December 7, 2024 6:00 pm
Jon Deak: The Passion of Scrooge

Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew
263 W 86th St
New York, NY 10024

Jon Deak: The Passion of Scrooge (1997)
or A Christmas Carol  by Charles Dickens
A Concert Drama in Two Acts for Baritone Voice and Chamber Orchestra
New York Premiere

Aaron Engebreth, baritone solo
James Baker, conductor

A presentation of St. Paul & St. Andrew United Methodist Church
This performance will last approximately 1 hour

More information and tickets here.

July 7, 2024 2:00 pm
Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music – Bowdoin International Music Festival

Studzinski Recital Hall 12 Campus Road S Brunswick, ME 04011

Olga Neuwirth: coronAtion II: Naufraghi del mondo che hanno ancora un cuore (2020)

Andile Khumalo: ISO[R] (2004)

Zosha Di Castri: La forma dello spazio (2010)

Derek Bermel – Language Instruction (2003)

Anthony Cheung – Clocks for Seeing (2023)

Talea Ensemble

James Baker, conductor

More information here.

August 18, 2024 7:30 pm
TIME:SPANS: Takasugi Piano Concerto

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

Steven Takasugi: Piano Concerto (2023 – sinfonietta version) *US premiere

Roger Admiral, piano

Talea Ensemble
James Baker, conductor

More information here. Tickets now on sale.

August 20, 2024 7:30 pm
TIME:SPANS: Bird, Blondeau, Chen, Cohen-Elias, Hall, Kochavi

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

Alec Hall: Vertigo (2017)

Sasha J. Blondeau: État d’exception (2014) *NY Premiere

Sivan Cohen-Elias: Still Life With Squares (2014) *NY Premiere

Shasha Chen: The bee is present (2022) *World Premiere

David Bird: Moln (2019)

Uri Kochavi: New Work (2024)

Talea Ensemble
James Baker, conductor

More information here. Tickets now on sale.

September 20, 2024 7:30 pm
Exploring Home

Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew
Parish Hall
520 Clinton Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11238

Exploring Home celebrates the centennial of Italian avant-garde composer Luigi Nono with a spotlight on his work, Guai ai gelidi mostri. The program examines the concept of home within our universe, our surroundings, and our bodies through music by Chaya Czernowin, Claudia Jane Scroccaro, Marcos Balter, and Luigi Nono.
 

Chaya Czernowin: Fast Darkness III: Moonwords (2022)
Claudia Jane Scroccaro: I sing the body electric (2020)
Marcos Balter: We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly
Luigi Nono: Guai Ai Gelidi Mostri (1983/88)
 

Tickets are available here.
 
Link to Program Notes.

October 2, 2024 8:30 pm
International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival

The Shoe Factory
304 Ermou Street 1017
Nicosia, Cyprus

For our Cyprus debut, Talea will perform the Cyprus premiere of pieces by Sofia Gubaidulina, Gérard Grisey, Zosha Di Castri, Chaya Czernowin, as well as the world premiere of newly commissioned works by Cypriot composers George Christofi, and Andreas Tsiartas.

 

Zosha Di Castri: La forma dello spazio (2010) *Cyprus premiere

George Christofi: New Work (2024) *world premiere

Chaya Czernowin: Fast Darkness III: Moonwords (2022) *Cyprus premiere

Sofia Gubaidulina: Quasi Hoquetus (1985) *Cyprus premiere

Andreas Tsiartas: New Work (2024) *world premiere

Gérard Grisey: Talea (1986) *Cyprus premiere

 

More information is available here.

October 22, 2024 7:30 pm
University at Buffalo Residency

Lippes Concert Hall
Slee Hall
University at Buffalo
103 Center for the Arts
Buffalo, NY 14260

Music by Olga Neuwirth, Tiffany Skidmore, Igor Santos, Pascal Criton, Luigi Nono, and Ming Tsao
Olga Neuwirth: Quasare/Pulsare II
Tiffany Skidmore: The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy
Igor Santos: Lamento
Pascale Criton: Process
Luigi Nono: A pierre
Ming Tsao: Not Reconciled
More information and tickets here.

November 4, 2024 7:30 pm
University of Louisville Residency

University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky 40292

Music by Sofia Gubaidulina, Lei Liang, Krzysztof Wolek, and Abell Award recipients

December 7, 2024 6:00 pm
Jon Deak: The Passion of Scrooge

Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew
263 W 86th St
New York, NY 10024

Jon Deak: The Passion of Scrooge (1997)
or A Christmas Carol  by Charles Dickens
A Concert Drama in Two Acts for Baritone Voice and Chamber Orchestra
New York Premiere

Aaron Engebreth, baritone solo
James Baker, conductor

A presentation of St. Paul & St. Andrew United Methodist Church
This performance will last approximately 1 hour

More information and tickets here.

January 24, 2025 7:30 pm
Derivations: Boulez & Lewis

Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew
520 Clinton Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238

Talea celebrates the 100th birthday of French composer Pierre Boulez with Derivations on Friday, January 24, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at the Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew. The program pairs Boulez’s Derive 2 with George Lewis’ Born Obbligato.
 

George Lewis – Born Obbligato (2013)
Boulez – Derive 2 (1988/2006)

March 28, 2025 7:30 pm
Written for Talea

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

Featuring new and recent works written for Talea, including the world premiere of Talea’s Early Career Composer Commission.

May 8, 2025 6:00 pm
Macabéa Concert Premiere at National Sawdust

National Sawdust
80 N 6th St
Brooklyn, NY 11249

Suzanne Farrin: Macabéa (2024) *World premiere of concert version

May 31, 2025 7:00 pm
Talea Encores

Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew
520 Clinton Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238

Solos for flute, oboe, percussion, and double bass

August 19, 2023 7:30 pm
TIME:SPANS: Iannotta, Lu, Zubel, Alessandrini

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th Street
New York, NY 10018

Clara Iannotta: They left us grief-trees wailing at the wall (2020) *US premiere

Yi Ting Lu: Timelessness I: Individualism (2017)

Agata Zubel: FLASH (2021) *US premiere

Patricia Alessandrini: Pastorale (Hommage à Alfred Schnittke) (2014)

Talea Ensemble
Jim Baker, conductor
Sae Hashimoto, percussion soloist

Tickets available here.

See the full festival line-up here.

August 26, 2023 7:30 pm
TIME:SPANS: Enno Poppe’s SPEICHER

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th Street
New York, NY 10018

Enno Poppe: Speicher I-VI (2008-2013) *New York City premiere

Talea Ensemble
Jim Baker, conductor

Tickets available here.

See the full festival line-up here.

September 15, 2023 8:00 pm
Shades of Words

JACK NY
20 Putnam Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11238

Our fifteenth season explores the theme of words in music. Shades of Words features works by Hannah Kendall, Jeffrey Mumford, Andile Khumalo, Jessie Cox, and George Lewis. Some of the compositions pull words from poetry; for example, Kendall’s Even sweetness can scratch the throat takes its title from a poem by poet Ocean Vuong, calling to mind the dichotomy between the sweetness of sugar and the human exploitation it took to produce sugar throughout history. In Andile Khumalo’s Shades of Words, the ensemble develops fragments of spoken poetry through musical textures. The pieces on the program employ a variety of imaginative mediums to weave together words and music, from the use of a narrator, to walkie talkies, to breaking the fourth wall between performers and audience.

Jeffrey Mumford: Undiluted Days (1999-2000)
Hannah Kendall: Even sweetness can scratch the throat (2023)
Jessie Cox: After-were(l)ds (2019)
Andile Khumalo: Shades of Words (2012)
George Lewis: ANTHEM (2011)

Tickets available here.

PROGRAM NOTES

October 29, 2023 6:00 pm
That Other Spring

Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew
263 W 86th St
New York, NY 10024

Our spotlight on voice continues in a collaboration with soprano Ah Young Hong, performing works by Georg Friedrich Haas and Michael Hersch. Hong is celebrated for her visionary interpretations of works from Baroque to modern. She was acclaimed for premiering Michael Hersch’s poignant monodrama On the Threshold of Winter and more recently performed the title role of the opera Poppaea. This program explores the full gamut of expression, vigor, and versatility of voice in music today.

Michael Hersch: anonymous beneath the lemon trees (2020)
Michael Hersch: one step to the next, worlds ending (2021) *US Premiere
Georg Friedrich Haas: … wie stille brannte das Licht (2009)

Tickets available here.

November 13, 2023 7:30 pm
CUNY Graduate Center & Hunter College Composers

Elebash Recital Hall
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave
New York, NY 10016

Featuring works for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, and cello by Graduate Center composers Bahar Royaee and Itzá Garcia and Hunter composers Ramya Thiragarayan, Terrence McManus, and Tété Leguía

Free admission. More information here.

November 19, 2023 2:00 pm
Opera Workshop: Alec Hall’s “The Life to Come”

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

Talea is collaborating with Alec Hall on a new opera, The Life to Come, which is based on a short story by E.M. Forster. Originally written in 1922, the story was not published until after the author’s death in 1970 due to its explicit interracial homosexuality. In collaboration with librettist and poet Vanessa Place, the opera sets Forster’s story as a tale about English colonial violence in India, queerness, and the birth of love. As we workshop parts of the opera, we hope you will join us for a public showcase to preview what is to come in the 2024/25 season.

Alec Hall: The Life to Come (2023)

Workshops taking place November 18-19, public showcase on Sunday, November 19 at 2pm

Free with RSVP here.

December 21, 2023 4:26 pm
Solstices at PS21

PS21: Center for Contemporary Performance
Black Box Theater 2980 NY-66
Chatham, NY 12037

On the winter solstice, Talea will perform Georg Friedrich Haas’s Solstices for ten musicians in complete darkness at PS21 in Chatham, NY. By subtracting light from our experience, Solstices adds a new lens to our ability to relate to sound, bringing together performers and audiences through intensive listening. Solstices is an immersive, sensory work expanding the listening experience through worlds of microtones and overtones and evoking the natural phenomena of planetary movement. The performance begins at sunset, 4:26 PM, on the shortest day of the year, to mark the passage from autumn to winter.

Georg Friedrich Haas: Solstices (2017)

More info and tickets are available here.

January 20, 2024 3:00 pm
Composer Recording Workshop

Queens College Aaron Copland School of Music
65-30 Kissena Blvd
Flushing, NY 11367

Our week-long composer reading and recording workshop will be held from January 15-20, 2024 at Queens College. Talea will work with a group of early-career composers to workshop recent pieces and produce high-quality professional recordings for the composers’ use, culminating in a final concert on January 20 at 3 pm. We look forward to sharing a schedule of public professional development workshops and open rehearsals.

February 8, 2024 6:00 pm
Opera Workshop: Suzanne Farrin’s “Macabéa”

CUNY Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall
365 5th Ave
New York, NY 10016

Free RSVP here.

Macabéa is an opera by Suzanne Farrin based on Clarice Lispector’s final novel, The Hour of the Star (1978). It is an electro-sonic operatic experience with film and music that examines the cultural, psychological, and spiritual manifestations of poverty and power. Join us on Thursday, February 8th as we unveil scenes from a Macabéa in a free workshop performance!

A Ukrainian-born Brazilian author, Clarice Lispector’s work disrupts historical tropes regarding poverty by creating a character who is miserably poor yet strangely free. Young Macabéa lives in Rio’s slums, barely existing, loving hot dogs, and spending time with her repulsive boyfriend. Macabéa goes to see a fortune-teller. As she arrives another client is running out crying hysterically. The fortune-teller explains that the woman will be killed by a hit-and-run, but that Macabéa will soon meet a rich, European boyfriend who will give her furs. But the seer’s signals were crossed: as Macabéa steps onto the street a yellow Mercedes barrels down and strikes her. As she dies, the passersby do not see that her blood is a beautiful color red. In this operatic adaptation by novelist Sergio Chejfec, the narrator is a film director who, rather than observe Macabéa’s death from a distance, builds a conspiracy to the climax of the fortune-teller’s misreading. Chejfec’s adaptation propels the novel to the stage by moving Lispector’s plastic narrative voice into a conspiracy to murder.

Talea will premiere the work in Portuguese in the 2025 season at the Theatro São Pedro in São Paulo. Development and the US premiere is supported by the Consulate General of Brazil in New York. Video documentation is sponsored by the NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theater by the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in association with The New York Foundation for the Arts. The workshop is also supported by the Frayda B. Lindemann Endowed Chair Fund and Elebash Hall at the C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center. Macabéa received development in The American Opera Project’s First Chance program for new works. The commission of Macabéa was made possible with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation, and in part through an award from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Suzanne Farrin: Macabéa (excerpts)

Macabéa Artistic Team
Suzanne Farrin, composer
Sergio Chejfec, librettist
Talea Ensemble, performers
Christopher Dylan Herbert, Rodrigo
Eduardo Leandro, conductor
Noelia Quintero, filmmaker
João Luiz, musical consultant
Graciela Montaldo, libretto consultant

March 16, 2024 7:30 pm
Talea at 15!

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

This year’s program will look back at the past 15 years of commissions and premieres, while also bringing to life new works by composers we will continue to celebrate for years to come.

Hannah Kendall: Tuxedo: Between Carnival and Lent (2022)

Suzanne Farrin: Dolce La Morte Suite (2016)

Wang Lu: November Airs (2021)

Steven Takasugi: Strange Autumn (2003/2004)

Georges Aperghis: Wild Romance (2013)

Tickets are available here.

April 6, 2024 7:00 pm
Columbia Composers Concert

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

World premieres featuring works by Columbia University Composers: Anna-Louise Walton, Jessie Cox, Nina Fukuoka, and Uri Kochavi.

 
Admission is free. RSVP here.

April 19, 2024 7:30 pm
Catapult Opera: La Ville Morte

NYU Skirball Center
566 LaGuardia Pl
New York, NY 10012

We are thrilled to partner with Catapult Opera on a new production of Nadia Boulanger’s only known opera, La Ville Morte, at NYU Skirball Center. The score for La Ville Morte was destroyed in World War I but reconstructed for performance in the early 2000s. Set amongst the ruins of Agamemnon’s palace Mycenae, La Ville Morte follows a cast of archaeologists fraught by illicit love and incest, and delves into the relationship between blindness and the subconscious mind.

Nadia Boulanger: La ville morte (1914)

April 20, 2024 7:30 pm
Catapult Opera: La Ville Morte

NYU Skirball Center
566 LaGuardia Pl
New York, NY 10012

We are thrilled to partner with Catapult Opera on a new production of Nadia Boulanger’s only known opera, La Ville Morte, at NYU Skirball Center. The score for La Ville Morte was destroyed in World War I but reconstructed for performance in the early 2000s. Set amongst the ruins of Agamemnon’s palace Mycenae, La Ville Morte follows a cast of archaeologists fraught by illicit love and incest, and delves into the relationship between blindness and the subconscious mind.

