As Americans just voted in the recent US Presidential Election, let alone an important one, could this election cycle be our last? Ensemble in Process presents Politics as Usual?, an evening concert that will explore the complexity and various dynamics in the political atmosphere. Politics as Usual? will cover themes pertaining to social unrest, gun violence, news broadcasts, presidential corruption and peace activism.

Politics as Usual? will feature composed works by Marcos Balter, Ruby Fulton, Frederic Rzewski, and yours truly, with performances and collaborations from Hugh Ash, Cole Bartels, Tessa Brinckman, Allyson Clare, David Friend, Ford Fourquerean, Nick Pauly, Hikaru Tamaki, and yours truly.

Politics as Usual? is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts, which includes a new work by yours truly, specifically created for this event.

Tickets can be purchased here:

Politics As Usual?

Payton MacDonald’s Percussion Studio will give a live premiere of Contact, a work for 3 percussion and video installation, at the Shea Center for Performing Arts at William Paterson University on 27 November at 7.30pm. More info TBA.

Join Ensemble in Process for a lovely salon like evening at a private residence in the Lower East Side, featuring collaborations with Brian Mark, Randall Woolf, Allyson Clare, Alexander Baxter and Nick Pauly. Additional artists and concert programme TBA shortly.

Ensemble in Process will have its next live event at The Cell Theatre, NYC on 26 October, 2023 at 8pm. Just in time for the Halloween holiday, Processing the Supernatural will be concert of works with themes pertaining to the paranormal. Works to be performed by Katharine Balch, Tessa Brinckman, Erik Satie, Juhi Bansal, Missy Mazzoli, and yours truly. Processing the Supernatural will feature performance collaborations by Tessa Brinckman, Allyson Clare, Rose Hegele, Mithuna Sivaraman, James Acampora, Hikaru Tamaki, and yours truly.

Tickets can be purchased here:

Processing the Supernatural

BGSU based vocalists Keri Lee Pierson and Carolyn Ashley Anderson will give the world premiere of What you Seek: A Song Cycle based on 3 Rumi Texts, for 2 sopranos, singing bowl, delay pedal and multi effects processing on October 21, 2.30pm at the 44th Annual Bowling Green New Music Festival.

https://www.bgsu.edu/musical-arts/maccm/new-music-festival.html

I will be interviewed by Engage Art to discuss my collaboration with Cole Bartels on our award winning work Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free and other works of mine, tomorrow, 21 August at 12pm EST, live on Facebook. Hope you can make it!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1547717819368977/

Southwestern based flutist Beth Ratay gives a virtual performance of my solo flute piece “La Voix du Dauphin” as part of her online performance series on YouTube.

Ensemble in Process makes its Northern California debut with a second performance from our successful concert at Spectrum NYC on the 14th of September, 2019.  Light of Strings is a special concert that will take the audience on an intimate journey of faith, spirituality, catharsis, grief, redemption, and light. Brian Mark (piano) and Allyson Clare (violin) will perform a combination of solo and duet works for piano and violin, viola. Light of Strings will include works by Ryan Brown, Meredith Monk*, Erik Satie*, Missy Mazzoli, Oliver Messiaen, Michael Gordon*, and other works and performers TBA shortly.

* = denotes works with video installation

After being postponed for 2 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ensemble in Process finally makes its West Coast debut with a concert dedicated to works accompanied by visuals on screen, an homage to the art of Hollywood cinema: Ensemble in Visual Motion. Brian Mark (piano) and Allyson Clare (violin/viola) debut their California tour with works by Brian Mark, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, Ursula Kwong-Brown, Ian Dicke, Yann Tiersen, Michael Gordon, and Ted Hearne. Also on this programme includes a performance by LA based clarinetist Dana Howell.

Tickets for this event can be purchased here.

Ensemble in Process makes its Midwest debut with Madison based trombonist Cole Bartels, who will be performing a duo concert set with works for solo trombone, piano, and the Beltline Bones, with two works written for Bartels and his quartet from Brian Mark. Surrealist Dreamscapes will also feature works written by Eve Beglarian, Missy Mazzoli, Pauline Oliveros, David Lang, Michael Gordon, Erik Satie, and Yann Tiersen. Additionally, this concert is presented as a celebration of the public release (in late April 2022) of Cole Bartels’ debut solo album On the Brink. Links for tickets TBA.

