Erin Rogers - Composer/saxophonist

Roberto Kalb D.M.A. Composition Recital
New England Conservatory
290 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA

Free, reception to follow.

The recital will include vocal and chamber works as well as the world premiere of Kalb’s saxophone quartet “Ryden Scenes”.

Performers:

The New Thread Quartet (www.newthreadquartet.com):

-Geoffrey Landman, Soprano Saxophone (www.geoffreylandman.com)
-Kristen McKeon, Alto Saxophone
-Erin Rogers, Tenor Saxophone (www.erinmrogers.com)
-Zach Herchen, Baritone Saxophone (www.zachherchen.com)

Misha Namirovsky, Piano
Laura Liu, Violin
Daniel Mitnitsky, Cello

Mark Williams, Tenor

David Charles Tay, Tenor

Program:

“Dance Russe”
Text by William Carlos Williams

“Tres Canciones de Amor” for Tenor voice and orchestra
I. Me gusts cuando callas
II. La rama robada
III. El crepúsculo
Text by Pablo Neruda

“Three Scenes” for alto saxophone and piano
I. Paisaje
II. Ella
III. Danzón

Intermission

“Le Dormeur du Val” for Piano Trio

“Ryden Scenes” for Saxophone Quartet
I. The Creatrix
II. Rose
III. Night Visit
IV. Piano Player

RSVP for the Facebook event here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/535312733214377/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

Sunday, October 13, from 1 to 4.  New Thread Quartet will give a short performance at the Herchen’s in Plymouth, MA.
Please RSVP by Thursday, October 10.

On Saturday, October 19th, Rhymes With Opera brings a semi-annual Salon series back to Exapno in Brooklyn. A new music potluck get-together, the Salon is a chance for the new music community and their friends and fans to get together and share something truly magical: new and experimental music performed in a space that is open-hearted, friendly, supportive, FREE and (best of all) well-fed.

Bring a covered dish to share, grab a bottle of wine (or that nine-year-old bottle of green Creme de Menthe from the back of your cupboard), and come be a part of an event that’s only gotten cooler with age.

Exapno
33 Flatbush Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11217

This RWO: Salon will feature:

– New Thread Quartet
– Mary MacKenzie, soprano, with Eric Sedgwick, piano
– Sarah Taylor Ellis, composer, with Lane Williamson
– Gregory Brown, singer-songwriter/composer
– Sidney Boquiren, composer
– Alexander Nohai-Seaman, composer, with Sara Paar and Andrea Lodge
– And, of course, Rhymes With Opera

Sweet Soubrette returns, with Serena Jost

LIC Bar
45-58 Vernon

https://www.facebook.com/events/406676016110868/

Voice Leading, works by Gregory Cornelius and Erin Rogers

Thursday, October 17, 2013
8:00pm

The Firehouse Space
246 Frost Street, Brooklyn, NY

presented by

thingNY, experimental music collective and The Bark and Scream Series curated by Satoshi Takeishi

Composer Gregory Cornelius (from Boston, MA, co-director of Amp New Music) and composer/saxophonist Erin Rogers (of experimental music ensemble thingNY) bring a program of works for voice, chamber ensemble, electroacoustic and fixed media to Brooklyn’s coziest space for a complete evening. Featuring musicians of thingNY and New Thread Quartet.

Gregory Cornelius, composer/electronics
Erin Rogers, composer/saxophones
Gelsey Bell, voice
Andrea Smith, flute
Dave Ruder, clarinet
Paul Pinto, percussion
Jeffrey Young, violin
Andrew Livingston, bass
Geoffrey Landman, soprano saxophone
Kristen McKeon, alto saxophone
Zach Herchen, baritone saxophone

$10 general admission Contact: thingNY@gmail.com

Presented by Incubator Arts Project:
Saturday, Aug 31 @10pm

Join us for the final installment of the development series Short Form.
$6 cash only at the door

GILLIAN CHADSEY & IVAN TALIJANCIC/WAXFACTORY
SPELL FOR FAINTING#2

A structured improvisational piece for a performer and a DJ using disparate textual sources, 25 musical selections and sounds, and over 50 objects as an investigation in the chaos of creation. Phase 1: Objects – curious ephemera or emblems of a lingering encounter?

