Soprano Rachel Schutz and pianist Andrea Christie join forces for a return performance on the concert series Le Petit Salon de Musique in East Setauket, Long Island. The two will perform a recital focused on the many ways that people’s voices and artistic expressions can be inhibited, excluded, muted, and restricted.

The first half of the program features songs by two female Welsh composers – Morfydd Owen and Grace Williams – almost completely unknown outside of Wales. Despite the high quality of their work, their songs have not made it into the main-stream canon of British music, in part due to still-existing cultural prejudices within the UK. The second half of the program explores other methods of suppression: racism, incarceration, and conflict. Until recently and certainly during their lifetimes, African American composers such as Margaret Bonds did not receive the recognition or performance opportunities that they deserved within the US music industry due to longstanding racism and exclusion. Ethnicity, paired with religion, is also the reason that Abduquadir Jalalidin, a well-known Uyghur poet, is being held in captivity in China. This poem escaped its confinement through oral transmission from prisoner to prisoner, eventually being translated into English by Joshua Freeman and set to music by Thomas Osborne. But countless other works of art and their artists remain trapped. And though he lived for many years after completing his Op. 38 songs, Sergei Rachmaninoff, who was forced to flee his native Russia during the Revolution of 1917, never wrote another song. What had been a prolific career in composition was silenced by his displacement and emigration. If these artists’ voices had been allowed to fully flourish and their works fully welcomed into our canon, our artistic landscape may be even richer.

Tickets in advance and at the door: $20.00 adults/ $15 students with valid I.D./$10 for people 12 yrs old and under.

Featuring duo and solo works by Olivier Messiaen, Daniel Felsenfeld, and JacobTV. Admission: free.

Parhelion and Transient Canvas ensembles join forces in a rare double-bill event to present an evening-length concert of new music written for their respective ensembles.

About Transient Canvas:

For over a decade Boston-based contemporary duo Transient Canvas has been thrilling audiences with their “engaging musicality and easy sense of ensemble" (Cleveland Classical) and “superb” performances (Boston Globe). Bass clarinetist Amy Advocat (she/her) and marimbist Matt Sharrock (they/them) relish the creative potential of working with living composers, with the San Francisco Chronicle lauding “the versatile imagination they both display and inspire in others” and a commissioned repertoire of over 90 works. Since 2017, they have hosted their annual paid Composer Fellowship Program that is free and open to composers of all ages. They maintain an active touring schedule with recent performances at the Alba Music Festival, Festival of New American Music, Music on the Edge, New Music Miami, and Red Note New Music Festival, among others. Recent educational residencies include the University of Southern California, University of Miami, New York University, and Longy’s Divergent Studio. They have three albums - Right now, in a second; Sift; and Wired - released on New Focus Recordings. Transient Canvas proudly endorses Henri Selmer Paris and Marimba One. For more information, visit www.transientcanvas.com.

This performance will mark the first public showing of arias and scenes from Lisa’s new opera-in-progress with librettist Claire Solomon, La Ballonniste, inspired by the life of Mme Elisabeth Thible –– the first woman to ascend in a hot air balloon in 1784 in Lyon, France. Soprano Ariadne Greif introduces us to Mme Thible, while Lisa and baritone Peter Stewart fill out the rest of the cast. Peter sings the role of King Gustave III of Sweden, the balloon’s commissioner and namesake. Andrea Christie of Parhelion Trio returns on piano, and Claire Solomon and dramaturg Cori Ellison will be on hand to give context and lead some discussion.

The Stone at The New School Glass Box Theater, New York NY

'Tickets: $20 at door, cash only

On Wednesday November 2, Parhelion Trio teams up with renowned composer and vocalist Lisa Bielawa to collaborate in Bielawa’s one-week residency at The Stone. Featuring music by Lisa Bielawa, performed by Parhelion Trio.

