REDCAT Winter / Spring 2016 Schedule

Source: LA’s REDCAT.

Jan 12
Piano Spheres: Danny Holt
Holt’s Piano/Percussion Project places the pianist amid an array of percussion instruments, calling for acrobatic feats of multi-instrumentalism.

Feb 23
Piano Spheres: Vicki Ray
Piano Spheres co-founder Vicki Ray, presents a program exploring the four elements.

Feb 24
Lori Freedman and Quasar Saxophone Quartet
Featuring guest artist Fred Frith
Boasting five of North America’s most adventurous exponents of new music for woodwinds, this double-bill unites, for the first time, livewire clarinet soloist Lori Freedman with Quasar’s stellar quartet of saxophone virtuosos—Marie-Chantal Leclair, Mathieu Leclair, André Leroux and Jean-Marc Bouchard.

Feb 27
Callings Out of Context: Tyondai Braxton + Daniel Wohl
The Broad’s Callings Out of Context series presents Tyondai Braxton + Daniel Wohl.

Mar 10
Eve Egoyan: Earwitness
Toronto piano virtuoso Eve Egoyan has developed a multimedia performance form in which her sumptuous interpretive and improvisational artistry applies equally to both sound and image, producing a nuanced sensorial concert experience that goes beyond conventional audiovisual combos.

Mar 22
Piano Spheres: Mark Robson
Piano Spheres co-founder Mark Robson will take a ‘speaker-pianist’ role performing Frederic Rzewski’s gripping “De Profundis,” based on the eponymous letter from prison written by Oscar Wilde.

Apr 07
The Ensemble at CalArts:
MINIMALIST means
Charting an alternative path through minimalism and its legacy, The Ensemble at CalArts reaches beyond pulse-based patterns of harmonic accretion in search of the beating heart of “stripped-down,” “essential” music.

Apr 27
Tetsuya Umeda
Osaka-based sound and installation artist Tetsuya Umeda creates surprising sound scores with an intriguing variety of found objects, inventions and environmental or architectural elements.

Jun 16 to Jun 19
David Lang and Mark Dion:
Anatomy Theater
Anatomy Theater is based on actual 18th-century texts, Anatomy Theater follows the astonishing progression of an English murderess: from confession to execution and, ultimately, public dissection before a paying audience of fascinated onlookers.