Soprano Sara Paar and Pianist Marcia Eckert Perform La Frontera
2023-12-10 15:00 (America/New_York) | Christ & St. Stephen’s Church, 120 W. 69th St., New York, NY, United States
Soprano Sara Paar and pianist Marcia Eckert will premiere the soprano/piano version of La Frontera on the Amnesty International benefit concert on 12/10 at Christ & St. Stephen’s Church in New York City. La Frontera (The Border ) is a poem by an undocumented immigrant youth held in an American maximum security detention center. More information about the piece can be found here. 100% of scores sales go to CAIR Coalition’s Detained Children’s Program.

Illinois Public Media Broadcast of Nun, Gimel, Hei, Shin
2023-12-13 20:00 (America/New_York) | NC
Broadcast of Shatin’s popular round, Nun, Gimel, Hei, Shin, on Illinois Public Media (NPR, PBS) in a recording on the Milken Archive CD Hanukkah Celebration, recording by the London Children’s Choir on Naxos. The sheet music is published by Colla Voce music.

The Atar Piano Trio Performs To the Bird From a Distant Land
2024-01-04 20:00 (America/New_York) | Studio Annette, Shvil Hameretz 2, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Atar Trio, led by pianist/arranger Ofer Shelley, together with the sparkling soprano Tali Ketsef, performs their program In the Pool with Bialik at Studio Annette in Tel Aviv. Born in Ukraine, Chaim Nachman Bialik lived as a young man for some years in Odessa before eventually immigrating to Tel Aviv following sojourns in Poland and Germany. Writing in Yiddish and Hebrew, and considered by many to be Israel’s national poet, Bialik’s emotional lyrics are suffused with longing. This program includes my commissioned trio To the Bird from a Distant Land, a response to Bialik’s iconic poem To the Bird. The program includes a stellar lineup of settings of a number of Bialik’s poems by distinguished composers Josef Bardanashvili, Tsippi Fleischer, Aaron Harlap and Alex Wasserman, among others, and additional selections arranged by Ofer Shelley.

Safe Sounds Performs Of Wells & Springs at the 44th International Saxophone Symposium
2024-01-13 12:30 (America/New_York) | Choral Room, George Mason University Center for the Arts, 4373 Mason Pond Dr., Fairfax, VA, 22030, United States
Innovative saxophonist and composer Kevin Norton, one of the consortium members who commissioned Of Wells & Springs, will give his premiere of the piece with percussionist Brandon Dodge. Inspired by Wendell Berry’s poem Water, the piece plays with the ebb and flow of rain, following an extended drought. Also on the program are Breathe by Evan Williams and Two-faced by Curtis Hughes.For more information, visit www.judithshatin.com.

Choreographer Virginie Mecene & Music from Adventure on Mt. Hehuan
2024-01-26 10:00 (America/New_York) | Bruno Walter Auditorium, NYPL, 111 Amsterdam AVe., New York City
Choreographer Virginie Mecene reimagines and rechoreographs Lost Solos of Martha Graham: Revolt (1927) and Immigrant (1928). She set her reimagining of Revolt to music from Shatin’s Adventure on Mt. Hehuan, for solo bass drum and optional interactive electronics. She presents this work at The Jerome Robbins Dance Division Annual on March 26 at 10:00 a.m. The event is free, but registration is required.

Network for New Music Presents Elijah's Chariot
2024-01-27 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Charry Sanctuary, Germantown Jewish Center, 400 W. Ellet St., Philadelphia, United States
Elijah’s Chariot, a co-commission of Kronos Quartet and the National Endowment for the Arts, is scored for string quartet and electronics fashioned from processing shofar recordings. The folk melody Eliyahu HaNavi, often sung during the close of the Sabbath, is woven into Elijah’s Chariot. The opening phrase of this melody forms a melodic thread in Elijah’s Chariot, emerging clearly at one point, and obliquely at others. For more information about the piece, visit the composition page.The concert explores the human experience through Jewish texts and music, and also includes music by composers Daniel Asia, and Adah Kaplan. More program information may be found here. You can listen in advance here.

Juventas New Music Ensemble, Featuring Hornist Anne Howarth, Premieres Canta la Sal
2024-01-27 20:00 (America/New_York) | Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St., East Cambridge, MA, 02141, United States
Canta la Sal, scored for horn, cello and piano, was inspired by initial discussions with hornist Anne Howarth followed by Pablo Neruda’s vivid poem Oda a la sal, and is a phrase from that poem. It is a co-commission of Anne Howarth, the Juventas New Music Ensemble and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and is funded in part by the Meir Rimon Commissioning Assistance Program of the International Horn Society. The Neruda poem speaks eloquently of salt, its connection to the sea and to life, to its song as it is mined and as it moves through the entire chain of life. Salt is necessary for life, yet can destroy it, as in the siege of Carthage, or through the malfunction of our own bodies. We laugh and cry and shed salty tears. Salt is within us and of us. The cost of tickets ranges from $1-$35, with the goal of accessibility for all.

