2025-2027 Concert Programs
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JACK Quartet
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Modern/Medieval 1
Christopher Otto, after Rodericus
Angelorum Psalat (2011/c. 1390)Juri Seo
Three Imaginary Chansons (2024)Christopher Otto, after Solage
Fumeux par fumée (2018/c. 1390)Keir GoGwilt
New work (2024)Christopher Otto, after Nathaniel Giles
Miserere (2023/1594)Caleb Burhans
Contritus (2016)Modern/Medieval 2
Caroline Shaw
Entr’acte (2011)Juri Seo
Three Imaginary Chansons (2024)Gabriella Smith
Carrot Revolution (2015)Austin Wulliman
Dave's Hocket (2024)Iannis Xenakis
Tetras (1983) -
Pierre Boulez - Selections from Livre pour cordes
John Cage - String Quartet in Four Parts
Anthony Cheung - Twice Removed
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Henry Purcell: Fantasy Upon One Note (piano quintet)
Ruth Crawford Seeger: String Quartet
Wolfgang Rihm: Interscriptum
Christopher Otto, after Nathaniel Giles: Miserere
Amy Williams: Cineshape 2
George Benjamin: Relativity Rag
Thomas Adés: Piano Quintet
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Morton Feldman: Structures
Caleb Burhans: Contritus
Philip Glass: String Quartet no. 5
Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte
John Zorn: The Remedy of Fortune
Owls
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Paul Wiancko
Vox Petra (2018)Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Rəqs (2015)François Couperin
Les Barricades Mystérieuses (1717)Trollstilt (Monica Mugan and Dan Trueman)
Ricercar (2000)Paul Wiancko
When The Night (2018)Terry Riley
Good Medicine (1986)Music from Owls debut album, Rare Birds (New Amsterdam)
“I came away from “Rare Birds” hoping that Owls might commit to an all-Riley disc. And an all-Couperin set. Plus some more Wiancko originals.” —The New York Times
"free from constraint, danceable, rapturous." —The Strad
“Rare Birds offers a new take on a seemingly familiar form, inverting the string quartet with two cellos instead of two violins, while incorporating a playful approach to repertoire curation.” —Violinist.com
“it’s refreshing when an ensemble emerges because they simply like playing music together, a quality that’s palpable on this recording.” — Bandcamp
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Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Rəqs (2015)Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings (1936)François Couperin
Les Barricades Mystérieuses (1717)Trollstilt (Monica Mugan and Dan Trueman)
Ricercar (2000)Terry Riley
Good Medicine (1986)Terry Riley
Holy Lift Off for Flute, Strings, and Electronics (2024)Gabriella Smith
New Work (2025 premiere)Annika Sokolofsky
New Work (2026 premiere)Paul Wiancko
Vox Petra (2018)Paul Wiancko
When The Night (2018)
Roomful of Teeth
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Solo songs - Gabriel Kahane
The Isle - Caroline Shaw (Text by Shakespeare) - Listen
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Psychedelics - William Brittelle - Listen
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Elevator Songs - Gabriel Kahane - Listen (request access)
(70 minutes + intermission)
Elevator Songs—a celebration of the individual voices that comprise Roomful of Teeth—is a quasi-theatrical cycle set in an interdimensional hotel.
Commercial recording to be released in 2026.
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Vesper Sparrow - Missy Mazzoli (Text by Farnoosh Fathi) - Listen
Friday’s Saints - Christopher Cerrone - (Text by Dante) - Listen
COMIC CON - Mingjia Chen - Listen
The Isle - Caroline Shaw (Text by Shakespeare) - Listen
Light on the Water (encore) - Eliza Bagg - Listen
(80 minutes + intermission)
Works that challenge traditional distinctions between the sacred and secular, and classical and popular. Playing on the Hi/Lo theme, these pieces present Roomful of Teeth in new configurations separating the group into two segments - high and low voices. Composer Christopher Cerrone and Composer/Roomful of Teeth Members Mingjia Chen and Eliza Bagg explore the fluid boundaries between comedic, serious, satirical, sincere, and high and low art forms to expand contemporary musical creation.
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The Ascendant - Wally Gunn (Text by Maria Zajkowski) - Listen
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“Allemande”from Partita for 8 Voices - Caroline Shaw - Listen
math, the one which is sweet - Angélica Négron (Text by Raquel Salas Rivera)
“If ______ did happen, how bad would it be?” from Bits torn from words - Peter Shin - Listen
Montmartre - Judd Greenstein - Listen
(70 minutes + intermission)
Works from across the acclaimed Roomful of Teeth discography
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Collaborations
with Allison Loggins-Hull: Friction
with Balún: Angelica Negron’s The Puerto Rico Experiment
with WildUp: New work by Peter Shin
with William Brittelle: Millennium Rift
Commissions
New work by David Longstreth (of Dirty Projectors)
New work by Becca Stevens
New work by Ellen Reid
Lili’u, an opera by Leilehua Lanzilotti
yMusic
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Gabriella Smith’s new score, a blend of acoustic performance with raw and processed field recordings, is an invitation to the listener to commune and connect with the fragile beauty of the natural world threatened by climate change. “Magnificent and mind-blowingly original… her [music] speaks for itself—eloquently, ferociously and with a palette of instrumental sounds that land as both familiar and strikingly new” (San Francisco Chronicle).
This new work will share a program with music composed by Judd Greenstein and yMusic.
