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Concerts
September 17, 2009 – Interpretations Series, Roulette, NYC New works by Yusef Lateef, including “A Syllogism” for baritone and piano and the Percussion Concerto. August 18 – 29, 2009 – Ostrava New Music Days, Ostrava, Czech Republic Performance of Michael Byron’s solo “Dreamers of Pearl,” plus ensemble works by Elliot Sharp and Lejaren Hiller and works of participants Kudirka, Bakla, Oliver, Ferencik and Tsurumoto. July 10 – 12, 2009 – Yachats Music Festival, Yachats, OR May 8, 2009 – Bohemian Hall, NYC S.E.M. Ensemble. Rudolf Komorous’ “Wu” for solo piano; ensemble work by Martin Smolka May 6, 2009 – Alice Tully Hall, NYC Concert with Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble; music of Salvatore Sciarrino March 21, 2009 – Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble, Staten Island, NY Concert featuring baritone Anthony Turner and soprano Elizabeth McCullough, with ensemble March 8, 2009 – Interpretations Series, Roulette, NYC Concerts with baritone Thomas Buckner. Music of Stuart Saunders Smith February 21, 2009 – Mills Music Festival 2009, Mills College, Oakland, CA Gala Dedication Concert of new Littlefield Concert Hall. Solo performance of Roscoe Mitchell’s “8-8-88.” Other soloists include Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Joan Jenrenaud February 8, 2009 – Interpretations Series, Roulette, NYC Premiere of Larry Austin’s “Redux Two” for piano and octophonic computer music 2008 December 18, 2008 – Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC Concert with S.E.M. Ensemble. Music of Marcel Duchamp October 20 – November 2, 2008 – Ostravska Banda European Tour Concerts in Berlin, Germany; Utrecht, Netherlands; Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic; Cieszyn, Poland. Cage “Concert for Piano and Orchestra,” works by Andriessen, Feldman and Martin Smolka October 4, 2008 – Ergodos, Unitarian Church, Dublin, Ireland European premiere of Michael Byron’s solo, “Dreamers of Pearl” September 17, 2008 – Minimalism Turns Fifty, Players Theater, NYC Performance of piano solos by Terry Jennings. Presented by Music on MacDougal. August 2, 2008 – New Albion Festival, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Piano 4-hands performance with Sarah Cahill of Terry Riley’s “Etude from the Old Country” July 11 – 13, 2008 – Yachats Music Festival, Yachats, OR Solo performance of Anthony Coleman’s “East Orange” June 17, 2008 – Roulette, NYC Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble. Music of Muhal Richard Abrams and Roscoe Mitchell June 8, 2008 – Christ Church, Staten Island, NY Recital with baritone Anthony Turner and soprano Marilyn Damon. Sprituals. May 23, 2008 – Prague Spring Fesiival, Czech Republic Concert with Ostravska Banda, including works by Andriessen and Srnka May 21, 2008 – Janacek May, Ostrava, Czech Republic Concert with Ostravska Banda April 11, 2008 – The Kitchen, NYC “Nights Errant” concert organized by David Grubbs. Performed Julius Eastman’s solo “Piano 2.” April 10, 2008 – Greenwich House, NYC North River Music Series. Concert with baritone Thomas Buckner. Music of Stuart Saunders Smith March 20, 2008 – Mills College, Oakland, CA Recital with baritone Thomas Buckner. Music of Ives, Mitchell, Mathieu and Torikai March 15, 2008 – Issue Project Room, NYC Craig Shepard’s piano solo “November,” plus piano works of Morton Feldman March 7, 2008 – Roulette, NYC Piano four-hands concert with Sarah Cahill. Music of Terry Riley, Ingram Marshall, Kyle Gann, Michael Byron February 28, 2008 – University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD Concert with baritone Thomas Buckner. Music by Stuart Saunders Smith, Robert Ashley, and improvisation. February 14, 2008 – Interpretations Series, Roulette, NYC Concerts with baritone Thomas Buckner. Music by Stuart Saunders Smith, William Duckworth and Jon Gibson 2007 October 