2022
Teusday, May 17th, 5:00 pm | Musical Ecologies outdoors at the Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street Brooklyn, NY 11215 | Craig Shepard (trumpet) performs a new work. Also on the program are Phill Niblock & video artist Katherine Liberovskaya, multi-instrumentalist Lucie Vítková, and violinist Tom Chiu.
February 28th | KM28, Berlin | Joe Kudirka performed music box pieces by Craig Shepard, Stephen Chase, Christian Wolff, Luiz Henrique Yudo, Maya Verlaak, Michael Bonaventure, Huw Morgan, Federico Pozzer, and Kudirka.
2021
Taking it Outside | September 12th, 4:00 pm | Music for Contemplation presents the New Thread Quartet and guests premiering commission: Craig Shepard’s Across the Water, and Erin Rogers’ Newtown Creek.
January, 2021 | Inexhaustible Editions released the Trumpet City double CD. Read the review in The Wire here.
2020
Practical Aesthetics | October 15 | Bloomsbury Press published Craig Shepard’s Thinking in the Bones as part of the book Practical Aesthetics, Edited by Bernd Herzogenrath.
Colors with time | Guy van Dromme premieres Craig Shepard’s Loghaven I (2020) and performs December (2002) at the Festival of Flanders. Together with works by Jürg Frey, Adriaan Severins, Anastassis Philippakopoulos, Eva-Maria Houben, Eva-Maria Houben, John Cage, Bruno Duplant, and Ruth Crawford Seeger.
Loghaven Artist Residency | February 3 - March 13 | Craig Shepard awarded a residency at Loghaven in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Music Box Pieces released | April 21st | Music written on the Loghaven Artist Residency. Available here.
2019
Silent Walk: Albi | Sunday, October 14th | Riverrun Festival presented by GMEA | Craig Shepard leads a three and a half hour silent walk beginning and ending at the GMEA office, 4 rue Sainte Claire 81000, Albi.
Trumpet City: Aubervilliers | Festival d'Automne and Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers | Sunday, October 6th, 15.00 | Forty trumpets perform Craig Shepard’s Trumpet City.
On Foot: Aubervilliers | September 10 - October 3 | Festival d'Automne and Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers | 24 silent cell-phone free walks beginning and ending at Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, 41 rue Lécuyer, 93300 Aubervilliers. Each walk lasts from three to fourteen hours. In the middle, the group stops for 30 minutes and listens in silence during a field recording.
Broken Silence | Sunday, August 4th, 8:30 pm | DiMenna Center for Classical Music Cary Hall | 450 West 37th Street, between 9th & 10th Avenues | The 75-minute performance includes a reading by Craig Shepard of text drawn from court testimony in the scandal in the Catholic Church. Erin Rogers (tenor saxophone), Kristen McKeon (alto saxophone), Elisa Corona, Dev Ray and Alex Lahoski (ebow steel string acoustic guitars) will perform. No charge for admission, RSVP required.
Saturday, March 23rd, 2019, 7:00 - 8:00 pm | Campbell Art Park, Oklahoma City | Oklahoma Contemporary presents Trumpet Clouds | Craig Shepard, Sandy Coffin, Ryan Gardner and trumpet players from Oklahoma State University Trumpet Studio create a sonic performance that frames and supports passersby in stopping and experiencing a public space. Together with Erwin Redl’s Whiteout.
2018
Tuesday, November 13th, 8:30 pm | DiMenna Center for Classical Music | Broken Silence |Erin Rogers (tenor saxophone), Kristen McKeon (alto saxophone), Dan Joseph (hammer dulcimer), and Dev Ray and Alex Lahoski (ebow steel string acoustic guitars) and Craig Shepard (speaker) present music supporting listeners to engage with text drawn from court testimony connected with the ongoing scandal in the Catholic Church. The 75 minute presentation of sound and spoken word marks the release of a CD of the music for the project.
Wednesday, March 21, 8:15 pm | Courthouse Theater at Anthology Film Archives | 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003 | NewFilmmakers New York presents Beth O'Brien's SKATERS. The film includes an excerpt from Craig Shepard's André (for André O. Möller).
2017
Thursday, November 16th, 5:00 pm | Trumpet Clouds | Madison Square Park, between Broadway and Madison Avenue at 23rd-25th streets, New York City | Accompanying the opening of Erwin Redl's new light sculpture WhiteOut, there will be a mobile live-installation of Craig Shepard's new work for twelve trumpets. Commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy.
Saturday, September 30th, 1:00 - 4:00 pm | Red Desert | Sun Tunnels, Lucin, Utah | Katie Porter and Devin Maxwell presented Craig Shepard's Sheepshead Bay together with works by Michael Pisaro, Tim Parkinson, Giacinto Scelsi, James Tenney, Milton Babbitt, Manfred Werder, Anastassis Philippakopoulos, and Christian Wolff.
