Saturday, February 14
Auckland, New Zealand
The 3rd Aotearoa International Festival Of Secret(e) Sounds
Auckland Unitarian Church
Audio Foundation NZ presents a stunning start to a new year with a week of sumptuous sound secretions!
Appearing with Leila Adu are Christoph Gallio (SW), Phil Durrant (UK), Ira Hadzic (DEU), DrewMcMillan (NZ) & Paul Buckton (NZ).
Tickets on sale here
Auckland Unitarian Church
1A Ponsonby Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1011
Saturday, December 20
The Sultan Room, Brooklyn, NY
with Nour Harkati
This Saturday, December 20th at The Sultan Room, Brooklyn! The Leila Adu Trio is playing with renowned NYC-based North African artist Nour Harkati who has just finished up sharing his infectious, boundary pushing music on a tour of the west coast.
Come on out for a joyous and celebratory night of rhythm and sound!
Tickets on sale here
The Sultan room
234 Starr Street
Brooklyn, NY 11237
Leila Adu Trio 2025 Tour
LEILA ADU: VOCALS/KEYS
DAVID FRAZIER Jr: DRUMS
SPENCER MURPHY: BASS
Monday, October 13
Sleepwalk, Brooklyn, NY
with The Armory Feat. BADKIDS Collective
Tickets on sale here
SLEEPWALK
251 Bushwick Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Tuesday, October 14
Notsolatin, Philadelphia, PA
Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081
Saturday, October 18
Instant Band Sound Army,
(Improvised jam session) at Homeland Cultural Center, Long Beach, CA
Homeland Cultural Center,
1321 E. Anaheim St. in Long Beach.
Sunday, October 19
High Low Bar, Los Angeles, CA
with poetry from Pam Ward
3000 Los Feliz Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90039
Friday, October 10, 2025, 4pm
the Guggenheim Museum
the Guggenheim Museum
Leila Adu Solo
Sanguine Piano, an installation piece by artist Rashid Johnson at the Guggenheim Museum
Sanguine Piano, an installation piece by artist Rashid Johnson at the Guggenheim Museum
Unfortunately Leila will not be performing at the Guggenheim on October 10th due to a family bereavement.
Saturday October 4, 2025
Unruly Sounds Festival, Princeton NJ
The Miz’Ries
The Miz’Ries play Unruly Sounds Festival at Hinds Plaza in front of the Princeton Public Library.
Leila Adu: vocals/drumpad
Quinn Collins: turtnable/synths
Jeff Snyder: synths
Rain location: Community Room
HINDS PLAZA, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY,
Sylvia Beach Way, Princeton, NJ 08542
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Atelier, Harlem
Leila Adu Solo
Pop-Up by Anthony Tidd
Community Fundraiser Party!
I am a special guest playing two songs amongst a bunch of other artists and a DJ. Come on out! Show your support for Atelier Harlem Pop Up’s mission and help to keep this going.
Food, Drinks, Good Eats, Good Company!
246 Malcolm X BLVD (on Lenox Ave between
123rd & 122ND), New York, NY, 10027.
Walk up the steps to the first floor gallery
Friday September 19,
Lang Concert Hall,
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081
Friday, September 12, 2025
Owl Music Parlor, Brooklyn
Leila Adu Trio
Ali Dineen
Stephanie Nilles
I’ll be back at Owl Music Parlor, Brooklyn on Friday September 12th as a trio, along with the wonderful Ali Dineen and Stephanie Nilles.
I’ll be joined by David Frazier on drums and Spencer Murphy on bass.
7:30pm Doors
8:00pm Music
Donation suggested
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Ave
Brooklyn 11225
Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 7:30PM
Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Heaven & Earth
Celebrating 25 years of exploring new musical worlds.
“Heaven & Earth” marks 25 years of Stroma’s fearless exploration of sound and spirit since our inaugural concert Wind, Rain & Light in August 2000. We recall the theme of that first concert by similarly evoking musical impressions of the earth below and the sky above. Featuring a world premiere by New York-based NZ composer Leila Adu-Gilmore… Read more: Heaven & Earth
PROGRAMME:
Olivier Messiaen: Louange a l’immortalité de Jésus
Gemma Peacocke: Sky Fields
John Rimmer: Where Sea Meets Sky 2
Leila Adu-Gilmore: Commissioned work (premiere)
Sofia Gubaidulina: Garden of Joy and Sorrow
Michael Norris: The Spaces In Between
Book Now
Public Trust Hall
Wellington
Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Friday, August 1, 2025
Owl Music Parlor, Brooklyn, NY
Leila Adu & Zahra & Aljanoub Ensemble at Owl Music Parlor, Brooklyn
Excited for Friday, August 1st at Owl Music Parlor, Brooklyn with my favorite singer, Zahra Alzubaidi & Aljanoub Ensemble. Zahra and her ensemble will be playing folk and popular songs from Iraq. It can be hard to make music right now with the news, and being in the room with musicians like Zahra who embodies joy, clarity and wise hope through music, is special.
