2019
Jan.
1/9
Gene premieres 'Everywhere in Chains' for piano quartet, as part of Composers Concordance 'Tick Tock ' concert at National Opera Center.
1/12
Joshua Thomas performs ‘Mysterious Restlessness’ for alto sax and Samplestra at the Navy Saxophone Symposium at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia.
1/18
Sound Liberation performs at The Delancey. Premiere of new compositions include, 'Granite' and ’The Caring Dead'. Other pieces include: Abandon-Burg II and God Dammit
Release of Noizepunk & BorisLove - Cello Lounge Volume 2 on Composers Concordance Records / Naxos.
1/20
Warren Nicholson performs ‘Sneyg’ for solo guitar at 'Different Drummer Books' in Burlington Ontario, Canada
1/25
Warren Nicholson performs ‘Sneyg’ for solo guitar St Andrew's Concert Series, Brantford Ontario, Canada
1/26
Pianist Jasna Popovic performs ‘Lacerations’ at Around the Piano World concert in Los Angeles, CA
1/31
'So It Goes' for brass quintet and Di.J. premiered by Manhattan Brass Quintet and GP as Di.J. as part of Composers Concordance and Project 142 'Brass Motion' concert at The DiMenna Center.
Feb.
2/4
Vladimir Gapontsev performs 'Wounds' for solo guitar as part of the 'Musical Bridge' concert series at Myaskovsky Hall in the Moscow Conservatory.
2/9
Premiere of a 15 minute excerpt from 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' for accordion and Di.J./Samplestra, with Rocco Jerry as part of Composers Concordance 'Silent Film Night Concert
2/14
Dan Auerbach performs 'Prelude' from 'Suite #1' and the solo violin piece 'Opposite Extremes of Compassion' at the College of Staten Island as part of From Russia With Love concert - Composers Now Festival.
22/16
The choral arrangement of Mark Kostabi’s 'Echoes Through the Ages’ performed at Teatro Secci in Terni, Italy, as part of 'Terni, 'Valentine fest’.'
2/17
The chorus and orchestra arrangement of Mark Kostabi’s 'I’m The Cat’ performed at Teatro Secci in Terni, Italy, as part of 'Terni, 'Valentine fest’.'
2/18
Recording music for the TV show Babylon Berlin in Berlin, Germany
2/22
Kai Schumacher premieres 'Reinventions Revisited' piano concerto, for piano, vibes, drums set, Di.J., E. gtr., and string orchestra with the Duisburger Philharmoniker Strings at Philharmonie Mercatorhalle in Duisburg Germany
2/24
Concert at Gemeindemuseum in Absam, Austria with the Gene Pritsker Trio, feat. Clemens Rofner on bass and Simon Springer on drums. An all GP compositions concert.
2/25
Concert at Cafe Museum in Passau, Germany with the Gene Pritsker Trio, feat. Clemens Rofner on bass and Simon Springer on drums. An all GP compositions concert.
2/25
Pianist Jasna Popovic performs ‘Lacerations’ at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
2/26
Workshop at Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität in Vienna, Austria
2/27
Concert at the club Reigen in Vienna, Austria with the Gene Pritsker Trio, feat. Clemens Rofner on bass and Simon Springer on drums. An all GP compositions concert.
March
3/1
Eclectic Music eXtravaganza performs at Sowieso Neukölln, Berlin. A concert featuring many compostions by Gene including the premiere of 'Scatalism', 'You’re Hopeless When The Sun Goes Away II', 'Butterflies' and 'Splice'.
3/17
Performing duo music with saxophonist/composer Daniel Schnyder at L’argot uptown.
3/24
Gene & The Trumpets at L’argot
Featuring Franz Hackl, Wayne J. du Maine, Peter Oswald. Premiere of 'Fanfare For The Unfair' for 3 trumpets as well as performances of 'Cauldron of Unsatisfied Hatred ', 'Difficult to Imagine Nothingness', 'Canon - Speak Your Mind III', 'Blues Head & 5 Solo'.
