Tours

So Percussion plays and hosts a pre-concert discussion for the Evolution Contemporary Music Series. 

So Percussion plays Bryce Dessner's Music for Wood and Strings as part of a celebreation of Dessner's work at the Walker Art Center.

Glenn Kotche and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler combine rock, classical, and electronic music for a night at the Englert Theater.

Kansas City based Te Deum performs David Lang's Pulitzer Prize winning work, the little match girl passion.

Kansas City based ensemble Te Deum performs David Lang's the little match girl passion.

Shelter, refuge. A shelter that provides protection against the outside world and its dangers, physically and emotionally. A primary need, 'living' and 'build' instinct. A human right, a matter of course. Not at all obvious.

Shelter began as a collaboration between three composers (Julia Wolfe, David Lang and Michael Gordon) and a filmmaker (Bill Morrison). The result is a grand, captivating multimedia oratorio with large ensemble and video, specially written for the voices of Trio Mediaeval. It focuses on the various aspects of the home / shelter: the aesthetic beauty of building on the rituals of coming home to the destructive forces of nature that bring all that at risk.

The Bang on a Can All-Stars perform with Meredith Monk, the 2014-2015 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall, on a concert featuring her music and an all star cast in Zankel Hall.

Boston Choral Ensemble sings the little match girl passion by David Lang

Sō Percussion performs David Lang's concerto for percussion quartet, man made, with the Colorado Symphony

The Smith Quartet jumps the pond to present the music of Bang on a Can and friends. The night opens with the beautiful distortion of Michael Gordon’s Potassium and ends with Steve Reich’s Gordon-influenced classic Triple Quartet. With a text by filmmaker Peter Greenaway, David Lang’s Ark Luggage explores the 92 items Noah took with him during the flood. Also including works by Julia Wolfe and Meredith Monk this concert explores the sheer vibrancy and variety of this unique collective.

So Percussion and the Cincinnati Symphony play David Lang's man made alongside works by Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, and Sufjan Stevens for the MusicNow series.

Bang on a Can co-founder Michael Gordon is constantly staking out new territory—a quest exemplified by Hyper, his musical manifestation of a never-ending staircase that, curiously, delivers the climber back to the point where they began. This same inquisitiveness draws him to Bach, a harmonic and structural innovator. The program pairs Ensemble Signal, Gordon’s chamber pieces (Hyper and Dry) with two of Bach’s concertos.

David Lang's are you experienced is featured as part of UCLA Wind Ensemble's program.

Michael Gordon's new piece for the Dublin Guitar Quartet is premiered at New Music Dublin.

David Lang's What?...Wow Festival features a large dose of the Bang on a Can family. Check out the Bang on a Can All-Stars, So Percussion, RTÉ Contempo Quartet, and Crash Ensemble, with works by David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, John Luther Adams, Bryce Dessner, and more, presented by New Music Dublin.

The NOTUS: Contemporary Music Ensemble performs David Lang's again (after ecclesiastes) during the ACDA National Conference.

David Lang's i never is performed by the Rotterdam Symphony Chorus.

The Bang on a Can All-Stars return to Oberlin College for a program featuring David Lang's sunray, Julia Wolfe's Believing, Kate Moore's Ridgeway, Michael Gordon's For Madeleine, Steve Martland's Horses of Instruction and Philip Glass' Closing.

Last year the Brazilian-Dutch choreographer Samir Calixto left a shattering impression with his 4 Seasons, that made us aware of our mortality to the sounds of Vivaldi. For his new performance Paradise Lost, he sought inspiration in John Milton’s epic poem of the same name from 1667, about man’s fall from grace and his banishment from Paradise. With a strong physical intensity, characteristic of Calixto’s work, apparently conflicting forces drive the dancers on. Light, dark, good, evil, holy and godless. Long enough until we see humanity as we know it: fragile, complex and mortal. Original compositions are by Kate Moore.

Paradise Lost tours the Netherlands throughout Spring 2015.

1/30-1/31 - Cadance Festival, Theater aan het Spui, The Hague

2/26 - LUX Theater, Nijmegen

2/28 - De Lieve Vrouw, Amersfoort

3/6 - Odeon De Spiegel, Zwolle

3/7 - Grand Theater, Groningen

3/11 - Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam

3/25 - Theater Ins Blau, Leiden

3/27 - Schouwburg, Arnhem

4/8 - Schouwburg de Lawei, Drachten

4/10 - AINSI, Maastricht

4/16 - Cultuurhuis, Heerlen

4/20 - Toneelschuur, Haarlem

4/28 - Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam