QingXin Ensemble at Beijing National Performing Arts Center: Four to One
QingXin Ensemble
Beijing National Performing Arts Center
Four to One for string orchestra
QingXin Ensemble
Beijing National Performing Arts Center
Four to One for string orchestra
Collage New Music
Eric Nathan, conductor
Longy School of Music
Pickman Hal
Paola Prestini: Spell (2008)
Clarinet, cello, percussion
Katherine Balch: musica spolia (2021)
Flute, violin, piano, percussion
Niloufar Nourbakhsh: Aid for Sex (2019)
Flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
JaRon Brown: Sewn from a quilted puzzle of cloth (2026)
Collage Commission
Flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
INTERMISSION
Ileana Perez Velázquez: New Work (2026)
World premiere, 2026-2027 Collage Commission
Flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
Joan Tower: Into the Night (2022)
50th Anniversary Collage Commission
Flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
Collage New Music
Eric Nathan, conductor
Williams College
Brooks-Rodgers Auditorium
Paola Prestini: Spell (2008)
Clarinet, cello, percussion
Katherine Balch: musica spolia (2021)
Flute, violin, piano, percussion
Niloufar Nourbakhsh: Aid for Sex (2019)
Flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
JaRon Brown: Sewn from a quilted puzzle of cloth (2026)
Collage Commission
Flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
INTERMISSION
Ileana Perez Velázquez: New Work (2026)
World premiere, 2026-2027 Collage Commission
Flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
Joan Tower: Into the Night (2022)
50th Anniversary Collage Commission
Flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
Neave Trio
Rhode Island Chamber Music Concerts
McVinney Auditorium (Providence, RI)
Dream Scenes for piano trio
Curated by Eric Nathan, Artistic Director
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Tony Arnold, soprano
Kebra-Seyoun Charles, double bass
Collage New Music
Goethe-Institut Boston
Kebra-Seyoun Charles: This is the Day (2021)
Bass
Kebra-Seyoun Charles: I Know the Lord Laid His Hands on Me (2024)
Bass
Eun Young Lee: Minhwa (2026)
World premiere, 2026-2027 Collage Commission
Flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
Peter Child: New Work (2026)
World premiere, 2026-2027 Collage Commission
Soprano, cimbalom, violin, cello, bass
INTERMISSION
György Kurtág: Shadows from Signs, Games and Messages
Bass
György Kurtág: Hommage à John Cage from Signs, Games and Messages
Bass
Eric Nathan, “I. Cello” from Short Stories (2021)
Collage commission
Flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
György Kurtág: Scenes from a Novel
For Kurtág’s 100th birthday celebration
Soprano, violin, bass, cimbalom
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Matilda Hofman, Artistic Director
First Church of Christ, Scientist (Berkeley, CA)
What is Home? (West Coast Premiere)
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Matilda Hofman, Artistic Director
First Church of Christ, Scientist (Berkeley, CA)
What is Home? (West Coast Premiere)
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Matilda Hofman, Artistic Director
Noe Valley Ministry (San Francisco, CA)
What is Home? (West Coast Premiere)
Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble
Matthew M. Marsit, conductor
Tull Hall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
New Work (World Premiere)
Co-Commissioned by the wind ensembles at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Eastman School of Music, University of Maryland, Wilfred Laurier University, Yale University
Balourdet Quartet
Schneider Concerts
Mannes School of Music (New York, NY)
New Work for string quartet (World Premiere)
Co-commissioned by Mannes School of Music/Schneider Concerts
Balourdet Quartet
The Distinguished Artists Concert Series
Santa Cruz, CA
New Work for string quartet (World Premiere)