3/28
The CompCord Big Band performs 'Mozart's step-Grandmother Excerpted' for trumpet and big band with soloist Peter Oswald. As part of Composers Concordance presents CompCord Big Band concert at The Bitter End. Also 2 big band arrangements Gene did for big of music by Aaron Alter and Sebastian Pritsker
3/29
Quart@art performs 'Seem To Bemoan Their Imprisonment’ at Alte Schmiede Kunstverein (Old blacksmith art club) in Vienna, Austria.
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April
4/3
New Zealand Meets New York
Co presented by Composers Concordance
Michiko Studios - Stage 1
Gene will premiere 'Illusions Yet Again' and 'Chants ReMix'
4/5
Lara Díaz and Marcos Martín Martín perform my piece 'Ineffably Still’at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Salamanca, in Salamanca, Spain as part of “Concierto de bolsillo”
4/5
Quart@art performs 'Seem To Bemoan Their Imprisonment’ at Färberwirt Bad Zell in Bad Zell, Austria.
4/11
The Austrian band Hi5 performs Gene's 'Sometime Sublime' and Gene & Simon Springer perform 'Encomium' at The Well in Brooklyn
4/12
Hi5 performs ‘Sometime Sublime‘ and Gene & Simon Springer perform 'Encomium' as part of 'Composers with Drinks’ presented by Composers Concordance and Access Contemporary Music at Michiko Studios - Stage 1
4/14
Sound Liberation performs as part of Composers Concordance 'Eclectic Bands' concert. Compositions include 'Prelude 21st Century' and other Sound Liberation tunes. The Austrian band Hi5 performs Gene's 'Sometime Sublime' At The Shrine in Harlem.
4/17-23
Dan Auerbach performs Gene's violin music at the Odessa Philharmonic Hall in Odessa, Ukraine
4/28
Performing 'Unstable Behavior in Paintings' as part of Composers Concordance Jarvis @ 60! Birthday Concert at Michiko Studios
May
5/3
Gene performs art the Turtle Bay Music School as part of Sean Satin & Friends concert. Premiering 'Before You Walk Into The Wrong Room' and 'Ghost Poems' on poetry of Erik T. Johnson for narrator and chamber ensemble.
5/5
'It's a Whalebellied Sky, Butterfly' premiered by the CompCord Ensemble at the Macro & Micro concert as part of Composers Concordance 'Animals Festival' at Michiko Studios.
5/9
Premiere of ‘FD Fanfare’ by the NYU Brass Choir, conducted by Wayne J. du Maine at the Provincetown Playhouse.
5/10
'Pets Throughout My Life' for chamber ensemble and 'Iguana' a solo violin piece for Lara st. John premiered at the Animal Gallery concert as part of Composers Concordance 'Animals Festival' at Estonia House.
5/11
Performance of 'Middle Ages Rag' for solo piano by students at a piano competition in Kazan,Tatarstan at the Kazan Kremlin.
5/12
'A Phoenix I've Become' for voice and guitar with looper premiered at the 10th Annual Comp-Play-Comp Marathon as part of Composers Concordance 'Animals Festival' at Drom.
5/16
'Animals ReMixed' for Di.J. premiered at ReMix Of The Animals concert as part of Composers Concordance 'Animals Festival' at Bar Thalia.
5/19
'Ridogulous Dance' premiered at the Mostly Mutts' Art concert as part of Composers Concordance 'Animals Festival' at St. Marks Church at The Bowery
5/22
Christoph Enzel records & performs 'Maggots' a baritone sax concerto at Ballhaus in Berlin, Germany. With Petro Krysa, Philipp Bernhardt, Konstantin Dupelius, Hedi Yatouji, Damir Bacikin.
5/23
Bass trombonist Stefan Schulz and the Clair-obscure sax quartet perform Schubert Freeze II
at Ballhaus Berlin
5/24
‘Memories Are Not Enough’ for solo accordion performed by Milos Katanic at Eufonija Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia.
5/25
Premiering 'The Passion of Joan of Arc’ for trumpet and Di.J./Samplestra, with Franz Hackl, performed to the silent film by Theodor Dreyer at Proctors GE Theater in Schenectady, NY
5/26
My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama guitar Trio performs a Salon Concert at Kostabi World Uptown featuring Gene's Variations on My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama ' and a new composition called 'And It Is But A Child Of Air' .
