Erin Rogers - Composer/saxophonist

Playing a set with Seattle bassist Kelsey Mines, presented by Relative Pitch Records

Saturday 5/7
IBeam Brooklyn
$15 door

8pm: Erin Rogers
9pm: Tamio Shiraishi

For this evening’s performance, Bell is joined by Miguel Frasconi on glass instruments and Erin Rogers on saxophone, with paper-cut artist and shadow puppeteer Erik Ruin. The musical trio will explore lush and meditative sound worlds bathed in the light and color of Ruin’s intricate and spell-binding visuals.

$40/$35 for members. There are no paper or e-tickets. Attendees will be checked in by name.
Reserve HERE

Friday, April 29, 2022

• 8:00pm: Doors Open
• 8:30pm: Doors Close
• 8:45–9:45pm: Performance

The Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11232

What Grieves Frenzy Drown’d – Album Release

Tuesday, April 5 @7pm
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer St, Brooklyn NY
Door $15

Alec Goldfarb
Erin Rogers
Marina Kifferstein
Mat Muntz
Carrie Frey

The 39th Annual New England Saxophone Festival and Competition

Featuring guest artists Popebama and Jacques Schwarz-Bart, who will share their artistry and wisdom through classes, recitals, and an artist panel with Q&A.

Saturday, APRIL 23, 2022 // 9am – 10pm
Free Public Event — In the Bromery Center for the Arts
University of Massachusetts Amherst
151 Presidents Dr
Amherst, MA

Guest artists:
Jacques Schwarz-Bart
Popebama (Erin Rogers & Dennis Sullivan)

For more info and to register click HERE

Postponed until further notice.
Snag the new album from Blood Luxury while you wait (out now on Tubapede records):
https://tubapederecords.bandcamp.com/album/blood-luxury

Blood Luxury
Dennis Sullivan and Erica Dicker

and Duo sets by
Erin Rogers and Leo Chang
Laura Cocks and Joe Moffett

Sunday, Apr 17 @ 7:30pm
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer St, Brooklyn

Ticket Link TBD

 TICKETS HERE

This month’s edition of Fire Over Heaven will be a special A/V presentation featuring sound and light works by Lindsay Packer & Lathan Hardy and a new ensemble piece by FOH perennial David First. Lindsay Packer’s work moves through the codes of filmmaking, architecture and the analog/digital spectrum with an improviser’s sensibility. Often drawing musicians and sound artists into dialogue with her real-time color/light/projection structures, she’s collaborated with FOH alum Anaïs Maviel and experimental electronics duo Fan Letters. Here she’ll be presenting a new iteration of her Viewfinders project with saxophonist and composer Lathan Hardy, who some FOH fans may remember from his work with the George Steeltoe Ensemble or collaborations with Sean Ali and Flin van Hemmen…David First will present a new piece entitled “Girders pt.1” which he describes as “an audio/visual exploration of just intonation and its ill-tempered opposites”, featuring members of his The Western Enisphere–Sam Kulik, Ian Douglas-Moore, and Danny Tunick–with special guest Erin Rogers. David First’s fascinating career has stretched from playing in Cecil Taylor’s large ensembles at the age of twenty to his late 70s noise punk band The Notekillers, on to a series of focused explorations of electronic music and instruments ranging from harmonica to sitar, which somehow bring us to his recent ensemble meditations on the inherent messiness of intonation and the ecstatic nature of long durations. A great night for the eyes and ears.

Once again, we’ll be requiring proof of vaccine and booster or negative covid PCR test result within the last 24 hours. Masking will also be required while inside. Our bar will remain closed for the time being but we will have water available. We’ll be limiting the audience to 30 so purchasing advanced tickets is highly recommended!

New Thread Quartet: avalanche lily
Friday, March 4 2022 @ 7:00pm
Grace Church Van Vorst
39 Erie St
Jersey City, NJ

In person: FREE, all ages welcome
COVID-19 vaccine and masks required
Livestream: Con Vivo Music on YouTube

New Thread Quartet returns to our stage with a program of new works for saxophone. The concert centers on Amy Beth Kirsten’s avalanche lily, a multi-movement work inspired by wildflowers from the mountains of Wyoming and developed with support from the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program. Each movement draws from a unique concept found in nature, from flowers whose appearance indicates a risk of avalanche, to plants that split stones and trees holding onto nutrients to survive until spring.

The program continues with several works close to NTQ’s heart. Alon Nechushtan’s Quarantingo was composed during the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic and blends extended saxophone technique with tango and jazz elements. Jonathan Harris’ M. Cassini draws inspiration from a cicada with a 17-year cycle, building a unique soundscape entirely from multiphonics. Emily Koh’s homonym employs microtonal melodies inspired by words that are spelled identically and sound the same, but have different meanings.

Program:
Emily Koh – homonym
Jonathan Harris – M. Cassini *
Alon Nechushtan – Quarantingo * (world premiere)
Amy Beth Kirsten – avalanche lily * +

* written for New Thread Quartet
+ This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.

The Johnstone Fund for New Music presents Hypercube
This is the NYC-based quartet’s first Columbus performance.