New Tzadik CD to be released in 2012 featuring chamber works
performed by Felix Fan, The Flux Quartet, Real Quiet, Blair McMillen,
Annie Gosfield, Ches Smith, Alex Lipowski, and The Pearls Before Swine Experience
New CD by Lisa Moore featuring "Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers"
and other work for piano now released on Cantaloupe
Portrait concert at MaerzMusik Berlin on March 21, featuring
a premiere for Frances-Marie Uitti, and Stephen Gosling,
George Kentros, Roger Kleier, Chris Cutler, and Annie Gosfield
Arrangement of a "A Bowler Hat" for Anthony DeMare's
Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano project
April 2012, Symphony Space, NYC
PORTRAIT CONCERTS
March 21, 2012, 8PM
MaerzMusik, featuring a new piece for Frances-Marie Uitti,
plus performances by Stephen Gosling, George Kentros, and the
AG trio with Chris Cutler and Roger Kleier
Part of AG's fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin
at Berghain, Berlin
MaerzMusik
November 23-26, 2011
U.K. tour/premiere of "Floating Messages and Fading Frequencies"
Inspired by radio transmissions of the Danish Resistance in WWII
Performed by the Athelas Sinfonietta (Copenhagen) and Annie Gosfield trio
11/23 Dartington
11/24 Nottingham Lakeside
11/25 Huddersfield Festival
11/26 Cornerstone Festival, Liverpool
Gosfield UK tour
November 16, 2011, 8PM
CD Release Concert: Lisa Moore plays music for piano and sampler from
the Cantaloupe release "Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers"
at Roulette, NYC
Roulette
October 20, 2011
Portrait concert at "Sounds of Stockholm" Festival, with chamber works
performed by Frances-Marie Uitti (cello), George Kentros (violin), and others,
and the Annie Gosfield trio playing EWA7.
October 22: The Stockholm Saxphone Quartet plays "Brawl"
October 18: The Pearls Before Swine Experience plays "Cranks and Cactus Needles"
SoundsofStockholm
OTHER PERFORMANCES OF CHAMBER AND SOLO WORKS
(in reverse chronological order)
2011
November 16, 2011, 8PM
CD Release Concert: Lisa Moore plays music for piano and sampler from
the Cantaloupe release "Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers"
at Roulette, NYC
Roulette
November 7, 2011, 8PM
Lisa Moore plays "Brooklyn, October 5, 1941" for piano and baseballs
at the Festival of New American Music, Sacramento, CA
FestivalofNewAmericanMusic
October 27, 2011,7:30PM
"Bottom of the Barrelhouse" for Disklavier at WAAPA, Perth, West Australia
TheMechanicalPiano
September 11, 2011, Marathon concert
MIVOS String Quartet plays "The Blue Horse Walks on the Horizon" (2PM)
and Blair McMillen plays "Brooklyn, October 5, 1941" (12:15PM)
at Music After, a free concert at the Joyce Soho,
commemorating the 10th anniversary of 9/11
http://musicafter.com/
August 30, 2011, 12:15 and 7PM
The Pearls Before Swine Experience perform "Cranks and Cactus Needles"
at Musikfest Stuttgart
Musikfeststuttgart
July 28, 2011, 8PM
Pianist Stephen Gosling performs "Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers"
for sampler and piano at Bargemusic, Brooklyn, NY
Bargemusic (program in link not correct)
June 25, 2011
Pianist Jennifer Hymer performs "Five Characters Walk Into a Bar"
Dutch Klang!-Fest, Hochschule fur Musik und Theater, Hamburg
Hollandishe (Dutch) Klang!-Fest
June 12, 2011
Pianist Jenny Q Chai performs "Brooklyn, October 5, 1941"
At the opening of the Face Art Academy, Shanghai, China
FaceArtAcademy
June 11, 2011
Jennifer Frautschi performs "Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites" for violin and electronics
NOW! Concerts, Millerton, NY
NOW!concerts
June 4, 2011
Premiere of a new work for cello and electronics, performed by Mathis Mayr
Commissioned by the Adevantgarde Festival, Munich, Germany
adevantgardefest
May 19, 2011
Pianist Jennifer Hymer performs works for piano
STIL, Hamburg, Germany
Jennifer Hymer Concerts
May 1, 2011
Pianist Rosanne Vita Nahass performs "Five Characters Walk into a Bar"
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
NYT NJ events
April 12, 2011
