Unbound Symphony Festival’s inaugural orchestral program will feature the world premiere of Spider Boots composed by Dr. Sarah Bassingthwaighte and Tessa Brinckman, as well as a dynamic selection of works by women composers, with Sarah Bassingthwaighte’s Concerto for Double Bass, Starburst by Jessie Montgomery, and Kauyumari by Gabriela Ortiz. Tickets can be purchase here Full program […]
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The album in.cantations dives beneath the surface of the body, into subconscious dreams, inner landscapes, and hidden stories. On June 20th, the eve of the summer solstice, flutist Jane Rigler brings this music to the Hudson Valley, presenting tracks from the album as interludes woven between live premieres of her new compositions. The concert will […]
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Zeitschleife in Austria is launching a new online concert series, originating from a call for scores for video works of either very long or very short duration, and for which Tessa Brinckman and Jane Rigler’s film “Women in Parallel Empires” was selected. The first concert in the series “Digital Mirror” is scheduled for May 17th, 16:00 (CET, […]
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A pre-recorded interview is being aired by CUNY-TV, on Frame by Frame, with 3 film-makers and Bronx World Film, including a discussion of The Gorgon Cycles. The Bronx World Film showcase will begin airing on CUNY TV and YouTube. The Gorgon Cycles will run April 10-12 and again on April 24-26 at 2:50 PM. Studio […]
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Low Earth Orbit from Ensemble Ex Materia’s EP A/B has been selected for a sound installation at Coreto do Jardim Público de Évora, in Évora, Portugal. The whole event, Lá nas Árvores is a project of Évora_27 – European Capital of Culture, led by the University of Évora, in partnership with the DME Project and […]
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A pre-recorded interview is being aired by CUNY-TV, on Frame by Frame, with 3 film-makers and Bronx World Film, including a discussion of The Gorgon Cycles. The Bronx World Film showcase will begin airing on CUNY TV and YouTube. The Gorgon Cycles will run April 10-12 and again on April 24-26 at 2:50 PM. Studio […]
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A celebration of women composers, with electric performances by writer Sharon Mesmer, in collaboration with WildLine’s flute, viola, guitar trio, speaking to all the ways in which we are “still here”. The concert includes vibrant works by Carolyn Yarnell, Barbara Kolb, Elisenda Fábregas, Yu Hui Chang, Kirsten Volness, Lynn Bechtold and Jean Coulthard. THE CONCERT […]
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A chamber concert in Trinity Uptown Cemetery and Mausoleum’s Chapel. FREE REGISTRATION REQUIRED at this link Morris-Jumel Mansion, in partnership with WildLine, proudly presents a celebration of women composers, with electric performances by writer Sharon Mesmer, in collaboration with WildLine’s flute, viola, guitar trio, speaking to all the ways in which we are “still here”. […]
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Broadcaster/composer/curator Tyler Kline is featuring A Cracticus Fancie during his Living Classical program, the week of March 22-28, 2026. Composed by Tessa Brinckman, it features Aotearoa/New Zealand poet Denis Glover reading his poem “The Magpies” with amplified piccolo and fixed media soundtrack. The episode is here, and also at livingclassicalradio.com, where the list of public […]
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Randy Woolf reprises this family-friendly concert, in collaboration with WildLine. The concert includes Kathleen Supové (keys) and Tessa Brinckman (flute), performing cool things like “Who is the Man”, “The Boy Who Drew Cats”, “Hüzün Nar: The Gorgon Cycles” and “Antarctica”. It’s FREE! Bring your offspring to help round up the rats, play with cat figurines, and […]
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A chamber concert in Trinity Uptown Cemetery and Mausoleum’s Chapel. FREE REGISTRATION: REQUIRED AT THIS LINK Morris-Jumel Mansion, in partnership with WildLine, proudly presents a celebration of black American composers, with live performances by writer and poet extraordinaire Angela Decker, in collaboration with WildLine’s flute and string trio, which speaks to all the ways in […]
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A celebration of black American composers, with live performances by writer and poet extraordinaire Angela Decker, in collaboration with WildLine’s flute and string trio, which speaks to all the ways in which we are “still here”. The concert includes vibrant works by Tyson Gholston Davis, Florence Price, Brittany Green, Jessie Cox, Shelley Washington, and Roger […]
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Arpaviva Recordings is releasing Ensemble Ex Materia’s new single Iron draws the hand toward it. This international collaboration of musicians includes Peter Vukmirovic Stevens (clavichord/synths/arrangements), Tessa Brinckman (baroque flute/percussion), Strotter (prepared turntables), Johanna Sandels (electronics), Jérôme Descamps (trombone) and FM Einheit (electronics). The track blends baroque flute and clavichord with prepared turntables, electronics, drones, and […]
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Flutist Lisa Cella performs a slew of solos, including works by Oliveras, Boquiren and Donnehy. This will also be the world premiere of Tessa Brinckman’s “The Heart Has Four Chambers”, which Lisa commissioned and will perform with Tessa, for 2 bass flutes and fixed audio. Details to follow….
