Thursday December 5, 8:00pm
Roots n’ ruckus Fest
Theatre – 8:00pm
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
Jalopy Theater
315 Columbia Street
Brooklyn
NY 11231
Monday November 4-Sunday November 10
Always, Already There @ Haus de Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
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 Oct 25, 7-8:30pm
MoMA & the NY Phil present:
Sound On: ComposingWhile Black, Volume II
Sold out
THE ROY AND NIUTA TITUS THEATER 1
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
11 WEST 53 STREET, MANHATTAN
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10019
Fri Oct 11, 8pm
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
Sun oct 6
11am-12pm Pre-concert Talk
2pm concert
Adu-Gilmore with Dana Kelley about “if the stars align…” (string quartet)
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, 8pm
Doors 8pm, Music 8:30pm
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 Sep 28, 6pm-11.59pm
Belts & Whistles 10th Anniversary Fest
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
Pre-Concert Composer Talks
Thu Sep 26, 6pm pre-concert talk,
7pm concert
Polyaspora Festival: ‘Composing While Black’
Adu-Gilmore “Alyssum” (string quartet + harp)
International Contemporary Ensemble at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC.
Sun oct 6, 11ampm pre-concert talk,
2pm concert
Adu-Gilmore with Dana Kelley about “if the stars align…” (string quartet)
pre-concert talk
Verona Quartet at The New School NYC
Leila Adu, Ali Dineen & Feral Foster @ The Owl
Saturday August 10, 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 11225
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
LEILA ADU TRIO feat. PUBLIQuartet Moonstone and Tar Sands Double-Vinyl Release Party
Thursday April 4, 2024, 9.30pm
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 and Tar Sands vinyl album.
Thursday April 4, 9:00pm
Joe’s Pub @ The Public Theater
June 4th – 8th
Magdalene Opera, Beth Morrison Opera Projects
“The Landing” Leila Adu-Gilmore
Roy and Edna Disney Calarts Theater
Los Angeles
July 12, 2024
Willy Street Chamber Players 2024 Summer Series
WYSO Center for Music (WCM), 1118 E. Washington St.
Friday, July 12 at 6 pm
André Caplet: Conte Fantastique
Leila Adu-Gilmore: Alyssum
Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C major D. 956
Tickets can be purchased here.
Thursday, July 25, 8pm
Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music
“United Underdog” commissioned by Min Kwon, composed for solo piano, by Leila Adu-Gilmore
Ozawa Hall
New York
August 1, 2024
THU 1 AUGUST 2024, 7:30PM – 9:30PM, PUBLIC TRUST HALL, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
Kaleidoscopes of refracted colour burst from the page, in this prismatic concert of luminous music. A world premiere by NZ/Canadian composer Nicholas Denton Protsack sits alongside meditative music by his compatriots R Murray Schafer and John Luther Adams, renowned for capturing the shifting colours of their wild northern landscapes. Other works in the light-themed programme are by NZ composer Leila Adu-Gilmore, Daniela Terranova (Italy) and Bree Van Ryk (Australia), rounded out by the dazzling final work Grammar of Dreams by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho.
PROGRAMME
Leila Adu-Gilmore (NZL) — Alyssum
R Murray Schafer (CAN) — String quartet No. 2: Waves
Nicholas Denton Protsack (NZL/CAN) — A Gleaming Thing (PREMIERE)
John Luther Adams (CAN) — The Light Within
Daniela Terranova (ITA)— Rainbow Dust in the Sky
Bree Van Reyk (AUS) — Light for the First Time
Kaija Saariaho (FIN) — Grammaire des reves (Grammar of Dreams)
International Contemporary Ensemble
ANTHONY DAVIS & LEILA ADU-GILMORE
Skirball Center
566 LaGuardia Place
(Between West 4th and West 3rd Street)
Tickets on sale here
The International Contemporary Ensemble returns to NYU Skirball with a program of works by composer/pianist Anthony Davis and composer/vocalist Leila Adu-Gilmore. The evening will feature Adu-Gilmore’s Mahakala Oratorio (2020-23, world premiere of the live version) and Alyssum (2014); and Davis’s Wayang No. II (Shadowdance) (1982), and Undine (1986).
