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2025

May 31 | Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn | TAK Ensemble season closing concert | SECOND SIGHT: music by Christian Quiñones, Aliayta Foon-Dancoes, Jessie Marino with opening set by Id M Theftable

April 11 | NYU | TAK Ensemble performs new works by NYU student composers

April 7 | Elebash Recital Hall, NYC | TAK Ensemble performs new works by CUNY Graduate Center Composers

March 30 | Cafe Oto, London | exstatic resonances NEW SOLO SET @ Eavesdropping Festival

March 28 | Peabody, Baltimore | TAK Ensemble performs new works by Peabody student composers

March 16 | Montreal, QC | La Semaine de Neuf Festival, Le Vivier | TAK Ensemble performs Star Maker Fragments by Taylor Brook | 

March 13 | Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival | Dimenna Center for Classical Music | TAK Ensemble performs works by Solomiya Moroz, Taylor Brook, and Leonid Hrabovsky

March 12 | Roulette Intermedium | Quartet with Taylor Deupree, Joe Branciforte and Ben Monder

March 5 | Boston University Center for New Music | TAK Ensemble performs new work by Boston University composers

March 3 | Wheaton College, MA | TAK Ensemble performs music by Tyshawn Sorey, Ashkan Behzadi, Bethany Younge, Eric Wubbels, and TAK

Febraury 22 | Scandinavia House | Music from Japan Festival, 50th Anniversary

MUNDANAS VII-XI US TOUR with JOHN McCOWEN
February 18 | Frequency Festival | Constellation, Chicago
February 16 | The Lab, San Francisco
February 15 | Indexical, Santa Cruz
February 14 | Unwrinkled Ear @ Lenny’s, Los Angeles

February 7 | SOLO @ Conrad Prebys Music Center Concert Hall | San Diego

METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE Performs “In A Grove” by Christopher Cerrone @ PROTOTYPE FESTIVAL, LA MAMA
January 19 | 3pm
January 18 | 2pm and 7pm 
January 17 | 7pm 
January 16 | 7pm 

2024

December 13 | Mengi, Reykjavik IS | MUNDANAS with John McCowen

December 9 | Tradesmen | trio with Carlo Costa and Henry Fraser

December 7 | Irondale, Brooklyn 2pm & 8pm| Contempraneous + Choral Chameleon perform “Hide and Seek”

December 3 | Cary Hall, NYC | TAK Ensemble performs works by Zeynep Toraman, Seare Farhat, inti figgis-vizueta, Eric Wubbels | opening set by Levi Lu

November 21 | Outpost Artist Resources | Fire Over Heaven presents Pequeña Familia by Wilfrido Terrazas 

November 13-15 | San Francisco Conservatory | Residency with Splinter Reeds

November 8 | Houghton Hall, Creative Music Society, Manhattan | Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson Big Band

November 6 | Sister’s, BK | Ryan Sawyer’s Shaker Ensemble with Lester St. Louis, Laura Cocks, Jessica Pavone, Nate Wooley

November 1-4 | Indiana University | Residency with [Switch~ Ensemble]

October 26 | George Washington University, Salon Doré | Corcoran Festival presents Eric Wubbels’s Interbeing with TAK Ensemble

October 23 | Three’s Brewing, Gowanus | duo with Matthew Ryals

October 20 | LAMPO | Graham Foundation, Chicago | workshop on graphic and unconventional notation, free and open to the public 

October 19 | LAMPO | Graham Foundation, Chicago | TAK Ensemble performs music by Sorey, Behzadi, Younge, Wubbels, and TAK

October 18 | Tenri Cultural Institute, Manhattan | Lewis Nielsen portrait concert, TAK Ensemble

October 5 | CuteLab, Gowanus | solos, duos and trios with Rocío Diaz de Cossío and Wilfrido Terrazas

September 29 | Colgate University | Residency with Contemporaneous

September 28 | 620 Vanderbilt Ave, 5pm | Biophony Pop-Up concert with Laura Cocks and Alex Zhang-Hungtai

September 24 | Roulette Intermedium, BK | Contemporaneous plays Michael Folmer Hansen and Emilio Guarino

September 22 | Roulette Intermedium, BK | TAK Ensemble season opening concert: world premiere of Irreversible Histories of Disturbance by Seth Cluett

September 13 | MS Stubnitz Hamburg | Der Große Freitag

September 11 | KM28 Berlin | MUNDANAS Vol. 2 w/ John McCowen

August 31 | KM28 Berlin | SILENT PARADOX OF EXPRESSION

August 22 | Alarm Will Sound at TimeSpans Festival | DiMenna Center for Classical Music

