Travelogue Selections

Travels to France (Paris & Lyon), Switzerland (Geneva), and Italy (Venice, Rome, Florence & Milan), where he attends a performance of his Visions in Twilight for harp solo performed by Fatma Ceren Necipolǧu at the 8th World Harp Congress in Geneva. Composes Cosmopolitan Etudes (Book 1) for piano during the trip.

Travels to Sweet Briar, Virginia where he spends time as a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Completes Persist for cello octet.

Travels to St. Mary’s City, Maryland where he is artist in residence at  the St. Mary’s College of Maryland Artist House. During the stay he creates an arrangement for string quartet of his Introduction and Scherzo for violin & cello, and composes the solo introduction for the Concerto for Piano & Chamber Orchestra.

Travels to Saratoga Springs, New York where he spends time as a fellow of Yaddo. Completes the Concerto for Piano & Chamber Orchestra.

Vacations in Russia (Tver & St. Petersburg). Begins work on the marimba piece Ceol Báisteach Toirneach Tintreach.

Travels to Ireland (Cork, Galway, Blarney, Kinsale); composes Album: Beginning and Intermediate Pieces for Piano.

Travels to Saratoga Springs, New York where he spends time as a fellow of Yaddo. Begins work on Solace for orchestra.

Travels to Minneapolis, MN and participates in the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute of 2006. The Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänskä premieres Byrnes' orchestral work Solace on December 1.

Travels to The Netherlands and attends the premiere of his Villanelle for violin and harp. The work is performed by Tjeerd Top and Lavinia Meijer at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Travels to New York City and attends Dutch Harpist Lavinia Meijer's 'distinctive debut' concert at Carnegie Hall where she performs Byrnes' Visions in Twilight.

Vacations in New Orleans and composes portions of Voodoo Stomp, one of four works influenced by rock music, written for the Cleveland Chamber Collective.

Travels to France and attends the premiere and subsequent performances of La Chapelle d'Aiguilhe: Concerto for Cello & Orchestra in Angers and Nantes.  The work is performed by cellist Xavier Phillips and the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire conducted by Sascha Goetzel.

Travels to Cleveland to attend the premiere of four chamber works by the Cleveland Chamber Collective: Manic Aggressive, Schadenfreude, Zephyr & Voodoo Stomp.  On a side trip Garrett watches the New Jersey Devils defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins at Mellon Arena on the Pens opening day.  Go Devils!

Travels to France and vacations in Paris and Orléans.  Attends the Europen premieres of Abstra for piano and tape performed by Turkish pianist Toros Can on the 'Music from the Americas' concert series presented by the Concours International de Piano d'Orléans.

Travels to New York City and attends the world premiere of Devil in Moscow for viola and harpsichord by the Allemagnetti Duo at Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall.

Travels to Greece and spends a week sailing in the Greek Cyclades, visiting the islands of Kythnos, Serifos and Sifnos and Cape Souinon, the southernmost tip of mainland Greece. Also spends a week on the Greek mainland in Athens, Monemvasía, and Nafplio stopping at sites such as Ancient Corinth, Sparta, and Mycenae along the way.  Composes the very brief work Monemvasía Pebbles: four miniatures for flute solo in and around Monemvasía on the Peloponnese peninsula.