Isogram performs “Antonym” at APAP|NYC, the world’s premier gathering of the performing arts presenting, booking and touring industry and the annual members conference of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals.

BlackBox Ensemble presents a series of works unified in their explorations of physicality and duality. Featuring works by Anthony Cheung, Annie Nikunen, Bekah Simms, Baljinder Sekhon, James Diaz, Brittany J. Green and Reilly Spitzfaden, we traverse dialogues between present and memory, sound and silence, structure and freedom, clarity and complexity, propulsion and resistance, unpredictability and certitude, chaos and smoothness, magic and science. This program features the US premieres of Simms’ Stygian Pulse and Diaz’s mil cuartos en linea recta as well as the NY premieres of Nikunen’s all mass is interaction and Sekhon’s Divination, commissioned for BlackBox to perform at University of South Carolina’s Southern Exposure New Music Series last month. From pitchwheel motions and chronic pain to physics and a thousand white rooms in a straight line, each of these composers expresses their own unique avenue in which to see, hear, and feel these physicalities and dualities through sound.

BlackBox presents an eclectic program of works by Jessie Cox, George Lewis, Brittany J. Green, and James Diaz.

Isogram performs Sugar Vendil’s work “Antonym”.

BlackBox performs as part of USC’s Southern Exposure New Music Series.

Tyler Neidermayer Mosaic 1

Anna Thorvaldsdottir Ró 

Annie Nikunen All Mass is Interaction 

Angelica Negrón espacios, objectos, sonidos y tiempo

Berio Michelle II 

Murail Paludes

Baljinder Sekhon Divination

Berio Yesterday 

inti figgis-vizueta Form the Fabric 

Tyler Neidermayer Mosaic II

Cole Reyes Shadowstains 

Brittany J. Green Shift.Unravel.Break 

Bekah Simms Stygian Pulse

James Diaz mil cuartos en linea recta 

Brittany J. Green Maps

Cole Reyes Shadowstains

Brittany J. Green Shift.Unravel.Break

Bekah Simms Stygian Pulse

James Diaz mil cuartos en linea recta

Brittany J. Green Maps

My piece for Unheard-of//Ensemble will premiere as part of the last performance of their 2024 Cultural Ecologies season!

Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unheard-of-the-gowanus-dredgers-present-shifting-haze-tickets-994542993867?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us for an evening of music and celebration as we launch our 2024-2025 season!

TMC Fellows will perform the world premiere of my piece Bloom for Symphonic Brass Ensemble and Percussion.

My piece Notes on Light will be performed by members of Albany Symphony.

The Sound of Space Between Us, filmed at The Clark by cinematographer Kevin Chiu, will have its premiere at the Fondation des États Unis.

As the keynote presenter of Cape May Spring Festival | NJ Audubon, BlackBox plays works by composers in the Consonance Collective (CNSNC) all inspired by birds. More info below:

You may hear birds singing at your feeder or backyard, now it’s time to listen to music inspired by those beautiful sound. Join us at the state-of-the-art Schmitdtchen Theatre at Lower Cape May Regional High School to see the musical presentation: What We Owe to Birds. This performance is a collaborative music and multimedia project meditating on bird conservation produced by five composers of the Princeton New Jersey-based Consonance Collective (CNSNC). Exploring topics ranging from the evolution of flight, flock migration behavior, birds of urban landscapes, birds endangered by forest fires, and shorebirds conservation, this project is brought to life by BlackBox Ensemble, an NYC-based contemporary music ensemble dedicated to creating adventurous and engaging performances of the music of our time. What We Owe To Birds is CNSNC’s third entry in a series of collaborations with scientific partners, following on the heels of projects with the Space Telescope Science Institute and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

BlackBox plays works by student composers at Special Music School at Kaufman Music Center.

BlackBox returns to NYU to play works by students in their graduate collective, Nevermind the Noise.

Tito Muñoz, conductor
Michael Stephen Brown, piano
Adam Golka, piano

Dmitri Shostakovich struggled his entire life to maintain his integrity as an artist while also serving the Soviet state as required. His 10th Symphony, completed after the death of dictator Joseph Stalin, was a balancing act as well as a mid-life crisis set to music. The Phoenix Symphony welcomes pianists Michael Stephen Brown and Adam Golka to play Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos (No. 10), which Mozart composed for himself and his sister, Maria Anna, to perform. Tito Muñoz conducts the world premiere of a new piece by multidisciplinary artist Annie Nikunen exploring the connections between movement and sound.

Concert Repertoire
Annie Nikunen: the sound of space between us
Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10

Tito Muñoz, conductor
Michael Stephen Brown, piano
Adam Golka, piano

Dmitri Shostakovich struggled his entire life to maintain his integrity as an artist while also serving the Soviet state as required. His 10th Symphony, completed after the death of dictator Joseph Stalin, was a balancing act as well as a mid-life crisis set to music. The Phoenix Symphony welcomes pianists Michael Stephen Brown and Adam Golka to play Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos (No. 10), which Mozart composed for himself and his sister, Maria Anna, to perform. Tito Muñoz conducts the world premiere of a new piece by multidisciplinary artist Annie Nikunen exploring the connections between movement and sound.

Concert Repertoire
Annie Nikunen: the sound of space between us
Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10

Tito Muñoz, conductor
Michael Stephen Brown, piano
Adam Golka, piano

Dmitri Shostakovich struggled his entire life to maintain his integrity as an artist while also serving the Soviet state as required. His 10th Symphony, completed after the death of dictator Joseph Stalin, was a balancing act as well as a mid-life crisis set to music. The Phoenix Symphony welcomes pianists Michael Stephen Brown and Adam Golka to play Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos (No. 10), which Mozart composed for himself and his sister, Maria Anna, to perform. Tito Muñoz conducts the world premiere of a new piece by multidisciplinary artist Annie Nikunen exploring the connections between movement and sound.

Concert Repertoire
Annie Nikunen: the sound of space between us
Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10

Performing a new work by Alexis Lamb in collaboration with New Music Detroit.

Headlining the Refugia Festival, produced by Alexis Lamb in the Nichols Arboretum. Performing two chamber pieces by Libby Meyer on a portrait concert of her works and The Sound of Space Between Us program.

I’ll be performing flute and movement with Sugar Vendil and company at National Sawdust for a showing of part of Sugar’s Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia.

Join the SOB on Saturday, February 17 for a performance of four outstanding works for orchestra, led by founding conductor Eli Spindel:

Aram Khachaturian | Masquerade Suite

Antonin Dvorak | String Quartet No. 14, ii: molto vivace (arr. string orch)

Jessie Montgomery | Strum 

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Symphony No. 4

The ensemble begins our series at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art with a companion program to Thursday evening’s performance of Borrowed Landscape, featuring works by Angélica Negrón, Tristan Murail, Baldwin Giang, and George Lewis.

Performing a program of Still, Loiacono and Sibelius with SOB with guest conductor David Bloom and pianist Vicky Chow!

BlackBox Ensemble premieres new work by University of Florida student composers in a special collaborative program with the UF Department of Dance at the HARN Museum of Art.