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Caroline Shaw
Draft of a High-Rise (2016)Chris Thile
134 Eldridge (2016) Chris Thile~intermission~
Andrew Norman
Difference (2019) -
Gabriella Smith
Tessellations (2018)Missy Mazzoli
Ecstatic Science (2018)yMusic
Zebras (2020)
Sober Miles (2019)
Flood (2019)Judd Greenstein
Together (2020)~intermission~
Andrew Norman
Difference (2019)
Ensembles
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Soloists/Curators
Allison Loggins-Hull
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Sample curatorial programs from Lewis Composer Fellowship with The Cleveland Orchestra
Blue and Gold: Colors of the Bandura
Members of The Cleveland Orchestra,
H.K. School of BanduraProgram to include:
CAROLINE SHAW - Blueprint
VALENTIN SILVESTROV - String Quartet No. 1
JUDD GREENSTEIN - K’Zohar Harakia
TRADITIONAL - Echo of the Steppes (arr. Loggins-Hull)
Works for Bandura Ensemble
Faith
Members of The Cleveland Orchestra
Fatima Family Center Adult Senior Gospel Choir
Laquita Mitchell, sopranoProgram to include:
ANDREA CLEARFIELD - Ha-Galgal
DAMIEN SNEED - Elegy
JASON MORAN - Cane
ALLISON LOGGINS-HULL - Shine
Works for Fatima Choir
Legacy: Past, Present, and Future
Members of The Cleveland Orchestra
Allison Loggins-Hull, flute
Actors and dancers from Karamu HouseProgram to include:
VALERIE COLEMAN - Portraits of Langston
ALLISON LOGGINS-HULL - Persist
Excerpts from Choir Boy
Finale
Members of The Cleveland Orchestra
Program to include:
VALERIE COLEMAN - Portraits of Langston
VALENTIN SILVESTROV - String Quartet No. 1
JASON MORAN - Cane
ALLISON LOGGINS-HULL - Legacy (World Premiere, TCO Commission)
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Can You See? (8 minutes)
Rhapsody on a Theme by Joni (solo flute & orchestra, 13 minutes)
New Work for The Cleveland Orchestra (approx 25 minutes. premieres May 2025)
Black Being (for two singing flutists and orchestra, co-composed with Nathalie Joachim)
The Inheritors Overture (9 minutes)
Claire Chase
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Claire Chase, flutes
Aisslinn Nosky, violin
Katinka Kleijn, cello
Alex Peh, keyboardsProgram to include:
JS Bach - Trio Sonata in G Major, BWV 1038
Marcos Balter - Alone
François Couperin - Le Rossignol en Amour
Tania Leon - Ritual
Marin Marais - Les Folies d'Espange
Olivier Messiaen - Le Merle Noir
Kaija Saariaho - Mirroirs -
Dai Fujikura: Glacier for bass flute
Dai Fujikura: Sparkler for shamisen
Japanese traditional: Wagamono for flute and shamisen
Yu Kuwabara: Dharani of Wind for flutes and shamisen
Dai Fujikura: neo for solo shamisen
Dai Fujikura: Lila for solo flute
Hidetaro Honjoh: Setsuen Johdo for flute and shamisen
Dai Fujikura: Reizei for flute and shamisen
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Solo flute recital composed of works from Claire Chase’s iconic Density 2036 initiative, a 24-year project.
Info & audio at densityarts.org
Density XII: Elwah! by Annea Lockwood for Flute and six-channel audio. Premieres in Fall 2025.
Density XI: The Holy Liftoff by Terry Riley, multiple instrumentations
Density X: Ubique by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, for flutes, two cellos, piano, and electronics.
Density IX: Busy Griefs and Endangered Charms by Craig Taiborn for flute, clarinet, cello, piano, and electronics
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A site-specific and community-specific activation. Audience members of all ages, including babies, are invited to participate in music-making during a day-long celebration of community and the work of Pauline Oliveros.
Gabriel Cabezas
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Live performance inspired by music from Gabriella Smith and Gabriel Cabezas’s 2023 album, Lost Coast (New Amsterdam Records).
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Jessie Montgomery: Prelude
Tania León: Four Pieces for Solo Cello
Beethoven: Cello Sonata no. 2
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Paul Wiancko: Sonata for Cello and Piano no. 1 "Shifting Baselines"
Barber: Cello Sonata
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Bach: Cello Suite No. 3
Jessie Montgomery: Prelude
Allison Loggins-Hull: Stolen
Britten: Cello Suite No. 1
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Tania León: Four Pieces for Solo Cello
Paul Wiancko: Microsuite
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Lamentations
Nadia Sirota
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Nadia Sirota, along with local violists, performs works by her close collaborators, combining vivid performances with stories, background, and insights into the music, the composers and their creative lives
Judd Greenstein - In Teaching Others We Teach Ourselves
Nico Muhly - Group Activity
Marcos Balter - Ut
Gabriella Smith - Ptarmiganiana
Bryce Dessner - St Geniés
David Lang - broken
Nico Muhly - Lean
Josh Johnson - Paralanguage
Josh Johnson - Reddish
Nico Muhly - Small Group Activity
Andrew Norman - Gran Turismo -
With a cast of frequent collaborators including composer/pianist Nico Muhly, organist/pianist James McVinnie, and cellist Gabriel Cabezas, Nadia presents moving concerts of contemporary chamber music by luminaries including Philip Glass, Donnacha Dennehy, and Maredith Monk
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➔ Composing a Career - symposium on entrepreneurship and project-based careers
➔ composition readings, notation workshops, and performance residencies
➔ concert curation workshops
➔ masterclasses & ensemble coaching