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EVENTS

2025–26 SEASON

2025

August 26 | 7 PM ET

Chamber Recital

with Colin Babcock & Chance Gompert trombones

Marc A. Scorca Hall, OPERA America (NYC)

September 16 | 7:30 PM ET

Still, Restless (world premiere)

Matthew Schultheis, piano + prerecorded piano

Willson Theater, The Juilliard School (NYC)

September 22 | 7 PM ET

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

Bach, Telemann, Cage, Houben

Mechanics' Hall, Portland, ME

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)

October 16 | 6 PM ET

Magpie Duo: Limits and Meditations II

Morton Feldman: For John Cage

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

December 6 | 8 PM ET

BlackBox Ensemble: Bowerbird Concerts

Works by Joachim, Giang, Díaz, and more

University Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, PA

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)

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

2026

January 6 | 7 PM ET

Magpie Duo: silent night

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

OSA Church, Washington Heights (NYC)

January 11–31

Banff Winter Artist Residency (with Magpie Duo)

Banff Centre, Banff, AB Canada

January 25 | 7:30 PM MT

all is leaf premiere (for violin and synthesizers)

Magpie Duo

Banff Centre, Banff, AB Canada

February 11 | 7:30 PM ET

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

Holly Workman, violin

Mannes School of Music (NYC)

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

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

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

March 29 | 5 PM ET

troubled sleep (patterns): premiere

Deanna Cirielli, harp

Morse Hall, The Juilliard School (NYC)

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

April 12 | 10 AM ET

Erik Satie: Vexations

Juilliard Station (NYC)

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

May 11 | 7 PM ET

lodged within you (rev. Boston premiere)

Sam Kelder, viola

Marsh Chapel, Boston, MA

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)

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)

June 6 | 1:30 PM ET

Magpie Duo: popup set

OSA Church, Washington Heights (NYC)

June 12 | 7:30 PM ET

Magpie Duo: solo synthesizer set

Bluebird Concerts

Five Flies Coffee, Washington Heights (NYC)

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

February 19 | 7:30 PM ET

Aaron Derwin: From The Pews (world premiere)

Christian Gonzales, violin

Morse Hall, The Juilliard School

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

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

March 12–14

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

Grafenegg, Lower Austria, Austria

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

April 1

Omniscience (world premiere)

Paul Hall, The Juilliard School

May 3 | 6 PM ET

Music for violin and piano

Lauren Conroy, violin

Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, NY

May 18

Untitled work for solo piano

Jacob Skiles, piano

Chamber Music Athens, Athens, GA

May 19

Whirlpool (world premiere)

New York Virtuoso Singers (dir. Harold Rosenbaum)

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

September (TBD)

Untitled work for solo viola (world premiere)

Sam Kelder, viola

September (TBD)

Untitled work for violin and piano (world premiere)

Margie Kelk, artist

918 Bathurst, Toronto,  Ontario, Canada

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