Events
2019-2020 Season
Students from the voice department at Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute perform I Will Learn to Love a Person in the Friday Noon:30 Recital Series. More Info
Present Music opens its 38th season with RE:RE:REWRITE, featuring music by Steve Reich, indie-rock band Radiohead, Nico Muhly, Rhiannon Giddens, and more on instruments ranging from pianos and strings, to car horns and a drumline. More Info
Susan Narucki performs “That Night with the Green Sky” from the song cycle on at 3 p.m. with pianist Donald Berman at Distler Hall in Tufts University’s Granoff Music Center. More Info
The Living Earth Show’s percussionist and artistic director Andy Meyerson offers an idiosyncratic recital of solo percussion recital of works exploring tension, resonance, ritual, and control, seeking out and deftly exploring the limits of what a percussionist, a performer, and the human body is capable. Repertoire includes a world premiere from long-time collaborator Samuel Adams, and new/recent works written for Meyerson by Adrian Knight, Sarah Hennies, Christopher Cerrone, and Amadeus Regucera. More Info
Sarah Heemann, with “electronic ID”, performs Liminal Highway in the Posttower Lounge at Beethovenfest at 8pm, along with On Being Wrong and Hoyt-Schermerhorn. More Info
HOCKET, the new music piano duo featuring alumni Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff, perform Arching Path for two pianos in Newman Recital Hall. More Info
Chatter performs works by Cerrone, Ades, and Beethoven in their Beethoven Project II. More Info
The Friction Quartet performs works by Geoffrey Gordon and Cerrone for the SF Music Day at the San Francisco War Memorial. More Info
At the Pulitzer Foundation in St. Louis, the St. Louis Symphony present “Songbirdsongs” featuring Cerrone and John Luther Adams. More Info
The Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra opens their concert with High Windows.
Jesse Myers performs a diverse program on Seattle’s Classical KING FM. More Info
In A Grove is an opera in development by composer Christopher Cerrone and the innovative Metropolis Ensemble, an orchestra dedicated to a new future for classical music. More Info
Ashley Bathgate performs music from her recent album ASH (On Being Wrong), released on NewAm in 2019, at West Chester University in West Chester, PA. More Info
Ashley will perform ASH, a work she commissioned from the Sleeping Giant composer collective along with new works by composers Emily Cooley, Fjola Evans and Alex Weiser inspired by Steve Reich’s Cello Counterpoint at the Detroit Institute of Arts (Two Performances). More Info
The East Coast Chamber Orchestra, with Shai Wosner, premieres The Air Suspended at Harris Concert Hall at Harris Concert Hall. More Info
The Philadelphia Chamber Music Socierty presents ECCO and Shai Wosner in the Philadelphia premiere of The Air Suspended, a work based on the writings of acclaimed novelist Elena Ferrante, at the Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center. More Info
The Chicago Composers Orchestra performs Will There Be Singing at St. James Cathedral.
The intrepid ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra) makes its 92Y debut with a program ranging from a piece based on some of the oldest music in existence to the New York premiere of a work by Christopher Cerrone, with soloist Shai Wosner at the Kaufmann Concert Hall. More Info
Members of the UNL Percussion Ensemble perform Natural History in Kimball Recital Hall. More Info
Members of the UNL Percussion Ensemble perform Natural History at the Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts
Members of the UNL Percussion Ensemble perform Natural History at Bellevue East High School.
Goldbeater’s Skin on Sunday, November 10 at 2:00 p.m. at the University of Central Florida Rehearsal Hall Auditorium.
Members of the UNL Percussion Ensemble perform Natural History at Lincoln East High School.
Members of the UNL Percussion Ensemble perform Natural History at Carmel High School.
Roma High School performs Natural History of Vacant Lots at this year’s PASIC in Indianapolis, IN. More Info
The University of Nebraska Percussion Ensemble perform Natural History in the Indianapolis Sagamore Ballroom at 10am. More Info
Shai Wosner, with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, perform Chris’s new piano concerto The Air Suspended. Including works by Mozart and Joan Tower. More Info
Sophia Subbayya Vastek performs music by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Christopher Cerrone, Missy Mazzoli, and a piece from her debut solo album “Histories” by Donnacha Dennehy. More Info
Composer Amanda Feery and poet Stephen James Smith worked with service users of St Patrick’s Mental Health Services as part of How Aria?, a new community and outreach initiative to be premiered as part of First Fortnight Festival in collaboration with Irish National Opera. More Info
Musiqa, Noblemotion Dance, and KINETIC unite for an evening of expressive contemporary music and movement, including works by Assad, Jalbert, Montgomery, and Cerrone at MATCH. More Info
Musiqa, Noblemotion Dance, and KINETIC unite for an evening of expressive contemporary music and movement, including works by Assad, Jalbert, Montgomery, and Cerrone at MATCH.
