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Ensemble Terrain

The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Bowerbird is pleased to present Ensemble Terrain (Theo Bleckmann*, Jodie Landau, Ashley Bathgate, and Jacob Cooper) performing selections from Jacob Cooper's acclaimed album "Terrain" (Amsterdam Records, 2020).  "Terrain" displays Cooper’s passion for kinetic collaboration. He worked intensively with three poets who created original text for each work, and developed the music alongside vocalists Theo Bleckmann…

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LIGAMENT

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Bowerbird is pleased to present the acclaimed new music duo Ligament. Described as “perverse and nihilistic”, Anika Kildegaard (voice) and Will Yager (double bass) perform as LIGAMENT, an ensemble dedicated to commissioning new music and creating work for their unique instrumentation. LIGAMENT’s performances are a fusion of standard and non-standard elements; sometimes there are high…

$12 – $20

Laraaji Returns

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Bowerbird is pleased to bring Laraaji back to our home venue at University Lutheran performing for a second improvised solo piano set this season. ABOUT THE ARTIST Philadelphia-born, New Jersey-raised polymath Laraaji has maintained a pursuit of spiritual transcendence through music since the mid-70s. After several years of studiously developing an aesthetic informed by Eastern…

$12 – $20

Scott Wollschleger: Dark Days

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Bowerbird is pleased to present pianist Karl Larson performing work from the recently released album Dark Days featuring solo piano compositions of Scott Wollschleger. Dark Days chronicles Scott's solo piano repertoire written between 2007 and 2020. Aspects of style that are heard on his first album Soft Aberration are present again, but now filtered through…

$12 – $20

TAK Ensemble

The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Bowerbird is pleased to present the TAK Ensemble in Philadelphia. Painting a portrait of new American composition through intensely virtuosic and visceral works TAK Ensemble will perform works by Tyshawn Sorey, Natacha Diels, Ashkan Behzadi, Erin Gee, Golnaz Shariatzadeh, and David Bird.   PROGRAM Natacha Diels: Second Nightmare for KIKU Ashkan Behzadi: Arqueros Erin Gee:…

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Ikue Mori + Charmaine Lee

The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Bowerbird is pleased to present Ikue Mori and Charmaine Lee at The Rotunda for an evening featuring solos from each artist as well as a duo performance.   ABOUT THE ARTISTS Since her emergence in New York’s No Wave scene in the late 1970s as a percussionist in DNA, Japanese native Ikue Mori has used…

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POSTPONED: The Music of Éliane Radigue

Fleisher Art Memorial 719 Catharine St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control, this event is unable to take place as previously planned. We hope to reschedule it for the Fall. Please stay tuned. Bowerbird is pleased to present musicians Nate Wooley and Carol Robinson performing several works from Éliane Radigue's Occam, a series of pieces developed directly with the musicians for…

$12 – $20

Sacred & Profane

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Bowerbird is pleased to present vocal group Variant 6 at University Lutheran performing "Sacred & Profane" - madrigals in a kaleidoscope of texts and sounds: medieval prayers set by Benjamin Britten, fables and fairy-tales conjured by Maurice Ravel, solemn meditations by Pablo Ortiz, and excerpts from Gian Carlo Menotti’s strange and beautiful The Unicorn, the…

$15 – $35

Sounding Ornaments: Experiments with Optical Sound

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Dedicated to Daphne Oram On a celluloid film print, even sound is made of light. Running alongside the picture is the optical soundtrack, an image in itself. A beam of light penetrates it, exciting a photoelectric cell with its sound determined by the pattern of black and white. Ever since sound first joined film, artists…

$8 – $12

Music of Raven Chacon

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Bowerbird is excited to present Philadelphia's Arcana New Music Ensemble performing a portrait concert of Raven Chacon. PROGRAM Whisper Trio Tessa Ellis, Andy Thierauf, Chelsea Meynig Quiver Tom Kraines, cello Tááʼtsʼáadah Tessa Ellis, trumpet Lats’ aadah Carlos Santiago, violin Biyan Jonathan Leeds, clarinet; Chelsea Meynig, flute; Carlos Santiago, violin; Tom Kraines, cello; Andy Thierauf, percussion…

$12 – $20

Sawt Out

The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Bowerbird is pleased to present the Berlin-based trio Sawt Out at the Rotunda with an opening set by Philadelphia-based musician Julius Masri. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Since its foundation in 2015 the Berlin-based trio Sawt Out has shaped and refined its profile as a prominent improvisational unit. With their unusual acoustic instrumentation of trumpet and two…

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eddy kwon

The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Bowerbird is pleased to present interdisciplinary artist eddy kwon and the Philadelphia-based trio Totally Automatic at The Rotunda. ABOUT THE ARTIST eddy kwon (b. 1989) is violinist/violist and interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). Her practice connects composition, performance, improvisation, dance, and ceremony to explore transformation & transgression, ritual practice as a tool to…

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s “The Silence”

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Bowerbird, in collaboration with Nightletter, are pleased to present Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf's 1998 film "The Silence". "The Silence" follows Khorshid, a blind 10-year old living with his mother in a small Tajikistan village. Khorshid earns money tuning musical instruments, while Nadereh -- the beautiful protege of the instrument maker for whom Khorshid works --…

$8 – $12

Shiraz Ensemble

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

We are pleased to present the Shiraz Ensemble: Sina Homaee and Sepehr Pirasteh. Shiraz Ensemble embodies a global perspective, combining their roles as citizens of the world and passionate artists to shed light on crucial socio-political matters through art. Drawing inspiration from their personal journeys as immigrants from Iran to the United States, they channel…

$10 – $20

The Beauty of Moving Wind in the Trees

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Every film by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub is a challenge: to the political status quo of capitalism, to the film industry, even to their own audiences. The films of these married longtime-collaborators are marked by an intellectual rigor, a purity of form and movement, and an overriding concern with power and politics. That their…

$8 – $12

Sonic Rainbow

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Bowerbird is pleased to present Andy Thierauf performing SonicRainbow, a kaleidoscope of acoustic and electronic sounds utilizing a wide spectrum of percussion instruments. This solo performance includes original compositions and improvisations that weave an intricate web of timbres and sonorities from roars to wisps, drums to gongs, and vibraphone to tin cans. Pulling from classical,…

$12 – $20

Beam Splitter

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Bowerbird is pleased to present BEAM SPLITTER - duo for amplified voice, trombone & analog electronics BEAM SPLITTER have been touring globally since 2015, playing close to two hundred concerts in a wide variety of spaces and contexts, bringing their own brand of highly amplified dialog, which is as intimate as it is equal amounts…

$12 – $20

Eli Winter Trio

University Lutheran 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Bowerbird is pleased to present the Eli Winter Trio at University Lutheran with opening set by BASIC - Chris Forsyth (guitar) and Nick Millevoi (guitar/drum machine).   ABOUT THE ARTISTS Playing older than his 26 years, Eli Winter has long demonstrated mastery over solo guitar composition and performance, with praise from Pitchfork, The Guardian, Stereogum,…

$12 – $20