September 23rd-30th | Walking Seminar: "thoreau's walking (and we're walking, too): an experiment in strollology" | Olomouc, Czech Republic | Guest artists Craig Shepard and composer Chris Schultis join students at the Goethe University as well as the Univerzita Palackého v Olomouc for a week of lectures, concerts, and a silent walk. Curated by Bernd Herzogenrath of the Goethe University Frankfurt.
June 1st | Still Listening: New Works in Honour of Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) |Marvin Duchow Music Library on the McGill University campus, Montreal. Craig Shepard's "85 Seconds with Pauline" included in a memorial exhibition for Pauline Oliveros, including works by Seth Cluett, Curtis Bahn, Shelley Burgon, Clemens Merkel, Claire Chase, and Maria Chavez. Deep gratitude to Landon Morrison, Katherine Horgan, Eric Lewis, Ellen Waterman. Presented by the Institute for the Public Life of Arts & Ideas at the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation.
Saturday, February 11th | Wandelweiser Festival | Orgelpark, Gerard Brandtstraat 26, 1054JK Amsterdam | Craig Shepard's piano piece Gelassenheit. Performed by Dante Boon.
Saturday, January 21st, 12-10 pm | Music Composition Hackathon curated by Jonathan Marmor | 45 W 18th St, NYC | RSVP here. Craig Shepard leads a day-long composition workshop with an informal performance in the evening. Everyone writes, everyone performs. No prior musical training necessary. You can read about two past composition workshops here.
Sunday, January 8th, 3-5 pm | Second Sunday Series, curated by Kevin Ferrell | Bloomingdale School of Music, 323 West 108th St, NY NY 10025, C.B to 110 th St | Always Free | Craig Shepard presents Cirlce Music 4.1 together with Kevin Farell (contrabass), Erin Rogers (saxophone) and Meighan Stoops (clarinet). Meighan Stoops begins at 3:00 pm with a solo set.
2016
October 21-23rd | Workshop in the Woods | Pierce's Inn, Etna, NH | Hosted by the Dartmouth Digital Musics graduate program, organized by Beau Sievers. | This is a weekend residency for musicians and artists of all types. Craig Shepard leads a workshop in group composition.
Saturday, October 15th, 9:00 am | TEDx Washington Square | 40 Washington Square South, New York City | Craig Shepard performs a 40-minute circular improvisation with the New York Guitar Circle. $20 admission includes attendance at TED talks throughout the day.
Saturday, October 8th, 8:05 pm | Music for Contemplation | Presentation of vocal meditation from a workshop including listening exercises, and group composition lead by Craig Shepard. The day-long workshop is open to anyone willing to make a commitment for the day. To apply, please send an email to craig@craigshepard.net and tell us who you are and why you want to participate.
Friday, March 11, 2016 7:00 pm | Indexical Presents | Radius Gallery | Tannery Arts Center, 1050 River St #127, Santa Cruz, CA | Joseph Davancens, Weston Olencki and Andrew C. Smith perform Craig Shepard's Vallorbe, le 23 juillet, 2005, together with Catherine Lambs matter/moving and works by Larry Polansky and Joseph Davancens.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 | Musica Nova Consort Presents Next | Hateiva, Jaffa | Craig Shepard's Snow Like Wool premiered together with works by Louis V Vierk, Simon Steen-Anderson, and Laurence Crane.
2015
Saturday, November 7th, 8:05 PM | New York Guitar Circle: Circulations | Music for Contemplation | Church of the Annunciation | 259 North 5th St, at Havemeyer and Metropolitan, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211 | Multiple steel-stringed acoustic guitars surround the audience, passing music around the circle.
Saturday, October 3rd, 8:05 PM | Stuart Dempster: Sonic Breathing and Circular Meditations | Music for Contemplation | Works for multiple trombones and didjeridus | Church of the Annunciation | 259 North 5th St, at Havemeyer and Metropolitan, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211 | featuring Craig Shepard, Jen Baker and Monique Buzzarté and large trombone ensemble. Listeners are bathed in the warm sound of brass.
Sunday, September 20th 5:15 pm | corner of Havemeyer and Metropolitan, Williamsburg Brooklyn | on the street, Craig Shepard (trumpet) performs "Williamsburg, March 11, 2012". In cooperation with Our Lady of Mount Carmel - Williamsburg as part of the #walkwithFrancis campaign.
