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Three Concerts: 

Ancient Voices of Children (G. Crumb), Sequenza III (L. Berio), and Songs of Snow and Plastic (Matthew Burtner)

 

Staunton Music Festival, VA

17-24 August 2013

Solo Concert (double bill with Lisa Pegher, percussion):

Aria (J. Cage), Attila József Fragments (G. Kurtág), Selections from Récitations pour voix seule  (G. Aperghis)

www.warhol.org/responsive/event.aspx?id=15293

 

Music on the Edge, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

16 February 2013

World premiere of suite of arias from the new opera, Territories

Music by Andreia Pinto-Correia

Libretto by Palestinian American playwright Betty Shamieh

Derek Bermel, clarinet

Mivos Qurtet

Dünya Ensemble (Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, and Robert Labaree)

 

www.fertile-crescent.org/performances.html

 

The Fertile Crescent Festival

Wolfenson Hall, Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton University, NJ

15 Nov 2012

Concert with the Barbad Chamber Ensemble

Folk Songs from Iran (Farsi & Kurdish), Turkey, Armenia, and Hungary

(Bartók & Kodály collections) and

Aramesh by Ramin Heydarbeygi (world premiere)

 

The Steinway Reformed Church in Astoria, Queens, NY

10 Nov 2012

Eight Songs for a Mad King

Part of the JMU Contemporary Music Festival

Celebrating the Music of Peter Maxwell Davies (Guest of Festival)

 

*Pre-concert Discussion with Peter Maxwell Davies

 

Forbes Center for the Performing Arts, Concert Hall

James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

18 Oct 2012

 

Voice Master Class

Choir Room, Music Building

James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

17 October, 2012

 

Two Concerts:

Selections from Kafka Fragments by György Kurtág

Jesse Mills, violin

   and

Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies

Carsten Schmidt, Conductor

 

Staunton Music Festival, VA

17-23 August 2012

 

Delilah's Last Love by Andreia Pinto Correia (World Premier)

For Voice and percussion

George Nickson, percussion

 

Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory

8 May 2012

Fellow at the Lucas Artists Residency Program

 & A New Directions Production:  

World Premiere of two works developed at the residency

The Song of Philomela

Music by Haleh Abghari, Video by Dana Harel

   and

Conference of the Birds Unfeatthered

A collaboration between

Laurie San Martin, composer

Haleh Abghari, Performer

Dana Harel, Visual Artist

 with

Charabi-Berggren, video artist; Merry Conway, director; Iris Thomas J. Munn, lighting Designer; Matilda Hofman, conductor; Chris Froh, percussion

and the Empyrean Ensemble

 

Carriage House Theater

Montalvo Arts Center, CA

March-April 2012

 

 

and

 

Mondavi Center for the Arts

University of California at Davis

22 April 2012

New York Premiere of Jozaphine Freedom by Eric Moe (written for Haleh)

Performed by Sequitur Ensemble and Eric Moe

 

Merkin Concert Hall, NYC

19 Sept 2011

Fellow at the Lucas Artists Residency Program

Montalvo Arts Center, CA

3 May—3 June 2011

Fellow at the Lucas Artists Residency Program

Montalvo Arts Center, CA

1—31 Dec 2010

Outpost—Letter from Lesotho

IRT Theater’s 3B Development Series

More info:  www.kattlissard.org/outpost

 

IRT Theater, NYC

Oct 2010

Outpost—Letter from Lesotho

More info:  www.kattlissard.org/outpost

Mabou Mines , NYC

6 June 2010

Artist-in-residence at UCD—Two Concerts:

World Premiere of Jozaphine Freedom by Eric Moe (written for Haleh)

Performed by Empyrean Ensemble and Eric Moe

Classical Persian Vocal solos, and music by Dowland, Aperghis, and Moe

 

Mondavi Center for the Arts

University of California at Davis

12—19 April 2010

Guest soloist in a concert of music by George Aperghis

   with Bent Frequency

Kopleff Recital Hall at GSU, Atlanta, GA

15 March 2010

Guest Artist with International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)

