Experience the tremendous creativity of two great musical minds—John Adams and Andrew Norman—coming together. The LA Phil New Music Group has been performing cutting-edge works since its founding in 1981, with Adams conducting many of the ensemble’s most fascinating programs. Norman, “the leading American composer of his generation” (Los Angeles Times), curates this very special concert. More info here.

Program

MARTIN FRANCISCO MAYO New Work for Four Double Basses (World Premiere)

GABRIELA ORTIZ Exilios

ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Fog

KATHERINE BALCH New Work (World Premiere)

ANDREW NORMAN Try

About this Performance

Two of the LA Phil’s closest artistic partners, composers John Adams and Andrew Norman, collaborate on an evening of thought-provoking new music.

Program

• Martin Francisco MAYO new work (world premiere, LA Phil commission)

• Gabriela ORTÍZ Exilios

• Esa-Pekka SALONEN Fog

• Intermission

• Katherine BALCH new work for ensemble (world premiere, LA Phil commission)

• Andrew NORMAN Try  (LA Phil commission)

More info here

I’m thrilled that drip music will be performed by the Formalist Quarter at the International Society of Contemporary Music’s World Music Days as the U.S.A. selection!

 Friday 24 April, 8pm at Q Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand.

More info here.

April 16, 2020 | 7 pm

John Kleshinski Concert Series                                                                                         

Presented by the Community Music Center of Boston. Works by Balch, Ko, Bolaños, and Coleman.

More info here.

FREE Fenway Center Community Chamber Concerts
77 St Stephen St
Boston, MA 02115

Boston Symphony Orchestra

General Admission

Doug BALLIETT Beast Fight (10’)
Katherine BALCH Kalesa Ed Kaluca, for seven double basses(10’)
FRANÇAIX Duo Baroque (18’)
BARTÓK Duos for two violins (selections, for double basses) (15’)

Eric Finbarr Carey, tenor; Charles Overton, harp; 
Benjamin Levy, Dennis Roy, Lawrence Wolfe, John Stovall, Todd Seeber, Thomas Van Dyck, Carl Anderson, double bass

The BSO's Community Chamber Music Series at Northeastern University invites Boston-based audiences to attend community concerts just down the street from Symphony Hall, taking advantage of the Fenway Center's outstanding acoustics and location. Students and faculty in the Music Department at Northeastern's College of Arts, Media and Design take an active role in the concert series by leading pre-concert talks, providing program notes, and handling the behind-the-scenes work such as recording the performance for archival purposes. The series is part of ongoing BSO efforts to involve both students and members of the local community.

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TLI Concert
BALLIETT, BALCH, FRANÇAIX & BARTÓK

Tanglewood

Linde Center - Lenox, MA View Map

Eric Finbarr Carey, tenor
Charles Overton, harp
Carl Anderson, Benjamin Levy, Dennis Roy, Todd Seeber, John Stovall, Thomas Van Dyck & Lawrence Wolfe, double bass

Doug BALLIETT Beast Fight
Katherine BALCH Kalesa Ed Kaluca for seven double basses
FRANÇAIX Duo Baroque
BARTÓK Duos for two violins (selections, for double basses)

Rush Hour Concert
Celebrated artists perform chamber music from Baroque to contemporary in the intimate and sumptuous surroundings of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library. All concerts last approximately one hour.

Argus Quartet
Juri Seo, “Winter-Spring” from Infinite Season (commissioned for the Argus Quartet with generous support from the Koussevitzky Foundation)
Katherine Balch, drip music (commissioned for the Argus Quartet by Concert Artists Guild, with generous support from the Adele and John Gray Endowment Fund)
Smetana, String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, “From My Life”

Tuesday, March 31, 2020, 6:30 PM

Tickets:

$30; $25 for Morgan Members. Seating is limited.

tickets and more info here

SHOWCASING CONTEMPORARY WOMEN - MARCH 21, 22 & 23

Saturday, 21 March 2020: 2:00 PM - Discovery Open Rehearsal

Saturday, 21 March 2020: 7:30 PM

Sunday, 22 March 2020: 3:00 PM

Monday, 23 March 2020: 7:30 PM

at: Weill Hall at the Green Music Center

Conductor: Gemma New, guest conductor

Performer(s): Jennifer Frautschi, violin

Program:

KATHERINE BALCH : like a broken clock

SAINT-SAËNS : Violin Concerto No. 3

BEETHOVEN : Symphony No. 6, Pastorale

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An evening of meditations on our connection to our environment, to each other, and to our inner selves. Our shifting climate and landscapes have profound effects on both the natural world and our way of life. Fear No Music explores the ramifications through pieces by Carmen Braden, Dorothy Chang, Katherine Balch, David T. Little and Erin Gee. Gee’s Mouthpiece 28 stands out on this program for its “hushed 3 nonverbal sounds supported by subtle instrumental effects (which) project an intimate sound world…the result is original, powerful, and haunting.” (American Academy of Arts and Letters, Charles Ives Fellowship Recipient, 2015)

Monday, March 23rd @ 7:30 pm, The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave, Portland, OR

More info here.