Network for New Music presents Elijah’s Chariot
2024-01-29 19:00 (America/New_York) | Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St., NYC, NY, United States

Rebroadcast of Virginie Mecene’s Immigrant, Music from Adventure on Mt. Hehuan
2024-02-02 10:00 (America/New_York) | NC
Choregorapher Virginie Mecene, Dance Research Fellow, presents her reimaginingg of Martha Graham’s lost work Immigrant, with music drawn from my Adventure on Mt. Hehuan as well as her reimagining of Revolt as part of her presentation. This symposium celebrates the 100th anniversary of Grahm’s Company!

Flutist Nicole Molumby & Oboist Rachel Becker Perform Love Song at Boise State University
2024-02-02 17:30 (America/Boise) | Morrison Center, Boise State University, 2201 Cesar Chave Ln., Boise, ID, United States
Flutist Nicole Molumby & Oboist Rachel Becker perform a new version of Love Song for flute and oboe created specially for them, first at the Morrison Center at Boise State University and then at the Międzynarodowy Festival Fletowy in Poland. Love Song, originally composed for oboe and English horn exists for multiple instrumental pairings, available here. The pastoral feel is similar to that of the song on which it is based: Come Live with Me, a setting of Marlowe’s A Passionate Shephered to His Love.

Juventas Ensemble, Featuring Hornist Anne Howarth, Performs Canta La Sal
2024-02-03 20:00 (America/New_York) | First Parish of Sudsbury, 327 Concord Rd., Sudbury, MA, United States

Flutist Meghan Shanley Alger Performs 3 Shatin Pieces Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention
2024-02-17 11:00 (America/New_York) | Hilton Washington Dulles Airport, 13869 Park Center Road, Herndon, VA, United States
Meghan Shanley Alger will perform 3 of Shatin’s flute pieces at the Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention at the Hilton Washington Dulles Airport in Herndon, VA. These include Fasting Heart (solo), For the Fallen (flute & electronics) and Gazebo Music (flute & cello). A former flutist, Shatin has retained her livelong love for and fascination with the instrument and has created many popular flute pieces, ranging from solo to chamber up to her flute concerto, Ruah.

Composition Seminar at the North Carolina School of the Arts
2024-02-23 15:45 - 17:15 (America/New_York) | North Carolina School of the Arts, 1533 South Main St., Winston-Salem, NC, United States
Judith will present her music at the Composition Seminar of the North Carolina School of the Arts from 3:45 – 5:15 on 2/23, and will discuss her compositional approach in select pieces. Timbral worlds will be one of the central themes, as that has become a key element in her augmentation of the sound worlds of acoustic instruments and in the creation of digital ones.

Violinist Kevin Lawrence Performs Rising on the Wings of Dawn
2024-02-24 19:30 (America/New_York) | Watson Hall, UNCSA, 1533 South Main St., Winston-Salem, NC, United States
UNC School of the Arts faculty Violinist Kevin Lawrence performs Rising on the Wings of Dawn on his program with pianist Dmitri Shteinberg. titled Small is Beautiful. Based on the image from Psalm 139, this spiritual music rises from the lowest note of the violin up through the registrar stratosphere over the course of the piece. To learn more, visit the composition page.

Sophie-Justine Herr Performs For the Birds on her Album Release Concert
2024-03-08 20:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Netzwerk Seilerei, Offenbacher Landstraße 190, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Sophie-Justine Herr performs For the Birds in Netzwerk Seilerei in Frankfurt am Main on an album release concert for her album :innen. The program also features music by a number of other noted composers including Elisenda Fábregas, Teresa Grebchenko, Young Pagh-Paan and Kaija Saariaho. The title “:innen” refers to the recently used ending to the base of the word composer, replacing the gendered endings with an inclusive one. Die Komponst:innen” instead of “Komponisten und Komponistinnen”).