Nadia Boulanger: La ville morte (1914)

April 21, 2024 2:00 pm
Catapult Opera: La Ville Morte

NYU Skirball Center
566 LaGuardia Pl
New York, NY 10012

We are thrilled to partner with Catapult Opera on a new production of Nadia Boulanger’s only known opera, La Ville Morte, at NYU Skirball Center. The score for La Ville Morte was destroyed in World War I but reconstructed for performance in the early 2000s. Set amongst the ruins of Agamemnon’s palace Mycenae, La Ville Morte follows a cast of archaeologists fraught by illicit love and incest, and delves into the relationship between blindness and the subconscious mind.

Nadia Boulanger: La ville morte (1914)

April 27, 2024 6:00 pm
NYU Composers Concert

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

Works by NYU composers: Victoria Smith, Lauren Conroy, Cheng Jin Koh, Kenneth Lim, Yves-Gerald Delice, Jingyi Cheng

Talea Ensemble
with TILT Brass

Free admission

More information here.

May 8, 2024 6:00 pm
CUNY Graduate Center & Hunter College Composers Concert

Elebash Recital Hall
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Ave
New York, NY 10016

New works by CUNY Graduate Center & Hunter College Composers: Nicholas Tran, Teté Leguía, Tobias Fandel, Itzá García, Ramya Thiygarajan, Gabriel Bouche Caro, Santiago Beis, Bahar Royaee 

Admission is free. More information here.

Talea Ensemble

David Fulmer, conductor

May 30, 2024 7:00 pm
Talea Encores: 15th Anniversary Celebration

Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew
West End Theatre
263 W 86th St
New York, NY 10024

Since 2022, Encores has become a recurring initiative of Talea’s New York programming and represents our commitment to building strong long-term partnerships with composers.

Join us for Talea Encores: 15th Anniversary Celebration on Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 7:00 PM at the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew’s West End Theatre. This year’s program highlights individual Talea musicians in works for solo trombone (Mike Lormand), viola (Hannah Levinson), piano (Steven Beck), cello (Christopher Gross) by Andile Khumalo, Bahar Royaee, Georges Aperghis, and Geli Li – all composers whom Talea has featured earlier in the season.

The celebration continues after the concert with a reception, a silent auction (with all proceeds going towards Talea’s 15th season fundraising campaign), and pop-up musical events, including appearances by Suzanne Farrin on Ondes Martenot and Eva Zöllner on accordion. The silent auction goes live on Thursday, May 30th at 6:30 PM ET and is open for online bidding through Sunday, June 2nd at 11:59 PM. View the auction page here.

Tickets are available here.

Attend both May 30th and June 1st concerts, and save on tickets! You can select “June 1st Combo Ticket Add-On” on the May 30th Talea Encores ticketing page for discounted ($15 GA and $5 students & seniors) tickets for the June 1st Aux Etoiles concert.

June 1, 2024 7:30 pm
Aux Étoiles

Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew
Sanctuary
263 W 86th St
New York, NY 10024

Aux Étoiles is the first concert of our newest initiative, Talea Ambassadors: a season-long hybrid residency spotlighting composers and artists from a different country or region each season through performance, podcast interviews, and discussion. This year our focus is on France. Talea commissioned French composer Sanae Ishida as a cornerstone project. Ishida’s new work is inspired by the intimate, dreamlike, and spiritual world of the short story Night of the Milky Way Railway, written by Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933). Also on the program is the US premiere of Samir Amarouch’s Electronica-1, which utilizes acoustic instruments to mimic the sounds and synchronicities of electronic music and explores what happens when those synchronicities unravel. We pay tribute to the late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who lived and worked in France, performing her textural and dreamlike Cloud Trio. We will also perform the US premiere of Georges Aperghis Carsten Trio, commissioned by our dear friend and board member Katharina Pistor. Please stay tuned for additional Ambassadors events throughout the season, including podcast interviews, panel discussions, and other content highlighting the work and creative processes of our partner composers.

Samir Amarouch, Electronica-1 (2019) *US Premiere
Georges Aperghis: Carsten Trio (2023) *US Premiere
Sanae Ishida: In Pursuit of True Happiness (2024) *World Premiere
Kaija Saariaho: Cloud Trio (2009)
Gérard Grisey: Talea (1986)

Tickets are available here.

Attend both May 30th and June 1st concerts, and save on tickets! You can select “June 1st Combo Ticket Add-On” on the May 30th Talea Encores ticketing page for discounted ($15 GA and $5 students & seniors) tickets for the June 1st Aux Etoiles concert.

Sanae Ishida’s In Pursuit of True Happiness is supported by Jazz & New Music, a program of Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation.

July 5, 2022 7:00 pm
Time of Music Finland: Venture Capital Punishment

Viitasaari Arena
Urheilutie 9, 44500
Viitasaari, Finland

Festival opening concert


Mark Applebaum: Venture Capital Punishment – Pre-Apocalyptic Etudes (a.k.a Rites of a Moribund Tribe) (2022) *world premiere

Talea Ensemble
James Baker, conductor


Mark Applebaum’s Venture Capital Punishment was commissioned by the Talea Ensemble with support from a grant from New Music USA. The engagement is also supported by Mid Atlantic Arts through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mellon Foundation. With additional funding by Kone Foundation, The Ernst Von Siemens Foundation, and Svenska Literatursällskapet.

See the full festival line-up here.

July 6, 2022 7:00 pm
Time of Music Finland: Femenine

Viitasaari Church
Kirkkotie 14, 44500
Viitasaari, Finland

Julius Eastman: Femenine (1974) *Finnish premiere

Talea Ensemble
James Baker, conductor


The engagement is supported in part by Mid Atlantic Arts through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mellon Foundation.


Concert information here.

August 27, 2022 7:30 pm
TIME:SPANS Festival: Santos, Balch, Saunders

The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37th Street
New York, NY 10018

Igor Santos: portrait IO (2020) *US premiere

Katherine Balch: drip music (2019, arr. 2021) *world premiere

Rebecca Saunders: Skin (2015-16) *US premiere

Talea Ensemble
James Baker, conductor
Juliet Fraser, soprano

Tickets available starting June 1st here.

See the full festival line-up here.

September 17, 2022 7:30 pm
Warsaw Autumn: Lewis, Zubel, Wołek, Bettison

Warsaw Autumn
Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Studio
Warsaw, Poland

George E. Lewis: Mnemosis for septet (2012) *Polish premiere

Agata Zubel: Flash for percussion and instrumental ensemble (2022) *World premiere
Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Library of Congress for the Talea Ensemble

Krzysztof Wołek COH (Chocolate, Oranges and Ham) for ensemble and electronics (2022) *World premiere
Commissioned by the Warsaw Autumn and Adam Mickiewicz Institute

Oscar Bettison: La Arqueología del Neón (2021) *Polish premiere

Talea Ensemble
James Baker, conductor
TEMPO REALE:
Francesco Canavese live electronics, sound devices
Leonardo Rubboli live electronics, sound devices

See the event details

September 18, 2022 6:00 pm
Warsaw Autumn: Sarah Hennies

Warsaw Autumn
ATM Studio
Warsaw, Poland

As a part of Warsaw Autumn’s DIALOGUE ZONE – CHAMBER PLAYERS’ MARATHON


Sarah Hennies: Clock Dies (2021) *Polish premiere
Commissioned by the Earl Brown Music Foundation

James Baker, conductor

See the FULL PROGRAM.

September 30, 2022 7:30 pm
HANJO with Catapult Opera

NYU Skirball Center
566 LaGuardia Pl
New York, NY 10012

Toshio Hosokawa: HANJO (2003-2004) *US premiere

Opera in 1 act
Libretto by Toshio Hosokawa, based on “Hanjo”, a Nō play by Yukio Mishima, translated by Donald Keene

Creative Team:
Catapult Opera & Talea Ensemble
Neal Goren, conductor
Luca Veggetti, director and choreographer
Moe Yoshida, visual artist
Clifton Taylor, lighting and scenic design
Peter Speliopoulos, costume design
Lara Mones, dramaturg

Cast:
Eri Nakamura, Hanako
Abigail Fischer, Jitsuko Honda
Adam Richardson, Yoshio
Saori Tsukada, Silent Figure

Program details & tickets.

October 2, 2022 2:00 pm
HANJO with Catapult Opera

NYU Skirball Center
566 LaGuardia Pl
New York, NY 10012

Toshio Hosokawa: HANJO (2003-2004) *US premiere

Opera in 1 act
Libretto by Toshio Hosokawa, based on “Hanjo”, a Nō play by Yukio Mishima, translated by Donald Keene

Creative Team:
Catapult Opera & Talea Ensemble
Neal Goren, conductor
Luca Veggetti, director and choreographer
Moe Yoshida, visual artist
Clifton Taylor, lighting and scenic design
Peter Speliopoulos, costume design
Lara Mones, dramaturg

Cast:
Eri Nakamura, Hanako
Abigail Fischer, Jitsuko Honda
Adam Richardson, Yoshio
Saori Tsukada, Silent Figure

Program details & tickets.

October 15, 2022 2:00 pm
Donaueschingen Musiktage: Lanza, Goehr, Wozny, Ter Schiphorst

Große Sporthalle - Realschule Donaueschingen
Lehenstraße 15
78166 Donaueschingen

Talea performs four world premieres at the Donaueschingen Music Festival. Mauro Lanza combines traditional instruments with unconventional sound sources, including everyday objects such as hair dryers, car horns and toy pianos. Alexander Goehr’s piece is characterized by an almost classical awareness of form and extremely subtle instrumentation. Iris ter Schiphorst has written a composition that includes a text part for Tocotronic singer Dirk von Lowtzow, and Joanna Wozny once again embarks on a journey into the interior of sounds.

Mauro Lanza: Gretchen and the fragment on machines (2022) *World premiere

Iris ter Shiphorst: New work for Voices und Ensemble (2022) *World premiere

Joanna Wozny: New work (2022) *World premierefür Ensemble (UA)

Alexander Goehr: Double Chaconne with Gaps (2022) *World premiere

Talea Ensemble
Dirk von Lowtzow, voice

Program details & tickets.

October 15, 2022 5:00 pm
Donaueschingen Musiktage: Lanza, Goehr, Wozny, Ter Schiphorst

Große Sporthalle - Realschule Donaueschingen
Lehenstraße 15
78166 Donaueschingen

Talea performs four world premieres at the Donaueschingen Music Festival. Mauro Lanza combines traditional instruments with unconventional sound sources, including everyday objects such as hair dryers, car horns and toy pianos. Alexander Goehr’s piece is characterized by an almost classical awareness of form and extremely subtle instrumentation. Iris ter Schiphorst has written a composition that includes a text part for Tocotronic singer Dirk von Lowtzow, and Joanna Wozny once again embarks on a journey into the interior of sounds.

Mauro Lanza: Gretchen and the fragment on machines (2022) *World premiere

Iris ter Shiphorst: New work for Voices und Ensemble (2022) *World premiere

Joanna Wozny: New work (2022) *World premierefür Ensemble (UA)

Alexander Goehr: Double Chaconne with Gaps (2022) *World premiere

Talea Ensemble
Dirk von Lowtzow, voice

Program details & tickets.

November 15, 2022 6:30 pm
Love & Diversity

Starting point
134 West 46th Street
New York, NY

Manos Tsangaris: LOVE & DIVERSITY (2012) *US premiere
Details & Tickets

“Manos Tsangaris is anything but a composer that simply jots down notes. He is a conceptual artist who can never give up theatre.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung )


Schedule
November 15 & 16, 2022

Please arrive between 6:30-8 pm. The experience lasts about an hour from arrival. We start at 134 West 46th Street, New York NY (Amor Loco). Meet us there between 6:30 – 8 PM. Groups leave from the meeting point on a staggered schedule; as long as you arrive before 8PM, you’ll still get to enter.
Upon RSVP, you will receive additional details about arrival and be able to indicate if you have a preferred window of arrival, so that we can plan ahead for you.

Creative Team:
Talea Ensemble
littlebit Productions

About the Production:
We start at 134 West 46th Street, New York, NY (Amor Loco). Join us for a drink–or just meet us there–and we’ll give you a questionnaire to fill out before we take you to the next stop. From there, we’ll take you in small groups to where our musicians are waiting for you.
Like in a speed-dating event, you’ll go through multiple stops and encounter the musicians face-to-face, in a room full of coordinated sounds, light, and spoken word. The piece lasts about 1 hour from your time of arrival.

Tickets
$20 General Admission
$30 General Admission with drink voucher
$10 Student/Senior
$20 Student/Senior with drink voucher

Note: The drink voucher includes a drink (wine/beer/well drink) with your admission. In all cases, you are welcome to purchase additional or other drinks directly at the bar. This option is for attendees 21+ years of age.
Individuals under 21 are still welcome to meet us at Amor Loco and join us for the performance.

Want to Know More?
Watch this preview from Opera Lab Berlin: Link

“To be seen was a prime example of what Manos Tsangaris understands under the concept of music theatre. Individual musicians, scattered about the darkened hall, produce small fragments of sound and noise, while also addressing, apparently spontaneously, the listeners that are strolling about between them and approach them within arm’s length.” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Acknowledgments
Manos Tsangaris’ pieces are produced by littlebit (Cologne/Germany).
The performances are made possible with the generous support of the Goethe-Institut.





Also with the friendly support of:





We wish to thank Amor Loco for helping to make this event possible.

November 16, 2022 6:30 pm
Love & Diversity

Starting point:
134 West 46th Street
New York, NY

Manos Tsangaris: LOVE & DIVERSITY (2012) *US premiere
Details & Tickets

“Manos Tsangaris is anything but a composer that simply jots down notes. He is a conceptual artist who can never give up theatre.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung )


Schedule
November 15 & 16, 2022

Please arrive between 6:30-8 pm. The experience lasts about an hour from arrival. We start at 134 West 46th Street, New York NY (Amor Loco). Meet us there between 6:30 – 8 PM. Groups leave from the meeting point on a staggered schedule; as long as you arrive before 8PM, you’ll still get to enter.
Upon RSVP, you will receive additional details about arrival and be able to indicate if you have a preferred window of arrival, so that we can plan ahead for you.

Creative Team:
Talea Ensemble
littlebit Productions

About the Production:
We start at 134 West 46th Street, New York, NY (Amor Loco). Join us for a drink–or just meet us there–and we’ll give you a questionnaire to fill out before we take you to the next stop. From there, we’ll take you in small groups to where our musicians are waiting for you.
Like in a speed-dating event, you’ll go through multiple stops and encounter the musicians face-to-face, in a room full of coordinated sounds, light, and spoken word. The piece lasts about 1 hour from your time of arrival.

Tickets
$20 General Admission
$30 General Admission with drink voucher
$10 Student/Senior
$20 Student/Senior with drink voucher

Note: The drink voucher includes a drink (wine/beer/well drink) with your admission. In all cases, you are welcome to purchase additional or other drinks directly at the bar. This option is for attendees 21+ years of age.
Individuals under 21 are still welcome to meet us at Amor Loco and join us for the performance.

Want to Know More?
Watch this preview from Opera Lab Berlin: Link

“To be seen was a prime example of what Manos Tsangaris understands under the concept of music theatre. Individual musicians, scattered about the darkened hall, produce small fragments of sound and noise, while also addressing, apparently spontaneously, the listeners that are strolling about between them and approach them within arm’s length.” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Acknowledgments
Manos Tsangaris’ pieces are produced by littlebit (Cologne/Germany).
The performances are made possible with the generous support of the Goethe-Institut.