I’ll be joined by Spencer Murphy on bass.
Leila Adu: voice, keys
Spencer Murphy: bass
Zahra Alzubiadi: voice
Insia Malik: violin
Gabe Lavin: oud
Alber Baseel: percussion
Gideon Forbes: ney
7:30pm Doors
8:00pm Music
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Ave
Brooklyn 11225
July 25–27, 2025
Bloomville, NY
Woodstockhausen Festival
This marvellous experimental festival in upstate New York is back, this time with a Leila Adu improv set alongside national improvisers and sound artists at the beautiful Turquoise barn with Jamaican food and camping avail!
All info here: https://www.woodstockhausen.net/info
The Turquoise Barn
8052 County Highway 18
Bloomville, New York 13739
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Sleepwalk, Brooklyn, NY
Sadie Powers (album release)
with Eliot Krimsky & Leila Adu
Sadie Powers is a bassist and sound artist who explores how memory is experienced in the body. She has composed for dance and ensemble, as well as toured internationally in bands. This show celebrates the release of her solo debut, Souvenir, which has been described as “a world where the gaze is lost in vast landscapes”
Eliot Krimsky is perhaps best known for his work as the lead singer and co-founder of the band Glass Ghost. Over the last decade he has performed extensively in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Mexico and shared stages with Deerhoof, Dirty Projectors, and Sharon Van Etten. Krimsky’s collaborations include Meshell Ndegeocello, Here We Go Magic, Robert Stillman and members of Xiu Xiu.
Sleepwalk
251 Bushwick Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Tickets can be purchased HERE
Saturday, 7 June, 2025
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Women in HiFi
A first glimpse of the upcoming Women in HiFi series
@ EMOH LEEF:
Prof. Joseph Tarradellas (EPFL Lausanne) & Marguerite Kudelski (Nagra)
DJ Cassy (UK/AT)
Leila Adu (US)
Talk, Performance, DJ Set, Kids Friendly, Homemade Snacks.
More info: https://www.emoh-leef.ch/
CHF 25 / Members: 15 / Aged 25 or under: 15 / Kids up to 12 years free
Tickets
EMOH LEEF
Rue de Prébarreau 10, 2000
Neuchâtel,
Switzerland
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Gowanus Dredgers Bunker, Brooklyn, NY
Cultural Ecologies Series
Summoning You: Featuring Leila Adu
Opening: Jessica Ackerley
Electropop, avant-classical singer-songwriter Leila Adu joins Unheard-of to kick off the 2025 Cultural Ecologies season with new and recent arrangements of her music including her Freedom Suite and music from her latest album Moonstone & Tar Sands…. Hawai’i-based jazz guitarist, composer, and improvisor Jessica Ackerley opens the performance with a set of her original work…Their music has been featured and reviewed in Pitchfork, Wire Magazine, BBC Radio…
Read more: https://www.unheard-ofensemble.com/cultural-ecologies
Gowanus Dredgers Bunker,
2 19th St,
Brooklyn, NY 11232
Registration Link Here
Friday, May 2, 2025
Record Shop, Brooklyn, NY
Leila Adu Trio & Monk One
In-store at Record Shop
Leila Adu Trio (Spencer Murphy & David Frazier), Monk One DJ and music journalist, aka Andrew Mason, co-founder of Wax Poetics Magazine (“the best music magazine on the planet”) and co-owner of Names You Can Trust, an independent record label out of his home base, New York City.
Record Shop
360 Van Brunt St, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Redhook
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Sierra Madre Playhouse, Los Angeles, CA
Sierra Madre Playhouse LA presents “Waves in Bloom”
Joshua Rubin, a master of both modern and historical clarinets, collaborates with several of his esteemed musical colleagues on “Waves in Bloom,” a concert exploring the fascinating intersection between classical composition and electronic innovation that traces the emergence of new sonic possibilities, on Saturday, April 19, 2025, 7:30pm at Sierra Madre Playhouse. Known for his expressive and innovative performances merging historical and contemporary music, Rubin is the former artistic director of the lauded International Contemporary Ensemble.
