Join us for a collaborative evening curated by Anthony Roth Costanzo to celebrate minimalism and the official release of our latest album Rhythm Nation. The evening’s lineup to include performances by Anthony Roth Costanzo (Countertenor), Vicky Chow (Piano), Bryan Wagorn (Piano), and PUBLIQuartet!

Stop/Time Festival is a two-day, multi-venue, multi-artist spring festival produced by Hancher Auditorium and devoted to innovation and independence in contemporary music and the arts. This is a festival of discovery—opening our ears and minds to new sounds, ideas, and possibilities.

Presented in spaces throughout downtown Iowa City and across the University of Iowa campus, the festival highlights the region’s century-long tradition of creative experimentation. Musicians will present work spanning psych, jazz, creative music, contemporary classical, avant-garde performance, alternative folk, ambient, noise, and electronic sound. Alongside them, writers and interdisciplinary artists will offer readings, activations, and collaborations that extend the conversation across art forms.

The inspiration to highlight Bob Stewart’s legacy is in response to his singularity in the “Tuba Diaspora” and the reverberations of his work throughout the diaspora. This concert is a culmination of music and artists that have opened their creative minds to new possibilities and paradigms for the tuba. Bob Stewart is a critical point of intersection from which so many others have branched. His work has inspired tubists to explore, question, and create, forwarding themselves to lead their own ensembles and helping to establish new tuba repertoire.

Featuring performances by Henry Threadgill’s renowned ensemble Very, Very Circus, Heavy Metal Duo, First Line Band, and Grammy nominated string quartet PUBLIQuartet.

Ensembles will play the music of Bob Stewart, Curtis Stewart, Charles Mingus, Henry Threadgill, Lester Bowie, and Arthur Blythe.

The Shelter Island Friends of Music (SIFM) was founded in 1977 and incorporated as non-profit in 1979. Our mission is to present world-renowned artists and rising stars to music lovers on the East End of Long Island.

PUBLIQuartet celebrates the legacy of Detroit’s own Creative Arts Collective with a program inspired by the world renowned artists CAC has brought to Detroit over the past 5 decades. Featuring the world-premiere of George Lewis’s latest String Quartet 3.5 “Great Migrations” commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation; as well as works by Vijay Iyer, Henry Threadgill and CAC founding member and Director A. Spencer Barefield who will join on guitar. This is the final performance in a series of concerts and commissions celebrating CAC, presented with support from The Knight Foundation, New Music USA, The Sphinx Foundation, The Kresge Foundation and Koussevitzky Foundation. 

Homecoming show! Join us in at Brooklyn’s Art Haus; works by Andy Akiho, Jeff Scott, Mazz Swift, Eddie Venegas and more!

Multi-GRAMMY®-nominated PUBLIQuartet is an improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. Committed to supporting living composers of varying genres and expanding the classical canon, PUBLIQuartet explores resonances between contemporary, blues, jazz, freely improvised, and rock-inflected languages in their latest album. Enjoy this genre-bending string quartet as part of the Living Music Underground series, curated by Nadia Sirota.

PQ performs What Is American: Rhythm Nation at a private location in Ancramdale, NY.

Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire demonstrates depth, range, and creative breadth in a four program residency in three different venues. From an intimate solo performance to an expansive ensemble—including a trio set with Festival fixtures drummer Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Sullivan Fortner— journey through Akinmusire’s captivating blend of compositions that are as poetic and graceful as they are bold and unflinching.

Fulfill your wanderlust with a day of musical discovery and community connection at the second day of WoCo Fest 2025: Uplift at The Mansion at Strathmore and the Strathmore Lawn! In a time when we need it most, come together to uplift artists and one another through vibrant concerts, live composer workshops, and inspiring discussions with musicians, composers, and scholars. Experience uplifting music’s evolution from medieval renaissance to experimental electronics.

Be enthralled by performances from PUBLIQuartet, Seraph Brass, and Tapestry in the Mansion’s music room, classical guitar/cello duo Boyd Meets Girl during live composer workshops, and an electrifying festival finale by composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z. As an official Partner Event of WorldPride 2025, enjoy free outdoor performances by The QUEENTET Project featuring chamber ensemble District5 & DC-based drag artist Tara Hoot, The National LGBTQIA+ Flute Choir, and the International Pride Orchestra Brass Ensemble.

Your pay-what-you-can ticket includes entry to the Mansion, access to community booths, composer workshops, educational programs with the BI team, and more!

Free admission. The award-winning PUBLIQuartet is an improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. In 2019 they garnered Chamber Music America’s prestigious Visionary Award for their outstanding and inventive approach to a broad range of musical styles and genres. This evening’s program includes new compositions interspersed with reinterpretations of music by Julia Perry, Duke Ellington, and Sun Ra.