9, 2007 – Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA Recital with Thomas Buckner, baritone. Music by William Duckworth and Jon Gibson September 28, 2007 – Old First Concerts, San Francisco, CA Two-piano concert with Sarah Cahill; four-hand pieces by Terry Riley and Ingram Marshall; solo performance of Michael Byron’s “It is the Night and Dawn of Constellations Irradiated” August 19 – Sept. 2, 2007 – Ostrava New Music Days, Czech Republic Cage “Concert for Piano and Orchestra,” Xenakis “Dikthas” with Conrad Harris, violin, plus ensemble works by festival participants July 13-15, 2007 – Yachats Music Festival, Yachats, Oregon June 16, 2007 – Saratoga Springs, NY Performance of John Cage and Lejaren Hiller’s “HPSCHD” with Anthony de Mare, piano, in a computerized electronic environment developed by Joel Chadabe June 9, 2007 – Richmondtown Library, Staten Island, NY Michael Byron’s solo “Dreamers of Pearl” 2007 May 21, 2007 – Zankel Hall at Carnegie, NYC Featured performer in Xenakis’ Palimpsest, with the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
May 12, 2007 – Arika Festival, Newcastle, England Directing performance of Julius Eastman’s music for 4 pianos
April 26, 2007 – Triptych Festival, Glasgow, Scotland Four-hand music of Terry Riley, with Sarah Cahill, piano
April 25, 2007 - Triptych Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland Four-hand music of Terry Riley, with Sarah Cahill, piano
April 12, 2007 – Merkin Concert Hall, NYC Concert with Thomas Buckner, baritone. Music of Chris Dahlgren and others.
March 31, 2007 – Sonoma State College, CA Concert with Thomas Buckner, baritone. Music of composer Mel Graves.
March 30, 2007 – Herbst Theater, San Francisco, CA Concert with Thomas Buckner, baritone. Music of Robert Ashley, William Duckworth and others
March 8, 2007 – Merkin Concert Hall, NYC New York premiere of Michael Byron’s hour-long solo Dreamers of Pearl, written for Joseph Kubera.
March 3 , 2007 – Staten Island Museum, New York. Concert with soprano Elizabeth McCullough. Music of Ives, Mozart, Ravel, Faure.
2006 November 22 and 25 - Pacific Crossings Festival, Japan Duo-piano concerts in Tokyo and Kanazawa with Sarah Cahill, and joined in two pieces by Leslie Howard. Music by Percy Grainger and Henry Cowell
October 25 - November 7 - European Concert Tour with the Ostrava Band, Petr Kotik conductor Performances and radio recordings in Ostrava, Czech Republic; Bratislava, Slovak Republic; Cieszyn, Poland; and Paris, France. Featured pianist in Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra and Xenakis' Palimpsest
August 12, 2006 – Cooler in the Shade series, Lotus Fine Arts, NYC David Gunn’s Utopiano (solo) and Forbidden Flute (with Jacqui Martelle)
July 25, 2006 – The Stone, NYC Concert with S.E.M. Ensemble. Solo piano works by Julius Eastman and Sam Hillmer; ensemble work by Reiko Fueting
July 7-9, 2006 – Yachats Music Festival, Yachats, Oregon Ives’ First Sonata (4th movement) and Cowell’s Exultation, plus ensemble performances
June 21, 2006 -- Greenwich House Music School, NYC Chris Chalfant’s Dreams and Nightmares, also a duo piano improvisation with Chris Chalfant
April 27, 2006 – Merkin Concert Hall, NYC Recital with baritone Thomas Buckner
April 24, 2006 – Recital Hall, Music Building, UC Santa Cruz, CA Michael Byron’s Dreamers of Pearl (solo)
April 21, 2006 – Veterans Auditorium, San Francisco, CA Recital with baritone Thomas Buckner
April 18, 2006 – New York Studio School, NYC Piano Music of Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus, Piano Piece (to Philip Guston)
March 26, 2006 – Holy Name College, Oakland, CA Solo Recital sponsored by Four Seasons Concerts
February 10, 2006 – Faust Harrison Pianos, NYC Concert of music by Somei Satoh, with baritone Thomas Buckner
February 2, 2006 – Merkin Concert Hall, NYC Performing Lisa Karrer’s River Kotekan with Gamelan Son of Lion and pianist Marja Ilic.
