Nick visits the Youth Orchestra of St. Luke’s and provides ideas for implementing creative approaches to learning music, improvisation, and eclectic styles of music.
In The Piano Quintet, Hiromi expands on her impressive emotional range, joining forces with multi-GRAMMY-nominated string quartet, PUBLIQuartet (USA), to present a breathtaking blend of jazz and classical composition. Highly melodic, intricately arranged and emotionally intense, this suite showcases Hiromi’s otherworldly talent as she interacts with the strings with unbridled energy and impeccable precision.
Throughout her illustrious career, Hiromi has released 12 acclaimed albums and has collaborated with jazz legends such as Chick Corea and Anthony Jackson, contributed to bassist Stanley Clarke’s GRAMMY-winning Jazz in the Garden, and performed at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics.
An artist constantly pushing boundaries, Hiromi continues to blaze an incandescent trail across the jazz scene – leading audiences through the infinite possibilities of creativity, musical expression and emotion, in her uniquely joyous and ebullient way.
October,23,2025
Sydney, AustraliaCity Recital Hall (Hiromi The Piano Quintet)
October,24,2025
Perth, AustraliaOctagon Theatre (Hiromi The Piano Quintet)
October,26,2025
Melbourne, AustraliaHamer Hall The Arts Centre (Hiromi The Piano Quintet)
October,28,2025
Adelaide, AustraliaAdelaide Town Hall (Hiromi The Piano Quintet)
Brooklyn Art Haus
24 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
$20 General
$15 Student/Senior
Tickets available soon
The follow-up to PUBLIQuartet’s GRAMMY®-nominated What Is American project, What Is American: Rhythm Nation celebrates American rhythmic traditions as expressions of bodily autonomy and tacit history keeping. From the propulsive beat-breaks of Daniel Bernard Roumain’s Hip-Hop Etudes to the shifting textures of Andy Akiho’s Quartet No. 1 “Mobile on a Stream into the Sound,” this wide-ranging exploration also features new works by Jeff Scott, Mazz Swift, and Eddie Venegas, commissioned with the support of a 2024 Chamber Music America Artistic Projects grant. Each of the pieces on the program evokes a distinct rhythmic world, reflecting the plurality of American movement(s) and protecting the unspoken spirit of their lineage’s narratives.
Applauded by The Washington Post as “a perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music,” and by The New Yorker as “independent-minded,” multi-GRAMMY®-nominated PUBLIQuartet is an improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. PUBLIQuartet rose on the music scene as winner of the 2013 Concert Artists Guild New Music/New Places award, and in 2019 garnered Chamber Music America’s prestigious Visionary Award for outstanding and innovative approaches to contemporary classical, jazz, and world chamber music. PQ’s genre-bending programs range from newly commissioned pieces to re-imaginations of classical works featuring open-form improvisations that expand the techniques and aesthetic of the traditional string quartet.
PUBLIQuartet has held artist residencies at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Sawdust, and has performed everywhere from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to the Montreal, Newport and Detroit Jazz Festivals. Their 2016 appearance on The Colbert Report, “Requiem for a Debate” – in which they improvised a live soundtrack to the third presidential debate – not only received over a million views, but saw the Washington Post declaring them “the winner…indubitably.” Their 2023-2024 season included performances at USC and the Library of Congress, with the New York City Ballet, as well as tour dates with jazz artists including Hiromi, Diane Monroe, and Magos Herrera.
The quartet’s latest album, the GRAMMY®-nominated What Is American, released in June 2022 on the Bright Shiny Things label, explores resonances between contemporary, blues, jazz, freely-improvised, and rock-inflected languages, all of which trace their roots back to the Black and Indigenous musical traditions that inspired Dvorak’s “American” String Quartet (Op. 96). The album also includes CARDS 11-11-2020, written by Roscoe Mitchell for PUBLIQuartet, as well as works by Ornette Coleman, Rhiannon Giddens, and Vijay Iyer.
