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Event Archive
2014/15 Season
September 11
Bent Frequency Duo Project
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
featuring the music of Stefano Pierini, Christopher Burns and Devin Maxwell
September 11
Bent Frequency Duo Project
University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
masterclass and concert
featuring the music of Laurie Anderson, Stefano Pierini, Devin Maxwell, Christopher Burns, Jeff Herriott, Robert Scott Thompson
September 12
Bent Frequency Duo Project
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
masterclass and lecture recital
featuring the music of Laurie Anderson, Stefano Pierini, Christopher Burns and Devin Maxwell
December 3
Bent Frequency Presents Spektral Quartet
Erikson Clock
Atlanta, GA
featuring George Crumb's Black Angels and works by Carolyn O'Brien, David Brighton and Robert Scott Thompson.
Funding for this program is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council. This concert is also sponsored in part by Georgia State University School of Music.
January 23-24
Festival of New Music from Mexico
featuring guest artists Juan Trigos, Dieter Hennings and Eva Zollner.
Kopleff Recital Hall
Atlanta, GA
This program is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. GCA also receives support from its partner agency-the National Endowment for the Arts. This program is also supported in part by CENCIA and the Hamburg Ministry of Culture.
February 13-15
Bent Frequency and CORE Dance
on love
Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
Atlanta, GA
April 20-21
BF Duo Project
Residency at University of Northern Colorado
featuring world premieres by Paul Elwood and Amy Kaplan
Greeley, CO
May 20
The Innocents
featuring John Lane and Allen Otte
fundraiser for the Georgia Innocence Projec
Center for Civil and Human Rights
Atlanta, GA
featuring The Innocents, written by John Lane and Allen Otte and Rzewski's Coming Together and Attica
2013/14 Season
October 16
Comala by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
Rialto Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA
Bent Frequency in collaboration with PUSH Theater.
Jan Berry Baker, saxophone, Stuart Gerber, percussion, Molly Barth, flute, Dieter Hennings, guitar, Kenneth Long, clarinet, Peter Marshall, piano, Sarah Kapps, cello, Paul Vaillancourt, percussion, Adelaide Federici, violin, Jim Brown tenor, Tony Arnold, soprano, Tim Weiss, conductor and PUSH Theater
Comala is based on the novel Pedro Páramo, by the great Mexican author Juan Rulfo.
October 19
Comala by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
Fiestas de Octubre, Guadalajara, Mexico
October 21
Comala by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
International Cervantino Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico
This engagement is sponsored by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
February 9
Happy Chinese New (Y)Ear!
Kopleff Recital Hall, Atlanta, GA
In Distance, Tan Dun
Childhood Sketches, Huang Rao
Three Chinese Lovesongs, Bright Sheng
Wanda Yang Temko, soprano, Sarah Ambrose, flute, Elisabeth Remy Johnson, harp, Stuart Gerber, percussion, Adelade Federici, violin, Tania Maxwell Clements, viola, Jan Berry Baker, saxophone, Peter Marshall, piano
Funding for this program is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council. This concert is also sponsored in part by: Georgia State University Confucius Institute, CENCIA and Georgia State University School of Music.
February 25
Bent Frequency Duo Project
College of the Holy Cross, Brooks Concert Hall, Worcester, MA
Jan Berry Baker, saxophone and Stuart Gerber, percussion featuring newly written works for saxophone and percussion by Chris Arrell, Christopher Burns, Roshanne Etezady, Jeff Herriott, Robert Scott Thompson, and Devin Maxwell
February 26
Bent Frequency Duo Project
Boston Conservatory, Boston, MA
February 27
Bent Frequency Duo Project
University of Connecticut, von der Mehden Recital Hall, Storrs, CT
February 28
Bent Frequency Duo Project
Hartt School of Music, Berkman Recital Hall, West Hartford, CT
March 3
Bent Frequency Duo Project
Interactive Arts Performing Series
New York University, Frederick Loewe Theater, New York NY
March 23
Bent Frequency Duo Project
North American Saxophone Alliance Conference
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
March 24
Bent Frequency Duo Project
Roosevelt University, Ganz Recital Hall, Chicago, IL
March 25
Bent Frequency Duo Project
Ball State University, Choral Hall, Muncy, IN
March 26
Bent Frequency Duo Project
Indiana University, Ford-Crawford Hall, Bloomington, IN
March 28
Bent Frequency Duo Project
Unruly Music Festival - Ensemble in Residence
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Recital Hall, Milwaukee, WI
April 11
Bent Frequency Duo Project
Sam Houston State Contemporary Music Festival - Ensemble in Residence
Huntsville, TX
April 12
Bent Frequency Presents The Innocents
with John Lane and Allen Otte
Sam Houston State Contemporary Music Festival
Huntsville, TX
Bent Frequency, in collaboration with John Lane and Allen Otte, present the Innocents. Also featuring Rzewski's Coming Together and Attica.
