TILT Brass at Sisters Bklyn
Part of Sam Weinberg 2024 Residency

Tuesday, June 18, 2024
8:00pm, $10-30 sliding scale

Sisters
900 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11238

Sisters Event Page

June 18 lineup
• TILT Brass
• Sam Weinberg solo
• Sam Ospovat with Peter Evans, Brandon Seabrook, and John Hebert

Part of stellar saxophonist/composer Sam Weinberg’s monthly 2024 Residency, TILT Brass presents under appreciated works for the conventional brass quintet by composers Steve Martland and Ed Bland, and digs into a work-in-progress by TB Director Chris McIntyre. This is TILT’s first performance at the excellent bar & restaurant Sisters in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

TILT Brass Quintet
Peter Evans, Sam Jones – trumpet
Chris McIntyre – trombone, Kyra Sims – horn
James Rogers – bass trombone & tuba

TILT Brass photo by Stefan Raduta

TILT Brass performing South Cove Song, June 16, 2024
Image by Cherylynn Tsushimaer, Courtesy of LMCC

South Cove Song (overlay)
John P. Hastings

John P. Hastings is an artist and musician based in New York City. He has had performances in rock clubs, art galleries, museums, public parks, and traffic islands throughout the United States and Europe. Recently completed work includes a multimedia performance based on John McPhee’s book, Annals of the Former World; and Forest Song, an outdoor music event centered on human and forest relationships. More information can be found on his website johnphastings.org.

Drawing by Valentina Starkie, inspired by Remy Charlip

Heather Kravas overly merry
May 3, 4, & 5, 2024
5/3 – 7:00pm
5/4 – 2:00pm & 7:00pm
5/5 – 2:00pm

Chocolate Factory Theater
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City

CFT Event Page

TILT Brass Kravas Band
Jen Baker, Terry Green II, Sam Kulik, Chris McIntyre – trombone; Kavi McIntyre – trumpet; Ryan Sawyer, Dennis Sullivan – perc.

NYU Composer Concert
New works for brass by
Cecilia Lopez & Trevor Van de Velde

Saturday, April 27, 2024
6:00pm

DiMenna Center – Cary Hall
450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018

TILT Brass premieres two new works for brass and live-electronics and sound projection by NYU graduate composer’s Cecila Lopez and Trevor Van de Velde. This is a shared program with our friends in Talea Ensemble.

TILT Personnel
Chris DiMeglio, Joe Moffett – trumpet
Jen Baker, Chris McIntyre – trombone
James Rogers – tuba

Raven Chacon’s Vertical Neighbors (2024)
Large format outdoor score

Sunday, April 7, 2024
4:00pm
free with RSVP

Swiss Institute
38 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10003
(SE corner, 2nd Ave)

SI Event Page

TILT Brass gives the premiere “public activation” of Diné composer/performer Raven Chacon‘s new large format outdoor score Vertical Neighbors (2024) on the roof at Swiss Institute in the East Village. This event is part of A Worm’s Eye View from a Bird’s Beak, Chacon’s first major institutional solo exhibition.

TILT personnel
Hugo Moreno, Nate Wooley – trumpet
Jen Baker, Chris McIntyre – trombone

FOREST SONG
Conceived/Originated by John Hastings

Saturday, October 14, 2023: 2pm & 4pm
Sunday, October 15, 2023: 1pm & 3pm
Each performance approx. 60 minutes

Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan, New York:
A to Inwood / 207 or 1 to 215th St. Enter at Shorakkopoch Rock [map]

WEBSITE

Forest Song is a free music performance that takes place in the last, original site of Pre-Columbian Mannahatta: Inwood Hill Park. Nestled within a valley, near ancient glacial potholes, caves, and cold springs, musicians are spread throughout the forest, performing a variety of sonic materials. Harmonies are reflected, words appear, and the melodies from revolutionary hymns are re-cycled, all conjuring a human and arboreal conversation. A Forest Song gathers everyone together over distance, a unitary statement that underscores the fundamental relationships that foster all our existences in this world. Over the course of an hour performance, the audience is free to wander the park, to hear the musicians at a distance, while also observing them close-by.

Myths and stories swirl around our forests, some of them fanciful and fantastic, others feed into age-old tropes of colonial settlement. They have been many things to humans: a source of fuel, shelter, fear. They are a place of mystery and repose. Forest Song takes these many iterations of human conception of the forest to fashion a poly-narrative: a Native American home, a European folk drama, a technocratic “shelterbelt”, and now a conserved piece of our future. Forests are a mirror for humans: the reflection of our wants and desires throughout our years of existence.

Featuring:
TILT Brass:
Jonathan Finlayson, Rebecca Steinberg – trumpet
Christopher McIntyre, James Rogers – trombone
Blair Hamrick, Nicolee Kuester – horn 
with
Iván Barenboim, Katie Porter – clarinet; Eva Ding, Jessica Schmitz – flute; Casey Anderson – saxophone

The Team:
John P. Hastings – originator; Aaron Meicht – music director, trumpet; Carolina Gomez – costuming; Benjamin Mayock – design; Shannon Sindelar – producer; Michelle Tabnick – PR 

Forest Song is made possible in part with funds from Creative Engagement , a regrant program supported by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in partnership with the City Council ,and administered by LMCC. This project is made possible in part with funds from UMEZ Arts Engagement, a regrant program supported by the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ), and administered by LMCC.

FOREST SONG
Conceived/Originated by John Hastings

Saturday, October 14, 2023: 2pm & 4pm
Sunday, October 15, 2023: 1pm & 3pm
Each performance approx. 60 minutes

Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan, New York:
A to Inwood / 207 or 1 to 215th St. Enter at Shorakkopoch Rock [map]

WEBSITE

Forest Song is a free music performance that takes place in the last, original site of Pre-Columbian Mannahatta: Inwood Hill Park. Nestled within a valley, near ancient glacial potholes, caves, and cold springs, musicians are spread throughout the forest, performing a variety of sonic materials. Harmonies are reflected, words appear, and the melodies from revolutionary hymns are re-cycled, all conjuring a human and arboreal conversation. A Forest Song gathers everyone together over distance, a unitary statement that underscores the fundamental relationships that foster all our existences in this world. Over the course of an hour performance, the audience is free to wander the park, to hear the musicians at a distance, while also observing them close-by.

Myths and stories swirl around our forests, some of them fanciful and fantastic, others feed into age-old tropes of colonial settlement. They have been many things to humans: a source of fuel, shelter, fear. They are a place of mystery and repose. Forest Song takes these many iterations of human conception of the forest to fashion a poly-narrative: a Native American home, a European folk drama, a technocratic “shelterbelt”, and now a conserved piece of our future. Forests are a mirror for humans: the reflection of our wants and desires throughout our years of existence.

Featuring:
TILT Brass:
Jonathan Finlayson, Rebecca Steinberg – trumpet
Christopher McIntyre, James Rogers – trombone
Blair Hamrick, Nicolee Kuester – horn 
with
Iván Barenboim, Katie Porter – clarinet; Eva Ding, Jessica Schmitz – flute; Casey Anderson – saxophone

The Team:
John P. Hastings – originator; Aaron Meicht – music director, trumpet; Carolina Gomez – costuming; Benjamin Mayock – design; Shannon Sindelar – producer; Michelle Tabnick – PR 

Forest Song is made possible in part with funds from Creative Engagement , a regrant program supported by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in partnership with the City Council ,and administered by LMCC. This project is made possible in part with funds from UMEZ Arts Engagement, a regrant program supported by the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ), and administered by LMCC.

Pioneer Works: False Harmonics #12
TILT Brass & Zeena Parkins
7:00p Doors
8:00p Performance
$20 adv. $25 day-of
PW Event Page

Performing music by Julius Eastman, Phill Niblock, and Zeena Parkins
Featuring compositions & solo set by Ms. Parkins (harp)
Special guests James Fei (analog electronics) and Josh Henderson (violin)

Brooklyn’s own TILT Brass presents a program of works by legendary New York composers including the premiere of a new transcription of Julius Eastman’s brutalist If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich? (1977) for a 13 piece orchestra of brass, strings, and chimes (featuring violinist Josh Henderson), the premiere of TILT’s massed brass version of Phill Niblock’s Exploratory (2019), and Zeena Parkins’ Whistling in the Dark Wind (2019) for TILT Brass sextet and two improvisers (Parkins on harp & polymath musician James Fei on analog electronics.) Ms. Parkins will also present a solo harp set of two new works, one of her own creation, the other by her Mills College composer colleague John Bischoff.

