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OCT

• when: Friday October 8 at 8 PM
• where: Zankel Music Center, at Skidmore College, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY

The world première of my new septet for the wonder­ful Ensemble ACJW, along­side Brahms’s Op. 18 Sextet and Ravel’s quite bewitch­ing Chansons Madé­casses Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen.

• when: Monday, October 11, 7.30 PM
• where: Le Poisson Rouge (LPR), 158 Bleeker St. New York, NY

Our “mighty handful” of five Yale composers, Sleeping Giant (Chris Cerrone, Jacob Cooper, Ted Hearne, Robert Honstein, and yours truly) takes to the stage at LPR for the second time in this concert spon­sored by Yale in New York.

• when: Tuesday, October 12, 7.30 PM
• where: Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, 7^th Ave. at 57^th St., New York, NY

The NYC première of my new piece for the wonder­ful Ensemble ACJW, along­side Brahms’s Op. 18 Sextet.

• when: Monday, October 25, 7.30 PM
• where: Austin Peay State Univer­sity, Clarksville, TN

My Tennessee début (it’s true!), collab­o­rat­ing with one of my favorite musician friends, clar­inetist Mingzhe Wang. He’s put together a really inter­est­ing program focussing on composers influ­enced by Schumann, along­side music by the man himself. I’ll be playing his other­worldly Gesänge der Frühe as well as two new short pieces of my own, then joining Ming & friends for Kurtág’s Hommage à R. Sch. and Schumann’s Märch­en­erzäh­lun­gen.

NOV

• when: Sunday, November 14, 3 PM
• where: Rock­e­feller College common room in Madison Hall at Prince­ton Univer­sity, Prince­ton, NJ

The student-run Prince­ton Univer­sity Chamber Ensemble performs Some Connecti­cut Gospel.

• when: Wednes­day, November 17, 8 PM
• where: Issue Project Room, 232 3^rd St. Brooklyn, NY

Singer-composer extra­or­di­naire Gabriel Kahane curates this concert on the MATA Festival, for which I’ve written my first bit of vocal music in about five years (Family Plays)! The program looks to be terrific, includ­ing premières of new works by Andrew Norman, Yotam Haber, Joseph Hallman, Chris Thile, Shara Worden, Paola Prestini, Brett Banducci, and Ted Hearne.

DEC

• when: Sunday, December 5, 8 PM 7 PM
• where: Gala­pa­gos Art Space, 16 Main St., Brooklyn, NY

Opera Grows in Brooklyn. I’m playing piano in Matt Mark’s twisted Adven­tures of Albert Fish, a song cycle from the point of view of a serial killer.

• when: Thursday, December 9, Friday, December 10, and (JUST ADDED) Saturday, December 11; 8 PM Thursday & Friday, 3 PM Saturday
• where: 111 West 67^th Street, 34D in New York, NY

Two evenings of an intimate “house concert”-style solo piano recital, pairing a large new piano suite (It takes a long time to become a good composer) with Schumann’s Kreis­le­ri­ana. Presented by Metrop­o­lis Ensemble.

JAN

• when: Friday, January 7 14 (resched­uled because of threat­en­ing snow), 7 PM
• where: The Taft School in Water­town, CT

My brother Wells Andres and I are putting on a little violin-piano concert at his “alma mater”. Program to include Ravel’s violin sonata, Pärt’s Fratres— and more!

• when: Monday, January 17, 2 PM‑9 PM UPDATE: I’ll be playing around 2:40 PM. FYI.
• where: Merkin Hall, 129 West 67^th St., New York, NY

The very Ecstatic Music Festival kicks off with a Marathon, in the grand tradi­tion of new music marathons. I’ll be playing some Ives and some new piano music at some point during the day; stay tuned for more detailed info. I should mention that there is liter­ally nothing on this seven hour concert that you will feel good about missing.

• when: Saturday, January 22, 7.30 PM
• where: Merkin Hall, 129 West 67^th St., New York, NY

I’m joining my friends in ACME for this Ecstatic show featur­ing songs by Jeffer­son Friedman.

• when: Saturday, January 29, 8 PM
• where: Tenri Cultural Insti­tute, 43A West 13^th St., New York, NY

Doug Fisk’s “Composers/Pianists” concert series returns to NY with a concert featur­ing music written and performed by Doug, Trevor Gureckis, Missy Mazzoli, and Adrian Knight. I’ll be playing Every­thing is an Onion from It takes a long time to become a good composer.

FEB

• when: Tuesday, February 15, 7.30 PM
• where: Lincoln Center, New York, NY

I’m collab­o­rat­ing with the designer Frank Tell on their Fashion Week presen­ta­tion. They’ll be doing mono­chrome asym­met­ri­cal sweaters; violin­ist Tema Watstein and I will be doing original music.

• when: Friday, February 18, 8 PM
• where: South Pasadena Music Center, 1509 Mission St., South Pasadena, CA

Bassist-vocalist extra­or­di­naire Maggie Hass­pacher premières a new piece I’m writing for her. Also: brand new works by Amy Beth Kirsten and Ruben Naeff.

• when: Friday, February 25, 7.30 PM
• where: Ball State Univer­sity New Music Festival, Muncie, IN

I’ll be perform­ing Derek John­son’s barn-burning piano piece Infinity Plunge.

• when: Saturday, February 26, 7.30 PM
• where: Ball State Univer­sity New Music Festival, Muncie, IN

Derek Johnson and I perform Fast Flows the River in a new version for electric guitar.

