Flutist Lindsey Goodman Performs Penelope's Song at the NFA Chicago Convention
2022-08-12 16:45 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Hilton Chicago Downtown, 720 S Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL, 60605, United States
Flutist Lindsey Goodman is featured in a solo recital at the invitation of the National Flute Association on their Golden Anniversary Convention in Chicago. Penelope’s Song, in the version for amplified flute and electronics fashioned from weaving sounds, will be featured on her program. Also included on the program is wonderfully varied music by Deemer, Merkowitz, Oxford, Zilnick, Woolf, and Kernohan.
Penelope’s Song is available in versions for violin, viola, cello, and soprano sax, as well as flute. This dramatic piece is one of Shatin’s most popular. Lindsey recorded it on her CD Reach Through The Sky, and you can find it on Spotify and other streaming platforms.

YIVO Presents the New York premiere of vayter un vayter
2022-09-11 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
This program commemorates the Jewish community of Vilna through poetry, music and presentation, the latter by Justin Cammy. Performers include bass-baritone Adrian Rosas and pianist Ya-Jhu Yang. Commissioned by Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, vayter un vayter is a setting of three powerful poems by Avrom Sutzkever, set in the original Yiddish. You will notice that there are no capital letters in the transliteration, as they do not exist in Yiddish. The first poem is es clop di shleyfn (My Head is Throbbing), the second is shpiltsayg (toys) and the third is ver vet blaybn (What Remains?). The first is a dark and intense poem about good and evil; the second is a touching poem from father to daughter, with both delicate images and tragic darkness; the third is a rich reflection on faith and eternity tinged with irony. For more information visit the composition page.
The program is free both in person and on zoom, though both require registration, which you can do here.

Cellist Adam Hall performs For the Birds
2022-10-06 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | New Music in the Mine, Michigan Technological University, 49750 US Highway 41,, Hancock, MI, 49930, United States
Cellist Adam Hall will perform For the Birds in New Music in the Mine at Michigan Technological University. For the Birds, is an hommage to birds, represented here by birds of the Yellowstone region. Many are in steep decline due to habitat loss and climate change. The four movements focus on different types of birds: Songbirds, Sapsuckers, Birds of Prey and Water Birds. To learn more and listen to the fourth movement, go here. Tickets are pay as you are able!

Cellist Adam Hall performs For the Birds
2022-10-07 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | New Music in the Mine, Michigan Technological University, 49750 US Highway 41,, Hancock, MI, 49930, United States
Cellist Adam Hall will perform For the Birds in New Music in the Mine at Michigan Technological University. For the Birds, is an hommage to birds, represented here by birds of the Yellowstone region. Many are in steep decline due to habitat loss and climate change.The four movements focus on different types of birds: Songbirds, Sapsuckers, Birds of Prey and Water Birds. To learn more and listen to the fourth movement, go here. Tickets are pay as you are able!

Residency & Concert of Shatin's Music at Michigan Technological University
2022-10-08 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Rosza Center for the Performing Arts, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI, 49931, United States
This concert is part of a Shatin residency at Michigan Technological University that includes multiple performances as well as a composition master class and meetings with composition and theory students. This concert of Shatin’s music features the world premiere of Terra Infirma, commissioned by MTU in partnership with the Great Lakes Research Center. Scored for septet and electronics fashioned from the calls of the fauna and sounds of the Great Lakes, it focuses primarily on the endangered animals.
The concert also includes two electroacoustic pieces for Saxophone, performed by Patrick Booth. These are Storm (tenor sax and electronics ) and Penelope’s Song (soprano sax and electronics fashioned from weaving sounds). In addition, there are two choral pieces, La Frontera and Hark My Love, performed by the MTU Chorus directed by Jared Anderson. This repertoire features some of my most cherished genres: acoustic/electroacoustic music and text setting. And, in the latter, La Frontera speaks to the difficulties faced by so many trying to immigrate to the United States, difficulties which have persisted for centuries. Hark My Love, in contrast, is a setting of beautiful verses from the Song of Songs, in line with the theme of spirituality.

Fulcrumpoint New Music Project presents Terra Infirma
2022-10-12 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Rhapsody Theatre, 1328 W. Morse Ave., Chicago, United States
Fulcrumpoint New Music Project will give the Chicago premiere of Terra Infirma on their program Terra on their program Terra Infirma: Healing the Earth following its world premiere at Michigan Technological University. Scored for instrumental septet and electronics fashioned from animal calls and the sounds of the Great Lakes, the piece responds to the endangerment of both the fauna and the Great Lakes themselves. Climate change has already changed the ecology, while habitat loss, pollution and overuse have caused critical problems. This concert, led by Stephen Burns, also includes music that speaks to these issues by Derek Bermel, Paul Oehlers and Emily Doolittle.

