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PAST EVENTS
ChamberQUEER 2022
ChamberQUEER’s 2022 festival at National Sawdust and Branded Saloon takes place June 10-12 and features
MUSIC BY
Julius Eastman, Meredith Monk, Tania León, Talib Rasul Hakim, Benjamin Britten, Rosśa Crean, Alexis Lamb, Connor D’Netto, Mazz Swift
PERFORMED BY
Mazz Swift, Jessie Montgomery, Giancarlo Latta, Clara Kim, Jessica Meyer, Yuri Hughes, Jules Biber, Andrew Yee, Eleonore Oppenheim, Melissa Wimbish, MaKayla McDonald, Elizabeth van Os, Eli McCormack, Garrett Eucker, Brian Mummert, Lucas Bouk
WITH MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS BY
Ashanti Soldier & Kham Owens - FILM
Isaac Jean-François - REFLECTIONS
Miriam Parker & Mazz Swift - MOVEMENT/MUSIC
6/10/2022
ChamberQUEER Festival - Opening Night
A new collaboration by Miriam Parker and Mazz Swift weaves musical voices into conversation across the centuries through improvisation and movement. Connor D’Netto’s “Dawn Wail for the Dead” is a potent reminder to honor our ancestors; the iconoclasm of Meredith Monk and Talib Rasul Hakim, and Alexis Lamb and Aiden Feltkamp’s “For Marsha (P. Johnson)” bring a queer lens on the New York downtown scene into dialogue with a new work by Rosśa Crean and Bea Goodwin for Lucas Bouk and CQ founder Andrew Yee that harkens back to queer identity in the 18th century. Also featuring Clara Kim, Giancarlo Latta, Jessica Meyer, Elizabeth van Os, Eli McCormack, Melissa Wimbish, MaKayla McDonald, and CQ founders Brian Mummert and Jules Biber.
6/11/22
ChamberQUEER Festival - Community Night
The second night of CQ’s annual festival brings the community together outside of the concert hall, to our home-away-from-home at Branded Saloon, where we’ll be dazzled by drinks, camaraderie, and the incredible musical stylings of some of the most exciting queer musicians performing in NYC today!
6/12/22
ChamberQUEER Festival - Closing Night
Gay Guerrilla by iconoclastic queer composer Julius Eastman is presented in a new arrangement for string septet by Jessie Montgomery, featuring Montgomery on violin. Curated in partnership with featured artists, the concert creates a portrait of Eastman’s New York City: through an immersive reflection by Eastman scholar Isaac Jean-François, with a new film by Ashanti Soldier and Kham Owens, and through works of Eastman’s colleague and contemporary Tania León. Eastman’s visionary experimentalism is echoed in the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud, set by Benjamin Britten in his Les Illuminations, and sung by soprano Melissa Wimbish. Also featuring Mazz Swift, Giancarlo Latta, Clara Kim, Jessica Meyer, Yuri Hughes, Eleonore Oppenheim, with CQ founders Jules Biber and Andrew Yee.
APRIL 23, 2022
ADD(+)POWER
Anthony R. Green - ADD(+)POWER
The Flea 4/23/22 - 1pm & 6pm
Tix $10/$20 *nobody turned away for lack of funds
Program : to include works by Nathan Hall, Sea Novaa, and Anthony R. Green, along with improvisations, poetry recitations, projected still and moving imagery, and more!
Presented as a theory and a practice, Anthony R. Green’s latest work ADD(+)POWER (conceived by Green; curated by Green and Thomas Barth) investigates the radical joy in queer reclamations of power. With music, movement, improvisation, and more, this project invites audience members into an interactive journey by invoking their own collective power.
11/12/21
THIS IS THE WAY THAT YOU ARE
7:30PM • Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art & Online on @ChamberQUEER/Instagram Live
What does liberation mean to you?
We highlight queer composers and performers both past and present, to explore their ideas of identity and liberation in different corners of the LGBTQ+ community from the 80's to the present, and into the future.
Check out the full program HERE
New works by Andrew Yee and Michael Genese, the latter featuring texts by queer NYC activists and organizers involved in 2020's Stonewall Protests, are intertwined with pieces by former downtown queer luminaries like Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell through the musical stylings of Grey Mcmurray and special guests.
Sponsored by the New York City Artist Corps Grant
6/21/21
MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK
We were thrilled to lead a participatory music-making space with Sonic Meditations by Pauline Oliveros, on Pier 17 during Make Music New York.
6/13/21
ChamberQUEER Out of Doors: Celebrating Brooklyn Pride
We we honored to host an afternoon if music on N 6th St, near National Sawdust and the Marsha P. Johnson State Park. OUT of Doors was an outdoor, distanced concert of music for the community, presented with the support of Open Culture Works.
6/12/21
Brooklyn Pride
We kicked things off on the BK Pride Stage and outside Branded Saloon, with a set of Caroline Shaw and Jessie Montgomery, as well as highlights from our WoCo Festival set.
6/5/21
Boulanger Initiative: WoCo Fest
From June 3-5, 2021, Boulanger Initiative presented a series of events highlighting music of non-male composers at the Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda, MD. We played a set on the evening of June 5, 2021
2/7/21
CQ at Westerlies Fest
From February 4-7, the Westerlies’ annual festival combining collaborative evening performances and new commissions with in-school concerts and a free community music workshop will stream online. We open for them on Feb 7 at 10 PM EST
6/8-24/20
ChamberQUEERantine
A sixteen-day festival held during Pride month, COVID-19, and amidst a historic movement for racial justice, ChamberQUEERantine showcases the art that over 50 queer artists submitted to respond to the question, “What does being a queer musician mean to you?”
