UPCOMING CONCERTS
Cameron Russell will perform three of my songs about eating including MY CHEESE SANDWICH, BOBBY NO DAIRY, and I LOVE PEOPLE at Opera On Tap's seies New Brew
Barbès, Brooklyn
Cameron Russell will perform three of my songs about eating including MY CHEESE SANDWICH, BOBBY NO DAIRY, and I LOVE PEOPLE at Opera On Tap's seies New Brew
Barbès, Brooklyn
in concerts including the premiere performances of AMONG THE REDWOODS
San Francisco Choral Artists presents Poetry on Musical Wings: odes, riddles, rhymes, brilliance, humor, and heart.
June 9, 2012, 8:00 PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
600 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto
June 10, 2012, 4:00 PM
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
114 Montecito Avenue, Oakland
June 16, 2012, 8:00 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran
1111 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco
Verdi Quartett with Thomas Rauschenblag will perform my arrangement of Perapaskero's TURCEASCA at the Stadt Füssen Festival vielsaitig 2012 as part of "Orientexpress," an evening of chamber music curated and composed by Thomas Rauschenblag.
PAST CONCERTS 2006-2011
Students of Concordia Conservatory's Chamber Music Program will premiere ECHO SONG commissioned for them for this concert.
Having an inclusive chamber music program open to all instruments and abilities inevitably results a few unusual ensembles, and finding repertoire is a amusing challenge! Sometimes an arrangement of an existing piece does the trick, and in fact some short baroque pieces lend themselves quite cheerfully to flexible instrumentation. But by utilizing our composers (me!), we can combine students of roughly similar ability in sometimes oddball instrumentations. ECHO SONG, for example, is for three guitarists and piano four-hands!
7:30 PM
Sommer Center, Concordia College
Bronxville, NY
The Intimacy of Creativity, the internationally-acclaimed two-week partnership devoted to promoting an intimate dialogue between composers and performers hosted by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology returns for a second season, and will include workshops and a final performance on May 1 of YOU ARE ALWAYS DISTRACTED BY SOMETHING, a rechristening of an older piece...
Great Noise Ensemble in concerts including ONLY THE PIANO WILL GIVE US OUR PEACE
Friday, April 13, 2012 7:30 PM
"Philosophy"
Ward Hall, Catholic University
Washington, DC
Monday, April 16, 2012 7:30 PM
Cutting Edge Concerts
Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater
Peter Norton Symphony Space
95th Street and Broadway, NYC
TICKETS $20/$15
in concerts including the premiere performances of THEY DISAPPEAR for choir and Klezmers and performances of a newly revised HASHKIVENU.
San Francisco Choral Artists presents Prophets, Kings & Klezmer, exploring the heart and soul, the stories and dreams, the grief and joy, the texts and traditions of Jewish life are expressed in psalms, folksongs, prayers and lullabies. Veretski Pass joins SFCA for a wild and wonderful series of concerts.
March 11, 2012, 4:00 PM
Congregation Etz Chayim
4161 Alma St, Palo Alto
March 17, 2012, 8:00 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran
1111 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco
March 18, 2012, 4:00 PM
Temple Sinai
2808 Summit St, Oakland
in concerts including LULL THE SOLEMN NIGHT
San Francisco Choral Artists presents Company at the Creche, exploring the nativity from the ground up, sharing the wonder of those who were there: the manger animals, peasants, and shepherds.
December 4, 2011, 4:00 PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
600 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto
December 10, 2011, 8:00 PM
Montgomery Chapel
Bolinas Ave. at Richmond
SF Theological Seminary campus, San Anselmo
December 17, 2011, 8:00 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran
1111 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco
December 18, 2011, 4:00 PM
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
114 Montecito Avenue, Oakland
Continue reading "San Francisco Choral Artists: Lull the Solemn Night" »
Paul Dunkel presents Animalhausmusik, an evening of music for all ages, including Peter and the Wolf, songs by Linda Rogers and Michael Stewart, and a concert version of my mini-musical THE ANIMAL ESTATES HOME BUYERS' TOUR. With Jim BracchittaPatti Goettlicher, George Psomas, and Joelle Lurie.
TICKETS (click to buy)
Family rates available.