EVAN JOHNSON AND CHIP RODGERS
SOUL TRAVEL WORKSHOP

Evan and Chip are attempting to resurrect their past lives. The two best friends document their findings as they visit psychics, meditate, hold séances, undergo hypnotherapy and psychoanalysis, and learn just as much about their own messed-up relationship as the ones they might have had.

THINGNY
WHISPER PIECE

Experimental music collective thingNY’s new set of operatic scenes opens with a soundscape of sirens, speech and singing, experienced from different perspectives depending on your seat and your time in the space. The scene depicts stories and philosophies from a community about to be ravaged by an approaching storm.

BOOM BAT GESTURE PERFORMANCE GROUP
ZOOM THOUSAND TIME

In Zoom Thousand Time, BOOM BAT GESTURE applies the visual concept of an infinite zoom to time-based performance. Using a live 10 minute improvisation as source, BBG will zoom into/strech out one minute of each previous piece for all ensuing presentations, reducing the source material by 90% each time, culminating in a final performance using only the material that occurred in 3/5 of a second of the original source. Using this hyper-minimalist, ever-shrinking palette, they will navigate forms, existing and invented, in an effort to find freedom and expression under intense limitations.

For more information:  http://incubatorarts.org/shortform.html

thingNY will perform as part of Detroit’s Sidewalk Festival on Saturday, Aug 3rd. Excited to be performing alongside some amazing artists!

http://www.sidewalkdetroit.com/featured_artists.html

Join us for the 3rd installment of our development series Short Form!

Presented by Incubator Arts Project:
Saturday, July 27 @10pm
131 East 10th Street, New York, New York 10003
$6 cash only at the door

Featuring, GILLIAN CHADSEY & IVAN TALIJANCIC/WAXFACTORY, EVAN JOHNSON AND CHIP RODGERS, BOOM BAT GESTURE, & thingNY

Facebook invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/515222211865223/

For more information:  http://incubatorarts.org/shortform.html

Presented by Incubator Arts Project:
Saturday, May 25 @10pm

Join us for the first installment of the development series Short Form.
$6 cash only at the door

GILLIAN CHADSEY & IVAN TALIJANCIC/WAXFACTORY
SPELL FOR FAINTING#2

A structured improvisational piece for a performer and a DJ using disparate textual sources, 25 musical selections and sounds, and over 50 objects as an investigation in the chaos of creation. Phase 1: Objects – curious ephemera or emblems of a lingering encounter?

EVAN JOHNSON AND CHIP RODGERS
SOUL TRAVEL WORKSHOP

Evan and Chip are attempting to resurrect their past lives. The two best friends document their findings as they visit psychics, meditate, hold séances, undergo hypnotherapy and psychoanalysis, and learn just as much about their own messed-up relationship as the ones they might have had.

THINGNY
WHISPER PIECE

Experimental music collective thingNY’s new set of operatic scenes opens with a soundscape of sirens, speech and singing, experienced from different perspectives depending on your seat and your time in the space. The scene depicts stories and philosophies from a community about to be ravaged by an approaching storm.

BOOM BAT GESTURE PERFORMANCE GROUP
ZOOM THOUSAND TIME

In Zoom Thousand Time, BOOM BAT GESTURE applies the visual concept of an infinite zoom to time-based performance. Using a live 10 minute improvisation as source, BBG will zoom into/strech out one minute of each previous piece for all ensuing presentations, reducing the source material by 90% each time, culminating in a final performance using only the material that occurred in 3/5 of a second of the original source. Using this hyper-minimalist, ever-shrinking palette, they will navigate forms, existing and invented, in an effort to find freedom and expression under intense limitations.

For more information:  http://incubatorarts.org/shortform.html