The Stone at The New School Glass Box Theater, New York NY

The Parhelion Trio presents, not how we left this, a program confronting the societal pressures of recent years and acknowledging the collective journeys and transformations we subsequently experienced through music. With the global rise of political extremism and the devastating consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the composers featured in this program address each challenge in their own way or pay homage to composers whose inspiration has been a guiding light. Works include those by Tyshawn Sorey, Lisa Bielawa, Daniel Felsenfeld, Sunny Knable, and a world premiere of Tonia Ko’s evermore everyday. The trio gives its signature send-off with the ecstatic Music in Similar Motion by Philip Glass.

Tickets: $25 in advance / $30 at door (cash only)

Program:

Tyshawn Sorey For Anton Vishio (2019)
Daniel Felsenfeld This Machine (2019)
Sunny Knable Tenacity (2022)
~Intermission~
Tonia Ko evermore everyday (2022) *world premiere
Lisa Bielawa Fictional Migrations (2017/2020) **arranged for Parhelion
Philip Glass Music in Similar Motion (1969)

Parhelion is honored to join award-winning composer Sunny Knable in an all-Knable program at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall on the evening of Tuesday May 31st, 2022 in celebration of his second composition album.

This concert will include a world premiere written for Parhelion Trio, titled ‘Tenacity’ (2022) as well as performances by Trio Cabrini, bassoonist Scott Pool, pianist Natsuki Fukasawa, violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn, and pianist Barbara Podgurski.

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Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, 154 W 57th St, New York, NY

Deborah Sepe (cello) and Andrea Christie (piano) present a noon hour faculty recital of classics for cello and piano. Featuring works ranging from J.S.Bach and Frederic Chopin to Amy Beach and Carlos Simon. Free admission.

Composer-vocalist Lisa Bielawa, hornist Mike Atkinson, flutist Alex Sopp, and pianist Andrea Christie play works written by Bielawa spanning from 1998 to 2017. Featuring ‘Fictional Migrations’ for flute/piccolo, horn and piano.

Lisa Bielawa is a 2009 Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition. She takes inspiration for her work from literary sources and close artistic collaborations. The New York Times describes her music as, “ruminative, pointillistic and harmonically slightly tart.” She is the recipient of the 2017 Music Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.

Composer Seong Ae Kim will talk about her aesthetic and her composition, accompanied by live performances of her works by Parhelion trio and percussionist Josh Perry. The content based on Seong Ae Kim’s work will revolve around raising awareness about racial discrimination, immigrant issues, and to empower people in the community to speak against AAPI hate crime.

SIDE-BLOW for solo percussion improviser (2021)- Josh Perry
Red-blue-very white for flute, clarinet and piano(2019)- Parhelion trio

This event is supported by a #CityArtistsCorps grant

FREE to attend and open to the public. Audience is limited. Please RSVP to reserve your seat. Proof of vaccination and masks are required.

Adelphi University Department of Music presents a distinguished faculty recital by faculty Ashleé Miller (clarinet) and Andrea Christie (piano); and Scott Litroff (saxophone) and guest pianist Matthieu Cognet (piano). Featuring works for clarinet and piano by Gershwin, Tailleferre and a world premiere by composer James Lindsay.

Free Admission. Youtube livestream link here

For the final concert of the season, Sun Dog Collabs is proud to present the fearless Los Angeles-based violin duo The Furies in a double bill with Parhelion Trio. Play Date is a show that explores notions of loss of innocence, coming of age, and entertains the multiple intersections of body and voice in relation to femininity.

Featuring music by Bahar Royaee, Sunny Knable, and Eve Beglarian. Program TBA.

The Furies is a contemporary violin duo whose mission is to bring intersectional feminism into the concert hall through immersive performance experiences, to learn more about the histories of womxn, and to encourage audience members to demand more diverse programming from their musical institutions. The Furies’ individual and collective eclectic musical identities, incorporated with elements of performance art, has led them to develop their uniquely interdisciplinary approach to performance and programming. Not ones to limit themselves to their primary instruments, the duo performs and arranges works incorporating anything from singing/speaking, percussion, and live-processing electronics. Since their inception in 2018, The Furies has performed at several festivals, most notably as featured artists alongside Eighth Blackbird at The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival.

