2025—2026 SEASON
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SEPTEMBER 21 SYMPHONY SPACE Earplay: Music of Richard Festinger more info Very happy to be joining wonderful musicians Peggy Kampmeier, Noah Kay and the Jasper String Quartet in music of Richard Festinger. Peggy and I perform selections from “Letters and the Weather of Six Mornings: Eight Songs on Poems of Jane Cooper” for soprano and piano. |
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OCTOBER 3 & 4
MoMA Stephen Prina A Lick and a Promise|Performances more info This program pairs two works that underscore Stephen Prina’s recombinant approach to art. String Quartet for Six Players takes the first movement of Mozart’s String Quartet No. 15 in D Minor as source material. Prina introduces two significant modifications into Mozart’s composition: doubling the violin parts and incorporating the roll of a six-sided die. Influenced by the Fluxus movement, Prina applies chance and indeterminacy to sonata-allegro, one of the most fundamental forms of Western classical music. I will be performing The Way He Always Wanted It XI, a flute sextet using a melody programmed for player piano by the architect, painter, and composer Bruce Goff. |
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OCTOBER 19 TENRI INSTITUTE Washington Square Contemporary Music Society: Across Continents more info Six world premieres launch the WSCMS's 48th season. This longstanding series, run by my brilliant colleague Lou Karchin and the FAS Department of Music at NYU, is extremely dear to me. I will perform new works by fellow faculty member Joshua Biggs and alumna Jue Wang. The Washington Square Players will be under the direction of alumnus Luke Poeppel. |
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NOVEMBER 6 & 8
MOMA Stephen Prina: A Lick and a Promise|Performances more info International Contemporary Ensemble performs the World Premiere of Prina's titular work, A Lick and a Promise, scored for an ensemble of 16 musicians and voice. Beginning with an animated unison melody, the ensemble gradually moves toward maximum dispersal and individuation. Returning to unison, another melody is slowed down so that it is beyond recognition. Prina then restores this melody to its initial tempo in an a cappella version. |
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NOVEMBER 19 MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK Voices of Ascension Fall Gala more info I have the privilege and honor of curating the gala performance for one of New York City's premier choral institutions, Voices of Ascension. Music will span 5 centuries and feature a world premiere by Nico Muhly as well as a special appearance by countertenor and gala honoree Anthony Roth Costanzo. Come support this wonderful organization if you can! |
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DECEMBER 11-14 OBERLIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC New album recording I will spend this week in the company of some of my most cherished friends and collaborators — David Byrd-Marrow, Peter Evans, Ross Karre, Levy Lorenzo, Cory Smythe and Mazz Swift — making a disc of original works dedicated to our beloved and departed friend Ryan Muncy. I am composing a new work for the occasion. More to share when it's all in the can! |
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JANUARY 27 MILLER THEATRE Pop-Up Concert: Trinket Trinket, an offshoot quartet of the International Contemporary Ensemble, performs an exciting program of music by Wang Lu, Rick Burkhardt, Josh Modney and a song by the 12th century troubairitz Beatriz de Dia. Trinket is: Alice Teyssier, flutes and voice Modney, violin Michael Nicolas, cello Dan Lippel, guitars |
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FEBRUARY 22 FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY-CENTRAL BRANCH Bound Up in Love: Alice Teyssier and Filament more info Embodying a conscious shift of focus and intention away from established norms, Bound Up in Love centers the lives and work of female composers and musicians, and interrogates our collective understanding of women in music history and the ways we tell women’s stories through mythology. I am thrilled to collaborate again with the Philadelphia early music trio Filament, putting works by Isabella Leonarda, Barbara Strozzi, and Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre in dialogue with those of Henry Purcell and Tarquinio Merula, employing the juxtaposition of different national and compositional styles to cast a fresh light on the singular human conditions of love, grief, longing, and motherhood. Bound Up in Love creates space to tell ancient stories in a new way. |
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MARCH 1-4 ADELAIDE FESTIVAL Perle Noire: Meditations on Joséphine more info coming soon Tyshawn Sorey, Julia Bullock and members of International Contemproary Ensemble reunite for the Australian premiere of Perle Noire. I look forward to a return to my country of birth, and hope to see some of my friends in Adelaide! |
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MARCH 11 ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM The Shape of Forgetting: Call For___ Premieres more info The International Contemporary Ensemble returns to Roulette to celebrate the World Premieres of this season’s Call For___ composers. Each year, two early-career artists are commissioned for a new work to be premiered at one of the Ensemble’s events during an upcoming concert season. The selected artists receive workshop and rehearsal opportunities with the Ensemble’s musicians throughout the process, as well as mentorship and support for documentation. This year’s composers are Lester St. Louis and Camila Agosto, whose works will be debuted alongside Paul Novak’s seven dreams about my body, one of the works that received a 2025 BMI Composer Award. |
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MARCH 27 NYU PAULSON Morton Feldman's For Philip Guston more info For Morton Feldman's 100th birthday, a series of events commemorating his lasting legacy on the West Village and the world of abstract art will include this performance of For Philip Guston with pianist Manuel Laufer Fair and percussionist Kelsey Choi. |
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APRIL 6-10 OBERLIN CONSERVATORY Dreaming: Composing While Black more info coming soon Excited to return to my alma mater for a weeklong residency, culminating in a concert featuring members of the International Contemporary Ensemble in collaboration with members of Oberlin’s Contemporary Music Ensemble in a program of large-scale works conducted by Tim Weiss. This collaboration celebrates Oberlin & the Ensemble’s shared history as well as the rich musical connections fostered at Oberlin. Will be a joy to sing Courtney Bryan's Dreaming: Freedom Songs in this wonderful place. |
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APRIL 25 BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HALL WSCMS: New works, in honor of Lenka Hlavkova (1974-2023) The spring Washington Square Contemporary Music Series concert this year is dedicated to the memory of musicologist Lenka Hlavkova, who was sadly killed in a terrorist shooting in Prague in 2023. The concert will comprise 7 works for soprano and various combinations of violin, cello, and piano, commissioned for the event, and I will be singing alongside delightful singers Laura Strickling and Marissa Karchin. I will be thrilled to premiere works by Nina Young and David Sanford. |
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APRIL 28
MILLER THEATRE POP UP Alice Teyssier::La Maupin more info coming soon La Maupin is an unconventional miniature-opera project, loosely based on the life and exploits of the 17th-century gender-bending, queer opera singer and swordswoman Julie d’Aubigny, who was known as Mademoiselle de Maupin. In the mythology surrounding her life, she is said to have seduced a young girl, escaping with her by planting the body of a dead nun, and becoming a fugitive of the law; she is also said to have prevailed in a duel in which she was taken for a man, only to nurse her wounded opponent back to health; beyond all this, she premiered numerous roles on the operatic stage, as a soprano in her youth and as a bas-dessus (contralto) in her later years. She lived only to be 33 years of age, having retired to a convent. I will present my new work La Maupin alongside Michael Weyandt (baritone), Peter Evans (trumpet) and Ben Katz (harpsichord). |
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MAY 15-16
ICEBERG NEW MUSIC New Project TBA more info I return to ICEBERG New Music this spring to create a new dinner-theater opera with some dear friends. The whole situation is wrapped in mystery, so I won't reveal too much here... Come out to find out! |
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JUNE 3 PIONEER WORKS Being & Becoming + Voices more info coming soon Peter Evans' band Being & Becoming is joined once more by a trio of multi-hyphenate vocalists for a special show at Pioneer Works. |