Saxophonist Joseph Lyons Performs Penelope's Song
2022-10-14 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | W.W. Hootie Johnson Performance Hall, 1014 Greene St. level1, Columbia, United States
Saxophonist Joseph Lyons performs Penelope’s Song at the American Single Reed Summit at the University of South Carolina. The piece is a tribute to Penelope, wife of Odysseus, who staved off suitors during the two-decade absence of Odysseus. Shatin fashioned the electronics by processing recordings she made of Charlottesville-based weaver Jan Russell working at her wooden looms. For more information, visit the composition page.

Pianist Susan Merdinger Tours Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi
2022-10-23 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Northbrook Public Library, 1201 Cedar Lane, Northbrook, IL, United States
Pianist Susan Merdinger is touring her Four Centuries of Variations program, with Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi representing the 20th Century. This unique piece gives performers the opportunity to choose the order of the variations within the frame of opening and closing versions of the theme. It has been called a “…magnificent piece of piano music that should be in many, many pianists’ repertoires .” (Colin Clarke, Fanfare). To learn more and listen to Nathan Carterette’s interpretation visit here.

Pianist Susan Merdinger Tours Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi
2022-11-04 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Fourth Prebyterian Church, 126 E. Chestnut ST., Chicago, IL, 60611, United States

I-Jen Performs the World Premiere of the Solo Adventure on Mt. Hehuan
2022-11-04 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | NIU Music Building, Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, 550 Lucinda Ave., DeKalb
Percussionist I-Jen Fang will perform the world premiere of the solo version of Adventure on Mt. Hehuan on the Northern Illinois New Music Festival. You can find the premiere i of this exciting piece and see the score here. Adventure on Mt. Hehuan (Mountain of Joy in Chinese), named for a mountain in Taiwan, is scored for solo bass drum and optional interactive electronics. Adventure on Mt. Hehuan speaks to the joy in the journey of timbral exploration undertaken in studies with I-Jen. The image of the mountain itself was inspired by beautiful paintings by I-Jen’s father.

I-Jen Fang Performs Adventure on Mt. Hehuan at PASIC
2022-11-10 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Indiana Convention Center Room 120, 500 South Capitol Avenue, Indianapolis, United States
Percussionist I-Jen Fang will perform Adventure on Mt. Hehuan with Judith on the electronics at PASIC 2022 – the huge confab of percussionists. PASIC stands for the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, and it showcases all areas of percussion. You can find the premiere i of this exciting piece, see the score and learn more about it here. The interactive elements draw on a Max patch created in consultation with the composer by composer/techologist Maxwell Tfirn.

Susan Merdinger Tours Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi
2022-11-12 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Sunset Music and Arts, Incarnation Episcopal Church, San Francisco, 1750 29th Ave., San Francisco, CA, 94122, United States

Susan Merdinger Tours Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi
2022-11-21 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | The Atenaeum, 1008 Wall St., LaJolla, 92037, United States

Pianist Seunghye Kim Performs Plain Song
2022-12-03 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | James Wise Art Gallery at Norfolk State University, 700 Park Ave., Norfolk, 23504, United States
Pianist Seunghye Kim performs Plain Song, for amplified piano & electronics fashioned from 4 poems read by Charles Wright which the composer recorded at the Sound Studio in Charlottesville. The text is clear throughout, though it has been subtly processed with some phrases repeated and and sonically treated. This is part of a program of piano and text, that also includes the Forgetting Pieces of Brian Simalchik, To Unformed by Kyong Mee Choi, Nostalgic Visions by Elaine Lillios and She Persisted by Annie Neikirk.

U of Arizona Fred Fox Graduate Brass Quintet Performs Fantasia sobre el Flamenco
2022-12-04 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Phoenix) | Holsclaw Hall, Fred Fox School of Music, 1017 North Olive Rd, Tuscon, Arizona, United States
The University of Arizona Fred Fox Graduate Brass Quintet Performs Fantasia sobre el Flamenco on their December 4th program. Livestream here. Inspired by a trip to Granada at Festival time, with flamenco dancing and spirited music in abundance, the resultant Fantasia Sore El Flamenco was commissioned by Jeffrey Silberschlag for St. Mary’s Brass, who premiered and recorded it. There are versions for the traditional scoring of 2 trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba, as well as 2 trumpets, 2 trombones and tuba.

