Sweet Soubrette @ Spike Hill

Sweet Soubrette’s last show before we lose our beloved violinist Heather to the West Coast! Come out on a Saturday night in September to see Sweet Soubrette in our full glory, brass section and all. Last time we played as the big band, people danced up a storm. The same thing may happen to you.

Sat. Sept 20th @8pm
Spike Hill
184 & 186 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11211

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September 3, 2014

Fall Experimental Music Festival – Philadelphia

thingNY is guest artist for the <fidget> Fall Experimental Music Festival 2014:
“The remix, the cut-up, the open work”
November 6th-9th

Curated by Peter Price
Guest Curators: Thomas Pattison and Adam Vidiksis
Guest Artist: ThingNY
Featuring performances, experiments, and panel discussions.

at thefidget space
1714 N. Mascher St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Times and prices TBA – Check back!

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September 3, 2014

thingNY + thingamajigs = true love

THINGAMAJIGS PERFORMANCE GROUP

sunday, aug. 24 – friday, aug. 29
Knockdown Center @ 52-19 Flushing Ave, Queens
Chashama @ 1155 Ave of the Americas, New York

thingNY and our West Coast Counterparts in Noisemaking are having a steamy week together, taking over two spaces in two boroughs to try our hand at creating some durational performance art together. We’ll have some photos and video to share with you after this week. If you’re interested in attending our open rehearsal on Friday Aug. 29, send us a note:thingNY@gmail.com.

September 2, 2014

Livestream chat with composer, Ben Hjertmann

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.

September 2, 2014

New Thread @ Aaron Copland School

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.
August 25, 2014

Saxes w/ Sweet Soubrette @SPiN

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 TimeTrapped In Static, and The Furies

FB event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/686293478091569/

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August 4, 2014

Moving Lines – New Thread Quartet + Ruah Dance

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

August 4, 2014

Con Vivo Sunday Recital – New Thread Quartet

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

August 4, 2014

New Thread Quartet + IKTUS Duo – Jersey City

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

August 4, 2014

Scott Stein & his Well Groomed Orchestra @ The Duplex

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
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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

June 30, 2014