Mahakala Oratorio was originally commissioned as a video première by Chatterbird
New Live Première Video Art for Mahakala: Aaron Sherwood 
Anthony Davis is an internationally recognized composer of operatic, symphonic, choral, and chamber works, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his opera The Central Park Five. He is also known for his virtuoso performances both as a solo pianist and as the leader of the ensemble Episteme, a unique ensemble of musicians who are disciplined interpreters as well as provocative improvisers.
Leila Adu Trio & Oren 0’Blivion
Friday February 23
7:30-8pm Doors
8-9:00pm Leila Adu Trio (Toscano & Frazier)
9-10:00pm Oren 0’Blivion
Grammy-nominated composer Leila Adu (piano & organ), Jon Toscano (bass), and David Frazier (drums) play an intimate show at The Owl in advance of the release of their Moonstone and Tar Sands vinyl album in April.
Oren 0’Blivion cofounder of Elysian Fields and TOMP. His singing has been described as ‘increasingly effective’ in the Village Voice and he has been Greil Marcus’s Artist Of The Year. “Oren can play guitar with the best of them, and when he plays with Elysian Fields, Antibalas or Me’shell Ndegeocello, he can turn his guitar inside out, set the controls for the heart of the sun and never look back.”— Brian Cullman
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Ave
Brooklyn 11225
‘Life Matters’ Single Release Party
Friday Dec 22, 10pm
Sleepwalk
251 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11206
Saturday, November 18 – 7PM
Tickets can be purchased here
Leila Adu trio with bassist Jon Toscano & drummer David Frazier play with 80’s synthpop duo, Diamond Field
Rev Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir
feat. Leila Adu ‘Life Matters
November 26 – December 17, 2023
Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette Street
(at Astor Place)
New York, NY 10003
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Thursday, November 30, 6pm
NYU MPAP MUSIC TECH PRESENTS
INTERACTIVE SERIES: IMMERSIVE SOUNDS, PIANO AND ELECTRONICS
WITH PERFORMANCES BY:
ANASTASIA CLARKE
DARRYL MONTGOMERY HELL
ERIC LYON
HENRY WONG DOE (PREMIÈRE OF “DOM” BY ADU-GILMORE)
KWAMI COLEMAN
LUKE DUBOIS
& IMMERSIVE SPATIALIZATION BY PAUL GELUSO
Henry Wong Doe will perform “DOM” from an album of recent commissions for solo piano featuring works by Gemma Peacocke, Leila Adu-Gilmore, Alex Taylor, Poulima Salima, Leonie Holmes, and Penelope Axtens:
“This album celebrates the artistry of six New Zealand composers. The recent pandemic presented significant challenges to musical artists, causing many to reflect on their values and identify what is most important to them. As we come to appreciate the importance of interpersonal connection, music becomes increasingly important as a way to bring people together and express our shared humanity.
In 2022, I invited each composer to write a work illustrating their perspective on recent times, and it has been wonderful to discover their unique voices and sensibilities through music.” – Henry Wong Doe
The paulson center, 620
181 Mercer St, New York, NY 10012
free registration required
Saturday, November 18, 7PM
Leila Performs with Jacob Bills
Jacob Bills is a London/NYC based multi-instrumentalist, song writer, composer and producer who’s music Obscure Sounds has called “Glistening, Hypnotic..an atmosphericaly moving success”. His artistic practice flows between sound, written word and experiments with physical material and both jagged and dreamy pop compositions. His past musical works and projects include Asa Ransom, O Paradiso, Death of Fashion, and performance collective Polyphony, as well as compositions for Dancer Cori Kresge, Filmmaker Sally Tran and Artists Kara Hamilton, Simone Kearney, Steven Thompson and Charles Laib Bitton. This show will be a much anticipated live debut of his solo music in New York.
