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10.1.17, 6-10pm: The Rhythm Method presents Broad Statements
Curated by The Rhythm Method string quartet, this evening features sets by The Rhythm Method, Amirtha Kidambi, Charlotte Munday + Laura Cocks, Yva Las Vegass, and Odetta Hartman
The Cell Theater, 338 W. 23rd St., NYC
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10.3.17, 7pm: Shattered Glass album release concert
Shattered Glass, conductorless string orchestra, celebrates the release of its new album
Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer St., Brooklyn
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10.14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.17: The Power of Emotion
TAK Ensemble with the Televiolet Theater Company
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St., NYC
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11.5.17: Musiques Démesurées Festival with Talea Ensemble
Clermont-Ferrand, France

​11/23/17, 7:30pm: Ottawa New Music Creators presents TAK ensemble
St. Matthew's Anglican Church, 217 1st Ave, Ottawa, Ontario
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11/26/17, 8pm: Innovations en concert presents TAK ensemble with Architek Percussion
La Sala Rossa, 4848 boul. Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec
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​12/11/17, 7:30pm: The Rhythm Method with NYU Percussion Ensemble performs Selene by Augusta Read Thomas
Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 W. 4th St., NYC

12/21/17, 7pm: The Association of Dominican Classical Artists presents "Un Romance Latino"
Aaron Davis Hall, Marian Anderson Theater, at the City College of New York, 160 Convent Ave, NYC
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1/12/18, 8pm: The Rhythm Method plays music by Maconchy, Kifferstein, Nielson, and Bolstad
​The Owl Music Parlor, 497 Rogers Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

​1/19/18 + 1/21/18, 7:30pm: Iceland in New York – TAK and Loadbang play works by composers of the Errata Collective
Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave., NYC
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1/25/18 + 1/26/18, 8pm: Lucerne Festival Alumni plays Zappa
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY
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2/3/18, 8pm: The Rhythm Method plays Gust Burns at the New Ears Festival
The Fridman Gallery, 287 Spring St., NYC
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2/4/18, 4pm: The Rhythm Method + Kathy Supove at the Tribeca New Music Festival
The Cell Theater, 338 W. 23rd St., NYC
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2/10/18, 8pm: TAK ensemble + Architek percussion
The Dimenna Center for Classical Music, Benzaquen Hall, 450 W. 37th St.

2/18/18, 3pm: Recital with Daniel Colalillo, piano
MIRROR Tea House, 575 Union St. #A, Brooklyn NY

2/21/18, 7pm: Tradiciones Dominicanas
Aaron Davis Hall Theater A, City College of NY

3/13/18, 8pm: Brooklyn Bound presents TAK ensemble
So Percussion Studio, 20 Grand Ave. (between Flushing and Park) #205, Brooklyn, NY

3/24/18, 7:30pm: The Rhythm Method: Siren Songs
Atelier für Musik & Kinesiologie, Pius Strassmann
Luzern, Switzerland
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3/26/18: The Rhythm Method residency at the Zurich University of the Arts
Zurich, Switzerland

3/29/18, 8pm: The Rhythm Method: Siren Songs, presented by the String Theories Festival
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn
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4/3/18, 8pm: TAK ensemble Album release party for "Sanctuary," by Mario Diaz de Leon
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY
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Proving Up, by Missy Mazzoli​
Opera Omaha and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
Performances 4/13, 4/15, 4/19, 4/21, 4/22
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4/28/18, 8pm: Qubit presents TAK: 21st-Century Sound Stories
Premieres by Bryan Jacobs, David Bird, Alec Hall, and Aaron Einbond
Project Q, 1850 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY

5/5/18, 8pm: TAK ensemble 5th Birthday Party!
University Settlement, Speyer Hall, NYC

​July 5, 7pm: Surfaces Reframed with the International Contemporary Ensemble
music by Oliveros, Czernowin, and Haapamäki
Time of Music Festival
Viitasaari, Finland

