Friday, January 27th, 7:30pm
The Tank, 151 West 46th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY, 10036

Modern composer and curator Guy Barash’s new music series “Eavesdropping” returns to The Tank to present some of today’s most daring performers and surprising composers.

This installment focuses on exciting new music for the strings of our time, featuring:

mise-en quartet: Members of ensemble mise-en, Patti Kilroy, Amanda Lo, Trevor New, and Eric Allen play Cloud trio by Saariaho and The Mascot by Moon Young Ha.

http://www.mise-en.org/

“Debunk” with Tiffany Chang, Josh Henderson, Isamu McGregor, & Mike Watson

Music for Violin, Drums, keyboard, and Turntables
www.joshhendersonviolin.com

http://www.tiffanychangmusic.com/

Salvatore Macchia and Guy Barash:
Music for contrabass and live electronics

http://www.smacchiaone.com/

http://www.guybarash.com/

The show takes place at the Playroom Theater, 151 West 46th Street, 8th floor

Tickets are $10 at the door / $8 online

http://thetanknyc.org/

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/214682

About Eavesdropping:
For artists, Eavesdropping provides a stage for risk-taking and the exploration of the non-conventional in sound, to present a relevant boundary-breaking artistic work. Shows often include multi-media elements, real time electronic processing, and performance art.
For our audiences, we are committed to presenting innovative repertoire that is relevant and intriguing. Eavesdropping is cross-genres new music series presented to the city’s inquisitive listener. The one that’s seen it all and heard it all but crave for cultural excitement.

Upcoming Eavesdropping shows in 2012:
2/9 Eavesdropping: Modular Collaborations
3/15 Eavesdropping: Cornelius Dufallo Patrick Derivaz duo & Urban Resonance
4/19 Eavesdropping: Ethnix
5/24 Eavesdropping: Play

Last weekend, mezzo-soprano Megan Ihnen and violinist Joseph Kneer premiered a new version of “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” (2011) on the Federal Hill Parlor Series. They are going to perform the piece again on Saturday in York, Pennsylvania.

Thursday February 9, 2012 @ 8PM, Roulette (509 Atlantic at 3rd Ave)

Thomas Buckner performs

Robert Ashley, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Lucier,
Anne Guthrie, Narong Prangcharoen, + Kit Young

Thomas Buckner’s 24th annual concert of commissioned works for baritone voice! Composers featured on this evening include his long-time collaborators, esteemed composers Robert Ashley, Annea Lockwood, and Alvin Lucier, along with New York premieres by Anne Guthrie, Narong Prangcharoen, and Kit Young. Featuring, Thomas Buckner (voice) Theodore Mook (cello), Chris Nappi (percussion), Jill Van Nostrand (french horn), Sun Ying (guqin), and Kit Young (piano).

From voice and piano to 4-channel sound, from Kit Young’s work incorporating poetry from Burmese performance artist U San Oo to Lockwood’s texts from Guantanamo detainees to Ashley’s work World War III (Just The Highlights), the evening’s subject matter, imagery, and soundscapes are diverse and transformative. The wide variety of styles and sounds ensures that no piece on this program is remotely like any of the others.

“[Buckner] has long been associated with Mr. Ashley’s special kind of
iconoclastic wit… Mr. Buckner’s assets on stage include an amiable,
mostly quiet personality and a voice that works smoothly”.
-Bernard Holland, New York Times

For more than 40 years baritone Thomas Buckner has dedicated himself to the world of new and improvised music. In collaboration with a host of prominent composers and improvisers, Buckner continues to commission and perform numerous chamber works, orchestral pieces and song cycles, as well as improvisations, electronic constructions, and multi-media theater pieces.

“Buckner has created a new repertoire, of which he’ll doubtless
reveal yet another string of exciting premieres.”
-Village Voice

This event is presented in part through participation in the Composers Now Festival, which celebrates living composers, the diversity of their voices and the significance of their musical contributions to our society. During the month of February, Composers Now presents dozens of concerts in venues throughout the city. From jazz to indie to classical to electronic, join us on a sonic journey through the landscape of the arts of our time. For more information visit composers-now.org

Roulette (509 Atlantic at 3rd Ave)
509 Atlantic Ave
(On the corner of Atlantic + 3rd Aves)
Downtown Brooklyn, NY

2, 3, 4, 5, C, G, D, M, N, R, B & Q trains and the LIRR
(917) 267-0363

From Hilary Tann’s meditation on ancient Celtic texts to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ extraordinary Piano Trio, inspired by the people, music, and beauty of the tiny Fair Isle in the remote Shetlands, we give you Chameleon’s own “Idea of North,” a journey through musical landscapes of solitude, spirit, nature and legend. The program also includes works by composers from Northern climes: Sibelius’ Four Pieces for cello and piano, Carl Nielsen’s Wind Quintet, and Edvard Grieg’s Sonata for violin and piano in c minor, Op. 45. Saturday, February 4, 2012, 8 PM and Sunday, February 5, 2012, 3 PM at the Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon Street, Boston.

