The Interpretations Series 36th season continues Thursday March 19th, 2026 with a split program featuring the trio Present: Miguel Frasconi, Tom Hamilton and Matthew Ostrowski, with guest Meaghan Burke; and violinist/composer Mari Kimura performing a solo program featuring works written for violin and the MUGIC© motion sensor which she developed and manufactured. What began as […]
Interpretations 12/4/25: Sam Weinberg / Ghost Ensemble
The Interpretations Series 36th season continues Thursday December 4th, 2025, 8:00 PM with a split bill featuring the adventurous new music group Ghost Ensemble, and Brooklyn-based saxophonist/composer Sam Weinberg with his longstanding trio. In keeping with its emphasis on collaborating with living composers, Ghost Ensemble will perform the New York premiere of Sarah Davachi’s longform […]
Interpretations 10/23/25: J D Parran / One System
The Interpretations Series 36th season begins Thursday October 23, 2025, 8:00 PM with a split bill featuring composer and multi-woodwind player JD Parran’s Protestation and Prayer for Peace and Survival, and the collaborative trio One System. Parran will be joined by musicians Nels Cline (guitar), Andrew Drury (drums, percussion) and Hilliard Greene (bass) for an […]
Interpretations 4/10/25: Anthony Davis, Earl Howard, Gerry Hemingway, Kyle Motl
The Interpretations Series 35th season continues Thursday April 10, 2025, 8:00 PM with a program of compositions and improvisations featuring Anthony Davis (piano), Earl Howard (saxophone and synthesizer), Gerry Hemingway (percussion) and Kyle Motl (bass). Reactivating their decades-long history of collaboration, Davis and Howard will lead this dynamic quartet, appearing as a group for the […]
Interpretations 3/6/25: An Evening with SPACE & special guest Robert Dick
The Interpretations Series 35th season continues Thursday March 6, 2025, 8:00 PM with the legendary improv trio SPACE, featuring Roscoe Mitchell (percussion and winds), Thomas Buckner (baritone), Scott Robinson (winds), and special guest Robert Dick (flutes). Formed in 1979, the original trio featured Mitchell, Buckner, and the late Gerald Oshita. Active through the 1980s, the trio released two acclaimed LPs on Buckner’s then label 1750 Arch Records, Music For Woodwinds And Voice (1981), and Improvisations – An […]
Interpretations 11/7/24: Marty Ehrlich / Ingrid Laubrock
The Interpretations Series 35th season begins Thursday November 7, 2024, 8:00PM with a split bill featuring the music of composer/performers Marty Ehrlich and Ingrid Laubrock.A noted improvisor and multi-instrumentalist, Ehrlich will lead his septet in a new large-scale work combining composition, improvisation and poetry. The performers will include Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon) Ron Horton (trumpet); Erik Friedlander […]
Interpretations 4/11/24: David Behrman / Ben Neill
The Interpretations Series 34 season continues on Thursday April 11th, 2024 with a split bill featuring the music of composer/performers David Behrman and Ben Neill.A composer and artist,Behrman will present current updates on a project he did together with Ben Neill and his Mutantrumpet in the 1980s and early 90s. The performers will be Neill on Mutantrumpet and John […]
Interpretations 3/7/24: Yuko Fujiyama / Reggie Nicholson
The Interpretations Series 34th season begins on Thursday March 7th, 2024 with a split bill featuring the music of composer/performers Yuko Fujiyama and Reggie Nicholson. Pianist Yuko Fujiyama leads her trio Contemporary East with drummer Lesley Mok and dancer Miki Orihara. The trio will perform original compositions and improvisations with the aesthetics of Eastern expression. Drummer/percussionist Reggie Nicholson will lead his quintet, the Reggie Nicholson Brass Concept, with Eddie Allen (trumpet), Marshall Sealy (horn), Steve Swell (trombone), and Joe Exley (tuba). The group will perform Nicholson’s original compositions from the […]
Interpretations 4/13/23: Alexandra Gardner / Johannes Sidenius
The Interpretations Series 33rd season concludes on Thursday April 13th, 2023 with a split bill featuring the music of composers Alexandra Gardner and Johannes Sidenius. Composer Alexandra Gardner will present new and recent works for instruments and electronics, including Juniper for solo shakuhachi, and Ayehli for marimba and electronics, Seduction Involves Patience for viola & soundtrack, Cypress for baritone sax and soundtrack, and Lantana for soprano saxophone and soundtrack. With Elizabeth Brown, shakuhachi, percussionist Jeff Stern, […]
Adam Rudolph & Tyshawn Sorey Reviewed in The Wire
Our Interpretations event with Adam Rudolph and Tyshawn Sorey on February 9th, 2023 has been reviewed in the April issue of The Wire Magazine:
