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"It'll be a really fun show with some of the most insanely talented musicians playing some of the best music ever written... All you have to know is - do you like a good tune? Because we're going to be playing a ton of those." - Chris Addison

Chris Addison’s Incomplete Guide to Chamber Music

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Experience powerful masterpieces paired with emotionally resonant works, embodying remembrance, resilience, and hope, including Steve Reich’s Different Trains.

Up Close with Violins of Hope

Figge Art Museum

A child of separation, the American Steve Reich, a pioneer of minimalist music, regularly traveled back and forth by train between New York and Los Angeles. During these long journeys, one thought constantly preoccupied him: had he been born a little earlier in Europe, with his Jewish heritage, he would undoubtedly have traveled on different trains. This is what gave rise in 1988 to Different Trains , a string quartet with a soundtrack.

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Lille Opera

In their inaugural collaboration, Loop38 and Aperio present Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, celebrating the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking 1976 premiere. Hailed as a defining work of American minimalism, Music for 18 Musicians helped bring minimalist music into the cultural spotlight. Its 1978 recording was a commercial and cultural breakthrough, propelling minimalism beyond the New York scene and to listeners around the world. 

Fifty years later, the work remains vital and visionary. This performance offers a rare opportunity to experience Music for 18 Musicians live in Houston. Join us in honoring a masterpiece that continues to shape the sound of contemporary music today.

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Steve Reich: Music for 18 musicians

Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston

With the concert, we explore musical boundaries, or rather: the brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen do, together with the two percussionists Alexej Gerassimez and Emil Kuyumcuyan. They present a diverse program that focuses on rhythms and sounds. John Adams' rapid "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" is virtually a musical adrenaline rush, which in this arrangement for piano and percussion unleashes all its pulsating energy in a concentrated form. Fazil Say's Variations for two pianos and percussion combine Turkish folk music with energetic modern sounds. Steve Reich's Quartet for two pianos and two vibraphones is hypnotic and precise - minimalist music that unfolds a unique pull through its shimmering patterns. The Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story," on the other hand, bring Broadway to the concert stage: passionate, dramatic, and full of dance rhythms. By invitation of the Dresden Philharmonic in cooperation with DK Deutsche Klassik.

Jussen Brothers

Palace of Culture

It's about to get exciting! When piano-playing brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen join forces with top drummers Alexej Gerassimez and Emil Kuyumcuyan, musical sparks fly. All four already know each other from previous tours. Audiences can therefore look forward to a well-rehearsed team whose enthusiasm for experimentation, sense of rhythm, and outstanding virtuosity promise a veritable firework display on keys and drumsticks. In addition to original compositions for this unusual ensemble, including works by Steve Reich, the program also includes arrangements of repertoire classics such as the Symphonic Dances from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story and George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

Lucas & Arthur Jussen / Alexej Gerassimez / Emil Kuyumcuyan

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

In the years before the Millennium Steve Reich and Philip Glass transformed the way we listen – creating music as energising as it poetic, and as modern as it is timeless. In Reich’s 90th birthday year, the Carducci Quartet plays one of his most haunting masterpieces, alongside Philip Glass’s Third Quartet and something brand new from the incredible, dancing imagination of Vincenzo Lamagna.

Carducci Quartet: Different Trains

Bute Park

This concert celebrates Jonny Greenwood’s love of orchestral string writing. In Water, the warmth of the Hallé strings envelopes two flutes and an Indian tanpura on a journey of rippling colour. Lutosławski dedicated his moving Musique funèbre to the pioneering composer Bela Bartók whilst Steve Reich’s lyrical Pulse is a tenderly contemplative, yet constantly pulsating, work. Jonny Greenwood’s groundbreaking Horror Vacui, performed by Daniel Pioro, ‘the violinist making classical music cool’ (The Telegraph), plays upon the artistic concept of ‘the fear of empty spaces’ to astonishing effect. Using the full sonic potential of the solo violin and extensive string orchestra, he creates an eerily liminal soundscape, building in atmosphere and intensity throughout each movement. These are string instruments as you’ve never heard them before.

