2009

February 23
American premiere of "Messa di Voce" an interactive media performance work by Joan La Barbara, Jaap Blonk, Golan Levin, Zachary Lieberman
at Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 W. 4th Street, 8 PM, sponsored by NYU Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions Music Technology Program
and Electronic Music Foundation.


2008

November 4
Joan La Barbara performing "Three Voices" by Morton Feldman at Ciclo de Música Contemporánea 2008 in Buenos Aires.

September 30 - October 4
Joan La Barbara performing John Cage's "Aria" with Merce Cunningham's new choreography "XOVER" at Barbican, London.

September 22-28
Premiere of "An American Rendition": Joan La Barbara and Jane Comfort collaborate again on a
new political theater work/spoken word opera with music commissioned by NYSCA,
performance made possible through funding from Live Music for Dance:
Jane Comfort and Company at Duke Theater, W. 42St. (more details soon)

August 30
Joan La Barbara performing "Three Voices" by Morton Feldman in Ruemlingen (just outside Basel), Switzerland.

August 8
Joan La Barbara performing excerpts from "Three Voices" by Morton Feldman at Bard College "Spiegeltent",
SummerScape 2008 festival (New Albion Records), 8pm.

July 16 - August 5
La Barbara does workshops and performances of "Shimmer" and "ROTHKO" at Encuentro Internacional de Teatro del Cuerpo in Pachuco, and Mexico City, Mexico.

June 5-9
Joan La Barbara performing Robert Ashley's "Dust" at Aterform Festival in Ferrara, Italy.

May 30 MAMbo
La Barbara performs Cage's "Eight Whiskus" composed for her in 1984, plus "Music for Three" with Alvin Curran and Philip Corner at
Bologna's Museum of Modern Art to celebrate the opening of an exhibition of works by John Cage. (more details soon)

May 3
Ne(x)tworks concert residency at Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W. 22nd St at 11th Avenue, NYC 2pm: premiere of "Scatter" by Joan La Barbara
(an homage to Bebe Barron), plus works by Kenji Bunch, Ariana Kim, Chris McIntyre, and Miguel Frasconi.

April 5
Ne(x)tworks concert residency at Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W. 22nd St at 11th Avenue, NYC 2pm: premiere of "Words on Water (Shimmer)"
by Joan La Barbara , plus works by Miguel Frasconi and selections from the Alvin Curran "Fake Book".

March 15-24
Soloist Champions: Meet the Composer has commissioned new works for 8 contemporary virtuosos, funded by NYState Fund for Music. Margaret Lancaster premieres composer Joan La Barbara's new score "Atmos" for flute and sonic atmosphere:
Saturday, March 15 - Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
Wednesday, March 19, Symphony Space, Sharp Theater, New York City
Monday, March 24 - SUNY-Purchase, New York.

March 5 & 6
Ne(x)tworks Trio in Belfast, performing works by Cornelius Dufallo, Joan La Barbara, Miguel Frasconi, Earle Brown, John Cage and Christian Woolf.

March 1
Ne(x)tworks concert residency at Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W. 22nd St at 11th Avenue, NYC 2pm:
works by Cornelius Dufallo, Shelley Burgon, Joan La Barbara, Miguel Frasconi and Jon Gibson.

February 17
Joan La Barbara performing "Three Voices" and "Only" by Morton Feldman at De Doelen (Flipsezaal), Rotterdam, Holland.

February 16
Joan La Barbara performing "Three Voices" and "Only" by Morton Feldman at the Grand Theatre, Groningen, Holland.

February 12-14
Joan La Barbara performing John Cage's "Aria" with Merce Cunningham's new choreography "XOVER" at Theatre National de Toulouse, France.

February 10
Joan La Barbara performing "Three Voices" and "Only" by Morton Feldman at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, Holland.

February 9
Joan La Barbara performing John Cage's "Aria" with Merce Cunningham's new choreography "XOVER" at Concertgebouw, Bruges, Belgium.

February 2
Joan La Barbara performing music by Cage, Brown and Feldman at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal in conjunction with Robert Rauschenberg show.


2007

November 3
Joan La Barbara will perform her work at Roulette @ Location One; concert will be filmed for Roulette's television broadcast series.

October 21 & 22
Joan La Barbara performing in concert music by Morton Subotnick at NYU/Frederick Loewe Theater, 8 PM, 35 W. 4th Street, NYC.