Committed to creating an inclusive performance space, supporting living composers of varying genres, and expanding the classical canon, PUBLIQuartet was the inaugural ensemble-in-residence for Carnegie Hall’s PlayUSA program in 2021-2022, working with high school music classes across the country on a large-scale creative project called Reflections on Resilience. Their innovative PUBLIQ Access program has promoted emerging composers by presenting a wide variety of under-represented music for string quartet–from classical, jazz and electronic, to non-notated, world and improvised music. Other unique projects include MIND | THE | GAP, a series of creative projects developed by PQ that weave together different styles of music via group composition, arranging, and improvisation. These unique works range from “Bird in Paris” (Claude Debussy meets Charlie Parker) to more recent extended works including Reflections on Beauty, a multimedia celebration of the life and legacy of Madam C.J. Walker featuring visual projections and narration by Walker’s great-great-granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles.
Founded in 2010, PUBLIQuartet is based in New York City.
Trenton Youth Orchestra (TYO) is an orchestra for students from Trenton Central High School and Trenton Ninth Grade Academy. During weekly rehearsals, TYO members work with their Princeton student coaches on repertoire ranging from film scores to classical music, pop songs to commissioned compositions. Members also receive free private lessons from Princeton student teachers. Rehearsals take place every Saturday from 10AM to 1PM in the Lee Rehearsal Room.
TYO has been fortunate enough to engage with some of the world’s leading musicians. In December 2019, the orchestra performed for Gustavo Dudamel during his welcome tour of Princeton University. And in April 2022, TYO opened for Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason's Princeton University Concerts debut.
TYO is grateful to Maestro Gustavo Dudamel and his foundation for their generous and longstanding support.
The Hero Levels--Original Music and Fantasy
Brubeck Room
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
6:30pm–8:00pm
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Registration will close on November 12, 2025 @ 4:30pm.
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In this immersive concert experience, violist Nick Revel performs live alongside cinematic audio tracks from The Hero Levels: A Fantasy Novella and Original Soundtrack, a written fantasy and music collection where each piece corresponds to a vivid chapter in the accompanying novella. Audience members can follow the story in real time—either by scanning a QR code to read on their device or flipping through a limited-edition paperback. Read, listen, and journey through a world of magic, mystery, and sound.
Nick Revel is a multi-GRAMMY® nominated violist, composer, producer, and educator based in New York City. A founding member of PUBLIQuartet, he has performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and The Met Museum. He is a Silver Medalist in Audio Engineering at the Global Music Awards and has received composition honors from Catalyst Quartet’s CQ Minute, Golden Hornet’s String Quartet Smackdown, and the Red Jasper Award shortlist. His solo project, DragonScales: The Hero Levels, is a video game-inspired etude series for strings, combining original music with narrative-based learning. As an educator, he leads national workshops and recently completed a multi-visit residency with the Marywood University String Project, premiering a collaboratively-composed work using innovative notation.
The Hero Levels novella and Nick Revel albums will be for sale before and following the concert. Registration suggested.
What is American: Found Futures
PUBLIQuartet
until 29 Jan 2026
22:30 - 23:15
Great Hall
Vijay Iyer Dig the Say
Jlin Baobab
Mazz Swift Digging Gold; Deeper Blue
George Lewis New work
Sun Ra Interstellar Low Ways
Duke Ellington Come Sunday
PUBLIQuartet:
Curtis Stewart violin
Jannina Norpoth violin
Nick Revel viola
Hamilton Berry cello
The American String Quartet in the Spirit of the Here and Now
The PUBLIQuartet seeks to answer the question: What is American ? Boundaries blur in the music the quartet presents; boundaries between improvisation and composition, between Afro-futurism and contemporary classical performance practice, between the perceived past and the imagined future. This program envisions a future for American classical music centered on improvisation; the works breathe the spirit of the here and now.
According to The New York Times, the groundbreaking PUBLIQuartet offers "a respectful acknowledgment of the past" and takes "a confident step forward." The quartet is certainly committed to its own country. " What Is American: Found Futures" is a call to reflect on the kaleidoscope of composers and genres that together form the rich musical history of the complex nation of America. The quartet was nominated for a Grammy for a previous installment, recorded on CD.
