Tours

Continuing their residency at The Stone, Gutbucket will feature the chamber music of composer Ken Thomson in the evening's second concert. The program includes the bass clarinet quintet Perpetual, from THAW, his latest release on Cantaloupe with the JACK Quartet. It also includes the NY premeir of restless for cello and piano, as well as other works.

Kicking off their residency at The Stone, Gutbucket will be joined by the JACK Quartet for both sets of the night.

For this residency celebrating their 15th anniversary, Gutbucket will devote multiple sets to recording a live album scheduled for release in 2015 on Cuneiform Records; it will be their 6th career release. The CD will feature a brand new set of material that each of its four band members has written over the past year. Alongside these new pieces, Gutbucket will showcase collaborations with JACK Quartet and Tigue, a long-awaited revival of its film+live score work, premieres by the new music trio Bearthoven and Tzadik Records quartet Bop Kabbalah, a deep dig into rarities and favorites from its back catalog, a set of Ken Thomson's chamber music, a rare live set of improvisations, and a bonanza chamber group with special guest musicians on the last night. Each set costs TEN DOLLARS and each will be a feast!
NOV 18—23

The Essen Philharmonic perform Michael Gordon's Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

Sō Percussion performs at TROMP Percussion Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The will be performing Bryce Dessner's Music For Woods and Strings and David Lang's man made along with The Hague Philharmonic.

Glenn Kotche presents four nights of intimate, innovative and audience interactive workshops in composition, drumming, and sound art / instrument making culminating in a concert performance in the Old Town School of Folk Music's acoustically acclaimed Maurer Hall on Friday, November 7th. 

Join Wilco drummer and percussionist Glenn Kotche as he explores the art and practice of his approach to playing drums for Wilco, his solo pieces and everything in between. Glenn will go into detail on how he creates parts for songs and the inspiration behind select beats. In addition to drumming, a Q&A facilitated by an Old Town drumming instructor will follow Glenn’s discussion. For drummers or anyone interested in the creative process. 

Mike Hardin will be appearing with his chamber group Soundry, fresh off their 2014 Boston Conservatory Entrepreneurial Alumni Grant win. Soundry will be performing 'singing in the dead of night' by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe. This hour-long work features works by each of the three acclaimed Bang on a Can composers. Each piece is based off of a lyric from the Beatles' song "Blackbird." 

'the light of the dark' - Michael Gordon
'these broken wings' - David Lang 
'singing in the dead of night' - Julia Wolfe

Orchestr BERG performs Julia Wolfe's Fuel and David Lang's pierced @ Club Roxy, Prague.

Glenn Kotche presents four nights of intimate, innovative and audience interactive workshops in composition, drumming, and sound art / instrument making culminating in a concert performance in the Old Town School of Folk Music's acoustically acclaimed Maurer Hall on Friday, November 7th. 

In this workshop, Glenn will demonstrate his disparate approaches to composition.  The discussion will include his approach to writing for classical groups (Kronos Quartet, eighth blackbird, Bang on A Can, Maya Beiser and Jeff Zeigler), percussion groups (So Percussion and Third Coast Percussion), and his own solo percussion works.  He will also demonstrate how he incorporates extended techniques on various percussion instruments to create new sounds for his pieces.  A Q&A will follow his conversation - some familiarity with music composition is suggested.

The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Wind Ensemble will perform David Lang's are you experienced as part of its upcoming concert.

NYU Percussion Ensemble performs in collaboration with the Program in Music Composition. Featuring Glenn Kotche’s Drum Set Quartet No. 54 and the world premieres of 10 new works by NYU composers: Alex Appel, Spencer Arias, Bryson Barnes, Boris Ivanov, James Newberry, Gemma Peacocke, Kyle Tieman-Strauss, Ryan Tutton, Monte Weber, and Brian Paul Zimmerman. The concert is free and open to the public, and features a pre-concert talk with Kochte starting at 6:45.

OMAHA DINER is many things: the world’s definitive virtuoso of the seven-string guitar, the pioneer of saxophonics, a recipient of the 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship for composition, and a Grammy nominee. Omaha Diner is at home in all situations in and beyond the world of music – not only scoring one of the films of legendary director Robert Altman, but performing in another one as well.

The Diner is: Charlie Hunter – 7 string guitar. Bobby Previte – drums. Steven Bernstein – trumpet. Skerik – saxophone.

The Diner only plays #1 hits. If it didn’t make it to #1, they don’t play it.

David Lang's percussion quartet, the so-called laws of nature, is being performed at the Kyoto Art Center in Japan by the MP4 Percussion Quartet.

Titans of the contemporary music scene, Sō Percussion has exhilarated audiences and redefined the percussion ensemble. Committed to collaboration and working with young musicians, they will perform brand-new compositions by Cornell’s student composers in addition to pieces such as Music for Pieces of Wood by Steve Reich and Music for Wood and Strings by Bryce Dessner.

With Rain, Anne Teresa de Kersmaeker, a major figure on the choreographic scene, gives us a work of rare intensity and refined purity. The choreographer leads the dancers to transmit the rhythmic pulsations of Music for Eighteen Musicians, by Steve Reich, a quintessential work performed here by the Ensemble Ictus. On stage, music and dance sweep the performers along in a perpetual surge of movement, a dizzying and joyful race which seems to “overflow with life”. The performance will be featuring Étoiles, Premiers Danseurs and Corps de Ballet as dancers and instrumentalists Ensemble Ictus and Synergy Vocals.

Performances will be on October 21, 23, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31 and November 2, 3, 4, 6 ,7.

