New Thread Saxophone Quartet // Bowerbird // Philadelphia

Date: October 4, 2025
Time: 5:00 pm

Bowerbird presents New Thread Quartet’s latest program, Explorations V8: Energy Flows, featuring music by Marilyn Shrude, Georg Friedrich Haas, Hannah Kendall, and James Tenney, and a world premiere by Hong-Da Chin. The unifying element that brings these works together is the undulation of sonorities.

Explorations Vol 8: Energy Flows
Sunday, October 4 @ 5:00pm
Bowerbird
University Lutheran
3637 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tickets – $15-20 

Program
Hannah Kendall – Gilt (2024)
Marilyn Shrude – energy flows nervously . . . in search of stillness (2015)
James Tenney – Swell Piece (1967)
Hong-Da Chin – Wishing doesn’t make it so (2025) *world premiere, NTQ commission
Georg Friedrich Haas – Saxophonquartett (2014)

More info HERE

September 6, 2025

Tactus Ensemble // Manhattan School of Music: works by Lewis, Beglarian, Vivier

Date: September 29, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm

Mon, Sep 29 | 7:30 PM

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

Erin Rogers and Matt Ward (BM ’98), Co-Artistic and Administrative Advisors With guest artist Todd Reynolds, Soundpainter

PROGRAM:
Pulau Dewata by Claude Vivier
Arcades by George Lewis
Early in the Morning by Eve Beglarian
+ featuring Todd Reynolds, Soundpainter

Free, Reserve Tickets HERE
Livestream HERE

Ades Performance Space
Manhattan School of Music
130 Claremont Avenue
New York, New York 10027

September 6, 2025

Erin, Payton and Nava // Avaloch Farm Institute

Date: September 25, 2025
Erin, Payton and Nava present new work live from the barn!

Thursday, September 25th time TBD
Avaloch Farm Institute
16 Hardy Ln
Boscawen, NH 03303

September 6, 2025

Constance: A Confession // EiO + Hypercube // Flea Theater

Date: September 21, 2025
Time: 4:00 pm

Experiments in Opera presents
Constance: A Confession
featuring Hypercube Ensemble.
This performance is a preview of EiO’s Writers’ Room Opera that will premiere at HERE in spring 2026. This is a chance to get a behind-the-scenes glance at the opera development process. Light refreshments to follow.

Sunday, September 21st // 4pm
The Flea Theater
20 Thomas St
New York, NY 10570
FREE with RSVP

September 6, 2025

Abilities Dance Boston presents Branches 2025

Date: September 20, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm

Abilities Dance Boston presents

Branches 2025

Branches 2025 is the third installment of the ADB dancer led, fully virtual show. This performance focuses on the intersections of climate justice and disability justice premiering online September 20th at 8 pm EST. Registrants will get a ticket link via email day of performance (no later than one hour before showtime).

Choreographers share new original pieces delving into themes that resonate with them and their dancers across geographies. They highlight how we can use wisdom from climate justice and disability justice to make our planet and our communities better for all. In addition to original music, audio descriptions, captions, and more, this is not a performance to miss!

Choreographers: Dara Capley, Vanessa Cruz, Claire Lane, Leslie Taub

Composer: Erin Rogers

Dancers: Alexis Bucci, Blake Campbell, Vanessa Cruz, Greenhouse, Ansley Hendrix, Josie Levey, Linda Lin, Aiden Marshall, Kate O’Day, Trinity Stevens, and Joshua Swift

This production is sponsored by Liberty Mutual Foundation.

Virtual only
Saturday, September 20, 2025, 7:00pm ET
Tickets are $25 general admission with an unlimited pay what you can option. Reserve for video link.

August 25, 2025