January 29, 2006 – Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH World Premiere performance of Michael Byron’s Dreamers of Pearl, written for the pianist. Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center
2005 October 28, 2005 - Terry Riley 70th Birthday Concert, Mills College, Oakland, CA. Joseph Kubera and Sarah Cahill perform new piano four-hand pieces by renowned composer Terry Riley
October 1, 2005 - Terry Riley 70th Birthday Celebration, Royce Hall, UCLA. Joseph Kubera and Sarah Cahill premiere several new piano four-hand pieces by Terry Riley
August 25, 2005 – Ostrava New Music Days, Czech Republic Boulez Structures and Cage’s Winter Music for Two Pianos, with Heather O’Donnell
July 13, 2005 – Music Festival of the Hamptons, Bridgehampton, NY Lukas Foss’s Solo (1981) and Katherine Hoover’s Pieces for Piano (1981), plus accompaniments to songs by Stephen Dickman, Victoria Bond and Norman Dello Joio
April 3, 2005 – New York Studio School, NYC Feldman’s Crippled Symmetry (1983) with S.E.M. Ensemble
2004
Oct 14, 2004 – Sounds Like Now Festival, La Mama E.T.C., NYC Annea Lockwood’s Ear-Walking Man (1995)
July 11, 2004 – Yachats Music Festival, Yachats, Oregon Michael Sahl’s Serenades (1994)
May 18, 2004 – Divadlo Archa, Prague, Czech.Republic Feldman’s Why Patterns, with S.E.M. Ensemble
May 8, 2004 – Chelsea Art Museum, NYC Cage and Hiller’s HPSCHD, with Anthony de Mare and Robert Conant Project of the Electronic Music Foundation
March 29, 2004 – Roulette at the Flea Theater, NYC Recital, “The Conspiracy to Commit Beauty” – Music by Beth Anderson, Michael Sahl, Boudewijn Buckinx, Frank Nuyts.
April 1, 2004 – The New School, NYC Cage, Four Walls, performed to dance by Sin Cha Hong, with Jay Clayton, voice
2003
December 16, 2003 – Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC Soloist in Olga Neuwirth’s “locus…doublure…solus” with Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
December 5, 2003 – Faust Harrison Pianos, NYC Pianists for the New Millennium -- Solo Recital. Works by Beth Anderson, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Stuart Saunders Smith, Eric Richards, Gerhard Ruehm, Anthony Coleman and Salvatore Sciarrino
November 19, 2003 – Weill Hall at Carnegie, NYC Soloist, Beth Anderson’s Piano Concerto
November 8, 2003 – The Muddy Cup, Staten Island, NYC Two-Piano Recital with Sarah Cahill. Music by Josef Matthias Hauer, Ingram Marshall, Michael Byron, Terry Riley, Morton Feldman, Larry Polansky, Robert Ashley and “Blue” Gene Tyranny
November 7, 2003 -- Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Two-Piano Recital with Sarah Cahill. Program as above
Oct. 27, 2003 -- Zankel Hall at Carnegie, NYC Cage Winter Music with Joan La Barbara, voice, Solo for Voice 45 from Song Books
August 28, 2003 – Ostrava New Music Days, Czech Republic Christian Wolff, Exercises 19 & 20 (1982), with Marilyn Nonken,
August 27 – Ostrava New Music Days, Czech Republic Cage’s Music of Changes (1951)
June 6, 2003 -- Edgefest, UC Berkeley, CA Performance with Sarah Cahill, piano, of Terry Riley’s Cinco de Mayo (1997) La Monte Young’s The Piano Sound from “Vision” (1959), Alvin Lucier’s Still Lives (1996) and Earle Brown’s Folio (1952-53)
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