May 26-30, 2023 Recording residency with Judith Berkson, Laura Cetilia, Katie Porter & Christine Tavolacci, Westminster College, SLC
June 7, 2023 Infrequent Seams Festival, Qubit presents Laura Steenberge & Carolyn Chen, Shift 411, Brooklyn, NY https://www.411kent.org/shift
June 8, 2023 Infrequent Seams Festival, Katie Porter plays Johanna Beyer solos, and trio set with James Ilgenfritz & Eli Wallace, Shift 411, Brooklyn, NY https://www.411kent.org/shift
June 12-15, 2023 ELMS (Experimental Listening & Music) Residency with Jennie Gottschalk, Ian Power, Nomi Epstein, Laura Cetilia, Bahar Royaee, D. Edward Davis, Truro, MA
June 25-28, 2023 Katie Porter, Madison Greenstone, Sarah Hennies (new works & Michael Ranta)- Neighbors Gallery, Ithaca, NY
July 5-7, 2023 VU Symposium, Performances with Matthew Goodheart, Malosma by Katie Porter/Christine Tavolacci, K & L for KL2 by Phill Niblock. Park City Library, Park City, Utah https://vusymposium.org/
Aug 2-10, 2023 Eternities (Katie Porter/ Bob Bellerue) Tour- Pacific Northwest, USA. Dates TBD
Aug 19-Sept 2, 2023 Ostrava Days, Chamber Music & Orchestra new premieres, Ostrava, Czech Rep
Sept 6, 2023 Werner Dafeldecker record release, Berlin, Germany
Sept 9, 2023 Solo set at Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, collaborative work with Anne Penders, Lucin, Utah
March 11, 2023 4pm Protest Music at UMOCA, SLC. Katie Porter, clarinets. Cecyl Ruehlen, sax. Kelariz Keshavarz, flutes. In support of Women.Life.Freedom.
March 13, 2023 White Rabbit/ Red Rabbit and Protest Music at Westminster College, SLC. 5pm. Theater. 6:30pm reception. 7:30pm Protest music. Katie Porter, clarinets, Cecyl Ruehlen, sax, Kelariz Keshavarz, flutes, Indigo Rain Cook, percussion, Jin-Xiang Yu, soprano. Composer commissions by Bahar Royaee, Amin Sharifi, Devin Maxwell and Jeremy Woodruff. https://westminstercollege.edu/student-life/events-and-performances/performing-arts-events/index.html
March 16, 2023 Yasunao Tone Concert #3, Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, NYC, NY 8pm. The Fluxus-style The Seminar on the Purloined Letter (1998) is a looping, linear, a-logical composition performed by trombone, guitar, clarinet, and voice overlaid with an eponymous text written by Tone that results in a dizzying amalgamation of vocal and instrumental sound. https://artistsspace.org/programs/yasunao-tone-concert-3
First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn119 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn Heights1pm doors, 2pm music
Raven Chacon “Voiceless Mass”with Alex Waterman, Jessica Pavone, Katie Porter, Leila Bordreuil, Luke Stewart, Laura Ortman, gabby fluke-mogul, Laura Cocks, Nava Dunkelman, Steven Long, Patrick Holmes, Carlo Costa, Bob Bellerue // Eternities (Katie Porter & Bob Bellerue) // gabby fluke-mogul & Nava Dunkelman // Chloe Alexandra Thompson.
