Violalia Duo + Shiraz Ensemble

February 2026
Archestratus Books + Foods
164 Huron St, Brooklyn, NY 11222

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Glass Clouds Ensemble premieres Pieces of Place: New York

Spring 2026

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CreArtBox premieres Tectonic Lullabies

Fall 2026

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Violalia Duo + Margarita Rovenskaya

Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 4pm
House concert in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens (RSVP for address)
Tickets & More Information
Free admission with RSVP

Violalia Duo and pianist Margarita Rovenskaya join forces again in a lively program of chamber music by Eastern European composers including Bartók, Dvorák, Smetana, and Martinů.

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String Cartographies

Thursday, November 6, 2025 from 7-9:30pm
Scholes Street Studio, 375 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn, NY
Tickets & More Information

Violinist Madeline Hocking, violist Hannah Selin, and cellist Clara Cho join guitarist Daniel Reyes Llinás offering an evening of sonic exploration inspired by Pertenecer, Llinás’s work for string trio and electric guitar. Using fragments, textures, and gestures from the piece composition process as a shared map, the quartet charts new routes through improvisation—blurring the lines between written and spontaneous music. Expect shifting soundscapes where strings and electric guitar intersect in delicate dialogues, dense harmonies, and unexpected terrains.

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The Lost Marbles Trio

Friday and Saturday, October 17 and 18, 2025 from 6-8:20pm
Balcony Bar, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

The Lost Marbles Trio (Alexandrina Boyanova, violin; Hannah Selin, viola; Valeriya Sholokhova, cello) returns to the Met with music by Bach, Mozart, Pachelbel, and Tartini.

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Kathleen Supové premieres Tributaries II

Sunday, September 28, 2025 at 4pm
Puffin Cultural Forum, 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, NJ
Tickets & More Information

New music pioneer Kathleen Supové premieres Tributaries II for solo piano and electronics, as well as works by Randall Woolf and Supové herself. Tributaries is a sub-series within the ongoing Pieces of Place series. Tributaries II explodes the melody from Pieces of Place: Catskills into a constellation of musical ideas that embody the form of the Hudson River and its tributaries. The tributaries’ overlapping and intersecting harmonic clouds weave together an expanding and deepening musical world that culminates with the river’s outlet into the New York Bay and, ultimately, the Atlantic Ocean.

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SydeBoob Duo performs Evil Trees

Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 7:30pm
Benzaquen Hall, DiMenna Center, 450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018
Tickets & More Information (Free with RSVP)

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Performing Concetta Abbate’s Mythology of Greening

Thursday, September 25th, 2025 at 12:30pm
Human Impacts Institute (part of NYC Climate Week)
Pier 57, New York, NY
Tickets & More Information

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SPLICE Ensemble premieres Pieces of Place: Rockies

June 23, 2025, 7:30pm
Dalton Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Livestream

Pieces of Place: Rockies is based on Rocky Mountains near Nederland, Colorado, where I spent three summers in my late teens and early twenties. The piece weaves together memories of people, animals, and plants, beginning with a staring match between myself and a herd of elk on an abandoned ranch. The piece rebounds between the swiftness of the herd in motion and the eternal stillness of that collective gaze. In a parallel stream, it traces the life of a coworker who died from an asthma attack in his late twenties.

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CreArtBox Ensemble performs dream journal

June 6th, 2025 at 7pm
Flushing Town Hall Theater
137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY
Tickets & More Information

Approaching Zero is a minimalist journey through sound, silence, and visual art.

Presented as part of Queens Rising at Flushing Town Hall, this special program weaves together music for piano, flute, cello, and electronics, enhanced by original video art projections. Featuring works by Max Richter, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, François Couperin, Hannah Selin, Michel van der Aa, Nils Frahm, and Guillermo Laporta, the evening invites the audience into a meditative exploration of stillness, resonance, and the beauty of disappearance.

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Noise Catalogue: Angels Underground

May 31st, 2025 at 8pm
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
3 W. 65th St, New York, NY
Tickets

I’m playing viola with Noise Catalogue in George Crumb’s Black Angels. The program also includes music by ensemble director Madeline Hocking, Julius Eastman, and Sarah Hennies.

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The Lost Marbles Trio

Friday and Saturday May 9th and 10th from 6-8:20pm
Balcony Bar, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

The Lost Marbles Trio (Alexandrina Boyanova, violin; Hannah Selin, viola; Valeriya Sholokhova, cello) returns to the Met with music by Handel, Biber, and more.

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Violalia Duo + Rita Rovenskaya

Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 3pm
Violalia Duo + Rita Rovenskaya
Richter Arts, 100 Aunt Hack Rd, Danbury, CT

Violalia Duo and pianist Rita Rovenskaya join forces again for a program of 19th, 20th, and 21st-century works for violin, viola and piano.

