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SUMMARY:The Musical Offering
DESCRIPTION:***Please note this concert is at 7:00pm*** \nBowerbird 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 contrapunctal prowess\, Frederick presented Bach with a subject to improvise two fugues\, first one in three parts\, and then one in six. Declining the second of these tests\, Bach took Frederick’s subject home with him to create one of his most fascinating collections of music\, The Musical Offering. \n  \n\n\nABOUT THE MUSICIANS \nFILAMENT is a chamber ensemble\, formed in 2019\, of Philadelphia-based period-instrument soloists. Comprising a core trio of violin\, viola da gamba\, and keyboards\, its respective founding members are Evan Few\, Elena Kauffman\, and John Walthausen. As a collective\, its mission is to be the bright connective thread—that eponymous filament—linking the world of its audience with that of its repertoire\, illuminating the delightful\, sometimes uncanny familiarity of the emotions and images it evokes. \nFilament is building a reputation as a leading proponent and champion of 17th- and 18th-century chamber music. The Broad Street Review praised Filament for a “fervor and delight that make early music seem current\, and easy\, joyful communication\,” and the Lancaster News noted Filament’s “profound understanding” of its repertoire. Filament’s programs bridge the gap between music from some of history’s most celebrated and familiar composers and music that is completely unknown. Recent concerts have featured unpublished music by anonymous composers\, Filament’s own original transcriptions\, and music by female composers. \nFilament presents concerts in its core formation and in collaboration with other musicians in \nPhiladelphia\, the Delaware Valley\, and across the country. In its hometown\, Filament performs on numerous concert series\, including Main Line Early Music and the PhilaLandmarks Early Music Series\, and in self-presented concerts in a variety of sacred and secular spaces\, including Gloria Dei “Old Swedes” Church and the Fleischer Art Memorial. Regionally\, Filament has been featured on Gotham Early Music Scene’s Midtown Concert Series and Musae (New York\, NY); Early Music at St. James (Lancaster\, PA)\, Market Street Music’s Festival Concerts (Wilmington\, DE)\, Concerts at Locktown Stone Church (Flemington\, NJ)\, and Immanuel Concerts at Immanuel on the Green (New Castle\, DE). Recent performances in South Carolina and Florida have expanded Filament’s reach. Of its 2023 collaboration with vocal ensemble Variant 6\, the Chestnut Hill Local cited a “sterling performance.” Filament was a featured ensemble in Early Music America’s 2021 Emerging Artists Showcase\, and in 2022 was featured on the American Bach Society’s TinyBach series. \nDuring the 2023-2024 season\, marking its fifth anniversary\, Filament made its debut at Penn Live Arts at the University of Pennsylvania with renowned mezzo soprano Meg Bragle and Friends\, presenting seldom-heard music of Salamone Rossi. In February 2024\, Filament traveled to New Orleans to perform 18th-century music from that historic city in partnership with fellow Philadelphia chamber ensemble Variant 6 in a concert presented by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. \nVisit www.filamentbaroque.com to learn more. \nFilament is joined by Héloïse Degrugillier who has worked extensively as both a recorder and traverso performer\, and teacher throughout Europe and the United States. She has performed with leading period ensembles\, including the Boston Camerata\, Boston Early Music Festival\, Piffaro and Tempesta Di Mare. \nHeloise also enjoys an active teaching career. She teaches at Tufts university and Rhode Island College. She is the president and music director of the Boston Recorder Society. She has completed her studies in the Alexander Technique and has a Masters in Music from the Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands.
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LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sahba Motallebi and Reza Mohsenipour
DESCRIPTION: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 influenced by the deep history of their homeland\, Iran. Through their musical selections they will demonstrate\, explore and discuss how sound\, frequency and vibration are important in our lives. There is healing to be found through the experience of live music when there are also shared intentions such as seeking peace\, health and positive relationships. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nMesmerizing with her command of the tar\, setar and shoorangiz\, Sahba Motellabli captivates audiences globally with music born from centuries of Iranian tradition\, interpreted through a contemporary lens\, creating brand new music rooted in the past. She takes the listener on a journey of enchanted song\, through a flurry of rhythmic chord hits and punctuated finger-work. Her hands dance across the strings\, agile and flexible\, effortless even at lightning speed. Known as “Queen of the Tar\,” or “Jimi Hendrix\, but on Tar\,” Sahba invites us into a terrain of perfected sound with nuanced harmonics and siren-like whispers. \nBorn into a Baha’I family in Tehran and later relocating to Sari near the Caspian Sea\, Sahba began her musical career at age 11 by learning the setar. Three years later\, her talent earned her a place at the prestigious Tehran Conservatory of Music. She defied societal norms by moving to Tehran in 1992 where she lived independently and studied music despite the fact that women were not allowed to be seen carrying instruments in public. She experienced a life-altering moment when she was introduced to the tar at age 15 which led her to study with Master Fariborz Azizi and Master Ostad Hossein Alizadeh. She began practicing 8hours a day\, learning the “radif\,” systems of Persian music. At the Conservatory\, she earned the award of Best Tar Player from 1993 – 1996. Then Sahba surpassed all expectations and won first prize for all levels\, ages\, and genders as the “Best Tar Player” in all of Iran for four years in a row in all festivals and competitions\, from 1995 – 1998. In 1999\, Sahba was invited to join the Iranian National Orchestra and began her international career. She also founded the first all-female Iranian band ever called “Chakaveh” despite the rule that women were not allowed to perform without men in Iran. At the time\, women weren’t even allowed to perform with men in the main concert hall. Since then she has played concerts all over the world as a soloist and with renowned musicians such as Yo-Yo Ma\, Keyhan Kalhor\, Rahim AlHaj\, and Arturo O’Farrill. \nReza Mohsenipour is a leading Iranian musician having studied at the Tehran Conservatory and later from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and La Sapienza University in Rome. He performed with the Tehran Symphony and the Iranian Television Orchestra in addition to founding The Barbad musical project with his brothers Hamid and Navid Mohsenipour. \n\n\n  \n\n\nPresented in collaboration with Fire Museum Presents\, Philly Iranians\, and Shabahang Iranian Cultural Center of America
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sahba-motallebi-and-reza-mohsenipour/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dynasty Battles
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present pianist Dynasty Battles at University Lutheran Church. \nPROGRAM \n\nFranz Schubert: 4 Impromptus\, Op. 90\, D. 899 with Improvised Interludes in-between loosely based on its themes. \nFranz Schubert: Allegro molto moderato in C minor\, No.1\nDynasty Battles: Improvised Interlude\nFranz Schubert: Allegro in E-flat major\, No. 2\nDynasty Battles: Improvised Interlude\nFranz Schubert: Andante in G-flat major\, No.3\nDynasty Battles: Improvised Interlude\nFranz Schubert: Allegretto in A-flat major\, No.4 \nJohannes Brahms: Rhapsody\, Op. 79\, No.2 (Part 1)\nPaul Hindemith: Ludus Tonalis: XI. Interludium (Part 2)\nJohannes Brahms: Ballade\, Op. 118\, No.2 (Part 3)\nAlexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata\, Op. 30\, No.4 \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST \nDynasty Battles\, the recipient of the 2021 Career Advancement Award by the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia\, has been featured with soprano Marietta Simpson in The Philadelphia Inquirer\, and on music critic David Patrick Stearns’ radio program “Creatively Speaking” on Philadelphia’s WRTI (90.1FM). \nA highlight include a composition Battles debuted by multiple Grammy nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ted Hearne\, composed for Dynasty himself\, which was featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Recent engagements comprise of hall debuts at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in a concert curated by John Adams\, the Chicago Cultural Center’s Preston Bradley Hall as a featured artist in the International Music Foundation’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts\, and the Benjamin Franklin Hall with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Additionally\, he made his international debut at the Barbican Centre in London while in residency with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. \nCareer highlights include an invitation to perform George Walker’s Piano Sonata No. 1 in a private engagement at the distinguished composer’s home. In a project profiled by The New York Times\, he also performed in Bowerbird Philly’s ongoing series highlighting the works of Julius Eastman. \nBattles studies with concert pianist Leon Bates and Eve Wolf\, pianist\, and Executive Artistic Director of Ensemble for the Romantic Century. He also studied counterpoint and harmony and analysis with Jonathan Coopersmith\, Chair of Musical Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music. A native of Philadelphia\, Dynasty received a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance\, cum laude from Temple University\, under the instruction of Harvey Wedeen as a recipient of the Esther Boyer College Scholarship. \nmore at www.dynastybattles.com \nPhoto: Helena Raju \n  \n\n
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LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Un bel sol