Saturday, September 12th, 8:05 pm | writing to, listening to each other | Music for Contemplation | Church of the Annunciation | 259 North 5th St, at Havemeyer and Metropolitan, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211 | Craig Shepard (trombone), Dan Joseph (dulcimer), Vita Wallace (violin), and Erin Rogers (saxophone). Each musician writes for the group; each musician performs everyone else's piece.
Sunday, September 6th, 12 noon | GlassWorlds | Timucua | 2000 South Summerlin, Orlando, FL 32806 | Nicolas Horvath (piano) performs Craig Shepard's Gelassenheit, Philip Glass' Etudes 1-20 as well as works by Eve Beglarian, Alvin Curran, Paul Epstein, and Michael Vincent Waller.
Thursday, August 20th, 8 PM | Whitney Museum, 99 Gansevoort Street, Floor Five terrace | Seth Cluett's 99 Objects to Sol LeWitt | Ben Neill (trumpet), Craig Shepard (trumpet), Tucker Dulin (trombone).
Monday, June 22nd, 12:00-16:00 | Tuning for Hearing - Music of the Present | ESG-21 | Art-Center Pushkinskaya-10
53, Ligovsky pr., Museum annex, 2d floor, Saint Petersburg, 191040 | Craig Shepard's Heartbeat (2) performed together with works by Antoine Beuger, Michael Pisaro, Sam Sfiri, Eva-Maria Houben, and Stephan Thut, who will give a lecture and lead a workshop.
Sunday, June 21st, 7:00 pm | Trumpet City: Hanover | The Green at Dartmouth College, 1 E Wheelock Street, Hanover, NH 03755 | 40 trumpets from the Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar, directed by Edward Carroll, perform resident composer Craig Shepard's Trumpet City.
Friday, May 29th | Musical Ecologies | Old Stone House, 336 Third Street, btw 4th/5th Aves, F,R to 4th Ave, R to Union St | Beth O'Brien and Craig Shepard celebrate the completion of the book for On Foot: Brooklyn with a live performance including video and live music. This will also serve as the opening of an installation of Beth's prints of photos from the book. Curated by Dan Joseph. Reception at 7:00 pm. Conversation with Dan Joseph at 8:00 pm. Music and video at 8:30 pm.
Saturday, May 2nd, 8:05 pm | Music for Contemplation | Church of the Annunciation, 259 N 5th St at Metropolitan and Havemeyer | L,G to Metropolitan / Lorimer | Together with Dan Joseph and Ensemble MufoCo, I'll be performing some of Pauline Oliveros' Text Scores.
Friday, April 24, 8:30 pm | Null Point 6 | Dreamland, 387 Franklin St, Buffalo, NY 14202 | Aaron Hynds performs Craig Shepard's For Frank on a solo tuba concert.
Saturday, April 18th | Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. 1:00 pm silent cell-phone free walk beginning at the Oberlin Inn | 4:45 pm talk on working in creative groups at Bibbins 216 at the Conservatory | 8:30 pm performance at Fairchild Chapel. Curated by Jacob Nussdorf. Hosted by the Oberlin Modern Music Guild.
Friday, April 17th | Wayward Music Series | Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N.
Seattle WA, 98103 | Andrew Lee performs Craig Shepard's December, together with works by Nat Evans and Adrian Knight.
Wednesday, April 15, 7:00 pm | A Place to Listen | James Bay United Church, 317 Michigan, Victoria, British Columbia V8V 1S1 | R. Andrew Lee performs Craig Shepard's December, together with works by Daniel Brandes, Jürg Frey, Eva-Maria Houben, Mark Hannesson. Curated by Daniel Brandes.
Saturday, April 11th, 8:05 pm | Music for Contemplation | Church of the Annunciation, 259 N 5th St at Metropolitan and Havemeyer | L,G to Metropolitan / Lorimer | the New Thread Quartet performs new works for saxophone by Elisa Corona, Beau Sievers, Elizabeth Adams and Assaf Gidron.
2014
Saturday, November 8th, 2014, 8:00 PM | On Foot: Brooklyn at Wesleyan | CFA Hall, Wesleyan University | Middletown, CT | Craig Shepard and Beth O'Brien present music and images from On Foot: Brooklyn. Talk by Shepard on working in creative groups and the situation of Wandelweiser 1996-2002 at 4:30 pm at the Program House for Arts Students. Curated by Jason Brogan.
Saturday, November 1st, 8:05 pm sharp | Affinity Brass performs new music for brass sextet | Four for Six | Church of the Annunciation, 259 N 5th St at Havemeyer and Metropolitan (L/G to Metropolitan/Lorimer) | Affinity Brass performs new pieces for brass sextet written by Craig Shepard, Erik Carlson, Tyler Wilcox and Dan Joseph. Presented by Music for Contemplation in cooperation with the parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Williamsburg. Music for Contemplation is supported by New Music USA.
