Alex Weiser
Upcoming Performances Include:
11.5.23 American Lyric Theater Piano Vocal Workshop of "Tevye's Daughters", DiMenna Center, 2pm
6.6.24 "Let It Be Forgotten" featured at Brooklyn Art Song Society, First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn, 7:30pm
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Recent Performances Include:
8.28.23 The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation (Monash University) and Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre feature "in a dark blue night" and "Coney Island Days", Classic Southside, Melbourne, Australia, 7:30pm
7.14.23 Cantus Vocal Ensemble performs and all the days were purple at Westminster Hall, Minneapolis 7:30pm
7.13.23 Cantus Vocal Ensemble performs and all the days were purple at Westminster Hall, Minneapolis 11:00am
7.12.23 Cantus Vocal Ensemble performs and all the days were purple at the American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis 7:30pm
7.11.23 Cantus Vocal Ensemble performs and all the days were purple at the MacPhail Center for Music, Minneapolis 7:30pm
7.6.23 The Old Question performed at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall, Washington, D.C. 1pm
6.2.23 Classical FM 96.3 radio performance with live audience, "The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language" (excerpts), Zoomer Hall, as a part of Jewish Music Week in Toronto, 2pm
4.24.23 Eliza Bagg and Paul Kerekes perform "Coney Island Days," live-stream from the Tenement Museum, 6:30pm
4.23.23 Selections from "and all the days were purple" featured in a recital by Teryn Kuzma, Bard Conservatory VAP, 7pm
12.3.22: The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language, Piano Vocal Workshop at the 14th Street Y, 7:30pm
9.11.22: Song "Poetry" featured at Nusakh Vilna at YIVO, 1pm
6.26.22: "Invisible Embrace," ballet with Jacqulyn Buglisi and Buglisi Dance Theater, featured at Virtual DUMBO Dance Festival
6.20.22 Performance of "Dreaming of Love," Longy School of Music 3pm
6.1.22 Performance of "in a dark blue night," at the Tenement Museum fundraising gala at the Essex Street Market
5.27.22 Premiere of "Coney Island Days" and "in a dark blue night," Annie Rosen and Ensemble, Kettle Corn New Music, DiMenna Center, 6pm
5.17.22 Concert premiere of "The Forest of Secrets," Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists, American Lyric Theater, National Sawdust, 7pm
5.9.22 "The Old Question" for Violin and Piano performed at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 7pm
4.9.22 "and all the days were purple" performed by Saskatoon Symphony with Jardena Gertler-Jaffe
3.20.22 Performance of songs with Blythe Gaissert at The Institute for Living Judaism in Brooklyn
1.20.22 "in a dark blue night," (work-in-progress) performed by Eliza Bagg and Paul Kerekes at Tenement Museum (live, digitally broadcast)
2021
10.28.21 "The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language" (opera), partial workshop performance, 14th Street Y, 7pm
7.21.21 "and all the days were purple" performed by Elisa Sutherland and Contemporaneous Ensemble at Hudson River Park Trust at Pier 64, 7pm
7.2.21 Imagination Sessions: Volume 6, discussion of "and all the days were purple" with a panel hosted by Contemporaneous Ensemble, Zoom
5.20.21: "Invisible Embrace," a new ballet in collaboration with Jacqulyn Buglisi and Buglisi Dance Theater, Digital Premiere
5.12.21 Evan Judson premiere of his Bassoon and Piano arrangement of "in a dark blue night," Digital performance
5.9.21 Julian Schwarz and Marika Bournaki perform "Silent for the Rain" at Barge Music, Masterworks Series
