayou Wildlife Refuge. This work was commissioned by the festival for 2019.
March-April: Tubist Danny Rowland will be on the road performing his newly commissioned work, From a Blue Bird’s Window.
Dr. Andy Smith posted a video of his performance of Three Scats, for solo tuba while at the AETYB in Madrid!
February 22: Lithographs (series of four) for fixed media and projected images (Lithograph images by Stephen Skorski) was performed on the UNCG Faculty Composer’s Concert
January 11: Dr. Steven Stusek will perform BOOM!!! …for Real! at the U.S. Navy Band Saxophone Symposium, hosted by George Mason University. 3pm, Harris Theatre.
2018
December 28, 2018 – February 17, 2019: Lithographs (series of four) for fixed media is presented as part of an art exhibit by Stephen Skorski at the Korea UpCycle Center Gallery in Daegu, South Korea.
November 10: Dr. Steven Stusek will perform BOOM!!! …for Real! on his faculty recital at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. 7:30 pm, Recital Hall
Will Gray Beach will perform Five Scenes in Mobile Form for tuba, double bass, percussion, and piano on his DMA tuba recital at The University of North Carolina Greensboro.
October 26 – 27: The bass clarinet version of Hemingway was a Bomb Maker has been selected for performance on the 2018 American Single Reed Summit, Hosted by Truman State University. Catch the video of the premiere, HERE!
September 27 – 29: The bass clarinet version of Hemingway was a Bomb maker has been selected for performance by the Great Noise Ensemble on The West Fork New Music Festival, hosted by Fairmont State University. Just added, Amy Zigler will perform the Three Nocturnes for solo piano.
September 23: New recordings and videos available!
The premiere concert recording of IMPACT, for solo snare drum and percussion trio is available on soundcloud, here.
The Premiere concert recording of Tuba-Euphonium Quartet No.1 is now available on soundcloud, here.
The video for BOOM!!! ..for Real! a chamber concerto for alto/tenor sax and mixed chamber ensemble is available for viewing on youtube, here.
September 4: Guest artist on New Music Faculty Recital at Georgia Southern University Armstrong campus. Featuring the premiere of Breach, Breach, Breach for narrator and fixed media.
July 20 – 25: Three Scats, for solo tuba will be performed by Dr. Andrew Smith at the 2018 AETYB Festival in Madrid.
May 31 – June 1: IMPACT, for solo snare drum and percussion trio is selected for performance on the New Music on the Bayou Festival, in Monroe, Louisiana.
IMPACT wins the 2018 Black Bayou Composition Award!
May 11-13: Under a Gibbous Moon for tuba and marimba and Three Skats for solo tuba will premiere at the Southeast Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference hosted by Florida State University. https://justinbenavidez.wixsite.com/sertec2018
Under a Gibbous Moon is currently available through Veritas Musica Publishing.
April 20: …And we Build Our Own Truths is being performed on the bridge in Peabody Park on the UNCG campus as part of The Green Space New Music Festival.
April 17: Tuba/Euphonium Quartet No. 1 is being premiered by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Graduate Quartet on the Spring UNCG Tuba/Euphonium Studio recital.
April 15: Amy and I were interviewed by Emily Jenkins for the Gaining Proficiency Podcast. You can listen to the interview here.
March 10: Songs of Love and Immolation for mezzo-soprano and piano is being performed by Sharon O’Connell Campbell and Ruth Moore on The University of Nebraska-Kearney New Music Festival. You can live stream the festival here: http://www.unk.edu/…/…/performing-art-live-stream-events.php
February 20: Dr. Steve Stusek will perform BOOM!!! …for Real! on the UNCG Composition Faculty Spring Recital.
February 2: Saxophonist Dr. Xin Gao and pianist Dr. Rachel Aubuchon are performing SQUIRREL!!! on a guest artist recital as part of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Sax Fest. https://www.facebook.com/UNCGSAX/
January 29: Tubist Dr. Andy Smith will give a soft premiere of Three Skats for solo tuba at Campbell University. You can live stream the concert here: https://livestream.com/accounts/3736866/Smith
2017:
December 11: The studio recording of BOOM!!! …for Real! is complete. You can hear it here on my soundcloud page. Thank you to everyone who helped make this project possible. Thank you to saxophone soloist Zach Shemon and the UMKC New Music Ensemble conducted by Boris Vayner. Thank you to the ensemble members: Virginia Q. Backman, Erik Hose, Ashtin Johnson, Aubrie Powell, Matt Anderson, and Hao Yin for an amazing performance. Thank you to Jason Scheufler for recording and producing. Special thanks to Wildacres Retreat, the Millay Colony, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts for the time and space to compose this piece.
December 4: The University of New Mexico New Music Ensemble will perform, Five Scenes in Mobile Form.
December 2: Impact, for solo snare drum and percussion trio will premiere at UMKC. Percussionist, James Harris commissioned the work for his first DMA recital. – POSTPONED Spring 2018
November 4: Helix, for solo spiral trash cymbal will be performed by percussionist, Erik Schmidt at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Fall 2017: I am excited to announce that I am now an Adjunct Instructor in Music Theory at UNCG.
September 21: I am performing on the new Greensboro concert series, a la carte.
