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EITHER/OR CZERNOWIN Two Night Festival
February 25, 2010 8:30 PM FREE
Either/Or COMPOSER ATELIER presents Chaya Czernowin in lecture and discussion
As
a followup to the successful Either/Or Lachenmann Festival of 2008, Israeli
composer Chaya Czernowin will join Either/Or for a three day residency
to present her ideas and music in her first-ever portrait concert to New
York audiences.
The first night, Feb 25, will include a lecture by the composer about
her music and ideas.
February 26,
2010, 8 PM $20 ($10 student/senior)
Concert program
Chaya Czernowin- Ina
Chaya
Czernowin- Anea
Crystal
Chaya
Czernowin- Dam
sheon hachol
Chaya
Czernowin- Die
Kreuzung
Aaron
Baird -
bass
Olivia
de Prato -
violin
Michael
Ibrahim -
saxophone
Margaret
Lancaster - flutes
Victor
Lowrie - viola
Jessica
Meyer -
viola
Esther
Noh - violin
William
Schimmel -accordion
Alex Waterman
- cello
Richard Carrick and David Shively -
conductors
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A W13th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
TICKETS
Feb 25th 8:30 PM FREE
February 26th 8 PM $20 ($10 student/senior)
All tickets available at the door 1/2 hour before showtime.
No advanced tickets available.
This concert is made possible by the generous support of the Ernst
von Siemens Music Foundation, the BMI Foundation, Meet the Composer's
Cary New Music Performance Fund, the
New School for Social Research, and the
Music Department of New York University (FAS). Either/Or
is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department
of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council..
The Either/Or Ensemble is Artist in Residence at the New School this Spring
2010.
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EITHER/OR SPRING FESTIVAL 2010
March 26, 2010,8 PM
March
27, 2010, 8 PM
Either/Or
is proud to announce the line-up for our 5th Annual Spring Festival of
New Music. The 2010 Either/Or Festival features two nights of compelling
new chamber music from around the world including world premieres from
Trevor Baca (US, Jezek Prize Commission), Martin Iddon (UK), and Erik
Griswold (US/Australia). US premieres on the two concerts will include
music of Richard Barrett (UK), Eve Beglarian (US), Alex Hills (UK), Karin
Rehnqvist (Sweden), and Rebecca Saunders (UK/Germany).
March
26
Richard Barrett - EARTH*
Rebecca
Saunders - duo
3, parts i & iii*
György
Kurtág - Splinters,
op. 6c & other works
Klaus
Lang - zwillingsgipfel
Karin
Rehnqvist - Beginnings*
March 27
Trevor
Baca- Mon Seul
Desir**
Martin
Iddon
- Danaë**
Alex
Hills - Knight's
Move *
Eve
Beglarian - Play
Nice
Erik
Griswold- New
Work**
additional
works to be announced
Benjamin
Baron -
clarinet
Richard
Carrick - piano,
conductor
Stephanie
Griffin - viola
Margaret Lancaster - flutes
Chris
McIntyre - trombone
Esther
Noh - violin
David
Shively - cimbalom, percussion
Alex
Waterman - cello
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A W13th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
Tickets: $15 ($10 students/seniors)
Tickets are available 1/2 hour before show times. No Advanced Sales.
Recpetion following each program.
This concert is made possible by the generous support of the
Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation, the
BMI Foundation, Meet the Composer's Cary New Music Performance Fund and
the Music Department of New York University (FAS). Either/Or is supported,
in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural
Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
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Either/Or Premiere the FLOW CYCLE at Roulette
April
2, 2010, 8:30 PM
The first
complete performance of Richard Carrick's FLOW CYCLE.
