Monday 24, June 2019 ( 7 30 pm )
The Mostly Modern Piano Institute presents the composers of today paired with 20th century classics!
ROBERT PATERSON – Joy Ride
ROY HARRIS – Piano Sonata, Op. 1 (1928)
Wednesday 26, June 2019 ( 7 30 pm )
A surprise program of our favorite chamber highlights. The full concert listing will only be available in person at the concert venue. Wondering what chamber delicacies we chose? Join us for an evening of our favorites!
Tenor Alok Kumar, who made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera this past season, joins American Modern Ensemble, with Robert Paterson’s Spring Songs, which he premiered at Carnegie Weill Hall in 2018. Keith Fitch receives a world premiere of Ruthless Voicings and chamber ‘hits’ from the festival will be featured as ‘best of’ our 2019 season.
Wine, Beer & Snack Bar opens @ 7 PM. $6 Drinks make this the best deal in Saratoga Springs!
Friday 28, June 2019 ( 7 30 pm )
John Adams: Harmonielehre
American Modern Orchestra
Ward Stare, Conductor
Wednesday 10, July 2019 ( 9 30 pm )
InterHarmony International Music Festival
Chiesa Santo Spirito
Corso Cavour , 15011, Acqui Terme, Piemonte, Italy
Franz Liszt: "Lyon", from Album d'un Voyageur, for solo piano
Saint-Saëns: Paraphrase sur La Mort de Thaïs, for solo piano
Carter Pann: "Giantess", for flute and piano
with Jennie Oh Brown, flute
Alexander von Zemlinsky: Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op. 3
with clarinetist Stacey McColley & cellist Nina Flyer
Tuesday 23, July 2019 ( 8 30 pm )
The International Keyboard Institute & Festival at Hunter College
Lang Recital Hall
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
Liszt: Apparition No. 1
Liszt: Lyon from "Album d'un voyageur"
Saint-Saëns: La Mort de Thaïs - Paraphrase de Concert
Saint-Saëns: Paraphrase sur "Gallia" de Gounod
Roy Harris: Sonata, Op. 1 (1928)
Mary Kouyoumdjian: Aghavni (Doves) (2009)
David Rakowski: Riccio (Prelude #43) (2013)
David Rakowski: Ain't Got No Right, For Left-Hand Solo (Étude #67) (2005)
Marc Mellits: Étude No. 2, "Defensive Chili" (2006)
Saturday 03, August 2019 ( 6 30 pm )
Mänttä Music Festival
Serlachius Museum Gösta
Joenniementie 47
35800 Mänttä
Finland
F. Liszt: Lyon from "Album d'un voyageur"
C. Saint-Saëns: Deux Bagatelles (1858) WORLD PREMIERE
C. Saint-Saëns: Antwort (1866) WORLD PREMIERE
C. Saint-Saëns: Fantaisie sur la Valse du Prophéte de Meyerbeer (1858) WORLD PREMIERE
C. Saint-Saëns: Fantaisie sur “Gallia” de Gounod
-intermission-
R. Harris: Piano Sonata (1928)
D. Rakowski: Riccio (Prelude #43) (2013)
D. Rakowski: Ain’t Got No Right, For Left-Hand Solo(Étude #67) (2009)
M. Mellits: Étude No. 2, “Defensive Chili” (2006)
W. Shorter, arr. Burleson: Footprints
M. Tyner, arr. Burleson: Passion Dance
Friday 06, September 2019 ( 7 30 pm )
Shapeshifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Place, Brooklyn
Music by Max Giteck Duykers
Libretto by Philip Kan Gotanda
Direction by Melissa Weaver
Guest performers:
Kelvin Chan, baritone
Kalean Ung, soprano
John Duykers, tenor
Joel Davel, Marimba Lumina
Ensemble Ipse:
Esther Noh, violin
Christa Van Alstine, clarinet
Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Ben Grow, conductor
Ensemble Ipse will present a workshop of Max Giteck Duykers' new opera Both Eyes Open with support from the Brooklyn Arts Council and the Asian American Arts Alliance. With a libretto by acclaimed playwright and filmmaker Philip Kan Gotanda, the piece is a co-production with the Paul Dresher Ensemble and First Look Sonoma. Both Eyes Open is a comment on the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII, and takes the form of a series of flashbacks and dreams, with mythological characters and a hyper-real electro-acoustic score. In additional to support from New Music USA and the JFunds Commission, the project recently received a generous grant from the National Parks Service's Japanese-American Confinement Sites Program. Another workshop will be presented at the University of California, Berkeley in the fall of 2019, and in 2020 the piece will be premiered across the U.S. with the Paul Dresher Ensemble near several internment camps, now preserved as historic sites.
