ERIC HESSEL

​​​​UPCOMING EVENTS

For information on booking, commissions, and upcoming events please visit the contact page

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• ​Ongoing collaboration  with Spencer Arias, composer: #kitty
  
  • ​Premiere 8 March 2018
    
  • Additional performances TBA
    

PREVIOUS EVENTS

• Guest Artist Masterclasses and Performance
  

  • ​​8 March 2019, 7:30 PM, Ouachita Baptist University McBeth Recital Hall (Arkadelphia, AR)
    

  • Repertoire:

    • ​Bach/Gounod, Ave Maria; Gabriel Soileau, Vortexes: Verne Reynolds, Hornvibes; Jason Treuting, Nine Numbers; Eric Hessel, The Clouds; Spencer Arias, #kitty.
      

• New Year's Party, Dallas Japanese Association
  
  • ​​20 January 2019, Renaissance Dallas at Plano Legacy West (Plano, TX)​
    
  • Repertoire:
    
    • ​Michio Miyage, 春の海; Eric Hessel, Variations on a Japanese Song, The Clouds
      
• Guest Artist Masterclass and Performance
  
  • ​27 September 2018, Austin College (Sherman, TX)
    
  • Repertoire
    
    • ​Dominick Argento, Letters from Composers; Verne Reynolds, Hornvibes; Gabriel Soileau, Vortexes; Eric Hessel, Variations on a Japanese Song, The Clouds
      
• ​​Crow Museum of Asian Art Reopening Ceremony
  
  • ​26 September 2018 (Dallas, TX)
    
• Otsukimi Moon-Viewing Festival, Japan-America Society of Dallas
  
  • ​​25 September 2018, Crow Collection of Asian Art (Dallas, TX)
    
• Cortona Sessions for New Music 2018
  
  • 19 May - 2 June 2018, Hotel Oasi Neumann (Cortona, Italy)
    
    • ​Profile Concert, 25 May: Eric Hessel, Variations on a Japanese Song, Rondo Brillante; Verne Reynolds, Hornvibes
    • ​​Premiere Concert, 1 June: Andrew Dana, Sarabande; Gabriel Soileau, Vortexes
      
• Guest Artist Recital
  • ​13 March 2018, University of Kansas Swarthout Recital Hall (Lawrence, KS)
  • Repertoire:
    
    • ​Daniel McCarthy, The Call of Boromir; Verne Reynolds, Hornvibes; Eric Hessel, Poetic Episodes for Marimba, Variations on a Japanese Song, Rondo Brillante
      
• 2017 Greater Kansas City Japan Festival - featured performers
  
  • ​​7 October 2017, Johnson County Community College​ Yardley Hall (Overland Park, KS)
    
  • Repertoire:
    
    • ​Eric Hessel, Variations on a Japanese Song; Keiko Abe, Dream of  theCherry Blossoms​; Joe Hisashi, selected Studio Ghibli music
      
• Faculty Recital
  
  • ​21 February 2017, Texas Wesleyan University Martin Hall (Fort Worth, TX)
  • Repertoire:
    
    • ​Bach/Gounod, Ave Maria; Eric Hessel, Metonymy, Spiral Staircase, Rondo Brillante​; Jason Treuting, Nine Numbers
      
• DMA Recital
  
  • ​15 October 2016, University of North Texas Voertmann Hall (Denton, TX)
    
  • Repertoire:
    
    • ​​Eric Hessel, Spiral Staircase
      
• Afternoon Recital
  
  • ​19 June 2016, Nara Evangelical Church (Nara-shi, Nara, Japan)
    
  • Repertoire:
    
    • ​Astor Piazzolla, Histoire du Tango; Eric Hessel, Spiral Staircase; Pietro Mascagni, ​Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
• Wedding Reception
  
  • ​18 June 2016, Oseiryu (Osaka, Japan)
    
  • Repertoire:
    
    • ​Eric Hessel, Spiral Staircase; Pietro Mascagni, Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
      
• Service Music and Private Performance
  
  • ​​29 May 2016, First Baptist Church of Kansas City (Kansas City, MO)
  • Repertoire:
    
    • ​Eric Hessel, Spiral Staircase