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UPCOMING CONCERTS

Thursday, July 17, 8pm
2008 Golandsky Institute Int'l Piano Festival
Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Pianist Vicky Chow plays Digits

Tuesday, July 29, 7pm
Le Poisson Rouge (the old Village Gate), Bleeker & Thompson St., NYC
Violinist Jennifer Choi and pianist Kathleen Supové play Hammer & Hair

Saturday, August 2, TBA
The Lichtenstein Arts Center, Pittsfield, MA

Todd Reynolds and Kathleen Supové will play Hammer & Hair

Thursday, October 16, 8pm
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Jennifer Choi and Kathleen Supové join Neil in a concert which includes Hammer & Hair, Digits, Fiddle Faddle and more.

RECENT CONCERTS

Saturday, June 21, 8pm
2008 Beijing Summer Digital Entertainment Jam at the 798 Art Area, Beijing, China
The Economic Engine for an octet combining traditional Chinese instruments with a classical string quartet and video track by Taiwanese artist Cindy Ng Sio Ieng

Sunday, June 15, 2:30pm
Live Bar #721/12 KunMing Road, Shanghai, China; Tickets: 30RMB
NOIShanghai presents Neil Rolnick in a solo laptop set.

Friday, June 13, 1:30pm
Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shanghai, China
Rolnick will deliver a Lecture on his work, and a Master Class for students in Music Technology

Wednesday, June 4, 8pm
Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South (4th St.), NYC
212-349-7009 FREE ADMISSION!!
MAYA
performs Uptown Jump on a concert of works they've recently commissioned. Sato Moughalian, flute, Jacqueline Kerrod, harp, John Hadfield, percussion.

Thursday, May 29, 4pm
Beijing Modern Music Festival at the Chinese Central Conservatory of Music
Beijing, China
The premiere of The Economic Engine for an octet combining traditional Chinese instruments with a classical string quartet and video track by Taiwanese artist Cindy Ng Sio Ieng. Commissioned by China Electronic Music Center at the Central Conservatory.

Saturday, May 10, 8pm
Avian Music LOCKED TO PICTURE,
University Settlement, 184 Eldridge St (@ Rivington),New York City
Don Berman performs Digits on a program of new music with video.

Tuesday, May 6, 8pm
Avian Music LOCKED TO PICTURE
, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
Don Berman performs Digits on a program of new music with video.

Thursday, April 24, 8pm
Avian Music LOCKED TO PICTURE
, Oberlin, OH
Don Berman performs Digits on a program of new music with video.

Thursday, April 17, 8pm
Avian Music LOCKED TO PICTURE
, Wilmington, DE
Don Berman performs Digits on a program of new music with video.

Thursday, February 28, 2:30pm
Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art
The Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Ave., So. Minneapolis, MN
The Cantiamo String Quartet plays Shadow Quartet.

Monday, February 25, 8pm
NYU Interactive Arts Performance Series
Frederick Lowe Theater, 35 W 4th St, NYC
A program of Rolnick's recent music featuring Todd Reynolds, Kathleen Supovè and MAYA . Hammer & Hair, Fiddle Faddle, Digits, Uptown Jump and Shadow Quartet

Saturday, February 16, 8:00pm
The Albany Symphony Orchestra
Colonial Theater, Pittsfield, MA
Todd Reynolds and Theo Bleckmann will repeat the premiere of Neil's new double concerto for voice and violin, Love Songs, with lyrics by Larry Beinhart.

Friday, February 15, 8:00pm
The Albany Symphony Orchestra
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy,NY 518.465.4755
Todd Reynolds and Theo Bleckmann will repeat the premiere of Neil's new double concerto for voice and violin, Love Songs, with lyrics by Larry Beinhart.

Thursday, February 14, 7:30pm
The Albany Symphony Orchestra
Canfield Casino, Saratoga Springs, NY 518.465.4755
Todd Reynolds and Theo Bleckmann will be featured in the premiere of Neil's new double concerto for voice and violin, Love Songs, with lyrics by Larry Beinhart.

Saturday, January 19, 2008 8:00pm
New Muusic / New College
Sanier Paviliion, Bay Shore Drive, Sarasota, FL 941-487-4155
Kathleen Supové plays Digits

Saturday, December 8, 8pm
Roulette, 20 Greene St. (btw. Canal & Grand), NYC
Kathleen Supové will include Digits in a concert which will be recorded for Roulette TV

Thursday, November 29, 1pm
Trinity Church, Broadway & Wall St, Lower Manhattan
MAYA Trio performs Uptown Jump

Saturday, November 17, 8pm
EMPAC (Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 518.276.4135
Todd Reynolds, Kathleen Supové and singers Amy Fradon and Leslie Ritter play in Neil's 60th Birthday Bash! Works will include Digits, Shadow Quartet, Requiem Songs and a new work for iFiddle and piano.

