-Upcoming Shows-
2012
2/18 - This is a big one - I'll be premiering Randy Gibson's The Third Pillar in Primal Imperfect Palindrome with The Souvenir of The Second Pillar, The Floating Cirrus over the Pumping Slush, and The Highest Moving Chordal Motif from Apparitions of the Four Pillars.
In the composer's words: The 2012 Avant Music Festival concludes in the spirit of Cage with the world premiere of …The Third Pillar…, Gibson’s two+ hour meditation for trombone, sine waves, and digital delay, performed by loadbang’s William Lang, accompanied with video by Oscar Henriquez and lighting design by Kryssy Wright. Says Gibson, “I am drawn to sine waves for their purity of tone and the blank slate that they allow. Arranging my sine waves according to the rules of just intonation allows me to create unusual chords and intervals that fill the air with pure sound, unencumbered by inharmonic dissonance.”
3/2 - the Guidonian Hand will be visiting Hobart and William Smith College to give a recital and possibly more. Details t.b.a.
3/4 - all Cage radio show on WKXR, the Columbia radio station, with loadbang.
3/8 - loadbang show featuring the music of Randy Gibson and John Cage at the Greenwich Music House!
4/14 - Playing with the great musicians of Wet Ink at St. Peter's.
5/18 - Bennett Brass will be performing bass sextets by Philip Glass, Holst, Boehme, alongside an arrangement of Bjork by the amazing Jeremy Howard Beck! Concert will be at Bargemusic
7/19 - performing with the Talea Ensemble at Darmstadt.
-Past Shows and Events-
2/12 - I'll be on the Radio! and promoting Randy Gibson's new work he's writing for me (to be premiered on the 18th!)
2/11 - The second night of the Avant Music Festival, where I'll be performing John Cage's four3, Ryoanji, the Concert for Piano and Orchestra, and Living Room Music as both a soloist and a part of loadbang, alongside such great musicians as Vicky Chow, Megan Schubert, Drew Blumberg, Victor Lowrie, Gelsey Bell, and Nicole Camacho. Concert starts at 8 pm, at the Wild Project.
2/10 - Playing with Riverside Orchestra, a wonderful community orchestra doing Tschaikovsky's 4th, with an amazing low brass section!
2/3, 2/5 - Playing Menotti's The Consul, with Dicapo Chamber Opera.
1/31 - Performing with the Wordless Music Orchestra playing Jóhann Jóhannsson's "The Miner's Hymn" at the Winter Garden. 7:30 start for the concert.
1/27 - I'll be playing alongside Newspeak, Mary Rowell, and Eve Beglarian on a concert at the Abrons Arts Center, as another part of the RiverProject Festival. Same info as the show on 1/21.
1/21 - Will be performing with my groups loadbang and the Guidonian Hand, playing the music of Eve Beglarian, with the composer herself and the great violinist Mary Rowell! The concert will be at 8 pm at Abrons Arts Center in NYC, and tickets at $25/$15 for seniors/students.
1/14 - the Guidonian Hand will be performing at the La Grua Center in Rhode Island. We will be playing music from Haydyn, Debussy, Albretchsberger, Hindemith, Mozart, Bruckner, Monk, Galen H. Brown, and Jeremy Howard Beck. Concert is free!!! at 5 pm, and in Stonington, Conn.
1/9 - I will be premiering Michael Vincent Waller's new work: Trombone Too, for Five for trombone duo and tape, alongside Tucker Dulin at Pianos on a concert starting at 8:30. Also on the concert are pieces by Phil Niblock and Elizabeth Hoffman.
12/29-31 - I am honored to be performing on the last concerts of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Park Avenue Armory. Shows will be at 6:30 and 9 each night, and will feature the stunningly beautiful dancers of MCDC, as well as new music from Christian Wolff, David Behrman, Takehisa Kosugi, and John King, for the musicians of TILT Brass, amazing cellist Okkyung Lee, and an all-star group led by Christian Wolff.
12/15 - loadbang at the Tank! Premieres by Andrew Kozar, Alex Lunsquii, Fay Wang, Eve Beglarian, and old music from Guillaume Machuat (!?)
12/13 - S.E.M concert at the Paula Cooper Gallery playing John Cage and Gabrielli at 6:30 pm.