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New York Women Composers’ fifth annual Gala and Silent Auction is raising funds for NYWC’s programs, such as the Seed Money Grant. This year’s honoree will be award-winning composer and violinist Dr. Chen Yi. In addition to refreshments, a silent auction, and music performances, there will be an archival project on display about the Women’s Work concerts (2004-2012), […]
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Caballito Negro (Tessa Brinckman and Terry Longshore) continue their collaboration with Duo Duplum (Ivan Manzanilla and Fernando Dominguez) at this internationally renowned new music festival in Mexico City. The quartet will present their epic commissioned piece composed by Juri Seo, Birds, Bees, Electric Fish, in its new quartet version for flutes, clarinets, and percussion. This time they […]
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Caballito Negro (Tessa Brinckman and Terry Longshore) are happy to be collaborating with one of Mexico’s finest contemporary duos, Duo Duplum (Ivan Manzanilla and Fernando Dominguez). They will present their epic commissioned piece composed by Juri Seo, Birds, Bees, Electric Fish, in a new quartet version for flutes, clarinets, and percussion. The quartet will also present pieces […]
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Randy Woolf reprises his family-friendly outdoor concert, which includes Kathleen Supové (keys) and Tessa Brinckman (flute), performing cool things like “Who is the Man”, “The Boy Who Drew Cats”, “Hüzün Nar: The Gorgon Cycles” and “Antarctica”. It’s FREE! Bring your offspring to help round up the rats, play with cat figurines, and other audience play! This […]
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Downtown Manhattan welcomes September’s edition of “A Night at La Nacional” with its worldly mix of contemporary arthouse, performance, music, visual arts and more in the great downtown tradition and at landmark venue La Nacional (Spanish Benevolent Society) on West 14th Street. Produced in partnership with Bronx World Film, the pilot series offers filmmakers, performers, […]
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Join us for an evening of boundary-pushing music with flutist Tessa Brinckman, pianist Kathleen Supové, and composer/performer Neil Rolnick on laptop. The program brings together bold acoustic playing and dynamic live electronics in a set of works that span decades of innovation. The evening will include So Not A Sonata, the playful and probing Flutey Loops for flute […]
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Lisa Bost-Sandberg, through Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame (Vox Novus), put in a composition call for 1 minute solo flute compositions for her to perform in succession. She has included A Radiator Wonders About Fish to premiere at the 2025 National Flute Convention in Atlanta. Other composers included are Helen Bledsoe, Bonnie Cochran, Cynthia Folio, Leanna Keith, Daniel Kessner, […]
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Low Earth Orbit, will be presented as an acousmatic work at the NOIS//E Festival in Tropea, in the Calabria region of Italy.
