2015

Friday, January 30, 2015 at 8pm
Yesaroun' reunion -- first full Yesaroun' show in nearly 10 years!
Boston Conservatory's new 132 Ipswich St. building
Featuring: WATT by Ken Ueno,
Saxophon by Karlheinz Stockhausen,
Frank Zappa's The Black Page #1,
plus music by Alexander Voustine, Justin Barish, and Michael Early.





2009

Saturday, February 5, 2009 at 8pm
Boston Conservatory's Seully Hall
as part of the Boston Conservatory New Music Festival
featuring Jefferson Friedman's 8 CromTech Songs


Saturday, February 12, 2009 at 8pm
Columbia's Miller Theater
Jefferson Friedman composer portrait
featuring 8 CromTech Songs


Sunday, November 13, 2009 at 8pm
Leading Andriessen's WORKERS UNION
As part of the Boston Conservatory New Music Festival
Also featuring Steve Reich's Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ, plus percussion works by John Luther Adams, Ramon Humet, and Joseph Celli
Seully Hall at the Boston Conservatory





2008

Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 9:30pm
Brooklyn Academy of Music
with Chris Thompson, marimba
featuring Time After Time by Nico Muhly and 8 Songs by CromTech/Jefferson Friedman





2007

Saturday, December 8, 2007 at 8pm
White Rabbit and Yesaroun' at the Geothe Institute
Concert of works by Karola Obermueller, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Anton Webern




2005

January 27, 2005 7pm
New Gallery Concert Series
at the Community Music Center of Boston
in the South End
34 Warren Avenue (between Berkeley and Clarendon Streets, one block north of Tremont)
Performing Venus by John Coltrane


January 29th, 2005 4pm
Eastern Nazarene College
Cove Fine Arts Center
Quincy, MA
$15 / $5 students and seniors
This is the first concert of The Musica Eclectica Concert Series presented by Eastern Nazarene College, Delvyn Case, Artistic Director

Curtis Hughes
Lei Liang
John Coltrane
Robert Hasegawa
Nico Muhly
Crom-Tech/Jefferson Friedman

Two-Faced
Parts for a Floating Space
Venus
Ajax is all about attack
It's About Time
8 Songs

Click here to download the press release.


February, 26, 2005, 8pm
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street
New York, NY

Robert Hasegawa
Nico Muhly
John Coltrane

Ajax is all about attack
It's About Time
Venus

also featuring the NOW Ensemble playing the music of Yoav Gal, Judd Greenstein, Mark Dancigers, and Patrick Burke, including Greenstein's new large-scale political work, Free Speech Zone.


Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7pm
David Friend Hall, Berklee College of Music
Berklee World Percussion Festival faculty recital

Ryan Streber
John Coltrane
Tolga Yayalar
Ken Ueno

Compassinges
Venus
Lé Lethé
WATT


Tuesday, August 10, 2005 8pm
Armed Forces School of Music
Virginia Beach, VA

John Coltrane
Nico Muhly
Crom-Tech/Jefferson Friedman
Robert Hasegawa
Ken Ueno

Venus
It's About Time
3 Songs
Ajax is all about attack
WATT

This concert follows a day of masterclasses and clinics for the Academy students. On Wednesday the 11th at 8pm, Eric will conduct the student and faculty Wind Ensemble in a concert of works by Dmitri Shostakovich, Edgar Varèse, Paul Hindemith, Richard Strauss, and Percy Grainger


November 6, 2005 4pm
Seully Hall, Boston Conservatory
8 The Fenway
Boston, MA
Boston Conservatory faculty recital featuring marimbist Nancy Zeltsman

Luciano Berio
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Lei Liang
Nico Muhly
Ryan Streber
Iannis Xenakis

Sequenza VIIb
Saxophon
Parts for a Floating Space
Time After Time
DOSILLOS y humeros (world premiere)
Dmaathen


November 7, 2005 7:30pm
Music Mondays Series
Advent Lutherin Church
2504 Broadway (NE corner of 93rd St.)
New York, NY

Lei Liang
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Ryan Streber
John Cage
Iannis Xenakis

Parts for a Floating Space
Saxophon
DOSILLOS y humeros
Ryoanji
Dmaathen


Tuesday, November 15, 2005 8pm
Yesaroun' Duo
Seully Hall, Boston Conservatory
8 The Fenway
Boston, MA
FREE concert
performing Iannis Xenakis' Dmaathen as part of Boston Conservatory's New Music Festival directed by Andy Vores.