SHOWCASING CONTEMPORARY WOMEN - MARCH 21, 22 & 23

Saturday, 21 March 2020: 2:00 PM - Discovery Open Rehearsal

Saturday, 21 March 2020: 7:30 PM

Sunday, 22 March 2020: 3:00 PM

Monday, 23 March 2020: 7:30 PM

at: Weill Hall at the Green Music Center

Conductor: Gemma New, guest conductor

Performer(s): Jennifer Frautschi, violin

Program:

KATHERINE BALCH : like a broken clock

SAINT-SAËNS : Violin Concerto No. 3

BEETHOVEN : Symphony No. 6, Pastorale

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March 22, 2020, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Alexander Kasser Theater

Sponsor: John J. Cali School of Music | Cost $15.00 | Posted In: Cali School of Music

Performing Claude Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Benjamin Britten's Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Katherine Balch's Leaf Catalogue, and Beethoven's Symphony No. More info here.

SHOWCASING CONTEMPORARY WOMEN - MARCH 21, 22 & 23

Saturday, 21 March 2020: 2:00 PM - Discovery Open Rehearsal

Saturday, 21 March 2020: 7:30 PM

Sunday, 22 March 2020: 3:00 PM

Monday, 23 March 2020: 7:30 PM

at: Weill Hall at the Green Music Center

Conductor: Gemma New, guest conductor

Performer(s): Jennifer Frautschi, violin

Program:

KATHERINE BALCH : like a broken clock

SAINT-SAËNS : Violin Concerto No. 3

BEETHOVEN : Symphony No. 6, Pastorale

tickets and more info here

Donato Cabrera leads the California Symphony in the premiere of Illuminations, a song cycle for three voices and orchestra, written for soloists Alexandra Smither, Molly Netter, and Kelly Guerra.

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 follows.

4pm, Lesher Center for the Arts

More info here.

Donato Cabrera leads the California Symphony in the premiere of Illuminations, a song cycle for three voices and orchestra, written for soloists Alexandra Smither, Molly Netter, and Kelly Guerra.

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 follows.

8pm, Lesher Center for the Arts

More info here.

Duo RoMi

March 11, 12:00 pm
Queensborough Performing Arts Center
222-05 56th Avenue
Bayside, NY 11364
free admission

Music by Vera Stanojevic, Katherine Balch, and Tonia Ko.

NYC: split bill w/ Marina Kifferstein + Meaghan Burke

We are very excited to premiere a new work by Haukur Þór Harðarson, a Berlin-based Icelandic composer. He composes with a unique sensitivity to acoustic sounds and the physicality of listening spaces. The piece will feature a commissioned text by poet Sophie Fetokaki as well! 

Program:
Lotófagos - Beat Furrer
Poems for the fire - Haukur Þór Harðarson with text by Sophie Fetokaki (world premiere!!!)
VULNERR - Dan Lewis
Vidi l'angelo nel marmo - Katherine Balch

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Marina Kifferstein (violin) and Meaghan Burke (cello) will present some new pieces that they've been working on together!!

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Friday, March 6

8pm

Scholes Street Studio

375 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY 11206

$15/person at the door

New Textures and Tones

We are very excited to premiere a new work by Haukur Þór Harðarson, a Berlin-based Icelandic composer. He composes with a unique sensitivity to acoustic sounds and the physicality of listening spaces. The piece will feature a commissioned text by poet Sophie Fetokaki as well! 

​This is a house concert in Cambridge with limited capacity, so we kindly ask that you send us a message on social media platforms or email us (departureduo@gmail.com) to reserve your spot. We will confirm by sending you the address.​

Program:
Lotófagos - Beat Furrer
Poems for the fire - Haukur Þór Harðarson with text by Sophie Fetokaki (world premiere!!!)
VULNERR - Dan Lewis
Vidi l'angelo nel marmo - Katherine Balch

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Thursday, March 5

8pm

House Concert in Cambridge (RSVP in advance!)

​$15/suggested donation at the door

Young Concert Artists

This popular lunchtime series features some of the most exciting young musicians performing today.

Omer Quartet with Hanzhi Wang, accordion
Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonatas, K. 9, 146, 159

Alfred Schnittke, Revis Fairy Tale
Moszkowski, Étincelles
Haydn, String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20, No. 3
Katherine Balch (YCA Composer), With Each Breathing
Daniel Nelson, My Inner Disco

The collaboration of the Omer Quartet and Hanzhi Wang was the real surprise of the evening, a genuine find and a genuine delight. —Communities Digital News (Washington, D.C.)

