Tactus Ensemble: Tactus Composes // Manhattan School of Music

Date: February 3, 2025
Time: 7:30 pm

As Co-Artistic Director of Tactus Contemporary Chamber Music, my colleague Matt Ward and I are thrilled to invite you to 6 concerts of chamber music this year featuring students of Manhattan School of Music’s Contemporary Performance Program. All concerts are free. Please join us on the Upper West Side this season.

Mon, Feb 3 | 7:30 PM Tactus Composes

Tactus Ensemble features students of the Contemporary Performance Program (CPP)

Erin Rogers and Matt Ward (BM ’98), Co-Artistic and Administrative Advisors

Featuring world premieres by students of Manhattan School’s Contemporary Performance Program

More Info HERE
Livestream HERE

FREE (no RSVP necessary)

Greenfield Hall
Manhattan School of Music
130 Claremont Avenue
New York, New York 10027

January 22, 2025

Ensemble Échappé: American Academy of Arts and Letters

Date: February 2, 2025
Time: 3:00 pm

An Afternoon of Music and Art.
Excited to join Ensemble Échappé for a salon concert of contemporary works composed by the recipients of the 2024 Arts and Letters Awards in music, including Michael Fiday’s “The Force for Good” – championed by Hypercube Ensemble. A reception will follow.

Sunday, February 2, 2025 // 3pm
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Audubon Terrace
Broadway between West 155 and 156 Streets
New York, NY 10032

PROGRAM
Amy Williams
Study in Syntax #1: Beckett (Embers)
Give Way
Stop/Yield

Stephen A. Taylor
Variations Ascending

Keith Fitch
As Earth Dreams
Ruthless Voicings

Michael Fiday
The Force for Good

This event is free but reservations are required.
RSVP by Monday, January 27, 2025.

More INFO & RSVP

January 13, 2025

Dave’s Waves // Sonic Luncheonette // Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Date: January 25, 2025
Time: 9:00 pm

Saturday, January 25th
3pm to 12am—sound & video installation

9pm performance:
The Dave’s Waves House Band
Erin Rogers—tenor sax
Jessica Pavone—viola
James Ilgenfritz—bass
Your Host—radios, signal generators. harmonicas, etc

Informal performances
Your Host, David First—radios, signal generators. harmonicas, etc

No tickets required. Seating available first come, first served.

More info: https://www.thesunview.org/daves-waves/

January 22, 2025

Dave’s Waves // Sonic Luncheonette // Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Date: January 24, 2025
Time: 9:00 pm

Friday, January 24th

7pm to 12am—sound & video installation

9pm performance:
The Dave’s Waves House Band
Erin Rogers—tenor sax
Jessica Pavone—viola
James Ilgenfritz—bass
Your Host—radios, signal generators. harmonicas, etc

Informal, no tickets required. Seating available first come, first served.

Saturday, January 25th
3pm to 12am—sound & video installation

9pm performance:
The Dave’s Waves House Band
Erin Rogers—tenor sax
Jessica Pavone—viola
James Ilgenfritz—bass
Your Host—radios, signal generators. harmonicas, etc

Informal performances
Your Host, David First—radios, signal generators. harmonicas, etc

More info: https://www.thesunview.org/daves-waves/

January 22, 2025

New Thread Album Release: Saxifraga // New Focus Recordings

Date: January 24, 2025

New Thread Quartet Album Release
Saxifraga – digital release January 24 on New Focus Recordings

Saxifraga invites listeners to imagine scenes of natural wonderment, to embrace the fragile, and to restore our human connections. Recorded over a 7-year period between 2016 and 2023, this album tells another story: that of an evolving musical family amidst a changing landscape. Championed by past and present members of the quartet, these three works, each singular and expressive, were refined through years of rehearsal, deep discussions, and dozens of performances. Together, these works chronicle New Thread’s resilience and point to a future of vital, tender and reciprocal music making.

 

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Saxifraga – New Thread Quartet
New Focus Recordings, digital release January 24, 2025 – Pre Order Today!

1. Without World (2016) by Scott Wollschleger
2-4. avalanche lily (2019) by Amy Beth Kirsten
5. Walk for a shell (2023) by Victoria Cheah

Featuring commissioned works performed by NTQ ensemble members past and present: Geoffrey Landman, Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, Kristen McKeon, Noa Even, Erin Rogers, and Zach Herchen.

Artwork by Oscar H. Gresh / Graphic design by Jason Warriner. Recorded at Dreamflower with Jeremy Tressler.

January 4, 2025