Capital University presents Hypercube, Columbus OH

Capital University presents Guest Artist, Hypercube, performing works by Marcel Castro Lima, Corie Rose Soumah, Charles Rudig, Eric Wubbels and XY Mike Zhou.

Wednesday, October 2, 6pm ET
Huntington Recital Hall
Conservatory of Music
Capital University
E Main St & College Ave,
Bexley, OH 43209
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September 24, 2024

Antropofagia – Polyspora Festival – International Contemporary Ensemble

ANTROPOFRAGIA

Johns Hopkins University
555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C.

With the support of a generous grant from the Nexus Awards, Dr. Felipe Lara, Polyaspora will host a five-day contemporary music festival, at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. in fall 2024. Hosted by the Peabody Institute and curated by Professor Lara and George Lewis of Columbia University, Polyaspora centers Black and Brazilian perspectives in contemporary music alongside a showcase of new musical works by Peabody Conservatory students. The globally renowned and New York City-based International Contemporary Ensemble will serve as guest performers and educators for the festival. The festival includes three concerts with pre-concert talks at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center’s state-of-the-art Theatre, and one concert on the Peabody Institute’s Baltimore campus. All four concerts will be free and open to the public. Additional workshops and open rehearsals at Peabody will be open to JHU and Peabody students to attend and participate in.

PROGRAM

Jocy de Oliveira: Nherana (2017) for oboe, clarinet, percussion, electric guitar, cello, electronics
Arthur Kampela: Percussion Study I (1989-1990) for solo guitar
Marcos Balter: Violin Concerto (2016) for solo violin, flute, clarinet, sax, bassoon, percussion, guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello
Igor Santos: Carve (2023, rev 2024) for percussion, piano
Michelle Agnes: Lighter than air (2020) for violin, viola, cello
Felipe Lara: Mosaic Maze (2024) for flute, oboe, clarinet, saxo, horn, percussion I&II, harp, piano, violin I, violin II, viola, cello

PERFORMERS

David Fulmer, conductor
Rebekah Heller, conductor
Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, flute
Nick Masterson, oboe
Erin Rogers, saxophone
Joshua Rubin, clarinet
Alexander Davis, bassoon
Kyra Sims, horn
Josh Modney, violin
Pala Garcia, violin
Wendy Richman, viola
John Popham, cello
Nuiko Wadden, harp
Daniel Lippel, guitar
Jacob Greenberg, piano
Dennis Sullivan, percussion
Clara Warnaar, percussion

September 1, 2024

The Future is Now II – Polyspora Festival – International Contemporary Ensemble

THE FUTURE IS NOW II

Johns Hopkins University
555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C.

With the support of a generous grant from the Nexus Awards, Dr. Felipe Lara, Polyaspora will host a five-day contemporary music festival, at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. in fall 2024. Hosted by the Peabody Institute and curated by Professor Lara and George Lewis of Columbia University, Polyaspora centers Black and Brazilian perspectives in contemporary music alongside a showcase of new musical works by Peabody Conservatory students. The globally renowned and New York City-based International Contemporary Ensemble will serve as guest performers and educators for the festival. The festival includes three concerts with pre-concert talks at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center’s state-of-the-art Theatre, and one concert on the Peabody Institute’s Baltimore campus. All four concerts will be free and open to the public. Additional workshops and open rehearsals at Peabody will be open to JHU and Peabody students to attend and participate in.

PROGRAM

Xinglan Deng: That’s the end of winter for oboe, alto saxophone, bassoon, harp, piano, and violin
Christopher Thompson: Precipice for soprano saxophone, bassoon, horn, piano, and violin
Rodrigo Valente Pascale: escritura for oboe, alto saxophone, bassoon, harp, electric guitar, and violin
Alexander Wu: Measure of the wound for oboe, alto saxophone, bassoon, horn, and electric guitar
Spencer Winell: Avec la Gomme for alto saxophone, bassoon, piano, harp, electric guitar, and violin
Jia Yi Lee: Rotations for oboe, soprano saxophone, bassoon, horn, electric guitar, and harp
Emma Tucker: Crudely, Gilded, Brutally Adorned for conductor, oboe, alto saxophone, bassoon, harp, electric guitar, and violin