Saturday 05, October 2019 ( 8 00 pm )
Edward Pickman Hall
Longy School of Music
Cambridge, MA
Sunday 13, October 2019 ( 7 00 pm )
"El Colibri Magico", composed by Jozefius (aka Joseph Martin Waters), an opera including onstage instrumentalists from SWARMIUS: Saximus (aka Todd Rewoldt), Tempus Rhythmicus (aka Daniel Pate) on percussion, and Peripateticus (aka Geoffrey Burleson) on piano.
Smith Recital Hall
School of Music
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Dr San Diego, 92182
Wednesday 30, October 2019 ( 7 00 pm )
American Modern Ensemble
Exponential Ensemble
National Opera Center
330 7th Avenue
New York, NY 10001
Bohuslav Martinu: Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Cello and Piano (1947)
Robert Paterson: Relative Theory, for Flute, Clarinet, Oboe and Piano
Robert Paterson: Autumn Songs, for mezzo-soprano and sextet
~with Blythe Gaissert, mezzo-soprano~
Thursday 07, November 2019 ( 7 30 pm )
Edward Pickman Hall
Longy School of Music
Cambridge, MA
Saturday 16, November 2019 ( 8 00 pm )
Faculty Recital: Derek Hurst, Composition
Twelve Years: Van Gogh's last years in 6 scenes, for solo piano (2019) - WORLD PREMIRE
...ai tempi, le distanze..., for piano and electronic sound (2004)
Saturday 23, November 2019 ( 8 00 pm )
Boston Musica Viva
Tsai Performance Center
Boston University
Shirish Korde: New work for soprano and ensemble world premiere
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano
Henry Brant: All Souls Carnival
Chou Wen-chung: Twilight Colors
Bernard Hoffer: 50th Anniversary Bagatelle
A new BMV-commissioned world premiere by Shirish Korde featuring soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, plus Henry Brant’s All Souls Carnival (1949), Chou Wen-chung’s Twight Colors (2007, commissioned for BMV by the Koussevitzky Foundation) and Bernard Hoffer’s A Celebration (2019, BMV commission).
For more information, please go to http://www.bmv.org
Tuesday 26, November 2019 ( 8 00 pm )
Sunday 15, December 2019 ( 3 00 pm )
Exponential Ensemble
Soapbox Gallery
636 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY
Leonard Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata
Benjamin Britten: Insect Pieces, for oboe and piano
Valerie Coleman: Portraits of Langston, for Flute, Clarinet and Piano
Robert Paterson: Relative Theory, for Flute, Clarinet, Oboe and Piano
Tuesday 31, December 2019 (10 00 pm )
Arlene's Grocery
95 Stanton Streets (between Orchard and Ludlow Streets)
New York City
I'll be performing heavy piano parts to classics by Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, LaVern Baker and others with distinguished veterans of the scene to ring in the new decade. My segment starts at 10 PM, followed by music through the decades right up to the moment: a retrospective from the 50s through now.
