As part of her chatterWORKS residency with Chatter PDX, Kimberly will be at University of Oregon in February for a day of working with student composers. Chatter PDX will be workshopping & performing student works, programmed alongside works by Kenji Bunch and Kimberly’s residency piece, Conversations for Clarinet and String Quartet. The residency day will include a special presentation by Kimberly about her work.

Students from across the state of Minnesota premiered Night Lights in August 2025 as part of their All-State Orchestra camp - and now all 127 musicians are bringing it to the gorgeous home of the Minnesota Orchestra: Orchestra Hall! Featured as part of their mid-winter convention, this work was arranged especially for the Minnesota Music Educators Association All-State Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Cullan Lucas.

Our Little Secrets is back once more! This popular wind octet receives a special performance with a new arrangement for the annual GMEA In-Service Conference by the Buford High School Wind Octet on Friday, January 30th.

Clarinetist Gerbrich Meijer will present Freaks of Nature as part of a relaxed morning concert at Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht (Netherlands). The work, originally commissioned by Natalie Groom, is a multi-movement piece inspired by endangered animals—animals that are a bit freaky at first glance, but hold a fascinating place in the ecosystem! She will be joined by Mees Vos on horn and Bram van Sambeek on bassoon.

Co-commissioned by Chatters PDX and ABQ, Kimberly’s latest work will receive its world premiere this December. The three-movement piece, Conversations, is written for clarinet and string quartet, and explores both the light-hearted and more insidious sides of different conversations: I. Chitter Chatter, II. Whispers and Murmurs, and III. Bitching and Moaning.

Tickets will be available at chatterpdx.org

Originally commissioned as part of the Spring Forward commissioning series, Kimberly’s work You, Us, Me will be featured on a program of new works as part of the New York Festival of Song’s program: NYFOS Next: THE MANY WORLDS INTERPRETATION. Single tickets for the program go on sale September 1, with packages available now for all festival events.

Continuing an explosive run of recent performances, Kimberly’s wind ensemble work, BRAWL, will appear on the first large ensemble concert of the California School of Arts - San Gabriel Valley wind ensemble this fall. Conducted by special guest, Stephanie M. Maletz, the program will feature all-contemporary works.

Kimberly’s epic setting of My Father’s Dragon for flute, cello, and narrator receives its third performance — this time as part of a special opening ceremony for a new exhibit at the Rabbit hOle: the Discovery Gallery, featuring original artwork from the Newberry award-winning 1948 children's novel. Attendees will get to meet descendants of author Ruth Stiles Gannett, who have worked closely with The Rabbit hOle design team to share invaluable familial insight and curatorial guidance. The event is open to members only, but you can learn more about the performance and how to become a member here.

Kimberly’s multimovement work for brass quintet, near death, will be featured as part of a residency recital by Calypsus Brass Quintet. The program will also feature works by Marcus Grant, Zoe Cutler, Katahj Copley, and a world premiere by Gala Flagello.

Kimberly’s string orchestra piece, To Burst, will be performed by the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University Orchestra this fall! The work, featured on the orchestra’s fall concert program in Minnesota, was originally written for students at Sun Prairie High School in memory of their orchestra teacher, Deirdre Kern Abbott.

Tara Rozanski and Natasha Loomis give the world premiere performance of Perpetual Motions, a work inspired by the history of tortilla-making for two piccolos and electronics. Commissioned by pianist-composer Chris Opperman for the duo, the work explores just how little the process for making tortillas has changed in its thousands-year-long history—and just how much the world has changed around them.

The Minnesota Music Educators Association presents the world premiere of Kimberly’s orchestral arrangement of Night Lights. Conducted by Cullan Lucas, students from across the state will rehearse a full program of music in a week-long camp in preparation for the summer performance at Concordia College in Moorehead, Minnesota.

Tubist Stephanie Ycaza brings Kimberly’s miniature for solo tuba to Valencia, Spain for the International Tuba Euphonium Association Conference this June at the Palau de la Música! The miniature, Hopeful, Warm, was commissioned in 2020 as part of Kimberly’s Commissions from Quarantine series—this performance marks its official in-person premiere, and the debut performance of Kimberly’s music in Spain!

You can learn more about the conference here.

Kimberly is currently writing a brand new work for bassoon and horn that will be premiered as part of the 54th annual IDRS conference in Indianapolis. Commissioned by Makayla Rasmussen & Jonathan Hughes, Félicette is inspired by the story of the first cat sent into space. While her story is harrowing, she received a beautiful new chapter thanks to an artist (and 1100 Kickstarter funders!) who sought to give her a new ending.

