Upcoming Concerts

Thursday, September 9, 2010, 1pm
Quartet New Generation
PASSAGES (2006)

Stuttgart, Germany
Musikfest Stuttgart
Kirche Sankt Elisabeth
Tickets € 16 More information

Monday, September 27, 2010, 9pm
Music for an IMAGINARY BAND

Music for an IMAGINARY BAND is a (real) 7-piece group led by Gordon Beeferman and comprised of some of New York's most uniquely creative musicians. The band explores the territory where classical 'new-music,' jazz and free improvisation intersect. Beeferman's compositions range from the gnarly to the operatic, and are both incredibly detailed and very free; the band's intensive improvisational explorations are tethered to highly structured frameworks. "[A] commanding avant-jazz ensemble..." Time Out New York

Gordon Beeferman - piano & compositions; Jacob Wick- trumpet; Jon Irabagon, Evan Rapport, Josh Sinton - saxophones; James Ilgenfritz- bass; Michael Evans- drums & percussion

Evolving Voice/Evolving Music
269 East Houston St (at Suffolk St.), New York, NY (F to 2nd Avenue)
Admission: $10 per set/ $15 for two / $20 for the night
student/senior: $7 per set/ $12 for both; RUCMA members: $5

Saturday, October 2, 2010, 8:30pm
Momenta Quartet: Up, down, and out of town
STRING QUARTET (2006)

Emilie-Anne Gendron and Asmira Woodward-Page, violins; Stephanie Griffin, viola; and Michael Haas, cello

The Momenta Quartet opens its seventh season with music by composers who blur the boundaries between uptown and downtown aesthetics. Celebrated for its eclectic programming, this "striking new-music quartet" (Time Out, 2008) presents Huang Ruo's Chinese-inflected "The Flag Project" (2009); avant-jazz composer/performer Gordon Beeferman's intensely rhythmic and microtonal "String Quartet 2006"; Chinese-Canadian composer Melissa Hui's evocative and semi-improvisational "Map of Reality" (2009); and Philip Glass' lyrical and dramatic "String Quartet No. 5" (1991). Described by Time Out New York as a “striking new-music quartet,” the Momenta Quartet has premiered over 40 works since 2004, alongside classical, Renaissance and contemporary masterworks.

Roulette, 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand), A/C/E/J/Q/N/R/Z/1/6 to Canal
$15: General Admission
$10: Students, Under 30s & Seniors, Harvestworks & DTW members
Reservations: (212) 219-8242
More info: www.momentaquartet.com

Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 8pm
Boston Mictoronal Society's NotaRiotous! ensemble
BURNT SIENNA (2006)
Amy Advocat, bass clarinet

Williams Hall, New England Conservatory
290 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
More information

Sunday, November 7, 2010, 4pm
world premiere
THE IN-BETWEEN: NINE POEMS OF JANE BARNES (2010)
commissioned by the Keighton Fund at Curry College
Sarah Pelletier, mezzo-soprano; Lois Shapiro, piano

Jane Barnes' concise, verbally brilliant and lyrical poems inspired this 20-minute set of nine songs with solo piano interludes, exploring such themes as invention, migration, manic states, romantic attraction, and the act of writing itself.

Curry College, Hafer Academic Center
1071 Blue Hill Avenue, Milton, Mass.
Free admission

Jane Barnes

Poet JANE BARNES grew up in the redwoods of Northern California, graduated from Georgia State College in Spanish and Russian languages, and received  a M.A. in poetry and fiction from Boston University's Writing Program. She lived in Boston for 32 years, where she edited the literary magazine Dark Horse. The recipient of a PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize and an Urban Arts fiction award, her short stories and poems have been published in over fifty journals, magazines and anthologies. She has taught writing at NYU and CUNY, and worked in the field of poetry therapy for the metally ill. She lives in New York City.

