Chance. You can give it, you can take it, and if you’re daring, you can create with it. Protean composer, performer and aural provocateur Melissa St. Pierre does all three. Plus, making its US debut, Igor Cubrilovic performs Glaciers at ISSUE Project Room.
Clarinetist, Alejandro Acierto, and Cellist, Isabel Castellvi, bring their AI Ensemble to Issue Project Room. Accompanied with a performance by the MIVOS String Quartet.
Composer and bagpipe virtuoso Matthew Welch presents an evening of traditional and new music for his notorious instrument, exploring tunes from the idiom and newer ones inspired by it.
…No Way to Say Goodbye is a collection of songs for string quartet that substitutes a second violin for a double bass. The music is influenced by an interest in the simplistic beauty of folk songs and a belief that one’s ability to accompany oneself in song as one of the more natural expressions of music.
MATA Interval 2.4: Play! Music for Toys is curated by Angélica Negrón. Featuring performances by ensemble TRANSIT, Judy Dunaway, Jenny Walshe, and special guest Margaret Leng Tan.
Jason Cady presents Happiness is the Problem: A Phono-Graphic Novel, a two-act opera buffa and comic book about idealism and disillusionment. Ben Neill will present a concert of music for his self-designed mutantrumpet and interactive electronics.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to host a special performance of Erik Satie’s masterpiece, “Socrate” based on the life and death of Socrates, featuring a libretto by Jean Cocteau, performed by soprano Daisy Press and pianist Emily Manzo.
