Zach Herchen

AM/PM Sax Quartet will be performing at The Metro Gallery as part of the Station North Second Saturday free concerts. We’re excited to finally perform the music we’ve been working on these past months!

Program:

Thom Limbert: Numbers/Dates
Kati Agócs: Hymn
Jacob Ter Veldhuis: Heartbreakers
Matthew Burtner: Incantation S4=X
Paul Leary: “I Have A Past Life Memory From The War That Blew The Fifth Planet Into The Asteroid Belt” and other stories from AM Radio

I will be traveling to Miami to perform Paul Leary’s Number Stations for sax and tape at the 26th National Conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS). I commissioned and premiered this piece in 2010, so it’s very excited to have it chosen for performance at SEAMUS!

$10 door

Elisabeth Halliday and I will be wrapping up our fundraising efforts for our Emerging Voices Project with a concert in New York City! 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

$5 door

It’s been a few months, which means time for another Man Down show!

$5 door

AM/PM Sax Quartet presents a multimedia program at Red Room!

Program:

Thom Limbert: Numbers/Dates (quartet and audio)
Matthew Burtner: Incantation S4=X (quartet and audio)
Jacob Ter Veldhuis: Heartbreakers (quartet and audio/video)

Paul Leary: “I Have A Past Life Memory From The War That Blew The Fifth Planet Into The Asteroid Belt” and other stories from AM Radio (quartet and audio)
Kati Agócs: Hymn (quartet and commissioned video by Eli Stine)
Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together (ensemble and audio/video)

Guest performers: Karin Kilper, Domenica Romagni, Esther Hae-In Choi, and Martha Morrison

FREE, no ticket required

I am excited to be participating in the 2011 Spectral Summer Professional Performance Workshop at Boston University! We will be working on rep June 2-5 with a performance on the last day. From their website:

The Callithumpian Consort’s Spectral Summer Professional Performance Workshop is a workshop focused on the techniques required for the performance of spectral music hosted by Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, School of Music, featuring workshop composer-in-residence Joshua Fineberg. During the workshop, Joshua Fineberg and the Callithumpian Consort’s Artistic Director Stephen Drury will coach a group of experienced professional musicians on the performance practice and techniques specific to spectral music via their preparation of major works of spectral music. Performance techniques include microtonal intonation, extended timbral techniques, orchestral fusion, and others. The centerpiece of this workshop will be the rehearsal and performance of a new piece commissioned from Joshua Fineberg by the Callithumpian Consort.

Program:
Joshua Fineberg: Counterfactual
Gérard Grisey: Echanges
Gérard Grisey: Anubis/Nout – solo bass saxophone
Tristan Murail: Feuilles à travers les cloches
Tristan Murail: Transsahara Express – saxophone and piano
Fabien Levy: L’air d’ailleurs – alto saxophone and playback/reverb

FREE

I will be performing Anubis/Nout by Gérard Grisey on bari sax in the first Lunchtime Concert as part of New England Conservatory’s Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance (SICPP, pronounce “Sick Puppy” haha).

FREE

SICPP’s classic 8+ hour marathon concert! We will be finishing the week off with performances of all the amazing music prepared thought the week. Full program details:

HOUR ONE
James Tenney: Percussion Responses: Ergodan II
David Tarantino, Jeffrey Kolega, Cory Bracken, Gary Donald, percussion
Simon Hanes, electronics

Simon Hanes: TBD
Franziska Huhn, harp
Simon Hanes, electronics

Lee Weisert: New England Drift
Elzbieta Polak, violin
Kayleigh Miller, viola
Ben Schwartz, cello
Jessi Rosinski, flute
Rane Moore, clarinet
Barbara Lieurance, piano
Scott Deal, percussion
Julia Tai, conductor

Douglas Farrand: Untitled work for string trio
Elizabeth Barksdale, violin
Karina Fox, viola
Michael Unterman, cello

Ryo Nakayama: Xxxx xxx
Elizabeth Lee, cello
Zach Herchen, saxophone

George Crumb: Madrigals, Book III
Ceceilia Allwein, soprano
Adrienne Bassett, harp
Gary Robert Donald, percussion

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HOUR TWO
Tristan Murail: Éthers
Elizabeth Barksdale, violin
Kayleigh Miller, viola
Michael Unterman, cello
Kathryn Schulmeister, double bass
McMillan Gaither, trombone
Jessi Rosinski, flute
Jeffrey Means, conductor

Sara Curzi: Soliloquy
Ceceilia Allwein, soprano
Sara Curzi, electronics

Tristan Murail: Transsahara Express
Christopher Watford, bassoon
Ingrid Lee, piano

Ryan Maguire: City to Summit I. City
Elzbieta Polak, violin
Michael Unterman, cello
Sarah Brady, flute
Alexis Lanz, clarinet
Ryan Maguire, electronics