August 15 | Wet Ink at TimeSpans Festival | DiMenna Center for Classical Music

August 5 | Wonderville | duo with Matthew Ryals

July 26 | Prospect Series | duo with Zosha Warpeha

July 6 | Solo at Sunview Luncheonette

July 1 | Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music at Artists Space

June 27 and 28 | Contemporaneous | ‘The Precipice’ by Karl Ronneburg and Grey Grant of Fifth Wall Performing Arts | Irondale, Brooklyn

June 20 | Metropolis Ensemble at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden | ‘Canto Ostinato’ by Simeon Ten Holt

June 12 | Summer for the City, presented by Lincoln Center | ‘Soundcake’ with David Bloom, Monét X Change, Thorgy Thor, and Sapphira Cristál | Damrosch Park

June 8 | Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of Art | “Motor Tapes” by Sarah Hennies 

May 27 | Ridgewood secret location | trio with Laura Cocks and Yuma Uesaka

May 22 | Public Records | Record re-release show of ‘Sti.ll’ by Taylor Deupree, acoustic arrangements by Joseph Branciforte

May 21 | Roulette | TAK premiers ‘when the great fires were lit on the other side of the ocean’ by Weston Olencki

May 18 | Lincoln Center NYPL | Either/Or plays the music of Talib Rasul Hakim

Chicago
May 4 | LAMPO, Chicago | first outting of new long-form solo clarinet endeavor SILENT PARADOX OF EXPRESSION
May 3 | LAMPO, Chicago | Artist’s Talk

April 20-21 | TAK Ensemble residence at University of Chicago

SOLO EXSTATIC RESONANCES TOUR IN UK
April 3 | Dublin, Ireland | Unit 44
April 5 | Limerick, Ireland | Starling
April 6 | Cork, Ireland | Maureen’s
April 7 | Cork, Ireland | The Guesthouse
April 10 | Leeds, England | Wharf Chambers

TAK IN THE UK
March 25-28 | Residency at University of Huddersfield
March 29 | Manchester | Anthony Burgess Foundation double bill with Distractfold
April 2 | Dublin, Ireland | Music Currents Festival

March 4-8 | University of Austin, TX | Residency with Splinter Reeds

March 2 | Center for Performance Research, Williamsburg 7:30pm | TAK Ensemble premiers “Nothing is a Puff of Wind” by Jessie Cox, and “Artefacts”, a collective compositon by TAK

February 29 | Society of the Americas | Music by Alyssa Regent

February 27 | Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn | Contemporaneous performs Songs at Night

February 20 | Princeton | TAK Ensemble premiere of graduate student composer works

February 17-20 | TAK Ensemble in residence at Princeton University

February 13 | Ryan Sawyer’s Shaker Ensemble at Sisters BK

February 9 | Non-Event Series, Boston | Greenstone/Hennies/Porter trio performs music by Michael Ranta and Sarah Hennies

January 31 | Union Pool, BK | Shaker Ensemble led by Ryan Sawyer, with Laura Cocks and Lester St. Louis

January 26 | Prospect Park House Show | solo 

January 18 | Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn | Greenstone/Hennies/Porter trio performs music by Michael Ranta and Sarah Hennies

2023

THAILAND
December 23 | Bangkok, Thailand | Bangkok Art and Cultural Center | World premieres by Thanakarn Schoefeld and Alric Samuel Godfrey alongside works by Bryan Jacobs, Erin Gee, Tyshawn Sorey, and Ashkan Behzadi

December 22 | Bangkok, Thailand | Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music | Presenting works by Bryan Jacobs, Erin Gee, Tyshawn Sorey, and Ashkan Behzadi 

December 19-24 | Bangkok, Thailand | TAK @ TNMAS Festival

NEW YORK
December 16 | ISSUE Project Room, NYC | An Improvisational Symphony celebrating ISSUE @ 20 years

December 8 | Dimenna Center for Classical Music, NYC | solo exstatic resonances opening for andPlay duo album release show

December 7 | MITU580, Brooklyn | MACHINE TONGUE: TAK Ensemble performs works by Bryan Jacobs (WP), Andés Guadarrama, Michelle Lou

December 3 | Houghton Hall Midtown NYC | Creative Music Studios Improv Ensemble

November 30 | Buffalo, NY | workshops and recording UB composers’ works with Fonema Consort

PNW
November 15-19 | Portland Oregon | residency with Splinter Reeds

GERMANY/AUSTRIA
November 13 | knopfwissen Vienna | duo with begriffspferd

November 12 | Körperklang-Klangkörper Vienna | solo exstatic resonances, triple bill tba

November 10 | KM28 Berlin | solo exstatic resonances, split bill with Zeynep Toraman

November 7 | Hosek Contemporary, Berlin | Trio with Weston Olencki and Drew Weseley