The Hallé Presents… Jonny Greenwood

The Bridgewater Hall

This concert celebrates Jonny Greenwood’s love of orchestral string writing. In Water, the warmth of the Hallé strings envelopes two flutes and an Indian tanpura on a journey of rippling colour.

The Hallé Presents: Jonny Greenwood

Reich Knussen Adams

Gasteig HP8

Steve Reich's monumental work for choir and orchestra is more than just a piece of minimal music—it's an acoustic metaphor for what science calls "swarm behavior." Countless rhythmic and melodic phrases are interwoven to form a collective structure that is more than the sum of its parts. Reich employs the repetitive patterns typical of his music, which constantly shift in minute ways, causing the soundscape to move as if in slow motion. Not unlike a flock of birds, each individual acts independently, yet together they form a harmonious and structural whole. The Lithuanian composer Justė Janulytė is known for her minimalist, monochromatic soundscapes, which she pours into slow, ethereal processes with a keen sense of perfect dramaturgy. She plays with the merging of individual voices into a collective mass, making the transition almost invisible. Commissioned by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Justė Janulytė has been inspired to create a new work for large orchestra, which will have its world premiere at Forum N.

Desert Music

Hessischer Rundfunk

In Steve Reich’s endlessly tessellating music, shapes emerge, solidify, uncouple, drift away, and begin to emerge anew. Leading the orchestra through this large-scale minimalist exploration is conductor and percussionist Colin Currie, one of the foremost champions of Steve Reich’s music worldwide, and a close collaborator of this American titan.

BBC Philharmonic - Steve Reich: The Four Sections

Steve Reich: The Four Sections

Minimalist masterpieces from the visionary US maverick composer Steve Reich – in performances directed by his close friend and trusted collaborator, Edinburgh-born Colin Currie.

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The Queen's Hall

City Halls

Berlin-based composer Catherine Lamb weaves together six voices with an ensemble that includes a just intonation electric guitar and retuned celtic harp. Together, they explore forms drawn from harmony and timbre, and based on the natural tunings of just intonation. Music by Lamb's teacher, James Tenney, opens the night, juxtaposed with Reich's electrifying Eight Lines providing a more propulsive energy.

Explore Ensemble & EXAUDI: Eight Lines

Milton Court Concert Hall

Formed in 1994 as Guildhall students, the Quartz Saxophone Quartet unites four of the UK’s leading saxophonists – three of whom now teach at the School.

Quartz Saxophone Quartet

Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint, for solo guitarist and 15 other pre-recorded guitar parts, is a cosmopolitan bop referencing west African drumming rhythms and the constant thrum of New York City, dedicated to Pat Metheny; a lively and heady mix only equalled by Sasha Scott’s Rush – an energetic work by one of the UK’s most exciting young composers.

After Dark: Sean Shibe – Electric Counterpoint

Southbank Centre

Following on from its highly acclaimed 2024 festival celebrating the works of Steve Reich, the Hallé is once again joined by conductor and percussionist Colin Currie and Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood for a concert of some of Reich’s most well-known works.

Manchester Classical 2025 – Jonny Greenwood performs Reich with the Hallé

Sound Beams’ program invites you to experience how composers use structure to create beauty and expression. Debussy’s Violin Sonata offers a heartfelt conversation between violin and piano. Reich’s Music for Pieces of Woodtransforms simple rhythms into something mesmerizing and intricate. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, arranged for string trio, reimagines a single theme in thirty different ways—each one a fresh perspective on a familiar idea.

Sound Beams

Kirk in the Hills

We celebrate the 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking Apollo Saxophone Quartet with two of the many wonderful pieces they have commissioned from UK composers through the years. Clark Rundell returns to join in the celebrations and adds one of his favourite Steve Reich pieces, a jazz-infused work of virtuosity by Ukrainian Nikolai Kapustin, and replays a piece by talented North West composer Carmel Smickersgill.

Ensemble 10:10

Yoko Ono Lennon Centre

Daniel Melendez performs a recital of works by Saariaho, Haubenstock-Ramati and more.