Also with the friendly support of:





We wish to thank Amor Loco for helping to make this event possible.

December 21, 2022 4:47 pm
SOLSTICES

Benzaquen Hall
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

Georg Friedrich Haas: Solstices (2017)


Talea Ensemble
James Baker, conductor

Two Performances:
4:47 PM (time of the Winter Solstice)
7:30 PM

Join Talea for our performance of Georg Friedrich Haas’s Solstices, for ten musicians in complete darkness. By taking away light from our experience, Solstices adds a new lens to our ability to relate to sound, bringing together performers and audiences through intensive listening.

We will be performing two shows: 4:47 PM (time of the winter solstice) and 7:30 PM. Admission to the afternoon show is free with RSVP. We invite you to join us in between the shows in the lobby of the 2nd floor of the DiMenna Center, beginning at 6pm, for Talea’s winter celebration, with refreshments and drinks to celebrate the season.

Details & Tickets

February 13, 2023 7:30 pm
NY Philharmonic Spotlight Series: Femenine

Sidewalk Studio, David Geffen Hall
10 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023

Talea and the Harlem Chamber Players join forces again for Julius Eastman’s “Femenine,” as a part of the New York Philharmonic’s Spotlight Series at the David Geffen Hall’s new Sidewalk Studio.

Julius Eastman: Femenine (1974)

Talea Ensemble
Harlem Chamber Players

Program details & tickets.

March 28, 2023 7:30 pm
Written for Talea: Cheung, Karchin, Sorey Premieres

Cary Hall, DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

Talea performs a program of world premieres by Anthony Cheung, Tyshawn Sorey, and Louis Karchin.

Anthony Chueng: Clocks for Seeing (2023) *
This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Louis Karchin: Tribute to the Angels (2020)*
Commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University

Tyshawn Sorey: New Work (2020) *
Commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University

Talea Ensemble
James Baker, conductor
Jennifer Zetlan, soprano

Program details & tickets.

April 15, 2023 8:00 pm
Washington Square Contemporary Music

Tenri Cultural institute
43a West 13th St.
New York, NY

Gordon Beeferman: Alerta! (Antifascista) (2020) *World Premiere
Elizabeth Hoffman: morsels (2018); chacun/e (2014)
Louis Karchin: Arches (2019)
Hannah Kendall: Processional (2018) *NY Premiere
Tania Leon: Axon (2002)
Jaime Oliver: New work (2023) *World premiere

Talea Ensemble
James Baker, conductor
Alice Teyssier, voice
Pauline Kim Harris, violin

Admission: $15; $10 Students, seniors; free with NYU ID

June 9, 2023 7:00 pm
Encores: Kendall, Lewis, Saariaho, Saunders

Invisible Dog Art Center
51 Bergen St
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Talea members perform solo works by composers the ensemble featured throughout the season.

Hannah Kendall – Weroon Weroon (2022) for solo violin *US Premiere

Kaija Saariaho – Duft (2016) for Solo Clarinet

Rebecca Saunders – White (2016) for Solo Trumpet

George Lewis – Seismologic (2017) for Solo Bassoon and electronics

Performers:
Rane Moore, clarinet
Adrian Morejon, bassoon
Sam Jones, trumpet
Karen Kim, violin
David Adamcyk, electronics

August 23, 2021 7:30 pm
TIME:SPANS – Lamb, Bettison, Hennies

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St

Catherine Lamb: parallaxis forma (2016)

Oscar Bettison: La Arqueología del Neón (2021) *World Premiere
Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation

Sarah Hennies: New Work (2021) *World Premiere
Commissioned by the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust

Tony Arnold, soprano
James Baker, conductor

Program details here.

See the full festival lineup here here.


T:S Tickets

August 28, 2021 7:30 pm
TIME:SPANS – Fure, Cheung, Pintscher

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St

Ashley Fure: Feed Forward (2015)

Anthony Cheung: A line can go anywhere (2019) *US Premiere

Matthias Pintscher: Bereshit (2012)

James Baker, conductor

Program details here. See the full festival lineup here here.


T:S Tickets

September 18, 2021 8:00 pm
Neuwirth: Die Stadt ohne Juden

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
Cary Hall
450 W 37th St
New York, NY

Music with a screening of the 1924 silent film by Hans Karl Breslauer

Olga Neuwirth: Die Stadt ohne Juden (2017) *US Premiere

James Baker, conductor

Tickets and more information here.


$20 General Admission / $10 Students & Seniors

With the friendly support of Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and Austrian Cultural Forum NY:

October 9, 2021 7:30 pm
Julius Eastman: Femenine

Harlem Stage
150 Convent Ave
New York, NY 10031

Julius Eastman: Femenine (1974)
Collaboration with Harlem Chamber Players

Talea Ensemble
Harlem Chamber Players
Christopher McIntyre, Music Director, keyboard synthesizer

Tickets and more information here.

This performance is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

October 16, 2021 8:00 pm
AMP in NYC: Talea Performs U.S. Premieres

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
Cary Hall
450 W 37th St
New York, NY

In this program of all U.S. premieres, Talea performs award-winning works by 2020 Azrieli Music Prize Laureates Keiko Devaux, Yitzhak Yedid, and Yotam Haber, plus works by David Adamcyk and Pierre Mercure.

David Adamcyk: Double Concerto (2011)

Pierre Mercure: Dissidence (1955/2020)
arr. by Jonathan Monro

Keiko Devaux: Arras (2020)
2020 Laureate, the Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music

Yotam Haber: Estro poetico-armonico III (2020)
2020 Laureate, the Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music

Yitzhak Yedid: Kadosh Kadosh and Cursed (2020)
2020 Laureate, the Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music

Talea Ensemble

Sharon Azrieli, soprano
Eliza Bagg, mezzo-soprano
Sam Jones, trumpet
Mike Lormand, trombone
James Baker, conductor

Tickets and more information here.


$20 General Admission / $10 Students & Seniors

This concert is generously supported by the Azrieli Music Prizes, a program of the Azrieli Foundation. This performance is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

October 19, 2021 7:00 pm
Distance: Sound Festival Scotland

SoundFestival Scotland

October 19, 2021 at 7:00pm (GMT+1)
soundfestival Scotland

Laura Bowler: Distance (2021) *World premiere

Talea Ensemble
Juliet Fraser, soprano


More information here.

Laura Bowler’s new multimedia chamber work, for live soprano and live streamed ensemble from the United States explores issues including climate change and social distance.

“Distance” is a groundbreaking multimedia chamber work centered around flight, distance, and how they both connect to our psychological distancing from our environment and how that affects people’s inability to act on climate change.

Soprano Juliet Fraser will be joined by Talea Ensemble for the world premiere performance in Aberdeen, Scotland. While Juliet will be performing live in the performance space, Talea Ensemble will be live streamed directly from New York.

The piece includes text by Timothy Ingold, British anthropologist and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, and includes verbatim text from interviews with the performers about their experiences of flight travel.

Co-commissioned by sound, Spitalfields Music and Cheltenham MusicFestival with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation,Hope Scott Trust and individual donors.

October 28, 2021 7:30 pm
Peabody Residency: Lara, Chang, and Bettison

Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
17 E. Mount Vernon Place
Baltimore, MD 21202

Oscar Bettison: La Arqueología del Neón (2021)
Zhishu Chang: Into the Red (2021) *World Premiere
Felipe Lara: Chambered Spirals (2021) *World Premiere

Oscar Bettison was commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for the Talea Ensemble

James Baker, conductor


Join the concert livestream here.

Program details here.

October 31, 2021 7:30 pm
Peabody Residency: World premieres by Peabody composers

Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
17 E. Mount Vernon Place
Baltimore, MD 21202

Jia Yi Lee: New Work (2021) *World Premiere
Sam Kohler: New Work (2021) *World Premiere
David Adams: New Work (2021) *World Premiere
Julio Quinones: New Work (2021) *World Premiere

James Baker, conductor

December 11, 2021 7:30 pm
Strange Tales

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
Cary Hall
450 W 37th St
New York, NY

Alvin Lucier: Music for Cello with One or More Amplified Vases (1993)
Inti Figgis-Vizueta: Primavera crown (2020)
Wang Lu: November Airs (2021) *World Premiere

James Baker, conductor
Polly Apfelbaum, visual artist
Christopher Gross, cello

Wang Lu’s “November Airs” was commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for the Talea Ensemble. The performance of “November Airs” is supported in part by the Cafe Royal Foundation.

This performance is made possible with the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung. It is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

FREE admission! RSVP here.

March 12, 2022 7:30 pm
Written for Talea: Çamcı, Diels, Yulsman, Kouyoumdjian, Sorey

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
Cary Hall
450 W 37th St
New York, NY

alican çamcı: lovedeath karaoke (2021) *world premiere
Natacha Diels: OK Fantastic! (2022) *world premiere
Sam Yulsman: Voided Sky / Endless Bay(2022) *world premiere
Mary Kouyoumdjian: The Vanishing Dark (2017)
Tyshawn Sorey: Movement for Solo Piano

Talea Ensemble
James Baker, conductor
Tyshawn Sorey, drums/percussion
Jessie Cox, drums
Sam Yulsman, electric keyboards
Steven Beck, piano

The new works by Sam Yulsman and Natacha Diels were commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for the Talea Ensemble. Alican Çamci was selected for a commission through the Talea Ensemble’s 2020 Emerging Composers Commissioning Program.

Get tickets here.

Important Information about COVID-19 Precautions for the March 12th concert:

As of Monday, August 16, 2021, anyone wishing to enter the 450 W. 37th St. building must show a proof of vaccination – such as a photo or photocopy of a Covid-19 vaccination card or an Excelsior Pass – to the Front Desk receptionist.

The Talea Ensemble requires audience members to wear masks during the performance in Cary Hall. Additionally, the DiMenna Center for Classical Music requires that masks be worn at all times in the building’s public spaces.

March 25, 2022 5:00 pm
Talea at Rice University

Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston, TX 77005

Talea visits Rice University from March 24 to 26, 2022 for a residency that includes reading and recording works by student composers, a composition seminar presentation, and a public concert.

Talea Ensemble at Rice University
March 25, 2022 at 5:00 pm

Hannah Kendall: Vera (2008)
Ann Cleare: ore (2016)
Mario Diaz de Leon: Trembling Time II (2009)
Eva-Maria Houben: im dornwald (2021)

June 2, 2022 7:30 pm
Talea Encores

Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065

Talea Encores features Talea musicians in smaller chamber formations and looks back at several composers with whom the ensemble has crossed paths in concerts and creative projects over the past season: Wang Lu, Sarah Hennies, Felipe Lara, Amadeus Regucera, Septian Dwi Cahyo, and inti figgis-vizueta. In partnership with the Americas Society, Talea is proud to celebrate the work of our vibrant community of composers and creators through this Encores program.

Admission is FREE with RSVP: Details. Please email gportale@as-coa.org to reserve your seat.

Felipe Lara: Ventos Uivantes (2014)
for flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, and cello

Septian Dwi Cahyo: Commuter Line II (2018)
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano

Amadeus Regucera: And now, removed from air, I simulate the Breath so well (2021)
for bassoon, cello, and percussion

Wang Lu: Between Air (2018)
for clarinet and string quartet

Sarah Hennies: Lake (2018)
for violin, piano, and percussion

inti figgis-vizueta: Form the Fabric (2020)
for flute, bassoon, violin, viola, piano, and percussion

Talea Ensemble
James Baker, conductor

October 29, 2020 12:00 pm
Hunter College Virtual Residency

Online
Hunter College

Talea Ensemble members work with and perform works by student composers at Hunter College in a virtual residency.

Philip Garcia: Organized Chaos (2020)
Noah Wood: The Scream of Nature (2020)
Nehemiah Luckett: Experience 3.1 (2020)
Ian McNally: Air, The Contents (2020)
Alyssa Regent: Solitude (2020
Adam Schorr: Color (2020)

December 10, 2020 5:30 am
Peabody Institute Virtual Residency

Online
Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University

Talea Ensemble members work with and perform works by student composers at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

Matteo Belli: Shades of Abulia (V) (2020)
Yanqi Chen: The Forgotten Ones (2020)
Richard Drehoff: sullen in this sable mire, For with unbroken words they cannot say (2020)
James Duquette: Tchotchkes (2020)
Devorah Fisher: Small Surrenders (2020)


More information here.

January 29, 2021 11:00 am
…Einklang freier Wesen… Symposium

Online

Interactive online presentation and symposium in collaboration with Ensemble Resonanz, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM) Karlsruhe, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble MusikFabrik, and Klangforum Wien


Soloists from each ensemble recorded individual voices from Georg Friedrich Haas’s ensemble work “…Einklang freier Wesen…” in five different cities around the world. The ZKM then developed the recordings into a multichannel audio interface that allows listeners to interact and experiment with the placement of the different voices. The interface visually resembles a constellation of sound sources and allows listeners to take on an active role in exploring and experimenting with the work’s score. The work will be presented in a browser-based app to be released on January 29th, alongside a symposium featuring discussions around experiencing music digitally.


Free online access (no RSVP needed)


More information here.

March 6, 2021 8:00 pm
Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival (livestream)

Live-Streamed
Kaufman Music Center, Merkin Hall

7:30pm Pre-Concert Talk by Peter Schmelz
8:00pm Concert

Valentyn Sylvestrov: Drama (1971)


Talea performs in a live-streamed concert as a part of the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival. More information and tickets here.


Full Program:

Vitaly Godziatsky: Surface Ruptures (1963),

Volodymyr Zahortsev: String Quartet No.1 (1967)

Volodymyr Huba: Confession (1967)

Leonid Hrabovsky: Concerto Misterioso (1977)

—INTERMISSION—

Valentyn Sylvestrov, Drama (1971)

Performers: Anna Shelest, Mivos Quartet, Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra, and Talea Ensemble

April 2, 2021 7:00 pm
Brown University Virtual Residency

Online
Brown University

Virtual collaboration and performance of works by Brown University composers

Works by Kristina Warren, Amber Vistein, Jacob Sokolv-Gonzalez, Inga Chinilina, Marcel Zaes

Join the artists for a post-concert chat on Zoom afterwards!

More information and link to join here.

August 20, 2019 8:00 pm
Time Spans Festival

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

Ana Sokolović: …and I need a room to receive five thousand people with raised glasses…or…what a glorious day, the birds are singing « halleluia »… (2014)*US premiere

Dániel Péter Biró: Simanim (Signs/Traces) (2006/07) *US premiere

Philippe Leroux: (D)Tourner (2018) *US premiere

Matthew Gold, percussion
Lorraine Vaillancourt, conductor

Tickets may be purchased here.

