jan 10, friday // 8 pm // private home TBA // los angeles, ca Wild Up presents: darkness sounding | part 10: songs for one | valitutto an existential journey through aloneness, infatuation, solitude, distance, and (dis-/re-)connection. from Sondheim to Carly Rae Jepsen, Debussy sampling Björk, Shakespearean incantations, with a few interstitial contemporary piano solos, (and maybe a couple of your fave 90's songs).
jan 14, tuesday // 8 pm // zipper hall, the colburn school // los angeles, ca Piano Spheres solo recital | thought & desire Rebecca SAUNDERS // Ramon LAZKANO (US premiere) // Liza LIM // George WALKER // Linda SMITH // Helmut LACHENMANN // Francis POULENC
jan 29 - feb 1, wed - sat // (various times) // ithaca, ny (various locations) Ithaca Sounding 2020 | a festival and symposium of music by Ithacans past and present (curated by r. valitutto) 5 concerts of works by Julius EASTMAN // Robert PALMER // Sarah HENNIES // David BORDEN // Ann SILSBEE featuring performances by Joseph KUBERA // Adam TENDLER // David FRIEND // Sarah HENNIES // VALITUTTO // and many others
MAR 2020
mar 11, wednesday // 8 pm // barnes hall, cornell university // ithaca, ny solo recital Julius EASTMAN // Liza LIM // Linda Catlin SMITH // George WALKER // Eric WUBBELS
APR 2020
apr 13, monday // 8 pm // zipper hall, the colburn school // los angeles, ca Monday Evening Concerts | Davóne Tines: Recital No. 1 accompanying works by PURCELL // SCHUMANN // BRAHMS // BURLEIGH // premieres by Caroline SHAW & Tyshawn SOREY
recent past performances
DEC 2019
dec 10, tuesday // 7:30 pm // hauser & wirth // los angeles, ca Charles GAINES: Manifestos 3 3 piano solo works: "MLK" // "Princes and Powers (after Baldwin)" // "Visionary Recital (after Terry Adkins)"
dec 13, friday // 8 pm // CalPercLA // los angeles, ca Wild Up presents: darkness sounding | part 2: valitutto plays hennies | SOVT Sarah Hennies: SOVT [semi-occluded vocal tract] (2017) for prepared piano *west coast premiere
nov 22, friday // 8 pm // barnes hall, cornell university // ithaca, ny solo recital | Thought and Desire Ramon LAZKANO // Rebecca SAUNDERS // Linda Catlin SMITH // George WALKER // Francis POULENC // Clara SCHUMANN
SEPT 2019
sept 20, fri // 7:30 pm // fife theatre @ virginia tech's moss arts center // blacksburg, va wild up // FUTURE FOLK MOONDOG // The Velvet Underground // Julius EASTMAN // Meredith MONK // Frederic RZEWSKI // Alexander SCRIABIN
sept 22, sun // 3:30 pm // national gallery of art: west building // washington, d.c. wild up // a portrait: julius eastman Julius EASTMAN: femenine [1974] & joy boy [1974]
AUG 2019
sept 6 & 7, fri-sat // cornell university // ithaca, ny cornell center for historical keyboards presents: "new meets old: collaborative confrontations" festival fri 9/6, 8pm, sage chapel :: Miles FRIDAY: gesture sketches (premiere) for piano and electronics // MESSIAEN: Le traquet rieur sat 9/7 10:45 am, barnes hall :: Michael FINNISSY: selections from Verdi Transcriptions and Gershwin Arrangements sat 9/7 8 pm, barnes hall :: selected organ chorale preludes by Bach arr. Kurtág for piano duet with Xak Bjerken
APRIL 2019 Apr 18, Thurs // 8 pm // Areté Gallery, Greenpoint // Brooklyn, NY Convergences presents: Richard Valitutto // illusory mirrors piano solos by Rebecca Saunders // György Kurtág // Linda Catlin Smith // Artur Avanesov // with 2 premieres by Andrew McIntosh (LA) & Thomas Feng (NY) [half of a double-bill with percussionist Patricia Brennan]
April 17, Wed // 8 pm // Barnes Hall, Cornell University // Ithaca, NY illusory mirrors piano solos by Rebecca Saunders // György Kurtág // Linda Catlin Smith // Hunter Johnson // Artur Avanesov // Thomas Feng // Andrew McIntosh
MARCH 2019
Mar 17, Sun // 3 pm // Zipper Hall, The Colburn School // Los Angeles, CA Dilijan Chamber Music Series: REVERENCE (Hommage à Kurtág) piano solos by Kurtág // Avanesov // Bartók // Schubert // Rachmaninoff interspersed between string quartets by Kurtág // Avanesov // Petrossian
Mar 1, Fri // 7:30 pm // Christ United Methodist Church // Greensboro, NC Music for a Great Space presents: Richard Valitutto // OLD NORTH [modern and contemporary piano solos by North Carolinians] Caroline Shaw // Thelonious Monk // William Duckworth // Hunter Johnson // (und Chopin und Cage sein auch dabei)
FEBRUARY 2019 Feb 21, Thurs // 12:30 pm // Midday Music at Lincoln Hall // Cornell University, Ithaca NY OLD NORTH // Piano Music from North Carolina Caroline Shaw // Thelonious Monk // William Duckworth // Hunter Johnson // (und John Cage ist auch dabei)
Feb 4, Mon // 7:30 pm // Moeser Auditorium at UNC // Chapel Hill, NC Carolina Performing Arts presents: Wild Up // FUTURE FOLK Moondog // The Velvet Underground // Julius Eastman // Meredith Monk // Frederic Rzewski // Alexander Scriabin