Following the set that will be programmed at the 2021 New Music Gathering Conference, Ensemble in Process: “Processing the American Dream” has also been selected to be featured at the 2021 Arc Project in the UK on the 18th of December at 1pm GMT, alongside a curated performance by Canadian violinist Claudia Schaer. “Processing the American Dream” will be a virtual set of works by Meredith Monk, Ian Dicke, and yours truly, with performances and collaborations from Luke Gullickson (Piano), Cole Bartels (Trombone) and Kate Alexendrite (Video Installation). More info for the link TBA.

The Astoria Music Project gives its second live performance of “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)”, a small chamber ensemble work based on the text of Langston Hughes. This performance will take place at Scholes St. Studio in Brooklyn on December 5th at 4pm, along with works by other New York City based composers. The Astoria Music Project originally commissioned and premiered this work as part of their Call for Scores from 2019.

I will be presenting a 20 minute set of three works at Sweet Briar College for an evening salon concert, as part of being a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Works to be programmed/showcased/performed by Meredith Monk, Joseph Gregorio, and yours truly. This set will also include video installation and an accompaniment of a choreographed pre-recorded video by Jordan Ryder.

“Harlem (A Dream Deferred),” a small chamber ensemble work based on the poem by Langston Hughes, will be performed by members of Fresh Squuezed Opera at the Cell Theatre in NYC , 7.30pm, as part of their annual Showcase. This performance was postponed from November of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More information about this Showcase can be found here.

“Construction STILL in Process…” for large ensemble/chamber orchestra will be read and performed by the Pacific Chamber Orchestra’s “Dream American Emerging Composer Workshop”, under the baton of Lawrence Kohl. This will take place at the First Presbyterian Church in Livermore, CA at 4pm PST. You can read more about the upcoming workshop here.

“BASELINE: A Night of Dance” at the Brick presents four dance works from various artists. which includes my very own “The Illusion of Separateness,” choreographed by Jordan Ryder and performed by Laura Mendes, Alyssa Myers and Oscar Antonio Rodriguez. More information of this event can be found here.

Ensemble in Process teams up with RyderDance for two hour concerts (back to back) at the Old Stone House of Brooklyn on October 17th (2.30pm and 4.30pm). The Illusion of Separateness will be a collaborative journey dissecting the new reality of “social distancing” and the human ability to connect during a time of being apart. Works by Meredith Monk, Erik Satie, Joseph Gregorio, and yours truly, with a new work (title of event) written for this event. Performers include Madeline Hocking (Violin), Cole Bartels (Trombone), with Brian Mark on piano, and dancers Laura Mendes, Alyssa Myers, Oscar Antonio Rodriguez, and Miriam Rose. The Illusion of Separateness was made possible by the Brooklyn Arts Council, as it was awarded a grant this year. Tickets can be purchased here.

Ensemble in Process makes its debut with the New Music Gathering Conference Collective. At 5pm CST, New Music Gathering will include a virtual set by Ensemble in Process: “Processing the American Dream”, as this year’s theme by the organization pertains to money. “Processing the American Dream” features works by Meredith Monk, Ian Dicke, and yours truly, with performances and collaborations from Luke Gullickson (Piano), Cole Bartels (Trombone) and Kate Alexendrite (Video Installation). In addition, New Music Gathering has also programmed Patrick Grant and NMG Artists, and Kaley Lane Eaton during this hour concert. You can watch the link here.

Ensemble in Process… presents its virtual event of a live concert was supposed to take place in Los Angeles last year, but was postponed due to COVID-19. Ensemble in Visual Motion will be a concert dedicated to works accompanied by visuals on screen, with an homage to the art of Hollywood cinema. Works by Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Allison-Loggins Hull, Ursula Kwong-Brown, Juhi Bansal, Erik Satie, Robert Elfman, Ted Hearne, Ian Dicke, and Brian Mark. Performances by Gleb Kanasevich, Cole Bartels, Philip Snyder, Allyson Clare, Rose Hegele, Hunter Gross, Elijah Shina, Zach Wilson, Diane Wade, and Brian Mark. The event will be livestreamed both on YouTube and Facebook from 7-8.30pm on Sunday, 16 May, 2021.

