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SUMMARY:Duo Tesserae
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Duo Tesserae with an opening set by saxophonist\, Noa Even at University Lutheran Church. Noa Even\, Philly-based saxophonist\, opens the program with a short set of music for solo tenor saxophone. She performs her own piece\, Herzl\, which captures her ever-evolving relationship\, a grappling of sorts\, with her identity as an Israeli-American. Betsy Jolas\, who recently celebrated her 100th birthday\, composed in 1983 as the fourth piece in a series of nine that showcases solo instruments. It was one of the first solo works to explore the capabilities of the tenor saxophone\, an instrument primarily associated with jazz and pop music. Even now\, over forty years later\, the piece remains compelling in its modernist lyricism and idiomatic virtuosity. \nGermany-based Duo Tesserae present a program exploring contemporary voices connected through Germany’s vibrant new music scene. Featuring works by Rebecca Saunders\, Thuon Burtevitz\, and Eric Wubbels\, the concert traces distinct approaches to sound\, gesture\, and musical form. \nBurtevitz’s richly textured sonic imagination\, Saunders’ refined exploration of timbre and silence\, and Wubbels’ intricate rhythmic energy reveal contrasting yet complementary perspectives on contemporary composition. Together\, these works showcase an international artistic dialogue\, where composers of different backgrounds have shaped and reimagined contemporary musical practice. \nWith its characteristic precision\, clarity\, and vivid sense of colour\, Duo Tesserae guides audiences through a landscape of striking contrasts\, inviting listeners to experience the rich diversity of contemporary musical expression. \nPROGRAM \nBetsy Jolas: Épisode Quatrième (1983)\nNoa Even: Herzl (2021)\nThuon Burtevitz: Rabba in Sard… (2004 rev. 2015) – Mov. II & III\nRebecca Saunders: Duo (1996 rev. 1999)\nEric Wubbels: the children of fire come looking for fire (2012) \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nBased in Philadelphia\, Noa Even is a versatile saxophonist dedicated to the creation of new music through improvisation\, composition\, and close collaboration with composers. She has premiered dozens of new works\, most of which were composed for her and the groups with which she has performed. Noa is a member of New Thread Quartet and duos Ogni Suono and Audra. Her recordings have been released on New Focus Recordings and Innova. Noa is Assistant Teaching Professor and Head of Woodwinds at Rowan University in New Jersey. She has taught over 80 master classes around the world and regularly participates in student composer readings. From 2017-2020\, Noa served as Executive Director of Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project (CUSP)\, a non-profit organization she co-founded that champions new and experimental music. She was Treasurer of the North American Saxophone Alliance from 2021 through 2024. Noa is a Conn-Selmer Artist-Clinician and a Vandoren Artist. For more information\, visit www.noaevenmusic.com. \n  \nFormed in 2025\, Duo Tesserae (Leipzig / Dresden\, Germany) brings together two specialists in contemporary music whose collaboration began in 2018. Since then\, they have worked together frequently in a variety of chamber ensembles before founding the present duo. Praised for their precision\, clarity\, and color\, the duo are dedicated to exploring the sonic language of music today. They work closely with both emerging and established composers\, often unearthing hitherto undiscovered voices\, and creating performances that illuminate new perspectives on sound. \n\n
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/duo-tesserae/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Blackbox Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the Blackbox Ensemble at The Perch. \nBlackBox Ensemble presents a program honoring milestones in American history\, culture\, and music: the centennial of pioneering American composer Morton Feldman and the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. The program pairs works by Feldman with Elliott Carter’s “A Mirror on Which to Dwell\,” settings of Elizabeth Bishop poems written in 1976 to honor the United States bicentennial. In dialogue with these works is Tania Leon’s “In the Field\,” a song cycle setting of poetry by Carlos Pintado reflecting on the historical landmarks of Philadelphia which\, in the words of the composer\, “reflects the love and respect we all feel for the multiple and diverse communities coming together to create a nation.” \nPROGRAM \nMorton Feldman: Four Songs to E.E. Cummings\nTania Leon: In the Field\nElliot Carter: A Mirror on Which to Dwell \nFeaturing Amber Evans\, Soprano \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nDescribed as “ambitious” by The New Yorker\, the New York City–based BlackBox Ensemble creates immersive\, interdisciplinary\, and site-responsive performances that engage deeply with classical traditions while reimagining them through contemporary lenses\, opening space for new ideas\, collaborations\, and ways of listening. \nBlackBox has presented work at leading museums\, festivals\, and performance spaces across the U.S.