2004

February 21, 2004 8pm
John Knowles Paine Hall at Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
as part of the Harvard Group for New Music
Admission is free
Concert of works written for Yesaroun' by Harvard composers.

Robert Hasegawa
Christopher Jon Honett
Lei Liang

Dominique Schafer
Erik Spangler
Tolga Yayalar

Ajax is all about attack (world premiere)
The Arson (world premiere)

Parts for a Floating Space (2002)
Triplex Unity (world premiere)
Tahirih (world premiere)
Inflect (world premiere)


For further infromation, please contact the Music Department at Harvard at 617-495-2791
For directions and a link to a map, click here.

April 2, 2004 8pm
Zeitgeist Gallery
1353 Cambridge Street, Inman Square
Cambridge, MA
as part of the Callithumpian Consort

featuring Venus by John Coltrane.

April 20, 2004 8pm
Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center, Goodman House
129 West 67th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave.

New York, NY
Click here for tickets.
Click here to read a preview in New York Press.

Crom-Tech/Jefferson Friedman
Dominique Schafer
John Coltrane
J.S. Bach

Louis Andriessen

Songs (world premiere)
Triplex Unity (New York premiere)
Venus
Concerto for vibraphone, soprano saxophone,
oosynthesizer, and electric cello, BWV 1060
WORKERS UNION


Read Molly Sheridan's preview in New York Press here.
May 30, 2004 8pm
American Academy in Rome, Italy
a concert of works by Rome Prize winners Jefferson Friedman and Mason Bates

also featuring the Chiara String Quartet
July 16, 2004
Class/reading for composition students of the

Boston University Tanglewood Institute

July 26, 2004 8pm
premiere of Feels So OK by Shawn Michalek

with marimbist Yuko Yoshikawa
as part of the Zeltsman Marimba Festival





2003

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 8pm
Princeton University's Taplin Hall
concert of world premieres of works by Princeton student and faculty composers

Stefan Weisman

TOE (Theory of Everything)

Barbara White

Vessel

Miriama Young Snapdragon

Brooke Joyce

Magic 8 Ball

James Randall

Shouldn't We Talk?


Monday, April 21, 2003 at 8pm
Samuel Solomon solo recital: music for percussion and interactive electronics
click here for more info

November 6th, 2003 at 8pm
Temple Ohabei Shalom
1187 Beacon Street between Kent and Marshall Streets
at the Kent Street stop on the green line
Brookline, MA
(617) 277 6610
Click here for directions
$15/ $10 for students and seniors


featuring new works by Curtis Hughes and Nico Muhly
with special guest performer, marimbist Nancy Zeltsman

Curtis Hughes
Sofia Gubaidulina
Ryan Streber
Nico Muhly
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Iannis Xenakis

Two-Faced (world premiere)
Duo Sonata
Compassinges (Boston premiere)
Time after Time (world premiere)
Saxophon (Boston premiere)
Dmaathan (American premiere of the saxophone version)






2002

Saturday, Janurary 26, 2002 at 8pm
Slosberg Hall at Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
Brandeis Univiersity's Graduate Composers Series
performing WATT by Ken Ueno
tickets are $5
with additional works by composers Lou Bunk, Robert Burbea, Jessica Feldman and Hillary Zipper with performers Shuann Chai, piano and Gary Gorczyca, clarinet

Sunday, March 3, 2002 at 3pm
Temple Ohabei Shalom
1187 Beacon Street between Kent and Marshall Streets
at the Kent Street stop on the green line
Brookline, MA
(617) 277 6610
Click here for directions

PULSE -- an interactive family concert
For ages 8 and up. This event is FREE - ($10 suggested donation to Temple Ohabei Shalom). Adults who attend PULSE get in free to our April 11th concert (see below) - another event not to be missed!


Thursday, April 11, 2002 at 8pm
Temple Ohabei Shalom
1187 Beacon Street between Kent and Marshall Streets
at the Kent Street stop on the green line
Brookline, MA
(617) 277 6610
Click here for directions
$12/ $10 for students and seniors

An evening of introspective and profound experience in Ohabei Shalom's breath-taking and resonant sanctuary, featuring the music of acclaimed Chinese composer Lei Liang. This beautifully subtle and spacious music held within the equally beautiful and powerful concert venue ensures this evening to be something very special. The concert will be followed by a question and answer session with yesaroun' and Lei Liang.