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Kamratōn + Violalia Duo

Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 7pm
National Opera Center, 330 Seventh Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY
Tickets & More Info (pay-what-you-can tickets available at the door)

Violalia Duo opens for Kamratōn, a Pittsburgh-based new music ensemble, in their annual She Scores festival. Violalia will perform a short opening set including Hannah Selin’s Meditation on 2/5 for solo violin (scordatura) and Rumi Settings for violin and viola by Augusta Read Thomas.

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Lost Marbles Trio at Rowan University

Thursday, February 27th, 2024 at 7:30pm
Boyd Recital Hall at Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, NJ

The Lost Marbles Trio (Alexandrina Boyanova, violin; Hannah Selin, viola; Valeriya Sholokhova, cello) performs a program of music Rowan University composition students and faculty along with Jean Françaix’s 1933 Trio à cordes.

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Lost Marbles Trio at the Met

Friday and Saturday, February 21 and 22, 2025 from 6-8:30pm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Balcony Bar
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

The Lost Marbles Trio returns to the Met with 20th- and 21st-century music by Hannah Selin, Roberto Pace, and Jean Françaix.

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Glass Clouds Ensemble performs You are dark and fine

Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 6:30pm
Anita Rogers Gallery, 494 Greenwich Street (Ground Floor), New York, NY
Admission is free // Donations accepted
More information

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CreArtBox premieres The Soft Moon

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 7:30pm
DiMenna Center, 450 W 37th St, New York, NY
Tickets & More Info

CreArtBox and I are collaborating on “The Soft Moon,” a multimedia chamber work based on a story from Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics. In “The Soft Moon,” the inhabitants of an alternate version of Earth are confronted with the imminent threat of their moon breaking to pieces. The piece is scored for solo baritone, flute, violin, viola, cello, piano, electronics, and video.

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Lost Marbles Trio at the Met

Friday and Saturday, November 15 and 16, 2024 from 6-8:30pm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Balcony Bar
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

The Lost Marbles Trio returns to the Met with music by Dohnanyi, Enescu, and Purcell.

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Violalia Duo in Tarrytown

Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 3pm
Christ Episcopal Church, 43 S Broadway, Tarrytown, NY
Suggested Donation: $20

This afternoon concert will feature violin-viola duos by Kaija Saariaho, Béla Bartók, Salvatore Sciarrino, Brendan Faegre, and Heitor Villa-Lobos, as well as some Renaissance songs.

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Violalia Duo + Hilary Hawke at Archestratus

Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 8pm / doors at 7:30pm
Violalia Duo + Hilary Hawke
Archestratus Books & Foods, 160-164 Huron St, Brooklyn, NY
Tickets: $15

Violalia Duo returns to Archestratus Books & Foods for a cozy musical evening surrounded by the latest cookbooks, cookware, imported foods, and possibly even some homemade delicacies. Hilary Hawke, banjoist, singer and songwriter extraordinaire, will share the bill, playing a set of original music. Violalia’s program includes music by Kaija Saariaho, Béla Bartók, Salvatore Sciarrino, Brendan Faegre, and Heitor Villa-Lobos. Featuring a special trio premiere by Ari Sussman for violin, viola and banjo!

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Premiere: A Wonderful Way with Dragons

Saturday, August 10, 2024 at 8:30pm
Festival of Cinema NYC, Block 32 at the Regal UA Midway (Theater 3)
108-22 Queens Blvd, Forest Hills NY
Tickets

In A Wonderful Way with Dragons, Delfine Paolini’s directorial debut, six children remain abandoned on an enigmatic island after a pandemic sweeps the world. Their struggle to survive becomes paled by individual desires for each other and for power. The film features an original score composed and recorded by Nicki Adams and Hannah Selin.

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The Lost Marbles Trio at the Met

Friday and Saturday, July 19-20, 2024 from 6-8:30pm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Balcony Bar
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

The Lost Marbles Trio (Alexandrina Boyanova, violin; Hannah Selin, viola; Valeriya Sholokhova, cello) returns to the Met with music by French and American composers, including Selin’s mountains we love.

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Premiere: Glass Clouds Ensemble

Saturday, June 29, 2024
Earth Matter, Governors Island, NYC

Glass Clouds Ensemble will premiere a newly commissioned work for soprano and two violins based on a poem by Katherine Evans titled “You are dark and fine,” and inspired by Earth Matter’s composting program.

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GADADU (chamber version) at Dada

Saturday, April 20, 2024, sets at 8 and 9:30pm
Dada, 6047 Myrtle Ave, Queens, NY 11385
Suggested donation $20

GADADU performs an acoustic set with vocals, string trio, and keyboard at Dada, a cocktail bar and live music club in Ridgewood, Queens.