EAST COAST
November 3 | The Stone, NYC 8:30pm | Matt Mitchell Stone residency

October 30 2023 | Fort Point Lyric Room | Boston, MA | solo EXSTATIC RESONANCES presented by Non-Event Series | split bill with Forbes Graham

CALIFORNIA
October 25-27 2023 | University of Southern California | TAK Ensemble Residency performing works by USC composers

October 21 2023 | Indexical, Santa Cruz | TAK Ensemble presents IN A FOREST, works by Eric Wubbels and Michelle Lou

October 20 2023 | The Lab, San Francisco | TAK Ensemble presents IN A FOREST, works by Eric Wubbels and Michelle Lou

NEW YORK
October 13-17 2023 | Cornell University | TAK Ensemble residency, world premieres by Cornell composers

October 10 2023 | Roulette Intermedium | Contemporaneous: Parables

October 7 2023 | DiMenna Center for Classical Music | TAK Ensemble Season Opener: INTERBEING II | opening with sinonó (isabel crespo pardo, Lester St. Louis, Henry Fraser) 

September 26 2023 | Roulette Intermedium | Album Release show of Nate Wooley’s Four Experiments

September 25 2023 | Shapeshifter Lab BK |[Switch~ Ensemble] Quartet concert featuring music by Fausto Romitelli, Tori Cheah, Heather Stebbins, Chris Chandler

September 20 2023 | Four One One (411 Kent) Williamsburg BK 8pm| Album release show for Resonance Studies in Ecstatic Consciousness | split bill with Peter Evans’ trio Forever 21

September 10 2023 | 7pm Grey Matter Books, New Haven | FIM presents MG solo exstatic resonances • Adam Matlock, Luke Rovinksy, Kaelen Ghandhi • Tom Law, Al Margolis, Michael Larocca, Caleb Duval

September 3 2023 | 8pm The Honey Room, Buffalo | Duo w/ Martin Freeman

September 2 2023 | 8pm Hallwalls, Buffalo NY | Nola Ranallo - Hypnagogia LP record release concert 

August 21 2023 | Sisters BK | Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music

August 1 2023 | Sisters BK | sextet with Kyle Bruckmann, Sara Schoenbeck, gabby fluke-mogul, DoYeon Kim, Nate Wooley

July 18 2023 | Sisters BK | Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music

July 3-8 2023 | The Walden School, Dublin NH | TAK Ensemble in residence at the Walden School performing new commissions by Walden faculty composers

June 28 2023 | Shift 411 Kent Ave, Williamsburg BK | Trio with Ed Bear (saxophones, electronics) and Luke Stewart (bass)

   (photos by Toto Alvarez)

June 26 2023 | Neighbors Gallery | Ithaca, NY | Excerpts from Michael Ranta’s ‘Continuum II’ performed with Sarah Hennies and Katie Porter, New Work by Sarah Hennies, MG solo exstatic resonances

June 24 2023 | Cary Hall, NYC | TAK Ensemble presented by the Yarn|Wire Institute, “Empty And/Or Church of Plenty” with Brandon López

June 23 2023 | Vanderbilt Ave / Bergen St. | Metropolis Ensemble presnets: Biophony

June 20 2023 | Sisters BK | Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music

June 14 2023 | National Sawdust | Contemporaneous: Dreams of One/All

MIDWEST
June 11 2023 | Fuse Factory, Columbus OH | TAK Ensemble performs “Empty And/Or Church of Plenty” with Brandon López alongside works by Natacha Diels and Charlotte Mundy

June 10 2023 | ReSound Festival, Cleveland OH | TAK Ensemble performs “Empty And/Or Church of Plenty” with Brandon López alongside works by Natacha Diels and Charlotte Mundy

June 6-10 2023 | June in Buffalo | In residence with The [Switch~ Ensemble]. Performances on June 7 and 9. More details tba.

June 3 2023 | Fitz Books, Buffalo | 5pm | Solo Exstatic Resonances, Martin Freeman solar-powered instruments.