Joining Joshua Rubin on clarinets are: Marta Tiesenga, saxophone, Cory Smythe, piano; and Leila Adu, synthesizer and voice.
Tickets on sale now ($12-$35) please call Calll 626 355 4318 or VISIT sierra madre playhouse FOR Tickets
SIERRA MADRE PLAYHOUSE
87 west sierra madre boulevard
Sierra madre
Los Angeles, CA 91204
Thursday, April 10, 2025
The Owl Music Parlor, Brooklyn, NY
Leila Adu & Talk Show
7:30pm Doors
8:00pm Leila Adu
9:00pm Talk Show
Talk Show is a new project between drummer/analogue synth composer Qasim Naqvi and trumpeter Steph Richards exploring resonant frequencies and physic juju. Their first record “Miss America” comes out in fall (weJazz records). “A rising force in avant-garde jazz” (Jazz Times), Steph Richards is known for her innovative approach to the trumpet and intermedia experimentation. Pakistani-American drummer/composer Qasim Naqvi is perha NYps best known as a founding member of acoustic trio Dawn of Midi. Naqvi is an accomplished solo artist and maker of film scores with a passion for analogue and modular synthesizer systems.
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Ave
Brooklyn 11225
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
NYU Skirball, New York, NY
Skirball Salon: What Does Decolonization Sound Like?
George Lewis (Artistic Director, International Contemporary Ensemble) asks, in his 2023 text Composing While Black: Afrodiasporic New Music Today, what “decolonization might sound like”; and he has curated, in the Ensemble’s “Composing While Black,” an evening attuned to these sounds. In advance of “Composing While Black” at NYU Skirball, join a panel of scholars and artists to explore the innovations of Afrodiasporic sound, intersections of Blackness and performance, and the radical forms of resistance these embodied practices offer in our reading, listening and organizing. Speakers are Fred Moten, Leila Adu Gilmore, and Damien Norfleet convened by Zarah Short, Education Associate @ NYU Skirball.
INFO & Free REgistration HERE
Lobby, NYU Skirball
566 LaGuardia Place
Sunday February 23, 2024
Jalopy Theatre, Brooklyn, NY
Class Struggle In Concert
5:oopm Leila Adu (solo)
6:00pm Sing in Solidarity Choir & more…
Jalopy Theater
315 Columbia Street
Brooklyn
NY 11231
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Jalopy Theatre, Brooklyn, NY
Roots n’ Ruckus Fest!
Jalopy Theatre, Brooklyn
Ali Dineen’s Community Sing
Christian & Cole
Leila Adu
The Boxcutter Collective
Hannah Thompson
Leah Tash
Barry Clyde
Tickets: https://www.viewcy.com/e/roots_n_ruckus_fest
Monday, November 4 –
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Haus der kulturen der welt
Berlin, Germany
Always, Already There
This week, Leila is performing and presenting research at the Haus de Kulturen der Welt/House of World Cultures (HKW), in the Afrodiasporic Incubator Series “Always, Already There” curated by George Lewis.
Decolonizing Electronics (Panel)
Composing While Black, Berlin Edition (CONCERT)
Alyssa Regent
Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson
Leila Adu-Gilmore
Corie Rose Soumah
Hannah Kendall
Andile Khumalo
Charles Uzor
Jessie Cox
~ “Negative Space” & “Ghost Lullaby” from Freedom Suite song cycle (Adu-Gilmore) arranged for the International Contemporary Ensemble with Leila Adu-Gilmore (mezzo) & Damian Norfleet (baritone)
Haus der kulturen der welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin
Germany
Friday, October 25, 2024
MoMA, New York, NY
Sound On: Composing While Black, Volume II – a collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and the New York Philharmonic
MoMA is pleased to welcome the renowned International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), presented in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic. For more than 20 years, ICE has made a collective commitment to advancing experimental music by honoring the diversity of human experience and challenging assumptions about how music is made and experienced. Acclaimed composer, performer, and musicologist George Lewis—a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius Grant”—serves as artistic director of the Ensemble. This special evening, organized by Lewis, is the second program in a series that takes inspiration from his recent book Composing While Black: Afrodiasporic New Music Today (2023), which explores how Black composers have fostered a creolized, cosmopolitan new music for the 21st century. The program spotlights a slate of voices, including Jalalu Kalvert-Nelson, Daniel Kidane, Hannah Kendall, Tebogo Monnakgotla, Joshua Uzoigwe, and Leila Adu-Gilmore. MoMA Scholar in Residence, composer, and flutist Nathalie Joachim will moderate the program, and several of the composers will be in attendance.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the program will begin at 7:00 p.m. Please enter through the Ronald S. and Jo Carole Lauder Building entrance at 11 West 53 Street. Advance registration is required and capacity is limited.