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Dream Journal & The Apocalypse Album Release

Friday, April 12, 2024 on Gold Bolus Recordings
Available on Bandcamp for streaming, digital download, and as a limited-edition booklet
(also available on streaming services)

In Dream Journal & the Apocalypse, my debut album as a composer, dreamworlds mix with the supernatural; ghostly echoes and whimsical vocalizations meet with the warm resonances and characters of acoustic instruments – and the people who play them. This album features electroacoustic works for solos and duos developed over the last few years in close collaboration with a handful of incredible musicians: Chromic Duo, Ford Fourqurean, Stephanie Lamprea, Ben Katz, and SydeBoob Duo.

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SELBA at The Owl

Thursday, April 11, 2024 / doors at 7:30, music at 8
The Owl, 497 Rogers Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225
Suggested donation $12

SELBA is a new project spearheaded by composers-vocalist-string players Hannah Selin and Concetta Abbate. Hear us perform our original tunes for voices, violin and viola live for the first time ever! We’re excited to open for Paraphrase (Nicki Adams & Michael Eaton) in their Transcendental album release show.

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Kamratōn premieres RedGreen Symbiosis

She Scores Festival 2024 (Pittsburgh, PA + Brooklyn, NY)

Friday, March 29, 2024 at 7pm
Pittsburgh Friends Meeting House, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 2pm
Scholes Street Studio, 375 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Kamratōn premieres RedGreen Symbiosis, a newly commissioned work that weaves together a powerful precambrian dream with with fragments of Sappho, exploring themes of motherhood, time-travel, human-nature relationships, and interspecies peace.

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Violalia Duo + Margarita Rovenskaya

Thursday, February 29, 2024 from 12:15-1pm
All are welcome / donations accepted
Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew, 520 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

Violalia Duo and pianist Margarita Rovenskaya join forces for the first time, performing Czech (Martinů, Dvořák, Smetana), German (Bruch) and Hungarian (Bartók) music for violin, viola, and piano from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Abbate/Selin Duo at WAKE! Festival

WAKE! Festival
Friday, December 15, 2023 at 11pm
Festival runs from 6pm-midnight
Stone Circle Theatre, 5914 70th Ave, Ridgewood, Queens 11385
Tickets & More Info

Concetta Abbate and I join forces for the first time as SELBA to perform a short set of new compositions and improvisations for voices, violin and viola.

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CreArtBox performs Pieces of Place: Chesapeake

CreArt Music Festival
Saturday, December 9, 2023 at 7:30pm
Culture Lab LIC, 5-25 46th Ave, Queens, NY 11101
Tickets & More Info

Circle Noir (Part II)
Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 7:30pm
The William Vale, 111 N 12th St, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Tickets & More Info

CreArtBox performs a new version of Pieces of Place: Chesapeake for flute, violin, viola, cello, piano, electronics and video as part of the 2023 CreArt Music Festival. I am honored to be collaborating with CreArtBox this year as composer-in-residence.

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Violalia Duo Fall Tour

Thursday, November 2, 2023 from 12:30-1:00pm
Presented by Market Street Music‘s Noontime Concert Series
Old Town Hall, 504 North Market Street, Wilmington, DE

Violalia Duo performs music by Bohuslav Martinu, George Tsontakis, and Augusta Read Thomas.

Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 7:30pm (doors 7pm)
Violalia Duo + Shiraz Ensemble (Sepehr Pirasteh + Sina Homaee)
The Perch Music & Arts, 2321 Emerald St, Philadelphia, PA

Violalia Duo joins forces with Philadelphia-based, Iranian-born Shiraz Ensemble for an evening of new music, both notated and improvised.

Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 7:30pm (doors 7pm)
Violalia Duo + Dave Ruder
Archestratus Books, 160-164 Huron St, Brooklyn, NY

Violalia Duo (Laura Thompson + Hannah Selin) performs 20th- and 21st-century music for violin-viola duo by Bohuslav Martinu, Augusta Read Thomas, and Matthew Greenbaum–a longtime Greenpoint resident. Founded in 2021, the duo embraces the limber, conversational nature of their instrumentation, bringing musicality, curiosity, and a sense of humor to audiences in often-intimate concert settings. For this concert, we are joined by composer/songwriter Dave Ruder and his string trio.

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GADADU + BenBen at The Owl

The Owl Music Parlor
Thursday, October 26, 2023 – 7:30pm doors, 8pm music
497 Rogers Ave, Brooklyn, NY
$12 suggested donation

Come hear GADADU in a new chamber configuration with voice, strings and piano! We’re sharing the bill with songwriter and multi-instrumentalist BenBen, who creates dreamy songscapes with whimsical vocals, guitar, and a rotating cast of other instruments. For this show, we’re excited to try out both new and old tunes with this new acoustic instrumentation.

