Career
His work is frequently performed in the United States. and in Europe, in music festivals and in many smaller venues. lieutenant has been selected twice by the ISCM jury for performance at World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen,1996. Manchester, 1998) and has also been part of festivals in Hong Kong (ICMC, 1998), Vienna (Wien Modern,1997), Aspen (1991), Chicago (New Music Chicago, 1990, 1991), Glasgow (INSTAL, 2009), Berlin (Maerzmusik, 2010), Sonorités (Montpellier, 2011) and others
He has held composer residencies in Germany (Künstlerhof Schreyahn), Switzerland (Forumclaque/Baden), Israel (Miskenot Sha"ananmim), Greece (EarTalk) and in the United States. (Birch Creek Music Festival/Wisconsin).
Concert length portraits of his music have been given in Munich, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Mexico City, Seattle, Jerusalem, Madrid, Santiago, Vienna, New York, Brussels, Curitiba (Brazil), Berlin, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Zürich, Charleston, Toronto, Cologne, Aarau and elsewhere. His scores are published by Edition Wandelweiser (Germany).
Recordings of his work (solo and collaborative) have been released by Edition Wandelweiser Records, Erstwhile Records, another timbre, slubmusic, Cathnor, HEM Berlin and on Pisaro"s own imprint, Gravity Wave. He has performed many of his own works and those of close associates Antoine Beuger, Kunsu Shim, Jürg Frey and Manfred Werder, as well as works from the experimental tradition, especially John Cage, Christian Wolff, Robert Ashley and George Brecht.
Before joining the composition faculty at the California Institute of the Arts (where he is located presently), he taught music composition and theory at Northwestern University from 1986 to 2000.