Watch an interview between Phill Niblock and TILT Director Chris McIntyre

PERSONNEL
trumpet – Nate Wooley, Jonathon Finlayson, Sam Jones, Rebecca Steinberg
horn – Kyra Sims
trombone – Will Lang, Terry L. Greene II, Chris McIntyre 
tuba – Joe Exley
violin solo – Josh Henderson
double bass – James Ilgenfritz
perc – Russell Greenberg, Dennis Sullivan

Images: TILT Brass & company at Pioneer Works by Walter Wlodarczyk; Zeena Parkins by Jeff Preiss; Julius Eastman by ©David Oliver; Phill Niblock by Ramin Talaie; Josh Henderson by Kristofer Bergman; TILT Brass by Stefan Rudata

TILT Brass performing on Liberty Island, June 21, 2022

L-to-R: Hugo Moreno (trp), Eric Mahl (cond), Wil Dannenberg (hrn), Matt Melore (trb), James Rogers (bs trb), Evan Honse (trp), Priscilla Rinehart (hrn), Julie Dombroski (trb)

“…TILT Brass performs excerpts from Eugène Bozza’s Sonatine for brass quintet and Pierre Boulez’s Initiale for 7 brass instruments.”

https://www.makemusicday.org/fete40/en/2022/06/fete-de-la-musique-celebration-at-the-statue-of-liberty/

Zeena Parkins

Premiere of New Composition for Brass Sextet and Improvisers

whistling in the dark wind (2019) [premiere]
brass sextet and two improvisers
Lace Piece (2008 – ongoing)
On 190911 – brass sextet, cello, harp, analog synth

Zeena Parkins – harp, electronics, composition
James Fei – custom analog synth
Maggie Parkins – cello
TILT Brass Sextet
Trumpet – Gareth Flowers, Sam Jones, Tim Leopold (slide trp.)
Trombone – Jen Baker, Will Lang, Chris McIntyre

Facebook Event
Zeena’s Website
James Fei’s Website
The Stone at The New School

Finola Merivale; Mary Kouyoumdjian; Bethany Younge, William Dougherty

Columbia Composers
Facebook Event

On May 4th at DiMenna Center in NYC, TILT Brass is excited to share an evening with our friends in Yarn/Wire. A mixed octet compliment of TILT Brass will premiere brand new works by Columbia University graduate composers William Dougherty, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Finola Merivale, and Bethany Younge.

TILT Brass on May 4
Trumpet – Gareth Flowers, Timothy Leopold, Matt Mead
Trombone – Jen Baker, William Lang, Chris McIntyre
Horn – Laura Weiner; Tuba – John Altieri

Yarn/Wire

TILT Brass presents

Concentrated Forces:
Contemporary Chamber Music for Brass

Will Lang at Lévy Gorvy Gallery, Nov 2018 (Photo by S. Smith)

Thursday, April 25th, 2019
8:00pm
University Settlement (Speyer Hall)
184 Eldridge Street (corner of Rivington)
New York, NY 10002

$10; $5 (students/seniors)
Purchase Tickets
Facebook Event

On Thursday, April 25th, TILT Brass returns to University Settlement’s Speyer Hall to present Concentrated Forces, a wide-ranging program of contemporary chamber music for brass. Speyer Hall is an important space for TILT: its initiating rehearsals took place there in 2002 as well as several subsequent landmark programs in 2011, 2012, and 2015. TILT’s next Speyer event features the music of an international array of probing compositional minds including the expat American icon Frederic Rzewski, French spectralist Gérard Grisey, acclaimed Argentine Alexandre Lunsqui, and three Swedes – avant garde master Folke Rabe, Netherlands-based Klas Torstensson, and the phenomenal young artist Ellen Arkbro.

TILT Brass has assembled an A-list of its finest players to present this rare evening of works focused on the dynamical and subtle capabilities of brass instruments in small groupings. The program presents several duos (Lunsqui, Grisey, Rabe), two divergent takes on the trio format (Torstensson, Arkbro), and a set of buoyant, open-instrumentation works for quartet (Rzewski). Heard in what TILT’s Director Chris McIntyre considers one of the warmest rooms in Manhattan, audiences will be privy to an unusually visceral encounter with the brass family.

ARTISTS
Trumpet – Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold
Horn – Nicolee Kuester, Laura Weiner
Trombone – Jen Baker, Will Lang, Chris McIntyre
Tuba – John Altieri

PROGRAM
Alexandre Lunsqui – Canvas for two trombones (2013)
Baker, Lang
Ellen Arkbro – Three for horn, trombone, tuba (2016)
Kuester, McIntyre, Altieri
Gérard Grisey – Accords perdus: five miniatures for two horns in F (1989)
Kuester, Weiner
Folke Rabe – Tintomara for trumpet and trombone (1992)
Flowers, Lang
Klas Torstensson – Four Brass Links for trumpet, horn, trombone (2003)
Flowers, Weiner, McIntyre
Frederic Rzewski – Selections from Spots (1986)
(arr. for 2 trumpets, 2 trombones [alto, tenor])
Flowers, Leopold, Lang, Baker, McIntyre (cond.)

Top – Gérard Grisey, Ellen Arkbro; Mid – Alexandre Linsqui, Frederic Rzewski; Bottom – Folke Rabe, Klas Torstensson

Lea Bertucci

TILT Brass premieres Vertical Octet, a new site-responsive acoustic work for brass octet composed by Lea Bertucci, amongst sculptures by Alexander Calder and paintings by Ellsworth Kelly at Lévy Gorvy Gallery’s landmarked building at 73rd and Madison in Manhattan.

TILT Brass personnel on 11/28
Trumpet – Jonathan Finlayson, Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold
Trombone – Jen Baker, Will Lang, Chris McIntyre
Tuba – John Altieri, Dan Peck

Attendance will be RSVP only. To respond, visit here. 

LEFT: Alexander Calder. Red Maze III, 1954. Sheet metal, wire, and paint, 56 x 72 inches (142.2 x 182.9 cm). Courtesy Calder Foundation, New York / Art Resource, New York. © 2018 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging. RIGHT: Ellsworth Kelly. Red White, 1962. Oil on canvas, 83 1/2 x 67 inches (212.1 x 170.2 cm). Courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. © Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. Photo: Katherine Du Tiel.

FONT Event Page Page
Mannes website

TILT Brass returns to the annual FONT Festival to present an all-trumpet program featuring Julius Eastman’s recently realized work Trumpet from 1970 and Lois V. Vierk’s rarely heard sextet Cirrus (1987), along with compositions by Jon Gibson and TILT Director Chris McIntyre, and Eastman’s Joy Boy (1974). The performance takes place at Mannes School of Music at The New School. Brass students from the school will participate in a workshop with members of TILT and will join the group in performing Joy Boy and Gibson’s Multiples (1972.)

TILT Brass Trumpets performing Julius Eastman’s Trumpet (1970) at The Kitchen

TILT Brass Trumpets:
Jaimie Branch
Chris Bubolz
Wayne du Maine
Jonathan Finlayson
Gareth Flowers
Sam Jones
Tim Leopold
Hugo Moreno
Chris McIntyre, conductor & musical director

PROGRAM
Julius Eastman – Joy Boy (1974)
Chris McIntyre – Presencing Piece No.1 (Mannes Siting) (2014/18)
Julius Eastman – Trumpet (1970)
Lois V. Vierk – Cirrus (1987)
Jon Gibson – Multiples (1972)

Ron Hammond’s 1970 image of Eastman and the first page of the original score for Trumpet

PRESS for Trumpet
NY Times Review of 2/3/18 performance

McIntyre NY Times interview

Facebook Event Page
FIAF Tilt Kids Festival Event Page

From ISSUE Project Room Event Page:
“March 18th 2018, ISSUE hosts an interactive performance of the rhythmic game and composition Stridulations For The Good Luck Feast with Billy Martin, joined by TILT Brass and fellow musicians as a part of 2018’s Tilt Kids Festival, produced by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF). Stridulations, a study of musical phrasing, counterpoint and improvisation, is a suite of percussion compositions that functions as a collaborative game. The game is not performed to win or lose, but created by players whose primary challenge is collective improvisation.

As the final event of the 2018 Tilt Kids Festival, the event is a celebration of the week’s activities and is designed for children aged 5 through 10 years old. The event shares how rhythmic phrasing contributes to our musical vocabulary and our ability to listen, with musicians from TILT Brass also demonstrating how we apply tonality to these rhythmic patterns. Participants gain a heightened sense and purpose about making music, connecting with others and how to communicate using sound.

Instrumentation includes small bamboo sticks harvested from Martin’s bamboo grove in New Jersey, woodblocks, and recycled bottles as instruments. The event also includes performative demonstrations from Billy Martin’s “Whirlygig Dragons,” a percussion ensemble featuring Martin, Payton MacDonald, Misia Vessio, Kalun Leung, as well as TILT Brass performing a rendition of Stridulations, featuring Chris McIntyre (trombone, Director), Chris DiMeglio (trumpet, voice), Sam Jones (trumpet), and Jen Baker (trombone).

Among the most valuable undertakings in Billy Martin’s ongoing artistic exploration is teaching. “When I teach,” he explains, “I learn and discover methods to build my vocabulary and style, and I love to help others do the same.” His experiences as a teacher, student, and musician led him to create and direct Life on Drums, a cinematic exploration of percussion and the creative process with his childhood drum instructor, Allen Herman.”

Image by Ron Hammond

The Kitchen’s Event Page

Facebook Event Page

NY Times piece about Trumpet

NY Times Review

On February 3rd, 2018, TILT Brass gives the modern premiere of Julius Eastman’s Trumpet (1970), a work for trumpet septet not heard since 1971, at The Kitchen during That Which Is Fundamental, a multi-event festival focused on the work of this now-revered composer and performer. The program on 2/3 includes Ekmeles performing Macle (1971), Prelude to The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc (1981), a solo by Julian Otis, and ACME playing the 10 cello piece The Holy Presence of Joan D’Arc (1981).

Personnel for Eastman’s Trumpet at The Kitchen:
Gareth Flowers
Jaimie Branch
Wayne du Maine
Sam Jones
Tim Leopold
Hugo Moreno
Nate Wooley
Chris McIntyre (director)

TILT Brass Trumpets performing Julius Eastman’s Trumpet (1970) at The Kitchen, Feb. 3, 2018

TILT Brass performing Jeff Snyder’s Wave Fanfare with Sō Percussion and members of Princeton’s Laptop Orchestra

Princeton’s Lewis Center for Arts, Opening Weekend
Jeff Snyder’s website
Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk)
Sō Percussion

Members of TILT Brass (see below) are heard via quadraphonic playback during this work that was premiered at Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center in May 2017.

From Abrons Art Center event page:

BETH GILL: BRAND NEW SIDEWALK [NEW YORK PREMIERE]

For Brand New Sidewalk, three-time Bessie Award-winning choreographer Beth Gill teams up with composer Jon Moniaci and lighting designer Thomas Dunn to create a sparse, elegant diptych that questions the value of formalism in dance. An evocative new work for four dancers, Brand New Sidewalk explores themes of alienation, erasure, fantasy and power through the lens of abstraction.

Photo courtesy of of Walker Art Center

Choreography Beth Gill
Lighting and Scenery Thomas Dunn
Music Jon Moniaci
Brass quintet recording and performance Members of TILT Brass
Trombone/Director Chris McIntyre
Trumpet Tim Leopold
Trumpet Sam Jones
Horn John Gattis
Tuba John Altieri
Costumes Baille Younkman
Company, Cast and Crew Bios:

Produced by Clocktower
Curated by Lea Bertucci.

Site : Sound Exhibition and Showcase – A sonic portrait and re-telling of the Site : Sound series, with performances by Eli Keszler, Stine Motland, Lea Bertucci, TILT Brass, and Ashcan Orchestra at Knockdown Center in Queens, NY.

TILT Brass Sextet will perform in different locations within Knockdown before each of the other artists’ sets. The Program includes James Tenney‘s Swell Piece (for Allison Knowles) (1967), Selections from Peepers (2015-16) by Zeena Parkins, Selections from Arthur Russell‘s Tower of Meaning (1983), and the premiere of Director Chris McIntyre‘s Runnegackonck Presencing (Maspeth Siting) (2017).

TILT Brass Sextet at Knockdown Center:
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold, Sam Jones – trumpet
Jen Baker, Chris McIntyre, Matt Melore – trombone

Site : Sound is a host of intimate site-specific lectures, sonic-spatial interventions, and performances celebrating the pliancy and tactility of acoustic experience. Taking place across three boroughs of New York City from April 23 to June 25, 2017, twelve contemporary sound artists, composers, and instrumentalists invite the public to channel their curiosity and join in an exploration of the auditory sense.

Knockdown Center

Purchase Tickets
Clocktower Event Page
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Knockdown Event Page

TILT Brass with Nate Wooley’s “Seven Storey Mountain,” May 2017 [by M. Morissette]

On Saturday, May 20th, an 8-piece iteration of TILT Brass (led by Director Chris McIntyre) rejoins composer and trumpeter Nate Wooley and an all-star lineup to present Seven Storey Mountain V during the 2017 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV) in Victoriaville, Quebec, CA. The program begins with the premiere of a new work by Wooley for TILT Brass’ octet instrumentation.

Seven Storey Mountain page on Nate’s website

Jennifer Monson/iLAND: in tow (premiere)

Members of TILT Brass Sextet perform material composed for them by composer and harpist Zeena Parkins on Saturday Sep. 24th and Thursday Sep. 29th.

PERSONNEL [TILT performs twice as each event is different]:
SEP 24 (Sat)
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpet
Jen Baker, Chris McIntyre – trombone
SEP 29 (Thu)
Tim Leopold, Mike Gurfield – trumpet
Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombone

From Dancespace Project’s Event Page:
“Initiated in 2013 by award-winning choreographer Jennifer Monson, in tow is an ongoing performance research project bringing together 10 artists from 4 different decades. in tow straddles location, discipline, and aesthetic to create an evolving working process driven by what each artist brings to it. The performance itself is a site for destabilizing the familiar, testing new ground, defining difference, and creating a shared practice that resonates with layers of experience, points of view, and perspective.”

TILT Brass Sextet playing Zeena Parkins’ music at The Stone, Nov. 2015

During the June 21st, 2016 edition of Make Music New York, TILT Brass and Iktus Percussion join forces for 2 performances of composer Kevin James‘ Guerilla Fanfare; 3pm at Grand Army Plaza (Brooklyn), 5pm at Battery Park (Manhattan).

FB Event
NY Times review of our Battery Park performance.

TILT Brass at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, July 2014

TILT Brass – Naval Cemetery Landscape

TILT Brass Sextet participates in the opening ceremony of a new public space at the eastern edge of Brooklyn Navy Yard. A project of Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, Naval Cemetery Landscape is a “publicly-accessible green space which will revitalize the native plant and pollinator populations in the region and its design includes a raised walkway to allow visitors to enter the space without disturbing the hallowed ground (of the former Brooklyn Naval Hospital Cemetery.)”

The Sextet will premiere a new site-specific work by Director Chris McIntyre. The new work, Runnegackonck Presencing, is named after the ancestral creek that meandered around the Hospital and Cemetery grounds on its way to the former Wallabout Bay.

More info: brooklyngreenway.org/naval-cemetery-landscape

TILT Brass Band returns to perform outside in the entryway of the newly renamed Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory. We’re performing Mauricio Kagel’s March 4 from 10 Marches (“to miss the victory”) (1978) and an arrangement of John Philip Sousa’s The Gallant 7th (1922), a work written to honor the Regiment for which the Armory was built.

Personnel
Barry Crawford – piccolo; Vasko Dukovski, Narek Arutyunian – clarinet; Tim Leopold, Mike Gurfield, Sam Nester – trumpet; Jen Baker, Chris McIntyre, Matt Melore – trombone; Jason Sugata, John Gattis – horn; James Rogers – sousaphone; Chris Nappi, Yuri Yamashita-Morales – percussion

TILT Brass Sextet plays Coleman, Roulette, 160225

TILT Brass Sextet reprises Coleman’s A Fistful of Footfalls, premiered at Miller Theatre in December, 2015.

Roulette Event Page

ANTHONY COLEMAN

DITHER

TILT Brass joins forces with our good friends in Dither Guitar Quartet and others to interpret sections of Cornelius Cardew’s seminal graphic score Treatise at The Stone. This is part of Dither’s week-long residency at the East Village avant music shrine.

TILT Personnel:
Eli Asher – trumpet, soprano trombone
Jaimie Branch – trumpet
Chris McIntyre – trombone
James Rogers – bass trombone, tuba

TILT Brass Sextet l to r: Tim Leopold, Mike Gurfield, Will Lang, Jen Baker, Gareth Flowers, Chris McIntyre

POP-UP CONCERTS
Wild Ones – TILT BRASS
Tuesday, December 8, 2015, 6pm
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
FREE
Facebook Event Page

PERSONNEL
TILT Brass Sextet
trumpet – Gareth Flowers, Mike Gurfield, Tim Leopold
trombone – Jen Baker, Will Lang, Chris McIntyre

PROGRAM
James Tenney Swell Piece for Alison Knowles (1967)
Sextet
Liza Lim Wild Winged One (2007)
Gareth Flowers, solo trumpet
Anthony Coleman A Fistful of Footfalls (2015) World Premiere
Sextet
Catherine Lamb overlays/smear (2015) World Premiere
Sextet
Chris McIntyre Dedifferentiation for Brass No. 3 (2015) World Premiere
Sextet and sound score

$10 at the door
www.thestonenyc.com
Corner of Ave C & E. 2nd St, Manhattan

Zeena’s Residency FB Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1643222422583102/

TILT’s esteemed colleague Zeena Parkins has made new pieces for our Sextet and other stellar collaborators for premiere at The Stone on Nov. 20th during her week-long residency in November 2015.

“New works written for TILT + Foley artists: Dylan Neely/Erin Cornell/Eleanor Hullihan + LACE PIECE with special guests GREEN DOME: Ryan Sawyer (drums) Ryan Ross Smith (Keyboards, electronics) Zeena (acoustic harp)”

TILT Brass Sextet
trumpet – Gareth Flowers, Mike Gurfield, Tim Leopold
trombone – Jen Baker, Will Lang, Chris McIntyre

Harris Eisenstadt’s Aberikula at The Stone
featuring TILT Slide Quartet

Tim Leopold – slide trumpet; Mark Broschinksy – alto trombone; Chris McIntyre – tenor trombone; James Rogers – bass trombone

TILT’s new Slide Quartet joins composer/percussionist Harris Eisenstadt to perform a collection of work inspired by the secular form of Cuban batá drumming music called aberikula.

www.harriseisenstadt.com
www.thestonenyc.com

Richard Barrett, NYC, June 2015

NY Times – The Best Classical Music 2015 (Z. Woolfe)
NY Times – Review
Facebook Event Page

TILT Brass continues to explore the intricate musical world of British composer/improvisor Richard Barrett during a 3-event festival of his work in June. TILT performers include Chris McIntyre (Basalt for solo trombone), Tim Leopold and Will Lang (Aurora for trumpet and alto trombone), and Gareth Flowers (part of tutti reading of Barrett’s Codex XII) and collaborators including Milana Zaric on harp and Barrett himself on electronics.

PROGRAM
Aurora (2010) – TILT Brass: Tim Leopold (trumpet), Will Lang (alto trombone)
tendril (2013) – Milana Zaric (harp) & RB (electronics)
Katasterismoi (1999) – electronic music
basalt (1991) – TILT Brass: Christopher McIntyre (trombone)
EQUALE (2013, composed by RB & Kees Tazelaar) – electronic music
codex XII (2013) TILT Brass: Leopold and Gareth Flowers (trp.), Lang (alto trb.), McIntyre (trb., synths) & RB

Chris McIntyre plays Richard Barrett’s “Basalt”

TILT Brass Sextet at University Settlement, June 12, 2015
L to R: James Rogers, Jen Baker, Will Lang, Chris McIntyre, Tim Leopold, Mike Gurfield, Jeff Missal

TILT Brass presents the 2015 installment of To TILT, its on-going series of concerts and recordings that feature work created its specific forces and skills. The program at University Settlement includes newly commissioned works written for TILT Brass Sextet by Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, and trombonist/composer and long-time TILT performer Jacob Garchik.

The Sextet will also revisit TILT Director Chris McIntyre’s multi-movement work Fabrics (2014-15) and his transcriptions of selections from Arthur Russell’s Tower of Meaning, composed in the early 1980’s.

TILT Brass Sextet Personnel
Music Director & conductor – Chris McIntyre
trumpet – Tim Leopold, Mike Gurfield, Jeff Missal
trombone – Will Lang, Jen Baker, James Rogers

Program:
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė – Osmosis (2015) [premiere]
Jacob Garchik – Brass Sextet (2015) [premiere]
Chris McIntyre – Fabrics 1 & 2 (2014)
Arthur Russell – A and F rom Tower of Meaning (1983) [trans. by McIntyre]

This event takes place during a set of concerts co-organized by TILT and our stellar colleagues at Either/Or (performing on June 10th and 13th.) Located on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the excellent acoustics of University Settlement’s Speyer Hall is a perfect venue for these not-to-be-missed concerts during NYC’s busy Summer season.

Either/Or at Miller Theater

On May 9th at Abrons Art Center, TILT Brass  participates in ISSUE Project Room’s Tectonics Festival New York 2015.  The program opens with TILT Trombones performing the US Premiere of Three Formants (2014) by young American composer William Dougherty, a spatialized trombone quintet piece. After solo performances by Fritz Welch and Maya Dunietz, TILT’s trumpet and trombone octet joins an expansive all-star cast of musical characters to premiere the fifth iteration of Nate Wooley‘s on-going Seven Storey Mountain project . In addition to TILT, the ensemble for SSM5 includes Colin Stetson, Ben Vida, C. Spencer Yeh, Ryan Sawyer, Chris Corsano, Josh Sinton, among many others!

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TILT Brass on May 9th
trumpet – Gareth Flowers (piccolo), Tim Leopold, Mike Gurfield
trombone – Will Lang, Matt Melore (alto) Jen Baker, Mark Broschinsky (Dougherty only), Chris McIntyre (tenor) James Rogers (bass)

Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain IV, June 6, 2013.
Photo by Lorissa Rinehart

TILT and John King celebrate their nearly 10 year collaboration with a set of the composers music for brass at the venerable East Village venue.

The Stone  is located at the NW corner of Avenue C & East 2nd Street, East Village
$10 at the door
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PROGRAM
All composed by John King

Hammerbone [2005/12]
trombone duo and electronics (McIntyre/Baker & King)
Klepsydra II [2015] (premiere)
tutti
Baghdad Blues – in memoriam J. Tenney [2007/2015]
tutti (new version for 3 trp & 3 trb)

PERSONNEL
composer & live electronics – John King
trumpet – Gareth Flowers, Mike Gurfield, Tim Leopold
trombone – Jen Baker, Will Lang, Chris McIntyre

JACK by Ted Roeder

TILT Brass kicks off its Spring 2015 season at JACK, an intimate neighborhood multi-arts venue located in Clinton Hill. The program revisits TILT’s creative music origins with work highlighting the improvisational skill and experience of its players. The program features a wide range of recent and classic graphic and strategic scores. Composers include Berlin-based English composer and electronic musician Richard Barrett, an early composition by legendary composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton, and selections from Cornelius Cardew‘s touchstone graphic score Treatise.

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Detail from Braxton’s “Comp. 18” (1971)

PERSONNEL
trumpet
Timothy Leopold, Andrew Kozar, Tom Verchot
trombone
Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Will Lang, James Rogers (bass)
Nathan Koci – horn, accordion; Chris McIntyre – conductor

PROGRAM
Anthony Braxton 8KN-(J-6) [aka Comp. 18] (1971)
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Cornelius Cardew Selections from Treatise (1963-67)
Richard Barrett Codex XII (2013)
Other works TBA

Anthony Braxton by C. Wachnicki

Richard Barrett by C. Vise

Cornelius Cardew

Presencing Piece No. 1 (Fed Plaza) (2014)

by Chris McIntyre
in collaboration with TILT Brass, Ed Bear, Tristan Shepherd, and David Shively
A site-specific performance and installation at Jacob K. Javits Federal Building Plaza

Chris McIntyre – Composer and Creative Director
TILT Brass – performance ensemble
David Shively – feed-back drums
Ed Bear – Creative Technical Director
Tristan Shepherd – software design

TILT Brass
Trumpet
Gareth Flowers, Mike Gurfield, Tim Leopold, Stephanie Richards, Dan Urness
Trombone
Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Sam Kulik, Will Lang, Matt Melore, James Rogers, Peter Zummo

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Conceived and Directed by composer, trombonist, and TILT Brass Director Chris McIntyre, Presencing Piece No.1 (Fed Plaza) is a collaborative, site-specific sonic experience designed for the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building Plaza at 26 Federal Plaza. Presencing Piece features a 12-piece compliment of Brooklyn-based experimental music group TILT Brass (trumpet quintet, trombone septet), Either/Or percussionist David Shively, and a state-of-the-art implementation of PA speakers. McIntyre positions the live musicians and speakers around the plaza to amplify and accentuate its physical and intangible properties. The multi-channel PA system is broadcasting sound via infrared technology that also enables interactive audience influence on what’s heard during the performance. The goal of the project for McIntyre and his collaborators (including Tech Director Ed Bear) is to transform the audience’s experience of the plaza itself as they are immersed within the overall composition.

Inspired by artist Richard Serra’s site-specific sculpture Tilted Arc which occupied Federal Plaza in the 1980’s, McIntyre’s Presencing Piece also aims to create a dialogue between the present and past of the site. Text-based sounds tell non-linear histories with content such as lists of geologic data, facts about the local pre-colonial population, and fragments of social and political narratives. In addition to projection from the on-site PA, these sounds are available for listening in personal earphones from “hidden” online sources throughout the event (directed via QR-code posters).

Members of TILT Brass testing the Hearst Plaza site with JLA 140716

On July 25 & 26, TILT Brass joins members of Contemporaneous, The Crossing, eighth blackbird, Face the Music, Hotel Elefant, and JACK Quartet (among many others) to give the World Premiere of John Luther Adams’ Sila: The Breath of the World. The new piece was commissioned by Mostly Mozart and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. From the LC Out of Doors website:

“Following the Alaska-based, 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer’s acclaimed Inuksuit, this site-determined piece flows from Adams’ ongoing engagement with sound in outdoor space. Inspired by the Inuit concept of sila, the spirit that animates the world, 80 leading contemporary musicians are guided by the pace of their own breaths, blending composition and sonic environment into an expansive and immersive listening experience.”