5/31
'Uncomfortable Poetics' for string quartet premiered at Composers Concordance 'Generations IX' concert at Goddard Riverside.
June
6/5
Violinist Dan Auerbach performs 'Opposite Extreme of Compassion' as part of the 'Sergei Oskolkov and Friends' Festival at the Composers’ Union Building in Saint Petersburg Russia
6/9
CompCord Ensemble performs at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY. Gene premieres 'Journey Strut Unleashed ' on this concert titled:
Musical Mystery Tour
6/14
Joshua Thomas Premieres ‘Gladiator’ for alto sax and Samplestra at Composers Concordance Kostabi Salon Concert.
6/21
Sound Liberation performs as part of the 5th annual Make Music Harlem Festival.
6/22
Premiere of 'The Waking / Пробуждение' for 2 sopranos and violin and a performance of 'Vocalise ReMixed' as part of Composers Concordance 'All About Russia' concert at DiMenna Center. Co presented by Project 142
6/23
"Three Poems" on poetry of Heather Green premiered at Composers Concordance presents 'Words & Music' at Jim Kempner Fine Art Galle
July
7/16
‘Estonian Connections’ for 2 flutes and string orchestra performed by Marrika Jarvi and Monika Mattiesen - flutes with the Järvi Academy Chamber Orchestra, Krsitjan Jarvi - conducting at the Pärnu Concert Hall as part of the Parnu Music Festival in Parnu, Estonia
7/24
The Formica's Age Duo (Lara Daiz and Marco Pastor) perform Bitter Suite at the International Clarinet Association in Knoxville, TN.
Aug.
8/1-11
Gene is back at the Outreach Festival in Schwaz, Austria. He will present his 'Frozen Present Berlin' concert, as well as other performances and workshops.
8/1
Three arrangements of Tony Esposito performed as part of the Tony Esposito - Mark Kostabi Project at the Outreach Festival in Schwaz, Austria.
8/1
Conducting and Di.J.'ing 'Frozen Present Berlin' a concert of Gene's compositions and arrangements inspired by the great city. With a 10 piece chamber ensemble at the Outreach Festival in Schwaz, Austria.
8/2
'Schwaz Present' premiered by Franz Hackl′s Outreach Orchestra at the Outreach Festival in Schwaz, Austria.
8/8
'Elegant Piles of Refuse' for sax quartet performed as part Concrete Timbre concert series of at the National Opera Center in NYC.
8/20
Gene performs in Lviv, Ukraine with Noizepunk & Petro violin/Di.J duo
8/21
Violinist Dan Auerbach performs 'Opposite Extreme of Compassion' as part of Sobirayem Druzey Festival in Nikolai Myaskovsky Concert Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Moscow, Russia
8/21
Gene performs in Lviv, Ukraine with Noizepunk & Petro violin/Di.J duo
at the 12 Steps Bar.
8/22
Gene performs in Lviv, Ukraine with Noizepunk & Petro violin/Di.J duo
8/28
The Progression Ensemble Oslo performs 'If Her Waters Flow Not in Perpetual Progression’ in Gjøvik, Norway, at Friscena
Sept.
9/6
Gene Performs and premieres 'We Have' for solo electric guitar and poet with Erik T. Johnson as part of 'We Believe You' Solidarity Concert in NYC.
9/7
Sound Liberation performs at @ Connelly's Klub 45. Gene's birthday concert. Premieres include 'Oh My Dear Bembe Daddy', an excerpt of 'The Arithmetic of Living / What We Got Here Now' also performing 'Salon', 'No Truth' and other older songs.
9/8
Miolina premieres 'Refugee Lament' for 2 violins at Rockwood Music Hall
9/21
Sound Liberation performs as part of Composers Concordance "composers With Drinks' event at Michiko Studios. Gene will premiere 'The Arithmetic of Living / What We Got Here Now' a new piece for the SL Quartet.
9/26
Performing 'The Passion of Joan of Arc’ for trumpet and Di.J./Samplestra, with Franz Hackl, performed to the silent film by Theodor Dreyer at The Bryn Mawr Film Institute Bryn Mawr, PA
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Baseless Ensemble performs 'Nursery Rhymes And Their Sordid Histories’ at the Guilford Performing Arts Festival, in Guilford, CT.