Iktus Percussion and Mivos String Quartet perform
"Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery" for string quartet and percussion quartet
Saint Peter's Church, New York City
iktuspercussion.com/events.htm
April 22, 2011
Pianist Oni Buchanan performs "The Wanton Brutality of a Tender Touch"
Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
http://www.galapagosartspace.com/
March 4-5, 2011
Premiere of "Daughters of the Industrial Revolution" at the Kitchen, NYC, Funded by the MAP Fund
Performed by Felix Fan (cello); Alex Lipowski (percussion) Roger Kleier (guitar);
Annie Gosfield (sampler); and Ches Smith (drums)
Plus Stephen Gosling performing works for piano
The Kitchen
PAST CONCERTS
Pianist Oni Buchanan performs "The Wanton Brutality of a Tender Touch" on the road
April 7: National Library (Biblioteca Nacional de la Republica Argentina) Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
March 25: Casa Thomas Jefferson Brasilia, BRAZIL
March 18: Henry Pfeiffer Chapel Pfeiffer University Misenheimer, NC
March 15: Spears Music/Art Center Concert Hall Columbia College Columbia, SC
March 8: R.R. Hodges Chapel Auditorium Mount Vernon Nazarene University Mount Vernon, OH
http://www.onibuchanan.com/events.html
February 25, 2011
Jennifer Hymer performs "Five Characters Walk Into a Bar"
for piano, as part of "Forum Neue Musik"
Hamburg, Germany
Ensemble Effusions
February 18, 2011
Frances-Marie Uitti performs "The Harmony of the Body-Machine"
for cello and electronics
Nonsequitur/Good Shepherd Chapel Seattle
February 12, 2011
Frances-Marie Uitti performs "The Harmony of the Body-Machine"
for cello and electronics
Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, New York
IPR
February 5, 2011
Portrait concert in Hamburg: Ensemble WireWorks: Wild Pitches - Music of Annie Gosfield
Frances-Marie Uitti (cello), Jennifer Hymer (piano), Jonathan Shapiro (percussion), and Gosfield (sampler)
performing "Wild Pitch", "The Harmony of the Body-Machine", "Uphill Slides and Knockdown Dives"
"Five Characters Walk into a Bar", and improvisations
Orchester Studio, Hochschule fur Musik und Theater, Hamburg, Germany
Klang Hamburg
January 24, 2011
The Jasper String Quartet plays "The Blue Horse Walks on the Horizon"
"The Art of the Quartet", Classic Chamber Concerts,
Sugden Theatre, Naples, Florida
classicchamberconcerts.org/
2010
December 3, 2010
The FLUX Quartet performs "Lightheaded and Heavyhearted" for string quartet
The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
fluxquartet.com/concert.html
November 20, 2010 8PM
The Eclipse String Quartet and Mills Percussion group conducted by William Winant
perform "Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery" for string quartet and percussion quartet
Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Mills Concerts
November 16, 2010 9PM
Guitarist Marco Cappelli performs "Marked by a Hat"
XXIX Festival Spaziomusica, Chiesa di Santa Maria del Monte
Cagliari, Italy
Festivalspaziomusica
ANNIE GOSFIELD AND ROGER KLEIER CURATE THE STONE
IN AUGUST, 2010 - details below
Roger Kleier and I had the honor of booking August at the stone in NYC, and are looking forward
to many concerts, with a program that includes 20 premieres, 11 new music for piano concerts, and much more...
The Stone is at 2nd St. and Ave C in New York City, all concerts $10 unless noted.
Stone Calendar August.com
The details, with full-length Gosfield concerts in RED :
August 2, Monday, 7-9
STONE SEMINAR -
ANNIE GOSFIELD Open to All $20
Annie will speak about her work, playing music and discussing her experiences combining acoustic instruments
with electronics, the nexus of composition and improvisation, and the commonalities of playing in dives, clubs,
and concert halls in an open, informal session at the Stone
August 3, Tuesday
8 pm,
pianist Sarah Cahill performs the NYC premiere of Gosfield's "Five Characters Walk Into a Bar"
as well as music by Carl Stone, Eve Beglarian, Terry Riley, Guy Klucevsek, Larry Polansky, and Mamoru Fujieda.