Solos^2 at EMPAC

The Experimental Media and Performance Arts Center

EMPAC, Troy, NY

5 March 2010

Fellow at the Lucas Artists Residency Program

Montalvo Arts Center, CA

14 Jan-6 Feb 2010

Guest soloist with the New York New Music Ensemble in Mario Davidovsky’s  75th birthday concert

Merkin Concert Hall, NYC

22 Nov 2009

Puppets of the Apocalypse Martha Colburn:  Live Cinema

Vocalist in live soundtracks of works by animation artist Martha Colburn

 

 

Phyllis Wattis Theater

Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

12 Nov 2009

Soprano soloist in:

Four Settings by Melinda Wagner

Monadnock Music Festival, NH

20-27 July 2009

Guest Vocalist with Barbad Chamber Ensemble

    Music by  Iranian, Armenian and Turkish Composers

 

Queens Museum, NY

17 May 2009

Guest soloist in Eight Songs for a Mad King

   with Thamyris

 

Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Feb 2009  

Mix: New Performance at MAD

Live Soundtrack to Destiny Manifesto and other works
     by animation artist Martha Colburn

 

Museum of Art and Design, NYC

23 Oct 2008

Vocalist in three world premieres

 

CrossSound Festival, Juneau & Sitka, AK

Sept 2008

Two Concerts of Music by Georges Aperghis

    IFCP (Institute & Festival for Contemporary Performance)

The Mannes College of Music, NYC

June 2008

Voice Master Class

   IFCP (Institute & Festival for Contemporary Performance)

The Mannes College of Music, NYC

June 2008

Guest soloist with Cygnus Ensemble

    Music by Frank Brickle, William Anderson, and David Lang

 

Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC

March 2008 

Guest soloist in Eight Songs for a Mad King
     with The New York New Music Ensemble

 

Merkin Concert Hall, NYC

May 2007  

Guest soloist in Eight Songs for a Mad King
     with The New York New Music Ensemble

 

      and Voice Master-class

 

University of Buffalo, NY

Sept 2007  

Soloist in concert with VisionIntoArt

  

Joe's Pub (The Public Theatre), NYC

Oct 2007

Moo, Squeal & Scratch:  in the garden of shadows

Co-creator—composer/performer

The Stone, NYC

Oct 2007

Residency & Performances — Three concerts with the Sound Res Band

& Voice Workshop

  

Sound Res, Lecce, Italy

June 2007

String Quartet, No 2 by A. Schoenberg with the Cascade Quartet  

 

Great Falls Sym Association, MT

May 2007

Residency and Performances with VisionIntoArt 

The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

April 2007

Sounds & Remix with VisionIntoArt

Etna Fest, Catania, Italy

March 2007      

Songs by Fred Ho to Poems by James Tate 

   (world Premiere)

 

Works & Process, The Guggenheim Museum, NYC

Nov 2006

Sounds & Remix with VisionIntoArt

        

Teatro Manzoni, Milan, Italy

Oct 2006

Moo, Squeal & Scratch:  in the garden of shadows

Co-creator—composer/performer

Chelsea Museum of Art, NYC

18 Aug 2006

Seth Speaks by Raz Mesinai

Vocalists:  Haleh Abghari & Jessika Kenney

 

Roulette, NYC

21 May 2006

Sound Track to Destiny Manifesto

   with animation artist Martha Colburn

                

Live at The Whitney Museum, NYC

2006

and shown at many international festivals and exhibitions

 

Myth of Nations with the Raz Mesinai Ensemble 

 

Etna Fest, Catania, Italy

Dec 2006

Residency and Performances with VisionIntoArt 

Chelsea Museum of Art, NYC

Residency with VisionIntoArt  

 

Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC

Answer to Job with William Anderson 

 

Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC

22 Dec 2005

 

IFCP (Institute & Festival for Contemporary Performance)

   The Music of Pascal Dusapin  

     