12/11 - S.E.M preview concert at 26 Willow Place, Brooklyn. Music be Gabrielli and Cage, among others. Concert is free and at 8 pm.
11/30 - Excited for a joint concert of microtonal music featuring Notariotous and the French ensemble 2e2m! I will be performing a work of Laurent Mitchell's at the New England Conservatory.
11/28 - the Guidonian Hand will be a part of Ariel Arstists Four Quartets program at Oberlin Hall on the Harvard Campus.
11/10 - loadbang will be performing our microtonal fall offering at Greenwich Music House. Music by Reiko Fueting, Heather Frasch, Julia Werntz, Christian Carey, Aaron Cassidey, and Timothy McCormick. The concert will be at 8 pm, and tickets will be $10.
11/9 - 1/02/12 - I am proud to announce that I will be performing at Radio City Music Hall for the Rockettes Christmas Show!
11/4 - Bennett Brass performs a program at Barge Music featuring music by Nick Didkovsky, Ted Hearne, Guillaum Machaut, Edward Elgar, John Cage, Daniel Grabois, Milton Babbitt, and Evanescence!
10/27 - loadbang goes to Carnegie Mellon! We will be giving a lecture performance on the works of John Cage at the School of Music Convocation, and a recital at night of music by Cage, Reiko Fueting, Aaron Cassidey, Paul Pinto, and Nick Didkovsky.
10/28 - loadbang does outreach in Pittsburgh! We will be performing and teaching at Orchard Park High School.
10/16 - the Guidonian Hand will travel down to Fredericksburg, Texas, to start part one of our Texas Tour!
10/18 - Part two - at Hill College
10/20 - Part three - at Blinn College
10/23 - Part four - at Clear Lake
9/27 - the Guidonian Hand will travel to Augusta, Georgia. We will be playing a church in downtown Augusta at 3 pm, with a meet and greet lunch afterwards. So please, come meet and/or greet!
9/29 - the Guidonian Hand will continue our southern tour with a show at Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina.
9/16 - Performing Mahler's Adagio from the 10th Symphony alongside the Prelude from the House of the Dead by Janacek with Argento. There will be two performances, one at 6 pm, another at 8 pm, at the Bohemian National Hall at the Czech Center.
9/11 - Playing a tribute concert with the Wordless Music Orchestra in the Temple of Dendur in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We will be performing William Basinski's Disintegration Loops arranged for orchestra by Maxim Moston. Also on the concert will be string quartets by Golijov, Ingram Marshall, and Alfred Schnittke. Concert will be at 3:30 pm in the Temple of Dendur, and will also be live case on Q2 internet radio!
8/22 - Recital at St. John's Episcopal Church in Williamstown, MA. I will be performing Schumann's Romanzen, Brahm's Sonatensatz, Anon. (ed. Lindberg) Three Medieval Dances, the L. Mozart and Wagenseil Alto Trombone Concertos, and a world premiere piece for Whistler: To New York, by Matt Siffert. The concert is free, and will start at noon.
8/13 - Canteen! at the Laura Beechman Theatre with an ensemble led by Dylan Glatthorn. 7 pm.
8/6 - Debut of the Gliss Quintet! A new chamber ensemble featuring trombone and strings, the Gliss Quintet is dedicated towards expanding the repertoire and new music for their unique instrumentation. Will feature a world premiere by Carolyn Chen, as well as a New York premiere of Fred Frith's Tense Serenity, and also a performance of the rarely heard John Cage masterpiece: five3. 8 pm at 26 Willow Place.
7/23 - Pops Concert with the Yonkers Philharmonic. 7 pm at Somers High School.
7/17 - will be peforming with the Shrine Big Band at 9 pm. 135th and Adam Clayton Powell. Avante-garde jazz!
7/14 - Bard Recital No. 2: music by Iannis Xenakis, Aaron Cassidy, Luciano Berio, Andrew Kozar, Folke Rabe, and Abbie Conant and William Osbourne. 8 pm, Olin Hall Room 102, again, free!!!!
7/13 - Bard Recital No. 1: music by Brian Lynn, Enrique Crespo, Claude Debussy, Anon. ed. Lindberg, Giancinto Scelsi, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. 7 pm, Olin Hall Room 102, free!!!