Hannah Selin, voice/viola
Adam von Housen, violin
Helen Newby, cello
Nicki Adams, piano

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World Premiere: Suon laulu for choir

Tuira Chamber Choir
Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 5pm (Finnish time)
Tulindberg Chamber Music Hall, Oulu, Finland
Part of the Ostrobothnian Contemporary Music Festival

This piece is a collaboration with artist Anne Yoncha and the Tuira Chamber Choir. Scored for SATB choir, Suon laulu (Song of the Swamp) expresses the struggle, strength and resiliency of peatlands in their confrontation with humans and industrial extraction. It also delves into the bittersweet cycle of human life through lyrics from the Kanteletar, a 19th-century collection of Finnish-Karelian folk songs transcribed by Elias Lönnrot. Peatlands, also known as mires or swamps, plan an important role in Finland’s ecology and cultural history. During the 20th century, Finland began draining and extracting peatlands on an industrial scale to generate fuel. The piece is structured around Anne’s graphic score Re:Peat, which she created with data from an experimental peatland restoration site outside of Oulu, Finland.

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Lost Marbles Trio at the Met

Date Night at the Met
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028
Friday and Saturday, August 18-19, 2023
Sets at 6, 7 and 8pm

The Lost Marbles Trio (Alexandrina Boyanova, violin; Hannah Selin, viola; Valeriya Sholokhova, cello) returns to the Met with Bach’s beloved Goldberg Variations, arranged for string trio.

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Consortium: Chaos for clarinet trio

Chaos Incarné Trio
Deadline: July 31, 2023
Join the consortium!
Watch the premiere

Chaos is a continuous two-movement work that summons the wrath of Mother Nature and the peace at the eye of the storm, reflecting on the impacts of natural disasters. Chaos Incarné Trio has started a consortium, which allows any ensemble or individual to co-commission this piece and premiere it in their locale. Non-clarinetists are also welcome to donate to the consortium.

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Concert: GADADU + Post Coal Prom Queen

“With Me” Single Release Show
Sleepwalk, 251 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, June 22, 2023 // doors at 8, music at 8:45
Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/vd206616ee18

For this special show at Sleepwalk, GADADU joins forces with Scottish synth-pop band Post Coal Prom Queen (PCPQ) to celebrate the release of our new single, “With Me.”

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World Premiere: Chaos for clarinet trio

Chaos Incarné Trio
Friday, July 7, 2023, 8:30am MST
ClarinetFest, Westin Westminster
10600 Westminster Blvd, Westminster, CO 80020

This newly commissioned work, scored for clarinet in Bb, clarinet in A, and bass clarinet, summons the wrath of Mother Nature and the peace at the eye of the storm.

Musicians: consider joining the commissioning consortium, which allows anyone to co-commission this piece and premiere it in their locale. In addition to the original instrumentation, I am creating arrangements for alternate chamber groupings including strings, winds, and piano in various combinations.

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Performance: Mid-day for soprano and live electronics

New Music Gathering
Saturday, June 24, 2023 // 1pm “Sing Yer Heart Out” Concert
Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave, Portland, Oregon

Anna Elder performs Mid-day for soprano and live electronics at New Music Gathering 2023.

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Evil Trees for soprano, alto flute and 4-channel electronics

SydeBoob Duo
Thursday, 4 May 2023 / 7:30-9pm
Scholes Street Studio, 375 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Tickets: $15
Livestream!
World Premiere

Featuring lyrics developed via Ouija seance, ambient electrical charges recorded via naked 1/4″ cable, and optional strummed instrument (for this premiere, autoharp with pedals), Evil Trees is a musical imagining of the relationship between humans and technology. It was commissioned by SydeBoob Duo for their 2022/23 season.

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GADADU: ‘The Weatherman Is Wrong’ Album Release Celebration

Thursday, 23 February 2023 /// doors at 7:30pm, music 8pm
The Owl Music Parlor, 497 Rogers Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Celebrating the release of GADADU‘s third album with a very special evening of music at The Owl:

Hasumi/Ishito/Togami (synths+tenor sax+drums+free improv)

Stephen Becker (voice+guitar+songs)

GADADU–The Weatherman Is Wrong:
Hannah Selin, voice/viola
Nicki Adams – piano/synths
Pat Adams – trumpet
Ayumi Ishito – tenor sax
Dan Stein – bass
Tiago Michelin – drums

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World Premiere: and we fly away for Voices of Ascension

Tuesday, 31 January 2023 at 7:30pm
Roulette Intermedium, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY
more info & tickets
livestream

Voices of Ascension will premiere and we fly away, a setting of Psalm 90 / Tehillim 90 in the original Hebrew for unaccompanied SATB choir. This piece is about the great beyond. It is dedicated to my grandmother Celeste and my neighbor Anetia, who both passed away recently. Each concert in the 2023 Voices of the New Festival features a newly commissioned work with a program collectively curated by the singers.

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GADADU(o) at Pete’s Candy Store

Tuesday, 10 January 2023, 9:30-10:30pm
Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY
Suggested donation: $10

GADADU bandleaders Hannah Selin (voice, viola) and Nicki Adams (keys, synths) will play a pared-down duo set featuring music from the band’s new album, The Weatherman Is Wrong.