“Planning a good chamber music program is an art unto itself, and few in town have mastered it as persuasively as the Chameleon Arts Ensemble.” – The Boston Globe

Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston – 2011-2012 Chamber Music Season
concert 3: by the north-wind sent

Saturday, February 4, 2012, 8 PM
Sunday, February 5, 2012, 3 PM
Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon Street, Boston

Program:
Jean Sibelius, Four Pieces for cello & piano, Op. 78
Hilary Tann, From the Song of Amergin for flute, viola & harp
Peter Maxwell Davies, Piano Trio: Voyage to Fair Isle (2002)
Carl Nielsen, Wind Quintet, Op. 43, FS 100
Edvard Grieg, Sonata No. 3 in c minor for violin & piano, Op. 45

Tickets: $43, $33, $23; $5 off for students/seniors

To order or for more information:
Telephone: 617-427-8200
E-mail: info@chameleonarts.org
WWW: http://www.chameleonarts.org

About Chameleon Arts Ensemble:
Since its founding in 1998, Chameleon and artistic director Deborah Boldin have earned unqualified praise for integrating old and new repertoire into unexpected chamber music programs that are themselves works of art. This innovative ensemble now draws capacity audiences of those who love the adventure of music – classic and contemporary. A Chameleon concert is a multifaceted experience in an intimate environment joining audience and musicians in an exuberant celebration of music.The Ensemble was recognized nationally with 2009 and 2007 CMA/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming. The Boston Globe praised Ms. Boldin’s “carefully curated blending of classic and contemporary repertoire,” and remarked, “during intermission, concertgoers could be heard marveling at the program’s breadth and wondering why other groups aren’t as adventurous. Chameleon makes daring seem easy.” The musicians are among Boston’s most highly-respected and sought-after performers, with growing national and international reputations. Their superb artistry and finely honed collaborative skills ensure luminous performances and dynamic musical dialogues.

DUTCHESS STARLIGHT REVISITED

Peri Mauer, composer and cello

Elliott Sharp, electric guitar

Art Baron, trombone

Composers Concordance Festival 2012

January 29, 2012, 7pm, DROM  (85 Ave. A. NYC)

Complete Festival listing: Composers Concordance:

Two Alaska performances of Poke by Lawrence Dillon will be given by Low and Lower, cellist Brooks Whitehouse and bassist Paul Sharpe, on Saturday, January 28 – 7:30 PM at Soldotna Christ Lutheran Church, Kenai Spur Rd. in Soldotna and on Sunday, January 29 – 7:30 PM at Anchorage Lutheran Church, 1420 N Street in Anchorage. The Soldotna event is presented by the Performing Arts Society and the Anchorage event by Anchorage Lutheran Church.

The composer writes about the piece, “Poke, subtitled a bagatelle on anti-social media, is scored for cello and double bass, with a running (spoken) dialogue between the two musicians as they play, an argument taking place across various social media. Over the course of the piece, the two “text”, “friend” and “like” one another with increasing fury, as their virtual exchanges complete obliterate their real lives in a comic turn on the dark underbelly of our online politesse.”

Visit Low and Lower at http://www.brookswhitehouse.com/schedule.

For more about the January 28 concert, visit http://www.performingartssociety.org/index.html. For more about the January 29 concert, visit http://anchoragelc.ctsmemberconnect.net/home-ctrl.do.

Naxos has issued Lawrence Dillon Violin Music (Catalogue No: 8.559644 – http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559644), featuring seven chamber works performed by violinist Danielle Belen, 2008 Grand Prize Winner of the Sphinx Competition. His other recent, critically-acclaimed CD release, Insects and Paper Airplanes, is on the Bridge label – http://www.bridgerecords.com/catpage.php?call=9332. Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.

The Quintet of the Americas will perform Freedom – Expanding Horizons, a concert on Saturday, January 28 at 2:00 PM at Langston Hughes Library and Cultural Center, 100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona, Queens, New York.

