Coleman Itzkoff is a distinguished cellist known for his innovative performances and collaborations within the contemporary music scene. He recently showcased his talent in the American Modern Opera Company's filmed performance, "Performance on Film: AMOC Responds to Jenny Holzer’s Demented Words," which took place on July 12, 2024, at Hauser & Wirth in New York City. This captivating event, part of a summer series, featured a unique blend of visual art and live music, highlighting Itzkoff's ability to engage with diverse artistic expressions. Alongside notable artists such as countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and violinist Keir GoGwilt, Itzkoff contributed to a powerful interpretation of Holzer's thought-provoking work. His involvement in such high-profile projects underscores his commitment to pushing the boundaries of classical music and his versatility as a performer. Looking ahead, Itzkoff continues to be an integral part of the contemporary music landscape, with upcoming performances that promise to further enrich his artistic repertoire. His dedication to collaboration and innovation positions him as a prominent figure in the evolving world of modern classical music.

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The Baltimore-based ensemble Mind on Fire, co-founded by artistic director Allison Clendaniel (BM ’14, Voice) and executive director James David Young (DMA ’14, Composition), presents the world premiere of and, we, each—the new opera by composer and faculty artist Michael Hersch (BM ’95, MM ’97, Composition) with a libretto by poet Shane McCrae—September 28 and 29 at the Baltimore Theatre Project. The opera stars soprano and faculty artist Ah Young Hong (BM ’98, MM ’01, Voice)  and baritone Jesse Blumberg, is directed by James Matthew Daniel, and conductor Tito Muñoz leads an ensemble of Emi Ferguson (flute), Gleb Kanasevich (clarinet), Andy Hudson (clarinet), Adda Kridler (violin), Leah Asher (viola), Coleman Itzkoff (cello). Mind on Fire also presents and, we, each at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center October 13 and National Sawdust in Brooklyn February 6, 2025.

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Alumni And Faculty Event: And, We, Each

Baltimore Theatre Project

From pleasing to provocative, intellectual to insouciant, this program sheds light on the many facets of 20th-century Mexican and Argentinian classical compositions. Feel the passion and intensity of the tango in Piazzola’s renowned “Seasons”, juxtaposed with the exhilarating and profound string quartet “Música de Feria” by Revueltas. The program also features the graceful compositions of Manuel Ponce, offering a glimpse into the elegant charm of his musical creations. Works by 20th-century composers Alberto Ginastera (Argentina) and Mario Lavista (Mexico) top off an exciting and varied program.

Mexico and Argentina

Hanna Boys Center

Aaron Copland made four highly publicized government-sponsored trips to Latin America between 1941 and 1963. During these visits, he shared contemporary American concert music with Latin American audiences, including his own violin sonata, heard on tonight’s program. Back home, he drew US attention to the composers and musicians he met in Latin America, such as Heitor Villa-Lobos of Brazil and Silvestre Revueltas and Manuel Ponce of Mexico, all whom Copland knew personally and whose works are also featured. Another contemporary of Copland was the Black American composer William Grant Still, whose Panamanian Dances were inspired by a collection of Latin American folk songs. The history of Pan-American musical exchange predates Copland.

The Americas

Discover a harmonious fusion of serenity and exuberance come together at Buena Vista Winery. Our stage will be the enchanting Fountain Courtyard, framed by the historic backdrop of the 1864 Champagne Cellar. Savor the exquisite selection of Buena Vista’s wines as they complement the sultry notes of Villa-Lobos’ ‘Bachianas Brasileiras No.5’ and the fiery passion of Pablo de Sarasate’s ‘Carmen Fantasy’. Immerse yourself in the grand finale of our Alfresco series, where the blend of music, high-quality wines, and the breathtaking sunset creates an unforgettable evening.