Sunday, November 4, 7pm
SUNY Stony Brook Computer Music Concert
Staller Center, Stony Brook, NY 631.632.7330
Pianist Jacob Rodobeck will perform Digits, with video by Luke DuBois.

Sunday, October 14, 3pm
MOSA Concerts
(Music at Our Savior's Atonement Church), Bennett Ave @ 189th St., NYC 212-923-5757
Todd Reynolds, Kathleen Supové and MAYA Trio play in Neil's 60th Birthday Bash! Including Digits, Uptown Jump and Hammer & Hair, a new work for violin and piano
.

Saturday, October 13, 8:00pm
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, 58 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
New Music Collective: Composers & Musicians
Kathleen Supové plays Digits

Friday, October 5, 8pm
Music On The Edge Presents Powerhouse Pianists
Bellefield Hall Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Kathleen Supové plays Digits, with video by R. Luke DuBois.

Tuesday, June 26, 10pm
Waterland Kwanyin. Dos Kolegas Bar, Beijing, China
Neil will perform a brief solo set, including Neighborhood Ears and Gate Beats. And probably an improvisation with local musicians. Neil's set should begin about 11:15. Download directions in Chinese here.

Friday , June 15, 6pm FREE!
Kennedy Center for the Arts, Washington DC
The Millenium Stage
Violinist Ana Milosavljevic will perform Fiddle Faddle on a multimedia violin recital.

Friday, June 8, 7pm
NIME: New Interfaces for Musical Expression 07
Frederick Lowe Theater, NYU, 35 W 4th St., NYC
Kathleen Supové performs Digits, with live video performed by Luke DuBois.

Saturday, May 12, 8pm
Neil Rolnick & Friends: Music Votes!
Saratoga County Arts Council at the Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
Neil & ensemble perform Plays Well With Others and Requiem Songs.

Sunday, April 22, 7pm
Neil Rolnick & Friends: Music Votes!
Tribeca New Music Festival
The Flea Theater, 41 White St., New York City 212.226.2407
Neil & ensemble perform Plays Well With Others and Requiem Songs.

Wednesday-Friday, April 11-13, 8pm
Juilliard Electric Ensemble, Edward Bilous, Director
Juilliard School of Music, Lincoln Center, NYC
Juilliard pianist Vicky Chow will perform Digits, with live video performed by Luke DuBois.

Saturday, March 31, 8pm
Fresno State New Music Festival
Wahlberg Concert Hall, Fresno State University, Fresno, CA
Quintet of the Americas will perform Ambos Mundos

Friday, March 30, 8 pm
Albany Symphony Orchestra, WMHT Studio, 4 Global View, Troy, NY
The Dogs of Desire will premiere The Bridge, with video by Luke DuBois.

Saturday, March 24, 7 pm
Chenango County Council of the Arts

Martin W. Kappel Theater
27 West Main St., Norwich, NY 607-336-2787

Ethel
performs Shadow Quartet

Friday, March 23, 8 pm
The Egg,
Empire State Plaza Albany, NY
Ethel performs Breathing Machine from the Shadow Quartet

Sunday, March 4, 2-5 pm
Albany Symphony Orchestra, venue TBA
Jacqui Kerrod will premiere Segal's Billboard, for solo harp. Part of the ASO's
Capital Heritage Project, commissioned with funding from the NEA.

Friday, March 2, 8pm
Cornell University Music Dept
Barnes Hall, Sage Ave., Ithaca, NY tel:
607-255-4760
CU Music: Guest Recital
Kathleen Supové performs Digits.

Friday-Saturday, February 2-3, 2007, 8pm
Pomona College, Ussachevsky Festival

Claremont, CA (venue TBA)
Kathleen Supové performs Digits.

Saturday, January 27, 2007, 8pm
LeMoyne College , Music Journey Concerts

Syracuse, NY tel: 315-445-4523
Kahtleen Supové & Jennifer Choi in Concert.
Kathleen performs Digits

Thursday, December 21, 8pm
New Music New Haven
Morse Recital Hall (in Sprague Hall) Yale School of Music, New Haven, CT
The Yale Orchestra performs the iFiddle Concerto , with soloist Todd Reynolds.