NEW YORK
May 31 2023 | Roulette | MATA Festival |  ‘Av Hav’ with Josh Modney and special guest

May 30 2023 | Sisters BK | Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music

May 27 2023 | CuteLab, NYC | “The New York Sound”: duo with Yuma Uesaka 

May 20 2023 | Disney Hall, LA | Contemporaneous premiers the entirety of Dylan Mattingly’s 6-hour opera “Stranger Love”

May 6 2023 | The Clemente, NYC | 6pm-10pm | TAK Festival Night 2: Performances by Natacha Diels, gabby fluke-mogul + Tcheser Holmes + Mara Rosenbloom trio, Sour Spirit, & TAK Ensemble. TAK premiers “In A Forest”, a new work by Michelle Lou

May 5 2023 | The Clemente, NYC | 7pm-10pm | TAK Festival Night 1: Performances Phong Tran, Chris Williams and TAK. TAK performs works by Tyshawn Sorey, Eric Wubbels and DM R

April 27 2023 | Brooklyn College | Wavefield Ensemble

April 25-26 2023 | Williams College | Residency with Nunc New Music, performing music by Talib Rasul Hakim, Michael Pisaro, Ileana Perez Velasquez, Scott Wollschleger, Gala Flagello

April 22 2023 | Sunview Luncheonette, NYC | Late Show! 9:30pm!| duo w Laura Cocks

April 19 2023 | University of Pennsylvania | TAK Ensemble premieres works by UPenn composers

April 17-20 2023 | University of Pennsylvania | Culmination of TAK Ensemble’s year-long residency with UPenn Composers

April 8 2023 | FIM presents @ The Orchard Street House, New Haven | solo exstatic resonances on Bb clarinet

April 7 2023 | The Dimenna Center, NYC | TAK Ensemble presented by SEAMUS

March 31 2023 | Sunview Luncheonette, NYC | A night of solos! MG solo exstatic resonances; Joe Moffett - trumpet ; Zosha Warpeha - violin ; Sam Weinberg - saxophone

March 25 2023 | Cary Hall, NYC | Wavefield Ensemble plays Columbia Composers

March 20 2023 | Sister’s BK | Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music

March 18 2023 | The Record Shop, Red Hook | Solo Bb clarinet

March 15 2023 | Bowerbird, The Rotunda, 8pm, Philadelphia | TAK Ensemble plays works by Tyshawn Sorey, Natacha Diels, Ashkan Behzadi, Erin Gee, David Bird

March 13-15 2023 | University of Pennsylvania | Ongoing residency with TAK Ensemble working with UPenn composers

March 2 2023 | University of Buffalo | [The Switch~ Ensemble] performs works by Tonia Ko, Heather Stebbins, Igor Santos, Jason Thorpe Buchanan, and David Felder

February 26-March 3 2023 | University of Buffalo | Residency with [The Switch~ Ensemble] workshopping and recording student pieces

February 20 2023 | Sister’s Brooklyn | Mutual Aid Music

February 16 2023 | Outpost Artist Resources, Ridgewood | Fire Over Heaven | MG  solo, Chris Cochrane & Kevin Bud Jones, Charmaine Lee

Madison Greenstone performs solo exstatic resonances, clarinet at Fire Over Heaven, Queens, Ridgewood, NYC photo credit: Shannon Meehan



February 9 2023 | The Clemente | The [Switch~ Ensemble] premieres a new work by Sam Pluta featuring T.J. Borden and MG as soloists, the program consists of works written for Switch~ by Zachary James Watkins, Tori Cheah, and an interpretation of ‘Buddah’ by Julius Eastman

February 3-6 2023 | Colgate University | Residency with Contemporaneous | Music by Ryan Chase, Philip Glass, inti figgis-vizueta, Julius Eastman

January 25 2023 | 8pm Sister’s Brooklyn | Mutual Aid Music with Nate Wooley, Laura Cocks, Josh Modney, gabby fluke-mogul, Mariel Roberts, Lester St. Louis, Luke Stewart, Matt Moran

January 24-25 2023 | University of Pennsylvania | Ongoing residency with TAK Ensemble working with UPenn composers

2022

December 19 2022 | 9pm Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn | Either/Or presents work by Jo Kondo, Talib Rasul Hakim, James Díaz, Katherine Young | Infrequent Seams Festival

December 15 2022 | Philadelphia Fire Museum Presents | MG solo, TJ Borden + James McKain + Brandon López + Joey Sullivan 4tet

December 5 2022 | Harvard Group for New Music Colloquium Presentation, 12pm

December 3 2022 | David Geffen Hall, Sidewalk Studio, 10:30pm | TAK Ensemble | World Premier of New Work by Tyshawn Sorey presented by the New York Philharmonic’s Nightcap Series

November 30-December 1 2022 | TAK Ensemble at the University of Pennsylvania School of Music

POSTPONED November 19 2022 | [Switch~ Ensemble] in Buffalo, NY | Music by Julius Eastman, Sarah Hennies, Jen Kutler, Tori Cheah

November 18 2022 | [Switch~ Ensemble] @ PS21 | Music by Julius Eastman, Sarah Hennies, Jen Kutler, Tori Cheah

November 10 2022 | solo set at Ridgewood Presbyterian Church | NYC Noise presents Gu∂mundur Steinn Gunnarsson

November 9 2022 | Dimenna Center, Cary Hall | TAK Ensemble | music by Lewis Nielson, Bethany Younge and others.