October 10
Joan La Barbara will perform her works "Circular Song" and "In the Shadow and Act of the Haunting Place" in her new orchestration for Ne(x)tworks at The Kitchen, 512 W. 19th Street, NYC. Her scores for these works will be on display in The Kitchen's graphic scores exhibition opening September 8 through October 20.

October 5 & 6
"Aria" and "XOVER" - Premiere of Merce Cunningham's new choreography with sets by Robert Rauschenberg and music by John Cage performed by Joan La Barbara: Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

September 14-18
Joan La Barbara with Jane Comfort & Co. rehearsals, w-i-p performance of "An American Rendition" at SUNY/Oswego.

June 29
"Angels Passing" La Barbara's work for live voice and 16-channel/16-speaker array received a repeat performance at Issue Project in Brooklyn.

June 16 & 17
Joan La Barbara's "l'albero dalle foglie azzurre" (tree of blue leaves) for solo oboe and sonic atmosphere performed by Melanie Feld at "Notable Women: A Celebration of Women Composers" with Orchestra of St. Luke's at Chelsea Art Museum (16th), NYC, and Dia Beacon (17th).

June 10, 17, 24
Ne(x)tworks residency at The Stone, NYC, 8 & 10 pm. La Barbara's work "In the Shadow and Act of the Haunting Place" received its New York premiere in a new orchestration for Ne(x)tworks on June 24.

May 30 - June 4
Joan La Barbara performing Robert Ashley's "Celestial Excursions" at Holland Festival

May 12
"Angels Passing" A new Joan La Barbara work at Issue Project in Brooklyn (16-channel/16-speaker array performance)

April 19-21
"Fleeting Thoughts: Mr. Henderson's 3AM" a collaboration between choreographer Jane Comfort and composer Joan La Barbara will be presented at University of California at Riverside., with Jane Comfort and Company.

April 17
Ne(x)tworks concert of music by Earle Brown, celebrating the CD/DVD release of "Tracer" (Mode 179), 8PM at Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York City.

March 23-30
Institute for Living Voice in Buenos Aires: La Barbara will conduct a workshop on contemporary composition and extended vocal techniques and perform music by La Barbara and Subotnick in two concerts, sponsored by CETC.

March 14-16
Joan La Barbara and Tom Chiu, artists in residence at University of North Florida, Master Classes on March 14 & 15, and concert March 15, featuring works by Berio, Cage, Chiu, Dodge, Feldman, La Barbara, Subotnick and Scelsi.

March 1-3
La Barbara will be featured composer at SFIFEM, Santa Fe Electronic Music Festival.

February 23-28
Sub-Tropics festival, featuring music by John Cage and Earle Brown, Miami, FL.

January 15-21
La Barbara will appear in premiere of Robert Ashley's new opera, "Concrete" at La Mama, in New York.


2006

December 17
La Barbara performs the solo aria in Cage's Four Walls with Aki Takahashi, pianist
La Casa Encendida
Ronda de Valencia nš 2 Madrid
calendar

December 16
La Barbara presents an all-Cage recital in Madrid, Spain, assisted by percussionist Miguel Bernat, sponsored by musicadhoy.
La Casa Encendida
Ronda de Valencia nš 2 Madrid
calendar For more information see: http://www.musicadhoy.com

December 8
Ne(x)tworks performs music by Christopher McIntyre at Roulette/Location One, NYC, 8:30 PM.

November 17
Joan La Barbara and Tom Chiu (1st violinist, Flux Quartet) will present a duo recital at Williams College Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, featuring works by Berio, Chiu, Dodge, La Barbara, Perez-Velasquez, Subotnick and Xenakis.

November 11
La Barbara and Ne(x)tworks perform John Cage's "Variations II" at Brooklyn Lyceum, 4th Avenue & President St., Brooklyn, NY, 6 PM.

October 20
La Barbara performs the title role in Kenji Bunch's "Confessions of the Woman in the Dunes" at Issue Project, 400 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY, 8 PM.

October
Taumalipas International Arts Festival: Six performances of La Barbara's music from "ShamanSong" for Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company's "Incense".

September 30
La Barbara appears in Robert Ashley's opera "Celestial Excursions" at Venice Biennale, Teatro Piccolo Arsenale.

September 21
La Barbara sings early works of Cage, Feldman, Meredith Monk and her own Circular Song at the MATA benefit, Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 West 21st Street, upstairs , 6:30 pm http://www.matafestival.org/benefit.html

September 18
Joan La Barbara and Jane Comfort honored at the First Collaboration Awards of The Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media at the historic Cherry Lane Theatre, New York.

