TILT Brass completes its month-long TILT 10 Festival as resident brass ensemble for New Amsterdam Presents' Ecstatic Summer 2013, an evening of premieres presented on the Hudson River at Brookfield Place Plaza (part of 2013 River To River Festival).

From the River To River website:

"...organized by New Amsterdam Presents in association with Kaufman Music Center, Ecstatic Summer 2013 features two full sets of newly commissioned, collaboratively-based music; one for brass and the other for percussion. Part concert and part “happening,” the two sets will be completely acoustic, site-specific events, designed specifically to fill the stunning waterfront plaza of Brookfield Place with over a dozen musicians involved in each set. Composers include Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Dave Douglas, Susie Ibarra, Seth Olinsky (Akron/Family)."

TILT PERSONNEL
Chris McIntyre - trombone, Director
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold, Tom Bergeron, Chris DiMeglio – trumpet
Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Will Lang, James Rogers – trombone
David Byrd-Marrow, Jason Sugata - horn
Joe Exley - tuba

Ecstatic Summer 2013 on R2R website
TILT 10 Festival Page

Entitled TILT Brass presents TILT 10: An Anniversary Celebration, our 27 June Roulette event is TILT 10 Festival's flagship concert. In addition to works from TILT's repertoire, this program includes the world premiere of 4 commissioned works by local and international composers. This extraordinary evening of new brass music is being performed by 3 different instrumental combinations: TILT Brass Sextet, the founding 10-piece ensemble TILT Creative Brass Band, and a new group, TILT Zug Septet.

Roulette June 27 Artist Info: Composers | Players

PROGRAM
Lainie Fefferman Big Breath (2013)* - Sextet
Enno Poppe (DE) Zug (2008)** - Zug Septet
Filippo Perocco (IT) new work* - Creative Brass Band
Anthony Coleman Acute Corzya (2009) - Sextet
[Intermission]
Chris McIntyre Dedifferentiation No. 1 (2013)* - Sextet & UllU
Mario Diaz de Leon Bellum (2013)* - Zug Septet
Andrew Hamilton (IR) Love and Goodness (2013)* - Creative Brass Band
Jon Gibson Multiples (1972) - TILT Brass tutti
* = world premiere
** = US premiere

PERSONNEL Conductor: Ted Hearne Trumpet: Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold, Chris DiMeglio Trombone: Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Chris McIntyre, Will Lang Horn: David Byrd-Marrow, Jason Sugata Tuba: Joe Exley, Dan Peck Percussion: Chris Nappi, David Shively UllU: Chris McIntyre & David Shively

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Chris Jonas' Sun Spits Cherries
Wednesday, June 19 @ 8pm

Neighborhood House
Christ Church Philadelphia
20 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
(Between 2nd and 3rd just north of Market Street)

TICKETS: $10

Chris Jonas, soprano saxophone
Chris DiMeglio, trumpet and voice
Christopher McIntyre, tenor trombone
Andrew Barker, percussion

From the choral group The Crossings event page: 

"To introduce Santa Fe composer Chris Jonas (whose new work for The Crossing will be premiered June 23) we offer his ensemble Sun Spits Cherries, a remarkable combination of instruments – saxophone, two trombones, and percussion – treated masterfully in his compositional hands to the affect that they seem to form a much larger group. Chris’ style combines energetic outbursts with soft and sentimental passages; neither pure improvisation, nor entirely composed, Sun Spits Cherries braids written music, cues and conducting techniques to layer and juxtapose different subtle and startling notions of space, color, timbre and a interaction.

Started in NYC in 1997, the Sun Spits Cherries consists of soprano saxophone, trumpet, trombone and percussion. Neither pure improvisation, nor entirely composed, these pieces braid cues and conducting techniques to layer and juxtapose composed materials, improvisations, and scored forms in order to disrupt and modify habits and place focus on space, color, timbre and interaction." 
 

TILT Brass Sextet again joins forces with long-time TILT associate Nate Wooley at ISSUE Project Room for the first complete iteration of his leviathan Seven Storey Mountain project (also featuring drummers Chris Corsano and Ryan Sawyer, C. Spencer Yeh, Ben Vida, others).

PERSONNEL
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold, Chris DiMeglio – trumpet
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang - trombone

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E/O @ FIREHOUSE SPACE BROOKLYN
May 3, 2013, 8:00PM, $10
246 Frost St., Brooklyn NY 

Steve Reich - Four Organs (1970)


2nd half features Iktus Ensemble 

  512 W. 19th St (btw 10th & 11th Ave)
  Saturday, March 23, 8pm
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Making its Kitchen debut, TILT Brass' Sextet joins cellist Okkyung Lee in revisiting legendary composer and computer musician David Behrman's work Open Space for brass at The Kitchen in Chelsea.

