Erin Rogers - Composer/saxophonist

Performer-Composer Collaborative Concert featuring students of the Composition and Contemporary Performance Programs

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

Each year a professional ensemble from outside UPenn is engaged to work with student composers on new pieces. The residency consists of workshops, networking, rehearsals, performances, and recording sessions. Penn Sound Collective is a group of doctoral fellows in music composition at the University of Pennsylvania dedicated to presenting and promoting each other’s work.

Join New Thread Quartet and Penn Sound Collective for new works by:
Andrew Burke
David Acevedo
Eliana Fishbeyn
Joseph Franklin
Mu Ding
Oliver Dubon

April 25, 2026 // 5:00 PM
The Perch Music & Arts Workshop
2321 Emerald Street, Philadelphia PA

This event is free and open to the public.

Gelsey Bell & Erin Rogers (thingNY) join theThingamajigs Performance Group for 3 West Coast tour dates.

Sunday, April 19, 2026
2:00pm
Headlands Center for the Arts
944 Simmonds Road
Sausalito, CA 94965
Donation

Thingamajigs Performance Group (Bay Area + Beyond)
Skylighght (Gelsey Bell and Erin Rogers) (New York) (West Coast Premiere)

Skylighght is the duo project of vocalist Gelsey Bell and saxophonist Erin Rogers, both active figures of the New York City experimental music community who have worked together for 15+ years as part of the new music collective, thingNY. Composed collaboratively in 2019, Skylighght cultivates a minimalist music constructed upon the organic acoustic vibrations of interlaced resonances and a mutual performer sensitivity. An exploration of resonant properties, Skylighght has been performed in a variety of spaces from a farm silo to a cemetery catacombs, under a historic bridge in Central Park and inside various concert halls. In 2024, Chaiken Records released a record of the project, recognized for its “richness in concept and sound” (I Care If You Listen).
https://gelseybellerinrogers.bandcamp.com/album/skylighght

With a core ensemble featuring interdisciplinary artist Rae Diamond, performative projectionist and sound artist Keith Evans, and musician composer Suki O’Kane, and co-founder Edward Schocker, Thingamajigs Performance Group is reuniting with co-founder Dylan Bolles and guest artist Wayne Grim to present in their traditions of durational performance, alternate tuning, group and open compositional formats, interdisciplinary and inter-cultural collaboration, and site work. Their fields of institutional study, performance practice, and instrumentation are directly informed by Japanese noh and gagaku, Korean pansori, sijo,and sinawi, formal training in both Western and Eastern art practices, and a commitment to experimental art.
https://bimodalpress.bandcamp.com/album/window