We have lots of upcoming concerts to look forward to from all of our artists.

• Carl Stone has a very interesting half-hour live broadcast concert coming up on February 24th via the unitedArtscene website.  Note: all their broadcast times are in Pacific Standard Time. Stone will also be performing March 5th at 7:30pm at the University of California at Berkeley Art Museum (link).

• Lubomyr Melnyk will be performing two concerts in North America in the coming weeks.  The first is at the University of Victoria on February 27th (link), which will hold the world premiere of “Windmills”, for multiple taped and live pianos.  Following that will be a jaunt over to Seattle for a March 2nd concert in the Wayward Music Series.

• Elodie Lauten has a couple of charity events to benefit Haiti in March featuring a new program of tango compositions for keyboard inspired by the French songs of her childhood in Paris and her experience of New York and Argentinian Milonga.  The first takes place at Public Assembly in Brooklyn, NY on March 12th.  The next is March 27th at the Lafayette Bar in NYC.

Lauten will also be performing piano compositions from her soon to be released 2CD Piano Works Revisited in April at the Gershwin Hotel.  More details on that to come.

• “Blue” Gene Tyranny will perform in NYC on April 15th at Roulette with violinist Conrad Harris, premiering new 4 new electro-acoustic works (link).

The Society for Music and Minimalism is preparing to host their second international conference on minimalism September 2-6, 2009 in Kansas City, Missouri.  Part of their impressive lineup of performance and lecture includes a performance of Elodie Lauten’s “Adamantine Sonata” by Sarah Cahill during her Friday program.  The original recording of the work was included on her 1983 LP, Piano Works, soon to be reissued on an Unseen Worlds 2CD of Lauten piano works.

Of unique interest also will be the reemergence of piano works by Harold Budd (of ambient Eno fame) and Dennis Johnson (of lengthy La Monte Young fame).  More details on all this can be found at the official website and within some of Kyle Gann’s working blog posts on Arts Journal.

In advance of the piano works retrospective we are working on with Elodie Lauten comes this performance, June 13th, 2009 at Issue Project Room in New York.  Elodie Lauten will perform works of her own selection from the past 25 years including:

Revelation
Adamantine Sonata
Alien Heart
Cat Counterpoint
Sonate Modale
Reason and Blue
Variations on the Orange Cycle
Habanera (mp3)
Tango (mp3)

Please don’t miss this special event.  Performances start at 8pm with Bing and Ruth opening.

Renowned flutist Andrew Bolotowsky will be performing “ORANGE:  Modular Music from the Deus Ex Machina Cycle” by Elodie Lauten as part of his Where are the Women? concert program on Saturday, May 9 at 3:00 PM at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, 135 Broadway at the corner of Bedford, right next to the Williamsburg Bridge in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York.  Admission is $10.

Other composers on the program include Ruth Crawford Seeger, Jennifer Post, Joyce Suskind, Sorrel Hays, Tui St. George Tucker, Deborah Sandival Thurlow, Lenore Von Stein, Beth Anderson, Lynn Wilson, Judith Sainte Croix and Anne Tardos.

Find a copy of the now out-of-print Deus Ex Machina Cycle on 2CD via Amazon.