9/28
Premiere of 'Life Speeds Away As Time Here Becomes Space' for piano and string orchestra by Matt Herskowitz and the CompCord String Orchestra, Arkady Leytush conducting as part of Composers Concordance 'Piano, Strings & other Things' concert at DiMenna Center - Mary Flagler Cary Hall, NYC.
Also on the program, my orchestration of Mark Kostabi's 'Aloft Summer Kites' piano concerto with Mark on the piano
9/29
'Dancing About Architecture' for flute & violin, a commission for Access Contemporary Music and Doors Open Milwaukee premiered at the Milwaukee Ballet - the piece will be performed every fifteen minutes for a guided tour of the historic building.
Oct.
10/10
Sound Liberation Performs at Settepani as part of the Ode To Harlem Series.
10/11
‘A 21st Century Reconstruction of J.S. Bach’ for bass trombone & Samplestra performed as part of 'A Trombone BAZAAR: Jordan Crimminger’s MM Recital' at Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall - Yale University
10/12
Cesare Papetti performs ‘Destined to Shed' for percussion and Sampestra at Madsen Recital Hall in Bringham Young University in Provo, Utah as part of the Occasional Noise Guest artist Concert
10/14
CompCord Ensemble premieres 'Happiness Unmoored' for violin, trumpet, bass clarinet, and guitar at William Paterson University, as part of the New Music Series.
10/19
Warren Nicholson performs ‘Snyeg’’ for solo guitar at the Great Lakes Guitar Society at Skaneateles Library in Skaneateles, New York
10/22
Warren Nicholson performs ‘Snyeg’’ for solo guitar at the Guelph Connections Concerts in Guelph. Ontario
10/26
Warren Nicholson performs 2 movements from ‘Refugee Blues’ for guitar and violin with Mike Schultz at Branford Public Library in Brantford Ontario
10/26
Premiere of ‘To You’ for cello and guitar with Dave Eggar & Chris Bruce as part of The Astronomy of Walt Whitman — a special pop-up edition of 'The Universe in Verse', curated and hosted by Maria Popova at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church on Governors Island, celebrating Whitman’s bicentennial.
10/31
Lynn Bechtold & Warren Nicholson premiere 'Refugee Blues' at 'Spooky Salon' as part of Composers Concordance Kostabi World Salon Concert series. Aso on the program will be Gene's 'Ghost Poems' on the poetry of Erik T. Johnson.
Nov.
11/2
Premiere of 'Fugue-Get-About-It’ for bass clarinet and piano by The Fleckl-Duo at HKB-Auditorium in Bern, Switzerland
11/3
‘Three Rags’ for solo piano will be performed by pianist R. Amirkhanova at the Festival of Contemporary Academic Art as part of the concert “Spectrum expansion”. At the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan in Kazan, Tatarstan.
11/8
Performance of 'Fugue-Get-About-It’ for bass clarinet and piano by The Fleckl-Duo at Ursulinensaal in Innsbruck, Austria
11/8
Performance of 'Happiness Unmoored' for violin, trumpet, bass clarinet, and guitar as part of CompCord Ensemble Salon 33 in Princeton NewJersey.
11/9
Performance of 'Fugue-Get-About-It’ for bass clarinet and piano by The Fleckl-Duo at Piano Lounge in Tagungshaus Wörgl in Wörgl, Austria
11/10
Performance of 'Fugue-Get-About-It’ for bass clarinet and piano by The Fleckl-Duo at Piano Lounge in Café Kreuzberg in Vienna, Austria
11/10
’The Man Who Loved Locks’ for narrator and chamber ensemble, based on a poem By Erik T. Johnson, premiered s part of Composers Concordance Estonian Connections concert at Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space.
11/13
Warren Nicholson performs ‘Sneyg’ on TV in São Paulo, Brazil organized by SESC
11/15
Quart@art performs 'Seem To Bemoan Their Imprisonment' Ancienne Poste des Planches in Montreux, Switzerland
11/16
‘Zappa Ripped My Flesh’ project performed in Absam, Austria at Gemeindemuseum. Featuring Gene’s chamber music and his arrangements of Frank Zappa compositions.