PUBLIQuartet's fun, interactive workshops focus on the basics of improvisation and include games, demonstrations, and simple interactive exercises that explore key elements of all music: rhythm, harmony, melody, texture, and imagination. Workshop participants of all musical levels – from absolute beginner to highly experienced – are invited to explore on-the-spot music making guided by members of this civically minded and critically acclaimed ensemble.

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The award-winning PUBLIQuartet is an improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. In 2019 they garnered Chamber Music America’s prestigious Visionary Award for their outstanding and inventive approach to a broad range of musical styles and genres.

“A perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music.”  The Washington Post

Join us at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music's Cary Hall for What Is American: Rhythm Nation, the next issue in PUBLIQuartet's What Is American series, a GRAMMY®-nominated album and touring project. This second volume features and celebrates American rhythmic traditions as expressions of bodily autonomy and tacit history-keeping. The program features four new works by Jeff Scott, Mazz Swift, Eddie Venegas, and Pulitzer Prize finalist Jlin, made possible through a 2024 Chamber Music America Artistic Projects grant supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation. Each piece evokes a distinct rhythmic world, reflecting the plurality of American movements and protecting the unspoken spirit of their lineage's narratives.

In its Chamber Music Pittsburgh debut, PUBLIQuartet presents What is American: Found Futures. With works by Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Jin, Jeff Scott, and Mazz Swift, interspersed with reinterpretations of music by Julia Perry, Duke Ellington, and Sun Ra, this concert envisions a future for American classical music rooted in a spirit of now-ness.

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Following up their two GRAMMY®-nominated projects, What Is American: Rhythm Nation celebrates American rhythmic traditions as expressions of bodily autonomy and tacit history keeping. From the African rhythms and fiddle techniques that propel Trevor Weston’s Juba to the iconic grooves of Janet Jackson, the program includes improvisations on the beat breaks of Daniel Bernard Roumain’s Hip-Hop Etudes and original works by PUBLIQuartet, alongside new works by Pulitzer Prize finalist Jlin, Mazz Swift, Eddie Venegas, and Jeff Scott, commissioned with the support of a 2024 Chamber Music America Artistic Projects grant. Each of these new works evokes a distinct rhythmic world, reflecting the plurality of American movement(s) and protecting the unspoken spirit of their lineage’s narratives. PUBLIQuartet’s 2024 CMA Artistic Projects grant is supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation.

PROGRAM
Jessie Montgomery - “Voodoo Dolls” (2008)
Daniel Bernard Roumain, Selections from Hip Hop Etudes (2006)
Jlin, New work commissioned by PQ (title TBD) (2024)
Jeff Scott, Blues for Buddy (2024)
Mazz Swift, Digging Gold; Deeper Blue (2024)
Eddie Venegas, Cachumbandeando En Clave (2024)
Trevor Weston, Juba (2017)
Vijay Iyer, “Dig The Say” (2012)
Janet Jackson, Rhythm Nation, arr. PUBLIQuartet (2024)

Tickets go on sale September 1, 2024

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The follow-up to PUBLIQuartet's GRAMMY®-nominated What Is American project, Rhythm Nation celebrates American rhythmic traditions as expressions of bodily autonomy and tacit history keeping.

The program will include performances of four brand new works by Pulitzer Prize finalist Jlin, Mazz Swift, Eddie Venegas, and Jeff Scott - all commissioned with the support of a 2024 Chamber Music America Artistic Projects grant.

Each of these pieces evokes a distinct rhythmic world, reflecting the plurality of American movement(s) and protecting the unspoken spirit of their lineage’s narratives.

The 2024 Chamber Music America Artistic Projects grant supporting these commissions was made possible by the support of the Howard Gilman Foundation.

Bass-baritone Davóne Tines (“one of the most powerful voices of our time, LA Times) shares a new version of his MASS project together with PUBLIQuartet, the multi-GRAMMY®-nominated improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. MASS explores spirituality and mysticism through varied cultural lenses: following the format of a Christian liturgy, Western European, Afro-American, and 21st-century traditions converge in a single dramatic arc.

Program

J.S. Bach — “Mache dich, mein Herze rein” from St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

G.F. Handel — “Leave Me Loathsome Light” from Semele, HWV 58

Traditional Spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan and Eric Byers “Give Me Jesus”

Tyshawn Sorey — From Songs for Death, I. “After ‘Were You There’” arr. Eric Byers

Julius Eastman — Prelude to The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc

Igee Dieudonné and Davóne Tines — Vigil 

Caroline Shaw — MASS

Duke Ellington — Come Sunday

Rhiannon Giddens — At the Purchaser’s Option, arr. PUBLIQuartet

Julia Perry — Prelude for Piano (1946, rev. 1962), arr. Hamilton Berry

Jeff Scott — Blues for Buddy (2024) 5'

(excerpted from musicmondays.org)