August 6, Friday
8 pm,
Blair Mcmillen performs Gosfield's “The Wanton Brutality of a Tender Touch”
as well as music by Judd Greenstein, Giacinto Scelsi, Daniel Felsenfeld, Erica Ball, and Derek Geary
August 7, Saturday,
8 pm
Annie Gosfield: From the Chamber to the Factory
NYC premiere of a new
String Quartet performed by the Jasper String Quartet,
and EWA7 performed by Annie Gosfield (sampling keyboards) Roger Kleier (guitar) Ches Smith (drums)
The Jasper String Quartet (J Freivogel, Sae Niwa,violins; Sam Quintal, viola; Rachel Henderson Freivogel, cello)
will perform the NYC premiere of "The Blue Horse Walks on the Horizon" inspired by the radio transmissions of
resistance groups in WWII, followed by Gosfield's trio performing "EWA7", a concert-length piece inspired by
factory sounds that was composed and premiered in the industrial environments of Nuremberg, Germany.
READ THE NOTES on the string quartet
and on EWA7
August 13, Friday, 8 and 10 pm
JOHN ZORN IMPROV NIGHT A Stone Benefit
John Zorn (sax) Annie Gosfield (keyboards) Roger Kleier (guitar) Ikue Mori (laptop) Shanir Blumenkranz (bass)
and many special guests
COME SUPPORT THE STONE AT OUR MONTHLY IMPROV RENT PARTY $20
August 14, Saturday, 10 pm
Roger Kleier's El Pocho Loco
Roger Kleier (guitar) Annie Gosfield (sampling keyboard) Trevor Dunn (bass)
Ches Smith (drums, percussion)
Roger Kleier returns to the Stone with his quartet,
with an emphasis on noisy instrumentals, improvisation, and electronic sound manipulations.
August 20, Friday, 8 pm
Annie Gosfield (sampling keyboards) Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) Ha-Yang Kim (cello)
This new improvising trio features three musicians who have each developed their own unique vocabulary on their
respective instruments. Altered samples of piano and cello mirror, merge, and collide with their real-life
counterparts in a shifting landscape of sonic illusions, musical realities, and old fashioned noise.
August 21, Saturday,
10 pm, Ashley Bathgate, new cellist for Bang on a Can, performs Four Roses with Annie Gosfield,
in a collision of re-tuned cello and de-tuned piano.
August 26, Thursday, 10 pm,
Gosling plays Gosfield: Stephen Gosling performs Gosfield's "Five Characters Walk Into a Bar"
in the "New Music for Piano" series
August 27, Friday, 8PM Annie Gosfield chamber works
A concert of Gosfield’s chamber music that marries the purely acoustic to the noisily electronic in a
sometimes unholy union. Cornelius Dufallo performs the ethereal “Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites” for violin and
satellite sounds, Keith Kirchoff performs the very raucous “Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers” for piano and sampler,
and Ne(x)tworks String Quartet performs “Lightheaded and Heavyhearted” for the first time.
Ne(x)tworks String Quartet is Cornelius Dufallo, Christopher Otto (violins) Kenji Bunch (viola) Yves Dharamral (cello)
August 28, Saturday,
8 pm
Hahn Rowe (guitar, violin) Roger Kleier (guitar) Annie Gosfield (sampling keyboards)
Three people who often share a pizza together meet not to eat, but to play together in a new improvising trio.
ELSEWHERE:
August 11, Bridgehampton Music Festival
"Real Quiet" perform "The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory"
http://www.bcmf.org/concert-season/overview/
August 29, 14:30 UIT festival, Den Hag, Soil Ensemble performs "Uphill Slides and Knockdown Dives"
in the show "Broeders en Zusters" in a collaboration with Soil and the Bloody Marys
September 10, 9PM(ish)
Todd Reynolds plays "Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites" for violin and satellite sounds
at the Bang on a Can Marathon in Philadelphia in the Live Arts Festival at the World Cafe
Marathon schedule
September 30-October 2 "The Annie Gosfield Project" in Los Angeles
Saturday October 2nd, 8PM - Annie Gosfield in Concert
An evening devoted entirely to Gosfield's music, showcasing the composer performing her own work,
and featuring many of LA's finest chamber players. The concert's centerpiece, EWA7, is an epic
industrial-inspired work for guitar, percussion and sampler.