DESCRIPTION: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 music of today by Edie Hill\, Edith Canat de Chizy\, and Pelle Gudmunsen-Holmgreen – this program will showcase the wide range of composer’s reflections of the world we inhabit. \nPROGRAM \nO Viridissima Virga\nHildegard Von Bingen (1098-1179) \nGreen (to the greenwood we must go\, alas)\nPelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (1932-2016) \nLe Chant des Oiseaux\nClément Janequin (1485-1558) \nSweet Suffolk Owl\nThomas Vautor (1592 – 1619) \nIl Bianco e Dolce Cigno\nJacques Arcadelt (1505 – 1568): \nIl Mio Più Vago Sole \nSulpitia Cesis (1577 – 1619) \nO Radiant Dawn\nJames MacMillan (1959-) \nAlma Beata et Bella\nEdie Hill (1962-) \nSolhyme – Movements II & III\nVagn Holmboe (1909 – 1996) \nOctonaires de la Vanité et Inconstance du Monde (excerpts)\nQuand la terre au Printemps\nLa glace est luisante et belle\nLors que la fueille va mourant\nVois tu l’Hyver accroupi\nCe luy qui pense pourvoir\nCe Monde est un pelerinage\nRevecy Venir du Printemps\nClaude Le Jeune (1528 -1600) \nTEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS \n  \nVARIANT 6 \nRebecca Myers – soprano\nJessica Beebe – soprano\nTim Parsons – counter-tenor\nNick Karageorgiou – tenor\nSteven Eddy – baritone\nDan Schwartz – bass \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nLauded as having a “honey-colored tone” and “the most radiant solo singing” (Opera News)\, soprano Jessica Beebe is an affecting interpreter of repertoire from the Renaissance and Baroque to contemporary American opera. As a sought-after concert soloist\, Ms. Beebe has performed as a soloist with several major orchestras and ensembles across the world including The New York Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall\, The English Concert at the Barbican Theatre and Carnegie Hall\, The Los Angeles Philharmonic\, The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra\, The Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra\, The Folger Consort\, Utah Symphony\, Omaha Symphony\, Baltimore Symphony\, Lancaster Symphony\, The Washington Bach Consort\, Piffaro\, Gamut Bach Ensemble\, Bach Choir of Bethlehem\, Philadelphia Bach Collegium\, Lyric Fest and more. Some of Beebe’s solo operatic highlights include premiering multiple operas by Jennifer Higdon\, Lembit Beecher and David Hertzberg with Opera Philadelphia\, Bergen National Opera in Norway\, and a Los Angeles Philharmonic debut in Meredith Monk’s opera\, Atlas. Ms. Beebe is a member of Variant 6\, The Crossing\, Seraphic Fire\, Clarion\, Lorelei\, Trio Eos\, The Thirteen\, and is on several GRAMMY-nominated albums with The Crossing and Clarion Ensemble. Most recently\, Ms. Beebe was placed as a finalist in the New York Oratorio Society competition. Ms. Beebe is a graduate of The University of Delaware and Indiana University. Ms. Beebe has been a voice faculty member at Franklin and Marshall College since 2015.  \nAn accomplished concert artist and Baroque music specialist\, baritone Steven Eddy has garnered praise as a soloist and professional choral singer with such ensembles as The New York Philharmonic\, The Oratorio Society of New York\, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra\, Seraphic Fire\, True Concord Voices and Orchestra\, Spire Chamber Ensemble\, Clarion Music Society\, American Classical Orchestra\, Sacred Music in a Sacred Space\, Choral Arts Philadelphia\, Handel Choir of Baltimore\, and Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity. \nUpcoming projects in the 2023-2024 season include Considering Matthew Shepard with Spire Chamber Ensemble\, the premiere of Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg’s Any of Those Decembers in conjunction with LyricFest\, Bach’s Mass in B Minor with American Classical Orchestra and The Thirteen\, and concert projects with Seraphic Fire\, Variant 6\, and Choral Arts Philadelphia. \nTenor Nick Karageorgiou has established himself as a formidable chamber musician and soloist. A resident of Brooklyn\, Nick is a member of the Trinity Wall Street Chorus\, performing a wide array of choral repertoire\, from baroque gems\, to new commissions. Last fall\, Nick sang the reimagined role of Narrator in Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard. \nHe can also be heard singing in ensembles like Seraphic Fire\, TENET\, and Clarion Music Society. Previous engagements have also included ensembles such as Pegasus Early Music Society\, True Concord\, The Crossing\, Spire\, The Thirteen\, and The Rose Ensemble. \nOutside of a busy performance season\, Nick is frequently seen with needles and yarn\, biking through the park\, or going on a hike. Nick is excited to join Variant Six for their ‘23-‘24 season! \nPhiladelphia based artist Rebecca Myers is a soloist\, vocal chamber singer\, collaborator\, recording artist\, and creator in high demand. Rebecca has gained a reputation for her “timbral clarity and flawless pitch”\, “nimble coloratura” and “vulnerability and grace”. She has appeared on three GRAMMY winning albums\, most notably as a soloist on The Crossing’s Born\, winner of the 2023 GRAMMY for Best Choral performance. Last season she made her New World Symphony Debut under the baton of Patrick Dupre Quigley in 2023 as soprano soloist in Carmina Burana. This past summer she performed at the esteemed Institute de France in Paris for the European premiere of Philip Lasser’s A Mask in the Mirror with Verità Baroque. \nHer 2023/2024 season includes the world premiere of David T. Little’s SIN-EATER with The Crossing\, the world premiere of Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg’s Any of Those Decembers with Lyric Fest\, the role of Vagaus in Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans with Tempesta di Mare\, several solo and ensemble engagements with Seraphic Fire\, and an appearance as the the soprano solo in J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion at the annual CalPoly Bach week. Rebecca is thrilled to be taking on this new role as Artistic Director of Variant 6. \nTimothy Parsons is an acclaimed and GRAMMY®-nominated countertenor & choral conductor. \nHe has traveled and performed extensively – as an ensemble & consort singer\, and as soloist – in such venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, and Alice Tully Hall\, London’s St John’s Smith Square\, Montreal’s Salle Bourgie\, and Utrecht’s Tivoli Vredenburg. Timothy has performed with many of North America’s top early music ensembles\, including TENET Vocal Artists (for whom he has also served as programming consultant) and Apollo’s Fire\, and has twice toured with the English Concert performing Handel oratorios. He has had the great privilege of premiering two Pulitzer-prize winning operas\, Ellen Reid’s p r i s m\, for LA Opera and the Prototype Festival\, and Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone\, for the Prototype Festival. He is a former Lay Clerk of Christ Church Cathedral\, Oxford\, and a longtime member of two GRAMMY®-nominated New York ensembles\, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and the Clarion Choir. Timothy can be heard on numerous recordings\, including the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom and the GRAMMY®-nominated Vespers by Benedict Sheehan\, recordings of p r i s m and Angel’s Bone\, and numerous recordings with the Clarion Choir and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Highlights of the ’23/’24 season include a marathon concert of Ockeghem at the Metropolitan Museum’s Cloisters\, festival appearances in Norway and Germany with Ekmeles\, and debut appearances with Blue Heron and Variant Six. He is an avid hiker\, meditator\, and vegan. He is the co-artistic director of Ampersand\, a vocal chamber music ensemble and resides in Vermont. \nA Philadelphia native\, Daniel Schwartz received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from Temple University where he studied voice with retired Metropolitan Opera baritone Daivid Arnold.  Upon his graduation in 2011\, Daniel was honored with the Elaine Brown Award for musicianship\, dedication to excellence\, and humanitarianism. \nAfter graduating\, Daniel won the position of Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Voices of Pride\, Philadelphia’s LGBT mixed voice chorus. From 2014-2017 Daniel sang with the Opera Philadelphia chorus where he performed a number of roles such as The Foreman in the east coast premiere of Oscar.  Daniel also sings with The Crossing and has performed on three of their Grammy winning albums.  In 2014 he traveled to California to perform Louis Andriessen’s De Materie with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and seven other singers from The Crossing\, who also made their Carnegie Hall debut that year.  In 2018 he made his debut as a soloist with The Philadelphia Orchestra for Pat Metheny and the American Beat.  Most recently\, he has performed with The Crossing alongside the New York Philharmonic. Daniel also teaches voice at Haverford College. \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. \nVariant 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.  \nVariant 6’s artists have performed with internationally recognized ensembles and orchestras including The Crossing\, Lorelei\, Seraphic Fire\, Roomful of Teeth\, The Santa Fe Desert Chorale\, Apollo’s Fire\, Chicago Bach Project\, Piffaro\, Tempesta di Mare\, TENET Vocal Artists\, the Philadelphia Orchestra\, Opera Philadelphia\, The New World Symphony\, The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra\, The Aspen Festival Orchestra\, Opera Philadelphia\, American Bach Soloists\, The Philadelphia Orchestra\, Lyric Fest\, and more.  \n\n\n 
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LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Ensemble
DESCRIPTION: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. \nBen Richter’s Rewild\, inspired by nonhuman perspectives and distant orders of magnitude in the universe of life\, explores the thresholds at which pitch becomes rhythm\, harmonic interval becomes beating rate\, and timbres morph over time. By offering an aural metaphor for the interacting gradual processes of quantum and cosmic systems\, Rewild’s pulsing\, breathing sonic ecosystem aims to auralize the vast and infinitesimal timescales we do not experience in everyday life. Catherine Lamb’s interius/exterius explores multi-dimensional harmonic space\, investigating how collective intentions or focal points allow various and sometimes unusual pathways to emerge. As the group links together in phase\, the greater web of activity aligns intention and desire within a community of musicians sounding together\, the initiation of sound constantly shifting\, unfolding new sonic dimensions. \nPROGRAM \nBen Richter: Rewild \nCatherine Lamb: interius/exterius \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nGhost Ensemble fosters groundbreaking music that blurs borders of genre\, style\, and scene\, expanding perceptual horizons through shared immersive experience. Collaboration with living composers is its primary focus. Since its 2012 inception\, the ensemble has performed over 100 works and commissioned 34 new compositions by a diverse range of highly original composers who share a belief in music’s potential for individual and community transformation. Rethinking the norms of composer/performer collaboration\, Ghost Ensemble conducts innovative workshops to nurture adventurous new music over the course of multiple seasons. The resulting work often draws from contemporary classical\, experimental chamber music\, avant-garde jazz\, environmental sound art\, and territories in between. Critics have praised Ghost Ensemble performances as “prodigious … a thrilling listen” (Christian Carey\, Sequenza21)\, “wonderful work … both exhilarating and a bit scary” (Peter Margasak\, Bandcamp Daily)\, “beautifully performed and recorded … a body-felt sound mass … a multifaceted texture that evokes the primeval” (Meg Wilhoite\, Sound Meets Sound)\, and “cloudy\, mysterious\, and dark … Beckettian in its slow spread … certainly a group to keep an eye on” (Brian Olewnick\, Just Outside).