5.4.21 Lucy Fitz Gibon and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough premiere "Let It Be Forgotten," Kettle Corn New Music, Facebook & YouTube
2.19.21 Adina Martin performs songs from "and all the days were purple," Fredonia University, Digital Performance
1.5.21 "in a dark blue night," (partial; work-in-progress) ASCAP Foundation Charles Kingsford Fund Commission, Digital Premiere performed by Annie Rosen and Dan Schlosberg
2020
11.22.20 Performance of "and all the days were purple" on Present Music's Thanksgiving: Wherein Lies the Good, Digital Performance
10.25.20 "Wind" performed by West Texas Winds on "Something Old, Something New" Midland, Texas
10.17.20 Julian Schwarz and Marika Bournaki perform "Silent for the Rain" at Music for a Great Space, Digital Performance
10.6.20 Talk at Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County, ZOOM Event
10.4.20 "Dreaming of Love" performed at Ensemble Uncaged: Palimpsest - Traces Remain, Longy School, Digital Performance
8.5.20 Talk at Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County, ZOOM Event [postponed]
7.30.20 Digital premiere of "(Stuck in the) House Music" for four-hand-piano by HOCKET, Internet
7.16.20 Talk at The Jewish Historical Society of Fairfield County, ZOOM Event
7.5.20 Interview on Bund Podcast, Episode 7: Alex Weiser, YouTube
6.30.20 Digital premiere of "The Old Question" for Violin and Piano performed by Cantata Profana at YIVO, Facebook & YouTube
6.14.20 Performance of "and all the days were purple" on the Bang on a Can Marathon, Internet
5.28.20 Excerpts from "State of the Jews" screened and discussed as a part of 14th Street Y's Virtual Tikun
4.9.20 "Poetry" sung by Lorin Sklamberg at Russ & Daughters 2nd Seder, ZOOM Event
2.20.20 Julian Schwarz and Marika Bournaki perform Silent for the Rain at NYU Black Box Theater, NYC
2019
12.5-8.19 Opera: State of the Jews, Complete Workshop Performance, 14th Street Y, 344 E 14th St, NYC
11.2.19 Julian Schwarz and Marika Bournaki perform "Silent for the Rain" on Charles Ives Music Festival's "Variation" Concert, Ridgefield, CT 7:30pm
6.18.19 Portrait concert including a workshop performance of "State of the Jews" complete first act. Roulette, Brooklyn, 8pm
6.4.19 Elizabeth Shammash and Yehudi Wyner perform "with gentle fingers" as a part of a Hebrew Liederabend at YIVO, NYC, 7:00pm
5.22.19 Julia Yang and Lee Dionne perform "Silent for the Rain" on the Sessions Series, NYC, 7:30pm
5.2.19 Workshop Performance of excerpts from "State of the Jews" as a part of ConEdison Exploring the Metroplis Residency at Turtle Bay Music School, New York, NY
4.9.19 and all the days were purple album launch with Cantaloupe Music: show & party, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, NY, 7pm
3.31.19 Julian Schwarz and Marika Bournaki perform "Silent for the Rain" on the Charles Ives Concert Series, Danbury CT, 3:00pm
2.3.19 Icarus Quartet performs "Two by Two" on St. John's Church's Music in the Valley Series
2.2.19 LABA Alive Workshop Performance of an excerpt of "State of the Jews"
1.3+4+5.19 Premiere of "silent for the rain" for Cello and Piano, Julian Schwarz and Marika Bournaki on Barge Music Winter Festival
2018
11.3.18 Premiere of "with gentle fingers," Eliza Bagg and Sandbox Percussion, Kettle Corn New Music, DiMenna Center, New York, NY 2:30pm
9.28+29.18 20 Minutes of "State of the Jews" American Opera Projects, Composers and the Voice: Six Scenes Concert
8.21.18 "Waltz Apparition" at Lake Champlain Music Festival Vermont
8.4.18 "Anatomy of a Drum Roll" performed at the NYU Sandbox Percussion Showcase, National Sawdust 1:30pm
7.29.18 "Anatomy of a Drum Roll" performed by Sandbox Percussion at NYU Frederick Loewe Theatre as a part of the NYU Sandbox Percussion Seminar 8pm