THE ROY AND NIUTA TITUS THEATER 1
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
11 WEST 53 STREET, MANHATTAN
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10019
Friday, October 11, 2024
Cantor Theatre, New York, NY
Immersive Mixtape Festival
Daytime Workshops
Full day info here
Evening Roundtable & Concert
Critical Sonic Practice Roundtable: Making Immersive Audio Accessible
7:00 – 7:45 pm (Doors open at 6:45 pm)
A panel discussion, led by Leila Adu-Gilmore, focusing on how to increase access to immersive audio technology for marginalized communities and their music creators. Panelists: DEBIT (Delia Beatriz), MC Tingbudong (Jamel Mims), Rhiannon Catalyst &
Keynote Speaker Michael Veal (Yale University) latest book Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital
Immersive Mixtape Concert
8:00 – 10:30 pm
Showcasing new spatialized works by music creators across genres, activating the 56 channel immersive sound system in the Cantor Theatre.
Music by:
Alicia Lee
Christina Wheeler
Daniel Faronbi
DEBIT (Delia Beatriz)
Eric Lyon + Margaret Lancaster
H Prizm (of Antipop Consortium)
Ikwe (Kelsey Van Ert)
Izzi Ramkissoon
Jupiter Blue
Keisha Thompson
Kelvin Walls
Leila Adu-Gilmore
MAYSUN
MC Tingbudong (Jamel Mims)
Peter Traver
Cantor Theater, NYU
38 houston street
NYC
Sunday, October 6, 2024
The New School, New York, NY
Adu-Gilmore with Dana Kelley about “if the stars align…”
(string quartet)
11am-12pm Pre-concert Talk
2pm concert
Pre-concert Talk – Tickets (free)
Verona Quartet at The New School NYC – Tickets
Verona Quartet
Jonathan Ong, Violin
Dorothy Ro, Violin
Abigail Rojansky, Viola
Jonathan Dormand, Cello
Ravel: String Quartet in F Major (1903)
Wynton Marsalis: Creole Contradanzas from String Quartet No. 1 “At the Octoroon Balls” (1995)
Leila Adu-Gilmore: String Quartet “if the stars align” (2012)
Beethoven: String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2 (1808)
This concert will be approximately one hour and 40 minutes, including intermission
66 West 12th Street
NYC
Saturday Oct 6, 2024
Jalopy Theatre, Brooklyn, NY
Many Lands Mutual Aid
Many Lands Mutual Aid is an ongoing aid distribution project in Gaza spearheaded by Hussein Alzaq! 100% of the proceeds raised through this event will go to Many Lands Mutual Aid.
Can’t attend but would like to donate? There’s an option for that AT THE BOTTOM of the checkout page, above an option to contribute an additional donation.
This fundraiser will feature performances by Zahra Alzubaidi, Sami Abu Shumays, Mehrnam Rastegari, Ali Dineen, Leila Adu & Eleonore Weill.
Tickets
Jalopy Theater
315 Columbia St,
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Francis Kite Club, New York, NY
Belts & Whistles
10th Anniversary Festival
The Miz’Ries
Quinn Collins
Jeff Snyder
Leila Adu Trio
Gian Torrano Jacobs
Llama/Lama
Very Very Hot Evil
Erich Barganier
Jacob Bills
Francis Kite Club
40 Loisaida Ave,
East Village, NYC
Thursday September 26, 2024
Washington D.C.
Polyaspora Festival:
“Composing While Black”
Pre-Concert Composer Talks
Polyaspora Festival: “Composing While Black”
Adu-Gilmore “Alyssum” (string quartet + harp)
International Contemporary Ensemble at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC.
