• Oct
• Nov
• Dec
• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun

OCT

• 8
• FRI
• Saratoga Springs, NY, Zankel Music Center, Skidmore College, 8.00pm
• The world première of my new septet for the wonder­ful Ensemble ACJW, along­side Brahms’s Op. 18 Sextet and Schu­bert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen.

• 11
• MON
• New York, NY, Le Poisson Rouge (LPR), 7.30pm
• Our “mighty handful” of five Yale composers, Sleeping Giant (Chris Cerrone, Jacob Cooper, Ted Hearne, Robert Honstein, and yours truly) takes to the stage at LPR for the second time in this concert spon­sored by Yale in New York.

• 12
• TUE
• New York, NY, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, 7.30pm
• The NYC première of my new piece for the wonder­ful Ensemble ACJW, along­side Brahms’s Op. 18 Sextet.

• 25
• MON
• Clarksville, TN, Austin Peay State Univer­sity, 7.30pm
• My Tennessee début (it’s true!), collab­o­rat­ing with one of my favorite musician friends, clar­inetist Mingzhe Wang. He’s put together a really inter­est­ing program focussing on composers influ­enced by Schumann, along­side music by the man himself. I’ll be playing his other­worldly Gesänge der Frühe as well as two new short pieces of my own, then joining Ming & friends for Kurtág’s Hommage à R. Sch. and Schu­man­n’s Märch­en­erzäh­lun­gen.

NOV

• 14
• SUN
• Prince­ton, NJ, Rock­e­feller College common room in Madison Hall at Prince­ton Univer­sity, 3.00pm
• The student-run Prince­ton Univer­sity Chamber Ensemble performs Some Connecti­cut Gospel.

• 17
• WED
• Brooklyn, NY, Issue Project Room, 8.00pm
• Singer-composer extra­or­di­naire Gabriel Kahane curates this concert on the MATA Festival, for which I’ve written my first bit of vocal music in about five years (Family Plays)! The program looks to be terrific, includ­ing premières of new works by Andrew Norman, Yotam Haber, Joseph Hallman, Chris Thile, Shara Worden, Paola Prestini, Brett Banducci, and Ted Hearne.

DEC

• 5
• SUN
• Brooklyn, NY, Gala­pa­gos Art Space, 7.00pm
• Opera Grows in Brooklyn. I’m playing piano in Matt Mark’s twisted Adven­tures of Albert Fish, a song cycle from the point of view of a serial killer.

• 9–11
• THU–SAT
• New York, NY, 111 West 67^th Street, 34D, 8.00pm/8.00pm/3.00pm
• Two evenings of an intimate “house concert”-style solo piano recital, pairing a large new piano suite (It takes a long time to become a good composer) with Schu­man­n’s Kreis­le­ri­ana. Presented by Metrop­o­lis Ensemble.

JAN

• 14
• FRI
• Water­town, CT, The Taft School, 7.00pm
• My brother Wells Andres and I are putting on a little violin-piano concert at his “alma mater”. Program to include Ravel’s violin sonata, Pärt’s Fratres— and more!

• 17
• MON
• New York, NY, Merkin Hall, 2.00pm–9.00pm
• The very Ecstatic Music Festival kicks off with a Marathon, in the grand tradi­tion of new music marathons. I’ll be playing some Ives and some new piano music at some point during the day; stay tuned for more detailed info. I should mention that there is liter­ally nothing on this seven hour concert that you will feel good about missing.

• 22
• SAT
• New York, NY, Merkin Hall, 7.30pm
• I’m joining my friends in ACME for this Ecstatic show featur­ing songs by Jeffer­son Friedman.

• 29
• SAT
• New York, NY, Tenri Cultural Insti­tute, 8.00pm
• Doug Fisk’s “Composers/Pianists” concert series returns to NY with a concert featur­ing music written and performed by Doug, Trevor Gureckis, Missy Mazzoli, and Adrian Knight. I’ll be playing Every­thing is an Onion from It takes a long time to become a good composer.

FEB

• 15
• TUE
• New York, NY, Lincoln Center, 7.30pm
• I’m collab­o­rat­ing with the designer Frank Tell on their Fashion Week presen­ta­tion. They’ll be doing mono­chrome asym­met­ri­cal sweaters; violin­ist Tema Watstein and I will be doing original music.

• 18
• FRI
• South Pasadena, CA, South Pasadena Music Center, 8.00pm
• Bassist-vocalist extra­or­di­naire Maggie Hass­pacher premières a new piece I’m writing for her. Also: brand new works by Amy Beth Kirsten and Ruben Naeff.

• 25
• FRI
• Muncie, IN, Ball State Univer­sity New Music Festival, 7.30pm
• I’ll be perform­ing Derek John­son’s barn-burning piano piece Infinity Plunge.

• 26
• SAT
• Muncie, IN, Ball State Univer­sity New Music Festival, 7.30pm
• Derek Johnson and I perform Fast Flows the River in a new version for electric guitar.