ConScience Choir at MTU Performs Hark My Love and La Frontera
2022-12-09 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Rosza Center for the Performing Arts, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI, 49931, United States
ConScience Choir, directed by Jared Anderson at Michigan Technological University, will perform Hark My Love and La Frontera on their program Songs for the Moon, including two selections from the concert of music by Shatin during her October 2022 residency. Hark my Love is a setting of beautiful verses from the Song of Songs that can also be heard on the Milken Archive Recording of Jewish Music, on Psalms and Canticles (Volume 18, Album 2). La Frontera is a setting of a poem published in the book Dreaming America, The poem is by an undocumented youth trying to immigrate but winding up in maximum security detention. Profits from this piece go to the CAIR Coalition’s Detained Children Program (caircoalition.org), to help children detained at the Office of Refugee Resettlement detention centers in Maryland and Virginia.
Here is the livestream link for the Michigan Tech Choirs.

Blue Air on TechnoSonics XXIII
2023-02-03 13:45 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Rotunda Dome Room, University of Virginia, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, United States
Blue Air, a video collaboration of Judith Shatin and artist SoHyun Bae will be presented on TechnoSonics XXIII, the annual showcase of faculty, grad student and guest composers started by Shatin in 1999. Shatin and Bae became friends at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, where they were studio neighbors and decided to collaborate on this piece, first shown at the 2022 NYC Electroacoustic Festival. The title is drawn from Edith Wharton’s poem A Meeting, where they ‘…drink the blue transcendent air together…’ More information is available here. Guest artists include Andy Slater and Erica Gressman. The program runs from 12:00 p.m. on 2/3 to 12:00 p.m. on 2/4 in the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia.

Patricia McCarty Premieres the Viola Version of For the Birds, 2 Movements
2023-02-18 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Denver) | Courtney Collins Fine Art, 32 Town Center Ave, Big Sky, Montana
Patricia McCarty arranged two movements of For the Birds (Songbirds and Waterbirds) for viola, rather than the original cello, and electronics, and premieres it on her program at Courtney Collins Fine Art in Big Sky, Montana, for the opening of an exhibit of paintings by George Hill. She will also perform music by Bach, Hovaness, Piazzolla, Michel Kimer, Reena Esmail, Jeremy Cohen and more. Find out more about For the Birds, with links to recordings, here.

Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble Performs Werther
2023-03-08 19:30 (Europe/London) | Harty Room Queen’s University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, Ireland
Werther, scored for Pierrot Ensemble, was inspired by Goethe’s novel, in particular the writhing emotions embodied in Romanticism, and so clearly expressed her. The clash of classes and the economics system are which they are based are woven here into Werther’s striving for the unobtainable love of Lotte. My music responds to both the lyrical elements and psychological anguish of the narrative. IT is in line with my own musical evolution in which lived experience, whether vicarious or immediate, is a core element of expression.
This program, performed by the Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble, celebrates International Women’s Day, also includes music by Thea Musgrave, Katie Agócs and Irish composers Gráinne Mulvey, Amy Rooney and Ann Cleare. I have frequently been asked how I feel about concerts of music that only include works by women. While I look for the day when gender celebration will not be needed and gender isolation will not be an issue, I have two responses:

I welcome any performances by outstanding musicians, as is the case here.
I don’t hear anyone asking men how they feel about being on programs that only include men!

Saxophonist Drew Whiting performs For the Fallen
2023-03-09 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University; Chicago, IL., 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL, United States
Featured saxophonist Drew Whiting performs For the Fallen on the Chicago Composers Consortium’s Electroacoustic music Concert New Sounds New Instruments. For the Fallen is scored for amplified soprano sax and electronics fashioned from the Peace Bell in Rovereto, It. Originally fashioned from cannons melted after WWII, it is rung ever day in remembrance of the fallen in all wars. Other composers on the program include Trevor Adams, Amos Gillespie,Timothy Ernest Johnson, Ed Martin, Kyong Mee Choi and more! Drew’s beautiful recording of For the Fallen can be heard on his terrific album In Lights Starkly Different on the usual streaming services.

New Amsterdam Singers gives the NY premiere of La Frontera
2023-03-16 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Broadway Presbyterian Church, Broadway at 114th St., NY, NY
La Frontera (The Border), the choral setting of a poem by an undocumented youth held in an American maximum security detention center, will receive it’s east coast premiere by the outstanding New Amsterdam Singers, led by Clara Longstreth on a program called The World of Dreams. It received its world premiere by the LA Master Chorale and I have posted the performance by the Illinois Wesleyan University Collegiate Singers led by J. Scott Ferguson, You can hear it and see the poem and its translation by Seth Michelson here.