Co-commissioned by The Distinguished Artists Concert Series
Balourdet Quartet
Friends of Chamber Music Kansas City
New Work for string quartet (Premiere)
Co-commissioned by Friends of Chamber Music Kansas City
Curated by Eric Nathan, Artistic Director
Jakub Przybycien, conductor
Collage New Music
Longy School of Music
Edward Pickman Hall
Eric Nathan: Just A Moment (2021)
Flute, clarinet
Amy Williams: Give Way (2020) and Stop / Yield (2015)
Cello, piano
Sid Richardson: Ratyll (2021)
Bass clarinet, marimba
Kay Rhie: ...in the dreams of another (2023)
Violin, viola
INTERMISSION
Curtis Stewart: Invention #3: Threat (2024)
Featuring vocal students from Longy School of Music
Viola, cello, two vocalists
Collage Fellow: New Work (2027)
World premiere Collage Commission
Flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
Arthur Levering: Twenty Ways Upon the Bells (1994)
Flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano/celeste, percussion
Curated by Eric Nathan, Artistic Director
David Hoose, conductor
Collage New Music
Longy School of Music, Pickman Hall
Juri Seo: “I. Jack in the Box” from Toy Store (2022)
violin, electronics
Augusta Read Thomas: Acrobats (2018)
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano
Yu-Hui Chang: Intersect (2014)
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano
Richard Cornell: The Light of October (1998)
Collage Commission
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion
INTERMISSION
Gunther Schuller: “IV. Fiddle Music” from Duologue (1983)
Violin, piano
Elliott Carter: Triple Duo (1983)
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion
Composition Faculty
Alba Music Festival Composition Program
Alba, Italy
Performance by the ES Quartet (work TBD)
Yevgeny Kutik, solo violin
Ruth Reinhardt, conductor
Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra
Season-Opening Concert
Violin Concerto (world premiere, RI Philharmonic co-commission)
Jeffrey Zeigler, cello
Yamaha Disklavier Piano
Bang On A Can LOUD Weekend
Mass MoCA, Room B6
Division of Time
Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music
Bowdoin International Music Festival (Brunswick, ME)
Music fellows
Spires for woodwind quintet
Zlatomir Fung, cello
Colette Valentine, piano
Austin Chamber Music Center
Bates Recital Hall (Austin, TX)
Missing Words III, III. Straußmanöver
Hosted and curated by Eric Nathan, Artistic Director
Marcos Balter, guest composer
Collage New Music
Harvard Musical Association
Music by Marcos Balter:
Machaut Transcription (2011) for flute trio
*** (2014) for solo piano
A vis (2007) for clarinet and violin
Pessoa (2021) for bass flute and electronics
False memories (2022) for solo pianoPerformers:
Zlatomir Fung, cello
Wigmore Hall
London, UK
Straußmanöver from Missing Words III
Curated by Eric Nathan, Artistic Director
Eric Nathan, conductor
Tony Arnold, soprano
Collage New Music
Edward Pickman Hall
Longy School of Music (Cambridge, MA)
Pre-Concert Talk at 2:00pm
Christopher Trapani: Waterlines (2005/2012)
Soprano, Guitarist (steel-stringed guitar, electric guitar, Turkish fretless banjo), flute, clarinet, trumpet, percussion, viola (=stroh violin), cello, bass and electronics/amplification
INTERMISSION
What is Home? (World Premiere)
Collage Co-Commissions with Eighth Blackbird and Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion
April Dawn Guthrie: New Work
JaRon Brown: New Work
Angelica Negron: New Work
Juri Seo: New Work
Erin Gee: New Work
Eric Nathan: New Work
Eric Nathan, host
Featuring Mentor Composers
Angélica Negrón, Yu-Hui Chang and Niloufar Nourbakhsh
Presented by Collage New Music and Longy School of Music
An event-filled day that brings together composers in the greater Boston region for workshops and talks. The day provides opportunities for composers to meet and share ideas with each other, and benefit from observations on their own music by mentor composers.