July 31: Alex Caselman’s disc of new trumpet works including my piece, Flash Points, for solo trumpet & flugelhorn is available on cdbaby, iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Youtube Music, Amazon MP3, and Google Music Store.
The first draft of Oskoreia, for tuba/euphonium quartet is complete. The work was commissioned by The Four Horsemen Tuba/Euphonium Quartet and will premiere during the 2017-2018 concert season. The score will be available for purchase through the store section of this site.
I am excited to begin a new work for accompanied solo snare drum commissioned by UMKC graduate percussionist, James Harris.
July 6: Flash Points, for solo trumpet & flugelhorn was recently recorded by Alex Caselman and will be released on his CD, Clamored Cantos. More details on the release as they become available.
July 6: Amy Zigler, resident musicologist, accompanist, collaborator, and wife launched her site. You can visit her and learn about the life and music of Dame Ethel Smyth here.
June: Percussionist Corey Denham performed Helix, for solo spiral trash cymbal at the Fresh Ink Festival in Wisconsin.
May 24: Percussionist John R. Beck performed Helix, for solo spiral trash cymbal at SECCA in Winston-Salem, NC with Forecast Music.
May 10: Dissertation defended!
May 4: Saxophonist Zachary Shemon and the UMKC Musica Nova will premiere, BOOM!!! …for Real! my new chamber concerto for alto and tenor saxophone influenced by the three American painters: Cy Twombly, Franz Kline, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
April 7: Tubist Brielan Anderson will perform Five Scenes in Mobile Form at Salem College
March 10: The new saxophone version of Hemingway was a Bomb Maker will premiere on the EMCC New Music Conference at UMKC. Here is video of the premiere!
Received video of the ISB performance of my string quintet. The work was performed by the VSU Faculty Quintet at the 2015 ISB Convention hosted by Colorado State University.
January 27 – 28: Flash Points, for solo trumpet will debut on the SCI Region IV conference hosted by UNCG.
Fall 2016:
September 14 -24: Artist Residency Wildacres (North Carolina)
September 28: premiere of GRAPHITE, for Wind Ensemble, UMKC Wind Ensemble, Dr. Joe Parisi, conductor
October 4 – 31: Artist Residency, Millay Colony (New York)
November 1 – 15: Artist Residency, VCCA (Virginia)
December 6: Performance of Helix, for solo spiral trash cymbal and Flash Points, for solo trumpet, UMKC Composer’s Guild Concert
August 2014
Here is the first bit of press concerning the premiere of ,
Thronateeska, concerto for mixed quartet and orchestra.
March
Trio Chymera will perform a recital featuring SQUIRREL!!!, Klangfunk’nmelodie, and a new work, Slow Burn at the 2014 North American Saxophone Alliance, hosted by the University of Illinois.
For more info please visit http://nasaconference.com/
February
premiering…
for flute and drum set
February 7, 2014 – 7:30 pm
The Greensboro Fringe Festival Presents: Collisions and Conversations
COLLAPSS Concert Series #6
Empire Books 1827 B Spring Garden St., Greensboro
February 9, 2014 – 3:30 pm
Janet Watson Phillips, DMA flute recital
University of North Carolina at Greensboro Recital Hall
February 23-24, 2014
Janet and Justin will be presenting the work while on tour with the UNCG New Music Ensemble Present Continuous. Hemingway was a bomb maker will be performed at Winthrop University and Georgia Southern University.
December 20, 2013 – 7 pm
COLLAPSS Concert Series #5
Empire Books 1827 B Spring Garden St., Greensboro
November 22, 2013 – 7 pm
COLLAPSS Concert Series #4
Empire Books 1827 B Spring Garden St., Greensboro
A multimedia presentation of Thinking About How We Just Lost Contact
was performed.
Art in Odd Places – Greensboro
BRIANNA TAYLOR, CAROLINE ALTHOF & STEVEN LANDIS
A Natural Sequence of Movement
This migratory dance work explores how to physically attend to specific locations while conceptually investigates the Fibonacci number sequence. It migrates down Elm Street, beginning at the The Book Trader and finishing at Elsewhere. In each location the dancers engage in a choreographic structure based on the numerical significance of the Fibonacci number sequence through spatial pathways, repetition of movement, and interaction between the performers. Steven Landis will construct a musical score also based on the Fibonacci sequence using found objects, as well as traditional instrumentation, with featured musician Tiffany Lamb Powell. The work hopes to provide unexpected encounters with audience members and bystanders that might not otherwise encounter a dance and music performance in a traditional theater setting.
Date: Nov. 1, 7:30pm – 8:00pm & Nov. 2, 2pm – 2:30pm
Location: Start – 312 Elm / The Book Trader; 336 Elm / Elm-McGee Parking; 400 Elm / E1 – Old Train Station; 532 Elm / Alley; & 606 Elm / Elsewhere – Finish
Trio Chymera will perform my new work,
Klangfunk’nmelodie during their 2013 Fall tour.
University of Missouri
Whitmore Recital Hall
September 16, 2013
7.30 PM
University of Missouri – St. Louis
September 17, 2013
4.30 PM
High Point University
September 24, 2013
5.30 PM
10th Annual UNCG New Music Festival
September 25, 2013
