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The evening will include presentations & performances, preceded by a cocktail reception and refreshments. ISSUE’s Gala is an opportunity to recognize important figures in the experimental arts community and serves as a critical fundraising initiative, benefiting a diverse range of artists via ongoing commissions, residencies, and premieres, including from international and pioneering practitioners.

This year’s Gala recognizes David Behrman’s innovative contributions to electronic and experimental music, his collaborative spirit, and his influence on the integration of technology and live performance. Behrman’s visionary work, and enduring collaborations, place him at the center of an expansive network of ISSUE-affiliated artists. It is in recognition of this profound influence and artistic kinship that we are proud to honor him at the 2025 Gala celebration.

For more information, please contact ISSUE's Director of Advancement & Administration, Monica Pabelonio at monica@issueprojectroom.org or (718)-330-0313.

David Behrman is a composer and artist active since the 1960s. Over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations for gallery spaces as well as musical compositions for performance in concerts. Most of his pieces feature flexible structures and the use of technology in personal ways; compositions rely on interactive real-time relationships with imaginative performers. Together with Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mumma, Behrman founded the Sonic Arts Union in 1966. He had a long association with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as composer and performer, created music for several of the Company’s repertory pieces, and was a member of the Company’s Music Committee during its last years. Pictures, with its music Interspecies Smalltalk, won the Olivier Award in 1985. It remained in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company repertory from 1984 to 1989, and was revived in 2002. Behrman has received grants from the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, the D.A.A.D., the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Henry Cowell Foundation. He was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2016. Audio recordings of his works are on the XI, Lovely Music, Pogus, New World, WERGO, Black Truffle Records and Alga Marghen labels.