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2012
Thursday, January 26 Hi Red Center
-Details TBA
-
Cakeshop (New York, NY)

Friday, January 27 Yarn/Wire
-Columbia Composers Concert (5 new works)
-
DiMenna Center (New York, NY) 8pm

February 2-19 Yarn/Wire
-You, My Mother: Chamber Operas in conjunction with Theater of a 2 Headed Calf
-
La Mama Theater(New York, NY) 8pm; Shows run Thursdays through Sundays

Thursday, March 22 Yarn/Wire
-Artists in Residence Concert #1
-Pieces by Pete Swanson and Nathan Davis
-
Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY) 8pm

Friday, March 30 Wet Ink Ensemble
-New works for Percussion Group
-DiMenna Center (New York, NY), 8pm

Saturday, April 14 Wet Ink Ensemble
-Works by Beat Furrer (and others)
-St. Peter's Church (New York, NY), 8pm

Friday, April 28 Yarn/Wire
-Artists in Residence Concert #2
-New work by Tristan Perich
-
Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY) 8pm


Wednesday, May 2 The Music of Charlie Looker
-Galapagos (Brooklyn, NY), 8pm

Tues/Weds May 29 & 30Yarn/Wire
-Music of David Bithell
-
AC Institute (New York, NY) 8pm

Updated 1/5/2012
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-past
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2011

12/15 & 12/16 Yarn/Wire
-Luciano Berio's "Linea" in video dance and sound
-
Troutman Hall (Ridgewood, NY) 8pm

12/10
Seaven Teares
-285 Kent St (Brooklyn, NY)


11/13
Seaven
Teares
-Shea Stadium (Brooklyn, NY)

11/1-2
Yarn/Wire
-Ensemble in Residence at Northern Illinois University
-Dekalb, IL

10/21 Seaven Teares
-Vaudville Park (other details, tba)
- (New York, NY)

10/14 Yarn/Wire
-NY Premieres
-Tenri Cultural Institute (New York, NY) 8pm

10/6 Yarn/Wire
-Premieres Preview
-Southampton Cultural Center (Southampton , NY), 7pm

9/22Wet Ink Ensemble
-Works by George Lewis
-Roulette (Brooklyn, NY), 8pm

6/21 Yarn/Wire
- Louis Andriessen's "Hoketus"
- At the NY Stock Exchange (Balconies and on The Street)
- Part of Make Music New York


6/12 Opera on Tap
- David Baker's "Give and Take"
- Galapagos Art Space (Brooklyn, NY)


6/11 Seaven Teares
- Part of Last Things Records showcase
- Zebulon (Brooklyn, NY)


6/9 Signal Ensemble
- June in Buffalo
- Works by David Felder, Hilda Paredes, Brice Pauset, György Ligeti
- Buffalo, NY


5/27Wet Ink Ensemble
- Mathias Spahlinger Portrait Concert - éphémère
- Tenri Cultural Institute (New York, NY)

5/19-21 Yarn/Wire
- Preview performances with Theater of a Two-Headed Calf of new chamber operas by Chaya Czernowin, Brendan Connelly, Rick Burkhart
- University Settlement (New York, NY)

5/5 Yarn/Wire
- Workshop of new pieces by graduate students at Rutgers University
- Rutgers, NJ

4/30Wet Ink Ensemble
- Music by George Lewis, Sam Pluta, Eric Wubbels, Simon Steen-Andersen, Stefan Prins
- St. Peter's Church (New York, NY)

4/14 & 4/15 Yarn/Wire
- Unruly Music Festival
- Vogel Hall, Marcus Center for the Performing Arts; Milwaukee, WI


4/11 Argento Ensemble
- Brian Ferneyhou's "La Chute d'Icare" and Jeffrey Mumford's "through a stillness brightening"
- Part of the "Cutting Edge Concerts" Series
- Symphony Space (New York, NY)

3/11 Seaven Teares
-Roulette (NY, NY)
-with Kyle Bobby Dunn, Sarah Lipstate & Lee Renaldo



2/19 Yarn/Wire

-Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY)
-pieces by Eric Wubbels and Kate Soper



