Nia Devetzis spearheads a performance of The Courtyard with narrator and 2 percussionists at Mount Royal University's TransAlta Pavilion at the Bella Concert Hall – 7:30pm

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, born in Ukraine, is a cult novel of 20th century – at once a political farce, a great romance, a retelling of Faust, a macabre burlesque and, most importantly, commentary on surviving as an artist during totalitarian regime. Celebrating her beloved novel, Inna Faliks’s Master and Margarita program including the 7-movement Master and Margarita Suite by Krausas.

Thornton EDGE - New Music from Lithuania celebrating Vilnius 700th Anniversary as part of the California Festival

7:30pm

Thornton Edge, Thornton’s new music ensemble led by faculty member Donald Crockett, presents an evening of recent works by Lithuanian composers in celebration of the 700th anniversary of the founding of Vilnius.The event features three U.S. premieres: Kristupas Bubnelis’s Ad Infinitum for string quartet (2020), Justė Janulytė’s Sleeping Patterns (2022), and Vykintas Baltakas’s Cladi II (2021), as well as the California premiere of Žibuoklė Martinaitytė’s Solastalgia (2020). Additionally, the event features Thornton Composition faculty member Veronika Krausas’s Analemma for 11 Musicians (2006).

Presented in conjunction with the Consulate General of the Republic of Lithuania in Los Angeles, this event is part of the California Festival, a statewide festival of new music, from Nov. 3-19, 2023.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Ray-Kallay present “Inflection Point” exploring the rich tapestry of composers who have called California home including selections from Un-intermezzi for solo piano.

Pianist Inna Faliks performs In the Footsteps of Master and Margarita including the Master & Margarita Suite by Krausas as well as works by Johnson, Beethoven and Liszt.

Sharon Lavery, resident conductor of the USC Thornton Orchestra Program, leads the USC Thornton Symphony in the opening concert of the Fall 2023 semester, featuring Fanfare for Flora by Douglas Lowry, Caryatids by Composition faculty member Veronika Krausas and Tchaikovsky's Symphony #5 in E Minor, Opus 64.

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Admission is free and open to the public.

7:30pm

Ukrainian-born pianist Inna Faliks will perform excerpts from The Master & Margarita Suite on a concert with internationally known poet and best-selling author Ellen Bass. The New Yorker described a performance by Inna Faliks as “Adventurous and Passionate."

7:30pm

Pianist Inna Faliks performs In the Footsteps of Master and Margarita, a performance part of a musical exploration honoring Women's History Month at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Pieces include the Master & Margarita Suite by Krausas as well as works by Johnson, Beethoven and Liszt. 3pm

Kirsty Morrell (French Horn) and Jeffrey Peterson (Piano) will perform a recital at the American Church in Paris (65, quaint d'Orsay, 7507 Paris) at 17:30. On the concert is Wilderness / Rêve du Canada for horn and narrator along with works by Vignery and Beethoven.

Violinist Tatiana Warszynski performs Inside the Stone on the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra's New Music Concert GRAFFITI, curated by Alex Prior. 7:30pm

C4 starts its 2022-23 season with a patchwork of extraordinary choral works that range from Ramayana monkey chants to Andrew Sisters-style swing to homages to William Byrd including a performance of Defenestration for Choir by C4: The Choral Composer-Conductor Collective. Nov 17, 8:00pm - Church of the Transfiguration, 1 E. 29th St., Manhattan Nov 19, 8:00pm - St. Peter's Church, 346 W. 20th St., Manhattan

Jacaranda's VINEYARDS OF MYTH with contemporary composers dialogue with ancient Greece and Rome. Performance of Krausas' Le Théâtre du Soleil (The Theatre of the Sun)* with text from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Also on the concert Andrew Norman, Dylan Mattingly & Benjamin Britten.

Baritone Nicholas Isherwood performs The Alchemist's Suite at the Mosswood Chapel Sound Series, a weekly experimental sound series every Friday presented by sfSound.

8pm

Thomas Adès curates and conducts an evening featuring an international selection of Gen X composers includes the west-coast premiere of Caryatids.

A concert of women composers from the 18th Century to the current day presented by Suzana Bartal with the piano students of the Conservatoire Hector Berlioz at Les Conservatoire de Paris. Including a Unintermezzo by Krausas.