The String Orchestra of Brooklyn celebrates the release of their first studio album, afterimage, with a performance of Chris Cerrone’s High Windows and Jacob Cooper’s Stabat Mater Dolorosa. The orchestra will be joined by the Argus Quartet and a number of other guests. More Info
Praised for his “excellent” and “precisely attuned” performances by the New York Times, percussionist Ian Rosenbaum has developed a musical breadth far beyond his years. Memory Palace is an hour-long immersive musical narrative built around Christopher Cerrone’s evocative work of the same name. More Info
The critically-acclaimed ensemble of MSM’s Contemporary Performance Program, Tactus, play classical works from the past 100 years. More Info
Pianist Anyssa Neumann performs on the Old First Concerts, exploring a variety of contrapuntal traditions from the Baroque to the 21th century, including works by Bach, Wagner, Chopin, Pärt, Dallapiccola, Cerrone, and Dicke. More Info
The 28th annual Ussachevsky Memorial Festival of Electro Acoustic Music features guest composer, American Christopher Cerrone, at Pomona College with two 8pm concerts. More Info
The 28th annual Ussachevsky Memorial Festival of Electro Acoustic Music features guest composer, American Christopher Cerrone, at Pomona College with two 8pm concerts. More Info
newEar contemporary ensemble performs Can’t and Won’t in their program Dislocation + Defiance. More Info
newEar contemporary ensemble performs Can’t and Won’t in their program Dislocation + Defiance.
Ensemble Sentieri selvaggi perform the European premiere of Why was I born between mirrors? at the Museo M9 Mestre. More Info
Joined by a chamber ensemble, the Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble performs two contemporary works exploring the full range of human needs and hopes, including The Branch Will Not Break and Julia Wolfe’s Thirst. More Info
Pianist Anyssa Neumann performs on the St. James Concert Series at The Red Church, exploring a variety of contrapuntal traditions from the Baroque to the 21th century, including works by Bach, Wagner, Chopin, Pärt, Dallapiccola, Cerrone, and Dicke. More Info
Percussionist Danielle Gonzalez performs Natural History of Vacant Lots in her show “Natural Beauty”. Natural Beauty is a multimedia installation on environmental protection and sustainability featuring solo percussion and visual arts.
Hinge presents an intimate evening of heavy-hitting solos and duos for electric guitar, saxophone, and percussion at Make Shift Boston. Featuring music by Per Bloland, Osnat Netzer, Fausto Romitelli, Christopher Cerrone, and Sivan Cohen Elias. More Info
Pianist Sophia Subbayya Vastek presents an afternoon of emotionally transporting and immersive classical music by some of today’s most vital composers. More Info
The CSUF New Music Ensemble performs with Brightwork in the 19th annual New Music Festival in a program featuring The Night Mare. More Info
AURA Contemporary Ensemble presents Haunted at the Moores Opera House with music by Derek Bermel, Hernan Campa, Kyle Rivera, and Chris Cerrone. More Info
In their program “The roommates”, Angela Kim and Clara Kim perform Bach’s E-Major Sonata and Chris’s Violin Sonata, along with solo works by Bach and Yoonji Lee at the Spectrum NYC. More Info
Shai Wosner, with the Phoenix Symphony, performs Beethoven, Haydn and Cerrone in Symphony Hall. More Info
Shai Wosner, with the Phoenix Symphony, performs Beethoven, Haydn and Cerrone in Symphony Hall. More Info
Shai Wosner, with the Phoenix Symphony, performs Beethoven, Haydn and Cerrone in Symphony Hall. More Info
Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company will perform a new work with “On Being Wrong”, accompanied live by Ashley Bathgate at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. More Info
Pulsat Percussion Group perform Goldbeater’s Skin as well as works by Mátyás Wettl and Daniel Martinho at the Casa da Música. More Info
POSTPONED Liaisons2020: Reimagining Sondheim from the Piano, featuring pianist Anthony de Mare at the Bennett Gordon Hall. More Info
POSTPONED The Albany Symphony, with soloist Shai Wosner, performs The Air Suspended. The concert features works by Mozart, Tower, and Beethoven. More Info
POSTPONED The Albany Symphony, with soloist Shai Wosner, performs The Air Suspended. The concert features works by Mozart, Tower, and Beethoven. More Info
CANCELLED Bucknell University hosts a residency, with the Camerata performing The Branch Will Not Break at the Weis Center Auditorium. More Info
A conversation with composer Chris Cerrone about a new work he is writing for Sandbox right now. More Info
Detroit Symphony streams the Violin Concerto with Jennifer Koh. More Info
CANCELLED The UT Percussion Ensemble, directed by Tom Burritt, performs A Natural History of Vacant Lots in Bates Recital Hall at 7:30pm. More Info
POSTPONED HOCKET heads to The University of California, Santa Barbara! Program includes Christopher Cerrone’s The Arching Path and more! More Info
Liaisons 2020: Re-imagining Sondheim From The Piano where he will perform “Kiss Me” More Info
CANCELLED Dr. Patricia Thompson performs Goldbeater’s Skin at Kansas State University.