Lei Liang Parts for a Floating Space (world premiere, written for yearoun')
Lei Liang Peking Opera Soliloquy
Lei Liang Dialectal Percussions
John Cage Ryoanji

Monday, May 13, 2002, 8pm
Juilliard School at Lincoln Center
Room 309

65th Street and Broadway
New York City
Pamela Madsen Red Vertical (World premiere, written for yesaroun')
Lee Hyla We Speak Etruscan
Brooke Joyce Magic 8 Ball
George Aperghis Le Corps Á Corps
Cody Wright Daydream (NY premiere, written for yesaroun')
Louis Andriessen WORKERS UNION

Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 8pm
Brown Hall at New England Conservatory
290 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA
With a sneak peek at the first Yesaroun' recording!
Dennis DeSantis +8
John Cage Child of Tree
Brooke Joyce Magic 8 Ball (Boston premiere, written for yesaroun')
Luciano Berio Sequenza VIIb
Cody Wright Daydream (Boston premiere, written for yesaroun')
Louis Andriessen WORKERS UNION





2001

Tuesday, January 16, 2001
Longmeadow High School, Longmeadow Massachusetts
Two lecture demonstrations for the Longmeadow High music department, Michael Mucci, director
9:48 - 10: 44am and 10:48 - 11:44am
Featuring works by Steve Reich, Shawn Crouch, Christian Lauba and G. H. Green

Monday, February 12 at 12pm
Hear the
Yesaroun' Duo interviewed on "Monday Afternoon Classics with Gandalf"
WJFF (an NPR affiliate) 90.5 FM in Jeffersonville, NY and 94.5 FM in Monticello, NY

Three city, three concert tour featuring the
Minimum Security composers collective
Dennis DeSantis, Adam B. Silverman, Roshanne Etezady and Ken Ueno

These four pieces were written for the Yesaroun' Duo and are receiving their world premiere performances on these three concerts.

Sunday, February 11th 2001 at 2pm
The Dead End Café, Parksview, NY
In honor of WJFF's 11th birthday celebration

Dennis DeSantis

+8

Adam B. Silverman

Smelting Solid Gold

Roshanne Etezady

Nothing If Not

Ken Ueno

WATT


Saturday, February 17, 2001 at 8pm
With special guest appearance by
Cantor Robert Solomon
@ Temple Ohabei Shalom
1187 Beacon Street
Brookline, MA
(617) 277 6610
$12/$8 for students and seniors



Saturday, February 24, 2001 at 8pm
@ Riverside Church, room 9T
91 Claremont Ave.
Manhattan, NY
between W. 120th and 121st streets, just west of Broadway
$12/$10 for students and seniors


Dennis DeSantis

+8

Evan Ziporyn

Tsmindao Ghmerto

Robert Solomon

Hashkiveinu (arranged for the Yesaroun' Duo, performed only on the 17th)
with Cantor Solomon

George Aperghis

Le Corps á Corps

Adam B. Silverman

Smelting Solid Gold

Roshanne Etezady

Nothing If Not

Ken Ueno

WATT


Saturday, March 17, 2001 at 10:30am
New York City Day of Percussion
Colden Center for the Performing Arts, Queens College, NY
Performing Shawn Crouch's Suspended Contact

Monday, March, 26th at 8pm
Samuel Z. Solomon, percussion - graduation recital
room 309 at the Juilliard School at Lincoln Center
W. 65th Street and Broadway
Manhattan, NY
with Eric Poland, percussion
Benjamin Fingland, bass clarinet
Eric Huebner, piano
Free! no tickets required.


Joseph Schwantner

Velocities

Shawn Crouch

Refrigerator Poetry(world premiere; written for SZS)

Gyorgy Ligeti

Continuum

Bela Fleck

UFO-TOFU

Morton Feldman

King of Denmark

Iannis Xenakis

Psappha


Tuesday, April 3, 2001 at 8pm
Eric Hewitt, saxophones - graduation recital
Williams Hall, New England Conservatory
290 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA
Free! no tickets required

Evan Ziporyn

Tsmidao Ghmerto

Karlheinz Stockhausen

In Freundschaft

Lee Hyla

We Speak Etruscan

Rachmanninoff

Andante from Sonata for Cello

Anton Webern

Quartet, op.22

William Albright

Sonata for alto saxophone and piano


Friday, April 13, 3-5pm
Samuel Z. Solomon masterclass
Boston Conservatory
featuring
Yesaroun' Duo with Shawn Crouch's Suspended Contact
Also featuring Georges Aperghis' Le Corps á Corps

Saturday, April 14 at 8pm
Yesaroun' Duo
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University
Harvard Group for New Music
Admission is free

Performing Ken Ueno's WATT
Also on the concert: Gamelan Galak Tika and additional works by Gyger, Rohwein, and Ziporyn.