Student Degree Recital: Daniel Melendez D.M.A. percussion recital

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

In programs featuring cutting-edge new music and important works of the twentieth-century, the Williams Percussion Ensemble (WiPE) surveys a vast terrain of sound and rhythm. The ensemble employs all manner of percussion instruments, found sounds, and electronics to create music that resonates across boundaries of genre and discipline. In addition to music for percussion alone the group presents works for mixed ensembles and new and experimental music for a range of instruments.

Williams Percussion Ensemble

Williams College

Our relaxed concerts are tailored for people who have sensory and communication impairments, or who are neurodiverse. Everyone over the age of 5 who feels more comfortable attending concerts in an easy-going environment is welcome.

Relaxed Thursday Lunchtime Concert

St Giles Cripplegate

Join the Olympia Symphony for Open Doors, a celebration of young talent and a glimpse into a bright musical future. Experience an exhilarating musical journey beginning with Molly Turner’s Open Doors, capturing the spirit of discovery. Enjoy the lyrical beauty of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, followed by the deeply romantic Brahms Violin Concerto. The evening concludes with Steve Reich’s Concerto for Two Violins and Strings, highlighting innovative rhythms and collaboration. This concert promises an unforgettable experience, showcasing the future of classical music with these exceptional performers!

Olympia Symphony Orchestra: Open Doors

Washington Center Main Stage

Join the Olympia Symphony for Open Doors, a celebration of young talent and a glimpse into a bright musical future. Experience an exhilarating musical journey beginning with Molly Turner's Open Doors, capturing the spirit of discovery. Enjoy the lyrical beauty of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, followed by the expressive brilliance of Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No. 1. The evening concludes with Steve Reich's Concerto for Two Violins and Strings, highlighting innovative rhythms and collaboration. This concert promises an unforgettable experience, showcasing the future of classical music with these exceptional performers!



Open Doors

Washington Center for the Performing Arts

Chamber Concert: Works by Glazunov, Lang, Žuraj, Fries and Reich

Museum Frieder Burda

Freiburg Concert Hall

Kultur- & Kongresszentrum Liederhalle

The MSO’s February concert opens with Steve Reich’s groundbreaking Clapping Music, a minimalist marvel that challenges conventional notions of rhythm and ensemble performance. Featuring precise handclap patterns that gradually shift and evolve, Reich’s composition mesmerizes with its hypnotic simplicity and intricate rhythmic interplay. Speaking of rhythm, we next present Philip Glass’s Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists, starring our own Principal Timpanist Laura Noah alongside guest percussionist Peter Ferry. Glass’s mesmerizing concerto is a rhythmic blast, showcasing the timpani’s versatility and expressive power in a dialogue that spans resonant depths and ethereal heights.

Modern Romance

Saenger Theatre

Feel the contrast between the starkness of the desert and the frenetic intensity of spring’s awakening, as Creative Partner David Robertson pushes the boundaries of sound and sensation in an electrifying performance. Delve into the hypnotic minimalism of Steve Reich’s The Desert Music as the haunting vocals of London-based Synergy Vocals (known for their performances of Steve Reich’s works) evoke vast, barren expanses.

The Rite of Spring

Salt Palace Convention Center

Reich/Richter & Philip Glass

The Royal Library

Christoph Sietzen is a man of superlatives: When the award-winning multi-percussionist gets started with the percussion ensemble MOTUS Percussion, a huge spectrum can be experienced, from the limits of the audible to fascinating sound eruptions.

Christoph Sietzen | MOTUS Percussion

Museum Ludwig

Violist Jonathan Brown, Colburn’s newly appointed professor of chamber music, was a member of the acclaimed Cuarteto Casals for more than two decades. With the quartet, he performed in major concert halls across the globe and amassed a robust library of recordings. For his Colburn debut, Brown pairs Mozart’s charming String Quartet No. 1 with eclectic works by Schoenberg and Steve Reich.

Colburn Chamber Music Society: Jonathan Brown, Viola

Colburn School

### Event Description: Philip Glass’ Eleventh Symphony - Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

**Date and Time:**  
Friday, December 6, 2024, at 7:00 PM

**Venue:**  
Orpheum Theatre

**Event Overview:**  
Experience the mesmerizing Eleventh Symphony by Philip Glass, a masterpiece that stands as one of the great works of the 21st century. This symphony, known for its majestic opening and shattering climax, will be performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Music Director Otto Tausk.

