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2015 SEP

• 27
• SUN
• Big Sur, CA, Henry Miller Library, 1.00 PM
• Philip Glass’s complete piano études, performed by Philip, Maki Namekawa, and me, at the composer’s own Days and Nights Festival in Big Sur.

• 29
• TUE
• Cincin­nati, OH, Corbett Audi­to­rium, Univer­sity of Cincin­nati, 8.00 PM
• eighth black­bird performs selec­tions from Sleeping Giant’s Hand Eye, includ­ing my Check­ered Shade.

OCT

• 16
• FRI
• Saratoga Springs, NY, Zankel Music Center, Skidmore College, 8.00 PM
• The excel­lent young musi­cians of Carnegie Hall’s ACJW perform my Piano Quintet.

• 17
• SAT
• Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne Festival, 1.00 PM
• Flutist Lina Andonovska and percus­sion­ist Callum Moncrieff perform Crashing Through Fences.

• 17–18
• SAT–SUN
• Los Angeles, CA, Alex Theater/Royce Hall, 7.00 pm/8.00 pm
• Jeffrey Kahane leads the Los Angeles Chamber Orches­tra in my Word of Mouth.

• 19
• MON
• New York, NY, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, 7.30 PM
• The excel­lent young musi­cians of Carnegie Hall’s ACJW perform my Piano Quintet.

• 20
• TUE
• New Haven, CT, Sprague Hall, Yale Univer­sity, 7.30 PM
• A grand home­com­ing for Sleeping Giant as eighth black­bird brings our Hand Eye to New Haven.

NOV

• 8
• SUN
• New York, NY, le Poisson Rouge, 7.30 PM
• Perform­ing Chris Cerrone’s Sonata for Violin and Piano with virtuoso Tim Fain.

• 15
• SUN
• Balti­more, MD, Shriver Hall, 8.00 PM
• The world première of my piece for the Takács Quartet, Strong Language.

• 19
• THU
• New York, NY, Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, 7.30 PM
• The Takács Quartet performs Strong Language in New York.

• 22
• SUN
• Louisville, KY, Comstock Hall, 3.00 PM
• The Takács Quartet performs Strong Language.

• 23
• MON
• Mexico City, Mexico
• A selec­tion of Philip Glass études in Mexico City.

• 27–29
• FRI–SUN
• St. Paul, MN, Ordway Concert Hall, 8.00/8.00/2.00 PM
• The world première of a new piano concerto, The Blind Banister, for Jonathan Biss and the St. Paul Chamber Orches­tra. Mischa Santora conducts.

DEC

• 2
• WED
• Ann Arbor, MI, Rakham Audi­to­rium, 7.30 PM
• The Takács Quartet plays Strong Language in Michigan.

• 4
• FRI
• Boston, MA, the Jordan Hall, 8.00 PM
• The Takács Quartet plays Strong Language on Boston’s Celebrity Series. Not guar­an­teed to be attended by any actual celebrities.

• 11
• FRI
• Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles City College, 8.00 PM
• Pianist Richard Vali­tutto performs Heavy Sleep on an intrigu­ing program of Nocturnes and Lullabies.

• 12
• SAT
• New York, NY, French Cultural Insti­tute, 22 East 60^th St. (note venue change)
• Joining the Attacca Quartet for Schu­man­n’s Piano Quintet. They will also play Early to Rise, which I wrote for them in 2013.

• 14–20
• MON–SUN
• Brooklyn, NY, National Sawdust
• In resi­dence at the new National Sawdust with ACME.

2016 JAN

• 12
• TUE
• New York, NY, le Poisson Rouge, 7.30 PM
• The world première of a new collab­o­ra­tive work for solo cello by Sleeping Giant, for the cellist Ashley Bathgate.

• 15
• FRI
• Philadel­phia, PA, Perelman Theater, 8.00 PM
• eighth black­bird perfor­m’s Sleeping Giant’s Hand Eye at Philadel­phi­a’s Chamber Music Society.

