2012-2013 Season
SEP
- when: Saturday, September 22, 1.30 PM
- where: Carlsbad Village Theater, Carlsbad, CA
I’ll be playing a solo show at this year’s Carlsbad Music Festival, a real extravaganza organized by fellow composer Matt McBane. Program is: At the River, Parlor Diplomacy (whole thing!!), Authentic Presence, Lieder Ohne Worte, and selections from Schumann’s Waldszenen.
- when: Thursday, September 27, 8.00 PM UPDATE: POSTPONED, STAY TUNED…
- where: Sprague Hall, 470 College St., New Haven, CT
Honored to be performing Ted Hearne’s Parlor Diplomacy, which he wrote for me two years ago, on his Yale DMA concert.
- when: Sunday, September 30, 7.30 PM
- where: DiMenna Center, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
Cadillac Moon Ensemble performs a short, sweet piece I wrote for them called Trade Secrets at their CD release show.
OCT
- when: Thursday, October 4, 8.00 PM
- where: Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY
The lovely duo of Ashley Bathgate and Lisa Moore play my cello-Hammond organ piece Fast Flows the River.
- when: Thursday, October 18, 7.00 PM and Friday, October 19, 8.00 PM
- where: Royce Auditorium, St. Cecilia Music Center, Grand Rapids, MI
The Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra plays Nightjar and Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno, a whole bunch of times!
- when: Thursday-Saturday, October 25-27, 7.30 PM
- where: BAM Fisher, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Playing a brand-new song cycle called Out Cold by Phil Kline with ACME and Theo Bleckmann.
NOV
- when: Sunday, November 18, 4:00 PM
- where: Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, 812 N. Jackson St., Milwaukee, WI
Present Music and Milwaukee Choral Artists première a big new piece I wrote for them called Comfort Food.
- when: Tuesday, November 20, 8:00 PM
- where: Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY
Cadillac Moon Ensemble performs Trade Secrets, a short piece they commissioned earlier this year. Sharing the bill with Flexible Music.
DEC
- when: Thursday, December 6, 8.00 PM
- where: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St., Brooklyn, NY
A variety show, of sorts, featuring a bunch of my piano music played by David Kaplan, and me playing Mozart’s piano Concerto K. 414 with musicians from Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
JAN
- when: Monday, January 14, 7.00 PM
- where: DROM NYC, 85 Ave. A, New York, NY
ACME plays a short set on the APAP Showcase, including music by Nico Muhly and my piano quartet I Found it by the Sea.
FEB
- when: Friday, February 15, 11.00 AM; Saturday, February 16, 7.30 PM; and Saturday, February 23, 7:30 PM
- where: Milwaukee, WI; various locations (see site for details)
My friends at Present Music in Milwaukee are presenting a great-sounding lineup of new pieces by Ted Hearne, Andrew Norman, and Nico Muhly, alongside my own I Found it by the Sea. Performers include the incomparable pianist Michael Mizrahi and one of my favorite violinists, Margot Duffy Schwartz.
- when: Sunday, February 24, 11.00 AM
- where: Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
I’m playing a solo “coffee concert” (as in: you will need to drink a ton of coffee in order to wake up that early) on the Great Performers series (as in: the concert already got reviewed, and it was Great).
MAR
- when: Sunday, March 3, 4.00-11.00 PM
- where: Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY
The annual NEW MUSIC BAKE SALE. An afternoon & evening of music, baked goods, and socializing. I happen to be playing a solo set featuring music by Brooklyn-based composers: Chris Cerrone, Scott Wollschleger, and me (Timo).
- when: Friday, March 8, 7.30 PM
- where: Merit School of Music, Chicago, IL
David Kaplan and I join the fantastic Third Coast Percussion for a program of Reich and Crumb.
- when: Wednesday, March 27, 6.30 PM
- where: Hotel Rex, San Francisco, CA
A short and intimate solo “salon” for San Francisco Performances.
- when: Friday, March 29, 8.00 PM
- where: Herbst Theater, San Francisco, CA
The crack team of pianist Jonathan Biss and the Elias Quartet give the world première of a piano quintet I’m writing for them (at this moment).
APR
- when: Wednesday, April 1, 8.00 PM
- where: Bard College, László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
News Flash! Gabriel Kahane & I are previewing our Library of Congress show up at Bard. Ives, Britten, Schubert, Schumann, Bach/Kurtág, Kahane, & Andres.
- when: Tuesday, April 2, 7.30 PM
- where: Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
The Biss-Elias quintet comes to New York.
- when: Friday, April 5, 8.00 PM
- where: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Gabriel Kahane & I team up for an evening of songs: our own, along with some Ives, Britten, Schumann, and of course, Kahane & Andres.
- when: Friday, April 12, 8.00 PM
- where: Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
The Biss-Elias quintet comes to Boston, sharing the bill with Schumann & Purcell.
- when: Thursday, April 18, 7.30 PM
- where: The Morgan Library, 225 Madison Ave., New York, NY
Chamber music of Weinberg, Górecki and Shostakovich with ACME.
- when: Thursday, April 25, 5.00 PM
- where: Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Doing a short solo set on Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, an interesting & diverse annual festival curated by Bryce and Aaron Dessner.
MAY
- when: Sunday, May 12, 7.30 PM
- where: The Cell Theater, 338 W 23rd St, New York, NY
The fantastic guitar/percussion duo The Living Earth Show comes to town with music they commissioned from Adrian Knight, Sam Adams, Chris Cerrone, and yours truly.
- when: Sunday, May 12, 7.30 PM
- where: The Barbican, London, UK
LAST MINUTE SHOW ALERT! I’m filling in on Nico’s “A Scream and an Outrage” festival, playing five new Philip Glass études.
- when: Tuesday, May 14, 7.30 PM
- where: Wigmore Hall, London, UK
The Biss-Elias quintet lands in the UK!
- when: Wednesday, May 22, 8.00 PM
- where: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The world première of a new piece I’m writing for the Attacca Quartet, alongside music by Janáček, Beethoven, and “Big John” Adams.
- when: Wednesday, May 22, 7.00 PM
- where: Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2, 196 Allen St., New York, NY
Another LAST MINUTE SHOW ALERT: the wonderful sextet yMusic is premièring a piece a wrote them called Safe Travels. Also on the program: new and newish music by Mark Dancigers, Marcos Balter, Nico Muhly, Andrew Norman, and Sufjan Stevens (!)!
- when: Thursday, May 23, 8.00 PM
- where: Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Kleiner Saal, Hamburg, Germany
Jonathan Biss and the Elias Quartet take my Piano Quintet to Germany.
- when: Friday, May 24, 8.15 PM
- where: Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, NL
The Biss-Elias quintet surfaces in the Low Countries.
- when: Wednesday, May 29, 7.30 PM
- where: Recital Hall at University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
David Kaplan and I are playing a four-handed, eight-eyed version of the Rite of Spring, on the 100th anniversary of the première.