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Two pieces from Tessa Brinckman on Other Minds radio broadcast at KALW
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The Lace Mill presents “Dirt Frequencies”, a trio project with Tessa Brinckman (flutes and other instruments), Scott L. Miller (Kyma and Onde resonator) and Jane Rigler (flutes and other instruments). “Dirt Frequencies” is a collaboratively composed, concert-length work. It combines electroacoustic music, text, and Deep Listening®, inviting the audience into the sonic environment, responding to […]
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Untouchable Bar presents “Dirt Frequencies”, a trio project with Tessa Brinckman (flutes and other instruments), Scott L. Miller (Kyma and Onde resonator) and Jane Rigler (flutes and other instruments). Also featuring Hearn Gadbois in the evening. “Dirt Frequencies” is a collaboratively composed, concert-length work. It combines electroacoustic music, text, and Deep Listening®, inviting the audience […]
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Continuum Culture & Arts (Soup & Sound) and AntiSocial Music present “Dirt Frequencies”, a trio project with Tessa Brinckman (flutes and other instruments), Scott L. Miller (Kyma and Onde resonator) and Jane Rigler (flutes and other instruments). “Dirt Frequencies” is a collaboratively composed, concert-length work. It combines electroacoustic music, text, and Deep Listening®, inviting […]
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A family-friendly outdoor concert, which includes Kathleen Supové (keys) and Tessa Brinckman (flute), Roxanne Young (dance), performing cool things like “Who is the Man”, “The Boy Who Drew Cats”, “Hüzün Nar: The Gorgon Cycles” and “Antarctica”. It’s FREE! Bring your offspring to help round up the rats, play with cat figurines, and other audience play! This […]
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48 NYC composers are participating in Ensemble Ipse’s SiteWorks series – a kind of flash mob free-ish procession of freshly composed recordings played via bluetooth speakers. The composers walk through Central Park, from around the Great Lawn to Sheep Meadow. Tessa Brinckman is representing the freshly released EP, “A/B” from Ensemble Ex Materia (Arpaviva Recordings). […]
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A collective of Aotearoa/New Zealand composers are honoring composer Martin Lodge’s legacy, premiering all-new compositions grouped under the title, AEON, the shape of which was initiated in February 2024 by Martin Lodge and Tessa Brinckman. The spirit of AEON was inspired by Shakespeare’s quote from Hamlet, “Thou know’st ’tis common; all that lives must die”, […]
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Ensemble Ex Materia, a genre-defying classical crossover group, unveils its latest lineup with a powerful new two-track EP, A/B, releasing in April 2025. And great news! “Low Earth Orbit” has been selected for inclusion in the listening room at this year’s International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Boston, taking place from June 8–14. PREVIEW and […]
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Flutist Tessa Brinckman and pianist Kathleen Supové repeat their ambient and fierce program at Hunter College. And When I Dream You Shall Know features flute, piano, electronics, video by some of today’s most lyrical and adventurous composers. Linda Marcel’s work Merging embraces the ancient sounds of baroque flute, electronics, in this new version of Marcel’s […]
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Composers Concordance presents Protest Songs, featuring Mezzo Soprano Jessica Bowers, with compositions by Lynn Bechtold, Seth Boustead, Frank Brickle, Shanan Estreicher, Gilbert Galindo, Patrick Grant, Gene McBride, Carman Moore, Gene Pritsker, Carolyn Steinberg and Randy Woolf. Other musicians on the program are Oren Fader (guitar), John Pietaro (poetry, percussion), Laurie Towers (electric bass), Robert C. […]
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Tessa Brinckman, Tiffany Wu and Kim Foster present Weaving Clouds: Women in Creative Renewal, at the Hunter Dunbar gallery (524 West 24 St in New York City), in celebration of Women’s History Month, on Thursday March 13, 2025 at 6pm. This intimate performance weaves the harp, viola and flutes in an exploration of women in […]
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Tessa Brinckman and Kathleen Supové lead a mastery class for students at Hunter College. They will discuss interdisciplinary ideas in chamber music and more, which intersects with their later performance at Hunter on March 27th, 2025.
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Tessa Brinckman, Tiffany Wu and Kim Foster present Weaving Clouds: Women in Creative Renewal, at the Museum of Chinese in America in New York City, in celebration of Women’s History Month, on Sunday March 1, 2025 at 3pm. This intimate performance weaves the harp, viola and flutes in an exploration of women in generativity and […]
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Brian Mark directs the ensemble with Tessa Brinckman (flute), David Friend (piano), Ford Fourqurean (clarinet) and Allyson Clare (viola), in a concert of music and video, including Brian’s new piece funded by NYSCA
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Tessa Brinckman is guest flutist with Sylvan Winds in this exciting program of music, “Journey Through the Andes“, (Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina and Peru), with music from composers Rodrigo Munoz, Sadiel Cuentas, Eduardo Angel, Luis Salgado, Daniel Cueto, Luis Calva, Astor Piazzolla and Paquito D’Rivera. More details can be found here and here.