Recent concerts

Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 8pm
Music for an IMAGINARY BAND
Douglass Street Music Collective
295 Douglass Street, Brooklyn, NY (R to Union St.)
Gordon Beeferman - piano & compositions
Jacob Wick- trumpet; Jon Irabagon, Evan Rapport, Josh Sinton - saxophones; James Ilgenfritz- bass; Michael Evans- drums & percussion

Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 8pm
The Momenta Quartet performs
STRING QUARTET (2006)
Cornell University, Barnes Hall
More info

Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 8:30pm and 10pm
BED OF DADDLE with special guest PETER ZUMMO, trombone
MICHAEL EVANS, drums and percussion
GORDON BEEFERMAN, electric piano and synth
384 Grand Street, Lower East Side (at Suffolk St)
$5, free pizza included! full bar available

Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 8pm
BED OF DADDLE
MICHAEL EVANS, drums and percussion
GORDON BEEFERMAN, electric piano and synth
Two Boots Tavern
384 Grand Street, Lower East Side (at Norfolk St)
$5, free pizza included!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 8pm
JEFF ARNAL / GORDON BEEFERMAN Duo
The Gershwin Hotel
7 East 27th Street (between Fifth and Madison Aves.)
$10
A rare appearance of the longstanding duo of Jeff Arnal (percussion) and Gordon Beeferman (piano).

Monday, November 9, 2009, 8:30pm
The Momenta Quartet
STRING QUARTET (2006) New York premiere
“Serial Underground”
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street, New York
$15/$10 plus one drink minimum
212-989-9319
www.momentaquartet.com

Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 8:30pm
Music for an IMAGINARY BAND
Roulette, 20 Greene Street, SoHo (between Canal and Grand), NYC
Gordon Beeferman - piano & compositions; Nate Wooley - trumpet; Matt Bauder, Evan Rapport, Josh Sinton - saxophones; James Ilgenfritz- bass; Michael Evans- drums

Saturday, August 29, 2009, 4pm
Music for an IMAGINARY BAND
on Roosevelt Island www.rooseveltlive.com
Presented by Generate Records, celebrating its 10th anniversary with an afternoon of performances, and new recording release!
Gordon Beeferman - piano & compositions; Nate Wooley - trumpet; Matt Bauder, Evan Rapport, Josh Sinton - saxophones; James Ilgenfritz- bass; Alex Lambert- drums

Sunday, June 21, 2009, 8pm
Music for an IMAGINARY BAND
at Issue Project Room www.issueprojectroom.org
Gordon Beeferman - piano & compositions; Kirk Knuffke- trumpet; Matt Bauder, Ken Thomson, Josh Sinton - saxophones; James Ilgenfritz- bass; Michael Evans - drums

Friday, May 1, 2009, 8:30pm
THE RAT LAND – a chamber opera (libretto by Charlotte Jackson)
Scene Two – concert performance – WORLD PREMIERE
presented by New York City Opera: VOX 2009
New York City Opera orchestra and singers

SCENE 2: The Birthday Party. Fourteen-year-old Karen brings home a new school friend, Leslie, only to have her father terrorize both girls in a sick parody of a birthday party. Louise, Karen’s beleaguered mother, rises to the girls' defense in a rare moment of assertiveness, but not in time to keep Leslie from fleeing. Karen consoles herself by preparing to transport herself to the North Pole to meet the Wise Rat, whom she looks to for salvation, but the Rat Deities transform her in ways she cannot expect…

New York City Opera will perform this half-hour excerpt featuring a dark, whimsical and dramatic score for six singers and thirteen-piece chamber orchestra.
[more info about THE RAT LAND click here]

VOX 2009: Showcasing American Composers
Skirball Center @ NYU www.vox-nyco.com

Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Lisa Bielawa, soprano

performing WEST OF WINTER (2004) for four sopranos
along with works by herself, Berio, and others
The Teatro at the Italian Academy of Columbia University
 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (between 116th and 118th Sts.), New York City
www.italianacademy.columbia.edu
www.lisabielawa.net

Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 8:30pm
Music for an IMAGINARY BAND

A brand-new project: Gordon Beeferman's IMAGINARY BAND, a real 7-piece group consisting of some of NYC's most remarkable and creative musicians. Featuring brand-new compositions -- gnarly, lyrical, whimsical, free-form -- an idiosyncratic mix of new-music, jazz, and free improv.