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Lost Marbles Trio at the Met

Date Night at the Met: Friday & Saturday 12/16 & 12/17 /// Sets at 6, 7 & 8pm
Petrie Court Café, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave, New York, NY
Free with museum admission

The Lost Marbles Trio (Alexandrina Boyanova, violin; yours truly, viola; Valeriya Sholokhova, cello) performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations, arranged for string trio. Baroque holiday spirit vibes!

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Lost Marbles Trio at the Met

Date Night at the Met
Friday & Saturday 11/17 & 11/18 /// Sets at 6, 7 & 8pm
Petrie Court Café, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave, New York, NY
Free with museum admission

The Lost Marbles Trio (Alexandrina Boyanova, violin; yours truly, viola; Valeriya Sholokhova, cello) performs chamber music from the 20th & 21st centuries by Pierne, Hailstork, Mazzoli, Enescu & Milhaud.

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Violalia Duo: Fall 2022 Concerts

Violalia Duo (Laura Thompson, violin; yours truly, viola + composition) presents our second season of new music for violin and viola! On the program: Augusta Read Thomas’ Rumi Settings, George Tsontakis’ Knickknacks & the world premiere of Double Song II by Matthew Greenbaum. We’re thrilled to share the stage with SydeBoob Duo in Brooklyn, and June Bender in Philadelphia.

Please come! We would love to share these special evenings with you.

Sat. 11/12 at 7:30pm / doors at 7
Violalia Duo + SydeBoob Duo
St. John-St. Matthew-Emanuel Lutheran Church, 283 Prospect Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Sun. 11/13 at 7pm / doors, snacks & drinks at 6
Violalia Duo + June Bender
The Perch Music & Arts Workshop, 2321 Emerald St, Philadelphia, PA

Suggested donation: $20

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Performance: Mid-day for soprano + live electronics

Thursday, 27 October 2022 at 7:00pm
Scholes Street Studio, 375 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY
Tickets & More Info

SydeBoob Duo‘s Anna Elder will perform Mid-day in the opening concert of their 2022-23 season.

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Album Release: The Weatherman Is Wrong by GADADU

Friday, 30 September 2022
Listen / Preorder

GADADU‘s third full-length album arrives September 30, 2022 on Gold Bolus Recordings (U.S.A.) and AMP Music & Records (Europe).

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Performance: dream journal – solo piano version

Wednesday, 28 September 2022 at 7:30pm
6th CreArt Music Festival, The Blue Gallery, 222 E 46th St., New York, NY
Tickets & More Info

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Premiere: Alphabet Soup for string quartet

Thursday, 22 September 2022 at The Village Trip Festival
7pm pre-concert talk with composer & improviser David Amram
7:30-9:30pm concert
Tickets

Hilliard Greene and The Jazz Expressions, experts in bebop, will cover some Charlie Parker, as well as their original work. Legendary composer and improviser David Amram will sit in with Hill and the Jazz Expressions.

The Momenta String Quartet will perform works by Stefan Wolpe and his student Matthew Greenbaum, along with Alphabet Soup, a new work written especially for this occasion by Greenbaum’s student, Hannah Selin.

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Premiere: The Body Politic

Tuesday, 13 September 2022 at 7:30pm
Wednesday, 14 September 2022 at 10pm
Friday, 16 September 2022 at 5:30p
Tuesday, 20 September 2022 at 7:30pm
MAAS Building Studio, 1325 N Randolph St, Philadelphia, PA (all performances at this location)
Runtime: approx. 45 minutes
Tickets & More Info

The Body Politic is a suite for dancers & electronic music that deals with the social dynamics of totalitarianism, created collaboratively by choreographer Yao Xu and composers Sepehr Pirasteh and Hannah Selin. It is presented as part of the Cannonball Festival, in conjunction with the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

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Premiere: Mid-day for voice + electronics

Tuesday, 6 September 2022 at 7:30pm
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Watch livestream

Soprano Stephanie Lamprea will perform a concert featuring works from her album Quaking Aspen, including the world premiere of Mid-day for voice + electronics with visuals by yours truly.

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Single Release: ‘Ocean’s Children’ by GADADU

Thursday, 1 September 2022
Watch Video
Listen // Preorder Album

‘Ocean’s Children,’ the second single + music video from GADADU’s upcoming album, will be released on Thursday, September 1st.

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Concert: Lost Marbles Trio

Date Night at the Met
Friday, 19 August 2022: short sets from 6 to 9pm
Saturday, 20 August 2022: short sets from 6 to 9pm
Free with museum admission (museum admission is pay-what-you-wish for New York state residents)

Petrie Court Café, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave, New York, NY

Lost Marbles Trio (Alexandrina Boyanova, violin; Hannah Selin, viola; Valeriya Sholokhova, cello) performs music by Françaix, Reger and the New York premiere of Selin’s mountains we love for string trio.