2/11 Columbia Composers

-Tenri Cultural Institute (New York, NY)
-New Works by Columbia Composers

2/4 Seaven Teares
-Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY)
-with Build


1/26 Eco Ensemble
-Beat Furrer's Percussion Quartet
-Hertz Hall (Berkeley, CA)

1/10 Argento Ensemble
-Ferneyhough's "La Chute d'Icare" and Romitelli's "Professor Bad Trip"
-Monday Evening Concert Series
-Zipper Hall (Los Angeles, CA)


2010




12/11
Wet Ink Ensemble
-New Works by Columbia Composers

11/14 Seaven Teares
-Silent Barn (Brooklyn, NY)

10/30
Yarn/Wire
-Southampton Cultural Center, Southampton, NY

10/26 Yarn/Wire
-Release party for Y/W's "Tone Builders" CD on Carrier Records
-A/C Institute (New York, NY)

10/5 Yarn/Wire
-Vanderbilt, TN

9/30 Yarn/Wire
-Goucher College, MD

9/22 Seaven Teares
-Charlie Looker's Seaven Teares
-Death By Audio (Brooklyn, NY)

9/18 Dominique Leone
-Coco66 (Brooklyn, NY)

9/16
Mantra Percussion
-Preview performance of Michael Gordon's "Timber"
-Queens College

8/24 Kayo Dot
- Bowery Electric (New York, NY

8/22 Charlie Looker's Seaven Teares
-Zebulon (Brooklyn, NY)

8 /15 Charlie Looker's Seaven Teares
-Zebulon (Brooklyn, NY)

6/23 Wet Ink Ensemble
-American Composers Orchestra's Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute
-Miller Theater

6/5 Yarn/Wire
-Composing NY #2
-New Pieces by Sam Pluta, Alex Mincek, Eric Wubbels, Kate Soper
-Roulette (New York, NY)

6/11 Yarn/Wire
-Composing NYC #3 Preview Concert/Discussion
-Kate Soper and Alex Mincek Discuss their new pieces
-Troutman Hall (1717 Troutman, Ridgewood NY)


5/27 Wet Ink Ensemble
-Festival of New American Music #2
-Roulette (New York, NY)

5/1 Wet Ink Ensemble
-Festival of New American Music #1
-Roulette (New York, NY)


4/3 Yarn/Wire
-Columbia Composer's Concert
-Tenri Cultural Institute (NYC)

3/9
Yarn/Wire
-Davidson College (Davidson, North Carolina)

3/4 Yarn/Wire
-Carrier Records show
-Issue Project Room


2/28 International Contemporary Ensemble
-Columbia Composers Concert
-Roulette (NYC)

2/18 Yarn/Wire
-Composing NYC #1
-New Pieces by David Franzson, Aaron Einbond, Joseph DiPonio, Sebastian Armoza
- North River Music Series#24 @ Greenwich Music House (NYC)


2/16 Yarn/Wire
-Composing NYC #1 Preview Concert / Discussion
-Sebastian Armoza and Joseph DiPonio talk about their new pieces
-Troutman Hall (Ridgewood, NY)

1/28-2/14 Yarn/Wire
-Performing Susan Glaspell's "Trifles" with Theater of a 2-Headed Calf
-Ontological-Hysteric Theater (NYC)


2009

12/15 Aaron Siegel Ensemble
-Siegel's "Science is only a sometimes Friend" for 8 glockenspiels and organ
-Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY)


12/12 Yarn/Wire
-New Percussion Duos by Charlie Looker, Jorge Boehringer
-The Stone (New York, NY)


12/
3 Int'l Society for Improvised Music (ISIM)
-Ben Carson's "Syncline and Anticline"

-University of California, Santa Cruz


11/24
Amp
-Stockhausen's Microphonie, and others
-The Tank (NYC)


11/10 Wet Ink Ensemble
-Music by Sciarrino and Alex Mincek
-The Tank (NYC)

11/3 Yarn/Wire
-Annual Fundraising Party (Ridgewood, NY)


10/23 Hi Red Center
-Team Clermont CMJ Showcase
-Lit Lounge (NY, NY)

10/8 Yarn/Wire
-"The Piano: Inside and Out" performance/workshop
-ISLIP Public Library (NY)