The video for Liminal Highway, recorded and featuring Tim Munro, is presented by Living Music with Nadia Sirota. More Info
POSTPONED Bang on a Can announces the launch of LONG PLAY, a new, three-day destination music festival, featuring Ashley Bathgate performing ‘ASH’. Specific time and venue TBA. More Info
Argus Quartet performs on the Raritan River Music livestream concert. More Info
CANCELLED Jointly commissioned by Northwestern University and the Yale University Symphony Orchestra and Glee Club, The Last Message Received receives its world premiere in a program that also includes the full-orchestra version of the great 20th-century Requiem of Maurice Duruflé. More Info
CANCELLED Faculty member Erik Forst performs Double Happiness on his faculty recital in the High Foundation Recital Hall. More Info
POSTPONED In celebration of its 28th season as the resident dance company of The Egg, Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company’s concert will feature two premieres and the live performances of cellist Ashley Bathgate and the Capital Trio – ensemble in residence at UAlbany. More Info
CANCELLED Rachel Lee Priday and Timo Andres perform Stravinsky Duo Concertant, Cerrone Violin Sonata, Julia Wolfe Mink Stole, Andres Three Suns (World Premiere), Holcomb wherein lies the good, Copland Violin Sonata at Gerlich Theater, Meany Center for the Performing Arts. More Info
Join us Monday, June 1, at 6:30 p.m. for the last conversation this season with our Virginia G. Piper Music Director Tito Muñoz. Before tuning into 89.5 FM KBACH for our broadcast, Maestro Muñoz will be joined by pianist, Shai Wosner and composer, Christopher Cerrone. More Info
POSTPONED Ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi performs Why was I born between mirrors? in their festival at the Teatro Elfo Puccini. More Info
Lunchtime Concert 11th June 2020: Aura Go & Louise Devenish, featuring Double Happiness for piano and percussion. More Info
Rites of Spring Music Festival invites ‘rising star’ Christopher Cerrone to present his music and tell us about the many sources of inspiration: literature, visual arts, multimedia. This is the inaugural episode dedicated to contemporary composers to present their esthetics and their vision of contemporary life. More Info
July 9 – September 7, 2020: Francesco Simeti considers his final series of animations “seedlings;” they leave room for both the artist and audience to envision new futures and take new perspectives. For Homemade, the artist started the project with an interest in how, with the absence of humans, animals and plants began to reclaim spaces. Using hand-drawn and found images of plants and new video production technology, Simeti’s video, set to a new score created in collaboration with composer Chris Cerrone, depicts the expansion of diverse plant life and moments of uncanny overlap, with plants palimpsest over another, creating mysterious and unfolding compositions. More Info
July 25-August 31 Sound Art at Caramoor: When Caramoor first asked Trimpin to create a permanent sound art sculpture in celebration of its 75th Anniversary, the world-renowned sound artist thought about Caramoor’s acoustical environment: the birds singing, the wind in the trees, and the blissful absence of street noise. In addition to Trimpin’s music, Caramoor commissioned pieces from four composers featured during the 2020 summer season: Christopher Cerrone, Anna Clyne, Missy Mazzoli, and Nico Muhly. More Info
Duo Cesaretti Tura performs The Arching Path outside the Rimini Hospital in Italy. More Info
Returning to Caramoor after a breathtaking performance of John Luther Adams’ songbirdsongs in our Sunken Garden last summer, the “utterly mesmerising to watch” (The Guardian) Sandbox Percussion invites you to experience 21st-century works by some of today’s most exciting composers, including a world premiere by Christopher Cerrone in which they are joined by Conor Hanick on prepared piano. More Info
Featuring my music, We All Fall Down, a new 30-minute live dance for camera, will stream on YouTube August 7 & 8 at 7:00pm. Using Zoom and OBS technology as an editing platform, NobleMotion Dance will showcase 19 performers in socially distant remote locations exploring themes of isolation, boredom, anxiety, absurdity, and compassion. More Info
Featuring my music, We All Fall Down, a new 30-minute live dance for camera, will stream on YouTube August 7 & 8 at 7:00pm. Using Zoom and OBS technology as an editing platform, NobleMotion Dance will showcase 19 performers in socially distant remote locations exploring themes of isolation, boredom, anxiety, absurdity, and compassion. More Info
Luke Lentini performs in the online new music intensive led by Nick Photinos. More Info
The August 14 episode will feature Christopher Cerrone’s Meander Spiral Explode, a concerto for Third Coast Percussion and orchestra performed in 2019 at Britt. More Info
Adam Tendler performs on MODERN MUSIC FEST, streamed and presented by Performance Spaces for the 21st Century. More Info