Saturday 18, January 2020 ( 8 00 pm )
Edward Pickman Hall
Longy School of Music
Cambridge, MA
Wednesday 22, January 2020 ( 7 30 pm )
Marc A Scorca Hall
National Opera Center
330 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001
~Violin, Cello, Piano, and Electronics Concert Program~
Patricia Leonard: The Presence of Absence, for soprano, cello and piano
David See: In The Gloaming, for soprano and piano
Sunday 08, March 2020 ( 3 00 pm )
Richardson Auditorium
Alexander Hall
Princeton University
Richardson Chamber Players present:
"Beethoven @ 250"
Fantasia, Op. 77, for solo piano
Bagatelle in B minor, Op. 126, No. 4, for solo piano
Rondo alla ingharese quasi un capriccio (Rage Over A Lost Penny), Op. 129, for solo piano
Other works will include the Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20, and the Sextet for Horns and String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 81b
Monday 16, March 2020 ( 1 30 pm )
Ramsey Hall
Hugh Hodgson School of Music
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
Tuesday 17, March 2020 ( 7 30 pm )
Ramsey Hall
Hugh Hodgson School of Music
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
Apparitions, Dances and Fantasies
Franz Liszt: Apparition No. 1
Camille Saint-Saëns - from Album, Op. 72
1. Prélude
2. Carillon
5. Final
Saint-Saëns: Fantaisie sur la Valse du Prophéte de Meyerbeer-GEORGIA PREMIERE
Saint-Saëns: Fantaisie sur Lohengrin de Wagner-GEORGIA PREMIERE
Intermission
Mary Kouyoumdjian: Aghvani (Doves) (2009)
Geoffrey Burleson: Powerhouse Passacaglia (2013)
David Rakowski:
-In A Regal Age Ran I (Prelude #6) (2010)
-Pull A Wall Up (Prelude #4) (2010)
Jacob TV: The Body Of Your Dreams, for piano and electronic track (2002)
Frank Zappa: BeBop Tango
Wednesday 18, March 2020 ( 1 15 pm )
Interview and live performances of works by Saint-Saëns, Kouyoumdjian, Rakowski, Zappa, and my own compositions, on "Out Of The Box", hosted by Peter Van Zandt Lane, and broadcast live on WUGA-FM Radio.
New Dance Theatre
University of Georgia
263 West Green St.
Athens, GA 30602
Wednesday 25, March 2020 ( 8 00 pm )
East Coast Contemporary Ensemble
Saturday 04, April 2020 ( 8 00 pm )
Edward Pickman Hall
Longy School of Music
Cambridge, MA
Friday 17, April 2020 ( 8 00 pm )
American Modern Ensemble
Weill Recital Hall @ Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue
New York, NY
Join AME in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall for the performance of The New Four Seasons! A celebration for the upcoming CD release and 50th Birthday of composer Robert Paterson. “The New Four Seasons” CD features American Modern Ensemble, Marnie Breckenridge, Soprano, Blythe Gaissert, Mezzo-Soprano, Alok Kumar, Tenor, and David Neal, Bass-Baritone.
PROGRAM
Spring Songs * (for tenor and sextet )
Summer Songs** (for soprano and sextet)
Fall Songs (for mezzo-soprano and sextet)
Winter Songs**** ( for bass-baritone and sextet)
* comissioned by Rick Teller for the American Modern Ensemble
** commissioned by The ASCAP Foundation via the Charles Kingsford Fund, for Marnie Breckenridge and the American Modern Ensemble
**** commissioned by David Neal.
Wednesday 22, April 2020 ( 4 00 pm )
Mitrani Hall
Haas Center For The Arts
Bloomsburg University
400 East 2nd Street
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Thursday 23, April 2020 ( 7 30 pm )
Mitrani Hall
Haas Center For The Arts
Bloomsburg University
400 East 2nd Street
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Apparitions, Dances and Fantasies
Franz Liszt: Apparition No. 1
Camille Saint-Saëns - from Album, Op. 72
1. Prélude
2. Carillon
5. Final
Saint-Saëns: Fantaisie sur la Valse du Prophéte de Meyerbeer-GEORGIA PREMIERE
Saint-Saëns: Fantasiie sur Lohengrin de Wagner-GEORGIA PREMIERE
Intermission
Mary Kouyoumdjian: Aghvani (Doves) (2009)
Geoffrey Burleson: Powerhouse Passacaglia (2013)
David Rakowski:
-In A Regal Age Ran I (Prelude #6) (2010)
-Pull A Wall Up (Prelude #4) (2010)
Jacob TV: The Body Of Your Dreams, for piano and electronic track (2002)
Frank Zappa: BeBop Tango
Sunday 17, May 2020 ( 1 00 pm )
Every May 17th since 1992 at Teatro Miela in Trieste, Italy, there is a celebration of Erik Satie’s birthday. This year, due to the pandemic, it will be live-streamed instead.