Sleepwalk
251 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11206
Tickets can be purchased here
Leila Plays LIVING DOLLS Extravaganza
Rubulad Proudly Presents Living Dolls
on Saturday, Sept. 30
with live music by:
Skorts
Chico Raro
Fly Ashtray
Leila Adu
The Dirt Whisperers
with your MC Tanya Solomon
and your DJs:
DJ Mojo
Matt Meade
plus:
Visuals by Migraine on Wheels
Doll Art with Daupo
Go-Go by Anna Copa Cabanna
Art Neighborhood Action Figure Workshop
And much, much more
15 beans in advance, before 9:00 pm, or after performances end; 20 beans otherwise. (includes complimentary beverage if you dress as your favorite doll or action figure)
Advance Tix: https://withfriends.co/event/16706835/rubulad_presents_living_dolls
7:30 pm doors, 8:00 pm show.
Address with tix or DM or RSVP to rubulad@outlook.com.
Dress: get dolled up!
https://www.facebook.com/events/3473117966351083/?ref=newsfeed
https://www.facebook.com/rubulad/
Rubalad
389 Melrose St
Brooklyn, NY 11237
Leila Adu and Friends
Storefront For art and architecture
97 kenmare street
NY, 10012
From June 17th through September 9th, Storefront for Art and Architecture in Lower Manhattan will present an exhibition by artist Francisca Benítez and her explorations on the city through her work on performance and the politics of space. Her work features the Stop Shopping Choir’s transformation of the storefront of a former bank in the East Village into the Earth Church. Fellow Stop Shopping Choir collaborator, Leila Adu plays two song and improvised music shows with collaborator artist-friends, activist-performing artist Savitri D, multi-instrumentalist-composer Erich Barganier and composer-producer pianist, Kwami Coleman
Leila Adu With kwami coleman & Erich Barganier
Thursday, July 6, 2023
5:00 PM – 7:00 pm
leila adu with Savitri D
Thursday, June 29, 2023
5:00 PM – 7:00 pm
Leila Adu, Ali Dineen and Friends
Thursday, June 22, 2023
7:30 pm Doors, 8 PM show
The owl Music Parlor
497 rogers ave,
Brooklyn, NYC 11225
“PERSPECTIVES” PROJECT – NEW ZEALAND PREMIERE
University of Auckland (map)
New Zealand premiere of six new works for piano by Penny Axtens, Leila Adu-Gilmore, Leonie Holmes, Gemma Peacocke, Poulima Salima, Alex Taylor.
Henry Wong Doe Solo Recital – “PERSPECTIVES” World Premiere
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (map)
Perspectives project World Premiere (Livestreamed)
Gorell Hall, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
New works for piano and piano/electronics by Leila Adu-Gilmore, Penny Axtens, Leonie Holmes, Gemma Peacocke, Poulima Salima and Alex Taylor
Broad Statements Mini-Festival
SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2023
7:00PM – 10:00PM
SOUTH OXFORD SPACE
138 SOUTH OXFORD STREET,
BROOKLYN, NY 11217 (MAP)
Broad Statements is The Rhythm Method’s annual mini-festival celebrating creative music-making by women, non-binary, and gender-expansive people in a wide array of artistic styles. This year’s line-up features andPlay duo, Leila Adu, Rose Stoller, Ava Mendoza, and The Rhythm Method.
7PM: THE RHYTHM METHOD
7:30PM: ROSE STOLLER
8PM: ANDPLAY
8:30PM: AVA MENDOZA
9PM: LEILA ADU
Tickets grant entry throughout for the entire evening’s lineup. Space is limited, so reserve yours to secure a spot!