The Atar Trio Performs To the Bird from a Distant Land
2024-03-10 20:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Sde Boker, Kibbutz Sde Boker 84993
The Jerusalem-based Atar Piano Trio, directed by pianist Ofer Shelley, commissioned a trio, To the Bird from a Distant Land, for their program celebrating the 150th birthday of iconic poet Hayim Bialik. Rather than create a song, I composed a piano trio inspired by his touching poem To the Bird, The bird forms the connecting link from the narrator’s home in the harsher climate of Europe, to the land of Israel, though his location is mentioned only elliptically, and that of the ‘hot land,’ by the reference to Zion. While the narrator nonetheless wonders whether some of the difficulties of his current situation are to be found in Israel as well, the dream of this land, and the hope for a peaceful, welcoming existence there are central. The bird functions as a symbol of Bialik’s flights of imagination.

Boston Choral Ensemble Performs La Frontera
2024-03-16 14:00, 2024-03-16 19:00 (America/New_York) | Multicultural Arts Center (East Cambridge, MA), 41 Second ST., East Cambridge, MA, 02141, United States
The Boston Chorale Ensemble performs La Frontera on its program My Journey Yours: Immigrant Stories on a matinee (2:00 p.m.). and an evening concert (7:00 p.m.) at the Multicultural Arts Center in East Cambridge, MA. The program also includes music by Melissa Dunphy and Sydney Guillaume, as well as songs from local immigrant communities. General admission is $25, but there are also $15 for students and seniors, and $10 for children, as well as a Pay what you can option! Boston Choral Ensemble is led by Dr. Katherine Chan, and is working to create a more diverse choral scene in the Boston region.

Atlanta Young Singers Premieres La Frontera Treble Chorus Version
2024-03-16 20:00 (America/New_York) | Church at Ponce and Highland, 1085 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta
The Atlanta Young Singers, with their innovative conductor Paige Mathis, premieres the version of La Frontera for SSAA choir + piano on their program Beyond Borders at the Church at Ponce and Highland in Atlanta, GA on 3/16 at 3:00 p.m. 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. Given the frequent cruelty in the treatment of immigrants, I wanted both to bear witness to the problem and to help bring more attention to the issues of immigration. For more information, visit the composition page here.

The Piedmont Duo Premieres & Records Mariola
2024-03-22 20:00 (America/New_York) | Old Cabell Hall, Room B018, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, United States

Canta la Sal at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee
2024-04-05 20:00 (America/New_York) | Seully Hall, Boston Conservatory, 8 Fenway, Boston, MA, United States
Canta da Sal, scored for horn, cello and piano, was inspired by initial discussions with hornist Anne Howarth followed by Pablo Neruda’s vivid poem Oda a la sal. It is a co-commission of Anne Howarth, the Juventas New Music Ensemble and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and is funded in part by the Meir Rimon Commissioning Assistance Program of the International Horn Society. The Neruda poem eloquently speaks of salt, its connection to the sea and to life, to its song as it is mined and as it moves through the entire chain of life. Salt is both necessary for life, and can destroy it, as in the siege of Carthage, or throughthe malfunction of our own bodies. We laugh and cry and shed salty tears. Salt is within us and of us.

Mehrdad Gholami Performs Ruah
2024-05-03 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Performing Arts Center, Western Washington University, 516 High Street, Bellingham, Washington
Mehrdad Gholami, who performed Ruah with the Aspen Contemporary Players, will perform with the Western Washington University Symphony Orchestra, led by Dr. Ryan Dudenbostel. Ruah (the ‘h’ is guttural, as in the German ‘ch’) is a Hebrew word that translates as air, wind, or breath. In Cabalistic mysticism, it also refers to the part of the soul that mediates between the body and the spirit. Both the colloquial and spiritual meanings are at work here. The images of breath and air inform the timbral stretching of the flute’s sound, with the flutist using the voice and its breath flow in conjunction with played tones. The program also features Mozart’s Symphony No. 39, K. 543, Charles Halka’s Son of Scherzo and Disposition, by Colin Marks. Livestream here!

I-Jen Fang Performs Adventure on Mt. Hehuan
2024-06-02 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Quarry Gardens, 1643d Salem Rd., Schyler, VA, United States
Dynamic percussionist I-Jen Fang performs Adventure on Mt. Hehuan at the beautiful Quarry Gardens at Schyler on June2,4,6 & 8 on the program from 6:00 – 7:00. The program includes operatic, artsong, folk, spiritual and contemporary music from operatic greats, such as Verdi & Wagner, art song by Copland and Schubert, as well as contemporary pieces by Shatin and Hill. The venue is in a natural ampitheater, with more info here. The program was organized by the ever-innoative and excellent Victory Hall Opera. You can picnic before and enjoy the natural setting! Rain date 6/3.

