MONDAY, July 8
8:00 PM Maja Ratkje, Ikue Mori, Zeena Parkins and Okkyung Lee
VENUE: Spectrum
DETAILS: Album Launch Party for Scrumptious Sabotage https://www.facebook.com/events/476505592431172/
ADMISSION: $15/$20
SUNDAY, July 14
10:00 PM Michael Attias, Doug Wieselman, Anthony Coleman, Christopher Hoffman, David Shively
VENUE: The Stone
DETAILS: The Abysmal Richness of the Infinite Proximity of the Same
Michael Attias (alto and baritone saxes) Doug Wieselman (clarinet, bass harmonica) Anthony Coleman (piano, electric organ) Christopher Hoffman (cello) David Shively (percussion)
ADMISSION: $15
TUESDAY, July 16
8:00 PM Margaret Leng Tan
VENUE: Washington Square, Main stage
DETAILS: US premiere of chamber version of toy piano concerto by Michael Wookey http://washingtonsquaremusicfestival.org/
ADMISSION: FREE
THURSDAY, July 18
8:00 PM Zorn@60: The Holy Visions
VENUE: Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater Adrienne Arsht Stage
DETAILS: Abby Fischer, Kirsten Sollek, Lisa Bielawa, Jane Sheldon, Melissa Hughes
The first night of Zorn@60 consists of two lyrical works for a cappella female voices: Shir Ha-Shirim (“Song of Songs”), The Holy Visions and Zorn’s organ improvisations. http://lc.lincolncenter.org/shows/207451?show_date=2013-07-18%2020:00:00
ADMISSION: $25-$35
SATURDAY, July 20
8:00 PM Zorn@60: The Complete String Quartets
VENUE: Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater Adrienne Arsht Stage
DETAILS: Featuring JACK Quartet, Alchemy Quartet, Brooklyn Rider
The second night of Zorn@60: six works for string quartet performed by the JACK Quartet, the Alchemy Quartet, and Brooklyn Rider.
FRIDAY, July 26
7:30 PM Kronos Quartet / The Gloaming
VENUE: Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Damrosch Park Bandshell
Kronos Quartet:works either composed or arranged for the Quartet by Omar Souleyman, Ramallah Underground, Ram Narayan, and others. A world-premiere collaboration with Greek-American composer Magda Giannikou on laterna, Strophe in Antistrophe reimagines the ancient call-and-response of Greek choruses. Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ. http://lc.lincolncenter.org/shows/207713?show_date=2013-07-26%2019:30:00
ADMISSION: FREE
SUNDAY, July 28
6:30 PM Kronos Quartet / Asphalt Orchestra plays The Pixies’ Surfer Rosa / Jacob Garchik’s The Heavens
VENUE: Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Damrosch Park Bandshell
DETAILS: “atheist trombone shout choir,” led by multi-instrumentalist and composer Jacob Garchik (a frequent arranger for Kronos Quartet), performs The Heavens.
Kronos Quartet debuts new works by electronic vanguardists and indie rock revolutionaries, including Jherek Bischoff and Dan Deacon with an interactive light show in which audience members can participate via a free download of Deacon’s mobile app. http://lc.lincolncenter.org/shows/207718?show_date=2013-07-28%2018:30:00
ADMISSION: FREE
8:00 PM C. Spencer Yeh – New Works from the Jerome Foundation Commission
VENUE: Roulette
DETAILS: A gifted interdisciplinary artist of the highest caliber, C. Spencer Yeh will showcase a series of new works, including a portrait – part homage and part perversion – of his longtime collaborator, Nate Wooley, as well as a new work for piano and electronics.