\nwww.ghostensemble.org \nBen Richter is a composer\, accordionist\, and founding Artistic & Executive Director of Ghost Ensemble. Inspired by nonhuman consciousness\, Ben’s immersive\, gradually evolving compositions seek new orders of magnitude in musical parameters to mark humanity’s transient yet vital role within the immensity of geologic time. A student of Pauline Oliveros\, Ben also explores the extended microtonal and timbral potential of the accordion in solo works such as Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean\, hailed as “likely to offer a profound impact on the very nature of listening” (Stephen Smoliar\, The Rehearsal Studio).\nwww.benrichtermusic.com \nCatherine Lamb is an active composer exploring the interaction of tone\, summations of shapes and shadows\, phenomenological expansions\, the architecture of the liminal\, and the long introduction form. She began her musical life early\, later abandoning the conservatory in 2003 to study Hindustani music in Pune\, India. She received her BFA in 2006 under James Tenney and Michael Pisaro at CalArts in Los Angeles\, where she first developed her research into the interaction of tone. She mentored under the experimental filmmaker/Dhrupad musician Mani Kaul until his death in 2011. In 2012 she received her MFA in music/sound from the Milton Avery School of Fine Arts at Bard College in New York. She toured Shade/Gradient extensively and was awarded the Henry Cowell Research Fellowship to work with Eliane Radigue in Paris. In 2013 Lamb relocated to Berlin\, Germany where she lives currently\, and has written for ensembles such as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra\, Konzert Minimal\, Dedalus\, Ensemble neoN\, the London Contemporary Orchestra\, as well as the JACK Quartet\, while collaborating regularly with Marc Sabat\, Johnny Chang (Viola Torros)\, Bryan Eubanks\, and Rebecca Lane. In 2019 she co-founded the collectively oriented Harmonic Space Orchestra. She is a 2020 recipient of the Ernst von Siemens Composer’s prize\, a 2018 recipient of the Grants to Artists award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, a Staubach Fellow for the 2016 Darmstadt Summer course\, and a 2016-2017 Schloss Solitude Fellow. \nGhost Ensemble’s concerts with premieres by Catherine Lamb\, Sky Macklay\, and Miya Masaoka are presented\nwith the friendly support of
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LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Opening Day: Baseball in Experimental Film and Video
DESCRIPTION:”It’s a paradise of balls and bats” — George Kuchar \n  \nWhat 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 days of early cinema through at least the Vietnam War and an unquestionable symbol of Americanism\, film outside of the mainstream paid little attention to the sport. But it was only a matter of time until filmmakers would begin mining baseball and its iconography to tackle subjects that have always been near and dear to the American avant-garde: nationalism\, nostalgia\, masculinity\, identity\, and celebrity. \nIn honor of the beginning of the baseball season\, Opening Day presents five very different films and videos which use baseball as raw material. Pittsburgh-based filmmaker Brady Lewis playfully works with his town’s obsession with the Pirates and much more in a dense collage of references. Robert Breer\, one of the legends of hand drawn animation\, incorporated his youthful love of baseball into Bang!\, a kaleidoscopic hybrid of drawings\, animation\, film\, and video. In Breer’s hands baseball takes a role as a symbol of nostalgia and American boyhood. Sharon Couzin similarly uses baseball as a marker of nostalgia and boyhood but to very different effects. Cousin’s OdilonOdilon looks back at the swirl of cultural and political forces surrounding young Odilon coming of age in World War II. Vanalyne Green’s A Spy in the House that Ruth Built is a quintessential work of 1980s feminist video art\, deconstructing the male-dominated sport and desire for their bodies with a confessional edge. With Joe Dimaggio 1\, 2\, 3\, Anne McGuire takes the obsession with the icons Green intellectualizes and turns it pure Id as she stalks and sings to the elderly Hall of Famer around San Francisco. Without any knowledge that McGuire is following him and McGuire’s performative total lack of self-awareness\, Joe Dimaggio 1\, 2\, 3 is the missing link between the earlier generation of videography and the current “weirdo” strain of YouTube and Vine video art. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nPROGRAM\nBang! / Robert Breer / 1986 / 10 min / 16mm\nOdilonOdilon / Sharon Couzin / 1984 / 21 min / 16mm\nQuick Opener / Brady Lewis / 1987 / 5 min / 16mm\nA Spy in the House that Ruth Built / Vanalyne Green / 1990 / 29 min / Digital\nJoe Dimaggio 1\, 2\, 3 / Anne McGuire / 1991 / 11 min / Digital
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/opening-day/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bennardo-Larson Duo
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the Bennardo-Larson Duo – violin and piano – at UniLu performing works by Anthony Vine and Maya Bennardo. \n\nPROGRAM \nAnthony Vine: Worshipful Company \nMaya Bennardo: dormant gardens \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nMaya Bennardo (she/her) is an active performer and composer living in Stockholm\, Sweden. Maya is interested in opening the dialogue and blurring the boundaries between composers and performers\, and is devoted to performing music of the present. She is a founding member of the violin/viola duo andPlay\, described by I Care If You Listen as “enthusiastic champions for new music and collaboration.” She is a member of the internationally acclaimed Mivos Quartet and also performs new and traditional repertoire for violin and piano with pianist Karl Larson in their Bennardo/Larson Duo. Maya’s compositions are characterized by slow\, unfolding timbral movements–exploring the co-existence of pitch and noise. Her compositions have grown naturally out of her improvisational practice on the violin\, and the two continue to inform each other. This season Maya is composing new works for NoExit + andPlay\, Lamnth\, Alkemie + Amanda Gookin\, Bennardo/Larson Duo\, and a new long-form piece for solo violin. \nKarl Larson is a Brooklyn-based pianist and specialist in the music of our time. A devoted supporter of contemporary composers and their craft\, Larson has built a career grounded in commissioning and long-term collaborations. He frequently performs in a variety of chamber music settings\, most notably with his trio\, Bearthoven\, a piano / bass / percussion ensemble focussed on cultivating a diverse new repertoire for their instrumentation. As a soloist\, Larson is known for championing the works of his peers and the recent canon alike\, often gravitating towards long-form\, reflective works of the 20th and 21st centuries. Through his work with Bearthoven\, collaborations with a wide variety of chamber musicians\, and his solo projects\, Larson has helped to generate a large body of new work\, resulting in world premiere performances of pieces by notable composers including David Lang\, Sarah Hennies\, Chris Cerrone\, and Michael Gordon. \nAnthony Vine is a composer and guitarist living in Brooklyn. He creates music about spirituality\, beauty\, and acoustics. His work across different media—performance\, installation\, and sound sculpture—is minimal yet acoustically rich and deeply emotive. Currently his imagination is most at ease with medieval liturgical and devotional music. His recent work has been inspired by medieval motets\, church acoustics\, the sound of prayer\, and how medieval notation communicates to the eye and ear. These projects range from hagiographic concertos to archaeoacoustic research. His music has been presented by Blank Forms\, Carnegie Hall\, Gaudeamus Muziekweek\, Lévy Gorvy\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Musiikin Aika\, Pioneer Works\, Transit Festival\, and Ultima Festival\, and performed by Alarm Will Sound\, AndPlay\, Quatuor Bozzini\, Bearthoven\, Dudok Kwartet\, Gareth Davis\, Duo Axis\, Madison Greenstone\, Hotel Elefant\, Mari Kawamura\, The La Jolla Symphony and Chorus\, David Lackner\, Will Lang\, Karl Larson\, loadbang\, longleash\, The Minnesota Orchestra\, Ensemble Modelo62\, Palimpsest\, The Rhythm Method\, Steven Schick\, Trio SurPlus\, and Yarn/Wire. Recordings of his music have been released on Cantaloupe\, Galtta Media\, and Yarn/Wire’s imprint. \n\n
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/bennardo-larson-duo/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T220000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Ensemble Pamplemousse
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Joe Lamberti \nTHIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED. STAY TUNED FOR A NEW DATE \n  \nBowerbird 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. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS:\nComposer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse was founded in 2003 to provide a focal point for like-minded creators with a thirst for sonic exploration. The ensemble is a close-knit group of divergent artistic personalities\, emergent from training in disparate musical fields. Their collective love for the exquisite in all sonic realms leads the ensemble to persistently discover new vistas of sound at the frayed edges of dissective instrumental performance technique. Compositions aggregate each member’s unique virtuosic talents into extraordinary magical moments. In the flexible moments of performance\, the ensemble weaves together shapes of resonance\, clusters of glitch\, skitters of hyper action\, and masses of absurdity into impeccable structures of unified beauty. \nwww.pamplemoussies.bandcamp.com/album/shadows \n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ensemble-pamplemousse/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240113T220000
DTSTAMP:20260621T133010
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SUMMARY:John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes
DESCRIPTION: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 Ananda K. Coomaraswamy\, both of which became major influences on the composer’s later work. Significantly more complex than his other works for prepared piano\, Sonatas and Interludes is generally recognized as one of Cage’s most important compositions. The cycle consists of sixteen sonatas (thirteen of which are cast in binary form\, the remaining three in ternary form) and four more freely structured interludes. \n  \nPROGRAM \nJohn Cage: Sonatas and Interludes  \n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nA recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists\, “currently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)\, a “remarkable and insightful musician” (LA Times)\, and “relentlessly adventurous pianist” (Washington Post) “joyfully rocking out at his keyboard” (New York Times)\, Adam Tendler is an internationally recognized interpreter of living\, modern and classical composers. A pioneer of DIY culture in concert music who has commissioned and premiered major works by Christian Wolff and Devonté Hynes alike\, at age 23 Tendler performed solo recitals in all fifty United States as part of a grassroots tour he called America 88×50\, which became the subject of his memoir\, 88×50\, a Kirkus Indie Book of the Month and Lambda Literary Award nominee. He has gone on to become one of classical and contemporary music’s most recognized and celebrated artists\, active as a soloist\, recording artist\, composer\, speaker and educator. He has curated and performed series for the Broad Museum and Little Island\, and in 2022 alone\, appeared as soloist at BAM and Carnegie Hall\, and with the LA Philharmonic. Tendler recently released an album of Liszt’s Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses on the Steinway Label\, Robert Palmer: Piano Music on New World Records\, and published his second book\, tidepools. In 2022 he will premiere 16 newly commissioned works by composers including Laurie Anderson\, Nico Muhly\, Missy Mazzoli\, Christopher Cerrone\, Timo Andres and Pamela Z as part of a project called Inheritances. Adam Tendler is a Yamaha Artist.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/john-cage-sonatas-and-interludes/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240112T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240112T220000
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SUMMARY:Wolff: Fantail + Schumann: Carnaval
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present a two night residency featuring pianist Adam Tendler. On the first evening Adam Tendler will perform the Philadelphia premiere of FANTAIL\, a new work by iconic American composer Christian Wolff. Commissioned by the pianist\, FANTAIL is a 22 movement\, unofficial response to Robert Schumann’s Carnaval\, and like Schumann’s legendary set\, a tour of Wolff’s musical laboratory and universe. Tendler will intersperse Wolff’s FANTAIL with Schumann’s Carnaval in a mash-up that puts both complete works\, and their composers\, in a fresh dialogue – reframing\, blurring\, even challenging our notions of what is classical and what is contemporary. \nPROGRAM \nRobert Schumann: Carnaval Op. 9 (1834-35)\nChristian Wolff: FANTAIL (22 pieces for a pianist) (2020) \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nA recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists\, “currently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)\, a “remarkable and insightful musician” (LA Times)\, and “relentlessly adventurous pianist” (Washington Post) “joyfully rocking out at his keyboard” (New York Times)\, Adam Tendler is an internationally recognized interpreter of living\, modern and classical composers. A pioneer of DIY culture in concert music who has commissioned and premiered major works by Christian Wolff and Devonté Hynes alike\, at age 23 Tendler performed solo recitals in all fifty United States as part of a grassroots tour he called America 88×50\, which became the subject of his memoir\, 88×50\, a Kirkus Indie Book of the Month and Lambda Literary Award nominee. He has gone on to become one of classical and contemporary music’s most recognized and celebrated artists\, active as a soloist\, recording artist\, composer\, speaker and educator. He has curated and performed series for the Broad Museum and Little Island\, and in 2022 alone\, appeared as soloist at BAM and Carnegie Hall\, and with the LA Philharmonic. Tendler recently released an album of Liszt’s Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses on the Steinway Label\, Robert Palmer: Piano Music on New World Records\, and published his second book\, tidepools. In 2022 he will premiere 16 newly commissioned works by composers including Laurie Anderson\, Nico Muhly\, Missy Mazzoli\, Christopher Cerrone\, Timo Andres and Pamela Z as part of a project called Inheritances. Adam Tendler is a Yamaha Artist.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/wolff-fantail-schumann-carnaval/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231209T220000
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SUMMARY:Satoko Fujii + Kappa Maki
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Japanese musicians Satoko Fujii and Kappa Maki performing at University Lutheran. The duo consists of piano and trumpet performing an improvised set. Jesse Kudler will open the evening with an improvisation on the church’s organ. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nCritics and fans alike hail pianist and composer Satoko Fujii as one of the most original voices in jazz today. She’s “a virtuoso piano improviser\, an original composer and a band-leader who gets the best collaborators to deliver\,” says John Fordham in The Guardian. In concert and on more than 80 albums as a leader or co-leader\, the globe-trotting Japanese native synthesizes jazz\, contemporary classical\, avant-rock\, and Japanese folk music into an innovative music instantly recognizable as hers alone. \nJapanese trumpeter and composer Kappa Maki is internationally recognized for a unique musical vocabulary that blends extended techniques with jazz lyricism. This unpredictable virtuoso’s seemingly limitless creativity led François Couture in All Music Guide to declare that “… we can officially say there are two Kappa Makis: The one playing angular jazz-rock or ferocious free improv…and the one writing simple melodies of stunning beauty…How the two of them live in the same body and breathe through the same trumpet might remain a mystery.” \nJesse Kudler is a musician\, composer\, performer\, and sound artist using improvisation\, collaboration\, and site-specificity to examine authorship\, intention\, agency\, ambiguous affects\, and modes and practices of listening. He works with guitar\, electronics\, recordings\, keyboards\, synthesizers\, radios\, tapes\, movement\, and text. \n\n  \n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/satoko-fujii-kappa-maki/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T220000
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SUMMARY:Peter Evans and David Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present two brass virtuosos: Trumpeter Peter Evans and Trombonist David Taylor in a solo/solo/duo performance at University Lutheran. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nPeter Evans is a trumpet player and composer based in New York City since 2003. Evans is part of a broad\, hybridized scene of musical experimentation\, and his work cuts across a wide range of modern musical practices and traditions. Peter is committed to the simultaneously self-determining and collaborative nature of musical improvisation as a compositional tool\, and works with an ever-expanding group of musicians and composers in the creation of new music. His primary groups as a leader are the Peter Evans Ensemble and Being & Becoming (with Joel Ross\, Nick Jozwiak\, and Savannah Harris). Evans has been exploring solo trumpet music since 2002 and is widely recognized as a leading voice in the field\, having released several recordings over the past decade. He is a member of the cooperative groups Pulverize the Sound (with Mike Pride and Tim Dahl) and Rocket Science (with Evan Parker\, Craig Taborn\, and Sam Pluta) and is constantly experimenting and forming new configurations with like-minded players. As a composer\, he has been commissioned by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)\, Wet Ink\, Yarn/Wire\, the Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival\, the Jerome Foundation’s Emerging Artist Program\, and the Doris Duke Foundation. Evans has presented and/or performed his works at major festivals worldwide and tours his own groups extensively. He has worked with some of the leading figures in contemporary music: John Zorn\, Peter Broetzmann\, Pauline Oliveros\, Brian Ferneyhough\, Kanye West\, George Lewis\, Anthony Braxton\, Mary Halvorson\, Ambrose Akinmusere\, Weasel Walter\, Ingrid Laubrock\, Jeff “Tain” Watts\, Tyshawn Sorey\, Jim Black\, Ikue Mori\, Steve Schick\, and performs with both the ICE and Wet Ink. As an interpreter of notated concert music Evans’ has performed works by Varese\, Xenakis\, Bach\, Stravinsky\, Elliott Carter\, Marcos Balter\, Agusta Read Thomas\, Roscoe Mitchell\, and many more. Peter Evans has been releasing recordings on his own label\, More is More\, since 2011. \nReceiving B.S. and M.S. degrees from The Julliard School of Music\, David Taylor started his playing career as a member of Leopold Stowkowski’s American Symphony Orchestra\, and with appearances with the New York Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez. Simultaneously\, he was a member of the Thad Jones Mel Lewis jazz band\, and recorded with groups ranging from Duke Ellington to The Rolling Stones. He has also recorded numerous solo CDs on the following labels: Koch\, New World\, ENJA\, DMP\, Tzadik\, CIMP\, PAU\, and TLB. Mr. His last releases on TLB are: And If All Were Dark\, and Atomic Bomb Blues. \nMr. Taylor performs recitals and concerti around the world: from Lincoln Center in NY to the Musikverein in Vienna and Suntory Hall in Japan. In addition to his own compositions\, he has been involved in dozens of commissioning projects for solo bass trombone collaborating with composers including Alan Hovhaness\, Charles Wuorinen\, George Perle\, Frederic Rzewski\, Lucia Dlugoszchewski\, Eric Ewazen\, Dave Liebman\, and Daniel Schnyder. He has appeared and recorded chamber music with Yo Yo Ma\, Itzhak Perlman\, and Wynton Marsalis and performed with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society\, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra\, Orpheus\, and the St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra. Throughout his career\, Taylor has appeared and recorded with major jazz and popular artists including Barbara Streisand\, Miles Davis\,JJ Johnson\, Quincy Jones\, Frank Sinatra\, and Aretha Franklin. Mr. Taylor has won the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Most Valuable Player Award for five consecutive years\, and has been awarded the NARAS Most Valuable Player Virtuoso Award\, an honor accorded no other bass trombonist. He has been a member of the bands of Gil Evans\, Thad Jones-Mel Lewis\, Jaco Pastorius\, Charles Mingus Big Band\, Joe Henderson\, George Russell\, Michelle Camillo\, Bob Mintzer\, Dave Matthews\, Dave Grusin\, Randy Brecker\, the Words Within Music Trio with Daniel Schnyder\, and Kenny Drew Jr.\, B3+\, Moppa Elliot’s Mostly Other People Do The Killing\, and The Sarah Weaver Ensemble. He has performed on numerous GRAMMY Award winning recordings.\nDavid Taylor is on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music\, Mannes College\, and NYU. \n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/peter-evans-and-david-taylor/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T220000
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SUMMARY:Ligament