On December 18th at 7:30 pm "Scelsi, Byzantium and the Alchimists" concert of VOXNOVA ITALIA with Alessandro Tamiozzo (tenor), Oliviero Giorgiutti (baritono) and Nicholas Isherwood (bass). Including No. 3 Regarding the Experiments of Marium Prophetissima from The Alchemy Suite for solo baritone. Text by Quintan Ana Wikswo.

The event will take place in the church of San Paolo between the walls, in Via Nazionale, Rome.

Bassoonist Marissa Olegario performing THE TREE IS ALIVE AND SINGING FOR YOU ... in front of a tree-ring from a Giant Sequoia from AD 212 at Tree-Ring Listening at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. It's a collaboration by The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music, University of Arizona School of Art, and Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.

Synchromy presents Urban Birds at the Audubon Center at Debs Park! A bird-watching experience created by composers from across Los Angeles County. This event is free and has limited capacity, so reservations are needed to stagger the audience. Xenia Deviatkina-Loh will perform Veronika Krausas's piece California Towhee.

You can also explore the virtual park populated with ten of California’s most common birds. Click the bird images to hear their sounds and see their avian lives reimagined as music. Visit the outpost first to download interactive crafts for your very own fledgelings!

Urban Birds was created in partnership with the Audubon Center at Debs Park.

Baritone Nicholas Isherwood performs "Scelsi, Byzantium and the Alchemists" with Voxnova Italia including "Regarding the Experiments of Marium Prophetissima" by Krausas from The Alchemist's Suite at the CODES Festival in Lublin Poland. Text by Quintan Wikswo.

LA Phil Bassist and Occidental College Professor Ted Botsford performs a Double Bass Recital including a performance of Cloisonné with a film by Nana Tchitchoua.

FREE ONLINE 4pm PDT
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Pianist Allison Lovejoy performs in San Francisco Sunday's concert including A Chorus of Night-things from Un-intermezzi for solo piano.

At Mission Dolores 4pm PDT

Little Chamber Music in Vancouver's project called the Isolation Commissions is supporting front line artists in this unprecedented time, and fostering reflections on that time from our musical community.

Isolation Commission #113 features Bassist Meaghan Williams (commissioned by Bob Altwein for the video project)

Filmed on location at The Last Spike in Craigellachie, BC on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Secwépemc (Shuswap) and Ktunaxa (Kootenai) Nations.

Sheltering Music is Left Coast's final subscription concert of our season. In the interest of health and safety, the musicians scheduled to play this concert have curated an updated program of solos and duets. Broadcast to you live! Thank you to our hosts: the Doug Adams Gallery at the GTU’s Center for Arts and Religion. (Berkeley, California).

Concert includes Michel Taddei performing Cloisonné for solo double bass and film by Nana Tchitchoua.

Saturday, April 25, 2020, 8:00pm

VINEYARDS OF MYTH

Performance of Le Théâtre du Soleil (The Theatre of the Sun) that uses texts of Ovid's from his Metamorphoses. With soprano Suzanne Waters, mezzo-soprano Katarzyna Sadej with flute, viola, double bass, and two percussionists conducted by Mark Alan Hilt. Also on the concert Andrew Norman's The Companion Guide to Rome, Iannis Xenakis' Dikhthas and Dylan Mattingly's The Bakkhai.

Pianist Inna Faliks will perform the MASTER AND MARGARITA SUITE for speaking pianist. Moored in Brooklyn just under the Brooklyn Bridge, Bargemusic presents great music year-round. Walk across the gangplank of a renovated coffee barge into a “wonderfully intimate wood-paneled room with thrilling views of lower Manhattan and excellent acoustics.” Experience why critics call Bargemusic “the perfect chamber-music hall” and why artists say it is “unlike any other place in the world to perform.”

Friday Jan 3 at 7pm Saturday Jan 4 at 6pm Sunday Jan 5 at 4pm

An evening of immersive, multidisciplinary avant-garde works composed by women and performed by students of Boston Conservatory's contemporary classical music performance program under the direction of Assistant Professor of Orchestral Studies and Contemporary Music Vimbayi Kaziboni.

