BlackBox Ensemble at the Noguchi Museum, 8 November 2023. Photo by Don Stahl.
Upcoming Events
5-7 March 2025
Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Venice, IT
Research-led Performance: Music for Ensemble Around Pierre Boulez Workshop
BOULEZ Mémoriale
VARÉSE Octandre
WEBERN Symphony op. 21
Niccolò CASTIGLIONE Tropi
13-16 March 2025
Das Kritisches Orchester
Berlin, DE
Conducting Workshop sponsored by Deutscher Musikrat Forum Dirigieren
17 April 2025
Divertimento Ensemble
Fabricca del Vapore
Milan, IT
BERIO Naturale per viola, percussione e voce registrata
Francesco FIORENZANI From the Absence (world premiere)
Eric MAESTRI I asked Pennati what he has thought of Koh Tao
Ivan FEDELE Mixtim
3 May 2025
BlackBox Ensemble
Bang on a Can LONG PLAY Festival
Irondale
Brooklyn, NY
Embodying Eastman: Speculative Listening
A sonic portrait of the musical world of Julius Eastman, co-curated by Isaac Jean-François
Program to include:
EASTMAN Buddha
GRISEY Périodes
Barbara KOLB Three Place Settings
EASTMAN Joy Boy
9 May 2025
BlackBox Ensemble
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center
New York, NY
Unsuk CHIN Akrostichon-Wortspiel
10 May 2025
BlackBox Ensemble
Dwight & Ursula Mamlok Prizewinners Concert
New York, NY
4 October 2024
BlackBox Ensemble
University of South Carolina Southern Exposure Series
Columbia, SC
BlackBox opens the Southern Exposure Series 2024-2025 season, including a world premiere by Baljinder Sekhon and Berio’s Beatles Songs with USC faculty member Ashley Emerson.
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Ró
Annie NIKUNEN All Mass is Interaction
Angélica NEGRÓN Espacios, objectos, sonidos y tiempo
The Beatles/BERIO Michelle II
Tristan MURAIL Paludes
Baljinder SEKHON Divination (world premiere - commissioned for BlackBox Ensemble by the Southern Exposure Series)
The Beatles/BERIO Yesterday
inti FIGGIS-VIZUETA Form the Fabric
Electronic mosaics by Tyler NEIDERMAYER
19 October 2024
BlackBox Ensemble
Timucua Arts Foundation
Orlando, FL
23 November 2024
BlackBox Ensemble
Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew
Brooklyn, NY
Anthony CHEUNG Enjamb, infuse, implode
Annie NIKUNEN All Mass is Interaction (NY Premiere)
Riley SPITZFADEN Afterimage from
Bekah SIMMS Stygian Pulse (US Premiere)
James DIAZ mil cuartos en linea recta (US Premiere)
Baljinder SEKHON Divination (NY premiere)
5-15 December 2024
Remix Ensemble Academy
Casa dá Musica
Porto, PT
Sara ROSS New Work
15-18 January 2025
BlackBox Ensemble
Logan Center for the Performing Arts, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Residency at the University of Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition
Divertimento Ensemble, Milan, IT, 14 February 2024. Photo by Alberto Panzani.
14 September 2024
Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz
Radolfzell, DE
Final Concert of Radolfzell Sommerakademie Masterclass with Johannes Schaefli
BARTÓK Hungarian Pictures
Past highlights
30 June - 10 July 2024
Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Seminar
Lenox, MA
Masterclass with Stefan Asbury
24 May 2024
Fondation des Étas-Unis
Paris, FR
Film premiere of The Sound of Space Between Us, BlackBox Ensemble’s October 2023 performance at the Clark Art Institute, at the Fête de la Cite.
Kevin Chiu, Cinematography
14 February 2024
Divertimento Ensemble
Fabbrica del Vapore
Milan, IT
David Antúnez RODRÍGUEZ Son mis voces cantando para que no canten ellos
Antonio LA SPINA Efemeride II
Beat FURRER Cold and calm and moving
Enno POPPE Schrank
7-8 February 2024
BlackBox Ensemble
Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art
Washington, D.C.
BlackBox performs a two-concert series at the Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art including a reprise performance of Borrowed Landscape by tauchgold and Dai Fujikura.
7 February
Angélica NEGRÓN Espacios, objectos, sonidos y tiempo
Tristan MURAIL Paludes
Baldwin GIANG butterfly, posthumously
George LEWIS Arcades
8 February
Dai FUJIKUA Being As One
TAUCHGOLD/FUJIKURA Borrowed Landscape
20-21 January 2024
BlackBox Ensemble Festival
Brooklyn, NY
BlackBox presents a weekend-long festival in downtown Brooklyn celebrating our 5th anniversary.
20 January
ShapeShifter Lab
Paul NOVAK Somatic Interludes
Bobby GE Pupil of Light
Jessica MEYER The dappled light just beyond her skin
Baldwin GIANG butterfly, posthumously
Yaz LANCASTER Gender Envy
After-Hours Concert - chamber works by Brittany J. GREEN, Nina SHEKHAR, SAARIAHO, Lucy McKNIGHT, Paul KEREKES, Yaz LANCASTER, and Tyler NEIDERMAYER
21 January
Roulette Intermedium
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Ró
Tristan MURAIL Paludes
Angélica NEGRÓN Espacios, objectos, sonidos y tiempo
Seth CLUETT Interference is partial/afterimage
FELDMAN Dance Passage from Piano and String Quartet
Dai FUJIKUA Being As One (w/ choreography by Joelle Santiago)
Annie NIKUNEN The Sound of Space Between Us
With electronic soundscapes by Tyler NEIDERMAYER
8 November 2023
BlackBox Ensemble
Noguchi Museum
Queens, NY
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Ró
TAKEMITSU Rain Spell
inti FIGGIS-VIZUETA Form the Fabric
TAUCHGOLD/Dai FUJIKURA Borrowed Landscape (staged premiere)
Stage direction by TAUCHGOLD
1 October 2023
BlackBox Ensemble
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
The Sound of Space Between Us: a site-responsive music and dance performance.
Seth CLUETT Interference is partial/afterimage
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Spectra
Morton FELDMAN Dance Passage from Clarinet and String Quartet
Dai FUJIKURA Being As One
Annie NIKUNEN The Sound of Space Between Us
inti FIGGIS-VIZUETA Form the Fabric
Meg STUART Choreographic Exercises
Choreography by Annie Nikunen and Joelle Santiago
Annie Nikunen, Peter Cheng, and Liana Zhen-ai Kleinman, Dancers
11 September 2023
Divertimento Ensemble
Fabbrica del Vapore
Milan, IT
George BENJAMIN At First Light
LIGETI Piano Concerto (Maria Grazie Bellochio, Piano)
Final concert of the Divertimento Ensemble Academy Conducting Masterclass
19 August 2023
MAV Symphony Orchestra
Italian Cultural Institute
Budapest, HU
Final Concert of MAV Symphony Orchestra Jorma Panula masterclass
10-20 July 2023
Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Seminar
Lenox, MA
Masterclass with Stefan Asbury