National Sawdust – Past Concerts
Bryant Park Picnic Performances & National Sawdust: Allison Loggins-Hull's Diametrically Composed
Friday, September 17, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Collection of newly commissioned works featuring flute, voice, & piano – produced by flutist/composer Allison Loggins-Hull – that explore the duality of being a mother & an artist.
Free
Contemplations: Digital Discovery
Sunday, August 1, 2021 @ 4:30pm – 6:30pm (PDT)
Online event
The latest installment of National Sawdust's 6-episode series exploring the diverse influences, experiences, & cultures that make up contemporary composition.
Free
Contemplations: Leading Voices
Sunday, July 25, 2021 @ 4:30pm – 6:30pm (PDT)
Online event
The latest installment of National Sawdust's 6-episode series exploring the diverse influences, experiences, & cultures that make up contemporary composition.
Free
Contemplations: Today's Lens
Sunday, July 18, 2021 @ 4:30pm – 6:30pm (PDT)
Online event
The latest installment of National Sawdust's 6-episode series exploring the diverse influences, experiences, & cultures that make up contemporary composition.
Free
Contemplations: Origins
Sunday, July 11, 2021 @ 4:30pm – 6:30pm (PDT)
Online event
The latest installment of National Sawdust's 6-episode series exploring the diverse influences, experiences, & cultures that make up contemporary composition. Performances & interviews from Du Yun, Jojo Abot, & more.
Free
National Sawdust: 21c Liederabend Op. World Wide (digital)
Sunday, June 27, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Living composers are paired with designers & visual artists for a multimedia, digital opera experience, in this installation of Beth Morrison & Paola Prestini’s expansive re-imagining of the traditional art song recital.
Free
National Sawdust & BMP: Next Gen
Thursday, May 27, 2021 @ 4:30pm – 5:30pm (PDT)
Online event
New, original works by the 10 first-round finalists of BMP: Next Gen, a program of Beth Morrison Projects to discover exciting new voices in opera & music theatre.
Free
National Sawdust: Blueprint Fellowship Concert
Thursday, May 20, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Selected Juilliard composition students present projects written for NS's Blueprint Fellowship program. Works for voice, dance, electronics, & Pierrot ensemble, performed by NS & Julliard musicians.
Free
National Sawdust: 21c Liederabend Op. World Wide (digital)
Thursday, April 29, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Living composers are paired with designers & visual artists for a multimedia, digital opera experience, in this installation of Beth Morrison & Paola Prestini’s expansive re-imagining of the traditional art song recital.
Free
National Sawdust: Marisa Michelson & Miriam Parker
Thursday, April 22, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Composer/performer Marisa Michelson & interdisciplinary artist Miriam Parker connect sound & movement from sacred music, free jazz, Buddhism, & divine spirituality in this collaborative music/dance digital premiere.
Free
National Sawdust: Left & Right
Thursday, April 15, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Accessibility is incorporated as aesthetic in this collaboration from composer/performer Molly Joyce, dancer Jerron Herman, writer Max Greyson, & director Austin Regan examining historical myths of the left versus right sides of the body.
Free (Free)
National Sawdust: Brianna Mims
Thursday, April 8, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Model/dancer/activist Brianna Mims focuses on the body as a poetic & political site of liberation through intimate dance & music compositions that incorporate fashion, advocacy, & healing for positive change.
Free
National Sawdust: Amy Hall Garner
Thursday, April 1, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Alabama-born choreographer Amy Hall Garner & collaborator Jared Small explore the ephemerality of flowers in their natural & abstract forms, in this production that brings together music, dance, & art.
Free
National Sawdust: The BluePrint Fellowship Concert
Thursday, March 25, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Selected Juilliard composition students present an exciting mix of works for voice, dance, electronics, & Pierrot chamber ensemble, performed by National Sawdust Ensemble members & Juilliard student musicians.
Free
National Sawdust: "Is this love, or is it fantasy?" – New Music by Delune & Film by Alexandra Hohner
Thursday, March 18, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Izzi & Kate Eberstadt of baroque pop duo Delune premiere a new concept video, Pierrot and the Reverie, blending animation by Alexandra Hohner, theater, pop music, & silent film.
Free
National Sawdust: What Becomes of Love?
Thursday, March 4, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PST)
Online event
Dance collaboration between Tony Award-nominated choreographer Sonya Tayeh & musician Mike Milosh of Rhye. With dancers from the American Ballet Theatre.
Free (Free)
National Sawdust: Galya Bisengalieva & Sana Serkebaeva
Thursday, February 25, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PST)
Online event
Violinist/composer Galya Bisengalieva presents the world premiere performance of two tracks from her newly-released album Aralkum – an elegy for the former Aral Sea, now the Aralkum Desert, in Kazakhstan.
Free (Free)
National Sawdust: The Vanishing Point
Thursday, February 18, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PST)
Online event
A work of video music-theatre conceived across distances, created by experimental musicians Booker Stardrum & Lisel (Eliza Bagg), & dancer/choreographer Gwendolyn Gussman.
Free (Free)
National Sawdust: Jangdan – Conversation of the Breath [LIVE]
Thursday, February 11, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 5:30pm (PST)
Online event
Percussionists Kim So Ra & Hyun Seung Hun, piri player Hong Ji Hye, & dancers Kim Young Mi & Hong Kyeong Hwa experiment with rhythm & movement live from a theater in Seoul for this short film premiere.
Free (Free)
National Sawdust: Kyle Abraham, A.I.M, & Jlin
Saturday, January 9, 2021 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PST)
Online event
Choreographer Kyle Abraham, producer Jlin, & dancers from A.I.M. explore death, folklore, & reincarnation through this new commission that reimagines W.A. Mozart’s Requiem in D minor.
Free
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