8 :00 PM and 10:00 PM Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman Quartet
VENUE: THE STONE
DETAILS: Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) Mark Feldman (violin) Billy Mintz (drums) Thomas Morgan (bass)
ADMISSION: $15
THURSDAY, June 6
8:00 PM Nate Wooley: “Seven Storey Mountain”
VENUE: ISSUE Project Room
DETAILS: Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain IV, for ecstatic instruments and tape. The most recent iteration of Wooley’s seven part song cycle, this concert brings presents all sections of the work in their entirety for the first time, performed by an all-star and epic group of musicians including Chris Corsano(drums), Ryan Sawyer (drums), Ben Vida (electronics), C. Spencer Yeh (violin), Matt Moran (vibraphone), Chris Dingman (vibraphone), and TILT Brass sextet.
7:00 PM Vision Festival 18 – Opening Night – Celebrate Milford Graves: A Life-Time of Achievement
VENUE: Roulette
DETAILS: Vision Festival 18 – Improvisation / Freedom / Revolution – opens with a celebration of drummer/percussionist Milford Graves, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, with 3 performances highlighting Graves’ extraordinary career, from his Afro/Cuban roots to stellar sets by Transition Trio and NY HeART Ensemble, featuring Amiri Baraka.
10:00 PM – Milford Graves NY HeArt Ensemble
Milford Graves – drums, percussion
Charles Gayle – tenor saxophone
William Parker – bass
Roswell Rudd – trombone
Amiri Baraka – poetry
ADMISSION: $20-30
THURSDAY, June 13
7:00 Honoring Visual Artist Robert Janz (Vision Festival)
VENUE: Roulette
DETAILS:
10:00 PM – Roscoe Mitchell Trio
Roscoe Mitchell – reeds
Henry Grimes – bass, violin
Tani Tabbal – drums
ADMISSION: $20-30
THURSDAY, June 13
7:30 PM Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: arranged for four pianos and percussion
VENUE: LPR
DETAILS: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: arranged for four pianos and percussion, and performed in-the-round w/ SONOS Chamber Orchestra , Erik E. Ochsner (conductor) , Jenny Lin, Stephanie Ho, Stephen Gosling, Saar Ahuvia, pianos
As part of its 5th anniversary celebration, Le Poisson Rouge presents an in-the-round performance of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” on the occasion of its centennial year, in a rarely performed arrangement for four pianos and percussion
ADMISSION: $15-20
THURSDAY, June 13
8 :00 PM and 10:00 PM Spiritual Music
VENUE: THE STONE
DETAILS: Frank London (trumpet) Lorin Sklamberg (voice) Rob Schwimmer (keyboards) and special guests Nigunim, Zmiros and tsuker-zis.
ADMISSION: $15
FRIDAY, June 14
7:00 PM A French American Connection (Vision Festival)
VENUE: Roulette
DETAILS:
7:00 PM – VOCAL-EASE
Steve Dalachinsky – poetry
Connie Crothers – piano
10:00 PM – The French-American Peace Ensemble
Francois Tusques – piano
Louis Sclavis – clarinets
Kidd Jordan – tenor sax
William Parker – bass
Hamid Drake – drums
ADMISSION: $20-30
SATURDAY, June 15
9 :00 PM The Just Alap Raga Ensemble w/La Monte Young
VENUE: MELA Foundation Dream House
DETAILS:
La Monte Young, voice
Marian Zazeela, voice
Jung Hee Choi, voice
Naren Budhkar, tabla The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath
DETAILS: Alarm Will Sound, the Jack Quartet, and Meehan/Perkins Duo perform works by Steve Reich. Reich will participate in a discussion with the Met’s Limor Tomer
Alarm Will Sound will perform excerpts from Steve Reich’s new work Radio Rewrite (2012), inspired by the music of Radiohead, prior to its U.S. premiere at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Jack Quartet will perform Reich’s WTC 9/11 (2011) and Meehan/Perkins Duo will perform Nagoya Marimbas (1994). Reich will participate in a discussion with Met General Manager of Concert and Lectures Limor Tomer.