PERFORMERS

Rebekah Heller, conductor
Nick Masterson, oboe
Erin Rogers, saxophone
Alexander Davis, bassoon
Kyra Sims, horn
Josh Modney, violin
Nuiko Wadden, harp
Daniel Lippel, guitar
Jacob Greenberg, piano

September 1, 2024

Explorations V.7 – New Thread Quartet @Dimenna

New Thread Saxophone Quartet is kicking off its 2024-2025 Season with Explorations Vol. 7: A Little Night Music. This collection of pieces grips, soothes, and marvels after dark.

While Irish composer Emma O’Halloran was living in Miami, she listened to the ocean waves at night for comfort and reflection. Her Night Music ripples and whirls like the sea with a nod to Latin music and Miami Sound Machine, the mixtape that kept O’Halloran company during that year abroad. LA-based Kay Rhie composed Night Blooms for mixed trio following her father’s death in 2019. Adapted for saxophone quartet, the piece tells the story of his final days in the hospital. As she watched his breathing machine expand and contract, Rhie was reminded of flowers that bloom at night and how “many first-generation immigrants probably dreamed of beautiful ‘blooms’ during the quiet hours when not too many people took notice.” Wong Foo Jeng’s light/erasure draws inspiration from several art pieces and literary works that address the idea of confronting an object that was defaced, abstracted, or erased from its previous form. Wong’s distortion of musical material symbolizes the disappearance of stars from the night’s sky due to artificial light pollution. Öö, Estonian for “night,” sets an unsettled atmosphere of impending doom. Helena Tulve provides the perfect closer, in which the night is darkest before the dawn.

Explorations Vol. 7: A Little Night Music
Saturday, Sept 14 @ 7:30pm
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Benzaquen Hall
450 West 37th Street, New York, NY, 10018
Tickets – suggested $15 donation

Reception to follow.

Program
Emma O’Halloran – Night Music (2014)
Kay Rhie – Night Blooms (2019, rev. 2023)
Wong Foo Jeng – light / erasure (2024)*#
Helena Tulve – Öo (1997)

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September 1, 2024

Abilities Dance Boston presents Branches 2024

Abilities Dance Boston
presents

Branches 2024

fully virtual dancer-led show highlighting disability justice and climate justice.

Choreographers share new original pieces delving into their personal touchstones and reflections on the show’s themes of climate change and disability justice, and where we can find wisdom and learning on new ways to move together.

choreographers: Carmen Rizzo, Dara Capley, Lauren Sava, Louisa Mann, Kate O’Day
composer: Erin Rogers

Virtual only
Saturday, August 24, 2024, 7:30pm ET
Tickets are $25 general admission with an unlimited pay what you can option. Reserve for video link.

August 13, 2024

Rise Up, Singing @ Seven Hills Chamber Music Festival

Seven Hills Chamber Music Festival
presents

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 @6pm (doors 5:30)
Lynchburg Museum
901 Court St
Lynchburg, VA
FREE – reserve tickets here

Performing Rise Up, Singing for alto saxophone and cello, alongside works by Paul Wiancko, William Susman, and more – with current exhibitions at the museum. Concert #1 is an event you won’t want to miss!

August 13, 2024

thingNY @The Brick “You Against Nature” + “Mouthful”

AUG 15 @ 8pm
AUG 16 @ 8pm
AUG 17 @ 8pm

The Brick
579 Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn NY

TICKETS

You Against Nature
[world premiere]

by Joseph White

Performed by:
Paul Pinto
Gelsey Bell
Dave Ruder
Andrew Livingston

Erin Rogers

Mouthful
[world premiere]

Written and performed by:
alejandro t. acierto
Isabel Castellvi
Dave Ruder
Paul Pinto
Andrew Livingston
Gelsey Bell

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, as part of the eclectic Exponential Festival.

