I give a lecture-recital on Ives songs and solo pieces at the famed Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.
Program includes:
Charles Ives: Studies #6, #20 and #23
Be delighted and inspired by this contemporary chamber music concert curated and performed by the Civic Fellows, members of the International Contemporary Ensemble and special guest Douglas Ewart. Fellows are selected through a competitive process that seeks artistically excellent, civically engaged, collaborative and entrepreneurial musicians.
The extraordinary bass Andrew Munn and I will give an event at the vast Kühlhaus space in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Time TBA and ticket information coming soon.
Program includes:
Eisler: Hollywood Liederbuch (selections)
Brahms: Vier Ernste Gesänge, op. 121
Teaching at the Tanglewood Music Center is a highlight of my year. I work with the extremely talented Fellows on chamber music with instruments and voices, and I lecture on diverse keyboard instruments.
I play Galina Ustvolskaya's remarkable Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano with colleagues at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
Program includes:
Galina Ustvolskaya: Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano
I play in the brilliant Schoenberg/Riehm chamber arrangement of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, with distinguished soloists and conductor Donald Runnicles.
I play in a second performance of the brilliant Schoenberg/Riehm chamber arrangement of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, with distinguished soloists and conductor Donald Runnicles.
I play the premiere of a new chamber piece by Xinyang Wang with colleagues at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
Program includes:
Xinyang Wang: New Work for flute, harp, percussion, violin, cello, and piano (world premiere)
The International Contemporary Ensemble plays on the second of two concerts for the Hear and Now festival, celebrating young Los Angeles-based composers.
Program includes:
Cory Dundee: Triboluminescence
Michael Lee: Danse Macabre
Andrew Moses: UNTITLED
J. M. Gerraughty: Fougere
Jeffrey Holmes: Hagall
The International Contemporary Ensemble plays on the first of two concerts for the Hear and Now festival, celebrating young Los Angeles-based composers.
Program includes:
Joe Pereira: GLIMPSE 2.0
Kay Rhie: In the dreams of another
Jeremy Davalos: A Prayer Amidst the Chaos
Mu-Xuan Lin: Double Jeopardy
Oscar Pan: Le Train
Hugh Levick: Petrified Unrest
Sharon Harms, one of my regular Ives partners, joins me for a FREE recital of the composer’s songs at the idyllic Cliff Dwellers in downtown Chicago. A panoramic view of the harbor doesn’t hurt. Reservation link is reservations@cliff-dwellers.org. Dinner/cocktails before the performance require an extra reservation.
Program includes:
Ives: Selected Songs
Ives: Studies #6, #20 and #23 for piano
The International Contemporary Ensemble makes its debut at the esteemed Märzmusik festival in Berlin, in collaboration with the great local Zafraan Ensemble.
Program includes:
Aida Shirazi: Crystalline Trees
Jessie Cox: Existence Lies In-Between
Charles Uzor: Go. Ballet Imaginaire
I assist in the opening of an exhibition by the exceptional artist Jens Hanke at the beautiful Schloss Britz in Neukölln, Berlin. To complement the accompanying exhibit about Jules Verne, I play clavichord, harmonium, and MIDI keyboard to show the development of keyboard instruments over three centuries.
Dai Fujikura: Tangent
Wang Lu: Treetop Call
David Byrd-Marrow: Memory Horizon
Miller Theatre’s legendary Composer Portraits series presents the Berlin-based Carola Bauckholt.
Program includes works by Carola Bauckholt (b. 1959):
Oh, I See (2015-16)
Schlammflocke II (2012)
Treibstoff (1995)
I give a presentation of my Ives project-in-progress with my wonderful Berlin colleague Andrew Munn. Location in Berlin Neukölln TBA.
Program includes:
Ives: Selected Songs
I play my solo debut at KM28, the excellent American-owned venue on Neukölln’s Karl-Marx-Straße. The program features a number of my recent commissions for different keyboards, and classic pieces by Charles Ives. House opens at 20:00, set starts at 20:30.
Program includes:
Charles Ives: Study #20
Dai Fujikura: Bright Codes
Dai Fujikura: White Rainbow
Wang Lu: Constellations Apart
Wang Lu: New Work for harmonium
New work for clavichord TBA
Charles Ives: Study #23
The Ensemble is thrilled to present a program of chamber music featuring world premieres by Rome Prize-winning Courtney Bryan, commissioned by Arlene and Larry Dunn, and Adegoke Steve Colson, a longtime member of the famed Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a Fromm Music Foundation commission. Conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni, one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary classical music of his generation, this program reveals the new Afromodernism as an intercultural, multigenerational space of innovation.
Brittany J. Green: Thread and Pull (2022)
Adegoke Steve Colson: MIRRORS (2023, World Premiere)
Wendell Logan: Runagate, Runagate (1989)
Courtney Bryan: Dreaming (Freedom Sounds) (2023, World Premiere)
With my longtime ICE colleague Cory Smythe, I give the world premiere of a new commission: David Byrd-Marrow’s duo for harmonium and MIDI keyboard. More works by ensemble members complete the program.
Program includes:
David Byrd-Marrow: New Work for harmonium and MIDI Keyboard
The TIME:SPANS festival in 2023 is a summer home for the International Contemporary Ensemble’s innovative programming. This year I play a concertante piece by the South African composer Andile Khumalo, whom I first met at Columbia University.