Alfresco 3

Buena Vista Winery

Immerse yourself in the vibrant sounds of Brazil as we bring to life the musical genius of GRAMMY-award winning Brazilian guitarist, composer, and arranger Sergio Assad (b. 1953). Renowned for his captivating duo performances with his brother Odair Assad and frequent collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma and other luminaries, Assad stands as one of today’s most prolific composers for the guitar. The program presents Assad’s music alongside that of his Brazilian forebears, Antonio Carlos Gomes and Heitor Villa-Lobos, as well as his European influences, Chopin and Maurice Ravel. Bay Area guitarist—and friend of Assad’s—Marc Teicholz makes his Festival debut for this Brazilian panorama. 

Sergio Assad and His World

To ensure the comfort and safety of our audience (and instruments!), we decided to move this Alfresco concert inside of Bartholomew Park’s historic Haraszthy’s Villa.

Alfresco 1

Haraszthy Villa

José Silvestre de los Dolores White (1835-1918), also known as José White and Joseph White, was born in Matanzas, Cuba, during colonial times. He began playing the violin and composing at a young age. His professional debut occurred in 1854 alongside the American pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869), who inspired him to study at the Paris Conservatoire. There, he won the Premier Prix after less than one year of study. White gained global recognition as a soloist, composer, and pedagogue and, in the United States, he notably became the first soloist of African descent to perform with the New York Philharmonic Society, during his 1875-1876 tour. 

José White's Circle

**Event Description:**

**Performance on Film: AMOC Responds to Jenny Holzer’s DEMENTED WORDS**

Join us for a captivating evening as AMOC (American Modern Opera Company) presents a filmed version of their reactive musical performance in response to Jenny Holzer’s "DEMENTED WORDS." This event is part of the Performance on Film summer series at Hauser & Wirth in New York City.

**Event Details:**
- **Date:** July 12, 2024
- **Time:** 7:30 PM
- **Venue:** Hauser & Wirth, 542 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011
- **Website:** [Hauser & Wirth Events](https://www.hauserwirth.com/events/screening-room-performance-on-film-series/)
- **Phone:** 212-790-3900

**Performance Highlights:**
- **Conceived by:** Zack Winokur and company
- **Music Arranged by:** Celeste Oram and Davóne Tines
- **Featuring:**
  - Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor
  - Keir GoGwilt, violin
  - Coleman Itzkoff, cello
  - Davóne Tines, bass-baritone
  - Sae Hashimoto, percussion (guest artist)

**Additional Screenings:**
- **IT COULD’VE BEEN ME / IT COULD BE ME** by David Adrian Freeland Jr. in response to Amy Sherald
- **BOWLS BALLS SOULS HOLES** by Mika Rottenberg
- **WORLD PREMIERE: TRUE LOVE WILL FIND YOU IN THE END** by Eichterling, featuring AMOC member Julia Eichten & Bret Easterling

**Admission:**
All screenings are free and open to the public. However, due to limited space, reservations are required. Please register for each evening individually.

**Registration:**
[Click here to register](https://www.hauserwirth.com/events/screening-room-performance-on-film-series/)

Don't miss this unique opportunity to experience a fusion of visual art and live music performance. Mark your calendars and secure your spot today!

PERFORMANCE ON FILM: AMOC responds to Jenny Holzer’s DEMENTED WORDS

Hauser & Wirth

AMOC* celebrates Latin American poets and the voices of women with its production of John Adams’s El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered, featuring a libretto by Peter Sellars and production conceived by AMOC* soprano Julia Bullock, with a return to The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine for a second year, capping off a tour of cities across the US.

El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered in NYC

The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist

American Modern Opera Company’s (AMOC) production of contemporary composer John Adams’ El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered with libretto by Peter Sellars and concept by Julia Bullock is a chamber music arrangement created and conducted by Christian Reif and was first performed at The Met Cloisters in 2018 in the beautiful San Martín at Fuentidueña chapel. The New York Times calls it “intimate, affecting and quietly rich with activism.” This rarely performed work celebrates Latin American poets and voices of women. Says Julia Bullock, “one of opera’s fastest-rising stars” (Vanity Fair), who curated the selections being performed and will sing in the performance, “El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered ruminates on the notion that with the promise of new life, there is the equal threat of inexplicable violence and sacrifice.”

