Date/Time
Sun, Sep 21, 2014
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
New Thread Quartet will be doing a livestream chat with composer Ben Hjertmann. We have been working on a commission project with Ben that is supported by New Music USA.
At the time of the event our livestream will be available at http://www.newthreadquartet.com/.
You are invited to join our discussion by submitting questions/comments via social media!
NTQ on Facebook
@NewThreadQtet on Twitter
Ben has created a new piece for saxophone quartet titled Sunstruck (originally titled Perpetuum Mobile). We will be premiering this stunning new 30-min piece on September 28 in Jersey City. To share the work and preview this concert, NTQ will do a livestream chat with Ben. We’ll discuss the piece, perform sections of it, and take your questions via social media.
New Thread Saxophone Quartet presents world premieres by composers Luke Schwartz and Pat Muchmore.
Aaron Copland School of Music
Queens College, Kew Garden Hills
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367
FREE
New Thread Quartet takes the stage of LeFrak Concert Hall at the Aaron Copland School of Music, for the premiere of two new works for
saxophone quartet by Queens-based composers Luke Schwartz and Pat Muchmore. Known for championing the works of New York-based composers,
New Thread will present the audience with two highly contrasting pieces, each sounding within a contemporary musical language. Muchmore’s
Hyperoperator3 for two tenor and two baritone saxophones evokes a voluminous power full of rhythmic complexity and intensity while Schwartz’s
Open Link in new Tab, for quartet + tape, explores the beautiful texture of tonal improvisation with occasional divergence. The hour-long
program will be framed with works by Michael Djupstrom (Philadelphia), and Marcelo Lazcano (Chile/San Diego). This concert is presented by
Queens College and is FREE and open to the public.
This program is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts
with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Delighted to be playing saxes with the delectable Sweet Soubrette at Spin New York, the Manhattan ping pong club owned by Susan Sarandon, where we’ll be opening for touring act The Furies, an all-female indie rock band whose lead singer is known for her time with Third Eye Blind. This show is not to be missed!
8pm doors
9pm Sweet Soubrette
$10, 21+
Also featuring: Mind Over Time, Trapped In Static, and The Furies
FB event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/686293478091569/
Date/Time:
Sun, Dec 14, 2014
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location:
Jan Hus Presbyterian Church
351 E 74th St, New York, NY
Composer’s Voice presents December Dance, a concert of live music and dance being curated by David Morneau and Adrea Skurr. NTQ will collaborate with dancers to present a piece from our repertoire with original choreography.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1429155287364812/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
Date/Time:
Sun, Sep 28, 2014
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Location:
St. Paul Lutheran Church
440 Hoboken Ave, Jersey City, NJ
FREE
NTQ presents a recital of contemporary music on Con Vivo’s 2014 Season, featuring the premiere of Sunstruck, a newly commissioned piece by Ben Hjertmann. Our program will feature Ben’s music alongside other composers we have collaborated with from outside NYC.
Program:
Hjertmann: Sunstruck
Djupstrom: Test
Lazcano: Ser
Kalb: Ryden Scenes
Date/Time:
Fri, Sep 5, 2014
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Location:
Barrow Mansion
83 Wayne Street, Jersey City, NJ
FREE
New Thread is collaborating with Iktus Duo (Chris Graham, percussion and Hristina Blagoeva, flute) to present a double bill concert for Con Vivo Music in Jersey City.
We’ll be performing a classic piece by Caryl Florio, a recent work by Marcelo Lazcano, and two great electroacoustic pieces: Erin Rogers’ new work Mother Earth and Daniel Wohl’sMicrofluctuations in Plainchant.
NTQ Set:
Florio: Quartette
Lazcano: Ser
Rogers: Mother Earth
Wohl: Microfluctuations in Plainchant
It’s been since The Bunker recording sessions on one of the worst, train-stopping, road-ramming, snow-piled winter days I’ve ever seen in New York City, that I last played in Scott Stein’s Well Groomed Orchestra. I’m excited to reunite with the crew, this time in the middle of summer, with special guest Amy Regan.
Wed, July 30th, 9:30pm
The Duplex
New York, NY
TICKETS
By the way, if you haven’t checked out the recordings from that memorable session last January, here are the digital releases:
Back to Babylon
New Amsterdam
I am delighted to take part in MakeMusicNY’s New York City premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino’s La bocca, i piedi, il suono for over 100 saxophones! Joined by the awesome players of Project Fusion, saxophone players from all over New York City will join forces to perform this masterwork in honor of Adolphe Sax’s 200th Birthday. This performance is being presented in partnership with Miller Theatre at Columbia University and will take place in the center of at Columbia’s historic Low Memorial Library.
Saturday, June 21, 2pm
Low Memorial Library
Columbia University
New York, NY
FREE
Thursday, June 19
Immediacies Series 2.5: Piads
The Firehouse Space
8:00pm. 246 Frost St. Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, June 22
thingNY and Face the Music… In Space!
@ The Queens Museum
12pm and 4pm. Flushing Meadow Corona Park. Queens, NY
Over the course of three weeks, thingNY and Face the Music (the world’s only teen new music ensemble) will team up to create a short music-theater work for the Queens Museum exploring the concept of “space”. Using some of the compositional techniques from two existing works, Private Time and Endurance Exercises (both from the theater piece Time: A Complete Explanation in Three Parts), the intergenerational ensemble will develop this work through instrumental, vocal and movement improvisation, layering independent tasks and gestures into a larger musical structure. We’re really looking forward to this crazy adventure. This project is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.