On Saturday April 18th, Parhelion Trio and Unheard-of//Ensemble team up for an evening of new music and visual projections. Featuring works by Krists Auznieks, James Diaz, Lisa Bielawa, Daniel Felsenfeld and Daniel Weymouth. Program TBA.

Tickets: $18 in advance, $25 at the door (cash only)

UNHEARD-OF//ENSEMBLE:
Ford Fourqurean (clarinet), Matheus Souza (violin), Issei Herr (cello), and Daniel Anastasio (piano) form the core of Unheard-of//Ensemble, a contemporary chamber ensemble dedicated to connecting communities across the United States through the development and performance of new music. Unheard-of//Ensemble’s 2019-2020 Season features more than 15 concerts, including a residency at Cornell University, performances as part of Alia Musica Pittsburgh’s series, collaborating with ICEBERG Collective, and their second Texas tour visiting Tarleton State University, Texas Lutheran University, and San Antonio College. Their debut album Unheard-of//Dialogues was released last season to critical acclaim, being called “a fantastic debut by a group that has been doing more than their part to inject vitality into the new music scene for the last few years” (Jeremy Shatan, An Earful).

Parhelion is honored to join acclaimed composer Sunny Knable in an all-Knable program at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall on the evening of Tuesday March 31st.

MSR Classics presents a concert of music by award-winning composer Sunny Knable in celebration of his album Song of the Redwood-Tree. Featured performers include The Parhelion Trio, bassoonist Scott Pool and pianist Natsuki Fukasawa, Trio Cabrini, and violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn with pianist Barbara Podgurski.

ALL-SUNNY KNABLE PROGRAM
The Green Violin
…the Place of Longing
The Busking Bassoonist
Sundog
Song of the Redwood-Tree

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Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, 154 W 57th St, New York, NY

On Saturday March 14, Parhelion Trio teams up with renowned composer and vocalist Lisa Bielawa to conclude Bielawa’s one-week residency at The Stone. Featuring music by Lisa Bielawa, performed by Parhelion Trio.

The Stone at The New School Glass Box Theater, New York NY

Tickets: $20 at door

On Sunday February 23rd, An Die Musik presents The Parhelion Trio, soprano Erin Heisel, tenor Jamon Maple, pianist Andrea Christie, and violist Nickolas Kaynor in a concert of music spanning the past 100 years. Featuring new works for trio by Lisa Bielawa and Peter Winkler alongside 20th century classics by William Bolcom and Vaughan Williams.

Currently in their third season in residence at Union Temple of Brooklyn, An die Musik NYC is a concert series bringing the people of New York City high-quality classical music at affordable prices. AdM presents internationally renowned performers alongside rising talents from the NYC community.

Tickets: $20 advance | $30 door

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PROGRAM

William Bolcom Let Evening Come for soprano, viola and piano (1994)
Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel for tenor and piano (1901-04)
~Intermission~
Parhelion Trio plays:
Lisa Bielawa Rondolette (2011)
Peter Winkler Rhapsody (2019)

Union Temple of Brooklyn
3rd Floor, 17 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY

The Parhelion Trio and ~Nois saxophone quartet join forces to present a multimedia evening event showcasing original and new works written for each group by five bold emerging composers: Ricardo Gallo, Emma O’Halloran, Seong Ae Kim, Gemma Peacocke, and Annika Socolofsky. Each work explores dreamlike states of consciousness, highlighting different aspects of night, darkness and silence, including the interplay between light and its absence.

Featuring video art and projections by media artist Xuan for works Dwalm and Turadh, the concert will break with a fiery wind-powerhouse finale in a joint ensemble performance of a modern classic, Philip Glass’s Music In Similar Motion.

