Bearthoven is in Cincinnati! Concert:Nova presents the trio with works by Yaz Lancaster, Sarah Hennies, and and arrangements of Matt Evans’ instrumental compositions from his albums Soft Science, Touches, and New Topographics. More info soon!
Bearthoven returns to the Short North Stage to perform a premiere by Yaz Lancaster, as well as new arrangements of Matt Evans’ instrumental works from his albums Soft Science, Touches, and, New Topographics.
Bearthoven presents Yaz Lancaster, Sarah Hennies, and arrangements of Matt Evans’ instrumental compositions from his albums Soft Science, Touches, and New Topographics at Kent State University.
Bearthoven is excited to be presented by the Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project. The program will include pieces by Yaz Lancaster, Sarah Hennies, and arrangements of Matt Evans’ instrumental compositions from his albums Soft Science, Touches, and New Topographics.
2022 Roulette Resident Artist
For her Roulette residency, Cassie Wielandpresents a collection of new works including a work in progress for chamber ensemble Bearthoven, the world premiere of Hometownwith Isabelle O’Connell and Adam Holmes, and the NYC premiere of her new project Vinesperforming Birthday Party with ~Nois.
PROGRAM
CHORALE performed by Bearthoven (work in progress)
Hometown performed by Isabelle O’Connell & Adam Holmes (world premiere)
Birthday Party performed by Vines (Cassie Wieland & ~Nois) (NYC premiere)
Karl Larson – piano
Pat Swoboda – bass
Matt Evans – percussion
Isabelle O’Connell – piano
Adam Holmes – percussion
Julian Velasco – soprano saxophone
Hunter Bockes – alto saxophone
Jordan Lulloff – tenor saxophone
János Csontos – bari saxophone
Cassie Wieland – vocals
Bearthoven joins composer Scott Wollschleger for a remote concert of Scott’s music. Bearthoven will perform the titular work from their 2019 Cantaloupe Music recording American Dream. The streaming concert will also include a talk back with Wollschleger and a number of new works written for the UNC UNCommon Ensemble.
Bearthoven and Bent Duo return to Roulette for a performance of two recently commissioned works by Sarah Hennies. Unsettle” (2017, Bent Duo) for piano and percussion and “Spectral Malsconcities” (2018, Bearthoven) for piano, percussion, and double bass are considered sister pieces by the composer, and they feature the patient etherialism and textural ingenuity that have become the hallmarks of Hennies’ remarkable body of work.
The two works featured on this program also comprise “Spectral Malsconcities,” a new collaborative album by Bearthoven, Bent Duo, and Sarah Hennies, which will be released on New World Records in November 2020.
This performance will be presented virtually and available for free on a variety of streaming platforms. Roulette’s theater is currently closed for public performances as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the safety measures that Roulette has put in place to keep staff, artists, and the public safe.
**This event has been indefinitely postponed due to the COVID-19 Virus.
Bearthoven performs the complete ‘American Dream’ album (all music by Scott Wollschleger) on Bang on a Can’s inaugural Long Play Festival.
Program:
Gas Station Canon Song - Scott Wollschleger
American Dream - Scott Wollschleger
We See Things That Are Not There - Scott Wollschleger
Tickets Available Here
Bearthoven presents three live-streamed concerts from our homes during the time of COVID-19. Tune in here at 8:00PM on the first three Saturdays in April to hear solo music by our very own Matt Evans and Anthony Vine, as well as a newly commissioned work for remote ensemble by Jaimie Branch.
TV Dinners Series Schedule:
April 4 @ 8:00PM
Matt Evans: New Topographics
April 11 @ 8:00PM
Karl Larson plays Anthony Vine:
Music for an apartment on Coles St.
April 18 @ 8:00PM
Bearthoven plays Jaimie Branch:
new piece for streaming ensemble*
Presented with the unbelievably gracious support of the Johnstone Fund for New Music
*Commissioned by the Johnstone Fund for New Music
Bearthoven joins the musicians and composers of Experiments in Opera in a workshop featuring a first look at the new opera being generated by the Experiments in Opera Writers’ Room (Title TBD). The Untitled Writers’ Room Opera (Part One) includes the first three episodes of a longer ten-episode piece that will receive its full premiere in the spring of 2021 as part of EiO’s 10th Anniversary Celebration. The new opera is about an aspiring artist who grapples first with her father’s suicide and then with the unexpected fame of his paintings which become celebrated as “outsider art.” The three episodes included in Part One of this opera will be composed by Jason Cady, Pauline Kim and Phil Kline, based on librettos by Jason Cady, Jerome Parker and Lauren D’Errico.
An additional opera (TBD) will be workshopped on the final two days of this weeklong project.
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Bearthoven returns to LPR for their third annual ‘New Works’ concert. In this iteration of Bearthoven: New Works, the trio presents NYC premieres of two substantial new pieces by Bang on a Can co-founder Michael Gordon and Kinds of Kings co-founder Shelley Washington. The saxophone/percussion duo Popebama will join the bill for an opening set of their own original compositions.
Program:
Shelley Washington - Uniforms (World Premiere)
Michael Gordon - Mixed Tulips (NYC Premiere)
Tickets available here - more information available here
Doors: 6:30PM
Show: 7:30PM
Bearthoven returns to Bowling Green State University’s ‘Music at the Forefront’ Series to perform a new work by Michael Gordon. a blistering new amplified work by Bang on a Can co-founder Michael Gordon alongside Sarah Hennies’s subdued, otherworldly Spectral Malsconcities, which was composed for Bearthoven in 2018.