Conductor Andrew Chybowski leads area high school students in a special summer concert for wind ensemble, which will include Kimberly’s work BRAWL. Learn more about this event here.

Kimberly’s three-movement work for brass quintet, near death, will be performed at the International Women’s Brass Conference in Hartford, CT this May by commissioners Calypsus Brass! The work, part of an upcoming album release by the quintet, is inspired by the amazing process of what happens after whales’ bodies fall to the ocean floor.

Conductor Andrew Chybowski reprises The Noise. Commissioned by Chybowski for the Pittsburg State University wind ensemble, this twenty-minute, multimovement work for wind ensemble and two vocalists explores the lived experiences of living with anxiety.

Flutist Lauralei Palmer will unveil the world premiere of a substantial new work for flute and piano, WINDRUNNER, inspired by the Stormlight Archives of Brandon Sanderson. The work, a 12-minute single-movement piece, was commissioned by Lauralei as part of her degree recital at University of Mississippi.

This performance will be livestreamed on Facebook Live.

Conductor Joe Cernuto leads the Millersville University Wind Ensemble in a performance of BRAWL at the Pennsylvania Music Educator’s Association All-State Conference.

Led by Dave Hastings, All County Band Day in Cecil County, Maryland involves students from several school wind ensembles and concert bands - coming together for a day of joint rehearsals and final performance for the public in the evening. Kimberly’s work, BRAWL, will be featured on the program alongside other pieces for high school band.

Kimberly’s work for solo bass clarinet, Intense and Zealous (But Not Overzealous), will be performed at the opening concert of the Oh My Ears! Festival in Phoneix, Arizona this March. Performed by Emily Mehigh, this work was originally commissioned by Kathryn Vetter as part of the Commissions from Quarantine project in 2020.

Conductor Kalia Page will lead Temple University musicians in a performance of Our Little Secrets, an octet for winds that gained popularity during the pandemic for its smaller instrumentation and contagiously upbeat energy. The piece will be featured alongside other works by the Temple University Wind Symphony (led by Patricia Cornett).

You can read more about the event here. A livestream link will be available closer to the performance date.

Natalie Groom and friends will reprise the trio she commissioned for clarinet, horn, and bassoon FREAKS OF NATURE as part of a program of new music for residents at the Collington Senior Living facility. The work, inspired by unique (if slightly freaky!) endangered animals, features short pieces on the Volcano Snail, Huntsman Spider, and Giant Golden-Headed Flying Fox!

Oscar Thorp leads the Kings County Concert Band in their winter concert as part of a joint concert program with Grand Street Community Band and Brooklyn Wind Symphony in Brooklyn, New York. Along with other modern and classic works for wind ensemble, KCCB will unveil the New York premiere of BRAWL.

Kimberly was able to work with the band in a virtual clinic earlier this fall, and the performance promises to be one to remember!

Led by conductor Cullan Lucas, the Winona State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble will perform Kimberly’s work, BRAWL as part of their fall concert program.

Admission to this event is free and open to the public. Learn more at the link here.

Vocalist Christopher Rodriguez will give the world premiere performance of You, Us, Me, which he commissioned as part of the Spring Forward commissioning series in 2021.The piece, which includes original text by Kimberly, will be presented as part of a program of contemporary vocal music at the University of North Texas in Denton: Hear, bullet & the 21st C. Singer: In Recital with Stephen Dubberly, piano.

More information can be found at the link here.

New Wave Opera will feature multiple performances of THUMP—Kimberly’s psychodramatic setting of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic, “The Tell-Tale Heart,”—as part of their NIGHT OF THE LIVING OPERA performances at the incredible horror-themed bar, Raven’s Manor. See Kimberly in-person for both nights of performances—and stick around for the other incredible contemporary operas programmed.

New Wave Opera will feature multiple performances of THUMP—Kimberly’s psychodramatic setting of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic, “The Tell-Tale Heart,”—as part of their NIGHT OF THE LIVING OPERA performances at the incredible horror-themed bar, Raven’s Manor. See Kimberly in-person for both nights of performances—and stick around for the other incredible contemporary operas programmed.

Calypsus Brass quintet will perform near death and other contemporary works as part of their residency recital at Eastern Carolina University. Their residency is part of the North Carolina NEWMUSIC initiative, and included panel discussions, masterclasses, and more.

A livestream of the recital is available here on concert day, and for up to two weeks from the air date.