A premiere from Alexei Ratmansky leads a collection of contemporary movement
A world premiere from Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky leads an evening celebrating dancemakers at work today. The company’s Resident Choreographer, Justin Peck, is represented by two contrasting works: Dig the Say, a playful pas de deux in which the dancers engage in challenging, competitive solos, occasionally exchanging a red rubber ball, and the expansive Everywhere We Go, which has become one of the choreographer’s most popular works, a vibrant ballet for 25 dancers set to music by Peck’s frequent collaborator Sufjan Stevens, with whom he created the acclaimed, Tony-winning musical Illinoise. Rounding out the program is Gianna Reisen’s Signs, a ballet for five couples that matches the quiet lyricism of the solo piano score by Philip Glass.
The Shelter Island Friends of Music (SIFM) was founded in 1977 and incorporated as non-profit in 1979. Our mission is present world-renowned artists and rising stars to music lovers on the East End of Long Island. The musicians we present perform at prestigious venues in major cities worldwide.These free concerts are made possible by annual contributions and donations offered at the door. SIFM is a 501(c)(3) organization. Your tax-deductible gifts are vital. We appreciate your support.
PUBLIQuartet
Studio K Club
Improvisational string ensemble PUBLIQuartet makes its Kennedy Center debut! The quartet celebrates American rhythmic traditions in a program of works by Henry Threadgill, Jlin, and more.
Thu. Feb. 26, 2026 7p.m.
Tickets available in subscriptions
Curtis Stewart, violin
Jannina Norpoth, violin
Nick Revel, viola
Hamilton Berry, cello
JEFF SCOTT
Blues for Buddy
ANDY AKIHO
String Quartet No. 1, “Mobile on a Stream into the Sound”
MAZZ SWIFT
Digging Gold; Deeper Blue
JLIN
Baobab
HENRY THREADGILL
Sixfivetwo
VIJAY IYER
Dig the Say for string quartet
A seamless fit for the creative hub of the Club at Studio K, improvisational string ensemble PUBLIQuartet makes its Kennedy Center debut. Applauded by The Washington Post as “a perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music,” the Grammy Award®–nominated quartet is committed to creating an inclusive performance space, supporting living composers of varying genres, and expanding the classical canon. The group presents genre-bending programs ranging from new commissions to re-imaginations of classical works with open-form improvisations.
For over seven decades, musicians from all over the world have gathered each summer to play chamber music and to grow as musicians. What attracts these musicians, and brings them back, is the love of playing chamber music, the chance to learn from world-class performers and teachers, and the joy of seeing old friends and making new ones.
The Conference runs for four weeks in July and August. Most participants attend for one or two weeks. Conference participants comprise amateur musicians who range in age and ability, and who play strings (violin, viola, cello, and double bass), woodwinds (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn), and piano. All participants share a passion for chamber music and the desire for an intensive and rewarding learning experience.
The Conference faculty includes outstanding artists who combine concert careers with a dedication to teaching. Members of the faculty perform regularly as soloists, chamber musicians, and orchestra players, and many teach at major conservatories and university music departments nationwide and beyond.
At the Conference, the coaching program and concert series feature a tremendous diversity of music, from the Classical period to the present. In addition to the core string quartet and wind quintet repertoire, the Conference explores works for many combinations of piano, woodwinds, and strings. Participants are encouraged to submit repertoire requests in advance of the Conference.
The Composers' Forum involves both faculty and participants in contemporary music. The Conference appoints composers for week-long residencies as Composers-in-Residence and commissions new works that participants and faculty study and perform. Faculty performances of existing works by the Composers-in-Residence are featured on the Conference Concert Series.
Nick Revel will give a demonstration of his new books, DragonScales: The Hero Levels, as well as a 45 minute improvisation workshop with students from the institute.
The Underground at Jaffe Drive
Jaffe Drive, New York, NY 10023
For ticketing, call CenterCharge at 212-721-6500 from Monday–Saturday 10:00 am–8:00 pm and Sunday noon–6:00 pm.
For general inquiries, call Guest Experience at 212-875-5456 or email guestexperience@lincolncenter.org.
The Underground, a cabaret-inspired performance space, is tucked away on Jaffe Drive, located below Lincoln Center's Josie Robertson Plaza. The space includes a pop-up bar and stage.
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.
Clarion Concerts is dedicated to bringing world-class, live chamber music to the Hudson Valley area of New York state. Clarion Concerts seeks to expand the chamber music repertoire through the commissioning and performance of new works by contemporary composers.