Sunday, October 6, 2024
The New School, New York, NY
Adu-Gilmore with Dana Kelley about “if the stars align…” (string quartet)
pre-concert talk
Verona Quartet at The New School NYC
Saturday, August 10, 2024
Owl Music Parlor, Brooklyn, NY
Leila Adu, Ali Dineen & Feral Foster at The Owl Music Parlor
7:30PM Doors, 8:00pm Show
Leila Adu (solo)
Feral Foster &
Ali Dineen
Ali Dineen is a poet-composer born and raised in Queens, whose lyrics are poetic and deeply personal, and highlight the intersections between personal experience, larger histories, and systems of power. Ali has performed at the Museum of Art and Design, the Caramoor American Roots Music Festival, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Folk Festival. Ali is music director for local puppet troupe extraordinaire The Boxcutter Collective, arranges music and sings with Rev. Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir, and is part of a duet with the inimitable Feral Foster.
Feral Foster has been gigging in New York, across the country and in Europe for the past 10 years, capturing the imagination and attention of listeners with his impassioned singing and powerful songwriting. Foster draws from the deep wellspring of early blues, country, and jazz to tell contemporary, human stories, making for music that feels wellworn and strikingly fresh at the same time. He has become wellknown in the roots music scene for establishing, curating, and performing at Jalopy’s weekly Wednesday “Roots n’ Ruckus” review, which has become a premiere showcase for new and established talent.
$12 Suggested Donation
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11225
Saturday, July 25, 2024
Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival
The Fromm Concert at Tanglewood
July 25, 2024, 8 PM
Seiji Ozawa Hall
Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
Leila ADU-GILMORE United Underdog
Miya MASAOKA Praying for a Sign
Trevor WESTON A.N.S.
Valerie COLEMAN Portraits of Josephine
Nathalie JOACHIM The Race 1915
Tania LEÓN Indigena
Steven MACKEY Afterlife
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Joe’s Pub, New York, NY
LEILA ADU TRIO feat. PUBLIQuartet “Moonstone &
Tar Sands” Album Release Party
Grammy-nominated composer Leila Adu (piano & organ), Jon Toscano (bass), and David Frazier (drums) joins forces with members of string quartet, PUBLIQuartet for the release of the highly acclaimed “Moonstone & Tar Sands” vinyl album.
Joe’s Pub @ The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003
Thursday, February 2, 2023
The Owl Music Parlor, Brooklyn, NY
Zahra Alzubaidi // Leila Adu
A Brooklyn-based Iraqi vocalist, Zahra Alzubaidi performs a variety of Arabic music styles with a focus on Iraqi maqamat and atwaar. She has appeared with several ensembles in NYC, such as Safaafir & Hamid Al Saadi (Iraqi maqam), Takht al-Nagham (Syrian Music Preservation Initiative), The Brooklyn Nomads, among others. Most recently, she headlined a performance at the Brooklyn Maqam Hang. She has performed in venues including Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Museum, Roulette Intermedium, Rutgers University, and BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center.
$20 Suggested Donation
The Owl Music Parlour
497 Rogers Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11225
NEW YORK
Saturday, November 5, 2023
The Owl Music Parlor, Brooklyn, NY
LEILA ADU // Ali Dineen
Leila Adu will play an intimate acoustic solo piano and voice performance sharing the bill with poet-composer, Ali Dineen. Ali Dineen is a poet-composer born and raised in Queens, whose lyrics are poetic and deeply personal, and highlight the intersections between personal experience, larger histories, and systems of power. Ali has performed at the Museum of Art and Design, the Caramoor American Roots Music Festival, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Folk Festival, among other wonderful venues, and was awarded the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency in 2020. Ali is also the music director for local puppet troupe extraordinaire The Boxcutter Collective, arranges music and sings with Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir, and is part of a duet with the inimitable Feral Foster. Ali released a third album, Hold On, in 2020, and is currently working on a new piece about Joan of Arc.
$12 Suggested Donation
The Owl Music Parlour
497 Rogers Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11225
NEW YORK
Saturday, May 28, 2023
WoCo Fest 2022 AMAZE
North Bethesda, MD
Leila Adu DUO with Jon Toscano
Info: https://www.strathmore.org/what-s-on/what-s-on-at-amp/woco-festival-2022-amaze/#bios
Standard Ticket: https://secure.strathmore.org/19974/19984
Full Festival Pass: https://secure.strathmore.org/19974/19975
AMP
11810 Grand Park Avenue (4th Floor)
North Bethesda,
Maryland, 20852
Sunday, May 22, 2023
Bryant Park, New York, NY
Leila Adu-Gilmore Carnegie Hall Commission Composition Première
Bryant Park Stage
Between 40th & 42nd streets & Fifth & Sixth avenues, New York. NY
Monday, May 1st, 2023
BAM, Brooklyn, NY
Bang on a Can
LONG PLAY festival
Leila Adu TRIO with Jon Toscano and Jacob Bills
Tickets and Info https://www.eventbrite.com/e/long-play-festival-2022-tickets-255193971037
Thursday, April 14, 2023
In-Person, Brooklyn, NY
Sō Percussion’s
Brooklyn Bound Jam
With Leila Adu, Sō Percussion, sandbox percussion,
bard percussion.
