Judith Shatin

Immigrant, with music by Judith Shatin, at the Martha Graham Company
2025-04-09 19:30 (America/New_York) | Joyce Theatre, 175 8th Avenue, Manhattan, NY, 10011, United States
Noted choreogrpaher Virginie Mécène, a Martha Graham dancer who now runs Martha Graham 2, reimagined Martha Graham’s lost piece Immigrant. The original version used music by Arthur Honegger. For hers, Virginie chose music from Shatin’s Adveture on Mt. Hehuan, for solo bass drum and interactive electronics. The music for the dance was drawn from the recording of the premiere, with star percussionist I-Jen Fang, and Shatin on the electronics. You can find more info and links to the premiere performance here. This is one of four performances on the Martha Graham season ‘Dances of the Mind’ at the Joyce Theatre. The others are on April 3 (7:30) April 6 (2:00 p.m.), and April 13 (2:00 p.m.).

Violist Danielle Wiebe performs Penelope’s Song
2025-04-10 20:00 (America/New_York) | Old Cabell Auditorium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, United States
Violist Danielle Wiebe performs Penelope’s Song in its original scoring for amplified viola and electronics. Penelope’s Song is a tribute to Penelope, Queen of Ithaca and wife of Odysseus. It was inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, which gives her short shrift. Here the music responds to the story of her staving off suitors by claiming she could marry none until she finished weaving the shroud for her father-in-law. But she unwove and night what she wove by day. This weaving is incorporated in the music, both through the fashioning of the elctronics by processing recordings I made of local weaver Jan Russell working on her wooden looms. The resulting sounds are sometimes close to their source, and sometimes very far away, and in all cases bear the marks of my process. The versions of Peneloope’s Song have expanded due to performer demand, and are now available also for flute, clarinet, soprano sax and violin. For more infiormation visit www.judithshatin.com –JS

Immigrant, with Music by Judith Shatin at the Martha Graham Dance Company
2025-04-13 14:00 (America/New_York) | Joyce Theatre, 175 8th Avenue, Manhattan, NY, 10011, United States
Noted choreogrpaher Virginie Mécène, a Martha Graham dancer who now runs Martha Graham 2, reimagined Martha Graham’s lost piece Immigrant. The original version used music by Arthur Honegger. For hers, Virginie chose music from my Adveture on Mt. Hehuan, for solo bass drum and interactive electronics. The music for the dance was drawn from the recording of the premiere, with star percussionist I-Jen Fang, and Shatin on electronics. You can find more info and links to the premiere performance here. This is one of four performances on the Martha Graham season ‘Dances of the Mind’ at the Joyce Theatre. The others are on April 3 (7:30 p.m.), April 6 (2:00 p.m.) and April 9 (7:30 p.m.) .https://www.joyce.org/performances/154/dances-of-the-mind/martha-graham-dance-company

Eriko Sato Gives the New York Premiere of Rising on the Wings of Dawn
2025-04-27 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | St. John’s in the Village, 224 Waverly Pl., NY, NY, United States
Violinist Eriko Sato will give the NY premiere of Rising on the Wings of Dawn. It was inspired by the beautiful image drawn found in Psalm 139. Available in versions for both violin and viola, You can hear a recording and learn more about it in advance here. Eriko Sato is a marvelous violinist who has performed in a wide variety of settings as a soloist and chamber musician, performing with groups including Elysium, Strathemer, American Chamber Ensembles and he David Oei Classical Salon. Note, the requested donation is $30, but the amount is optional.

Violist Hannah Nicholas Performs Rising on the Wings of Dawn in Philadelphia
2025-04-27 19:30 (America/New_York) | NY
Violist Hannah Nicholas will give the Philadelphia premiere of Rising on the Wings of Dawn on the April Szalon organized by Andrea Clearfield, place TBA, as will be the link for the livestream. The performance will be in person and the composer will be available on livestream. Both the composer and performer will be available to introduce the piece and for the following Q&A.The piece was inspired by the beautiful image drawn found in Psalm 139. It is available for both violin and viola, with the cello version in preparation, You can hear a recording of the original violin version and learn more about the piece here. And here is the link for the livestream.

Floes at WestFest at Martha Graham Studio Theatre
2025-05-02 19:00 (America/New_York) | Martha Graham Studio Theatre, 55 Bethune St., Manhattan, 10014, United States
Floes, with dance by Virgine Mécène, visuals by SoHyun Bae and music by Judith Shatin will be featured on Top Floor Program B on the WestFest cutting edge dance festival , with 3 performances at the Martha Graham Studio, 55 Bethune St., NYC. The first is Friday 5/2 at 7 p.m., the second is Sun. 5//4 at 4 p.m. & 7 p.m. Program B also features Assaf Salhov Faustine Lavie Dance Project, The Bang Group, The Dynamit-Experience and more!

