Caballito Negro will be in Residence at the Festival of New American Music, Sacramento CA, performing concerts and teaching masterclasses.
Festival of New American Music
Event Types: Masterclasses, Performances
Past Events
“The Shady Lady & The Rebel Frog” for Piccolo & SOU Percussion Ensemble
Southern Oregon University faculty percussionist and composer Bryan Jeffs continues his “Rebel Frog” series of percussion pieces, with the new “Shady Lady & The Rebel Frog”. It features solo piccolo, performed by Tessa Brinckman, with Southern Oregon University’s percussion ensemble, directed by Terry Longshore, as part of their concert program “All The World’s A Drum”.
Event Type: Performances
Arts Midwest Tour – “Caravanserai: American Voices”
Caballito Negro has been invited to join and collaborate with master musician Ronnie Malley on the upcoming Caravanserai: American Voices Tour, sponsored by Arts Midwest and funded by the Doris Duke Foundation. The tour will visit Grand Forks ND, Fergus Falls MN and Traverse City MI, for one week each, performing concerts and educational outreach to local communities including schools, local civic organizations and private venues.
Event Types: Masterclasses, Performances, Workshops
Caballito Negro Northwest Tour – “Songlines”
Caballito Negro will be touring its geo-poetic program “Songlines”, with performances, workshops and masterclasses, in Oregon and Washington.
Event Types: Masterclasses, Performances, Workshops
Northwest Percussion Festival 2016
Bryan Jeff’s “Shady Lady” for Piccolo & Percussion Ensemble will be repeated at the Northwest Percussion Festival 2016 in Eugene OR.
Event Type: Performances
Caballito Negro Residency At Britt Music & Arts Festival - School Workshops
Caballito Negro leads workshops for two Southern Oregon schools as Resident Artists for Britt Music & Arts Festival’s outreach program.
Event Types: Performances, Workshops
Caballito Negro Residency at Britt Music & Arts Festival - Performance
Caballito Negro concludes its Britt Music & Arts Festival Residency with a performance of the Songlines program, a multi-media presentation of works by Howard Hersh, William Kraft, David P Jones, Mark Applebaum, Ivan Trevino, and Caballito Negro itself (Terry Longshore and Tessa Brinckman). Limited admission available. Please bring a cushion for comfort for seating amongst […]
Event Type: Performances
“Gentle Numbers In Eternity” for Flute & Koto
Tessa Brinckman & Mitsuki Dazai in concert, presented at Beaverton Library OR, by Music In Small Spaces, in celebration also of National Poetry Month.
Event Type: Performances
“Gentle Numbers In Eternity” for Flute & Koto
Tessa Brinckman & Mitsuki Dazai come together for a repeat performance of this soulful and witty program, which is a celebration of American poetry and pan-contemporary music for flutes and koto, presented this time in Ashland OR by Mountain Meadows. Gentle Numbers In Eternity is a found title (harvested from the music titles in this […]
Event Type: Performances
44th Annual National Flute Association Convention
Caballito Negro (flutist Tessa Brinckman & percussionist Terry Longshore) will perform This Is Like Jazz! by Ivan Trevino, and their own composition That Which Colors the Soul, at the National Flute Convention in San Diego.
Event Type: Performances
“Gentle Numbers In Eternity” for Flute & Koto @ Eugene, OR
Tessa Brinckman & Mitsuki Dazai come together for a third concert of this soulful, witty program of contemporary music for flutes and koto. Produced by Broadway Avenue House Concerts Gentle Numbers In Eternity blends text and music, connecting thematically to the poetry of a lively, diverse group of American poets.
Event Type: Performances
Caballito Negro with Left Edge Percussion @ Enterprise HS, Redding CA
Flute and percussion duo, Caballito Negro, (with special guest Left Edge Percussion) presents Resist, a diverse concert program utilizing six flutes, a truckload of percussion, spoken word, film and images.
Event Types: Performances, Workshops
Caballito Negro with Left Edge Percussion @ Gold Lion Arts, Sacramento CA
Flute and percussion duo, Caballito Negro, (with special guest Left Edge Percussion) presents Resist, a diverse concert program utilizing six flutes, a truckload of percussion, spoken word, film and images.