September 9
La Barbara's work will be featured at the Washington Square Festival, 1-4PM, Washington Square Park, New York City.

July
Poland's "American Day" festival: Two performances of La Barbara's music "Landscape over Zero" and "Desert Myths" for Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company' s "American Landscapes": "Landscape over Zero" and "Isle of Dunes".

July
12th Silesian Dance Company's International Dance Festival in Krakow and Bytom, Poland: two performances of La Barbara's music from "ShamanSong" for Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company' s "Incense".

June 10
Opera America's Composer/Librettist workshop featured composers Paul Dresher, Jake Heggie, Joan La Barbara, conductors Michael Morgan and Sara Jobin, and librettist Gene Schee

June 7
Nex(x)tworks in residence at Issue Project, Brooklyn unveils a new program of works ranging from the "classic" avant garde to the contemporary.

May 17
Nex(x)tworks in residence at Issue Project, Brooklyn features excerpts from LaBarbara's opera in-progress “WoolfSong.”

April 29
La Barbara's scores “Landscape over Zero” and premieres “Deserts” with Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company and Ne(x)tworks, at NJPAC (New Jersey Performing Arts Complex, Newark).

April 19
Nex(x)tworks in residence at Issue Project, Brooklyn features excerpts from Kenji Bunch's opera in-progress “Woman in the Dunes.”

April 12
La Barbara performs an excerpt from “WoolfSong,” an opera in-progress, with the Juilliard Electric Ensemble.

March 23
La Barbara performs works by David Behrman at Greenwich House, Barrow Street, NYC.

March 22
Nex(x)tworks at Issue Project, Brooklyn features new music written for the ensemble by members Cornelius Dufallo and Christopher McIntyre.

March 16-19
Premiere of "Fleeting Thoughts," a new work by Jane Comfort and Company with live music by Joan La Barbara. 8pm, St. Mark's Danspace, New York.

January 19
Composer/Performers Joan La Barbara, John King and Todd Reynolds perform their music at Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater, 8 PM.


2005

November 19 and 20
Public spaces within the Museum:RELAY ~ NYC!
La Barbara performs with Enso New Music Group members in the galleries at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. For this music event celebrating the one-year anniversary of MoMA's reopening, thirteen improvising musicians circulate throughout the Museum, performing in three different spaces within the building, sculpting the sounds within an environment, encouraging the public to view the art in a subtly different context and to ponder the possible relationships between the sounds, the visual art, and the space.
3 - 5P.M.

November 18
"Fleeting Thoughts " work-in-progress performance of new work by Jane Comfort and Company with live music by Joan La Barbara at 8PM in Pearson-Hall Theater, Lang Performing Arts Center, Swarthmore College.

October 4
La Barbara discusses her opera in-progress "WoolfSong." Composers Forum at NYU's Black Box Theater, 7pm.

September 17 - 24
La Barbara gives a workshop on New Opera at the International Summer Academy KlangKunstBuehne at the Universitaet der Kuenste Berlin. The workshop will explore the borders between music, theater and the visual arts while broadening the experience of participants through cross-disciplinary collaboration. Participants will be encouraged to leave comfortable ground behind and to stretch their imaginations through active generation of new work. The workshop is open to artists from all disciplines: dancers, singers, choreographers, directors, composers, artists and video artists alike. Visit the KlangKunstBuehne website for details and to enroll: www.udk-berlin.de/klangkunstbuehn.

May 6 & 7
"Landscape over Zero" - premiere of La Barbara's new score for Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, featuring Ne(x)tworks, at Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College (899 10th Avenue, NY) 8 P.M.

April 22
"L'albero dalle foglie azzurre" (tree of blue leaves), La Barbara's composition for solo oboe and electronic atmosphere will be performed by Josiane N Henry of the Juilliard Electric Ensemble, for "Beyond the Machine 3", a festival of electronic and interactive music at The Allen Room @ Jazz at Lincoln Center (5th floor, Time Warner Center, Broadway @ 60th Street) 8 P.M.

April 20
Joan La Barbara "Atmospheres" on Roulette at Location One concert series, 20 Greene St. in SoHo - La Barbara's compositions explore the myriad colors of her voice over textured sonic atmospheres, spinning shapes through space in a series of new soundances and sound paintings. 8:30 P.M.