DETAILS: As part of the June PAN_ACT festival, ISSUE Project Room and Goethe-Institut New York present a solo vocal performance by Catherine Christer Hennix, marking the close of her four-channel installation Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis. Her new, expanded realization of “Illuminatory Sound Environment”, a concept developed in 1978 by anti-artist Henry Flynt on the basis of Hennix’ work, was first realized in a “beta-version” for Flynt’s 2012 retrospective at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. Her first 4-channel computer assisted composition since 1969, the work is Hennix ́most complex composition since her recent return to the avant-garde music scene. This closing event is the last chance to see the work in its first fully realized version.
VENUE: THE STONE
DETAILS: Ned Rothenberg (clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax, shakuhachi) Min Xiao-Fen (pipa) Erik Friedlander (cello) Satoshi Takeishi (percussion)
A trio composition and a quartet improvisation.
ADMISSION: $15
FRIDAY, June 21
8 :00 PM Ned Rothenberg and John Zorn
VENUE: THE STONE
DETAILS: Ned Rothenberg (clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax, shakuhachi) John Zorn (alto sax)
ADMISSION: $20
SUNDAY, June 23 and TUESDAY, June 25
7:30 PM and 8:00 PM John Zorn @ 60: Sacred Voices
VENUE: Guggenheim
DETAILS:
The maverick American composer and new-music pioneer premieres EARTHSPIRIT and MADRIGALS, two new works for female voices, inside James Turrell’s site-specific installation in the Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda. Experience Turrell’s groundbreaking exploration of light, color, and space while listening to Zorn’s transcendent compositions. George Steel, General Manager and Artistic Director of the New York City Opera, moderates a discussion with Zorn.
DETAILS: Commanding “considerable power as a composer and … frighteningly deft ability as a soloist,” (All Music) saxophonist Tim Berne has composed and performed prolifically since the 1980s. For this very special occasion, Tim Berne will be introducing new music written for this new octet as well as some “extreme reworkings” of recent smaller ensemble works.
Set 1:
Tim Berne
Erik Friedlander
Ryan Ferreira
Trevor Dunn
Ches Smith
Matt Mitchell
Oscar Noriega
Herb Robertson
ADMISSION: $10-15
SATURDAY, June 29
10:00 PM BROOKLYN QAWWALI PARTY
VENUE: Barbes
DETAILS: Inspired by recordings of the late great Sufi singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Brook Martinez founded Brooklyn Qawwali Party in 2004 as an experiment. What would happen if New York jazz musicians were to play and improvise around the melodies of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. From this idea, Brook’s Qawwali Party was born. BQP consists of fourteen musicians: five horns, three percussionists, guitar, acoustic bass, harmonium and three designated clappers. The exuberant sound of BQP has been enthusiastically welcomed in New York City and across the globe.
SUNDAY, June 30
8 :00 PM and 10:00 PM LACE PIECE
VENUE: THE STONE
DETAILS: Jim Staley (trombone) Ikue Mori (electronics) Ned Rothenberg (reeds) Chris McIntyre (trombone) David Shively (percussion) Anthony Coleman (piano) Ryan Ross Smith (keyboards), Matt Small (bass) Zeena Parkins (harp) Jim Pugliese (conductor)
My graphic score based on patterning and nested stories inspired by pieces of lace collected from obscure corners of the world.
8:00 PM Guy Klucevsek, accordion, Todd Reynolds, violin
VENUE: Barbes
DETAILS:
Guy’s homages to Erik Satie, Astor Piazzolla, Kepa Junkera, and The Swingle Singers, plus some “waltzing at the edge of dawn,” “riding the wild tangaroo,” while, all the while, “teetering on the verge of normalcy.”
8:00 PM Oscar Bianchi, Marco Stroppa, Salvatore Sciarrino, Giuseppe Tartini, Jason Eckardt
VENUE: Italian Academy
DETAILS:
Oscar Bianchi, Marco Stroppa, Salvatore Sciarrino, Giuseppe Tartini and a world premiere by Jason Eckardt, Miranda Cuckson, violin, with Blair McMillen, piano
Taylor Levine, Elliott Sharp, Weasel Walter, James Ilgenfritz, Philip White.
