ALVIN CURRAN
Up And Coming
photo thanks to Douglas Self
COMING EVENTS
EVENTS IN 2007
...BACK IN 2006
...AND IN 2005
OTHER CURRENT PROJECTS
February 29, 2008 - premiere of new piano work, "E Poi...", at Ten For Carter, Network for New Music Ensemble, on the occasion of Elliot Carter's 100th birthday, Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre, 2537 Broadway at 95th St., New York, 8:00 pm
March 2, 2008 - repeat performance of Ten For Carter at the Settlement Music School, Mary Louise Curtis Branch, 416 Queen Street, Philadelphia, 3:00 pm
March 13, 2008 - concert, Madrid, - 10:00 pm - La Casa Encendida, Ronda Valencia, 2 28012 Madrid, tel. 902 43 03 22 / 91 602 46 41
March 20, 2008 - Eve Egoyan plays Inner Cities complete at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver, in Vancouver New Music Festival
April 5, 2008 - Curran works featured in concert by the Ne(x)tworks group, Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W 22nd St., New York, 2:00 pm
April 23, 2008 - premiere of "Weil Erde in meinem Körper war..." with Wanda Golonka Dance Company and the Ensemble Modern for Frankfurter Positionen 2008 at the schauspielfrankfurt, Neue Mainzer Straße 17, Frankfurt, tel. 069/212 37 000 - repeat performances May 1 and June 14, 2008 - "Sound, bodies, space, and props in marvelous symbiosis... This wonderful evening of music theater is a widescreen elegy that packs a wallop"- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
May 8, 2008 - Malapromptu for cello and piano performed at concert in Utrecht, Holland, by Arne Deforce and Daan Vandewalle
May 13-14 - in residence at Bolzano Conservatory
May 31 - June 1, 2008 - "Take the Cage Train," an original event for the 30th anniversary of John Cage's musical ride around Bologna - details to be announced
June 8, 2008 through January 4, 2009 - installation in the Aleph-Bet Project at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (curated by John Zorn)
June 12 - concert in Ravenna, produced by Franco Masotti
September 28 -October 10, 2008 - in residence at Oberlin College
October 13-17, 2008 - in residence at Art Institute of Chicago
October 25-28 - Groningen, Holland - Curran retrospective
November 21 - Kaunas, Lithuania - Curran retrospective concert
November 28 - concert in Florence, Centro Tempo Reale
2009 - GRIDJAM (with artist Jack Ox) - details to be announced
January 9 - lecture, Haifa University School of Music
January 11 - shofar solo concert:, Levontin 7, Tel Aviv (listen to an excerpt)
January 13 - Israel Contemporary Players, Conductor Ilan Volkov, concert Tel Aviv Museum
January 14 - Israel Contemporary Players, Conductor Ilan Volkov, concert Jerusalem Music Center
January 20 - premiere of Passing Notes, with William Winant and Joan Jeanrenaud, Santa Cruz
January 25 - concert with Cenk Ergün, Recombinant Lab, San Francisco
January 28 - lecture and master class, UC Berkeley
January 31 - lecture, Cooper Union, New York
February 2 - lecture, Brown University, Providence
February 3 - shofar concert with Robert Gluck, EMF production, Judson Church, New York
February 4 - interview and concert with Gene Coleman and Ensemble Noamnesia, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia
February 5 - improv concert with Gene Coleman and others, Broad Street Ministry, Philadelphia
February 6 - concert with Ensemble Noamnesia and AGAM Quartet, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago
February 7 - lecture and master class, Northwestern University
February 7 - improv concert with Gene Coleman and others, Chicago
February 8 - lecture, Yale University
February 11 - Inner Cities complete, concert by Daan Vandewalle at the Glasgow National Review of the Arts
March - Four articles by Curran at New York Times website (TimesSelect Opinion) as part of The Score: Four Innovative American Composers Sound Off, ed. Peter Catapano. (see Writings page)
April 17-21 - Curran's music featured at spring festival, Royal Conservatory of Music, the Hague, Netherlands
Schtyx, The Hague - Rebecca Huber, Elyssa Shalla, Maya Dunietz
- see video of this plus of AC solo concert on Listen
page
April 22 - concert, Zo, P.le Asia, 6, Catania, tel. 095.7463122, 9:30 pm
May 10 - Il Suono del Logos - concert and premiere of Triadic Limbo with Alter Ego, Auditorium, Rome, 9:00 pm
May 22 - talk, music conservatory of Perugia
June 18-30 - in residence at the Experimental Studio of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of the SWR, Freiburg
July 1 - premiere of new work for shofar and electronics, concert SWR Studio Freiburg, Heinrich-Strobel-Saal, 8:00 pm
July 8 - Maritime Rites concert-installation, the port of Kinsale, Ireland (Kinsale Arts Week), 12 noon to 2:00 pm
July 12 and 13 - Inner Cities complete, concerts by Daan Vandewalle, Rimini, Santarcangelo dei Teatri festival
