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CVM presents NTQ, avalanche lily

NTQ returns to the stage at Con Vivo Music with a program of new works for saxophone quartet featuring Amy Beth Kirsten’s avalanche lily, a multi-movement work inspired by wildflowers from the mountains of Wyoming and developed with support from the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program. Each movement draws from a unique concept found in nature, from flowers whose appearance indicates a risk of avalanche, to plants that split stones and trees holding onto nutrients to survive until spring.

I’ve such a blast working with Amy on various projects over the years. It has been such a pleasure to collaborate on a piece for New Thread and we deeply appreciate Chamber Music America’s support!

Con Vivo Music presents:
NTQ, Avalanche Lily
March 4, 2022 @ 7:00pm
Grace Church Van Vorst
39 Erie St, Jersey City, NJ
Livestream: Con Vivo Music on YouTube
CVM event page

Program:
Emily Koh – homonym
Jonathan Harris – M. cassinii *
Alon Nechushtan – Quarantingo * (world premiere)
Amy Beth Kirsten – avalanche lily * +

* written for New Thread Quartet
+ 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.

Ensemble Échappé: An Afternoon of Music and Art

Academy of Arts and Letters

I’m to excited to join Ensemble Échappé for an excellent concert at the Academy of Arts and Letters. I will be joining the ensemble for two excellent works with saxophone: Grace Canticles by David Sanford and Detroit Industry: The Goddess Stamps Metal While the Blast Furnace Sings by Annie Gosfield.

Ensemble Échappé
Benjamin Grow, conductor
March 13, 2022 at 3pm
American Academy of Arts and Letters
633 West 155 St, New York, NY

Details on my event page.

Marilyn Shrude 75th Birthday Celebration

New Thread Quartet is excited to join all-star concert celebrating Marilyn Shrude’s 75th Birthday! We will be joined by John Sampen and share the program with Lost Dog and Momenta Quartet.

The concert celebrates Marilyn Shrude’s 75th birthday, a ground-breaking composer, known for music of exquisite texture and detail. Her catalog features a large body of chamber and orchestral works, and a particular interest in saxophone. She is the first woman to receive the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award for Orchestral Music (1984) and the Cleveland Arts Prize for Music (1998).

Marilyn Shrude 75th Birthday Celebration
New Thread Quartet
December 2, 2021 at 8:00pm
Tenri Cultural Institute – 43 W 13th Street, New York, NY

NTQ will perform Shrude’s energy flows nervously … in search of stillness and then be joined by John Sampen for a performance of Evolution V.

Full concert info here.

NTQ – Music For Contemplation

I’m looking forward to playing an outdoor show with NTQ!

New Thread Quartet is headed back to Music For Contemplation for another thought provoking and meditative performance. This concert will take place outside alongside the Newtown Creek.

This event will feature NTQ plus four saxophones performing the premier of Craig Shepard’s Across the Water Erin Rogers’ Newtown Creek. The works incorporate the sounds of the site, inviting listeners to pause and breath in the ambience.

NTQ – Music For Contemplation
September 12, 2021 @ 4:00pm
Newtown Creek Nature Walk
329 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn, NY
MuFoCo Event Page

Saxophonists: Jordan Smith, Thomas Giles, Cory Ryan, Kristen McKeon, Erin Rogers, Rob Harvey, Shelley Washington, Zach Herchen.

The Newtown Creek Nature walk is located near the ends of Paidge Avenue and Provost Streets at the northeast tip of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. 7 to Hunter’s Point Avenue and walk over the Pulaski, G to Greenpoint Avenue, B32/B67 to the foot of the Pulaski Bridge. Parking is available near the entrance to the Walk.

Concert is free an open to the public. RSVP requested but not required.

Talea – TIMES:SPANS

I excited to join Talea for two concerts at TIME:SPANS. I’ll be performing microtones galore alongside the incredible Tony Arnold on Catherine Lamb’s parallaxis forma, and all kinds of multiphonics on Ash Fure’s amazing piece Feed Forward.

Talea at TIME:SPANS
August 23, 2021 at 7:30pm – event page
August 28, 2021 at 7:30pm – event page
The DiMenna Center – 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY

August 23 program:
Catherine Lamb: parallaxis forma (2016)
Sarah Hennies: Clock Dies (2021)
Oscar Bettison: La Arqueología del Neón (2021)

August 28 program:
Ash Fure: Feed Forward (2015)
Anthony Cheung: A line can go anywhere (2019)
I. Wound Wire
II. Weightless/Sustained
III. Woven Wire – Homage to Ruth Asawa
Matthias Pintscher: Bereshit (2012)

CVM Celebrates Piazzolla at 100

In celebration of Argentinean composer Astor Piazzolla’s 100th birthday this year, Con Vivo Music is thrilled to present “Piazzolla at 100” as the first concert of our 2021 season. Piazzolla (1921-1992) is most known for revolutionizing traditional tango music and creating a new style known as tango nuevo, which incorporates elements from both jazz and classical styles. Join us for a live-streamed concert as we present two of his greatest works in the tango nuevo style. CVM instrumentalists will be joined by the fantastic tango duo: Helen Wang & Guillermo Merlo.

We are presenting this concert twice:
March 7th at 3:00pm – Thurnauer School of Music
Sunday, March 14th @ 4:00pm – Nimbus Arts Center

Program:
Histoire du Tango by Astor Piazzolla
Estaciones Porteñas by Astor Piazzolla
Libertango by Astor Piazzolla

Performed by:
Dan Lippel – Guitar
Riko Higuma – Piano
Zach Herchen – Sax
Natasha Loomis – Flute
Helen Wang & Guillermo Merlo – Tango Duo