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2019–2020 Season

• ∞
• ∞
• YouTube, April 29, 7.30 PM EDT and thereafter
• In lieu of playing my Carnegie concert at Carnegie Hall, I’ve recre­ated it on video from my living room. The complete program goes live at 7:30 PM tonight, and will remain on my channel there­after. Music by Robin Holcomb, Donnacha Dennehy, Brad Mehldau, Gabriella Smith, Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, Nico Muhly, Aaron Copland, John Adams, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Frederic Rzewski, and me.

SEP

• 6
• FRI
• Brooklyn, NY, Barge­mu­sic, 7.00 PM
• Playing a solo concert at Barge­mu­sic featur­ing Philip Glass Études and Schubert Impromp­tus, as well as Moving Études.

• 14
• SAT
• Cork, Ireland, Cork Opera House, 2.00 PM
• The Sounds From a Safe Harbour festival presents Katia and Marielle Labèque, who will play Out of Shape on their Mini­mal­ist Dream House show joined by guitarists Bryce Dessner and David Chalmin. The program also features new work by Thom Yorke, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass.

• 27
• FRI
• Brooklyn, NY, National Sawdust, 8.00 PM
• Playing music by Clara Schumann and Meredith Monk (with Nico Muhly) at National Sawdust opening night.

OCT

• 12
• SAT
• Kansas City, MO, Diastole Scholars’ Center, TBA
• NewEar Contem­po­rary Chamber Ensemble performs Check­ered Shade.

• 13
• SUN
• New York, NY, Merkin Hall, 2.00 PM
• Joining my estimable friends yMusic to cele­brate Bob Sirota’s 70^th birthday with a concert of his music.

• 13
• SUN
• Chatham Township, NJ, Lyrica Chamber Music, 3.00 PM
• Dear friends Cather­ine Gregory and David Kaplan play my flute and piano duo Steady Gaze.

• 14–15
• MON-TUE
• Milwau­kee, WI, Helen Bader Recital Hall, 7.30 PM
• The Prometheus Trio plays my Piano Trio.

• 24
• THU
• Chicago, IL, Galvin Recital Hall, 7.30 PM
• North­west­ern Univer­si­ty’s new music ensemble performs Check­ered Shade, as well as music by Missy Mazzoli and Felipe Lara.

NOV

• 8
• FRI
• Nashville, TN, Vander­bilt Univer­sity, TBA
• Vander­bilt Univer­sity percus­sion ensemble performs Auster­ity Measures.

• 10
• SUN
• Rome, Italy, Audi­to­rium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia, 9.00 PM
• “Mini­mal­ist Dream House” with the Labèque sisters, Bryce Dessner, and David Chalmin. They’ll perform my new arrange­ment of Out of Shape from Shy and Mighty.

• 10
• SUN
• Stockton, CA, DeRosa Univer­sity Center, 7.30 PM
• Univer­sity of the Paci­fic’s student-run ²⁸⁄₇₈ New Music Ensemble performs Some Connecti­cut Gospel.

• 21
• THU
• New York, NY, Weill Recital Hall, 7:30
• Dear friends Cather­ine Gregory and David Kaplan première Steady Gaze, a flute-piano duo I wrote for them.

• 22
• FRI
• Cincin­nati, OH, CSO Music Hall, 7.30 PM
• Curating the first concert of the Cincin­nati Sympho­ny’s new Proof series. The program will include music by Charles Ives, Tania León, and Robin Holcomb, and involve a Sacred Harp chorus, as well as my own cello concerto Upstate Obscura performed by Inbal Segev. John Hegin­botham provides chore­og­ra­phy, and André de Ridder conducts. This is bound to be a memo­rable evening.

DEC

• 22
• SUN
• Miami, FL, New World Center, 2.00 PM
• Musi­cians of the New World Symphony perform Tides and Currents.

JAN 2020

• 24
• FRI
• Atlanta, GA, Georgia State Univer­sity, 1.30 PM
• The Petrasek Duo (husband and wife team Jessica and Joseph) perform Crashing Through Fences.

FEB

• 16
• SUN
• Nashville, TN, Ingram Hall at Blair School of Music, 4.00 PM
• Alias Chamber Ensemble performs Check­ered Shade.

• 23
• SUN
• Wash­ing­ton, DC, Phillips Collec­tion, 4.00 PM
• The excel­lent pianist Aaron Diehl performs How can I live in your world of ideas?.

MAR

• 9
• MON
• New York, NY, Mannes School of Music, Tishman Audi­to­rium, 7.30 PM
• The Mannes American Composers Ensemble (MACE) plays Some Connecti­cut Gospel, along­side works by my esteemed Mannes colleagues David Loeb, Missy Mazzoli, David T. Little, Huang Ruo, Robert Cuckson, and Joan La Barbara.

• 10
• TUE
• New York, NY, Central Chamber Series, 7.30 PM
• The stellar musi­cians of The Knights perform my Piano Trio, on a program that also includes music by Caroline Shaw, and Brahms.

