Zach Herchen

Vivre Musicale presents SeNsuAlitY, a concert about “the passion of lust, longing, and love heard through the saxophone’s association with the sensual”. This event is curated by our soprano player, Jeremiah Baker.

Ryo Noda: Mai
Evan Chambers: Come Down Heavy
Miguel Bolivar: TBA (new work for sax quartet)
Kati Agócs: As Biddeth Thy Tongue
Astor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango

Vivre Musicale presents SeNsuAlitY, a concert about “the passion of lust, longing, and love heard through the saxophone’s association with the sensual”. This event is curated by our soprano player, Jeremiah Baker.

Ryo Noda: Mai
Evan Chambers: Come Down Heavy
Miguel Bolivar: TBA (new work for sax quartet)
Kati Agócs: As Biddeth Thy Tongue
Astor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango

AM/PM will be performing as part of Vivre Musicale at Intersections, a new America arts festival.

Vivre Musicale presents SeNsuAlitY, a concert about “the passion of lust, longing, and love heard through the saxophone’s association with the sensual”. This event is curated by our soprano player, Jeremiah Baker.

Miguel Bolivar: TBA (new work for sax quartet)

$10 suggested donation

Organized by Mike Sperone, On The Cusp is a monthly series dedicated to new music. Elisabeth Halliday and I will be discussing our Emerging Voices Project, commissioned works for voice/sax, and performing works from the album plus extras!

I’m also very excited to give the world premiere of Benjamin Taylor’s Shipbreaking on this program! This piece is for solo alto sax and electronics, and was commissioned by an international consortium of sax players I organized.

Adam Knauss: Portrait
Kathleen Bader: Two Songs for the Sounds Outside
George Lam: The Person In The Room Wishes To Be Left Alone
Lori Laitman: I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Benjamin Taylor: Shipbreaking – world premiere
and more…

Rhymes With Opera presents their second new music salon! Free and awesome.

Program TBA

$5 door

8pm – Pre concert talk by Benjamin Taylor about his new piece Shipbreaking and a hands-on demonstration of the technology used
8:30pm – Concert

Contour Lines presents contemporary electroacoustic and solo works for saxophone, featuring the newly commissioned work Shipbreaking. The program explores the state of contemporary saxophone, from avante-garde to classical to pop and jazz influences, with an emphasis on electroacoustic works. The music programmed is from both established and young composers, including important spectral composers Gérard Grisey and Fabien Levy, famous Dutch composer JacobTV, and New England Conservatory faculty members Kati Agócs and Katarina Miljkovic. Also presented is Paul Leary, a featured composer at NYC’s Look & Listen Festival, the SEAMUS International Conference, and the Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival.

Shipbreaking (for saxophone and processed sound) is Benjamin Taylor’s latest piece and was commissioned by an international consortium led by myself. Ben will be present to talk about his piece and give a hands-on demo of the technology used. The talk and event will be recorded and shared on YouTube.

8:00pm – pre-concert talk by Benjamin Taylor

8:30pm – Concert:
Fabien Levy: L’air d’ailleurs-Bicinium
Benjamin Taylor: Shipbreaking – Boston premiere performance
Gérard Grisey: Anubis/Nout
Victoriah Cheah: Strangeloop – commissioned by Zach Herchen
Kati Agócs: As Biddeth Thy Tongue
Katarina Miljkovic: If in a winter
JacobTV: Billie
Paul Leary: Number Stations – commissioned by Zach Herchen

$10 suggested donation

Contour Lines presents contemporary electroacoustic and solo works for saxophone, featuring the newly commissioned work Shipbreaking. The program explores the state of contemporary saxophone, from avante-garde to classical to pop and jazz influences, with an emphasis on electroacoustic works. The music programmed is from both established and young composers, including important spectral composers Gérard Grisey and Fabien Levy, famous Dutch composer JacobTV, and New England Conservatory faculty members Kati Agócs and Katarina Miljkovic. Also presented is Paul Leary, a featured composer at NYC’s Look & Listen Festival, the SEAMUS International Conference, and the Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival.

Shipbreaking (for saxophone and processed sound) is Benjamin Taylor’s latest piece and was commissioned by an international consortium led by myself.

Fabien Levy: L’air d’ailleurs-Bicinium
Benjamin Taylor: Shipbreaking – commissioned by international consortium
Gérard Grisey: Anubis/Nout
Victoriah Cheah: Strangeloop – commissioned by Zach Herchen
Kati Agócs: As Biddeth Thy Tongue
Katarina Miljkovic: If in a winter
JacobTV: Billie
Paul Leary: Number Stations – commissioned by Zach Herchen