The Owl Music Parlor
Thursday February 2, 2023, 7:30 Doors, 8:00 Show
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
The Owl Music Parlor
Saturday November 5, 7:30 Doors, 8:00 Show
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
WoCo Fest 2022 AMAZE
Saturday May 28, 3:00PM
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
Sunday May 22, 12:00pm
Leila Adu-Gilmore Carnegie Hall Commission Composition Première
Bryant Park | Stage
Between 40th and 42nd streets and Fifth and Sixth avenues | Manhattan
New York
Bang on a Can
LONG PLAY festival
May 1st, 3:00pm
Leila Adu TRIO with Jon toscano and jacob bills
Tickets and Info https://www.eventbrite.com/e/long-play-festival-2022-tickets-255193971037
BAM – The Adam
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Sō Percussion’s Brooklyn Bound Jam
Thursday April 14, 8pm (in-person + online)
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
Carols After A Plague
Friday, December 12, 2021. 3:00 pm
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, College Park, MD Tickets
Friday, December 17, 2021. 7:00 pm
Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia Tickets
Sunday, December 19, 2021. 5:00 pm
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia Tickets
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. 8:00 PM
Chamber Music NY presents: The Overlook Quartet
111 Amsterdam Avenue at West 65th Street
Bruno Walter Auditorium at the NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
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.
Sunday, October 10, 2021. 10:30 AM
GatherNYC Presents: Leila Adu
Museum of Art and Design
2 Columbus Circle | NYC
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
Thursday, October 7, 2021. 1:00 PM
The Overlook Quartet Performs: “If The Stars Align”
4900 Independence Ave, Bronx, NY 10471
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.
Saturday, July 31, 2021. 6:00 pm
Bang on a Can’s LOUD Weekend
MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center
North Adams, MA
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 Ghys
Trevor Weston
Tickets can be purchased here
Thursday, July 8, 2021. 7:30 pm
(Doors at 7:00 pm)
Min Kwon’s America/Beautiful
The Green-Wood Cemetery
Brooklyn, NY
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. 6:00 pm
If the stars align
Hispanic Society of America
614 West 155th St.
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
Monday, July 5, 2021. 5:00 pm
Miz’ries in New Jersey
139 East Delaware Ave Pennington NJ
AUDIOS AMIGOS: Pennington BBQ Edition
Event page here
Thursday, June 24, 2021. 12:00 pm
Improvised Concert
Rashid Johnson’s “Red Stage”
Astor Place, between Lafayette and Cooper Square
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
Tuesday, June 22, 2021. 5:45 pm
(Doors 5:00 pm)
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. 8:00 pm
(Doors 7:00 pm)
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
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
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
Yet Unheard – London Sinfonietta
Streaming Online
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 – 7 PM EST
X AVANT Transmissions – Colour Wheel
Streaming Online
Cheryl Duval performs the piano solo Colour Wheel
Monday, August 10, 2020 – 7:30 – 8:30 PM
Reflect The Times – For Edna
Streaming Online
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 – 3 PM EST
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 – 3 PM
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 – 8 PM
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 – 8 pm
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 – 7 pm
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 – 7 pm
Ghostlillies
Studio Luz
106 Frost Street
NEW YORK
Saturday, February 8, 2020 – 7 pm
7pm: 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 10002
Lower East Side
NEW YORK
November 24, 2019 – 8:30 pm
String Quartet +/- if the stars align
Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618, United States
Chicago
Saturday, November 9, 2019 – 7 pm
Voices Unheard: Celebrating Diverse Composers
3800 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
8270 Alumni Dr
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-1625
College Park
Sunday, October 27, 2019 – 7 pm
Duo with Jon Toscano & Leila Adu
376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
NEW YORK
Thursday, October 17, 2019 – 7:30pm
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
Friday, September 27, 2019
Childrens Music Making Workshop with Alejandro VZE
Abajo Culture & Art Cafe
ACCRA
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Lucked In
Alliance Francais
ACCRA
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Lucked In
Republic
ACCRA
Sunday, August 4, 2019
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
Partido Fundamentalista del Sonido
(Leila Adu, Jacob Wick, Carlos Alegre, Misha Marks)
Bucareli
69 Colonia Juarez, 06600 Cuauhtémoc
MEXICO CITY
Tuesday, 20 Novembre 2018
Le Grand Salon Volant Festival
HOUDINI + PAULINE DRAND + LEILA ADU + CHRISTINE ZAYED + GORDA ENSEMBLE
Petit Bain
7 Porte de la Gare
PARIS 75013
