DAIX MUSIC (Daixuan Ai)
Composer, Performer, Teacher, Interdisciplinary Artist
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LARGE ENSEMBLE
Beach Adventure (A Pocket Concerto) 2024
- minutes
4
- Full orchestra (2.2.2.2/4.2.2.1/timp+2/hrp/strings)
- Premiere: Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (Jun Märko, conductor)
- Commissioner: Sing Me A Story Foundation
Keep Moving 2024
- minutes
7
- Full orchestra (2.2.2.2/2.2.2.1/timp+3/hrp/pno/strings)
- Premiere: Cabrillo Festival Orchestra
- Commissioner: Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
The Burning of Yuan Ming Yuan 2023-24
- 0 minutes
1
- Sinfonietta (1.1.1.1/1.1.2.1/3 perc/hrp/pno (db. cel.)/strings)
- Premiere: Indiana University New Music Ensemble (David Platt, conductor)
- Commissioner: Indiana University New Music Ensemble
Silent Theater 2023
- 3 minutes
1
- Sinfonietta (1.1.1.1/1.1.1.1/1 perc/hrp/strings)
- Premiere: National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic
- Commissioner: National Orchestral Institute + Festival
The Moon 2022
- minutes
7
- Full orchestra (3.3.3.¾.3.3.1/timp+3/hrp/cel/string)
- Premiere: Indiana University Symphony Orchestra (David Dzubay, conductor)
Planetarium Trilogy 2021-22
- 5 minutes
1
- Symphonic Wind Ensemble
- Premiere: Baldwin Wallace Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Brendan Caldwell, conductor)
3 Xiangi Folk Songs 2020
- 0 minutes
1
- Sinfonietta (1(db. picc.).1.1.1/1.1.1.0/1 perc/hrp/strings
- Premiere: Cleveland Chamber Symphony (Steven Smith, conductor)
My Father’s Tale 2018-19
- 5 minutes
1
- Full orchestra (3.3.3.3/4.3 3.1/timp+3/2 hrp/pno.strings
- Premiere: Baldwin Wallace Symphonic Orchestra (Soo Han, conductor)
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
New Work 2025
- minutes
7
- Wind Quintet
- Premiere: Akropolis Wind Quintet, Red Note Festival
Keep Moving 2024
- minutes
7
- Oboe (db. E.H.), clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass
- Premiere: Albany Symphony Orchestra (David Alan Miller, conductor)
Childhood Memories 2022
- 3 minutes
1
- Flute (db. picc.), clarinet (db. b-cl.), percussion, piano, string quartet
- Premiere: Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (Donald Crockett, conductor)
- Commissioner: Aspen Music Festival
Jigu (
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击鼓 )
6 minutes
2022
- rass quintet, percussion, electronics
B
- Premiere: Limestone Brass Quintet, Cameron Henry (percussion)
Trio for Viola, Oboe, and Piano 2023
- 5 minutes
1
- Premiere: CityMusic Cleveland
- Commissioner: CityMusic Cleveland
Octet for Winds 2019
- 0 minutes
1
- Flute 1 (db. picc.), flute 2, oboe, clarinet 1, clarinet 2 (db. b-cl.), alto saxophone, bassoon, horn
- Premiere: Baldwin Wallace Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Daixuan Ai, conductor)
The Owl 2019
- 0 minutes
1
- Flute (db. picc.), clarinet (db. Eb-cl & b-cl), violin, cello
- Premiere: Hub New Music
- Commissioner: Kenosha Community Foundation
Fugue and Noises 2019
- minutes
9
- Violin, viola, cello, piano
- Premiere: 5th House Ensemble, Fresh Inc Festival
- Commissioner: Fresh Inc Festival
String Quartet No. 1 2018
- 7 minutes
1
- Premiere: Baldwin Wallace Conservatory New Music Series
Wind Quintet No. 1 2017
- 0 minutes
1
- Premiere: Baldwin Wallace Conservatory New Music Series
SOLO / DUO
New Work 2025
- minutes
8
- Violin, Cello
- Commissioner: Cindy Wu
New Work 2025
- minutes
8
- Organ
- Commissioner: American Guild of Organists
The Hidden Peach Garden of Paradise (
- minutes
7
世外桃源) 2024
- Harp
- Premiere: Ariel Sol Schwartz
3 Tales From The Folklore of Xiangxi 2024
- minutes
8
- Violin, viola
- Premiere: Eunice Kim, David Samuel
Year Of The Dragon (
- minutes
7
龙年) 2023
- Clarinet, Alto Saxophone
- Premiere: Samuel Hsieh, Walter Puyear
- Commissioner: East Zodiac Project
Summertime Sonatine 2023
- minutes
7
- Guitar
- Premiere: Joshua Mayo
Variations On A Love Song 2023
- minutes
7
- Trumpet, English Horn, & 2 dancers
- Premiere: Barton Sopata, Kearson Erwin,
- Commissioner: Barton Sopata
5 Short Piece for Clarinet and Piano 2021
- minutes
7
- Premiere: Andrew Buckley
- Commissioner: Andrew Buckley
Prelude After A Folk Song 2020
- minutes
4
- piano
- Premiere: Jihye Chang
Sonata For Trumpet And Piano 2020
- 8 minutes
1
- Premiere: Jack Sutte, Christine Fuoco
Nocturne 2018
- 0 minutes
1
- piano
- Premiere: Daixuan Ai
Horse 2017
- 0 minutes
1
- Trumpet
- Premiere: Garret Folger
Duo For Flute And Bassoon 2016
- 5 minutes
1
- Premiere: Baldwin Wallace Conservatory New Music Series
VOCAL
New Work 2024-25
- minutes
8
- Guitar, soprano
- Commissioner: Hao Yao, Astral Artists
Schumann Fragments 2023
- minutes
5
- Soprano, piano
- Premiere: Minneapolis Source Song Festival
Good Bones - 3 Poems by Maggie Smith 2022
- 3 minutes
1
- Mezzo-soprano, piano
- Premiere: Julia Holoman & Chris Vazan, Aspen Music Festival
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude - 4 Poems by Ross Gay 2021-22
- 5 minutes
1
- Bass-baritone, piano
- Premiere: Andrew Forsythe, Daixuan Ai
Thank You (Poem by Ross Gay) 2021
- .5 minutes
3
- SATB
- Premiere: Variant 6
ELECTRONICS
Ceremony for Our Land 2025
- 0 minutes
3
- Quad speakers, live improvisors
- Premiere: Bloomington Arts Alliance Center
- Commissioner: Bloomington Arts Alliance Center “Artists for Climate Awareness” Project, Indiana
University Jacobs School of Music Office of Entrepreneur and Career Development
Ceremony for Earth 2024
- 0 minutes
3
- Violin, electric guitar, ableton, meditator
- Premiere: Bloomington Arts Alliance Center
- Commissioner: Grace Mckenzie, Indiana University Classical Connect, Bloomington Arts Alliance
Center “Artists for Climate Awareness” Project
Pandora’s Box 2023
- minutes
3
- Voice, live electronic (Max)
- Premiere: Daixuan Ai
Fever Dream 2022
- minutes
4
- Quad or stereo speakers
- Premiere: Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
