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SUMMARY:Equinox
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Variant 6 performing their program Equinox. \nServing as the centerpiece for this program is Philadelphia composer Benjamin C.S. Boyle’s first Cantata: To One in Paradise. The poem “To One is Paradise” is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe dating from his mature poetic period that features many of the poet’s favorite themes: young love\, divinity\, and death. The Cantata – composed 20 years ago by Boyle – will be performed in an all-new transcription by the composer for four vocal soloists of Variant 6 and pianist Laura Ward. In addition to Boyle’s work\, we will perform works by Brahms and Fauré for voices and piano on themes of love\, loss\, and darkness. \nPROGRAM \nGabriel Fauré:\nMadrigal\nPuisqu’ici-bas toute âme\nPleurs d’Or\nLes Djinns \nJohannes Brahms:\nDie Meere\nSpätherbst\nO Schöne Nacht \nBenjamin C.S. Boyle:\nTo One in Paradise \nVariant 6: \nRebecca Myers\, soprano\nLauren Kelly\, mezzo-soprano\nJames Reese\, tenor\nDaniel Schwartz\, bass \nLaura Ward\, piano \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nVariant 6 explores the expressive potential of the human voice through vocal chamber music that is at once virtuosic\, poignant\, and approachable. Composed of artists with a diverse set of skills and a wide range of expertise\, we seek out repertoire that embodies this potential. We collaborate with artists of many disciplines\, creating refreshing interpretations of music of the past and innovative premieres of new works. Our concerts are unique and intimate musical experiences that foster deep conversation between artists and audience. Variant 6 shares our unique take on vocal chamber music with people all over the city of Philadelphia. Our approachable and collaborative projects create an environment where audiences of different backgrounds will feel inspired to attend our events\, respond to our music\, and get to know us as individuals.\nvariantsix.com \n\n\n  \n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/equinox/
LOCATION:Philadelphia Ethical Society\, 1906 Rittenhouse Square\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Music of Ben Nobuto
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the NakedEye Ensemble performing a concert of music by Ben Nobuto. \nPROGRAM \nLucid (2020) for piano and electronics\nTell Me Again (2022) for piano\, electronics\, and film\ntrio (for ivy house) (2024) for flute\, cello\, piano & electronics\nLove Games (2023) for six players\, electronics & video\nThree Studies (2022) for percussion & electronics \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nBen Nobuto (b.1996) is a British/Japanese composer and pianist from Kent\, UK\, with a distinctive style variously described as ‘postmodern’ (Nonclassical) and ‘utterly contemporary’ (Manchester Collective). His music celebrates the fragmentations from internet and pop cultures that disrupt (enrich?) our lives\, the video games we play to escape (narrate?) ourselves. There is a naturalness in the chaos of quotations that exudes joy\, playfulness\, and a touch of irony that never devolves into judgement. “I try to make music that feels really transparent and clear in its intention because I like the idea that even very complex music can be accessible and enjoyable to anyone if it’s presented in the right way. I think that’s why I’m also drawn to things like brightness\, joy\, humour\, playfulness and kitschy things – it gives the music a lightness and invites the listener in.” (Ben Nobuto\, classical-music.uk) \nAt only 29 years old\, Ben has created a significant body of work seductive in its story-telling and masterful in the way acoustic instruments\, electronic sounds\, and video work together. His Gen Z synthesized world of scattered internet pieces utilizes techniques that echo John Zorn (collage)\, Scott Johnson (phrase-painting)\, minimalism\, but build to an experience that is uniquely Ben Nobuto. “A lot of my inspiration comes from trying to imagine these dreamlike scenarios where random things can coexist\, like a virtual environment where you can place contradictory ideas side by side and somehow make them feel right. It feels a bit like how dreams work\, in that you don’t question why surreal or impossible things happen until after you wake up\, they just seem to make sense in that weird dream-logic way.” Ben graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2019\, where he holds a Bmus and MPhil Distinction-award degree in Music. He was the recipient of the 2019 Bliss Prize for composition. Ben is currently working on recording and producing his first album of original works. \nNakedEye is an electro-acoustic group with classical\, rock\, and jazz DNA on the forefront of cutting-edge and crossover music that defies conventional labels. Founded in 2013 and based out of Lancaster\, PA\, NakedEye has developed a fluid repertoire reflective of its DNA\, commissioning projects\, institutional and artistic collaborations\, and its mission of musical exploration and innovation. NakedEye commissions work from young emerging composers such as Angélica Negrón\, Molly Joyce\, Florent Ghys\, and Monica Pearce\, as well as established composers such as Jerome Kitzke\, Randall Woolf\, and Zack Browning. NakedEye is also fortunate to count among its core members the multi-talented composers Richard Belcastro and Rusty Banks. \nThree albums reflect the group’s stylistic diversity. “Storylines Crossing” (Starkland\, 2018) explores the group’s blues and jazz expressions. This CD received Global Music Awards’ Best Debut Album and Best Ensemble Album of 2018. “Toy” (New Focus Recordings\, 2019) takes the group’s focus on a miniaturist journey with original works featuring music for toy piano and toy instruments. “A Series of Indecipherable Glyphs” (New Focus Recordings\, 2022) offers Zappa-inspired rock inflections and their unique virtuosic rendition of Sinister Footwear II. \nIn addition to its regular season concerts in the Northeast\, NakedEye has been featured at New Music Gathering\, Queens New Music Festival\, The Chamber Music Society of St Louis\, The DCCC New Music Series\, Pikes Falls Chamber Music Festival\, Tribeca New Music\, as well as schools and universities in PA and DE. \nNakedEye Ensemble is led by pianist Ju-Ping Song and is supported in part by The Russo Family Foundation\, PA Council on the Arts\, The Amphion Foundation\, and New Music USA. \n\n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-music-of-ben-nobuto/