10/3 Yarn/Wire
-Prelude Festival with Theater of a Two-Headed Calf
-Preview performance of Susan Glaspell's "Trifles"


9/26 Hunter-Gatherer
-Pixilerations Festival
-David Bithell's "Whistle from Above"
-Providence, RI


9/22
Hunter-Gatherer
-Percussion Duos at "The Maze" by Trouble
-Death By Audio (Brooklyn, NY)


8/22-9/11 Lucerne Festival Academy
-Program 1 (8/29)-Edgar Varèse: Déserts
-Program 2 (9/9)-Tristan Murail: Serendib
-Program 3 (9/10)-Pierre Boulez: Notations(1, 2, 3, 4, 7);Luciano Berio: Sinfonia
-Lucerne, Switzerland


8/9 sfSound
-Performing Stockhausen's "Kreuzspiel", and others
-ODC theater (San Francisco, CA)

7/ 11 Hi Red Center
-CitySol 2009 at Stuyvesant Cove Park, Brooklyn NY


7/10 Wet Ink Ensemble

- Resident Ensemble at the Walden School (New Hampshire)


6/10 & 6/11 Concerts in the Heights
- Chamber Music Program including pieces by Hosokawa and others


5/15 Yarn/Wire

- US Premieres by Stefano Gervasoni, Simon Steen-Andersen, and Georg Fredrich Haas
-Tenri Cultural Institute, NY, NY

5/13 Yarn/Wire
-Workshop / Performance
-Queens College, NY

4/26 Final DMA Recital
-Stony Brook University Recital Hall

4/15 Yarn/Wire
-April in Santa Cruz festival Concert.
-University of California, Santa Cruz

4/9 Interpretations 20 Series
-Gabriela Frank's "Requiem for a Magical America (El dia De los Muertos)"
-with Teresa McCollough and Chris Froh
-Roulette (20 Greene St, New York, NY)

4/5 Yarn/Wire
-Southampton Cultural Center, Southampton, NY

3/26 Yarn/Wire
-Yarn/Wire performs the music of Ben Carson (*1971)
-Philosophy Hall at Columbia University, New York, NY

3/8 Faculty Recital
-Gabriela Frank's "Requiem for a Magical America (El dia De los Muertos)"
-Faculty Recital Series with Teresa McCollough
-Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA)

2/3-2/16 Hi Red Center CD Release Tour
-celebrating the release of "Assemble" on Joyful Noise Records


2008


12/15 Hi Red Center
-Don Pedros, Brooklyn, NY

12/5 International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
-PORTRAIT OF MARC-ANDRE DALBAVIE
-Miller Theatre at Columbia University (116th & Broadway; New York, NY)

12/10 Mantra Percussion
-Xenakis' "Peaux" and John Cage's "1st Construction" for percussion sextet
-Players Theater (115 MacDougal St), New York, NY

11/24 Yarn/Wire
"Duos from the Edge"
-NY Premiere of David Bithell's "Whistle from Above"
-US Premiere of Enno Poppe's "Rad"
-Tenri Cultural Institute, New York

11/16 Hunter-Gatherer
-See above program plus Tristan Perich's "Observations" and Matthew Hough's "That's What Girls Say When They Say My Number"
-Festival of New American Music
-Sacramento State University, CA

11/12 Hunter-Gatherer
- Hough, Perich
- 21 Grand (416 25th St. @ Broadway; Oakland, CA)


11/10 Hunter-Gatherer
-LA/Pasadena Premiers of - David Lang, "Table of Contents"; David Bithell, "Whistle from Above"; Tristan Perich, "Observations"; Matt Hough" When They Say My Number"
- South Pasadena Music, Pasadena CA

11/9
Hunter-Gatherer
- Gerard Grisey's "Stele" for 2 percussionists and the West Coast premieres of David Bithell's "Whistle from Above" and a new duo by David Lang
- Presented by sfSound
- ODC Dance Commons (351 Shotwell St, San Francisco, CA)


10/19 Percussion Recital
- Pieces by Regis Campo, Franco Donatoni, Mei-Fang Lin, David Bithell, and Matthew Hough
- SUNY Stony Brook, NY

10/13 Hi Red Center
-Zebulon (Brooklyn, NY)