Thursday, December 21, 7pm
Ethel performs "Release" from the Shadow Quartet
The Winter Garden of the World Financial Center
West Street, between Vesey & Liberty
FREE Admission

Wednesday , December 27, 8pm
Jennifer Choi
La Quinta, CA
Violinist Jennifer Choi performs Fiddle Faddle at a holiday party.

Thursday , December 14, 8pm
Jennifer Choi
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
222 Central Park South, New York, NY
Violinist Jennifer Choi performs Fiddle Faddle at a holiday party for the architecture firm.

Tuesday , November 20, 8pm
Ana Milosavljevic
Sala Prve gimnazije, Kragujevac, Serbia
Violinist Ana Milosavljevic will perform Fiddle Faddle.

Monday , November 19, 8pm
Ana Milosavljevic
International Review of Composers/Medjunarodna Tribina Kompozitora
Philharmonic Hall, Belgrade, Serbia
Violinist Ana Milosavljevic will perform Fiddle Faddle at her recital in the festival

Sunday, November 12, 3pm
Kathleen Supové: Exploding Piano

MOSA Concerts (Music at Our Savior's Atonement Church)
Bennett Avenue @ 189th St., New York City 212-923-5757
Kathleen performs Digits, with a new video track by Luke DuBois

Tuesday, November 7, 8pm
Ana Milosavljevic
Mannes School of Music Concert Hall
150 West 85th St., NYC 212-580-0210 x4817
Ana performs Fiddle Faddle on a recital of new music for violin & electronics .

Tuesday, November 7, 8pm
Festival of New American Music
Capistrano Hall, Sacramento State University, CA
Todd Reynolds performs Fiddle Faddle.

Saturday, October 28, 7:30pm
Music Acoustica 2006,
Beijing, China
Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing
DaLiTang Auditorium
Feng Chi performs Digits, with video track by Luke DuBois.

Sunday, October 14 , 8pm
Hammer Hall, Melbourne, Australia
Ethel plays Shadow Quartet

Tuesday-Sunday, September 19-24
Visiones Sonoras Festival

México City, México
Neil attends the Composers Conference at the Festival, supported by a Clinker Foundation Grant.

Friday, August 11, 8:30pm
MAYA
at the Composers Collaborative

Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia St., NYC
MAYA, featuring flutist Sato Moughalian, harpist Jacqueline Kerrod
and percussionist John Hadfield, will play the premiere of my
new piece Uptown Jump!

Thursday-Saturday, July 13-15
Digital Art Weeks of the ETH Zurich
Neiborhood Ears, a 2002 soundscape of Washington Heights,
Rolnick's neighborhood in New York City, will be played in the Digital Art
Weeks 2006 in Zurich, Switzerland

Tuesday, July 4
innova Recordings
Release of Neil's newest CD, Digits [innova 656]
Including Digits, Making Light Of It, A Robert Johnson Sampler
and Plays Well With Others. Performances by Kathleen Supové,
Peter Eldridge and the Paul Dresher Ensemble's Electro-
Acoutstic Ensemble.

Thursday, May 25 - Saturday, June 3
Madrid's
Museo Reina Sofia
Zev Robinson's video of Rolnick's Gate Beats will be part
of the program Ciudades, Invisibles at the V Festival
Internatiocioal de Cortometrajes
, Almería en Corto
in
Almeria, Spain

Monday, March 20, 5:15pm
Music Building , University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Public lecture about iFiddle Concerto and other works

Saturday, March 18, 7:30pm
American Composers Orchestra
Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center for the Arts
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Click here for tickets
iFiddle Concerto , with soloist Todd Reynolds.

Friday, March 17, 7:30pm
American Composers Orchestra
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, 7th Ave at 57th St., New York City 212 977 8495
Premiere: iFiddle Concerto , with soloist Todd Reynolds.

Monday, February 27, 7:30pm
Karen Bentley Pollick
Hill Recital Hall, Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, AL
Karen performs Fiddle Faddle, and Neil joins in an improvisation.

Saturday , February 11, 8pm
Todd Reynolds: Still Life With Microphone

The Chapel at Green-wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
718-788-7850
Todd will perform Fiddle Faddle. Follow link for directions by subway or car.

Monday & Tuesday , January 23-24, 7pm
Kathleen Supové: Exploding Piano

The Flea Theater, 41 White St., New York City 212.226.2407
Kathleen performs Digits each night, with a new video track by Luke DuBois.