Tickets: $10 suggested donation https://sopercussion.com/donate/
Online (and In-Person below): Facebook event & YouTube stream
In-Person: 20 Grand Ave,
Brooklyn, NY
Friday, December 12, 2021
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church,
College Park, MD
Friday, December 17, 2021
Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, PA
Sunday, December 19, 2021
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA
Carols After A Plague
An evening of premieres from: Leila Adu, Ambrose Akinmusire, Alex Berko, Edith Canat de Chizy, Viet Cuong, Samantha Fernando, Mary Jane Leach, Shara Nova, Joseph C. Phillips Jr., Nina Shekhar, Tyshawn Sorey, LJ White
Carols have been commissioned by The Crossing, Michael and Lise Meloy, Kim and Ed Shiley, Steven Hyder and Donald Nally, The Bixby Family, an Anonymous Donor, and a consortium of The Board of Directors at The Crossing.
Saturday, October 23, 2021
Lincoln Centre, New York, NY
Chamber Music NY presents:
The Overlook Quartet
The visionary new string quartet, The Overlook, brings a program of works by 20th and 21st century female composers to Chamber Music NY this fall.
The four works by Leila Adu, Eleanor Alberga, Shelley Washington, and Florence Price, journey from the celestial to the terrestrial. Adu’s “If the Stars Align,” incorporates spectralist microtonal harmonies
seamlessly with Baroque viol and Ghanaian highlife music.
No ticket required.
111 Amsterdam Avenue at West 65th Street
Bruno Walter Auditorium at the NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
Sunday, October 10, 2021
Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY
GatherNYC Presents: Leila Adu
Leila Adu, an astonishing force in the space where electropop, avant-classical and singer-songwriter meet, gives a solo performance on voice and piano of her own music, joined by bassist Jon Toscano.
Tickets can be purchased here
Museum of Art and Design
2 Columbus Circle | New York, NY
Thursday, October 7, 2021
Bronx, NY
The Overlook Quartet Performs:
“if the stars align”
The Overlook is a quartet of accomplished string players dedicated to amplifying the music of Black composers, by looking to voices both celebrated and underperformed and seeking out living composers to perform and commission. Through this work, The Overlook upholds a commitment to a more representative canon. The quartet will perform “If the Stars Align,” a program dedicated to the music of living Black female composers Leila Adu, Shelley Washington and Eleanor Alberga.
Free admission.
4900 Independence Ave, Bronx, NY 10471
Saturday, July 31, 2021
MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center
North Adams, MA
Bang on a Can’s LOUD Weekend
BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS play “The Pandemic Solos”, commissioned by Bang on a Can.
World premieres by:
Leila Adu
Jeffrey Brooks
Sophie Cash
Florent Ghy
Trevor Weston
Tickets can be purchased here
MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center
North Adams, MA
Thursday, July 8, 2021
The Green-Wood Cemetery
Brooklyn, NY
Min Kwon’s America/Beautiful
Although these past few years have left us deeply divided, America/Beautiful seeks to embrace our diversity, and remember that by understanding, appreciating, and celebrating our differences, we become stronger both as individuals and as a country. This is what America sounds like, come and listen.
Works by:
Bruce Adolphe
Leila Adu-Gilmore
Andrew Bambridge
Victoria Bond
Charles Coleman
Huang Ruo
David Serkin Ludwig
Jessica Meyer
Patricio Molina
John Musto
Qasim Naqvi
Greg Sandow
Juri Seo
Chris Trapani
Trevor Weston
Wang Jie
Tickets can be purchased here
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Hispanic Society of America,
New York, NY
“if the stars align”
With special guest Tanya Birl-Torres
The Overlook, a string quartet of renowned performers and uptown residents dedicated to amplifying the music of Black composers and bringing high-quality chamber music performances to their neighbors, will survey four centuries of string quartet repertoire by Black composers, with a spotlight on living composers including Leila Adu, Forbes Graham, Jessie Montgomery, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Trevor Weston, Shelley Washington, and Eleanor Alberga.
