Talujon ensemble: photo by Richard Blinkoff

Talujon, while maintaining a busy touring schedule, continues to produce original programs in New York City to great praise, having received the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. Talujon’s upcoming season will feature the music of John Cage and new commissions by Ross Bauer, David Felder, Phil Kline, Steve Ricks, Amy Williams and others. These performances will take place at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Roulette, Issue Project Room, The DiMenna Center and St. Peter’s Church in New York City.

Update: Premieres Concert
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at 8pm
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th Street, New York, NY

New Works for percussion by Steve Ricks, Marc Mellits, Ross Bauer, and more.

Matthew GreenbaumNEXT WEEK’S CONCERT - LOTS TO SEE AND HEAR!!! (including insect drag)   

AMPHIBIAN/CYBERSOUNDS

March 25 8PM     HIART GALLERY 227 W29

Aaron Einbond: BESIDE ONESSELF Stephanie Griffin, viola, processed sound
Andrew Taylor: down/out/through Priscilla Smith, soprano, electronics premiere

Matthew Greenbaum: AUTOMAT (2012) ACA (music/video) premiere
Randall Woolf: REVENGE! (Film/film score)

Annie Gosfeld: SHOOT THE PLAYER PIANO (video)

Mari Kimura: ATMOS for recorded tape (1996, revised 2006)
Heidi Jacob: SALOME REVISITED (electronic sound)
Maurice Wright: NEW WORK

Future concerts:

April 12: AARON STEWART, SAXOPHONES: RECITAL

Luciano Berio: Sequenza IXb
Hayes Biggs: NEW WORK

Melissa Pausina: NEW WORK

Matthew Greenbaum: Bits and Pieces      

Lawrence DillonOn Sunday, April 21, 2013 - 4 pm LAWRENCE DILLON's Amadeus ex Machina will be performed by the Boca Raton Symphonia, Constantine Kitsopoulos, Guest Conductor.  Venue: The Roberts Theatre at Andrews Hall; Center for the Performing Arts at Saint Andrew’s School. 3900 Jog Rd., Boca Raton, FL 3343. Other works on the program include DVORAK Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 53 and BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8.

From the composer's notes:  Amadeus ex machina is a whimsical re-imagining of Mozart's 40th symphony from the perspective of a sophisticated - but somewhat disoriented - machine. Themes are mixed and matched in odd combinations, key centers are skewed in unexpected directions, and the entire composition is condensed into a ten-minute soundbite.

Peninsula Womens Chorus

Peninsula Womens Chorus to perform multiple performances of William DeFotis's brief, yet hauntingly moving choral work, the full title of which is as follows:

How Many Times Had We Found Ourselves Mouthing Received Opinions, Using the Language of Oppression, Before We No Longer Had Any Claim to Be Oblivious to Our Having Become Both Victim and Perpetrator of Injustice?

New Music for Treble Voices Festival concert season:

Sunday, April 7th 2013 4:00 p.m. All Saints Episcopal Church 555 Waverley St Palo Alto, CA

 May concerts: Sunday, May 5, 2013 2:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 12, 2013 2:00 p.m. 
Mission Santa Clara
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
, Santa Clara, CA 


Saturday, May 11, 2013 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:00 p.m. 
San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores)
3321 16th Street
, San Francisco, CA 


The Peninsula Women's Chorus (PWC) is a 50-voice women's choir performing high-quality classical and contemporary music. The PWC inspires and enriches its audiences through its concert series, its ongoing program of premiering new works, and its collaborations with other Bay Area performing groups. The PWC is a two-time winner of Chorus America’s prestigious ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and has performed three times by invitation at the national American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) convention. Since the fall of 2003, the PWC has been directed by Martín Benvenuto.

Composer and conductor William DeFotis was born in Chicago in 1953.  He studied composition with Herbert Brün, Ben Johnston, and Morgan Powell at the University of Illinois (B.M. and M.M.) and conducting with James Dixon at the University of Iowa (D.M.A.).  In 1977 he was awarded a Fulbright

Composer Robert Carl: (breakfast in Japan)On Feb. 23rd, the premiere of Robert Carl's Processional: “A Tree Rises” for zheng and bass clarinet took place at Conservatory Connections, Nelson Atkins-Museum of Art, (Kirkwood Gallery) in Kansas City, MO.

Upcoming performances of music by Robert Carl include:

March 3, 3 PM: Changing My Spots for variable instrumentation; The Generous Ensemble, Scott Comanzo, director, Westfield State College, Westfield MA.

March 11, 7:30 PM, Merkin Hall, New York City: premiere of The Geography of Loss for soprano, baritone, chamber choir, and 8 instrumentalists; Khorikos, Jesse Peckham, conductor, with Jolle Greenleaf, soprano and Vince Vincent, baritone. Get tickets here.

March 20, 7:30 PM, Lincoln Theater, University of Hartford: premiere of The Inevitable Wave (C) for chamber orchestra and fixed media; Foot in the Door, Edward Cumming conductor.

Robert Carl  (b.1954) received his musical training at Yale, Penn, and the University of Chicago. He also studied in Paris during 1980-1 as a Lurcy Fellow at the Conservatoire

Spring Concert series 2013 -at the Center for New Music at the University of Iowa:   ensemble: Périphérie to perform works by  Ades, E:P at the University of Iowa, April 2011Dahn, Dangerfield, Dubkova, Gompper and Karchin, on Sunday, March 10, Riverside Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. Karchin's 2012 Four Songs on Poems of Seamus Heaney, is a setting of Heaney's Lightenings i and iv,The Rain Stick, and Settings xxiv, for Soprano solo, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion (1), and piano.

The ensemble will also perform the work March 6 at Northern Illinois Univesity; March 7 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; March 8 at the University of Minnesota; and March 9 at Coe College, Iowa.

These will feature soprano Michelle Crouch, and John Dangerfield conducting.   Later in the year, on Sat., October 26, they will present the work as part of the ensemble's Carnegie/Weill Hall debut concert.

The mission of the newly established Ensemble: Périphérie is to promote contemporary music by presenting stimulating and inspiring concerts of new

A Project for the Transmission of European Cultural History

The Gémeaux Quartett Gémeaux Quartett will perform Five Songs for Soprano and String Quartet op. 40 by Karl Weigl in April at the Goethe Institute in Paris and at the Britten Theatre in London as part of the "Esther Project", organized by the ProQuartet.

ProQuartet has joined the European project known as ESTHER, European Strategies for Holocaust Remembrance, which is supported by the European Commission and the Paris city hall.

The event will run from June 1, 2012 to May 31, 2014 in Germany, Great Britain, Austria, Finland and France and will revolve around a common topic: the rediscovery and rehabilitation of musicians - composers and performers - who suffered from the consequences of the cultural policy of the Third Reich for political or racial reasons.

Weigl emigrated to the United States in 1938 together with his second wife, Valerie (Vally) and his son. He obtained a number of  important teaching posts: at the Hartt School of Music, at Brooklyn College, at the Boston Conservatory and, from 1948 on, at the Philadelphia Academy of Music. He was an important early member of ACA, which continues to publish more than 200 of his works. He died in New York in 1949.

Representing four different nations, the Gémeaux Quartett is one of the leading ensembles of its generation. During the 2010/11 season, the Quartet made their highly acclaimed debut at the Philharmonie in Berlin.