**Program Highlights:**
- **Philip Glass:** Symphony No. 11
- **Steve Reich:** Jacob’s Ladder (Canadian Premiere) featuring Synergy Vocals UK
- **John Adams:** Gnarly Buttons, with VSO Principal Clarinetist Jeanette Jonquil
- **Linda Catlin Smith:** Mountain (World Premiere)

**Special Notes:**
- The performance will last approximately 90 minutes.
- "Mountain" is commissioned with the support of the Hugh Davidson Fund.
- "Jacob’s Ladder" is a co-commission with several prestigious organizations including the New York Philharmonic, BBC Radio 3, and others.

**Artists:**
- **Otto Tausk:** VSO Music Director
- **Jeanette Jonquil:** Principal Clarinet
- **Synergy Vocals:** Vocals

**Series:**  
This concert is part of the "Musically Speaking" series, which features engaging and informative performances.

**Tickets:**  
Tickets are available for purchase. Subscribe today to ensure your seat at this extraordinary event.

Join us for an evening of groundbreaking music and exceptional performances at the Orpheum Theatre. Don’t miss the chance to witness the Canadian premiere of Steve Reich’s "Jacob’s Ladder" and the world premiere of Linda Catlin Smith’s "Mountain," alongside the powerful Eleventh Symphony by Philip Glass.

Philip Glass’ Eleventh Symphony

Orpheum

After stays in Hollywood, Armenia, and everywhere between, “Canada’s true renaissance man” (Ottawa Sun) Braid arrives triumphantly to MCO’s stages with rock-star composers Reich, Lizée, Montgomery, and Dessner. 

Sojourn

Crescent Arts Centre

Student Conductors: Soo Jin Chung, Ricardo Ferro, Valentina Paolucci, Adrian Rogers

Wednesdays at One: Lab Orchestra

Lincoln Center

Jaap van Zweden and the Concertgebouw Orchestra perform Bruckner’s ‘Romantic’ Fourth Symphony and Steve Reich’s hypnotic Music for Ensemble and Orchestra.

Jaap van Zweden conducts Bruckner’s Fourth

The Concertgebouw

Sunday Matinee

Odeon

Sir Andrew Davis (1944–2024), the celebrated British conductor famed for delighting audiences at the BBC Proms with his sparkling wit and exquisite musicianship, is remembered in this Prom from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins.

The centrepiece of the concert is Reich’s Jacob’s Ladder, the composer’s ‘dream of ascending and descending a ladder between heaven and earth’ that was deemed ‘energetic, meditative, light, graceful and refreshing’ when premiered in New York last spring.

Prom 53: Stravinsky, Tippett and Elgar

Royal Albert Hall

Sir Andrew Davis (1944–2024), the celebrated British conductor famed for delighting audiences at the BBC Proms with his sparkling wit and exquisite musicianship, is remembered in this Prom from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins. The centrepiece of the concert is Reich’s Jacob’s Ladder, the composer’s ‘dream of ascending and descending a ladder between heaven and earth’ that was deemed ‘energetic, meditative, light, graceful and refreshing’ when premiered in New York last spring. The second half will now include the ‘Ritual Dances’ from Tippet’s opera The Midsummer Marriage and Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations, two pieces close to Sir Andrew Davis’s heart.



Prom 53: Stravinsky, Reich, Tippett and Elgar

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Broadcast: Percussion Studio Recital

Curtis Institute of Music

The programme includes the exciting dancing textures created by pioneering multi-layered tape pieces such as Steve Reich’s Violin Phase and Vermont Counterpoint. Richly complex patterns create compelling listening in Julius Eastman’s Joy Boy and modern New York icon Julia Wolfe’s East Broadway. We’ll look to the British version of the movement with Michael Nyman’s captivating In C Interlude while the weaving melodies hypnotise in Anna Clyne’s Just as they are. The concert will close with a performance of Gavin Bryars’ extraordinary Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, in celebration of the composer’s strong links to Portsmouth in his highly experimental ensemble the Portsmouth Sinfonia.  