PAULINE OLIVEROS: "A Woman Sees How the World Goes with No Eyes" YOKO ONO: "Lighting Piece" EUN YOUNG LEE: "Wann?" TANIA LEÓN: "Parajota Delaté" MEREDITH MONK: "The Tale" from Education of the Girlchild CHAYA CZERNOWIN: "Ayre: Towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of" JULIA WOLFE: "Reeling" LAURIE ANDERSON: "O Superman" ONO: "Fly Piece" VERONIKA KRAUSAS: "Cloisonné" ELLEN REID: "Fear | Release" MONK: "Traveling" from Education of the Girlchild BRIGITTA MUNTENDORF: "abschminken" ALISON KNOWLES: "String Piece"

Vimbayi Kaziboni, director

Timepoint Ensemble performs SHELTER, a Trinidadian Ghost Story by André Alexis and music by Krausas for 2 percussionists, narrator & live painter Sunita Legallou

Pianist Genevieve Lee joins members of Brightwork Ensemble to present an evening of music from another place and time. In Saariaho’s enigmatic Mirrors, performers are given a series of musical fragments, to be assembled as desired, breaking down the need for a goal-oriented order. Veronika Krausas’ Un-Intermezzi are inspired by China Miéville’s Un-Lun Dun, a haunting story of an alternate and parallel universe. George Crumb’s masterpiece Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale), for three masked players bathed in blue light, takes the audience on a captivating, mysterious, and timeless journey. Altromondo (Another World), by Kurt Rhode, calls for melodicas, harmonicas, Chinese paper accordions, triangles, and antique cymbals, in addition to a number of preparations inside the piano. We are transported to a place where time is not an arrow – locations are in flux, and the music as “object” never stands still.

Edmonton Symphony's second vioilnist Tatiana Warszynski​​ will perform Krausas' Inside the Stone (version for violin) at the Mazurka Music & Art Society of Alberta's season opener at the ​Holy Trinity Anglican Church​ in Edmonton.

Large Furniture will perform Sillages for Four Basses on their inaugural concert in Brooklyn.

The inaugural Longshadow New Music Festival will be held in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories on June 14 - 16, 2019. Held near the summer solstice, when the sun only sets for a short time in Yellowknife, the Longshadow New Music Festival celebrates the music of the 20th and 21st Centuries, in particular the music of Canadians including a performance of 5 Intermezzi for Snare Drum performed by Nia Devetzis.

Cloisonné for solo double bass, with video by Nana Tchitchoua, will be performed at the International Ensemble Modern Academy at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts on its New Music Night.

Timepoint Ensemble will be performing at Classical Revolution Calgary on April 30th at Gravity Espresso and Wine Bar where we will be performing chamber music from Veronika Krausas.

Gravity Espresso & Wine Bar
909 10 St SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0L9
Admission by donation

GroundSwell’s fifth and final concert of the season curated by composer Diana McIntosh. A dynamic and colourful cross-section of this country's amazingly diverse music that features it's wide open lands, peoples, cultures, prairies, rugged northern wilds, the Canadian Shield, it's wildlife, animals, birds - even it's buzzing insects! A concert of music written exclusively by Canadian composers and performed by first-rate Canadian musicians. Including Under an Open Sky for solo bassoon performed by Vincent Ellin.

8 pm at the Eckhardt Gramatté Hall, University of Winnipeg with a SOUNDWALK at 7pm before the concert.

Microfest Records Presents: New Releases, Sneak Preview, Greatest Hits with Aron Kallay, Lyris Quartet, Tom Peters, John Schneider, HMC Gamelan & more. At Tuesdays@MonkSpace at 8pm. Including a performance by Aron Kallay of Terços by Krausas.

Witness and experience music-driven mindfulness in a concert of meditative music performed by the USC Thornton Percussion Group. The concert will open with a group meditation led by Mark Miller of Mindful USC. This transcendent event will encourage mindful listening and living, and will be followed by a discussion and Q&A on meditation, music, sound, and being present to the world around us. In the week leading up to the concert, a series of pop-up performances around campus will feature Thornton musicians performing a musical walking meditation by USC composer Veronika Krausas. The musicians will play and move within individual pods, like floating sculptural sound objects. Short mindful statements written by Molly Bendall’s poetry writing class will be offered to the public as the musicians pass by. The original pods were conceived and constructed by architect Florian Idenburg (SO-IL NY) and artist Ana Prvački. They will be refabricated by Matthew Gilpin and students from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

Timepoint Ensemble's Nia Devetzis performs 5 Intermezzi for Snare Drum (a set of 5 short works for snare drum with simultaneous texts by Kandinsky, e.e. cummings, Robert Lax, Gwendolyn MacEwan and Krausas) at Timepoint's Locality 2.

