September 5, 2025, 7:30pm
GORDON BEEFERMAN: DUETS
Mise-en-Place, 45 St. Nicholas Ave, New York, NY
Tickets $20 in advance or at the door
Gordon Beeferman – piano
Stephanie Griffin – viola
Susan Hefner – dance
Charlotte Jackson – poetry and prose
Dafna Naphtali – live electronic processing and voice
Gordon will be joined by four longtime close collaborators for an evening of duet performances.
Violist Stephanie Griffin has worked with Gordon since 2009 when she began performing his music with the Momenta Quartet, and later as a member of his avant-jazz group Other Life Forms (OLF). For this concert they will perform a short set of OLF repertoire, adapted for duo.
Susan Hefner is a dancer and choreographer whose boundary-defying, irreverent, comedic, moving work with her late partner, percussionist Michael Evans, inspired Gordon for many years; this is now their third collaboration.
Dafna Naphtali is a totally original and innovative improvising musician working primarily with live electronic processing, as well as voice. She and Gordon have worked together since 2014, when they recorded their album “Pulsing Dot.”
Charlotte Jackson and Gordon have been collaborators since 2003 when they started work on their first opera, “The Rat Land.” Since then they have written two more: “The Enchanted Organ: A Porn Opera” and “The Ninth Floor.” Charlotte will be drawing from her pithy, witty, and dark oeuvre of poetry and prose for their first joint reading/performance.
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