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the acclaimed new music duo LIGAMENT. Described as “perverse and nihilistic”\, Anika Kildegaard (voice) and Will Yager (double bass) perform as LIGAMENT\, an ensemble dedicated to commissioning new music and creating work for their unique instrumentation. LIGAMENT’s performances are a fusion of standard and non-standard elements; sometimes there are high heels and sometimes there are electric toothbrushes (and sometimes both). The duo is equally at home with extended techniques as with extra-musical elements. LIGAMENT is currently based in Baltimore and Philadelphia. \nPhoto by Tina Tallon \nPROGRAM \nKatherine Balch: Vidi l’angelo nel marmo \nLilac Atassi: Ya mo* \nBrett Carson: Pyrodictium Occultum+ \nPaul Novak: not of longing* \nKatherine Balch: Phrases \nLila Meretzky: All mute things speak today* \nRuby Fulton: and if not why not* \n*written for LIGAMENT\n+world premiere \nABOUT THE ARTIST \nLIGAMENT means business: they’ve been ensemble fellows at New Music on the Point and Cortona Sessions for New Music; have performed in concert series iHearIC\, Feed Me Weird Things\, and the University of Iowa Center for New Music; have been tapped as the collaborating ensemble for dance performances not I but that which works within me (Alyssa Gersony) and Struggle for Pleasure (Armando Duarte). They’ve been featured on the Kansas City Contemporary Music Festival and Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project’s Re:Sound\, and were the 2022 ensemble-in-residence for Washington DC’s District New Music Coalition. They have premiered many new works\, and have an upcoming album of pieces written expressly for the duo. \n  \n\n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ligament-2/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T220000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Exploratorium
DESCRIPTION:DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES\, THIS PERFORMANCE WILL BE POSTPONED. STAY TUNED FOR A NEW DATE \n  \nBowerbird is pleased to present a concert of Gene Coleman’s album Exploratorium. Focused on his recent compositions based on models from auditory neuroscience the album includes Coleman’s 2nd string quartet\, three works for voices and electronics and a new work for a large ensemble titled “Across Time (Transonic Symphony #1)”. The program will also include the author Lance Olsen who will read from his novel “Dreamlives of Debris” which makes an appearance in Coleman’s music video work Vidrone. \nMembers of the Transonic Orchestra:\nNaoko Kikuchi (koto\, voice and shamisen)\nAdam Vidiksis (live electronics and neuro technologies)\nNick Millevoi (electric guitar)\nKinan Abou-afach (cello)\nShinjoo Cho (bandoneon)\nCarlos Santiago (violin)\nNina Fukuoka (sho) \nAlbum available here:\nhttps://www.falsewalls.co.uk/release/exploratorium/ \nhttps://falsewalls1.bandcamp.com/album/exploratorium  \n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST \nGene Coleman is a composer\, musician and video director\, who has created over 70 works for various instrumentation and media. Central to his work is the inventive use of sound\, image and time\, and the desire to create experiences that expand our understanding of the world. Since 2001 he has explored the global transformation of culture and music’s relationship with video\, science and architecture. He began composing and performing both composed and improvised music in the late 1980s; founded the groups Ensemble Noamnesia\, Ensemble N_JP\, and Transonic Orchestra; was artistic director of the Transonic festival at the House of World Cultures (Berlin)\, Director of the American Composers Forum (Philadelphia)\, artistic director of the Public Art festival Site/Sound (Philadelphia) and a Creative Arts Fellow of the US Japan Friendship Commission. He has an extensive discography of both composed and improvised music\, including the False Walls CD Storobo Imp. with Uchihashi Kazuhisa (2004). Since 2016\, his works have explored the concepts of Neuro Music and audiovisual composition based on Neuroscience. Gene is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and received the 2013 Berlin Prize for Music from the American Academy in Berlin.\nwww.genecolemancomposer.com \n  \nThis program is supported in part by
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/exploratorium/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T220000
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SUMMARY:Max Johnson Trio
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the Max Johnson Trio at UniLu with opening set by Arcx Quartet. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nFresh off the release of their 2022 album “Orbit of Sound” and their tour across Europe\, virtuoso double bassist and composer Max Johnson presents his trio with Anna Webber (saxophone\, flute)\, and Michael Sarin (drumset). Between the three of them\, they have worked with artists such as Anthony Braxton\, Mary Halvorson\, John Zorn\, Dave Douglass\, Jen Shyu\, William Parker\, and this project highlights the individual sounds and experiences of these three unique voices\, traversing tightly knit grooving composed music to patient sprawling improvised textures\, blending their unique sounds to create something truly special. \n“Combining Johnson’s compositions with well balanced improvising\, the band explores broadly while maintaining a loose sense of groove… Then there are the experimental stretches — arid expanses that revel in silence and concentration before building back into Johnson’s compositional structure.” – Craig Matsumoto\, Memory Select\nwww.maxjohnsonmusic.com \nAlbum:\nhttps://maxjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/orbit-of-sound \n  \nArcx quartet guides listeners on an audio trip through hallucinogenic trancepts\, foldable shadows and metonymic nebulae\, skirting the boundaries of Arcx’s labyrinth collective sound-mind. Arcx quartet seek to find truths/untruths within ever-present interstitial spaces. \n  \n\n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/max-johnson-trio/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T220000
DTSTAMP:20260621T133010
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SUMMARY:Attorneys General (featuring Bill Nace and Ken Brenninger)
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Attorneys General featuring Bill Nace and Ken Brenninger with an opening set by Andy Giles. \nCo-presented with Open Mouth Records \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nAttorneys General is a project led by Matthew Byars of DC-based band The Caribbean and NPR-distributed podcast Essential Tremors.  A formative experience for Byars as a listener was hearing the work of sound engineer Martin Swope of Mission of Burma on their seminal 1985 live record\, The Horrible Truth About Burma\, in which Swope\, using a reel-to-reel tape machine\, captured\, looped\, manipulated\, and destroyed elements of the band’s sound in spontaneous and unexpected ways.  Byars has adapted this approach to having three-four people (different players every time\, mostly) generate utterly improvised sound through a mixing board he controls\, which allows him to capture\, loop\, manipulate\, and destroy the sounds they create. Results vary from the transcendent to the disastrous\, but the inherent risk involved is\, ultimately\, the point. \nBill Nace is an artist and musician based in Philadelphia\, PA. He has collaborated with an extraordinary range of musicians\, including Michael Morley\, Graham Lambkin\, Matt Krefting\, Twig Harper\, Jooklo Duo\, chik white\, John Truscinski\, Thurston Moore\, Jake Meginsky\, Jessica Rylan\, Paul Flaherty\, Wally Shoup\, Aaron Dilloway\, and Kim Gordon\, with whom he regularly plays as one half of the duo Body/Head. In 2020 Nace released the critically acclaimed solo record “BOTH” on Drag City. A collaboration with Gordon and Dilloway — “Body/Dilloway/Head” — is out now on Three Lobed Records and his newest solo LP Through a Room was released in November on Drag City. He has been a featured musician in festivals such as ATP (curated by Jim Jarmusch and held in Monticello\, NY)\, Colour Out of Space(Brighton\, UK)\, Supersonic Festival (Birmingham\, UK)\, International Festival Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville\, QC)\, and Homegrown (Boston\, MA). He has performed in a wide variety of venues\, running the gamut from the Musee d’Art Contemporain (Strasbourg\, France) to The Stone (NYC) to Bennington College (Vermont). Nace’s range has been described as “veering from sculptural\, almost Remko-Scha-esque chime to Loren Connors-style elegance in only a few short moves.” (Mimaroglu Music\, 2010). In addition to Drag City and Three Lobed\, recordings can be found on Ecstatic Peace (Northampton\, MA)\, Ultra Eczema (Belgium)\, Holidays (Italy)\, Throne Heap (VA)\, HP Cycle (Toronto\, ON)\, as well as on Nace’s own label Open Mouth. \nBorn in North Carolina\, 1968 Andy Giles’s first electric guitar was acquired at age 15. While friends were learning chords and theory\, he was busy experimenting with various pieces of metal to alter the sound of the strings and pickups. A coworker compared what he was doing to Fred Frith’s 1974 album ‘Guitar Solos’ and that discovery eventually led to the even earlier work of AMM. Those recordings featuring Keith Rowe were essential to his development and then actually meeting him and Jim O’Rourke in 1994 gave the confidence to start performing. However it was Kevin Drumm’s 1997 self-titled CD on Perdition Plastics that exceeded what Andy thought was possible from a guitar and had him questioning whether anyone could equal it. This drove him to tear apart everything and reinvent how he approached the instrument.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/attorneys-general/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230916T220000
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SUMMARY:Song of Disobedience