July 6, 4pm: Touching Ears and Strings with the International Contemporary Ensemble
music by Oliveros, Johnson, Iannota, Samanli, and Diaz de Leon
Time of Music Festival
Viitasaari, Finland

July 12, 8:30pm: Kifferstein / Adler-McKean / Duo Eizirik/Kort/ Flesser
Ezerzierstraße 10, 13357 Berlin, Germany
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July 14-29: Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Germany

August 6-11: Composers Conference
Brandeis, MA

August 16, 8pm: Timespans Festival with Talea Ensemble
music by Lara and Bettison
Cary Hall, Dimenna Center for Classical Music, NYC

September 26 and 28, 8pm: Proving Up by Missy Mazzoli
with International Contemporary Ensemble and Opera Omaha
Miller Theater at Columbia University, NYC

October 18, 8pm: Thurman Barker and strings
with The Rhythm Method and friends
Roulette, Brooklyn, NY

October 30, 8pm: TAK and Quince at the Library of Congress Founders Day Concert
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Sunday, December 16, 7pm: Kifferstein Wulliman Olencki // Intoning and detuning 
A program of music for 2 violins, trombone, and modular synthesizer; works by Marina Kifferstein, Austin Wulliman, Weston Olencki, Chris Otto, and Meaghan Burke, and an improvised set with live processing. 
Spectrum, 70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, Brooklyn, NY
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Thursday, December 20, 7pm: La Canción Lírica Latinoamericana
The Association of Dominican Classical Artists presents a program with guest singers Melliangee Pérez, Nathalie Avila, Juan Cuevas, and Edgar Pérez, with the ADCA Symphony Orchestra and conductor Carlos Andrés Mejía. 
Aaron Davis Hall, City College of NY, 129 Convent Avenue, NY
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2019

Wednesday, January 9, 8pm: Dominic Coles / Olencki Kifferstein duo / Jenn Grossman
Three sets of electronic music that explore sound and space 
Areté Venue and Gallery, 67 West St. #103, Brooklyn, NY
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Tuesday, January 15, 8pm: The Rhythm Method and Will Lang
The Rhythm Method string quartet presents a program of works by the members of the quartet
Areté Venue and Gallery, 67 West St. #103, Brooklyn, NY

February 2-11: TAK ensemble in residency at Stanford University
Workshops and performances throughout the week
Stanford University, CA

February 21: TAK ensemble residency at St. Cloud University
Workshop and performance
St. Cloud State University, MN

February 23, 7:30 pm ; February 24, 7:30 pm: TAK ensemble with 113 Composers
Works by Erin Gee, Uri Kochavi, Joan Arnau Pamies, David Bird, Taylor Brook, Kate Soper, Ashkan Behzadi, Tiffany M. Skidmore*, Joey Crane*, Michael Duffy*, Benjamin Klein*, Sam Krahn*, Adam Zahller* (* denotes world premiere)
$15 / $5 for students / children under 18 are free
Studio Z, 275 E. 4th St. Suite 200, St. Paul, MN

March 2: TAK ensemble at Cluster Festival
performing works by Luke Nickel*, Eliot Britton*, William Kuo*, Heidi Oullette*, Taylor Brook, Erin Gee, Ashkan Behzadi
Winnipeg, MB, Canada

March 7: The Rhythm Method presents: Broad Statements
The second annual installment of Broad Statements, a showcase of women in music
The Cell Theater, 338 W. 23rd St., NY, NY

March 16: TAK ensemble in residence at University of Pennsylvania
Performance of music by U Penn Composers
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

March 25-29: The Rhythm Method in residence at Arkansas State University
Workshops and performance
Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR​
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​April 22-26: TAK ensemble in residence at Cornell University
Workshop and performances in collaboration with Cornell composers
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

