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UPCOMING CONCERTS & EVENTS 2024
CD Release: Neil’s newest CD, Lockdown Fantasies | Journey’s End, was released on Other Minds Recordings on January 13, 2023. It features pianist Geoffrey Burleson performing the title piece, and pianist Kathleen Supové performing Journey’s End.
Monday, April 8, 2024 - 7:30pm
Pianist Geoffrey Burleson will be performing the last two movements from Neil’s Lockdown Fantasies at Cogswell Hall at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Wednesday-Saturday, June 5-8, 2024 - date & time TBD
Neil will perform Messages at the New Music on the Bayou Festival, in Monroe & Ruston LA.
Recent Concerts 2023
Saturday, November 18 - 8pm
Neil will be performing Lockdown Fantasies with pianist Geoffrey Burleson in the Other Minds Festival at the Taube Atrium Theater in San Francisco.
Friday November 17 - 3pm
UC Berkeley Music Dept. Neil will be presenting his work to Ken Ueno’s graduate music composition seminar.
Monday, November 13 - 1:15pm
Pomona College Music Dept. Neil will be presenting his work to Tom Flaherty’s Electronic Music class.
Friday, November 10 - 7:30pm
Stanford University, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Neil will be performing a program of recent solo laptop work.
Sunday, November 5 - 7pm EST
The Ensemble Échappé will present the streaming premiere of One For The Ages (instrumental version) for 10 instruments, dancers and speakers. A collaboration with choreographer/video director Julia Bengtsson, and post production editor Aidan Gold, the 30 minute work expands on a shorter all electronic version performed in 2020, exploring stories of relationships between generations. Here is the YouTube link to connect.
Monday, October 16 - 4pm
Columbia University’s Computer Music Center. Neil will present his work to students in Seth Cluett’s seminar on interactive sound and video.
Saturday, October 7 - 6pm
The Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Ónix Ensamble will perform the premiere of En La Frontera. The new piece, written for Ónix, includes music derived from traditional music of the México/US borderlands, and video by El Paso based videographer Diego Davila.
Thursday July 6 - 3pm
Neil will be performing Messages at the VU Symposium, in Park City, UT
Sunday, July 2 - 4pm (free admission)
Pianist Kathleen Supové, flutist Tessa Brinkman, and Neil will be taking some new work for a test drive at a house concert in the East Village home of Alexander Baxter, 10 Bleecker St. #7C. Alexander will join us for a 4-way improvisation to end the concert. Doors will open at 3pm, concert starts at 4pm. Please RSVP to alexbaxter@mac.com
Saturday, June 24 - 6pm
Neil will be performing his solo laptop piece Messages at the New Music Gathering at Portland State University in Oregon. All New Music Gathering concerts are free and open to the public.
Friday, April 21 - Living & Dying: Friday, April 21 - 10:43pm (EDT)
Lockdown Fantasies: Saturday, April 22 - 6:29am (EDT)
[NOTE: these are now available for streaming at earthdayartmodel.org]
Earth Day Art Model, an online event, will include 2 of Neil’s pieces: Living & Dying, a video by illustrator Steve Brodner and videographer Kayleigh Waters, with musical score by Neil, and Lockdown Fantasies, performed by pianist Geoffrey Burleson.
Concerts 2022
Monday, November 21 - 7pm
Areté Venue at Mise-En Place, 341 Calyer St, Brooklyn, NY will host a combined CD release and 75th birthday celebration for Neil. This concert has been rescheduled from a pre-recording event in January, which was cancelled because of Covid. It will feature performances by Geoffrey Burleson and Kathleen Supové of pieces from Neil’s Lockdown Fantasies CD, which will be released in December by Other Minds Recordings.
Friday, November 11 - 8pm [CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS]
The Ammerman Center Symposium at Evans Concert Hall, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, in New London, CT, will feature Neil’s solo laptop piece Messages.
Friday, September 16 - 7pm
Release party for Steve Brodner’s book Living & Dying in America, at the Society of Illustrators, 163 E. 62nd St., New York City. The book is comprised of Steve’s daily portraits, over two years, of those lost to Covid. Neil accompanies a video of images from the book with a live performance of the score.
Friday, September 9 - 6pm
The Higher Ground Festival 2022 will present the premiere of So Many Me’s, with music by Neil and choreography by Alex Oliva. The performance will be in the afternoon in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem.
Saturday, April 16 - 2pm
No Name Cinema in Santa Fe, NM, will present Neil in an afternoon concert. Free herbal tea will be served.
Wednesday March 30 - 7pm
The Taos Center for the Arts in Taos, NM, will present Neil in a solo laptop concert. He’ll share the concert with local Taos musician Neil Blank.
Saturday, March 5 - 10:45am (Central European Time)
The Data Art for Climate Action (DACA) festival in Hong Kong and Graz, Austria, will present a post-festival performance of Ocean’s Eat Cities in the Mumuth Ligeti Hall in Graz. The original festival performance was scheduled for January, but was delayed due to Covid.
Saturday, February 19 - 8pm
Longitudes at CO-OPt in Lubbock, TX will present Neil doing an evening of solo laptop pieces, on a program with local composer Justin Houser.
CANCELED DUE TO COVID - WILL BE RESCHEDULED
Friday, January 14 - 7pm
Areté Venue presents “Lockdown & Loss: Music of Neil Rolnick for Piano and Electronics,” at Mise-En Place in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The concert features Kathleen Supové and Geoffrey Burleson, and is our warm-up for 3 days of recording these pieces for my next album, which will be released in 2022 on the Other Minds label. • Reserve seats via Eventbrite.
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
Monday, January 10, 2022 - 7pm
Kathleen Supové performs Journey’s End for piano and computer at a special House Concert in Washington Heights. There will be no more than 8 audience members admitted, and everyone will need to be vaxed, boosted, and masked. Please click here to RSVP and get the address.