Particularly memorable were the performances by Trisha Brown, whose dance troupe walked on the gallery walls, and Duke Ellington, whose
final piano recital was captured in the recording Duke Ellington Live at the Whitney.
In 2005 his video game music performances included, in March, performing at the San Francisco Walk of Game ceremony with Gavin Newsom in attendance and performing at the Game Audio Network Guild Awards at the Game Developers Conference, in May, performing at the BradyGames booth during the Electronic Entertainment Expo along with an MTV interview, on July 6, performing his
piano and vocal arrangement of
Final Fantasy VII — Sephiroth's Theme with vocalists Cindy Shapiro and Laurie Robinson at the Hollywood Bowl in the inaugural Video Games Live show with 11,000 people in attendance, on August 26, performing a video game music and classical music
recital at Penny Arcade Expo in Bellevue, Washington, on October 13, playing 21 encores after his first video game solo
recital at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas.