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I perform Hi, Chuck, a sonic memoir built around a cassette tape my mother recorded in 1990.
$20 suggested | pay what you can | students free
Playing violin for a performance of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with String Orchestra of Brooklyn.
Info and tickets here.
I give a presentation on my recent music to the composition students and faculty at Brooklyn College.
Shawn Jaeger: we were happy were we
Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41 No. 1
Various: “The Aizuri Songbook”
A celebration of the most direct human expression of music, featuring a soulful, beautiful and surprising collection of songs from diverse time periods, traditions and styles, written and arranged for string quartet.
More info here
A concert exploring intimacy’s push and pull, with music by Matthew Ricketts, Thomas Adès, Katie Balch, Caroline Shaw, Shawn Jaeger, Tonia Ko, and others. Featuring soprano Robin Steitz and baritone Dominik Belavy, and joined by curator Nathaniel LaNasa at the piano.
featuring desire, for voice and piano
Tickets and info here
Flute recital featuring works by Cornish composers, sonatas by JS Bach and Erwin Schulhoff and three slow, contemplative works, including my piece, going away.
Will Sleath, flute
Tim Carey, piano
Info here
A program curated by Momenta Quartet’s cellist, Michael Haas, featuring:
Elizabeth Brown: Just Visible in the Distance (2013)
Valentin Silvestrov: String Quartet no. 3 (2011)
Shawn Jaeger: Thy Wondering Eyes (2010)
benefit for Music for Food; free admission
Shawn Jaeger: we were happy were we
Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41 No. 1
Various: “The Aizuri Songbook”
A celebration of the most direct human expression of music, featuring a soulful, beautiful and surprising collection of songs from diverse time periods, traditions and styles, written and arranged for string quartet.
Free, more info here
The Red Bank Chamber Music Society presents the Aizuri Quartet’s program, “Song Emerging”:
Shawn Jaeger: we were happy were we
Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41 No. 1
Various: “The Aizuri Songbook”
A celebration of the most direct human expression of music, featuring a soulful, beautiful and surprising collection of songs from diverse time periods, traditions and styles, written and arranged for string quartet.
Kate Maroney and Joel Harder perform my song, Resignation, as part of the BASS’s 2022 New Voices Festival, alongside works by Eve Beglarian, Missy Mazzoli, Reynaldo Moya, Carlos Simon, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Nina Young.
More info here: http://brooklynartsongsociety.org/new-voices-festival-confessions-i/
Bassist Kathryn Schulmeister presents “Perspectives of the Bass,” a diverse program of music ranging from classical to contemporary that features the unique expressive potential of the double bass. Joined by pianist Nick Sanders, drummer Julien Cantelm, and vocalist Jasper Sussman, this program takes you on a sonic journey from Appalachian folk-inspired chamber music to contemporary jazz and beyond.
Featuring my piece, In Old Virginny
Ticketed, in person and free livestream
https://www.museumofmakingmusic.org/events/sdsp-kathryn-schulmeister
ekmeles performs love is at Bowling Green State University’s Music at the Forefront 21-22 concert series.
More info: https://www.bgsu.edu/musical-arts/maccm/events.html
ekmeles premieres love is on a program also featuring music by James Weeks, Nirmali Fenn, and Anthony Braxton:
“The program includes a world premiere by Shawn Jaeger, playing with the boundaries between words and their meanings. James Weeks’s Primo Libro explores the origins of the madrigal through engagement with Arcadelt’s first book of madrigals, setting them in a 31-tone division of the octave. Nirmali Fenn’s Pokój w pokoju takes a different approach to microtonality, setting each half of the ensemble in a different tuning system. Finally, Anthony Braxton’s Composition no. 255 presents a rich and monumental environment for performance, blurring lines between interpretation and improvisation.”
More info here.
I give a presentation called “Closeness and Vulnerability,” discussing my pieces Places We Know and Hi, Chuck, as well as Brené Brown, Ocean Vuong, SZA, Solange, and Kendrick Lamar, amongst others, to the students and faculty of the University of Chicago composition seminar.
A free workshop on making music using voicemails and memos from loved ones on your phone, facilitated by Shawn Jaeger (composer/educator) and Renate Rohlfing (pianist/board-certified music therapist).
Explore memory and relationships and learn basic creative techniques in this free workshop.
Email rrohlfing [at] berklee [dot] edu to RSVP.
This project is made possible with support from City Artist Corps Grants Program.
“Throughout the ages, composers have taken their inspiration from Mother Earth, emulating nature with their music. Join us as we delve into works that honor nature, whether a bee, a trout, or an entire island! Featuring Schubert’s masterful Trout Quintet, as well as works by Shawn Jaeger and Kamala Sankaram.”
Emi Ferguson and Euntaek Kim play the third movement, '“…pour te voir [to see you]” from going away on a program also featuring music by Casarrubios, Vaughan Williams, and Copland.
Free
More info here: https://crescentcitychambermusicfestival.com/2021-concert7/
I give a presentation called “Closeness and Vulnerability,” discussing some of my recent music, as well as Brené Brown, SZA, Solange, and Ocean Vuong, amongst others, to the students and faculty of the University of Louisville School of Music’s composition department.
WUOL’s New Lens series presents a workshop performance of Hi, Chuck, a musical portrait of a young mother built from a cassette tape recorded in 1990.
https://www.thelorettoproject.com/hichuck/
This performance will be limited to Loretto Project fellows and guests. A video recording of this performance will be made available to the general public at a later date.
Composer-in-residence at the 2021 Loretto Project, led by the piano trio, Longleash. I will work with the composer fellows preparing their new pieces, discuss my music, and perform.
The violin/viola duo, andPlay, and I will workshop my new piece, embers, at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute.
Violinist Doori Na performs the Prelude from my Prelude & Fugue for solo violin, alongside works by Bach, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Paganini, Piazzola, and Schubert.
Virtual concert streaming for free: register here
Scrag Mountain Duo performs In Old Virginny on a program called “Love and Longing.”
Free livestream at: lyricachambermusic.org
Composer Shawn Jaeger (a Louisville native and YPAS alum) pays a virtual visit to LAM to chat about his musical beginnings in KY, his work as a composer, and his creation process for a unique new work, Places We Know, written for violin, cello, and MIDI keyboard. Shawn and Longleash, the commissioning ensemble, will share some behind-the-scenes tidbits about making the field recordings and videos that inspired the piece, and explain the technology that makes the piece’s unique sounds possible. Following a virtual performance of selections from Places, attendees will have a chance to participate in a Q&A moderated by LAM faculty Jacob Gotlib, and take away exciting ideas and activities that they can use in their own compositions, field recordings and creative projects.
Students and their families can participate over Zoom, and the public can watch over Facebook Live.
I give a Zoom presentation, “Sonic Memory, Grief, and Self-Therapy: Composing Hi, Chuck” for the graduate students and faculty of the NYU Steinhardt Program in Music Therapy.
Six Feet Apart visits the home of opera-singer Ariadne Greif for an intimate concert of music for voice and electronics filmed by Caroline Mariko Stucky.
Featuring my piece, Träumerei, as well as music by Saariaho.
7PM PST on Zoom and FB. More info here: bit.ly/2MZWLaZ.
Scrag Mountain Music does a livestream performance of In Old Virginny. Also featuring works by Erik Nielsen, William Parker, Katherine Balch, Evan Premo, and Lembit Beecher.
RSVP on Zoom here.
ekmeles gives the premiere performance of love is, for unaccompanied vocal quartet, on a paraphrase of text by bell hooks.
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