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Single Release: ‘Bear’ by GADADU

Friday, 29 July 2022
watch music video
listen on Spotify
preorder album

‘Bear,’ the first single from GADADU’s upcoming album, will be released on Friday, July 29th. This song will feature visuals by artist & motion designer Akaliko.

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NFT Release: Life: As an Individual, and a Whole

Thursday, 12 May 2022
https://foundation.app/collection/lifeoffirefly

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Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 6pm EST
https://foundation.app/collection/lifeoffirefly

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World Premiere: Terrestrial Bodies for wind symphony

Friday, 22 April 2022 at 7:30pm EST
Temple University Wind Symphony, conducted by Dr. Patricia Cornett
Temple Performing Arts Center, 1837 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA
More information

This concert also features pieces by William Bolcom and Adolphus Hailstork, as well as Dr. Rollo Dilworth’s new composition “Weather” for choir and wind ensemble.

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World Premiere: Inverse Portraits (from Canarsie) for bass clarinet + electronics

Friday, 15 April 2022 at mise-en place, Brooklyn, NY
Monday, 18 April 2022 at Stony Brook Univ. Recital Hall, 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY
Ford Fourqurean: New Music for Solo Clarinet

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World Premiere: The Body Politic for chamber orchestra

Wednesday, 30 March 2022 at 7:30pm
Temple Composers’ Orchestra, conducted by Sepehr Pirasteh
Temple Performing Arts Center, 1837 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA

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World Premiere: Spiritual Noise for percussion trio

Monday, 28 March 2022 at 5:30pm
Emilyrose Ristine: Master’s Recital
Klein Hall, Presser Music Building, 2001 N 13th St, Philadelphia, PA 19122, Philadelphia, PA

Commissioned by percussionist Emilyrose Ristine, Spiritual Noise imagines the chaotic fizzle of energy beyond the limits of human perception, alternating between periods of stasis and dense activity.

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BBC Radio 3 features ‘mid-day’ for voice + electronics

Saturday 29 Jan. 2022 at 7pm EST // In the UK: 12am on Sunday 30 Jan. 2022
Freeness, hosted by Corey Mwamba
Tune in here!

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Release: Mid-day for soprano + electronics

Friday, 7 January 2022
Listen // Buy Album

Over the summer, vocalist Stephanie Lamprea commissioned me to compose a new work for Quaking Aspen, her debut album, slated for release on New Focus Recordings in January 2022. The text is “Mid-day,” a poem by H.D. that explores the nested cycles of life and death that intersect in every instant. H.D., or Hilda Doolittle, was an American modernist poet who grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania, not far from where I grew up over a century later. Quaking Aspen features new compositions by Jason Eckardt, George N. Gianopoulos, Wang Lu, James May, Kurt Rohde, and myself.

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Virtual Premiere: Tributaries I for solo double bass

Friday, 7 January 2022 at 12pm EST
Bang on A Can: First Fridays with Robert Black
Tickets & Livestream

Robert Black will premiere Tributaries I in his monthly concert series featuring new music for double bass. Tributaries I is a connecting movement in the Pieces of Place series for chamber ensembles and electronics, which explores the effects of global warming on places I’ve called home. The solo and duo Tributaries flow between them like bodies of water.

Tributaries I imagines the flow of water, organic materials, and pollution through the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. Large-scale agriculture, livestock farming, deforestation, and heavy industry made the Chesapeake Bay one of the most toxic bodies of water in North America by the mid-1900s. While cleanup and restoration efforts are underway, the Bay remains heavily polluted.

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World Premiere: dream journal for piano (four hands), toy piano, synth, electronics + video

Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 8pm EST
Joe’s Pub / Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St, New York
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dream journal began in the dead of winter 2021, when Chromic Duo and I logged our dreams for a month from three separate locations. It imagines the connections between individual dream-worlds, which can merge and intertwine across thousands of miles and, perhaps, even years. We are so excited to finally premiere this piece for a live audience!

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Violalia Duo

Sunday, 21 November 2021 at 3pm EST
Christ Church – San Marcos Episcopal, 43 South Broadway, Tarrytown, NY
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Finals of Balsys International Composition Competition

Saturday, 20 November at 6:30pm UTC+2
Klaipéda Concert Hall, Klaipéda, Lithuania
“Winter” from Four Mountain Songs (2020) wins 2nd Prize and the most audience votes
World premiere by Ave Sol Chamber Choir, conducted by Andris Veismanis
Watch the Full Concert on Lithuanian National Television (“Winter” is at 2:12)

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International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) Annual Concert

Tuesday, 16 November 2021 at 7:30pm EST
Howard University, 2400 6th St., Washington, D.C.