MAR

• when: Saturday, March 5, 7.30 PM
• where: Merkin Hall, 129 West 67^th St., New York, NY

Teaming up with singer-pianist-song­writer Gabriel Kahane for a show on the Ecstatic Music Festival (a really exciting lineup of concerts that is bound to be the high­light of the first few months of 2011). Our show is a grab bag of Amer­i­cana: Charles Ives, po-po-mo hymn arrange­ments, popular song, unpop­u­lar song, Some Connecti­cut Gospel in a brand-new arrange­ment for piano and Hammond B3… what’s not to love? Really, nothing.

• when: Saturday, March 5, 7.30 PM
• where: Jabez Hardin Perform­ing Arts Center, 720 N Belair Rd., Evans, GA

Cellist Claire Bryant and Friends (specif­i­cally: Owen Dalby, Margaret Dyer, and Anna Elashvili) perform my string quartet, Thrive on Routine, on the Juil­liard in Aiken series.

• when: Friday, March 11, 7.30 PM
• where: Zankel Hall, 881 7^th Avenue, New York, NY

“Brad Mehldau and Friends” take to the stage at Zankel hall. We’ll team up on a few move­ments of Shy and Mighty. PLUS: I’ll join Brad and said friends for his new, Carnegie-commis­sioned piece for two pianos and wind band.

• when: Saturday, March 12, 7.30 PM
• where: Sanders Theater, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA

“Brad Mehldau and Friends” reprise his new music for two pianos, winds, and percus­sion at Sanders Theater in Cambridge.

• when: Thursday, March 24, 8 PM
• where: Sprague Hall, New Haven, CT

It’s back to my old stomping grounds (and I do mean that) to play the great Ingram Marshall’s solo piano piece Authen­tic Presence on the New Music New Haven series.

• when: Friday, March 18 25 [resched­uled], 8 PM
• where: First Pres­by­ter­ian Church, 124 Henry St., Brooklyn, NY

Joining the outstand­ing singer Mellissa Hughes for her solo show on the Music at First series. Tunes by Matt Marks, Gabriel Kahane (the famous Craigslistlieder), Eric Shan­field, and more.

• when: Thursday, March 31, 12 PM
• where: Richard Bradshaw Amphithe­ater, Toronto, Canada

The Canadian première of Crashing Through Fences with Ed Reifel (Glock­en­spiel) and Camille Watts (piccolo).

APR

• when: Thursday-Saturday, April 7, 8, and 9, 8 PM
• where: The Kitchen, 512 W. 19^th St., New York, NY

Beth Morrison’s 21^st-Century Lieder­abend returns in this iter­a­tion featur­ing new tunes by Julia Wolfe, David T. Little, Paola Prestini, Russell Platt, Doug Cuomo, Greg Spears, Gabriel Kahane, and Ted Hearne, among others. I’m thrilled to be joining a wonder­ful backup band, ACME, as well as the Ted Hearne Band. David Kaplan and I will also play some four-hands accom­pa­ni­ments. (I realize this all sounds like more than one evening’s-worth of events— that’s because all three nights are different!)

• when: Saturday, April 9, 7 PM
• where: NWSA ArtSeen Gallery, 2215 NW 2^nd Avenue, Miami, FL

Bassist-vocalist Maggie Hass­pacher performs Are your fingers long enough? on the O, Miami poetry festival.

• when: Saturday, April 30, 8 PM
• where: Tenri Cultural Insti­tute, 43A West 13^th St., New York, NY

Pianist Marc Peloquin’s Keyed Up Music Project is devoting a whole show to my work & influ­ences! I’ll join Marc for some selec­tions from Shy and Mighty, along­side various solo works and even some tran­scrip­tions of Mahler songs (!) from a while back.

MAY

• when: Friday and Saturday, May 13 and 14, 8 PM
• where: The Italian Academy at Columbia Univer­sity, 1161 Amster­dam Ave., New York, NY

I’ll be joining the Red Light musi­cians for a fully staged produc­tion of Christo­pher Cerrone’s ravish­ing opera, Invis­i­ble Cities.

• when: Wednes­day, May 25, 8 PM
• where: Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St., New York, NY

Marking this year’s second NYC festival of piano music with a “keys”-based pun in the title, Lisa Moore will perform my How can I live in your world of ideas? on Joe Ruben­stein’s Keys to the Future mini-series.

JUN

• when: Thursday, June 9, 8 PM
• where: Barge­mu­sic, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn, NY

I’m thrilled to be present­ing a solo concert at Barge­mu­sic, a floating concert hall housed in a 19^th-century coffee barge under the Brooklyn Bridge. I’ll be playing not only recent works by Christo­pher Cerrone, Derek Johnson, Ingram Marshall, and myself, but two brand-new pieces commis­sioned for the occasion from Ted Hearne and Jacob Cooper.

• when: Wednes­day, June 15, 7.30 PM
• where: Little­field, 622 DeGraw St., Brooklyn, NY

Sleeping Giant’s summer show! New and recent tunes by all six of us (Chris Cerrone, Andrew Norman, Ted Hearne, Jacob Cooper, and Robert Honstein), drinks, and fun provided. Maggie Hass­pacher will play the NY première of Are your fingers long enough? plus Rob and I are going to wear our matching golden/silken pyjamas.

• when: Sunday, June 19, 11 AM to 12 AM (I’m playing around 7:30 PM)
• where: Winter Garden at the World Finan­cial Center, New York, NY

I’ll be playing At the River on the annual Bang on a Can marathon!

JUL

AUG