November 5 2022 | St. Louis, MO | E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall | Alarm Will Sound plays music by Jeff Mills, Fang Man, and Jlin

October 23-30 2022 | “Charlie’s Angels” Performance Residency at Stanford University | with Weston Olencki, Mattie Barbier, Lester St. Louis, Max Murray, Nina Guo

October 18-20 2022 | TAK Ensemble at the University of Pennsylvania School of Music

October 14 2022 | Köln, DE | Stadtgarten: Night of Surprise! | Quartet with T.ON trio: Matthias Müche, Etienne Nillesen, Constantin Herzog, MG

October 12 2022 | Köln, DE | Salon de Jazz | Large ensemble with Etienne Nillesen, Matthias Müche, Eric Wubbels, Marlies Debacker, and Salim Javaid

October 7-9 2022 | Reykjavík, Iceland | Recording “Mundanas vol. 2” by & with John McCowen

October 6 2022 | shy bather’s tape release of “Dream Timbre” | low clarinets and electronics w Michelle Lou | out on Unknown Tapes

October 3 2022 | JACK NY, 20 Putnam Ave Brooklyn | TAK Ensemble | Album release event for Love, Crystal and Stone by Ashkan Behzadi | special guests Saharnaz Samaienejad & Helena Grande

September 17 2022 | DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall | TAK Ensemble | World Premier of Taylor Brook’s Star Maker Fragments

September 14-15 2022 | TAK Ensemble at the University of Pennsylvania School of Music

September 12 2022 | Society of the Americas, 7pm | Wilfrido Terrazas: The Torres Cycle | album release concert and round table discussion

August 31 2022 | Fridman Gallery NYC, 8pm | CT::SWaM Seed 01 [Contemporary Temporary Sound Works and Music]| “A collective work on peripheral listening” with Daniel Neumann, Nicolee Kuester, MG, C Lavender, Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, Sam Long, Sean Meehan, Anna RG, Suzanne Thorpe, Evan Zierk

August 27 2022 | Roulette, Brooklyn | Contemporaneous plays “Genealogy”

August 16 2022 | DiMenna Center for Classical Music | TimeSpans Festival | Argento New Music Project presents music by Andile Khumalo, Michael Klingbeil, Erin Gee, Sky Macklay

August 6 2022 | National Opera Center | Nomads-Oasis, music by Wladimir Rosinskij

July 19-31 2022 | Columbia, MO | Alarm Will Sound, Mizzou Interntational Composers’ Festival

July 6 2022 | Joining Weston Olencki and Laura Cocks in an expanded version of “Music for Two Flutes”, alongside Leo Chang | Presented by NYC Noise at Trans Pecos 

June 26 2022 4pm |Collide-O-Scope Music | Christ and St. Stephen’s Church, Manhattan

June 23 2022 6pm | DiMenna Center for Classical Music, NYC | TAK Ensemble performs as part of the Yarn Wire Institute

June 16-18 2022 | Mizzou, Columbia Missouri | [Switch~ Ensemble] subset residency

June 10 2022 | The Woods, Queens NYC | duo w Laura Cocks / trio set from Camilo Angeles, Jason Nazary and Henry Fraser

June 6-10 2022 | EMPAC RPI | mini-residency with John Pax and Julio Zúñiga

June 3 + 4 2022 | San Diego, CA | “The Song of St. Bazetta” for bass clarinet and electric guitar soloists and orchestra by Anthony Vine, performed with the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Steve Schick

May 22-24 2022 | Union College | mini-residency with [Switch~ Ensemble] subset

May 21 2022 | DiMenna Center for Classical Music, NYC | TAK Ensemble premieres ‘Interbeing’ by Eric Wubbels

May 19 2022 | 8pm University Settlement | Either/Or Ensemble | Will be playing one of my favorite contrabass clarinet solos, “Anubis, Nout” by Gérard Grisey alongside music by Michelle Lou and Talib Rasul Hakim

May 6 2022 | 7:30pm National Sawdust | International Contemporary Ensemble | MATA Festival

May 1 2022 | 12pm Bang on A Can LongPlay | TAK Ensemble | Brooklyn Navy Yards | music by Tyshawn Sorey, Natacha Diels, David Bird, Ashkan Behzadi, Erin Gee

April 20-24 2022 | Residency: Colby College, Maine | The [Switch~ Ensemble] performs recent commissions and music by Fausto Romitelli

April 19 2022 | TAK Ensemble performs works by Columbia University Undergraduate Composers

April 11 2022 | 8pm JACK Arts, Brooklyn | World Premiere of Max Murray’s Secundum Surdum for clarinets and electronics; Chris Otto performs “Emerence Heard” and “Violin Duo”

April 6 2022 | 8pm Clemente Soto Velez Flamboyán Theater | ISSUE Project Room presents “Open Space with Brass” by David Behrman and choreography by Yvonne Rainer. Ensemble led by Chris McIntyre, with Aliya Ultan and Alexandria Smith.