See the full lineup at Chamberqueer.org/projects
1/20/20
CQ Open Mic Night at Pete’s Candy Store
What better way to gather the crowd than for an open mic night! Come out to share you musical stylings, your latest poem, or something totally unexpected!
12/29/19
A Very ChamberQUEER HoliGAY~
Come together for a festive gathering thrown for you, our dear queer peers, by your friends at CQ.
11/4/19
Composer/Performer Speed Dating
Exactly what it sounds like! An amazing way of bringing people from the community together to talk about their work, their inspirations, and what excites them! Will it excite you too?
9/29/19
CQ Sight Reading Party
A community event that highlights all the joy in getting together to read music, have fun, and celebrating queerness!
6/23/19
ChamberQUEER Festival - Closing Night
7 PM: pre-concert panel and chat | 8 PM: concert
BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange
Studio D, 421 5th Ave, Brooklyn NY 11215
On Sunday, June 23, we're back at BAX in Park Slope. At 7 PM, acclaimed musicologists Emily Wilbourne and Maria Zuazu will lead a discussion of the series’ offerings, and explore issues of queerness within classical music as they arise from a panel discussion. At 8 PM, ChamberQUEER will present its final concert of the series, featuring music of Hildegard von Bingen; Jessica Meyer; Saunder Choi; Mazz Swift; and Caroline Shaw. Madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi and Thomas Tallis are interwoven with the modern selections, as well as with improvisations on guitar by Grey Mcmurray, to explore the dialogue between early and contemporary music. The concert will also feature an excerpt from La Calisto of Francesco Cavalli, which features mezzo Liz Bouk as the god Giove. After the concert, join us for an afterparty at Ginger's Bar in Park Slope!
Featuring:
Anneliese Kowert, Mazz Swift, violins
Julia Biber and Andrew Yee, cellos
Kevin Devine, harpsichord
Grey McMurray, guitar
Danielle Buonaiuto, voice
Brian Mummert, voice
Elizabeth Van Os, voice
Liz Bouk, voice
Jonathan May, voice
Clifton Massey, voice
Gregorio Taniguchi, voice
Andrew Fuchs, voice
Jonathan Woody, voice
Program:
Hildegard Von Bingen, arr Brian Mummert: ‘O Quam Magnum Miraculum’
Jessica Meyer: Ring Out, Wild Bells
Thomas Tallis: ‘In Manus Tuas’
Caroline Shaw: ‘In Manus Tuas’
Saunder Choi: ‘American Breakfast’
Claudio Monteverdi: Selected madrigals with improvisations by Grey McMurray
Mazz Swift: 16 Hits or Misses
Francesco Cavalli: excerpt from La Calisto
6/22/19
ChamberQUEER Festival - Open Mic Night
ChamberQUEER Open Mic
Saturday, June 22, 2019, 6-8 PM
Branded Saloon
603 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn NY 11238
On Saturday, June 22, ChamberQUEER hosts an open-mic evening at one of its musical homes, Branded Saloon in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
Presented by Branded Classical, we've got a great group of queer superstars (including an awesome jam band) all set to rock out in the informal, back-room music space at Branded. Stick around for the awesome burlesque troupe Switch n' Play after our show!
If you’re interested in performing, we’d love to hear from you! Send us a message with your ideas.
6/21/19
ChamberQUEER Festival - Opening Night
7 PM: pre-concert panel and chat | 8 PM: concert
BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange
Studio D, 421 5th Ave, Brooklyn NY 11215
On Friday, June 21, the series kicks off with a mixer at 7 pm, and an hour-long concert at 8. The program features the music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, as well as other local composers Jessica Meyer, Inti Figgis-vizueta, and the late Pauline Oliveros, alongside music by Ethel Smyth and Arcangelo Corelli.
Featuring:
Aisslinn Nosky and Jen Curtis, violins
Jessica Meyer, viola
Julia Biber and Andrew Yee, cellos
Kevin Devine, harpsichord
Danielle Buonaiuto, voice
Brian Mummert, voice
Program:
Caroline Shaw, arr. Andrew Yee: ‘Really Craft’
Caroline Shaw: ‘Limestone and Felt’
Jessica Meyer: ‘Space, in Chains’
Arcangelo Corelli: 'Trio Sonata’, op.3 no.1
Ethel Smyth: ‘String Quintet’ op.1
Franz Schubert: arrangements of selected Lieder
inti: ‘love reacts only’
Pauline Oliveros: ‘Sounds from Childhood’
4/4/19
ChamberQUEER Reading Party
6:45-9:30 • The Artist Co-op
500 W. 52nd St, third floor (At Tenth Ave)
ChamberQUEER is stoked to be hosting our first ever chamber music reading party! Join us as we sink our queer teeth into some of the great chamber music literature together. Bring your instruments and voices to this very merry gathering of folks.
2/18/19
ChamberQUEER Launch Workshop
7:30 • Branded Saloon
603 Vanderbilt Ave., Brooklyn
Join us for a workshop exploring queerness in chamber music! This show will not only explore music by LGBTQ+ composers and performers but also open a discussion about queerness in the genre. We'll survey a wide range of repertoire from Hildegard to Oliveros and lots in between including pre and post concert discussions with a good dose of audience participation.
This workshop will culminate in a ChamberQUEER festival on June 21-23 at The Brooklyn Arts Exchange to coincide with pride month.
Performers include:
Danielle Buonaiuto, voice
Brian Mummert, Baritone
Jessie Montgomery, violin
Kallie Ciechomski, viola
Andrew Yee, cello
Julia Biber, cello