FALL/WINTER 09-10

April 20 - the Calder String Quartet premieres Nathan's new commission as part of the 2010 MATA Festival (Le Poisson Rouge, NYC)

February 26-27 - Odd Appetite residency at University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC)

February 19-21 - "Armory Show" with the Moving Theater dance company and ICE, featuring music by Nathan, Du Yun, and Mario Diaz de Leon (Park Avenue Armory, NYC)

February 20 - Meehan Perkins Duo plays Diving Bell at Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)

December 2 - Solo show in Moving Closer Festival. Klub Powiekszenie, Warsaw, Poland

November 27 - Solo show in Audio Art Festival. Akademia Muzycna, Krakow, Poland

November 26 - masterclass at Akademia Muzyczna, Krakow, Poland

November 11 - Ear ♥ Music : Makers - a discussion of my music with performances by Amelia Lukas and myself.  The Tank, Manhattan

October 29 - Phyllis Chen plays "The Mechanics of Escapement" at her cd release party at Christopher Henry Gallery, Manhattan

October 27 - Claire Chase plays "pneApnea" at her cd release party at Velvet Lounge, Chicago

October 23-24 - ICE at the BGSU/MACCM New Music Festival, featuring "Dowser" and "Crawlspace" (Bowling Green, OH)

October 18 - Claire Chase plays "pneApnea" at her cd release party at (le) Poisson Rouge, NYC

SPRING/SUMMER 2009

August 7-9 - Douglas Perkins plays  "Simple Songs of Birth and Return", Nathan plays "Diving Bell" and lots of other percussion music at Monadnock Music (Peterborough, NH)

June 25 - Duo Breekbaar plays "Like sweet bells jangled" at the Tank (presented by the International Contemporary Ensemble)(NYC)

June 21 - "When to Stop" performed by Matthew Gold for the Mannes Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance (NYC)

June 14  - "Sounder" for septet and Trimpin's sound scultpture premiered by eighth blackbird and friends at the Ojai Festival (Ojai, CA)

May 21-23  - ICE premieres "Like sweet bells jangled" for clarinet, crotales, and ring modulator at PS122 (NYC)

April 15, 8:00 pm - Ethos Percussion Group premieres "Winnow", a new work for percussion quartet, at the The Players Theater, 115 MacDougal (NYC)

April 3, 8:00 pm - Nathan and pianist Cristina Valdes presented by Wayward Music Series at The Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle

FALL/WINTER 08-09

March 18 - Douglas Perkins plays  "Simple Songs of Birth and Return" at MATA's Interval 2.4 at Issue Project Room (Brooklyn)

February 20 - Phyllis Chen plays "The Mechanics of Escapement" at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), presented by ICE

February 16 - Phyllis Chen plays "The Mechanics of Escapement" at Le Poisson Rouge (NYC), presented by Concert Artists Guild

February 8-13 - ICE at Helsinki Musica Nova: performances of "The Bright and Hollow Sky" at Sibelius Academy and  "pneApnea" at the Korjaamo in Helsinki (Finland)

February 1 - Odd Appetite at Bowling Green State University/MACCM (Ohio)

January 29 - Amanda Baker (flute) performs "pneApnea" at Spheris Gallery (Hanover, NH)

January 22 - Phyllis Chen premieres Nathan's "The Mechanics of Escapement" for toy piano and electronics at Symphony Space (NYC), presented by Concert Artists Guild

January 16 - Meehan/Perkins duo performs "Diving Bell" at Carnegie Hall (NYC)

November 23 - ICE cd release and some of Nathan's music, Uncommon Ground (Chicago) 

November 17 - Claire Chase performs "pneApnea" at Bowling Green State University / MACCM (OH)

November 11 - Amanda Baker (flute) performs "pneApnea" at the Stone in a program by the Janus Trio (NYC)

November 7 - Masterclass at Baylor University (Waco, TX)

November 5 - Doug Perkins plays Nathan's piece "Simple Songs of Birth and Return" at Percussive Arts Society International Convention (Austin, TX)

November 4 - Masterclass at Rice University (Houston, TX)

October 24 - Peter Evans (trumpet), David Remnick (saxophone), and Nathan Davis (live electronic diffusion) at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago)

October 16 - ICE plays music of Phillip Hurel at the Gardener Museum (Boston) 

September 13, 16, 17 - ICE performs the US premiere of the Oresteia, Xenakis' only opera, at the Miller Theater at Columbia University (NYC) 

SPRING/SUMMER 2008 

August 9  - Monadnock Music with percussionists Doug Perkins and David Schotzko, playing "Talking to Vasudeva" and works by Xenakis, Takemitsu, Crumb, and others (Peterborough, NH)

July 25 - "Talking to Vasudeva", an improv with Peter Evans and Sam Pluta, and other favorites from the Walden School Players at The Walden School for young composers (Dublin, NH)

June 7 - Nathan plays "Talking to Vasudeva" at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music as part of a benefit for the Buddha's Smile School in India

June 4 - Joshua Rubin plays "Dowser" at the Tank

May 15 - Claire Chase plays "pneApnea" at Columbia College, Chicago

May 8 - Doug Perkins and Nathan play a duo set at The Stone (NYC) featuring music by David Lang, Christian Wolff, James Tenney, and Nathan.

