In Memory of Sean Satin
Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, United StatesComposers Concordance presents a concert in memory of Sean Satin as part of The Village Trip Festival. The event celebrates the life of guitarist Sean Satin, who passed away too soon in April 2024. Sean was a guitarist and a teacher at Greenwich House in the West Village, a dear friend, husband, and all-around beautiful person. During the concert, Composers Concordance will launch The Sean Satin Memorial Prize for Guitar.
Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe and Jackson Pollock: A Celebration in Music
Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesGeorgia O'Keeffe described music as being able to be "translated into something for the eye.” This unique concert features music inspired of by three of New York City’s most iconic artists, all of whom lived and worked in Greenwich Village and shared the heartbeat of the city: Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe and Jackson Pollock. The concert – presented in partnership with Cutting Edge Concerts – takes place in an elegant art-filled Italianate townhouse that for over 150 years has been home to one of New York City’s most celebrated arts clubs.
American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
The Village, long home to many musical innovators, has always pushed the boundaries of arts, activism, and ideas. This year, The Village Trip is proud to welcome musical scholars and composers from twelve countries to give talks, demonstrations, lecture recitals and concerts touching on American Primitive and those "inventors of genius" who changed the conversation. Come be part of it.
Microtonal Village Conference, hosted by composer Agustín Castilla-Ávila American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
Composers and musicologists from around the world gather to present their music and thoughts on the microtonality of American Primitive and other new directions, with attention to developments in Greenwich Village through visionaries like Cage, Harrison and Partch. Agustín Castilla-Ávila—a tireless advocate for composers around the world who are exploring new and old tuning systems, and President of the Ekmelic Society of Salzburg—will preside.
John Schneider American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, United StatesGrammy Award-winning guitarist John Schneider explores another side of the Greenwich Village music scene, looking at works by the intrepid Harry Partch and Lou Harrison and others and their engagement in world music and the "American Primitive”. Schneider's work is "of a caliber that kept this listener in a state of continuous astonishment" Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times.
Eliza Garth: Sonatas and Interludes by John Cage American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
St Mark’s in the Bowery 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY, United StatesPianist Eliza Garth performs Sonatas and Interludes, John Cage’s 1947 masterpiece for prepared piano, a composition regarded as a formative piano work of the 20th Century. St Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery is known and loved as a gathering place for innovative musicians, dancers, and poets, including Allen Ginsberg and Cage.
William Bland: Village Maverick American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesKevin Gorman, praised for his “passion, technical facility and explosive tonality,” (Fanfare Magazine) is a champion of the piano music of maverick composer, poet, painter William Bland. He has performed and recorded Bland's epic cycle of piano sonatas for Bridge Records to great acclaim.
The Village Trip GuitarFest 24: Microtonal Village American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesGuitarFest 24 expands on American Primitive, with the wildly inventive Ictus Novus, the Curtis Guitar Quartet, soprano Sharon Harms, and many of New York’s best guitarists. It features music by American Primitives John Fahey, and Julián Carrillo and works by Paul Lansky, Kyle Miller, David Amram, Agustín Castilla-Ávila, and Gary Philo, among others.
Quattro Mani American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, United StatesRenowned duo pianists Susan Grace and Steven Beck perform works by Lou Harrison, John Cage, Arnold Schoenberg, John Adams and Fred Lerdahl who, with linguist Ray Jackendoff, developed the Chomsky-inspired generative theory of tonal music, an endeavor inspired by Leonard Bernstein’s Norton Lectures, given at Harvard in 1973.
From the Courtyard
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States“Art preserves life in a very special way. Our memories die with us, but art preserves the values and experiences” – Undine Smith Moore
From the Courtyard first recreates the sounds of an 1890s tenement courtyard, shared by multicultural immigrant families, then moves into the concert hall to hear how the rich legacy of folk music inspired later generations of composers. The concert features premieres by Leo Brouwer and Clarice Assad.
Presented in cooperation with the Tenement Museum.
World Central Kitchen Fundraiser
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesWorld Central Kitchen is first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. We, as artists, support this non-profit organization with our music and poetry, helping to raise awareness and money for their worthy cause by organizing this event and inviting everyone to join us in supporting World Central Kitchen.
Presented by Composers Concordance in association with The Village Trip.