Looking forward to performing with the International Contemporary Ensemble April 5th at Roulette Intermedium for a concert featuring the World Premiere of Mazz Swift’s New Work and the NYC Premiere of Murat Çolak’s LAV, with works by Akiko Yamane, Brittany J. Green, Tyshawn Sorey, Yaz Lancaster, Aliya Ultan, and Katinka Kleijn.
At long last, Wavefield Ensemble will premiere Clone Farm, my 2020 commissioned work for large ensemble. I’m incredibly excited to perform alongside this cast of all-stars to bring this work to life.
More info HERE
Thursday, March 2 // 7:30pm
Norton Auditorium
University of North Alabama
N Pine St
Florence, AL 35630
Saturday, April 22, 2023 // 7:00 pm ET
The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Avenue
(between 91st & 92nd street)
New York, NY 10128
University of Michigan presents WildUp: Julius Eastman’s Femenine
Sunday, April 16, 2023 // 4pm
Rackham Auditorium
915 East Washington Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Tickets
The Los Angeles music collective Wild Up is creating a series of performances and a multi-volume anthology to carry his music forward, starting with Femenine. The minimalist Femenine debuted in 1974, two years before Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach had their first performances; yet Eastman was punished for being ahead of his time, in the rejection of both his music and his person. “Wild Up’s new rendition takes a page from Eastman’s personal playbook: It’s exuberant, a bit in your face, sometimes capricious, and always surprising.” (NPR Music)
The Brick presents
You Against Nature + Your People Saying Hello
by Joseph White, ThingNY, + Aaron Siegel
Sunday, March 19, 2023 // 8pm
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn NY
sliding scale $15-25 (buy tickets)
Joseph White‘s opera, You Against Nature, ingeniously brought to life by ThingNY, is a potpourri of song, text, visual candy, and sonic froth based on 19th century decadent novel, “Against Nature.” Your People Saying Hello is the solo project of composer/percussionist Aaron Siegel. Equal parts storytelling, poetry reading and sonic ritual, Your People performances feature synths, spoken texts, songs, and percussion.
You Against Nature:
Joseph White – Composer
Gelsey Bell – Vocals, Keyboard
Andrew Livingston – Cello
Paul Pinto – Vocals, Percussion
Erin Rogers – Saxophones
Dave Ruder – Laptop, Narration
Your People Saying Hello:
Aaron Siegel – Composer, Percussion, Voice, Synthesizers
You Against Nature is a new opera by Joseph White, commissioned by ThingNY. Blending elements of monologue, Webernian pointillism, karaoke, and electronic klangfarbenmelodie, You Against Nature offers a maximalist sound world with a lean, stripped-down ensemble of merrymakers. Based on Joris-Karl Huysmans‘ remarkable, and remarkably-decadent 19th century novel, “”Against Nature,”” You Against Nature explores timely themes of isolation, decadence, hedonism, and the limits of self-sufficiency.
Brooklyn-based composer Dan Joseph will offer a program of new and recent chamber works, including Underground Suite for marimba and saxophone, Eucalyptus Quartet for violin, cello, saxophone and clarinet, and a new work for piano, with pianist Marija Ilic, saxophonists Erin Rogers and Chris Mannigan, percussionist Danny Tunick, violinist Tom Chiu and cellist Clara Kennedy.
Thursday, March 9, 2023 // 8:00 pm
The University of Virginia Department of Music presents Popebama on Friday, February 24th at 8pm in Old Cabell Hall as part of the Composition and Computer Technologies Ensemble in Residence program. The duo will be performing pieces composed by our graduate student composers, Daniel Fishkin, Kristin Hauge, Molly Joyce, Varun Kishore, Brian Lindgren and Matias Vilaplana Stark. The concert is free and open to the public.
From concert stages (Hamburg’s Elbphilarmonie, The Shed NYC), to DIY venues (The Stone NYC, Diabolical Records, H0l0) to academic institutions (UMass Amherst, Freiberg hochschule für musik, Peabody Conservatory), Popebama brings a level of performance virtuosity, visual wonderment, and theatrical flare to an unconventional sound world.
Catch the high-energy duo in residence at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Feb 2-3
// 7:30 pm
Westbrook Music Building Room: 119
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1104 R St, Lincoln, NE 68508