I-Jen Fang Performs Adventure on Mt. Hehuan
2024-06-04 18:00 (America/New_York) | The Quarry Gardens, 1643d Salem Rd., Schyler, VA, United States
Dynamic percussionist I-Jen Fang performs Adventure on Mt. Hehuan at the beautiful Quarry Gardens at Schyler on June 2,4,6 & 8 on the program from 6:00 – 7:00. The program includes operatic, artsong, folk, spiritual and contemporary music from operatic greats, such as Verdi & Wagner, art song by Copland and Schubert, as well as contemporary pieces by Shatin and Hill. The venue is in a natural ampitheater, with more info here. The program was organized by the ever-innoative and excellent Victory Hall Opera. You can picnic before and enjoy the natural setting! Ran date 6/5.

I-Jen Fang Performs Adventure on Mt. Hehuan
2024-06-06 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Quarry Gardens, 1643d Salem Rd., Schyler, VA, United States
Dynamic percussionist I-Jen Fang performs Adventure on Mt. Hehuan at the beautiful Quarry Gardens at Schyler on June 2,4,6 & 8 on the program from 6:00 – 7:00. The program includes operatic, artsong, folk, spiritual and contemporary music from operatic greats, such as Verdi & Wagner, art song by Copland and Schubert, as well as contemporary pieces by Shatin and Hill. The venue is in a natural ampitheater, with more info here. The program was organized by the ever-innoative and excellent Victory Hall Opera. You can picnic before and enjoy the natural setting! Rain date 6/7.

Sophie-Justine Herr Performs For the Birds on her :innen Concert
2024-06-06 20:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Atelier 21, Jullicher Str. 21, Aachen, Germany
Sophie-Justine Herr performs For the Birds in Netzwerk Seilerei in Frankfurt am Main on an album release concert for her album :innen. The program also features music by a number of other noted composers including Elisenda Fábregas, Teresa Grebchenko, Young Pagh-Paan and Kaija Saariaho. The title “:innen” refers to the recently used ending to the base of the word composer, replacing the gendered endings with an inclusive one. Die Komponst:innen” instead of “Komponisten und Komponistinnen”).This is the third recording of Shatin’s piece, with previous ones by American cellist Madeleine Shapiro on her album Sounds Nature, and Mexican cellist Iracema de Andrade on Voces Electroacústicas.

Sophie-Justine Herr performs For the Birds
2024-06-07 18:00 (America/New_York) | Garbsen bel Hannover, Homeyers Hof, Frielinger Str. 12, Garbsen

World Premiere: Ice Becomes Water (Amp. St. Qt. & Electronics)
2024-06-07 19:30 (America/New_York) | New Music on the Point, 1361 Hooker Rd., Leicester, Vermont
Ice Becomes Water is a lament on the tragic melting of glaciers in our Anthropocene age and a call to change. Originally scored for string orchestra and electronics, this version is reimagined for string quartet and the original electronics. Those were developed from field recordings shared by glaciologist Oscar Glowacki, who studies the acoustic signatures of glaciers. As the glaciers melt, they raise sea levels, change currents, and affect the entire web of ecosystems across the world. This performance is by members of the Jack Quartet and cellist Jaeyoung Chong.

I-Jen Fang Performs Adventure on Mt. Hehuan
2024-06-08 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Quarry Gardens, 1643d Salem Rd., Schyler, VA, United States
Dynamic percussionist I-Jen Fang performs Adventure on Mt. Hehuan at the beautiful Quarry Gardens at Schyler on June 2,4,6 & 8 on the program from 6:00 – 7:00. The program includes operatic, artsong, folk, spiritual and contemporary music from operatic greats, such as Verdi & Wagner, art song by Copland and Schubert, as well as contemporary pieces by Shatin and Hill. The venue is in a natural ampitheater, with more info here. The program was organized by the ever-innoative and excellent Victory Hall Opera. You can picnic before and enjoy the natural setting! Rain date 6/9

World Premiere: Forest Music
2024-06-15 15:00 (America/New_York) | The Falls of Lana Trail, Salisbury, United States
I composed Forest Music for the participants of the 2024 season of New Music On The Point, the summer program in Dunsmore, Vermont,in response to composer/director Juraj Kojs’s imaginative theme, Artphibian. Forest Music was inspired by five of the most common, yet magnificent, trees in this area: sugar maple, white ash, paper birch, Eastern hemlock and Eastern white pine. This is a guided improvisation piece, with performer-chosen instrumentation and music that traces the growth cycle of these trees from seeds to leave, roots and bark, and their interaction with the surrounding ecosystem. It is part of my Quotidian series, with music inspired by the natural and built world that can be performed by performers at all levels. Participants in New Music on the Point premiered Forest Music on the Falls of Lana Trail in Salisbury, VT. Versions are in preparation for all growth regions in the US.
