Live Arts Boston 2024 Award from the Boston Foundation

The Boston Foundation has selected Samuel Beebe to receive a Live Arts Boston award of $30,000 to create a new operatic work created with Lex Brown to be performed by operatic tenor / drag performer Jordan Weatherston Pitts (Creatine Price). The work will be presented at a Boston venue in the summer of 2026.

Hyperallergic Reviews ‘Carnelian’ Debut at Sovereign Futures

The film made its theatrical debut at Circle Cinema in Tulsa, Oklahoma on the first night of Sovereign Futures, a four-day arts and culture symposium organized by curator Allison Glenn. Reviewed by Maya Pontone for Hyperalleric. Read all about here.

‘Carnelian’ is a New York Times Critic’s Pick

Lex Brown’s 3-channel musical film installation Carnelian, co-composed by Samuel Beebe, was reviewed by Kim Córdova of the New York Times.

Video-Opera Commission, Strange Trace’s Stencils Festival 2024

Strange Trace has commissioned composer Samuel Beebe and librettist Susan Bywaters to compose a short video-opera. The work will appear as part of Strange Trace’s Stencils Festival in the spring of 2024.

‘Carnelian’ Opens at List Center; Soundtrack is streaming; Plans for live performances

Lex Brown’s 3-channel musical film installation Carnelian, co-composed by Samuel Beebe, is showing from April 2-July 18 at the List Center for Visual Arts at MIT in Cambridge.

The original film soundtrack is available wherever you stream your music.

Additionally, this summer and fall, the project will be performed live in various forms, beginning with an intimate rendering of the complete musical by the works’ creators, Brown and Beebe, at 8th House Residency in Vermont. Then the project will move on to a set of full cast and pit band performances at the Celebration Barn in S. Paris, Maine in late August (see Events for details).

‘Biophilia’ In-Person Screening and Virtual Premiere

After many years of work, I’m excited to announce the in-person screening and virtual premiere of Biophilia, presented by Stony Brook Opera, on September 17, 2021 at 7:00pm.

With libretto by Sara Costantino, Biophilia is a dystopian chamber opera in two acts. Set in the near future, against a backdrop of the current climate crisis, Biophilia is a dialectic exploration of the cyclic nature of human growth and destruction. When an imminent storm threatens to crush the last remaining town in America, a deep-rooted farmer and his Citadel-born partner are forced to make irrevocable decisions while an invisible voice makes conflicting demands.

Guerilla Lab: Libretto Writing Workshop

I’m glad to be a participant in Guerilla Opera’s Libretto Writing Workshop for six weeks this July and August. In addition to workshopping original libretti, we will be diving into online conversations with composers/librettists of operas written for the Boston-based fringe company, including Ken Ueno, Hannah Lash, Curtis Hughes, and Anthony R. Green.

"Pretty Saro Orbital" at 2020 Network Music Festival

SynthBeats will perform “Pretty Saro Orbital,” live over Zoom, with members contributing their parts from locations across the US, as well as Switzerland and Armenia.

About the NMF: Exploring innovative digital music, art and research which investigates the impact of networking technology on musical creation and performance practice, Network Music Festival presents cutting edge musical performances, workshops and discussions.

"Pretty Saro Orbital" on NYCEMF Virtual Concert

A video of my new telematic piece “Pretty Saro Orbital” is part of an online concert curated as part of the 2020 New York Electronic Music Festival. The piece was developed for the electronic music collective SynthBeats, and is performed live over Zoom.

Featured on Niloufar Nourbahksh’s ListN Up Playlist

My friend Niloufar Nourbahksh has graciously included my song “We Were Warned About This” on her ListN Up Playlist, curated for I Care If You Listen, which also features a host of super talented and diverse contributors.

Performance at NYC songSLAM with Natasha Nelson

Premiere of my song “We Were Warned About This,” at NYC songSLAM, hosted by Sparks and Wiry Cries at the Dimenna Center. I played piano, performing with mezzo-soprano Natasha Nelson.

‘The Glade’ included on Unheard-of Ensemble’s latest release

This album features The Glade, for clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and electronics, as well as other pieces composed for Unheard-of Ensemble’s Collaborative Composers Initiative in August, 2019.

Composer Resident at 2019 Source Song Festival

A 5-day composer residency in Minneapolis with Libby Larsen. As part of the MNSong composer workshop, the Source Song Festival will feature a performance of The Die was Already Cast by local performers.

Composer Resident with Unheard-of Ensemble at CCI

Unheard-of Ensemble, Erin Rogers, and Reiko Fueting host resident composers for the 2019 Collaborative Composer Initiative, at Stony Brook University. Unheard-of will workshop and premiere the new work The Glade, for clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and electronics.

‘The Rest is Silence’ wins 4th Annual Chelsea Symphony Composition Competition.

The orchestral work ‘The Rest is Silence’ has been selected by the Chelsea Symphony as the winner of their 4th annual Composition Competition, and will be performed on June 1st and 2nd in New York City.

‘The Woods’ is a finalist for the 2017 American Prize

Premiered by the Boston-based group Calliope’s Call, the song cycle for soprano, mezzo, tenor, and piano has been selected as a finalist for the 2017 American Prize in Vocal Chamber Music (professional division).