\, including the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art\, The Whitney Museum\, Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival\, National Sawdust\, Roulette Intermedium\, the Clark Art Institute\, the Noguchi Museum\, and PS21. The ensemble has toured nationally and held residencies at universities including NYU\, University of Chicago\, Penn State\, George Washington University\, UC Davis\, University of Richmond\, University of Michigan\, University of Florida\, and San Francisco State University\, among others. Recent highlights include a three-performance run of Speculative Listening: The Sonic World of Julius Eastman\, a program exploring Eastman’s influences curated by Eastman scholar Isaac Jean-François in collaboration with Kyle Marshall Choreography\, as well as The Sound of Space Between Us\, a site-specific outdoor music and dance performance at the Clark Art Institute conceived by flutist Annie Nikunen. \nOur name\, BlackBox\, comes from the many meanings the term holds. In theatre\, a black box is a bare\, flexible space—four dark walls that can transform into anything\, creating an environment ripe for bold experimentation and intimate connection. In science and technology\, a black box is a system with known inputs and outputs\, but the mystery of what happens inside makes it compelling. For us\, we believe music\, as a cultural medium\, lives in that same space—enacting an ambiguous but vital relationship between artistic expression and social life\, where sound\, expression\, and human experience collide in ways that can’t always be explained\, but always resonate. Guided by the spirit of the theatrical black box\, we create programs that invite risk\, innovation\, and connection\, presenting contemporary classical music in ways that feel fresh\, human\, and alive. \n\n\n\n\nProgram support provided by the Amphion Foundation
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/blackbox-ensemble-2026/
LOCATION:The Perch\, 2321 Emerald St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:Music of Laura Cetilia
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present an evening of music by Laura Cetilia from her two releases on the elsewhere label\, performed by Jack Yarbrough (piano)\, Hannah Soren (cello)\, and Laura Cetilia (cello). \nFor Cetilia\, the line between cellist and composer barely exists. Her music lives in the smallest of gestures and the most internal of utterances: gossamer harmonics\, a gently intoned wordless voice\, a closeness to each sound that borders on the almost too intimate to bear. \nIt is a sound world of stillness and sonic intimacy\, minimalist and beautiful\, fragile and deeply human. Faint ripples of disturbance move through resonances shaped by the natural reverberation of each room. Instruments circle one another\, arcing\, sighing\, and settling\, drawing close\, aligning\, and drifting apart\, with a delicate balance that feels as though one wrong step could bring it all down. \nCetilia has performed with Ordinary Affects\, the experimental music ensemble whose work is aligned with the tradition of John Cage and the Wandelweiser Collective. The group commissions and performs new music by living composers\, often with the composer playing alongside them\, and serves as a laboratory for improvisation and the members’ own compositions. \nProgram\n\nlaminae\, for solo piano\nbecoming of shadows\, for cello and piano\nsoil + stone\, for two cellos\n\nAbout the Artists\nAs a daughter of mixed heritage\, Mexican-American musician\, Laura Cetilia is at home with in-betweenness\, straddling multiple worlds as a cellist / composer / educator / artist while working within acoustic / electronic / traditional / experimental sound practices. Her compositions have been described as “unorthodox loveliness” (Boston Globe) and “weightless and deeply profound” (Bandcamp’s Best Contemporary Classical). \n\n\n\nJack Yarbrough is a pianist active in contemporary and experimental music. His idiosyncratic programming and collaborations explore the rich minutiae of touch\, resonance\, and decay. In the words of Alex Ross\, “Yarbrough’s piano seems less a physical machine than a zone of resonance.” \nWith his duo partner\, cellist Hannah Soren\, they have worked closely with composers of nuanced music such as Linda Catlin Smith\, Makiko Nishikaze\, and Seare Farhat. Their most recent collaboration is with composer/cellist Laura Cetilia who they met during her DMA studies at Cornell University. Through New Music USA\, the duo was awarded a New Music Creator Fund to commission Laura to write a suite of new works for piano and cello and tour the Northeast in Fall 2026. \nListen\nbecoming of shadows ii \nbecoming of shadows ii by Laura Cetilia \nbecoming of shadows iv \nbecoming of shadows iv by Laura Cetilia
