Sunday May 4, 2014 at 2:00 pm

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Recital with Pianist Debra Ayers

Music by Johannes Brahms, Ofer Ben-Amots, Erwin Schulhoff and Jeffrey Harrington

Brahms: Viola Sonata in E Flat Major, Opus 120 #2 (1894)

Ben-Amots: Nigun of the Seven Circles Dance for viola and piano from the opera The Dybbuk (2002)

Schulhoff: Violin Sonata #2 (1927)

Harrington:  Tango Feroz for violin and piano (2012)

 

 

May 14 – 19, 2014

American Spring Festival

Tour of Czech Republic with Pianist Ivan Sokolov

Wednesday, May 14   Pisek Concert Hall Trojice   7:00 pm

Thursday, May 15    Nelahozeves Castle 7:30 pm

Friday, May 16    Jesenik Priessnitz Medical Spa Hall of Mirrors 7:00 pm

Saturday, May 17    Javornik Cultural Center 6:00 pm

Monday, May 19    Prostejov ZUS (Arts School) Hall 6:00 pm

Seeing through Sound:  Compositions by Ivan Sokolov, Dmitri Shostakovich and Jan Vičar

Ivan Sokolov:  Sonata for Viola and Piano (2006)

Ivan Sokolov:  Selections from 31 Preludes for Solo Piano (2011)

Ivan Sokolov:  Solnechnaya (Sunlight) Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor (2005)

Dmitri Shostakovich:  Four Preludes, Op. 34 (1932 – 1933)  Arranged by Dmitry Tsyganov

Jan Vičar:  Uspávanky (Lullabies) (2006)

Giya Kancheli:  Rag-Gidon-Time (1996)

Ivan Sokolov:  Reminiscence for Piano 4 Hands (2013)

 

 

Thursday May 22, 2014

6:00 pm

Vilnius, Lithuania

Resonances from Vilna

Tolerance Center of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum

Colloquium Vilnense

presented by European Humanities University and the Vilnius Center for German Studies

Recital of Vilna composers with Jascha Nemtsov, piano

Music by Joseph Achron, Alexander Krein, Alexander Weprik and Grigory Gamburg

Program

Live Concert Video

 

 

 

Sunday, October 5 at 3:00 pm

SPECTRUM in New York City

World Premiere of  Human Rights Suite for solo violin by Ole Saxe

Cluck Old Hen Variations for solo violin by David Jaffe with Video by Fred Kolouch

To The Skies for solo violin by Gediminas Gelgotas with Video by Evaldas Arlauskas

Fiddle Faddle for solo violin and computer by Neil Rolnick with Video by John Jannone and The Night Bears

 

 

 

October 2014

Tour of US East Coast with Paul Dresher Double Duo

Friday, October 10 at Detroit Institute of Arts  “Friday Night Live” 7 pm & 8:30 pm

October 15 – 18 Residency/Concert New Music Festival at Bowling Green State University, Ohio

Thursday, October 22/23 Residency/Concert  Portland Ovations  USM Hannaford Hall Portland, Maine

Sunday, October 26 at Roulette in Brooklyn, New York with Ashley Bathgate, cello

November 5 – 8:  Residency/Concert at Wellesley College

Review of Roulette concert

Frank Oteri’s feature article about Paul Dresher in New Music Box

 

 

Saturday, October 25, 2014 at 8:00 pm

Firehouse Space,   246 Frost Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Electric Diamond 

Sandra Sprecher, composer and piano

Uros Rojko, composer and reeds

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin

 

 

 

Thursday October 30, 2014 at 7:30 pm

Denver, Colorado

Jewish Community Center Denver

and

Sunday November 2, 2014 at 4:00 pm

Dillon, Colorado

Lord of the Mountains Lutheran Church

 

Piano Trios by Ofer Ben-Amots, Joseph Dorfman and Dmitri Shostakovich

Karen Bentley Pollick, Violin

Jeffrey Watson,  Cello

Debra Ayers,  Piano

 

 

 

Thursday, November 20 at 7:30 pm

Palo Alto, California

CCRMA at Stanford University

Sapphire for violin and electronics (2010) by Preston Stahly with Video by Sheri Wills

Cluck Old Hen Variations for solo violin (2004) by David Jaffe with Video by Fred Kolouch

To The Skies for solo violin (2011) by Gediminas Gelgotas with Video by Evaldas Arlauskas

Fantasy Piece for solo violin (2014) by Hsueh-Yung Shen  World Premiere

Fiddle Faddle for solo violin and computer (2003) by Neil Rolnick with Video by John Jannone and The Night Bears   

Metaman for violin with digital sound & video (2009) by Charles Norman Mason with Video by Sheri Wills

Full concert video at CCRMA by David Kerr

 

 

Saturday, November 22, 2014 at 8:00 pm

Unitarian Church of Palo Alto, 505 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto, California 94306

and

Sunday, November 23, 2014 at 3:00 pm 

private house concert in Grass Valley, California

Albany Consort

Music for Violin & Harpsichord with Jonathan Salzedo

Alex Shapiro: Slip

Sheli Nan: Absinthe avec mes amis 

world premieres of Children’s Tales by Stuart Diamond and La Chasse Infernale by Jeffrey Harrington

 

 

 

 

Friday December 5  and Saturday December 6, 2014 at 8:00 pm

Paul Dresher Electro Acoustic Ensemble with Amy X Neuburg

Berkeley, California

Cal Performances at Zellerbach Playhouse on UC Berkeley Campus

New works by Paul Dresher, Lisa Bielawa, Jay Cloidt, Conrad Cummings, Fred Frith, Guillermo Galindo, Carla Kihlstedt, Ken Ueno, Pamela Z & Amy X Neuburg

Neuburg and Dresher commissioned 10 composers to create songs inspired by Diane Arbus’s Guggenheim grant application, American Rites, Manners and Customs. Arbus proposed to photograph everyday people, places, and routines, which to generations of the future “will have been so beautiful.” Each composer found or created a photograph or series of images, ranging from intimate self portraits to stark landscapes, that spoke to him or her in this regard, and used the images as inspiration for the music.

Review by Joshua Kosman in San Francisco Chronicle