Clarion Concerts has a specific commitment to presenting, commissioning, and fostering chamber music works by Black composers and showcasing Black musicians.
Clarion Concerts seeks to promote the understanding and enjoyment of chamber music through educational and concert experiences for young people in the community.
Sponsored By: Wells Fargo
Venue: Various
Duration: Approximately 1 hour, 15 minutes
Overview
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.
Program III: Honey From a Winter’s Stone — June 6, College of Charleston Sottile Theatre
Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet
Koyaki, vocals
Sam Harris, piano and keyboards
Reggie Washington, electric bass
Justin Brown, drums
PUBLIQartet, strings
The Mansion
Sat, May 31, 2025 | Doors open 1:30pm
All Day Pass $100 | $30 per individual concert
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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! Food trucks will be on site and don’t forget to bring your blanket or lawn chairs for the outdoor performances. Each performance in the Mansion’s music room is ticketed separately. Outdoor performances are free and open to all—no ticket or registration required.
Applauded by The Washington Post as “a perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music,” and by The New Yorker as “independent-minded,” multi-Grammy nominated PUBLIQuartet is an improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. PUBLIQuartet rose on the music scene as winner of the 2013 Concert Artists Guild New Music/New Places award, and in 2019 garnered Chamber Music America’s prestigious Visionary Award for outstanding and innovative approaches to contemporary classical, jazz, and world chamber music. PQ’s genre-bending programs range from newly commissioned pieces to re-imaginations of classical works featuring open-form improvisations that expand the techniques and aesthetic of the traditional string quartet.
Multi-GRAMMYTM Nominated violist Nick Revel will join the Marywood University String Project for a collaborative multi-visit project in the Spring of 2025 centered around musical notation and creation. The main objective is to co-create a brand new piece of music in an original unique musical notation system through guided group improvisation, and premiere said work with all participating String Project ensembles at the concert on May 5th 2025. A recording of the concert as well as musical “scores” of the fnished piece will be made available to students, faculty, and parents.
The structure of this project will include three workshops/rehearsals/explorations per String Project ensemble spread throughout the months of January-April 2025. In these workshops, Revel will lead learning sessions about the world's various musical notation traditions, explore the relationship between sound and visual representation, and guide the ensembles in a creative process of group composition through improvisation. The piece, as well as the notation used to “write” the piece, will grow, evolve, and solidify over the course of the three visits and will enable skill-appropriate participation from all students within the String Project. Each session as well as the concert will be audio/video documented.
Extra supplemental work may be given by Revel to the faculty and students to prepare for these precious few in-person sessions. This work may include various transcription exercises, practicing of certain passages within the evolving group composition, and extra reading/watching of educational materials relevant to the project.
Ideally, the students will come away with a deeper understanding of the uses and limitations of the language of Western music notation, a greater vision of what lies beyond the page of notes and rhythms they so often look at while playing their instruments, and the tools to be able to start writing their own pieces through improvisation.
Multi-GRAMMYTM Nominated violist Nick Revel will join the Marywood University String Project for a collaborative multi-visit project in the Spring of 2025 centered around musical notation and
creation. The main objective is to co-create a brand new piece of music in an original unique
musical notation system through guided group improvisation, and premiere said work with all
participating String Project ensembles at the concert on May 5th 2025. A recording of the concert
as well as musical “scores” of the fnished piece will be made available to students, faculty, and
parents.
The structure of this project will include three workshops/rehearsals/explorations per String
Project ensemble spread throughout the months of January-April 2025. In these workshops, Revel
will lead learning sessions about the world's various musical notation traditions, explore the
relationship between sound and visual representation, and guide the ensembles in a creative
process of group composition through improvisation. The piece, as well as the notation used to
“write” the piece, will grow, evolve, and solidify over the course of the three visits and will enable
skill-appropriate participation from all students within the String Project. Each session as well as
the concert will be audio/video documented.
Extra supplemental work may be given by Revel to the faculty and students to prepare for these
precious few in-person sessions. This work may include various transcription exercises, practicing
of certain passages within the evolving group composition, and extra reading/watching of
educational materials relevant to the project.