9/27 Hunter-Gatherer
- Art Under the Bridge Festival
- Matt Hough's "That's What Girls Say When They Say My Number" for percussion duo, and Christian Wolff Excercises
- Museum of Modern Arthur (25 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY)

9/17 Sequenza 21 presents "Minimalism at 50"
- I'll be playing Steve Reich's "Marimba Phase" and Terry Riley's "In C"
- Player's Theater (115 MacDougal St), New York, NY

8/22-23 Theater of a Two-Headed Calf
- a new excerpt from "It cannot be called our Mother but our graves" (based on Shakespeare's Macbeth)
- 55 33rd St (Industry City), Brooklyn, NY

7/14 Darmstadt Summer Courses
-Performance of Wolfgang Rihm's "Tutuguri VI" for percussion 6tet and Liza Lim's "City of Fallen Angels" for percussion 12tet
-Bollenfaltor, Darmstadt, Germany

6/19 - Sun June 29 Hi Red Center
- Midwest Tour
- click here for specific dates

6/8 - Sat June 14 Hunter-Gatherer
- "The Gentlemand Caller"
- music composed and performed by H-G for Clubbed Thumb
- Directed by Brooke O'Harra
- Ohio Theater, NYC

5/31 Yarn/Wire
- U.S. premiere of Paul Usher's "Lines of Drift" (2007); World premieres of "fluttuazione/attimo" by John Arrigo-Nelson (2008); "Quartet One" by Brendan Connelly (2008); NYC premiere of Ryan Carter's "Filthy Machines" (2007)

- Tenri Cultural Institute

4/6 Yarn/Wire
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville

3/7- 15 Hi Red Center
- Southern / SXSW tour Including:
3/14: Asthmatic Kitty Party at Okay Mountain Gallery with Weird Weeds, Marla Hansen, KIT

3/1 Hunter - Gatherer
- Bithell's "Whistle from Above"
- Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts; 8pm

1/22 Hunter - Gatherer
- Lecture/Performance of David Bithell's "Whistle from Above"
- University of North Texas, 3pm, FREE

2007

11/28 Yarn/Wire
Berio, Bartok, Ryan Carter (premiere)
-Dartmouth University, 12pm

11/15 International Contemporary Ensemble
-Hurel Portrait Concert
-Miller Theater @ Columbia (NYC)

10/25- 11/17 Theater of a Two-Headed Calf
- "Drums of the Waves of Horikawa"
- Here Arts Center (NYC)

10/ 8 San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
- Edmund Campion's "Ondoyants et Divers" for Percussion Sextet
(U.S. Premiere)
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco)

9/26 Hi Red Center
-@ Cakeshop (NYC)

9/24 Theater of a Two-Headed Calf -"Macbeth"
-Soho Rep Theater (NYC); 7pm and 10pm

Sept 9- 19 Klangspuren '07 - International Ensemble Modern Akademie
- Schwaz, Austria

8/31 Mike Pride's Drummer's Corpse
- The Mean Fiddler (NYC)

7/17 - 8/22 Hi Red Center - U.S. Tour
Click here for Dates!

6/24 sfSound
- Bithell's "unblinking eye"/Varèse's Intégrales @ODC Theater (San Francisco)

6/2 Bang on a Can Marathon with TACTUS
- Evan Ziporyn's "Drill" @ World Financial Center Winter Garden (NYC)

5/26 Yarn/Wire
- Mei-Fang Lin Portrait Concert

-Tenri Cultural Institute (NYC)

5/22 & 5/23 International Contemporary Ensemble
Luigi Nono's "A Floresta è jovem e cheja de vida"
- @ PS 122 (NYC)

5/18 Hunter-Gatherer
- @Chashama (NYC) part of the maze event, "you are here"

5/14 Mike Pride's Drummer's Corpse
- @ Chashama (NYC) part of the maze event, "you are here"

5/3 and 5/7 Contemporary Chamber Players
-Ligeti Piano Concerto with Laura Barger, soloist @ SUNY Stony Brook, NY

4/18-22; 4/26-29 Theater of a Two-Headed Calf
- "Drums of the Waves of Horikawa" (more info here)
- Perishable Theater, Providence (RI)