April 27: Permutations presents The Rhythm Method and the Byrne/Kozar duo
Works by Zosha di Castri, Jodie Rottle, Meaghan Burke, Leah Asher, and Hildegard von Bingen
The Dimenna Center for Classical Music, 450 W. 37th St, NYC

April 30-May 5: International Contemporary Ensemble: Reich/Richter
This work celebrates the opening of The Shed, and responds to paintings by Gerhard Richter that will be on exhibit in the space.
The Shed, W. 30th St. at 10th Avenue, NY, NY
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May 3: TAK ensemble at Look and Listen Festival
world premiere of Jessie Marino’s Portrait of a lady with a squirrel and a starling
BRIC House, 647 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY

May 12: xbucket at Spectrum
improvised set with Alex Van Gils (electronics) and Sam Tarakajian (visuals)
70 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY

May 18: TAK ensemble album release of Oor, ft call for scores winner 
performing works Santiago Diez Fischer, Erin Gee, David Bird, Tyshawn Sore, Ashkan Behzadi, Natacha Diels

June 10-15: TAK ensemble in residence at Delian Academy
Joint ensemble in residence with Klangforum Wien
Mykonos, Greece

July 13: Harold Budd concert with The Rhythm Method
St. George's Episcopal Church, 4 Rutherford Place, NYC

July 28-August 4: Performance faculty at The Composers Conference
Brandeis University, MA

September 1: A Soldier's Tale at the Lucerne Festival
KKL Luzern, Switzerland

September 8: Orchestra of Lucerne Festival Alumni with Riccardo Chailly
KKL Luzern, Switzerland

September 9: Orchestra of Lucerne Festival Alumni with Riccardo Chailly
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Germany

8.7-9.3.17: Performances with the Lucerne Festival Alumni Ensemble Luzern, Switzerland

7.17-23.17: Violin faculty at the Composer's Conference at Wellesley College

6.18.17, 8pm: Voice/Media/Theater : Qubit Season Closing Party Featuring Charlotte Mundy and TAK ensemble; works by Jagoda Szmytka, Marina Kifferstein, David Bird, Alec Hall, and Aaron Einbond. University Settlement Society of New York

6.13.17, 8pm: Wet Ink Ensemble presents: Festival of Adventurous Music for Large Ensemble St. Peter's Church, Chelsea, NYC

6.3.17, 8pm: TAK performs "The Young Son," a cycle by William Pearson ​St. Peter's Church Chelsea, NYC

6.1.17: The Rhythm Method: "The Corinthian Connection" Music by Webern, Klug, and Burke The Austrian Cultural Forum, Washington D.C.

5.21.17, 7pm: The Rhythm Method presented by the PLG Arts Music Festival The Owl Music Parlor, Brooklyn

5.11.17, 9pm: Meaghan Burke album release concert Joe's Pub, NYC (Album artwork by Leah Asher)

5.11.17, 7pm: TAK performs on the Chance and Circumstance festival, curated by Ensemble Pamplemousse. JACK Space, Brooklyn

5.2.17, 8pm: TAK performs music by the composers of Columbia University's undergraduate class Lerner Hall, Columbia University, NYC

5.1.17, 7:30pm: "Hear by Design" – The Rhythm Method performs music by Andrew Norman on the Music Mondays concert series Joined by Jennifer Koh and the Variation Trio Advent Lutheran Church, NYC

4.26.17, 8pm: The Rhythm Method performs works by Ko, Kifferstein, Brown, and Asher The AC Institute, NYC

4.20.17, 7pm: Association of Dominican Classical Artists presents "Echale Gas" – a Retrospective of Luis Dias Aaron Davis Hall, City College of New York

4.5-6.17: TAK concerts and residency at Tulane University New Orleans, LA

4.4.17: TAK in residence at University of New Orleans New Orleans, LA

3.18.17: The Rhythm Method presented by Scripts Records Hungry Brain, Chicago, IL

3.17.17: The Rhythm Method Residency at BGSU Masterclass, workshops, performance Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

3.13.17, 6pm: The Actors' Temple 100th Anniversary Gala Celebration New York Friar's Club

​3.2.17, 8pm: Tilted Head presents works by Scott Miller, Carl Bettendorf, Eliza Brown, and Alex Mincek The Dimenna Center, 450 W. 37th St.