Christ & St. Stephen's Church
120 West 69th Street, NYC
Continue reading "Animal Estates @ Christ & St. Stephen's NYC" »
World Youth Choir in concert including the first performance in Europe of WHITE, THOSE THAT STAYED STILL
World Youth Choir
Conducted by Grete Pedersen
Oslo University Ceremonial Hall
... with pianist & composer Martin Kennedy in a recital including my SONGS OF STEPHEN FOSTER.
Little Stage Theater
SoBe Institute of the Arts
2100 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida
performing in Rami Vamos's Melvin Owns the Music. With Nurit Pacht, Amadi Azikiwe & Egil Rostad.
Sommer Center
Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
My GOODBYE SONG is the closing number in 60x60 Dance, a show at Sheldon Concert Hall in St Louis.
The outstanding Cantoria de la Merced will give the first performance of piece WHITE, THOSE THAT STAYED STILL at this year's International Federation for Choral Music World Symposium in Puerto Madryn, Buenos Aires.
Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture presents a concert of my music, including KISS THE STARS GOODNIGHT and a set of my musical theater songs. With soprano Fotini Samara.
Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture
Kefalonia Island, Greece
What makes us who we are? When are the moments that we each discover our true abilities? How do we overcome challenges to discover our individual and special powers? From super-heros to Shakespeare, Prospect Theater Company explores questions of character in this new musical revue, performed by the students in the 2011 Summer Intensive Program. Featuring an array of original material by emerging musical theater writers, performed by a cast of 15 talented teens.
... including my song GRAMMAR POLICE.
July 28-30, 2011
ALTER EGO, A Teen Musical Revue
Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row (410 W. 42nd St.)
TICKETS $10
(212) 239-6200 or (800) 432-7250, or visit the box office, 12pm to 8pm daily
Curated by Dev Bondarin. Directed by Dev Bondarin, Rachel Dart, and Simone Zamore Curbelo. Produced by Prospect Theater Company.
Following a performance of FLIP THE SWITCH!, an orchestra drawn from Concordia Conservatory's Summer Chamber Music camp will perform FLOPITOPITOT. (And then I will join them on accordion for Por Una Cabeza.) Part of Concordia's Summer Music Festival Concerts
Sommer Center, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
FREE
Workshop performances of two new 30-minute musicals with books by Kellen Blair and music and lyrics by MVB. Part of Concordia Conservatory's Summer Music Festival Concerts
Directed & choreographed by Jen Littlefield.
Music direction by MVB
Program 1 (Grades 5-8)
THE LOUDEST VOICE
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 7:00 PM
Program 2 (Grades 1-5)
FLIP THE SWITCH
Thursday, July 21, 2011 7:00 PM
Sommer Center, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
FREE
Continue reading "The Loudest Voice & Flip the Switch! @ Concordia Conservatory" »
American Opera Projects and The Walt Whitman Project present The Voice of Brooklyn: Contemporary Opera and Song in the heart of Fort Greene Park
...playing accordion for Caitlin Smith's "Pour Les Enfants" at 4:30pm. With Melissa Hughes
...playing piano and singing for ANIMAL ESTATES at 5:30pm. With Joelle Lurie
3:30-8:00 PM, Free
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn
(at the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument)
Manhattan Choral Ensemble presents New Music for New York
including the premiere performance of WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
Mary Flagler Cary Hall at The Dimenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37 Street, NYC
Concordia Conservatory's irresistible chamber music program for young performers will include two pieces of mind: the premiere performance of FLOPITOPITOT, for a trio of beginning violin, piano and percussion students; a new version of TAKE THE BURDEN UPON YOU, for voice, violin, clarinet and piano, and a performance of WASHING MACHINE, for 6-hands piano.
FLOPITOPITOT on 13 May
TAKE THE BURDEN UPON YOU and WASHING MACHINE on 14 May
The Importance of Being Not So Earnest
Musical Comedy That Will Actually Make You Laugh
Parkside Lounge 317 E. Houston Street, NYC
A concert o new, original musical comedy songs that will actually make you laugh, performed live by funny people. Including Charlie Sohne & my song "If it Wasn't For Me." Also including songs by Drew Fornarola, Eric March, Adam Overett, Matt Schatz, Adam Spiegel and Dan Wolpow, Katya Stanislavskaya, & Jeff Ward. Performed by Sarah Corey, Maggie Finnegan, Amy Justman, Jeremy Morse, Morgan Phillips, Max Spitulnik, & Sarah Statler
...including the premiere performance of BE MUSIC, NIGHT, an SATB setting of a poem by Kenneth Patchen. (Used by permission of New Directions Publishing)
C4: The Choral Composer / Conductor Collective
also performing works of Dyrud, Rautavaara, Matthew Brown, Allen Menton, Carlos Michans, and Jordan Nobles.