Purchase tickets here
Hispanic Society of America
614 West 155th St, New York, NY
Monday, July 5, 2021
Pennington, NJ
Miz’ries in New Jersey
AUDIOS AMIGOS: Pennington BBQ Edition
Event page here
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Astor Place, New York, NY
Improvised Concert
Rashid Johnson’s “Red Stage”
Sunder Gagliani & Charlotte Braithwaite curate a day and night performance of singers and friends, including Daniel Carter, Leila Adu & Kai with readings from Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ book Black Feminist Lessons From Marine Mammals.
Astor Place, between Lafayette & Cooper Square, New York, NY
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Chicago, IL
International Music Foundation
Adu-Gilmore, Tchaikovsky,
and Debussy
Leila Adu-Gilmore’s Alyssum joins Tchaikovsky’s Adagio Molto in E-Flat and Debussy’s Danse sacrée et danse profane in a performance by the Chicago Lyric Opera and International Music Foundation.
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
Leila Adu Trio with PUBLIQuartet
One heroine’s journey through personal heartbreak to universal political truths and transfiguration. A mixture of art, song, and improv, composer and performer Leila Adu’s vocal and piano performances transform and uplift hearts across the globe. In her first post-lockdown intimate live show, Adu’s impressionistic love songs and fierce protest songs emit hope for our future. Adu’s Roulette performance combines her trio, including long-time collaborator, bassist Jon Toscano with one of New York’s premier string quartets, PUBLIQuartet.
Leila Adu: voice / piano
Jon Toscano: bass
David Frazier: drums
Curtis Stewart: violin
Jannina Norpoth: violin
Nick Revel: viola
Hamilton Berry: cello
Free Streaming is available, donate to Roulette
Purchase Limited Capcity Live-Show Tickets
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue
(Corner of Third Avenue)
Brooklyn, NY 11217
NEW YORK
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Streaming Online
Mahakala
Streaming Online
Chatterbird, a Nashville-based chamber music ensemble focused on exploring alternative instrumentation and stylistic diversity, will collaborate with New Zealand-American composer Leila Adu to commission and perform a 20-minute chamber opera for two female soloists and a 12-member ensemble. The world premiere will take place in Nashville, Tennessee in November 2020. In addition to the ensemble and vocal soloists, the performance will feature guided improvisation from a local youth choir of eight to fifteen middle and high school students.
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Streaming Online
Long Beach Opera Songbook 2020
Streaming Online, Purchase Tickets
The 2020 Songbook is a ticketed fundraising event featuring the premieres of up to twenty newly commissioned works created by emerging composers. The only parameters given to the emerging composers are that the piece be a reflection of an event or experience from 2020, be between 3-5 minutes long, and feature voice plus instrumental or electronic accompaniment if desired. The resulting 2020 Songbook will serve as an artistic time capsule of this very unusual time, as well as contribute to the creative economy by encouraging the creation of new works. The event will include world premiere performances of the new pieces, behind the scenes moments of creation, and interviews with the many artists and performers involved in the project. The commissioned composers will be mentored by Anthony Davis, Annie Gosfield, David Lang, George Lewis, and Du Yun, who among them have won three Pulitzer Prizes, a MacArthur Genius Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship and have premiered some of the most interesting and dynamic contemporary operas presented in the 21st century. The evening will be hosted live by beloved star, Anthony Roth Costanzo, and will support Long Beach Opera’s 2021 Season of Solidarity.
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Streaming Online
Yet Unheard – London Sinfonietta
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The London Sinfonietta begins its Southbank Centre season with a concert of music by established and emerging black composers, co-curated by leading composer and new music thinker George Lewis and experimental vocalist, movement artist and composer Elaine Mitchener.
Jason Yarde Rude Awakening (arr. Yong) 6’
Leila Adu-Gilmore Freedom Suite I and II 10’
Hannah Kendall Verdala 6’
Tania León Indígena 9’
George Lewis Assemblage 15’
Courtney Bryan Sanctum (arr. Bryan) 12’
Elaine Mitchener vocalist
Vimbayi Kaziboni conductor
London Sinfonietta
Sunday, October 4, 2020
Streaming Online
X AVANT Transmissions –
Colour Wheel
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Cheryl Duval performs the piano solo Colour Wheel
Monday, August 10, 2020
Streaming Online
Reflect The Times – For Edna
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Jannina Norpoth performs works for solo violin by Contemporary Black Composers and Amanda Gookin presents selections for solo cello that elevate stories of feminine empowerment through her initiative Forward Music Project. The two join composer Dameun Strange from American Composers Forum to talk about the practice that has led them to prioritize representation and social consciousness in their programming, commissioning, and performing.
