Erin Rogers - Composer/saxophonist

“[opera captions]” by Jay Afrisando reimagines what captions as an “actor” can do beyond functioning as a communication conveyor and sound interpreter in audiovisual media. What if captions ‘step up,’ ‘speak,’ and ‘tell’ their stories?

“[opera captions]” focuses on captions bringing together accessibility, inner-imagined voices, and creativity. The music-theater-film-translation-poetry performance “[opera captions]” reimagines what captions as an “actor” can do beyond functioning as a communication conveyor and sound interpreter in audiovisual media while interacting with and personified by humans: New York composer-performers collective thingNY and viewer-audiences. “[opera captions]” invites you to celebrate the lives of captions that have been both cherished and hated.

Sat., Feb. 24, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
Indexical
1050 River St. #119
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
$20 General / $15 Members / $10 Student

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Living Music Presents: Hypercube

Thursday, February 15, 2024 // 7:30pm
Recital Hall
School of Music
Penn State College of Arts and Architecture
124 Borland Building
University Park, PA 16802
Free, open to the public

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Tactus Ensemble: Contemporary Chamber Music at Manhattan School of Music

Music on the Edge presents Hypercube as part of their 2023-24 Season. Co-directed by Eric Moe, Mathew Rosenblum, and Amy Williams, Music on the Edge (MOTE) presents about six concerts each year featuring visiting artists as well as the Music on the Edge Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Roger Zahab. The series is devoted to the performance of contemporary music by professional musicians. Hypercube has built a reputation on high-energy performances with impressive execution. The NYC-based quartet embraces the boundaries of chamber music, featuring cutting-edge works for saxophone, guitar, piano and percussion, while spanning electric and acoustic worlds.

Thursday, February 8, 8:00 p.m.
Frick Fine Arts Building, Auditorium
650 Schenley Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
$10 Students, $15 general

In addition to Hypercube ‘s core repertoire, the concert will feature music by Pittsburgh-based composers Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Amy Williams, and Charles Peck.

PROGRAM

Child’s Play by Amy Williams
Effervescence by Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh
Trace by Charles Peck

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Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project (CUSP) presents Hypercube as part of its 2023-24 Concert Series alongside percussionist, Joe Tomino.

Wednesday, February 7, 2024 // 8:00pm (doors 7:30)
Convivium 33 Gallery
1433 E 33rd St
Cleveland, OH 44114 (map)

The concert will feature new pieces composed by UVA Music Department graduate student composers, who are pursuing their PhDs in Music and will be performed by the CCT Ensemble in Residence for 2024, HYPERCUBE.  The graduate composers whose pieces will be featured are as follows: Gabrielle Cerberville, Kristin Hauge, Rah Hite, Molly Joyce, Varun Kishore, Brian Lindgren, and Matias Vilaplana Stark.

Friday, February 2, 2024 // 8pm
Old Cabell Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
FREE

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As Co-Artistic Director of Tactus Contemporary Chamber Music, my colleague Matt Ward and I are thrilled to invite you to 6 concerts of chamber music this year featuring students of Manhattan School of Music’s Contemporary Performance Program. All concerts are free. Please join us on the Upper West Side this season.

Mon, JAN 22 | 7:30 PM

Tactus Contemporary Chamber Music
Featuring Students of CPP + Manhattan School of Music

CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
Matthew Ward and Erin Rogers, Artistic Directors

PROGRAM: Tactus Composes! Featuring works by:
Rea Ábel
Addy DeBella
Same Friedman
Gabe Henkin
Grace Pressley
Steph Tamas
Tactus Ensemble

Free, More Information HERE
Livestream LINK

Ades Performance Space
Manhattan School of Music
130 Claremont Avenue
New York, New York 10027

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New Thread Saxophone Quartet visits UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music for a three-day residency (January 28 – 30, 2024).

This multi-disciplinary engagement will include a reading session of student compositions, a masterclass with Prof. Jan Berry Baker’s saxophone studio, and a workshop on New Music entrepreneurship, culminating in a concert of contemporary works featuring works by UCLA students and faculty.

Public Performance
Tuesday, January 30 // 8pm (Pacific Time)
Evelyn & Mo Ostin Music Center
Herb Alpert School of Music
445 Charles E Young Dr E,
Los Angeles, CA 90095
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For more information: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/ucla-new-thread-saxophone-quartet-in-residence/

The Exponential Festival & The Brick present
Natural Studies
by thingNY
January 18-20, 2024

thingNY returns to the Brick with a double bill made up of Joseph White’s You Against Nature and their latest collectively written opus, Mouthful.

You Against Nature is the first opera from White and is based on the French decadent classic, Against Nature. It is a tale of modern day self-isolation, attempts at life-hacking, and nihilistic indulgence taken to extraordinary lengths.

Mouthful is situated in the orbit of a large communal table and explores ancestry, lineage, and linguistic transmission through food and digestion, through blood, and through community and family structures.

You Against Nature by Joseph White
Mouthful by thingNY

performed by alejandro t. acierto, Gelsey Bell, Isabel Castellvi, Andrew Livingston, Paul Pinto, Erin Rogers, and Dave Ruder

Showtimes:
Thurs, Jan 18, 8pm
Fri, Jan 19, 8pm
Sat, Jan 20, 3pm
Sat, Jan 20, 8pm

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