Hsin-Yun Huang and Hanna Lee, solo violas
QingXin Ensemble
Eric Nathan, conductor
The Tianjin Juilliard School (China)
Double Concerto No. 2 for two solo violas and string orchestra (China Premiere)
Jihae Yun, piano
Stony Brook University Music Department
Staller Center, Recital Hall
Gilbert Kalish 90th Birthday Concert
My Grandfather Played the Piano
Zlatomir Fung, cello
Zankel Hall
Carnegie Hall
Straußmanöver from Missing Words III
Music Director Lee So-jung's Previsions Invitation Series
Sung Jae-chang Trumpet Recital
Toying for solo trumpet
New Sussex Symphony
Jordan Brown, conductor
Sky’s Edge for orchestra
Jeffrey Zeigler, cello
Yamaha Disklavier Piano
Gandini Juggling
National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY)
Division of Time for cello and Disklavier piano (world premiere)
Choreography by Gandini Juggling
Commissioned by National Sawdust and VisionIntoArt
Jeffrey Zeigler, cello
Yamaha Disklavier Piano
Gandini Juggling
National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY)
Division of Time for cello and Disklavier piano (world premiere)
Choreography by Gandini Juggling
Commissioned by National Sawdust and VisionIntoArt
Luca Albano, piano
Bowling Green State University
Remembrances
Anna Handler, conductor
Collage New Music
Presented in Partnership with Goethe-Institut Boston
Goethe-Institut
Pre-Concert Talk at 2:00pm
Missing Words I
for clarinet, bassoon, horn, string quartet, double bass
Missing Words II
for brass quintet
Missing Words III
for violoncello and piano
INTERMISSION
Missing Words IV
for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, violoncello
Missing Words V
for violin, violoncello, piano
Missing Words VI
for flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, cello
Stefan Jackiw, violin
Yoonah Kim, clarinet
Parker Quartet
Colburn Strings
Steven Schick, conductor
LAGUNA BEACH MUSIC FESTIVAL
Co-presented by Philharmonic Society of Orange County
Double Concerto for solo violin, solo clarinet and strings (West Coast Premiere)
Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra
Colin Jacobsen, solo violin and leader
St. Francis Auditorium
New Mexico Museum of Art
Dancing with J.S. Bach (selections)
Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra
Colin Jacobsen, solo violin and leader
St. Francis Auditorium
New Mexico Museum of Art
Dancing with J.S. Bach (selections)
Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra
Colin Jacobsen, solo violin and leader
St. Francis Auditorium
New Mexico Museum of Art
Dancing with J.S. Bach (selections)
Civic Orchestra of Chicago
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Bach Marathon Finale
Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago
Dancing with J.S. Bach I and II (selections)
Ensemble Uncaged
Andy Kozar, director
Longy School of Music
Pickman Hall
Four Sculptures for two trumpets
AURA Contemporary Ensemble
Yevgeny Dokshansky, conductor
University of Houston Moores School of Music
Archway Gallery (2305 Dunlavy St), Houston, TX
Onement
Walls of Light
Missing Words IV
Fringe Ensemble
Andy Kozar, director
Longy School of Music
Soul Perching for soprano, clarinet, violoncello
AURA Contemporary Ensemble
Yevgeny Dokshansky, conductor
University of Houston Moores School of Music
Archway Gallery (2305 Dunlavy St), Houston, TX
Onement
Walls of Light
Missing Words IV
Jeffrey Zeigler, cello
Yamaha Disklavier Piano
Gandini Juggling
Brown University
Grant Recital Hall
Made possible with the support of the Brown Arts Institute
Division of Time for cello and Disklavier piano (workshop performance)
Choreography by Gandini Juggling
New York University
Department of Music
Composition Seminar
On my recent music (Composition talk)
Curated by Eric Nathan, Artistic Director
Jeffrey Means, conductor
Tony Arnold, Soprano
Collage New Music
Edward Pickman Hall
Longy School of Music (Cambridge, MA)
György Ligeti: Poème Symphonique (1962)
100 Metronomes (courtesy of Rodney Lister)
Inga Chinilina: In den finsteren Zeiten (2022)
soprano, alto flute, bass clarinet, perc, piano, violin
Anthony Cheung: Clocks for seeing (2023)
Flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano (doubling synthesizer keyboard)
INTERMISSION
Gaston Gosselin (Julie I. Rohwein Collage Fellow): New Work (2026) (World Premiere) Collage Commission
Flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
Eric Chasalow: Three Tastes of Home (2025) (World Premiere) Collage Commission
Soprano + Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, Percussion
Olivier Messiaen: "Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes" from Quatuor pour la fin du Temps
Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano
Wheeling Symphony Orchestra
John Devlin, Music Director
Season Opening-Night
Capitol Theater
Wheeling, WV
Opening for orchestra