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photo by Sylvia Davis
SUMMER/FALL 2011
November 20 - Sylvia
Milo performs her monodrama "Mozart's
Sister" at Theater Row (NYC) as part of the United
Solo Festival - music by Nathan Davis and Phyllis
Chen.
October 29 - Sylvia Milo premieres her monodrama "Mozart's Sister" at Theater Row (NYC) as part of the United Solo Festival - music by Nathan Davis and Phyllis Chen.
October 22 - TimeTable Percussion performs "Whet" at AC Institute (NYC).
October 20 - American Composers Orchestra SONiC Festival presents "Dowser" performed by Joshua Rubin, at The Kitchen (NYC).
September 23 - Philip Everall performs "Dowser" at Totally Huge Music Festival, Perth, Australia (broadcast on ABC Classic FM New Music Up Late).
July 30 - ICE at Mt. Tremper Arts - performance of "Mt. Tremper Bells" (Mt. Tremper, NY).
June 12 - Walden School residency at Smith College - Rebekah Heller performs "On speaking a hundred names" and Joshua Rubin performs "Dowser".
June 7 - Douglas Perkins performs "Simple Songs of Birth and Return" at The Stone (NYC).
WINTER/SPRING 2011
June 4 - ICElab and The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago present premieres of new works from Nathan, Marcos Balter, and Du Yun, at 7:30.
May 31 - Premieres and CD release: ICE presents the world premiere of a new work for voice and large ensemble, the NYC premiere of "On speaking a hundred names" for solo bassoon with electronics, and "The Bright and Hollow Sky" for ensemble with electronics. 7:00 at (le) poisson rouge (NYC) Free!
March 25-May 1 - Camel Art Space presents "Restore Defaults", curated by Carl Gunhouse & Thomas Marquet, featuring "Crawlspace" alongside visual works from four other artists and studios. There will be live performances of "Crawlspace" and "Diving Bell" on March 25 and "Crawlspace" and "Dowser" (performed by Joshua Rubin) on April 8, both at 7:30 (722 Metropolitan, 2nd fl, Brooklyn)
March 21 - Chicago Symphony Orchestra presets "Like sweet bells jangled" as part of the MusicNOW series at Harris Theater, 7:00 (Chicago)
February 22 - Lincoln Center opens its Tully Scope Festival with Bells, performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Alice Tully Atrium (NYC)
January 24 - ICE performs an evening of Nathan's music at the Southern Theater,(Minneapolis, MN) at 7:30.
January 15 - Alejandro Acierto performs "Dowser" in NY Sound Circuit, 8pm, Brecht Forum (NY, NY)
FALL 2010
November 6 - Odd Appetite at Third Practice Festival at the University of Richmond (VA)
November 2 - ICE at the Menil Collection, presented by Da Camera. Performances of "Dowser" and "pneApnea" (Houston, TX)
October 17 - Amanda Baker performs "pneApnea" at the Katherine Hepburn Theater
in Old Saybrook (CT)
October 8 - Solo show at eyedrum (Atlanta, GA)
October 7 - Sonic Generator performs "Bright and Hollow Sky" at GA Tech (Atlanta, GA)
September 25 - Calder String
Quartet gives west coast premiere of "Skzryp Skzryn" at the Carlsbad Music Festival (CA)
SPRING/SUMMER 2010
July 24 - ICE at Darmstadt. "Bright and Hollow Sky" and other works (Germany)
July 19 - ICE and SO perform Varese at Lincoln Center Festival
July 7 - Odd Appetite at Judson Memorial Church (NYC)
June 20 - TimeTable Percussion premieres "Whet" at Le Poisson Rouge (NYC)
June 19 - Xenakis' Persephassa in Central Park, headlining "Make Music NY" festival
May 2 and 3 - "An outside with an inside in it" premiere by Defenestration at Franklin Pierce University (Ringe, NH)
April 20 - the Calder String
Quartet premieres Nathan's new commission as part of the 2010 MATA
Festival (Le Poisson Rouge, NYC)
FALL/WINTER 09-10
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) | 