The work was first heard during the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's final performances in December 2011 at Park Avenue Armory.  They again join forces as part of the Synth Nights, an

"...intergenerational electronic music series features recent and vintage works by... Behrman, including Runthrough (1968, for homemade synthesizers and light-controlled mixers), Cello with Melody-driven Electronics (1974, for cello with pitch-sensors and triangle-wave generators), Interspecies Smalltalk (1984, for violin, keyboard, Apple II computer and accessories)... and Ben Vida collaborates with Greg Davis to present a new work, Tripartite Node, utilizing a hybrid computer/analog synthesizing setup designed for real-time composition and centralized control-source improvisations."       [from The Kitchen website]

TILT Brass Sextet at The Kitchen
Dave Ballou, Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpets
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombone

A CONTEMPORARY EVENING FOR RALPH
Monday, February 04 | 8:00pm
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Alarm Will Sound
TBA

Argento Ensemble
Georg Friedrich Haas: Nacht Ruf ent Gleitend (1999)

Either/Or
Giacinto Scelsi: Pranaam II (1973) [CJM on analog organ]

International Contemporary Ensemble
Marc-Andre Dalbavie: Fantasies (2009)

JACK Quartet
Matthias Pintscher: Study IV for Treatise on the Veil (2009)

Talea Ensemble
Olga Neuwirth: Hooloomooloo (1997)

From Merkin Concert Hall website:
"Ralph Kaminsky (1926-2012) was one of the greatest advocates for contemporary music that New York City has ever known. To honor Ralph's singular passion, six groups with whom he was closely affiliated (with a total of over 50 musicians) will perform works by composers whom Ralph championed -- the first time these groups have ever appeared in concert together. The evening will also mark the creation of the Ralph Kaminsky Fund for New Music, a new nonprofit designed to commission works from composers both emerging and established.

John King, composer, guitarist and violist, has received commissions from the Kronos Quartet, Red {an orchestra}, ETHEL, the Albany Symphony/”Dogs of Desire”, Bang On A Can All-Stars, Mannheim Ballet, New York City Ballet/Diamond Project, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballets de Monte Carlo, as well as the Merce Cunningham Dance Co. His string quartets have also been performed by the Eclipse Quartet (LA) and the Mondriaan Quartet (Amsterdam). His quartet Crucible has premiered many of his compositions at The Stone (June 2007) and The Kitchen (April 2009).

PROGRAM
Kosmos (World Premiere) with live electronics
for Crucible Quartet
Conrad Harris, Cornelius Dufallo – violins
John King – viola
Yves Dharamraj – cello

Astral Epitaphs 
for TILT Brass
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombones
Thomas Bergeron, Garreth Flowers, Timothy Leopold – trumpets
> featuring the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Dianne Berkun director

Work written for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s final concerts at the Park Ave. Armory

(climax in) The Deserts of Love
For large ensemble and soprano, featuring Melissa Fogarty. A poetic reduction of the Arthur Rimbaud text.

More info on roulette.org
Event on tiltbrass.org

Bowerbird presents:

Song Books in Concert 1: Joan La Barbara and Ne(x)tworks
Friday, November 30, 2012 at 8:00pm
Christ Church Philadelphia 
20 North American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

First of two events featuring Ne(x)tworks. Nov. 30 is a full evening-length version of Song Books presented in historic Christ Church. 

Ne(x)tworks
Joan La Barbara - voice;
Shelley Burgon - harp & laptop;
Yves Dharamraj - cello;
Miguel Frasconi - glass & laptop;
Stephen Gosling - piano;
Ariana Kim - violin;
Christopher McIntyre - trombone, electronics

Event page on cagebeyondsilence.com

On 9 November, CJM makes his Italian debut performing during an all-Cage program in Treviso with local ensemble L'Arsenale. The event includes McIntyre's realization of Variations IV (1963), as well as selections from Freeman Etudes (1977-90) by internationally renowned violinist Marco Fusi, various works for percussion by Simone Beneventi, and selections from Sonatas and Interludes (1948) by Roberto Durante. The concert, along with a lecture by Italian composer and musicologist Marco Lenzi and multi-channel sound presentation by Giorgio Klauer, is being co-presented (with l’Ordine degli Architetti) throughout the Ex Palazzo della Provincia di Treviso, an unused, architecturally beautiful 1960's local government building near the center of "the little Venice." 

From L'arsenale Facebook Event page:
"Una grande festa dedicata a John Cage presso lo spazio sorprendente dell’ex-palazzo della Provincia dove L’arsenale rianimerà le stanze vuote con lavori scritti dal compositore americano o da artisti che a lui si sono ispirati. Installazioni, concerti, elettronica, funghi..."

