Violinist Wanchi Huang Performs For the Fallen
2025-01-24 19:30 (America/New_York) | University Village, 500 Crestwood Dr., Charlottesville, United States
Violinist Wanchi Huang will perfrom For the Fallen on her program Imagining Worlds, celebrating her album release of that name on Navona. Take Effect Reviews notes the ‘’atmosphere of mystery” in For the Fallen, and says that Huang “illuminates the voices of modern American music with an [un]paralleled attention to detail and execution.” If you would like a preview, check it out on spotify, or other streaming services.

Kevin Norton & Jacob Otter Perform Of Wells & Spring
2025-02-23 11:30 (America/New_York) | Cincinnati College Conservatory- Mary Emery Hall 3250, 2600 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, OH, United States
Saxophonist Kevin Norton, one of the consortium commission for Of Wells & Springs (alto sax and percussion) will perform it with percussionist Jacob Otter at the Region 5 conference of the North American Saxophone Association (NASA) at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory on 2/23/2025 at 11:30 a.m. Of Wells & Springs was inspired by Wendell Berry’s vivid poem Water, about the sweetness of rain after drouth (his spelling). The situation in California, and so many other places where cycles of drouth and flood are increasing, makes the contrast ever more striking! To learn more about Of Wells & Springs, visit here.

Violinist Wanchi Huang Performs For the Fallen
2025-02-08 19:30 (America/New_York) | Garth Newel Music Center, 403 Garth Newel Ln., Hot Springs, VA, 24445
Violinist Wanchi Huang will perfrom For the Fallen on her program Imagining Worlds, celebrating her album release of that name on the Navona label. Take Effect Reviews notes the ‘’atmosphere of mystery” in For the Fallen, and says that Huang “illuminates the voices of modern American music with an [un]paralleled attention to detail and execution.” Garth Newel Music Center host wonderful programs throughout the year, with their piano quartet in residence as well as guest performers and ensembles. And if you want a preview, check it out on spotify, or on other streaming services.

Saxophonist Kevin Norton and Percussionist Jacob Ottmer Perform Of Wells & Springs
2025-02-23 11:30 (America/New_York) | Cincinnati College Conservatory- Mary Emery Hall 3250, 2600 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, OH, United States
Saxophonist Kevin Norton, one of the consortium commissioners for Of Wells and Springs, will perform it with percussionist Jacob Ottmer at the North American Saxo[hone Alliance, Region 5. gathering at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music on February 23 at 11:30 a.m. in Mary Emery Hall 3250. The lead commissioners, members of Bent Frequency premiered it on their 20th anniversary concert at Georgia State University in Atlanta. The piece was inspired by Wendell Berry’s poem Water, about the joy of rain after drouth. At this point in our changing climate, we are in an ever-intensifying cycle of drouth and flood. He captures the vivid worry of drouth and the sweetness of its end. The poetry was the jumping-off point of the music and can be said to be a sonic reading of the poem. For more information visit here.

Pianist Dale Tsang Performs Scirocco
2025-02-22 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Berkeley Piano Club, 2724 Haste ST., Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Pianist Dale Tsang, formerly a member of Ensemble For These Times (E4TT) returns to perform Scirocco and 10 other contemporary piano pieces chosen through the organizations score call. Originally composed for and premiered by pianist Mary Kathleen Ernst, this short quick-silver piece is named for the wind that sweeps from the the Sarhar or Arabian desert into North Africa and Southern Europe. E4TT previously commissioned and premiered A Line-Storm Song, a setting of Robert Frost’s poem of that name for soprano and piano. A version is now available for baritone and piano as well.

Pianist Dale Tsang Performs Scirocco
2025-03-02 16:00 (America/New_York) | SF Music Center, 544 Capp St., San Francisco, United States

Pianist Tali Morgulis Performs Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi
2025-03-06 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Dudley Recital Hall, University of Houston, 3333Cullen Boulevard, Houston, TX, 77204, United States
Pianist Tali Morgulis performs Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi at Houston University’s Dudley ’s Recital Hall. Composed at Brahms Haus in Baden-Baden, this set of 18 variations iwas inspired by the folk song Eliahu Ha Navi (Elijah the Prophet). The letters of of “Chai,” which means “life” or “living” in Hebrew, symbolically stand for the number 18; hence, 18 variations. I decided to give the performer a choice regarding the ordering of the variations as a reflection of my sense of performance as a collaboration between performer and composer (and, for that matter, listener). It also reflects a dynamic conception of musical form. This means that there are 18! Or 6,402,373,705,728,000 possible orderings. For an advnance taste of the results, check out Nathan Cartwerette’s wonderful video, or Mary Kathleen Ernst’s terrific interpretation on her album Keeping Time. Colin Clarke wrote “ This is a magnificent piece of piano music that should be in many, many pianists’ reperotire (Fanfare Issue 44:2).