Thursday, March 3, 2011 8:00 PM
Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Avenue at West 87th Street
$10
Saturday, March 5, 2011 8:00 PM
Church of Saint Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014
$10
Music at Concordia presents THE ANIMAL ESTATES HOME BUYERS TOUR as part of the Musical Adventures for Children Series at Concordia Conservatory.
Schoenfeld Campus Center
Concordia College
Bronxville, NY
BMI Winter Smoker, A concert of new works by BMI Musical Theater Writing Workshop members. Including MVB & Charlie Sohne's "Exciting to Me" performed by Amy Justman.
... including performances of SONGS OF STEPHEN FOSTER, an arrangement for violin and piano of several Stephen Foster tunes. Also including performances of Martin Kennedy's Trivial Pursuits
October 15, 2010 12:00pm
Rockefeller University, New York
October 17, 2010 3:00pm
University of Georgia, Athens
October 21, 2010 8:00pm
Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto
October 23, 2010 8:00pm
Bishop's University Centennial Theatre. Sherbrooke, Quebec
October 24, 2010 8:00pm
Queen's University, Grant Hall, Kingston, Ontario
October 29, 2010 8:00 pm
Hillfield Strathallan College, West Hamilton, Ontario
November 14, 2010
Troy Chromatics, Troy, NY
January 14 and 15, 2011
The Library Theater, Birmingham, Alabama
...including the USA premiere of MORE DAPPLED THAN COLOR and the premiere performance of an SSAA version of IT'S NEVER THE SAME WITHOUT SNOW.
Concord Women's Chorus
Holiday Concert: "Winter Dreams"
Jane Ring Frank, conductor and artistic director
Also including music by Andrew Carter, Paul Carey, Rebecca Clarke and others.
Trinity Episcopal Church
81 Elm Street, Concord, Mass.
Lincoln Center Holiday Songbook, A concert of new holiday music presented by Broadway composers and lyricists sung by Broadway vocalists. Directed by John Znidarsic and co-sponsored by Arts and Artists at St. Paul. Including MVB's "It's Never the Same Without Snow" performed by Joelle Lurie.
Premiere performance of CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY, a one-act musical commissioned by Concordia Conservatory of Music & Art.
Book, music and lyrics by Matt Van Brink
Based on a story by William Dean Howells.
Directed by Greg Suss
Music direction by Claire Simard
Choreography by Jen Littlefield
Set design by Eric Zoback
Lighting design by David Pentz
Produced by Kathleen Suss
Featuring a cast and crew of 95 students representing 23 elementary, middle and high schools throughout the Bronx and Westchester County.
TICKETS $25/$10
(914) 337-9300 X2433
Schoenfeld Auditorium, Concordia Colllege
Bronxville, NY
including the premiere performance of MORE DAPPLED THAN COLOR.
Vespera Ensemble: "Winter Song"
also including music of R. Vaughan Williams, and Björk, and paintings by Paula Lind.
with the Cantabile Chamber Singers, Cheryll Chung, Sarah John, Michelle Dussard, Olga Tylman, Jaye Marsh Graham and Nancy Tam
Tickets $15
The Music Gallery
197 John Street, Toronto
Continue reading "Vespera Ensemble: More Dappled Than Color (premiere)" »
Performing on piano and accordion with pianist and singer Claire Simard.
Song Patterns, a genre-spanning concert weaving new takes on old classics, working songs, and songs celebrating life & change.
Osilas Gallery at Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
Sybarite5 will perform my arrangement of Perapaskero's Turceasca on three concerts at The Cell. Also includes music by Deborah Barnekow, Tom Osborne, Led Zeppelin, Dave Brubeck, and Radiohead.
"Explore/Innovate/Advance"
The Cell Theatre
338 West 23rd St. NYC
Tickets $20/$15
...performing C.E. Whalen's Five Pieces for Two Pianos. Empanda benefit.
