SEP
- 26
- THU
- New Haven, CT, Sprague Hall, Yale University, 8.00pm
- All Ted Hearne concert. I’ll be playing in his septet Crispy Gentlemen, as well as performing his barn-burning piano solo that he wrote for me, Parlor Diplomacy.
OCT
- 2
- WED
- New York, NY, Pearl Theater, 8.00pm
- David Kaplan and I will play an evening of piano-four-hands. Stravinsky, Beethoven, Andres on the bill.
- 6
- SUN
- Los Angeles, CA, Royce Hall, UCLA, 7.00pm
- The American Youth Symphony Orchestra performs Bathtub Shrine.
- 12
- THU
- Milwaukee, WI, Present Music, 7.30pm
- The stalwart Present Music ensemble plays Trade Winds. Also, the fantastic Third Coast Percussion is on the bill!
NOV
- 2
- SAT
- New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 7.00pm
- ACME teams up with the extraordinary actress Barbara Sukowa for Pierrot Lunaire, that chestnut.
- 7
- THU
- New York, NY, Lincoln Center Atrium, 7.30pm
- yMusic performs Safe Travels, which I wrote for them this year, at the Lincoln Center Atrium.
- 7
- THU
- New Haven, CT, Sprague Hall, Yale University, 8.00pm
- Performing Jacob Cooper’s piano-and-live-electronics piece Clifton Gates at Yale.
- 9
- SAT
- Durham, NC, Duke Performances, 8.00pm
- The stunning pianist Kirill Gerstein premières Old Friend, a solo piece I wrote for him.
- 20
- WED
- Chicago, IL, Third Coast Percussion, 7.00pm
- A preview of the big piece I’m writing for Third Coast Percussion. This will be a nice performance party with some playing, talking, drinking, eating, perusing random percussion instruments, etc. etc.
DEC
- 2
- MON
- Kalamazoo, MI, The Gilmore, 7.30pm
- Kirill Gerstein brings Old Friend to the Gilmore (which commissioned the piece for him).
- 19
- THU
- New Haven, CT, Sprague Hall, Yale University, 8.00pm
- Performing on Chris Cerrone’s Yale DMA recital: the piano-and-live-electronics piece Hoyt-Schermerhorn and the new song cycle I Will Learn To Love a Person (with soprano Mellissa Hughes).
JAN
- 21
- TUE
- Moscow, ID, Haddock Hall, University of Idaho, 7.30pm
- Pianist Kristin Elgersma premières a new piece I wrote for her called Clear and Cold.
- 24
- TUE
- Indianapolis, IN, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall, Butler University, 8.00pm
- Pianist Kristin Elgersma performs Clear and Cold.
- 26
- SUN
- Indiana, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, University of Notre Dame, 2.00pm
- The world première of Austerity Measures, a big new piece for Third Coast Percussion.
- 27
- MON
- Selinsgrove, PA, Stretansky Concert Hall, Susquehana University, 8.00pm
- Pianist Kristin Elgersma performs Clear and Cold.
- 27–28
- MON–TUE
- Vancouver, BC, Music On Main, Heritage Hall, 8.00pm
- Gabriel Kahane & I bring our “mixéd tape” program to Vancouver. Works by Bach, Britten, Adès, Ives, Schumann, Schubert, & the both of us.
- 31
- FRI
- Boston, MA, Celebrity Series, Jordan Hall, 8.00pm
- Kirill Gerstein plays Old Friend in Boston.
FEB
- 14
- FRI
- Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, 8.00pm
- Pianist Kristin Elgersma performs Clear and Cold, alongside new pieces she’s commissioned from Amy Beth Kirsten and Daniel Felsenfeld.
- 23
- SUN
- Winston-Salem, NC, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, 3.00pm
- Forecast Music presents a concert of Brooklynite composers—Copland, Bermel, Corigliano, and my own Trade Secrets.
- 28
- FRI
- New York, NY, NYU Pless Hall Black Box Theater, 8.00pm
- A new two-day music festival called “Pulsing and Shaking” run by NYU students. Includes the four-hand piano piece Retro Music.
