Celebrate New Years' Eve with the music of J.S. Bach - all six Brandenburg Concertos! Dinner and dessert, champagne and soft drinks. Tickets - $75
This chamber music arrangement—specially written for AMOC*—was first performed at The Met Cloisters in 2018 in the beautiful San Martín at Fuentidueña chapel. The New York Times called it “intimate, affecting and quietly rich with activism.” The piece, which celebrates Latin American poets and the voices of women, returns for a one-night-only engagement this holiday season at a different New York City landmark.
A rarely performed work, El Niño “ruminates on the notion that with the promise of new life, there is the equal threat of inexplicable violence and sacrifice,” said Bullock, “one of opera’s fastest-rising stars” (Vanity Fair), who curated the selections being performed.
The concert will take place at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $5-45 (choose-what-you-pay).
We are excited to announce our new choose-what-you-pay model, and if you would like to support this initiative, AMOC* is also offering reception tickets for $150+. Please contact info@runningamoc.org for more details.
EL NIÑO: NATIVITY RECONSIDERED
Music by John Adams
Libretto compilation by Peter Sellars
Musical selections by Julia Bullock
Musical arrangement by Christian Reif
Julia Bullock, soprano
Rachael Wilson, mezzo-soprano
Davóne Tines, baritone
Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor
Emi Ferguson, flute
Hassan Anderson, oboe
Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet
Alex Davis, bassoon
Priscilla Rinehart, horn
Conor Hanick, piano
John Arida, keyboard
Jonny Allen, percussion
Jordan Dodson, Guitar
Keir GoGwilt, Miranda Cuckson, Julia Choi, Curtis Stewart, Miran Kim, Ravenna Lipchik, Qianwen Shen, Lady Jess, violin
Zoë Martin-Doike, Carrie Frey, Tia Allen, Celia Hatton, viola
Coleman Itzkoff, Andrew Janss, Titilayo Ayangade, cello
Doug Balliett, Christopher Johnson, bass
Christian Reif, conductor
Schumann ‘6 Studies in Canon’ & Tchaikovsky Piano Trio, Op. 50
Violin: Yezu Woo
Cello: Coleman Itzkoff
Piano: Zhenni Li
Celebrated Nashville dance collective New Dialect joins forces with the acclaimed American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) for the must-see collaboration of the season. Featuring evocative choreography by former Batsheva member Bobbi Jene Smith, the compelling new dance and music work assembles some of the most notable talents of the rising generation — including acclaimed dancer-choreographer and New Dialect founder Banning Bouldin in her triumphant return to the stage.
Described as “rapt and raw” by the Los Angeles Times, Broken Theater imagines a group of artists wrestling with identity and purpose after their audience disappears. Lines between selfhood and the parts we play blur as the virtuosic cast of performers slip in and out of their expected roles: “dancers sing, singers dance, and instrumentalists do both” (The New Yorker).
AMOC, New Dialect, and Carolina Performing Arts partner to present the world premiere of Broken Theater, Bobbi Jene Smith’s newest work that melds live dance-theater, music, and cinematic beauty.
Broken Theater explores themes of power, love and trust in a threading together of dance-theater, music, and cinematic beauty. It presents a company caught in the theatrics of rehearsal. Company members, preparing for a show, perform music by Schubert, Bach, Connie Converse, and Pete Seeger, exquisitely curated and choreographed. But signals are crossed; the chain of command breaks down; the artists repeat, rebuild, and take apart the moment of performance.
BROKEN THEATER
Created and Directed by Bobbi Jene Smith
Choreographed and Performed by:
Banning Bouldin
Julia Eichten
Vinson Fraley
Jonathan Fredrickson
Keir GoGwilt
Coleman Itzkoff
Jesse Kovarsky
Yiannis Logothetis
Or Schraiber
Bobbi Jene Smith
Mouna Soualem
Produced by AMOC* in association with New Dialect.
Broken Theater is a co-commission between La Mama, MassMOCA, AMOC* and New Dialect.
BIBERViolin Sonata in E minorJ.S. BACHViolin Sonata in A major, BWV 1015VERACINIViolin Sonata Accademiche in D minor, Op. 2, No. 12TARTINIThird movement (Andante. Allegro. Adagio.) from Violin Sonata in G minor, Il trillo del Diavolo, arr. for solo violinROYERLes Marches des Scythes (Fièrement), for solo harpsichordLECLAIRViolin Sonata in D major, Op. 9, No. 3, TombeauCORELLIViolin Sonata in D minor, Op. 5, No. 12, La Folia
A rising star of historically informed performance, Rachell Ellen Wong brings rare expressive nuance and refreshing vitality to her famously soft-spoken instrument of choice, the Baroque violin. Wong is a recipient of a prestigious 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant, the only early-music specialist recognized in the award’s history. In her Cal Performances debut, Wong offers a program that includes a signature work, Biber’s Sonata No. 5; a solo arrangement of music from Tartini’s fiery The Devil’s Trill; and dazzling sonatas by Corelli, Leclair, Veracini, and Bach, accompanied by harpsichordist David Belkovski and cellist Coleman Itzkoff.