El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered

Stanford University

AMOC* celebrates Latin American poets and the voices of women with its production of John Adams’s El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered with a tour across the United States. The piece, with a libretto by Peter Sellars and concept by AMOC* member Julia Bullock, will appear from December 11 to 21, 2023 at Opera Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska, Stanford Live in Stanford, California, and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut before returning to The Cathedral of St. John the Divine for a second year.

El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered on Tour

Immerse yourself in an unforgettable evening of masterful musical performances with Camerata Pacifica as they present "From Bach to Bolivia" in beautiful Santa Barbara, California. This chamber music ensemble, led by renowned music director Emi Ferguson, will take you on a journey through time and across continents with a program featuring the works of the legendary Johann Sebastian Bach.

Get ready to be transported to the 18th century with a mesmerizing performance of Bach's Prelude and Fugue, showcasing the intricate and refined compositions of the Baroque era. Let the powerful sounds of the Organ Sonata No. 5 and the haunting melodies of the Prelude and Fugue in C Minor envelop you in a world of pure musical perfection.

But the journey doesn't stop there. Camerata Pacifica will also delight audiences with a trio of soloists - Coleman Itzkoff on cello, Mikael Darmanie on piano, and Katie Hyun on violin - as they join forces to bring to life Bach's Trio Sonata No. 6 in C Minor. This piece, filled with intricate harmonies and virtuosic passages, is sure to leave you breathless.

From Bach to Bolivia

Colburn School

The Huntington

Music Academy of the West

The Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza

**Ruckus at Caramoor: A Baroque Chamber Music Experience**

**Date:** Friday, July 7, 2023  
**Time:** 8:00 PM  
**Location:** Spanish Courtyard, Caramoor, Katonah, NY

Join us for an enchanting evening of Baroque chamber music under the stars in the beautiful Spanish Courtyard at Caramoor. This special performance features the dynamic ensemble Ruckus, alongside acclaimed soloists Emi Ferguson on flute and Rachell Ellen Wong on violin. The event promises a visceral and playful approach to early music, bringing to life the pastoral traditions of 18th-century London and New England.

**Program Highlights:**  
- Trio sonatas by George Frideric Handel and Thomas Arne  
- Country dances from Ignatius Sancho  
- Instrumental hymns from William Billings and Daniel Read  
- A new work from Celeste Oram  
- And more, including pieces by Jeremiah Ingalls and Daniel Read

**About Ruckus:**  
Ruckus is a shapeshifting, collaborative Baroque band known for its rough-edged intensity and creative spirit. Their approach fuses the early-music movement's quest for authenticity with the groove of American roots music, creating a unique and engaging sound. The ensemble's members are among the most virtuosic performers in North American early music, earning widespread acclaim for their innovative performances.

**Transportation:**  
A free shuttle service is available from Metro North’s Katonah train station to and from Caramoor before and after the concert. No reservation is required.

**Health & Safety:**  
Caramoor is committed to ensuring the health and safety of its audience, artists, and staff. Visit our website for the most up-to-date health and safety policies.

**Tickets:**  
Tickets for this must-see event are available now. Don't miss your chance to experience the magic of Baroque music in the stunning setting of Caramoor's Spanish Courtyard.

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit [Caramoor's website](https://www.caramoor.org/events/ruckus-baroque-chamber-music-2023/).

Join us for a night of exquisite music and historical exploration with Ruckus and friends at Caramoor.

Ruckus

The Rosen House at Caramoor

Broken Theater is a new work created within the walls of La MaMa that melds live dance-theater, music, and cinematic beauty. Twelve artists meet in a ghost theater where they grapple with love, humiliation, and loss at the cost of each other. When the script has disappeared, when the audience is gone, where are the lines between the part you play and the person you are?