Friday, January 13, 7pm
St Luke's Church, 308 W 46th St., New York City (212) 246-3540
The Quintet of the Americas performs Ambos Mundos.

Monday-Tuesday, December 5-6
International Conference on Applied and Creative Arts

UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK
+60 82 671000 ext. 352/563 E-mail: icaca@faca.unimas.my
Neil was Keynote Speaker for the conference and performed Robert Johnson Sampler.

Wednesday, November 16, 8pm
iEAR Presents!

West Hall Auditorium, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 518-276-4778
The program will include Fiddle Faddle, played by Todd Reynolds, Digits, played by Kathleen Supové, and Making Light Of It, sung by Peter Eldridge.

Saturday, October 29, 7:30pm
Music Acoustic 2005,
Beijing, China
Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing
DaLiTang Auditorium
The Central Conservatory String Quartet performsShadow Quartet in the closing concert of the Festival.

Friday, October 28, 8pm
Miami Beach Botanical Gardens
2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL 305-673-7256
Ethel plays Breathing Machine (from Shadow Quartet)

Friday & Saturday, September 23 &24
Grand Canyon Music Festival
Ethel plays Shadow Quartet

Sunday, August 28, 8pm
Mt. Gretna Playhouse, Mt Gretna, PA

Ethel plays Shadow Quartet

Friday, August 12  
40th Huntington Arts Festval, Huntington, NY

Ethel plays Shadow Quartet

Tuesday, July 26, 8pm
Ten O'Clock Classics

The Cutting Room, 19 West 24th St., between 6th Av & B'way, New York City
212-691-1900
Jennifer Choi performs Fiddle Faddle as part of a sizzling violin extravaganza, including performances by Daniel Bernard Roumain and Timothy Fain. Neil will be playing laptop part on Fiddle Faddle.

Sunday, June 19, 8 & 10pm
Jennifer Choi, violin
with Kathleen Supové, Neil Rolnick and Randall Woolf

The Stone, Corner of Avenue C & 2nd Street, New York City
(no advanced ticket sales ... all tickets at the door)
Jennifer will play Fiddle Faddle and Kathleen will play Digits, both with Neil playing computer part live.

Tuesday-Thurs, May 24-26, 7:00pm
Kathleen Supové: Exploding Piano

The Flea Theater, 41 White St., New York City
212.226.2407
Kathleen performs Digits each night, with Neil playing computer part live.

Monday, May 2, 7:30pm
Democracy and The Arts: Choices & Voices

Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
330-672-2312
A performance of Requiem Songs: for the victims of nationalism to open a symposium commemorating the 35th anniversary of the shootings at Kent State. With Leslie Ritter and Bar Scott, vocalists, Todd Reynolds, violin, Jason Treuting, percussion, Neil Rolnick, keyboard & computer.

Thursdays, April 7, 14 & 21, 8pm
Cutting Edge Concerts
, Renee Weiler Concert Hall
Greenwich House Music School · 46 Barrow St, NYC 212.242.4770
A short new computer/cellphone piece, PhonesOff, will start off each concert.

Monday, March 29
Official release date for Shadow Quartet
new CD on innova Recordings (innova 631)

Wednesday, March 16, 8pm
Todd Reynolds' Nuove Uova
The Staller Center, SUNY Stony Brook (631) 632-ARTS
Todd will be playing Fiddle Faddle as part of his program of new work for violin & electricity.

Thursday, March 3, 8pm
Interpretations Series
Merkin Concert Hall
129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
212-627-0990

Duets with laptop computer. Making Light, on poems of Philip Levine, with Thomas Buckner; Body Work with Joan La Barbara; Digits with Kathleen Supove; and Hush with the whole ensemble.

Tuesday , February 22, 8pm
Ethel
Eastman School Of Music, Rochester, NY
Kilbourn Hall Concert Series

Ethel performs Shadow Quartet.

Friday, February 18, 2005, 10pm
Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Town Hall Tavern, Univ. of Minnesota West Bank Campus

Solo club set as part of a new festival. What could be cooler than Minneapolis in February??

Tuesday , January 18, 8pm
Ethel
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC
Ethel performs Shadow Quartet.

Wednesday & Thursday, November 17 & 18, 8pm
Paul Dresher Ensemble's Electro-Acoustic Band
The Forum at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St @ Third, San Francisco, CA 415.978.ARTS (2787)
Premiere of Plays Well With Others. Players play like kids: unoccupied behavior, onlooker behavior, solitary play, parallel play, associateive play, cooperative play. Sampled rhymes about politicians who do not play so well with others.