This performance is FREE to the public.

TILT Brass for Sila:
trumpet – Mike Gurfield, Tom Bergeron, Tim Leopold, Matt Mead, Sam Nester, Stephanie Richards
trombone – Jen Baker, Daniel Linden, Mike Lormand, Chris McIntyre
horn – Wei-Ping Chou, Jenny Ney, Jason Sugata, Cameron West
tuba – John Altieri, Ben Stapp

More details on the Lincoln Center website
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Members of TILT Brass testing the Hearst Plaza site with JLA 140716

On July 25 & 26, TILT Brass joins members of Contemporaneous, The Crossing, eighth blackbird, Face the Music, Hotel Elefant, and JACK Quartet (among many others) to give the World Premiere of John Luther Adams’ Sila: The Breath of the World. The new piece was commissioned by Mostly Mozart and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. From the LC Out of Doors website:

“Following the Alaska-based, 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer’s acclaimed Inuksuit, this site-determined piece flows from Adams’ ongoing engagement with sound in outdoor space. Inspired by the Inuit concept of sila, the spirit that animates the world, 80 leading contemporary musicians are guided by the pace of their own breaths, blending composition and sonic environment into an expansive and immersive listening experience.”

This performance is FREE to the public.

TILT Brass for Sila:
trumpet – Mike Gurfield, Tom Bergeron, Tim Leopold, Matt Mead, Sam Nester, Stephanie Richards
trombone – Jen Baker, Daniel Linden, Mike Lormand, Chris McIntyre
horn – Wei-Ping Chou, Jenny Ney, Jason Sugata, Cameron West
tuba – John Altieri, Ben Stapp

More details on the Lincoln Center website
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TILT Trombones perform Chris McIntyre’s “Tilted Arc”, May 31, 2014

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TILT Brass brings the 2013-14 Season to a close with another installment of its important Chamber Music Show series. This years edition features an all-trombone program. TILT’s incredible pool of local trombonists will be heard playing a wide range of repertoire including the first live realization of the tape score to Phill Niblock’s A Third Trombone for trombone octet. The program also includes a preview of trombone septet music by TILT Director Chris McIntyre for an upcoming site-specific event in August and virtuosic solo performances by Will Lang (Xenakis‘ tour de force Keren), Jen Baker (Giacinto Scelsi‘s wonderful Three Pieces) and Jacob Garchik (rarely heard work by Downtown legend Peter Zummo who will be on-hand and performing). Not to be missed!

TROMBONISTS
Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Sam Kulik, Will Lang, Chris McIntyre, Matt Melore, James Rogers, and Peter Zummo

PROGRAM
Jacob Druckman – Animus 1 (1966)
feat. Chris McIntyre (with tape)
Giacinto Scelsi – Three Pieces (1957)
feat. Jen Baker
Peter Zummo – Five People Taking Long Journeys Separately (1987)
feat. Jacob Garchik
Iannis Xenakis – Keren  (1986)
feat. Will Lang
Chris McIntyre – Preview from Presencing Piece No. 1 (Fed Plaza)
tutti (McIntyre – conductor)
Phill Niblock – A Third Trombone (1979)
> first live performance of the tape score (see below)
tutti

LOCATION
South Oxford Space
South Oxford St. (near Hanson Place), Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Tape score for Phill Niblock’s “A Third Trombone”

TILT Brass at Look & Listen [by Steven Schreiber]

TILT Brass returns to Invisible Dog for our Look & Listen Festival debut!

Featuring 2 premieres: a brand new Sextet piece by TILT Director Chris McIntyre and James Tenney‘s early 70’s brass ensemble  experiment Homage To Perotin.

Listen: Tenney – 59:30 | McIntyre – 1:18:50

NY Times ArtsBeat on 2014 Look & Listen

PROGRAM
Chris McIntyre – Dedifferentiation with Brass: Fabrics (Premiere)
TILT Brass Sextet (3 trumpets, 3 trombones)
James Tenney – Homage to Perotin (In The Phrygian Mode) (1973) (East Coast Premiere)
5 trumpets, 2 horns, 3 trombones, tuba

PERSONNEL
trumpet – Mike Gurfield, Rich Johnson, Tim Leopold, Sam Nester, Stephanie Richards
trombone – Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Chris McIntyre, James Rogers (bass)
horn – Rachel Drehmann, Jason Sugata
tuba – Dan Peck
conductor – Chris McIntyre

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Chris McIntyre

James Tenney (1934 – 2006)

TILT Brass plays Herndon, 3/10/14

TILT Brass joins its colleagues in New Thread Quartet and soprano Gelsey Bell for a stellar program being presented in the architectural gem Gould Memorial Library on the campus of Bronx Community College. Organized by composer Anthony Gatto, TILT et al. will present a section of his new opera Wise Blood as well as an early 90’s work by the venerated composer/theorist James Tenney. Gelsey and trombonist Jen Baker will limn the space with Bell’s Axis Turn TILT will also reprise the talented young composer Holly Herndon‘s Being There (premiered during the 2013 River To River Festival).

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LOCATION
Gould Memorial Library
Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY [map]

PROGRAM
Holly Herndon – Being There (2013)
TILT Brass
Gelsey Bell – Axis Turn from Our Defensive Measurements (2013)
Ms. Bell (voice), Jen Baker (trombone)
James Tenney – Form 1 (in memoriam Edgar Varése) (1993)
tutti
Marcelo F. Lazcano – Ser (2014)
New Thread Quartet
Anthony Gatto – Selection from Wise Blood (2013)
Gelsey Bell- soprano; TILT Brass; New Thread Quartet

PERSONNEL
David Bloom – conductor
Gelsey Bell – soprano

TILT Brass:
Thomas Bergeron, Gareth Flowers, Timothy Leopold, Stephanie Richards – trumpet
Jen Baker, William Lang, Chris McIntyre, James Rogers – low brass
Wei-Ping Chou, Jenny Ney, Rheagan Osteen, Jason Sugata – horn

New Thread Quartet:
Geoffrey Landman – soprano saxophone
Kristen McKeon – alto saxophone
Erin Rogers – tenor saxophone
Zach Herchen – baritone saxophone

“Seven Storey Mountain” at 2014 Winter Jazz Fest (Photo by Dan Hirsch)

Part of the 2014 Winter Jazz Fest

NYU Lounge
40 Washington Squre South, Manhattan
9:15PM

PERSONNEL
Nate Wooley – composer, amplified trumpet
Chris Corsano, Ryan Sawyer – drums
Chris Dingman, Matt Moran – vibraphone
C. Spencer Yeh – violin & electronics
Ben Vida – electronics

TILT Brass Sextet
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold, Chris DiMeglio – trumpet
Jen Baker, Will Lang, Chris McIntyre – trombone

UllU & TILT Brass at Roulette (by. S. Gladstone)

After a memorable performance of TILT Director Chris McIntyre’s Dedifferentiation with Brass in June, TILT Brass and UllU duo (McIntyre and Either/Or’s Dave Shively) again join forces for an event at composer Phil Niblock’s venerated SoHo loft venue Experimental Intermedia for a night of ecstatic noise and orchestral bliss.

UllU duo at Incubator Arts Project

TILT Brass:
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpet
Jen Baker, Will Lang, Chris McIntyre – trombone
James Rogers – contrabass trombone

UllU duo:
Chris McIntyre – trombone, Nord Lead 2, percussion, compositions
David Shively – feed back percussion, analog organ, compositions

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TILT Brass is featured during a day-long event celebrating the release of acclaimed violinist Hilary Hahn‘s CD In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores. One of the 27 commissioned encores on the new disc is by British composer and improviser Richard Barrett. TILT is honored to present this singular artist’s work to Ms. Hahn’s audience, including the US Premiere of the duo work Aurora for flugelhorn and alto trombone.

TILT PROGRAM
basalt (1990-91)
Chris McIntyre – solo trombone

Aurora (2005-10) (US Premiere)
from CONSTRUCTION: resistance & vision part 8/8
Tim Leopold – flugelhorn; Will Lang – alto trombone

From Greenwich House Music School event page:

“[Hilary] Hahn will host an all-day event at the Greenwich House Music School in the West Village of New York City on November 3.. Composers Nico Muhly, David Lang, Jennifer Higdon, Tina Davidson, Avner Dorman, Paul Moravec, Christos Hatzis and Jeff Myers will hold office hours and participate on panels at the school itself. “The Village,” which features a film score by James Newton Howard performed by Hahn, will be screened. Du Yun will create an immersive sound installation. JACK Quartet, TILT Brass, multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp, pianist Mackenzie Melemed, traditional Japanese instrumentalists Tomoko Sugawara and Ralph Samuelson, and others will perform. Hahn and her recital partner Cory Smythe will play all 27 encores throughout the day.”

