I will be the guest at the NYU weekly undergraduate strings seminar. I will give an interactive workshop/masterclass on performing orchestral pop music, and adapting chamber music techniques and ideas to a pop context.

Unfortunately, this event is not open to the public.

Violinist Patti Kilroy and cellist Mike Midlarsky (both of whom play in my rock orchestra) will play my violin cello duet “A Knife in the Water” at Greenwhich House in the West Village in Manhattan NYC. This concert is a fundraiser concert for their new music ensemble, the Cadillac Moon Ensemble, and will also feature works by Timo Andres, Matthew Welch, Florent Ghys, Dominic Donato and Nicholas Deyoe.

CME has received a grant from the American Composers Forum’s Encore Program and have performed on Kathleen Supové’s Music With a View series, the Trinity Church Wall Street Concerts at One, the Vox Novus Composer’s Voice series, among others. The quartet has also collaborated with Ethos Percussion Group, TRANSIT, Sospiro Winds, and Iktus Percussion Quartet. In September 2011 CME recorded its first full album with New Dynamic Records, to be released on Innova Records.

“Knife in the Water” was commissioned by violinist Dennis Kim, concertmaster of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra (Finland) and the Finnish National Opera and has been performed at the Bowdoin Festival’s Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music and several times in NYC, and has been featured on a “Q2″ new music podcast on WQXR.

tickets are $15 general; $10 seniors & students; tickets will be sold at the door. Concert is at 6 pm.

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between these last busy months of performing and composing, the NFO have put in a tremendous amount of work on our first full length rock orchestra album.  This has been no small feat for a band whose members are taking auditions with the New York Philharmonic, playing with groups like Alarm Will Sound and Ensemble Signal, playing festivals all over North and South America and constantly traveling between different countries and states on musical errands. Finding time to get everyone in the same city (let alone the same room) this summer has been one of the exciting challenges of running this group. But these are the things that make having a rock orchestra fun, right? Especially when you find those few magic days you’re all in the same city at exactly the same time.

On this album you can expect some old favorites, like a new recording of my “Madam I Have Seen Guns, and You are Not One” (the one that got us attention from the BBC a few years ago) and new songs like “The Place You Go Before You Die,” not to mention a few others we’ve never even performed live yet!

We’re very excited about this album, most of which we’ve recorded in our drummer Jeremy’s Flatbush home studio. This album has been quite a project, You can hear a sneak peak from “Place You Go…” here while we polish it off and finish the last few songs.

I hope you enjoy it, and we can’t wait to play it for you.

Noam

This concert will feature a new work for solo piano, written for London pianist Mary Dullea of the London-based Fidelio Trio. It will also feature several other premiers TBA.

The Great Hall

King’s College London (Strand Campus)

The PUBLIQuartet will perform my string quartet “Zrikhat Hashemesh” (”Sunrise”) at a concert curated by the quartet and my Circles and Lines composer’s collective. Other works will be quartets by C and L members Angelica Negron, Eric Lemmon and Dylan Glatthorn, PUBLIQuartet violinist Jessie Montgomery and several NYU student composers.

This concert takes place at Vaudeville Park Gallery (26 Bushwick Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211). Admission is $10 at the door.

Fore More Info on Circles and Lines go here

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Boston bassist Peter Ferretti will premiere my new solo double bass piece “A Hymn To Romance” at the CMJ festival in NYC. The concert will take place at Vaudeville Park Gallery in Brooklyn, and will also feature works by my composer’s collective Circles and Lines (Angelica Negron, Conrad Winslow, Dylan Glatthorn and Eric Lemmon).

Vaudeville Park Gallery

26 Bushwick Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211

This concert is $10 at the door.

For more info go here.

This will be the European premiere of my Facebook opera scene “The Morning After,” featuring a libretto constructed entirely from people’s facebook status updates. Also Thi concert featuring different combinations of works for mezzo soprano, piano and string quartet, sung by American mezzo Julia Mintzer, and featuring English pianist/composer Jean Beers and others. Featuring works by Matias Hancke de la Fuente, Brian Mark, Jean Beers, Mauricio Kagel and others.

This concert will take place in the St. David’s Roomat King’s College London, on the Strand. It is free and open to the public.

my rock orchestra, the NFO, will be performing at Cafe Orwell in Williamsburg at a show curated by me. Other performances by some of our friends will be announced shortly.

This concert is free.

I will be conducting Noah Meites‘ quintet “Bioskop” at the Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine.  Other pieces TBA.

tickets are $10.

I will be playing in the bass section of the Bowdoin Festival Orchestra in Brunswick Maine. We are performing Beethoven’s 4th piano concerto, featuring soloist Alessandro Taverna and conducted by Ari Vardi. Also on the program is the Brahms sextet in Bb.

Tickets are $30 and doors open at 7.