7/5 - the Guidonian Hand will be presenting a recital at the INTAR Theatre, featuring world premieres by Jeff Gavett, James Bergin, and Gary Philo, as well as works from Galen H. Brown, Michael Gordon, and Benjamin Brody. Out set will be at 8 pm, and admission is $10.
7/5 - Salsa at Club Iguana with the Ray Rodriguez Salsa All-Stars! 11 pm set start.
June 2nd - loadbang will be performing a score of Alvin Lucier's: The Queen of the South, alongside Pygmy Jerboa at Issue Project Room at 8 pm. Afterwards the amazing group On Structures will be performing a bas-ass set.
May 27th - Playing the hardest piece ever written for trombone, Matthias Spahlinger's Gegen Unendlich for Trombone, Bass Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, with the great folks at Wet Ink.
May 26th - A trio show with fellow trombonists Chris McIntyre and Jen Baker, at 16 Beaver St. featured by ((audience)) as part of the Sound Off series. Show will start at 10 pm, with an earlier 8 pm set by the imcomparable Monique Buzzarte!
May 22nd - The Guidonian Hand will be traveling down to South Carolina for a show!
May 20th, 21st - Performing Philip Glass' 4th Symphony and a premiere from Johnny Greenwood with the Signal Ensemble/Wordless Music Orchestra under the direction of Brad Lubman. Also on the program will be the Ligeti Chamber Concerto.
May 13th, 14th - Helping premiere Chris Cerrone's new opera, Invisible Cities, at the Italian Academy.
Mey 5th - Performing two great works by Varese, Octandre and Integrales, alongside premieres from Inez and Angelica Neron with the CUNY Grad Center, under the direction of Whitney George. Pre-concert talk featuring the premiering composer, Whitney, and Ursala Oppens, on the concept of how noise impacts music compsed in NYC, starts at 7:30, and the music starts shortly after 8, all at the CUNY Grad Center on 5th Avenue, between 34th and 35th St.
May 1st - Playing with loadbang in Bloomsburg, PA.
May 2nd - Playing up in Cornell with loadbang, Part two of our tour
May 3rd - Finishing our tour up in Baltimore!
April 22nd - Playing at Galapagos with the Guidonian Hand. We will be performing out brand new arrangement of Michael Gordon's low quartet, done by our very own Mark Broschinsky! Also on the program will be works from Galen H. Brown, Jeremy Howard Beck, and Eve Beglarian, all accompanied by the kinectic sculptor Arthur Ganson. Also playing sets will be the versatile pianist Oni Buchanan and the guitar ensemble, Duo Orfeo.
April 21st - Really excited to be playing at MOMA premiering a new composition of Marina Rosenfeld's roygbiv&b (which I also pre-recorded sounds for awhile back.) Two shows, one at noon, and one at 4 pm! I'll also be playing off the 5th floor balcony into the atrium :)
April 19th - Playing a duo improv show with the fantastic Jen Baker at the University of the Streets. 10 pm.
April 16th - performing an improv show at Issue Project Room with Jim Pugliese and Kato Hideki, featuring sound design by Yolande Harris. Show starts at 8:30.
April 13th - with the SEM Ensemble at Carnegie's Zankel Hall, playing Ligeti's Piano Concerto, the Cage Concert for Piano and Orchestra, world premieres from Carolyn Chen and Alex Mincek, and also a violin concerto from Fanscesconis, and Petr Kotik's Music in Four Parts (for John Cage)
April 10th - SEM Preview concert at Willow Place.
April 3rd - Playing for my good friend Raymond Lam's Master's Recital at Mannes. I'll be part of a quartet accompanying Ray on a Nick Woud piece written for Ben Van Dyck a few years back. Concert is at 1:30.
April 2nd - Playing with the rock band Project Jenny at 285 Kent St. in Williamsburg. Band goes on at 11 pm.
April 2nd - Concert with TILT Brass featuring works by Lois Vierk, Curtis Hasselbring, Mauricio Kagel, Rhys Chatham, Christian Marclay, and Frederik Rzewski. Also, there will be performances by the TILT Brass Sixtet, the Evans/Wooley duo and Phantom Orchid. Concert will be at Invisible Dog, doors open at 7 pm, and admission is $15.
