EVENTS

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

Other Minds Festival:Tone Clouds: Based on Michael Harrison's Revelation
Michael Harrison and Del Sol String Quartet for the 14th Other Minds Music Festival in 2009.
OM 14 at Djerassi Resident Artists Program (composers only): February 28 – March 4, 2009
OM 14 performances at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco: March 5, 6, 7, 2009
www.otherminds.org

Santa Fe New Music
Friday, March 13, 2009, 7:00 p.m. — Michael Harrison's "Revelation"
A new work for just-intonation piano by Michael Harrison, a collaborator of Philip Glass and LaMonte Young. The New York Times described this work thusly: “Mr. Harrison strips away centuries of well-tempered convention to reveal naked notes, which he stacks up in clear chords or swirling clouds.”
Venue: Center for Contemporary Art, 1050 Old Pecos Trail.
Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Part of season subscription series
http://events.sfnm.org

Music in the Morning, Vancouver
March 17-20, 2009
Coffee 10am | Concert 10:30am
Vancouver Academy of Music
Michael Harrison Perfoms a condensed version of Revelation and Stuart Isacoff engages the audience in lively conversation about the works special tuning and its relationship to tuning through its historical context.

Composer/Pianist Michael Harrison’s 2007 Cantaloupe release of Revelation: Music in Pure Intonation, was chosen by The New York Times and The Boston Globe as one of the best recordings of 2007. Guest speaker Stuart Isacoff, author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization (Knopf/ Vintage), answers that musical question and more.

http://www.musicinthemorning.org

The Wordless Music Series (with Grizzly Bear), New York Society for Ethical Culture, New York, NY, November 3, 2007 (abridged version)

Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, October 18 & 19, 2007 (complete version)

Bang on a Can Marathon, Winter Garden, World Financial Center, New York, NY, June 3, 2007 (complete version)

The Classical Recording Foundation 5th Annual Awards Ceremony, Weill Hall, New York, NY, October 10, 2006 (award presented to the composer by Philip Glass)

Bang on a Can Marathon, Winter Garden, World Financial Center, New York, NY, June 4, 2006 (abridged version)

Roulette, New York, NY, March 16, 2006 (complete version)

World Piano Pedagogy Conference, Anaheim, CA, October 27, 2005; Zitta Zohar, pianist (abridged version)

Westchester Conservatory of Music, White Plains, NY, October 21, 2005; Joshua Pierce, pianist (complete version with pre-concert lecture by the composer)

Bang on a Can Summer Institute, MASSMoCA, North Adams, NY, July 28, 2005 (lecture-demonstration)

MicroFest, Pierce College, Los Angeles, CA, May 14, 2005; Joshua Pierce, pianist (complete version with pre-concert lecture by the composer)

International Piano Teachers' Association Conference, New York, NY, April 10, 2005; Joshua Pierce, pianist (complete version with pre-concert lecture by the composer)

NPR Tsunami Relief Pianothon, Faust Harrison Pianos, New York, NY, March 6, 2005 (selections)

Merkin Concert Hall, Interpretations Series, New York, NY, February 10, 2005; Joshua Pierce, pianist (world premiere of new complete version)

Bucknell University, Rooke Recital Hall, Lewisburg, PA, November 9, 2004 (complete 2004 version with pre-concert lecture)

Manhattan School of Music, Greenfield Hall, New York, NY, October 28, 2004 (lecture-demonstration)

Double bill with Terry Riley, Faust Harrison Pianos, New York, NY, October 7 & 10, 2004 (abridged version)

Piano Metamorphosis, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, September 1, 2004; Joshua Pierce, pianist (complete 2004 version)

Bang on a Can Summer Institute, MASSMoCA, North Adams, NY, July 23, 2004 (lecture-demonstration)

American Festival of Microtonal Music, New York, NY, April 25 & 26, May 2, 2003; Joshua Pierce, pianist (abridged version)

The American Academy in Rome, March 15 & 16, 2002 (complete version as a work-in-progress and lecture-demonstration)

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Solo Flights Festival, Clark Studio Theater, New York, NY, October 18 & 20, 2001 (U.S. premiere of complete version as a work-in-progress)

Klavier Festival Ruhr, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany, July 15, 2001 (world premiere of complete version as a work-in-progress)

The World Forum, Hilton Hotel, New York, NY, September 5, 2000 (selections)

Michael Harrison Music, Brooklyn, NY, December 1999, Stuart Isacoff concludes his book Temperament (Knopf, 2001) with a description of this first private concert with the Revelation tuning (selections)


North Indian Classical:
(with Michael Harrison on vocals and tambura)

With ZERO GRAVITY Contemporary Music Ensemble, The Manhattan School of Music, Borden Hall, New York, NY, November 2, 2007

RAGA CYCLE 2007, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY: June 16 (morning ragas), June 23 (afternoon ragas), June 30 (evening ragas), with Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan, vocals and Naren Budhkar, tabla

RAGA CYCLE 2006, ARCH Worldwide, New York, NY, June 11 (afternoon ragas), June 25 (morning ragas), July 8 (night ragas), with Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan, vocals and Pandit Samir Chatterjee & Nitin Mitta, tabla

All-Night Indian Classical Music Concert, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Synod Hall, New York, NY, May 13, 2006, with Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan, vocals and Pandit Samir Chatterjee, tabla

Night Ragas with Terry Riley, Faust Harrison Pianos, New York, NY, May 9, 2004


From Ancient Worlds:
(with the composer as pianist)