TILT Zug Septet with Mario Diaz De Leon

From Roulette event page:

Composer and guitarist Mario Diaz de Leon, whose recent works have been hailed for their “hallucinatory intensity” by The New York Times, returns to Roulette with a concert of new works for ensembles. Featuring the world premiere of The Chapel Abyss, an octet composed for Talea Ensemble and commissioned by Roulette/NYSCA, and Bellum for brass septet and electronics, composed for TILT Brass, and Luciform for flute and electronics, Diaz de Leon continues his ongoing collaborations with dynamic classical ensembles of the highest calibre, combining the inventive language of contemporary classical music with overtones of underground metal and noise/drone.

TILT PERSONNEL
Chris McIntyre – conductor
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpet
Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombone
David Byrd-Marrow, Jason Sugata – horn
Dan Peck – tuba

PROGRAM
Bellum (2013) for brass septet and electronics with TILT Brass
Luciform (2013) for flute and electronics with soloist Claire Chase
Trembling Time II (2009) for string trio with Talea Ensemble
The Chapel Abyss (2013) for octet with Talea Ensemble – world premiere – Roulette/NYSCA commission

Garden II: House at CCA in Santa Fe, June 2012 (by D. McLaughlin)

Commissioned by TILT Brass and premiered in NYC in Sept. 2011, Chris Jonas’ Garden II: House project arrives in Brooklyn for a performance during Anthony Braxton’s Tri-Centric Festival. Jonas and TILT are honored to share the bill with stellar saxophonist and composer Steve Lehman.

PERSONNEL
Chris Jonas – composer and video artist, soprano saxophone
Chris DeMiglio – trumpet
Chris McIntyre, Dan Blacksberg – trombone
Dylan McLaughlin – video projection

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Opening movement of Garden II: House

TILT Brass giving premiere of Christian Wolff’s ‘Octet’, Sep. 10, 2013 (by K. Gottschalk)

Emerging from the glow of our epic anniversary festival in June, TILT 10, TILT Brass is very psyched to rejoin our friends at Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT Music) for another exciting event at Roulette.

In addition to the distinction of sharing a bill with Mr. Roy Campell Jr.’s Akhenaten Large Ensemble, we have the honor to present the work of legendary composer and pianist Christian Wolff. The program includes the premiere of Octet (brass players & a violinist), commissioned by FONT and dedicated to TILT. Trumpeter Gareth Flowers and special guest Josh Modney on violin will also play Duo 6 from 2005.

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From Roulette event page:

… FONT Music presents Music for Small, Medium and Massive: Premieres, Fanfares and Remembrance, a marked exposition of sound for trumpet including commissions and tributes to friends old and new, premieres and fanfares, and music for 52 trumpets across two nights…

This year we open the festivities… with a mixed Christian Wolff brass program with TILT Brass and a premiere of a new piece commissioned by FONT from the Roy Campbell Jr. Akhenaten Large Ensemble.

Christian Wolff Music with TILT Brass
Octet (brass players & a violinist) (2013), world premiere, commissioned by FONT
Duo 6 (2005) for violin and trumpet
Edges (1968) for any number of players (tutti with Mr. Wolff)

PERSONNEL
Gareth Flowers*, Tim Leopold, Nate Wooley – trumpet
Chris McIntyre, Jacob Garchik, Will Lang – trombone
Jason Sugata – horn; Josh Modney* – violin
*performing both works

Christian Wolff (by Chris McIntyre)

TILT Brass completes its month-long TILT 10 Festival as resident brass ensemble for New Amsterdam Presents’ Ecstatic Summer 2013, an evening of premieres presented on the Hudson River at Brookfield Place Plaza (part of 2013 River To River Festival).

From the River To River website:

“…organized by New Amsterdam Presents in association with Kaufman Music Center, Ecstatic Summer 2013 features two full sets of newly commissioned, collaboratively-based music; one for brass and the other for percussion. Part concert and part “happening,” the two sets will be completely acoustic, site-specific events, designed specifically to fill the stunning waterfront plaza of Brookfield Place with over a dozen musicians involved in each set. Composers include Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Dave Douglas, Susie Ibarra, Seth Olinsky (Akron/Family).”

TILT PERSONNEL
Chris McIntyre – trombone, Director
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold, Tom Bergeron, Chris DiMeglio – trumpet
Jen Baker, Will Lang, James Rogers – trombone
Danielle Kuhlmann, Jason Sugata – horn
Joe Exley, Jacob Garchik  – tuba

Ecstatic Summer 2013 on R2R website

Presented by the River To River Festival 2013 and Arts Brookfield. All events at the World Financial Center are sponsored by American Express, Bank of America, Battery Park City Authority and Brookfield.

NY Times Review

Entitled TILT Brass presents TILT 10: An Anniversary Celebration, our 27 June Roulette event is TILT 10 Festival’s centerpiece concert. In addition to works from TILT’s repertoire, this program includes the world premiere of 4 commissioned works by local and international composers. This extraordinary evening of new brass music is being performed by 3 different instrumental combinations: TILT Brass Sextet, the founding 10-piece ensemble TILT Creative Brass Band, and a new group, TILT Zug Septet.

Roulette June 27 Artist Info: Composers | Players

PROGRAM
Lainie Fefferman Big Breath (2013)* – Sextet
Andrew Hamilton (IR) Love and Goodness (2013)* – Creative Brass Band
Enno Poppe (DE) Zug (2008)** – Zug Septet
Chris McIntyre Dedifferentiation No. 1 (2013)* – Sextet & UllU
[Intermission]
Filippo Perocco (IT) vertigo parla* – Creative Brass Band
Anthony Coleman Acute Coryza (2009) – Sextet
Mario Diaz de Leon Bellum (2013)* – Zug Septet
Jon Gibson Multiples (1972) – TILT Brass tutti
* = world premiere
** = US premiere

PERSONNEL
Conductor: Ted Hearne
Trumpet: Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold, Chris DiMeglio
Trombone: Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Chris McIntyre, Will Lang
Horn: David Byrd-Marrow, Jason Sugata
Tuba: Joe Exley, Dan Peck
Percussion: Chris Nappi, David Shively

UllU: Chris McIntyre & David Shively

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R. Murray Schafer

Returning to The Lake at Central Park (SWELTER, 2011), TILT Brass celebrates Canadian composer and sound theorist R. Murray Schafer’s 80th birthday with a special FREE performance of Music for Wilderness Lake (1979). A work for 12 trombones, …Wilderness Lake is in two parts: at sunset (Dusk) and at sunrise (Dawn).

Performance Schedule on June 21:
7:30am – Dawn from Music for Wilderness Lake
8:15pm – Dusk from Music for Wilderness Lake
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TILT Brass Trombones:
Chris McIntyre (TILT Director), Jen Baker, Brian Drye, Jacob Garchik, Ben Gerstein, Kevin James, Will Lang, Mike Lormand, Johannes Pfannkuch, James Rogers

Organized by:
Americas Society / Council of the Americas
Make Music New York

TILT Brass and its Sextet project make their Bang on a Can Marathon and River To River Festival debut performing John King’s Astral Epitaphs (2011) with Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

TILT PERSONNEL
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold, Tom Bergeron – trumpet
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombone

John King’s ‘Astral Epitaphs’ at 2013 Bang On a Can Marathon, NYC

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To prepare for its ambitious TILT 10 Festival programs, TILT Brass has the honor of being  Resident Artists for 2 weeks at the prestigious Baryshnikov Arts Center on Manhattan’s West Side.

VIDEO: BAC Residency | TILT Brass | Spring 2013
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TILT Brass in residence at Baryshnikov Arts Center

TILT Brass Sextet again joins forces with long-time TILT associate Nate Wooley at ISSUE Project Room for the first complete iteration of his leviathan Seven Storey Mountain project (also featuring Chris Corsano and Ryan Sawyer, drums; Matt Moran and Chris Dingman – vibes; C. Spencer Yeh – violin; Ben Vida – electronics).

TILT PERSONNEL
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold, Chris DiMeglio – trumpet
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombone

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Nate Wooley’s ‘Seven Storey Mountain’ , photo by Lorissa Rinehart

Dave Shively at rehearsal at Dartmouth

TILT Brass visits Dartmouth College Department of Music in Hanover, NH for three days of masterclasses, student composition workshops, and public performances.

PERSONNEL
Chris McIntyre – trombone, music director
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpet; Rich Johnson – trumpet & sampler Jason Sugata – French horn; Jen Baker – trombone; Ben Stapp – tuba; Dave Shively – percussion

512 W. 19th St (btw 10th & 11th Ave)
Saturday, March 23, 8pm
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Making its Kitchen debut, TILT Brass’ Sextet joins cellist Okkyung Lee in revisiting legendary composer and computer musician David Behrman‘s work Open Space With Brass at The Kitchen in Chelsea.

