November 10, 2019 6PM at The Black House, Montreal, Canada. I’ll play a solo 90 minute set of Michael Pisaro’s Within 6 with film from Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, and Soloist and Audience by Jennie Gottschalk, I’ll also premiere a new work by Kim Farris-Manning, and Kim will play new works for piano and voice, all alongside the art of Rachel Gray.
December 6, 2019 6-8PM UMOCA, SLC, Utah. I’m curating an evening of music at Kelsey Harrison’s Never An Hour For Thought sculpture intermedia at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. Red Desert will play Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting In A Room, Carolyn Chen’s In 1839 it was considered elegant to take a tortoise out walking, Lucie Vitkova’s FIVE and AOUIE by Susanna Gartmayer and new works by Devin Maxwell and I for furniture, text, electronics, clarinets and snare drums.
Jan 1, 2020 4PM Brooklyn, NY. A new year’s day show on Teodora Stepancic’s 597 Concert Series. 90 mins of Michael Pisaro’s Within 6 with film/audio from Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, a RED DESERT set with music by Johanna Beyer, Devin Maxwell, Pauline Oliveros, Tim Parkinson and Lucie Vitkova. Tea and cake, and then new quartet by Assaf Gidron with Teodora Stepancic. Happy new year!! (email for address/info)
Feb 12, 2020 7PM BETALEVEL, Los Angeles, CA. I’m playing the Sun Tunnels 90 minutes of Michael Pisaro Within 6, live and with film/audio from the site.
Feb 15, 2020 7PM Los Angeles, CA. CLARINET QUINTETS at HUMAN RESOURCES- Katie Porter with the Koan Quartet play Jurg Frey Quintet (1998) and Morton Feldman Clarinet and String Quartet (1983).
Feb 25-28, 2020 Red Desert residency at Casper College in Casper, WY. We workshop and perform new bass clarinet and percussion works with Ron Coulter and percussion students for a concert Feb 27 at Casper College, Wheeler Concert Hall.
Feb 28, 2020 Red Desert at Glitter City in Denver, CO with Ryan Seward and New Topographics.
March 2, 2020 Red Desert at Westminster College. As part of our year-long artist residency at the Florence J Gillmor School of Music at Westminster College, we have commissioned several new works for clarinet and percussion duo. This concert includes world premieres by Andre Cormier, Carolyn Chen, Teodora Stepancic, Will Lang, Devin Maxwell, Katie Porter, Judith Berkson, and James Falzone.
March 16, 2020 bass clarinet solo by Manuela Meier on the Abravanel Composer Series. SLC, UT (POSTPONED)