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free will be exhibited on this virtual recital curated by Cole Bartels (who originally commissioned this work), with other pieces by Alex Ring Gray, Evan Williams, Inez McComas, Jacob TV, Brianna Ware, and Colin Holter. For more information, please click here.

Ensemble in Process… tackles the current global warming crisis with a variety of works pertaining to the environment, nature, ocean landscapes, and of other aspects of climate change. Processing Global Warming will include works by Jon Lin Chua*, John Adams, Allison Loggins-Hull, Evan Fein, Ian Dicke, Brian Mark, Juhi Bansal, and Darian Thomas, with performances from the US, UK and Hungary, featuring Allyson Clare, Rose Hegele, Philip Snyder, Helen Vidovich, Madeline Hocking, and Brian Mark. Any donation proceeds from this concert will be freely given to the Coalition for Rainforest Nations. Note, this event will be pre-recorded and streamed online, as it was rescheduled from the cancelled April 18 live performance in Brooklyn, NYC due to COVID-19. More information coming soon for link of performance!

• = denotes video installation

As a participant of the 2020 Sō Percussion Summer Institute, I’m pleased that my earlier 2012 piece “Contact” was revised for this festival, with a video installation of the work created for the workshop. The festival with 19 new work premieres begins at 4pm and ends at 9pm, with “Contact” being featured on the 6pm set. “Contact” was recorded by Hunter Gross, Elijah Shina, and Zach Wilson. You can stream the marathon on YouTube or Facebook. More information of the festival can be found here.

Ensemble in Process… makes its Northern California debut with a second performance from our successful concert at Spectrum NYC on the 14th of September, 2019.  Light of Strings is a special concert that will take the audience on an intimate journey of faith, spirituality, catharsis, grief, redemption, and light. Brian Mark (piano) and Allyson Clare (violin) will perform a combination of solo and duet works for piano and violin, viola. Ensemble in Process… also welcomes performing artists Charith Premawardhana (viola), and James Jaffe (violoncello). Light of Strings will include works by Ryan Brown, Meredith Monk*, Erik Satie*, Missy Mazzoli, Oliver Messiaen, Michael Gordon*, and a West Coast Premiere of Brian Mark’s "towers, beautiful, mourning, Tuesday.”

* = denotes works with video installation

Tickets can be purchased HERE

I will be performing a few solo works along with Allyson Clare (violin) at the Revolution Cafe in San Francisco, as part of our West Coast Tour for Ensemble in Process…

As part of receiving a COVID-19 Relief grant from Live from our the Living Rooms Online Festival and Fundraising Organisation, I will be giving my first live streaming event. Press||Pause, as part of Ensemble in Process's ongoing concert series, will be my first full length event exclusively dedicated to solo piano works. Press||Pause will include works by John Adams, Meredith Monk*, Evan Fein*, LJ White, Yann Tiersen*, Ian Dicke, and yours truly*. Press||Pause will take place from my very own living room in Brooklyn, NYC, and will be streamed live via Facebook here.

* = denotes works with video installation

Ensemble in Process… tackles the current global warming crisis with a variety of works pertaining to the environment, nature, ocean landscapes, and of other aspects of climate change. Processing Global Warming will include works by Evan Fein, Ian Dicke, John Adams, John Luther Adams, Steve Reich, and Brian Mark, with performances by Allyson Clare, Rose Hegele, Philip Snyder, and Brian Mark. Other composers TBA. All proceeds from this concert will be freely given to the Coalition for Rainforest Nations.

Was the Universe designed by a Minimalist for brass quintet will have its world premiere as part of Cole Bartels’ second DMA Recital. Also composers featured on this programme are works by Elizabeth Raum, Natalie Dietterich, Mary Mixter, Brianna Drevlow, Katy Abbott, and Caroline Shaw.