Zach Herchen

AM/PM was selected to perform as part of the College Quartet Recital Series at the Navy Band’s 33rd International Saxophone Symposium. We will be performing new music including a premiere!

Kathleen Bader: Roadways
Ying-Chen Kao: Frustration Factory - written for AM/PM, world premiere

POSTPONED to avoid conflicting with the Ravens playoff game.

$5 door

I’ll be subbing in on tenor with the Garden State Sax Quartet.

$10 door

I will be performing commissioned works and premieres from the last five years, including pieces with electronics (tape and processing) and voice (singing, poetry, screaming, and radio transmissions).

Kevin Clark: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (rev. 2009)
John Crouch: William Faulkner’s Answer to the Perennial Question
David Witmer: snake in the grass, blood in the water WORLD PREMIERE
Ying-Chen Kao: I am Dancing Blue Flame
Paul Leary: Number Stations WORLD PREMIERE

Performers are Bonnie Lander (voice), Sean-David Cunningham (violin), Eran Sykes (viola), Isaiah Gage (cello), Stefan Petrov (piano), David Witmer (piano), and myself.

I’ll be playing an opening set (sax and tape) and then performing a few songs with Scott during his CD release party. I recorded much of his new album, Scott Alexander Makes a Big Deal Out of It, and played on a few tracks.

JacobTV: Billie
Paul Leary: Number Stations

$5 door

I’ll be performing Paul Leary’s Number Stations, for saxophone, tape, and delay at Duke University’s Graduate Composers Concert.

I will be sitting in with the Hudson Valley Symphonic Wind Ensemble.

Giannini: Symphony No. 3
Jager: Meditations On An Old Scottish Hymn-Tune
Broughton-Bass: Silverado
additional program to be announced

I’ll be subbing in with the Garden State Sax Quartet.

$5 door

Man Down is very exciting to finally be releasing our next CD! You can find “Somewhere Down In Florida” on iTunes, Amazon, and other major download sites.

$8 cover

My good friend Sean Cunningham and I will be performing with the Stanford Laptop Orchestra via the wonders of the internet. We will be using Musician Link’s Jam Link to send/receive audio signals between my living room on the East Coast and the concert hall at Stanford. The piece is structured so that Sean and I improvise responses to audio cues sent from the concert hall. Our responses then occur in the hall alongside the laptop orchestra.

Read an article about the Stanford Laptop Orchestra here.

NEC’s SICPP ends with the Iditarod (a marathon concert of all the music we’ve prepared during the week). Here’s the program with rough timing (* marks pieces I am playing on):

4 to 5pm
For Liam Malloy* (large group improv with electronics)
Goldberg: Legno Metallico
Crumb: Quest
Fukushi: Silica

5 to 6pm
Belcher: Walden Songs
Cheah: Elasticity*
Saariaho: Cendres
Belcher: Continuous Cities 2* and Lavender and the Newt*
Rose: Dr Clash and His Assistant
Feldman: 4 Songs to e.e. cummings
Czernowin: Afatsim

6 to 7pm
Dominique: Doppelganger
Czernowin: Sahaf*
Feldman: Violin Voice and Piano
Rzewski: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
Wolff: Malvina
Salkind-Pearl: Autumn Voices

7 to 8pm
Psathas: Matre’s Dance
Hansler: Look! The Lamb of God!
Crumb: Celestial Mechanics
Andriessen: Hoketus

8 to 9pm
Pape: CaDance
Wolff: Sonata for 3 Prepared Pianos
John Luther Adams: Dark Waves
Berio: Naturale

9 to 10pm
Poliks: barely
Feldman: False Relationships and the Extended Ending
Dun: Silk Road
Krause: Separate Pieces
Reich: Piano Phase

I will be performing As Biddeth Thy Tongue by Kati Agócs for solo alto saxophone as part of The Composers Series at New England Conservatory

$10 suggested donation
Doors open at 1:30pm (enter along back left side of house)

Elisabeth Halliday and I will be kicking off our Emerging Voices Project with a fundraising concert in Plymouth, MA! Dr. Whitfield has been kind enough to offer us his beautiful music salon for a casual afternoon concert. Earnings from the concert will fund our project to commission Adam Knauss, George Lam, and Kathleen Bader to write pieces for voice and saxophone. The results will be premiered and recorded in 2011 alongside Lori Laitman’s I Never Saw Another Butterfly. Learn more about the project at http://emergingvoicesproject.blogspot.com/.

Fund the project at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zachherchen/emerging-voices-project-music-for-voice-and-sax.

Program:
Lori Laitman: I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Kevin Clark: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, solo saxophone
Judith Weir: King Harald’s Saga, solo soprano
Jason Belcher: Continuous Cities 2 and Lavender and the Newt

As part of our Emerging Voices Project, Elisabeth Halliday and I will be presenting a masterclass on contemporary music performance for students at Duxbury High School. I graduated from DHS in 2002 and am very exciting to return and support the music program!