Lukas Foss: Paradigm
Zach Herchen, saxophone
Kayleigh Miller, viola
Christian Smith, percussion
Maarten Stragier, guitar
Christopher Watford, bassoon
Caroline Park, electronics

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HOUR THREE

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Kreuzspiel
Emily Hopkins, oboe
Timonthy Fitzgerald, bass clarinet
Kathryn Norring, piano
Stuart Gerber, Ryan Packard, Sayun Chang, percussion
Jeffrey Means, conductor

Eliza Brown: Barely
Jennifer Ingertila, flute

Onur Yildirim: tek hucreliler
Elizabeth Barksdale, violin
Kayleigh Miller, viola
Kathryn Schulmeister, double bass

Tristan Murail: Winter Fragments
Gabby Diaz, violin
Elizabeth Lee, cello
Jennifer Beth Ingertila, flute
Timothy Fitzgerald, clarinet
Danica Borisavljevic, keyboard
Aaron Likness, piano
Caroline Park, electronics
Julia Tai, conductor

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HOUR FOUR

Juan Colon-Hernandez: Umbrales Inversos
Elaine Rombola, piano

Victoria Cheah: AEAEA
Gabby Diaz, violin
Nora Krahl, cello
Chelsea Czuchra, flute
Benjamin Irwin, clarinet
Kristen Sienkiewicz, horn
Christopher Moore, trombone
Jeffrey Means, conductor

Alfred Schnittke: Hymn I
Ben Schwartz, Cello
Adrienne Bassett, Harp
Jeffrey Kolega, Timpani

Tristan Murail: Feuilles à travers les cloches
Ethan Wood, violin
Nora Krahl, cello
Chelsea Czuchra, flute
Barbara Lieurance, piano

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Refrain
Jo Zhou, celesta
Christina J Wright, piano
Christian Smith, percussion

Christian Wolff: For Morty
Sid Noah Samberg, piano
Gary Robert Donald, Jeffrey Kolega, percussion

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HOUR FIVE

Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Elzbieta Polak, violin
Ben Schwartz, cello
Benjamin Irwin, Rane Moore, clarinet
Emily Quane, Ceceilia Allwein, Amirtha Kidambi, Thea Lobo, voice
Maribel Hernandez Tagle, Todd Moellenberg, Elaine Rombola, Laura Ventemiglia, Diana Botelho Vieira, Andrew Zhou, piano
John Andress, Jeffrey Kolega, Ryan Packard, Christian Smith, David Tarantino, Cory Bracken, Sayun Chang, Scott Deal, Gary Robert Donald, percussion

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HOUR SIX

George Crumb: Otherworldly Resonances
Gabriela Pérez Acosta, Mauricio Ramos, piano

Elliot Carter: Sonata for Cello and Piano
Elizabeth Lee, cello
Christina J Wright, piano

Luciano Leite Barbosa: Trá
Andrew Zhou, piano
David Tarantino & John Andress, percussion

Shawn Allison: Currents
Zach Herchen, alto saxophone
Philipp Staeudlin, alto saxophone
Aaron Likness, piano
Ryan Packard, percussion

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HOUR SEVEN

Isang Yun: OstWest Miniaturen I
Michael Unterman, cello
Emily Hopkins, oboe

Kaija Saariaho: Adjö
Ceceilia Allwein, voice
Jennifer Beth Ingertila, flute
Maarten Stragier, guitar

Masaki Hasebe: Dark N’ Stormy
David Tarantino, marimba

Junghae Lee: Sonorence
Antares Project:
Chelsea Czuchra, flute
Nora Krahl, cello
Barbara Lieurance, piano

Sonorence was written for Antares Project with support from the
Kultur/kulturelles.bl and the Fondation Nicati de Luze in Lausanne.

Philippe Hurel: Tombeau in Memoriam Gérard Grisey
Jack Dettling, piano
Cory Bracken, percussion

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HOUR EIGHT!

György Kurtag: Hommage à R. Sch.
Ethan Wood, viola
Benjamin Irwin, clarinet
Christopher Owen, piano

Davide Ianni: Trasparenze d’Accenti
Sarah Brady, alto flute
McMillan Gaither, bass trombone
Sayun Chang, percussion

Morton Feldman: 2 pieces for 3 pianos
Maribel Hernandez Tagle, Todd Mollenberg, Asher Severini, pianos

Nicolaus A. Huber: O dieses Lichts
Antares Project:
Chelsea Czuchra, flute
Nora Krahl, cello
Barbara Lieurance, piano

John Cage: Ryoanji
Anne Goldberg, oboe
Jeffrey Kolega, percussion

$10 tickets

CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER

Official CD release!

Elisabeth Halliday and I are coming to Lexington, MA to kick off our Emerging Voices Project CD tour! We’ll be performing new works for voice and saxophone commissioned for our CD, saying thank you to our local supporters, and of course selling the new CD!