Friday, October 24th, 2014, 5:00 pm | Trumpet City: Seattle | in the Cascade neighborhood of Seattle. 23 trumpets will form a ring around the empty lot of the Denny Substation performing the one-hour live installation Trumpet City. Presented by ALL RISE Seattle. Supported by Seattle City Light and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
October 21, 2014, 8:00 pm | On Foot: Brooklyn at the Center for New Music San Francisco | Craig Shepard and Beth O'Brien present live music, projected photography, field recordings, and readings from On Foot: Brooklyn. Joined by Larry Polansky and David Kant.
Sunday, September 21st 8:30 pm | Andrew Lee performs December | Constellation, 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago IL 60618 | Andrew Lee (piano) performs Craig Shepard's December together with music by Eva-Maria Houben, Michael Pisaro, and Jürg Frey. Part of the Chicago Wandelweiser Festival presented by aperiodic.
Saturday, September 20th at 3:00 pm | Trumpet City: Brooklyn | 71 trumpets standing under the BQE along Meeker Ave from Metropolitan Ave to Graham Avenue in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn (L, G to Metropolitan / Lorimer Streets) perform Trumpet City. In cooperation with Our Lady of Mount Carmel - Williamsburg, Knitting Factory. Trumpet City: Brooklyn is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
Saturday, August 2, 11:30am-12:30pm | Trumpet City: Park Avenue | 91 trumpets line Park Avenue from 46th Street at the Helmsley Building to Central Park at 72nd Street performing Craig Shepard's Trumpet City.
June 21, 2014, beginning at 11:45 am | Silent Walk down Broadway |Craig Shepard leads a silent cell phone free walk down the length of Broadway as part of Make Music New York.
May 24, 2014, 7:00 pm | On Foot: Brooklyn Performance |Craig Shepard and Beth O'Brien present 45 minutes of live music, projected photography, field recordings and readings from the upcoming book documenting On Foot: Brooklyn.
Saturday, May 3rd, 8:05 PM | Music for Contemplation: Canons and Songs | Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, 259 North 5th St, at Havemeyer and Metropolitan, Brooklyn, NY 11211 | Craig Shepard and Mark Broschinsky (trombones) frame reflective silences with songs and cannons, featuring Orlando di Lasso, Sequuntur Cantiones (sine textu), Larry Polansky, Christian Music, Anastassis Philippakopoulos, Song (for trombone), Song 6, Mark Broschinsky, somewhere far off, pass on and on, and Jack Callahan, substantia absolute infinita. In cooperation with the parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Williamsburg. Supported by New Music USA.
Saturday, April 12, 6:30 pm | Reading from upcoming book On Foot: Brooklyn | Word Books, 126 Franklin St at Noble (G to Greenpoint Ave, B32 to Noble St). Together with live music and video by Beth O′Brien.
Saturday, April 5th, 8:05 pm | Music for Contemplation: Peckinpah Trios | Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, 259 North 5th St, at Havemeyer and Metropolitan, Brooklyn, NY 11211 | Craig Shepard (trombone), Tyler Wilcox (soprano sax), and Dan Joseph (hammer dulcimer) build passing moments out of soft tones of Antoine Beuger's Peckinpah Trios. In cooperation with the parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Williamsburg. Supported by New Music USA.
Wednesday, April 16, 12:00 noon | Pauline Oliveros′ Deep Listening Class at RPI | West Hall 326, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180 | Beth O′Brien and Craig Shepard present live music and video from On Foot: Brooklyn followed by a talk and a silent, cell-phone free walk in Troy.
Saturday, March 8th, 1:30 pm | Silent Walk | School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 230 The Fenway, Boston MA 02115 | Three-hour silent, cell phone free walk through Boston.
Sunday, March 9, 1:00 pm | On Foot: Brooklyn presentation | Willimantic Records, 744 Main Street, Willimantic, CT 06226 | Performance of pieces from On Foot: Brooklyn featuring video by Beth O’Brien and field recordings. Followed by Paul Flaherty and his band.
Monday, March 10, 8:00 pm | Talk on Collective Creativity | Just About Music (JAM) Program House, Cornell University, 142 Program House Drive, Ithaca NY 14853 | Craig Shepard talks about his experience in the Wandelweiser Group, the group's financial and organizational structure, and gives practical suggestions on how artists can work together effectively in groups.
Tuesday, March 11, 7:30 pm | Cornell Cinema Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY | Screening of Beth O’Brien’s film from On Foot: Brooklyn together with live music.