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Flutist Laura Lentz explores how different forms of momentum manifest in our world, from the physical to the abstract, from the playful to the profound in this solo flute and electronics concert. Hüzün Nar: The Gorgon Cycles will be included, alongside pieces by Sean William Calhoun, Anna Clyne, Claude Debussy, Shulamit Ran and Kari Telstad […]
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Flutist Tessa Brinckman and pianist Kathleen Supové perform “And When I Dream You Shall Know”, an ambient and fierce program of works for flute, piano, electronics, video and scent by some of today’s most lyrical and adventurous composers. Perfumer and interdisciplinary artist filmmaker Alexis Karl will provide olfactory mysteries to entwine with the performance. Linda […]
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Caballito Negro + Friends join Baltimore’s Lisa Cella and Dustin Donahue for a quartet performance of Birds, Bees, Electric Fish by Juri Seo, a world’s first double duo for flute and percussion, alongside other innovative music.
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Caballito Negro + Friends, featuring Tessa Brinckman, flutes, and Terry Longshore, percussion, are joined by UMBC faculty Lisa Cella, flutes, and Dustin Donahue, percussion, for a concert of works by Emma O’Halloran, Jane Rigler, Will Rowe, Stuart Saunders Smith, and featuring the East Coast premiere of Birds, Bees, Electric Fish by Juri Seo. Bi-coastal duo Caballito Negro is known for its creative and compelling performances, […]
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Caballito Negro + Friends, featuring Tessa Brinckman, flutes, and Terry Longshore, percussion, are joined by UMBC faculty Lisa Cella, flutes, and Dustin Donahue, percussion, for a concert of works by Emma O’Halloran, Jane Rigler, Will Rowe, Stuart Saunders Smith, with the East Coast premiere of Birds, Bees, Electric Fish by Juri Seo. Bi-coastal duo Caballito Negro is known for its creative and compelling performances, […]
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A concert featuring the premiere of “The Boy Who Drew Cats” by Randall Woolf for the Bachtopus Accordion Ensemble. The new work, commissioned by The Old Stone House, is based on the Japanese folktale. A young boy who constantly draws cats acquires magical powers from his drawings, and defeats a horde of magical rats occupying […]
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Tessa Brinckman will be performing her film score for alto flute + video Hüzün Nar: The Gorgon Cycles at the NFA this year.
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Tessa Brinckman will be presenting her work, A Cracticus Fancie, for amplified piccolo + fixed audio. This is part of the NFA’s featured concert “Women Composers / Songs from the Earth”, in Rm C1 at the convention center. NFA score-album info page
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Andrew Drury’s Soup & Sound series marks its 200th Anniversary with 2 Day celebration with some of NYC’s stellar improvisors (the June 29th Soup & Sound is the Part #1). Sunday’s concert is preceded by a backyard cookout at 3pm (bring a protein to grill), BYOB, and music follows at 4pm. The concert features DOYEON […]
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A really great conversation with host and composer, Doug Bielmeier, about my compositional process and the stories behind A Cracticus Fancie, which is part of my new album, Take Wing, Roll Back.
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Seth Boustead‘s ongoing adventurous series features works-in-progress with a live audience.
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Adrian Shirk and Tessa Brinckman present an immersive celebration of their latest recording and their latest book.
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Access Contemporary Music proudly presents the 19th anniversary of the Sound of Silent Film Festival – this is a repeat of the May 31 event at Symphony Space. This unique event features new short films sourced through a global call screened in silence with newly commissioned musical scores performed live. ACM’s musicians, led by conductor Jeremy Gill, will perform […]
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Access Contemporary Music proudly presents the 19th anniversary of the Sound of Silent Film Festival at Symphony Space. This unique event features new short films sourced through a global call screened in silence with newly commissioned musical scores performed live. Friday, May 31st 7:30 PM Symphony Space 2537 Broadway (at 95th) $25 general, $20 seniors/students with ID Facebook […]
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The Gorgon Cycles, the award-winning post-apocalyptic animation created by Miles Inada, Devyn McConachie and Tessa Brinckman, has been officially selected for the Inwood Film Festival, NYC.