• 17
• SUN
• Wash­ing­ton, DC, The Phillips Collec­tion, 4.00 PM
• With violin­ist Yevgeny Kutik, a recital of Stravin­sky, Nico Muhly, and the première of my new piece Words Fail.

• 18
• MON
• New York, NY, Zankel Hall, 7.30 PM
• The première of a new audio­vi­sual staging of Sleeping Giant’s Hand Eye, performed by eighth black­bird at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall.

• 23–24
• SAT–SUN
• Chicago, IL, Museum of Contem­po­rary Art, 7:30/3:00 PM
• eighth black­bird performs the audio­vi­sual produc­tion of Hand Eye in their hometown.

• 27
• WED
• Richmond, VA, Univer­sity of Richmond, 7.30 PM
• eighth black­bird performs the audio­vi­sual produc­tion of Hand Eye.

FEB

• 3
• WED
• London, UK, Wigmore Hall, 7.30 PM
• The UK première of my Strong Language, for the Takács Quartet.

• 13
• SAT
• Brooklyn, NY, St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, 8.00 PM
• The NY première of Running Theme, with the String Orches­tra of Brooklyn.

• 14
• SUN
• Berkeley, CA, Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley, 7.00 PM
• eighth black­bird performs Sleeping Giant’s Hand Eye at Cal Performances.

• 15
• MON
• New York, NY, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, 8.00 PM
• Espe­cially Guesting with Ensemble ACJW on the première of Ted Hearne’s Baby.

• 19
• FRI
• Chicago, IL, Mandel Hall, Univer­sity of Chicago, 7.30 PM
• The complete Philip Glass piano études performed by Philip Glass, Aaron Diehl, Lisa Kaplan, Maki Namekawa, and me.

• 20
• SAT
• West Lafayette, IN, Loeb Play­house, Purdue Univer­sity, 7.00 PM
• The complete Philip Glass piano études performed by Philip Glass, Aaron Diehl, Lisa Kaplan, Maki Namekawa, and me.

• 21
• SUN
• Berkeley, CA, Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley, 3.00 PM
• The Takács Quartet brings Strong Language to Cal Perfor­mances for its west coast première.

• 26
• FRI
• Belfast, Ireland, Ulster Hall, 7.45 PM
• Jonathan Biss and the Ulster Orches­tra give the European première of The Blind Banister. Rafael Payare conducts.

MAR

• 10
• THU
• Austin, TX, McCul­lough Theater, UT Austin, 8.00 PM
• eighth black­bird performs the audio­vi­sual produc­tion of Hand Eye.

• 15
• TUE
• Portland, OR, Lincoln Perfor­mance Hall, 7.30 PM
• Port­land’s Friends of Chamber Music present the Takács Quartet perform­ing Haydn, Brahms, and my Strong Language.

• 19
• SAT
• Albany, NY, Palace Theater, 7.30 PM
• Sleeping Giant hosts an evening of new and old orches­tral music with the Albany Symphony. A weird and wonder­ful program of music by Hearne/Barber, Honstein/Vivaldi, Norman, Cerrone/Cooper/Andres/Mozart, and Ingram Marshall.

• 31
• THU
• Fort Worth, TX, The Live Oak, 7.30 PM
• Gabriel Kahane and I commence a tour of our duo show at The Cliburn, includ­ing new pieces written for each other.

APR

• 2–3
• SAT–SUN
• Denver, CO, Newman Center, 7.30 PM/2.00 PM
• Gabriel Kahane and I tour a new version of our duo show, includ­ing new pieces written for each other.

• 4
• MON
• Brooklyn, NY, Founder’s Hall, St. Francis College, 180 Remsen St., 12.30 PM
• Cadillac Moon Ensemble plays the short piece I wrote for them, Trade Secrets.