The entire event will be broadcast in live streaming starting at 00.01 am Central European Time on Sunday May 17th, Satie’s birthday, and the last vexations will be performed live at Teatro Miela in Trieste.
I will be performing approximately between 1:15 and 1:30 PM. Live streaming and contents of SatiePandémie will be available at www.buoncompleannosatie.it
Wednesday 06, May 2020 (12 30 pm )
Queensborough Community College
Humanities Building, Room 144
Bayside, NY
Camille Saint-Saëns - from Album, Op. 72
1. Prélude
2. Carillon
5. Final
Saint-Saëns: Fantasiie sur Lohengrin de Wagner
Mary Kouyoumdjian: Aghvani (Doves) (2009)
Geoffrey Burleson: Powerhouse Passacaglia (2013)
Jacob TV: The Body Of Your Dreams, for piano and electronic track (2002)
Frank Zappa: BeBop Tango
Saturday 30, May 2020 ( 7 30 pm )
Accidental Music Festival
A Co-Production of the Timucua Arts Foundation, In-Between Series, and Ensemble Ipse
Featuring solo sets by Elizabeth A. Baker, Geoffrey Burleson, Sarah Cahill, Vicky Chow, Stephanie Griffin, Margaret Lancaster, Dave Lebleu, Brianna Matzke, Nicole Miglis, Esther Noh, Caleb van der Swaagh, and Dustin Wong.
Live-streaming will take place via Facebook Live on multiple pages, including the Timucua Arts Foundation, Accidental Music Festival, In-Between Series, and Ensemble Ipse, as well as on YouTube and Twitch. Specific time for my set TBA. For more information, please go to www.timucua.com.
Program:
David Rakowski:
Riccio (Prelude #43) [2013]
Pull A Wall Up (Prelude #4) [2010]
Gregory T.S. Walker: the mountain's third face (1998)
Laurie San Martin: Dances for solo piano
Zambra? (2007)
Tangozilla (2004)
Geoffrey Burleson:
Powerhouse Passacaglia, a Fantasy-Hommage on Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" (2013)
Friday 12, June 2020 ( 7 30 pm )
*NY Premiere
Program subject to change.
ARTISTS
Christopher Herbert, Baritone
Sato Moughalian, Flute
Keve Wilson, Oboe
Tasha Warren, Clarinet
Gina Cuffari, bassoon
Matt Ward, Percussion
Joseph Rebman, Harp
Esther Noh, Violin
Victoria Paterson, Violin
Philip Payton, Viola
Dave Eggar, Cello
Geoffrey Burleson, Piano
Saturday 13, June 2020 ( 7 30 pm )
Accidental Music Festival
A Co-Production of the Timucua Arts Foundation, In-Between Series, and Ensemble Ipse
Featuring solo sets by Elizabeth A. Baker, Geoffrey Burleson, Sarah Cahill, Vicky Chow, Stephanie Griffin, Margaret Lancaster, Dave Lebleu, Brianna Matzke, Nicole Miglis, Esther Noh, Caleb van der Swaagh, and Dustin Wong.
A rebroadcast of the live-streaming festival, which will take place on YouTube. My set will run from approximately 8:00-8:30 PM. Tickets required-for more information, please go to www.timucua.com.
