Pergram will perform at the IDRS 2025 54th Annual Conference at Butler University, Indianapolis, June 10-14, 2025. He will perform a recital entitled “A Garden of Stories,” with pianist Miguel Campinho. This recital includes three unpublished works, two of which were commissioned by Aaron Pergram, highlighting the work of living women composers of the Chinese diaspora. Two works by the composer, both for bassoon and fixed media, tell stories from two significant periods of Chinese history: the Warring States Period and the pre-Qin period. The third piece on the program is a set of reimagined Taiwanese children’s songs for bassoon and piano.

Chu Ci (Elegies of Chu), Wang Chi (b. 1985)
Fixed Media

Gín-á Koa, Chihchun Chi-sun Lee (b. 1970)
I. It ê Chhá Bí-Phang
II. Goéh Nîu-nîu & Hóe-Kim-Kò
III. Sio Sio Sio (Nya nya nya nya nya nya)
Aaron Pergram, Bassoon
Miguel Campinho, Piano

Yueren Ge (Song of the Yue Boatman), Wang Chi (b. 1985)
Fixed Media