Ideally, the students will come away with a deeper understanding of the uses and limitations of the
language of Western music notation, a greater vision of what lies beyond the page of notes and
rhythms they so often look at while playing their instruments, and the tools to be able to start
writing their own pieces through improvisation.
Musica Poetica
The music of Heinrich Schütz plus Monteverdi, Gabrielli, and more!
Tickets for in person or livestream: https://www.sccamerata.org/concerts
Friday, April 11 | 7:00PM
Heritage Room at Yountville Community Center
6516 Washington Street | Yountville
Admission-free
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.
This program is supported by Festival Napa Valley's Arts for All with additional support from Napa County Arts & Culture and the Town of Yountville.
$0.00 - $10.00
Linfield Lively Arts Presents New York-based, multi-GRAMMY®-nominated PUBLIQuartet is an improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism.
Date: Monday, April 7th
Time: 7pm
Location: Delkin Recital Hall
Title: PUBLIQuartet
Ticket Price: $10 for non-Linfield members. Free for Students, Staff, and Faculty. Free tickets do require a Linfield ID number to be included in the reservation.
Sunday
April 6, 2025
3:00 pm
Patricia Reser Center for the Arts
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
Multi-GRAMMYTM Nominated violist Nick Revel will join the Marywood University String Project for a collaborative multi-visit project in the Spring of 2025 centered around musical notation and
creation. The main objective is to co-create a brand new piece of music in an original unique
musical notation system through guided group improvisation, and premiere said work with all
participating String Project ensembles at the concert on May 5th 2025. A recording of the concert
as well as musical “scores” of the fnished piece will be made available to students, faculty, and
parents.
The structure of this project will include three workshops/rehearsals/explorations per String
Project ensemble spread throughout the months of January-April 2025. In these workshops, Revel
will lead learning sessions about the world's various musical notation traditions, explore the
relationship between sound and visual representation, and guide the ensembles in a creative
process of group composition through improvisation. The piece, as well as the notation used to
“write” the piece, will grow, evolve, and solidify over the course of the three visits and will enable
skill-appropriate participation from all students within the String Project. Each session as well as
the concert will be audio/video documented.
Extra supplemental work may be given by Revel to the faculty and students to prepare for these
precious few in-person sessions. This work may include various transcription exercises, practicing
of certain passages within the evolving group composition, and extra reading/watching of
educational materials relevant to the project.
Ideally, the students will come away with a deeper understanding of the uses and limitations of the
language of Western music notation, a greater vision of what lies beyond the page of notes and
rhythms they so often look at while playing their instruments, and the tools to be able to start
writing their own pieces through improvisation.
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.
The program features Baobab, a new work with an intricate, multi-layered percussion audiotrack by composer and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Jlin, incorporating live-improvised string samples from PUBLIQuartet to create a dynamic sonic landscape evoking both motion and timelessness.
Next up is the world premiere of Digging Gold; Deeper Blue, which marks a departure from Mazz Swift’s recent works that explore the tradition of spirituals. Swift notes that the new piece reflects a desire to explore rhythm and groove through the lens of their own experience as a neuro-emergent composer, challenging “the virtuosity of the quartet as an ensemble.”
Written to honor the memory of the composer’s uncle, Jeff Scott’s Blues for Buddy sets lyrical blues melodies against march rhythms that evoke the tradition of New Orleans second-line parades and jazz works like Art Blakey’s “Blues March.”
Rounding out the program is Eddie Venegas’s Cachumbambeando En Clave, which incorporates the blend of salsa, Afro-Cuban, Puerto Rican, and jazz languages that the composer encountered when he arrived in New York City from Venezuela. With clave rhythm as its foundation, this piece presents a variety of energetic rhythmic textures and characters, with a moment for improvised solos by the members of PUBLIQuartet along the way.
Nick Revel joins the National Philharmonic’s Youth Mentorship Program for a masterclass and jam session on DragonScales: The Hero Levels. More info coming soon!
DragonScales: The Hero Levels
Friday, March 14, 2025 · 6:00 pm
Potter Violins
Could You be a Music Superhero? Your Hero Badge awaits!