Event Type: Performances
Caballito Negro with Left Edge Percussion @ Rio Americano HS, Sacramento CA
Flute and percussion duo, Caballito Negro, (with special guest Left Edge Percussion) presents Resist, a diverse concert program utilizing six flutes, a truckload of percussion, spoken word, film and images.
Event Types: Performances, Workshops
Caballito Negro with Left Edge Percussion @ Natomas Charter School, Sacramento CA
Flute and percussion duo, Caballito Negro, (with special guest Left Edge Percussion) presents Resist, a diverse concert program utilizing six flutes, a truckload of percussion, spoken word, film and images.
Event Types: Performances, Workshops
Caballito Negro with Left Edge Percussion @ Center for New Music, San Francisco CA
Flute and percussion duo, Caballito Negro, (with special guest Left Edge Percussion) presents Resist, a diverse concert program utilizing six flutes, a truckload of percussion, spoken word, film and images.
Event Type: Performances
Caballito Negro with Left Edge Percussion @ Stanford University CA
Flute and percussion duo, Caballito Negro, (with special guest Left Edge Percussion) presents a workshop built around “Resist”, a diverse concert program utilizing six flutes, a truckload of percussion, spoken word, film and images.
Event Type: Workshops
Caballito Negro with Left Edge Percussion @ Stanford University CA
Flute and percussion duo, Caballito Negro, (with special guest Left Edge Percussion) presents Resist, a diverse concert program utilizing six flutes, a truckload of percussion, spoken word, film and images.
Event Type: Performances
Caballito Negro with Left Edge Percussion @ Southern Oregon University, OR
Flute and percussion duo, Caballito Negro, (with special guest Left Edge Percussion) presents Resist, a diverse concert program utilizing six flutes, a truckload of percussion, spoken word, film and images. In lieu of admission to this concert (normally $10) the artists ask that audience members make a contribution to an organization of their choice, in the spirit of “resist”.
Event Type: Performances
Signals & Intersections: Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong, Tessa Brinckman & Friends @ C4NM, San Francisco CA
Writer/musician Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong leads Signals & Intersections in collaboration with musician/writer Tessa Brinckman, writers Javier Huerta, Evan Karp, Danny Thanh Nguyen, and musicians Gael Alcock, Jean Robertson and Miles Karp. Signals explores how our bodies meet with the codes, signs and signals of our technologies and politics, in a tender, experimental mix of music, words and more. Poets, writers, and acoustic musicians are welcome to join in this dialogue in an open mic.
Event Type: Performances
Mark Applebaum’s “Concerto for Florist” @ Oregon Fringe Festival, Ashland OR
The Oregon Fringe Festival welcomes guest artist Mark Applebaum for two performances of his eclectic masterpiece, Concerto for Florist, with the horticultural stylings of floral designer/performance artist James DelPrince.
Event Type: Performances
Mark Applebaum’s “Concerto for Florist” @ Oregon Fringe Festival, Ashland OR
The Oregon Fringe Festival welcomes guest artist Mark Applebaum for two performances of his eclectic masterpiece, Concerto for Florist, with the horticultural stylings of floral designer/performance artist James DelPrince.
Event Type: Performances
QCXCQ: Wandering Words @ Thèâtre de la Vieille Grille, Paris, France
A collaboration, with exciting new work by French composers Nicolas Vérin, Pascale Criton and flutist/composer Tessa Brinckman, that explores that polyvalent state of music and words. This concert (nearly all world premieres!) includes a new work by Tessa Brinckman, A Cracticus Fancie for piccolo & electroacoustics, which centers around the New Zealand poem, The Magpies, by Denis Glover.
Event Type: Performances
John Luther Adams “Inuksuit” | SF JAZZ @ Sutro Baths, San Francisco CA
Described by The New York Times as “the ultimate environmental piece” and lauded by eminent New Yorker critic Alex Ross as “one of the most rapturous experiences of my listening life,” Inuksuit is an innovative composition for up to 99 percussionists placed singly or in small groups throughout a large open-air space, led here by Doug Perkins for SFJAZZ Festival.