This event kicks off the inaugural concert presented by Sun Dog Collabs, a new concert series hosted by the Parhelion Trio based in the West Village at the historic Greenwich House Music School.

Tickets: $18 in advance, $25 at the door (cash only)

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PROGRAM

Emma O'Halloran Night Music (2019)
Georg Friedrich Haas Saxophonquartett (2014)
Gemma Peacocke Dwalm (2018)
~Intermission~
Ricardo Gallo Cayay (2019) *world premiere
Seong Ae Kim Red-blue-very white (2019)
Annika Socolofsky Turadh (2018)
Philip Glass Music in Similar Motion (1973)

On Sunday December 15, Parhelion returns to Le Petit Salon de Musique Series for an encore performance. Featuring exciting new works by Wendy Griffiths, Daniel Weymouth, Daniel Felsenfeld, Sunny Knable, and a premiere of a new composition by Peter Winkler; alongside beloved classics by Debussy and Saint-Saëns.

Tickets available here: http://www.lepetitsalon.org.  

$20 adult/$15 senior/$5 students

Creart Box and Parhelion Trio join forces to kick off their 2019/20 concert series in an evening inspired by Claude Debussy’s Songs of Bilitis. Featuring a premiere of a new composition by Seong Ae Kim, lighting/projections by Guillermo Laporta, and arrangements by CreArt Box of works by Debussy, Saint-Saëns and Glass for two flutes, piano four-hands and clarinet.

PROGRAM

Philip Glass (1937 - ) Music in Similar Motion
Seong Ae Kim (1976 - ) New commission
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Sonata in D op.6
Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) The Songs of Bilitis [17’]
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 -1921) Tarantelle, Op.6 [7’]

CreArtBox Artists
Guillermo Laporta, flute; Josefina Urraca, piano; Nuno Da Silva, Celesta; Jacopo Rampini, Reciter

On Friday May 31, Andrea Christie presents a faculty piano recital of dazzling early 20th century masterworks, joining forces with guest artists: Erin Heisel, soprano; and The Parhelion Trio. Reception to follow.

PROGRAM:
Sechs Lieder nach Gedichten von Clemens Brentano, Op. 68—Richard Strauss
Wait for solo piano—Lisa Bielawa
This Machine for flute, clarinet and piano—Daniel Felsenfeld
Selections from Préludes, Book 2, for solo piano—Claude Debussy
Four Etudes for solo piano, Op. 7—Igor Stravinsky

Renee Weiler Hall at Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York NY

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Tickets: $15 in advance/$20 at door (cash only)
*Students (under 30): $10 in advance / $15 at door

Come hang out with us for an evening at Terraza 7, Jackson Height’s premiere Latin Jazz Club. Relax, kick back on the mezzanine with a $7 draught beer, and enjoy an evening of thrilling and beautiful piano music.

Featuring Andrea Christie and Andrea Lodge playing Stravinsky ‘Rite of Spring’ for piano four hands, alongside original compositions performed by Argentinian jazz and tango pianist Emilio Teubal.

$12 Cover charge for mezzanine. Free admission for children 12 & under.

http://terraza7.com/

FEATURING: the katie bishop ensemble, Felicia Chen, Amal El-shrafi, Melinda Faylor, Daniel Felsenfeld, Amanda Gookin, Howard Kenty, Sunny Knable, The Parhelion Trio, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Bahar Royai, and more. Including a performance of Daniel Felsenfeld’s ‘This Machine’, played by The Parhelion Trio.

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Andrea Christie presents a piano recital of dazzling early 20th century masterworks alongside a 21st century gem ‘Wait’ by Rome-prize winning composer Lisa Bielawa.  Featuring music by Debussy, Stravinsky and Medtner.  Free Admission.

Adelphi University presents composer-vocalist Lisa Bielawa in recital with department of music faculty members Andrea Christie and Deborah Sepe (cello) alongside guest artists Blanca Cecilia González (violin), Marissa Licata (violin), and Chieh-Fan Yu (viola). 