LA's premiere sextet explores what it means to be lost over and over again, only to be found, albeit for a fleeting moment.

They presents works by Stefan Carow, Gerard Grisey, A.J. McCaffrey, and world premieres of new works by Bill Alves, Molly Joyce, Liviu Marinescu, and 3 of Krausas' Unintermezzi for Piano performed by Grammy-nominated pianist Aron Kallay.

At Harvey Mudd College @ 7PM - FREE!

Fresh Squeezed Opera's Showcase - An intimate evening of chamber vocal music featuring Krausas' Hopscotch Tarot Song Cycle for voice and violin.

analemma at Tanglewood's Festival of Contemporary Music

Pianist Allison Lovejoy performs Nocturnes including Unintermezzo No. 5 (A Chorus of Night-things)

Hopscotch Tarot Song Cycle at LunArt Festival Opening Night Gala Concert with mezzo Sarah Leuwerke and violinist Laura Burns

Language of the Birds (for choir and string quartet) Vox Nova Chamber Choir.

Bass-Baritone Nicholas Isherwood performs The Alchemist's Suite, text by Quintan Ana Wikswo.

Grammy-winning pianist Gloria Cheng brings her custom-made blue and red harpsichord to Monk Space for a concert featuring music that is both adventurous and eclectic, including newer music by Lou Harrison, l'ombre du luth by Veronika Krausas, Steven Montague, Sally Mosher, Carolyn Yarnell, Karen Tanaka, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and harpsichord mainstays Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Louis Couperin, and György Ligeti.

An outdoor evening of music, interactive animation, projection mapping, animated inflatables, and virtual reality including video by Min Shi + Kun Xia, Marcel Valcarce, and Refik Anadol with musical excerpts by Krausas

includes Five Intermezzi for Snare Drum, performed by Nick Terry.

more information & tickets

What happens when music and images merge?

Visionary contemporary composers Thomas Adès, Joanna Bruzdowicz, Jeffrey Holmes, Veronika Krausas and Marek Zebrowski will collaborate live with avant-garde filmmakers David Lynch, Michael Patterson, Candace Reckingerand Agnès Varda to create riveting visual music.

Works will be performed by the Penderecki String Quartet and soprano Rebekah Barton (Los Angeles).

Measures & FramesWhat happens when music and images merge? Visionary contemporary composers Thomas Adès, Joanna Bruzdowicz, Jeffrey Holmes, Veronika Krausas and Marek Zebrowski will collaborate live with avant-garde filmmakers David Lynch, Michael Patterson, Candace Reckingerand Agnès Varda to create riveting visual music. Works will be performed by the Penderecki String Quartet and soprano Kimberley Barber.

Performance of sillages for four double basses Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 8pm.

In French sillage means wake or trail. In perfumery it's the degree to which a perfume's fragrance lingers in the air when worn. This piece combines two seemingly disparate ideas, large double basses and the delicate waft of a scent. Tickets & Information 1220 2nd Street,Santa Monica, CA 90201

Language of the Birds for choir and string quartet, with text by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

4 performances in New York March 1 & 8: Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble March 6 & 8: C4 The Choral/Composer Collective

Language of the Birdsfor choir and string quartet. Text by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Four performances in New York: Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble on March 1 & 8, C4 The Choral/Composer Collective March 6 & 8

Maltese pianist Tricia Dawn William performs Unintermezzi

Tuesdays@MONK SPACE presents Veronika Krausas and musical guests. WildUp's cellist Derek Stein, LAPQ percussionist Nick Terry, LA Opera's French hornist Kristy Morrell & the Los Angeles Philharmonic Double Bass Boys: Chris Hanulik, Oscar Meza, David Moore, Peter Rofé with a sneak preview performance.

There’s a special guest appearance by Chris Rountree, musical director of wildUp! Please join us for a post-concert reception provided by The ECTOPLASM Club, sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Research Group at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at USC. Come see the OIL DRUM MUSIC BOX by Brendan Duggan & art by Cathy Weiss in the Gallery. PROGRAM includes running through the grey-eyed dawn (2013), stone (1991) for cello, wilderness/rêve du Canada (2009) for french horn, sillages (2013) for double bass quartet.