Minimalism

Portsmouth Guildhall

Jeffrey Koyiyumptewa, Percussion – Senior Recital

The University of Arizona

Steve Reich and Terry Riley have each had a profound influence on the way we listen to music. The term “minimalism” is often used to characterize their music, yet the music itself is anything but minimal; incorporating much nuance and subtlety that is maximal in imagination and innovation.

6 Pianos 12 Hands (Keyed Up! #3)

Jane Mallett Theatre

Immerse yourself in a captivating chamber concert experience with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, presenting "Sprechende Musik Klingende Worte." This exceptional event is set to take place on Saturday, 24th February 2024, at 8:00 pm in the majestic Munich Residence, Max Joseph Saal, followed by a second performance on Sunday, 25th February 2024, at 6:00 pm at the Tutzing, Evangelische Akademie.

The evening's programme promises a profound musical journey, featuring Joseph Haydn's "Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze (The Seven Last Words)" and Steve Reich's "Different Trains for string quartet and tape." These pieces, one reflecting on the meditative grandeur of Haydn's work and the other, a contemporary masterpiece by Reich that intertwines the sounds of trains with historical narratives, promise to deliver an unforgettable auditory experience.

The performances will showcase the talents of Daniela Jung and Marije Grevink on violin, Christiane Hörr-Kalmer on viola, and Jan Mischlich on violoncello. This ensemble of accomplished musicians is set to bring the compositions to life, offering a night of reflective and moving music.

For those unable to attend in person, the concert will be available as audio on demand online until April 12, 2024, ensuring that the beauty of this event can be experienced by a wider audience.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to witness the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks as they explore the depths of human emotion and historical narratives through music. Secure your tickets now and be part of a memorable evening that bridges the gap between speaking music and sounding words.

Sprechende Musik Klingende Worte

Munich Residence

Evangelische Akademie

Four pieces from the last decade, plus a commission. And back and forth between France and the United States, east coast and west coast. Nico Muhly, a young forty-something born in Vermont and a brilliant flagship of American music, rubs shoulders with Californian Gabriella Smith, from Berkeley, then Steve Reich's Music for Ensemble and Orchestra concludes the ceremony. Not without letting Régis Campo repaint the Radio France Auditorium as a pulsing dance floor : exhilarating!

Presences Festival 2024 #7

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

In preparation for Juilliard’s forthcoming collaboration with ARRAY as part of the inaugural California Festival, chamber music and jazz students present an Open Studio. This informal event will feature light refreshments and conversation as well as run-throughs of works curated by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning composer and pianist Kris Bowers (BM '10, MM '12, jazz studies). The event will be hosted by Creative Associate at Large and faculty member Nadia Sirota (BM ’04, MM ’06, viola; Academy ’08).

Open Studio for ARRAY x Juilliard @ CA Festival

The Juilliard School

Studio Recitals feature students who all study with the same faculty instructor. These young artists represent their studio with a program curated by their teacher.

Eddie Virtgaym, percussion - Senior Recital

Bowes Center

We are delighted to welcome guitarist JIJI, known for her virtuosity and command of diverse repertoire, to Tippet Rise for the first time. Performing outdoors on the land at the Domo by Ensamble Studio, JIJI’s program Counterpoint Dream, takes us on a musical journey in and out of several centuries including Baroque-period works by the 16th century nun Claudia Sessa, Marin Marais and J.S. Bach, Romantic virtuosos Niccolò Paganini and Isaac Albéniz, Haitian guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus, and American minimalist Steve Reich. The program also includes with works by Antón García-Abril – a special tribute to the great Catalan composer and father of Ensamble Studio’s principal architect of the same name, whose other-worldly structures, including the Domo, are integral to the Tippet Rise experience.

JIJI, guitar

Tippet Rise Art Center

Sandbox Percussion opens the Classically Uncorked series with a dynamic program of new music and Bravo! Vail premieres, including works by Amy Beth Kirsten, David Crowell, Juri Seo, Viet Cuong, and Sandbox founder Victor Caccese.

Bravo! Vail’s Classically Uncorked returns with three bold chamber music programs cocurated and performed by Sandbox Percussion, a contemporary percussion quartet known for its visually and auditorily stunning presentations. Each Classically Uncorked program offers a unique chamber music experience with handcrafted wines and cabaret-style seating in the gorgeous Donovan Pavilion.