Thursday, March 13, 4:30 pm | Talk on Collective Creativity | Middlebury College, Axinn Center 229 | Craig Shepard talks about his experience in the Wandelweiser Group, the group's financial and organizational structure, and gives practical suggestions on how artists can work together effectively in groups. Sponsored by: Philosophy Department, Education Studies, Wonnacott Commons, Film & Media Culture, Project on Innovation in the Liberal Arts
Friday, March 14, 4:30 pm | On Foot: Brooklyn presentation | Middlebury College, Axinn Center 229 | Performance of pieces from On Foot: Brooklyn featuring video
2013
Saturday, December 14, 7:30 pm, Symphony Space |The Glass Farm Ensemble and Ensemble Theater am Gleis present music by Christian Wolff, Jaques Demierre, Benedikt Hayoz, Denis Schuler, Peter Ablinger, and a premier of a new piece Ensemble Theater am Gleis commissioned from me.
Thursday, November 22 | Instants Chavirés, Paris | Made in the USA | Ensemble Dedalus performs my "Coney Island, April 15, 2012" from On Foot: Brooklyn, together with works by Devin Maxwell, Cat Lamb, Travis Just, Quentin Tolimieri, Michael Vincent Waller, John Hastings, Jason Brogan, and Jonathan Marmor.
Friday, November 23 | La Chapelle, Montpellier | Made in USA
Monday, September 9, 8:00 pm | Beth O'Brien.
Wednesday, August 28th, 20:00 | Klangraum Düsseldorf | Himmelgeister Strasse 107, 40225 Dusseldorf, Germany | John McAlpine, piano performs pieces by Dante Boon, Craig Shepard, Eva-Maria Houben, and Jürg Frey.
Thursday, August 22nd | Eclipse Mill in North Adams, MA | Daykah, the new ensemble by Dean and Karin Rosenthal perform my Vallorbe, le 23 juilliet 2005 together with music by Jason Brogan, Nomi Epstein, Tom Johnson, Joseph Kudirka, Dean Rosenthal, and Samuel Vriezen.
Friday, July 5th, 7:30 PM | St. Mary at Hill, Eastcheap, EC3R 8EE, London | My piece Four Voice Canon was be performed together with works by Eva-Maria Houben, Kunsu Shim, John White and Daniel James Wolf by MWLTH Ensemble on Marcus Trunk's Some Tunes program, part of the Music We'd Like to Hear festival.
Friday, June 28, 8:00 PM | Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 259 N. 5th St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211 | L to Bedford Ave, G to Metropolitan | The Guidonian Hand trombone quartet together with four strings performed Craig Shepard's Daniel (1) together with new works by Erik Carlson, Andrew C. Smith and Tyler Wilcox. Presented by Index. Supported by Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Williamsburg.
Moments Musicaux | Thursday, February 21, 2013 | Boiler, Rathausgasse 18, Aarau, Switzerland | Craig Shepard's Four Voice Canon performed by Anghared Davies, violin, Johnny Chang, viola, Stefan Thut, violoncello, and Jürg Frey clarinet at the Wandelweiser und so weiter series together with works by Manfred Werder, Jack Callahan, Johnny Chang, Taylam Susam and Eva-Maria Houben.
Broadway Walk | Sunday, February 3, 2013 | 13.7-mile silent walk down the entire length of Broadway in Manhattan.
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2012
October 11th, 8:00 pm | Old Stone House, Washington Park, 336 Third Street, bet. 4th/5th Avenues, Brooklyn, NY 11215 | Dan Joseph interviews Craig Shepard followed by music from On Foot: Brooklyn performed by Shepard and Jack Callahan, melodica. Beth O'Brien presents visuals from the project. Curated by Dan Joseph.
James Saunders published a piece about the music of Wandelweiser, in the Contemporary Music Review. His piece is called "Testing the Consequences". purchase.
June 24, 2012, 8pm | Transient Series I 6 | Willow Place Auditorium, 26 Willow Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201 | The Dream Team Ensemble, made up of composer-performers Jack Callahan, guitar, KCM Walker harmonium and David Kant saxophone perform Craig Shepard's Jack, as well as new works by the ensemble members, Jürg Frey and Andrew C. Smith.
June 15th, 8:00 pm | December 4th, 2008, 8:00 PM | Issue Project Room | Book Release Celebration for On Foot | Craig Shepard, speaker, Christian Wolff, melodica, piano, Jeremy Lamb, cello, Katie Porter, clarinet, Zach Seldess, walker.
February 21 to May 21 | On Foot: Brooklyn
2011
Sunday, January 22, 9:00 pm to midnight | Martian Gardens WMUA (91.1 FM) Amherst | Interview with Martian Gardens host Max Shea featuring some unreleased recordings as well as a live studio performance. Live stream at www.wmua.org.