$10, The Tank, 354 West 45th Street, NYC
...performing on accordion
Tristan Perich's "Elevation Maps" for five accordions and 1-Bit electronics
$10/$5 kids free
Noguchi Museum
3338 10th Street, Long Island City, NYC
NEXT: Now Entering the X-Roads of Theatre
presents AN EVENING OF CHARLIE SOHNE including songs from TOUCHED
The Duplex
61 Christopher St, NYC
THE ANIMAL ESTATES HOME BUYERS' TOUR, a 40-minute musical for children featuring irascible singing animals and kazoos.
With Sam Heldt, Patti Goettlicher, Justin Link, and Joelle Lurie
Directed by Hilary Leavitt
Book, Music and Lyrics by Matt Van Brink
Additional Dialogue by by Jennifer S. Greene
Based on Fritz Haeg's "Animal Estates"
Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Family Art Adventures
Part of Fritz Haeg's residency at the museum
Including the premiere performance of MVB's ZEPHYR and Martin Kennedy's "Variations on Being Alone," Bach: Partita No1 & No3, and Ysaÿe: Sonata Op 27, No3.
1 August 2010 4:00PM
Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock, NY
Workshop performances of two new 30-minute musicals.
GET REAL
July 21, 2010 7:00PM
MEMBERS ONLY
July 22, 2010 7:00PM
Book, music, and lyrics by Matt Van Brink
Directed by Heather Petrie
Choreography by Jen Littlefield
Sommer Center
Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
FREE
A set of songs with lyrics by Charlie Sohne including songs from TOUCHED (music by MVB). Also including songs from "The Profit of Creation" (music by Tim Rosser) and "The Re-Hydration of Edith Pilaf" (book by Anton Dudley, music by Keith Gordon).
with Amy Justman (Company, White Christmas), Lindsay Mendez (Everyday Rapture, Grease), Ilene Pabon, Jed Resnick (Avenue Q), and Michael Winther (Songs from an Unmade Bed). Music direction by Micah Young.
D-Lounge (Downstairs at the Daryl Roth Theater)
Union Square, NYC
Performing on accordion and keyboard with Gamelan Galak Tika.
January 8, 2010 7:30 PM
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
March 5, 2010 8:00 PM
Bowker Auditorium
UMass Amherst
June 27, 2010 4:00 PM
Bang on a Can Marathon, NYC
World Financial Center Winter Garden, New York, NY
in concerts including THE LOWER LEAVES OF TREES
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May 18, 2010 8:00 PM
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street
San Francisco / TICKETS
June 13, 2010; 4:00 PM
St. Mark’s Lutheran
1111 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco / TICKETS
June 19, 2010; 8:00 PM
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
600 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto / TICKETS
June 20, 2010; 4:00 PM
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
114 Montecito Avenue, Oakland / TICKETS
Noah Getz will perform my SONATA FOR SAXOPHONE AND PIANO at the University of Oregon.
Beall Concert Hall
Tickets $10/$8
The students of Concordia Conservatory's chamber music program will premiere a new song cycle of mine commissioned by the Conservatory with support from the ASCAP Foundation's Charles Kingsford Fund. The cycle includes ten song settings of poems by Karla Kuskin, Mary Britton Miller, Deborah Chandra, Carl Sandburg, Douglas Evans and Charlie Sohne. The texts weave a story of discovery and whimsy in the day of the life of a child: waking up, going to school, daydreaming, playing, and saying good night. Each instrumental and vocal part was tailored to the level of the student who will perform it, making the experience challenging, achievable, and fun!
VIDEO from the concert (YouTube)
Tickets $10/$5
Sommer Center, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
Performing with the Sinfonietta of Riverdale on accordion in Hindemith's Kammermusik No1.
Riverdale Temple
4545 Independence Avenue (at 246th Street)
New York
...music directing a reading of Ryan Langer and Jon Weissberg's Everything is Fine at ASCAP.
THE ANIMAL ESTATES HOME BUYERS' TOUR, a 40-minute musical for children featuring irascible singing animals and kazoos.
