Bowers-Fader Duo performs “The Lone Tenement” as part of a Composers Concordance concert:
Sunday, April 22, 3:30pm
St Mark’s Church in the Bowery
131 East 10th Street, (2nd Ave)
New York, NY
Random Access Music and The Queens New Music Festival present:
The Bowers-Fader Duo, new American art songs for mezzo and guitar in a program that features seven living composers:
Frank Brickle: City of Orgies
Hilary Purrington: Two Songs (for mezzo-soprano and guitar)
Scott Wheeler: Canzone Italiane
David Claman: Two Herman Melville Songs
Tim Mukherjee: Three Folk Song Settings
Erin Rogers: The Lone Tenement
Paul Salerni: Finding One Self
For tickets, click HERE
Sarah Anne Brownawell (mezzo soprano) and Ezekiel Bardash (guitar) perform The Lone Tenement as part of Manhattan School of Music’s Guitar Chamber Music Concert. Performance is FREE and open to the public.
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
4:30-7:00pm
Pforzheimer Hall
Manhattan School of Music
120 Claremont Ave
New York, NY
View the calendar listing HERE.
6/15 Friday
8:30 pm
Hypercolor & New Thread Quartet
Lukas Ligeti (drums) James Ilgenfritz (electric bass) Eyal Maoz (guitar) Geoffrey Landman, Kristen McKeon, Erin Rogers, Zach Herchen (saxes)
Brand-new music by Hypercolor PLUS World Premiere for New Thread Quartet.
THE STONE is located in
The New School
Glass Box Theatre
55 west 13th street
near 6th ave
Event listing HERE
Hypercube takes its hyper-modern program to Five Towns College on Long Island. This FREE noon-hour performance will feature works by:
Nicholas Deyoe
Dennis Sullivan
Chaya Czernowin
Sam Pluta
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 @12pm
FTC Performing Arts Center
Five Towns College
305 North Service Road
Dix Hills, NY 11746
On Thursday April 12th, MATA delves into a world of dreams and nightmares, probing the depths of self and other in an evening of newly commissioned work from composer-performers Erin Rogers and a harrowing performance by Ken Ueno (MATA 2002, 2008) together with MATA’s Artistic Director, and 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner, Du Yun. Also featured are works from the exciting new talent of Egyptian new music Bahaa el-Ansary (Nightmare), Aaron Graham’s (USA/Canada) scena “Old Voltage” for six-hand piano, Jenny Hettne’s (Sweden) intimate While She Was Dreaming performed by Pauline Kim Harris and Steven Blake Whiteley’s (USA) psychodrama for performer featuring Charlotte Mundy. Finally, Chris Perren (Australia) repeats a suspended moment of dramatic recognition with his Samurai Loops, scored for two pianos and video projection.
Thursday, April 12
8PM at the The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, NYC
$25
Tickets available at The Kitchen
Bahaa Al-Ansary (Egypt): Nightmare (2015) AP
Steven Whiteley (USA): [ ][ ][ ][ ][] (2015) AP
Chris Perren (Australia): Samurai Loops (2015) AP
Jenny Hettne (Sweden): While She Was Dreaming (2012) AP
Aaron Graham (USA / Canada): Old Voltage (2015) AP
Erin Rogers (USA): Light-on-Light (2018) WP MATA Commission
Ken Ueno (USA): New Work (2018) WP MATA Alumni Commission
The Friends of MATA
Dan Lippel, guitar
Paul Kerekes, Isabelle O’Connell, Miki Sawada, pianos
Matthew Evans, Amy Garapic, percussion
Pauline Kim Harris, violin
Carrie Frey, viola
with
Charlotte Mundy, Erin Rogers, Ken Ueno, Du Yun, performers
Three works of vocal chamber music performed around a communal table. thingNY premieres a new music-theater work by Rick Burkhardt and a selection of songs from Gelsey Bell’s work-in-development Rolodex. Varispeed, with additional members from thingNY, performs their new arrangement of Kenneth Gaburo’s masterpiece Maledetto from 1968.
