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EVENTS

2025–26 SEASON

2025

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​August 26 | 7 PM ET

Chamber Recital

with Colin Babcock & Chance Gompert trombones

Marc A. Scorca Hall, OPERA America (NYC)

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September 16 | 7:30 PM ET

Still, Restless (world premiere)

Matthew Schultheis, piano + prerecorded piano

Willson Theater, The Juilliard School (NYC)

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September 22 | 7 PM ET

Magpie Duo: Limits and Meditations I (music for synthesizers)

Bach, Telemann, Cage, Houben

Mechanics' Hall, Portland, ME

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October 3 | 11 AM ET

October 4 | 1 PM, 7 PM ET

October 6 | 7 PM ET

Georg Friedrich Haas: 11,000 Strings (US premiere)

Bas Wiegers, Klangforum Wien

Park Avenue Armory (NYC)

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October 16 | 6 PM ET

Magpie Duo: Limits and Meditations II

Morton Feldman: For John Cage

St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University (NYC)

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December 6 | 8 PM ET

BlackBox Ensemble: Bowerbird Concerts

Works by Joachim, Giang, Díaz, and more

University Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, PA

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December 10, 11, 13 | 7:30 PM ET

December 12 | 11 AM ET

December 13 | 2 PM ET

December 14 | 3 PM ET

Juilliard New Dances: Winter 2025

Philip Glass: Knee Play 1 + 2 from Einstein on the Beach

Peter Jay Sharp Theater, The Juilliard School (NYC)

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December 12 | 7:30 PM ET

PRISMA Project: Inaugural Concert

Orchestrations of works by Bach, Beethoven, and Fanny Mendelssohn

Church of the Covenant, Boston, MA

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2026

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​January 6 | 7 PM ET

Magpie Duo: silent night

Works by Crumb, Ysaÿe, Britten, Esmail, Nielsen, and more

OSA Church, Washington Heights (NYC)

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​January 11–31

Banff Winter Artist Residency (with Magpie Duo)

Banff Centre, Banff, AB Canada

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​January 25 | 7:30 PM MT

all is leaf premiere (for violin and synthesizers)

Magpie Duo

Banff Centre, Banff, AB Canada

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February 11 | 7:30 PM ET

Saariaho: Graal-Theâtre (arr. violin & 2 pianos)

Holly Workman, violin

Mannes School of Music (NYC)

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March 5 | 12 PM PT

March 6 | 5 PM PT

BlackBox Ensemble: UC Davis Residency (cond. Matthew Schultheis)

Works by Baldwin Giang, Brittany J. Green, James Díaz, Julius Eastman, and UC Davis student composers

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA

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March 9 | 7 PM PT

BlackBox Ensemble: SFSU Residency (cond. Matthew Schultheis)

Works by Baldwin Giang, Brittany J. Green, James Díaz, Cole Reyes, Julius Eastman, and Ursula Mamlok

San Francisco, CA

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March 18 | 7:30 PM ET

BlackBox Ensemble: Williams College Residency

Works by Nathalie Joachim, Tania León, Douglas Boyce, and Ileana Perez Vasquez

Chapin Hall, Williamstown, MA

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March 29 | 5 PM ET

troubled sleep (patterns): premiere

Deanna Cirielli, harp

Morse Hall, The Juilliard School (NYC)

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April 9 | 7:30 PM ET

BlackBox Ensemble: ECU Residency

Works by Brittany J. Green, Andile Khumalo, Douglas Boyce, and Julius Eastman

ECU School of Music, Greenville, NC

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April 12 | 10 AM ET

Erik Satie: Vexations

Juilliard Station (NYC)

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April 24 | 7:30 PM ET

PRISMA Project: United We Stand, Divided We Fall

Orchestrations of works by Ives and Gershwin

Church of the Covenant, Boston, MA

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May 11 | 7 PM ET

lodged within you (rev. Boston premiere)

Sam Kelder, viola

Marsh Chapel, Boston, MA

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May 29 | 7 PM ET

Magpie Duo: Communities and Continuities

Works by Saariaho, Berg, Anthony Cheung, and Jörg Widmann

with Anoush Pogossian (clarinet) and Celia Morin (viola)

OSA Church, Washington Heights (NYC)

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June 5 | 7 PM ET

Magpie Duo: Yarn/Wire Institute Concert

all is leaf: appendices for violin and synthesizers (premiere)

Manhattan School of Music (NYC)

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June 6 | 1:30 PM ET

Magpie Duo: popup set

OSA Church, Washington Heights (NYC)

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June 12 | 7:30 PM ET

Magpie Duo: solo synthesizer set

Bluebird Concerts

Five Flies Coffee, Washington Heights (NYC)

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June 28 | 2 PM, 6 PM ET

Revolve Dance

Katie Jenkins: Collage (premiere)

The Strand Theater, Providence, RI

2024

January 18 | 4:30 PM ET

Béla Bártok: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion

Ruogu Wen, piano; Boldiszár Kovács and Ning Tie, percussion

ChamberFest 2024: Morse Hall, The Juilliard School

https://www.juilliard.edu/event/167401/chamberfest

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February 19 | 7:30 PM ET

Aaron Derwin: From The Pews (world premiere)

Christian Gonzales, violin

Morse Hall, The Juilliard School

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February 26 | 8 PM ET

Governing Forces (world premiere)

The Juilliard Orchestra (dir. Jeffrey Milarsky)

Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY

https://www.juilliard.edu/event/162941/composers-concert-four-world-premieres

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February 27 | 5 PM ET

Arnold Schoenberg: Selections from 3 Klavierstücke, Op. 11 and  6 Kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19

DMA Lecture Recital: Jordyn Gallinek, composer

Morse Hall, The Juilliard School

https://www.juilliard.edu/event/168596/jordyn-gallinek-composition-lecture-performance

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March 12–14

Ink Still Wet 2024 (with composer-in-residence Enno Poppe)

Grafenegg, Lower Austria, Austria

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March 24 | 8:30 PM CT

Music for violin and piano by Furrer, Kurtág, Takemitsu, Saariaho, Messiaen, and Enescu

Lauren Conroy, violin

Constellation, Chicago, IL

https://wl.seetickets.us/event/frequency-series-presents-lauren-conroy-matthew-schultheis/586484?afflky=ConstellationChicago

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April 1

Omniscience (world premiere)

Paul Hall, The Juilliard School

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May 3 | 6 PM ET

Music for violin and piano

Lauren Conroy, violin

Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, NY

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May 18

Untitled work for solo piano

Jacob Skiles, piano

Chamber Music Athens, Athens, GA

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May 19

Whirlpool (world premiere)

New York Virtuoso Singers (dir. Harold Rosenbaum)

St. Luke in the Fields Church, New York, NY

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September (TBD)

Untitled work for solo viola (world premiere)

Sam Kelder, viola

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September (TBD)

Untitled work for violin and piano (world premiere)

Margie Kelk, artist

918 Bathurst, Toronto,  Ontario, Canada​

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