The Mannes College of Music, NYC

La Maison française, Washington, DC

June 2005

 

The Ghost in Lobster Face (or the shame of Amanda Cockshutt) by  
   Magdalena Gomez

   

INTAR 53 Theatre, NYC

Dec 2004

Passage of Oracles (vocalist/improviser)                                        
     (Dance Suite, choreographed by Peggy Choy; Fred Ho, Music director)

 

Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison & Notre Dame Univ., IN

Oct 2004

The Republic in Ruins (Performer/Co-creator/Co-producer)
    A Collage of Music and Spoken Word in Response to the RNC 2004

    Co-sponsored by the Nation Institute

 

Washington Square Church, NYC

Aug-Sept 2004

Ralph W. Emerson Bicentennical with Cygnus Ensemble  

 

The New York Society for Ethical Culture, NYC

2004

Frieda in Kafka's Chimp, an opera by John Metcalf (U.S. premiere), Feb 2004

 

Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh Zoo, PA

Jan 2004

Breaking the Silence:  An Evening of Music and Discourse for Peace and Democracy

     Creator and Producer

     Co-sponsored by the Nation Institute

 

Symphony Space, NYC

2003

Animus/Anima by Matthew Burtner

    (for voice and tape )

 

International Summer Meeting of Electroacoustic Music,

and at Mücsarnok

Budapest, Hungary

2002

 

Jelek, Játékok, Üzenetek -- music of György Kurtág 

      

Városi Színház, Budapest, Hungary

2002

 

Robert Helps Memorial concert, Ensemble Pi

 

The Great Hall, Cooper Union, NYC

2002

 

Phaedra (Acts I & II - concert version) by Csapó Gyula (premiere)

Budapest Chamber Opera, Mücsarnok, Budapest, Hungary

2002

 

Before  2002

Vocalissimus by Sebastian Currier, John Harbison, conductor

 

Merkin Concert Hall, NYC

Sound on Film (Mahamatar/Pilgrimage by John Tavener) 

  

Ensemble Sospeso, Miller Theatre, NYC

Zyia by I. Xenakis (U.S. premiere)

 

Ensemble Sospeso, Miller Theatre & The Whitney Museum, NYC

Sequenza III for Solo Voice by Luciano Berio

    Modern Works!, American Craft Museum, NYC

 

Modern Works!, American Craft Museum, NYC

Shortscores:  A program of new and 20th Century short operas 
     (Broadcast on NYWC, New York’s Public radio station)

 

Symphony Space, NYC

A Woman’s Work is Never Done:  a house of curiosities 
     a multimedia installaion-perofrmance walk-through

 

Conway & Pratt Projects, Boston

A Program of 20th & 21st Century music for voice, piano & electronics

Stanford University
UC Davis, St. Mary’s College, CA

Nikos Skalkottas Anniversary Retrospective 

 

Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC

La Plage by H. Birtwistle (NYC premiere)

 

Ensemble Sospeso, Miller Theatre, NYC

Récitations pour voix seule by Georges Aperghis

 

Modern Works!, American Craft Museum, NYC

A Recital of 20th Century Songs for voice & piano

 

J. de Vries Robbé Studio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Riverrun Festival (Music by Jon Deak & G. Aperghis)

 

Riverrun Chamber Players, Vermont

Technopera  4.1b

 

The Freiwild Festival, Halle, Germany

Technopera  4.1a

 

10th Anniversary of The Media Art Festival/ Art Noc/TV Channel 2, Wroclaw, Poland

Technopera  4.1

 

Ostarnenie 97, Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany

A Celebration of the Human Voice by Linda Bouchard (work-in-progress)

 

Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada

The Cyborg Sex Manual, CD-ROM by Piotr Wyrzykowski

 

Centre for Contemporary Arts, Warsaw, Poland

Round a Common Center by Lukas Foss  

 

Mannes Contemporary Music Ensemble, NYC

Récitations pour voix seule by Georges Aperghis

 

Sonic Boom Festival, Miller Theatre, NYC

 

 

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