This program of music and readings will feature Kum-Ba-Ya Marcus,a premiere by Carl MaultsBy, who will be present to speak with the audience. The new work is based on a famous text by Marcus Garvey.

Carl MaultsBy, an Orlando native and longtime New Yorker, is a contemporary Renaissance composer who blends classical, pop, African Diaspora, and sacred music. He writes music for the concert stage, church, Broadway, theatre, film, recordings, dance and educational resources. Known internationally as a conductor, pianist, concert organist, lecturer, performing arts adjudicator and actor, MaultsBy has also authored books, articles, and theatre pieces on the interrelation of music, culture, and religion. He is the founder of the New York vocal group Rejoicensemble!

Other works on the program include Valerie Coleman’s Afro-Cuban Concerto for Wind Quintet, Barbara Harbach’s Freeing the Caged Bird (2006) with readings of works by Maya Angelou and Paul Dunbar, Charles B. Griffin’s Jimenez Suite (1993) with readings of poems by Jimenez, and Judah Adashi’s Songs and Dances of Macondo, based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude.

The works will be narrated by Stanley Wayne Mathis, African American actor, singer and dancer, best known for his portrayal of the character Schroeder in the 1999 Broadway revival of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Mathis also appeared on Broadway in Kiss Me Kate, Wonderful Town, Jelly’s Last Jam, and the original cast of The Lion King.

This concert is free and open to the public. For more event information, call the Quintet of the Americas at 718-230-5189. All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible. For directions, visit http://www.queenslibrary.org/index.aspx?page_id=44&branch_id=lh, and for MTA transportation information, visit http://tripplanner.mta.info/_start.aspx.

Visit the Quintet website at http://www.quintet.org and become their friend at http://www.facebook.com/groups/325982319921/.

The Boston New Music Initiative presents a professional development roundtable for composers.

Calls for Scores – A Detailed Discussion of the Submission and Evaluation Process

Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Boston Public Library
Mezzanine Conference Room
700 Boylston St., Boston, MA

One of the most significant opportunities for emerging composers today is the ability to submit works to score submission competitions. Selected composers have the opportunity for major exposure and recognition within the new music community by receiving performances of the work, high-quality recordings, a monetary prize, or a commission of a new work. Along with insights from guest participants possessing substantial experience within both the score submission and evaluation process, composer and BNMI president Tim Davis will lead a roundtable discussion of BNMI members to discuss the score submission system in detail in order to reveal the various philosophies and strategies of submitters and evaluators alike.

This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited, so if you plan to attend, please RSVP to emsmith@bostonnewmusic.org.

For more details, please visit www.bostonnewmusic.org

EXPERIMENTAL LOVE FESTIVAL
FEB 14 – 18
8:00 PM
$10 Admission

http://roulette.org/specialevents/xperimentallovefestival/

Dan Locklair’s Rubrics for solo organ will be performed by David Ball on Wednesday, January 25 – 8 PM in The Juilliard School’s Paul Hall, 155 West 65th Street in Manhattan, as part of the organ department’s annual recital.

Rubrics is a liturgical suite in five movements, inspired by the instructions (rubrics) in the Book of Common Prayer. The five movements are 1) “‘Hallelujah,’ has been restored…” 2) “Silence may be kept” 3) “…and thanksgivings may follow” 4) The Peace may be exchanged” and 5) The people respond – Amen!” The piece has been recorded by Marilyn Keiser for Loft Recordings and Pro Organo, Thomas Trotter for the Organ Historical Society label and Alan Morrison for ACA Digital.

Other composers on the program are Frank Bridge, Marcel Dupré, Edward Elgar, Paul Hindemith, André Isoir, Max Reger, and Louis Vierne.

Performers will be David Ball, Michael Hey, Colin MacKnight, Griffin McMahon, Raymond Nagem, Benjamin Sheen, Janet Yieh, and Gregory Zelek. All of them are organ students of Paul Jacobs, chair of Juilliard’s Organ Department.

Free tickets will be available at the Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office at Juilliard. Box Office hours are Monday through Friday from 11 AM – 6 PM. For more information, call 212-769-7406 or go to http://www.juilliard.edu. For program information and performer bios, visit http://www.juilliard.edu/newsroom/releases/current/2012_January25_Organists-print.html.

For information about composer Dan Locklair, including a bio, list of works, discography and much more, please visit http://www.locklair.com.