ADMISSION: $10
TUESDAY, MAY 14
7:30 PM Beat Furrer Chamber Music with the Talea Ensemble
VENUE: Austrian Center
DETAILS:
Beat Furrer: Lotófagos I (2006) *US Premiere
Beat Furrer: Studie for Piano (2011) *US Premiere
Beat Furrer: Scene VI, from FAMA (2004)
Beat Furrer: Lied (1993)
Dr. Rosenberg (Australian violinist/inventor/fence bower) and the leading new music violinist Cornelius Dufallo join forces with other special guests to redefine strings.
8:00 PM Songs Of Zebulon: Frank London and Jeremiah Lockwood
VENUE: Barbes
DETAILS:
The sounds and spirit of the golden age of Ashkenazic religious singing. Frank London – trumpet; Jeremiah Lockwood – guitar and vocals; Shoko Nagai – organ and accordion; Ron Caswell – tuba, and Brian Drye – trombone and keyboard.
ADMISSION: $10
THURSDAY, MAY 30 – FRIDAY, MAY 31
8:00 PM Either/Or
VENUE: Kitchen
DETAILS:
Premiere works from New York composers Anthony Coleman, Jin Hi Kim, Miya Masaoka, and John Zorn. Also represented are recent projects from Richard Carrick, Erik Griswold, Thomas Meadowcroft, Ian Power, François Rose, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
5:00 PM Se-Lien Chuang: Of Which Your Soul Was Constituted
VENUE: Segal Hall, CUNY Graduate Center
DETAILS: Austrian-based composer, pianist and media artist Se-Lien Chuang will be performing her composition for violoncello, multichannel playback and live-electronics, of which your soul was constituted (2011), at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival together with Austrian musician and composer Andreas Weixler.
Alan Gilbert (New York Philharmonic) with Liang Wang, oboe conducts premiere performances of new works by Unsuk Chin, Poul Ruders, Anders Hillborg and Yann Robin.
DETAILS: New works by former Battles singer and guitarist Tyondai Braxton, Dublin-based Crash Ensemble founder Donnacha Dennehy, and AWS founding member John Orfe, as well as compositions by David Lang and Charles Wuorinen.
ABRAXAS: Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz steps out on his own to make one of the most primal and tribal installments in the “Book of Angels” series. Drawing on his Sephardic roots, Shanir plays gimbri throughout, giving the music a primeval Moroccan edge. Featuring the intense guitar pyrotechnics of Eyal Maoz and Yoshie Fruchter (from Edom and Pitom respectively) and the atavistic drumming of Kenny Grohowski, this is Ritualistic Jewish Rock for the 21st century.
Yoshie Fruchter’s Pitom
Yoshie Fruchter (guitar) Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass) Kevin Zubek (drums) Tom Swafford (violin)
Avant-rock meets the Jewish sound in Pitom, a shredding instrumental band led by guitarist Yoshie Fruchter. Cacophonic guitar, surly heavy metal bass and a soaring violin echo Mahavishnu and the Melvins, with catchy melodies drawing from the Jewish tradition.
ADMISSION: $10 each set
SATURDAY, APRIL 13
9:00 PM Instant Composers Pool (ICP)
VENUE: Littlefield
DETAILS:
Han Bennink on drums, Michael Moore on clarinet and alto saxophone, Ab Baars on clarinet and tenor saxophone, Tobias Delius on clarinet and tenor saxophone, Thomas Heberer on trumpet, Wolter Wierbos on trombone, Tristan Honsinger on cello, Ernst Glerum on bass, and Mary Oliver on viola and violin.
Please note that I.C.P.’s co-founder Misha Mengelberg will not be part of this tour.