August 21, 2019 8:00 pm
Time Spans Festival

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

Claude Vivier: Pulau Dewata (1977)
Yarn/Wire

Denys Bouliane: Rythmes et échos des rivages anticostiens (2009) *US premiere
TALEA Ensemble

Michael Oesterle: Carrousel (2013)
Yarn/Wire

Linda Catlin Smith: Knotted Silk (1999) *US premiere
TALEA Ensemble

Nikolaj Korndorf: Music for Owen Underhill and his Magnificent Eight (1997 *US premiere
TALEA Ensemble

Yarn/Wire
Talea Ensemble
Lorraine Vaillancourt, conductor

Tickets may be purchased here.

September 27, 2019 8:00 pm
Meditations

Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th St
New York, NY 10011

Alvin Lucier: Music for Cello and Amplified Glass Vases (1992)
Catherine Lamb: Prisma Interius VI (2017)

October 24, 2019 8:00 pm
Diaz de Leon Album Release

Queenslab
1618 Decatur St
Ridgewood, NY 11385

Mario Diaz de Leon: Sacrament (2017)

Denovali Album Release Event! Featuring Talea Ensemble, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and Mariel Roberts

December 3, 2019 7:00 pm
Father, My Father

Americas Society
680 Park Ave
New York, NY 10065

David Adamcyk: Father, My Father (2019) *World Premiere

6:15 pm Pre-Concert Talk: Lucie Vágnerová in conversation with David Adamcyk


Canadian composer David Adamcyk’s new composition, “Father, My Father,” is an evening-length concert music reflection on how the #MeToo movement has impacted him as a father. It features a selection of poems, texts, and musical quotations, amongst which are interspersed interviews with individuals of different ages on the subjects of parenthood, gender, relationships, and power. An array of loudspeakers placed around the Americas Society’s unique concert space play back these materials and immerse the audience in an audio-collage that alternates with original music, performed by five instrumentalists from Talea Ensemble and vocalist/collaborator Lucy Dhegrae. The result is a tightly woven musical experience that considers the changing roles, attitudes, and interpersonal dynamics of gender in society and family contexts, and contemplates how parenthood, among many other avenues, can affect positive change in the future.


Admission is FREE with RSVP here.


Father, My Father is made possible by a grant from the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.

December 10, 2019 7:00 pm
Panel Discussion: New Music & Early Education

Harlem School of the Arts
Room 109
645 St. Nicholas Ave
New York, NY 10030

Panelists:
Angélica Negrón
Vasudevan Panicker
Chris Gross

Recognizing that lack of access to music education can be a barrier to diversity in representation in today’s programming, we find ourselves wondering as an ensemble how we can better support future creators of music. This town hall style panel discussion explores the role that contemporary music and creative approaches to music-making can play in education today.

What can we do as performers, educators, administrators, and advocates to empower students to have more agency in creating music? Is it possible to introduce new music in accessible, innovative, and low-cost ways to schools and youth programs that might struggle even to have the resources for general music education? How might an ensemble like Talea develop versatile programs that engage younger audiences from a range of backgrounds?

January 29, 2020 7:00 pm
Talea in Conversation: Gender & Music Programming

University Settlement
Room 4
273 Bowery
New York, NY 10002

Guest Speakers:
Amanda Gookin
Bill Solomon

This open conversation explores issues around the role of gender in music programming & education. How might an organization best approach its programming decisions to represent diverse gender identities in programming? How do our perceptions of music relate to perceptions of gender norms? And what are some resources available to performers, administrators, educators, and listeners when considering gender representation in today’s music?

March 7, 2020 8:00 pm
Inflections

92Y
1395 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10128

Toshio Hosokawa: Futari Shizuka (2017) *US Premiere

George Benjamin: Into the Little Hill (2006)

Kerstin Avemo, soprano
Ryoko Aoki, Noh actress
Charlotte Mundy, soprano
Lucy Dhegrae, mezzo-soprano
James Baker, conductor

Tickets may be purchased here.

April 2, 2020 7:30 pm
POSTPONED: Love & Diversity

Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10010

Manos Tsangaris: Love and Diversity (2012) *US Premiere

A group is gathered in a room. Behind a set of doors, seven musicians await at seven identical tables. What will unfold is a musical experience like no other—a series of unforgettable and quirky interactions that, in Manos Tsangaris’s words, “transforms the drama of unfulfilled desire into a music-theatrical text.”


Tickets may be purchased here.

Co-presented by Baruch Performing Arts Center.

The performances are made possible with the generous support of the Goethe-Institut.





Also with the friendly support of:

April 3, 2020 7:30 pm
POSTPONED: Love & Diversity

Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10010

Manos Tsangaris: Love and Diversity (2012) *US Premiere

A group is gathered in a room. Behind a set of doors, seven musicians await at seven identical tables. What will unfold is a musical experience like no other—a series of unforgettable and quirky interactions that, in Manos Tsangaris’s words, “transforms the drama of unfulfilled desire into a music-theatrical text.”


Tickets may be purchased here.

Co-presented by Baruch Performing Arts Center.

The performances are made possible with the generous support of the Goethe-Institut.





Also with the friendly support of:

April 4, 2020 7:30 pm
POSTPONED: Love & Diversity

Baruch Performing Arts Center
New York, NY 10010

Manos Tsangaris: Love and Diversity (2012) *US Premiere

A group is gathered in a room. Behind a set of doors, seven musicians await at seven identical tables. What will unfold is a musical experience like no other—a series of unforgettable and quirky interactions that, in Manos Tsangaris’s words, “transforms the drama of unfulfilled desire into a music-theatrical text.”


Tickets may be purchased here.

Co-presented by Baruch Performing Arts Center.

The performances are made possible with the generous support of the Goethe-Institut.





Also with the friendly support of:

April 18, 2020 8:00 pm
POSTPONED: Femenine

Harlem Stage
150 Convent Ave
New York, NY 10031

Julius Eastman: Femenine (1974)

In collaboration with the Harlem Chamber Players.

May 16, 2020 8:00 pm
POSTPONED: Oscar Bianchi and the Public Artist

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
Cary Hall
450 W 37th St
New York, NY

Oscar Bianchi: Orango (2018) *U.S. premiere
for ensemble and audience

Perform with us in Orango! More details coming soon. To sign up, email stephanie@taleaensemble.org.

With the friendly support of:

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August 16, 2018 8:00 pm
TIME:SPANS 2018

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th Street
New York, NY 10018

Felipe Lara: Fringes (2015)

Oscar Bettison: Livre des Sauvages (2012)

James Baker, conductor

Single tickets: $20 / $10
Festival Pass: $50

Tickets on sale now! Click here to learn more and buy tickets.

September 11, 2018 7:30 pm
Resonant Bodies Festival

Roulette Intermedium
509 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, NY

Christopher Trapani: Waterlines (2005-12)

Lucy Dhegrae, voice
James Baker, conductor

Tickets: Resonant Bodies Festival

September 23, 2018 7:00 pm
Projektgruppe neue musik

Schwankhalle Bremen, Germany

Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Sideshow (2009-2015)

September 25, 2018 6:00 pm
Festival Musica

Cité de la Musique
Strasbourg, France

Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Sideshow (2009-15)

September 26, 2018 8:00 pm
Luxembourg Philharmonie

Philharmonie Luxembourg
Luxembourg City

Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Sideshow (2008-15)

October 4, 2018 8:00 pm
Spectral, Spatial, Medieval

Columbia University Center for Creativity at Reid Hall
Paris, France

Georg Friedrich Haas: New work *World Premiere (2018)
Zosha Di Castri: La forma dello spazio (2010)
Gérard Grisey: Talea (1986)

James Baker, conductor

October 6, 2018 8:00 pm
Musikprotokoll

Helmut List Halle Graz, Austria

Zosha Di Castri: La forma dello spazio (2010)
William Dougherty: New work *World Premiere (2018)
Georg Friedrich Haas: Monolog für Graz *World Premiere (2018)

James Baker, conductor

Georg Friedrich Haas’ new work is supported by the Fromm Foundation.

October 10, 2018 8:00 pm
Fred Lerdahl Celebration Concert

Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue
New York, NY

Fred Lerdahl: Cyclic Descent *World Premiere (2018)
Fred Lerdahl: Duo (2016)

Chris Gross, cello
Steve Beck, piano
James Baker, conductor

October 28, 2018 4:00 pm
iNSIDE Out: Sound is Given

the Flea Theater
20 Thomas St
New York, NY

Works by Michael Pisaro, Eva-Maria Houben, and Antoine Beuger.

Talea performs three pieces from the Wandelweiser circle, a group of composers whose work builds on the experimental traditions of Cage, Wolff, Lucier and Feldman. Inventive, austere, questioning, these works invite the listener to engage with the most basic materials of music—sound and time—in ways that are unexpected and revealing. Often quiet yet powerful, the music of Wandelweiser pushes us to deepen our awareness of the complexity and richness contained within our sonic environments.

November 30, 2018 7:00 pm
Soper+Adamcyk

Americas Society
680 Park Ave
New York, NY 10065

Kate Soper: Voices from the Killing Jar (2012)
David Adamcyk: New work *World Premiere (2018)

Lucy Dhegrae, voice
Michael Weyandt, baritone
James Baker, conductor

December 12, 2018 7:00 pm
iNSIDE Out: Imagined Times

the Flea Theater
20 Thomas St
New York, NY

When we experience a piece of music fully, our sense of time transforms to an imagined time. Our heart beats and deep breaths, alarm clocks and late trains, recede as we become alert to the cycles and rhythms of a new musical world. The creation of musical flow, a succession of sonic events that can achieve perfect flux or perfect stasis, opens us up to new possibilities for perceiving the world. Join Talea as we explore works that create bold new worlds of musical time through their striking and evocative settings.

Victoria Cheah: Tell: SHIM (2016) 
Iancu Dumitrescu: Holzwege (1987) 
Alex Mincek: Flutter (2012) 
Antoine Beuger: ô monde sur deux tiges (2011) 

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February 24, 2019 4:00 pm
iNSIDE Out: Side by Side

the Flea Theater
20 Thomas St
New York, NY

iNSIDE Out: Side by Side
The Art of the Duo

At times in parallel and at times as opposites, Talea’s musicians explore the dynamics, tensions, and pleasures of performing music a due.

March 6, 2019 7:00 pm
Portrait: Marta Gentilucci

Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University Cambridge, MA

Marta Gentilucci: Aus… am Grat (2013)
Marta Gentilucci: (un)j…ing (2011) (2011)

James Baker, conductor

March 13, 2019 8:30 pm
Talea @ the Stone, Marianne Gythfeldt & Adrian Morejon

the Stone
55 W 13 St
New York, NY

Edward Jacobs: Concentre *world premiere (2017)
Mikel Kuehn: Rite of Passage (2014)
Eun Young Lee: Yun *world premiere (2018)
Georges Aperghis: Simulacre IV (1995)
Filippo Santoro: Triplum *world premiere (2016)
Marc Mellits: Black (2018)

Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet
Adrian Morejon, bassoon

March 14, 2019 8:30 pm
Talea @ the Stone, Hannah Levinson

the Stone
55 W 13 St
New York, NY

Marcello Messina: A truscia (2014)
Lucia Ronchetti: Studi profondi (1984, rev. 2007) *U.S. premiere
Marco Momi: Due Nudi (2013)
Franco Donatoni: ALI (1977)
Lucia Ronchetti: Requiem (1982, rev. 2006) *world premiere

Hannah Levinson, viola

March 15, 2019 8:30 pm
Talea @ the Stone, Chris Gross

the Stone
55 W 13 St
New York, NY

Alvin Lucier: Music for Cello with One or More Amplified Vases (1993)
Giacinto Scelsi: Voyages (1974)
Salvatore Sciarrino: ai limite della notte (1979)
Mario Diaz de Leon: Chant Study
Eva-Maria Houben: Some Tunes Vol. II (2006)

Chris Gross, cello

March 16, 2019 8:30 pm
Talea @ the Stone, Greg Chudzik

the Stone
55 W 13 St
New York, NY

All works by Greg Chudzik:

Wind Hymnal (2013)
The What (2015)
Y’Chi (2016)
Automated Ocean (2016)

Greg Chudzik, double bass
Tristan Kasten-Kraus, double bass
Evan Runyon, double bass
Pat Swoboda, double bass

March 20, 2019 8:00 pm
Town Hall Seattle

Town Hall Seattle 119 8th Ave Seattle, WA

Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Sideshow (2009-2015)

March 29, 2019 8:00 pm
Columbia Composers

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

David Bird: Moln (2019) *World Premiere
Finola Merivale: Do you hear me now? (2018)
Sam Yulsman: Negative Horizon (2019) *World Premiere
Ashkan Behzadi: Iris (2019) *World Premiere
Louis Goldford: Tell me, how is that I poisoned your soup? (2019) *World Premiere
Stylianos Dimou: Les Instances (2019) *World Premiere
James Baker, conductor

April 20, 2019 6:00 pm
10th Anniversary Celebration

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
Cary Hall
450 W 37th St
New York, NY

Join Talea for an evening of music, food, and drinks as we celebrate our 10th anniversary season.

6 PM
Gérard Grisey: Talea (1986)
Clara Iannotta: Limun (2011)
Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Die Klavierübung, Mvmt 1 (2007-9)

7 PM
Mario Diaz de Leon: Chant Study (2016)
George Lewis: Emergent (2014)
Anthony Cheung: Synchronicities (2012)

8 PM
Olga Neuwirth: In Nacht und Eis (2006)
Hans Thomalla: Harmoniemusik 1 (2019) *World Premiere

9 PM
Ashley Fure: therefore i was (2012)
Natacha Diels: Song for Matilda and Me (2015)
Georg Friedrich Haas: Framing… (2018) *US Premiere

James Baker, conductor

Hans Thomalla’s “Harmoniemusik 1” and Georg Friedrich Haas’s “Framing…” were made possible by a grant from the Fromm Music Foundation. Ashley Fure’s “therefore i was” was commissioned by the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation. Anthony Cheung’s “Synchronicities” was commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation.

Tickets may be purchased here.