April 3 2022 | Hamilton College, NY | Performance and Lecture | TAK Ensemble and Weston Olencki performing works by Weston Olencki, George Lewis, Natacha Diels, Jessie Marino and Tyshawn Sorey

March 26-30 2022 | University of Buffalo | The [Switch~ Ensemble] | Works by graduate student composers and recent Switch~ commissions

March 25 2022 | NYC | The [Switch~ Ensemble] premieres 5 new commissions by Forbes Graham, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Kelley Sheehan, Anna-Louise Walton, Santiago Diaz-Fischer | Invisible Dog Art Center

March 20 2022 | Record Release: T.ON trio on Impakt Collective Cologne | T.ON plays commissions from Greenstone, Pluta, La Berge, Wooley | recorded in various cathedrals designed by architect Göttfied Bohm

March 19 2022 | Freddy’s Bar and Backroom | duo w Laura Cocks, The Relatives tape release tour

March 4 2022 | UC San Diego | Clarinet soloist on Brian Ferneyhough’s concerto La Chute d’Icare | Palimpsest Ensemble conducted by Steven Schick | 5pm

February 17-20 2022 | Residency: The Harvard Group for New Music | Kathryn Schulmeister, Alexandria Smith and Madison Greenstone premiere pieces written for them by Kelley Sheehan, Golnaz Shiriatzadeh, Julien Vincenot, and Zeynep Toraman | Concert February 20th, 7pm, Paine Hall

February 11-16 2022 | Residency: The [Switch~ Ensemble] at Mizzou | Adapting pieces made for telematic performance | Two concerts including works by Leilehua Lanzilotti, Cathy van Eck, Chris Chandler, Heather Stebbins, and graduate student composers

2021

December 18-19 2021 | Residency: Middletown, CT | TAK Ensemble workshops and performs new pieces by studying composers and Wesleyan University

November 13 2021 | LIVE PERFORMANCE: TAK Ensemble @ DiMenna Center | Ursula Mamlok Prizewinner Concert

November 8 2021 | Zoom: Harvard Group For New Music | Colloquium presenting certain aspects of my creative practice and writing | 12pm-2pm EST

October 15 2021 | LIVE PERFORMANCE: DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 7:30pm | The [Switch~ Ensemble] | Works by Katharina Rosenberger, Cathy van Eck, Dieter Ammann, Clay Mettens, Jason Thorpe Buchanan, premiere with Erika Dohi

October 12 2021 | LIVE PERFORMANCE: duo with Laura Cocks | Opening for MAW: Frank Meadows, Jessica Ackerly, Eli Wallace | Mise-en Space, Greenpoint Hall

October 4 2021 | LIVE PERFORMANCE: TAK Ensemble + ANONYM @ IRL (Greenpoint, BK) | 2 sets– 7:20pm // 9:20pm

October 1 2021 | Album Release: TAK Ensemble + Brandon López release Empty and/or Church of Plenty on Tripticks Tapes

September 24 2021 | Artist’s Talk and Performance at Cooper Union on clarinets/aerophones as part of Daniel Fishkin’s course on experimental instrument building

September 18 2021 | LIVE PERFORMANCE: Contemporaneous Day of Imagination | Irondale, 85 South Oxford Street BK | 2pm-10pm | proof of vaccination or negative Covid-19 test w/i 72 hours of event required for entry

August 28 2021 | LIVE PERFORMANCE: Oliver Street Coffee / Downtown Music Gallery (Manhattan) 2-5pm | solo clarinet

July 2021 | Cologne-based improvising trio T.ON (Etienne Nillesen, Matthias Müche, Constantin Herzog) performs & records a new piece I made for them and 3-channel tape called AURORA. All recordings and performances take place in churches designed by German architect Gottfried Böhm. 
       July 7 | Brühl | St. Stephan
       July 8 | Neviges| Mariendom 
       July 11 | Cologne | Christi Auferstehung
       July 18 | Cologne | Maria in Trümmern
       July 19 | Cologne | St. Gertrude
       July 20 | Cologne | St. Gertrude

April 2021 | TAK Ensemble Remote Residency with Harvard Group for New Music 

April 23 2021 | The [Switch~ Ensemble] featured as part of SEAMUS’s virtual conference