1/17
Jordan Crimminger performs 2 movements from ‘A 21st Century Reconstruction Of J.S. Bach’ for bass trombone and Sampelstra at L’argot NYC. As part of the New Sound Series - ‘Electric Bach’.
11/19
‘Zappa Ripped My Flesh’ project performed at Cafe Museum in Passau, Germany. Featuring Gene’s chamber music and his arrangements of Frank Zappa compositions.
11/21
A concert of Gene’s chamber orchestra music at the Outreach Satellite Festival in Friedberg, Germany. Performed by the Friedberger Kammeorchester. Premiere of 'Three Towns for Two Trumpets' a concerto for 2 trumpets, jazz piano trio and chamber orch. As well as arrangements of music from films Gene has worked on including 'Babylon Berlin', 'Cloud Atlas' and 'Perfume, the Story of a Murderer’.
11/21
A concert of Gene’s Big Band music performed as part of The Outreach Satellite Festival in Wittelsbacher Schloss, Friedberg, Performed by the Uni Big band. Original music for big band includes: ‘Crumbs’, 'Roughin It’, 'Mereangeu Za Dhenge’, 'First & Last Love’, 'Transfigured Swing’, as well as arrangements of ‘Bye Bye Blackbird’, 'Chopin Waltz Op. 64’, and 'All Blues’
11/22
A concert featuring Gene’s concert band music performed as part of The Outreach Satellite Festival in Wittelsbacher Schloss, Friedberg, Germany. Compositions include ‘Singin', ‘Bach Blues’, and the premiere of 'Halfway Scenes’. Also on the concert Peter Oswald performs 'NYC III' for trumpet & piano.
11/22
‘Zappa Ripped My Flesh’ project performed as part of the The Outreach Satellite Festival in Wittelsbacher Schloss, Friedberg, Germany
11/23
Guitarist Vladimir Gapontsev performs ‘Snegh' and ‘Wounds’ at the Myaskovsky hall in Moscow conservatory as part of his ‘Guitar at the crossing of eras’ concert
11/24
Gene & The Trumpets at Augsburg University featuring Franz Hackl, Peter Oswald and others in a concert all about Gene's trumpet compositions. Including the premiere of 'Dances Shmances' for 4 trumpets.
11/25
A concert of Gene’s Big Band music at Augsburg University, in Augsburg Germany. Original music for big band includes: ‘Crumbs’, 'Roughin It’, 'Mereangeu Za Dhenge’, 'First & Last Love’, 'Transfigured Swing’, as well as arrangements of ‘Bye Bye Blackbird’, 'Chopin Waltz Op. 64’, and 'All Blues’. Also on the program is music from Gene’s Berlin Inspired project, featuring his ‘Berlin Suite’ and music he arranged for the Babylon Berlin TV show.
11/29
CompCord Ensemble performance as part of Craig Harris’s Harlem Jazz Series
at Greater Calvary Baptist Church. Gene's 'Happiness Unmoored' and 'Quantum Mechanical' will be performed as well as an arrangement of Billy Strayhorn's 'Something to Live For' and Mark Kostabi's 'Scarlet Spring'.
Dec.
12/7
EMX presents 'Berlin Meets NY' at Sowieso in Berlin. Music to be performed include 'Three Poems’ for soprano and e. gtr., ‘Postlude' (from Suite #3) for cello and piano, & 'Water, Frog, Bird ' for cello and e. guitar. Premieres include ‘Pigments’, ‘Nausea’, 'Even More Paradoxes’ for gtr., piano and drums. Also the premiere of 'Quotes from People Born on Dec. 7' for soprano and mixed chamber ensemble.
12/15
David Hayes premieres 'Obsolete The Soul' for solo double bass as part of the And Then There Were Three concert at Wells & Mendip Museum in Wells, Somerset, England.
12/19
'Sisyphus - Sinner Condemned' performed by the CompCord Ensemble as part of 'Eclectic Bands' concert presented by Composers Concordance at Settepani, Harlem.
12/31
Gene conducts the concert 'Babylon Berlin Inspired’ featuring his‘ Berlin Suite' and various early jazz arrangements from the TV series Babylon Berlin at the SILVESTIVAL-Festival at the Historic Town Hall, Nuremberg in Nürnberg, Germany.