Sir Simon Rattle has called Ensemble ACJW “wonderful players.” This is just one of the accolades this inspirational collective of outstanding young professional musicians—fellows in a two-year program that supports them in building careers as top-quality performers, innovative programmers, and dedicated teachers—have received. Beethoven’s Septet in E-flat Major is featured on this program. One of the composer’s most cheerful works, the effervescent Septet looks back to the light and genial wind serenades of Haydn and Mozart. 

Composed in 2008 for contemporary music sextet eighth blackbird, David Lang's these broken wings comprises three movements that present three distinct physical and musical challenges that stretch the musicians’ abilities to their limits.

This concert is part of Salon Encores. The contemporary work on this program is part of My Time, My Music.

Pianist Ralph Van Raat performs face so pale by David Lang.

Composers and sound artists all over the world are turning their ears to the music of the earth and its people to reconsider what artistic creation means in a context that fosters sustainable ideas about creativity, culture, and tradition. The festival showcases composers, musicians and sound artists who are fostering new, sound-based explorations of ideas that emerge from natural, interlocking cycles and alternative systems of thought.

Thursday, October 16, 2014
Akio Suzuki | Annea Lockwood | Hildegard Westerkamp | John Luther Adams (Ilimaq)
8PM concert | 7PM artist talk with Annea Lockwood
This event will be broadcast live by CiTR at 101.9FM, with live streaming and podcasts available at citr.ca

Friday, October 17, 2014
Raven Chacon | John Luther Adams (The Light Within) | Georg Friedrich Haas | Hildegard Westerkamp | Tristan Murail
8PM concert | 7PM artist talk with Raven Chacon and Leslie García

Saturday, October 18, 2014
Leslie García | John Luther Adams (Four Thousand Holes)ildegard Westerkamp | Annea Lockwood
8PM concert | 7PM artist talk with Hildegard Westerkamp

Sunday, October 19, 2014
Michael O’Neill | John Luther Adams (Songbirdsongs) | Annea Lockwood | Hildegard Westerkamp
3:30PM concert | 2PM free panel discussion
This event will be broadcast live by CiTR at 101.9FM, with live streaming and podcasts available at citr.ca

Nordic Seks performs Timber in Scandinavia.

October 15, Oslo, Norway (TBA)

October 16, Gothenburg, Sweden at the GAS festival

October 18, Århus, Denmark (TBA)

Sõ Percussion performs David Lang's so-called laws of nature at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. They also perform Michael Gordon's Timber with assistance from the LA Phil percussionists. 

David Lang‘s The Difficulty of Crossing a Field, an opera based on an 1888 Ambrose Bierce story of the same name, is about a slave owner (Mr. Williamson) in the pre-civil war American South who walks across his field and disappears, in plain view of his family, his neighbors and his slaves, forever altering the relationships among them. Everyone around him has his or her own sharp view of what that disappearance means, of why it had to happen, and of what will happen now that there is a ‘hole’ where a man used to be. The Difficulty of Crossing a Field is intended to cross between opera and theater worlds, mixing arias with spoken text, emotional melodies with intense drama. It is written for 5 principals and a small chorus, and the accompaniment is for string quartet on stage, both as the “orchestra” and as part of the set. Ultimately, it is an opera in which the damage done by slavery leaks from the physical to the metaphysical world.

Colin Currie and the Youth Orchestra of Bahia perform Julia Wolfe's riSE and fLY and Mahler's First Symphony.

Inspired by New York City street beats and the rhythms of American work song, Julia Wolf'es riSE and fLY is a dazzling work composed especially for Colin Currie.

Borrowing the title from a chain gang work song, Wolfe's intention is to 'take Colin to a new place and to bring something earthy and visceral to the orchestra – to break with formality and get down and dirty.'

The result is a thrilling evocation of street drummers, accordionists, singers, Chinese stringed erhus and the folk tradition of body percussion that fully encapsulates the festival's title, Metal, Wood and Skin.

NMD brings our 7th annual marathon concert to The Max! We have an exciting artist lineup including two world premieres: John Zorn's "Trilogy" and Frank Pahl's "An Imperfect Suite." New York-based violinist, Todd Reynolds, will join us for a set of compositions and improvisation. NMD will perform works by Louis Andriessen, John Luther Adams, Bill Ryan, Evan Ziporyn, and Detroit premiere of David Lang's death speaks with special guest, Shara Worden! We also look forward to appearances by GVSU's New Music Ensemble, Miles Brown's End Game, Donald Sinta Sax Quartet and Clem Fortuna.

Alarm Will Sound performs two distinctive programs, featuring music by composers associated with Nonesuch. The first evening features the music of John Adams, including Son of Chamber Symphony, Chamber Symphony, Scratchband, and an arrangement of Hoodoo Zephyr. The second evening comprises Tyondai Braxton’s Fly By Wire, Steve Reich’s Radio Rewrite, and Donnacha Dennehy’s Grá agus Bás.

New York’s piano sextet Grand Band presents "A Bigger Picture" – performed by Vicky Chow, David Friend, Paul Kerekes, Blair McMillen, Lisa Moore, and Isabelle O’Connell. The New York Times calls Grand Band "the Traveling Wilburys of the city’s new-music piano scene." They will present a program of recent works by Philip Glass, Kate Moore, Steve Reich, and two New York premieres by Michael Gordon – Ode to La Bruja, Hanon, Czerny, Van Cliburn and little gold stars... (or, To Everyone Who Made My Life Miserable, Thank You.) – and Paul Kerekes. [Performances at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.]