Grammy-nominated violist, music educator and author Nick Revel is your guide through DragonScales: The Hero Levels, leading music educators and string players through the 25 Fantasy Etudes to Slay Evil on Friday, March 14 at 6 PM at Potter Violins, presented by National Philharmonic and ASTA MD/DC Chapter.
Revel will present his collection of video game-inspired etudes, arm music educators with their own tools to slay evil, and create an army of musicians ready to be the heroes of their own magical adventure fantasies. The night ends with a jam session worthy of a flagon of the realm's finest ale!
Participants will receive links to digital sheet music and the Audio Play-Along Recording Playlist, plus a chance to win the complete set of DragonScales: The Hero Levels, 25 Etudes to Slay Evil for violin, viola, and cello! Space is limited, so register now! Your journey awaits!
PNC Theatre, 350 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15222
In its Chamber Music Pittsburgh debut, PUBLIQuartet presents What is American: Found Futures. With works by Henry Threadgill, George Lewis, Vijay Iyer, and members of PUBLIQuartet, 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.
Applauded by The Washington Post as “a perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music,” multi-Grammy-nominated PUBLIQuartet is an improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. PUBLIQuartet rose on the music scene as winner of the 2013 Concert Artists Guild New Music/New Places award and in 2019 won Chamber Music America’s prestigious Visionary Award for outstanding and innovative approaches to contemporary classical, jazz, and world chamber music. PUBLIQuartet’s genre-bending programs range from newly commissioned pieces to re-imaginations of classical works featuring open-form improvisations that expand the techniques and aesthetic of the traditional string quartet.
PUBLIQuartet features Curtis Stewart on violin, Jannina Norpoth on violin, Nick Revel on viola, and Hamilton Berry on cello.
VIOLIN/VIOLA SUZUKI FESTIVAL
Saturday, March 8, 2025
8:30 AM 5:00 PM
WEPCO Wilton (map)
All day Suzuki Festival for violin, viola and cello students. RSS teams up with Gongora Music Academy to bring in guest clinicians for a day filled with masterclasses, group classes, and a Gala Concert.
Nick Revel will visit the Community Music Works in Providence RI on March 4th for a one-hour performance and improv workshop for the CMW students. He will perform works from his new etude books DragonScales: The Hero Levels, 25 Fantasy Etudes to Slay Evil, as well as his previous album DREAM COLLIDER. Students will participate in an improvisation workshop portion as well as intuitive music transcription.
Multi-GRAMMYTM Nominated violist Nick Revel will join the Marywood University String Project for a collaborative multi-visit project in the Spring of 2025 centered around musical notation and
creation. The main objective is to co-create a brand new piece of music in an original unique
musical notation system through guided group improvisation, and premiere said work with all
participating String Project ensembles at the concert on May 5th 2025. A recording of the concert
as well as musical “scores” of the fnished piece will be made available to students, faculty, and
parents.
The structure of this project will include three workshops/rehearsals/explorations per String
Project ensemble spread throughout the months of January-April 2025. In these workshops, Revel
will lead learning sessions about the world's various musical notation traditions, explore the
relationship between sound and visual representation, and guide the ensembles in a creative
process of group composition through improvisation. The piece, as well as the notation used to
“write” the piece, will grow, evolve, and solidify over the course of the three visits and will enable
skill-appropriate participation from all students within the String Project. Each session as well as
the concert will be audio/video documented.
Extra supplemental work may be given by Revel to the faculty and students to prepare for these
precious few in-person sessions. This work may include various transcription exercises, practicing
of certain passages within the evolving group composition, and extra reading/watching of
educational materials relevant to the project.
Ideally, the students will come away with a deeper understanding of the uses and limitations of the
language of Western music notation, a greater vision of what lies beyond the page of notes and
rhythms they so often look at while playing their instruments, and the tools to be able to start
writing their own pieces through improvisation.
Saturday, February 22, 2025
7:30pm - 8:45pm
Reflections of Memory: An Immersive Concert of Strings
Strauss Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Soloists from Experiential Orchestra
James Blachly, Conductor
Soloists from the Grammy®-Winning Experiential Orchestra (EXO) return to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in an evening of music reflecting on memory, inviting the audience to lie down immersed in the sound of strings, walk in the space as the music reflects off the stones, or sit in seats surrounding the musicians.