May 9, 2019 7:30 pm
Patience & Sarah

Danny Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
695 Park Ave
New York, NY

Hunter Opera Theater & American Opera Projects present

Paula Kimper and Wende Persons: Patience & Sarah

Paula M. Kimper, composer
Wende Persons, librettist
Based on the novel by Isabel Miller

Talea Ensemble
David Fulmer, conductor
Susan Gonzalez, Director
Noby Ishida, Musical Director
Charlotte Athanasidy, Production Manager
Monica Duncan, Projections
Marcie Friedman, Stage Manager
Sevrin Anne Mason, Makeup & Wigs
Rocky Noel, Lighting

May 10, 2019 7:30 pm
Patience & Sarah

Danny Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
695 Park Ave
New York, NY

Hunter Opera Theater & American Opera Projects present

Paula Kimper and Wende Persons: Patience & Sarah

Paula M. Kimper, composer
Wende Persons, librettist
Based on the novel by Isabel Miller

Talea Ensemble
David Fulmer, conductor
Susan Gonzalez, Director
Noby Ishida, Musical Director
Charlotte Athanasidy, Production Manager
Monica Duncan, Projections
Marcie Friedman, Stage Manager
Sevrin Anne Mason, Makeup & Wigs
Rocky Noel, Lighting

June 9, 2019 4:00 pm
iNSIDE Out: Lacunae

the Flea Theater
20 Thomas St
New York, NY

Natacha Diels: An Economy of Means (2014)
Ted Moore: it teaches us that it doesn’t exist (2016)
Brian Simalchik: Lacunae (2013)
Ted Moore: still motion (2017)

Matthew Gold, percussion
Ted Moore, composer and multimedia artist

August 1, 2017 8:00 pm
Time Spans Festival: EBMF International Summer Academy for Young Composers

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

Presented by Earle Brown Music Foundation

Mayu Hirano: Bloom, for ensemble (2017)

Hunjoo Jung: GESTALT I: Discursive Unities (2017)

Chaya Czernowin: Ayre: Towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of (2016)

Jason Thorpe Buchanan: Pyschastenia B: Panic Architecture (2017)

Martin Rane Bauck: nightmares. Bonaria (2017)

Steven Takasugi: Diary of a Lung (2017) Premiere of the version for 16 musicians, electronic playback and amplification (2006-07 / 2016-17)

Jeffrey Means, conductor

Single Concert Tickets
Festival Pass

The EBMF International Summer Academy for Young Composers is a collaboration between EBMF and Avaloch Farm Music Institute

August 2, 2017 8:00 pm
Time Spans Festival: EBMF International Summer Academy for Young Composers

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

Presented by Earle Brown Music Foundation

Sam Salem: The Lovers (2017)

Christine Burke: half murmur (2017)

Weston Olencki: browser (2017)

Jeffery Shivers: minimum enclosure (2017)

Hans Tutschku: periods of existence (2016)

Jeffrey Means, conductor

Single Concert Tickets
Festival Pass

The EBMF International Summer Academy for Young Composers is a collaboration between EBMF and Avaloch Farm Music Institute

August 5, 2017 8:00 pm
Time Spans Festival: Hyena

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

Presented by Earle Brown Music Foundation

Georg Friedrich Haas: Hyena (2016) *US Premiere

Mollena Lee Williams-Haas, storyteller
Jeffrey Means, conductor

Single Concert Tickets
Festival Pass

October 14, 2017 7:30 pm
Folk Tunes

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

Shawn Jaeger: The Cold Pane (2013)
Ben Johnston: String Quartet #4 “Amazing Grace” (1973)
Christopher Trapani: Waterlines (2005/2012)

Lucy Dhegrae, voice
James Baker, conductor

Tickets $15/10 (students/seniors) in advance, $20/15 at the door. Buy today!

October 27, 2017 7:30 pm
The Young and Brilliant

Logan Center
915 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Vito Zuraj: Framed (2011)
Justyna Kowalska-Lason: A Light exists in Spring (2005)
Nicolai Worsaae: WaWV (2014)
Christian Mason: Noctilucence (2009)
Ondrej Adamek: Ça tourne ça bloque (2007)

Alice Teyssier, soprano
James Baker, conductor

November 5, 2017 6:00 pm
This Leads to an Emotional Stasis

Musiques Démesurées
Clermont-Ferrand, France

Jesper Nordin: calm like a bomb (2000)
Pierre Jodlowski: Mécano 1 (2004)
Alvin Lucier: Nothing is Real (1990)
Pierre Jodlowski: This Leads to an Emotional Stasis (2014)

With sound, light, and scenic interludes by Pierre Jodlowski.
This program is funded by the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE with major support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, SACEM, Institut Francais, the Florence Gould Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Pierre Jodlowski’s This Leads to an Emotional Stasis is made possible with the friendly support of the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE.

November 30, 2017 7:30 pm
FACE

Italian Academy
Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

Pierluigi Billone: FACE (2016)

Anna Clare Hauf, soprano
James Baker, conductor

Face was commissioned by Wien Modern & Philharmonie Luxembourg for PHACE.

December 4, 2017 8:00 pm
FACE

Monday Evening Concerts
Zipper Hall, Colburn School
200 S Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA

Pierluigi Billone: FACE (2016)

Anna Clare Hauf, soprano
James Baker, conductor

Face was commissioned by Wien Modern & Philharmonie Luxembourg for PHACE.

January 18, 2018 7:00 pm
iNSIDE Out: Musical Homages

Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street
New York, NY 10007

Pauline Oliveros: Quintuplets Play Pen: Homage to Ruth Crawford (2001)
James Weeks: Honey Celebration (after Schubert) (2005)
Oliver Knussen: upon one note (after Purcell) (1995)
György Kurtág: Hommage à R. Sch (1990)

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In addition to great chamber music performances, our iNSIDE Out series features creative discussions in an interactive environment that allow musicians and audiences to share how—and why—they listen. Each show has a social element, as performers, composers, and guest curators talk with the audience to share more about the context of each work’s development and how the musical ideas from the program are connected.

January 20, 2018 7:00 pm
iNSIDE Out: Time, Cycles, and Spirals

Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street
New York, NY 10007

Fred Lerdahl: Duo (2017)

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In addition to great chamber music performances, our iNSIDE Out series features creative discussions in an interactive environment that allow musicians and audiences to share how—and why—they listen. Each show has a social element, as performers, composers, and guest curators talk with the audience to share more about the context of each work’s development and how the musical ideas from the program are connected.

February 21, 2018 7:30 pm
Nono: La Lontananza

Italian Academy at Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10027

Luigi Nono: La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura (1988-89)

All of Talea’s performances at the Italian Academy are free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations

March 5, 2018 7:00 pm
Michelle Agnes Magalhaes Portrait

Americas Society
680 Park Ave
New York, NY 10065

Herbarium (2018)

I. Before you thought of spring – from Emily Dickinson’s piano
II. On my volcano grows the grass
III. I know a place where summer strives
IV. Of all the sounds dispatched abroad
V. The souls that snow – from Emily Dickinson’s piano
VI. It sounded as if the street were running

This project made possible in part thanks to support from the Americas Society and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

To learn more, please visit the Americas Society website. This event is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required.

April 3, 2018 7:30 pm
New Orleans residency

Performing Arts Center
2000 Lakeshore Dr
New Orleans, LA 70148

University of New Orleans / Recital Hall

New works by student composers from the University of New Orleans and Tulane University

Presented in partnership by the University of New Orleans, Tulane University, and the nienteForte Contemporary Music Festival

April 5, 2018 7:30 pm
New Orleans Residency

Tulane University / Dixon Hall
Dixon Performing Arts Center
33 Audubon Blvd
New Orleans, LA 70118

Courtney Bryan: In the Heart of God (2018) *World Premiere
Maxwell Dulaney: Scene II from Already Root, a one-act opera (2018) *World Premiere
Yotam Haber: In Rome, a scene from The Voice Imitator, an opera-in-progress (2018) *World Premiere
Wang Lu: A Distant World (2004)
James Dillon: Eos (1998)
Suzanne Farrin: ma dentro dove (2010)

Presented in partnership by the University of New Orleans, Tulane University, and the nienteForte Contemporary Music Festival

April 13, 2018 8:00 pm
Talea in New York

St. Peters Chelsea
346 W 20th St
New York, NY 10011

Rebecca Saunders: fury ii (2009)
Courtney Bryan: In the Heart of God (2018) *NYC Premiere
Anna-Louise Walton: Basket of Figs (2018) *NYC Premiere
Maxwell Dulaney: Scene 2-5 of Already Root, a one-act opera (2018) *World Premiere

Sharon Harms and Brian Giebler, voice
Greg Chudzik, double bass
Libretto to Already Root by Lauren Slaughter
James Baker, conductor

Tickets: $15/10 in advance, $20/15 at the door.

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April 17, 2018 7:30 pm
What can we do better? A Panel on Diversity & Equity in the Arts

The Signet
46 Dunster St, Cambridge, MA

Even as music and performing arts organizations have made efforts towards inclusion, many organizations still struggle to make their programming more diverse and equitable. By bringing together a range of stakeholders – music critics, administrators, artists, and activists – this panel seeks to examine the various cultural and structural realities that have impeded progress and explore ways of creating a blueprint for a more equitable future.

Panelists:

· Jeremy Eichler, Classical Music Critic, The Boston Globe

· Marti Epstein, Professor of Composition, Boston Conservatory and Berklee College of Music

· Zach Sheets, Development Director, Talea Ensemble

· Rajna Swaminathan, Improviser-Composer / PhD Candidate in Music (Creative Practice & Critical Inquiry), Harvard University

· Moderated by Todd McNeel, Media Coordinator, Boston Lyric Opera

Free and open to all who would like to attend. Desserts will be served.

Co-sponsored by Academic Ventures at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Talea Ensemble.

April 18, 2018 7:00 pm
Michelle Agnes Magalhaes Portrait

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Knafel Center, 10 Garden St
Cambridge, MA 02138

Herbarium (2018)

I. Before you thought of spring – from Emily Dickinson’s piano
II. On my volcano grows the grass
III. I know a place where summer strives
IV. Of all the sounds dispatched abroad
V. The souls that snow – from Emily Dickinson’s piano
VI. It sounded as if the street were running

This project made possible in part thanks to support from the Americas Society and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

This event is free and open to the public. Details are available on the Radcliffe Institute’s website.

May 5, 2018 7:30 pm
American Opera Projects: Hunter Opera Theater

Hunter College Black Box, Room 543HN
695 Park Ave, Entrance on 68th St.
New York, NY 10065

Hunter Opera Theater and the Richard Burke Pocket Opera at Hunter College in collaboration with American Opera Projects present three One-Act Premieres

Casey O’Neil: The Bone Keepers (2018)
Mariel Mayz: OPERAbbit (2018)
Joe Young: MarShawn (2018)
Daniel Fox: The Violence of Impediments (2018)

David Fulmer, Conductor

Susan Gonzalez (Director), Noby Ishida (Musical Director), Charlotte Athanasidy (Production Manager), Sophia Chapadjiev (Librettist, The Bone Keepers), Andrew Mayz (Librettist, OPERAbbit), and Monica Duncan (Projections)

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May 6, 2018 2:00 pm
American Opera Projects: Hunter Opera Theater

Hunter College Black Box, Room 543HN
695 Park Ave, Entrance on 68th St.
New York, NY 10065

Hunter Opera Theater and the Richard Burke Pocket Opera at Hunter College in collaboration with American Opera Projects present three One-Act Premieres

Casey O’Neil: The Bone Keepers (2018)
Mariel Mayz: OPERAbbit (2018)
Joe Young: MarShawn (2018)
Daniel Fox: The Violence of Impediments (2018)

David Fulmer, Conductor

Susan Gonzalez (Director), Noby Ishida (Musical Director), Charlotte Athanasidy (Production Manager), Sophia Chapadjiev (Librettist, The Bone Keepers), Andrew Mayz (Librettist, OPERAbbit), and Monica Duncan (Projections)

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June 4, 2018 6:30 pm
Sideshow: Blu-Ray Release & Year-End Celebration

the Flea Theater
20 Thomas St
New York, NY

Please join us for a festive, year-end event! We celebrate Talea’s 9th season and the new video Blu-Ray release of Steven Kazuo Takasugi’s Sideshow on the Kairos label.

Each ticket includes hors d’oeuvres, two drink tickets, a raffle ticket, and admission to the performance.

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The video recording of Takasugi’s Sideshow is made possible thanks to the Copland Fund and the Alice M. Ditson Fund.

August 4, 2016 7:30 pm
Darmstadt: Incipits

Centralstation
Darmstadt, Germany

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Mikrophonie I (1964)
Georges Aperghis: Wild Romance (2012)
Natacha Diels: Princess Nightmare Moon (2016) *World Premiere
Brian Ferneyhough: Incipits (1996)

Robyn Schulkowsky, Guest Artistic Advisor (Stockhausen)
Björn Wilker, guest (Stockhausen)
Elizabeth Weisser Helgeson, viola
Donatienne Michel-Dansac, soprano
James Baker, conductor

With the friendly support of:

This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through US Artists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

August 5, 2016 10:00 pm
Sideshow: Darmstadt

Centralstation
Darmstadt, Germany

Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Sideshow (2008-15)

Sideshow was commissioned by the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik and sponsored through the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
With the friendly support of:

This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through US Artists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

September 3, 2016 8:00 pm
Royaumont: Sideshow & Dike Wall

Royaumont, France

Pierluigi Billone: Dike Wall (2012)
Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Sideshow (2008-15)

James Baker, conductor

Sideshow was commissioned by the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik and sponsored through the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

September 9, 2016 8:00 pm
Royaumont: PROGRAMME VOIX NOUVELLES

Royaumont, France

Works by Royaumont PROGRAMME VOIX NOUVELLES Composition Fellows

James Baker, conductor

September 20, 2016 7:30 pm
Sideshow: Warsaw

Warsaw Autumn Festival
Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Studio
Warsaw, Poland

Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Sideshow (2008-15)

Sideshow was commissioned by the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik and sponsored through the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

October 14, 2016 7:30 pm
Written for Talea 1

Italian Academy, Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027

Natacha Diels: Princess Nightmare Moon (2016) *US premiere
Taylor Brook: Exploded Views (2016) *World Premiere
Lewis Nielson: …in terra aliena… (2015) *World Premiere

Alice Teyssier, soprano
Nina Dante, soprano
Jeffrey Gavett, baritone
James Baker, conductor

October 20, 2016 8:00 pm
John Zorn Portrait

Miller Theatre
New York, NY

Candlemas Eve (2016) *World Premiere
Il n’y a plus de firmament (2014)
Oviri (2014)

James Baker, conductor
Also featuring JACK Quartet, American Brass Quintet, Jay Campbell, Michael Nicolas, Marc Ribot, Ikue Mori, Stephen Gosling

November 11, 2016 7:00 pm
Anthony Cheung Wergo CD Release

National Sawdust
80 N 6th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11249

All works by Anthony Cheung
Refrain from Riffing (2008)
Roundabouts (2010)
Character Studies (2016)
Centripedalocity (2008)

Ryan Muncy, saxophone
Nuiko Wadden, harp
Anthony Cheung, piano
Yuki Numata Resnick, violin
James Baker, conductor

December 2, 2016 7:30 pm
Contempo: Interplay

University of Chicago
Logan Center for the Arts
Chicago, IL

Julian Anderson The Colour of Pomegranates (1994)
Mauricio Kagel: Sur scène (1959/60)
John Cage: Living Room Music (1940)
Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969)

6:30 PM pre-concert lecture with Seth Brodsky

Michael Weyandt, baritone
Rick Burkhardt, director/speaker
Benjamin Domask, mime
Jeff Means, conductor

December 14, 2016 7:30 pm
Nouvelles voix, nouvelles voies

French Institute Alliance Francaise
Florence Gould Hall Theater
55 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022

Ramon Lazkano: Ceux à Qui (2014) *US Premiere
Fabien Lévy: Après tout (2012) *US Premiere
Neue Vocalsolisten
James Baker, conductor
Funded by the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE with major support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, SACEM, Institut Francais, the Florence Gould Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

February 4, 2017 3:30 pm
Festival ECLAT

Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Siemensstraße 11
70469 Stuttgart, Germany

3:30 PM
Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Sideshow (2008-15)

Sideshow was commissioned by the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik and sponsored through the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

8:30 PM

Preisträgerkonzert zum Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart
Ricardo Eizirik: Junkyard Piece I (2014/15)