Richard
Carrick -"in
flow"
Richard Carrick -Shadow Flow
Richard Carrick -Duo Flow
Richard Carrick -Moroccan Flow (unfolding from unity)
Richard Carrick -Flow Trio, "a cause du soleil"
(premiere of full trio)
Eric Bartlett - cello
Kuan Cheung Lu - violin
Dov Scheindlin - viola
Andrea Schultz - violin
Alex Waterman - cello
Roulette
20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand)
A/C/E to Canal, 1 to Canal, 6 to Canal, N/R/Q/W to Canal, J/M/Z to Canal
Tickets: $15. $10 for student / senior / under 30 / DTW & Harvestworks
Members. FREE for Roulette Members & Location One Members
Purchase tickets in advance by calling (212) 219-8242 or onsite one-half
hour before the show (tickets are not sold on site at any other time)
previous
concerts:
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EITHER/OR at Performa 09
November 20, 2009, 8 PM
Rhys Chatham's - Two
Gongs
David
Shively & Alex
Waterman - gongs
Part
of A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality -
A Select History of Experimental Music, curated by Mike Kelley
Gramercy Theater - 127 E 23rd St.
for more information, please click
here.
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EITHER/OR return to the Stone
November 24, 2009, 8 PM
Works
by Carlo Boccadoro, John Bull, Johannes Cicionia, Jacquemart le Cunelier,
Gyorgy Kurtag, Kaija Saariaho, Claude Vivier, and more.
Richard
Carrick -piano
Margaret
Langcaster - flutes
David
Shively -cimbalom
Alex Waterman
- cello
The
Stone, Avenue C and 2nd Street, East Village
tickets $10 at the door
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EITHER/OR Return to Issue Project Room - Darmstadt
Festival 2009
June 19, 2009, 8 PM
Morton Feldman - Why
Patterns? for flutes, piano and glockenspiel
Richard
Carrick - piano
Jane Rigler - flutes
David Shively - glockenspiel
Issue
Project Room, Brooklyn
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EITHER/OR SPRING FESTIVAL 2009
May 23, 2009, 8 PM. Saturday
John Luther Adams- Red
Arch, Blue Veil. for piano, percussion, and fixed media. 2002
Andrew Byrne - A Ringing World,
for bells and gongs, written for Either/Or. 2009. World Premiere
Richard Carrick - la
scene miniature for saxophone, violin, piano and percussion. 2009.
World Premiere
David Franzson - The Negotiation of Context,
for piano and pedal organ, written for Either/Or.
2009. World Premiere
Helmut Lachenmann - Toccatina for solo violin. 1988
Hans Thomalla - Lied for saxophone, piano, and vibraphone.
2008. US Premiere
Richard Carrick
- piano
Jennifer Choi - violin
Michael Ibrahim - saxophones
David Shively - percussion and organ
Tenri
Cultural Institute
43A W13th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
tickets $15 at the door. ($10 students and seniors)
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EITHER/OR AT CHELSEA MUSEUM
April 7, 2009 7pm
New works written for Either/Or by New York University Graduate Students.
Ryan
Carter - 20 (or so) Variations, East
Coast Premiemre
Friedrich
Heinrich Kern- Eins Zwei, World Premiere
Felipe Lara- Prisma
Clara Latham- Line as a thing is,
World Premiere
Yoon-Ji Lee- In Dark Sunshine,
World Premiere
Kurt Nelson- Eleatic Dialogues,
World Premiere
personel:
Richard Carrick and Stephen
Gosling- piano
Esther Noh and Alison Zlotow- violins
David
Shively- percussion
Meighan Stoops- clarinets
Alex Waterman - 'cello
Free Concert
Chelsea Art Museum
556 West 22nd Street
tel 212.255.0719
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EITHER/OR AT AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM
April 2, 2009 7:30pm
The electro-acoustic music of Italian Composer Paolo Aralla
with video and dance
Luca
Veggetti - choreographer
a
unique concert with performances throughout the ACF building with dance,
video, and audience moving through the different rooms and concert hall.
personel:
Richard Carrick - piano
Katherine Fong and Olivia de Prato- violins
Meighan Stoops- bass
clarinet
Alex Waterman - 'cello
Tickets
are free with reservation. Seats are very limited; you must call to reserve
seats in advance.