Rick Burkhardt’s Passover, commissioned for thingNY, is a performance-ritual for six singing/speaking instrumentalists seated at a dinner table on which there lies a double bass. Each performer relates the story of a friend’s escape: from a bad marriage, from an unfair situation at work, from a run-in with a traffic cop, from an ethically compromising opportunity, from an awkward family dinner. Ultimately, it becomes clear that all of these friends form one collective identity. 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.
thingNY gives a taste of its opera-in-development with a short selection of songs from Gelsey Bell’s Rolodex, in which the ensemble surrounds the interrogation table to investigate a crime, calling on witnesses from a rolodex that doubles as a musical score.
Finally, thingNY is joined by Varispeed to celebrate the semicentennial of Kenneth Gaburo’s 1968 cult-classic Maledetto with a new homespun arrangement. Maledetto is a fusion of taxonomy lecture, absurdist inner dialogue, Dadaist choral music, and your uncle’s dirty jokes for seven “virtuoso speakers.” It is the masterwork for Gaburo’s theories of compositional linguistics. Varispeed’s arrangement updates the piece for the twenty-first century by splitting up the original authoritative voice among the collective and passing the seven roles around the table, like a dinner platter, in an attempt to uncouple patriarchy and heterosexuality from the piece’s incredible exploration of the vocalist as singer, storyteller, and orchestra.
May 30, 2018 – 8:00pm
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
Tickets HERE
($20 ONLINE $25 DOORS)
Rick Burkhardt – Passover*
Gelsey Bell – Songs from Rolodex*
Kenneth Gaburo – Maledetto**
*premiere performance
**world premiere arrangement
“Doctor” Gelsey Bell – voice, percussion
Andrew “Doc” Livingston – voice, bass
Paul “Tor” Pinto – voice, percussion
Erin “Doc Tor” Rogers – voice, saxophone
Dave “Tordoc” Ruder – voice, clarinet
Jeffrey “Rot Cod” Young – voice, violin
Brian “Cod Rot” McCorkle – voice
Aliza “The Fist” Simons – voice
Rick Burkhardt’s Passover, commissioned for thingNY, is a performance-ritual for six singing/speaking instrumentalists seated at a dinner table on which there lies a double bass. Each performer relates the story of a friend’s escape: from a bad marriage, from an unfair situation at work, from a run-in with a traffic cop, from an ethically compromising opportunity, from an awkward family dinner. Ultimately, it becomes clear that all of these friends form one collective identity. 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.
Presented by Sonic Circuits
Also on the program:
dálava (vocalist Julia Úlehla and guitarist Aram Bajakian)
The Witches (flute, violin and vocals)
May 25, 2018 – 8:00pm
Rhizome
6950 Maple Street NW
Washington, DC
$10
Gelsey Bell – voice, percussion
Andrew Livingston – voice, bass
Paul Pinto – voice, percussion
Erin Rogers – voice, saxophone
Dave Ruder – voice, clarinet
Jeffrey Young – voice, violin
Rick Burkhardt’s Passover, commissioned for thingNY, is a performance-ritual for six singing/speaking instrumentalists seated at a dinner table on which there lies a double bass. Each performer relates the story of a friend’s escape: from a bad marriage, from an unfair situation at work, from a run-in with a traffic cop, from an ethically compromising opportunity, from an awkward family dinner. Ultimately, it becomes clear that all of these friends form one collective identity. 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.
May 24, 2018 – 8:00pm
Philadelphia Folksong Society
6156 Ridge Ave.
Philadelphia, PA
Rick Burkhardt – Passover*
Gelsey Bell – Songs from Rolodex
*premiere performance
Gelsey Bell – voice, percussion
Andrew Livingston – voice, bass
Paul Pinto – voice, percussion
Erin Rogers – voice, saxophone
Dave Ruder – voice, clarinet
Jeffrey Young – voice, violin
Ogni Suono (Noa Even, Phil Pierick) perform Clamor in Cincinnati (CCM) for the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) Biennial Conference.
Saturday, March 10 @3pm
Werner Hall
Cincinnati Conservatory
290 45221, CCM Blvd,
Cincinnati, OH 45219
Registration fees apply.
Full schedule HERE