2009-2010 Concert Season
(Lisa Bielawa will spend this season composing in Italy, as a 2009 Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition.)

Saturday, September 5, 2009 PARIS
With John Zorn
8:00pm, Jazz à la Villette, Grande Halle
Lisa Bielawa performs in music by John Zorn. Click here for more info.

Thursday-Sunday, September 24-27, 2009 NEW YORK, NY
Kafka Songs in Catherine Gallant/DANCE's 20th Century Dance Party
8:00pm, Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer St.
Violinist-vocalist Courtney Orlando will perform "Finally" from Lisa Bielawa's Kafka Songs as part of this unique dance performance. Click here for more info.

Sunday, October 18, 2009 NEW YORK, NY
The New Yorker Festival
Time and Location TBA
Lisa Bielawa participates in a panel on "radical opera," featuring a short live performance of the work in progress she is writing while in Rome for the string quartet Brooklyn Rider and herself as soprano soloist. Click here for more info.

Sunday, November 15, 2009 NORMANDY, FRANCE
With the Philip Glass Ensemble
4:00pm, Théâtre des Arts, Festival Automne en Normandie 2009
Lisa Bielawa performs Glass' Music in Twelve Parts with the Philip Glass Ensemble. Click here for more info.

Saturday, February 20, 2010 HARRISBURG, PA
Market Square Concerts
8:00pm, Market Square Church, 20 South 2nd St.
The world premiere of Lisa Bielawa's work commissioned by Market Square Concerts, which she is writing while in Rome, for Brooklyn Rider and herself as soprano soloist. Click here for more info.

Thursday-Saturday, March 4-6, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Other Minds Festival
Times TBA; The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California St.
Lisa Bielawa will sing Hurry at the Other Minds Festival, which will also feature a performance of her Kafka Songs by violinist-vocalist Carla Kihlstedt. Click here for more info.

Saturday, May 15, 2010 EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS
With the Philip Glass Ensemble
8:15pm; Muziekcentrum Frits Philips
Lisa Bielawa sings with the Philip Glass Ensemble in a live-to-film performance of Glass' Koyaanisqatsi. Click here for more info.

Sunday, May 16, 2010 CAMBRIDGE, MA
Cambridge Symphony Orchestra
4:00pm; Greater Boston Vineyard Church, 170 Rindge Avenue
The Cambridge Symphony Orchestra has commissioned a new work from Lisa Bielawa, which will be premiered as part of this concert. Click here for more info.

Saturday, May 29, 2010 ROME
Performance of music by Lisa Bielawa
Time TBA, American Academy in Rome, Via Angelo Masina 5
Brooklyn Rider and Lisa Bielawa will perform the new work she composes in Rome while at the Academy as one of the 2009 Rome Prize winners. Click here for more info.

2008-2009 Concert Season

Tuesday, November 4, 2008 NEW YORK
Outside the Box
6:00pm, Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South
From 6 pm to midnight on election night, “Outside the Box: An Election Night Concert of Free Improvisation,” curated by Lisa Bielawa and presented by Judson Memorial Church will feature performances by more than a dozen world-renowned musicians specializing in improvisation in various styles, plus artists working in other forms – dance, visual art, and poetry – known for their collaboration with musicians. In San Francisco, violinist-vocalist Carla Kihlstedt will curate and perform in a similar concert, which will be viewable in New York (and vice versa) on site via live video feed. Click here for more info.

Friday, November 14, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO
Magik*Magik Orchestra collaborates with 2 Foot Yard
7:30pm, The Swedish American Hall, 2174 Market Street
San Francisco's Magik*Magik Orchestra (Benjamin Shwartz, conductor; Carla Kihlstedt, violin, voice; Marika Hughes, cello, voice; and Shahzad Ismaily, drums, percussion, guitar) will perform the West Coast premiere of The Trojan Women for string orchestra, as well as "This Time" from Kafka Songs. Click here for more info.

Sunday, January 25, 2009 NEW YORK
Presented by the Brooklyn Philharmonic at the Brooklyn Museum
2:00pm, The Brooklyn Museum: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 200 Eastern Parkway
Music by Lisa Bielawa, Eve Beglarian, Carla Kihlstedt, and Bora Yoon.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 BOSTON
Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) Club Concert
7:00pm, Moonshine Room, 209 Columbus Ave.
Lisa Bielawa hosts an informal concert of chamber works. Club Café's full menu and bar are available throughout each performance. Doors open at 6pm. Click here for more info.