Bert Green Fine Art, 102 West 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013 $20 online or at the door
More information for Annie Gosfield Project LA
November 5
Blair Mcmillen performs "The Wanton Brutality of a Tender Touch"
Bargemusic, Brooklyn, NY
November 7 Collinsville, CT
The Jasper String Quartet performs "The Blue Horse Walks on the Horizon"
Maxwell Shepherd Memorial Arts Fund Concert
Jasper quartet calendar
JULY 31 "Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery" Conducted by Brad Lubman, performed by
Lauren Radnofsky, Todd Reynolds, and others, at the Bang on a Can Marathon at Mass Moca
massmoca.org
MARCH 2010
March 11 and 12, 2010
The FLUX Quartet performs "Lightheaded and Heavyhearted"
Bargemusic, Brooklyn, New York
bargemusic.org
March 13, 2010
The FLUX Quartet performs "Lightheaded and Heavyhearted"
Saint George the Martyr Church Toronto, CA, presented by The Music Gallery
http://www.musicgallery.org/
March 16, 2010
Jennifer Hymer performs "Broken Nails and Metal Tails"
For kalimba and electronics
Goethe Institute, Boston
http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos
March 28, 2010 at 4:00pm
Sarah Cahill performs the world premiere of "Five Characters Walk into a Bar"
Rosen House Music Room, Caramoor Festival, Katonah, New York
http://caramoor.org/html/greatartists.htm
Oni Buchanan plays "The Wanton Brutality of a Tender Touch"
on the road, in a program of Women Composers of the 21st Century
More information for all of the dates at Oni's website:
http://www.onibuchanan.com
March 1, 7:30pm
Hofheimer Theatre, Virginia Wesleyan College
Norfolk, VA
March 10, 12:10pm
National Gallery of Art Concert Series
West Building Lecture Hall, DC
March 17,
Newton Hall
Mercer University, Macon, GA
Keith Kirchoff performs "Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers"
for piano and sampling keyboard on tour
More information for all of the dates at Keith's website:
http://www.keithkirchoff.com
March 2, 8PM, Virtuoso Series, Salt Lake City, Utah
March 5, 7:30PM, New Music Series, Provo, Utah
March 9, 8PM, The Stone, New York City
March 19, 7:30 PM, White Recital Hall, Kansas City
March 24, 8PM, Clark Univ., Worcester, Mass.
March 30, 7:30PM, Sharp Memorial Chapel, Tulsa
APRIL
April 18, 2010 at 4:00pm
Sarah Cahill performs the West Coast premiere of "Five Characters Walk into a Bar"
Old First Concerts, Old First Church, San Francisco, CA
http://www.oldfirstconcerts.org/performances/299/
April 24, 2010, 7PM
Aron Kallay performs "Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers"
For piano and sampling keyboard
Steinway Piano Gallery, 314 N Robertson Blvd, West Hollywood, CA
(818) 397-6954
April 28, 2010
Darragh Morgan performs "Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites"
For violin and satellite sounds
Contemporary Music Festival, University of Leeds
http://www.leeds.ac.uk
Oni Buchanan plays "The Wanton Brutality of a Tender Touch"
on the road, in a program of Women Composers of the 21st Century
More information for all of the dates at Oni's website:
http://www.onibuchanan.com
April 9, 8pm
CNMAT (Center for New Music & Audio Technologies)
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/
April 13, 8pm
Caldwell College Concert Series,
Caldwell, NJ
http://www.caldwell.edu/academics/music/caldwell_college_concert_series.aspx
April 18, 7pm
The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN)
Natick, MA
http://www.natickarts.org/index.php
April 24, 7:30pm
Smyrna Opera House
Smyrna, DE
http://www.smyrnaoperahouse.org/
Keith Kirchoff performs "Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers"
for piano and sampling keyboard on tour
More information for all of the dates at Keith's website:
http://www.keithkirchoff.com
April 5, 5PM, Saint Cloud University, Minnesota
April 14, 7:30 PM, Elmhurst College, Illinois
April 29, 8PM, Manchester Metropolitan Univ., Cheshire, UK
MAY
May 16, 2010, 3PM
Aron Kallay performs "Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers"
For piano and sampling keyboard, on a retuned 12-foot custom Rubenstein Piano
Rubenstein Hall, 109 Sierra St, El Segundo CA
(818) 397-6954
May 27, 2010
Lisa Moore performs "Brooklyn, October 5, 1941"
For piano, baseballs, and catcher's mitt,
Keys to the Future Festival
Le Poisson Rouge, New York
http://www.keystothefuture.org