Showcase III October 18-19, 2025 SOLI's 30x30x30 project

Schedule | Saturday Oct 18

Workshops

1:00 | Fractured (2023) | Asuka Kakitani | clarinet, violin, cello, electronics, and piano | SOLI Chamber Ensemble | sponsored by Chuck and Anne Parrish

1:40 | Three Miniatures (2023) | Yuxuan Lin | violin, viola, and cello | Camerata San Antonio | sponsored by Deni Sciano

2:20 | El Bailongo (2023) | Edna Longoria | flute, violin, cello, and piano | SOLI Chamber Ensemble, and Rachel Woolf, flute | sponsored by Paul & Susan Myers, and Kathy & Lionel Sosa

Performance

4:00 | Performance of above works

5:00 | Reception and Presentations

Musicians

SOLI Chamber Ensemble | Stephanie Key, clarinet | Ertan Torgul, violin | David Mollenauer, cello | Carolyn True, piano

Guest Artists

Camerata San Antonio: Laura Scalzo, violin, Emily Freudigman, viola, Kenneth Freudigman, cello

Rachel Woolf, flute.

Schedule | Sunday Oct 19

Workshops

1:00 | Muzzahaimat (2023) | Seare Ahmad Farhat | clarinet, violin, cello, and piano | SOLI Chamber Ensemble | sponsored by Jane Key and Peter O'Brien

1:40 | 'The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name' (2023) | Jiaqi Liu | voice and piano | Morgan Manifacier, tenor, and Corinne Penner, piano | sponsored by Team River Road: Debra Cobb, Barrie Cogburn, John Convey, Teresa and Christopher Corbin, Rebecca Galvan, Sandra Garcia, Victoria Haynes, Patricia Pratchett, Mimi and David Schmidt Quintanilla, Richard and Alice Chatillon Reed, Hilary and James Saunders, William Sibley, Susan Strawn, Cynthia Wayne

Click here for text to “The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name”

2:20 | Residues I. Ostinato (2021) | Daniel Sabzghabaei | clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, | SOLI Chamber Ensemble | sponsored by Pauline and Randolph Glickman

3:00 | Generations (2023) | Sarah McMahill | clarinet, violin, and cello | SOLI Chamber Ensemble | sponsored by Carolyn A. Seale and Carol Lee Klose

Performance

4:00 | Performance of above works

5:00 | Reception and Presentations

Musicians

SOLI Chamber Ensemble | Stephanie Key, clarinet | Ertan Torgul, violin | David Mollenauer, cello | Carolyn True, piano

Guest Artists

Morgan Manifacier, tenor and Corinne Penner, piano

Asuka Kakitani

Japanese-born composer Asuka Kakitani draws inspiration from the nature that surrounds her, weaving it with her unique perspectives and imagination. Her projects span from jazz big band, orchestra, string quartet, and vocal works. Kakitani’s music has been lauded as “a musical impressionist and supreme colorist” (Hot House Magazine) and evoking “the overflowing world of inspirational melody” (DownBeat Magazine). Kakitani has been the recipient of the New Music USA Creator’s Fund, the Blackbird Creative Lab Fellowship, the Innova Recordings National Call, the McKnight Composer Fellowship, and the Jerome Fund for New Music Grant (now ACF|Create).

Yuxuan Lin

Originally from Shenzhen, China, Yuxuan Lin (b.2003) is an NYC-based composer who is intensely interested in the possibilities of combining visual art, dance, and music, and enjoys any opportunity to collaborate. As a musician, Lin began playing the piano at age six and later studied both folk and classical guitar, as well as the Chinese traditional instruments erhu and hulusi. She began her composition studies with Reiko Füting following in the footsteps of her grandfather, a self-taught composer focusing on Chinese folk music.

Edna Alejandra Longoria

Edna Alejandra Longoria is a Mexican-American composer born in McAllen, Texas and raised in México. Longoria obtained a MM in music composition at the BCCM (CSULB) and a BM in music composition from UTSA. Edna has won the 2019 call for scores at the LunArt Festival, the 2020 San Antonio NALAC Grant Award, and the 2019 San Antonio Performing Arts Grant Award. Edna enjoys writing music for film and has recently won the 2021 Best Music Score at the CIFF, 2020 Best Original Score at the VMA, and Best Soundtrack at the 2020 NYIF.

Seare Ahmad Farhat

Seare Ahmad Farhat is interested in the reciprocal translation between words, poetry, and language into sound. Starting out his musical endeavors in Afghan folk music, he later built on these valued experiences in the western classical tradition combined with his love for mathematics. He has been commissioned by notable ensembles such as JACK Quartet, Longleash, and Bardin-Niskala Duo among others. He has received honors such as a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a BMI award. Seare is currently pursuing a DMA at Cornell University studying with Elizabeth Ogonek, Kevin Ernste, and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri.

Jiaqi Liu

Jacky Jiaqi Liu (b. 2002) is a multi-award-winning Chinese composer, currently based in New York City. Recognized for his poetic, diverse, and highly dramatic musical expression, Liu’s work reflects universal values such as compassion, belonging, and love. His compositions are inspired by philosophical and literary influences that resonate deeply with his emotions, inviting the audience to reflect and introspect.

Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei

Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei is a creator who is interested in looking at time through different lenses: unpacking notions of tradition, exploring memories of those past, and investigating nostalgic frameworks that lean forward. His music has been commissioned and presented by organizations including: the GRAMMY-winning New York Youth Symphony, JACK Quartet, National Sawdust, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Proton Bern, loadbang, the Duisburg Philharmonic, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Intimacy of Creativity Festival, the American Composers Orchestra, TAK Ensemble, Beth Morrison Projects, the New York Festival of Song, bassist Robert Black, the Banff Centre, Contemporaneous, Guerilla Opera, the Moab Music Festival, Chorus Austin, the Young New Yorkers Chorus, Pro Coro Canada, The Esoterics, OPERA America, and VocalEssence among others. Daniel recently completed his doctorate at Cornell, where his dissertation focused on Persian Choral Music. Outside of music and interdisciplinary projects, Daniel also translates Persian poetry. Daniel is currently a GATES Postdoctoral Fellow at Université Grenoble Alpes’ Maison de la Création de l’Innovation (MaCI).

Sarah McMahill

Sarah McMahill comes from a musical family and is a life-long musician. They started in the 1980s with piano and clarinet lessons. They blossomed while studying music education at Doane College (Crete, NE) with clarinet and vocal scholarships in 1997. They had a few experiences during their two years at Doane that influenced their decision to transfer to Southwest MN State University (SMSU) where they got their BA in theatre, English (creative writing), and art. They then attended Saint Paul College for their certificate in massage therapy. They received a certificate in enneagram teacher training in 2011 through Full Circle Enneagram, received another enneagram teacher certificate through Moving Forward Australia in 2021 and is an Accredited Enneagram Professional through the International Enneagram Association.