New Thread Quartet – Eavesdropping

MATA Festival composers will join forces with like-minded noisemakers in a split bill performance. Featuring MATA composers Matthew Welch on bagpipe, Ophir Ilzetzki on electronics (who I will be joining with on saxophone), and a Yair Klartag video piece, and even a pond scum bacteria improvisation.

Guest performers include Ricardo Romaneiro and MATA’s Artistic Director Du Yun, in addition to sound artist / turntablist Maria Chavezand the electronics duo Wetware.

Trans-Pecos
915 Wyckoff Avenue
Queens, New York

Tickets available at the door: $12.

New Thread performs and builds instruments with children!

Thurnauer School of Music
JCC on the Palisades
411 East Clinton Ave
Tenafly‎ NJ‎ 07670

Sunday April 3, 2016
3:00–4:30pm

Visionary director Heiner Goebbels stages this monumental work in a highly-imaginative production that infuses the work’s journey through a sequence of non-narrative tableaus with stunning visual imagery to help convey its meaning, with references to Mondrian and Madame Curie as well as floating zeppelins and a flock of sheep. The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) under the direction of Peter Rundel takes on the sonically varied score, which serves as its own journey through eras and styles of music history from early Renaissance, to the jazz-tinged roaring 20s, to contemporary music of today. The vastness of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall is the perfect setting to fully realize this rarely-performed work, which premiered more than 25 years ago and only now makes its highly-anticipated North American stage premiere.

NORTH AMERICAN STAGE PREMIERE
Composer: Louis Andriessen
Director: Heiner Goebbels
Stage and Lighting Designer: Klaus Gruenberg
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
Conductor: Peter Rundel

March 22 to March 30, 2016
Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Park Avenue Armory
New York
Tickets available here

For more information, click HERE

Visionary director Heiner Goebbels stages this monumental work in a highly-imaginative production that infuses the work’s journey through a sequence of non-narrative tableaus with stunning visual imagery to help convey its meaning, with references to Mondrian and Madame Curie as well as floating zeppelins and a flock of sheep. The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) under the direction of Peter Rundel takes on the sonically varied score, which serves as its own journey through eras and styles of music history from early Renaissance, to the jazz-tinged roaring 20s, to contemporary music of today. The vastness of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall is the perfect setting to fully realize this rarely-performed work, which premiered more than 25 years ago and only now makes its highly-anticipated North American stage premiere.

NORTH AMERICAN STAGE PREMIERE
Composer: Louis Andriessen
Director: Heiner Goebbels
Stage and Lighting Designer: Klaus Gruenberg
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
Conductor: Peter Rundel

March 22 to March 30, 2016
Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Park Avenue Armory
New York
Tickets available here

For more information, click HERE