April 19
"L'albero dalle foglie azzurre" (tree of blue leaves), La Barbara's composition for solo oboe and electronic atmosphere will be performed by Josiane N Henry of the Juilliard Electric Ensemble, for "Beyond the Machine 3", a festival of electronic and interactive music at Chelsea Art Museum (556 W. 22nd St at 11th Avenue, NYC) 8 P.M.

April 10
La Barbara hostsInsights atAmerican Music Center, featuring composer John Corigliano: Sunday, April 10, 2005, 4 P.M.

March 22
La Barbara will perform "The Waves" at a special concert honoring the composer Charles Dodge at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th & 35th St., NYC) 7 P.M.

March 6
La Barbara hosts Insights at American Music Center, featuring composer Julia Wolfe: Sunday, March 6, 2005, 2P.M.

March 3
La Barbara performs Neil Rolnick's "Body Work", Interpretations series at Merkin Hall, NYC


2004

November 30
La Barbara premieres a new work composed for her by Orlando Jacinto Garcia as part of EMF 10 series at Peter Norton Symphony Space (Leonard Nimoy Thalia)
Broadway and 95th Street, 8P.M.

November 20
Ne(x)tworks will be performing classic graphic scores by John Cage, Earle Brown and Morton Feldman as well as "A Dark Line" (an excerpt from La Barbara's opera in-progress "WoolfSong") and works by Dufallo and Bunch at Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, 43A West 13th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)

November 20
La Barbara hosts Insights at American Music Center, featuring composer Tan Dun: Saturday, November 20, 2004, 2P.M.

November 13
La Barbara hosts Insights at American Music Center, featuring composer John Adams.

November 6
Robert Ashley's "Celestial Excursions" in Muenster, Germany.

November 3
Robert Ashley's "Celestial Excursions" in Vilnius, Lithuania.

October 26
Poetry International Festival 2004
Messa di Voce collaboration by singer/composers Joan La Barbara and Jaap Blonk and software programmer/designers Tmema - Golan Levin and Zach Lieberman: the concert performance in which the speech, shouts and songs produced by a pair of composer/performers who specialize in abstract vocal sound are visualized in projected graphics through interactive software.
www.tmema.org/messa/messa.html

October 25
Poetry International Festival 2004
Joan La Barbara performs "73 Poems" (her collaboration with text-artist Kenneth Goldsmith) in the Purcell Room at Royal Festival Hall in London.
www.rfh.org.uk

October 14-17
Sounds Like Now Festival: "Revelations in the Wind" an excerpt from "WoolfSong" La Barbara's opera-in-progress was featured on Sunday, October 17 at La Mama Theatre on East 4th Street, New York City, performed by La Barbara and the ensemble Ne(x)tworks.

October 11
Joan La Barbara's opera in-progress, "WoolfSong" will be presented at NYU's Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 W. 4th St. in NYC, with live interactive videoscapes by Kurt Ralske and performers including Joan La Barbara and musicians from Ne(x)tworks.

June 4
Locrian Chamber Players gives World Premiere of La Barbara's work "Snowbird's Dance, Into the Light and Beyond" for voice, flute and string quartet, with La Barbara - guest artist at Riverside Church, NYC. Also Greg Hesselink and La Barbara perform New York premiere of La Barbara's "A Trail of Indeterminate Light" for cello and voice.

May 28
Ne(x)tworks performs "Elements of Isolation", excerpts of Joan La Barbara's new opera (in-progress) "WoolfSong" atIssue Project Room in NYC.

May 23
Ne(x)tworks will be performing excerpts of Joan La Barbara's new opera, "WoolfSong" as well as works by members of the ensemble.5 PM at The Bowery Poetry Club.

May 11
Ne(x)tworks performs "Elements of Isolation", excerpts of Joan La Barbara's new opera (in-progress) "WoolfSong" at Bowery Poetry Club in NYC.

May 1
La Barbara hosts Insights at American Music Center, featuring composer Carl Stone in discussion of his laptop performances and works with instruments and electronics.

April 10
La Barbara hosts Insights at American Music Center, featuring composer Ikue Mori in discussion of her works for drum machine, laptop and collaborations with other artists.

March 20
La Barbara hosts Insights at American Music Center, featuring composer Paul Lansky in discussion of his methods of composing with computers, instruments, voices and household sounds.

March 9 & 10
Music by John Cage performed by HERMESensemble with Joan La Barbara, guest artist de Singel, Antwerpen, Belgium.

