2023
July 2-8 2023 | The Walden School, Dublin NH | TAK Ensemble in residence at the Walden School performing new commissions by Walden faculty composers
June 24 2023 | Cary Hall, NYC | TAK Ensemble presented by the Yarn|Wire Institute, “Empty And/Or Church of Plenty” with Brandon López
June 14 2023 | National Sawdust | Contemporaneous: Dreams of One/All
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 and open conversation, Martin Freeman solo electronics.
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
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
July 2-8 2023 | The Walden School, Dublin NH | TAK Ensemble in residence at the Walden School performing new commissions by Walden faculty composers
June 24 2023 | Cary Hall, NYC | TAK Ensemble presented by the Yarn|Wire Institute, “Empty And/Or Church of Plenty” with Brandon López
June 14 2023 | National Sawdust | Contemporaneous: Dreams of One/All
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 and open conversation, Martin Freeman solo electronics.
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
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