Friday, November 12, 8pm
Ethel plays premiere of the Shadow Quartet
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, 7 State St., Troy, NY 12180; 518.273.0038
Tickets: $22-$25, $15 with student ID
Free Tickets for RPI students at the Rensselaer Union

New York City's hottest, hippest, edgiest string quartet premiere's Shadow Quartet, for string quartet and computer. CD will be out in early 2005.

Friday, October 29, 8pm
Fiddle Faddle with Karen Bentley Pollick
Englander House, 807 Franklin Street, San Francisco, California
Cathedral Hill/Opera Plaza at between Turk & Eddy Street
Tickets: $15 at the door, RSVP at englanderh@aol.com, or 415-362-6080

Neil Rolnick will join violinist Karen Bentley Polllick in a performance of Fiddle Faddle. The program will include percussionist Ian Dogole, cellist Moses Sedler and Lebanese poet Elias Abu Saba, reading in Arabic and English.

Thursday, September 30, 7:30pm
New York Musical Theater Festival
Movie Musical Screening Series
AMC 24 Theaters, 42nd St & 8th Ave., New York City

A short film version of the opening of The Rise & Fall of Isabella Rico, directed by Elizabeth Lucas, will be shown along with MTV's Hip Hopera Carmen. Rico is a full length musical theater piece with music by Neil Rolnick, book and lyrics by Larry Beinhart. Though the show has had numerous staged readings, this film version is the closest it's come to a full scale performance.

Tuesday, August 31, 7:30pm
Fish Love That
at Makor
35 West 67th Street, New York, NY
(between Central Park West & Columbus Ave)
212-601-1000

Saturday, June 12, 7:30pm
Ethel Goes To the Movies
MassMOCA, 87 Marshall Street, North Adams, MA
413-662-2111
info@massmoca.org tickets $14
Ethel, described as "the fiercest string quartet this side of hell," will be workshopping my Shadow Quartet, for string quartet & laptop computer, culminating in a work-in-progress showing.

Saturday, May 29, 2004, 10am-5pm
Workshop: Kickstart Music-making On Your Laptop!

American Film Institute, Los Angeles, California
Presented by American Composers Forum acf/LA
Introductory workshop for laptop musicians & wannabees.
more info: (818)788-2202 or tekWorx@composers.la

Thursday, May 7, 2004, 8pm
Neil B. Rolnick - playing with the laptop

The Chelsea Museum, 22nd St. & 11th Ave., NYC
Presented by the
Electronic Music Foundation
Pieces for solo laptop performance, and with Todd Reynolds, Joan La Barbara, and Tyrone Henderson.

Saturday, May 1, 9pm
Fish Love That
at the Improvise! Festival
sponsored by American Composers' Orchestra
at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street,
New York, NY 10003 tel: 212-239-6200

Wednesday, April 21, 8pm
Quintet of the Americas
Merkin Concert Hall
129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
212-501-3330

Premiere of Ambos Mundos, for woodwind quintet and computer.

Thursday, April 15, 7pm
Quintet of the Americas
Langston Hughes Library
100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona NY, 11368
(718) 651-1100
Preview of Ambos Mundos, for woodwind quintet and computer.

March 15-21
Primavera en Habana

At the 10th anniversary of the festival of electroacoustic music in Havana, Cuba, I'll be presenting a 40 minute half-concert with violinist/composer Todd Reynolds.
Concert: March 16, 4pm, Basilica de San Francisco de Asis

Tuesday, February 17, 8:30 pm
Fish Love That at HERE
145 Ave of the Americas (@ Spring St), NYC
212-647-0202

Wednesday, January 28, 8pm
Neil B. Rolnick & Joan La Barbara
David Behrman & David Gibson

St. Paul's Chapel, 3rd & State Streets, Troy, NY
(508)276-4778 http://www.arts.rpi.edu

iEAR Studios faculty Rolnick and Gibson are joined by vocalist Joan La Barbara and composer/performer David Behrman for an evening of new electronic and acoustic music.

Thursday, January 22, 2004, 9pm
Fish Love That
The Back Room, at The West End Cafe
2911 Broadway (@113th St), New York, NY
212-662-8830

Monday, November 17, 2003, 8pm
Fish Love That

The Knitting Factory, Old Office
74 Leonard St., New York, NY 10013
212-219-3006

 

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