5.19+20.18 American Opera Projects, Composers and the Voice: "First Glimpse Concert of Songs"
5.19.18 Anatomy of a Drum Roll performed by Sandbox Percussion on Governors Island, NYC 1pm and 3pm
5.13.18 Excerpts from "and all the days were purple" featured on Bang on a Can Marathon at Skirball Center, NYU
2.23.18 Premiere of "Come Home" for voice and piano in a performance by Alexandra Schleuderer and Jessica Osbourne at Third Street's LiveSOUNDS series at The Anne Marie Kellen Auditorium, New York, NY, 7pm
2.9.18 Ashley Bathgate performed "Willow's Song" and "Shimmer" at Museum of Making Music, Carlsbad, CA, 7pm
2.8.18 Ashley Bathgate performed "Willow's Song" and "Shimmer" at Lyric Hyperion Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 8pm
2.6.18 Ashley Bathgate performed "Willow's Song" and "Shimmer" at Peace United Church, Santa Cruz, CA, 7:30pm
2.5.18 Ashley Bathgate performed "Willow's Song" and "Shimmer" at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, San Francisco, CA, 8pm
2.3.18 Ashley Bathgate performed "Willow's Song" and "Shimmer" at Saraha Nyingma Buddhist Institute, Eugene, OR, 7:30pm
2.2.18 Ashley Bathgate performed "Willow's Song" and "Shimmer" at The Old Church, Portland, OR, 7:30pm
2.1.18 Ashley Bathgate performed "Willow's Song" and "Shimmer" at Ranier Arts Center, Seattle, WA, 8pm
2017
11.30.17 Premiere of "after shir hashirim" for chamber orchestra by Cantata Profana at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, NY, 7pm
10.15.17 Ashley Bathgate performed "Willow's Song" and "Shimmer" at People Inside Electronics, Pasadena California, 8pm
9.17.17 Lindsay Garritson piano duo performed "Water Hollows Stone", Miami, Florida
8.2.17 A selection of Yiddish Language Songs performed by Eliza Bagg and Marika Bournaki at YIVO at the Center for Jewish History, 6pm
7.20.17 "Willow's Song" and "Shimmer" for Cello Octet performed by Ashley Bathgate at MASS MoCA, North Adams Mass. 4:30pm
6.25.17 Premiere of "Willow's Song" and "Shimmer" for Cello Octet by Ashley Bathgate on Kettle Corn New Music Details at National Sawdust, 7pm
6.8.17 Kathleen Supove premiered "fade" for solo piano at DiMenna Center for Classical Music
5.29.17 "and all the days were purple" - a premiere and portrait concert performed by Eliza Bagg, New Morse Code, andPlay, and Lee Dionne, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, 8pm
4.13.17 "A Certain Slant of Light" song performed on Dawn Upshaw & Bard Conservatory program at The Morgan Library, New York, NY 7:30pm
2016
12.21.16 Premiere of "Lullaby" for solo violin by Yuval Waldman at YIVO at the Center for Jewish History
12.4.16 Verdant Vibes performs "Rumbling Waves" at Aurora, Providence RI
11.2.16 "Dreaming of Love" song cycle performed Julie Hill, Brigid Coleridge, and Lee Dionne on the Krum Concert Series at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
10.27.16 "water hollows stone" performed at Erika Dohi piano recital at Tenri Cultural Institute, 8:30pm
7.17.16 "disarm" featured on the C'MON Festival in Edmonton, Alberta Canada: Studio 96 at 3pm
7.16.16 "adrift" featured on the C'MON Festival in Edmonton, Alberta Canada: Studio 96 at 8pm
7.9.16 Students at Dark in the Song's 2016 NewBassoon Workshop at Eastman School of Music perform "Music for 5 Bassoons"
5.27+28.16 Kate Maroney and Cantata Profana premiere New Song Cycle for singer and chamber orchestra, Kettle Corn New Music, DiMenna Center
4.24.16 "Dreaming of Love" performed by Justine Aronson, Sarah Goldfeather, and Paul Kerekes at the String Theories Festival of String Orchestra of Brooklyn at Roulette, 8:00pm