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Composers Concordance presents a food-and-music concert event, featuring new music composed for flute ensemble, plus delicious flautos provided by Monica Von Thun Calderón’s exceptional Grandaisy Bakery. Featured compositions include ‘Comprov Cextet’ by Kitty Brazelton, ‘The Flute Of The Infinite’ by Gene Pritsker, and ‘Etheroscape’ by Joseph Pehrson, plus music by Aaron Alter, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, John Clark, […]
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Caballito Negro (flutist Tessa Brinckman and percussionist Terry Longshore) are releasing their single of Wally Gunn’s Bare White Bones on Bandcamp. It’s a 12 minute rollicking and haunting poetic rant, based on the macabre Scottish ballad “The Twa Corbies,” The accompanying video (created by Christopher Lucas) evokes our modern-day ecological crises with shadow puppetry, gorgeous […]
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An interview with the hilarious and astute Seth Boustead about my album and other stuff. More details to come!
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Terry Longshore (percussion) and Tessa Brinckman (flutes) are thrilled to collaborate with their friends Chris Whyte and Sarah Tiedemann of Portland’s Third Angle ensemble, in this world premiere of their co-commission, Birds, Bees & Electric Fish, by Juri Seo. BBEF is an epic, evocative flute and percussion quartet, which is a world-first scoring for a double […]
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Caballito Negro (Tessa Brinckman and Terry Longshore) talk with Geoff Riley on the Jefferson Exchange about their upcoming performance with Sarah Tiedemann and Christopher Whyte at the Oregon Center for the Performing Arts. The centerpiece of the concert is Birds, Bees, Electric Fish (for which Caballito Negro led a commission from composer Juri Seo), along with […]
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Caballito Negro presents new flute and percussion works in NYC, presented by Composers Concordance
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An interview about the new album, Take Wing, Roll Back, on Radio New Zealand’s concert program, Three to Seven” – live on-air with host Bryan Crump. Tessa Brinckman will be visiting Wellington at that time, and is happy to be in-person instead of the usual zoom interview!
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A broadcast of Dave Lake’s interview about the new album Take Wing, Roll Back (New Focus Recordings) for Contemporary Classics (WRUU-FM Savannah Georgia) on Tuesday, February 13th 8:00 PM ET.
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Album release “Take Wing, Roll Back” on February 9, 2024 on New Focus Recordings! Contemporary journeys for flute with Tessa Brinckman performing on multiple flutes.
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A broadcast of Geoff Riley’s interview about the new album Take Wing, Roll Back (New Focus Recordings) for Jefferson Public Radio’s The Jefferson Exchange The show is broadcast 9:00 AM and rebroadcast 8:00 PM (both Pacific time)
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A trio of NYC musician-composers, Maverick Offspring, make their ensemble debut with sultry, ephemeral groove music from past and present, with flute, viola and piano.
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Tessa Brinckman will be presenting a masterclass at UMBC, and a joint concert with faculty flute professor Lisa Cella. Tessa and Lisa have been collaborating on Lisa’s Low Flutes Project, an ongoing generative celebration of new works for low flutes. Ouroboros conjures our imaginative landscapes with the wild, diverse flute family. The program will be: […]
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Another Ensemble-in-Process concert with a wildly haunting program of music with video at The Cell.
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A presentation – some performing, some sharing of video + audio of Tessa Brinckman’s compositional process.
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Tessa Brinckman has been selected to attend a fully funded multi-disciplinary artist residency at Bethany Arts Community NY, where she will begin a commission and present some of her work to the Ossining community. “BAC, with a 44,000 square foot building set on 25 serene acres of mostly wooded land, provides a collective environment for […]
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Seth Boustead’s ongoing series features works-in-progress with a live audience.
