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Charlotte Mundy October 6, 2014

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Upcoming:

November 18: TAK premieres Ashkan Behzadi's settings of Lorca poems at the Music Gallery, Toronto

November 23: TAK performs in Ottawa

November 26: TAK and Architek Percussion play four world premieres in Montreal

December 1: Ekmeles performs Trapani and Saariaho at the Dimenna Center

December 7-9: A Star Has Burnt My Eye at Skidmore College

December 10: New Student Works by Columbia undergraduate composers

December 14: A Star Has Burnt My Eye At Castleton University

January 16 - 17: Stranger Love concert performance, Prototype Festival

January 19-20: Iceland in New York festival with TAK, Loadbang, and the Errata collective at Scandinavia House

February 2: Messiaen's Poemes Pour Mí with Brooklyn Art Song Society

Recent (select):

October 14-21: The Apartment with TELE-Violet Theatre and TAK at Abrons Arts Center

October 7: Music by Cassandra Miller, Liza Lim and James Weekes with Ekmeles at The Crypt

October 1: Duo set with Laura Cocks on Broad Statements series at the Cell Theatre, 5pm

September 27: Music by John Cage, Julius Eastman and Petr Kotik on the Sacrum Profanum festival, Krakow, Poland

September 11: Semmelweis music from the new opera by Ray Lustig at the National Arts Club, 8pm, free

May 20: Ekmeles performs music by Christopher Trapani, Zosha di Castri, Joanna Bailie and Courtney Bryan at the Dimenna Center

May 11: TAK performs on the Chance and Circumstance Festival at JACK space

May 7: Cantatas by Doug Balliett on Music at Bunker Hill, Sewell, NJ

April 3-5: Niente-forte Festival, New Orleans residency with TAK

Mar. 27: The Passion settings of David Lang and Wolfgang Rihm with Ekmeles on Music Mondays

Mar. 4: World premiere by Hans Tutschku with Talea at Harvard

Feb. 9: Ekmeles sings new music by Taylor Brook, Erin Gee, Jeff Gavett at the Dimenna Center

Feb. 6-7: Ekmeles in Residence at Syracuse University

Jan. 27: TAK plays new music by John Rot, Erin Gee, Kate Soper, Luciano Leite Barbosa, Bryan Jacobs and Ray Evanoff at the Dimenna Center

Jan. 14: Pierrot Lunaire with Glass Farm Ensemble at Symphony Space

Jan. 13: TAK plays the I/O festival at Williams College

Dec. 20: David Lang's Little Match Girl Passion with Ekmeles, staged by Rachel Chavkin at the MET Museum

Dec. 10: Morton Feldman's Three Voices with Tenth Intervention

Dec. 8: TAK plays 'O Ignis Spiritus' by Mario Diaz De Leon on So Percussion's Brooklyn Bound concert series

Nov. 9-12: A Star Has Burnt My Eye on the Next Wave Festival at BAM

Sept. 24: CD Release Party for Ecstatic Music at University Settlement

Sept. 21-23: Residency at Gettysburg College with Ekmeles

Sept. 16: Morton Feldman's Three Voices with Thin Edge New Music at Array Space, Toronto

Sept. 8: Premiere of The Albertine Workout on the Resonant Bodies Festival at Roulette with TAK

Sept. 1: David Lang and J.S. Bach with Ekmeles and The Knights at the Skaneateles Festival

July 19-31: Martin Creed's The Back Door at the Park Avenue Armory

July 12: TAK plays music by Errata collective in Reykjavik, Iceland

July 10: TAK plays music by Errata collective in Ísaforðür, Iceland

May 25: World Premieres by Mario Diaz de Leon and Lewis Nielson with TAK at Roulette

May 21: Ekmeles with Mivos Quartet and Carlos Cordeiro at Dimenna Center

May 8-11: Residency at Mount Tremper Arts with TAK and Tele-violet

April 3: Songs by Cole and Dowland and Masterclass with Jordan Dodson at Montclair State University

March 11: Columbia Composers with Ekmeles and Yarn/Wire at Dimenna Center

March 6: Omnivore plays the songs of Joni Mitchell and Joanna Newsom at Rockwood Music Hall, 8:30pm

March 3: New Music from France with the League of Composers at NYU's Maison Français

February 17: Music of and around Nono with Ekmeles at National Sawdust

February 9: SWOON Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben, reimagined with The Colonials featuring a new song cycle by Doug Balliett with original poems by Jae Mae Barizo

January 22: Works for soprano by Oliver Knussen with Brooklyn Art Song Society

November 17: New Work by Tim Hecker at EMPAC

October 31: Pierrot Lunaire with Tenth Intervention

October 30: TAK @ The Crypt featuring music by John Rot, Bryan Jacobs, Luciano Leite Barbosa, Ray Evanoff, and Peter Kramer

October 25: Omnivore plays Rubber Soul at Rockwood Music Hall

August 13: Kimberton Chamber Music Festival with Jordan Dodson, Caroline Cole and Christine Lamprea

7/19 ELECTROVOX Natacha Diels - Banhoff; Bryan Jacobs - Improvisation; John Cage - Aria and Fontana Mix; Stuart Breczinski - Deviant; Jagoda Szmytka - Gameboy. At JACK, 505 1/2 Waverly Ave, BK, 8pm. $15/10. Produced by Qubit