Event Type: Performances
Tessa Brinckman + Mitsuki Dazai: “Ocean Dust” @ Britt Music & Art Festival, Jacksonville OR
Flutist Tessa Brinckman and koto-player Mitsuki Dazai perform a poetic, dazzling program of music by composers who draw on traditional music from all over the world. This flute and koto concert opens for the Britt Orchestra’s program Eastern Inspiration. The orchestra performs Shanghai Overture by Bright Sheng, Le Chant du Rossignol (The Song of the Nightingale) by Igor Stravinsky & Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) by Gustav Mahler.
Event Type: Performances
“When Flutes Had Words”: Okta Series @ Gallagher Academy Performing Arts, Waikato University, New Zealand
Waikato University’s contemporary music ensemble Okta presents flutist Tessa Brinckman with taonga puoro player, Horomona Horu & pianist Katherine Austin, in an exploration of narrative and music. This event includes the world premiere of Waiata Hou by Martin Lodge, and a new work, A Cracticus Fancie by Tessa Brinckman (based on The Magpies by Denis Glover)…
Event Type: Performances
“Building for the (Un)Reliable Narrator” @ Waikato University Conservatorium of Music, New Zealand
Tessa Brinckman is an Academic Visitor and visiting artist to Waikato University’s Conservatorium of Music for two weeks. She will be teaching two workshops on the theme of “The (Un)Reliable Narrator” and growing skills and confidence as a composer.
Event Type: Workshops
“Living With the (Un)Reliable Narrator” @ Waikato University Conservatorium of Music, New Zealand
Tessa Brinckman is an Academic Visitor and visiting artist to Waikato University’s Conservatorium of Music from August 28 to September 10, 2017. She will be teaching two workshops on the theme of “The (Un)Reliable Narrator” and growing skills and confidence as composers and performers. This is the second workshop in the series. Here, we examine […]
Event Type: Workshops
2017 Lilburn Trust Student Composition Award Adjudication @ Hamilton, New Zealand
New Zealand’s esteemed and generous Lilburn Trust is hosting its annual competitive awards concert for composition and performance, adjudicated this time by distinguished academic visitor to the University of Waikato, Tessa Brinckman.
Event Type: Adjudication
“When Flutes Had Words” @ New Music Central, Christchurch, New Zealand
When Flutes Had Words presents mysterious and virtuosic worlds between narrative and music. The solo concert features flute, piccolo, alto, bass flute and electroacoustics, from micro-tonalities to musical groove, weaving text between and inside the music, from all over the globe.
Event Type: Performances
“Building & Living With the (Un)Reliable Narrator” @ New Music Central, Christchurch, New Zealand
In a one day residency at Canterbury University’s School of Music, Tessa Brinckman presents a workshop for on growing skills and confidence as composers.
Event Type: Workshops
Water | Wai | Woda – Flutes & Electroacoustics @ WINTEC, Hamilton, New Zealand
Flutists Tessa Brinckman and Adrianna Lis perform music for 2 flutes and electronics on the theme of water as a cultural and elemental life force, with composer Jeremy Mayall’s new work for flute, piccolo, alto, bass flutes & fixed media.
Event Type: Performances
“When Flutes Spoke Words” @ Mountain Meadows, Ashland OR
When Flutes Had Words presents mysterious and virtuosic worlds between narrative and music. The solo concert features flute, piccolo, alto, bass flute and electroacoustics, from micro-tonalities to musical groove, weaving text between and inside the music, from all over the globe.
Event Type: Performances
Alone | Together: Caballito Negro @ Mountain Meadows, Ashland OR
Caballito Negro presents a sparkling new program with science fiction/futurism as the theme. The music is performed on a good sized menagerie of instruments, but with the caveat that the instruments are small and intimate enough to fit into a house concert! Narratives are interwoven through out the music, in an intimate tribute to futurist speculations, and to science as play.
Event Type: Performances
Alone | Together: Caballito Negro @ Abbie Weisenbloom Presents Series, Portland OR
Caballito Negro presents a sparkling new program with science fiction/futurism as the theme. The music is performed on a good sized menagerie of instruments, but with the caveat that the instruments are small and intimate enough to fit into a house concert! Narratives are interwoven through out the music in an intimate tribute to futurist speculations, and to science as play.