4/10 Hi Red Center
- w/Gowns @ Bard College (NY)

3/17 New Music Collective
David Del Tredici 70th birthday celebration @
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music

3/16 Hi Red Center
w/ Consider the Source, NONLOC, Earth Stood Still @ Michelines (Brooklyn)

3/9 Hi Red Center
w/ Willum and the Works, Deer Tick, The Dust Up @ Brooklyn Lyceum

3/7 Stony Brook CCP
Steve Reich's Drumming
@ Staller Center for the Arts (Stony Brook, NY)

2/21 Mike Pride's Drummer's Corpse
-Tonic (NYC)

2/15 Hi Red Center
w/La Otracina, Primordial Undermind, Nymph, Slasher Risk, and Bright
-Raven's Den (Brooklyn)

2/6Ches Smith's Congs for Brums Quartet
John Tchicai, saxophone, Chad Wagner (piano), Raz Mesinai (percussion, electronics), Ches Smith (drums), RG (vibraphone)
-The Stone (NYC)

2/3 Hi Red Center w/Friendly Bears, LOMF, Yoshiko Ohara (Bloody Panda)
-Water Street Lounge (Brooklyn)

1/17 Hunter-Gatherer - w/ Zs, Extra Life, Archaeopterix, M.O.T.H.
390 Seneca (Brooklyn)

1/13 Hi Red Center - w/ Wild Bee, Matter Antimatter, The Shorebirds
Trash Bar (Brooklyn)

2006

12/18 Hunter-Gatherer
New pieces for us by Matthew Hough, Charlie Looker, Aaron Einbond, Brendan Connelly, and Jorge Liderman
@ SUNY Stony Brook NY

12/10 Yarn/Wire - Music of Leroux, Jarrell, Donatoni, Berio
-Greenwich Music House (NYC)

12/8 Yarn/Wire - Phillipe Leroux's "M"
- SUNY Stony Brook, NY

11/22 Hunter-Gatherer - new piece by Brendan Connelly
- The Stone
(NYC)

11/21 Hi Red Center - w/ Gay Beast
- Goodbye Blue Monday
(Brooklyn, NY)

10/28 Mike Pride's Drummer's Corpse
- Asterisk Art Space (Brooklyn, NY)

10/13
Stony Brook Percussion Ensemble
- Staller Center
(Stony Brook, NY)

9/30 Hi Red Center - w/ Grandchildren, Rocket Surgery
- Glasslands, BKLYN

9/24 Mike Pride's Drummer's Corpse
- Cake Shop
(NYC)

5/22-6/20 Hi Red Center Midwest/Southern U.S. Tour (click for more info)

5/10 Ensemble, Inc - new scandinavia: 5/4 program
- Lilypad
(Boston MA),

5/7 Hi Red Center - w/ Experimental Dental School, Shellshag
-Cakeshop (NYC)

5/4
Ensemble, Inc - new scandinavia: music by Magnus Lindberg, Bent Sørensen, Sven Lyder Kahrs, Øyvind Torvund
- Norwegian Seamens' Church
(NYC)

4/22 Forecast Music - music by Eric Schwartz,
- Dorothy Jones Theater
(NYC)

4/15
Hi Red Center w/ Measles Mumps Rubella, Dogme 95, The Great Lakes
- Tonic
(NYC)

4/14
Hi Red Center - w/ Awesome Color
- Sputnik
(Brooklyn)

4/6 Hi Red Center - OSOS Magazine Release Party
- Cakeshop
(NYC)

4/3 Yarn/Wire - music of berio, donatoni, jarrell
- NotreDame University
(IN)

3/29 Ensemble Pamplemousse - Yoav Gal's Mosheh
-
Merkin Hall (NYC)

3/25 Ensemble, Inc - Uday Krishnakumar (3/22 program)
-The Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew (NYC)

3/22 Ensemble, Inc - Uday Krishnakumar's "Cantata: Flower Fruit and Thorn Pieces"
-Stony Brook University

3/17 Hunter-Gatherer: Two-Headed Calf Salon-Saloon #5
- Bklyn, NY

3/10 Hi Red Center: New Orleans benefit/house show with O'death