3.23.6 HOCKET performs "water hollows stone" at Cal State Long Beach
2.19.16 "Dreaming of Love" song cycle with Corrine Byrne, and Andy Kozar, at Staller Center for the Arts, 4:00pm
1.29.16 "Dreaming of Love" song cycle with Corrine Byrne, and Andy Kozar, at Longy School of Music, 8:00pm
1.24.16 HOCKET performs "water hollows stone" at San Diego Public Library Central Library, 2pm
1.21.16 "Dreaming of Love" song cycle with Corrine Byrne, and Andy Kozar, at Spectrum, 9:00pm
2015
12.6.15 Exceptet premieres "disarm", 8:00pm at The Firehouse Space, 246 Frost Street, Brooklyn NY
12.5.15 Fresh Squeezed Opera 2015 Showcase features "Marks"
11.21.15 HOCKET performs "water hollows stone" at the Brand Library and Arts Center in Glendale, CA
11.8.15 "Wind" performed by Washington Square Winds at Spectrum, NYC 3pm
11.6.15 HOCKET performs "water hollows stone" at Center for New Music in San Francisco
10.25.15 "Wind" performed by Washington Square Winds at Huntington Library, Long Island 2pm
10.22.15 HOCKET performs "water hollows stone" at LA City College
9.23.15 HOCKET performed "water hollows stone" at LA Valley College
9.18.15 Tin-Shi Tam performed "For Whom The Bell Tolls" on the opening concert of the ISU Carillon Festival
9.16.15 HOCKET performed "water hollows stone" at Cal State Long Beach
9.12.15 Sandbox Percussion performed "Anatomy of a Drum Roll, Resonance and Rhythm" in Rhode Island
8.28.15 HOCKET Piano Duo premiered "water hollows stone", at Carlsbad New Music Festival
5.7.15 Justine Aronson performed "The Door" from Marks on Contemporary Elements, a part of Marble Collegiate Church's Music Next Door series
4.26.15 "Dreaming of Love" song cycle performed by Tempus Continuum Ensemble, at Firehouse Space NYC
4.16.15 "study search seek" for clarinet and string quartet performed by Christa Van Alstine and the Momenta Quartet, on the MATA Festival at the Kitchen, 8pm
4.12.15 "Wind" performed by Washington Square Winds at Greenwich House, NYC 3pm
1.11.2015 "Dreaming of Love" song cylce for Corrine Byrne, Andy Kozar, and Tor Morten Kjosnes, Concerts on Main, Chatham NJ, 2pm
2.22.15 "Wind" performed by Washington Square Winds at Spectrum, NYC 3pm
2014
11.8.2014 Sandbox Percussion performed "Anatomy of a Drum Roll" and "Resonance and Rhythm" at E.M.P Collective in Baltimore, 9:30pm
11.1.2014 "Duo" performed by Lina Andonovska and Alexina Hawkins at Conduit Arts, Melbourne, Australia, 8:30pm
9.27.2014 "Quake" performed at the East River Amphitheater in NYC by The New Collaborative 5:30pm
9.22.2014 "Marks", arranged for Flute, Piano, and Percussion performed by 'press,play' at fourtyfivedownstairs in Melbourne, Australia, 8pm
9.13.2014 "Anatomy of a Drum Roll" and "Resonance and Rhythm" Premiered by Sandbox Percussion, on Kettle Corn New Music concert at DiMenna Center, NYC 7pm
9.12.2014 "Anatomy of a Drum Roll" Previewed by Sandbox Percussion at Washington Square Park 7pm, NYC
8.8.2014 Karl Larson performed "Piano Piece", "Thaw", "after J.S." and "Memories Suite" alongside music by Scott Wollschleger at Scholes Street Studio 8pm
8.1.2014 "Octet" performed at MASS MoCA as a part of Bang on a Can Summer Festival
7.31.2014 Arrangement of "Night Walk" for Violin, Piano, and Percussion premiered at Bang on a Can Summer Festival, MASS MoCA
7.28.2014 "Ascension" for large ensemble premiered at Bang on a Can Summer Festival, MASS MoCA
6.14.2014 "Flex" for Piano Trio for Typical Music - Todd Reynolds, Ashley Bathgate, and Vicky Chow - on Kettle Corn New Music concert at DiMenna Center, NYC
5.4.2014 Portrait concert at The Firehouse Space in Brooklyn, NY with performances by Matt Evans, Karl Larson, Charlotte Mundy, Pat Swoboda, and others.