This concert is supported by the Young Concert Artists Summis Auspiciis Fund.

Wednesday, January 29, 2020, noon

Tickets:

$25; $20 for Morgan Members

tickets and more info here

The ISO honors the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth by holding a celebration that will span a whole year, conducted only by Music Director Krzysztof Urbański. Beethoven forever changed the landscape of classical music, and to recognize that legacy, the ISO commissioned nine composers to write new pieces to be paired with each of the nine Beethoven symphonies. The celebration begins in January with three weekends dedicated to the first give Beethoven symphonies and other well-known works. The 2019–20 season comes to a close with all five Piano Concertos and Missa Solemnis, before the remaining four symphonies are performed in the fall of 2020

The January Beethoven 2020 celebration comes to a dramatic pause until May with two new commissions and Beethoven’s Fourth and Fifth Symphonies. The ominous first four notes of the Fifth Symphony make this one of Beethoven's best-known and most frequently played works. Robert Schumann described Beethoven's Fourth Symphony as "placid and serene—the most perfect in form of all the symphonies."

More info & tickets here.

Program:

BEETHOVEN

Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major

BEETHOVEN

Symphony No. 5 in C minor

HUW WATKINS

Commission

KATHERINE BALCH

Commission

5:30pm, Hilbert Circle Theater

The ISO honors the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth by holding a celebration that will span a whole year, conducted only by Music Director Krzysztof Urbański. Beethoven forever changed the landscape of classical music, and to recognize that legacy, the ISO commissioned nine composers to write new pieces to be paired with each of the nine Beethoven symphonies. The celebration begins in January with three weekends dedicated to the first give Beethoven symphonies and other well-known works. The 2019–20 season comes to a close with all five Piano Concertos and Missa Solemnis, before the remaining four symphonies are performed in the fall of 2020

The January Beethoven 2020 celebration comes to a dramatic pause until May with two new commissions and Beethoven’s Fourth and Fifth Symphonies. The ominous first four notes of the Fifth Symphony make this one of Beethoven's best-known and most frequently played works. Robert Schumann described Beethoven's Fourth Symphony as "placid and serene—the most perfect in form of all the symphonies."

More info & tickets here.

Program:

BEETHOVEN

Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major

BEETHOVEN

Symphony No. 5 in C minor

HUW WATKINS

Commission

KATHERINE BALCH

Commission

8pm, Hilbert Circle Theater

'American Dream' on the Bowerbird Series - Philadelphia, PA

• Wednesday, December 11, 2019

• 8:00 PM 10:00 PM

• University Lutheran Church (map)

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

Purchase Tickets Here

*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.

The prolific European composer responds to a major retrospective devoted to the celebrated British artist, with the London Sinfonietta.

Haas’ music aims to reflect Riley’s powerful and engaging work, showcased in a Hayward Gallery exhibition, featuring the artist’s iconic black-and-white paintings and expansive colourful canvases.

Experience a performance that amalgamates the creativity of two of the most extraordinary artists of our time.

Performers

London Sinfonietta
Brad Lubman conductor

Repertoire

Programme includes: -
GF Haas: New work (London premiere)
Katherine Balch: New Geometry

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London Sinfonietta

Katherine Balch (USA, 1991) New Geometry (2015)
Georg Freidrich Haas (Austria, 1953) Homage To Bridget Riley World Premiere

For this major London Sinfonietta commission, prolific contemporary composer Georg Friedrich Haas has written music in response to a retrospective celebrating British artist Bridget Riley, presented at Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery. Haas’ style, which juxtaposes different instrumental tunings, is a musical parallel to Riley’s intense visual aesthetic, which contrasts abstract blocks of colour in regular patterns – causing powerful visual sensations. Homage to Bridget Riley is a piece of music to submerge yourself in, and in this world premiere, London Sinfonietta will amalgamate the visions of two of the most extraordinary artists of our time.

St Paul’s Hall

University of Huddersfield
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire HD1 3DH United Kingdom

Phone:01484 430528

https://www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk/whats-on/georg-friedrich-haas

David Loebel conducts the NEC Philharmonia in a performance of like a broken clock alongside Haydn’s “Clock” Symphony and Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra

7:30pm, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall

more info here.

As part of Columbia University’s Miller Theater free Pop-Up series, Ensemble Échappé performs Music about Glowworms for flute and piano alongside works by Selim Göncü, Sean Shepherd, David Ludwig, and Nina C. Younge.

More information here.

The double bass fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center premiere Kalesa Ed Kaluca for double bass septet as part of TMC’s chamber music series @ Seiji Ozawa Hall.

More info & tickets here.

The Argus Quartet premieres a new work for string quartet @ Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. More info forthcoming.

The California Symphony premiers a new violin concerto written for and performed by Robyn Bollinger.

Tickets and more info here.

tickets here.