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Tessa Brinckman is a visiting artist for the Vermont College of Fine Arts summer MFA composition program, performing with colleagues in the resident new music ensemble, SonLingua. Students will workshop their new compositions with SonLingua and faculty in this new location for VCFA’s MFA program. The VCFA program is a low-residency degree, renowned for its ability to mentor […]
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Tessa Brinckman, Kathleen Supove and composer Neil Rolnick combine forces to show Neil’s latest works for flute, piano and electronics at the popular new Noho loft concert series curated by Alex Baxter. The concert features Neil’s new Blowing 2, written for flute + electronics (the original solo was written for Robert Dick in the 70’s), […]
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There will be the first performance of The Most Unwanted Music by Dave Soldier and Komar Melamid in twenty-five years. In the People’s Choice Music project in 1996, the trio polled over 500 Americans on what they most like and dislike in music, including the instruments, styles, duration, vocal qualities, subjects and other parameters. The […]
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There will be the first performance of The Most Unwanted Music by Dave Soldier and Komar Melamid in twenty-five years. In the People’s Choice Music project in 1996, the trio polled over 500 Americans on what they most like and dislike in music, including the instruments, styles, duration, vocal qualities, subjects and other parameters. The […]
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This Ensemble in Process event A Face in the Crowd explores the stories of prisoners, commuters, isolated fiddlers, activists, Vaux’s swifts and monsters. Flutist Tessa Brinckman, violinist/violist Allyson Clare, trombonist Taylor Peterson and pianist Brian Mark perform works by Meredith Monk, Brian Mark, Tessa Brinckman, Olivier Messiaen, Ted Hearne, and Randall Woolf, accompanied by digital audio, […]
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Coinciding with a month of public performances, and in celebration of ongoing festival wins for animation film The Gorgon Cycles, the soundtrack Hüzün Nar: The Gorgon Cycles is being released as a single! Composed + performed by Tessa Brinckman for alto flute and fixed media, it was recorded and mixed by Sean McCoy at Oregon Sound Recording. The cover […]
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Tessa Brinckman collaborates with prodigious mischief-maker and electric guitarist Gene Pritsker and poet Robert C Ford to conjure up some sonic fun. Featuring the Sky Vault Theme Song, Variation on Pehrson’s Motorcycle, What Falls From Heaven, May The Great Ark Save The Drones, Sorrow, Like Pleasure, Creates Its Own Atmosphere, Hüzün Nar: The Gorgon Cycles and Pandemic Dance #9 Program
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Lisa Cella and Tessa Brinckman present The Low Flutes Project at the New York Flute Fair, both as a performance and a talk about the expressive use of modern techniques in low flute playing.
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Composers Concordance presents Generations XII, the 12th-annual concert featuring the winners of the Generations Composition Competition. This year’s winners are Paul Novak of Chicago (Cat A: 25 years old or younger) for his composition Three Night Pieces, and Lee McClure of New York City (Cat B: 65 years old or older) for his composition Pocket Suite No.1.
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Jane Rigler and Tessa Brinckman’s latest collaboration, Your Coat, Turning, has been selected for a one day residency event at Ramapo College NJ. It is one of three selected works in an evening entitled Rediscovering Community on Saturday, February 25, 2023 in the Sharp Theater on the Ramapo College of NJ campus in Mahwah, NJ. Following […]
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Hamburg Indie Film Festival is screening our award-winning experimental film, Women in Parallel Empires – it can be watched via www.24frameshub.com To get there, viewers need to create an account on that website to use it. Then send an email to 24frameshub to confirm their identity and after the confirmation, users can watch the movies. Please note that their […]
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Lisa Cella and Tessa Brinckman present The Low Flutes Project at the Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention
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Longing Lights tells the story of Rābiʿa, a female Sufi, and is a work-in-progress piece of experimental opera. It describes the visible and invisible world of human thoughts, reflections that have been neglected in the midst of political and social upheavals between the iron lands and digital forests.
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Memorial concert for avant-garde composer, synthesizer keyboardist, and improvisor Richard Lowe Teitelbaum (May 19, 1939 – April 9, 2020)—a pioneer in live electronic music and brain-wave controlled synthesizer music who brought many different world music performers together— features two of his well-known compositions and work by colleagues from throughout his career.