With Eric Harper, Justin Link, Dana Craig, and Joelle Lurie
Directed by Hilary Leavitt
Book, Music and Lyrics by Matt Van Brink
Additional Dialogue by by Jennifer S. Greene
Based on Fritz Haeg's "Animal Estates"
Shortened Attention Span Musical Festival
Tickets
The Players Theater
115 MacDougal St, New York
"Celebrating Lukas" a concert of 5 works by Lukas Foss and a collection of short pieces written by his students, including my 60-second piece GURU
ALEA III, Boston University Chamber Chorus
Theodore Antoniou, conductor, Ann Howard Jones, conductor, Kathleen Boyd, flute, Yukiko Shimazaki, piano, Justin Blackwell, piano
Elegy for Anne Frank, Echoi, For Toru, The Prairie, Behold! I Build an House
plus Eighteen Epigrams (a new work written by Lukas Foss’ students in honor of their teacher
Mark Berger, Ramon Castillo, Michalis Economou, Sunggone Hwang , Jakov Jakoulov,
Panos Liaropoulos, Ivana Lisak, Pedro Malpica, Margaret McAllister,
Apostolos Paraskevas, Mauricio Pauly, Matt Van Brink, Jeremy Van Buskirk, Paul Vash,
Ronald G. Vigue, Julian Wachner, John H. Wallace, Po-Chun Wang.)
FREE
Tsai Performance Center
Boston University
Music at Concordia Gala Concert. Matt Van Brink & George Francois, pianos.
Sommer Center, Concordia College, Bronxville NY
The indomitable Polygraph Lounge perform with members of the Cleveland Orchestra, using my orchestrations of their songs and medleys.
Severance Hall, Cleveland
... music directing and playing Joelle Lurie's Christmas cabaret "The First Joelle.'
with Sean Hackett, guitar & Connor Meehan, drums
The Metropolitan Room
34 West 22nd St., NYC
Reservations: (212) 206-0440
Performing on accordion with flutist Paul Dunkel. Program includes arrangements of Bach's (attributed) C Major flute sonata and Piazzolla's solo flute sonata. With pianist Peter Basquin.
Christ & St. Stephen's Church
120 West 69th Street, NYC
Three of my songs from A SINGLE WINTER'S DAY feature in Concordia Conservatory's musical review "Ten Years of Holiday Magic."
Schoenfeld Hall
Concordia College
Bronxville, NY
Tickets $20/$10
(914)-337-9300 x2431
Sharilyn Spickall, violin and Irina Albig, piano performing UP, UP, and UP
Indiana State University New Music Festival
Center for Performing and Fine Arts
An evening of songs with lyrics by Charlie Sohne. Including "I've Got Hope" and "Shine" two songs from TOUCHED. Also music by Chris Wade, David Gaines, and Tim Rosser.
Cast includes Celina Carvajal (Tarzan, Toxic Avenger and Legally Blonde: The Search for the Next Elle Woods), Sevan Greene (Betrayed), Amy Justman (Company, White Christmas), Jed Resnick (Rent Tour, Avenue Q), Jodi Stevens (Urban Cowboy, Jekyll and Hyde), Mariand Torres (Giant). Music Director: Micah Young, Associate Producer: Donald Butchko
Laurie Beechman Theater, 407 W 42nd St NYC
Tickets $10 + $15 food/drink minimum.
Reservations 212.695.6909
LINK (Broadway World)
With Eddie Whalen, guitar and vocals, I'll be singing and playing accordion in a set filled with
bluegrass, old-time and Appalachian songs, gospel songs from Kentucky Harmony and songs by American songwriters from Stephen Foster and Henry Clay Work to Lead Belly and Hank Williams.
Osilas Gallery at Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
Noah Getz's competition repertoire will include the first movement of my SONATA FOR SAXOPHONE. Good luck, Noah!
Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist Competition
Haverhill Arts Centre, Haverhill UK
Faculty Flute and Clarinet Duo Dr. Lisa Jelle and Dr. Gail Zugger perform SHABU SHABU
Huntington Recital Hall, Capital University
Columbus Ohio LINK
Polkastra’s debut album Apolkalypse Now (iTunes LINK) includes my polkafied arrangements of Strauss, Smetana, Beethoven, Wagner, and a traditional Romanian tune. And yes, there will be contrabassoon. $20, Le Poisson Rouge, New York
New York Times Review
... music directing and playing Joelle Lurie's show "This Time Tomorrow."
The Metropolitan Room
34 West 22nd St., NYC
Tickets: Thursday, Saturday.