Alf’s Labyrinth for viola and piano will be performed along with works by Tatev Amiryan, Ashi Day, Anna Hege, Gyuli Kambarova, Bonnie McLarty and Catherine Reid.

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Workshop: Pieces of Place: Catskills for string quartet + electronics

Wednesday, 10 November 2021 at 5:30pm EST
Rock Hall, Temple University
1715 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19122

Argus Quartet will premiere Pieces of Place: Catskills along with new works by Sepehr Pirasteh and Ramin Akhavijou as part of their fall 2021 residency at Temple University. Pieces of Place: Catskills is the second in a series of works exploring the effects of global warming on places I’ve called home.

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Performance: Prime for percussion + double bass

Sunday, 7 November 2021 at 3pm EST
Network for New Music
Icebox Project Space, 1400 N American St, Philadelphia, PA
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Philadelphia’s renowned Network for New Music presents Projections, a program of music by emerging composers, to celebrate the start of their 2021-22 season.

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Violalia Duo

Saturday, 18 September 2021 at 7:30pm EST
St. JME Episcopal Church, 283 Prospect Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Suggested Donation: $15-20
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Join violinist Laura Thompson and violist/composer Hannah Selin for an adventurous program of 20th and 21st century works. The program will include music by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ennio Morricone, Ari Sussman, and Augusta Read Thomas, as well as the New York premiere of Hannah Selin’s Meditation on 2/5 for scordatura violin.

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Violalia Duo

Saturday, 11 September 2021 at 7:30pm EST
Emily’s Salon, Philadelphia, PA
Suggested Donation: $15-20

Join violinist Laura Thompson and violist/composer Hannah Selin for an adventurous program of 20th and 21st century works. The program will include music by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ennio Morricone, Ari Sussman, and Augusta Read Thomas, as well as the New York premiere of Hannah Selin’s Meditation on 2/5 for scordatura violin.

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Performance: Meditation on 2/5 for solo violin

28 August 2021 at 4:30pm
Virtual Concert on YouTube

Kamraton Ensemble violinist Jennifer Sternick performs Meditation on 2/5 as part of the annual 2021 SCI National Student Conference.

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Release: Prime for percussion and double bass

17 August 2021 at 7PM
Music Video on YouTube

After premiering Prime in April 2021, percussionist Lucas Conant teamed up with Philadelphia-based four/ten media and bassist William Valencia to make this music video. Prime is a semi-bombastic joy ride through synthetic forests of mixed meters. The atmosphere of hazy harmonies was derived from randomly generated, but humanly selected, prime number frequencies.

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Composers Now IMPACT

Tuesday, 27 July 2021 at 12pm EST
Virtual talk & listening session
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Release: Pieces of Place: Chesapeake

Wednesday, 23 June 2021
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The first in a series of works for chamber ensemble and electronics that explore the effects of global warming on places I, and many many others, have called home. Recorded by the Temple University New Music Ensemble, conducted by Jan Krzywicki and featuring guest guitarist Aaron Bobis.

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Performance: Meditation on 82 for soprano and electronics

Women Take the Floor: Stephanie Lamprea, voice and electronics

Saturday, 1 May 2021 at 9pm EST
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Hosted by Constellation Chicago

Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea is an architect of new sounds and expressions as a performer, curator and improviser, specializing in contemporary-classical and avant-garde repertoire. This program features works for solo voice and electronics by female composers, as well as vocal improvisation.

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Virtual Premiere: Prime for percussion and double bass

Sunday, 25 April 2021 at 5:30pm EST
Livestream concert at https://www.youtube.com/user/boyercollege/live
Boyer College of Music at Temple University

Prime is a semi-bombastic joy ride through synthetic forests of mixed meters. Its atmosphere of hazy harmonies was derived from randomly generated, but humanly selected, prime number frequencies. Initial inspiration for this piece came from the mysterious 13- and 17-year cycles of seasonal cicadas. This duo was commissioned by percussionist Lucas Conant for his masters recital at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance.

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Virtual Premiere: Meditation on 2/5 for violin scordatura

Commissioned by Charlene Kluegel

Monday, 19 April 2021 at 8pm EST
Livestream concert on the conTemplum YouTube channel

Meditation on 2/5 for violin scordatura (F3-D4-E4-E5) is part of a series of solo and duo meditations, all of which are all somehow based around numbers interpreted especially as frequencies, but also as rhythms and other musical parameters. This one draws its numbers from global warming projections, in degrees Celsius. The IPCC calls for no more than 2°C of surface temperature rise above preindustrial levels, which in itself will cause massive climate change. A 2013 IPCC report projects a rise of nearly 5°C by the year 2100 if the global carbon emissions continue on their current trajectory. Meditation on 2/5 won a Merit Award at the 2021 Tribeca New Music Festival.