Strauss’ Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings is a kaleidoscopic exploration of harmony and color, deeply infused with memory and loss. Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis is one of the most celebrated works for strings, imbuing Tallis’s 16th century hymn tune with expansive colors and staging the work across three locations in the Cathedral, reflecting the past, present, and future.
Building on the success of Experiential Orchestra’s two performances of Passio last season, Music Director James Blachly brings his Grammy-Winning orchestra (with two additional nominations for 2025) back to the inspiring expanse of the Cathedral to offer a reflective and immersive night.
Multi-GRAMMYTM Nominated violist Nick Revel will join the Marywood University String Project for a collaborative multi-visit project in the Spring of 2025 centered around musical notation and
creation. The main objective is to co-create a brand new piece of music in an original unique
musical notation system through guided group improvisation, and premiere said work with all
participating String Project ensembles at the concert on May 5th 2025. A recording of the concert
as well as musical “scores” of the fnished piece will be made available to students, faculty, and
parents.
The structure of this project will include three workshops/rehearsals/explorations per String
Project ensemble spread throughout the months of January-April 2025. In these workshops, Revel
will lead learning sessions about the world's various musical notation traditions, explore the
relationship between sound and visual representation, and guide the ensembles in a creative
process of group composition through improvisation. The piece, as well as the notation used to
“write” the piece, will grow, evolve, and solidify over the course of the three visits and will enable
skill-appropriate participation from all students within the String Project. Each session as well as
the concert will be audio/video documented.
Extra supplemental work may be given by Revel to the faculty and students to prepare for these
precious few in-person sessions. This work may include various transcription exercises, practicing
of certain passages within the evolving group composition, and extra reading/watching of
educational materials relevant to the project.
Ideally, the students will come away with a deeper understanding of the uses and limitations of the
language of Western music notation, a greater vision of what lies beyond the page of notes and
rhythms they so often look at while playing their instruments, and the tools to be able to start
writing their own pieces through improvisation.
About this Event
(FPAC) Faulkner Performing Arts CenterView map $0-$20
453 N. Garland, Fayetteville, AR
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
Event Type
Website
Cost
$0-$20
DragonScales: The Hero Levels
25 Fantasy Etudes to Slay Evil
Hello! I am excited to have you join the Zoom Cafe, where we can chat and play all things Hero Levels. Save this PDF to your computer or copy the Zoom link below to join the meeting. I'll be creating more Zoom Cafes as time goes on, so check back in at www.nickrevel.com/herolevels for further exploration of the Hero Levels. See you soon! Register at www.nickrevel.com/herolevels
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Wednesday, December 4th 2024
6:30 PM | Doors
7:00 PM | Concert
9:00 PM | Event End
General Admission Tickets: $45
Members/Patrons Tickets: $25
This event will take place at the Blue Building
222 E. 46th Street New York 10017
Members benefit from discounted tickets, special perks, and more.
What Is American: Rhythm Nation
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.
PUBLIQuartet's 2024 Chamber Music America Artistic Projects grant was made possible by the support of the Howard Gilman Foundation.
DragonScales: The Hero Levels
25 Fantasy Etudes to Slay Evil
Hello! I am excited to have you join the Zoom Cafe, where we can chat and play all things Hero Levels. Save this PDF to your computer or copy the Zoom link below to join the meeting. I'll be creating more Zoom Cafes as time goes on, so check back in at www.nickrevel.com/herolevels for further exploration of the Hero Levels. See you soon!
Nick Revel (he/him/his) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: The Hero Levels Zoom Cafe
Time: Sunday Dec 1, 2024 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87975809105? pwd=7m74zWBIHNpsEgaqvoofNPNjGVlvk9.1
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Bass-baritone Davóne Tines (“one of the most powerful voices of our time, L A 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.
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, arr. Hamilton Berry Jeff Scott — Blues for Buddy (2024) 5'
Bass-baritone Davóne Tines performs the African American spiritual, “Give Me Jesus”
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Music
Friday, November 22
7:30 - 9:30 pm (Doors open at 7 PM)
Wisconsin Union Theater | Shannon Hall
Cost: $8-$66
This innovative string quartet's latest program, Rhythm Nation, explores works that draw inspiration from a wide range of American rhythmic traditions.