Including the premiere performances of LOST! and LOOK BEFORE YOU EAT, two new 25-minute musicals for kids written in collaboration with Claire Simard. FREE, Sommer Center, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
Previously: 2008 Workshops | 2007 Workshops | 2006 Workshops.
The Ansonia Trio performs my arrangement of LE TOMBEAU de COUPERIN
Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow St., New York
Tickets
Nancy Reycraft became the music teacher at Bellerose Avenue when I was a student there in 3rd grade. So I am tickled that in her last concerts there in this year of her retirement, she will lead the Chorale (which I sang in, too, of course) in performances of SPRING MORNING. They will perform at the Bellerose Spring Concert II on May 20
FREE, Bellerose Avenue Elementary School, East Northport, NY
Robert and Vladimir had the notion of my turning J.S. Bach's aria ICH HABE GENUG into a piece for cello and piano. The arrangement works very well, and they will give its first performance in their recital at Mannes. Also on the concert: BEETHOVEN Sonata in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2 | BARBER Songs | BARBER Sonata Op. 6. FREE, Mannes College of Music, 150 W 85th St., NYC
Lydia Miller will perform my arrangement of LE TOMBEAU de COUPERIN for violin and piano on...
Saturday, May 16, 3:00PM, Macalester Plymouth United Church, St. Paul, MN
& Sunday, May 17, 3:00PM, Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, MN
The extraordinary Educational Bridge Project hosts cultural exchanges for artists in USA & Russia. My SARABANDE (for six guitars), and PRELUDE MINIATURES will be performed in St Petersburg on May 13 & 14, and I will sing and play two songs from my musical A Single Winter’s Day on May 15 at a reception and concert at the US Consulate. The festival also features music by Ramon Castillo, and music by Russian composers Svetlana Nesterova, Anton Tanonov, Nikolay Mazhara, Ekaterina Blinova, Olga Bochihina, Nikolay Khrust and Vladimir Gorlinsky.
Continue reading "Sarabande for 6 guitars, Prelude Miniatures, Songs from A Single Winter’s Day" »
CSUN Symphony concert... including the premiere performance of Sic Semper Nobis (“Ever Thus to Us”). Northridge Composition Prize performance. Plaza del Sol, Tickets $10/$7/$5
Concordia Conservatory's remarkable student chamber music program will include a performance of my 6-hand piano piece WASHING MACHINE performed by young students from the conservatory. I coached a rehearsal last week and these kids rock. FREE, Sommer Center, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
I will be giving notation workshops for composition students and presenting a lecture of my music at UNLV.
Nextet will also perform CONTROL ROOM
7:30 PM at Paul Harris Theater, UNLV.
... music directing and playing Joelle Lurie's new show "This Time Tomorrow."
The Metropolitan Room
34 West 22nd St., NYC
Tickets
Jennifer Greene, Rami Vamos, Joelle Lurie, and I will present THE ANIMAL ESTATES HOME BUYERS' TOUR, a 30-minute musical for children featuring irascible singing animals and kazoos. Jenn Greene and I developed it last summer in a performance in a version for 24 screaming elementary school-aged kids. This new version reworks the show for 4 mostly non-screaming adults.
The Animal Estates Home Buyers' Tour
Book by Jennifer Greene & Matt Van Brink
Music & Lyrics by Matt Van Brink
Based on Fritz Haeg's "Animal Estates"
Harlem School of the Arts
Gathering Space
645 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York
I am music directing and accompanying a run of shows for singer Joelle Lurie, including this one, as well as two evenings at the Metropolitan Room.
Vagabond Theater Company Cabin Fever @ Medicine Show Theatre
549 West 52nd St., 3rd floor
Tickets $10
The Florida State University College of Music will present my SEXTET during its New Music Festival, January 29-31.
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida
... including the premiere performance of INITIAL ASCENT, for two pianos.
Stephanie Ho & Saar Ahuvia DUO play works by New York composers. Music by Richard Rodney Bennett, Philippe Bodin, Charles B. Griffin, Jay Anthony Gach, Denise Broadhurst, and MVB. PODCAST @ Queens College site
Premiere performance of A SINGLE WINTER'S DAY, commissioned by Concordia Conservatory, with support from the ASCAP Foundation.