LOCATION:The Perch\, 2321 Emerald St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:Laraaji
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to welcome back Laraaji\, a key figure in the evolution of ambient music whose distinctive sound has been captivating listeners for decades. Philadelphia-born and New Jersey-raised\, Laraaji has pursued spiritual transcendence through music since the mid-1970s. After years of developing an aesthetic shaped by Eastern philosophies and transcendental research in his longtime Harlem home\, Laraaji’s breakthrough came when Brian Eno discovered him busking in Washington Square Park in 1979\, improvising celestial meditations on his electric zither. This encounter led to a collaboration on Eno’s influential Ambient series\, resulting in the 1980 album Day of Radiance. \nSince then\, Laraaji has become a defining figure in new age and ambient music\, known for his commitment to hand-crafted sounds over synthesizers and his embrace of a human presence in his performances. Whether playing monochord instruments\, singing\, or using electronics-kissed percussion\, his music remains rooted in a cosmic African-American tradition. His soundscapes are as hypnotically beautiful as they are rich with moments of tension and dissonance\, bringing depth to his trance-inducing explorations. For over four decades\, Laraaji’s work has continued to evolve\, inviting listeners into deep states of reflection while remaining grounded in a deeply personal musical journey. \n\n\n  \n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/laraaji-friday-may-29-2026-at-the-rotunda/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Morton Feldman: Three Voices
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present vocalist Charlotte Mundy performing Morton Feldman’s iconic work Three Voices at University Lutheran Church. \nFeldman’s “Three Voices” was written for the experimental vocalist and composer Joan LaBarbara in 1982. The original concept involved the live performer singing along with two pre-recorded parts projected through on-stage amplifiers\, creating an effect of three individual “voices”\, all with the same origin (Ms. LaBarbara). Three Voices is indeed a challenging and ground-breaking work\, and has very rarely been performed live with three singers due to its nearly impossible demands on the human voice and psyche – impeccable rhythmic concentration\, shrewd attention to tuning\, and the ability to sound as one voice in three parts. The text is based on Frank O’Hara’s poem\, Wind\, and shapes\, twists\, and morphs short phrases from the poem into an hour-long musical experience. \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST \nCanadian soprano Charlotte Mundy has been dubbed a “daredevil with an unbreakable spine” (SF Classical Voice)\, and “mesmerizing” (New York Times). As a founding member of TAK ensemble\, “one of the most prominent ensembles in the United States practicing truly experimental music” (I Care If You Listen)\, Mundy has performed at Lincoln Center and the Library of Congress\, premiering works by Tyshawn Sorey\, Erin Gee\, Eric Wubbels\, Brandon Lopez\, and Natacha Diels. Mundy is also a core member of Ekmeles\, described as “beyond expert – almost frightening in their precision” by Fanfare magazine and recent recipients of the Ernst von Siemens Ensemble Prize. \nMundy’s recent projects as a soloist include site-specific opera Newtown Odyssey by Kurt Rohde and Marie Lorenz; premieres of concert works by Alyssa Regent and Aida Shirazi\, and the debut of a new collaborative multimedia project with Christian Quiñones. Past performances include critically acclaimed renditions of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire\, Boulez’s Le Marteau sans Maître\, Feldman’s Three Voices\, George Benjamin’s Into the Little Hill\, Iannis Xenakis’ Akanthos\, and a set of music for voice and electronics presented by New York Festival of Song\, described as “an oasis of radiant beauty” by the New York Times. \nAs a recording artist\, Mundy is featured on recordings ranging from contemporary classical music to black metal to prog rock to ambient music. Her recent album with Francisco del Pino\, The Sea\, was named one of the 25 best albums of 2025 by Steve Smith. Mundy is the vocal soloist on the studio recording of Bekah Simms’ Juno award winning composition Bestiary I & II\, and her recordings as a member of TAK and Ekmeles have been widely praised. \nHer compositions have been performed at Roulette\, JACK theater\, University of New Mexico\, Fuse Factory\, and the Higher Ground festival. They include SWEET FLAG!\, whose score consists of home-made rosaries\, The Empress Negligee and Leopard Queen Dream for voice\, piñata/thurible/shakers and percussion\, and the surround sound/light/wind/smell installation\, Light as a Feather\, presented by Harvestworks Digital Media Arts. \nBorn in Toronto and based in Brooklyn\, Mundy studied classical voice at the University of Toronto\, contemporary performance at the Manhattan School of Music\, and is working toward a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the CUNY Graduate Center. \n\n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/morton-feldman-three-voices-2026/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Music of Pauline Oliveros