For further infromation, please contact the Music Department at Harvard at 617-495-2791 For directions and a link to a map: http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~musicdpt/parking.html


Wednesday, May 9, 2001
Cantors Assembly Convention
The Neveleh in Ellenville, NY
Performing works by Cantor Robert Solomon

Thursday, May 10, 2001 at 8pm
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
290 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA
Free! no tickets required

Performing the world premiere of
Emble by Ross Popoff, written for the
Yesaroun' Duo
with members of the New England Conservatory Honors Orchestra
James Gaffigan, conducting


July 10-13, 2001
Yesaroun' Duo will be Ensemble in Residence at the Walden School, Dublin, NH
Friday July 13, 2001 at 8pm
Louise Shonk Kelly Recital Hall
Dublin School, Dublin, NH

Danielle Schindler

Stratospheric*

Rebekah Griffin

Breathless and Slightly Blue*

Cody Wright

Daydream*

Brooke Joyce

Magic 8 Ball*

Loretta Notareschi

...and ocean by itself*

Ken Ueno

WATT


*denotes World premiere
all pieces written for the
Yesaroun' Duo
Monday, July 16, 2001
Princeton Marimba Festival, Nancy Zeltsman, director
To include works by Gyorgy Ligeti, Charles Ives, Steven Everett and Danielle Schindler

Saturday July 28, 2001 at 8pm
Paul Hall at the Juilliard School at Lincoln Center
West 65th Street and Broadway, Manhattan, NY
Free! no tickets required
As part of the Juilliard Summer Percussion Seminar, Janis Potter director

Shawn Crouch

Suspended Contact

Charles Ives

Seven Songs

Iannis Xenakis

Psappha

Brooke Joyce

Magic 8 Ball (New York premiere)

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Saxophon (New York premiere)

Ken Ueno

WATT


Sunday, October 28, 2001 at 2pm
University of Maine, Orono
Performing WATT by Ken Ueno
part of the Society of Composers Region 1 Conference

Tuesday, November 27, 2001 from 3 to 6pm
Lecture Demonstration at Princeton University for the composition students





2000

Saturday, January 7th 2000 at 8pm
Context Studios
28 Avenue A, New York, NY (between 2nd and 3rd St.)
$10/$7 for students and seniors - admission paid at door

J. S. Bach

Chorale: "Es ist genug"

Luciano Berio

Sequenza VIIb (New York premiere)

Charles Ives

Seven Songs (trans. Yesaroun')

Shawn Crouch

Suspended Contact (New York premiere; written for the Yesaroun' Duo)

Steve Reich

Clapping Music

Gunther Schuller

Marimbology

Christian Lauba

Dream in a Bar (New York premiere)

G. H. Green

Triplets (arr. S. Z. Solomon)


Tuesday, February 1, 2000 at 8pm
Jordan Hall
New England Conservatory
Malcom Peyton's Composers Ensemble Series
Yesaroun' Duo with Sarah Bob

Shawn Crouch

Suspended Contact

Christian Lauba

Dream in a Bar

Edison Denisov

Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano


Saturday, March 4, 2000 at 8pm
Brown Hall
New England Conservatory
Shawn Crouch graduation recital
featuring Crouch's Suspended Contact

Saturday, December 9th 2000 at 2pm
The Lenox Community Center
65 Walker Street, Lenox, MA
$10/$7 for students and seniors - admission paid at door

Monday, December 18th at 8pm
room 309 at the Juilliard School at Lincoln Center
West 65th Street and Broadway, Manhattan, NY
Free! no tickets required

J. S. Bach

Chorale: "Es ist genug"

Luciano Berio

Sequenza VIIb

Charles Ives

Seven Songs (trans. Yesaroun')

Shawn Crouch

Suspended Contact (written for the Yesaroun' Duo)

Steve Reich

Clapping Music

Jacob Druckman

Reflections on the Nature of Water

Christian Lauba

Dream in a Bar

G. H. Green

Triplets (arr. S. Z. Solomon)






1999

Sunday, December 5th 1999 at 2pm
Williams Hall
New England Conservatory
Eric Hewitt, solo recital
introducing the
Yesaroun' Duo
with special guest Sarah Bob

Luciano Berio

Sequenza VIIb

Charles Ives

Seven Songs (trans. Yesaroun')

Gunther Schuller

Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (World premiere)

Shawn Crouch

Suspended Contact (World premiere; written for the Yesaroun' Duo)

Christian Lauba

Dream in a Bar (American premiere)

Edison Denisov

Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano

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