4.28.2014 "Octet" premiered by NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble at the Loewe Theater, 35 West Fourth Street, NYC
4.21.2014 "Bearthoven Roar" for Bass, Percussion, and Piano premiered by Bearthoven at the New Amsterdam space
4.17.2014 "Rumbling Waves" for Piano and Percussion premiered by Vicky Chow and Matt Evans on the MATA Festival at the Kitchen, NYC
2013
10.10.2013 EDGE Ensemble performs selections from "Subway Memories" at Bright Box, Shenendoah University
9.19-20.2013 Cadillac Moon Ensemble performs "Subway Memories" at Greenwich House, NYC
8.4.2013 Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, premiere of "Wind"
8.1.2013 Kettle Corn New Music concert with premiere of "Marks" performed by Mellissa Hughes and Lisa Moore at Spectrum, NYC
6.18.2013 Guidonian Hand premiere complete "Music for 4 Trombones" on Kathleen Supove's Music with a View festival at the Flea Theater, NYC
5.24-25.2013 Guidonian Hand performed "Music for 4 Trombones II." at MADArt Creative's, "Morphing Me"
5.23.2013 New Amsterdam Singers perform "Travelers" at the St. Ignatius Church, NYC
5.18.2013 Cadillac Moon Ensemble perform "Subway Memories" in a public concert on the High Line, NYC
5.14.2013 New Amsterdam Singers perform "Travelers" at the Second Presbyterian Church, NYC
5.13.2013 Alex Weiser is a guest of honor at New Amsterdam Singers annual fundraising GALA, which also features a performance of "Travelers" at the New York Academy of Medicine Library
4.29.2013 NYU Symphony premiered "Somewhere" at the Loewe Theater, NYC as the culmination of season composer-in-residence
4.23.2013 JACK Quartet premiered "Quake" at the Provincetown Playhouse, 133 MacDougal Street NYC
3.28.2013 Guidonian Hand perform a preview performance of "Music for 4 Trombones" on Vicky Chow's Contagious Sounds series at the Gershwin Hotel, NYC
2012
12.30.2012 ComposersCircle.com featured "Saxifrage" as their composition of the day
12.2.2012 Cadillac Moon Ensemble performed "Subway Memories" on the Portland String Quartet's Lark Society Concert Series in Portland, Maine
11.30.2012 Yale Concert Band performed "Winter Prayer", Woolsey Hall, New Haven, CT
11.20.2012 Cadillac Moon Ensemble premiered "Subway Memories" on Ear Heart Music's series at Roulette
10.25.2012 NYU Percussion Ensemble performed "...mallet merengue" in Loewe Theater, NYC
8.19.2012 Guidonian Hand premiered the first installment of "Music for 4 Trombones" at Caffe Vivaldi
8.19.2012 ComposersCircle.com featured "Two by Two" as their composition of the day
7.17.2012 Charles Semowich performed "For Whom the Bell Tolls" at Riverside Church
7.8.2012 Kinetics Radio Broadcast of "Saxifrage" performed by JACK Quartet
5.8.2012 Dark in the Song perform "Music for 5 Bassoons" at an international bassoon festival in Morelia, Mexico
4.27.2012 Yale Glee Club performed "Travelers" at Yale University's Hendrie Hall Room 201
4.15.2012 "Awake at Night" was performed at the University of Central Missouri as a winner of their "New Pieces Project"
3.22.2012 Yale Glee Club performed "Travelers" at Yale's Beinecke Library
3.3-9.2012 Yale Glee Club Spring Tour, California and Hawaii, performances of "Travelers"
2.5.2012 Lyrica Chamber Music, Hausmann String Quartet performed "Saxifrage"
1.8.2012 Vox Novus, Composer's Voice, Jenny Greene and Matt Frey performed "A Certain Slant of Light"
2011