DESCRIPTION:Please note\, this is an outdoor performance. The scheduled performance is Saturday June 13\, 7:00pm with a rain date of Sunday June 14\, 7:00pm \nBowerbird is pleased to co-present the Arcana New Music Ensemble performing music of Pauline Oliveros at Stoneleigh: a natural garden. Pauline Oliveros’ (1932-2016) life as a composer\, performer and humanitarian was about opening her own and others’ sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Her career spanned fifty years of boundary dissolving music making. In the ’50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers\, artists\, poets gathered together in San Francisco. In the 1960’s she influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation\, meditation\, electronic music\, myth and ritual. \nPROGRAM \nThe Well\nThe Gentle \nWritten between 1982-1983 and commissioned by Philadelphia’s Relâche Ensemble\, The Well and The Gentle are two of Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations – text-based\, intuitive pieces rooted in listening with minimal instructions. \nThe performance will take place at the pool house\, an outdoor space in the heart of Stoneleigh’s bucolic campus (seating provided). The garden will open at 5:30 for audience members to come early and enjoy the grounds. Feel free to bring a blanket and picnic! \nTicketing link will be available soon\n$30 – Natural Lands member ticket\n$40 – Non-member ticket\n$20 – Young Adult ticket (30 and under)\n$10 ACCESS ticket \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nPauline Oliveros’ (1932-2016) life as a composer\, performer and humanitarian was about opening her own and others’ sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Her career spanned fifty years of boundary dissolving music making. In the ’50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers\, artists\, poets gathered together in San Francisco. In the 1960’s she influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation\, meditation\, electronic music\, myth and ritual. \nShe was the recipient of four Honorary Doctorates and among her many recent awards were the William Schuman Award for Lifetime Achievement\, Columbia University\, New York\, NY\,The Giga-Hertz-Award for Lifetime Achievement in Electronic Music from ZKM\, Center for Art and Media\, Karlsruhe\, Germany and The John Cage award from from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts. \nOliveros was Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute\, Troy\, NY\, and Darius Milhaud Artist-in-Residence at Mills College. She founded “Deep Listening®\,” which came from her childhood fascination with sounds and from her works in concert music with composition\, improvisation and electro-acoustics. She described Deep Listening as a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life\, of nature\, of one’s own thoughts as well as musical sounds. \n“Deep Listening is my life practice\,” Oliveros explained\, simply. Oliveros founded Deep Listening Institute\, formerly Pauline Oliveros Foundation\, now the Center For Deep Listening at Rensselaer\, Troy\, NY. Her creative work is currently disseminated through The Pauline Oliveros Trust and the Ministry of Maåt\, Inc. \nArcana New Music Ensemble is a group of Philadelphia-based musicians dedicated to presenting interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional music in interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional places. Founded in 2015\, the chamber ensemble is dedicated to contemporary classical music performing works by living composers and to reexamine music from the past\, often focusing on composers whose work has been overlooked. A hallmark of Arcana’s programming is its frequent use of portrait concerts\, which allow the ensemble to explore a composer’s work in depth. These programs balance music by widely recognized composers with works by those who are less well known or historically underrepresented. \n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-music-of-pauline-oliveros-at-stoneleigh/
LOCATION:Stoneleigh: a natural garden\, 1829 County Line Road\, Villanova\, PA\, 19085\, United States
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SUMMARY:Follow The Sound
DESCRIPTION:Please note this is an outdoor performance. In case of rain\, the performance will take place Sunday June 21st. \nBowerbird is pleased to co-present Follow the Sound at Stoneleigh: a natural garden. This unique program blends a naturalist-led walk through the garden\, with particular attention focused on birds\, bugs and ‘the here and now’ of the environmental soundscape\, interspersed with site-responsive impromptu performances by improvising musicians along the way. This will be a rare and special opportunity for deep communal listening and attunement in a beautiful setting. \nEstimated run time: 60 minutes \nMusicians to be announced soon. \nTicketing link will be available soon.\nThere will be two time-slots to choose from:\n6pm start and 6:30pm start \n$30 – Natural Lands member ticket\n$40 – Non-member ticket\n$20 – Young Adult ticket (30 and under)\n$10 ACCESS ticket
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/follow-the-sound-at-stoneleigh/
LOCATION:Stoneleigh: a natural garden\, 1829 County Line Road\, Villanova\, PA\, 19085\, United States
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