2.23.17: "Homage to Rafael Solano" ft. Cecilia García and Edgar Pérez Aaron Davis Hall, City College of New York

​2.5.17: "Artists at Noguchi" presents The Rhythm Method: "The Once and Future Maiden" Works by Schubert, Fujikura, Asher, and a premiere by Anne Lanzilotti. The Noguchi Museum, Queens NY

2.3.17: Musicians Against the Executive Order, performance at the Italian Academy of Columbia University

1.27.17: TAK with guest accordionist Lucie Vítková Cary Hall, The Dimenna Center for Classical Music

1.21.17, 9pm: The Rhythm Method performs an unpublished quartet by Virginia Seay (1927-2015) presented by her grandson, James Moore The Stone, NYC

1.17.17, 9pm: The Rhythm Method with pianist Kathy Supove, performing Desolation Pops by James Moore The Stone, NYC

January 13, 2016: TAK performs "Currents" on the i/o festival at Williams College, MA

January 3, 2016: The Rhythm Method + Chick Quest Freddy's Bar and Backroom, Brooklyn, NY

New Years Eve 2016, Taconic Chamber Players New Years Celebration, Events Barn at the Inn at Manchester, Manchester, VT

December 9, 2016: Talea ensemble, performance as resident ensemble with Columbia Undergraduate Composers Italian Academy at Columbia University, NYC

December 8, 2016: TAK performs on the Brooklyn Bound series, presented by SO PERCUSSION So Percussion Studio, Brooklyn

November 11, 2016: Talea ensemble, album release party for Anthony Cheung, National Sawdust, Brooklyn

October, 2016: Jane Eyre, an opera by Louis Karchin presented by the Center for Contemporary Opera Kaye Playhouse, NYC

October 11, 2016: Kol Nidre performance The Actors' Temple, NYC

September 29, 2016: "First Performance" - TAK performs new works by the graduate students of NYU Waverly Place, NYU

September 24, 2016: TAK Album Release Party for Ecstatic Music, a portrait album of Taylor Brook Speyer Hall, University Settlement, NYC

September 21, 2016: The American Composers Alliance presents an 80th birthday concert for Elliot Schwartz Symphony Space Thalia Hall, NYC

September 18, 2016: OpenICE NYC Launch with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) Abrons Arts Center Playhouse, NYC

September 8, 2016: The Albertine Workout: Charlotte Mundy and TAK Ensemble presented by the Resonant Bodies Festival Premieres by Erin Gee, Charlotte Mundy, Doug Balliet, and Marina Kifferstein Roulette, Brooklyn

July 2016: Faculty at the Composers Conference, at Wellesley College. www.composersconference.org

July 2016: ErraTAK: TAK tour in Iceland with the Errata Collective. Concerts in Ísafjörður and Reykjavik

6.25-26.16: Nouveau Classical Project presents Mysterium Novum, a large scale installation concert by Paul Haas, Anne Patterson, and Atelier de Geste. White Box Theater, NYC

6.10.16: Wet Ink large ensemble, season closing concert. St. Peter's Church Chelsea, NYC

6.1.16: Nouveau Classical Project album release concert: Potential Energies, a ballet by Trevor Gureckis National Sawdust, Brooklyn NY

5.30.16: TAK and Severine Ballon presented by Qubit. Dimenna Center for Classical Music Cary Hall, NYC

5.25.16: TAK season closer: works by Ann Cleare, and premieres from Lewis Nielson and Mario Diaz de Leon. Roulette, Brooklyn NY

5.23.16: The Rhythm Method performs "Parallells," presented by Vox Hebraica. "Lyric Suite" by Alban Berg, "Parallels" by Alyssa Weinberg, "Toglikht" by Marina Kifferstein, "Coda" by Meaghan Burke. The Actors' Temple, NYC

The Rhythm Method Austria Tour, April 2016. Concerts in Vienna and Villach. Works by Alban Berg and members of the Rhythm Method; premieres by Bernd Klug and Andreas Trobollowitsch.