The Saturday evening performance will begin with a film and a panel discussion hosted by SHSU’s Global Center for Journalism and Democracy. Moderated by Don Teague, FOX 26 News Anchor, panelists will include: Anthony Graves, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and served 18 years behind bars; Jeff Blackburn, who is the founder of and chief counsel to the Innocence Project of Texas. In 2009, he handled the case of Timothy Cole, a young man who died in prison after being falsely accused of rape, and obtained the first posthumous DNA exoneration in Texas history; Dennis Longmire, a faculty member at SHSU in Criminal Justice and Criminology specializing in corrections, the death penalty, and public perceptions of crime and criminal justice; and Brandi Grissom, the managing editor of the Texas Tribune, who has covered stories related to wrongful conviction and incarceration.
May 10-11
Bent Frequency Duo Project
Tage Aktueller Musik - Ensemble in Residence
Nuremberg, Germany
BF DUO PROJECT Residency - Jan Berry Baker, saxophone and Stuart Gerber, percussion give masterclasses and a concert featuring newly written works for saxophone and percussion by Chris Arrell, Christopher Burns, Stefano Pierini, Vivienne Olive, Jeff Herriott, Robert Scott Thompson, and Devin Maxwell.
2012/13 Season
September 9
John Cage Musicircus
The Goat Farm, Atlanta, GA
During four days in September 2012, Bent Frequency presented a 100th birthday celebration for John Cage. We partnered with Chamber Cartel, the Goat Farm Arts Center, and Atlanta Poets Group and about 30 other musicians and artists for this festival. Bent Frequency also gave improvisation workshops for middle and high school students in South Fulton County. It culminated in a 60 min. MUSICIRCUS featuring nearly 20 of Cage's works, spanning his entire creative life.
This program is supported in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency - the National Endowment for the Arts.
February 1-3
"Secret" with CORE Performance Company
Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta , GA
CORE and Callanwolde Fine Arts Center present Secret, an intimate evening of contemporary dance featuring CORE Performance Company, with celebrated music performed by Bent Frequency. Secret premieres original choreography by CORE Artistic Director Sue Schroeder and nationally recognized guest artist Becky Valls. Explore and experience the grand spirit of Callanwolde through these unique dances that move us through the mansion.
February 9
Happy Chinese New (Y)Ear!
Kopleff Recital Hall, Atlanta, GA
featuring the music of Lei Liang
Five Seasons for string quartet and pipa soloist (featuring the renowned Vega String Quartet and pipa soloist Yihan Chen)
Yuan for saxophone quartet (featuring the Flux Saxophone Quartet)
Parts for a Floating Space for saxophone and percussion
Lake for two trumpets
Traditional music for pipa
Funding for this program is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council. This concert is also sponsored in part by: Georgia State University Confucius Institute, Emory University Confucius Institute, CENCIA and Georgia State University School of Music.
May 18
BF 10th Anniversary Celebration
The Goat Farm, Atlanta, GA
Celebrating our 10th year of bringing the most cutting-edge new music to Atlanta. Bent Frequency will be joined by the electrifying Mercury Orkestar, DJ Little Jen and an All-Star group of Atlanta's most ambitious musicians. BF will feature music by Chris Burns, Judith Shatin, Lee Hyla, Jeff Herriott, Lansing McLoskey, and a world premiere by Devin Maxwell. The evening will culminate in a performance of Terry Riley's seminal In C for a mass ensemble of 20+ musicians.