Saturday, January 21, 7:00 pm talk, 8:00 pm concert | Possible Music I | Centrum Gallery at Hampshire College, 893 West St, Amherst, MA | At 7:00 pm, Talk on "On Foot: Brooklyn". Concert at 8:00 pm with music of Shepard, Larry Polansky, Christian Wolff, and Jack Callahan. Featuring Chelsea Dunn, cello, Gabby Mogul, violin, Dave Gross, alto sax, David Kant, tenor sax, Jeremy Starpoli and Craig Shepard, trombones, Dean Rosenthal and Tom Crean, guitars, Jack Callahan, melodica, percussion.
Thursday January 12th, 7:00 pm | Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, London, N1 7RW | £5/£3 | The Set Ensemble featuring Dominic Lash, David Stent, and Sarah Hughes - will perform my solo guitar piece David simultaneously with Backgrounds and Silences. Also on the program is Antoine Beuger's Peckinpah Trios. The performance will follow a lecture by Sanja Perovic entitled "On the Control of Time and the French Revolution". The event is organized by Intercapillary Places.
Monday, November 7th, 7:00pm | Bluestockings books, 172 Allen St, one block south of Houston St, NYC, F Train to 2nd Ave. Craig Shepard gives a talk: "Taking it Outside: Music in Public Spaces". More information here.
Saturday, October 22, starting at 6:14 am | 34 mile walk around perimeter of Manhattan. I'll start on the Hudson River at 14th Street and head downtown, walking counterclockwise around the island.
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August 23rd, 2011 the CD for On Foot was released on the Edition Wandelweiser Records label. To celebrate the release, Craig Shepard performed the six pieces from the CD, one each evening at 6:30 pm, in public spaces in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Performance locations were determined by superimposing a map of Switzerland over New York City; locations correspond to places in Switzerland.
August 23rd: Dewitt Clinton Park, corner of 11th Ave and 52nd St in Manhattan (Geneva)
August 24th: Northwest Corner of Broadway and 55th St (St. Cergue)
August 25th: Northwest Corner of 53rd St and the Avenue of the Americas (Crêt de la Neuve)
August 26th: Park Avenue at 50th St (Grottes de l’Orbe)
August 27th: Northeast Corner of Lexington Ave and 48th St (Vallorbe)
August 28th: Driggs Avenue between Lorimer St and Union Ave, McCarren Park, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Dornach)
July 4, 2011, 19:00 | Atelier Pia Maria, Quellgasse 3, 2500 Biel/Bienne (CH) | Angharad Davies (violin), Julia Eckhardt (viola), Dominic Lash (double bass), and Stefan Thut (violoncello) perform Craig Shepard: Four Voice Canon, Manfred Werder: vier ausführende, seiten 19-20, Stefan Thut: vier, 1-12, Michael Pisaro: mind is moving #2,3,4,5
June 21, 3:30 & 5:00 pm | The Lake at Central Park, NYC | Performance with TILT Brass at Make Music New York. Performing trombone on a piece composed by Julian Day, Luke Jaaniste and Janet McKay as part of their ongoing project Super Critical Mass. Find the review in The New York Times here.
Sunday, April 2nd, 4:30 pm | Craig Shepard performs October for piano (20-minute program) | Our Lady Of Mount Carmel Church, 275 North 8th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Monday, April 11th, 20:00 | Raum für Kultur95, Horburgstr. 95, 4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tuesday, April 12th, 20:00 | Alte Kirche Boswil, Flurstrasse 21, 5623 Boswil, Switzerland
Wednesday, April 13th, 20:00 | Klang im Turm, Claude-Lorrain-Str. 26, 2nd Floor, Munich, Germany
Friday, April 15th, 21:00 | Kunstraum Walcheturm, Kanonengasse 20, 8004 Zurich, Switzerland
Tom Johnson's Networks, Christian Wolff's Basel and premier Jürg Frey's Stranger with Melody and Chorals and Vague Canons, written especially for the Peckinpah Trio. Beat Keller, electric guitar, Christian Kobi, saxophone, and Craig Shepard, trombone. The tour is made possible through the generous support of Künstlerhaus Boswil, Kuratorium Aarau, Nicati deLuze Stiftung, Kultur Stadt Zürich, GGG Basel, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, UBS Kulturstiftung, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung.
Sunday, February 6th, 4:00 pm | Music for Contemplation at St. Cecilia's Church | 84 Herbert Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY 11222-5047 | Performance of Elizabeth for organ.
Saturday, January 29th, 19:00 | John Cage "Variations VII" | Asahi Artsquare (Asakusa, Tokyo) | 2500/2900 yen | Together with Adachi Tomomi, Arima Sumihisa, Ikeda Takumi, Mohri Yuko, and 18 composers from around the world.
