Bowerbird is pleased to present a duo performance featuring films about and sonic work by Brunhild Ferrari. PROGRAM: Two films by LF: N’Importe Quoi (for Brunhild) (2023, 9 min.) N’Importe Quoi (Extérieur-Jour) (2024, 11 min.) Errant Ear, Brunhild Ferrari (fixed media) J'ai pensé sans paroles, duo performance, sound material provided by…
Bowerbird is pleased to present the New Thread Quartet performing their program Explorations. The ensemble invites the audience to a reception following the performance. New Thread Quartet presents Explorations, Vol. 8: Energy Flows, featuring music by Marilyn Shrude, Georg Friedrich Haas, Hannah Kendall, James Tenney, and a world premiere by Hong-Da Chin. The quartet’s annual…
Bowerbird is pleased to bring back Julian Calv, Sarah Penna, and Alex Stewart to perform the music of Moondog at University Lutheran. Also on the program will be organist Gavin Black, who collaborated with Moondog on his organ and harpsichord works. The concert features piano works, vocal canons, and other songs by the maverick composer…
Bowerbird along with Philly Iranians and Fire Museum Presents, are pleased to present Grammy Award winner Sahba Motallebi joined by fellow countryman and Tar virtuoso Reza Mohsenipour. Sahba and Reza will illuminate us on the history behind their musical selctions which are deeply rooted in Persian culture. Their lives and careers have been profoundly influenced…
Bowerbird is pleased to present violinist/violist Leah Asher with percussionist Dennis Sullivan and pianist Christopher Goddard to perform a program of works by Lewis Nielson, Anahita Abbasi, Leah Asher, and Michael Hersch. Featured on this program is Lewis Nielson’s new work clang clash roar, whose title taken from a line in Edgar Allan Poe’s poem…
Bowerbird is pleased to present New Thread Quartet's album release show featuring "A Little Night Music," and Tori Cheah's Walk for a Shell from their new album, Saxifraga. $15-25 suggested donation, which includes a CD and digital download; No one turned away for lack of funds While Irish composer Emma O’Halloran was living in Miami, she listened…
Bowerbird is pleased to present a concert of chamber works by composer George Walker performed by the Daedalus Quartet, Dynasty Battles, David Hughes, and members of the Arcana New Music Ensemble. As an aspiring pianist in his early teens, George Walker (1922-2018) gave his first public recital at Howard University’s Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel before…
Bowerbird is pleased to present violin and synthesizer duo Tiziana Bertoncini and Thomas Lehn with opening set by Tom Borax playing microtonal harpsichord. The duo have been collaborating since 2002. The special feature of the duo is the alchemy created by the meeting of the classical and the electronic instrument. The different nature of sound,…
Bowerbird is excited to present "Postal Pieces," a concert featuring the Arcana New Music Ensemble that draws inspiration from James Tenney's unorthodox set of compositions. Tenney'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…
***Please note this concert is at 7:00pm*** Bowerbird is pleased to present Filament with flautist Héloïse Degrugillier performing J. S. Bach's The Musical Offering. In the spring of 1747, J.S. Bach paid a visit to King Frederick the Great, where his son Carl Phillip Emmanuel was employed as a court musician. Curious to test Bach's…
Bowerbird along with Shabahang, Philly Iranians, and Fire Museum Presents, are pleased to present Grammy Award winner Sahba Motellabli joined by fellow countryman and Tar virtuoso Reza Mohsenipour. Sahba and Reza will illuminate us on the history behind their musical selctions which are deeply rooted in Persian culture. Their lives and careers have been profoundly…
Bowerbird is pleased to present pianist Dynasty Battles at University Lutheran Church. PROGRAM Franz Schubert: 4 Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899 with Improvised Interludes in-between loosely based on its themes. Franz Schubert: Allegro molto moderato in C minor, No.1 Dynasty Battles: Improvised Interlude Franz Schubert: Allegro in E-flat major, No. 2 Dynasty Battles: Improvised Interlude…
Bowerbird is pleased to present vocal ensemble Variant 6 performing an acapella program that explores the timeless theme of the natural world and its influence on the human condition. In a stunning presentation of music spanning over 1,000 years - from Medieval composers like Hildegard Von Bingen and Claude le Jeune all the way through…
Bowerbird is pleased to present Ghost Ensemble performing works by Catherine Lamb and Ben Richter. Based in New York the ensemble fosters groundbreaking music that blurs borders of genre, style, and scene, expanding perceptual horizons through shared immersive experience. Ben Richter’s Rewild, inspired by nonhuman perspectives and distant orders of magnitude in the universe of life,…
”It’s a paradise of balls and bats” — George Kuchar What does baseball mean to the experimental filmmaker? In the great taxonomy of American archetypes, the jocks and the artists don’t tend to sit together at the same proverbial table. So it’s unsurprising that although baseball was the most popular American sport from the…
Bowerbird is pleased to present the Bennardo-Larson Duo - violin and piano - at UniLu performing works by Anthony Vine and Maya Bennardo. PROGRAM Anthony Vine: Worshipful Company Maya Bennardo: dormant gardens ABOUT THE ARTISTS Maya Bennardo (she/her) is an active performer and composer living in Stockholm, Sweden. Maya is interested in opening the dialogue…
Photo by Joe Lamberti THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED. STAY TUNED FOR A NEW DATE Bowerbird is thrilled to bring Ensemble Pamplemousse back to UniLu featuring new works performed and composed by David Broome, Natacha Diels, Andrew Greenwald, and Bryan Jacobs. ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse was founded in 2003 to provide a…
Bowerbird is pleased to present a two night residency featuring pianist Adam Tendler. On the second evening Adam Tendler will be performing "Sonatas and Interludes", John Cage’s groundbreaking cycle for prepared piano. 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the the work composed shortly after Cage’s introduction to Indian philosophy and the teachings of art historian…