Program includes:
Andile Khumalo: Invisible Self for piano and ensemble
I perform a short set of songs with tenor Nicholas Phan which explore the experience of immigrants. The Linde Center’s Studio E is an ideal setting for a thoughtful song recital.
Program includes:
Schubert: Pilgerweise, D. 789
Ruth Crawford Seeger: Chinaman, Laundryman
My teaching residency at the Tanglewood Music Center is one of the highlights of my year. I work with the extremely talented piano Fellows on solo and chamber music, while lecturing on the non-piano keyboard instruments and presenting on my composer commissions.
I continue my solo series at The Cliff Dwellers in Chicago. My 2018 disc Hanging Gardens found a common sensuality in the works and Debussy and Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. With selected pieces by all these composers, I find an inner thread of color and feeling connecting them.
I play a program on multiple keyboards that includes works by Debussy, Haydn, Bach, Schönberg, Dai Fujikura, Nathan Davis, and songs by Charles Ives. With Andrew Robert Munn, bass-baritone.
I join the brilliant composer and instrument inventor Viola Yip for her installation at Labor Neunzehn in Berlin. Trombonist and multi-instrumentalist Weston Olencki is a special guest.
I join my colleagues at the venerated New York summer festival to perform music of IntCE’s new Artistic Director, George Lewis.
Program includes:
George Lewis: Thistledown
George Lewis: Creative Construction Set™
Wadada Leo Smith: Delta Blues
I’m delighted to return to Tanglewood to teach the wonderful student Fellows. Activities include master classes, chamber music coachings, and performances.
This is the first event of a multi-year song project devoted to Charles Ives. Participants in the collective include sopranos Sharon Harms and Alice Teyssier.
Program includes:
Ives: Selected Songs
Ives: “Thoreau” from Piano Sonata no. 2, “Concord, Mass., 1840–60”
I continue my brief spring tour with the brilliant violinist Josh Modney.
Program includes:
Elliott Carter: Duo for Violin and Piano
George Lewis: Endless Shout
The International Contemporary Ensemble continues our long-term collaboration with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, coaching the group and joining them for a performance of George Lewis’s P. Multitudinis, which the Ensemble premiered in 2017.
The lightning-quick and versatile violinist Josh Modney joins me for a brief tour this spring.
Program includes:
Elliott Carter: Duo for Violin and Piano
George Lewis: Endless Shout
The International Contemporary Ensemble is excited to join Luna Lab in celebrating their fifth anniversary on April 25th at the Greene Space in NYC.
The celebration will include 13 works by alumni of Ellen Reid and Missy Mazzoli’s incredible program.
I bring a solo program centered on Robert Schumann to the legendary Chicago downtown arts club.
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Reception, Optional Prix Fixe Dinner ($37)
6:00 PM Program
To attend this free event, or to opt in for dinner, please RSVP by Monday, April 11 by phone at 312-922-8080, or by email at reservations@cliff-chicago.org
Schumann: Papillons, op. 2
Wang Lu: Constellations Apart (Chicago premiere)
Schumann: Kreisleriana, op. 16
The Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts presents the brilliant flutist Brandon Patrick George. Concert will have a limited in-person audience, and will be broadcast live on WFMT 98.7 FM.
William Grant Still: Pastorela
Lili Boulanger: D’un Matin de Printemps
Schubert: Variations on “Trockne Blumen,” D. 802
International Contemporary Ensemble presents a portrait concert of Felipe Lara in Miller Theatre’s essential series.
Program includes:
Felipe Lara: Chambered Spirals for ensemble
I play my first Winterreise with the amazing bass-baritone Andrew Munn in Salzburg, Austria. Venue TBA.
Schubert: Die Winterreise, D. 911
I travel with the International Contemporary Ensemble to Zurich for this special program at the Sonic Matter Festival that features ensemble commissions. Composer George Lewis is in attendance.
Program includes:
George Lewis: Creative Construction SetTM
George Lewis: Thistledown
Nicole Mitchell: Cult of Electromagnetic Connectivity
Debut appearance at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, alongside great players from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and other distinguished ensembles.
Sunday, August 8, 6 PM
Monday, August 9, 6 PM
Chamber music program includes:
Michael Seltenreich: Sextet for Piano and Winds (world premiere)
Tuesday, August 10, 12 PM
Duo program with Daniel Druckman, percussion
Harrison Birtwistle: Intrada
Schumann: Blumenstück, op. 19
Wang Lu: Constellations Apart (world premiere)
Debussy: D’un cahier d’esquisses
George Lewis: Endless Shout
Huw Watkins: Seven Inventions for marimba and piano
Wednesday, August 11, 6 PM
Ensemble program with chansonnier H. K. Gruber includes:
H. K. Gruber: Frankenstein!!
I join members of the International Contemporary Ensemble for one of our favorite summer projects, the Walden School’s Young Musicians Program. I’ll work with students through high school age to develop their composition and collaborative skills.
Ensemble program includes:
Wadada Leo Smith: Delta Blues
Pauline Oliveros: Six for New Time
Inti Figgis-Vizueta: Openwork, knotted object / Trellis in bloom / lightning ache
Brittany J. Green: Intersections
Yuri Lee: Nyarlock Tango