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to partner with Philly Iran in presenting Song of Disobedience\, a musical performance honoring the one year anniversary of the Woman\, Life\, Freedom Revolution. Created specifically for this day\, musicians Adib Ghorbani and Aida Shahghasemi along with local performers will be performing a heartfelt collection of music and storytelling on stage at UniLu. \nPhilly Iran is a coalition of Iranians and allies in the Philadelphia\, PA area advocating to #FreeIran alongside the #WomenLifeFreedom movement\, which began after the muder of Kurdish woman Zhina Mahsa Mini by Iranian “morality” police on September 16\, 2022. Find more information on Instagram: @PhillyIran \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nAdib Ghorbani is an Iranian pianist\, composer\, filmmaker\, actor\, and director based in the United States. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in classical piano performance and a Master’s in music composition\, Adib left his country\, Iran\, for the US to pursue his studies as a Ph.D. student in the ICIT program (Integrated Composition\, Improvisation\, and technology) at UC Irvine. Adib developed his unique multidisciplinary style known as Silent Music or Electro-musical Mime throughout the course of five years at UCI. Silent Music combines theater\, live music performance\, sound design\, film\, and motion sensor technology. Adib’s works span various other genres\, such as theatrical music\, opera\, contemporary music\, experimental music\, podcasts\, sound design\, and free improvisation. \nAida Shahghasemi is a Minneapolis based musician with roots in Iran. She studied Psychology and Anthropology at University of Minnesota with a focus on the cultural aspects of Persian Classical Music and the restrictions imposed on the voices of Iranian female vocalists. She received her Masters degree from New York University in Arts Politics where she also served as an adjunct instructor teaching a course she developed on arts activism in Iran. She has worked with a number of different Art and Social Advocacy groups in New York and Minnesota as a musician\, graphic designer\, and developer and has served as an Assistant Program Coordinator at Hamline University’s Making Waves Social Justice Theatre Troupe. She has been a touring member of Iron and Wine and Marketa Irglova’s band while also being a recording artist on two of Glen Hansard’s albums. Her three albums are “Wind Between the Horse’s Ears\,” released in 2015\, “Cypress of Abarkooh\,” released in 2019 and “Chashmandaaze Rooydaad\,” released in August of 2022. She is a McKnight Music Fellow and serves as an adjunct faculty in the MFA program at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Aida is a mental health therapist at CAREFree counseling and works primarily with adults and couples dealing with trauma. \n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/philly-iran/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230915T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230915T220000
DTSTAMP:20260621T133010
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SUMMARY:Eli Winter Trio
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the Eli Winter Trio at University Lutheran with opening set by BASIC – Chris Forsyth (guitar) and Nick Millevoi (guitar/drum machine). \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nPlaying older than his 26 years\, Eli Winter has long demonstrated mastery over solo guitar composition and performance\, with praise from Pitchfork\, The Guardian\, Stereogum\, NPR and others. Winter’s latest album\, Eli Winter (Three Lobed\, 2022)\, lives up to the promise that is inherent within the mere construct of an eponymous album—a statement\, a reinvention. Assisted by a murderer’s row of peers and contemporaries including Cameron Knowler\, Yasmin Williams\, David Grubbs\, Ryley Walker\, Tyler Damon\, jaimie branch and others\, Eli Winter showcases a compositional depth and authoritative skill only hinted at on Winter’s rightfully acclaimed previous work. Is it folk? Rock? Jazz? Something simply “other”? The answer to all of these questions is “yes.” The result is the sound of an artist escaping any lingering shadows of his primary influences and coming into his own. \nBoth inspired by the Robert Quine/Fred Maher record of the same name and evocative of an imaginary electronic desert blues soundtrack\, Basic is a new project of Philadelphia’s Chris Forsyth (guitar)\, Nick Millevoi (guitar\, drum machine). \nChris Forsyth connects the dots between between anthemic art rock\, chiming atmospherics\, and motorik precision in taut compositions and mercurial improvisations that have earned the Philadelphia-based guitarist a unique reputation as a leading guitar stylist for jam and non-jam band fans alike. \nNick Millevoi is a guitarist and composer whose personal sound reflects the full history of electric guitar music\, from early rock & roll and surf music through noise and the avant-garde. With his band\, Desertion Trio\, Nick has released four full-length albums on the Cuneiform\, Long Song\, and Shhpuma/Clean Feed labels\, which have been called “potently surreal” (Rolling Stone)\, “a nonstop instrumental thrill-ride” (Aquarium Drunkard)\, and “supremely weird desert noir” (Noisey). With keyboardist Ron Stabinsky\, Nick recently released The Sounds of Grassy Sound\, which features guest appearances from the Meat Puppets. \n  \n\n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/eli-winter-trio/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230910T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230910T220000
DTSTAMP:20260621T133010
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SUMMARY:Beam Splitter
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present BEAM SPLITTER – duo for amplified voice\, trombone & analog electronics \nBEAM SPLITTER have been touring globally since 2015\, playing close to two hundred concerts\nin a wide variety of spaces and contexts\, bringing their own brand of highly amplified dialog\,\nwhich is as intimate as it is equal amounts raw and entirely exposed. They join together their\ntwo individual voices into a distinct language that delves beyond the borders of the corporeal\nelements of un-processed voice and trombone\, while utilizing analog electronics to offset their\nhyper extended physical play. \nThe duo’s latest album “SPLIT JAW” was released on Nat Baldwin’s Tripticks Tapes in 2023.\nThis bite size format packs an entire universe of their crafted sputter\, breath and glitch inside its\nforty-five minute magnetic tape loop. The album is one third introspective Berlin studio\nproduction and the rest\, live from a splintering concert given at Wels Unlimited Festival in\nAustria\, their last concert of 2022 where audience and the duo alike giving it their all center of\nroom\, split open like hollow bones head to clavicle\, muscles twitching and air spewing\, breaking\nground and mending it with alien hums. \nBEAM SPLITTER have taken part in larger commissioned works at the Teatro Colon\, Buenos\nAires and largely conceptualized a theatrical adaptation of MEDEA in front of the Olympic\nStadium in Kiev\, Ukraine (for butoh dancers and musicians) produced by the Ukho Agency.\nSince 2020\, they have been organizing DEDICATED PLAY\, an ongoing concert series and\ncollaborative artistic project\, where they have invited a diverse array of artists from around the\nworld\, primarily from diasporic backgrounds. While spinning a thread through the larger story of\nmigration across continents/oceans and establishing the concept of home in shared\nrelationships\, they are seeking to bring together the commonalities of these experiences and\nexpress this communication in sonic language and music. In the past two seasons\, they have\nworked and recorded with: Mo’ong Pribadi\, Hyunhye Seo\, Elaine Mitchener\, Mariam Rezaei\, Pat\nThomas & Orphy Robinson (Black top)\, Carla Boregas\, Mauricio Takara\, Mieko Suzuki\, Pak Yan\nLau\, Eivind Lønning & Espen Reinersten (Streifenjunko)\, Hugo Esquinca and Yara Mekawei. \n\n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/beam-splitter/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T220000
DTSTAMP:20260621T133010
CREATED:20230801T175255Z
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SUMMARY:Sonic Rainbow
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Andy Thierauf performing SonicRainbow\, a kaleidoscope of acoustic and electronic sounds utilizing a wide spectrum of percussion instruments. This solo performance includes original compositions and improvisations that weave an intricate web of timbres and sonorities from roars to wisps\, drums to gongs\, and vibraphone to tin cans. Pulling from classical\, jazz\, non-Western\, contemporary and avant garde music\, the works are a unique\, postmodern blend of textures and styles. \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST \n\nAndy Thierauf is a Philadelphia based percussionist who specializes in the creation and performance of contemporary music. He is particularly interested in combining percussion with theater\, dance\, and technology. He has appeared in Philadelphia\, New York\, Boston\, Portland\, Argentina\, and across the Midwest at music festivals\, conferences\, and symposiums. In Philadelphia Andy often performs with Arcana New Music Ensemble\, NakedEye Ensemble\, Orchestra 2001\, among others and often collaborates with writers\, dancers\, actors\, choreographers\, and composers. He currently teaches at Settlement Music School and is an adjunct professor of percussion at Kutztown University. \n  \nThis performance is part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/andy-thierauf/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T210000
DTSTAMP:20260621T133010
CREATED:20230801T172243Z
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SUMMARY:The Beauty of Moving Wind in the Trees
DESCRIPTION:Every film by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub is a challenge: to the political status quo of capitalism\, to the film industry\, even to their own audiences. The films of these married longtime-collaborators are marked by an intellectual rigor\, a purity of form and movement\, and an overriding concern with power and politics. That their ravishing films are also among the most austere in modern cinema is what led Straub to famously joke that “we make our films so that audiences can walk out of them.” D.W. Griffith presented his own challenges\, accelerating cinematic experimentation by synthesizing multiple distinct early filmmaking trends into some of the most innovative and novel films of the nickelodeon era and establishing a “classical” style still felt in contemporary films. This is to say nothing of the challenges of watching some of his films today with their reactionary politics. So what is one to make of Straub-Huillet’s worship of Griffith? \nThis program presents three films by these three giants of cinema situated where the ends of this horseshoe meet. Huillet and Straub revered Griffith’s early Biograph short A Corner in Wheat and it’s easy to see why. It is the story of greedy monopolists who instigate the immiseration of the working class by gouging the price of wheat and thus the cost of food in a way Luc Moullet described as “very close to Karl Marx”. The film is astonishing not only for its novel parallel scenes depicting the differences between the haves and have nots but for its pictographic beauty. Documentary-like shots reminiscent of French realist painting intermix with intricately blocked diagonal breadlines and cramped theatrical interior scenes. It’s a secretly modernist form Straub and Huillet take to a logical extreme in The Bridegroom\, the Actress\, and the Pimp\, which almost seems to track the entire history of film in its conflation of a theatrical staging of a play by Buchner (starring R.W. Fassbinder\, Hanna Schygulla and other members of the Munich Action-Theater before they broke out in Fassbinder’s own films)\, documentary footage\, and a second narrative. A similar trick: multiple cinematic planes intersect to tell a story of power and exploitation. Straub-Huillet’s later Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s “Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene” shows us another approach in the couple’s later style where their dry\, intellectual take on fascism and capitalism\, adapted from that famous modernist composer’s own words draws on the simultaneous power of immaterial ideas and the essential vivacious force of photographing and documenting the beauty of gesture\, of people\, of the world. It is no wonder then\, that despite superficial differences\, Straub was so fond of quoting Griffith’s dirge for the passing of a certain style of filmmaking\, “what the modern movie lacks is beauty—the beauty of the moving wind in the trees”. \nPrints of The Bridegroom\, the Actress\, and the Pimp and Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s “Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene” courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. \n  \nPROGRAM \nThe Bridegroom\, the Actress\, and the Pimp / Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet / 1968 / 23 min / 16mm\nIntroduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s “Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene” / Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet / 1973 / 15 min / 16mm\nA Corner in Wheat / D.W. Griffith / 1909 / 14 min / 16mm