Friday, February 13, 2009 NEW YORK
CHANCE ENCOUNTER: A 35-minute piece in, and about, transient public space, with texts overheard in transient public space.
6:50pm and 8:05pm, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
With soprano Susan Narucki and members of The Knights; a project of Creative Capital with additional funding from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Read the texts here

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 BOSTON
Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) Club Concert
7:00pm, Moonshine Room, 209 Columbus Ave.
Lisa Bielawa hosts an informal concert of chamber works, this time featuring 8 of her own Synopses for solo instruments, each 3-5 minutes long with 6-word titles, written specifically for various BMOP musicians. They include Synopsis #5: He Figures Out What Clouds Mean for trumpet; Synopsis #12: What I Did Over Summer Vacation for clarinet; Synopsis #3: I Think We Should Tell Her for flute; Synopsis #10: I Know This Room So Well for english horn; Synopsis #11: It Takes One to Know One for percussion; Synopsis #8: Most Rumors About Him Are True for piccolo; Synopsis #7: Where's the Guy With the Directions? for violin; and the world premiere of Synopsis #15 for solo harp. Club Café's full menu and bar are available throughout each performance. Doors open at 6pm. Click here for more info.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 NEW YORK
Performance of A Collective Cleansing by Lisa Bielawa
8:00pm, The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue
Lisa Bielawa performs Berio's Sequenza III, Gregorio Allegri's Miserere Mei (Psalm 51), Gordon Beeferman's West of Winter, the world premiere of a work by Filippo Perocco, and her own piece, A Collective Cleansing.

Thursday, May 7, 2009 NEW YORK
Bruce Levingston in Concert: The Sacred & The Surreal
7:30pm, St. Bartholomew's Church, Park and 51st St.
Bruce Levingston will perform the world premiere of a new work, Lisa Bielawa's Portrait-Elegy for solo piano, as well as the New York premiere of Keeril Makan's Three Surreal Shorts performed with a screening of Red Bucket Films’ Buttons, Luis Buñuel’s Menjant Garotes (Eating Sea Urchins), 1930, and Salvador Dalí Home Movie, 1954, plus the world premiere of a new work for piano and organ by Lisa Bielawa and Keeril Makan (with William Trafka, guest artist).

Friday, May 22, 2009 BOSTON
Premiere of In medias res, a concerto for orchestra
8:00pm, Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, director

Friday, May 29, 2009 YEREVAN, ARMENIA
Performance of Lisa Bielawa's Double Violin Concerto by the Yerevan Ensemble of Soloists.

Sunday, June 14, 2009 OJAI, CA
5:30pm, Libbey Bowl at the Ojai Music Festival, Part II of the Marathon Finale, 205 E. Ojai Ave.
Carla Kihlstedt will perform Lisa Bielawa's Kafka Songs. The concert will also music by Stephen Hartke, David Rakowski, and John Cage.

Thursday, June 25, 2009 SEATTLE
7:30pm, TownMusic: All Premieres, Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Ave.
World premiere of a new work by Lisa Bielawa for Joshua Roman, cellist, and chamber ensemble.

Sunday, July 26-Saturday, August 1, 2009 BENNINGTON, VT
Lisa Bielawa will be in residence at The Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East.

Thursday, August 13, 2009 NEW YORK
The National Flute Association Annual Convention, Marriott Marquis Hotel, 1535 Broadway
Lisa Bielawa's new piece for solo flute will be premiered during the competition.

2007-2008 Concert Season

Friday, September 28, 2007 NEW YORK
CHANCE ENCOUNTER: A 35-minute piece in, and about, transient public space, with texts overheard in transient public space. Premiere: Friday, September 28, Two performances, at 1:30 & 5:00pm; Seward Park, outside the Seward Park Library, on East Broadway at Jefferson St.; with soprano Susan Narucki and members of The Knights; a project of Creative Capital with additional funding from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Musicians: Tim Albright, Kyle Armbrust, Mike Atkinson, Christina Courtin, Gareth Flowers, Josh Frank, Adam Hollander, Colin Jacobsen, Eric Jacobsen, Anthony McGill, Alex Sopp, Lance Suzuki Read the texts here