April 19 2021 | Cashmere Radio: Rest Is Music | feature of my piece for contrabass clarinet and electronics live at ISSUE Project Room as part of their program “Clarinets and Electronics

March 5 2021 | The Internet/YouTube | The [Switch~ Ensemble] performs Singing Through a Wire, a streamed concert feature new work by Zachary James Watkins, Zach Sheets, and Duo for Motor and Sound Panels by Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

2020

November/December 2020 | Remote Residency with the [Switch~ Ensemble] and student composers at UT Austin

September 24 2020 | ISSUE Project Room livestream from 22 Boerum Place | MUNDANAS with John McCowen

CANCELED September 7 2020 | Berlin Philharmonie | Lucerne Festival Alumni Orchestra performs music by Rebecca Saunders and Wolfgang Rhim

CANCELED September 6 2020 | KKL Luzern | Lucerne Festival Alumni Orchestra performs music by Rebecca Saunders and Wolfgang Rhim

CANCELED June 25 2020 | Splice Institute, MI | Chamber 2: [Switch~ Ensemble] presents new works written for them as part of the course

CANCELED June 24 2020 | Splice Institute, MI | Madison Greenstone + Keith Kirchoff split solo recital featuring Telegrams for bass clarinet and electronics by Michelle Lou, and In Memoriam Stuart Marshall by Alvin Lucier

POSTPONED May 6 2020 | DiMenna Center, Carey Hall | TAK Ensemble new works by Taylor Brook, Eric Wubbels and Bethany Younge

POSTPONED May 1 2020 | St. Peter’s Church, Chelsea | Wet Ink Large Ensemble Concert featuring music by Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta, Weston Olencki, Tonia Ko

POSTPONED April 25 2020 | Bowerbird, Philadelphia | Timothy McCormack’s MATTER Series, featuring Weston Olencki, T.J. Borden, Chris Watford

POSTPONED April 24 2020 | Mirror in the Woods, NYC | Performance of Timothy McCormack’s RAW MATTER as part of the entire MATTER Series, featuring Weston Olencki, T.J. Borden, Chris Watford

POSTPONED April 9-19 2020 | Stanford University | Residency at Stanford University with Max Murray, Weston Olencki, Matt Barbier, Nina Guo, Lester St. Louis

POSTPONED March 24 2020 | Austin, TX | TAK Ensemble performs at the Line Upon Line Series

POSTPONED March 22 2020 | UT Austin | TAK Ensemble performs at the Southwestern University Concert Series 

POSTPONED March 21 2020 | DiMenna Center | [Switch~ Ensemble] performs Katharina Rosenberger’s Up Close alongside works by Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Clay Mettens, Dieter Ammann, Cathy van Eck

CANCELED March 18 2020 | Eastman School of Music | [Switch~ Ensemble] performs Katharina Rosenberger’s Up Close alongside works by Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Clay Mettens and graduate student composers as guests of the Eastman Audio Research Studio

March 4 2020 | UC San Diego | Mundana V with John McCowen

February 29 2020 | Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC | TAK Ensemble performs premeieres by Columbia Composers

February 18 2020 | Oberlin Conservatory | TAK Ensemble performs works by Erin Gee, Taylor Brook, Tyshawn Sorey, Jessie Marino, David Bird

February 1 2020 | UC San Diego | RENGA performs Beethoven Interpolations, lead by Steven Schick

January 29 2020 | UC San Diego | Palimpsest performs Steiger, Liu, Stephenson

January 25 2020 | University of Pittsburgh PA | TAK Ensemble performs premieres by UPitt composers

select 2019

December 14 2019 | St. Mary’s Church in Harlem, NYC | TAK Ensemble performs premieres by Brandon Lopez and Bethany Younge

December 5 2019 | UC San Diego Experimental Theater | [Switch~ Ensemble] performs workshop premiere of Up Close by Katharina Rosenberger alongside music by Anna-Louise Walton, Ashley Fure

November 26 2019 | Miller Theater, NYC | Miller Theater Pop-Up Concert featuring TAK Ensemble. Music by David Bird, Tyshawn Sorey, Ashkan Behzadi, Taylor Brook, Erin Gee

October 12 2019 | DiMenna Center, NYC | TAK Ensemble Season Opening Concert featuring Telegrams by Michelle Lou, Nightmare for Kiku by Natacha Diels, Protrait of a Lady with Squirrel and Starling by Jessie Marino, music by Georges Aperghis, Julien Malaussena

October 5 2019 | Paine Hall, Harvard | [Switch~ Ensemble] performs new works by HGNM composers Julio Zúñiga, James Bean, Zeynep Toraman

September 26 2019 | “Dave’s Place”, Boston | trios and solos with Kathryn Schulmeister and Alexandria Smith