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A loft concert series in lower Manhattan, hosted by Alex Baxter, presents new work by Randall Woolf, including a new work for Kathy Supove. Included in this concert is a premiere of a new work, Milk And Cookies, that Woolf was commissioned (by Composers Concordance and NYSCA) for pianist Kathy Supove. The performance is part […]
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Tessa Brinckman and Dan Lippel present Charlotte Bray’s Here Everything Shines as part of Andrea Clearfield’s famous Salon. This passionate work is draws from Cesaria Evora’s famous song, Petit Pays. This particular Salon event is completely online (hence a Zalon!), as Andrea will be hosting from France. Andrea has hosted this unique and genre-wide concert […]
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Flutist Tessa Brinckman and percussionist Terry Longshore (duo Caballito Negro) are inviting flutists and percussionists to participate in a unique co-commission for a double flute/percussion duo (therefore a quartet). Juri Seo , a composer known for her rich, versatile and virtuosic musical languages has been asked to create a 12-14 minute, two movement, work.
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Ensemble in Visual Motion is a concert dedicated to works accompanied by visuals on screen, with an homage to the art of Hollywood cinema, with live performance of works by Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Evan Fein, Ursula Kwong-Brown, Michael Gordon, Ted Hearne, Ian Dicke, and Brian Mark.
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Festival Embarque presents guitarist Caroline Delume and flutist Tessa Brinckman performing on flute, alto flute, guitar and theorbo. The concert features two world premieres – a new work by Tessa Brinckman, and a re-orchestration of an older work by Bun-Ching Lam. It also includes works by Gabriela Ortiz, Toru Takemitsu, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Marin Marais. Le […]
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Tessa Brinckman presents A Shared Solitary (2020) by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, an arrangement for alto flute of the original version for violin and MAX patch, at the International Low Flutes Festival 2022.
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Through Women in Parallel Empires, their acousmatic video work which premiered in 2021, Jane Rigler and Tessa Brinckman discuss their ongoing remote artistic collaborations which are infused with feminist performance theory in practice, de-colonization and space, critiques of our relationship as artists to our subject matter, and all bodies as biology and culture. They will be […]
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Artist Diana Lehr has been invited to present her video work at an online exhibition at PAFA. She has included her video for Below, recorded on contrabass flute by Tessa Brinckman, and composed by Alex Shapiro (released on Bandcamp). You can watch the trailer video for Below here.
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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.
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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.
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Members of Caballito Negro and Portland Percussion Group talk about their upcoming mini-tour in Oregon.
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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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. […]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…!
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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.
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The Britt Orchestra performs a new score to the silent film “Battleship Potemkin”, at the Britt Music & Arts Festival.
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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.
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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.
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Caballito Negro premieres The Timbuktu Manuscripts by Erik Griswold in collaboration with the Oregon Fringe Festival
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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Caballito Negro collaborates with flutist Sophia Tegart and percussionist Chris Whyte to present the epic John Luther Adams’ “songbirdsongs”
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Visiting artists Sophia Tegart and Tessa Brinckman will offer a flute masterclass to Portland State University flutists, as part of their “songbirdsongs” concert tour.
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Caballito Negro collaborates with flutist Elizabeth McNutt, percussionists Chris Whyte and Jared Brown, to present the epic John Luther Adams’ “songbirdsongs”.
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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).
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The Britt Orchestra performs some fabulous programs, including Leonard Bernsteins’ Divertimento.
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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.
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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 – […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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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)…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 […]
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Tessa Brinckman & Mitsuki Dazai in concert, presented at Beaverton Library OR, by Music In Small Spaces, in celebration also of National Poetry Month.
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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 […]
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Caballito Negro leads workshops for two Southern Oregon schools as Resident Artists for Britt Music & Arts Festival’s outreach program.
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Bryan Jeff’s “Shady Lady” for Piccolo & Percussion Ensemble will be repeated at the Northwest Percussion Festival 2016 in Eugene OR.
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Caballito Negro will be touring its geo-poetic program “Songlines”, with performances, workshops and masterclasses, in Oregon and Washington.
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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.
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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”.
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Caballito Negro will be in Residence at the Festival of New American Music, Sacramento CA, performing concerts and teaching masterclasses.
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