Concerts 2008-2009
(partial listing)

 


 
 

Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 8 PM

with

Matt Haimovitz, cello

~Eastern Music Festival~

Dana Auditorium at Guilford College

Greensboro, NC

 

L.v. Beethoven:  Sonata in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2

Elliott Carter:  Sonata for Cello and Piano

David Sanford:  22 Part I

Samuel Barber:  Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6

 

 

 

Monday, August 11, 2008, 8 PM

with

Matt Haimovitz, cello

~Summit Music Festival~

Manhattanville College

Purchase, NY

 

Johannes Brahms:  Sonata in F Major, Opus 99

Samuel Barber:  Sonata for Cello and Piano

Elliott Carter:  Sonata for Cello and Piano

Stephen Dankner:  Klezmer Fantasy for Cello and Piano

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 8 PM

with

Matt Haimovitz, cello

~Clark Art Institute~

Williamstown, MA

 

~repeat of August 11th program~

 

 

 

Sunday, September 14, 2008, 8 PM

with

Matt Haimovitz, cello

Kreeger Auditorium

~Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington~

Rockville, MD

 

~repeat of July 9th program~

 

 

Thursday, September 18, 2008, 8 PM
with
Boston Musica Viva

~Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music~

ICA-Boston

Boston, MA

 

Gunther Schuller:  Four Vignettes, for sextet

Richard Cornell:  Tracer, for sextet

Ronald Perera:  Three Poems of Günter Grass, for voice & quintet

Julie Rohwein:  Borne on the Wind, for sextet

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, September 21, 2008, 1:30  PM

with

Matt Haimovitz, cello

~Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music~

ICA-Boston

Boston, MA

 

David Sanford:  22 Part I

Elliott Carter:  Sonata for Cello and Piano

Augusta Read Thomas:  For Slava-WORLD PREMIERE

Samuel Barber:  Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6

 

 

 

Friday, October 3, 2008, 8 PM
"Living Statues"
with
Boston Musica Viva
~Tsai Performance Center~
Boston University

Aaron Copland:  Sextet

Steven Stucky:  Boston Fancies, for septet

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich:  Chamber Symphony, for sextet

~and three 5-minute mini-operas based on Boston statues, all WORLD PREMIERES:~

Theo Loevendie:  William Lloyd Garrison

Andy Vores:  Leif Ericson

Brian Robison:  Mary Dyer

 

 

 

 

Monday, October 27, 2008, 7 PM

"The Cage Effect I: 

Intersections, Influences, and the Music of John Cage"

~first of two concerts programmed by Geoffrey Burleson,

in conjunction with Prof. Joachim Pissarro's seminar at Hunter College

on the "Cage Effect"~

 

Lang Recital Hall

Hunter College-City University of New York

sponsored by the

Music Department at Hunter College

 

Henry Cowell:  The Banshee and The Aeolian Harp, for solo piano

John Cage:  selections from Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

John Cage:  Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (March No. 2), for 12 Radios

John Cage:  Construction No. 2, for percussion quartet

John Cage:  Credo in US, for piano, percussion & phonograph

 

~performed by Geoffrey Burleson and students from the Chamber Music Workshop at Hunter College~

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, November 7, 2008, 9:15  PM

with

Matt Haimovitz, cello

"Odd Couple"

~Black Sheep Inn~

Wakefield, Quebec

Canada

 

David Sanford:  22 Part I

Elliott Carter:  Sonata for Cello and Piano

Augusta Read Thomas:  For Slava

Samuel Barber:  Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, November 13, 2008, 7 PM

"Odd Couple"

with

Matt Haimovitz, cello

DJ Olive, turntables & electronics

~Le Poisson Rouge~

158 Bleecker Street

New York City

 

L.v. Beethoven:  Sonata in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2

Elliott Carter:  Sonata for Cello and Piano

David Sanford:  22 Part I

~plus improvisation & other surprises~

 

 

 

Friday, November 14, 2008

&

Saturday, November 15, 2008

8 PM

with

Matt Haimovitz, cello

~Wolfensohn Hall~

~Institute for Advanced Study~

Princeton University

 

David Sanford:  22 Part I

Elliott Carter:  Sonata for Cello and Piano

Augusta Read Thomas:  For Slava

Samuel Barber:  Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6

Paul Moravec:  work TBA

 

 

 

Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 7:30 PM

"Akoka (Messiaen Remix)"

with

David Krakauer, clarinet

Todd Reynolds, voilin

Matt Haimovitz, cello

DJ Socalled, turntables & electronics

~Tulsa Performing Arts Center~

Tulsa, OK

 

Olivier Messiaen:  Quartet for the End of Time

David Krakauer:  Akoka

DJ Socalled:  Meanwhile (A Messiaen Remix)

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 8 PM

"Akoka (Messiaen Remix)"

~Stanford Lively Arts Series~

Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Stanford University

Palo Alto, CA

 

~see November 18th program for details~

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, February 7, 2009, 8 PM

"Akoka (Messiaen Remix)"

Page Auditorium

Duke University

Durham, NC

 

~see November 18th program for details~

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, February 21, 2009, 8 PM

with
Mary Rowell, violin

"Music on the Edge" Series
The Andy Warhol Museum
Pittsburgh, PA
 

Vincent Persichetti:  Piano Sonata No. 9

George Antheil:  Sonata No. 2 for Violin, Piano and Drum

Jon Appleton:  Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano

Amy Kohn:  Snow to Cement

Julia Wolfe:  Mink Stole

Arvo Pärt:  Fratres

 

 

 

Thursday, February 26, 2009, 1 PM

Solo Recital

St. Thomas University

Fredericton, New Brunswick

Canada

 

George Antheil:  Second Sonata, "The Airplane" (1922)

György Ligeti:  Etude No. 4, "Fanfares" (1985)
David Rakowski
:  Piano Etudes

Vincent Persichetti:  Sonata No. 9 (1952)

McCoy Tyner (arr. Burleson):  Passion Dance
Franz Liszt
:  Transcendental Etudes No. 10

Maurice Ravel:  Gaspard de la Nuit (1908)

 

 

 

Monday, March  23, 2009, 7 PM

Solo Recital

Lang Recital Hall

Hunter College-City University of New York

sponsored by the

Music Department at Hunter College

 

 

George Antheil:  Second Sonata, "The Airplane" (1922)

György Ligeti:  Etude No. 4, "Fanfares" (1985)
David Rakowski
:  Piano Etudes

Vincent Persichetti:  Sonata No. 9 (1952)
Franz Liszt
:  Transcendental Etudes Nos. 10 and 11

Maurice Ravel:  Gaspard de la Nuit (1908)

 

 

 

Saturday, April 4, 2009, 8 PM
with

Bernadette Peters

and
Boston Musica Viva
~Celebrity Series of Boston~
Boston Symphony Hall

Boston, MA

 

 

 

 

Friday, May 1, 2009, 8 PM
"BMV 40th Anniversary Concert"
with
Boston Musica Viva
~Tsai Performance Center~
Boston University

 

Arnold Schoenberg:  Pierrot Lunaire

Joseph Schwantner:  In Aeternum (Consortium IV)

Michael Gandolfi:  new work

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 7 PM

Lang Recital Hall

Hunter College-City University of New York

sponsored by the

Music Department at Hunter College

 

Bela Bartók:  Mikrokosmos, Books 4-6

 

~performed by students from  the Piano Performance Class at Hunter College,

directed by Geoffrey Burleson~