Interview on WTJU 91.1 FM A New Sound
2025-03-16 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | VA
William Neil, host of A New Sound, interviews Judith about her music and plays a variety of selections, including Glyph, for solo viola, string quartet and more. Examples will come from her extensive catalogue of chamber, electroacoustic and choral music. Such popular selections as Adonai Ro’i, her setting of Psalm 23, will be included, as will music from For the Birds, for amplfied cello and electronics fashioned from bird song.

Floes dance debuts at the Martha Graham Studio
2025-03-18 19:00, 2025-03-19 19:30 (America/New_York) | Martha Graham Studio Theatre, 55 Bethune St., Manhattan, 10014, United States
Choreographer Virginie Mecene, artist SoHyun Bae and Judith Shatin collaborated to create Floes, a inspired by ice floes – free-floating flat ice chunks that are becoming thinner due to climate change, and their movements are accelerating. This theme was front of mind as we collaborated on the piece, each sharing her work with the others as we built this piece.

Clarinetist Özlem Kolat gives the Turkish premiere of 3 Shatin Pieces
2025-03-28 20:00 (Europe/Istanbul) | Çanakkale Mahal Art Hall, Çanakkale, Turkey
Clarinetist Özlem Kolat gives the Turkish premiere of Cherry Blossom and a Wrapped Thing; After Hokusai, Grito del Corazón and Penelope’s Song at the Çanakkale Mahal Art Hall on 3/28, with additional performances of this grouping on her upcoming recitals in Istanbul in April and in Ankara at the Bilkent Concert Hall in May.
Cherry Blossom and a Wrapped Thing, commissioned by F. Gerard Errante, was inspired by a mysterious print of the same name in a musuem of Hokusai’s prints in Tokyo. Shatin and Errante are long-term collaborators, and he also contributed to the transformation of Penelope’s Song for clarinet and electronics. Grito del Corazón will be performed with the video by Kathy Aoki, while the music combines electronics with a guided improv score.

Piedmont Duo Performs Mariola
2025-03-29 11:15 (America/New_York) | Bridgewater College, Bridgewater Collegge, Bridgewater, VA, United States
Violist Ayn Balija and Percussionist I-Jen Fang, aka the Piedmont Duo, perform Mariola on 3/29 on their program Guiding Light: Music for Viola and Marimba, at the College Music Society MidAtlantic conference. Commissioned and premiered by them, Mariola will appear on their upcoming album. Named for the combination of the 2 instruments, Mariola also refers to a very hardy shrub that grows in the dry southwestern regions of the US. It manages to survive difficult conditions and reaches up through the dry soil, forming delicate white flowers in the summer. This seemed a perfect metaphor not only for the compositional process, but also the situation of contemporary concert music in the US, and of course beyond.

Immigrant, with music by Judith Shatin, with Martha Graham Dance Company
2025-04-03 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 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 6 (2:00 p.m.), April 9 (7:30 p.m.) April 13 (2:00 p.m.).

Conductor I-Jen Fang & the UVA Percussion Ensemble Perform Khamsa
2025-04-05 20:00 (America/New_York) | Old Cabell Auditorium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, United States
Khamsa was commissioned by the UVA Percussion Ensemble and its director I-Jen Fang on the occasion of their tenth anniversary and recorded it on their album Speed of Sound. The title, Khamsa, which means ‘five’ in Arabic, refers to an ancient palm-shaped amulet that has been used as a sign of protection against the ‘evil eye.’ It has meaning in all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, though it predated all of them. During a time of turmoil in the Mideast and Africa, still ongoing, I chose this title and designed a structure based on the five digits as a way of expressing hope for better times ahead, for protection for all people against intolerance based on religious creed and ethnicity. Each of the five members of the quintet represents the fingers of the open palm. The music is intensely dramatic, with powerful gestures to ward off evil. For more information, visit www.judithshatin.com.

Immigrant, with music by Judith Shatin, at the Martha Graham Dance Company
2025-04-06 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 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 9 (7:30 p.m.), and April 13 (2:00 p.m.).

Juilliard Composition Seminar Presentation
2025-04-07 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | The Juilliard School, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, Manhattan, NY, 10023, United States
Presentation on Shatin’s music for the Juilliard Composition Seminar, focusing on a mix of acoustic, electroacoustic and digital approaches. As a Juilliard graduate (MM., 1974), Shatin’s approach to acoustic music bore the fruits of studies with Hal Overton, Otto Luenning and Milton Babbitt. Her love of collaboration with choreographers grew from her collaboration with Diane Hulbert, with wonderful support from Dean Martha Hill. Other high points include her course in acoustics with noted acoustician Chris Jaffe, as well as classes with Vincent Persichetti and David Diamond. Multiiple life-long friendships ensued with performers including violist Rosemary Glyde and pianist Gayle Martin.

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) | VA
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) | VA
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.