Event Type: Performances
Caballito Negro - Stacey Steers’ Trilogy @ Ashland Independent Film Festival, OR
Flutist Tessa Brinckman & percussionist Terry Longshore (Caballito Negro) are excited to perform their original music for the amazing trilogy of works by film-maker Stacey Steers, a special guest of AIFF in 2018.
Event Type: Performances
AIFF Talkback: Composing Scores for Classic & Contemporary Films
Musician/composers Terry Longshore, Tessa Brinckman, and Joby Talbot (with moderator Richard Herskowitz) will talk in depth about their experiences scoring the Russian silent classic The Dying Swan and Stacey Steers’ Trilogy.
Event Type: Talkback
“When Flutes Spoke Words” @ Oregon Fringe Festival, Ashland OR
Flutist Tessa Brinckman presents her solo concert, which recently toured New Zealand as part of two academic residencies. The program unfolds the mysterious and virtuosic worlds between narrative and music, featuring flute, piccolo, alto, upright bass flute and electroacoustics, and weaving text between and inside micro-tonalities, lyricism and musical groove. (Go here for a fantastic […]
Event Type: Performances
Impuls’session #2 @ Péniche Alternat, Juvisy-sur-Orge, France
The contemporary trio of violin, percussion and electronics (Impuls’session #2: musicians Guillaume Roy, Gérard Siracusa and Nicolas Vérin) will be joined by Tessa Brinckman on the last piece of their concert at the Peniche Alternat. PLUS! Tessa Brinckman, flûtiste tout terrain, toutes les flûtes, toutes les musiques, improvisatrice, compositrice, nous vient de Nouvelle-Zélande, en […]
Event Type: Performances
Infuse Présente: If Cracks Were Also Your Seams @ La Générale Nord-Est, Paris, France
An exploration of the modern and the ancient with baroque flute, modern flutes including upright bass flute, violin, guitar & theorbo, in performance with virtuosos Caroline Delume & Masha Lankovsky. This concert will be presented at La Générale, one of Paris’ most noteworthy contemporary performance spaces.
Event Type: Performances
FLût/h | Future, ancient stories for flutes & guitars @ La Fine Gueule, Paris, France
Tessa Brinckman and Caroline Delume continue their collaboration in Paris with a second concert in an intimate setting at La Fine Gueule. Performing flute, alto, bass and baroque flutes, guitar and theorbo, the duo present a virtuosic, intense and delicate journey of the senses… Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre – Sonata in d minor – […]
Event Type: Performances
Artistic Residency @ Centre Pompadour, France
Centre Pompadour in northern France has invited Tessa Brinckman to complete a 2 week residency, to work on her upcoming composition Box | Grown Men Sing.
Event Type: Artist Residency
Britt Orchestra @ Britt Music & Arts Festival, Jacksonville, OR
The Britt Orchestra performs some fabulous programs, including Leonard Bernsteins’ Divertimento.
Event Type: Performances
Caballito Negro + Friends – Sneak Preview of “songbirdsongs” @ Southern Oregon University, Ashland OR
Caballito Negro and friends offer a small selection from their upcoming concert as an invitation to experience a little of John Luther Adam’s epic work (presented fully on Saturday September 29th).
Event Types: Performances, Talkback
Caballito Negro + Friends – “songbirdsongs” @ Oregon Center for the Arts, Ashland OR
Caballito Negro collaborates with flutist Elizabeth McNutt, percussionists Chris Whyte and Jared Brown, to present the epic John Luther Adams’ “songbirdsongs”.
Event Type: Performances
Flute Masterclass: Tessa Brinckman + Sophia Tegart @ Portland State University, OR
Visiting artists Sophia Tegart and Tessa Brinckman will offer a flute masterclass to Portland State University flutists, as part of their “songbirdsongs” concert tour.
Event Type: Masterclasses
Caballito Negro + friends “songbirdsongs” @ Portland State University, OR
Caballito Negro collaborates with flutist Sophia Tegart and percussionist Chris Whyte to present the epic John Luther Adams’ “songbirdsongs”
Event Type: Performances
Caballito Negro + friends “songbirdsongs” @ Washington State University, Pullman WA
Caballito Negro collaborates with flutist Sophia Tegart, percussionists Chris Whyte and Dave Jarvis, continuing a series of presentations of the epic John Luther Adams’ “songbirdsongs”. A meditation on wildness, “songbirdsongs” is a collection of indeterminate miniature pieces for piccolos, ocarinas, and percussion, based on free translations of bird songs. Adams writes, “These small songs are […]
Event Type: Performances
Flute Masterclass: Tessa Brinckman @ Washington State University, Pullman WA
Visiting flutist Tessa Brinckman presents a flute masterclass/workshop to flute students at Washington State University, as part of the “songbirdsongs” tour and concert later that day.