Austrian Cultural Forum
11 East 52nd Street
tel: 212 319 5300
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EITHER/OR AT MERKIN HALL
March 26, 2009 8pm
"Into the Future..."
presented
by the Washington
Square Contemporary Music Society
program:
Richard CARRICK
- "á cause de soleil"-Flow Cycle String
Trio Part 1 (2009, world premiere)
Chaya CZERNOWIN - Sahaf
(Drift) for electric guitar, piano, percussion, and saxophone
(revised version, 2008)
Elizabeth HOFFMAN- Pathological Curves (2009,
world premiere)
Helmut LACHENMANN - String Quartet #3,
GRIDO (2001/2)
Helmut LACHENMANN - Salut für Caudwell
for two guitarists (1977)
personel:
Richard Carrick -
piano and guitar
Jennifer Choi - violin
Peter Evans
- trumpet
Michael
Ibrahim - saxophone
Ariana
Kim - violin
Dov Scheindlin- viola
David Shively- percussion, musical saw, and guitar
Kobe Van Cauwenberghe- electric guitar
Alex Waterman - 'cello
Merkin
Hall
129
West 67th Street
subway 1 to 66th Street
$20 tickets / $15 Seniors / $8 Students / Free to NYU Faculty and Students
Merkin
website
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EITHER/OR AT New York University
Workshops for the Graduate Students
December
2, workshop for violin with Jennifer Choi
December
9, workshop for clarinets with Meighan Stoops
February
(tba), workshop for piano with Richard Carrick
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ISSUE PROJECT ROOM - DARMSTADT FESTIVAL
Friday, October 24, 2008 8pm
Either/Or perform early Minimalists works including:
Steve
Reich - Four
Organs
Philip Glass - Music in Similar Motion
Rhys Chatham - Two Gongs
personel:
Anthony Burr - keyboards
Andrew
Byrne - keyboards
Richard Carrick - piano and keyboards
Jennifer Choi - violin
David Shively - percussion
Alex Waterman - percussion, keyboards, cello
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Either/Or
at MATA Festival
April 4, 2008, 8pm
Final Concert of the Festival
Brooklyn Lyceum
227 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn
Sean Griffin - New Work
- world premiere
for 3 percussion, 2 guitar, synth, cello, two singers, conductor
Richard Carrick - Towards Qualia (premiere of sextet
version)
for flute, saxophone, violin, cello, piano, vibraphone
Andrew Byrne - White Bone Country
for amplified piano and percussion, world premiere
Richard
Carrick, piano
Jennifer Choi, violin
Stephen
Gosling , piano
Michael Ibrahim , saxophone
Jane Rigler, flute
David Shively, percussion
Alex Waterman, cello
for more information, please visit:
www.matafestival.org
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The Stone
March 26, 2008 10pm
corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC
Luigi
NONO – “…sofferte onde serene…”
for piano and tape, 1977
David GALBRAITH - Composition 2005 no. 1 for cello and
analog synthesizer
world premiere
Keeril MAKAN – Resonance Alloy for amplified percussion,
2007,
east coast premiere
Richard
Carrick, piano
David Shively, percussion
Alex Waterman, cello
tickets
are $10 at the door
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Either/Or
Lachenmann Festival at the Goethe Institut
March 10, 11 and 13, 2008
Goethe Institut
1014 Fifth Avenue (83rd Street) NYC
March 10, 6:30pm
Screening of documentary film "...wo ich noch nie war"
March 11, 8pm
Lecture / Demonstration by Helmut Lachenmann and Either/Or with open discussion
March
13, 8pm.
Concert featuring
two of Lachenmann's most provocative and enduring works:
GRIDO for string quartet
Salut für Caudwell for two guitarists
with Helmut Lachenmann in attendance
Jennifer
Choi and Hrabba Atladottir, violins
Dov Scheindlin, viola
Alex Waterman, cello
David Shively and Richard Carrick, guitars
Free Tickets. Available a half
hour before each event at the door.
No advanced reservations.
Goethe Institut, 1014 Fifth Avenue (83rd Street).
www.goethe.de/newyork (212) 439 8700.
Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street Exit
for more information, please visit: http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/kue/mus/en2934096.htm
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Either/Or at Austrian Cultural Forum
February 20, 2008 at 7:30pm
Austrian Cultural Forum
11 East 52nd Street, (between 5th and Madison Aves) NYC
The city that previously
hosted the Second Viennese School of the early 20th century is once again
the home of many of the most original voices in European experimental
music. In its survey of the current Viennese music scene, the New
York based chamber ensemble Either/Or will offer first performances of
many of these works to an American audience.
