past performances // year 2014

DECEMBER 2014

• 12/9 (Tuesday) 8 p.m. :: Tuesdays @ Monk Space | European Currents

               gnarwhallaby performs Hirn & Ei by Carola Bauckholt

• 12/16 (Tuesday) 8 p.m. :: gnarwhallaby | Neighborhood Church, Pasadena

               Works by :: Spahlinger // Hespos // Schleiermacher // K. Lang // Kotoński

NOVEMBER 2014

• 11/1 (Saturday) 8 p.m. :: wild Up LAW OF MOSAICS | Zipper Hall

               Works by :: Steven Mackey // Kate Moore // Derek Bermel // Ted Hearne

• 11/8 (Saturday) 7:30 p.m. :: wild Up PULP | SB Arts and Lectures at Hahn Hall

               Works by :: Jarvinen // Zorn // Holter // Deyoe // Esquivel // Satie // Kallmyer

• 11/11 (Tuesday) 8:30 p.m. :: Piano Spheres Satellite Series | REDCAT

               NAKHT | A Solo Recital
               Francis Poulenc :: selections from Nocturnes (1929-38)
               Richard Valitutto :: as above, so below (2014) [World Premiere]
               Salvatore Sciarrino :: Due Notturni crudeli (2000)
               Olivier Messiaen :: La chouette hulotte (1956-58)
               Aleksandr Skryabin :: Poème-Nocturne, Op. 61 (1912)
               Nicholas Deyoe :: NCTRN (2014) [World Premiere]

• 11/18 (Tuesday) 8 p.m. :: Tuesdays @ Monk Space | Travels Through the Mist

               Panic Duo performs Richard Valitutto's frammenti notturni on a program with 
               other works by Nico Muhly, Jeffrey Holmes, Juhi Bansal, & Gernot Wolfgang

OCTOBER 2014

• 10/4 (Saturday) 8 p.m. :: gnarwhallaby | Boston Court
             Works by :: Smolka // Wambsgans // Deyoe // McIntosh // Górecki
• 10/14 (Tuesday) 8 p.m. :: gnarwhallaby | Neighborhood Church, Pasadena
  
             Works by :: Smolka // Wambsgans // Hölszky // McIntosh // Deyoe
• 10/19 (Sunday) 3:30 p.m. :: with Mark Menzies, violin | The Wild Beast @ CalArts

               Works by :: Beethoven // Webern // Lavista // Smolka //
                                  Dallapiccola // Rudhyar // Menzies // Valitutto

• 10/29 (Wednesday) 7:30 p.m. (doors @ 7) :: Invisible Cities CD Release | Union Station

               FREE (acoustic) live performance of entire opera with full orchestra and cast of 
               Christopher Cerrone's Pulitzer Prize finalist operatic adaptation of Calvino's novel.  
               Celebrating the release of the debut recording.

SEPTEMBER 2014

• 9/13 (Saturday) 8 p.m. :: wild Up & Ezralow Dance | The Ford Theatre

               Andriessen, Lang, et al. :: piano solos by Bach, Chopin, Beethoven, & Debussy

JUNE – AUGUST 2014

• 6/21 - 8/18 :: Tanglewood Music Center | Vocal Piano Collaborative Fellow

JUNE 2014

• 6/2 - 15 :: New Music on the Point Summer Festival // Collaborative Piano Fellow

MAY 2014

• 5/3 (Saturday) 6 p.m. HEAR NOW Festival 2014 | First Lutheran Church of Venice
          World Premiere of Nick Norton's All the Wrong Notes (2013) for solo piano
• 5/8 (Thursday) 7:30 p.m. gnarwhallaby sighting | Neighborhood Church, Pasadena

                  Works by :: Szalonek // Schleiermacher // Smolka // Rothman // Barros // Deyoe

• 5/10 (Saturday) 8 p.m.  Jacaranda Music | Abandon: Mozart, Debussy, and Pärt

                  Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa with Alyssa Park & Tereza Stanislav, violins