March 24th - Playing ArtSpace in New Haven during an opening show of the Exquisite Corpse with loadbang. Gallery will open at 5, and we will be performing between 5 and 6. Admission during performing hour will be $20.
March 23rd - As part of New Music,, New Haven, loadbang will be presenting the full staged premiere of our new piece from Andy Akiho.
March 14th - Excited to be announcing that loadbang with be doing outreach under a program umbrellaed by the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fischer! We will be performing graphic scores given to us by a middle school composition class. Should be a lot of fun!
March 10th - Making my debut on Conch Shell with the S.E.M. Ensemble at Roulette. Show starts at 8 pm, tickets are $10-$15.
February 27th - loadbang will be playing a set at Littlefield with Andy Akiho and a group led by Ted Hearne
February 26th - loadbang at New Haven. We will be performing at 9 pm at Audubon Strings.
February 23rd - loadbang at the Yale Club performing works from Yale composers! Composers include Andy Akino, Adrian Knight, Richard Harrold, Chris Cerrone, and David Lang.
February 18th - Once again performing Georg Friedrich Haas' in vain with the Argento Chamber Ensemble. Concert will be at the Park Avenue Armory at 7 pm. Also, in case you need more convincing to see this incredible work check out reviews from the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Washington Post!
February 11th, 12th, and 19th - I'm proud to be invited back as a soloist to Randy Gibson and Megan Schubert's Avant Media Festival. On the 11th and 19th I will be featured as the soloist in Randy's concert length work: Apparitions of the Four Pillars, which I have recorded a part of on Randy's latest cd. On the 12th Randy and I will be playing John Cage's 2/5 for Trombone and Piano. http://randy-gibson.com/v+sw/ for more details.
February 8th - Playing a 30-40 minute solo set for Christian Amigo as part of new music Tuesdays at INTAR. I will be performing music by Domenico Gabrielli, Georg Philip Telemann, Reiko Futing, Luciano Berio, Giancinto Scelsi, and a world premiere from Matt Siffert. Helping me with some duos will be Andy Kozar, and the new principal trombonist of the Pittsburgh Opera, Sebastian Vera. Sharing the set with me will be the Ark Guitar Trio! Show will start at 7:30, tickets are $10, and INTAR Theatre is at 500 W. 52nd St. 4th Floor (212.695.6134 for more info.)
January 21-23, 26-30, February 2-6 - Playing in the off-broadway musical, Camp Wanatachi! This is a project I am very proud to be a part off, and one I have been playing for two years at this point. Concerts are at 7:30 on the weekdays/saturday, and 2:30 on most sundays (and one saturday.) All performances will be at the classic experimental music theatre, La Mama. Music by Conrad Winslow and Machinedrum (aka Travis Stewert.)
2010
Dec. 21st - S.E.M. Ensemble at Paula Cooper Gallery, playing the same rep as the 19th.
Dec. 19th - S.E.M. Ensemble preview concert at 26 Willow Place. We will be playing two works from Christian Wolff, for 6 or 7 musicians, and Short Suite. Concert starts at 8:30.
Dec. 11th - Playing with the great musicians of the Wet Ink ensemble premiering works by a group of Columbia Composers including Alex Mincek, Geoff Holbrook, Yoshiaki Onishi, Mika Pelo, and Brahim Kerkour. Concert is at St. Peter's Church in Chelsea. 346 W 20th St - New York, NY, and is free!
Dec. 3rd - Playing the wonderful John Cage Concert for Piano and Orchestra with the S.E.M. Ensemble. At Issue Project Room, 8:30 pm
Nov. 19th - Playing another show with Argento at Miller Hall. It will be a composer portrait of Fred Lerdahl, and I'll be on his work Arches, for Solo Cello and Ensemble.
Nov. 11-13 - DVD recording session with the Argento Chamber Ensemble! We'll be playing Georg Freidrich Haas' in vain in a concert and recording at EMPAC at Renselaar Polytechnic Institute.
Nov. 8th - the Guidonian Hand will be recording a TV taping for June Middleton's public access show, Minding your Business! Broadcast details t.b.a.