UPDATE: PHOTOS
Schoenfeld Campus Center
Concordia College
Bronxville, NY
Tickets $20 / $10
The Ibuki Trio performs my arrangement of Ravel's LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN on the Conway Hall Sunday Concert Series
Conway Hall, London UK
Hofstra Chamber Singers, directed by David Fryling will perform
A THOUSAND TENDER PASSAGES. Coveting thy neighbor's wife? Presidentially scandalous!
Cathedral of the Incarnation
Cathedral Avenue, Garden City, NY
Tickets $15 / Free for kids & Hofstra community
Noah Getz will perform my SONATA FOR SAXOPHONE AND PIANO with pianist Ann Kang at the Stella Adler School.
Harold Clurman Concert Series
Stella Adler School
31 West 27th Street, NYC
Rachel Ciraldo will perform SHABU SHABU with with Linda Cotter, flute on November 7 at at the Louisiana State University Recital Hall, Baton Rouge, LA ... and with Meredith Rouse, oboe (!) on November 13 at Pottle Auditorium, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
Performing on accordion in Ramon Castillo's Agak Agak. Gamelan Galak Tika with Ensemble Robot
October 18 at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, NY, then
October 30 at Berklee College of Music David Friend Recital Hall, Boston, and
November 22 at Broad Institute Auditorium, Cambridge PHOTOS
Noah Getz will perform my SONATA FOR SAXOPHONE AND PIANO at the Phillips Collection Sunday Concert Series along with other works with piano, and for saxophone solo.
Concerts are included in museum admission for the day of the performance.
The Phillips Collection Music Room
1600 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC
... performing on accordion
KURT WEILL The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Erik Nielsen, conductor
Fully-staged production, sung in English
Tanglewood Music Center Theater
Lenox, Mass.
Gamelan Galak Tika with Ensemble Robot @ International Festival of Arts and Ideas
World Stage, New Haven Green, New Haven, CT
I will be joining Galak Tika on accordion as they once again team up with Ensemble Robot for a Balinese - Electronic extravaganza! Don't miss this outdoor concert with rocking gamelan, electric guitars, and circuit-banging robots!
UPDATE: Here is a short video with lots of good footage of the show: LINK
... including a performance of A Thousand Tender Passages.
VocalEssence Essentially Choral reading session for new choral music
The Music Room
SPCO Center, Third Floor
408 St. Peter Street
St. Paul, Minnesota
Free - no ticket required
... including performances of three new compositions for student ensembles: PRELUDE AND FUGHETTA (flute, violin and cello), MICROWAVE POPCORN, (piano six-hands) and SPRING MORNING (voice, violin, cello & piano). The students will also be performing BLOCK PARTY! (piano six-hands), a piece written for the Spring 2005 concert, as well as new pieces by fellow faculty Rami Vamos.
UPDATE 5 May: View photos of the concert by board member and faculty member Claudia Amboss HERE
Concordia Conservatory
Sommer Center
Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
MAP
As part of artist Fritz Haeg's Animal Estates prototype installation at the Whitney Biennial, I will be leading a family program for kids age 8-12 and their parents. The program will take place within the installation of animal habitats and we will channel the animal inhabitants through original song and movement. I will be playing accordion, accompanying new songs written especially for this project. Two sessions run on Saturday 3 May 2008 from 10am-12pm and 1pm-3pm. For further information and registration, call (212) 671-5300.
UPDATE: MP3 links for the songs Big Brown Bat and Beaver Dam
... presenting a lecture performance of the three compositions commissioned for this year's Student Chamber Concert at Concordia Conservatory. Free!
Concordia Conservatory
Stein Hall
Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
... in a recital including a performance of SONATA FOR ALTO SAXOPHONE and PIANO.
Music at Our Saviour's Atonement (MOSA)
Our Saviour's Atonement Lutheran Church
178 Bennett Avenue, New York City
(one block west of Broadway&189th)
Tickets $8-$12
... music directing and accompanying Joelle Lurie's evening of song at the Triad. She really rocks, so if you're in the neighborhood, or in a neighborhood near the neighborhood, get your ears ready.
with Bob Bowen & Adam Christgau
The Triad Theatre, 158 West 72nd Street, NYC
Tickets $5.