You Against Nature is a new opera from the genre-fluid librettist and composer Joseph White who the Times calls “magical… mulchy… ribald… outlandish…” You Against Nature is based on the French decadent classic Against Nature, and situates a self-isolating aesthetic explorer in the present day. Expect forty minutes of homilies on modern-day alone time, attempts at life-hacking, and nihilistic indulgence taken to extraordinary lengths, performed by five singing, storytelling instrumentalists.

Mouthful is the latest collaboratively composed experimental opera from thingNY. Situated in the orbit of a large communal table, the ensemble explores digestion and excretion: of food, of blood, of ancestry and linguistic transmission. Each performance is different. With switching roles, in-ear monitors and instruments, the performers act as transmitters of each other’s songs, languages and choreography: reckoning with various degrees of appropriateness and appropriation, comprehension and (mis)translation.

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June 20, 2024

thingNY @The Brick “You Against Nature” + “Mouthful”

AUG 15 @ 8pm
AUG 16 @ 8pm
AUG 17 @ 8pm

The Brick
579 Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn NY

TICKETS

You Against Nature
[world premiere]

by Joseph White

Performed by:
Paul Pinto
Gelsey Bell
Dave Ruder
Andrew Livingston

Erin Rogers

Mouthful
[world premiere]

Written and performed by:
alejandro t. acierto
Isabel Castellvi
Dave Ruder
Paul Pinto
Andrew Livingston
Gelsey Bell

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, as part of the eclectic Exponential Festival.

You Against Nature is a new opera from the genre-fluid librettist and composer Joseph White who the Times calls “magical… mulchy… ribald… outlandish…” You Against Nature is based on the French decadent classic Against Nature, and situates a self-isolating aesthetic explorer in the present day. Expect forty minutes of homilies on modern-day alone time, attempts at life-hacking, and nihilistic indulgence taken to extraordinary lengths, performed by five singing, storytelling instrumentalists.

Mouthful is the latest collaboratively composed experimental opera from thingNY. Situated in the orbit of a large communal table, the ensemble explores digestion and excretion: of food, of blood, of ancestry and linguistic transmission. Each performance is different. With switching roles, in-ear monitors and instruments, the performers act as transmitters of each other’s songs, languages and choreography: reckoning with various degrees of appropriateness and appropriation, comprehension and (mis)translation.

More Info

June 20, 2024

thingNY @The Brick “You Against Nature” + “Mouthful”

AUG 15 @ 8pm
AUG 16 @ 8pm
AUG 17 @ 8pm

The Brick
579 Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn NY

TICKETS

You Against Nature
[world premiere]

by Joseph White

Performed by:
Paul Pinto
Gelsey Bell
Dave Ruder
Andrew Livingston

Erin Rogers

Mouthful
[world premiere]

Written and performed by:
alejandro t. acierto
Isabel Castellvi
Dave Ruder
Paul Pinto
Andrew Livingston
Gelsey Bell

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, as part of the eclectic Exponential Festival.

You Against Nature is a new opera from the genre-fluid librettist and composer Joseph White who the Times calls “magical… mulchy… ribald… outlandish…” You Against Nature is based on the French decadent classic Against Nature, and situates a self-isolating aesthetic explorer in the present day. Expect forty minutes of homilies on modern-day alone time, attempts at life-hacking, and nihilistic indulgence taken to extraordinary lengths, performed by five singing, storytelling instrumentalists.

Mouthful is the latest collaboratively composed experimental opera from thingNY. Situated in the orbit of a large communal table, the ensemble explores digestion and excretion: of food, of blood, of ancestry and linguistic transmission. Each performance is different. With switching roles, in-ear monitors and instruments, the performers act as transmitters of each other’s songs, languages and choreography: reckoning with various degrees of appropriateness and appropriation, comprehension and (mis)translation.

More Info

June 20, 2024

Etchings Festival (NYC) featuring guest artist: Popebama

Aug 4-11 – Etchings Festival 2024

Lessons, Masterclasses & Workshops by:
Melinda Wagner | David Sanford | John Aylward | Hassan Anderson | Curtis Stewart | Special Guest Popebama
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April 29, 2024