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July 2023 Sarah Watts performs 'Into the Depths' at International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest! highlight concert in Denver, Colorado

April 2, 2023, 7:30 p.m. SCAW Duo perform 'Into the Depths' at Firth Court in Sheffield

March 26, 2023, 7:30 p.m. Streetwise Opera and BBC Concert Orchestra premiere 'Museum of Nottingham Life' as part of the 'Re:sound' Festival with support from Arts Council England at Queen Elizabeth Hall (Southbank Centre); Concert broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Wednesday 29 March, 7:30 p.m.

March 21-23, 2023 Streetwise Opera and BBC Concert Orchestra (chamber ensemble) give preview performances of 'Museum of Nottingham Life' as part of the 'Re:sound' Festival in Manchester (Bridgewater Hall), Nottingham (Nottingham Playhouse), and London (Southbank Centre)

January 2023 Led first in-person iteration of 'Reaching for the Stars' music composition education initiative for Glynn County, Georgia, USA schoolchildren, which I developed with Coastal Symphony of Georgia through the pandemic

October-December 2022 Co-creation Workshops for 'Museum of Nottingham Life' with Double Impact Academy Creative Writers

May 12 2022 Student Voice Co-creation Workshop Day for 'Scratch Space Symphony' with DJ Jon Furst and Leicestershire Music in Leicester

March 2022 2nd Iteration of Online 'Reaching for the Stars' to 2 Glynn County, Georgia, USA elementary schools in partnership with Coastal Symphony of Georgia over 2 weeks

December 5 2021 SCAW Duo perform 'Into the Depths' at Nottingham Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall 'After Hours'

November 2021 NottNOISE Marathon (co-curated by Kelly) online new music marathon including performance of 'Into the Depths' and new works by secondary-school students composed as part of VQCreate, a music composition initiative developed in partnership with the Villiers Quartet through the pandemic; 'Hard Knocks' featured on Nonclassical as part of Nonclassical x NottNOISE

March 2021  'Reaching for the Stars' Music Composition Education Initiative delivered online over 2 weeks to 5th-grade cohorts from 2 Glynn County, Georgia, USA elementary schools, curriculum developed around my new composition, 'To the Moon: Twinkle, Twinkle Variations', for Coastal Symphony of Georgia players

April 2020 - Into the Depths CD release

August 2019  SCAW Duo performs Into the Depths at European Clarinet Festival in Camerino, Italy

June 7 2019 SCAW Duo performs Into the Depths in Keele, UK

April 6-7, 2019 World Premiere of new opera 'Losing Her Voice' at Lakeside Arts Centre with support from a Discovery Grant from the Elaine Lebenbom Foundation & Opera America and development support from a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant

March 2019  Hard Rain perform Into the Depths in Belfast & Birmingham as part of 'Across the Pond' programme

March 2019  Villiers Quartet premiere Blue Flame on Southern California tour and give UK premiere in Nottingham as part of Nottingham Music Service 'Great Orchestra Experiment' to kick off first joint music composition education initiatives, leading to ongoing VQCreate collaboration

September 23, 2018, 7:30 p.m. Sarah Watts & the SCAW DUO performs Into the Depths for contrabass clarinet & piano at Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain (CASSGB) Single Reed Day. The work was commissioned with support from PRS Foundation's Women Make Music Fund.

July 15, 2018, 1 p.m. UK Premiere of Into the Depths by SCAW Duo at Nottingham High School as part of inaugural Nottingham Chamber Music Festival

July 8, 2018 World Premiere of Into the Depths for contrabass clarinet & piano by the SCAW Duo at Clarinetfest! in Ostend, Belgium with support from PRS Foundation's Women Make Music Fund

November 2, 2018, 6 p.m. Icebreaker performs On Edge at the Aberdeen Sound Festival, featured on BBC Radio 3 'Hear & Now' programme

November 11, 2018, 12:30 p.m. Icebreaker performs On Edge at November Music in Den Bosch, Netherlands.

