Judith Shatin

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) | MS
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.