PERSONNEL
Christopher McIntyre - trombone, Marco Fusi - violino, Roberto Durante - pianoforte, Simone Beneventi - percussioni, Giorgio Klauer - elettronica

All part of the month-long Festival L'arsenale 2012 in Treviso, Italia

Saturday, October 27, 2012 8pm
Greenwich House Music School
$15 ($12)

TILT Brass presents the debut of Director Chris McIntyre’s new solo trombone program, Meta Trombone. World premiere performances of works by Anthony Coleman and McIntyre, as well as UK/Berlin composer Richard Barrett’s Basalt (1991) and McIntyre’s realization of Cage’s Variations IV (1963) involving multiple radios.

PROGRAM
John Cage Variations IV (1963, realization by McIntyre ’12)
Richard Barrett Basalt (1991)**
Anthony Coleman The Thingliness of the Thing (2012)*
Chris McIntyre Phono-Marker from Smithson Project (2012)*
*  World Premiere
** US Premiere

Trombonist, composer, and TILT Brass Director Christopher McIntyre presents Meta Trombone, a program of works for solo trombone (unaccompanied and with electronics) that presents a number of radically differing contemporary musical languages, each maintaining focus on the idiomatic sound and mechanisms of the instrument itself. Works include the ecstatically virtuosic Basalt by British “New Complexity” composer Richard Barrett, seminal indeterminate work by American music icon John Cage, and 2 world premiere performances of works by McIntyre himself (a solo live-electronic addition to his burgeoning series of works taking inspiration from American Earth artist Robert Smithson) and legendary “Downtown” New York pianist and composer Anthony Coleman.

Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 8:30pm
Target Free Thursdays
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage

To celebrate iconoclastic American composer John Cage's centenary, local creative music ensemble Ne(x)tworks (with special guest R. Luke DuBois on video) presents the evening-length work "Variations IV" (1963). Fourth in a series of classic indeterminate works from the 1960's, "Variations IV" is a seminal exploration of simultaneity and site-specificity, and is Cage's composerly representation of the Hindu/Buddhist concept samsara or "the turmoil of everyday life."

Transparencies with dots and circles are dropped on a map of the David Rubenstein Atrium, the results or which are then used to locate individual "sound sources" within the space. The material heard from these sources is not specified. Ne(x)tworks' realization of "Variations IV" identifies the individual live musicians as the sound sources, asking each player to present a unique repertoire of exclusively Cage compositions from their chance-determined position in space.

A handful of the works being performed include "Music for…" (1984-87), various "Solo"'s from "Concert for Piano and Orchestra" (1958), "Four6" (1992), "Aria" (1958) (performed by close Cage associate, vocalist Joan La Barbara), "Variations II" (1961), "Experiences II" (1948), "Atlas Eclipticalis" (1961), among many others. The Atrium's theatrical lighting and DuBois' video projections will also occur based on chance operations. Audience is welcome to sit and enjoy the performances or move about the room to experience the music from varying vantage points.

Ne(x)tworks
Joan La Barbara – voice
Shelley Burgon - harp & laptop
Yves Dharamraj – cello
Miguel Frasconi - glass & laptop
Stephen Gosling – piano
Ariana Kim – violin
Christopher McIntyre - trombone, radios

Special Guests
R. Luke DuBois - video projection
David Shively - percussion

Variations IV on johncage.org
http://johncage.org/pp/John-Cage-Work-Detail.cfm?work_ID=236 

TILT Brass plays Garden II: House in Santa Fe

A second round of performances of Garden II: House by Chris Jonas, the TILT commissioned intermedia work featuring the composer/media artist on soprano saxophone, Chris Dimeglio on trumpet, and Jen Baker & Chris McIntyre on trombone. Much more detail soon!

Video excerpt from the premiere performances in NYC, Fall 2011:

Wednesday, May 30th, 7:30pm
Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow Street NY, NY  [map]
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TILT Brass presents its annual Chamber Music Show at Greenwich House Music School. TILT’s all-star lineup perform works by American and European composers, including a US premiere from Downtown veteran John King, Fredric Rzewski's Minimalist solo trombone work Last Judgment, “classic” brass repertoire from Ingram Marshall and Iannis Xenakis, and stylishly idiomatic solo works from Matthias Pintscher and local iconoclast Kitty Brazelton.

PROGRAM
Iannis Xenakis - A la Mémoire de Witold Lutoslawski (1994) for 2 trumpets and horns
Kitty Brazelton - Sonar Como Una Tromba Larga (1998) solo trombone & soundtrack [feat. Baker]
Fredric Rzewski - Last Judgment (1969) for solo trombone [feat. McIntyre]
Matthias Pintscher - Shining Forth (2008) for solo trumpet [feat. Flowers]
John King - Hammerbone (2005)* for trombone duo and live electronics  
Ingram Marshall - Fog Tropes (1981) for brass sextet and tape

* US Premiere

PERSONNEL

Chris McIntyre trombone, music director
Tim Leopold, Andy Kozar, Gareth Flowers trumpet
Kate Sheeran, Matt Marks horn
Jen Baker trombone; Mike Lormand bass trombone