More Floes on WestFest at Martha Graham Studio
2025-05-04 16:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Floes, with dance by Virgine Mécène, visuals by SoHyun Bae and music by Judith Shatin will be featured on Top Floor Program B on the WestFest cutting edge dance festival , with 2 more performances at the Martha Graham Studio, 55 Bethune St., NYC. The first is Sun. 5//4 at 4 p.m. and the second is at 7 p.m. Program B also features Assaf Salhov Faustine Lavie Dance Project, The Bang Group, The Dynamit-Experience and more!

Patterns Performance by Soprano Nina Guo and Pianist Fidan Aghayeva-Edler
2025-05-18 09:00 (Europe/Berlin) | St. Elizabeth Kirche, Invalidenstr. 4a, Berlin, Germany
An abbreviated version of Patterns, set to the poem of that name by Amy Lowell, will be performed by soprano Nina Guo and pianist Fidan Ahayeva Edler on the 24 hour Komponistinnen Piano Marathon Vol. 2, A Room Full of Voices, at the St. Elizabeth Kirche, Berlin. The program is supported by the initiative Neue music Berlin e.V. Commissioned and premiered by Soprano Amy Johnson, with pianist Kathleen Kelly, Patterns rails against societal patterns at both the individual level of garments that stymy freedom and the anguish of the pattern that is war. For more information and performance links, visit here.

North/South Consonance Performs Kassia
2025-05-20 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | DiMenna Center, 450 W.37th St., New York, NY, 10018, United States
The Kassia Ensemble commissioned Kassia in honor of their namesake, the 9th century Byzantine Abbess, poet and hymnographer, and the only woman whose hymns are included in the Eastern Orthodox liturgy. She is also likely the first woman whose music has survived until now. Kassia is scored for the irentire ensemble of clarinet, harp, and string quintet. My music connects back through the ages to Kassia, drawing on a few motivic shapes from two of her most well-known chants: The Fallen Woman and Augustus, the Monarch. To experience this contemporary music, go here, with the video starting at 4:04.

Performance of Love Song at the International Women's Brass Conference
2025-05-24 14:30 (America/New_York) | The Hartt School, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford,, CT, United States
Trombonists Haim Avitsur and Andrea Neumann will premiere the version of Love Song for 2 trombones at the International Women’s Brass Conference at the Hartt School of music on May 24, 2025. Love Song, originally for Oboe and English Horn, is an instrumental version of Come Live with Me, a setting of Christopher Marlowe’s poem A Passionate Shepherd to His Love. Love Song was commissioned by the Double Entendre Ensemble, and has since been reinvented for a variety of instrumental pairings. This is the premiere of this version, created specially for trombonist Haim Avitsur. For more information visit here.

Floes at ICMC in Boston
2025-06-14 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Bright Familly Screening Room, Emerson College, 559 Washington St., Boston, MA, United States
The Music/Video version of Floes will be presented at the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) at Emerson University’s Bright Family Screening Room. While Floes was a collabaration between artist SoHyun Bae, composer Judith Shatin and choreographer Virginie Mecene, the music/video version has been presented on its own as well. Recent performances of the full piece with choreography have taken place on the Martha Grahm Studio Series and the WestFest Festival.
Inspired by concern for the havoc wrought by climate change, Floes is the result of an interactive process, with each of the collaborators sharing their work and using it as a cross-media springboard that led to cross-media responses and discussion. Named for the large ice sheets that form ever more frequently on bodies of water around melting glaciers, our sonic/visual /kinetic collaboration embodies formation, collision, breaking, flowing.

FLOES Music Video at NYCEMF 2025
2025-06-24 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Loreto Theatre at the Sheen Center, 18 Bleecker ST., NYC, 10012, United States
Floes has two formats: as a music video and as a multimedia piece involving dance, music and video. It was created in collaboration among artist SoHyun Bae, choreographer Virginie Mécène and composer Judith Shatin. The music video premiered on the University of Virginia TechnoSonics 2024 Festival, while the full version including dance premiered on the NEW@Graham: Graham and Tech at the Martha Graham Studio on 3/18 & 3/19 and was also featured at the WestFest Festival. Floes is the result of an interactive process, with each of the collaborators sharing their work and using it as a cross-media springboard that led to cross-media responses and discussion. Inspired by our concern for the havoc of climate change and named for the large ice sheets that form ever more frequently on bodies of water around melting glaciers, our sonic/visual /kinetic collaboration embodies formation, collision, breaking, flowing. This piece would not have been possible without technological mediation for the collaboration, including the flow of the video, dance and digital music, the latter created by processing underwater recordings of glaciers.

Judith at Virginia Soundscape1 of the Staunton Music Festival
2025-08-18 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Central United Methodist Church, 14 N. Lewis St., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
A quartet of Virginia composers, including Eric Guinivan, Jason Haney, Leah Reid and Judith Shatin will participate in a panel on their stylistic evolution and thoughts about the state of music in Virginia and beyond.
Shatin’s Kassia will be performed the next day on the program titled Schola Cantorum at First Presbyterian Church in Staunton.