8:00 PM Blues for Smoke: Matana Roberts, Keiji Haino and Loren Connors
VENUE: Whitney Museum
DETAILS: New solo performance by Matana Roberts made specificially in relation to Blues for Smoke, and a duo guitar improvisation by Keiji Haino and Loren Connors
– Apophthegms for Two Violins, performed by Chris Otto and Dave Fulmer in the room of Paul Klee paintings
– Beuysblock, a tape piece played in the Joseph Beuys room on a small sound system through two speakers
– Untitled for solo cello, inspired by Joseph Cornell, performed by Erik Friedlander in the Surrealism room, near Cornell’s Untitled (Bébé Marie) (early 1940s)
– Saxophone/drum duo improvisation with John Zorn (saxophone) and Milford Graves (drums) in the Abstract Expressionism galleries
– The Gnostic Preludes, performed by Carl Emanuel (harp) and Kenny Wollesen (vibes) in the Claude Monet Water Lilies (1914–26) gallery
Guided by composer John Adams and conductor David Robertson, talented young conductors take the podium to lead a handpicked ensemble of dynamic young instrumentalists in the first of two concerts featuring landmark American works of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Tzadik’s Many Arms is a loud, aggressive blend of punk and free jazz.
Guitarist Nick Millevoi
Electric Bassist John DeBlase
Drummer Ricardo Lagomasino
With Toshimaru Nakamura (electronics).
ADMISSION: $10
SUNDAY, APRIL 28
7:00 PM Helmut Lachenmann DVD Screening
VENUE: Miller Theater of Columbia University
DETAILS:
„…zwei Gefühle…” Musik mit Leonardo (1991-92) for speaker & ensemble
Wiegenmusik (1963) for piano
Pression (1969-70) for cello
Guero (1970) for piano
Ein Kinderspiel (1980) for piano
Recorded at the Experimental Media and Performance Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, New York, the DVD utilizes 5.1 surround sound and hi-definition video to capture both the incredible sounds that are a hallmark of Lachenmann’s work and the unique physical techniques necessary to perform it.
The screening of the DVD at Miller Theatre will be preceded by a conversation with three people close to its creation: Lauren Radnofsky and Brad Lubman of Signal, and Johannes Goebel of EMPAC.
DETAILS: Steven Lugerner (woodwinds) Myra Melford (piano) Stephanie Richards (trumpet) Matt Wilson (drums)
ADMISSION: $10
FRIDAY, MARCH 8
8:00 pm Claire Chase, solo flute
VENUE: Roulette
DETAILS:
George Brecht: flute solo (1962)
Pauline Oliveros: A Fluting Moment, I. (2008)
Steve Reich: Vermont Counterpoint (1982)
Pauline Oliveros: A Fluting Moment, II. (2008)
Luciano Berio: Sequenza I (1951)
Pauline Oliveros: A Fluting Moment, III. (2008)
Evan Johnson: Emoi (2010), WORLD PREMIERE
Pauline Oliveros: A Fluting Moment, IV. (2008)
Marcelo Toledo: 60! (2012), NY PREMIERE
Pauline Oliveros: A Fluting Moment, V. (2008)
Marcos Balter: Descent from Parnassus (2011), NY PREMIERE
Pauline Oliveros: A Fluting Moment, VI. (2008) – 1 minute
Mario Diaz de Leon: Luciform, WORLD PREMIERE (2012)
Pauline Oliveros: A Fluting Moment, VII. (2008)
George Brecht: flute solo (1962) ADMISSION: $10
DETAILS: Charming Hostess performs music from The Bowls Project. The Bowls Project offers a visceral, personal connection to daily life 1500 years ago in the region now known as Iraq. For this show, Charming Hostess is Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes and Brandon Seabrook.
ADMISSION: $10
MONDAY, MARCH 11
7:30 pm In The Absence Of… Schubert, Christoph Pepe Auer, Christian Bakanic and Tigran Himayasan
VENUE: Austrian Cultural Forum
DETAILS:
Improvisational exploration ofFranz Schubert’s music and sound world.