MAR

• 5
• SAT
• New York, NY, Merkin Hall, 7.30pm
• Teaming up with singer-pianist-song­writer Gabriel Kahane for a show on the Ecstatic Music Festival (a really exciting lineup of concerts that is bound to be the high­light of the first few months of 2011). Our show is a grab bag of Amer­i­cana: Charles Ives, po-po-mo hymn arrange­ments, popular song, unpop­u­lar song, Some Connecti­cut Gospel in a brand-new arrange­ment for piano and Hammond B3… what’s not to love? Really, nothing.

• 5
• SAT
• Evans, GA, Jabez Hardin Perform­ing Arts Center, 7.30pm
• Cellist Claire Bryant and Friends (specif­i­cally: Owen Dalby, Margaret Dyer, and Anna Elashvili) perform my string quartet, Thrive on Routine, on the Juil­liard in Aiken series.

• 11
• FRI
• New York, NY, Zankel Hall, 7.30pm
• “Brad Mehldau and Friends” take to the stage at Zankel hall. We’ll team up on a few move­ments of Shy and Mighty. PLUS: I’ll join Brad and said friends for his new, Carnegie-commis­sioned piece for two pianos and wind band.

• 12
• SAT
• Cambridge, MA, Sanders Theater, 7.30pm
• “Brad Mehldau and Friends” reprise his new music for two pianos, winds, and percus­sion at Sanders Theater in Cambridge.

• 24
• THU
• New Haven, CT, Sprague Hall, 8.00pm
• It’s back to my old stomping grounds (and I do mean that) to play the great Ingram Marshal­l’s solo piano piece Authen­tic Presence on the New Music New Haven series.

• 25
• FRI
• Brooklyn, NY, First Pres­by­ter­ian Church, 8.00pm
• Joining the outstand­ing singer Mellissa Hughes for her solo show on the Music at First series. Tunes by Matt Marks, Gabriel Kahane (the famous Craigslistlieder), Eric Shan­field, and more. (Resched­uled from March 18)

• 31
• THU
• Toronto, Canada, Richard Bradshaw Amphithe­ater, 12.00pm
• The Canadian première of Crashing Through Fences with Ed Reifel (Glock­en­spiel) and Camille Watts (piccolo).

APR

• 7–9
• THU–SAT
• New York, NY, The Kitchen, 8.00pm
• Beth Morrison’s 21^st-Century Lieder­abend returns in this iter­a­tion featur­ing new tunes by Julia Wolfe, David T. Little, Paola Prestini, Russell Platt, Doug Cuomo, Greg Spears, Gabriel Kahane, and Ted Hearne, among others. I’m thrilled to be joining a wonder­ful backup band, ACME, as well as the Ted Hearne Band. David Kaplan and I will also play some four-hands accom­pa­ni­ments. (I realize this all sounds like more than one evening’s-worth of events— that’s because all three nights are different!)

• 9
• SAT
• Miami, FL, NWSA ArtSeen Gallery, 7.00pm
• Bassist-vocalist Maggie Hass­pacher performs Are your fingers long enough? on the O, Miami poetry festival.

• 30
• SAT
• New York, NY, Tenri Cultural Insti­tute, 8.00pm
• Pianist Marc Pelo­quin’s Keyed Up Music Project is devoting a whole show to my work & influ­ences! I’ll join Marc for some selec­tions from Shy and Mighty, along­side various solo works and even some tran­scrip­tions of Mahler songs (!) from a while back.

MAY

• 13–14
• FRI–SAT
• New York, NY, The Italian Academy at Columbia Univer­sity, 8.00pm
• I’ll be joining the Red Light musi­cians for a fully staged produc­tion of Christo­pher Cerrone’s ravish­ing opera, Invis­i­ble Cities.

• 25
• WED
• New York, NY, Abrons Arts Center, 8.00pm
• Marking this year’s second NYC festival of piano music with a “keys”-based pun in the title, Lisa Moore will perform my How can I live in your world of ideas? on Joe Ruben­stein’s Keys to the Future mini-series.

JUN

• 9
• THU
• Brooklyn, NY, Barge­mu­sic, 8.00pm
• I’m thrilled to be present­ing a solo concert at Barge­mu­sic, a floating concert hall housed in a 19^th-century coffee barge under the Brooklyn Bridge. I’ll be playing not only recent works by Christo­pher Cerrone, Derek Johnson, Ingram Marshall, and myself, but two brand-new pieces commis­sioned for the occasion from Ted Hearne and Jacob Cooper.

• 15
• WED
• Brooklyn, NY, Little­field, 7.30pm
• Sleeping Giant’s summer show! New and recent tunes by all six of us (Chris Cerrone, Andrew Norman, Ted Hearne, Jacob Cooper, and Robert Honstein), drinks, and fun provided. Maggie Hass­pacher will play the NY première of Are your fingers long enough? plus Rob and I are going to wear our matching golden/silken pyjamas.

• 19
• SUN
• New York, NY, Winter Garden at the World Finan­cial Center, 11.00am–12.00am
• I’ll be playing At the River on the annual Bang on a Can marathon!

JUL

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