ABOUT THE EVENT Bowerbird is excited to present flutist Christopher Schelb and pianist Michael Tan in an all Sciarrino program. Schelb will perform selections from "L'opera per Flauto, Vol. 1" and Tan will perform four of Sciarrino's Nocturnes. There is something very particular that characterizes the music of Salvatore Sciarrino: it leads to a different…
Bowerbird is pleased to present the Philadelphia premiere of Pierluigi Billone’s “1+1=1”, an 80 minute exploration into the boundless terrain of two bass clarinets performed by the California based duo of Samuel Dunscombe and Curt Miller. A student of Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann, Billone’s music can sound elemental and primordial, yet at the same…
R. ANDREW LEE performs Eva-Maria Houben - Go and Stop Paul A. Epstein - Changes 3, Changes 6, Drawing 6 Philip Glass - Etude Nos. 2, 5, and 6 William Duckworth - Imaginary Dances
ABOUT THE EVENT Bowerbird is pleased to present pianist R. Andrew Lee at the intimate Biello Martin Studio in Old City Philadelphia. For his Philadelphia premiere,Lee will be performing works that encompass a variety of styles within minimal music. The first half opens with Eva-Maria Houben's Go and Stop, which explores the decay of tones…
Sound and text. Food and drink. This intimate evening brings together Nmperign, the experimental improvisation duo of trumpeter Greg Kelley and soprano saxophonist Bhob Rainey, a rare home-city appearance by pianist-composer Matt Mitchell, and writer-performer Corinna Burns reading from a new solo work. The night takes place at the Biello Martin Studio, a fanciful space…