July 15 - premiere of "Conversazioni Geologiche" with 80 musicians on the slopes of Mount Etna, Festival Cultania
"Doveva essere proprio così l'incontro dell'umanità primitiva con la grande madre Natura..." - Sergio Sciacca
June 17 through September 16 - Gardening With John installation at the Moyland Castle Museum, Bedburg - Hau, Germany
August 2 - The Fromm Concert at Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, with Musica Elettronica Viva, 8:30 pm
September 14 - Maritime Rites concert-installation
on the Thames River, its strand, and the Millenium Bridge in London, featuring
AC (Diskklavier and sampler), Evan Parker (sax), Anton Lukoszievze (cello),
Melvyn Poore (tuba), the brass ensemble of the London
Symphony Orchestra, the bells of St. Paul's Cathedral, and 200 volunteer
musicians, presented by the Tate
Modern - 5:30 - 7:00 pm. You can get some idea of this great event from
the video coverage by Radio
Suisse Romande or by checking out several video clips on YouTube, thanks
to "shuffleboil": 4-minute
clip 3-minute
clip 45-second
clip
September 27-30 - In Tempo Reale concert, Nuovo Teatro Colosseo, and Viaggio in Tempo Reale, a performance caravan, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva and Carla Subrizi as part of Romapoesia 2007
October 5 - premiere of "On The Roads," radio work about the ancient Roman roads for Deutschlandradio Kultur - 00:05 am (listen to an excerpt)
Mim Bird, Francesco Careddu, AC, Riccardo La Barbera, SL,
Marco Mascaro, Alessandra Marzo, Davide Piersanti
recording at the naval museum in Nemi; video by Susan Levenstein
October 11 - "Gardening With John" sound installation
- opening at the Fondazione Mudima - Via Alessandro Tadino 26 (20124)
Milano - call 02 29409633 for time
October 18 - music and performance with video installation by Roberto Masotti, "wallsCAGEwalls," (Milano Musica) Spazio Antologico, via Mecenate 84/10, Milan, 8:30 pm
October 20 - Eve Egoyan plays Inner Cities complete at the Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto
October 27 - concert in "Wiva Russolo" festival, Chiesa di San Luigi, Porto Gruaro
November 16 - "Oh Brass On the Grass Alas" at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in Yorkshire
December 4-5 - Inner Cities 1 - 11 complete on Future Radio, at 96.9 FM in the Norwich (England) area and on the web at http://www.futureradio.co.uk/Future.m3u. Four 1/2 hours without interruptions, played by Daan Vandewalle beginning at midnight UK time, which corresponds to 7 - 11:30 pm on December 4th Eastern Standard Time. And at any time, listen to a free podcast of Daan introducing the music by clicking here. You'll need iTunes to listen to the podcast; if necessary click here to download it.
December 15 - premiere of new work for cello and piano, Daan Vandewalle / Arne De Force, Handelsbeurs, Ghent
December 17-19 - composition workshop, Palermo
through January 15 - installation, Gardening with John, in exhibition PLAYING JOHN CAGE, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
January 17 - Art's Birthday - Trans Dada Express: international radio celebration of the 90th birthday of Dada, Sudwestrundfunk live performance 8:00 pm, remixing 8:30 pm to midnight (Baden-Baden)
January 18 through early May - in residence at Mills College, Oakland
February 24 - Inner Cities complete, Stockholm new music festival, Daan Vandewalle
March 4 - Alvin Curran Filharmonia concert (A.C., Scanner, and D.J. Olive): "Scelsi incontra Luc Ferrari da King Kong." Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Milan, 9:00 pm
March 25 - Improvisation symposium of New York University Music Department, "Current Free Practices in Music and Poetry," New York City
March 26 - concert with Domenico Sciajno, Matt Ostrowski, and Gene Coleman, Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street, Manhattan (between Delancey and Rivington Streets), 8:00 pm
March 28- lecture, Peabody School of Music
March 30 - Musica Elettronica Viva concert, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York (West Hall Auditorium, 7:30 PM)
April 21 to May 21 - installation in Hermes' Ear exhibition, Nitrianska gallery, Nitra, Slovakia
May 10 - Event, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, with improvised music by Takehisa Kosugi and Alvin Curran- Auditorio Conciliazione, Via della Conciliazione 4, Rome, 8:45 pm, tel. 899 5000 55
May 15 - concert with Domenico Sciajno: Sonic Grafitti. Etnafest, Catania, Sicily, 9:15 pm
May 26 - concert with the Ensemble Dissonanzen, Maggio dei Monumenti, Chiesa di Santa Caterina di Siena (Via Santa Caterina da Siena, 38), Naples, 8:30 pm
June 1- July 16 - installation, Gardening With John 1.1, at Sonambiente festival in Berlin, in collaboration with Zerynthia . Academie Der Kunste Hanseatenweg (Tiergarten). See video on installation page.
