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Honored to be invited to BGSU for a teaching residency and a performance of my work Music for Horizon Lines for percussion ensemble and live electronics.
More info available here.
Darren Young and my new duo project ‘Almost Noise’ makes it debut in Calgary as part of the ISC’s Sonic Discoveries New Music Marathon, sharing the bill with the Prairie Saxophone Initiative.
Including works by Tanner Porter, Molly Joyce, Chris Cerrone, Marc Mellits, Samuel Adams, John Coltrane, and more!
Be sure to visit ISC’s website for more details on programming and tickets.
Broxson (aka Daniel Strange) comes to Calgary for the premiere of his new concerto version of Saturn, still returning for percussion, electronics, and string nonet.
More info can be found on Kensington Sinfonia’s site.
Jon McCaslin and I team up for a duo drums and/or percussion set at Calgary’s seminal free-based music series known as BUG INCISION at High Line Brewing.
Psyched to return to ChamberFest West playing across the festival this year with some absolutely amazing artists. More info available from them below:
www.chamberfestwest.com
Grateful to bring Sound Atlas back to Calgary for its second year including our featured composer, Jared Miller.
In addition to the mass amount of world premieres from L49, I’m psyched to be giving the Canadian premiere of Broxson’s ‘Saturn, still returning’ for percussion solo and electronics.
More info at www.soundatlasfest.com
Absolutely psyched to be part of this summer’s ChamberFest West in Calgary.
Full information on the festival can be found here: https://www.chamberfestwest.com
L49 will be hosting their inaugural new music festival in Calgary this summer with performances by local musicians, L49, special guests, and more! Events taking place at The University of Calgary and Contemporary Calgary between June 23-25.
Full details available at www.soundatlasfest.com
FREE EVENT!
Artists from the Sound Atlas New Music Festival present solo sets throughout the night with some of the best beer in town.
www.soundatlasfest.com
Chris Sies (percussion) + Jani Parsons (piano)
Music by Marc Mellits, Emma O’Halloran, Claude Debussy, and Omar Daniel with selected solos and duos for piano and percussion.
https://www.proartssociety.ca/sies-parsons-duo-percussion_piano/
Psyched to be joining some old friends for what’s to be an amazing performance of this new chamber-rock opera, The Precipice.
Psyched to be joining some old friends for what’s to be an amazing performance of this new chamber-rock opera, The Precipice.
The University of Calgary will give the Canadian premiere of my Music for Horizon Lines in a brand new configuration for percussion sextet and electronics.
U of C Percussion Ensemble on the first half and U of C Brass Ensemble on the second half.
More info available here.
Premiering new works by Spencer Arias and Libby Meyer at Michigan State’s Science Festival.
Check back HERE for more details.
My third and final doctoral dissertation recital will feature the premiere of a new multi-movement work for percussion and electronics called Sensate. Sublimate. composed by yours truly. This is a new entry in my ongoing catalogue of works for percussion and electronics, inspired by the power of the psychedelic experience.
Live streamed at 8pm EST at the following link: https://smtd.umich.edu/live-stream-britton/
L49 returns to U of M for my second dissertation recital, featuring some of our favourite works by our composer-friends:
Huascán by Gabriella Smith
Four Tableaux by Gity Razaz
Birkat Haderekh by Shulamit Ran
Pac Man Effect by Pascal Le Boeuf
auras (neurosonics IIIb) by Andrew McManus
these (were) used to harm by Chris Sies
Show will be streamed live at 8pm EST at the following link: https://smtd.umich.edu/live-stream-britton/
Incredibly p s y c h e d to be performing Franco Romitelli’s epic psychedelic chamber work Professor Bad Trip with members of the Calgary Philharmonic, conducted by my new friend Karl Hirzer!
The bill also includes music by Gerald Griséy and Zoey Roy. Should be a wild one!
More info here.
Improvisation set with Calgary-based collective, Bug Incision as part if an ad hoc ensemble of local musicians.
More about Bug Incision: http://bugincision.com/
Annual contemporary music concert featuring works by U of C composition students, and others. I’ll be performing Kaija Saariaho’s Six Japanese Gardens for Percussion and Electronics along with Marc Mellits’ Tight Sweater.
More info here.
A public improvisation and dance party, with the Land’s End Ensemble, local musicians and dancers.
Looks Like Sounds first appeared at Living Things 2020, just before we all went into isolation. Recently resurfacing at TrailArt/Nuit Blanche, we are back at Living Things 2023 with a wild, risk-filled evening where dancers initiate, musicians respond, and a complex, unpredictable and inimitable dialogue is born. When the time is right, we will shift gracefully into a dance party to celebrate the culmination of Living Things 2023.
More info on tickets and location here.