Classically Uncorked I: Sandbox Percussion

Donovan Pavilion

Join us in the lobby of the Center for the Arts in downtown Jackson for a program including music performed and composed by José Gonzalez Granero, a recently debuted world premiere and exciting selections curated by the ensemble.

On the Road: Landscapes Chamber Ensemble at Center for the Arts

Center for the Arts

Joshua Arkangel (M.M. '23) presents a contemporary classical music recital.

Student Recital: Joshua Arkangel, Contemporary Classical Music

Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Formed in 2018, Dream House Quartet fuses decades of musical mastery of classical and contemporary forms, featuring luminaries the Katia and Marielle Labèque on dueling pianos along with acclaimed composer-guitarists Bryce Dessner (The National) and David Chalmin (innocence, la terre invisible) performing radical new commissions from visionary composers and pivotal contemporary works of the last half century. In its first-ever world tour, this all-star ensemble will bring singular interpretations of several highly influential works of minimalist pioneers and contemporary composers to Austin for the first time. The original double album Minimalist Dream House (released in 2013) gathered interpretations of compositions by pioneers of minimalism and their successors, including Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt, Thom Yorke, Aphex Twin and Brian Eno – artists who bend musical time and space as much as the Labèques, while enjoying the paradoxical freedom of minimalism’s limitations. The Austin premiere of Dream House Quartet will feature new works by Dessner and Chalmin (commissioned for the group) as well as works by Meredith Monk, Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

Dream House Quartet

Bass Concert Hall

Join us for an electrifying evening of contemporary music with the NEW WAVE 2 concert presented by the Esprit Orchestra. This remarkable event is set to take place on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at 7:00 pm in the prestigious TD Music Hall, located at the Allied Music Centre, 178 Victoria St. 

Under the baton of the esteemed conductor Alex Pauk, the concert will feature an array of groundbreaking compositions. The program includes works by Misato Mochizuki, Julius Eastman arranged by Jessie Montgomery, Andrew Staniland, Julia Mermelstein, Stephanie Orlando, and Steve Reich. These pieces showcase a variety of instruments and styles, from the dynamic "Chimera 2000" for 11 players to the innovative "Orion Constellation Theory 2014" for snare drum and electronics, performed by the talented Ryan Scott. 

The evening will be a celebration of new music, including world premieres and Canadian premieres, commissioned by Esprit with the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council. This event is a must-attend for music enthusiasts eager to experience the cutting-edge of contemporary orchestral music.

Don't miss this opportunity to support and enjoy the vibrant talent of composers and musicians from Canada and beyond. Secure your tickets now and be part of a memorable night that pushes the boundaries of orchestral music.

New Wave 2

Allied Music Centre

Minimalist master Steve Reich returns to his New York arts scene roots in this bright and rhythmically agile piece, written and performed alongside painter Gerhard Richter’s film Moving Picture. The film starts with a two-pixel pulsating, colour-shifting line, which becomes four pixels, then sixteen, then 32 and so on. The music starts with a two-note oscillation that expands equally but then becomes liberated from the structure of the forms on film, allowing notes to escape and create their own destiny in this cool and elegant piece. Music by two other masters of the New York scene complement Reich’s music, while the London Sinfonietta, with Sound Intermedia, re-create Nunu, its commission from the late and sadly missed Mira Calix.

Reich/Richter

This Noon to Midnight anchoring all-Reich concert culminates with a remarkable collaboration between composer Steve Reich and artist Gerhard Richter. Richter will provide a computer-generated film of his painting 946-3. The result: a stream of images interpreted by music and a musical composition visualized by film images.

LA Phil New Music Group with Brad Lubman

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Hear chamber works by Grammy-nominated English composer Anna Clyne accompanied by films by cutting-edge visual artists Josh Dorman—”[constructor of] fantasy lands and visual puns with the wonky, romantic intensity of a daydreaming ten-year-old” (The New Yorker)—and Jyll Bradley, whose acclaimed work in sculpture, installation, and drawing uses light to explore ideas of place, space, and identity.