June 13-16 - production of TransDadaExpress 2 –- Extraordinary Renderings, Südwestrundfunk, Baden-Baden
June 21 - Tevereterno solstice event, with Kristin Jones, in Rome
July 1 - Inner Cities complete, concert by Daan Vandewalle at New Music Indaba, Grahamstown, South Africa
July 7 - Inner Cities 12, concert by Daan Vandewalle, Grahamstown, South Africa
June 26 -July 17 - in residence at the Experimental Studio of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of the SWR, Freiburg
September 10 - Inner Cities complete, concert by Daan Vandewalle at the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Holland
September 14 - concert at the D22 Club, Beijing
September 29 - October 1, Gardening With John 1.1 installation in Zerynthia Editing #4 exhibition, "Immaginando Terre Condivise" - Palazzo Lantieri, Gorizia
October 6-14 - contribution, with Joel Chatabe and others, to Suspended Sounds, a 3-dimensional virtual-reality immersive audio environment of sounds from extinct and endangered species, at Ear to the Earth festival, New York City
October 8 - concert with Cenk Ergün and Fred Frith, for 16th Akbank Jazz Festival, at BABYLON, Sehbender Sokak, No. 3 Asmalimescit –- Tünel Beyoglu, Istanbul, 7:00 pm
October 20-22 - TransDADAexpress 2 installation in MediaSpace 06 exhibit, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart
October 20 - premiere of "Oh Brass on the Grass Alas" - brass band performance for 300 musicians, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Donaueschingen, Germany; excerpt 1, excerpt 2, excerpt 3, excerpt 4, excerpt 5
October 24 - concert at RAI (Pino Saulo), Via Asiago, transmitted live on RAI Radio 3 and on web radio, 8:30 pm
October 28 - talk, "Musica Fuori le Sale da Concerto," Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio, Rome, 6:00 pm
November 5 - concert for Nuova Consonanza, Villa Aurelia (American Academy of Rome), approx. 9:30 pm
November 8 - rebroadcast of "I Dreamt John Cage Yodeling in the Zurich Hauptbahnhof," Swiss radio DRS and on web radio , 8:00 pm
November 16 - rebroadcast of "Oh Brass on the Grass Alas" on SWR2 radio 11:00 pm
November 18 - concert "Transdada Express" Rialtosantambrogio Rome
December 15 - Inner Cities complete, concert by Daan Vandewalle, Goteborg Sweden
March 17th - Montevideo/GRIM, Marseilles - duo with Jean-Marc Montera
March 19th - Montevideo/GRIM, Marseilles - Inner Cities complete, Daan Vandewalle
March 25th and 26th - Events, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, with Kosugi and Phil Corner - Rovereto, Italy
March 25th - Nuuk, Greenland - Inner Cities complete, Daan Vandewalle
April 24th - Krems, Austria - the NOE/Danube Festival - concert/installation with the Zeitkratzer Ensemble
April 30th - Montclair State, Montclair New Jersey - concert with MEV
May 3rd - duo with poet Clark Coolidge - Providence, RI (listen to an excerpt)
May 8th (Sunday) - Zorn's Cobra - Bologna, Italy (Angelica Festival)
May 11th (Wednesday) - Ritratti Incrociati - double portrait with Domenico Sciajno- Bologna, Italy (Angelica Festival)
June 7th - RAI, Via Asiago, Roma, Sala B - 40th Rome Anniversary blowout: premiere of Pozzulana
June 17 - Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome - Improvisations on silent films by Stan Brakhage (with Domenico Sciajno).