Program:
Michael Gordon - Mixed Tulips (2020)
Sarah Hennies - Spectral Malsconcities (2018)
Free Admission
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The New York trio Bearthoven make their overdue Chicago debut with new works by Michael Gordon and Sarah Hennies Bearthoven. Described by the New Yorker as one of the ‘vital institutions’ of the NYC contemporary music scene, Bearthoven will present two of their most substantial commissions to date in their Chicago debut at Constellation on February 20. The piano / bass / percussion trio’s program features a blistering new amplified work by Bang on a Can co-founder Michael Gordon alongside Sarah Hennies’s subdued, otherworldly Spectral Malsconcities, which was composed for Bearthoven in 2018.
Program:
Michael Gordon - Mixed Tulips (2020)
Sarah Hennies - Spectral Malsconcities (2018)
$10 advance / $15 door
Tickets available here.
Bearthoven returns to the Short North Stage for the world premiere performance of Mixed Tulips by Michael Gordon. This commission was generously funded by the Johnstone Foundation for New Music. The trio will also present Sarah Hennies’s Spectral Malsconcities, which was composed for Bearthoven in 2018.
Program:
Michael Gordon - Mixed Tulips (2020) (World Premiere)
Sarah Hennies - Spectral Malsconcities (2018)
Free Admission
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Hotel Elefant and Bearthoven share an evening of music by Fjóla Evans (Shoaling, Warped Threads) and Leaha Maria Villarreal, including the world premiere of Villarreal's Crossing the Rubicon.
Saturday, January 18, 7:00 p.m. (Doors at 6:30 p.m.)
Areté Venue & Gallery, 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY
Tickets: PWYW (Pay What You Want)
Bearthoven performs Scott Wollschleger’s American Dream and Katherine Balch’s Trio* on a split bill with NYC veteran performer Ed Pastorini at The Owl Music Parlor in Brooklyn.
$10 Suggested Donation
7:30PM - Doors
8:00PM - Show
*This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.
Philadelphia’s renowned Bowerbird Series presents a concert featuring a complete performance of our latest album, American Dream as well as Katherine Balch’s Trio (2019)*.
Admission: $12-$20
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*This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.
Bearthoven returns to Areté for a performance of Sarah Hennies’s monumental Spectral Malsconcities on a split bill with the Ken Thomson Sextet.
Admission - $15 (cash only)
Bearthoven performs new works composed by second year graduate students at NYU Steinhardt.
Bearthoven performs the NYC premieres of Sarah Hennies’s Spectral Malsconcities and Katherine Balch’s Trio* on the False Harmonics 3.0 Series at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Tickets available here.
The Luisa Muhr/Wendy Eisenberg Duo will be performing the first set of the evening.
*This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.
Bearthoven Performs Scott Wollschleger’s American Dream, Shelley Washington’s Silk, and the world premiere of Trio by Katie Balch* at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
*This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.
Join us for the release party for Bearthoven’s sophomore record American Dream. The second full length Cantaloupe Records release by the trio will feature the music of Scott Wollschleger, centered around his ambitious and introspective American Dream.
The performance will feature an opening set by Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti (violist) as well as a performance of the complete American Dream album.
Tickets available here and at the door.
Bearthoven performs Sarah Hennies’s Spectral Malsconcities and Scott Wollschleger’s Gas Station Canon Song, American Dream, and We See Things That Are Not There on the I/O Festival at Williams College in Williamstown, MA.
Bearthoven journey’s to South America to perform at Buenos Aires’ premier contemporary music festival. Program includes the world premiere of Sarah Hennies’ Spectral Malsconcities as well as works by Finola Merivale, Shelley Washington, and Fjola Evans. Teatro San Martin in Buenos Aires!
Bearthoven performs the New York premiere of new pieces by Princeton composers! Fresh off the culmination of a months long collaboration at the Princeton Sound Kitchen, Bearthoven brings five of these new works to Brooklyn’s Arete. Music by Florent Ghys, Jenny Beck, Molly Herron, Matt McBane, and Anna Meadors.
ALSO
We are so pumped to include a performance of Shelley Washington’s ‘Big Talk’, a baritone sax duo to be performed by Shelley Washington and Ken Thomson!
Don’t miss!
Performing a program of new works by Gemma Peacocke, Anna Meadors, Molly Herron, Jenny Beck, Pascal Le Boeuf, Matt McBane, and Florent Ghys at Princeton University
Bearthoven presents a program of NYC premiers at Roulette!
Program:
Shelley Washington - Silk
Kristina Wolfe - Near Sky
Adam Roberts - happy/angry music
Scott Wollschleger - American Dream
Fresh off the release of their 2017 album “Trios,” Bearthoven comes to Boston with new works by a collection of America’s strongest upcoming compositional voices.
Split bill with Ben Levin !
Bearthoven performs new works composed by second year graduate students at NYU Steinhardt.
Bearthoven: American Dream
Fresh off the release of their 2017 album “Trios,” Bearthoven comes back to Columbus with three world premieres by a collection of America’s strongest upcoming compositional voices
Program:
Shelley Washington — Silk (2017)
Adam Roberts — happy/angry music (2017)+*
Kristina Wolfe — Near Sky (2017)+
Scott Wollschleger — American Dream (2017)+
+ — world premiere
* — Commissioned by the Johnstone Fund for New Music
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