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/music-of-laura-cetilia/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Postal Pieces 3
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the Arcana New Music Ensemble performing its third iteration of “Postal Pieces\,” a concert featuring living composers in Philadelphia and beyond composing postcard-sized works inspired by James Tenney’s unorthodox set of compositions. \nTenney’s “Postal Pieces\,” composed between 1954 and 1971\, are a series of ten concise works each printed on a postcard. These pieces capture Tenney’s exploration of sound and form\, focusing on minimalist structures\, intonation\, and what he called “Swell” forms—gradual crescendos and decrescendos that create a unique auditory experience. Conceived originally as musical “letters” to friends and collaborators\, such as Pauline Oliveros and La Monte Young\, these works reflect Tenney’s deep connections within the avant-garde music scene and his penchant for inviting listeners into meditative states of listening. \nSets of the these newly commissioned postcard works will be available for purchase at the concert\, with all proceeds benefiting the Arcana New Music Ensemble. Previous postcard sets will also be available and are available to purchase online. \nPROGRAM \nRosie Langabeer: unraveling\, the\nRichard Belcastro: Where Do We Go From Here?\nMelinda Rice: For One or More Musicians: Known\nJoshua Stamper: Pin\nJacob Cooper: Noctilucence\nJoshua Marquez: Balikbayan\nCerulean S. Payne-Passmore: As if a tree still rooted\, breathing soil and sunlight\nAnna Weesner: The Beauty of Effort \nARCANA NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE \nTom Kraines\, cello\nChelsea Meynig\, flute\nNicholas Handahl\, flute\nJonathan Leeds\, clarinet\nNoa Even\, saxophone\nTessa Ellis\, trumpet\nJay Krush\, tuba\nAndy Thierauf\, percussion \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nJames Tenney (1934–2006) was an American composer\, theorist\, and performer renowned for his innovative contributions to experimental and electronic music. A student of notable figures such as Carl Ruggles\, Edgard Varèse\, and John Cage\, Tenney was a central figure in the development of post-war avant-garde music. His work often explored concepts of indeterminacy\, microtonality\, just intonation\, and the physics of sound\, integrating mathematical and acoustical theories into his compositions.\nTenney’s diverse output includes works for computer-generated sound\, instrumental ensembles\, and unconventional notations that challenge traditional musical forms. He was also a significant educator\, teaching at the California Institute of the Arts and York University\, influencing a generation of composers with his boundary-pushing ideas. His collaborations and associations with artists such as Steve Reich\, La Monte Young\, and Philip Glass positioned him as a vital connector in the experimental music scene. Tenney’s legacy is marked by his relentless curiosity and his ability to blend rigorous theoretical frameworks with an intuitive approach to sound\, profoundly shaping the landscape of contemporary music. \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.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/postal-pieces-3/
LOCATION:The Perch\, 2321 Emerald St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:Treatise Revisited
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird presents Arcana New Music Ensemble in a second performance of Cornelius Cardew’s landmark graphic score Treatise at The Rotunda. \nLast November the ensemble performed about 20 of the score’s 193 pages. This year they take on a different set of pages\, with the score projected so the audience can follow along. \nAbout Treatise\nTreatise has no instructions\, no specified instrumentation\, and no set duration. Across its 193 pages\, a line runs above two empty staves\, and around it Cardew placed a vocabulary of shapes. Some pages suggest clefs\, staves\, and note heads\, and others give way to curves\, solid black dots\, and forms with no musical precedent. Any number of pages can be performed\, by any number of players. Realizing the score takes discussion and interpretation\, and no two performances sound alike. \nCardew worked on Treatise from 1963 to 1967\, after his years as Stockhausen’s assistant and while working as a graphic designer. His encounter with John Cage and David Tudor in 1958 had already pulled him away from European serialism toward indeterminacy\, and Treatise pushed that further than the New York School had. The title nods to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus\, whose economy and rigor Cardew admired. The score was first published in 1967 by The Gallery Upstairs Press in Buffalo\, New York\, and in 1971 he wrote the Treatise Handbook\, a set of working notes on its composition and early performances. His most quoted line on the piece: \n\n“The sound should be a picture of the score\, not vice versa.” \n\nWithin a few years Cardew had renounced the avant-garde and its notation\, but he never withdrew Treatise from publication. It remains the best-known graphic score ever made. \nArcana New Music Ensemble\n\nNicholas Handahl\, flute\nNoa Even\, saxophone\nMelinda Rice\, violin\nCarlos Santiago\, violin\nAlyssa Almeida\, cello\nAndy Thierauf\, percussion\n\nAbout Cornelius Cardew\nCornelius Cardew (1936–1981) trained as a pianist and cellist at the Royal Academy of Music\, then went to Cologne’s Studio for Electronic Music as Stockhausen’s assistant\, working on the score of Carré. After the Cage and Tudor concert in 1958 he turned to indeterminate music\, producing The Great Learning and Treatise. In 1966 he joined the improvising group AMM\, and in 1969 he co-founded the Scratch Orchestra\, which brought trained and untrained musicians together under a “reverse seniority” ethos. \nIn the 1970s he turned to explicitly political music\, populist\, Marxist\, and Maoist in outlook\, and wrote the polemic Stockhausen Serves Imperialism. He died on December 13\, 1981\, in a hit-and-run accident; the driver was never found. \nAbout Arcana New Music Ensemble\nFounded in 2015\, Arcana is a Philadelphia chamber ensemble that presents contemporary classical music in unconventional places. It performs works by living composers and revisits music of the past\, often by overlooked composers. Arcana is known for portrait concerts\, which explore a composer’s work in depth by pairing widely recognized names with those who are lesser known or historically underrepresented.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/treatise-revisited/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Water Can Assume Any Form
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Matthew Levy at The Rotunda for a record release concert of music for tenor saxophone and electronics. \nMatthew Levy — founding member of the world-renowned PRISM Quartet — steps out as soloist for a record release recital celebrating his ongoing exploration of music for tenor saxophone and electronics. The concert takes its name from James Primosch’s Water Can Assume Any Form\, the beloved Philadelphia composer’s final\, unfinished work — Levy completed its second movement at Primosch’s request\, weaving his improvisation into his late friend’s soundtrack “with the hope of channeling his ideas into my own\,” in what Levy calls “our most poignant collaboration.” \nThe program features three works from Levy’s latest album alongside two previously recorded works: Emma O’Halloran’s Sum of Its Parts\, recorded for XAS Records — the piece that launched this whole electro-acoustic project\, built from samples of Levy’s own playing — and Nicholas Cline’s Water Witching\, written for saxophonist Jeff Siegfried and recorded by Levy for Navona Records. Across the evening\, composers have recorded\, synthesized\, and reimagined elements of Levy’s own playing — subtones\, growls\, multiphonics\, percussive articulation — into fantastical electronic soundscapes he then performs against\, live and often improvising\, in real time. \nAlso on the program is Erin Busch’s can’t find the words\, a work of sublime delicacy written by Levy’s colleague on the Temple University faculty. Each piece treats the saxophone-and-track format differently — from intimate memorial to abstracted meditation on water and land. Amid that electronic backdrop sits the one fully acoustic work of the night (also written for Levy): Paola Prestini’s Where the Blue Wave Rocks\, a Kandinsky-inspired meditation on color\, connection\, and communication\, offering a moment of unprocessed clarity within the program. \nTogether\, the compositions form a portrait of an instrument — and a performer — at the intersection of technology\, memory\, and imagination. \nProgram\n\ncan’t find the words (2019/2026) by Erin Busch\nWater Can Assume Any Form (2021) by James Primosch\nWhere the Blue Wave Rocks (2006/2020) by Paola Prestini\nWater Witching (2015) by Nicholas Cline\nSum of Its Parts (2018) by Emma O’Halloran\n\nAbout the Artist\nSaxophonist\, composer\, curator\, producer/engineer\, and educator Matthew Levy has made an enduring contribution to contemporary music as co-founder and executive director of the world-renowned PRISM Quartet\, and as a collaborator with other artists and ensembles for more than 40 years. Matt has been hailed by The Saxophone Journal as “a complete virtuoso of the tenor saxophone” and by The New York Times for his “energetic and enlivening” performances. He is the recipient of fellowships from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage\, the Independence Foundation\, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He has scored four motion pictures\, including PBS’s Diary of a City Priest\, featured at the Sundance Film Festival. \nMatt has recorded for Albany\, BCM+D\, BMOP/Sound\, Deutsche Grammophon\, ECM\, Grammavision\, Innova\, Koch International\, Navona\, Naxos\, New Dynamic\, New Focus\, Orange Mountain\, Tzadik\, and XAS\, which he founded in 2016. People’s Emergency Center\, a critically acclaimed double album of Matt’s original music that spotlights guest artists Jason Moran\, Rudresh Mahanthappa\, Tim Ries\, Ben Monder\, Jay Anderson\, and Bill Stewart was described by PopMatters as “9 Stars\, Best Jazz of 2014…too big to fail” and by WRTI as “magic with swirling precision.” \nA member of the Network for New Music Ensemble\, Matt has premiered solo works by Emma O’Halloran\, Paola Prestini\, Nick DiBerardino\, Renee Favand\, Jacob Walls\, Erin Busch\, and David Ludwig; collaborated with a host of choreographers and dance companies\, among them Nai-Ni Chen Dance Co.