2010
Friday, November 19, 20:00 | Lichtspiel - Kinemathek, Bahnhofstrasse 21, CH-3008 Bern | Bar opens at 19:00 | The newly formed Peckinpah Trio performs Antoine Beuger's 2003 composition, "Peckinpah Trios" | Beat Keller, electric guitar, Christian Kobi, saxophone, Craig Shepard, trombone | Beuger's piece was inspired by Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue, which will screen at 20:30.
Wednesday, October 13, 8:00 p.m. | Craig Shepard performance on drumset for an installment of Marcus Kaiser's ongoing an einem ort - an einem anderen ort.
July 14th, 2010 | Church of St. Anne & St. Agnes, London | December will be performed by Tim Parkinson at Music We'd Like to Hear.
Monday, June 21st, 2010, 7:00 to 9:00 pm | Dana Discovery Center at Central Park, 36 W 110th St at 5th Ave, NYC | World premiers of Tiefenbrunnen and Zürichhorn by the Trombone Gathering as part of Make Music New York. Featuring Alex Asher, Douglas Campbell, Dale Turk, Kevin McCormack, Craig Shepard and many others. Curated by Kevin McCormack.
2009
November 20-29, 2009 | Huddersfield, UK | As part of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2009 pianist Philip Thomas performs a program of music by American experimental composers including Joe Kudirka, Christian Wolff, Larry Polansky, Travis Just, Craig Shepard, Mike Winter, Michael Pisaro and G. Douglas Barrett.
November 15, 2009, 10:00 pm | The Stone | Avenue C and 2nd Street, New York City | Aaron Meicht, trumpet, Katie Porter, clarinet, Dan Joseph, guitar, and Harvey Weissman, speaker present compositions and readings from Craig Shepard's On Foot.
Three | Thursday, September 24, 8:00 pm | Listen/Space, 195 Skillman Ave, Williamsburg | Craig Shepard, trombone, Christian Kobi, saxophone, and Beat Keller, guitar, perform Antoine Beuger's Peckinpah Trios. Inspired by Sam Peckinpah's Ballad of Cable Hogue.
Two | Tuesday, September 22, 10:00 pm | Ontological-Hysterical Theater, 131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Avenue), inside St. Mark's Church |Three duos: Shepard/Just, Kobi/Keller, Porter/Maxwell, perform Christian Wolff's Pairs, Basel, Grete, and Larry Polansky's Christian Music.
One | Sunday, September 20, 6:00 pm | Listen/Space, 195 Skillman Ave, Williamsburg | Sean Meehan, snare drum, and Christian Kobi, saxophone, each performs a solo improvised set, often, but not always, very quietly.
Saturday, September 12, 2009, 3:00 to 9:00 pm | Moments Musicaux | Kutlur & Kongresshaus Aarau | Jürg Frey, clarinet, and Stefan Thut, cello perform Craig Shepard's Weehawken, July, 8, 2008 together with works by Luc Ferrari, Michael Pisaro, Tim Parkinson, Manfred Werder, Stefan Thut, Taku Sugimoto, Taylan Susam, Howard Skempton, Antoine Beuger, Jürg Frey, Tom Johnson, Anastassis Philippakopoulos, Mark So, Pierre Thoma, Eliane Radigue, and Peter Ablinger.
April 25-26, 2009 | Huddersfield University, UK | Nothing New? Understanding Newness in Medieval and Contemporary Music, a conference held at the University of Huddersfield. The Edges Ensemble, directed by Joseph Kudirka and Aaron Cassidy perform works by Craig Shepard, Jason Brogan, Mike Winter, Michael Pisaro, G. Douglas Barrett.
March 28th, 2009, 15:45 | Seepromenade, Zürich, Switzerland | Trompetensee | A chain of 18 trumpets stretching from Seefeldquai to the Arboretum along the Lake in Zürich performed Trumpet City by Craig Shepard. Corrado Bossard, Andreas Wulf. Presented by the Musikpodium der Stadt Zurich.
March 19, 2009, 20:00 | Kunstraum Düsseldorf | Himmelgeister Straße 107 E, 40225 Düsseldorf | Craig Shepard, trumpet, Antoine Beuger, flute | Craig Shepard's Weehawken, July 8, 2008, Two-Voice Canon #1 and Antoine Beuger's un lieu pour être deux.
March 18, 2009, 20:00 | Klang im Turm | Claude-Lorrain-Straße 26, München | Craig Shepard, speaker and pocket trumpet, presented text and music from On Foot.
Saturday, March 7th, 2009, 9:00 pm | 540 West 21st St, NYC | MIXER: EXPO | Craig Shepard, trumpet, Doug Barrett, electronics, Sean Meehan, snare drum improvisation within the structure of Mark Shepard's Hertzian Rain.