Sunday, September 30, 2007 BOSTON
Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) presents Carla Kihlstedt in a celebration of Lisa's Tzadik CD release, A Handful of World.
7:00pm, Moonshine Room, 209 Columbus Ave.
A proper Boston celebration of Lisa's new CD release, which features the inimitable violinist-vocalist Carla Kihlstedt playing selections from the Kafka Songs. Carla will appear as soloist with BMOP in Lisa's new Double Violin Concerto on March 29, 2008.  Club Café's full menu and bar are available throughout each performance. Doors open at 6pm.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 NEW YORK
Voices of Ascension, Dennis Keene, director
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, 7:30pm
Bielawa's Lamentations for a City, plus works by Bach, Verdi, Schoenberg, Schumann, Ginastera, Schubert, and the two other winners of the Sorel Medallion, Leanna Kirchoff and Christina Whitten.
FOR PRICES AND TO ORDER TICKETS CLICK HERE

Sunday, November 11, 2007 WELS, AUSTRIA
Music Unlimited Festival
Lisa Bielawa, voice
A Collective Cleansing

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 BOSTON
Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) Club Concert
7:00pm, Moonshine Room, 209 Columbus Ave.
Lisa Bielawa hosts an informal concert of chamber works, including her own Synopsis #7: Where's the Guy with the Directions? for solo violin. As always, BMOP's exceptional musicians take the stage for this informal and interactive concert.  Club Café's full menu and bar are available throughout each performance. Doors open at 6pm. Click here for more info.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007 NEW HAVEN
CHANCE ENCOUNTER
Susan Narucki, soprano
Students of the Yale School of Music
Sprague Concert Hall lobby, 8pm

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 BOSTON
Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) Club Concert
7:00pm, Moonshine Room, 209 Columbus Ave.
Lisa Bielawa hosts an informal concert of chamber works, including two new Synopses (#8 & #9). Club Café's full menu and bar are available throughout each performance. Doors open at 6pm. Click here for more info.

Saturday, March 29, 2008 BOSTON
Double Violin Concerto
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, director; Colin Jacobsen, violin; Carla Kihlstedt, violin
Featuring three of Lisa Bielawa's closest collaborators, the Double Violin Concerto was commissioned by an enterprising group of individual music-lovers in Boston, and the Radcliffe Institute. Composer/Tuvan-style vocalist Ken Ueno will also appear, in a whole evening of concertos.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 NEW YORK
Double Violin Concerto
MATA Festival, in partnership with BMOP.
Brooklyn Lyceum The BMOP-MATA partnership, part of the Meet the Composer/ASOL Music Alive residency, enables the entire March 29 BMOP concert (see above) to come to NYC. For tickets and more information: MATA Festival.

Saturday, April 5, 2008 BRONX, NEW YORK
Five Boroughs Music Festival
4:00pm, Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, 4450 Fieldston Road
Baritone Jesse Blumberg, violinist Colin Jacobsen, and pianist Jocelyn Dueck will perform Lisa Bielawa's The Lay of the Love and Death, which they premiered at Alice Tully Hall in 2006. Click here for more info.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 BOSTON
Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) Club Concert
7:00pm, Moonshine Room, 209 Columbus Ave.
Lisa Bielawa hosts an informal concert of chamber works, including two new Synopses (#10 & #11). Club Café's full menu and bar are available throughout each performance. Doors open at 6pm. Click here for more info.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 NEW YORK
Sadie Rosales, soprano
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, 8:00pm
Hurry, plus works by Shostakovich and others.
Andrea Hallam, violin; Lance Suzuki, flute; Eric Jacobsen, cello; Anthony McGill, clarinet
Sadie Rosales, who performed and recorded Hurry with these players in April 2007, brings the piece to her Weill Recital Hall debut.

Saturday, June 7, 2008 NEW YORK
From 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' performed by The C4 Ensemble.
St. Joseph's Church, 404 East 87th Street, 8 pm

Monday, June 9, 2008 NEW YORK
Evelyne Luest, piano, and Joshua Roman, cello, perform Wait at Symphony Space as part of the New Music Champions Series, on a program that also includes works by Ned Rorem, Teddy Goldman, Dan Visconti, Joel Freidman, Elliott Carter, and Benjamin Britten.
Peter Norton Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia Hall, 7:30 pm

Thursday, July 3, 2008 YEREVAN, ARMENIA
unfinish'd, sent will be performed by the Yerevan Ensemble of Soloists and conductor Zaven Vardanyan, with Lisa Bielawa as the soloist.
Yerevan Chamber Music Hall

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 SALZBURG
Janus Ensemble will perform three winning pieces from their young composer competition, plus Lisa Bielawa's "Topos Nostalgia" from Chance Encounter, with Lisa Bielawa as the soprano. Part of Summer Studies for Jazz & Improvised Music Salzburg.
ARGEkultur, 8:30 pm