4.23.16: Memorial Concert for Pierre Boulez, with the Orchestra of Lucerne Festival Academy Alumni and Matthias Pintscher

Tour of Fensadense, a new work by Tod Machover, with the Lucerne Festival Young Performance Ensemble 9. 8-12 . 15: Lucerne, Switzerland 9 . 13 . 15: Openair Gästival, Flüelen 9 . 17. 15: Luxembourg Philharmonie 3. 13. 16: Kurtheater Baden, Switzerland

February 19th, 2016: The Louis Moreau Trio performs Schoenberg Op. 59 trio, presented by Vox Hebraica The Actors' Temple, NYC

January 10th, 2016: The Rhythm Method plays music by Webern, Zorn, Kifferstein, and Burke Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St., NYC

January 8th, 2016: New Music Gathering showcase performance with the Nouveau Classical Project The Peabody Institute of Music, Baltimore, MD

December 17th, 2015: Nueva Trova: La Nueva Canción Latinoamericana Aaron Davis Hall Theater B, City College of New York, NYC This concert connects historical events in Latin America during the Cold War with pieces by key artists such as Victor Jara, Violeta Parra, Luis Dias, Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Mercedes Sosa, Pablo Milanes, Silvio Rodriguez, among others.

November 21st, 2015: Remembrance and Rebirth in Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide Centennial with the World Peace Sinfonietta Merkin Concert Hall, NYC

November 8th, 2015: Chamber Music Society of North Jersey presents: Rock Me Amadeus Grace Presbyterian Church, 153 Grove St., Montclair, NJ

October 30th, 2015: TAK Halloween concert at the Crypt at the Church of the Intercession, W. 155th St, NYC

October 8th, 2015: The Rhythm Method performs in "Narcissus Now," a large scale multidisciplinary performance with composer Stavros Gasparatos and choreographer Jonah Bokaer. Onassis Cultural Center, NYC

October 2nd and 3rd, 2015: The Rhythm Method performs works by Zorn, Ligeti, Ravel, Kifferstein, and Burke Great Hall Balcony Bar, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

June 12-13, 2015: Performances with Dead Language and the Rhythm Method on the Mise-En Festival, NYC

June 7th, 2015: Tchaikovsky from the Crypt, with Shattered Glass "The Crypt" at the Church of the Intercession, NYC

June 5th, 2015: Performing with Matthew Savery and Alexander Markov, Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium

May 29th, 2015: TAK performs music selected by a call for scores from the American Composers Alliance, Cary Hall, the Dimenna Center for Classical Music, NYC

May 21st, 2015: Guest artist with the Da Capo Chamber Players, George Perle Centennial Celebration concert, Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center, NYC

May 16th, 2015: TAK plays "The Power of Emotion," by Taylor Brook, on the "TAK Presents" series Firehouse Space, Brooklyn

May 3rd, 2015: Nouveau Classical Project performs at the Bard Graduate Center Art Gallery to celebrate "Fashioning the Body" exhibit, NYC

April 25th, 2015: Columbia Composers concert with Wet Ink Ensemble Premiering "K. Tracing," a new violin concerto by Ryan Pratt The Dimenna Center for Classical Music, NYC

April 23rd, 2015: The Rhythm Method performs on "Ancient Melodies Reimagined," by Baxton Alexander. Lutheran Church of the Messiah, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

April 9th and 10th, 2015: Nouveau Classical Project presents "Sacred/Profane" Premiering "Sororatorio," a cuntata by Vin Calianno, and arrangements of Ockeghem's "Missa Prolationum" by Marina Kifferstein Flamboyan Theater, NYC