* This is a preview performance of the LA premiere on January 14, 2014 in Disney Hall.5 intermezzi for snare drum (1999) with text by kandinsky, robert lax, krausas, gwendolyn macewan & e.e. cummings. All other text by andré alexis.

A New Fangled Festival of Opera - New Orleans June 7 & 8, 2013 @7:30pm University of New Orleans Lakefront Campus Performing Arts Center www.NewFangledOpera.org Krausas Interview with Chris Burton from New Fangled

Fort Worth Opera - FRONTIERS showcase of new opera works. 2013 selected Composers & Librettists

Krausas FILM & VIDEO Retrospective (December 6, 2012)

7 Dudley Cinema presents Krausas Film & Video Retrospective Beyond Baroque

Thursday December 6 at 7pm 681 Venice Blvd, Venice CA 90291

310-822-3006

FREE

Krausas will discuss her work with film and video artists. There will be a screening of works with video/film/photography by Quintan Ana Wikswo, Thaddeus Holownia, Nana Tchitchoua, and James Jacobsen.

7 Dudley Cinema at Beyond Baroque

Hammer Museum

Los Angeles Opera Composers Saturday November 17, 2012 at 3pm

Rebekah Barton as Lady Macbeth Timur Bekbosunov, Tim Campbell, Kalean Ung as The Witches Chris Rountree, conductor

SATIE'S VEXATIONS – 24 hours Friday, September 7, 7:00 PM to Saturday, September 8, 7:00 PM First published by Cage in 1949, this work was long considered a joke until Cage organized the first performance in 1963. Erik Satie, a composer Cage idolized, asked that three bars of music - less than a page - be repeated 840 times. Jacaranda's rare complete performance will have 32 pianists playing successively without pause. The audience is free to come and go as space permits and are encouraged to bring cushions for casual seating.Miles Playhouse in Reed Park; no admission charge Reservations highly recommended. I'm playing approx. 4am on Saturday.

misfits & hooligansSaturday April 28th, 2012 9pmOur crew of misfits and hooligans includes toy piano, accordion, harmonica, viola,three double basses, electronics, and harpsichord ... all in a one concert for Beyond Baroque's music series, curated by Krausas.From two of Los Angeles? most visionary, genre-defying performance groups comes a visually and aurally stunning live performance evening exploring new forms and hybrids of music, performance electronics, video projections, multichannel text installations, stop-motion animation, and more.Performers include harpsichordist Arthur Ohana, harmonica player Bill Barrett, accordionists Isaac Schankler & Daniel Corral, Aron Kallay on toy piano, double bassists Will Cravy, Teddy Gabrielides, Eric Windmeier, and violist Alma Lisa Fernandez with visual artist and poet Quintan Ana Wikswo. Music by Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, Isaac Schankler and Tom Flaherty, including Krausas's gardens of stone for double bass trio and JONAS for solo harmonica.tickets available at the door $10/$5 seniors & studentsBeyond Baroque681 Venice Blvd Venice, CA 90291For more info: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center

Purcell's Baroque masterpiece bristles with Technicolor microtonal harmony — when tuned in the original meantone tuning. This chamber performance of the entire one-hour opera will be preceded by meantone masterpieces of John Dowland, William Byrd, György Ligeti, and Michaelangelo Rossi on lute and harpsichord. Produced and musical direction by Michael Kudirka and directed by Veronika Krausas and John Walcutt

The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth A chamber opera by Veronika Krausas based on Macbeth by Shakespeare.

interview: Interview with Veronika Krausas on VOX 2008

Fais Do-Do 5257 West Adams Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90016

Libretto by Tom Pettit Directed by Yuval Sharon Choreography by Bianca Sapetto Conducted by Marc Lowenstein Production Design by Matt Hooper Pennington

Featuring: Ensemble Green and guitarist Michael Kudirka Soprano Michelle Jasso as Lady Macbeth Sopranos Carmina Escobar, Alexandra Loutsion & Kalean Ung as the Witches Former Cirque du Soleil acrobats Karl Baumann, Bianca Sapetto.

More information and tickets are available at: www.TheMortalThoughtsofLadyMacbeth.com