• 5
• TUE
• St. Paul, MN, Bedlam Lower­town, 7.30 PM
• Gabriel Kahane and I tour a new version of our duo show, includ­ing new pieces written for each other.

• 7
• THU
• New York, NY, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, 7.30 PM
• Gabriel Kahane and I tour a new version of our duo show, includ­ing new pieces written for each other (which Carnegie Hall commissioned).

• 9
• SAT
• Chapel Hill, NC, Carolina Perform­ing Arts, UNC, 8.00 PM
• Gabriel Kahane and I tour a new version of our duo show, includ­ing new pieces written for each other.

• 19–23
• TUE–SAT
• Brooklyn, NY, National Sawdust
• In resi­dence at National Sawdust with ACME.

• 20
• WED
• Brooklyn, NY, National Sawdust
• Joining the great Becca Stevens Band for a show at National Sawdust.

• 30
• SAT
• Miami Beach, FL, New World Center, 7:30 PM
• Joining musi­cians from the New World Symphony for the world première of a new piece, Tides and Currents, for two pianos and two percussionists.

MAY

• 14
• SUN
• Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne Recital Centre, 6.00 PM
• Flutist Lina Andonovska’s Press, Play ensemble performs Crashing Through Fences.

• 16–21
• MON–SAT
• Hanover, NH, Dart­mouth College
• In resi­dence at Dart­mouth with ACME and composer Tristan Perich.

• 20
• FRI
• Evanston, IL, Shirley Welsh Ryan Opera Theater, North­west­ern Univer­sity, 7.30 PM
• North­west­ern’s Contem­po­rary Music Ensemble performs Check­ered Shade.

• 24–31
• TUE
• Brooklyn, NY, National Sawdust, 8.00 PM
• I’ve contributed a small solo violin piece (Winding Stair) to Jennifer Koh’s Shared Madness project on the NY Phil­har­mon­ic’s Biennial.

• 25
• WED
• New York, NY, Rockwood Music Hall Stage 3, 7.00 PM
• Joining Becca Stevens for a duo show at Rockwood.

JUN

• 4
• SAT
• New York, NY, The Greene Space, 44 Charlton St., 3:30 PM
• Contin­u­ing in the proud tradi­tion of their Beethoven sonata marathons, WQXR is present­ing an all-day Chopin affair. I’ll perform his Polon­aise-Fantasie at the end of the fourth segment, which begins at 3:30.

• 9
• THU
• New York, NY, Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 8.30 PM
• The San Fran­cisco Girls Chorus performs Comfort Food with The Knights on the NY Phil­har­mon­ic’s Biennial.

• 16
• THU
• Brooklyn, NY, National Sawdust, 7.00 PM
• The estimable Ensemble ACJW plays Trade Winds, which they commis­sioned in 2010.

JUL

• 2
• SAT
• Aspen, CO, Harris Concert Hall, 4.30 PM
• Donald Crockett conducts the Aspen Contem­po­rary Ensemble in Trade Winds.

• 10
• SUN
• Katonah, NY, Venetian Theater, Caramoor, 4.30 PM
• Jonathan Biss gives the New York première of The Blind Banister with the Orches­tra of St. Luke’s. Joshua Weil­er­stein conducts.

• 28
• THU
• North Adams, MA, MASS MoCA, 4.30 PM
• Cellist Ashley Bathgate performs Sleeping Giant’s ASH on the Bang on a Can summer festival.

• 30
• SAT
• Brooklyn, NY, National Sawdust, 7.30 PM
• Joining writer Helen DeWitt to cele­brate the re-release of her extra­or­di­nary novel The Last Samurai. I will perform some adjacent piano music

AUG

• 6
• SAT
• Lenox, MA, Ozawa Hall, 3.30 PM
• The première of Land Lines for triple brass quintet, in cele­bra­tion of the 50^th anniver­sary of the Boston Univer­sity Tangle­wood Insti­tute.