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~

 

 

 

Saturday, September 13, 2008, 3 PM

with

Matt Haimovitz, cello

~Release Party & CD Signing for "Odd Couple"~

~An Die Musik~

Baltimore, MD

 

 

 

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, September  26, 2008, 7:30 PM

with

Matt Haimovitz, cello

~Coffin School~

Nantucket, MA

 

 

Elliott Carter:  Sonata for Cello and Piano

Robert Schumann Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102

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 Music Department at Hunter College~

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, November 6, 2008, 7:30  PM

"Odd Couple"

with

Matt Haimovitz, cello

DJ Olive, turntables & electronics

~Pollack Concert Hall~

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec

Canada

 

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 7, 2008, 9:15  PM

"Odd Couple"

with

Matt Haimovitz, cello

DJ Olive, turntables & electronics

~Black Sheep Inn~

Wakefield, Quebec

Canada

 

~see November 6th program for details~

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

~see November 6th program for details~

 

 

 

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)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, December 5, 2008, 7 PM

"The Cage Effect II: 

Intersections, Influences, and the Music of John Cage"

~second of two concerts programmed by Geoffrey Burleson,

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

on the "Cage Effect"~

 

Leubsdorf Art Gallery

Hunter College-City University of New York

sponsored by the

Music Department at Hunter College

 

John Cage:  Living Room Music, for instrumental solo, percussion, speech quartet

John Cage:  Music for Marcel Duchamp, for prepared piano

John Cage:  Suite for Toy Piano

John Cage:  Six Melodies for Violin and Keyboard

John Cage:  String Quartet in 4 Parts

John Cage:  Music for "Works of Calder" (including a showing of the film)

 

~performed by Geoffrey Burleson and students from the Music and Art Departments at Hunter College~

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 7:00 PM

with

Matt Haimovitz, cello

"Beyond Boundaries:  Klezmer Music in the 21st Century"

~Proshansky Auditorium~

CUNY Graduate Center

New York City

 

Stephen Dankner:  Klezmer Fantasy for Cello and Piano

 

 

 

 

 

 

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)
David Rakowski
:  Piano Etudes

Vincent Persichetti:  Sonata No. 9 (1952)

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

Maurice Ravel:  Gaspard de la Nuit (1908)

 

 

 

Monday, March  9, 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)
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, March 21, 2009, 7:30 PM

Solo Recital

~A Benefit for Boston Musica Viva~

at the home of

~Joyce Kulhawik~

Wayland, MA

For further info, please call 617-354-6910

 

George Antheil:  Second Sonata, "The Airplane" (1922)
David Rakowski
:  Piano Etudes
Franz Liszt
:  Transcendental Etude No. 11, Harmonies du Soir

Maurice Ravel:  Gaspard de la Nuit (1908)

 

 

 

 

Thursday, April 2, 2009, 7 PM

Faculty Recital/Hunter Chamber Singers

Lang Recital Hall

Hunter College-City University of New York

sponsored by the

Music Department at Hunter College

 

Bela Bartók:  Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion

 

 

 

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~

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, June 7,  2009, 7 PM

"Strange Exclaiming Music"

with
Mary Rowell, violin
  sponsored by the

The New York Art Ensemble

and the

Tribeca New Music Festival
The Flea Theatre
41 White Street (Tribeca)
New York City

 

Roy Harris:  Piano Sonata (1928)

Marc Mellits:  Spin (1998), for violin and piano

Nick Didkovsky:  If Reptile's Organs Thrive (2007), for violin and piano

Eve Beglarian:  Wolf Chaser (1995), for violin, electronics & video

DBR:  Filter (2006), for solo violin

Eric Moe:  Strange Exclaiming Music  (2004), for violin and piano