The work was first heard during the Merce Cunningham Dance Company‘s final performances in December 2011 at Park Avenue Armory.  They again join forces as part of the Synth Nights, an

“…intergenerational electronic music series features recent and vintage works by… Behrman, including Runthrough (1968, for homemade synthesizers and light-controlled mixers), Cello with Melody-driven Electronics (1974, for cello with pitch-sensors and triangle-wave generators), Interspecies Smalltalk (1984, for violin, keyboard, Apple II computer and accessories)… and Ben Vida collaborates with Greg Davis to present a new work, Tripartite Node, utilizing a hybrid computer/analog synthesizing setup designed for real-time composition and centralized control-source improvisations.”       [from The Kitchen website]

TILT Brass Sextet at The Kitchen
Dave Ballou, Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpet
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombone

John King’s Astral Epitaphs at Roulette

Friday, December 7, 8pm
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave (On the corner of Atlantic & 3rd Aves)

John King

TILT Brass revisits John King’s spectacular work for brass sextet and live electronics, Astral Epitaphs. It was written for and premiered by TILT during the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s final concerts at the Park Avenue Armory.

Also on the program: world premiere of Kosmos for  string quartet featuring Conrad Harris & Corneilus Dufallo on violin, Yves Dharamraj on cello, and King on viola; and TILT, the quartet, and several more heavyweight local musicians also giving the premiere of (climax in) The Deserts of Love, an indeterminate work for large ensemble and soprano, featuring Melissa Fogarty. A poetic reduction of the Arthur Rimbaud text.

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John King – Astral Epitaphs (2011)
for TILT Brass

PESONNEL
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombones
Tom Bergeron, Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpets
Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Dianne Berkun, director
John King – live-electronics

DITHER

Saturday, November 17, 5 – 10 pm
The Invisible Dog Art Center
51 Bergen Street
Brooklyn, NY, 11201 [map]
$8 admission

TILT Brass is part of a fantastic line-up (see below) of New Yorkers gathered for Dither’s annual bash at Invisibile Dog in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. TILT’s performance is solely focused on Lois V. Vierk’s epic 1990 work for brass sextet Jagged Mesa. ID’s vast industrial interior is perfectly suited to present Vierk’s work antiphonally as intended. Not an event to be missed!

TILT plays at 5:30 sharp! 

PROGRAM
Lois V. Vierk – Jagged Mesa (1990) for brass sextet

PERSONNEL
Tim Leopold, Tom Bergeron – trumpet
Jen Baker, Chris McIntyre – trombone
Will Lang, James Rogers – bass trombone

Performances by:
Dither
Anthony Coleman & Ashley Paul
Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone
Victoire
Peter Evans
Preshish Moments
TILT Brass
Object Collection

Details at  theinvisibledog.org/dither-extravaganza
and ditherquartet.com/news.html

TILT plays Vierk at Invisible Dog

Meta Trombone featuring Chris McIntyre

Saturday, October 27, 2012 8pm
Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow Street NY, NY  [map]
$15 ($12)

TILT Brass presents the debut of Director Chris McIntyre’s new solo trombone program, Meta Trombone. World premiere performances of works by Anthony Coleman and McIntyre, as well as UK/Berlin composer Richard Barrett’s Basalt (1991) and McIntyre’s realization of Cage’s Variations IV (1963) involving multiple radios.

PROGRAM
John Cage Variations IV (1963, realization by McIntyre ’12)
Richard Barrett Basalt (1991)**
Anthony Coleman The Thingliness of the Thing (2012)*
Chris McIntyre Phono-Marker from Smithson Project (2012)*
* World Premiere
** US Premiere

McIntyre plays Berio (by L. Bailey)

Trombonist, composer, and TILT Brass Director Christopher McIntyre presents Meta Trombone, a program of works for solo trombone (unaccompanied and with electronics) that presents a number of radically differing contemporary musical languages, each maintaining focus on the idiomatic sound and mechanisms of the instrument itself. Works include the ecstatically virtuosic Basalt by British “New Complexity” composer Richard Barrett, seminal indeterminate work by American music icon John Cage, and 2 world premiere performances of works by McIntyre himself (a solo live-electronic addition to his burgeoning series of works taking inspiration from American Earth artist Robert Smithson) and legendary “Downtown” New York pianist and composer Anthony Coleman.

Andriessen and Wooley Premieres plus Ballou
Part of Festival of New Trumpet’s 10th Anniversary Festival

Read NY Times Review 

Friday, Sept. 21st, 2012, 8pm
University Settlement – Speyer Hall
184 Eldridge Street NY, NY [Gmap]
$15 ($10 seniors/students/FONT members)
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Louis Andriessen (by F. Capatella)

On Friday, September 21, at the Lower East Side venue University Settlement, TILT Brass joins forces with Dave Douglas’ Festival of New Trumpet (FONT) to present a singular evening of vanguard brass music premieres. Part of FONT’s month-long 10th anniversary celebration, the program features the long-overdue New York Premiere of venerated Dutch composer Louis Andriessen’s seminal 1972 40+ minute tour de force de Volharding (Perseverance) and the World Premiere of the brass ensemble and solo trumpet installment of iconoclast Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain project.

Nate Wooley (by P. Gannushkin)

These works as well as trumpeter/composer Dave Ballou’s for three trumpets (written for and premiered by TILT in 2003) will be brought to life by stellar TILT Brass regulars (trumpeters Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold, and Chris DiMeglio, trombonists Jen Baker, Will Lang, and TILT Director Chris McIntyre) and special guests virtuoso pianist Stephen Gosling, and Matt Bauder, Jackson Moore, and Dan Blake on saxophones.

PERSONNEL
Chris McIntyre – music director, trombone
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold, Chris DiMeglio – trumpet
Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombone
Matt Bauder, Jackson Moore, Dan Blake – saxophones (Andriessen)
Stephen Gosling – piano (Andriessen)
Nate Wooley – amplified trumpet solo (Wooley)

PROGRAM
Dave Ballou   for three trumpets (2003)
Nate Wooley   Seven Storey Mountain 4 (2012)*
intermission
Louis Andriessen de Volharding (1972)**
* – World Premiere
** – East Coast Premiere

John Cage (b. Sept 5, 1912)

Cage100 Festival, day 2: The Noisy Cage
Wednesday, Sept. 5th, 2012
The Stone (corner of Ave C & E. 2nd St – gmap)
8 and 10 pm

TILT Brass celebrates John Cage’s 100th birthday at The Stone with an all-star line-up of local avant garde heroes. TILT performs a brass sextet iteration of Atlas Eclipticalis (1961).

Personnel:
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold, Chris DiMeglio – trumpet
Jen Baker, Will Lang, James Rogers – trombones
Chris McIntyre – conductor

From The Stone’s website:
The John Cage Variety Show Big Band directed by Miguel Frasconi
Miguel Frasconi (glass, electronics) Daniel Goode (clarinet) Kathleen Supové (piano) Chris McIntyre (trombone) Cristian Amigo, Richard Carrick (guitars) David Watson (bagpipes) Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon) John King (viola) Erin Rogers (sax) Guy Barash (computer) Shannon Fields (voice) Damon Holzborn (ipad) special guest TILT Brass.

Celebrating the composer on the day of his birth, 100 years ago. Pieces will include Sonata for Clarinet (1932), In a Landscape (1948), Fontana Mix (1958), Aria (1958), Music for Amplified Toy Pianos (1960), Variations II (1961), Atlas Eclipticalis (1962), Solos from Song Books (1970), Child of Tree (1975), Composed Improvisations (1990), and an ensemble performance of 4’33” (1952).

Garden II: House at CCA in Santa Fe

Friday & Saturday, June 29 & 30
Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe
1050 Old Pecos Trail Santa Fe, NM 87505
FREE!

TILT Brass and Littleglobe present composer and media artists Chris Jonas’ Garden II: House as part of the Currents 2012 Festival at the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Santa Fe. After a successful premiere run in New York in the Fall of 2011, Jonas and company are staging the second chapter of the Garden trilogy in Santa Fe. Locals and Festival attendees will relish in House’s gloriously brassy sound and vivid projected video, all within in CCA’s wonderful open space.

From the composer:
“Garden is a three chapter series of live, music-driven intermedia performance/installations. Chapter 2 (House) is a collaboration between myself (music and video), NYC-based TILT Brass, and the Littleglobe creative team in Santa Fe working on the project’s projected video, a set of transparent screens (enveloping the performers), performative movement and music. The resulting hour long intermedia composition takes place in front of a live audience within the multiple layers of video screens, mixing live music with projected video of imaginary human structures and landscapes exploring expressive, atmospheric, metaphoric, psychological and cross-cultural realms of place, dwelling, urban identity and the human environment.” Chris Jonas

Created in part via Jonas’ 2008 United States Artists’ Simon Fellowship and recipient of the Meet the Composer Commissioning Music/USA award in 2010, Garden II: House features the composer on soprano saxophone alongside the world class musicians of Brooklyn’s acclaimed experimental brass group TILT Brass, including Chris McIntyre (TILT Director) and Jen Baker on trombone, and Chris Dimeglio on trumpet.