New Amsterdam Singers gives the New York premiere of La Frontera
2023-03-19 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Broadway Presbyterian Church, Broadway at 114th St., NY, NY

Atlanta Young Singers Premieres 'How is Your Heart Today? During Shatin Residency
2023-03-25 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Church at Ponce and Highland, 1085 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta
The Atlanta Young Singers, conducted by Paige Matthis, commissioned and will premiere How is Your Heart Today? I composed the lyrics as well as the music after three zoom meetings with choristers of all ages. I wanted to compose a piece that spoke to an issue close to their hearts. The meetings were facilitated by Paige and other members of the staff, an the theme that was most on their minds was the COVID pandemic. The title phrase was one spoken by a friend of one of the choristers and the remainder of the lyrics were Deve;p[ed from their concerns, as well as their hopes for the future. Shatin will be in residence with the AYS from March 22-26, and will also run workshops for students at the DeKalb Elementary School.

The Washington Men's Camerata, with Conductor Frank Albinder Premieres the Men's Choral Version of La Frontera
2023-03-25 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | First Congregational UCC at 10th & G, 945 G. St., Washington, DC, United States
La Frontera (The Border) is a setting of a poem of that name by an undocumented immigrant youth held in an American maximum-security detention center. This poem, and the others published in the collection Dreaming America, were written during workshops held for immigrant youths in detention led by poet Seth Michelson.Profits from the book sales are donated to the Detained Children’s Program of the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition (www.caircoalition.org), who will also receive profits from this piece. To learn more and read the poetry, visit the composition page.

I-Jen Fang Performs Adventure on Mt. Hehuan
2023-03-26 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Old Cabell Hall, Room B018, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, United States
Percussionist I-Jen Fang gives the Charlottesville premiere of the acoustic version of Adventure on Mt. Hehuan for solo bass drum on her recital, presented by the McIntire Department of Music. Composed for her, she premiered it at the Northern Illinois University during their New Music Festival on 11/4/2022. Her recital at UVA is part of the UVA Chamber Music Series.

Saxophonist Myles Boothroyd Performs Grito del Corazon
2023-03-31 16:40 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | The University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Dr.. Hattiesburg, MS, MS, United States
Saxophonist Myles Boothroyd is performing Grito del Corazón on a program called Text/Painting: Contemporary Saxophone Through the Lens of Three Artistic Media. He will perform the piece, scored here for alto sax and electronics, with the accompanying video by Kathy Aoki inspired by Goya’s Black Paintings. The program also includes Chen Yi’s Monologue, inspired by The True Story of Ah Q, by the poet Lu Sun. In addition, Dave Heath’s Coltrane is based on the music and legacy, while also showing influences of North Indian music. The entire program showcases the interplay between musical styles and art forms.

I-Jen Fang & Judith Perform Adventure on Mt. Hehuan
2023-04-07 20:00 (America/New_York) | Dimena Center, Cary Hall, 450 W. 37th St., NYC, 450 W. 37th St., Manhattan, NY, United States
Percussionist I-Jen Fang performs the solo bass drum, while Judith performs the interactive electronics for Adventure on Mt. Huhuan in the Mary Flagler Cary Hall of the DiMenna Center at the SEAMUS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in the US) Conference. You can preview it here. Also on this concert is music by Scott Miller, Steven Kemper and much more!

Ann DuHamel Performs Plain Song on Prayers for a Feverish Planet
2023-04-17 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Concerrt Hall, Carter Center for Worship and Music, 400 E. College St., Bridgewater, VA 22812, United States
Pianist Ann DuHamel has curated a collection of piano pieces that speak to climate change and their effects in her Prayers for a Feverish Planet project. She has included Plain Song, my setting of four poems by, and read by, poet Charles Wright, for amplified piano and electronics created from his readings. They include Plain Song, Lullay, Shadow and Smoke and Tutta Gloria, all drawn from his elegiac collection Caribou.

Plain Song performed by Seunghye Kim at Christopher Newport University
2023-04-22 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Studio Theatre, Christopher Newport University, One Avenue of the Arts, Newport News, VA, United States
Innovative pianist Seunghye Kim performs a concert of music inspired by poetry, such as Shatin’s Plain Song, for amplified piano and electronics fashioned from recordings of 4 poems of Charles Wright read by the composer. The program also includes Forgetting Pieces by Brian Simalchik, Maxwell Tfirn’s Boltzmann’s Destroyer, To Unformed by Kyong Mee Choi and Nostalgic Visions by Elaine Lillios. The voices of poets are included in both Shatin’s and Simalchik’s pieces, while all of the pieces are deeply connected to poetry.

Ann DuHamel Performs Plain Song on Prayers of a Feverish Planet
2023-04-23 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Cantrell Banquet Hall, UVA College at Wise, 1 College Row, Wise, United States
Pianist Ann DuHamel has curated a collection of piano pieces that speak to climate change and their effects in her Prayers for a Feverish Planet project. She has included Plain Song, my setting of four poems by, and read by, poet Charles Wright, for amplified piano and electronics created from his readings. They include Plain Song, Lullaby, Shadow and Smoke and Tutta Gloria, all drawn from his elegiac collection Caribou.