Anna Clyne

The DiMenna Center for Classical Music

Experience the fusion of classical music and modern technology at the "Classic X Live-Electronics" concert, presented by the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. This unique performance is scheduled for Thursday, 23rd February 2023, at 7:30 pm, taking place in the vibrant setting of Munich's Werk 7. The evening promises an extraordinary auditory journey, featuring the talents of the BRSO Academy alongside members of the BRSO and the orchestra academy.

The program for the night is a carefully curated selection of classical compositions intertwined with live electronics, showcasing works from renowned composers across different eras. The lineup includes Johann Sebastian Bach's "Allemande for solo flute," Alfred Schnittke's "String quartet No. 3. 1. Andante," Maurice Ravel's "Streichquartett F-Dur," and Claude Debussy's "String quartet G Minor, op.10." Following an interval, the concert will resume with Steve Reich's "Six Pianos" and Bryce Dessner's "Aheym for String Quartet," bringing a modern twist to the classical music experience.

Leon Weber, a distinguished artist in live electronics, will join the performers, adding an electrifying dimension to the evening's repertoire. This concert is a part of the Classic X series, which aims to bridge the gap between traditional symphonic music and contemporary electronic sounds, offering audiences an innovative and immersive musical experience.

For those interested in attending, tickets are available for purchase online via the BRticket-Webshop. Don't miss this exceptional blend of classical music and live electronics, promising an unforgettable evening in the heart of Munich.

Classic X Live-Electronics

Werk 7

WMS’s principal percussionist is back with a program featuring music by Steve Reich, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Igor Stravinsky, among others. Joining Matthew Beck will be CMU faculty member and former WMS timpanist Andrew Spencer; along with pianists Patrick Johnson from MSU and Zhao Wang from CMU.

Matt Beck, Piano & Percussion

The Block

The Colin Currie Group was founded by its namesake to celebrate and showcase the music of Steve Reich, and in its 15-year history has developed a close collaborative relationship with the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer. Currie is a world-class percussionist, and has assembled a superlative ensemble of percussion, strings, keyboards, and winds, augmented by the fantastic Synergy Vocals, to perform Reich’s challenging music—from his iconic works of the 1970s and 1980s to brand-new commissions. Here in Berkeley, the group celebrates Reich’s 86th birthday, performing his influential Music for 18 Musicians and his classic Tehillim, the first work in which he explored his Jewish heritage. A Cal Performances co-commission, Traveler’s Prayer is a sinuous, pensive setting of three Old Testament texts—a work the Guardian describes as “very different from anything Reich has composed before.”

Colin Currie Group Synergy Vocals

University of California, Berkeley

This concert features the local premiere of the great Steven Reich’s latest orchestral piece.

38th Season Opener

Cañada College

The ASO returns to the spirited atmosphere of WorkPlay Birmingham with a pair of string quartets that reflect upon life during World War II and honor those affected by it.

Different Trains: Contemporary Visions

WorkPlay

The always-evolving Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble features musicians from the legendary Met Orchestra in a variety of unique programs. Together, along with special guest artists from the Metropolitan Opera and beyond, they explore a boundless world of chamber music, adapting to fit the instrumental needs of any piece—from all-time classics to hard-to-find hidden gems and standout works by many of today’s significant composers. Tonight, as part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival, the ensemble performs works by American composers Valerie Coleman, Gabriela Lena Frank, Bernstein, and Steve Reich, plus Dvořák’s String Quintet, written alongside the “American” Quartet while the composer was living in Iowa.

The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble 2026 Concert 6

Carnegie Hall

Percussionists of Teatro alla Scala

Teatro alla Scala

Respighi, beloved magician of orchestral colors, pays tribute to the “Eternal City” in his richly imagined Pines of Rome, transporting you to famous pine stands around Rome…to a splendid estate, mournfully to a catacomb, to the moonlit Janiculum hill with the haunting song of a nightingale, and to the Appian Way, with blazing trumpets and the thunder of marching armies. Plus, the amazing Colin Currie, former artist-in-residence and audience favorite, raises the roof in the Concerto composed for him.