Garden Project: littleglobe.org/garden
Chris Jonas: littleglobe.org/jonas
Currents 2012: currentsnewmedia.org/currents2012.html

Wednesday, May 30th, 7:30pm
Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow Street NY, NY  [map]
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TILT Brass presents its annual Chamber Music Show at Greenwich House Music School. TILT’s all-star lineup perform works by American and European composers, including a US premiere from Downtown veteran John King, Fredric Rzewski‘s Minimalist solo trombone work Last Judgment, “classic” brass repertoire from Ingram Marshall and Iannis Xenakis, and stylishly idiomatic solo works from Matthias Pintscher and local iconoclast Kitty Brazelton.

PRESS
“…the musical material was presented with tremendous clarity and simplicity, given time to breathe, and worked on my ears to create an enticing musical experience.”
David Pearson, icareifyoulisten.com

PROGRAM
Iannis Xenakis – Mnamas Xapin Witoldowi Lutoslawskiemu (1994) for 2 trumpets and horns
Kitty Brazelton – Sonar Como Una Tromba Larga (1998) solo trombone & soundtrack [feat. Baker]
Fredric Rzewski – Last Judgment (1969) for solo trombone [feat. McIntyre]
Matthias Pintscher – Shining Forth (2008) for solo trumpet [feat. Flowers]
John King – Hammerbone (2005)* for trombone duo and live electronics [feat. McIntyre & Baker]
Ingram Marshall – Fog Tropes (1981) for brass sextet and tape

* US Premiere

PERSONNEL

Chris McIntyre trombone, music director
Tim Leopold, Andy Kozar, Gareth Flowers trumpet
Kate Sheeran, Matt Marks horn
Jen Baker trombone; Mike Lormand bass trombone 

TILT Brass at 2012 New Music Bake Sale

On Sunday, March 11th at 10pm, TILT Brass joins the fray as a performing ensemble during the 3rd Annual New Music Bake Sale at Roulette new Brooklyn home. Works on the 20 minute program include Selections from Mauricio Kagel’s Ten Marches (to miss the victory) [1978/9] (listen to an excerpt of No.4 here!) and local NYC hero Jon Gibson’s Multiples [1972].

Bake Sale Personnel:
Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpet
Chris McIntyre, James Rogers – trombone
Matt Marks – French horn
Ben Stapp – tuba
Dave Shively – percussion

New Music Bake Sale Website

Dec. ’11 Park Ave. Armory Events – Merce Cunningham Dance Co.

Park Avenue Armory Events
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Choreography by Merce Cunningham
Arranged by Robert Swinston
Music by David Behrman, John King, Takehisa Kosugi, and Christian Wolf
Décor by Daniel Arsham

TILT Brass is featured on 2 of the 4 world premiere compositions during the historic final performances of MCDC. John King’s Astral Epitaphs and David Behrman’s Open Space for brass feature a 6-piece ensemble of trumpets and trombones, filling the enormous Park Avenue Armory Drill Hall space with live and digitally processed sound.

TILT Brass w/ MCDC
Russ Johnson, Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpets
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombone

Back Row (L to R): Doug Detrick, David Behrman, Jesse Stiles, Robyn Schulkowsky, Takehisa Kosugi, John King, Jen Baker, Tim Leopold, Russ Johnson. Fron Row: Joey Baron, Christian Wolff, Chris McIntyre, Will Lang, Gareth Flowers, Okkyung Lee

Event Page on PAA site

Chris Jonas

GARDEN II: House (world premiere)
by Chris Jonas

Friday, Sept. 30 & Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011
8pm

Purchase Tickets ($10)

University Settlement
184 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002

“A deeply nuanced world — Jonas crafts a richly expansive sound that stresses subtle timbral shadings and tersely composed phrases punctuated by sudden bursts of flavorful improvisation … Distinctive, accessible, simple and achingly beautiful.”

Michael Kremer, Jazziz

Herb Robertson

At University Settlement on Friday and Saturday, September 30 and October 1, 2011, TILT Brass presents the World Premiere of GARDEN II: House, a newly commissioned intermedia work (music and video) by Santa Fe-based composer, performer, media artist and United States Artists Simon Fellow Chris Jonas. In addition to the integral video and installation production work by Santa Fe-based Littleglobe, GARDEN II: House features local heroes of creative music Herb Robertson on trumpet and Joe Fiedler on trombone, along with the composer on soprano saxophone and TILT Brass Director Chris McIntyre also on trombone. House is staged within the unusual set-up of a cube of transparent video screens that envelop the performing quartet (see video below for installation view).

Joe Fiedler

This innovative blend of acoustic musical interactivity with three dimensional video projection garnered the project a prestigious Meet the Composer Commissioning Music/USA award in 2010.

Complete Press Release for GARDEN II: House

TILT House Quartet
Chris Jonas  composer, soprano sax
Herb Robertson trumpet
Joe Fiedler trombone
Chris McIntyre trombone

Littleglobe Team
Acushla Bastible Stage Director (performance)
Echo Gustafson Choreography/Movement (video)
Charles Gamble Actor/Movement (video)
Dylan McLaughlin Cinematography (video)

Littleglobe’s Garden Project page
Preview material for Chris Jonas’ Garden II House Sept/Oct 2011

TILT Brass Chamber Music Show

ISSUE Project Room
8pm, $10/$8 IPR Members

323 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11215 [map]
Ticket & Venue Info HERE

Members of TILT Brass projects gather to perform a wide range of rarely heard chamber works for brass, percussion and electronics by European and NYC-based composers, including the New York premiere of Herakles 2 by acclaimed German composer Heiner Goebbels.

PROGRAM
Richard Barrett – EARTH (1987-88)
trombone and percussion
Chris McIntyre – quartet music (2010)
trumpet, horn, bass trombone, synthesizer
Peter Zummo – Instruments (1980)
trumpet, trombone, cello, marimba
Heiner Goebbels – Herakles 2 (1992)
brass quintet, percussion, sampler

PERSONNEL
Chris McIntyre – trombone, music director
Jessie Marino – cello; Dave Shively – percussion; Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpets; Nathan Koci – French horn, synth; Matt Marks – French horn, sampler; James Rogers – bass trombone; Ben Stapp – tuba

TILT Brass performing SWELTER at The Lake in Central Park 6/21/11

MATA presents TILT Brass & Friends in 2 performances
SWELTER, a site-specific work by Super Critical Mass

<<<NY Times reviews 6/21/11 Central Park Lake performance>>>

Performance #1 – 3:30pm (approx 35 mins)
Performance #2 – 5:00pm (approx 35 mins)

On June 21st, 2011, MATA presents TILT Brass performing SWELTER, a large-scale musical event in Central Park as part of Make Music New York. The performance brings together dozens of brass players spatialized around Central Park Lake to play a new ambient music-scape created by Super Critical Mass, Australian sound artist trio Julian Day, Luke Jaaniste and Janet McKay. SWELTER’s primary intended audience is those on row boats on the water so be sure to arrive early to rent a boat!

VIDEO: Short by Stephen Taylor

VIDEO: Site Test on 6/14/11

Front to Back: Zeena Parkins, Ikue Mori, Peter Evans, Nate Wooley

To TILT: Volume One CD Release & Benefit Concert
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011, 7:30pm

Invisible Dog Art Center
51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201

Special Guests:
Zeena Parkins – harp, electronics
Ikue Mori – electronics
John King – electronics
Peter Evans – amplified trumpet
Nate Wooley – amplified trumpet

TILT Brass Personnel
Trumpet
Gareth Flowers, Rich Johnson, Russ Johnson, Andy Kozar, Nate Wooley
French horn
John Clark, Greg Evans, Nathan Koci
Trombone
Curtis Hasselbring, Will Lang, Christopher McIntyre
Bass trombone
Jacob Garchik, James Rogers
Tuba
John Altieri, Joe Exley
Percussion
Kevin Norton

PROGRAM
Rhys Chatham Waterloo No.2 (1985)
Flowers, Johnson, Kozar, Johnson, Lang, Rogers, Koci

TILT SIXtet
John King Baghdad Blues (in memoriam James Tenney) (2007)
Chris McIntyre Metaxis 2.3 (2007)
Johnson, Wooley, Hasselbring, McIntyre, Altieri, Exley, King

Lois V. Vierk Jagged Mesa (1990)
Johnson, Flowers, McIntyre, Lang, Garchik, Rogers

INTERMISSION

Christian Marclay Through The Looking Glass (1985)
Johnson, Wooley, Koci, McIntyre

TILT Creative Brass Band
Mauricio Kagel Selections from 10 Marches (to miss the victory) (1978/79)
Curtis Hasselbring Revisitor (2009)
Flowers, Johnson, Kozar, Clark, Koci, Hasselbring, Lang, Garchik, Exley, Norton, McIntyre

Phantom Orchard (Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori) and Nate Wooley/Peter Evans Trumpet Duo
Improvisations