November 18, 2018, 5 p.m. Sneak preview performance of scenes from new opera Losing Her Voice at the Nottingham Royal Concert Hall.

March 7 2018 Icebreaker performs "On Edge" at Audiograft Oxford

Oct 8 2017 Icebreaker performs "On Edge" at Kings Place, London

May 20 2017 Premiere of 'We Were the People Who Moved' for New York Virtuoso Singers, St Ignatius Church, New York City

May 13 2017 Andrew Liebermann & Stephanie Titus premiere "Starry Grids" at the New Music Gathering, Bowling Green, Ohio

March 4 2017 Icebreaker performs "On Edge" at South Street Arts Centre, Reading, 8 p.m.

March 2 2017 Icebreaker performs "On Edge" at the Guildford International Music Festival, 8 p.m.

March 1 2017 Performance of "Hands On"for Tabla & Piano (Shawn Mativetsky & Xenia Pestova), After Hours, Nottingham Concert Hall

February 25 2017 Premiere of "Hands On"for Tabla & Piano (Shawn Mativetsky & Xenia Pestova), St Catherine's Church, Telegraph Hill, London

February 22 2017 Premiere of "On Edge" for Icebreaker, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham

November 11 2016 NottFAR - Portrait Concert of Elizabeth Kelly with world premiere of 'Nuclear Shadow' on award-winning poetry by Trent Pollard (for publication in Memorious Journal) by Sabine Wuethrich & Daniel Kramer (Netherlands, UK premiere of "Dancing on the Edge" by Xenia Pestova and performance of "Hard Knocks" by Simon Paterson at Djanogly Recital Hall, Nottingham, UK

October 8 2016 Leo Svirsky premieres "Dancing on the Edge" at Studio Loos, Den Haag, Netherlands

August 2016 The Miami Clarinet Quartet performs "Wild Winds"at ClarinetFest in Kansas, USA

March 6, 2016 "Hard Knocks" premiere at the Interactions Festival in Wales

October 11, 2015 The Miami Clarinet Quartet premieres "Wild Winds" at National Association of College Winds and Percussion Instructors in South Dakota, USA

April 11, 2015 Trevor Babb and Yale Concert Band perform "Ice" at Yale's Woolsey Hall

April 2, 2015 Music choreographed by Catherine Cabeen as part of Texas Woman's University Arts Triangle

March 30, 2015 Amphion Percussion performs "SOS"at UW-Oshkosh

Summer 2014 3 works performed at Tanglewood Music Center

December 29, 2013 Amphion Percussion performs "SOS" at the Constellation in Chicago

September 3-5, 2013 Curious Chamber Players (Sweden) premieres new work at Gaudeamus Music Week in the Netherlands.

July 27, 2013 Alarm Will Sound premieres "Slide" at Missouri Theatre in Columbia, Missouri, USA.

June 2013 Duo OKHO performs "SOS" at CMMAS in Morelia, Mexico.

May 18, 2013 Sonolab Duo performs "SOS" at Korzo theater in The Hague, Netherlands.

February 27, 2013 Ensemble 10/10 performs "Addicted to Wah" at the Cornerstone at Liverpool Hope University, UK

February 8, 2013 Sonolab Duo performs "Losing Touch" at Rasa Theater in Utrecht, Netherlands for Gaudeamus Jonge Componistenbal.

November 21, 2012 Liverpool Symphony's Ensemble 10/10 premieres new work at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

May 27, 2012 The New York Youth Symphony and Genghis Barbie Horn Quartet premiere "On the Hunt" at Carnegie Hall in New York, NY.

May 24, 2012 Sonolab Duo performs "SOS" in Smart Space in Amsterdam

May 18, 2012 Albany Symphony's Dogs of Desire Ensemble premieres "Signal" at the EMPAC Center in Troy, NY

April 20-22, 2012 ASKO Schoenberg Ensemble premieres "Tremor" in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and The Hague.