Past Events

Music for 7 Percussion Players

Monday, April 15, 2024 at 8pm
Roulette Intermedium - 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Music for 7 Percussion Players (2023) - Christian Wolff
Pool with two figures (2024) - Victoria Cheah

For additional information, including how to purchase tickets, please visit Roulette’s website.

Music on the Edge

Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 8pm
The Andy Warhol Museum - 117 Sandusky St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212

featuring guest artists Jamie Jordan, soprano & Franz Nicolay, narrator & vocalist

We Lived Happily During the War (2021) - Mathew Rosenblum
The Days are Nouns (2013) - Paula Matthusen
Attica (1971) - Frederic Rzewski

For additional information, please visit https://www.music.pitt.edu/mote

Recah Pecahan

Talujon premieres a new work by acclaimed Indonesian composer Dewa Alit.

March 15th, 2024
Sea Cliff, NY

March 16th, 2024
Queen College - New York State Day of Percussion

TIME:SPANS Festival

August 21st, 2023 at 8:00pm
DiMenna Center (map)

Earle Brown - Calder Piece

w/Argento Chamber Ensemble
for more information about the 2023 TIME SPANS Festival, please visit their website.

Dave Soldier Orchestra

w/Komar and Melamid & Gene Pritsker

- June 11th, 2023 at 4pm
Rutgers University, NJ (info)

- June 18th, 2023 at 7:30pm
Le Poisson Rouge, NYC (info)

June in Buffalo

June 8th: works by Matthew Rosenblum and Jonathan Golove
June 10th: works by Michael Cabrera, Joshua Delozier, Joel Kirk, and Siqi Wang

Talujon @ Queens College

May 1st, 2023 at 7:30pm - LeFrack Concert Hall (map)

Eric Chasalow - Alternative Facts (w.p.)
Mathew Rosenblum - We Lived Happily During the War
Frederic Rzweski - Coming Together & Attica

w/ the Copland Ensemble

Talujon & CompCord / Ensemble Motion

March 26th, 2023 at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
3pm // 131 E 10th St, New York, NY 10003 (map)

Featuring the Max Pollak Dance Company and music by composers Aaron Alter, Geoffrey Burleson, Jonathan Finlayson, Peter Jarvis, Denise Koncelik, Ginka Mizuki, Alon Nechushtan, Max Pollak, Dan Cooper, Gene Priester, Daniel Schnyder, and Randall Wolff

Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival:
Tribute to Borys Liatoshynsky

March 17th, 2023 at Merkin Hall - Kaufmann Music Center
7pm // 129 W 67th St, New York, NY 10023 (map)
$15-25 (purchase tickets here)

Mysterium (1964) by Valentyn Sylvestrov for flute and six percussionists
featuring Ginevra Petrucci, flute

Plains at Gordium Release Event

November 6th, 2022 at 411 Kent
4pm // 411 Kent Ave., Brooklyn NY 11249 (map)
$15

The Plains at Gordium (2004) - Petr Kotik

We Lived Happily During the War

September 30th, 2022 at DiMenna Center’s Cary Hall
8pm // 450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018 (map)

featuring guest artists Jamie Jordan, soprano
and Franz Nicolay, narrator & vocalist

We Lived Happily During the War* (2021) - Mathew Rosenblum
The Days are Nouns (2013) - Paula Matthusen
Coming Together & Attica (1971) - Frederic Rzewski

* - world premiere

Play Like a Girl // June 24th & 25th, 2022

Triskelion Arts 7:30pm // 106 Calyer St, Brooklyn NY

Talujon is proud to present Play Like a Girl: a conceptual performance for percussion and dance featuring Danse Theatre Surreality and music by Eve Beglarian.

Zürcher Gallery // May 13, 2022

8pm // 33 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012 (map)

Music by Jürg Frey
Metall, Stein (2002) (U.S. premiere)
toucher l'air (percussion quartett) (2019) (U.S. premiere)

Talujon @ Queens College // February 27, 2022

7:30pm at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College (map)

Graham Haynes - percussão (w.p.)
George Lewis - Artificial Life
Sofia Gubaidulina - Pari e Dispari
Lucie Vitkova - Environment

w/special guest Lucie Vitkova on accordion.

Talujon @ Vermont College of Fine Arts

February 8th & 9th, 2022 - VCFA in Montpelier, VT

World Premieres of works by DeWayne Adcock, Ingrid Laubrock, Allison Tartaglia, Sean Dillman, John Paul Labno, Daniel Lewis, Michael A. Simmons Jr, and Oscar Suh-Rodriguez

Talujon @ Queens College // November 6, 2021

7pm at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College

Linda Catlin Smith - Blue Sky
Michael Gordon - Loved
Tonia Ko - Real Voices Imagined Clatter
Morris Rosenzweig - The Palm of the Hand (w.p.)

Talujon & Human Time Machine // June 30, 2021

6pm in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Next to, but not inside of, the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park

Join us for a pop-up double bill in Prospect Park featuring Talujon and Human Time Machine, two percussion ensembles from different musical worlds!

Solos Virtual // April 27, 2021

Ileana Perez Velazquez - Grasshopper Trance (2021)
Josephine Rose - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2021)
Amy Williams - Lukas Observed (2020)
Morton Feldman - The King of Denmark (1965)
Eve Beglarian - Play Nice (2016)
Sarah Hennies - Psalm 3 (2009)
John Hollenbeck - Persuasion (2021)

w/guest: Caitlin Cawley

https://youtu.be/4Djuq1wHT9Y

Residencies // February-June, 2021

Congotronics, arr. R. Levin - Ungundi
Dominic Donato - Reuse, Recycle, Reduce
Rebecca Kuo - Trio for Cups
Earle Brown - Four Systems

This series of ongoing residencies is being conducted in partnership with the New York City Department of Education and Midori & Friends. Current schools include PS 194K, MS 67Q, PS 98Q, MS 514M, Queens Collegiate, PS 201, and PS 175.

Jackson Heights Neighborhood // September 27, 2020

Ryan Ross Smith - Study No. 38
Sarah Hennies - Everything Else
John Cage - Three2/One4/composed Improvisations
Dominic Donato - SIX (2012)

w/guest: Caitlin Cawley

John Cage’s Ryoanji // July 17, 2020

Simultaneous realizations with special guest soloists:
Robert Black - double bass
Laura Cocks - flute
Antonio Hart - soprano saxophone
Stephanie Lamprea - voice
Weston Olencki - trombone

Make Music Day // June 21, 2020

Eliot Cole - Flower Pot Music

Open Studios 3 // May 22, 2020

John Cage - Radio Music (1956)
Nomi Epstein - Combine, Juxtapose, Delayed Overlap (2013/17)
Scott Wollschleger - Folding (2012)
Dominic Donato - SIX (2012)

w/guests: Dominic Donato (emeritus) & Caitlin Cawley

Still Point: Turning World // November 16, 2019

Album release show for Joel Harrison’s Still Point: Turning World
w/Joel Harrison Quintet and guests

Open Studios 2 // May 23, 2019

Cat Hope - Smoothing the Pillow of Dying Race (2015) 
Nomi Epstein - Combine, Juxtapose, Delayed Overlap (2013/14/17)
Kate Soper - In the Reign of Harad IV (2013, rev. 2018)
Daniel O'Connor - Gloaming round (2019)