May 22 2019 | The Stone, NYC | large ensemble as part of Alexandria Smith’s Stone Residency

April 24 2019 | UC San Diego CPMC Concert Hall| Palipmsest performs Hans Abrahamsen’s Schnee, premiere by Felipe Rossi

April 16 2019 | UCLA Royce Hall | Merce Cunningham Centennial, Night of 100 Solos, performing alongside Stephan Moore, Suzanne Thorpe, Bethan Kellough, Stephanie Richards

April 11 2019 | Hermetic Art Space, Warren Lecture Hall 2136 | Chromatic Heartbreaker, feedback set as part of Hermetic Art Festival

April 9 2019 | Hermetic Art Space, Warren Lecture Hall 2136 | Hermetic Art Festival presents Hermetic Art Party, No. 4

April 7 2019 | Secret Project Robot | Mundana V with John McCowen at Ende Tymes Festival

April 5 2019 | UC San Diego CPMC Concert Hall | DMA 2 Solo Recital: Johannes Brahms Sonata in Eb Major, Lachenmann Dal Niente (Interieur III), new piece by Madison Greenstone “Corridors” for feedback and the Concert Hall

March 24 2019 | Harvard University | Recording for new works by John Pax and Julio Zúñiga

February 28 2019 | Areté Gallery, NYC | [Switch~ Ensemble] performs commission-composition competition premieres by Esaias Järnegaard and Adrien Trybucki alongside works by Timothy McCormack, Sivan Eldar

January 26 2019 | UC San Diego CPMC Concert Hall | RENGA under the direction of Steven Schick performs Debussy, Das Lied von der Erde (arr. Schoenberg)

January 16 + 17 2019 | The Sandbox, San Diego | He Pūtōrino Mākutu: A Taonga Pūoro Singspiel by Celeste Oram and Rob Thorne

select 2018

December 8 2018 | Spectrum NYC | tunnels with Weston Olencki, John McCowen and Carlos Cordeiro

December 2 2018 | Princeton Livestock Exchange | Mundanas I-V with John McCowen

December 1 2018 | ISSUE Project Room | contrabass clarinet and electronics, opening for Mary Margaret O’Hara

November 4 2018 | The Outhaus, LA | Hermetic Art Party and Chromatic Heartbreaker presented by Underwolf Records

October 24, 26 +27 2018 | UC San Dieog Experimental Theater | Inheritance, and opera by Lei Liang

October 12 2018 | UC San Diego CPMC Concert Hall | DAD presents the UCSD-Harvard performer-composer exchange, new works by Julio Zúñiga, John Pax, James Bean, Adi Snir, and RAW MATTER + DRIFT MATTER by Timothy McCormack

September 29 2018 | Paine Hall, Harvard | HGNM presents DAD in the UCSD-Harvard performer-composer exchange, new works by Julio Zúñiga, John Pax, Adi Snir, and RAW MATTER + DRIFT MATTER by Timothy McCormack

September 12 2018 | Elbphilharmonie Hamburg | Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival Academy performs Kurtag, Eotvos, Zimmermann conducted by Peter Eotvos

September 9 2018 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall | Orchstra of the Lucerne Festival Academy + London Symphony Orchestra perform Stockhausen’s Gruppen. Sir Simon Rattle, Duncan Ward, Jaehyuck Choi

September 1 2018 | KKL Luzern, Concert Hall | Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival Academy performs Kurtag, Eotvos, Zimmermann conducted by Matthias Pintscher

August 24 2018 | KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall | “Genesis”: Seven Settings Based on the Book of Genesis (Swiss premiere), conducted by Matthias Pintscher

August 12 2018 | Petersburg Art Space, Berlin | Solo show featuring Michelle Lou’s Telegrams, Timothy McCormack’s RAW MATTER, and spirit v for contrabass clarinet by Madison Greenstone

July 28 2018 | Darmstadt Ferienkurse | Michelle Lou’s Untitled Three-Part Construction with RAGE Thormbones

July 19 2018 | Darmstadt Ferienkurse | trio with Weston Olencki and Carlos Cordeiro

July 17 + 18 2018 | Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Central Station | TAUTITOTITO by Celeste Oram

June 16 2018 | Chance & Circumstance Festival, JACK NYC | Mechanical Clarinets with Bryan Jacobs, WHORL for contrabass clarinet, electronics and automatons by Michelle Lou

April 13 2018 | Hermetic Art Space, Warren Lecture Hall 2136 | Hermetic Art Party No. 1

April 6 2018 | UC San Diego Experimental Theater | DMA 1 featuring Mechanical Clarinets with Bryan Jacobs, RAW MATTER, world premiere of WHORL for contrabass clarinet and electronics by Michelle Lou