... including a performance of SHABU SHABU for flute and clarinet
with Jeremy Reynolds, clarinet
National Flute Association Annual Convention
Albuquerque Convention Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
... including the first performance of Pollinated! The Musical and a revue of new songs for middle schoolers.
Sommer Center
Concordia College
Bronxville, NY
FREE
... in a program of music for flute and guitar including BIRTHDAY WISH. Performed by Franco Capri, guitar, Stefano Cogolo, flute
also on the program:
Alvin Curran - da “Saltando in padella”il Cantiere
Ak2deru - II/III
Cristiano Vecchi - Anello di Saturno n°
Ak2deru - Capriccio n°1
Cristiano Vecchi - Anello di Saturno n°2
Ak2deru - Capriccio n°2
Cristiano Vecchi - Anello di Saturno n°4
Giovanni Guaccero - Flute Dance
Emmanuel Louis - I don't know how, but the doctor found a bicycle inside of my thumb
Dal Suono Sommerso (From Submerged Sound) is dedicated to the diffusion and the production of new compositions, especially that of young composers, both in Italy and in other countries. Through a series of initiatives, and in particular through concerts, it explores alternative methods of diffusing the “Young Music,” individualizing new spaces for encounters with the public and creating a network of contacts that favors cultural exchange among different countries.
including the premiere performances of two works for young ensembles: WASHING MACHINE, for 6-hands piano and PRELUDE, DIALOGUE & GUNBATTLE for piano, bass, guitar & drums.
Sommer Center
Concordia College
Bronxville, NY
FREE
I am so proud of Concordia Conservatory's Chamber Music program. In addition to their regular lessons at the school, students have the opportunity to play chamber music with other students of similar ability. And when an oddball instrumentation bubbles to the surface, director Kathleen Suss turns to her composers to fill the bubbles. Both writing this music and coaching the ensembles are big, big fun.
... in a faculty recital including a performance of PRELUDE MINIATURES, which Nick has also recorded for an upcoming CD.
Marsh Auditorium
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Miss.
FREE
... in a late show at Waltz Astoria. Grab a beer and enjoy a concert including my arrangement of Ravel's LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN. The concert also includes trio by Novak, Brahms, and Cassado. Stella Trio: Jannina Barefield, violin; Laura Metcalf, cello; Monica Chung, piano
Ditmars Boulevard beetween 23rd and 24th Streets (N,W to Ditmars Blvd/31st Street)
$10 cover
... in a recital including the premiere performance of SARABANDE.
Directed by Nicholas Ciraldo
Marsh Auditorium
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Miss.
FREE
... including the premiere performance of my arrangement for piano trio of Ravel's LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN.
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
57th Street & 7th Avenue, New York
Tickets $24 / $10
... presents a benefit concert entitled "New Beginnings." The concert features the premiere performance of FOR THE BROTHERS, three songs on poems of Hannah Senesh.
performers include the Miró Quartet, Hazzan Neil Blumofe, tenor and guitarist Matthew Hinsley, and saxophonist Harvey Pittel.
Congregation Agudas Achim
Dell Jewish Community Campus
7300 Hart Lane, Austin, Tex.
Tickets $18 / $36
Reception to follow
Preconcert reception $136
contact Rochelle Kraus
(512) 388-2398
I am thrilled to be writing a piece for this concert, organized by Rachel Ciraldo. The piece (for baritone voice, violin, cello, harp and guitar) sets short poems in Hebrew by Hannah Senesh. The selected poems reflect the "new beginnings" theme of the concert.
in a Gala Concert including DAL DOSAI
34th National Flute Association Convention
David Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh
... including the premiere performances of two new 30-minute musicals for young performers.
San Francisco Choral Artists presents "Slightly Cloudy with a Chance of Song," a concert featuring works celebrating nature and the natural landscape, including THE LOWER LEAVES OF TREES
Sunday 11 June 4:00 PM @ St, Paul's Episcopal Church, Oakland
Saturday 17 June 8:00 PM @ St, Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto
Sunday 18 June 4:00 PM @ Church Of St. Gregory Nyssen, San Francisco
In recitals including DAL DOSAI and also including a new work by Tamar Muskal
20 April 2006 @ New Jersey City University
23 April 2006 @ Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester
1 May 2006 @ Christ & St. Stephen's Church, New York
Nova Chamber Artists
a concert of chamber music including my STRING QUARTET
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, New York