Phase to Phase in Berlin, Dec 2022. Lucio Capece & Katie Porter. Photo by Angeles Rojas
Nov 9 2022, Brian Harnetty Words and Silences premiere. Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus,Ohio. Brian Harnetty, piano, Katie Porter, bass clarinet, Jeremy Woodruff, flute/alto sax, Phil Rodriguez, trumpet and William Lang, trombone. https://wexarts.org/performing-arts/brian-harnetty-0
Nov 10, 2022 Residency/ Recording Brian Harnetty at Thomas Merton Hermitage in Kentucky
Dec 1, 2022 Brussels, Belgium. Recording Phill Niblock new piece for two bass clarinets. Katie Porter & Lucio Capece
Dec 2, 2022 Phill NiblockSub Rosa Special Arcane #6: Phill Niblock/ Katherine Liberovskaya/ Guy De Bievre / Lore Luxenborg / Lucio Capece / Katie Porter. Sweet Potato, Katie Porter & Lucio Capece (Phase to Phase) bass clarinets. Le Lac, Brussels, Belgium produced by Sub Rosa & Guy-Marc Hinant
Monday 12/5 at Berlin School of Sound, Berlin Phase to Phase (Katie Porter & Lucio Capece, bass clarinets)//Andrea Parkins (amplified objects & electronics) + Eliad Wagner (synthesizer)// Angeles Rojas -Breathe into the forest, into the bird into the song- Kevin Sommer- Bb clarinet, Katie Porter, bass clarinet, Sofia Salvo, bari sax, Jeremy Woodruff, bari sax, Lucio Capece, feedback, Julian Galay, tuning forks, Angeles Rojas, Shruti box// Jeremy Woodruff – Ne Voyne (Katie Porter, bass clarinet & Jeremy Woodruff, bari sax, field recordings)
Dec 20, 2022 Infrequent Seams Streamfest 4 at Roulette with Ghost Ensemble Catherine Lamb: interius/exterius, world premiere. Pauline Oliveros: N.Y. Air (Arctic Air) with IONE. Brooklyn, NY https://roulette.org/event/richard-teitelbaum-memorial/
Jan 26, 2023 ETERNITIES (Katie Porter/ Bob Bellerue) at Shift 411, Brooklyn, NY 8PM with David Grubbs & Eli Winter, Reg Bloor https://www.411kent.org/shift
Jan 27, 2023 ETERNITIES recording session with Bob Bellerue & Teerapat Parnmongkol at Pioneer Works, NYC
Feb 2-5, 2023Opening 23 Festival, Trier, Germany. Phase to Phase: Katie Porter/ Lucio Capece http://opening-festival.de/
Feb 7, 2023 Phase to Phase at KM28 Berlin, Germany + Sofia Salvo solo + Quentin Tolimieri’s Bass Clarinet, Piano, Bass (Katie Porter, Werner Dafeldecker, Quentin Tolimieri) https://www.km28.de/
Feb 7/8, 2023 Recordings with Lucio Capece, Quentin Tolimieri, Werner Dafeldecker in Berlin
1) Lucio Capece, Angeles Rojas, Katie Porter. 2) Phase to Phase in Brussels photo by Guy-Marc Hinant 3) Phase to Phase in Berlin photo by Udo Siegfriedt 4)Quartet or Two Duos – Red Room Baltimore 2022 James Ilgenfritz, Katie Porter, Teerapat Parnmongkol, Lucie Vitková. Photo by Sky Macklay.
Sept 10, 2022 OPUS 40 Verbatim in Saugerties,NY: Quartet or Two Duos (James Ilgenfritz, Teerapat Parnmongkol, Katie Porter, Lucie Vítková) https://opus40.org/events/
Sept 22, 2022 8PM Daniel Goode’s FLEXIBLE ORCHESTRA (NYC, NY) at @ Ukrainian National Home, 140 2nd Ave, at 9th St.
Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players proudly presents a concert by Red Desert performing new works by Han Xu, Miles Friday, María Alejandra Bulla, John Eagle, Laura Cetilia, and Joshua Biggs.
RED DESERT: Katie Porter, clarinets, Devin Maxwell, percussion
Concrete Islands // John Hastings & Aaron Meicht // Katie Porter, bass clarinet, Teodora Stepancic, keyboard, Aaron Meicht, trumpet, Ivan Barenboim, contra bass clarinet. Recorded and performed on site, various locations, NYC, NY
Daniel Goode & Katie Porter – Bridges of Pittsburgh Premiere Celebration, April 30, 2022, NYC, NY. Works by Daniel Goode, Giacinto Scelsi, Johanna Beyer. Katie Porter, Eileen Mack and Daniel Goode, clarinets.
Teerapat Parnmongkol (thung kula ronghai). Katie Porter, bass clarinet. Christ Foss, shakuhachi. Sept 2022. Judson Memorial Church, NYC, NY
KLANGRAUM residency in Dusseldorf. Week 1, July 5-10 with musicians Eva-Maria Houben, Antoine Beuger, Katie Porter, James Creed, Lörinc Muntag, Bernd Bleffert, Angeles Rojas.
Release date! JULY 3, 2022 Phase to Phase (Lucio Capece/ Katie Porter bass clarinet duo) out on FTARRI Records (Japan) I have CDs in the US! I’ve been talking about this record release for awhile but it’s been impossible to ship things from Japan, so this has been a real labor of love. https://ftarrilabel.bandcamp.com/album/phase-to-phase
July 16 BERLIN, house show with Lucio Capece to celebrate our record release!!! (contact me for details!). ;)))
KLANGRAUM Week 2 in Dusseldorf, July 19-24 Lucio Capece and I will play Phase to Phase with musicians/dancers/artists Joep Dorren, Christoph Nicolaus, Rasha Ragab, Werner Dafeldecker, Alex Mah, Arash Khakpour, Helga Fanderl, Malala Lekander, Marie-Cécile Reber, Els Van Riel.