James Baker, conductor

February 17, 2017 7:00 pm
Written for Talea 2

National Sawdust
80 N 6th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11249

Mario Diaz de Leon: New Work (2017) *World Premiere
Joshua Fineberg: L’abîme (2016) *World Premiere
Jason Eckardt : New Work (2017) *World Premiere

Nico Couck, guitar
Adrian Morejon, bassoon
Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet
Chris Gross, cello
James Baker, conductor

February 20, 2017 8:00 pm
Rutgers Residency

Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NY

Mario Diaz de Leon: New Work (2017)
Charles Wuorinen: An Orbicle of Jasp (1999)
Georg Friedrich Haas: tria ex uno (2001)
Gerard Grisey: Talea (1986)

James Baker, conductor

March 3, 2017 8:00 pm
Fromm Festival

Harvard University
Paine Hall
Cambridge, MA

George Lewis: Mnemosis (2011)
Gerard Grisey: Talea (1986)
James Dillon: New York Triptych (2012)

James Baker, conductor

March 4, 2017 8:00 pm
Fromm Festival

Harvard University
Paine Hall
Cambridge, MA

Brian Ferneyhough: Incipits (1996)
Rand Steiger: A Menacing Plume (2011)
Liza Lim: Songs Found in Dream (2005)
Hans Tutschku: New Work (2017) *World Premiere

Charlotte Mundy, soprano
James Baker, conductor

March 11, 2017 8:00 pm
Vancouver New Music

The Annex
823 Seymour Street
Vancouver, Canada

Stefan Maier: New Work (2017)
Fausto Romitelli: Trash TV Trance (2002)
Olga Neuwirth: spazio elastico (2005)
Pierluigi Billone: Ebe und Anders (2014)

Oren Fader, electric guitar
Jeffrey Means, conductor

April 7, 2017 8:00 pm
NYU Residency

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

Works by NYU Graduate Composers
Jeffrey Means, conductor

April 13, 2017 8:00 pm
Liber Fulguralis

Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA

Gérard Grisey: Talea (1986)
Joshua Fineberg: L’abîme (2016)
Tristan Murail: Liber Fulguralis (2008) *US premiere

James Baker, conductor

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The Talea Ensemble performance is a co-production of the ICA/Boston and the Boston University Center for New Music.
Funded by the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE with major support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, SACEM, Institut Francais, the Florence Gould Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

April 19, 2017 5:00 pm
15 Years of Austrian Cultural Forum

Austrian Cultural Forum 11 E 52nd St New York, NY 10022

Steve Reich: New York Counterpoint (1985)
John Zorn: All Hallows Eve (2012)
Olga Neuwirth: Weariness Heals All Wounds I (2014)
Beat Furrer: Lotofagos (2006)

Juliet Fraser, soprano

Free Admission, Tickets Required

April 24, 2017 8:00 pm
Monday Evening Concerts: Happy End

Monday Evening Concerts
Colburn School, Zipper Hall
200 S Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Georges Aperghis: Happy End (2007)

Animated feature film: Hans Op de Beeck, Bruno Hardt, Klaas Verpoest
Computer Music Production: Sebastien Roux
Conductor: James Baker

Funded by the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE with major support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, SACEM, Institut Francais, the Florence Gould Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

May 1, 2017 8:00 pm
Columbia Composers

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

Stylianos Dimou – “. . . d’un archétype métallique” (2017) *World Premiere

Mary Kouyoumdjian – The Vanishing Dark (2017) *World Premiere

William Dougherty – the new normal (2017) *World Premiere

Matthew Ricketts – Unset (2017) *World Premiere

John Rot – steep or deep (2017) *World Premiere

Onur Yildirim: SA karaz (2017) *World Premiere

Sharon Harms, soprano
Jeffrey Means, conductor

July 4, 2017 7:00 pm
Time of Music

Viitasaari Areena
Vitasaari, Finland

Steven Takasugi: Sideshow (2009-15)

July 6, 2017 7:30 pm
Time of Music

Viitasaari Church
Vitasaari, Finland

Mark Applebaum: Control Freak 3 (2017)

Jouni Hivelä: New Work (2017) *World Premiere, Commissioned by Time of Music

James Dillon: New York Triptych (2012)

Juliet Fraser, soprano

James Baker, conductor

Mark Applebaum, conductor

July 8, 2017 2:00 pm
Time of Music

Parish Hall
Vitasaari, Finland

Halldór Smárason: New Work (2017) *World Premiere

Ethan Braun: New Work (2017) *World Premiere

Adrien Trybucki: New Work (2017) *World Premiere

James Baker, conductor

August 29, 2015 8:00 pm
Saalfelden Jazz Festival

Saalfelden, Austria

Steve Coleman: Synovial Joints (2013-14)

Steve Coleman and the Council of Balance

September 5, 2015 8:00 pm
La Villette

Paris, France

Steve Coleman: Synovial Joints (2013-14)
Steve Coleman and the Council of Balance

September 18, 2015 10:30 pm
Warsaw Autumn

Warsaw, Poland

Hans Abrahamsen: Schnee (2006)

James Baker, conductor

October 23, 2015 8:00 pm
TRANSIT

TRANSIT Festival
Leuven, Belgium

Anthony Cheung: Synchronicities (2012)
Luc Brewaeys: Per André L. 80 (2011)
Georges Aperghis: Wild Romance (2012) *World Premiere
Pierluigi Billone: Dike.Wall (2012)
Donatienne Michel-Dansac, soprano
James Baker, conductor
Georges Aperghis’ Wild Romance is made possible with the friendly support of:

October 29, 2015 8:00 pm
De Bijolke

De Bijolke
Ghent, Belgium

Raphael Cendo: Décombres (2006)
Georges Aperghis: Wild Romance (2012)
Alex Mincek: it conceals within itself (2012)
James Dillon: New York Triptych (2012)
Donatienne Michel-Dansac, soprano
James Baker, conductor
Georges Aperghis’ Wild Romance is made possible with the friendly support of:

November 19, 2015 8:00 pm
Sideshow: Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik

Remise Bludenz,
Am Raiffeisenplatz
6700 Bludenz, Austria

Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Sideshow (2008-15) *World Premiere

Commissioned by the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik and sponsored through the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

December 1, 2015 8:00 pm
Sideshow: Harvard University

Radcliffe Institute
10 Garden St
Cambridge, MA 02138

Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Sideshow (2008-15) *US Premiere

Commissioned by the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik and sponsored through the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

December 5, 2015 8:00 pm
Sideshow: New York

DiMenna Center, Cary Hall
450 W 37th St.
New York, NY 10018

8 PM: Pre-concert reception with beer generously provided by Coney Island Brewery
9 PM: Concert
$15 Admission: Free beer at 8 PM reception with valid ID

Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Sideshow (2008-15)

Commissioned by the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik and sponsored through the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

December 7, 2015 8:00 pm
Sideshow: Los Angeles

Monday Evening Concerts
Colburn School, Zipper Hall
200 S Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21
Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Sideshow (2008-15)

Tony Arnold, speaker
James Baker, conductor

Sideshow was commissioned by the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik and sponsored through the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

February 26, 2016 8:00 pm
American Immersion: Georg Friedrich Haas

Bohemian National Hall
321 East 73rd St.
New York, NY

Georg Friedrich Haas: La profondeur (2009)
Georg Friedrich Haas: I can’t breathe (2015) *US Premiere
Georg Friedrich Haas: tria ex uno (2001)
Georg Friedrich Haas: …wie stille brannte das Licht (2009)

Reserve free tickets

Tony Arnold, soprano
Gareth Flowers, trumpet
James Baker, conductor

Presented by the Austrian Cultural Forum.

March 11, 2016 8:00 pm
Written for Talea: Library of Congress

Library of Congress
Coolidge Auditorium

Anthony Cheung: Synchronicities (2012)
Julian Anderson: New Work (2015) *US Premiere
Georges Aperghis: Wild Romance (2012) *US Premiere
Brian Ferneyhough: Contraccolpi (2015) *World Premiere
Jane Sheldon, soprano
James Baker, conductor

Brian Ferneyhough’s Contraccolpi is commissioned by the Dina Koston and Roger Shapiro Fund in the Library of Congress, with further support from Ensemble musikFabrik and Kunststiftung NRW.

Georges Aperghis’ Wild Romance is made possible with the friendly support of:

March 16, 2016 8:00 pm
Written for Talea: New York

Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Jeffrey Holmes: Hagall (2015) *World Premiere
Georges Aperghis: Wild Romance (2012)
Brian Ferneyhough: Contraccolpi (2015)
Jane Sheldon, soprano
David Fulmer, conductor
James Baker, conductor
General Admission Tickets: $15

Brian Ferneyhough’s Contraccolpi is commissioned by the Dina Koston and Roger Shapiro Fund in the Library of Congress, with further support from Ensemble musikFabrik and Kunststiftung NRW.

Jeffrey Holmes’ commission was made possible by a grant from the Jebediah Foundation New Music Commissions. Additional collaborative support for Holmes’ work was provided by Firebird Ensemble: www.FirebirdEnsemble.org
Georges Aperghis’ Wild Romance is made possible with the friendly support of:

March 31, 2016 8:00 pm
Frank Abell Young Composers Award

Comstock Concert Hall School of Music, University of Louisville 2301 S. 3rd Street Louisville, KY 40292

Works by Michael Seltenreich, JM Gallagher, John Rot, and University of Louisville Graduate Students

Jeff Means, conductor

May 4, 2016 7:00 pm
Density and Lightness: Elizabeth Weisser

Maison Francaise
Columbia University
New York, NY

Heinz Holliger: Souvenirs Trémaësques (2000-01)
Fausto Romitelli: Ganimede (1986)
Salvatore Sciarrino: Tre Notturni Brillanti (1974-75)
JS Bach: Partita No. 2 in d minor bwv 1004 (1717-20)
Elizabeth Weisser, viola
Free Admission

May 11, 2016 8:00 pm
Darmstadt in New York

Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Mikrophonie I (1964)

May 18, 2016 7:00 pm
GMEM Festival

Théâtre Joliette-Minoterie
2 Place Henri Verneuil
13002 Marseille, France

Beat Furrer: Lied (1993)
Franck Bedrossian: Edges (2010)
Andrew Norman: Sabina (2013)
Georges Aperghis: Fuzzy Trio (2008)

May 21, 2016 7:00 pm
GMEM Festival: Pierre Jodlowski

Friche La Belle De Mai
41 Rue Jobin
13003 Marseille, France

Jesper Nordin: calm like a bomb (2000)
Pierre Jodlowski: Mécano 1 (2004)
Alvin Lucier: Nothing is Real (1990)
Pierre Jodlowski: This Leads to an Emotional Stasis (2014) *World Premiere

With sound, light, and scenic interludes by Pierre Jodlowski.
This program is funded by the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE with major support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, SACEM, Institut Francais, the Florence Gould Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Pierre Jodlowski’s This Leads to an Emotional Stasis is made possible with the friendly support of the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE.

May 25, 2016 8:00 pm
reMusik Festival

Mariinsky Theatre
Theatre Square, 1
St Petersburg, Russia

Georg Friedrich Haas: tria ex uno (2001)
Timothy Dunne: New Piece (2016) *World Premiere
Elliott Carter: Triple Duo (1983)
Pierluigi Billone: Dike Wall (2012)
James Baker, conductor

September 26, 2014 8:00 pm
Opening Night: Written for Talea

Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, NY

Oscar Bettison: An Automated Sunrise (for Joseph Cornell) (2014) *World Premiere
Christopher Trapani: Waterlines (2012) *World Premiere
Hans Tutschku: Under (2013) *US Premiere
Aaron Helgeson: Poems of Sheer Nothingness (2013) *World Premiere

Tickets
$20: Advanced Purchase Reserved Seating
$10: Suggested Donation (available at the door)
Free: Students/Seniors

Susan Narucki, soprano
Lucy Dhegrae, soprano
James Baker, conductor

Oscar Bettison’s An Automated Sunrise (for Joseph Cornell) has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.

October 22, 2014 8:00 pm
UCSD Residency

University of California San Diego
San Diego, CA

Oscar Bettison: An Automated Sunrise (for Joseph Cornell) (2014)
Charles Wuorinen: Fast Fantasy (1977)
Aaron Helgeson: Poems of Sheer Nothingness (2013)
Rand Steiger: A Menacing Plume (2011)
Susan Narucki, soprano
James Baker, conductor

October 24, 2014 8:00 pm
UCSD Residency

University of California San Diego
San Diego, CA

Works by UCSD Graduate Composers
James Baker, conductor

January 9, 2015 8:00 pm
I/O Festival: Georges Aperghis: Happy End

Williams College
Williamstown, MA

I/O Festival

Georges Aperghis: Happy End (2007)

Animated feature film: Hans Op de Beeck, Bruno Hardt, Klaas Verpoest
Computer Music Production: Sebastien Roux
Conductor: James Baker

Funded by the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE with major support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, SACEM, Institut Francais, the Florence Gould Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Funded in part by the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation.

February 12, 2015 8:00 pm
Ecstatic Music Festival

Ecstatic Music Festival
Merkin Concert Hall
129 W 67th St.
New York, NY

Works by John Zorn

March 5, 2015 8:00 pm
Grawemeyer Prize Conference

University of Louisville
Louisville, KY

Works by Grawemeyer Prize Winners, Pierre Boulez, Wolfgang Rihm, and University of Louisville Graduate Students

Ryan McAdams, conductor

March 13, 2015 8:00 pm
Speicher

EMPAC
110 8th St.
Troy, NY

Enno Poppe: Speicher (2013) *US Premiere
James Baker, conductor

April 8, 2015 7:30 pm
Pierluigi Billone Residency

Italian Academy
Columbia University
New York, NY
Free Admission

Pierluigi Billone: Legno.Edre III.Ini (2003) *World Premiere
Pierluigi Billone: Mani.Matta (2009)
Pierluigi Billone: Ebe und Anders (2014) *US Premiere

Adrian Morejon, bassoon

Eduardo Leandro, conductor

April 16, 2015 8:00 pm
NYU Composers Festival

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
107 Suffolk Street
New York, NY

Works by NYU Graduate Composers

Jeff Means, conductor

April 18, 2015 8:00 pm
MATA Festival

The Kitchen
512 West 19th St.
New York, NY

Sam Pluta: Machine Language (2012)
Dan Van Hassel: Ghost in the Machine (2013)
Davour-Branimir Vincze: Inflection Point (2011)
Matthias Kranebitter: Pack the Box (2013)
Ofir Klemperer: A Love Song (2007)
Ann Cleare: New Work (2015) *World Premiere

Alex Lipowski, percussion

Ian Antonio, percussion

Ofir Klemperer, voice

James Baker, conductor

May 8, 2015 8:00 pm
Georges Aperghis: Happy End

Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA

Georges Aperghis: Happy End (2007)

Animated feature film: Hans Op de Beeck, Bruno Hardt, Klaas Verpoest
Computer Music Production: Sebastien Roux
Conductor: James Baker

Funded by the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE with major support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, SACEM, Institut Francais, the Florence Gould Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Funded in part by the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation.