Georg Friedrich Haas -
Ein Schattenspiel
for piano and live electronics, New York premiere
Alexander Stankovski - Duet for saxophone and piano,
US premiere
Richard Carrick - Moroccan Flow (unfolding from unity) for cello
world premiere
Beat Furrer - Lied for violin and piano
Karlheinz Essl - more or less - real-time composition for 5 computer-controlled
soloists, US premiere
Peter Ablinger - Weiss/Weisslich 4 for piano and ensemble
Richard Carrick, piano (Haas, Furrer, Essl, Ablinger)
Stephen Gosling, piano (Stankovski)
MIchael Ibrahim, saxophone
Jane Rigler, flute
Andrea Schultz, violin
David Shively, percussion
Alex Waterman, cello
Free admission.
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Either/Or Fall Concert
- Electric Duos
November 9, 2007 at Tenri NYC , 8pm
Luigi Nono - ...sofferte onde serene...
for piano and tape
Richard Carrick - Duo Flow
for violin and cello (world premiere)
Thomas Meadowcroft - A Vanity Press for cello and tape
John Luther Adams - The Mathematics of Resonant
Bodies
(three movements) for percussion and tape
Richard Carrick, piano
Andrea Schultz, violin
David Shively, percussion
Alex Waterman, cello
Tenri Cultural
Institute
$15/$10 students
No reservations, tickets available at the door starting at 7:30pm.
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Either/Or at the Kitchen NYC
- Graphic Scores
September 14, 2007, 7pm
Robert Ashley -
In memoriam... ESTEBAN GOMEZ (quartet)
Morton Feldman - Projection 1
Cornelius Cardew - Treatise pp. 1-3
Christian Wolff - Exercises 1, 7, 8, 14, 10, 2
Earle Brown - December 1952, from Folio
Anthony
Burr, clarinets
Richard Carrick, percussion
Jennifer Choi, violin
Jane Rigler, flutes
David Shively, cimbalom/percussion
Alex Waterman, cello
The
New York Times Review
Time
Out New York Live Preview
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Either/Or Spring Festival
APRIL 6 and 7, 2007
Friday April 6, 8pm
Michael
Gordon - XY (1998) for percussion
Richard
Carrick - ∞+1* (2007) for piano
Ianis
Xenakis - Kottos (1977) for cello
Beat
Furrer - Lied
(1993) for violin and piano
Nick Didkovsky - If Reptile Organ's Thrive**^ (2007)
for violin and piano
Andrew Byrne
- Radiation Study V** (2006) for crotales
Mauricio Rodriguez - Tenso**^ (2006) for violin, cello
and percussion
Christopher
Fox - Generic Composition #3 (2001) for cello
please note, Mr. Fox's piece replaces the earlier announced work by
Henry Flynt.
Saturday April 7, 8pm
Keeril
Makan - 2 (1998) for violin and percussion
Massimo Lauricella - Due Studi^ (1988) for piano
Richard Carrick- Towards Qualia** (2007)
for violin, cello, piano, and percussion
Helmut Lachenmann- Salut für Caudwell* (1977)
for two speaking guitarists
** -
world premiere
* - New York City premiere
^ - Selected from the call for scores
Richard
Carrick - piano and guitar
Jennifer Choi - violin
Andrea Schultz - violin
David Shively - percussion and guitar
Alex Waterman - cello
Tenri
Cultural Institute
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Either/Or in California
October 31 at 3pm/ November 1 at 7:30pm
2006
Either/Or are proud to present
two concerts in Southern California! The City of Encinitas has invited
us to present an evening of solo piano music, followed by a second program
of recent works for violin and piano.