This event is part of the annual Classical Series.
PUBLIQuartet does more than push the boundaries of the string quartet. It actively breaks down barriers to create live concert experiences that are accessible to and representative of the widest possible audiences. The group’s innovative programming foregrounds new works and marginalized composers, centers improvisation and reinterpretation, and invites audiences into the music by connecting to personal experience. Hear its latest program, Rhythm Nation, which explores works that draw inspiration from a wide range of American rhythmic traditions, from the African rhythms that inspired Trevor Weston to the hip-hop beat breaks that appear in the work of Daniel Bernard Roumain.
PUBLIQuartet will host a free, open-to-public studio class at Shannon Hall on Friday, Nov. 22 at 3 PM. Stay tuned for more info!
The Program:
Jesse Montgomery, “Voodoo Dolls” (2008)
Jeff Scott, Blues for Buddy (2024)
Rhiannon Giddens, At the Purchaser's Option (2016, arr. PUBLIQuartet 2021)
Daniel Bernard Roumain, Excerpts from Hip Hop Studies and Etudes, Book I (2006)
Jessie Montgomery, Break Away (2013)
INTERMISSION
Eddie Venegas, Cachumbandeando En Clave (2024)
Jlin, Baobab (2024)
Julia Perry, Prelude for Piano (1946, rev. 1962), arr. Hamilton Berry
Duke Ellington, Come Sunday from Black, Brown, and Beige (1943)
Vijay Iyer, Dig the Say for string quartet (2012)
PUBLIQuartet, Voodoo Dolls, by Jessie Montgomery
UW-Madison Student (1 per ID, must show ID): $12 / $10 / $8
General Public: $66 / $51 / $30
Wisconsin Union Members: $60 / $47 / $33
Student (any): $60 / $47 / $33
Youth (17 and under): $15
Hancher Auditorium / Hadley Stage / Onstage Seating
Presented by
Hancher
and
University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program
Tickets
Adults $30 / $20
Students & Youth $10
Thursday, November 21, 2024, 7:30 pm
Presented in collaboration with The University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program
A celebration of the music of Hancher's 2024–2025 composer-in-residence—featuring the composer herself.
The PUBLIQuartet–of which Jessie Montgomery was a founding member—won the 2013 Concert Artists Guild New Music/New Places Award. In 2019, the ensemble won Chamber Music America's prestigious Visionary Award in recognition of their commitment to excellence and innovation. Embracing improvisation, PUBLIQuartet mixes genres while shining a light on American multiculturalism.
Montgomery, who is Hancher's 2024–2025 composer-in-residence, was Musical America's Composer of the Year in 2023. Her compositions weave classical music together with poetry, improvisation, vernacular music, and a vibrant social consciousness.
“[PUBLIQuartet] is a perfect encapsulation of today's trends in chamber music.” — The Washington Post
“[Montgomery] never fails to enthrall with her rhythmically complex, richly orchestrated, highly original pieces” — WTTW Chicago PBS
Jessie Montgomery: The 2024–2025 Hancher composer-in-residence
The winner of the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition, Jessie Montgomery was the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Mead Composer-In-Residence for three years beginning in July 2021. The Washington Post describes her work as “turbulent, wildly colorful, and exploding with life.”
Throughout Hancher's 2024–2025 season, Montgomery will perform twice at Hancher and will do intensive work with students in the University of Iowa School of Music.
PROGRAM:
ALL-JESSIE MONTGOMERY
Musings for 2 Violins
Rhapsody No. 1 for Solo Violin
Voodoo Dolls
Break Away
Strum for String Quartet
New improvised work featuring Jessie Montgomery + PUBLIQuartet
This performance will be presented in a thrust configuration (seating on three sides); capacity is 226. All seating will be set up on the Hadley stage. This configuration is used primarily for daring, intimate, and immediate performance.
Preorder food from the Stanley Café!
Avoid the lines by making your food selections before you come to Hancher Auditorium. Most entrées are only available through pre-order and cannot be purchased on-site at the performance. Snacks and beverages will be available on-site.
Orders must be placed by noon two days before the performance.
HANCHER EVENT PARTNERS
The McIntyre Foundation
Stephen & Victoria West
West Music