Gordon Beeferman - piano & compositions
Nate Wooley - trumpet; Matt Bauder, Evan Rapport, Josh Sinton - saxophones; Brad Kemp - bass; Michael Evans - drums

ON THE WAY OUT at Freddy’s Backroom
485 Dean Street between Flatbush and 6th Aves., Brooklyn
2/3 trains to Bergen Street; Q to 7th Avenue
www.freddysbackroom.com

Sunday, February 15, 2009, 2pm
Musique à la Mode

selections from SAN FRANCISCO SONGS (2000)
by Gordon Beeferman and Jane Barnes
Laurie Rubin, mezzo-soprano; Gordon Beeferman, piano

first performance since 2001 of these songs about love, lost love and coming out

St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery
131 E. 10th St. (@ 2nd Ave.)
L to 1st Ave; F/V to 2nd Ave; 6 to Astor Place
More information here

Saturday, January 17, 2009, 5:30pm
Zack Fuller:  “Into the Shiny Battle”
Dance/Music collaboration with Gordon Beeferman, piano

Williamsburg Art and Historical Center
135 Broadway (corner Bedford Ave.), Williamsburg Brooklyn
J/M/Z to Marcy Ave.; walk along Broadway towards the East River
http://www.wahcenter.net/exhibits/2009/salon/

about Zack Fuller: “Cryptic, but characterized by astonishing theatricality.” – Boston Herald

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 8:00 PM
BRASS QUINTET (2007) – NYC premiere
American Brass Quintet
Paul Hall @ The Juilliard School
at 155 West 65th Street, NY 10023
Kevin Cobb and Raymond Mase, Trumpets
David Wakefield, Horn
Michael Powell, Trombone
John D. Rojak, Bass Trombone

Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 8:30pm
American Brass Quintet recital
BRASS QUINTET – world premiere
commissioned by the ABQ with funds from the Jerome Foundation
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, CO

Saturday, June 14, 2008, 2pm
VISION FESTIVAL, New York City
Gordon Beeferman, piano
Jeff Arnal, drums/percussion
John Dierker, tenor sax/bass clarinet

Clemente Soto Velez, 107 Suffolk St. (at Rivington St.)
F train to Delancey street or JMZ to Essex Street
www.visionfestival.org

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
RITES OF SUMMER for sextet – world premiere
commissioned by 20th Century Unlimited
California E.A.R. Unit
REDCAT at Disney Hall, Los Angeles, CA Info

Sunday, November 11, 2007, 3pm
Lost Dog New Music Ensemble performs Sonata Bombastica
at Tenri Cultural Center, 43A West 13 Street, NYC

Sunday, October 7, 2007, 8:30pm
CONSONORITY
An evening of new solo and chamber works
including Bassist James Ilgenfritz performing my solo piece Petal
Roulette, 20 Greene St. (between Canal and Grand)

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Phantom Ear Music Series
RARA AVIS
Seth Misterka (alto saxophone)
Gordon Beeferman (synth)
Jeff Arnal (percussion)
+GOLD SPARKLE BRASS BAND
Union Pool, 484 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY
www.myspace.com/unionpool

Tuesday, June 26, 2007  
-> On the Way Out -> Music from the New York Underground
 -> A night of trio music featuring new compositions and improvisations by: 
PAVONE / BAUDER / FARRELL
Jessica Pavone (viola), Matt Bauder (tenor saxophone), Patrick Farrell (accordion)
KEMP / BEEFERMAN / ARNAL
Bradley Kemp  (bass), Gordon Beeferman (synth), Jeff Arnal (percussion)
Freddy's Backroom, 485 Dean Street at 6th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
8:30 pm : Suggested $5 donation
www.freddysbackroom.com