This performance is made possible, in part, by Nadine Tang and an Anonymous Patron Sponsor.
Run time for this concert is approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes, including intermission, but not including any possible encores.
Directed by the 2020 Avery Fisher Grant recipient violinist Rachell Ellen Wong and harpsichordist David Belkovski, Twelfth Night is an award-winning early music ensemble for the modern world. They will open Apex Concerts' Twelfth Season with a fascinating program titled From London to Dresden.
Source:: https://events.unr.edu/event/apex_concerts_twelfth_night
RUCKUS and EMI FERGUSON
Fly the Coop: Bach Sonatas and Preludes
Music Mondays
Advent Lutheran Church
RUCKUS and EMI FERGUSON
Fly the Coop: Bach Sonatas and Preludes
Shriver Hall, Baltimore, MD
RUCKUS and EMI FERGUSON
Fly the Coop: Bach Sonatas and Preludes
FIU Wertheim Performing Arts Center in Miami
Pianists Vicky Chow, Marilyn Nonken, Adam Tendler, Joan Forsyth, Emily Tong, and The Bond Trio (Pauline Kim Harris, violin; Chieh-Fan Yiu, viola; Coleman Itzkoff, cello) and others will pair Glass’s work with music that responds to the space he created. Homages, reactions – Ann Southam’s Glass Houses, Victoria Bond’s “Dancing on Glass”, Jonathan Dawe’s “Glass Harmonica” – plus works by Charles Wuorinen, Nico Muhly and Steve Reich.
“…what you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We’re not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages” – Philip Glass
From the East Village in the 1960s, composer Philip Glass turned the music world upside-down. Minimalist art and music reacted against the sheer difficulty of modernist practice, its density and complexity. Glass Houses: Celebrating Philip Glass at 85 both celebrates and explores the new space his work opened up – a space that brought new musical challenges.
Five new music pianists will pair a Glass piece with music composed in response – some inspired by and in synch with Glass’s work, some in reaction. The program will include Glass’s “Etudes”, “Metamorphoses”, and “In Memory of Charles Wuorinen” plus works by John Dawe, Ann Southam, Charles Wuorinen and Steve Reich.
7pm Prelude and performance by young artists from the Third Street Music Settlement School.
The main program begins at 7.30pm.
A reception with the artists follows the concert.
In Performance: American Modern Opera Company responds to 'DEMENTED WORDS Jenny Holzer'
Please join us for a musical performance by AMOC (American Modern Opera Company) inspired by Jenny Holzer’s long anticipated exhibition ‘DEMENTED WORDS’ at Hauser & Wirth in New York City.
“Many in the arts these days talk a big game about interdisciplinary collaboration, but few walk the walk like AMOC” – The New York Times
Spanning the entire first floor of the gallery’s 22nd Street location, AMOC will present a powerhouse lineup of performers: countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo; violinist Keir GoGwilt; cellist Coleman Itzkoff; bass-baritone Davóne Tines; and guest percussionist Sae Hashimoto.
The company will create an immersive concert experience around Holzer's most recent works, engaging with the artist's unique ability to harness the power of words.
This event is free, however, due to limited capacity, reservations are required.
Caramoor’s lush Sunken Garden provides a fitting setting to clear the mind and nourish the spirit with solo cello music performed by Evnin Rising Stars alum Coleman Itzkoff, who has been hailed by The New Yorker for his “flawless technique and keen musicality.” Moderated by a mindfulness professional, the session explores the healing nature of sound and silence, leaving you feeling relaxed and peaceful.
THE CELLO PLAYER is a dance-music piece excavating the
complexity of ancient relationships: the tortured conception of
friendship as a messy amalgam of love, hatred, insecurity, and
neediness. Each performer attempts to share their tales, the
scarring curiosity of the unknown, and the haunting sensations that
come as a consequence of their actions.
Sponsor : NYSCA DanceForce
“AMOC, the 2022 Music Director, is not exactly an opera company but a remarkable collective of composers, singers, stage directors, choreographers, dancers, and instrumentalists who are among the brightest and freshest artistic voices to emerge in the last few years. We will make our first Ojai acquaintance with numerous members of AMOC as well as welcome back such Festival artists as Julia Bullock, Davóne Tines, and Jay Campbell. We are in for a great adventure,” added Mr. Guzelimian. “But first things first. I am excited about the more immediate 2020 Ojai Music Festival created by Music Director Matthias Pintscher and Artistic Director Chad Smith. I know that these wonderful artistic thinkers have conjured an exceptional musical journey, both true to the spirit of the Festival and also expanding its possibilities.”
In May of 2022 we offer Festival Week, a celebration of J.S. Bach’s music alongside contemporaries and later composers. The venue is Boulder’s historic First Congregational Church. The wood floors and tiered stage offer a warm and clear acoustic to experience Bach’s complex counterpoint.
Principal players and soloists include top prize winners from Boulder International Chamber Music Competition—ART OF DUO, artists hailing from the stages of Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Amsterdam, and London.