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-beauty-of-moving-wind-in-the-trees/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230817T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230817T220000
DTSTAMP:20260621T133010
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SUMMARY:Shiraz Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to present the Shiraz Ensemble: Sina Homaee and Sepehr Pirasteh. Shiraz Ensemble embodies a global perspective\, combining their roles as citizens of the world and passionate artists to shed light on crucial socio-political matters through art. Drawing inspiration from their personal journeys as immigrants from Iran to the United States\, they channel their experiences into a transformative musical narrative. Blending contemporary classical music with the rich traditions of Iran\, Shiraz Ensemble aims to engage audiences and promote cultural understanding by fusing different musical aesthetics. Founded in Philadelphia\, Shiraz Ensemble takes its name from the ancient city of Shiraz in Iran\, a place of birth and upbringing for both its founders\, Sina and Sepehr. \nCo-presented with Fire Museum Presents. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nSina Homaee (He/Him) was born in Shiraz\, Iran. He is an Iranian musician and educator currently based in Philadelphia\, PA. His primary instruments are santour (سنتور) and tombak (تنبک). He started his first music lessons at the age of nine years old. Sina’s principal mentors for tombak were Jamal Bordbar and Farbod Yadollahi. He also studied santour with Amin Rahaee\, Roozbeh Rahimi\, Alireza Sedighynasab\, Mehran Shirazi\, and Masoud Shenasa. Sina has taught a variety of music courses such as music theory\, Iranian music theory\, form and analysis in Iranian traditional music\, as well as his primary instruments\, santour\, and tombak at Fazel University of Art and music institutions in Shiraz. He was the director of the Sepidar Ensemble in Shiraz\, Iran\, and collaborated with numerous music ensembles in Iran. During his time in Iran\, Sina collaborated with Fars TV and Radio Broadcasting Channel. Sina is currently finishing his Master’s thesis in Ethnomusicology at Guilan University (Rasht\, Iran). His research interests are Qashqaei music (Nomadic people around Fars province)\, music and globalization\, women in Iranian music\, and music in the Iranian diaspora. He pursued his bachelor’s of music in Iranian music performance from the Shiraz University of Art. He currently lives in Philadelphia and plays with a variety of music ensembles. Sina is interested in integrating different musical cultures and is keen to collaborate with a variety of artists from different musical backgrounds. \nSepehr Pirasteh is a composer and conductor born in Shiraz\, Iran. His compositions draw on Persian classical and folk as well as contemporary classical music vocabularies to express his concerns and fears about the political and social realities of the world we are living in. Sepehr’s works have been performed by ensembles such as Argus String Quartet\, PRISM saxophone quartet\, Pushback Ensemble\, Unheard-of Ensemble\, Orquestra Criança Cidadã\, Hole in the floor\, fivebyfive\, and members of the Fifth House Ensemble. He has been commissioned by Susan Horvath Chamber Music\, ENA chamber opera ensemble\, Philadelphia Student Composers Project\, Detroit Composers’ Project\, YInMn project\, Fresh Inc. Festival\, Yara Ensemble\, Central Michigan University’s (CMU) Percussion Ensemble\, and the CMU Saxophone Ensemble. His music has been performed in Argentina\, Brazil\, Iran and the United States. Sepehr has also been a fellow in festivals and residencies such as Harvard University’s Fromm Foundation Fellowship (Composers Conference)\, CCI Initiative\, and Fresh Inc Festival. As a conductor\, he has been focusing on premiering new music written by young and emerging composers as well as conducting the classical repertoire. Sepehr served as the director of the CMU New Music Ensemble\, Pierrot Ensemble\, and Concert Orchestra\, and Vintage community orchestra in Mount Pleasant\, Michigan. He was also the assistant conductor of the CMU Symphony Orchestra. In 2020 he started serving as the director of Temple Composers’ Orchestra (TCO). Sepehr currently is a Ph.D. student in Music Studies at Temple University. He pursued his MM in Composition and Orchestral Conducting at Central Michigan University. Sepehr studied composition with Dr. Jose-Luis Maurtua\, Dr. Evan Ware and conducting with Dr. Jose-Luis Maurtua. He received his BA in Composition from Tehran University of Art (Iran). He plays a Persian Kamancheh and Tanbour and is currently based in Philadelphia.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sina-homaee-sepehr-pirasteh/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230720T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230720T210000
DTSTAMP:20260621T133010
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SUMMARY:Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "The Silence"
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird\, in collaboration with Nightletter\, are pleased to present Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s 1998 film “The Silence”. “The Silence” follows Khorshid\, a blind 10-year old living with his mother in a small Tajikistan village. Khorshid earns money tuning musical instruments\, while Nadereh — the beautiful protege of the instrument maker for whom Khorshid works — acts as his eyes\, fetching him every day at the bus stop and leading him through the streets. About to lose his job and home\, Khorshid creates a world where he can be happy — where hypnotic sounds and the music of the world shows him how to experience life. The film is banned in Iran since 1998. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nPROGRAM \nThe Silence / Mohsen Makhmalbaf / 1998 / 76 min / digital \n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/mohsen-makhmalbafs-the-silence/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230602T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230602T220000
DTSTAMP:20260621T133010
CREATED:20230321T145829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230606T143410Z
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SUMMARY:Music of Raven Chacon
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is excited to present Philadelphia’s Arcana New Music Ensemble performing a portrait concert of Raven Chacon. \nPROGRAM \nWhisper Trio\nTessa Ellis\, Andy Thierauf\, Chelsea Meynig \nQuiver\nTom Kraines\, cello \nTááʼtsʼáadah\nTessa Ellis\, trumpet \nLats’ aadah\nCarlos Santiago\, violin \nBiyan\nJonathan Leeds\, clarinet; Chelsea Meynig\, flute; Carlos Santiago\, violin; Tom Kraines\, cello; Andy Thierauf\, percussion \nABOUT THE ARTISTS\nRaven Chacon is a composer\, performer\, and installation artist from Fort Defiance\, Navajo Nation\, now based in the Hudson Valley\, whose works combine contemporary chamber music with self-made electronic and acoustic instruments while conveying the perspectives of Indigenous people. He composes for chamber instruments but notes that his work is “deliberately performed for non-traditional audiences and in non-classical venues\,” like American Ledger No. 2\, performed and displayed as a billboard along I-244 in Tulsa\, OK\, and Tremble Staves\, performed among the ruins of the Sutro Baths in San Francisco’s Lands End. His commissions include Sweet Land for opera company The Industry and The Journey of the Horizontal People for Kronos Quartet. Chacon was a member of the Indigenous art collective Postcommodity from 2009 to 2018 and\, since 2005\, has taught experimental chamber composition to high school students on the Navajo and Hopi reservations as part of the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project. He has performed his work at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival\, Transmissions Festival in Italy\, Borealis in Norway\, and the Kamias Triennial in the Philippines. Chacon holds an MFA in music from the California Institute of the Arts and a BA in music from the University of New Mexico. \nFounded in 2016\, the Arcana New Music Ensemble is a group of Philadelphia-based musicians dedicated to presenting interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional music in interesting\, beautiful\, and unconventional places. Built on a flexible roster of 25 musicians\, Arcana is able to perform a broad range of repertoire in numerous configurations. Composers featured in recent programs include Julius Eastman\, Morton Feldman\, Galina Ustvolskaya\, Pauline Oliveros\, Tom Johnson\, Moondog\, and James Tenney. Arcana has performed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art\, Fleisher Art Memorial\, The Rotunda\, The Kitchen (NYC)\, and collaborated with Variant Six\, Prometheus Chamber Orchestra\, and Pig Iron Theater Company.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/music-of-raven-chacon/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230524T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230524T210000
DTSTAMP:20260621T133010
CREATED:20230509T144223Z
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SUMMARY:Sounding Ornaments: Experiments with Optical Sound