Thursday-Saturday, May 31-June 2, 2007 at 7:30pm
Mulberry Street Theater: EAR TO THE GROUND
presents ANITA CHENG DANCE
a new half-concert length work by choreographer Anita Cheng with original score performed live by Gordon Beeferman
70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor, NYC (Chinatown, corner of Bayard St., one block south of Canal St.)
Tickets: $14/$12 students/seniors Reservations: 212-349-0126
see www.chengdance.org

Saturday, May 12, 2007, 3:30pm
New York City Opera
VOX: Showcasing American Composers
presents excerpts from The Rat Land
a chamber opera by Gordon Beeferman, libretto by Charlotte Jackson

Skirball Center, NYU (LaGuardia Place at Washington Square Park South)
for info click here

eighth blackbird performs RELIQUARY
Friday, April 20, 2007: Ball State University, Muncie, IN
Wednesday, January 31, 2007: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Sunday, March 4, 2007, 4-8pm
CAPITAL RE:COLLECTIONS
Empire State Plaza Concourse, Albany, NY
featuring 16 world-premiere short solo works including GB's "Burnt Sienna" for bassoon

Sunday, February 11, 2007, 7pm
QUARTET NEW GENERATION performs PASSAGES again at Barbès, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.) Park Slope, Brooklyn

Thursday, February 8, 2007, 7:30pm
world premiere of PASSAGES
QUARTET NEW GENERATION recorder collective
Symphony Space Thalia, Broadway @ W. 95th Street, New York
presented by Concert Artists Guild

Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 9pm
Jeff Arnal / Gordon Beeferman / Brad Kemp
percussion / piano / bass
FREE_FORM_MASH_UP
at Terrace
62 Washington Rd, Princeton NJ
www.ffmup.org

Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 8pm
Soprano Lisa Bielawa performs WEST OF WINTER (2004)
Boston Modern Orchestra Project Club Café series
209 Columbus Ave., Boston, MA

Saturday, October 28, 2006, 7:30pm
RELIQUARY (world premiere)
performed by eighth blackbird
at New Music Chicago - Sonic Impact
Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL

Gordon Beeferman (piano) and Jeff Arnal (percussion) DUET
First duo concerts since 2003! A brief tour to celebrate the release of our new CD, Rogue States.

Friday, October 6, 2006: New York, NY
Roulette @ Location One, 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets)

Saturday, September 23, 2006: Syracuse, NY
Metropolis Underground, 615-C South Main Street, (315) 452-1349

Friday, September 22, 2006: Toronto
X AVANT Festival at the Music Gallery, 197 John St., (416) 204-1080

Thursday, September 21, 2006: Buffalo, NY
Hallwalls, 341 Delaware Avenue, (716) 854-1694

Saturday, August 5, 2006
STRING QUARTET (world premiere)
performed by the California Quartet
at the Deer Valley Chamber Music Festival, Park City, Utah
click for more info

Thursday, April 6, 2006
Dynasty Electric @ Tonic
www.dynastyelectric.net

Saturday, April 1, 2006, 8pm
The Rat Land
A chamber opera by Gordon Beeferman, libretto by Charlotte Jackson

Prologue and Scene 1, premiere performance
featuring Anti-Social Music, Clay Greenberg, conductor

Cast: Laurie Rubin, soprano; Michael Douglas Jones, bass; Marcus DeLoach, baritone; Martha Sullivan, soprano; Andrew Catalano, tenor

Directed by Beth Greenberg

presented by the Improvised and Otherwise Festival
@ BRIC Studio, 57 Rockwell Place, Brooklyn
(in Ft. Greene near the intersection of Fulton and Flatbush; 2/3/4/5 to Nevins St.)
tickets $15/$25 for the whole festival

Anti-Social Music is a non-profit collective of composers and performers created for the purpose of presenting new work by emerging musicians at concert halls, clubs, festivals, and rooftops.

Beth Greenberg is a stage director at New York City Opera.