Composer-vocalist Lisa Bielawa is a 2009 Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition. She takes inspiration for her work from literary sources and close artistic collaborations. The New York Times describes her music as, “ruminative, pointillistic and harmonically slightly tart.” She is the recipient of the 2017 Music Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.

Featuring works for strings, piano and voice by Bielawa including Graffiti dell’amante, selections from Vireo, The Houri and the Poet, Scene & Aria: Layover at CDG, Wait and A Collective Cleansing.

$25 General Admission.  Purchase tickets here

Parhelion and SugarCave (Liz Faure, guitar; Alishan Gezgin, piano; Addy Sterrett, vocals) team up for an exciting evening of new works for trios. Featuring a world premiere by Daniel Felsenfeld and music by Wendy Griffiths, Sidney Boquiren, Philip Glass and SugarCave!

Tickets are $15 at the door
Wine/beer available for purchase

Areté Venue and Gallery
67 West Street #103, Brooklyn, NY

The Parhelion Trio and Mazumal duo join forces to present a double bill at Spectrum, performing new works written for the ensembles in 2018.  Featuring a world premiere by Daniel Weymouth and New York premieres by Annika Socolofsky, Sonia Jacobsen, Bahar Royaee, and Inti Figgis-Vizueta.

Admission: $15 general, $10 student/senior. Tickets at the door.
70 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Program:

Mazumal:
Paula Matthusen, of minutiae and memory (2006)
Inti Figgis-Vizueta, #feelbetter (2018)
Bahar Royaee, قال  - ghâl (2018)

~Intermission~

Parhelion Trio:
Annika Socolofsky, Turadh (2018)
Sonia Jacobsen, In Anticipation (2018, arranged for Parhelion) 
Daniel Weymouth, Four Songs (2018) *World Premiere

Featuring NMFS faculty and Ensembles-in-Residence.
Works by Bela Bartók, Eugene Drucker, Anna Thorvaldsdottir.

Eugene Drucker, Guðný Guðmundsdóttir, Anne Sophie Andersen, and Gróa Margrét Valdimarsdóttir, violins.
Alicia Valoti and Patrick Yim, violas
Henrik Brendstrup, cello

The Parhelion Trio
Friction Quartet

This final exciting installment of chamber recitals presented by NMFS faculty and artists features a WORLD PREMIERE by Eugene Drucker (NMFS Faculty; violinist, Emerson String Quartet).  Sponsored by New Music USA and commissioned on behalf of NMFS 2018 Festival, Drucker's premiere is a full-length string quartet inspired by the theatrical/poetic narratives of Shakespeare and Levertov.

Also featuring works by Derek Bermel, Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Eivind Buene, this concert is bursting with creative energy.

Anne Sophie Andersen og Gróa Valdimarsdóttir, violins
Alicia Valoti, viola
Henrik Brendstrup, cello
The Parhelion Trio
Friction Quartet

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Tickets: DKK 100. DKK 50 for students and RAMA/RDAM faculty. Free for RAMA/RDAM students.

The New Music Chamber Orchestra, faculty and artists-in-residence present a gala concert in Copenhagen.  Performing works by Bela Bartók, Mari Kimura, Simon Steen-Andersen, Vagn Holmboe and Bent Sørensen

Judy Lochhead, M.C.
NMFS chamber orchestra, led by Eugene Drucker (Emerson String Quartet), Faculty, Parhelion Trio, Friction Quartet, Artists in Residence, and festival participants.

Free Admission

This year's gala concerts feature the NMFS chamber orchestra in Bela Bartók's Divertimento, alongside works by Vagn Holmboe and Bent Sørensen. The program also highlights works by NMFS faculty composers Mari Kimura, Eivind Buene, and Simon Steen-Andersen.

Judy Lochhead, M.C.
NMFS chamber orchestra, led by Eugene Drucker (Emerson String Quartet)|
Faculty, Parhelion Trio, Friction Quartet, Artists in Residence, and festival participants.

Free Admission