Release date! Aug 5, 2022 Tombstones live in Brooklyn by Michael Pisaro-Liu. I’m playing bass clarinet and singing a little in these live recordings from Issue Project Room with Julia Holter, released on Jordan Dykstra’s Editions Verde.
Release date! Aug 5, 2022 Side-Scroller by Steve Horowitz. Red Desert recorded this video game inspired piece at our SFS residency
Aug 12, 2022 8pm Christine Tavolacci/ Katie Porter Duo show atUMOCA Art Opening, SLC, Utah
KLANGRAUM residency, Dusseldorf July 2022. Installation by Bernd Bleffert
April 27 Shift 02: Act 1: Quartet or Two Duos (Ilgenfritz, Porter, Parnmongkol, Vítková) Act 2: Michael Foster & Ben Bennett 411 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY www.411kent.org
Quartet or Two Duos (James Ilgenfritz, Teerapat Parnmongkol, Katie Porter, Lucie Vítková) with Nepenthae : Zach Layton, Henry Fraser and Carola Zaleschi
April 30 Daniel Goode’s Loft, Spring Street, NYC. premiere of The Bridges of Pittsburgh a clarinet duet for Katie Porter with Eileen Mack, and solo clarinet works
May 1 Lace Mill, Kingston NY. Quartet or Two Duos (Ilgenfritz, Parnmongkol, Porter, Vítková) + Jeffrey Leppendorf, shakuhachi
May 3 Freddies, Brooklyn, NY. Quartet or Two Duos (Ilgenfritz, Parnmongkol, Porter, Vítková)
May 4-7 Red Desert Residency at San Francisco State University
May 19-20Alvin Lucier Festival in Baltimore. I’ll play Alvin Lucier’s Septet and Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Tuba with Laura Cetilia and Liz Prince
Red Desert residency at Cornell University, Feb 2022. Feedback – feedback -feedback. We played new music by Maria Bulla, Miles Friday, Laura Cetilia, Han Xu, Josh Biggs and John Eagle. And I performed a little solo set of Giacinto Scelsi & Johanna Beyer. It was so great. Thanks Laura Cetilia and the Cornell composition department for inviting us!!!
Here are some of the shows and projects I have coming up, updated and unfolding slowly on my SHOWS page. I would love to see you!
Oct 2021 NYC
Oct 23, 2021 Avant GaRAWge, Provo, Utah. 8PM Katie Porter solo bass clarinet and electronics: Michelle Lou, Phill Niblock, John Lely, improvisations on Alice Coltrane. With Larsplund.
Oct 28, 2021 Interstitials Newtown Creek, Queens, NYC. 10:30AM Katie Porter, John Hastings, Aaron Meicht – a short performance activating our urban environment / infrastructure. https://www.johnphastings.org/interstitials
Nov 14, 2021 NOVA Chamber Music Series, Songs of Life, Libby Gardner Hall, SLC, UT 3PM Alfred Schnittke, Serenade for 5 Instruments and Devin Maxwell’s Get Along Little Dogies
Nov 19-20, 2021High Desert Soundings Festival. Joshua Tree, California. Malosma, Katie Porter and Christine Tavolacci duo.
Dec 6, 2021 Pamela Z’s Twenty Answers with the Westminster Chamber Players at Westminster College, SLC
Dec15, 2021 QUBIT at Trans-Pecos in NYC https://qubitmusic.com/. Quartet: Katie Porter, James Ilgenfritz, Lucie Vitkova, Teerapat Parnmongkol
Jan 6, 2022 Flexible Orchestra in NYC. Katie Porter premieres Daniel Goode’s Bridges of Pittsburgh duet -POSTPONED-
Jan 31, 2022 Abravanel Series, SLC, UT. Manuela Meier ‘iterate no trace‘ bass clarinet solo -POSTPONED-
Feb 10-14, 2022 Red Desert Ensemble residency at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players
April 3, 2022 Westminster College School of Music. SLC, UT 3-6PM. Red Desert plays Nina C. Young and Michelle Lou/ FILM SCREENING: Sisters with Transistors / Eliane Radigue Tryptich
April 4, 2022 Abravanel Series Concert, SLC, Ut
April 10, 2022 NOVA Chamber Music Series, Songs of the Americas, playing Anthony R Green’s Gettysburg Address at Libby Gardner Hall, SLC, UT 3PM
April 2022 Quartet or Two Duos tour: James Ilgenfritz/Lucie Vítková/Teerapat Parnmongkol/Katie Porter
May 3-6, 2022 Red Desert Ensemble residency atSan Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
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