Nov. 5-7th - going down to Memphis to play with the wonderful Eroica Ensemble! Concert will feature renowned violin soloist Saeka Matsuyama playing the Sibelius Violin Concert, and also the Marriage of Figaro Overture and Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony, conducted by the incomparable Michael Gilbert.
Nov. 4th - the Guidonian Hand will be giving a masterclass at West Chester University starting at 11 am with music from Jeremy Howard Beck and Galen H. Brown.
Oct. 31st - Playing the Rimsky-Korsakov Concerto with the Broadway Bach Ensemble. Concert will be at the Broadway Presbyterian Church at 114th and Broadway, starting at 2 pm.
Oct. 19th - Doing a set for Eve Beglarian with the Guidonian Hand at Roulette. 8:30, $10.
Oct. 16th - Playing with DJ JT at Rebel, 1-3 am for a Burning Man Fundraiser. Rebel is at 526 W. 30th Street.
Oct. 12th - Performing one of my favorite works: James Bergin's Langmusik at New England Conservatory with the Boston Microntonal Society! William Hall at NEC, 8 pm. 290 Huntington Ave., Boston. Free!
Oct. 3rd - World Premiere of Jeremy Howard Beck's "The Candidate" at the Tank! For Brass Ensemble and Tape, this is a special work I am proud to be a part of. 3 pm, $10. You can pre-buy tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/130378
September 30th - Playing Charlie Morrow's Fire Poem and Very Slow Gabrielli at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. 243 Mulberry Street, Brooklyn, 8 pm.
September 26th - Making my return to a concert series I helped found a few years back. I'll be playing solo music by Xenakis, Rabe, and Mitsuoka at Power Concert #74. 10 pm at Manhattan School of Music, Free!
Sep. 21st - Playing at the Shrine with the Axis of Evil Spirit Indoor Pep Band. All new compositions for Big Bang. First set at 7, second around 8:30.
August 28th - Salsa with the Ralphie Sabater Jr. Orchestra at Albany's Latin Fest 2010!
August 21st - Recording Session with Chris McIntyre's TILT Brass Ensemble! Recording music by: Nick Didkovsky, Anthony Coleman, Curtis Hasslerig, Nate McWooley, and Chris himself.
August 19th - the Guidonian Hand is glad to be invited by Natalie Weiss and Conrad Winslow to play at the Ramikan Crucible. Admission is Free!
July 8th - the Guidonian Hand presents a recital at the International Trombone Festival! Recital will be at 5 pm in the Recital Studio at Baylor University! We'll be performing music by Conrad Winslow, Eve Beglarian, J. Mark Stambaugh, Jeremy Howard Beck, and a world premiere from Galen Brown!
June 21st - Beethovan 5 with the New York Chamber Virtuosi. My first time playing this great work! Merkin Hall, NYC, 8 pm!
June 3rd and 4th - A Camp Wanatachi fundraiser at 3 Legged Dog downtown. 8 pm $15.
May 21st - I am honored to contribute to a tribute concert for Joe Maneri in Boston. 8 pm at the Cathedral of St. Paul.
May 20th - loadbang at the Tank! Lots of world premieres and such. $10, 54th between 8th and 9th, NYC 7:30
May 10th - with the Argento New Music Ensemble at NYU's Skirball Hall, 8 pm. Music is all premiers by some great young NYU composers!
April 30th - Playing with the Hand at a rock show in Brooklyn with my friend Ric Becker's group Just Puppets,
who will be having a CD release party. Freddy's Backroom, 9 pm.
April 26th - Playing with the NYU Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Wroe.
Skirball Hall on West 4th, $10 tickets, 7:30 or 8 pm.
April 21st - Masterclass with the Guidonian Hand at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia
April 18th - Louis Andriesson's M is for Man, Music, Mozart with ACME at (le) Poisson Rouge!
Tickets are $15, show starts at 7 pm.
April 12th - Excited to be premiering Jeremy Howard Beck's new masterpiece Awakening with the Guidonian
Hand at Juilliard's Paul Hall. Free tickets, show starts at 8.
April 8th - Playing with loadbang at the Gershwin Hotel alongside the Batteries (trumpet duo)
Tickets at $10, show is at 8 pm, and the Gershwin is at 27th and 5th avenue, NYC
