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Center for New Music: Fred Frith & Sudhu Tewari – Prototypes II [LIVE]

Wednesday, December 2, 2020 @ 10:30pm – 11:30pm (EST)
Online event
Join multi-instrumentalists/"sound tinkerers" Fred Frith & Sudhu Tewari in a discussion & demonstration of their newly created instruments.

Free (Free)

Center for New Music: Composing in the Time of the Pandemic [NEWLY RECORDED]

Saturday, November 28, 2020 @ 11:00pm – 12:00am (EST)
Online event
Friction Quartet meets the challenge of COVID-19 with new works for strings designed to be rehearsed & performed remotely.

Free (Donations accepted)

Center for New Music: The Ives Collective – New Music for Strings & Piano

Saturday, November 21, 2020 @ 11:00pm – 1:00am (EST)
Online event
Adrienne Albert – Musescape
Davide Verotta – Asynchronous
John Beeman – Luminosity
Joanne Carey – Piano Trio No. 2
Sheli Nan – Awaken
Karl Schmidt – Interlude
Allan Crossman – Frequent Flyer
John Bilotta – Sass

Free (Donations accepted)

Center for New Music: Christina Braun & Tom Nunn perform “What are the Chances” [LIVE]

Sunday, November 15, 2020 @ 11:00pm – 12:00am (EST)
Online event
Christina Braun performs 6 dances with the music of Tom Nunn, in this interdisciplinary concert exploring the idea of chaos & our human response to it.

Free ($10-$20 suggested donation)

Center for New Music: Meerenai Shim Solo Flute Recital [LIVE]

Friday, November 13, 2020 @ 11:00pm – 1:00am (EST)
Online event
Program for solo flute, including world premieres from Andrea Reinkemeyer & Meerenai Shim, as well as works by Alice Jones, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, & Adolphus Hailstork.

$15 ($1 C4NM members & students)

Center for New Music: Janis Mercer & William Sorenson, piano [LIVE]

Saturday, November 7, 2020 @ 11:00pm – 1:00am (EST)
Online event
Works by Brian Belet, Pablo Furman, Donovan Johnson, & Martha Stoddard; Roger Sessions’ rarely heard Piano Sonata No. 1; Igor Stravinsky’s Piano-Rag-Music; & more.

$15 ($1 C4NM members & students)

Center for New Music: PianoBar [LIVE]

Sunday, October 25, 2020 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (EDT)
Online event
Chris Brown performs 2 of his compositions for piano & interactive computer using the Buchla PianoBar keyboard interface.

Free (Donations accepted)

Center for New Music: Recital – Selections from “Trinity,” a song cycle

Sunday, September 20, 2020 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (EDT)
Online event
Recital of songs for voice and piano from Trinity, a song cycle by Joseph Collins Wicht. Featuring Jesse Barrett (tenor), Samuel Brondfield (tenor), & Terrence McLaughlin (bass), with Wicht on piano.

$5 (C4NM members free)

Center for New Music: Catalyst – Natalie Raney, cello + Helia Music Collective

Friday, September 4, 2020 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (EDT)
Online event
Kaija Saariaho – Près for solo cello & live electronics
Elizabeth A. Baker – stringDefinition for speaking cellist
Belinda Reynolds – Moments
Julie Barwick – Counterbalance
Emma Logan – Desert Aesthetic

$10 ($5 members & students)

Center for New Music: The Electronic Lover – Podcast Launch & Listening Party

Friday, August 14, 2020 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm (EDT)
Online event
Launch event with the cast and creators of The Electronic Lover, a new podcast opera/serial audio drama set in Internet chatrooms in the early 1980s.

Free (Free (RSVP required))

Center for New Music: Sierra Ensemble – A Frozen Shimmer in the Summer Sun

Wednesday, July 29, 2020 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (EDT)
Online event
Andrés Carrizo – Like a Frozen Silver Shimmer
Andrés Carrizo – Of Frozen Resonance
Eric Ewazen – Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano
Brian Wilson – And Ezra the Scribe Stood Upon a Pulpit
Camille Saint-Saëns – Romance, Op. 36
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Sonata No. 32 in B-flat major, K. 454

Free

Center for New Music: D. Riley Nicholson – Influences

Sunday, July 26, 2020 @ 2:30pm – 3:30pm (EDT)
Online event
Meredith Monk – Railroad (Travel Song)
Francis Poulenc – "À pied" from Promenades, FP 24
Erik Satie – Prélude du Nazaréen
Hans Otte – Selections from Book of Sounds
D. Riley Nicholson – Without (world premiere)

Free

[BROADCAST] Center for New Music Encore Concerts: Feedback – In Response

Friday, June 26, 2020 @ 10:00pm – 11:00pm (EDT)
Online event
Eve Beglarian – From the Same Melancholy Fate
Richard Reed Parry – Duet For Heart and Breath
Elainie Lillios – Sleep’s Undulating Tide
Anahita Abbasi – no, I am not roaming aimlessly
Brett Austin Eastman – In Response (world premiere)

Free

[BROADCAST] Center for New Music Encore Concerts: Cornelius Boots, Heavy Zen Flute & Bamboo Gospel

Thursday, June 18, 2020 @ 10:00pm – 11:00pm (EDT)
Online event
Innovative multi-instrumentalist Cornelius Boots turns his attention to the shakuhachi – the ancient, vertically-held Japanese bamboo flute – in this past performance.

Free

[BROADCAST] Center for New Music Encore Concerts: Latitudes – Ashley Bellouin, Ben Bracken, & Gabriel Mindel Saloman

Thursday, June 11, 2020 @ 10:00pm – 11:00pm (EDT)
Online event
Rebroadcast concert featuring experimental musicians Ashley Bellouin, Ben Bracken, & Gabriel Mindel Saloman, with real-time conversation from the artists.

Free

[WATCH PARTY] Center for New Music Encore Concerts: David Tanenbaum & Friends

Thursday, May 21, 2020 @ 10:00pm – 11:00pm (EDT)
Online event
Belinda Reynolds (b. 1965) – Stories (2018)
John Vidovic – 2 Preludes
Belinda Reynolds – 5 quartets (2018)
Tan Dun – Seven Desires
Arthur Kampela (b. 1960) – Percussion Study No. 1
Omid Zoufonoun – Cascade (2012)

Free