Program
Kathleen Bader: Two Songs for the Sounds Outside
George Lam: The Person In The Room Wishes To Be Left Alone
Adam Knauss: Portrait
Lori Laitman: I Never Saw Another Butterfly

$5 door

Yacht rock all night long!

$10 tickets

Hurricane Irene will be long gone and we’ll return to Lexington once more to kick off our Emerging Voices Project CD tour! Elisabeth Halliday and I will perform new works for voice and saxophone commissioned for our CD, say thank you to our local supporters, and of course sell the new CD!

Program
Kathleen Bader: Two Songs for the Sounds Outside
George Lam: The Person In The Room Wishes To Be Left Alone
Adam Knauss: Portrait
Lori Laitman: I Never Saw Another Butterfly

$10 door

Our NYC CD release!

Elisabeth Halliday and I are celebrating in our hometown, NYC! We’ll be performing new works for voice and saxophone commissioned for our CD, saying thank you to our local supporters, and of course selling the new CD. We plan to have a reception/party of some kind…

Program:
Kathleen Bader: Two Songs for the Sounds Outside
George Lam: The Person In The Room Wishes To Be Left Alone
Adam Knauss: Portrait
Lori Laitman: I Never Saw Another Butterfly

Swedish art group Raketa is in NYC for the Congress of Collectives! I will be joining them to perform music alongside a slideshow presentation from their project Fill in Your Own Story – Start Here:

As part of MICA’s Mixed Media Series, AM/PM Quartet will be joining Matthew Burtner, Mike Strauss, DJ Dubble8, and others for a noon concert of exciting saxophone music. I’m excited to be playing Burtner’s piece Endprint for 9 tenor saxes. Oh, and you don’t want to miss his metasaxophone…

Burtner: Incantation S4-X, AM/PM Saxophone Quartet
Improvisation, Matthew Burtner (metasaxophone) & DJ Dubble8 (turntables/electronics)
Burtner: (dis)Locations, Matthew Burtner and Mike Strauss
Burtner: Sxueak, Matthew Burtner, Mike Strauss, DJ Dubble8
Burtner: Endprint, POD Nonet (nine tenor saxes!)
Burtner: Sxratch w/ Snowboard Video, Matthew Burtner

Players: Matthew Burtner, Mike Straus, Andrew Landau, Rachel Winder, Sheri Oyan, Sean Dynan, Ian Richter, Jeremiah Baker, Cara Salveson, DJ Dubble8 (Erik Spangler)

MICA’s event page

As part of the Sonic Circuits Concert Series, AM/PM Quartet will be joining Matthew Burtner, Mike Strauss, DJ Dubble8, and others for an evening concert of exciting saxophone music. I’m excited to be playing Burtner’s pieces for 9 tenor saxes. Oh, and you don’t want to miss his metasaxophone…

Set 1 – M2Duo
Burtner: (dis)Locations
Burtner: Sxueak
Burtner: Sxratch w/ Video

Set 2 – Burtner & DJ Dubble8 Improv

Set 3 – Ensembles
Burtner: Portals of Distortion, tenor sax nonet
Burtner: Incantation S4-X, AM/PM Quartet
Burtner: Endprint, tenor sax nonet

Players: Matthew Burtner, Mike Straus, Andrew Landau, Rachel Winder, Sheri Oyan, Sean Dynan, Ian Richter, Jeremiah Baker, Cara Salveson, DJ Dubble8 (Erik Spangler)

Facebook event page

Elisabeth Halliday and I will be performing George Lam’s The Person In The Room Wishes To Be Left Alone as part of Rhymes With Opera new music salon.

CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER

My new chamber project, 1st Construction, will be opening for Elevator Rose. I will be performing with fellow SICPP alumni Danica Borisavljevic and Ela Polak.

Tristan Murail: Transsahara Express
Daniel Liot Fine: Kommós, premiere
Evan Chambers: Come Down Heavy!

I will be premiering “a thing of dream and mist” by Chris Chandler for soprano sax and electronics at the 2011 Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival.

I will be performing Paul Leary’s Number Stations for alto sax and playback at the 2011 Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival.

AM/PM will be performing an afternoon concert at the Three Arts Club of Homeland in Baltimore. Program:

Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango
Bolivar: Saxophone Quartet #1
Agócs: Hymn
Maslanka: Recitation Book

$5 door

Two Man Down shows in three months? That’s crazy!

Rescheduled from October!

My new chamber project, 1st Construction, will be opening for Elevator Rose. I will be performing with fellow SICPP alumni Danica Borisavljevic and Ela Polak.

Tristan Murail: Transsahara Express
Daniel Liot Fine: Kommós, premiere
Evan Chambers: Come Down Heavy!