Louis Moreau Institute Week of March 12th, 2015 New Orleans, LA

February 26th, 2015 Dominican Independence Day celebration concert Association of Dominican Performing Artists Aaron Davis Hall, City College of New York

February 17th, 2015 TAK: Motors / Electric pizza party with music by Brook, Smárason, Diehls, Gatinet, and Coelho Invisible Dog Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

February 9th, 2014: Piano Trio concert honoring Martin Bresnick, with Liam Veuve and Danny Walden, at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City

February 4th, 2015: Meaghan Burke and The Rhythm Method at Joe's Pub, NYC

January 10th, 2015: The Power of Emotion, at La Mama, with TAK and the Televiolet Theater Company music by Taylor Brook

December 31st, 2014: Manchester Music Festival Annual New Year's Eve concert. First Congregational Church, Manchester, VT

December 7th, 2014: Columbia Composers concert with TAK, Mivos Quartet, Jeff Gavett, and William Schimmel Issue Project Room, Brooklyn

December 2nd, 2014: New York Composers Circle concert St. Peter's Church, NYC

November 21st, 2014: The Nouveau Classical Project, Notes on a Fiction: Orfeo, by Richard Powers. The Dimenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall

November 18th, 2014: Recital with pianist Daniel Colalillo and cellist Meaghan Burke. Works by Brahms, Ravel, Scriabin, and Messiaen

November 13th, 2014: "Una Noche Barroca" Presented by the Association of Dominican Classical Artists, Inc. Aaron Davis Hall, CCNY

November 12th, 2014 "Living Toys" with Contemporaneous Ear Heart Music Series, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY

November 7th, 2014: Osso String Quartet at the Faith and Work Conference W83 Ministry Center, New York

TAK with Tenth Intervention and ensemble, et al. Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn, NY

October 18th, 2014: Nouveau Classical Project residency at Rutgers University Performing the music of student composers

October 12th, 2014: It's a Secret – A new experimental music/theater piece by Jue Wang and Adam Mirza New York University

October 8th, 2014: The Nouveau Classical Project, 2nd Annual Benefit honoring Marilyn Nonken The DiMenna Center for Classical Music

The Rhythm Method: European debut performances September 4th, 2014: Café Luz, Lucerne, Switzerland September 13th, 2014: La Marbrerie, Montreuil, France

August 23rd, 2014: Concert Master of the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, conductor. "Coro," by Luciano Berio; "Rondes de Printemps," Claude Debussy KKL Luzern, Switzerland

September 1, 8, and 9, 2014: Concert Master of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Matthias Pintscher, conductor. Helmut Lachenmann, "Concertini." KKL Luzern; Kölner Philharmonie, Germany; Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, Germany

June 13th, 2014: Shattered Glass with Alexander Markov, violin. "From Baroque to Paganini" Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage

June 6th, 2014 The Rhythm Method on Vox Hebraica; Works by Zorn, Faingold, and Ligeti. The Actors' Temple, NYC

May 29th, 2014 Premiere of "Potential Energies" at BAM Fisher with the Nouveau Classical Project. Conceived by Sugar Vendil, Music composed by Trevor Gureckis, Choreographed by Barbie Diewald. In collaboration with the TrioDance Collective

May 25th, 2014 TAK at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Benzaquen Hall. Premiere performances of works by Marek Poliks and Sam Pluta; new works by Taylor Brook and David Bird

April 24th, 2014: Soloist, Berio "Corale" with the Tactus Ensemble, conducted by Kyle Ritenauer [[video link]]

March 14th, 2014: TAK at Oberlin Performance in Fairchild Chapel; Master Class organized by the Oberlin Modern Music Guild

February 23rd, 2014: Masters Recital, Manhattan School of Music. Works by Ysaye, Debussy, Brook, Bird, Berio, and Kifferstein.

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