12.11.2011 Sinopia Quartet performed "Two by Two" at Lilypad in Cambridge
11.18.2011 Yale Glee Club premiered "Travelers" at Woolsey Hall
11.13.2011 Vox Novus, Composer's Voice, Julie Hill and Alex Weiser performed "The Future is Space"
10.29.2011 Sinopia Quartet premiered "Two by Two" at Brooklyn's IBeam
10.26.2011 IGIGI Song Concert, Whitney Humanity Center, Bonnie Antosh and Gabriel Zucker performed "The Future is Space"
10.10.2011 Ethan Braun performed "Memories Suite" at Braun Salon, LA
9.14.2011 Iowa State University Carillon Festival, Arie Abbenes premiered "For Whom The Bell Tolls" for carillon as the festivals winning composition
7.14.2011 HighSCORE Festival, "Memories Suite" for piano was performed by Andrea Mastretta
7.12.2011 HighSCORE Festival, the Indaco String Quartet performed a movement of mine for String Quartet
4.24.2011 IGIGI's annual new music marathon featured a number of my works
4.23.2011 Senior Recital at Yale University
4.5.2011 JACK quartet premiered "Saxifrage" at Beinecke Library, Yale University
2.5.2011 ACE New Music Ensemble premiered "Der Doppel Rocker" at Whitney Humanity Center
2010
12.4.2010 IGIGI and Saxifrage Music presented "Ebb" and "Piano Piece" in the Silliman Common Room at Yale University
11.6.2010 The Jonathan Edwards College Philharmonic Premiered "Three Ruminations"
11.4.2010 The Yale University Art Gallery hosted a concert of new works responding to ideas about water to coincide with a visual exhibit including the premiere of "adrift"
6.25.2010 "Finding and Flying" was premiered as a part of my residency at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival New Music Workshop
4.30.2010 The Jonathan Edwards College Philharmonic Premiered "Recalibration"
4.15-16.2010 Chamber Opera "The Waves" was premiered at Yale University in Nick Chapel
4.11.2010 Yale Percussion Group Premiered "Mallet Piece" at the Yale University Art Gallery
2009
12.11.2009 Berkeley College Orchestra Premiered my piece "Inimmediate Gratification" at Yale University Battell Chapel
11.10.2009 Fifth House Ensemble Premiered my piece "Lament" at the Beinecke Library
6.1-7.2009 "...mallet merengue" was featured at music festival June in Buffalo
4.29.2009 Lee Dionne Performed "Piano Piece" on IGIGI's annual new music marathon
3.3.2009 Argento New Music Project premiered "dust" at the Beinecke Library
2.14.2009 The Jonathan Edwards College Philharmonic premiered my piece "only a dream..."
2.4.2009 "ready to dance" was premiered at the Yale University Art Gallery
2.3.2009 Jennifer Beattie and Adam Marks of New Triad premiered my piece "Ebb" at the Beinecke Library
2008
12.11.2008 Two new songs of mine were premiered at IGIGI's collaboration with the Yale Literary Magazine and Berkeley Poet's Society
12.10.2008 A solo Trombone work of mine was premiered by Ben Bernard at his recital at Yale
12.10.2008 Yale Percussion Premiered "...mallet merengue" at the Whitney Humanities Center
5.10.2008 Works were performed on IGIGI's annual new music marathon
4.12.2008 Paul Alan Levi's Four Hand Band premiered "Three Summer Scenes"
4.4.2008 The Yale Glee Club premiered "Break of Day"
2.14.2008 "Ocean Park No. 24" (inspired by a painting by Richard Diebenkorn) was premiered at the Yale University Art Gallery in conjunction with a workshop program with Alvin Lucier
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