During the four days of the festival there will be daily lectures covering the repertoire for each program, two masterclasses (vocal and instrumental), an art exhibit, restaurant discounts, wine in the lobby, and four distinct programs that explore virtually every genre in which J.S. Bach composed, in addition to fascinating and beautiful works by Händel, Telemann, Corelli, Isabella Leonarda, Legrenzi, Castello, Clara Schumann, W.A. Mozart, and Gabriela Lena Frank.
Genres represented by J.S. Bach include solo suite, trio sonata, concerto, cantata, motet, organ chorale prelude, orchestral suite, and are contextualized by the remarkable work of his senior, Johann Christoph Bach.
Presented in partnership with Ojai Music Festival, LA Dance Project, and Monday Evening Concerts. Details TBA.
Hosted at Wild Birds Brooklyn, musicians and New Yorkers united for a night of Jazz music to raise funds for Razom’s Emergency Response to provide urgent help and support in face of an extreme and unforeseen situation in Ukraine. Today, the sovereign nation of Ukraine has to deal with the most horrendous and catastrophic emergency – a brutal invasion. Razom is responding to this by providing critical medical supplies and amplifying the voices of Ukrainians.
A Recital of early-19th century music for cello and fortepiano with the fabulous Hilda Huang, given in partial fulfillment of Juilliard’s AD program.
Juilliard’s Morse Hall, 5:30 PM
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Piano & Cello, Op.102, No.2
Felix Mendelssohn, Sonata for Piano & Cello, op. 45
Clara Schumann, Three Romances for Violin (arr. cello) and Piano, op. 22
Fly The Coop! Bach Sonatas and Preludes
Our debut album, a collaboration with flutist Emi Ferguson, is a joyous, kaleidoscopic romp through some of Bach’s most playful and transcendent works. The album features new arrangements of Bach’s Flute Sonatas and Keyboard Preludes, orchestrated for baroque flute and the forces of Ruckus that include theorbos, baroque guitars, baroque bassoon, cello, viola da gamba, harpsichord, organ, bass, and the occasional banjo.
We explode Bach’s bass lines into a rainbow of textures and colors, continually shifting like light over the landscape as Ferguson’s flute lines dance above. Contrasting the three flute sonatas on the album are new arrangements of a variety of Bach’s keyboard preludes, with selections ranging from the beloved Well Tempered Clavier, to alternate movements from keyboard suites that are rarely performed.
Welcome to 18th century Venice! Featuring: Twelfth Night Baroque Ensemble and a baroque-inspired menu.
Twelfth Night Baroque Ensemble
18th century inspired food and cocktails
Gothic church
Historically performance specialists
David Belkovski - Harpsichord and direction
Rachell Ellen Wong - Violino Concertante
Twelfth Night Baroque Orchestra
A collaboration with flutist Emi Ferguson, Fly the Coop is a joyous, kaleidoscopic romp through some of Bach’s most playful and transcendent works. The program features new arrangements of Bach’s Flute Sonatas and Keyboard Preludes, orchestrated for baroque flute and the forces of Ruckus that include theorbos, baroque guitars, baroque bassoon, cello, viola da gamba, harpsichord, organ, bass, and the occasional banjo.
Ruckus explodes Bach’s bass lines into a rainbow of textures and colors, continually shifting like light over the landscape as Ferguson’s flute lines dance above. Contrasting the three flute sonatas are new arrangements of a variety of Bach’s keyboard preludes, with selections ranging from the beloved Well Tempered Clavier to alternate movements from keyboard suites that are rarely performed.
Emi Ferguson, flute; Clay Zeller-Townson, baroque bassoon; Coleman Itzkoff, baroque cello; Paul Holmes Morton, theorbo/baroque guitar/banjo; Doug Balliett, bass; Adam Cockerham, theorbo/baroque guitar; Elliott Figg, harpsichord/organ
Fly the Coop
Bach: Prelude in G Major (after BWV 884)
Bach: Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034
Bach: Prelude in E Minor (after BWV 855)
Bach: Sonata in E Major, BWV 1035
Bach: Prelude in G Minor (after BWV 847a)
Bach: Prelude in C Minor (after BWV 999)
Bach: Prelude in C Major Sonata in C Major, BWV 1033
Bach: Prelude in E Major (after BWV 815a)
Ruckus is a baroque band with a fresh, visceral approach to early music. The ensemble’s debut earned widespread critical acclaim: “achingly delicate one moment, incisive and punchy the next” (The New York Times), “superb” (Opera News). Ruckus’ core members form a continuo group, the baroque equivalent of a rhythm section: guitars, keyboards, cello, bassoon and bass. The ensemble aims to fuse the early-music movement’s questing, creative spirit with the grit, groove and jangle of American roots music, creating a unique sound of “rough-edged intensity” (The New Yorker).
Ruckus’ first album, an acclaimed collaboration with Emi Ferguson of Bach Sonatas and Preludes, debuted at #2 on the Billboard Charts.
Through an annual residency in Stamford, Vermont, Ruckus is continually developing new programs. Current programs in development include Holy Manna, a revisionary look at American Hymnody through Shape-Note Music, and a recital featuring Davóne Tines.