\, Philadelphia Ballet\, Peter Sparling\, Scrap Performance Group\, and Group Motion Dance Theater; and appeared as a guest artist with the Philadelphia Orchestra\, Detroit Symphony\, Dolce Suono Ensemble\, and counter)induction. \nHis work with PRISM has included tours of China\, Russia\, and Latin America; concerto appearances with the Cleveland Orchestra and Dallas Symphony; and recital performances presented by Carnegie Hall and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He serves on the faculty of Temple University Boyer College of Music and Dance where he maintains a robust saxophone studio\, is a member of the Producers & Engineers Wing and Songwriters & Composers Wing of the Recording Academy\, and performs exclusively on Selmer saxophones. \n\n
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/water-can-assume-any-form/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hologram
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird presents Variant 6 in a special program that features music for low voices spanning two centuries. \nVariant 6 presents Hologram\, in a program that explores the unique scope of light and color created by an exquisite blend of low voices. For the first time\, the ensemble’s tenors and basses alone come together to create a warm and sonorous soundworld\, from the rich beauty of Francis Poulenc and Franz Schubert to the lush contemporary voices of Joanna Marsh\, Joanne Metcalf\, and Salvatore Sciarrino. \nThis program is co-curated by Rebecca Myers and James Reese. \nFeaturing\n\nJames Reese\, tenor\nMichael Jones\, tenor\nHarrison Hintzsche\, baritone\nDaniel Schwartz\, bass\nPaul Max Tipton\, bass\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\, the group seeks out repertoire that embodies this potential. The ensemble collaborates with artists of many disciplines\, creating refreshing interpretations of music of the past and innovative premieres of new works. Its concerts are unique and intimate musical experiences that foster deep conversation between artists and audience. \nVariant 6 shares its unique take on vocal chamber music with people all over the city of Philadelphia. Its approachable and collaborative projects create an environment where audiences of different backgrounds will feel inspired to attend its events\, respond to its music\, and get to know the artists as individuals.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/hologram/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mosaic
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird presents Variant 6 in an evening featuring a program of music entirely by Philadelphia composers\, past and present. \nVariant 6 presents Mosaic\, a program of music for six a capella voices that celebrates the rich musical history of composition and music-making in Philadelphia. \nThe centerpiece of this program will be a world-premiere by Philadelphia composer Robert Maggio. Alongside contemporary Philly composers Benjamin C.S. Boyle\, Michael Djupstrom\, Ksenia Stetsenko\, Steve Crino\, Kile Smith\, and David Shapiro\, the ensemble will perform the music of Samuel Barber\, perhaps Philly’s most famous composer. \nFeaturing\n\nRebecca Myers\, soprano\nLauren Kelly\, mezzo-soprano\nNickolas Karageorgiou\, tenor\nHarrison Hintzsche\, baritone\nDaniel Schwartz\, bass\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\, the group seeks out repertoire that embodies this potential. The ensemble collaborates with artists of many disciplines\, creating refreshing interpretations of music of the past and innovative premieres of new works. Its concerts are unique and intimate musical experiences that foster deep conversation between artists and audience. \nVariant 6 shares its unique take on vocal chamber music with people all over the city of Philadelphia. Its approachable and collaborative projects create an environment where audiences of different backgrounds will feel inspired to attend its events\, respond to its music\, and get to know the artists as individuals.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/variant-6-mosaic/
LOCATION:Philadelphia Ethical Society\, 1906 Rittenhouse Square\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
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