DESCRIPTION:Dedicated to Daphne Oram \nOn a celluloid film print\, even sound is made of light. Running alongside the picture is the optical soundtrack\, an image in itself. A beam of light penetrates it\, exciting a photoelectric cell with its sound determined by the pattern of black and white. Ever since sound first joined film\, artists have turned their eye to this strip which is most frequently the site of pre-recorded music and sound. Sounding Ornaments presents films which use the optical track and the projector as their sonic instruments. \nThe Whitney Brothers pioneered experimental animation influenced by vanguard composers like Schoenberg. Using a homemade weighted pendulum\, the Whitneys created abstract patterns on the optical track of Five Film Exercises resulting in incredible congruity between image and sound. With the ensuing minimalist turn of American experimental filmmaking\, Peter Kubelka examined flickering black and white frames in Arnulf Rainer alongside flickering black and white noise. Paul Shartis’ Ray Gun Virus continues one step further by examining what would happen if the film print’s sprocket holes were to run through the photoelectric sound cell. Barry Spinello extended McLaren’s experiments into pure abstraction by hand painting on both the image and the soundtrack of Soundtrack\, creating a frenzy of sounds. And finally with Newsprint\, Guy Sherwin collaged strips of newspaper between clear film resulting in an image and a sound of the projector “reading” the newspaper. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nPROGRAM \nFive Film Exercises / John Whitney & James Whitney / 1943-45 / 21 min / 16mm\nArnulf Rainer / Peter Kubelka / 1960 / 7 min / 16mm\nRay Gun Virus / Paul Sharits / 1967 / 14 min / 16mm\nSoundtrack / Barry Spinello / 1969 / 10 min / 16mm\nNewsprint / Guy Sherwin / 1972 / 5 min / 16mm \nPaul Sharits: Ray Gun Virus (low res excerpt) \n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sounding-ornaments-experiments-with-optical-sound/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T220000
DTSTAMP:20260621T133010
CREATED:20220823T160244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230502T163451Z
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SUMMARY:Sacred & Profane
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present vocal group Variant 6 at University Lutheran performing “Sacred & Profane” – madrigals in a kaleidoscope of texts and sounds: medieval prayers set by Benjamin Britten\, fables and fairy-tales conjured by Maurice Ravel\, solemn meditations by Pablo Ortiz\, and excerpts from Gian Carlo Menotti’s strange and beautiful The Unicorn\, the Gorgon\, and the Manticore. Their sole a cappella show of the season\, Variant 6 explores how text and music can intertwine in strange and beautiful ways. \n\nTEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST \nVariant 6 is a virtuosic vocal sextet\, led by co-artistic directors Rebecca Myers and Elisa Sutherland. Variant 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’s artists have performed with internationally recognized ensembles\, including Roomful of Teeth\, Bang on a Can\, American Composers Orchestra\, Seraphic Fire\, Santa Fe Desert Chorale\, the Los Angeles Philharmonic\, Chicago Bach Project\, Piffaro\, Tempesta di Mare\, the Philadelphia Orchestra\, Opera Philadelphia\, and more. Our singers have appeared as soloists with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra\, the Opera Philadelphia\, the American Bach Soloists\, Philadelphia Orchestra\, Lyric Fest Philadelphia\, and with the Apollo Chorus of Chicago. Many of our members regularly sing with Philadelphia’s contemporary music choir\, The Crossing. Collectively\, we hold degrees from Indiana University\, Northwestern University\, Westminster Choir College\, Temple University\, and the University of the Arts. \n\n\n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sacred-profane/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Scott Wollschleger: Dark Days
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present pianist Karl Larson performing work from the recently released album Dark Days featuring solo piano compositions of Scott Wollschleger. Dark Days chronicles Scott’s solo piano repertoire written between 2007 and 2020. Aspects of style that are heard on his first album Soft Aberration are present again\, but now filtered through the introspective immediacy of the solo piano medium\, as we hear coloristic harmonies\, a penchant for using displaced rhythms and repetition to subvert phrasing expectations\, and an intuitively driven approach to form and structure. \n  \nDark Days by Scott Wollschleger & Karl Larson \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nKarl Larson is a Brooklyn-based pianist and specialist in the music of our time. A devoted supporter of contemporary composers and their craft\, Larson has built a career grounded in commissioning and long-term collaborations. He frequently performs in a variety of chamber music settings\, most notably with his trio\, Bearthoven\, a piano / bass / percussion ensemble focussed on cultivating a diverse new repertoire for their instrumentation. As a soloist\, Larson is known for championing the works of his peers and the recent canon alike\, often gravitating towards long-form\, reflective works of the 20th and 21st centuries. Through his work with Bearthoven\, collaborations with a wide variety of chamber musicians\, and his solo projects\, Larson has helped to generate a large body of new work\, resulting in world premiere performances of pieces by notable composers including David Lang\, Sarah Hennies\, Chris Cerrone\, and Michael Gordon. \nScott Wollschleger (b. 1980) is a composer who grew up in Erie\, Pennsylvania and now lives in Brooklyn\, New York. His music has been highly praised for its arresting timbres and conceptual originality. Wollschleger “has become a formidable\, individual presence” in the contemporary musical landscape (The Rest Is Noise\, Alex Ross). His distinct musical language explores themes of art in dystopia\, the conceptualization of silence\, synesthesia\, and creative repetition in form. His music has been described as “apocalyptic”\, “distinctive and magnetic” and possessing a “hushed\, cryptic beauty” (The New Yorker\, Alex Ross) and as “evocative” and “kaleidoscopic” (The New York Times). Much of Mr. Wollschleger’s music features a sense of “timeless lyricism”\, something that influential avant-garde jazz pianist and blogger Ethan Iverson described as “the highlight of the disc” in his enthusiastic review of Mr. Wollschleger’s Brontal No. 3\, on Barbary Coast\, a 2014 New Focus Records release. \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/scott-wollschleger-dark-days/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Laraaji Returns
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to bring Laraaji back to our home venue at University Lutheran performing for a second improvised solo piano set this season. \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nPhiladelphia-born\, New Jersey-raised polymath Laraaji has maintained a pursuit of spiritual transcendence through music since the mid-70s. After several years of studiously developing an aesthetic informed by Eastern faiths and transcendental research in his long-time home in Harlem\, in 1979 Brian Eno stumbled upon him busking in Washington Square Park in New York\, improvising celestial meditations with his electric zither. The producer invited him to contribute to his influential Ambient series\, resulting in the 1980 album Day of Radiance. Ever since he’s remained an outsized figure in new age and ambient music\, eschewing synthesizers in favor of hand-made sounds\, consistently embracing a human presence in his ever-seeking performances. Whether using monochord instruments\, singing\, or deploying electronics-kissed percussion\, Laraaji’s music remains connected to cosmic African-American tradition\, and as hypnotically beautiful as his work has been he’s never been afraid to inject ripples of tension and dissonance into his trance-inducing journeys. \nPhoto: Ryan Collerd \n\n\n  \n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/laraaji-returns-2023/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:LIGAMENT
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the acclaimed new music duo Ligament. Described as “perverse and nihilistic”\, Anika Kildegaard (voice) and Will Yager (double bass) perform as LIGAMENT\, an ensemble dedicated to commissioning new music and creating work for their unique instrumentation. LIGAMENT’s performances are a fusion of standard and non-standard elements; sometimes there are high heels and sometimes there are electric toothbrushes (and sometimes both). The duo is equally at home with extended techniques as with extra-musical elements. LIGAMENT is currently based in Baltimore and Philadelphia. \nPhoto by Tina Tallon \nPROGRAM \nTo be announced. \nABOUT THE ARTIST \nLIGAMENT means business: they’ve been ensemble fellows at New Music on the Point and Cortona Sessions for New Music; have performed in concert series iHearIC\, Feed Me Weird Things\, and the University of Iowa Center for New Music; have been tapped as the collaborating ensemble for dance performances not I but that which works within me (Alyssa Gersony) and Struggle for Pleasure (Armando Duarte). They’ve been featured on the Kansas City Contemporary Music Festival and Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project’s Re:Sound\, and were the 2022 ensemble-in-residence for Washington DC’s District New Music Coalition. They have premiered many new works\, and have an upcoming album of pieces written expressly for the duo. \n  \n\n\n  \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/ligament/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Derek Bailey's "On The Edge" - Parts 3 & 4
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird and Nightletter are pleased to present the four-part documentary series On The Edge: Improvisation in Music written and produced by Derek Bailey. \nFor more than four decades\, Derek Bailey was one of musical improvisation’s foremost apostles. The English guitarist and experimental musician not only has a litany of classic improvised recordings to his name but advocated for the appreciation of improvisation in all forms. For every atonal skronk that echoed from Bailey’s guitar there was an equal appreciation for the sweetly melodic and rhythmic improvisations from musicians far removed from the avant-garde. In 1980 Bailey put his findings\, both personal and researched\, into a book Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice. Much of Bailey’s attention is paid to musics whose excursions into improvisation are frequently misunderstood: Indian music\, indigenous music\, jazz. \nOn The Edge: Improvisation in Music\, Bailey’s four-part documentary adaptation of his earlier book features deep and detailed explorations of music as diverse as blues and jazz\, Sufi Qawwali\, Indian classical music\, liturgical music\, flamenco\, turntablism\, and the Grateful Dead. Tied together with Bailey’s voice-over the documentary also includes prime footage and interviews with John Zorn\, Max Roach\, Butch Morris\, Jerry Garcia\, Buddy Guy\, George E. Lewis\, as well as Bailey himself. Bowerbird and Nightletter will present Parts I and II on January 18th and Parts III and IV on January 25th. \n  \nPROGRAM \nOn The Edge: Improvisation in Music / Jeremy Marre / Digital \nPart 3: A Liberating Thing  (52 min)\nPart 4: Nothin’ Premeditated  (52 min) \n\nPLEASE NOTE: As of January 2023\, masks are welcomed\, but no longer required at Bowerbird events.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/derek-baileys-on-the-edge-parts-3-4/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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