Event Type: Masterclasses
Caballito Negro + Control Voltage: Alone | Together @ Ashland Independent Film Festival, Schneider Museum, Ashland OR
Caballito Negro presents selections from their acclaimed program, Alone | Together, as part of the Ashland Independent Film Festival. The concert is an intimate tribute to futurist speculations, with science as play, in collaboration with electronic musicians Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard.
Event Type: Performances
Caballito Negro – “The Timbuktu Manuscripts” @ Oregon Fringe Festival, Ashland OR
Caballito Negro premieres The Timbuktu Manuscripts by Erik Griswold in collaboration with the Oregon Fringe Festival
Event Type: Performances
Box | Grown Men Sing @ Oregon Fringe Festival, Ashland OR
Oregon Fringe Festival presents Box |Grown Men Sing, composed and performed by flutist Tessa Brinckman, a 35 minute electro-acoustic tone poem which explores the meta-politics of solitary confinement, with live bass flute, waterphone, recordings of three survivors, found sound + video.
Event Types: Performances, Talkback
Caballito Negro + friends “songbirdsongs” @ ScienceWorks, Ashland OR
Caballito Negro collaborates with flutist Debra Harris, percussionists Chris Whyte and Jared Brown, continuing a series of presentations of the epic John Luther Adams’ “songbirdsongs”. A meditation on wildness, “songbirdsongs” is a collection of indeterminate miniature pieces for piccolos, ocarinas, and percussion, based on free translations of bird songs.
Event Type: Performances
Britt Festival Orchestra “Battleship Potemkin” @ Britt Music & Arts Festival, Oregon
The Britt Orchestra performs a new score to the silent film “Battleship Potemkin”, at the Britt Music & Arts Festival.
Event Type: Performances
Artist Residency @ Atlantic Center for the Arts, Smyrna Beach FL
An artist residency at ACA with multi-disciplinary artist Sook Jin Jo to explore generativity of new ideas, through visual and narrative media in its integration with music.
Event Types: Artist Residency, Performances
Artist Residency @ The Willows Nest, Berlin Germany
Tessa Brinckman is a visiting artist at Renée Coulombe’s new artistic residency, The Willows Nest, in Berlin. Coulombe – a composer, musician, multi-disciplinary adventurer – is both host and collaborator, in performance and discussion sessions. More details to come…!
Event Types: Artist Residency, Performances, Workshops
Ensemble in Process: Migration in Sounds @ Areté, Brooklyn NY
Tessa Brinckman and Kathleen Supové combine forces for their first-ever collaboration, as co-commissioners (through Flute New Music Consortium) of Valerie Coleman’s new work for flute and piano.
Event Type: Performances
Box | Grown Men Sing @ Site of Sound Series, Corvallis OR
Box |Grown Men Sing, composed and performed by flutist Tessa Brinckman, is a 35 minute electro-acoustic meditation on loss, exploring the meta-politics of solitary confinement and climate change, with live bass flute, waterphone, recordings of three survivors, fixed audio + video.
Event Types: Performances, Talkback
Box | Grown Men Sing @ Extradition Recital Series, Portland OR
Box |Grown Men Sing, composed and performed by flutist Tessa Brinckman, is a 35 minute electro-acoustic meditation on loss, exploring the meta-politics of solitary confinement and climate change, with live bass flute, waterphone, recordings of three survivors, fixed audio + video.