Friday, March 31, 2006, 8pm
Brave New Works [see the poster]
Pianist Winston Choi performs "Manic/Panic" (from Phenomena)
program also includes works by Kaija Saariaho, Leslie Bassett, Magnus Lindberg and others
Tenri Cultural Center
43A West 13th Street, NYC
info: www.bravenewworks.org, www.tenri.org

Sunday, March 12, 2006 8pm
Rara Avis @ the Cakeshop
152 Ludlow Street, NYC

Seth Misterka - saxophone, guitar / Gordon Beeferman - keyboard /
Jeff Arnal - percussion
playing new compositions & improvisations
we go on around 9pm
also on the bill: Talibam, Zeke Healy, minnows, 1900
late night dance party following
www.cake-shop.com

Sunday, February 19, 2006, 2pm
Estelle Woodward / Rara Avis with guitarist Anders Nilsson
Gordon Beeferman - synth; Seth Misterka - alto saxophone, guitar;
Jeff Arnal - percussion
Vision Club Series
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
107 Suffolk St. at Rivington, New York, NY
1 block north of Delancey (Delancey St. stop on the F train)
$10 admission
www.visionfestival.org

Thursday, October 6, 2005 at 7:30 pm
Concert Artists' Guild Piano Premieres concert
Phenomena (2000-2002) for solo piano, world premiere
Winston Choi, pianist
Symphony Space Thalia Theater, Broadway & 95th St., New York
pianist Winston Choi

Friday October 21 and Saturday October 22, 2005 at 8pm
Transparent Paths
a new evening length work merging movement, sound, video, and an interactive set...

Concept and Design: Jeff Arnal
Choreography: Estelle Woodward
Music: Gordon Beeferman
Video: Donald O'Finn
Installation: Clyde Forth & Iain Machell

Performers:
Estelle Woodward, Elizabeth Ward, Clyde Forth (movement)
Jeff Arnal and Jonathan Vincent (sound)
Jane Rigler (flute), Tomas Ulrich (cello), Anders Nilsson (guitar) and Michael Evans (percussion)

www.chocolatefactorytheater.org

Thursday, July 21, 2005, 5:40pm
Monday, July 25, 2005, 12:15pm
I will be performing duets with saxophonist Seth Misterka as part of Chashama's Oasis 2005 festival. Each performance is 20 minutes. OASIS 2005 at Chashama
217 E. 42nd Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues
Monday - Friday, July 18 - 29, 2005

Sunday, May 1, 2005 at 8:00 pm
C.O.M.A. Improvised Music Series*
at ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St, Lower East Side, NYC.
near F train (Delancey) and JMZ (Essex)
$3
Jeff Arnal and I will perform with the remarkable bassist John Hughes, who is visiting New York from Hamburg.

Sunday, January 23, 2005
Rara Avis
Gordon Beeferman, piano / Seth Misterka, saxophone / Jeff Arnal, percussion
CBGB Lounge
313 Bowery @ Bleecker (next to CBGB), downstairs
7pm, $10 cover
CBGB Lounge website
About Rara Avis

Thursday-Sunday, January 13-16, 2005 at 8:00pm
Art: Ronaldo Kiel
Anita Cheng Dance in
PARALLAX
at the Joyce SoHo
155 Mercer St., NYC
Reservations: 212-334-7479

Cheng will premiere a new dance quartet, a collaboration with visual artist Ronaldo Kiel, composer Gordon Beeferman, soprano Lisa Bielawa and costume designer Yukie Okuyama. Field Continuum (2004) will feature live accompaniment by percussionist Jeff Arnal and guest musicians.
Dancers: Erika Bloom, Elyssa Byrnes, Anita Cheng, Blanca Cubillos-Roman, Kate Jewett, Victoria Lundell, Blake Peterson, Renée Smith and Cho-Ying Tsai.
Lighting is by Julie Ana Dobo.

Information: Anita Cheng Dance / Joyce SoHo