Guesting with Juno-nominated Calgary locals, The Land’s End Ensemble featuring the following program:
Vincent Ho: 3 Preludes
Reena Esmail: Jhula Jhule
Vincent Ho: Kickin’ It
Omar Daniel: STELCO
Arvo Part: Siegel im Spiegel
Marc Mellits: Stick for solo snare drum
Astor Piazzolla: Grand Tango
Astor Piazzolla: Libertango
More info on tickets and location can be found here
I’m very happy to be joining my good friends in the Akropolis Reed Quintet for a performance of Steve Snowden’s “Sprocket” as guest percussionist.
More information on tickets and venue can be found here.
Be sure to check out their website and see what they’re up to!
Sharing the bill with fellow percussionists Gloria Yehilevsky and Adam Shead
Doors at 7:30 pm
Suggested donation $5-10 and BYOB!
3203 W. North Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60651
Latitude 49 joins the Department of Music to present an exciting concert program of new music as well as a collaboration with the UTM Contemporary Music Group. These performances are supported in part by the Paul Meek Library.
7:30 p.m. Performance on November 18
Blankenship Recital Hall
$10 General Admission. $5 Students. Free to UTM students.
Tickets can be purchased online at or at the door.
The Composer Lab has been a new experiment for myself and the composition students at Baylor University. This past semester, I’ve workshopped 14 new pieces for solo percussion and will premiere them on the first official “Composer Lab” concert. The concert will feature new solo percussion works by the following composers:
Isaac Villaroya
Mitch Gilly
Daniel Lujan
Collin McEneaney
Joshua Delozier
Gray Campbell
Chad Houk
Cat Hoelscher
Caitlin Thom
Charlie Carroll
Charis Martin
Caroline Munsell
Jonathan Passmore
Nic Townsend
Latitude 49 returns to Princeton University as part of the Princeton Sound Kitchen, premiering new works by Pascal Le Boeuf, Jenny Beck, Tom Morrison, Juri Seo, and Annika Socolofsky.
Free admission
Taplan Auditorium
Princeton University in Princeton, NJ
Latitude 49 will give a presentation on how our work with composers ultimately influences our work as educators and creators.
NCKP will be held at the Westin-Lombard Hotel in Lombard, IL
More info can be found here.
CotFG is a volunteer-run arts organization supporting creative expression and counter-culture community.
The annual New Media Art and Sound Summit is a three-day summer festival dedicated to diversifying Austin’s musical ecosystem.
The group originally formed at an old church on the east side in 2003 and over the years has included rotating casts of volunteers, artists, local audience and long distance pen-pals. The organization has presented over one thousand events to date including concerts, art exhibitions, workshops, film screenings and other adventurous excursions. In 2007 CotFG became a sponsored project of SVT and held monthly events at their former Manor Rd home until June of 2016. They continue to present interesting forward thinking experimental music all over Austin.
For more information about the series visit friendlyghost.org or email cotfg.assistant@gmail.com
COTFG is a sponsored project of the non-profit organization Salvage Vanguard Theater 501 (c)(3) and supported in part by the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division
Happy to be lead percussion instructor for Baylor University’s Summer Music Camps this year.
June 16-22 - High School Division
June 23-29 - Middle School Division
More information can be found here.
Tuesday June 4 * 8pm * $10
Night 2 of Claire's week-long performance residency
Claire Rousay solo set on drum kit
M.W. Vessel improvising quartet
Nava Levenson "Jar Opening"
Claire Rousay is a Canadian-American improvisor, drummer, and curator based in San Antonio, Texas. Drawn to improvisation by a desire to free their percussion practice from the constraints of conventional timekeeping, Rousay explores the emotional overlap of rhythm, speed, and texture as both a soloist and participant in creative partnerships that span North America. Drawing liberatory power and ethical commitment from queer theory, Rousay's improvisational style employs a critique of the relationship between masculinity and percussion.
M.W. Vessel is a first time improvisation between Chris Sies, Sam Cooper, Chris Mathews, and Corey Thuro.
Nava Levenson will host A Jar Opening which is an event or art happening in which a jar of studio dirt is opened collectively with the intention of analyzing and documenting the contents. Her ongoing project, Studio Dirt, investigates discarded matter from different artist's practices. She has been collecting jars of studio dirt and scrap from emerging artists for almost a year now. She has been hosting 'Jar Openings' where she opens the jar with community members and host a dialogue on its contents. Through this series of archeological digs, she is collecting data and documentation for a future publication highlighting the processes of emerging artists.
https://www.navalevenson.com/studio-dirt
Solo set by S[K]IES performing selections from the new “Edges” EP and duo set with noise rock act Throwaway.
Solo set by S[K]IES performing selections from the new “Edges” EP and duo set with noise rock act Throwaway.
Location TBA.