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Streaming Online
Amanda Gookin Cello Recital
Streaming Online
Program:
Leila Adu: For Edna
Allison Loggins-Hull: Stolen
Angélica Negrón: Las Desaparecidas
Nathalie Joachim: Dam mwen yo
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Streaming Online
BANG ON A CAN MARATHON
Streaming Online
… We’ll have to wait for the world to heal. But Bang on a Can is not waiting to find alternative ways to support our community of artists and audience among whom we find inspiration in both the best and most challenging times. We will start by re-setting the foundation. We plan to host a LIVE Bang on a Can Marathon
We are commissioning new music, paying performers, and we plan to do it again……..on Sunday June 14. And we want you to be part of it. The Marathon will be streamed online, an important distinction is that it is LIVE, it will feature around 30 live performances from musicians’ homes around the corner and around the country. Our curatorial focus is short solo performances, it will be hosted by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe.
Sunday, June 7, 2020
Streaming Online
PPE Into Prisons Vol. 6
Streaming Online
Join our PPE Into Prisons: Benefit Show Vol. 6 — THIS SUNDAY JUNE 7 @ 8P EST — all you have to do is click here! If you don’t have Zoom, watch live at DJC Facebook page.
Event goes from 8P EST – 9:30P EST — no registration required. Donate to our campaign here.
JUSTICE FOR GEORGE FLOYD
BLACK LIVES MATTER
DIE JIM CROW
Friday, March 20, 2020
Turner Blair School Of Music,
Nashville, TN
SMASH DIVISION: A Concert of Music by Leila Adu
Turner Hall, Blair School of Music
2400 Blakemore Avenue
Nashville, TN 37212 United States
NASHVILLE
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Town Hall, New York, NY
Sounds of Justice: Sun Ra Arkestra & William Parker’s Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield
Town Hall
123 West 43rd Street
(between 6th Ave and Broadway)
NEW YORK
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Studio Luz, New York, NY
Ghostlillies
Studio Luz
106 Frost Street
NEW YORK
Saturday, February 8, 2020
Rockwood Music Hall, New York, NY
Leila Adu flowers, or die
EP Release Show with
Jon Toscano & Dylan Greene
Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 1
Entry: Doors + Donation
8pm: After-party, Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 0
(Adjacent bar next to Stage 1 on Allen Street with After party drinks specials)
196 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Constellation Chicago, Chicago, IL
String Quartet +/- if the stars align
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Saturday, November 9, 2019
University of Maryland, MD
Voices Unheard: Celebrating Diverse Composers
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
8270 Alumni Dr, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742-1625
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Brooklyn, NY
Duo with Jon Toscano & Leila Adu
376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Thursday, October 17, 2019
New York, NY
DIVE DEEPER: GLOBAL IMPACT OF HIP HOP CULTURE AND MUSIC
Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Fresh & Jason ‘Timbuktu’ Diakité moderated by Leila Adu-Gilmore
Harlem Stage
150 Convent Avenue
NEW YORK, NY
Friday, September 27, 2019
Abajo Culture & Art Cafe
Accra, Ghana
Childrens Music Making Workshop with Alejandro VZE
ACCRA
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Accra, Ghana
Lucked In
Alliance Francais
ACCRA
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Accra, Ghana
Lucked In
Republic
ACCRA
Sunday, August 4, 2019
Mexico City
Terraza Monstruo – Impro 4
Partido Fundamentalista del Sonido
(Leila Adu, Jacob Wick, Carlos Alegre, Misha Marks)
La Perrera Municipal
Revillagigedo 96, Azotea – Centro
MEXICO CITY
Friday, August 2, 2019
Mexico City
Partido Fundamentalista
del Sonido
(Leila Adu, Jacob Wick, Carlos Alegre, Misha Marks)
Bucareli
69 Colonia Juarez, 06600 Cuauhtémoc
MEXICO CITY
Tuesday, 20 Novembre, 2018
Paris, France
Le Grand Salon Volant Festival
HOUDINI + PAULINE DRAND + LEILA ADU + CHRISTINE ZAYED + GORDA ENSEMBLE
Petit Bain
7 Porte de la Gare
PARIS 75013