2008
December 4th, 8:00 PM | Issue Project Room | Book Release Celebration for On Foot | Craig Shepard, speaker, Christian Wolff, melodica, piano, Jeremy Lamb, cello, Katie Porter, clarinet, Zach Seldess, walker.
In the sound project On Foot, Craig Shepard walked 250 miles across Switzerland. Every day he composed a new piece, wrote it down and performed it on the pocket trumpet at 6 p.m. All concerts took place out-of-doors in public spaces such as squares, harbors, intersections, sidewalks, and mountain-tops. This evening celebrates the release of the book about the project published by Edition Howeg, Zurich. Buy the book now.
April 24 | Roulette, 20 Greene St, NYC | Part of the Interpretations Series | Christian Wolff, piano + melodica, Jürg Frey, clarinet, Larry Polansky, electric guitar, Craig Shepard,trombone, Jeremy Lamb, cello, Marco Capelli, electric guitar | performing Christian Wolff's MICROEXERCISES and Jürg Frey's les tréfonds inexplorés des signes.
March 15 | Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY | Silent Music | Craig Shepard's November together with music of Morton Feldman performed by Joe Kubera, piano. Together with Craig Shepard's Lines (1) performed by Christian Kesten and Antoine Beuger's Peckinpah Trios performed by Craig Shepard, trombone, Christian Kesten, guitar, Jeremy Lamb, cello, curated by Dan Joseph.
2007
March 8, 2007 | Kunstraum Düsseldorf | Eva-Maria Houben, piano | performed Craig Shepard's March
Words Move Music performed in the series Klang im Turm, Munich and Kunstraum Düsseldorf.
Awarded grant from Change, Inc.
On Foot performed at Kunstraum Düsseldorf.
2006
16 Trompeten | Toni Molkerei | Craig Shepard, artistic director, Antoine Beuger, music, performed by the trumpet classes of Corrado Bossard and Andreas Wulf | presented by the Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich.
Curated the Further series at the Schlosserei Nenniger in Zürich.
String Quartet #1 performed by the Bozzini String Quartet at the Kunstraum Düsseldorf.
2005
Conceived and realized On Foot, a 31-day concert tour of Switzerland.
Jane, for two pianos commissioned by Tanja Masanti.
Trombonist with Collegium Novum Zürich (2001-2005).
Research into listening dispositions published in the Schweizerische Musikzeitung.
Artistic Director of Vor und Nach.
Artistic Director of Wolff Weiter, a concert tour with Christian Wolff.
Composition Heartbeat performed by Maulwerker at TESLA, Berlin.
2004
Commissioned by the Kantorei of the City of Solothurn to compose the work They Can Tell You for choir, two cornetts and two sacbuts.
Performed on Alfred Zimmerlin’s Or-bit at the ISCM World New Music Days.
Collaborated on the project Wir suchen überall das unbedingt in the Atelier Christoph Nicolaus, München.
Curated the Cage Weiter series at the Schlosserei Nenniger in Zürich.
Conceived and executed the research project Hördispositionen (Listening Dispositions) at the Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich.
2003
Empty : Open commissioned by the Gesellschaft für Literatur, Kunst und Musik Romanshorn.
Performed with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Conceived and realized the 21-day project Ears to Hear at the Bellevue See-Promenade in Zürich.
Collaboration on the project 120 Tage Kunst im Bunker, München.
Composition Wind (3) performed at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
Compositions October and December premiered by Guy van Dromme in the Kunstraum Düsseldorf.
2002
Performed Baroque trombone on the recording Ave Maria with the Vokalensemble München.
2001
Performed Manfred Werder’s Stück 1998 in the Galerie Mark Müller Zürich and Stadtbibliothek Aarau.
Premier of November by Jongah Yoon at the Kunstraum Düsseldorf.
Premier of Orchard by Tobias Liebezeit and Marcus Kaiser at the Kunstraum Düsseldorf.
Lines (6) performed by Caspar Glättli at the Gallerie Mark Müller Zürich.
2000
Collaborated on Zehnmal Eins / Einmal Zehn (John Cage’s Music for Ten) in the Kunstraum Düsseldorf.
1999
Joined the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble.
Lines (1) premiered in the Gallerie Mark Müller Zürich.
Lines (2) premiered by the Singeborgs at the Kunstraum Düsseldorf.
Presented more than 20 performances of experimental music in self-renovated textile factory in Vernon, Connecticut.
1998
Received the Northwestern School of Music Dean’s Grant to perform and travel in Europe.
Awarded Bachelor of Music, magna cum laude from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, studying trombone with Frank Crisfulli and composition with Michael Pisaro, Amnon Wolman and Alan Stout.