Kassia at the Staunton Music Festival
2025-08-19 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | First Presbyterian Church 100 E. Frederick St., Staunton VA, 100 E. Frederick ST., United States
Kassia, scored for clarinet, harp and string quintet will be performed on a program called Schola Cantorum featuring choral music acorss the centuries by composers from Thomas Tallis to J.S. Bach. Mozart and Alan Blank, as well as my Kassia. Commissioned by the Pittsburgh-based ensemble of that name, it was inspired by their namesake, Kassia. She was a 9th’-Century Abbess, poet and hymnographer and likely the first woman for whom some of her original music is extent. To learn more, and hear it, visit the composition page here.

Judith Meets with U of Miami Composition Class
2025-09-25 16:00 - 16:45 (America/New_York) | NY
Judith will meet via zoom with U of Miami Composition class that is taught by composer Juraj Kojs. The topic will be her process in electroacoustic composition and will be especially focused on her For the Birds, for amplified cello and electronics. Commissioned by cellist Madeleine Shapiro, and first recorded on her Sounds Natural CD, it has also been recorded by Mexican cellist Iracema de Andrada and German cellist Sophie Herr.

Joan Mizrahi Performs Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi
2025-10-19 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Pozez JCCNV, 8900 Little River Turnpike, Fairfax, VA, United States
Pianist Joan Mizrahi, a member of the Friday Morning Music club, performs Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi on tahis program of music by Jewish composers, that also includes music by Max Bruch, Ernst Bloch, and Darius Milhaud. The order of the variations is up to the performer, and always so interesting to hear the different choices! Some of you may have heard Nathan Carterette’s explanation of his dramatic grouping of triplets of variations, making up the total 18 in his discussion with Judith, followed by a video of his performance. Joan Mizrahi has come up with a different, equally fascinating ordering, interpreting the variations in relation to the Biblical telling of the Exodus from Egypt. To learn more about the piece, visit here.
Advance registration is required for this free program.

Quintessence Choir Performs La Frontera
2025-10-19 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Saint John’s United Methodist Church, 2626 Arizona St., NE, Albuquerque, NM, United States
La Frontera (the Border) will be performed by Quintessence Choir on their program Borders and Bridges: Songs of Migration.La Frontera (The Border) is a poem by an undocumented immigrant youth held in an American maximum-security detention center. Sadly, we cannot know the identity of the author due to governmental restrictions. I was drawn to set this poem because it captures the stark realities of the immigration process as well as the powerful desire to immigrate to America. I wanted to help spread the message. Scores sales are all donated to the Amica – Center for Immigrant Rights in Washington DC that assists youths such as this one. More important than ever! The concert will also include music by Carlos Cordero, Andrea Ramsey, Jake Runestead and others.

Judith @ Juilliard Composition Seminar
2025-10-20 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | The Juilliard School, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, Manhattan, NY, 10023, United States
Shatin’s talk, Music on our Minds: Perception &/or Conception, will consider what we can hear and how this affects thinking in and about music, with examples drawn from Shatin’s extensive oeuvre.

Ice Becomes Water, String Quartet & Electronics @ TechnoSonics
2025-11-11 20:00 (America/New_York) | Old Cabell Auditorium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, United States
As glaciers melt at increasing rates, they raise sea levels, change currents and affect our entire web of ecosystems. This piece is a lament for our role in this process and a call to change. The source for the electronics came from underwater field recordings shared by glaciologist Oskar Glowaki. I transformed extracted samples with a continuum ranging from shards of the original sounds to radically transformed timbres, while keeping some recognizable. The former include the thin stratsopheric sounds of the opening while the later include low groans of breaking ice. The string sounds were based on experiments with my colleagues David Sariti (vln.), Ayn Balija (vla.) and Pete Spaar (cb.). I moved back and forth between the acoustic and digital worlds, listening intently to the newly created web. The original string orchestra version was commissioned by Barbara Day Turner and the San Jose Chamber Orchestra. The string quartet version was created for the 2024 New Music at the Point.

4-Night Run of FLOES at New York Live Arts
2025-12-17 19:00 (America/New_York) | New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th St., NYC, NY, United States
Floes, with choreography by Virginie Mecene, visuals by SoHyun Bae and music by Judith Shatin, has a 4-night run at New York Live Arts in NYC on 12/17-20 where it is presented by vildverk on the program Dancing for Our Wonderful World. Originally premiered on the New@Graham program on 3/18-19/2025, it was inspired by the melting of glaciers and the fragility of our warming world. A version including the music and video was premiered on the TechnoSonics Festival at the University of Virginia on 11/11/2025. More info here.

Mariola Performed by the Piedmont Duo in Paris
2026-01-22 16:30 (Europe/Paris) | Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, 209 Ave. Jean Jaures, 19e, Paris, France
Mariola, for viola and marimba, commissioned by the Piedmont Duo (violist Ayn Balija and percussionist I-jen Fang, will be performed at the International Viola Congress on 1/22/26 on a program called Resonance: Women Make Sound 2026 at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) in Salon Dukas.
