past performances // season 2019-20
JAN 2020
jan 9, thursday // 7:30 pm // MLK auditorium @ santa monica public library // santa monica, ca
Soudwaves//Piano Spheres concert preview for "thought & desire"
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 30 - feb 2, thurs - sun // (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
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 2019
nov 8, friday // 7 pm // barnes hall, cornell university // ithaca, ny
mother mallard's portable masterpiece company | 50th anniversary concerts
David BORDEN: selections from The Continuing Story of Counterpoint on pianos, RMI Electra pianos, and original Moog synthesizers
nov 16, saturday // 8 pm // barnes hall, cornell university // ithaca, ny
"Performing Clara Schumann: Keyboard Legacies and Feminine Identities in the Long Romantic Tradition"
Clara SCHUMANN: 4 pièces fugitives, Op. 15
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
JUNE 2019
june 1, sat // 12noon-12midnight // walt disney concert hall // los angeles, ca
green umbrella series: noon to midnight festival
12:30 pm // BP hall: with monday evening concerts | philip glass: glassworks (1981)
5:00 pm // main concert hall: with wild up | world premieres by andrew greenwald, julianna barwick, plus jessie marino's rot blau
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 8, Fri // 8 pm // CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio at UNC // Chapel Hill, NC
Carolina Performing Arts presents: Wild Up // WE THE PEOPLE
John Lennon // Nina Simone // Louis Andriessen // X-Ray Spex // and more
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
jan 9, thursday // 7:30 pm // MLK auditorium @ santa monica public library // santa monica, ca
Soudwaves//Piano Spheres concert preview for "thought & desire"
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 30 - feb 2, thurs - sun // (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
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 2019
nov 8, friday // 7 pm // barnes hall, cornell university // ithaca, ny
mother mallard's portable masterpiece company | 50th anniversary concerts
David BORDEN: selections from The Continuing Story of Counterpoint on pianos, RMI Electra pianos, and original Moog synthesizers
nov 16, saturday // 8 pm // barnes hall, cornell university // ithaca, ny
"Performing Clara Schumann: Keyboard Legacies and Feminine Identities in the Long Romantic Tradition"
Clara SCHUMANN: 4 pièces fugitives, Op. 15
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
JUNE 2019
june 1, sat // 12noon-12midnight // walt disney concert hall // los angeles, ca
green umbrella series: noon to midnight festival
12:30 pm // BP hall: with monday evening concerts | philip glass: glassworks (1981)
5:00 pm // main concert hall: with wild up | world premieres by andrew greenwald, julianna barwick, plus jessie marino's rot blau
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 8, Fri // 8 pm // CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio at UNC // Chapel Hill, NC
Carolina Performing Arts presents: Wild Up // WE THE PEOPLE
John Lennon // Nina Simone // Louis Andriessen // X-Ray Spex // and more
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