May 21, 2015 7:30 pm
American Immersion: Clemens Gadenstätter

Austrian Cultural Forum
11 East 52nd St.
New York, NY

Tal Para Qual (2006)
bersten, platzen (Paramyth 4) (2012)
haeuten (Paramyth 1) (2012)

Reserve free tickets

JACK Quartet
Nico Couck, guitar
Chris Gross, cello
Stephen Gosling, piano

With the friendly support of:

May 28, 2015 8:00 pm
American Immersion: Clemens Gadenstätter

Bohemian National Hall
321 East 73rd St.
New York, NY

Clemens Gadenstätter: les dernières cris (2015) *US Premiere
Clemens Gadenstätter: les cris des lumières (2014) *US Premiere
Clemens Gadenstätter: Semantical Investigations II (2008) *US Premiere
Reserve free tickets
James Baker, conductor

Presented by the Austrian Cultural Forum.
With the friendly support of:

June 26, 2015 7:00 pm
Time Spans 2015: Crested Butte Music Festival

Crested Butte, CO

Anthony Cheung: Time’s Vestiges (2013)
Zosha di Castri: Cortege (2010)
David Adamcyk: Musique Absolue (2014)
Sean Shepherd: Lumens (2005)

John Kennedy, conductor

June 27, 2015 7:00 pm
Time Spans 2015: Crested Butte Music Festival

Crested Butte, CO

Anthony Cheung: SynchroniCities (2012)
Oscar Bettison: An Automated Sunrise (2014)
Sean Shepherd: These Particular Circumstances (2009)

John Kennedy, conductor

June 28, 2015 4:00 pm
Time Spans 2015: Crested Butte Music Festival

Crested Butte, CO

Hans Abrahamsen: Schnee (2006-08)

John Kennedy, conductor

September 26, 2013 8:00 pm
Zorn at 60: Chamber Music

Miller Theatre
New York, NY

John Zorn: Orphee (2004)
John Zorn: Bateau Ivre (2011)
John Zorn: Temptations of St Anthony (2012) *NY Premiere
John Zorn: Missa Sine Voces (2012) *World Premiere

James Baker, conductor

Bateau Ivre has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.

September 27, 2013 8:00 pm
Zorn at 60: Game Pieces

Miller Theatre
New York, NY

John Zorn: Rugby (1983)

October 22, 2013 8:00 pm
Diaz de Leon: New Works

Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, NY

Mario Diaz de Leon: Trembling Time II (2009)
Mario Diaz de Leon: Chapel Abyss (2011-13) *World Premiere

Commissioned by Roulette/NYSCA

James Baker, conductor

November 2, 2013 8:00 pm
Science and Music

American University
Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center
Washington, DC

Alexandre Lunsqui: Topografia Index 3A (2008)
Tristan Murail: Attracteurs étranges (1992)
Fernando Benadon: 2 Cosmicomics (2013)
Matthew Heap: New Work (2013) *World Premiere
Hector Parra: Stress Tensor (2009/2011) *US Premiere

James Baker, conductor

December 18, 2013 8:00 pm
iNSIDE Out: Georges Aperghis

Free Admission
University Settlement, Speyer Hall
184 Eldridge St.
New York, NY

Georges Aperghis: Dans le mur (2007)
Georges Aperghis: Rasch (2001)
Georges Aperghis: Fuzzy Trio (2006) *US Premiere
Georges Aperghis: Les Guetteurs de sons (1981)

February 10, 2014 8:00 pm
Columbia Composers

Casa Italiana
Columbia University
New York, NY

Ashkan Behzadi: New Work (2014)
Stylianos Dimou: New Work (2014)
David Bird: New Work (2014)
Sky Macklay: New Work (2014)
Ashley Nail: New Work (2014)
John Rot: New Work (2014)
Roberto Toscano: New Work (2014)

James Baker, conductor

March 4, 2014 7:30 pm
iNSIDE Out: Billone, Neuwirth, Gander

Austrian Cultural Forum
11 East 52nd St.
New York, NY

Bernhard Gander: Die Orpheus Akte II (2008)
Pierluigi Billone: Mani.Matta (2008)
Olga Neuwirth: In Nacht und Eis (2006)

Free Admission, Tickets at acfny.org
With the friendly support of:

March 7, 2014 8:00 pm
Vienna Reinvented

Bohemian National Hall
321 East 73rd St.
New York, NY

Olga Neuwirth – un posto nell’acqua (Herman Melville-Skizze) (2009) *US Premiere
Bernhard Gander – Take Nine for Twelve (2011) *US Premiere
Pierluigi Billone: Mani.Long (2001) *US Premiere
Free Admission, Tickets at acfny.org

James Baker, conductor
Presented by the Austrian Cultural Forum and Carnegie Hall’s Vienna: City of Dreams
With the friendly support of:

March 21, 2014 8:00 pm
East Carolina New Music Festival

East Carolina University
Greenville, NC

Pierluigi Billone: Mani.Long (2001)

James Baker, conductor

With the friendly support of:

March 28, 2014 8:00 pm
Brandeis University Residency

Brandeis University
Slosberg Hall
Waltham, MA

Works by Brandeis University Graduate Student Composers

James Baker, conductor

March 29, 2014 8:00 pm
Brandeis University Residency

Brandeis University
Slosberg Hall
Waltham, MA

Eric Chasalow: Incident and Scatter (2012)
Pierluigi Billone: Mani.Long (2001)

James Baker, conductor
With the friendly support of:

April 11, 2014 7:00 pm
Etudes for Three Pianists

Barge Music
Brooklyn, NY

Frederic Chopin: Etudes Op. 25, No. 7, 8 and 11 (1837)
Claude Debussy: Etude “Pour les agréments” (1915)
Roger Reynolds: Etudes (2012) *World Premiere, Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation
Gyorgy Ligeti: Etudes: Vertige and Autumn in Warsaw (1986-1994)
Roger Reynolds: imAge/piano (2007)
Alejandro Vinao: Selected Etudes
David: Rakowski: Selected Etudes

Steven Beck, piano
Stephen Gosling, piano
Eric Huebner, piano

April 18, 2014 8:00 pm
MATA Festival

The Kitchen
512 West 19th. St
New York, NY

Simon Vosecek: Mouses (2012)
Edward Hamel: New Work (2014) *World Premiere
Clara Iannotta: Clangs (2012) *US Premiere
Todd Tarantino: Cap Malheureux (2012)

Chris Gross, cello
James Baker, conductor

April 23, 2014 8:00 pm
Georges Aperghis: Happy End

Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, NY

Georges Aperghis: Happy End (2007) *US Premiere

Animated feature film: Hans Op de Beeck, Bruno Hardt, Klaas Verpoest
Computer Music Production: Sebastien Roux
Conductor: James Baker
Reserve free tickets

Funded by the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE with major support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, SACEM, Institut Francais, the Florence Gould Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Funded in part by the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation.

May 20, 2014 8:00 pm
Written for Talea

Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, NY

David Adamcyk: Musique Absolue I (2014) *World Premiere
David Brynjar Franszon: latitude (2014) *World Premiere
Steve Coleman: Synovial Joints(2013-14) *World Premiere

Steve Coleman and Five Elements
Steve Coleman, alto saxophone
Jonathan Finlayson, trumpet
Miles Okazaki, guitar
Dafnis Prieto, drums
Maria Grand, cowbell

James Baker, conductor

Reserve Tickets

June 17, 2014 8:00 pm
Talea@The Stone: Anthony Cheung and Steve Lehman

The Stone
Corner of Ave C. and East 2nd St.
New York, NY

8 PM: Anthony Cheung and Steve Lehman
New compositions and improvisations for saxophone and keyboard in multiple tunings

10 PM: Anthony Cheung, piano
Alvin Curran: Beatles Arrangements (1990)
Ben Johnston: Suite for Microtonal Piano (1977)
Ana Sokolovic: Prelude and Fugue for GG (2007)

June 18, 2014 8:00 pm
Talea@The Stone: Elizabeth Weisser and Yuki Numata Resnick

The Stone
Corner of Ave C. and East 2nd St.
New York, NY

8 PM: Elizabeth Weisser, viola
Densities and Light

Giacinto Scelsi: Coelacanth (1955)
Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata no. 5, op. 5 (1700)
Salvatore Sciarrino: Di volo (1974)
Don Carlo Gesualdo: Questi leggiardri odorosetti fiori (1594)
Niccolo Paganini: Caprice #17 (1802-1817)
Pierluigi Billone: ITI KE MI (1995) *US Premiere

10 PM: Yuki Numata Resnick, violin
Program TBA

June 19, 2014 8:00 pm
Talea@The Stone: Chris Gross and Adrian Morejon

The Stone
Corner of Ave C. and East 2nd St.
New York, NY

8 PM: Chris Gross, cello
Charles Wuorinen: Duuiensela (1962)
Charles Wuorinen: Cello Variations II (1975)
Charles Wuorinen: An Orbicle of Jasp (1999)
Charles Wuorinen: Fast Fantasy (1977)
Stephen Gosling, piano
10 PM: Adrian Morejon
Franck Bedrossian: Transmission (2002)
Salvatore Sciarrino: Tre duetti con l’eco (2006)
David Fulmer: Rotary (2014) *World Premiere
Pierluigi Billone: Legno.Edre IV.Manda (2003) *US Premiere
Barry Crawford, flute
Elizabeth Weisser, viola

June 20, 2014 8:00 pm
Talea@The Stone: Alex Lipowski, Matthew Gold, Eduardo Leandro and Talea/Next

The Stone
Corner of Ave C. and East 2nd St.
New York, NY

8 PM: Alex Lipowski, Matthew Gold, Eduardo Leandro
Steven Takasugi: Strange Autumn (2003-04)
Georges Aperghis: Les Guetteurs de sons (1981)
10 PM: Talea/Next
Edgard Varèse: Density 21.5 (1936) (arr. Casey McLellan)
Brian Simalchik: Lacunae, for solo handbells and distant tape (2012)
Casey McLellan, handbells
Arijit Robin Chakraborty: I’m Leaving You (2014)
contempo Ensemble of the Brooklyn College Conservatory – Marianne Gythfeldt, director
David Bird: Bezier (2013)
andPlay: Maya Bennardo, violin; Hannah Levinson, viola
Stephen Cabell: Movement for Piano (2010)
Monika Haar, piano
Viola Yip: She is the one remembering something of this thing (2014)
for 2 female speaking vocalists

June 21, 2014 8:00 pm
Talea@The Stone: Erik Carlson and Barry Crawford

The Stone
Corner of Ave C. and East 2nd St.
New York, NY

8 PM: Erik Carlson, violin

Jürg Frey: Distant Colors (2013)
Christoph Korn: untitled (2014)
David Kant: untitled (2014)
Christopher Otto: Piece for Erik (2013)

10 PM: Barry Crawford, flute

Salvatore Sciarrino: L’opera per flauto, Volume 1 (1990)

June 22, 2014 8:00 pm
Talea@The Stone: Steven Beck and Rane Moore

The Stone
Corner of Ave C. and East 2nd St.
New York, NY

8 PM: Steven Beck, piano
Complete Solo Piano works of Arnold Schoenberg
10 PM: Rane Moore, clarinet
Raphael Cendo: Décombres (2006)
Georges Aperghis: Simulacre IV (1995)
Per Bloland: Quintet for solo clarinet (2005)
Vinko Globokar: Voix Instrumentalisée (1973)

August 23, 2014 8:00 pm
Harvard Summer Composition Institute

Harvard University
Paine Hall
Cambridge, MA

Works by Harvard Summer Composition Institute Fellows

August 24, 2014 8:00 pm
Harvard Summer Composition Institute

Harvard University
Paine Hall
Cambridge, MA

Works by Harvard Summer Composition Institute Fellows

September 21, 2012 8:00 pm
Opening Night: New York Triptych

Bohemian National Hall
321 East 73rd St.
New York, NY

Pierluigi Billone: Δίκη Wall (2012) *US Premiere
Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Commission
Ondrej Adamek: Ca tourne ca bloque (2008) *US Premiere
James Dillon: New York Triptych (2012) *US Premiere
Fromm Foundation Commission

Free Admission
Reservations: reservation@czechcenter.com

Co-presented by the Bohemian National Hall and Czech Center New York

With the friendly support of:

November 4, 2012 7:30 pm
Wien Modern: Olga Neuwirth Portrait

Wienerkonzerthaus
Lothringerstraße 20
Vienna, Austria

Olga Neuwirth: incidendo/ fluido (2000)
Olga Neuwirth: In Nacht und Eis (2006)
Olga Neuwirth: …ad aduras… in memoriam H. (1999)
Olga Neuwirth: AKROATE HADAL (1995)
Olga Neuwirth: torsion: transparent variation (2001)

Adrian Morejon, bassoon
Steven Back, piano

November 6, 2012 8:00 pm
Contempuls Festival

La Fabrika
Komunardů 30
Prague, Czech Republic

Alex Mincek: Color – Form – Line: II (2011)
Eric Wubbels New Work (2012) *World Premiere
Huck Hodge: New Work (2012) *World Premiere
Erin Gee: Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter (2007)
Olga Neuwirth: torsion: transparent variation (2001)

Adrian Morejon, bassoon

December 14, 2012 8:00 pm
Synchronicities

Mannes College of Music
150 West 85th St.
New York, NY

George Lewis: Mnemosis (2012) *World Premiere
Christopher Trapani: Waterlines (2012) *World Premiere
*made possible by a grant from the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation
Steve Lehman: Khalid (2012) *World Premiere
Anthony Cheung: Synchronicities (2012) *World Premiere, Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation

Daisy Press, soprano

Free Admission

December 20, 2012 10:00 am
Anthony Cheung Recording Project

Oktaven Audio
Yonkers, NY

Anthony Cheung: Enjamb/ Infuse/ Implode (2006)
Anthony Cheung: Synchronicities (2012)

December 21, 2012 10:00 am
Anthony Cheung Recording Project

Oktaven Audio
Yonkers, NY

Anthony Cheung: Enjamb/ Infuse/ Implode (2006)
Anthony Cheung: Synchronicities (2012)

February 4, 2013 8:00 pm
A Contemporary Evening for Ralph

Merkin Concert Hall
129 West 67th St.
New York, NY

Olga Neuwirth: Hooloomooloo (1997)

Also featuring performances by Alarm Will Sound, JACK, ICE, Argento, and Either/Or

February 19, 2013 7:00 pm
Dialogues and Dualities

German Consulate New York
871 UN Plaza
New York, NY

Hans Werner Henze: Whispers from Heavenly Death (1948)
Hans Werner Henze: Sonata (1959)
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Mikrophonie I (1964)

Free Admission
E-mail germanconsulatenyc@gmail.com for Tickets

Sylvie Robert, soprano
Steven Beck, piano

Special guest and percussionist: Robyn Schulkowsky

April 8, 2013 8:00 pm
University of Washington Residency

University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Works by University of Washington Faculty and Students
Program TBD