Event Type: Performances
Tessa Brinckman + Matt Goodrich @ Zalon, Philadelphia, PA
There was a flute and piano duo (Tessa Brinckman and Matt Goodrich performing Eugene Bozza’s Agrestide) on Andrea Clearfield’s virtual version of her famous Philadelphia salon! There will be a public rebroadcast of the July 12th ZALON the following week (2pm EST, 11am PST) and it stays up on this link for a few weeks. […]
Event Type: Performances
Project Auricle @ Chamber Music Concerts, Ashland OR
Chamber Music Concerts Outreach program is creating its first online recorded concert, featuring Tessa Brinckman (flute/alto flute), Michal Palzewicz (cello) and Matt Goodrich (piano), in their newly formed collective. Project Auricle performs new, forgotten, or otherwise omitted chamber music treasures that deserve a wider hearing.
Event Types: Performances, Talkback
“Re-assembled and Embodied: Flute Music by Women in Parallel Empires”: Artist Residency @ University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Designed together with flutist Jane Rigler, this project (funded by UCCS) develops an interdisciplinary flute performance and composition over several stages, exploring how we might reclaim flute compositions by women composers dismissed from the Western canon, by re-assembling them within contemporary, performative contexts, and addressing (and/or subverting) the concept of Empire, genius, and extraction in […]
Event Types: Artist Residency, Performances, Talkback, Workshops
Regenerating Your Low Flute Playing @ Greater Portland Flute Society Virtual Flute Day, OR
Tessa Brinckman leads a Zoom-based workshop for members of the Greater Portland Flute Society. An open (and fun!) workshop for players of any level about low flute technique, repertoire, and curation. Presenting a 15 minute survey of salient aspects of low flute playing, followed by Q & A. Participants are welcome to perform and discuss […]
Event Type: Workshops
“the passage of time”: Guest Artist of Left Edge Collective @ Oregon Center for the Arts
the passage of time… brings together performers from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico for a virtual performance of two works: David Bithell’s Subterranean, a technological exploration of isolation, uncertainty, and the hope for connection – and Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together – a work that 50 years after its composition in reaction to the deadly […]
Event Types: Performances, Talkback
“Women in Parallel Empires” streaming @ Center for New Music, San Francisco
Flutists Jane Rigler and Tessa Brinckman present the world premiere of their 22-minute acousmatic video, a “space opera”, in posthumous collaboration with Cécile Chaminade’s Sérénade aux étoiles (Serenade to the stars, 1911).
Event Types: Performances, Talkback
“Convergence” @ Into the Fold, Coral Springs Museum of Art, FL
Michelle AM Miller and I are happy to announce that her book installation “Convergence”, for which I was commissioned to make a music score last year, is officially an installation piece with music at the Coral Springs Museum of Art.
Event Type: Exhibition
Caballito Negro + Left Edge Percussion: “Hammers, Sticks, Wind & Stones” @ Oregon Center for the Performing Arts, Ashland OR
Caballito Negro and Left Edge Percussion present Jeff Herriott’s epic, shape-shifting work, The Stone Tapestry, for flute and percussion soloists and percussion quartet, and a cheery work for flute and percussion quartet, Hammers, by Allison Loggins-Hull.
Event Type: Performances
Re-release of “Songlines” by Caballito Negro @ Bandcamp
Flute and percussion duo, Caballito Negro, is releasing their re-mastered EP, “Songlines” on Bandcamp. You can read about it here and buy/listen here! Songlines (2016), has been praised for its “absolutely gorgeous tone” and “understated virtuosity” (Joshua Cheek), and being “expertly produced and played” (NFA Quarterly), featuring the music of William Kraft, David P. Jones […]
Event Type: Recording Release
Caballito Negro + Portland Percussion Group Interview @ All Classical KQAC
Members of Caballito Negro and Portland Percussion Group talk about their upcoming mini-tour in Oregon.
Event Type: Media Interview
Caballito Negro + Portland Percussion Group: “Hammers, Sticks, Wind & Stones” @ George Fox University, OR
Caballito Negro and Portland Percussion Group present Jeff Herriott’s “The Stone Tapestry”, “Hammers” by Allison Loggins-Hull, and a new work for percussion duo by Juri Seo.
Event Type: Performances
Caballito Negro + Portland Percussion Group: “Hammers, Sticks, Wind & Stones” @ Concerts at First, Eugene OR
Caballito Negro and Portland Percussion Group present Jeff Herriott’s “The Stone Tapestry”, “Hammers” by Allison Loggins-Hull, and a new work for percussion duo by Juri Seo.
Event Type: Performances