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Workshop/Premiere: Pieces of Place I: Chesapeake

Saturday, 3 April 2021, 2:30pm EST
S.E.M. Ensemble‘s 2021 Emerging Composers Workshop
25 Columbia Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (outdoors)
Free; RSVP here (required)

Pieces of Place I: Chesapeake is based on the northeastern side of the Chesapeake Bay, where I spent many childhood summers. The piece is structured around three superimposed timescales: geological, human, and tidal. The piece is scored for eight instruments – flute/piccolo, clarinet in A, violin, cello, double bass, electric guitar, percussion, synthesizer – and an electronics part that provides a sonic horizon throughout.

Digital Premiere: the apocalypse (doesn’t have to be) now for harpsichord and electronics

Sunday, 31 January 2021
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This piece is a warped version of a Protestant hymn known as “Old 100th.” The original melody never appears in its natural state. Augmented and reharmonized, it is gradually deconstructed through granular synthesis and other effects. The performer and audience members are invited to fill in the parentheses in the title with a verb or expression of their choosing, based on the state of affairs at the time of performance.

Dedicated to Ben, who first inspired me to write for the harpsichord, and then collaborated in the midst of a pandemic to record everything remotely.

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New Single: “dosaardvark” by GADADU

Thursday, 27 August 2020
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Premiere: String Quartet No. 1, “The Third Reality”

Music on Prospect
Sunday, 2 February 2020 at 2pm
St. JME, 283 Prospect Avenue Brooklyn NY

Thursday, 13 February 2020, doors 7:30, music 8pm
The Owl Music Parlor, 497 Rogers Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Brackish
Thursday, 20 February 2020, doors 7:30, music 8pm
St. Lydia’s, 304 Bond St. Brooklyn, NY

Xanthoria Quartet (Kate Goddard, Abby Swidler violins; Hannah Selin, viola; Alexandra Jones, cello) presents a series of concerts premiering new multi-movement works by its own members. On the program: Botanical Portraits by Swidler, String Quartet No. 1, “The Third Reality” by Selin, and string quartet renditions of Renaissance choral works by Josquin and Gesualdo.

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Premiere: Meditation on 82 for solo voice

Monday, 10 February 2020 at 7:30pm
Rock Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Acclaimed soprano and new music advocate Stephanie Lamprea premieres new works by Temple University composers alongside other contemporary works, including a new addition to my Meditations series. Each Meditation takes a specific frequency as its starting point, and travels outward from there.

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Frame Dance Productions premieres Hirondelle

24 January 2020, 8pm
MATCH, 3400 Main St, Houston, TX
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A new version of Hirondelle for solo cello and playback will be premiered by cellist Patrick Moore with new choreography by Frame Dance Productions.

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Reading: Terrestrial Bodies for Concert Band

Tuesday, 3 December 2019 from 1-3pm
1801 N Broad St, Philadelphia, PA

Temple University Concert Band reads new works by TU composers.

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Brooklyn Composers Alliance: New Music for String Quartet

Saturday, 23 November 2019 at 7:30pm
Scholes Street Studio, 375 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY

Xanthoria Quartet (Kate Goddard, Abby Swidler, violins; Hannah Selin, viola; Alexandra Jones, cello) premieres new string quartets by Sean Vigneau-Britt, Seth Grosshandler and Mavis Pan.

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InEnsemble’s Alina Petrova performs Sage for solo viola and playback

Gnesin Contemporary Music Week
Thursday, 10 October 2019 at 6:30pm
Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, St. Povarskaya d. 38, Moscow, Russia

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Brooklyn Metro Chamber Orchestra: Celebrating Women Composers

Saturday, 18 May 2019 at 8pm
BAM Fishman Space, 321 Ashland Pl, Brooklyn, NY
Tickets: $40 general / $30 students

The Brooklyn Metro Chamber Orchestra performs the world premiere of my new song cycle Six Narratives along with works by Germaine Tailleferre and Deon Price. Scored for a rotating ensemble of six vocalists with chamber orchestra, Six Narratives is based on Adrienne Rich’s powerful series of poems by the same title from her 1995 book, Dark Fields of the Republic.

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Xanthoria Quartet plays Janáček and Glass

Saturday, 11 May 2019 at 2pm
Tow Center for the Performing Arts, Room 250
Brooklyn College (Hillel Place entrance), 2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Xanthoria Quartet presents their debut concert featuring Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata,” (1923) and Philip Glass’s String Quartet No. 3, “Mishima” (1985). In spite of their geographically and temporally disparate origins, these two quartets share an unusual story-within-a-story quality. Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1 is based on Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata, which is in turn based on Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9. Glass’s String Quartet No. 3 is adapted from his score for the 1985 film Mishima, which depicts the life of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

Xanthoria Quartet was founded in 2019 by Abby Swidler (violin), Kate Goddard (violin), Hannah Selin (viola) and Alexandra Jones (cello).