• 14
• SAT
• Chicago, IL, Bennett Gordon Hall, Ravinia, 8.00 PM
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. Pianist Anthony De Mare presents “Liaisons 2020: Re-imag­in­ing Sondheim From The Piano.” His second round of Sondheim-inspired commis­sions includes a new piece by me, Nice is Differ­ent Than Good. Also on the bill: new works by Jon Batiste, Ted Hearne, and Meredith Monk.

• 14
• SAT
• Los Angeles, CA, First Pres­by­ter­ian Church of Santa Monica, 8.00 PM
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. Pianist Inna Falicks premières Old Ground, which she commis­sioned, along­side a new work by Billy Childs, Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit, and Messi­aen’s Visions de l’Amen.

• 19
• THU
• Brooklyn, NY, Living Music with Nadia Sirota, 9.00 PM EDT
• A hastily-sched­uled “pirate radio” episode of Nadia Sirota’s podcast & live show, coming to you from our living rooms. I’ll be playing music by Robin Holcomb and me, and will be joined by Gabriel Cabezas and Nathalie Joachim.

• 22
• SUN
• Milan, Italy, Teatro Franco Parenti, TBA
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. Solo concert. Program to include works by John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Donnacha Dennehy, Philip Glass, Brad Mehldau, Nico Muhly, Robin Holcomb, Gabriella Smith, Aaron Copland, and Frederic Rzewski, as well as my own Old Ground.

• 27
• FRI
• New York, NY, 92^nd Street Y, 9.00 PM
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. Pianist Anthony de Mare premières my short Sondheim-inspired piano piece Nice is Differ­ent Than Good.

APR

• 25
• SAT
• Los Angeles, CA, Royce Hall at UCLA, 3.00 PM and 7.00 PM
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. Pianist Anthony De Mare presents “Liaisons 2020: Re-imag­in­ing Sondheim From The Piano.” His second round of Sondheim-inspired commis­sions includes a new piece by me, Nice is Differ­ent Than Good. Also on the bill: new works by Jon Batiste, Ted Hearne, and Meredith Monk.

• 29
• WED
• New York, NY, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, 7.30 PM
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. Solo recital début at Carnegie alert! Program to include works by John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Donnacha Dennehy, Philip Glass, Brad Mehldau, Nico Muhly, Robin Holcomb, Gabriella Smith, Aaron Copland, and Frederic Rzewski, as well as my own Old Ground.

MAY

• 2
• SAT
• Brooklyn, NY, Long Play Festival, TBA
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. Ashley Bathgate performs the complete ASH on Bang On A Can’s new Long Play festival.

• 3
• SUN
• Brooklyn, NY, ShapeShifter Lab, 3.00 PM
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. Perform­ing David Lang’s Death Speaks with Shara Nova and a stellar band.

• 14
• THU
• Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles City College, 8.00 PM
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. The Andres-Kaplan two piano phil­har­monic performs The Rite of Spring.

• 17
• SUN
• Los Angeles, CA, LACMA, 6.00 PM
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. The Andres-Kaplan two piano phil­har­monic performs The Rite of Spring on the Sundays Live series.

• 19
• TUE
• Seattle, WA, Meany Hall, Univer­sity of Wash­ing­ton, 7.30 PM
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. With violin­ist Rachel Lee Priday—a meaty program of Wolfe, Stravin­sky, Holcomb, Cerrone, Copland, and the world première of my own Three Suns for unac­com­pa­nied violin.

• 19
• TUE
• Freiburg, Germany, Schloss­bergsaal SWR, 8.00 PM
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. The Holst Sinfoni­etta performs Check­ered Shade.

• 30
• SAT
• Suwon, South Korea, On-nu-ri Art Hall, 8.00 PM
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. The Holst Sinfoni­etta performs Check­ered Shade.

JUN

JUL

• 12
• SUN
• Beacon, NY, Howland Cultural Center, 8.00 PM
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. Duo recital with mandolin­ist extra­or­di­naire Joe Brent.

• 25
• SAT
• Redwood City, CA, Cañada College Theater, 8.00 PM
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. Pianist Louise Costigan-Kerns performs my Coro­na­tion concerto Re-compo­si­tion with the Redwood Symphony.

AUG

• 2
• SUN
• Tuscany, Italy, Fondazione Bertarelli, TBA
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. The redoubtable Italian chamber ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi performs Check­ered Shade on the Amiata Festival.

• 9
• SUN
• Jack­sonville, OR, Britt Festival, 8.00 PM
• UPDATE: Post­poned until further notice due to Coro­n­avirus. Joining conduc­tor Teddy Abrams and the Britt Festival Orches­tra to play Bartók’s third piano concerto. The orches­tra will also perform Every­thing Happens So Much. Also: Sprach Zarathustra.

• 21
• FRI
• Chatham, NY, PS21 Chatham, 7.00 PM
• Socially-distanced outdoor piano recital featur­ing Rzewski’s Winns­boro Cotton Mill Blues, Copland’s Piano Sonata, and my own Old Ground. Also stream­ing on Facebook.

• 30
• SUN
• YouTube, 10.00 PM EDT
• The online première of a new work for clarinet and string quartet, called House Work, written for the Pogoss­ian family to learn and perform under quar­an­tine. The streamed concert will also feature works by Coleridge-Taylor and Bartók, and will be avail­able to watch on demand afterwards.