May 1 - Odd Appetite at the Look and Listen Festival, Robert Miller Gallery (NYC)

April 29 - Claire Chase plays "pneApnea" at Merkin Hall, NYC

April 18 - Solo set including "Diving Bell", "Crawlspace", and James Tenney's "Deus ex Machina" at the Hi-Fi Festival, Brooklyn

March 8 Douglas Perkins performs "Simple Songs of Birth and Return" at UMass Amherst (MA)

April 6 Meehan/Perkins Duo perform "Diving Bell" at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

April 2 - ICE presents an evening of Nathan's music at the Tank, including the premiere of a quintet "The Bright and Hollow Sky"

March 18, 2008 Douglas Perkins performs "Simple Songs of Birth and Return" at Baylor University (Waco, TX)

March 12, 8:00 - Odd Appetite at Symphony Space, presented by ISCM (NYC)

March 9 Douglas Perkins performs "Simple Songs of Birth and Return" at Texas A and M (Corpus Christi, TX)

March 8 Meehan/Perkins Duo perform "Diving Bell" at Del Mar Percussion Festival (Corpus Christi, TX)

February 26 - Nathan performs works for percussion and electronics at CalArts (Valencia, CA)

February 25 - Claire Chase plays "pneApnea" and Joshua Rubin plays "Dowser" at CalArts (Valencia, CA)

January 25 - MATA presents Odd Appetite at the Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NYC)

January 24 - Douglas Perkins gives premiere of "Simple Songs of Birth and Return" at Spheris Gallery (Hanover, NH)

FALL 2007

December 7 and 14 - Solos from Xenakis and Saariaho at the Whitney Museum (NYC) as part of a new work from the Moving Theater dance company in collaboration with ICE

November 15 - International Contemporary Ensemble presents Hurel Portrait at Miller Theater (NYC)

October 23 - Odd Appetite at Princeton University, Taplin Auditorium (Princeton, NJ)

October 20 - ICE / Zhou Brothers collaboration Zhou B Center in Chicago. Superstar action painters the Zhou brothers with composed and improvised music from Nathan and members of the Chicago Composers Forum at the Zhou Brothers Center

October 18 - Claire Chase performs pneApnea in Chicago

October 17 - electroacoustic works for solo bass clarinet and alto flute at Issue Project Room, NYC

October 15 - M/P duo plays Diving Bell at Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI

October 14 - M/P duo plays Diving Bell at Michigan State University, Lansing, MI

October 13 - M/P duo plays Diving Bell at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

October 13 - Odd Appetite Brooklyn Conservatory of Music (Brooklyn NY)

September 30 - Odd Appetite at the Apositsia Festival III, St. Petersburg, Russia

September 28 - Odd Appetite at the Long Arms Festival, Moscow, Russia

September 28 - Odd Appetite at Logos, Ghent, Belgium

September 25 - Odd Appetite at De Link, Tilburg, the Netherlands

September 24 - Joshua Rubin premieres Dowser for bass clarinet and electronics at the Heaven Gallery as part of ICEfest Chicago.

August 25-29 - American Repertory Theater and Rinde Eckert present "Orpheus X" at the The Edinburgh Festival, Scotland

July 26, 8:00 - The Walden School for young composers (Dublin, NH), pneApnea for alto flute and electronics and other works

SPRING 2007

June 25, 8:30 and 9:30 - Concert of Nathan's works at the Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, presented by 21st Century Schizoid Music. Featuring duos with Ha-Yang Kim and Doug Perkins, Claire Chase and her alto flute, and several electroacoustic percussion solos.

June 2-3, time TBA - Odd Appetite at the Bang on a Can Marathon, The World Financial Center / River to River Festival, NYC

May 7, 8:00 - Solo performance at Chicago's Flatfile Gallerie presented by ICE: FLATFILE galleries, 217 N Carpenter, Chicago IL

April 28, 8:00 - Chez Bushwick/AMBUSH and ICE present a set of Nathan's works for solo percussion, electronics, and waterguns, with dance from the Moving Theater Dance Company: Bushwick Starr, 207 Starr Street, 2nd Floor, Bushwick

April 25, 8:00 - Clair Chase premieres Nathan's new work for flute and electronics at Galapagos Art Space, 70 North 6th Street (Brooklyn)

March 29, 8:00 and 10:00 - Evan Ziporyn Ensemble (EZ - clarinets, Robert Black - bass, Ha-Yang Kim - cello, Nathan Davis - percussion) at The Stone, NYC

FALL 2006

December 9, 8:30 - Odd Appetite and Loop 243 at Brooklyn Fireproof (101 Richardson St., top floor, Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

November 28, 1:30 - Meehan/Perkins Duo perform "Diving Bell"at Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY)

November 27, 7:30 - Meehan/Perkins Duo perform "Diving Bell" at Stony Brook University Staller Center for the Arts (Stony Brook, NY)

November 4, 10:00 - - Odd Appetite at OT301 (Amsterdam Netherlands)

November 2, 8:15 - Odd Appetite at Witte Dame (Eindhoven, Netherlands), presented by Axes

October 15, 8:30 - Odd Appetite Roulette (20 Greene St., Manhattan)

August 2, 8:00 - Odd Appetite at Tonic (107 Norfolk St., Manhattan)

photo by Peter Gannushkin / downtownmusic.net