April 10, 2013 7:30 pm
Town Hall Seattle: Games

Town Hall
1119 8th Ave.
Seattle, WA

Mauricio Kagel: Match (1964)
Vito Zuraj: Deuce (2008) *US Premiere
Milton Babbitt: Fourplay (1984)
Moritz Eggert: Pong (2002/2012) *World Premiere
John Zorn: Rugby (1977)

Joshua Roman, cello

April 12, 2013 7:00 pm
University of Victoria

Phillip T. Young Recital Hall
University of Victoria
British Columbia, Canada

Vito Zuraj: Deuce (2012)
Jonathan Harvey: Be(co)ming (1979)
Daniel Peter Biro: New Work (2013) *World Premiere
Beat Furrer: Studie (2011)

April 20, 2013 7:30 pm
MATA Festival

Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, NY

David Fennessy:13 Factories (2009)
Taylor Brook: Against the Morning (2011)
Milica Djordjevic: one less horror for your mother (2011)
Evan Antonellis: New Work (2013)*
Hugo Morales: Tonewood (2011)
Mauro Lanza: Aschenblume (2002)

Jamie Jordan, soprano

*Commissioned by Music at the Anthology Inc. for the 2013 MATA Festival of New Music

May 14, 2013 7:30 pm
iNSIDE Out: Beat Furrer

Austrian Cultural Forum
11 East 52nd. St.
New York, NY

Beat Furrer: Lotófagos I (2006)
Beat Furrer: Studie for Piano (2011) *US Premiere
Beat Furrer: Scene VI, from FAMA (2004)
Beat Furrer: Lied (1993)

Tony Arnold, soprano
Bo Chang, actress
Tara O’Connor, contrabass flute
Steven Beck, piano
Yuki Numata, violin
Greg Chudzik, bass

With the friendly support of:

May 16, 2013 8:00 pm
FAMA

Bohemian National Hall
321 East 73rd. St
New York, NY

Beat Furrer: FAMA (2005) *US Premiere

Bo Chang, actress
Tara O’Connor, contrabass flute
James Baker, conductor
Ekmeles
Reserve Free Tickets:    http://www.acfny.org/event/reservation/beat-furrer-fama/

Presented by the Austrian Cultural Forum and Bohemian National Hall
Supported in part by the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation

With the friendly support of:

May 17, 2013 8:00 pm
FAMA

Bohemian National Hall
321 East 73rd St.
New York, NY

Beat Furrer: FAMA (2005) *US Premiere

Bo Chang, actress
Tara O’Connor, contrabass flute
James Baker, conductor
Ekmeles
Reserve Free Tickets:    http://www.acfny.org/event/reservation/beat-furrer-fama-1/

Presented by the Austrian Cultural Forum and Bohemian National Hall
Supported in part by the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation

With the friendly support of:

June 5, 2013 8:00 pm
June in Buffalo

University of Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

Works by June in Buffalo Faculty

Raphaël Cendo: Décombres (2006) *US Premiere
Charles Wuorinen: Piano Trio (1983)
Yehudi Wyner: Refrain (2012)
Augusta Read Thomas: Caprice (2005)
Brian Ferneyhough: Incipits (1996)
David Felder: Requiescat (2010)

James Baker, conductor

June 16, 2013 6:00 pm
Bang on a Can Marathon

Pace University, Schimmel Center
3 Spruce St.
New York, NY

Hans Abrahamsen: Schnee (2008)

James Baker, conductor

Presented by Bang on a Can with support from the Consulate General of Denmark

July 18, 2013 7:30 pm
Lincoln Center Festival: Matsukaze

Lincoln Center Festival
Gerald Lynch Theatre
524 West 59th St.
New York, NY

Toshio Hosokawa: Matsukaze (2011)

Libretto, Hanna Dübgen
Director, Chen Shi-Zheng
Conductor, John Kennedy
Set design, Chris Barreca
Lighting design, Scott Zielinski
Video design, Olivier Rosset
Costume design, Elizabeth Caitlin Ward
Pureum Jo (Matsukaze); Jihee Kim (Murasame); Gary Simpson (Monk); and Thomas Meglioranza (Fisherman)

Presented by Lincoln Center Festival. A co-production with Spoleto Festival USA.

July 19, 2013 7:30 pm
Lincoln Center Festival: Matsukaze

Lincoln Center Festival
Gerald Lynch Theatre
524 West 59th St.
New York, NY

Toshio Hosokawa: Matsukaze (2011)

Libretto, Hanna Dübgen
Director, Chen Shi-Zheng
Conductor, John Kennedy
Set design, Chris Barreca
Lighting design, Scott Zielinski
Video design, Olivier Rosset
Costume design, Elizabeth Caitlin Ward
Pureum Jo (Matsukaze); Jihee Kim (Murasame); Gary Simpson (Monk); and Thomas Meglioranza (Fisherman)

Presented by Lincoln Center Festival. A co-production with Spoleto Festival USA.

July 20, 2013 7:30 pm
Lincoln Center Festival: Matsukaze

Lincoln Center Festival
Gerald Lynch Theatre
524 West 59th St.
New York, NY

Toshio Hosokawa: Matsukaze (2011)

Libretto, Hanna Dübgen
Director, Chen Shi-Zheng
Conductor, John Kennedy
Set design, Chris Barreca
Lighting design, Scott Zielinski
Video design, Olivier Rosset
Costume design, Elizabeth Caitlin Ward
Pureum Jo (Matsukaze); Jihee Kim (Murasame); Gary Simpson (Monk); and Thomas Meglioranza (Fisherman)

Presented by Lincoln Center Festival. A co-production with Spoleto Festival USA.

August 4, 2013 6:00 pm
Newport Jazz Festival

Newport Jazz Festival
Fort Adams State Park
Newport, RI

Steve Coleman: New Work (2013) *World Premiere

Steve Coleman, saxophone
Special Guests TBA

Presented by Newport Jazz Festival

September 30, 2011 8:00 pm
Mode Records Series

The Stone
Ave C and 2nd St.
New York, NY

Gerard Pesson: Vexierbilder II (2003) *US Premiere
Alvin Curran: Triadic Limbo (2007)
Anthony Cheung: Roundabouts (2010) *US Premiere
Fausto Romitelli: Trash TV Trance (2002)
Victor Adan: Solum [Multiplexor I] (2006)
Matthias Pintscher: in nomine (1999)

October 4, 2011 8:00 pm
From the Exotic to the Surreal

Mannes College of Music
150 West 85th St.
New York, NY

Georges Aperghis: Triangle Carre (1985)
Pierre Boulez: Le marteau sans maitre (1955)

Bo Chang, mezzo-soprano

October 8, 2011 7:30 pm
On Old and New Grounds

Openhouse Gallery
201 Mulberry Street
New York, NY

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Mystery Sonata XVI:  Passacaglia
Franz Schubert: Quartettsatz in c minor  D. 703 (1820)
Matthias Pintscher: in nomine (1999)
Luciano Berio: Sequenza XIV (2002)
Olga Neuwirth: AKROATE HADAL (1995)

October 16, 2011 12:00 pm
SONiC FESTiVAL

Miller Theatre
116th St. and Broadway
New York, NY

Victor Adan/ Douglas Repetto: Tractus (2011) *World Premiere
A Meet the Composer Commission
Anthony Cheung: Roundabouts (2010)
Hector Parra: String Trio (2006) *US Premiere

October 23, 2011 4:00 pm
iNSIDE Out Series: The Art of Transcription

Roger Smith Hotel
47th St and Lexington Ave.
New York, NY

Harry Partch/Marc Sabat: November 15, 1935 – Leaving Santa Barbara (2007)
Igor Stravinsky: Suite Italienne (after Pergolesi) (1933)
Michael Finnissy: Verdi Transcriptions (selection) (1986)
Michael Finnissy: “Embraceable You” from Gershwin Arrangements (1988)
Jimmy Giuffre: Selections from “Free Fall” (transcribed by Anthony Cheung) (1962/2011)

November 12, 2011 8:00 pm
Harvard Group for New Music

Harvard University, Adams House Pool Theatre
Cambridge, MA

November 14, 2011
Recording Works of Anthony Cheung

Academy of Arts and Letters
New York, NY

Anthony Cheung: Windswept Cypresses (2005)
Anthony Cheung: Centripedalocity (2008)

November 15, 2011
Recording Works of Anthony Cheung

Academy of Arts and Letters
New York, NY

Anthony Cheung: Windswept Cypresses (2005)
Anthony Cheung: Centripedalocity (2008)

November 18, 2011 7:00 pm
Generational Contact

German Consulate New York
871 UN Plaza
New York, NY

Carl Bettendorf: Klavierstuck No.4 (2010)
Commissioned by the Forberg Schneider Foundation
Wolfgang Rihm: Klavierstuck No.4 (1974)
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Kontakte (1960)

Free Admission
E-mail germanconsulatenyc@gmail.com for Tickets

November 27, 2011 4:00 pm
iNSIDE Out Series: Violin/Violin

Roger Smith Hotel
47th St and Lexington Ave.
New York, NY

Luciano Berio: Duetti (selections) (1979-83)
Béla Bartók: Duets (selections) (1931-32)
Luigi Nono: “Hay que caminar” soñando (1989)

December 9, 2011 8:00 pm
John Zorn Portrait

Miller Theatre
116th St. and Broadway
New York, NY

John Zorn: Bateau Ivre (2011) *World Premiere, Chamber Music America Commission

Brad Lubman, guest conductor

Chamber Music America Commission
This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.

December 17, 2011 8:00 pm
Inharmonic/(X)enharmonic: A Concert Celebrating Microtonal Music

Merkin Concert Hall
129 West 67th St.
New York, NY

Ivan Wyschnegradsky: String Quartet No. 2 (1931)
Dean Drummond: Mars Face (1997)
Toby Twining 9:11 Blues (2003)
Enno Poppe: Holz (2000) *US Premiere
Tristan Murail: Seven Lakes Drive (2006)
Anthony Cheung: Discrete Infinity (2011) *US Premiere

January 15, 2012 3:00 pm
Bateau Ivre: Chamber Music America Conference

St. Luke's Church
308 West. 46th St.
New York, NY

John Zorn: Bateau Ivre (2011)
Chamber Music America Commission

This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.

January 22, 2012 4:00 pm
iNSIDE Out Series: Landscapes

Roger Smith Hotel
47th St and Lexington Ave.

Toru Takemitsu: Rocking Mirror Daybreak (1983)
Toru Nakatani: 4_1/128_1 (2007) *US Premiere
Toshio Hosokawa: Landscape No. 1 (1992)

February 17, 2012 8:00 pm
Difference, Repetition, Friction

Bohemian National Hall
321 East 73rd St.
New York, NY

Clemens Gadenstätter: Streichtrio II (1992) *US Premiere
Bernhard Gander: ö (2004) *US Premiere
Bernhard Lang: DW 16: Songbook 1 (2004)

Donatienne Michel-Dansac, soprano

Presented by the Austrian Cultural Forum

February 26, 2012 4:00 pm
iNSIDE Out Series: Negative Space: Music and Silence for One Viola

Roger Smith Hotel
47th St and Lexington Ave.

Iannis Xenakis: Embellie (1981)
J.S. Bach: Suite no. 6 in D Major (1717-1723)
Luciano Berio: Sequenza VI (1967)

Elizabeth Weisser, viola

March 9, 2012 8:00 pm
Written for Talea

Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th St.
New York, NY

Victor Adan/ Douglas Repetto: Tractus (2011) A Meet the Composer Commission
Hans Thomalla: Capriccio (2012) *World Premiere
John Zorn: Bateau Ivre (2011) *Chamber Music America Commission
Eric Chasalow: New Work (2012) *World Premiere, Barlow Endowment Commission
Ashley Rose Fure: therefore i was (2012) *World Premiere, Julius F. Jezek Prize Winner, commissioned by Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation

Chamber Music America Commission
This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.

Julius F. Jezek Prize, Commissioned through the generous support of the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation.  For more information: www.eilerfoundation.org

March 27, 2012 8:00 pm
Fausto Romitelli: Recording for MODE Records

EMPAC
Troy, NY

March 28, 2012 8:00 pm
Fausto Romitelli: Recording for MODE Records

EMPAC
Troy, NY

March 29, 2012 8:00 pm
Fausto Romitelli: Recording for MODE Records

EMPAC
Troy, NY

March 30, 2012 8:00 pm
Fausto Romitelli: Recording for MODE Records

EMPAC
Troy, NY

March 31, 2012 8:00 pm
Fausto Romitelli Portrait

EMPAC, Concert Hall
Troy, NY

Fausto Romitelli: Amok Koma (2001)
Fausto Romitelli: Domeniche alla periferia dell’impero (2000)
Fausto Romitelli: La sabbia del tempo (1991) *US Premiere
Fausto Romitelli: Nell’alto dei giorni immobili (1990)
Fausto Romitelli: Blood on the Floor, Painting 1986 (2000) *US Premiere

April 13, 2012 8:00 pm
Ithaca College Residency

Ithaca College
Ithaca, New York

Gerard Grisey: Talea (1986)
Jorge Grossman: Siray (2004)
Dana Wilson: Afterglow (2011)
Anthony Cheung: Enjamb, Infuse, Implode (2006)
Victor Adan/ Douglas Repetto: Tractus (2011) A Meet the Composer Commission

April 15, 2012 3:00 pm
Cornell University Residency

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

April 20, 2012 8:00 pm
Infinito Nero

Mary Flagler Cary Hall, DiMenna Center
450 West 37th St.
New York, NY

Victor Adán/ Douglas Repetto: Tractus (2011) *A Meet the Composer Commission
Gérard Grisey: Talea (1986)
Salvatore Sciarrino: Infinito Nero (1998)

Bo Chang, mezzo-soprano

Free Admission

E-mail to reserve tickets: talea@taleaensemble.org

May 18, 2012 8:00 pm
Stanford University Residency

Stanford University
Stanford, California

May 19, 2012 8:00 pm
Stanford University Residency

Stanford University
Stanford, California

May 27, 2012 4:00 pm
iNSIDE Out Series: Cello Solo

Roger Smith Hotel
47th St and Lexington Ave.

Helmut Lachenmann: Pression (1968)
Milton Babbitt: More Melismata (2006)
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Sonata for Cello Solo (1960)

Chris Gross, solo cello

June 9, 2012 5:00 pm
Persephassa

Storm King Art Center
1 Museum Rd.
New Windsor, NY

Talea Presents:

Iannis Xenakis: Persephassa (1969)

E-mail talea@taleaensemble.org for more information

*Note: Stay for a 2nd performance at 6:30 PM!

July 16, 2012 8:00 pm
Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt

Orangerie
Darmstadt, Germany

Pierluigi Billone: Δίκη Wall (2012) *World Premiere
Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Commission
Jen Wang: New Work (2012) *World Premiere
Staubach Honoraria, Harry and Alice Eiler commission
James Dillon: New York Triptych (2012) *World Premiere
Fromm Foundation Commission

With the friendly support of:


This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through US Artists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

July 19, 2012 10:00 pm
Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt

Centralstation
Darmstadt, Germany

Fausto Romitelli: An Index of Metals (2003)
Donatienne Michel-Dansac, soprano

Supported in part by the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation

This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through US Artists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.