De Materie / ICE at the Park Avenue Armory

Visionary director Heiner Goebbels stages this monumental work in a highly-imaginative production that infuses the work’s journey through a sequence of non-narrative tableaus with stunning visual imagery to help convey its meaning, with references to Mondrian and Madame Curie as well as floating zeppelins and a flock of sheep. The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) under the direction of Peter Rundel takes on the sonically varied score, which serves as its own journey through eras and styles of music history from early Renaissance, to the jazz-tinged roaring 20s, to contemporary music of today. The vastness of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall is the perfect setting to fully realize this rarely-performed work, which premiered more than 25 years ago and only now makes its highly-anticipated North American stage premiere.

NORTH AMERICAN STAGE PREMIERE
Composer: Louis Andriessen
Director: Heiner Goebbels
Stage and Lighting Designer: Klaus Gruenberg
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
Conductor: Peter Rundel

A production of the Ruhrtriennale – Festival of the Arts.
Adapted by Park Avenue Armory.

March 22 to March 30, 2016
Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Park Avenue Armory
New York
Tickets available here

For more information, click HERE

January 11, 2016

Sweet Soubrette @The Rock Shop, Brooklyn

Sweet Soubrette has a rare big band show on Thursday, January 14th, with the full band lineup plus special guest Patricia Santos on cello (giving us a horn section and a string section, because we are fancy like that, plus a kickass rhythm section, because we like to rock).

So please join us at The Rock Shop for the debut of a new song and our drummer Darrell Smith‘s birthday! 10 bucks at the door or just $7 in advance (advance tix HERE:>> http://ticketf.ly/1SSagUW) It’s a great lineup featuring Casey Holford, Jessie Kilguss Music and Freddie Stevenson Music.

Thursday, Jan 14 at The Rock Shop
249 4th Ave in Brooklyn (R to Union St)
$10 cover at the door / $7 in advance
We’re on at 10pm
Get advance tix HERE

January 11, 2016

Loadbang performs Rogers, Baker, King – Greenwich House

Loadbang will be performing a new program of monodramas by myself and composers John King and Jen Baker.

http://www.loadbang.com/events.html

November 4, 2015

IKTUS Combo, SIU GUITAR FESTIVAL 2015 (2ND EDITION)

IKTUS Combo performs at the SIU GUITAR FESTIVAL 2015 (2ND EDITION)!

http://cola.siu.edu/music/camps-festivals-outreach/festivals/guitar-festival/

October 27, 2015

NTQ @Thurnauer School of Music – New Jersey

New Thread performs and builds instruments with children!

Thurnauer School of Music
JCC on the Palisades
411 East Clinton Ave
Tenafly‎ NJ‎ 07670

Sunday April 3, 2016
3:004:30pm

 

October 27, 2015

Triple bill: Will Mason, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix & Iktus – LIVE @ Shea Stadium BK

Triple bill: Will Mason, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix & Iktus – LIVE @ Shea Stadium BK

October 27, 2015

Stony Brook Premieres – Roulette

28TH ANNUAL STONY BROOK PREMIERES! CONCERT
Featuring the Contemporary Chamber Players
Eduardo Leandro, director

Thursday, November 19 2015, 8:00 PM
Roulette, NYC
Free Admission

Paula Matthusen: of culpable trajectories and transformations (2015)

Christopher Swithinbank: local bonds (2015)

Piers Hellawell: Fictions (2015)

James Wood: Secret Dialogues (2014)

Erin Rogers: Shimmering Dust (2015)

Created by composer John Lessard in 1988, the Premieres! series has commissioned works by a wide array of composers from the United States and abroad for nearly three decades. This year’s concert features new works by Paula Matthusen, Christopher Swithinbank, Piers Hellawell and Stony Brook’s own Matthew Barnson.

http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/music/premieres/premieres.html

 

October 14, 2015

Stony Brook Premieres – Staller Center

28TH ANNUAL STONY BROOK PREMIERES! CONCERT
Featuring the Contemporary Chamber Players
Eduardo Leandro, director

Wednesday, November 18 2015, 8:00 PM
Recital Hall | Staller Center for the Arts
Free Admission

Paula Matthusen: of culpable trajectories and transformations (2015)

Christopher Swithinbank: local bonds (2015)

Piers Hellawell: Fictions (2015)

James Wood: Secret Dialogues (2014)

Erin Rogers: Shimmering Dust (2015)

Created by composer John Lessard in 1988, the Premieres! series has commissioned works by a wide array of composers from the United States and abroad for nearly three decades. This year’s concert features new works by Paula Matthusen, Christopher Swithinbank, Piers Hellawell and Stony Brook’s own Matthew Barnson.

 

http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/music/premieres/premieres.html

 

October 14, 2015

IKTUS Combo, Illinois State University

IKTUS Combo travels to Illinois State University, for an evening recital with students and faculty. More details to come!

Saturday November 14, 2015
8:00pm

October 13, 2015

Stuart Dempster – SONIC BREATHING AND CIRCULAR MEDITATIONS

Music for Contemplation presents:

STUART DEMPSTER – SONIC BREATHING AND CIRCULAR MEDITATIONS

Saturday, October 3, 2015
8:05pm  10:05pm
Church of the Annunciation
259 N 5th St
(at Havemeyer and Metropolitan)
Brooklyn, NY 11211

http://www.mufoco.net/2015-events/2015/10/3/stuart-dempster

September 22, 2015