Tuesday,
October 31
Cage, Cuhna,
Davies***, Eiler***, Picker*, and more
Luciane Cardassi - piano
Wednesday,
November 1
Furrer, Sharp*, Carter, and Carrick***
Richard Carrick - piano
Chris Otto-violin
***world
premiere
*west coast premiere
Encinitas
Community Center
1140 Oakcrest Park Drive
Encinitas, CA
free admission
Pre-performance lectures one hour before concert times
These
concerts are made possible by matching grants from the
City of Encinitas and The Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation
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Either/Or
Spring Festival
APRIL 6 and 7, 2006
8pm
Either/Or
marks the arrival of spring with two evenings of chamber music at Tenri.
Thursday night, E/O continue their survey of the trios of Morton Feldman
with a performance of “Crippled Symmetry,” a concert-length
work for flutes, piano/celesta, and percussion.
The Friday night program pairs two monolithic solo works (Elliott Sharp’s
2004
“Oligosono” and John Zorn’s 2000 “Gri-Gri”)
with the cimbalom duo miniatures of György Kurtág and world
premieres by Richard Carrick and Daniel Felsenfeld.
Thursday,
April 6
Morton Feldman -
Crippled Symmetry
Friday,
April 7
Richard Carrick - "In Flow"* for violin
Daniel Felsenfeld - "First Scenes from Red Room"* for
violin and piano
György Kurtág - Eight duets for violin & cimbalom,
Op. 4
György Kurtág - Trei Pezzi for clarinet and cimbalom,
Op.38
Elliott Sharp - Oligosono for solo piano
John Zorn - Gri-Gri for solo percussion
*world
premiere
Anthony
Burr - clarinet
Richard Carrick - piano/celesta
Jane Rigler - flutes
Andrea Schultz -violin
David Shively - percussion/cimbalom
Tenri
Cultural Institute
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APRIL 1, 2005, 8pm
György Ligeti - Monument-Selbstportrait-Bewegung
(Three Pieces for two Pianos)
Morton Feldman - Why Patterns?
Harrison Birtwistle - Ring a Dumb Carillon
Steve Voigt - Mercury Mirror (world premiere)
Either/Or
returns to Tenri with an expanded line-up to present two watershed works
of the late twentieth century. György Ligeti's "Monument-Selbstporträt-Bewegung,"
for two pianos, is a virtuosic machine driven by his unique adaptation
of downtown minimalist techniques. Morton Feldman's "Why Patterns?"
for flute, piano, and glockenspiel is a relatively spare entry-point to
his lush later works, showing his characteristic manipulations of repetition
and memory. Also performed will be Harrison Birtwistle's "Ring a
dumb carillon," which places Christopher Logue's oracular text in
an often violent setting for soprano, clarinet, and percussion, as well
as the premiere of Brooklyn-based composer Steve Voigt's percussion duo.
Anthony Burr - clarinet
Richard Carrick - piano
Al Cerulo - percussion
Jennifer Cobb - soprano
Sandra Noreen - piano
Jane Rigler - flute
David Shively - percussion
Tenri Cultural
Institute
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premiere
concert
Thursday, March 25, 2004 – 8 pm
Howard
Skempton – Piano Works
Richard Carrick – Natural Behaviour (1998/2004)
Alexander Stankovski – Cercare – Omaggio
a Girolamo Frescobaldi (North American premiere, 2004)
Richard Carrick – Notebook, Bedside (world premiere,
2004)
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Howard Skempton – Piano Works
Josh Levine – Belle du désert (New York
premiere1995-2001)
John Cage – Musicircus on Aria for solo soprano
with
Cheap Imitations and Imaginary Landscapes
(1952-1970, version of March 2004)
Either/Or makes its debut with a program of new and recent works from
both coasts and abroad. Composer/pianist Richard Carrick, soprano Jennifer
Cobb, and percussionist David Shively collaborate in the premiere of Carrick’s
Notebook, Bedside and a set of John Cage’s works: Musicircus on
Aria for solo soprano with Cheap Imitations and Imaginary Landscapes.
Also on the program will be Carrick’s Natural Behaviour for solo
percussion, the U.S. premiere of Belle du désert for soprano, percussion,
and electronics by Josh Levine (San Francisco), piano miniatures by Howard
Skempton (UK), and the U.S. premiere of Cercare-Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi
for piano by Alexander Stankovski (Austria).
Tenri
Cultural Institute
This
concert was funded, in part, by the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation |

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