• 5/13 (Tuesday) 8 p.m.  Justine Aronson, soprano | Old Stone House, Brooklyn NY
          Works by ::  Britten // Cerrone // Deyoe // Harbison // Pratt
• 5/23 (Friday) 7:30 p.m. Operadagen Rotterdam | Recital with Timur Bekbosunov

                  Location: Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Schouwburgplein 25, 3012 CL Rotterdam
                  Works by :: Purcell // Handel // Rossini // Denisov // Bussotti // Rosenboom

APRIL 2014

• 4/8 (Tuesday) 10 p.m.  wild Up | LA Phil Minimalist Jukebox:"Maximum Minimalism"

                   with John Adams, ICE, Calder Quartet, & Nico Muhly
                   Works by :: Duckworth // Eastman // Adams // et al.

• 4/11 (Friday) 7:30 p.m.  Meredith Monk with Katie Geissinger | LACMA

                   between song with Meredith Monk, Katie Geissinger, and Brian Walsh.

• 4/12 (Saturday) 5 p.m.  Anne LeBaron | REDCAT Profile Concert 1

                   Creación de las Aves for solo piano

• 4/15 (Tuesday) 8 p.m. gnarwhallaby and The Joshua Trio | Art Share LA

                  gnarwhallaby | Grisey // Xenakis // Webern // Kurtág // Szalonek
                  The Joshua Trio | Ferneyhough // Murail // F. Schenker // Carey

• 4/28 (Monday) 8 p.m.  Justine Aronson, soprano | Neighborhood Church, Pasadena

                  Works by ::  Britten // Cerrone // Deyoe // Harbison // Pratt

MARCH 2014

• 3/5 (Wednesday) 8 p.m. a gnarwhallaby sighting | Neighborhood Church, Pasadena
          Works by :: Denisov // Deyoe // McIntosh // Barbier // K. Lang // Dobrowolski

• 3/7 (Friday) 7:30 p.m.  wild Up | First Fridays at the Natural History Museum
  
           with San Fermin and Son Lux
• 3/13-15 (Thurs-Sat) 8 p.m.  The Trans-Centurial Harpsichord | Machine Project
           In Machine Project's 17-seat mini-theater, Sepand Shahab and Richard Valitutto 
           will present solo harpsichord music from the last four centuries.
           Works by :: L. Couperin // Andriessen // Krausas // Takemitsu  // Zender
• 3/30 (Sunday) 4 p.m.  Fazioli Piano Series | Recital at the Italian Cultural Institute
  
            Featuring Italian and American contemporary chamber works performed with 
                  Peabody Southwell, mezzo-soprano
                  Andrew McIntosh, violin
                  and gnarwhallaby, heterophonic avant-garde quartet
                  Works by :: Berio // Respighi // Rothman // Deyoe // Valitutto // Pratt

FEBRUARY 2014

• 2/22 (Saturday) 8 p.m. wild Up | Santa Ana Sites: wild Up in the Santora Arts Building

                  Performances as soloist and with wild Up, Andrew McIntosh, Justine Aronson

• 2/26 (Wednesday) 7 p.m.  valitutto plays feldman | Neighborhood Church, Pasadena

                  Program:    Nature Pieces (1951) // Palais de Mari (1986)
                                    Extensions 3 (1952) // For Bunita Marcus (1985)
                  Admission: $10 // general :: $5 // students

• 2/16 (Sunday) 4 & 6 p.m.  wild Up | WORK with Ellen Reid | "Modern Odysseus"

JANUARY 2014

• 1/6 (Monday) 8 p.m.  Monday Evening Concerts | Newman and Beethoven

                  U.S. Premiere of C. Newman's Weird Words in a Language which we Understand
                  with Andrew Tholl, violin and Ashley Walters, violoncello

• 1/16-18 (Thurs-Sat) various times. gnarwhallaby | Kristen Smiarowski @ Automata

                  gnarwhallaby provides the musical accompaniment by Douglas Wadle to 
                  Kristen Smiarowski's THE KEY GAME PROJECT: Sleep, Staring, Well