February 21
La Barbara hosts Insights at American Music Center, featuring composer Christian Marclay in discussion of his installations and the intersection between visual art and sound.

February 14
La Barbara hosts Insights at American Music Center, featuring composer Morton Subotnick in discussion of his CD-ROM composing programs for children and his works for interactive media.

February 7
La Barbara hosts Insights at American Music Center, featuring composer Alvin Lucier in discussion of his work with acoustics, blending science with art, exploring sonic phenomena and installations.

January 28
A performance of works by La Barbara, Neil Rolnick and David Behrman performed by the composers, with David Gibson, cello at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY.

January 9 & 10
On Friday, Jan. 9th at 8pm, JLB gives a solo recital for the 2003 NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) Winter Workshop at Florida International University, Miami, FL. The program, entitled New Music for Voice: Traditional to Experimental Works, features works by Luciano Berio, Earle Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, La Barbara, Alvin Lucier and Morton Subotnick.

Saturday the 10th, from 1:45-3PM at FIU, La Barbara gives a Master Class on introduction to extended vocal techniques.


2003

December 4-7 and 11-14
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company at Baruch College featuring "Incense" with music from "ShamanSong" by La Barbara (performing live w/cd) "Unbroken Thread" with music by Jason Hwang and "Rain" with music by Sainkho Namtchylak.

December 3
Berio Sequenza Extravaganza
Joan is performing Berio "Sequenza III" and her work Conversations at The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University.

November 29
Messa di Voce travels to Huddersfield, England for a performance during the Ultrasound 2003 Festival held at the Huddersfield Art Museum.

November 7 & 8
Labarbara rejoins Jaap Blonk and Tmema in London for performances of Messa di Voce at Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA).

October 25 & 26
La Barbara is Series Director and Performer - "When Morty met John" festival at Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, NYC.

October 3 & 4
Joan is doing two concerts at Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. Music by Cage, Feldman, La Barbara and Wolff, and featuring Margaret Leng Tan on Oct 10.

September 6-11
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. La Barbara collaborates with vocalist Jaap Blonk and software art duo Tmema (Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman) on the world premiere of Messa di Voce, a performance utilizing Tmema's custom interactive sound visualization software that radically augments Blonk and Labarbara's vocalizations in real time.

June 3 - 5
Electronic Music Foundation
mini-festival at Chelsea Art Museum

Tuesday, June 3 - Words
Chris Mann
Plato Songs
Many Times Chris (by Joel Chadabe)

Joan La Barbara/Kenneth Goldsmith
73 Poems

Wednesday, June 4 - Ne(x)tworks
Original works by members of the group, including previews of new operas by Joan La Barbara and Kenji Bunch.

Thursday, June 5 - Alvin Lucier Retrospective
Wavesongs
Bird and Person Dyning
Music for Solo Performer
Dissappearances

May 10
Insights - La Barbara hosts composer Robert Ashley in discussions of his operas, at The American Music Center, NYC.

May 3
Insights - La Barbara hosts composer Meredith Monk in discussions of her operas, at The American Music Center, NYC.

May 1
La Barbara creates the role of Amelia Earhart in the concert version of Patricia Burgess new opera "Reflections on the Watermoon" for Interpretations series at Merkin Concert Hall, NYC.

April 26
La Barbara hosts Insights at American Music Center, featuring composer John Harbison in discussion of his operas.

April 9-12, 16-19
Performances of Robert Ashley's Celestial Excursions at The Kitchen, NYC.

March 28 & 29
On the 28th, La Barbara performs Three Voices composed for her by Morton Feldman at Radar Festival in Mexico City. La Barbara gives a vocal workshop at Radar on the 29th.

March 22 (World Premiere), March 24 + 25
Robert Ashley's Celestial Excursions at Berlin/Hebbel Theater.

March 12-14
La Barbara performs La Barbara a work composed for her by Larry Austin at SEAMUS festival in Tempe, AZ.

February 8
La Barbara hosts Insights, a series of discussions with composers of contemporary "opera" at American Music Center, NYC. The first installment features Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho in discussion of her opera L'Amour de Loin.


2002

December 13
Open Aspects Ensemble with Joan La Barbara Greenwich House, 8 PM Concert performance "December 1952" and other graphic scores by Earle Brown.

December 12
Open Aspects Ensemble with Joan La Barbara, guest artist Taplin Auditorium at Fine Hall, Princeton University, 8PM Concert performance "December 1952" and other graphic scores by Earle Brown.




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