MAR
- 6–9
- THU–SUN
- Milwaukee, WI, Next Act Theater, 7.30pm/2.30pm
- Milwaukee’s stalwart Present Music ensemble joins forces with the Danceworks Company for a choreographed version of Sleeping Giant’s Histories.
- 13
- THU
- Milwaukee, WI, South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center, 7.30pm
- ACME performs Messiaen’s Quartet For the End of Time and Weinberg’s Piano Quintet.
- 19
- WED
- New York, NY, Ecstatic Music Festival, Merkin Hall, 7.30pm
- The world première of Work Songs, a big new song cycle for Becca Stevens, Gabriel Kahane, Ted Hearne, Nathan Koci, and me to play & sing together.
- 21–22
- FRI–SAT
- St. Paul, MN, Liquid Music, Music Room at the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, 8.00pm
- Becca Stevens, Ted Hearne, Gabriel Kahane, Nathan Koci & I team up for Work Songs in St. Paul as part of the SPCO’s interesting Liquid Music series.
APR
- 7
- MON
- New York, NY, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, 7.30pm
- Pianist and new music impresario Bruce Levingston premières a new piano piece I wrote for him.
- 10
- THU
- Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Contemporary Directions Ensemble, Britton Hall, 8.00pm
- Hannah Weiss and Hannah Weaver perform Crashing Through Fences at the University of Michigan.
- 13
- SUN
- Chicago, IL, Chicago Cultural Center, 3.00pm
- Third Coast Percussion presents my piece for them, Austerity Measures, on their home turf.
MAY
- 17
- SAT
- London, UK, Main Hall, The Barbican, 7.00pm
- Nonesuch Records 50th-birthday extravaganza weekend! The Britten Sinfonia plays Steve Reich’s Radio Rewrite, then Brad Mehldau plays his Variations on a Melancholy Theme with them, and then we’re doing my Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno. And a good time was had by all.
- 18
- SUN
- London, UK, Milton Court Concert Hall, The Barbican, 11.00am
- TWO PIANO CONCERT WITH DAVE KAPLAN AND BRAD MEHLDAU, EVERYBODY! I am so excited. We’re playing two of my favorite pieces ever, Steve Reich’s Piano Phase and John Adams’s Hallelujah Junction, as well as selections from Shy and Mighty. And then Brad will make up some music on the spot, something I hear he’s particularly good at.
- 28
- WED
- New York, NY, Le Poisson Rouge, 7.30pm
- Teaming up with my conductor friend Christopher Rountree and Ensemble LPR (le Poisson Rouge’s resident chamber orchestra) to bring you a show of piano concertos by Mozart (K. 414) and Britten (Young Apollo), Ted Hearne’s brilliant Law of Mosaics, and my string quartet Thrive on Routine.
JUN
- 11
- WED
- Milwaukee, WI, INOVA — University of Milwaukee Art Museum, 7.30pm
- Third Coast Percussion plays Austerity Measures in Milwaukee.
- 14
- SAT
- Ojai, CA, Ojai Music Festival, Libbey Bowl, 6.00pm
- Joining The Knights for my Coronation concerto re-composition, on this famously wild music weekend directed (this season) by Jeremy Denk.
- 15
- SUN
- Ojai, CA, Ojai Music Festival, Ojai Art Center, 2.00pm
- Solo piano concert on the Ojai Festival, pairing It takes a long time to become a good composer and Schumann’s Kreisleriana.
- 21
- SAT
- Berkeley, CA, Ojai North, Cal Performances, 3.00pm
- And then it’s on to Ojai North! Joining the Knights for my Coronation Concerto Re-Composition once more, on a fascinating-looking program featuring Ives, Weill, and Stockhausen arranged by Caroline Shaw (!?)
- 24
- TUE
- New York, NY, Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, Historic Naumburg Bandshell Concert Ground, Central Park, 7.30pm
- An outdoor concert with The Knights! I’ll be joining them for my Coronation Concerto Re-Composition.
JUL
- 11
- THU
- Vail, CO, Vail Valley Music Festival, 1.00pm
- Third Coast Percussion plays Austerity Measures in Vail, CO.