Midday Music: Quarter-tone piano works
Charles Ives – Three Quarter-tone Pieces for Two Pianos (with Jack Yarbrough)
Tui St. George Tucker – Little Pieces for Quartertone Piano
Jack will also perform Georg Friedrich Haas’s “Hommage à Josef Matthias Hauer”.
12:30pm
B20, Lincoln Hall, Cornell University
Free admission.
Tui St. George Tucker @ 100
Thomas Feng gives the premiere performance of Tui St. George Tucker's contrapuntal tour-de-force, Ave Verum. An evening-length work unfolding in three large parts, Ave Verum interweaves an ambitious set of variations on an original hymn with traditional chorales and Jazz-Age Broadway songs – a tapestry-like microcosm of the composer's unique musical world.
Part of a two-day celebration of Tui St. George Tucker’s centenary, at Appalachian State University. Full schedule and more information available here.
The concert will be livestreamed here. Concert also includes two of Tucker’s choral works, performed by Springhouse Farm Choir, an ensemble she herself once directed.
Music of the Americas
Music of the Americas
Skaneateles Festival Orchestra; Nicholas Hersh, cond.
Music by Alberto Ginastera, Gabriela Lena Frank, Arturo Marquez, George Gershwin, and James P. Johnson
Saturday, Aug. 3, 8pm
Westhill High School, Syracuse, NY
Maryanne Amacher's "Petra"
Thomas Feng and Jack Yarbrough present Maryanne Amacher's cyberpunk-inspired piano duo, Petra, in a new realization based on the composer's archival materials.
Morton Feldman – Two Pianos (1957)
Maryanne Amacher – Petra (1991)
The Music of Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru with LARAAJI and sinonó
Mississippi Records & Dada Strain Present:
An album release celebration for
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru's "Souvenirs"
&
"la espalda y su punto radiante" by sinonó
(Isabel Crespo Pardo, Lester St. Louis, Henry Fraser)
Featuring the piano of Thomas Feng
and very special guest LARAAJI
Wednesday, March 13
St Mark's Church on the Bowery, NYC
Doors: 6:30 pm
$20 adv / $25 doors
Midday Music at CU Music: Laura Cetilia's "layers, not liquid"
Laura Cetilia’s “layers, not liquid”, a new work composed for 2 pianos, 2 cellos, and video projection.
With Laura Cetilia, Hannah Soren, and Jack Yarbrough.
Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru at 100
A two-day symposium (Nov. 30-Dec. 1) celebrating the music and life of the legendary Ethiopian composer, pianist, and nun, Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru. The events will include panel discussions about Emahoy’s life and archive, and presentations of Emahoy’s music (some never yet performed) in live concert performances, and from her upcoming record Souvenirs. All events will be free and open to the public, and hosted on Cornell’s campus.
Nov. 30: Emahoy’s organ works; a panel discussion about Emahoy’s archive; listening party for Souvenirs
Dec. 1: a panel discussion about Emahoy’s life and family; a piano recital featuring works by Emahoy and Chopin
Celebrating 100 Years of Emahoy's Music
Honored to join in the centenary celebrations for Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru, for the benefit of the Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Music Foundation. More information here.
Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru: Wagaye, Don’t Cry Anymore; Quo Vadis; Grande Valzer Improvisata
After a storm at night: Music for baritone and microtonal keyboards
Joining Jeff Gavett and David Friend for works by Taylor Brook, Eve Beglarian, and Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Shawn Jaeger, and mannfishh for baritone and two microtonal keyboards.
$20 suggested admission; students and artists pay what you wish.
You Are A Root
My recording of the terrific new piece Eve Beglarian wrote for me was used in performances of You Are a Root. More information below:
You Are A Root is a pluridisciplinary performance work combining dance, theatre, visual arts and music. This project, inspired by mycorrhizal networks, explores the interconnectedness of human society. You Are A Root poses the question, how can we react constructively after a catastrophe?
Rachmaninoff's Circle: Xak Bjerken studio recital
Ivan Wyschnegradsky – Étude sur le carré magique sonore
Piano students of Xak Bjerken present works of the Rachmaninoff/Scriabin coterie.
Revelations: New Works for Piano
Eve Beglarian: An Unearthly Booty (2023; world premiere)
James Newton: The Revelation Diptych (2010; world premiere)
Kurt Rohde: circling/revealing (2018-22; world premiere)
Sam Wu: Aria (2021; world premiere of version for piano)
Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Free admission.
