Performances 2009-10 Season:

• Migration Tides, world premiere, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, August, 2009
• Rushmore, Champaign-Urbana Symphony, September 19, 2009
• Spillville Variations, Red Cedar Chamber Music, Catholic University of America, Washington, October 3, 2009
• Spillville Variations, Red Cedar Chamber Music, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, October 4, 2009
• Weep You No More, world premiere, Yale Glee Club, November 20, 2009
• Weep You No More, Ann Arbor Cantata Singers, November 22, 2009
• Fold By Fold, collaboration with choreographer Billy Barry, The Juilliard Theater, December 4-5, 2009
• Weep You No More, Yale Glee Club, High School of the Future, Philadelphia, January 16, 2010
• Vigil, Denver Young Artists Orchestra, Boettcher Concert Hall, January 31, 2010
• Wingspan, world premiere, The Juilliard Orchestra, The Juilliard Theater, February 26, 2010
• Fold by Fold, ballet for piano trio
Sonata, for flute and piano, a concert of Juilliard Composers, The Gershwin Hotel, February 27, 2010
• Rushmore, Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra, March 20, 2009
• Vigil, Cedar Rapids Symphony, May 15-16, 2010  

• Weep You No More wins Yale Glee Club's 2009 Emerging Composers Competition. The work will be premiered in November, 2009.
• The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra's performance of Concertino for oboe and strings was reviewed in San Francisco Classical Voice:
  • http://www.sfcv.org/news-reviews/reviews/mixed-message
• Gilbertson receives a 2009 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The photograph from the awards ceremony is found here:
  • http://www.artsandletters.org/ceremonial.php
• Vigil wins 2009 Morton Gould Award from ASCAP.
• In December, the Grand Rapids Symphony performed Hodie on five concerts. The Grand Rapids Press called the work "startlingly original" and "a jaw dropper." Read the full review here:
  • www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2008/12/symphony_pops_unwraps_new_pres.html
• Vigil named winner of 2008 Palmer-Dixon Prize, an award selected by the Juilliard Composition faculty for most outstanding student work of the year.
• Polovitsia: Music to an Imaginary Ballet, performed by Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, May 10th, 2008
  • Photos from event:

  

• Fleur de Son releases Spillville Variations on a Theme of Dvorak, a collaborative work by Michael Gilbertson and 13 other Iowan composers.

CD available at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Czech-Inspired-21st-Century-Chamber-Trios/dp/B000ERVIVY