Christoph Pepe Auer, saxophones, bass clarinet, home-made instruments
Christian Bakanic, accordion
Tigran Himayasan, piano
8:00 pm Vocal Electrofolk: Africa to New York with Kronos Quartet’s cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, clarinetist David Krakauer and many special guests.
VENUE: The Greene Space
DETAILS:
Presented in partnership with Original Music Workshop, this evening bridges bold new vocal styles from New York and Africa through two special acts.
Vocalist and improviser Helga Davis joins esteemed Kronos Quartet cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, clarinetist David Krakauer and other special guests in an evening of newly written and improvised works that range from Mexican electronica to their own musings. The Zimbabwean vocalist Netsayi joins the evening with Black Pressure — a band that features Zimbabwe’s most gifted musicians.
Tanya Kalmanovitch, violin, viola; Ted Reichman, accordion; Anthony Coleman, piano
Composition and improvisation, art music and popular song, original compositions and daring re-compositions of a broad range of musical texts: among them works by Gustav Mahler, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Christian Wolff, and Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Admission: $20, includes drink
WEDNESDAY – WEEK, MARCH 20 – 27
8:00 pm Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Oktophonie
VENUE: Park Avenue Armory
DETAILS:
New York Premiere, Environment designed by Rirkrit Tiravanija. Performed by one of his original collaborators Kathinka Pasveer, the maverick composer’s OKTOPHONIE from his opus Licht gets an exciting new life in an epic production of this monumental composition.
Acclaimed contemporary visual artist Rirkrit Tiravanija stages the work as the composer originally intended—in outer space—creating a lunar floating seating unit to fully envelop the listener in octophonic sound. Adorned in white, the audience takes a ritualistic musical journey from plunging darkness into blinding light to fully immerse themselves in the all-encompassing score and surroundings. The vastness of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall is the perfect setting to fully realize this rarely performed work that Stockhausen so boldly envisioned in its highly-anticipated New York premiere.
ADMISSION: $40
THURSDAY, MARCH 21
7:00 pm The New England Conservatory Improvisation Festival with Anthony Coleman, Matt Darriau, Frank London, Eli Keszler (see video below) and more. https://vimeo.com/62420669
VENUE: Barbes
DETAILS:
Celebrating 40 Years of Contemporary Improvisation at New England Conservatory.
Curated by Anthony Coleman and Ashley Paul, this Festival will feature performances by NEC alumni Matt Darriau, Frank London, Ashley Paul, Cuddle Magic, Mat Maneri, Andrew Hock, Judith Berkson and more..
ADMISSION: $10
FRIDAY, MARCH 22
8 pm MOCAminiMIX: Crossing Frets for Tapping
VENUE: The Museum of Chinese in America
DETAILS:
Live improvisation between contemporary and traditional musicians, singers, and dancers: Min Xiao Fen (pipa), Jin Hi Kim (komungo), with Max Pollack (rhumba tap).
8 pm Synth Nights: David Behrman, Sergei Tcherepnin, and Ben Vida
VENUE: The Kitchen
DETAILS:
The second installment of Synth Nights’ intergenerational electronic music series features recent and vintage works by legendary composer David Behrman. Joining Behrman on March 23, Sergei Tcherepnin and Woody Sullender will present a new piece continuing their work with building theatrical physical environments for their live electronic music. In this work they invite Okkyung Lee to interact with and activate specific aspects of the composition.
Czech singer/player/composer Iva Bittová has said. “The violin is a mirror reflecting my dreams and imagination. I believe there are fundamentals to my performance, such as the music’s vibration and resonance between violin and my voice.” An idiosyncratic ‘folk’ music, contemporary composition, improvisation, any and all of these may apply from moment to moment. Bittová’s music is a living, changing thing: “Deciding on a name for my style of music is far from over yet”. Iva Bittová was previously showcased in 2007 on the widely-acclaimed ECM album Mater by composer Vladimír Godár; this marks her solo debut for the label.
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