2021 - 2022 Season
This season, c)i will be ensemble in residence at Brooklyn’s Soapbox Gallery. All of our concerts in New York City will be held at:
Soapbox Gallery
636 Dean St.
Brooklyn, NY 11238
December 5th, 2021 - anabasis: return music for trio
The opening program of our season and the first concert in our new residency at Soapbox Gallery. This concert features works for cello, guitar, and clarinet including a world premiere by Christian Carey. Additional works by Andile Khamolo, Tania Leon, as well as two works by Jessica Meyer and Kyle Bartlett from c)i's 2021 album “Against Method.”
February 13th, 2022 - SOAPBOX SOLOS: Music for Solo Cello
This program features c)i's newest member, Caleb van der Swaagh, performing the world premieres of One May Come by c)i composer Kyle Bartlett and Labyrinth of Dreams by Pauline Kim Harris. Also featured is Released by c)i composer Jessica Meyer and works by Luciano Berio and György Ligeti.
February 20th, 2022 - Ars Poetica
This concert features a new collaborative work between composer Douglas Boyce and poet Marlanda Dekine. Also featured is a world premiere by Diego Tedesco as well as works by George Crumb, DM R, and Nina C. Young.
March 17th, 2022 - See you at the meeting house
This concert, the final in our residency at Soapbox Gallery, features the world premiere of Harness by Suzanne Sorkin and The Intinerant by Gregory Houston as well as works by Trevor Weston, and Kyle Bartlett.
The commission for Harness by Suzanne Sorkin has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
April 8th, 2022 - East Carolina University
c)i brings Ars Poetica as well as works by Kyle Bartlett, DM R, Diego Tedesco to East Carolina University.
April 22rd, 2022 - Williams College
This program features a world premiere by Ileana Perez Velazquez as well as works by Douglas Boyce, Kyle Bartlett, and Gregory Houston.
April 24th, 2022 - SOAPBOX SOLOS: Music for Solo Guitar
Dan Lippel's program will explore experimentation on the guitar through the lens of compositional rigor. Featuring works by c)i composers: the prismatic historicity of c)i's Douglas Boyce's third Partita and the poetic embodiment of sound in selections from Kyle Bartlett's Eleven Aphorisms, as well as the hyperexpression of Diego Tedesco's Portrait for guitar and electronics, the evocation of Indian classical techniques on the western guitar in Vineet Shende's Suite in Raag Marva, and the mapping of Cuban popular rhythms onto a modernist pitch language in Tania Leon's Paisanos Semos.