Danny Elfman's Percussion Concerto

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

A first for the Festival: our new Executive and Artistic Director, Sebastian Nordmann, kicks off the Summer Festival by inviting everyone to a big party – free of charge. In the Concert Hall of the KKL Luzern, Riccardo Chailly and the fabulous Lucerne Festival Orchestra will set the mood with Gershwin and Bernstein, rumba and mambo – the perfect prelude to an unforgettable Cuban Night. Afterward, you can head over directly to the open-air “Classical Music for All” concert on the Europaplatz.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)

Lucerne Festival

Go West! To open the summer Festival, Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra explore a range of “American Dreams.” First up is George Gershwin, who fused classical music and jazz so brilliantly that the old divide between highbrow and popular music simply falls away. His snappy Cuban Overture, inspired by a visit to Havana, practically dances on rumba rhythms. In contrast, his grand Concerto in F — which Chailly considers “the first American piano concerto” — takes its cues from the Charleston and the blues. Gershwin called its finale “a rhythmic orgy”: the perfect showcase for a boundary-pushing artist like the 34-year-old Frank Dupree, with his overflowing energy and infectious joy in performance.

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Frank Dupree | soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Sometimes all it takes is simply clapping your hands to create complex yet deeply grooving rhythms. In keeping with the Festival theme “American Dreams,” a percussion quartet from the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) presents four works by Steve Reich, including his iconic Clapping Music and Drumming. One of the masterminds of American Minimalism, Reich sets simple motifs and rhythms in continuous loops, gradually shifting them against one another to create intricate polyrhythmic patterns with a mesmerizing flow.

“Rhythm ’n’ Loops”

Kapellplatz

Weinmarkt

Make American History Great Again? Endangered Dreams is the title that the African American composer Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, who lives in Biel, has given his new ensemble piece. He says he is responding to “the present situation in America, where there is a battle of American identity and history taking place right now. There are factions in America who want to re-write American history and to delete the unpleasant parts of that history — and to sanitize the American Dream of its blemishes. Which means essentially to turn this dream into a one-sided lie.” Just how multifaceted America sounds becomes clear in the rest of the program: Steve Reich, one of the pioneers of Minimalism, fuses two marimbas and two vibraphones into an ecstatically pulsing rhythm machine in his Mallet Quartet. Elliott Carter’s music, by contrast, is deeply rooted in both American and European modernism.

Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) | Participants in the Contemporary-Conducting Program | Doreen Ketchens

The internationally renowned Mivos Quartet honors the lion of contemporary American composition on his 90th birthday with a full performance of his string quartets. Praised for the fierce virtuosity and warm expressiveness of their playing, Eastman alumni Olivia de Prato and William Overcash, alongside Victor Lowrie Tafoya and Nathan Watts, offer WTC 9/11, Triple Quartet, and Different Trains in a tribute to Reich’s era-defining genius.

Eastman Presents: Mivos Quartet: Celebrating Steve Reich: The String Quartets

University of Rochester

Steve Reich’s music is made of movement. Patterns shift, collide, and reform. The smallest rhythm grows into something vast. A single chord can shimmer like glass.

In Three Movements, the music constantly moves and turns. Repeating figures stretch and ripple until you lose track of where the downbeat lands. Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards is a kaleidoscope of colour. Chords slide past one another, glowing one moment, dissolving the next.

Electric Counterpoint, written for both pre-recorded and live guitars, turns repetition into a trance. With Bryce Dessner at its heart, expect a sound both mechanical and deeply human. Then The Four Sections pulls the whole orchestra into Reich’s pulsing universe – strings, winds, brass and percussion stacked into layers that vibrate with raw power.

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Steve Reich

Events

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May 18, 2026

The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble 2026 Concert 6 · Carnegie Hall

May 31, 2026

Percussionists of Teatro alla Scala ·

4 - 7 Jun, 2026

Danny Elfman's Percussion Concerto · Oregon Symphony

Aug 13, 2026

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) · Lucerne Festival

Aug 14, 2026

Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Frank Dupree | soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) · Lucerne Festival

Past events

Apr 22, 2026

Chris Addison’s Incomplete Guide to Chamber Music · Cast

Apr 18, 2026

Up Close with Violins of Hope · Quad City Symphony Orchestra

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