Josh Biggs premiere with Cornell Wind Symphony
My concerto debut, premiering my dear friend Josh Biggs’s “spool” for piano and wind orchestra.
For more information, click here.
Lecture recital by Brian Sengdala
Father Mine – Bosba Panh
with Brian Sengdala, baritone
Dither plays Laurie Spiegel's "Patchwork"
Dither performs from my transcription of Laurie Spiegel’s “Patchwork”, among other pieces from her album The Expanding Universe.
More information here.
Cornell Festival Chamber Orchestra
Joining the annual Cornell Festival Chamber Orchestra for premieres by Michele Cheng and María Bulla.
Ensemble X
Milton Babbitt – Semi-Simple Variations
Juri Seo – More Semi-Simple Variations, Intermezzo, and Fugue on a Theme of Milton Babbitt (with Jack Yarbrough)
A concert curated by Elizabeth Ogonek, featuring different approaches to lyricism and instrumental vocality. Program also includes works by Matthew Kaner, more music by Juri Seo, and Toru Takemitsu.
Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Free admission.
richard valitutto presents: muffled present, absent traces
Richard Valitutto plays Sarah Hennies’s hour-long work for prepared piano, SOVT [Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract] (2017); Thomas Feng’s trace of hope (variations); and Linda Catlin Smith’s Thought and Desire.
More information here.
Quo Vadis?: The Life and Music of Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru
Thomas Feng (DMA candidate in Music) honors the extraordinary life and music of Ethiopian composer and nun, Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru. Biography, cultural history, original archival research, and performances of three of Emahoy's compositions interweave into an expansive lecture-recital presentation, in commemoration of the composer's upcoming 99th birthday.
Louilarpprasert's "Light Music and Classics"
House concert of works by dear friend Piyawat Louilarpprasert, with the Tacet(i) Ensemble.
Dino (2022) for trombone and cello
Tremor of Love (2019) for guitar and piano
Selections from 7 Constructions (2014-15) for solo piano
Tikatikatok (2018) for clarinet, saxophone, and piano
Midday Music: Short Stories for Cats and Keys
I’m playing a magical-realist cat-themed recital.
Daniel Pesca: “A Pair of Cats” from Watercolors
Obadiah Wright: Short Stories for Cats and Keys (premiere)
Hiromi: The Tom and Jerry Show
DMA Recital
Julia Perry – Prelude for Piano
Donald Martino – Fantasies and Impromptus
Jessie Marino – Slender Threads (Homage to Julia Amanda Perry)
Adolphus Hailstork – Wounded Children
Celebration of Song
with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, featuring guest soloist Lucy Fitz Gibbon.
Music by Augusta Read Thomas, Joseph Canteloube, and Gustav Mahler. (My first Mahler!)
Saturday, March 12, 7:30pm
Ford Hall, Ithaca College
A Voice of One’s Own
A Voice of One’s Own: The Cornell Voice and Piano Programs Celebrate International Women’s Day
I’m pleased to be playing with singers from the Cornell voice program on works by Lili Boulanger, Amy Beach, and Pauline Hall, as well as performing two solo pieces. by Louise Talma.
Tuesday, March 8, 8pm
Barnes Hall, Cornell University
Midday Music – Extrovert Music by Introvert People
Louise Talma – Pastoral Prelude
Louise Talma – Alleluia in Form of a Toccata
Donald Martino – Fantasies and Impromptus
In celebration of his birthday, introvert pianist Thomas Feng plays outward-facing works by two fellow American introverts, Louise Talma and Donald Martino.
Duo recital with richard valitutto
Errollyn Wallen: The Girl in My Alphabet (1990)
Rebecca Saunders: choler (2004)
Linda Catlin Smith: Velvet (2007)
Claude Debussy: En Blanc et Noir (1915)
Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
More information forthcoming.
Midday Music: Duets for Two Hands
Vivian Fine: Double Variations (1982)
Ann Southam: Glass Houses No. 8 (1981)
Conlon Nancarrow: Two Canons for Ursula (1988)
B20, Lincoln Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
More information here.
TIMESPANS 2021: Virtutes Occultae
Taylor Brook – Virtutes Occultae (world premiere of live version)
With pianists Laura Barger, Ning Yu, Isabelle O’Connell, Cory Smythe, and Julia den Boer.