Program:
David Rakowski:
Riccio (Prelude #43) [2013]
Pull A Wall Up (Prelude #4) [2010]
Gregory T.S. Walker: the mountain's third face (1998)
Laurie San Martin: Dances for solo piano
Zambra? (2007)
Tangozilla (2004)
Geoffrey Burleson:
Powerhouse Passacaglia, a Fantasy-Hommage on Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" (2013)
Tuesday 04, August 2020 ( 6 00 pm )
Kostabi World Chelsea
225 West 22nd Street
New York City
~PLEASE NOTE THAT KOSTABI WORLD CHELSEA CANNOT ACCOMMODATE GUESTS~
Only performers will be in attendance. The entire concert will be livestreamed via Facebook live--link can be found at
https://www.facebook.com/geoffrey.burleson
I'll be performing:
from Gregor Huebner's Five Latin Pieces for solo piano:
1. Fugato y Rumba
4. Bembé
5. Guaguanco
Gene Pritsker: The Day Saturn Lost its Rings (PREMIERE)
poem by: Robert C. Ford
Robert C. Ford - narrator,
Geoffrey Burleson, Jai Jeffries, Tania Stavreva, Seth Boustead - piano 8 hands
Gene Pritsker- conductor
Other performers include Beach Boys keyboardist Carli Muñoz; pianists Seth Boustead, Pete Drungle, Jai Jeffryes, Mark Kostabi, Steve Sandberg, Tania Stavreva, Kathleen Supové; and guitarist Gene Pritsker
Sunday 09, August 2020 ( 5 00 pm )
~Postponed from the original August 6th date due to Tropical Storm Isaias~
Now celebrating its 5th anniversary, Porto Pianofest takes place every summer in Portugal, and features a robust series of piano-based concerts. This summer, by necessity, all performances on the solo recital series will be live-streaming from performers' home studios and venues in Porto, Madrid, New York and Chicago. Please click on Porto Pianofest to link to my live-streaming recital.
Program:
Beethoven: Fantasia in G Minor, Op. 77
Saint-Saëns: Mazurka in B Minor, Op. 66
Saint-Saëns: Étude in E-flat Minor (Prelude & Fugue), Op. 111, No. 3
Saint-Saëns: La Mort de Thaïs – Paraphrase de Concert sur L’Opera de Massenet (1895)
Laurie San Martin – from Dances for Solo Piano:
Zambra? (2004, rev. 2007)
Tangozilla (2004)
Gregor Hübner: 5 Latin Pieces
1. Fugato y Yumba
2. Tumbao
3. Guaijra mysteriosa
4. Bembé
5. Guaguanco
Dizzy Gillespie/arr. Burleson: A Night in Tunisia
Friday 11, September 2020 ( 2 00 pm )
Music Conservatory
Chicago College of Performing Arts
Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
Program TBA
Saturday 12, September 2020 ( 2 00 pm )
~Sponsored by The Chicago Flute Club~
First United Methodist Church
418 W Touhy Ave,
Park Ridge, IL 60068
Works by Valerie Colman, Carter Pann, Shulamit Ran, and others
Saturday 19, September 2020 ( 8 00 pm )
"Now Is The Winter Of Our Discotheque"
~Part of the 9th Annual CompCord Festival~
Michiko Studios
149 W. 46th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10036
Works of Paul Carlon, Dan Cooper, Jay Elfenbein, Jane Getter, Gene Pritsker, David Saperstein, Gary Schneider, Roger Tréfousse, and Christopher Vassiliades
The CompCord Ensemble
Olga Terlitsky - violin
Jay Rodriguez - tenor sax
Gene Pritsker - electric guitar
Geoffrey Burleson - piano
Jay Elfenbein - electric bass
Damien Bassman -drums
Saturday 03, October 2020 ( 5 00 pm )
Kostabi World Chelsea
225 West 22nd Street
New York City
I will be performing Joseph Martin Waters' "Cornelia Street", as a world premiere in this version for solo piano and electronics
Tickets:
$20, must be purchased in advance. The first 15 people will be the in-person audience. Ticket price for in-person audience includes free drinks.
Composers: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, Svjetlana Bukvich, Dan Cooper, Velizar Iordanov, Arthur Kampela, Howie Kenty, Mark Kostabi, Alon Nechushtan, Rushaniya Nizamutdinova, Daniel Palkowski, Joseph Pehrson, Gene Pritsker, Zach Seely, Joseph Waters
Performers:
Thomas Buckner - baritone
Geoffrey Burleson - piano
Robert C. Ford - narrator
Mark Kostabi - piano
Margaret Lancaster - flute
Gene Pritsker - D.J.
Sunday 11, October 2020 ( 6 00 pm )
Composers Concordance 11th Annual Comp-Play-Comp Festival
"Words and Music"
DROM
85 Avenue A
New York, NY 10009
I will be premiering my new solo piano piece Kyrie 2020, based on Ellen Bryant Voigt's 1918 poem Kyrie, which addressed life and the zeitgeist during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. Voigt's vivid portrayal is rich and eloquent, ultimately defiant, and also one of the very few examples of poems catalyzed by this event.