Bowerbird

Bowerbird is pleased to present an online conversation with John D. S. Adams, John David Fullemann, David Meschter, and Robert E. Miller, hosted by exhibition co-curators You Nakai and Dustin Hurt. David Tudor's work with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company required not only innovative compositional thinking but also the technical expertise of skilled audio engineers…

Bowerbird is pleased to present pianist Amy Williams performing Morton Feldman's monumental Triadic Memories, one of the towering masterworks of late 20th-century piano literature. ABOUT THE WORK Completed in 1981 and jointly dedicated to pianists Roger Woodward and Aki Takahashi, Triadic Memories is Feldman's longest solo piano composition, lasting approximately 90 minutes. Following its first…

Bowerbird is pleased to present Composers Inside Electronics—Phil Edelstein, Ron Kuivila, and Michael Johnsen, with Daniel Fishkin—performing works by David Tudor. Composers Inside Electronics (CIE), formed in 1973 with David Tudor, pioneered a collaborative approach to live electronic music that treated circuits and components as instruments in themselves rather than as tools. This closing concert…

Bowerbird is pleased to present the Arcana New Music Ensemble performing solo and chamber music of Elliott Carter. PROGRAM: Two Thoughts About the Piano Figment V for marimba Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux II Epigrams Enchanted Preludes Gra for clarinet Canon for 4 ARCANA NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Anna Lim - violin Tom Kraines - cello Nic Handahl…

Bowerbird is pleased to present Audra performing an evening of music for voice and saxophone, with repertoire including Meredith Monk’s Hocket for Two Voices, two moody folk-song arrangements by Karin Rehnqvist, and Cecilia McDowall’s dramatic White Fox Woman. Three pieces make up the center of this program: Thomas Kessler’s Is it?, Philippe Leroux Un lieu…

Bowerbird is pleased to present Philadelphia favorites Alash at The Rotunda for two FREE concerts - 2pm and 7pm. Alash are masters of Tuvan throat singing (xöömei), a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. Masters of traditional Tuvan instruments as well as the art of throat singing, Alash are deeply committed…

Bowerbird is pleased to present Philadelphia favorites Alash at The Rotunda for two FREE concerts - 2pm and 7pm. Alash are masters of Tuvan throat singing (xöömei), a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. Masters of traditional Tuvan instruments as well as the art of throat singing, Alash are deeply committed…

Bowerbird is pleased to present Variant 6 performing their program Equinox. Serving 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…

Bowerbird is pleased to present the NakedEye Ensemble performing a concert of music by Ben Nobuto. PROGRAM Lucid (2020) for piano and electronics Tell Me Again (2022) for piano, electronics, and film trio (for ivy house) (2024) for flute, cello, piano & electronics Live at Leighton House (2023) for six players & electronics Joy Replica…