Broken Theater: Benefit Night

Ellen Stewart Theatre

Bobbi Jene Smith’s Broken Theater

AMOC*’s first collaboration with Carolyn Chen, How to Fall Apart describes cosmic, natural, and human processes of disintegration, aging, and falling apart. This evening-length work for three dancers, one violinist, and one cellist integrates text, gesture, and music, building upon Chen’s long-standing compositional work “in which sensuality and abstraction find common ground” (LA Times). How to Fall Apart unfolds as various assemblages of sound, movement, and storytelling cohere, dissolve, and reform, telling personal and scientific stories about the climate crisis, cosmological history, the erosion of soil in Northern Chad, the aging body, The Billion Oyster Project in New York, and the operations of microbes.

How to Fall Apart (New York Premiere)

Baryshnikov Arts Center

This chamber music arrangement—specially written for AMOC*—was first performed at The Met Cloisters in 2018 in the beautiful San Martín at Fuentidueña chapel. The New York Times called it “intimate, affecting and quietly rich with activism.” The piece, which celebrates Latin American poets and the voices of women, returns for a one-night-only engagement this holiday season at a different New York City landmark.

The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine

Join AMOC* artists Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor, and Coleman Itzkoff, cellist, for the opening of “House of the Inhabitant Who Refused to Participate,” Tina Kim Gallery’s newest exhibition curated by the architecture and interior design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero.

The exhibition, which will continue until January 21, 2023, brings together works by Louise Bourgeois, Heidi Bucher, Sam Chermayeff, John Hejduk, Camille Henrot, James Hong, Ficus Interfaith, Anne Libby, Mathieu Matégot, Emma McCormick Goodhart, Pietro Melandri, Luke O’Halloran, Eli Ping, Steph Shiu, Sophie Stone, Kim Tschang-Yeul, and Luc Tuymans.

Tina Kim Gallery Opening: “house Of The Inhabitant Who Refused To Participate

Tina Kim Gallery

Broken Theater, Bobbi Jene Smith’s newest work that melds live dance-theater, music, and cinematic beauty, continues its premiere run at OZ Arts in Nashville, TN

Broken Theater explores themes of power, love and trust in a threading together of dance-theater, music, and cinematic beauty. It presents a company caught in the theatrics of rehearsal. Company members, preparing for a show, perform music by Schubert, Bach, Connie Converse, and Pete Seeger, exquisitely curated and choreographed. But signals are crossed; the chain of command breaks down; the artists repeat, rebuild, and take apart the moment of performance.

Broken Theater At Oz Arts

OZ Arts Nashville

Broken Theater explores themes of power, love and trust in a threading together of dance-theater, music, and cinematic beauty. It presents a company caught in the theatrics of rehearsal. Company members, preparing for a show, perform music by Schubert, Bach, Connie Converse, and Pete Seeger, exquisitely curated and choreographed. But signals are crossed; the chain of command breaks down; the artists repeat, rebuild, and take apart the moment of performance

Broken Theater At Carolina Performing Arts

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A rising star of historically informed performance, Rachell Ellen Wong brings rare expressive nuance and refreshing vitality to her famously soft-spoken instrument of choice, the Baroque violin. Wong is a recipient of a prestigious 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the only early-music specialist recognized in the award’s history. In her Cal Performances debut, she performs a signature work, Biber’s Sonata No. 5; a solo arrangement of Tartini’s fiery The Devil’s Trill; and dazzling sonatas by Corelli, Herrando, Veracini, and Bach, accompanied by harpsichordist David Belkovski and cellist Coleman Itzkoff.

Rachell Ellen Wong, violin
Coleman Itzkoff, cello
David Belkovski, harpsichord

University of California, Berkeley

Indulge in the timeless beauty of music at Caramoor with Twelfth Night, a period instrument ensemble led by led by David Belkovski and Rachell Ellen Wong. Immerse yourself in the vibrant and expressive tapestry of baroque melodies of Vivaldi’s Il Giustino, characterized by its lively rhythms, ornate harmonies, and dramatic contrasts. Then, experience the exquisite sounds of Aminta e Fillide, George Frideric Handel’s pastoral cantata from 1708, evoking a world of unrequited love and longing. Renowned for its lush melodies and emotive storytelling, this cherished Baroque masterpiece offers a captivating journey through the depths of human emotion.

Coleman Itzkoff

Cellist

Events

Upcoming events

Apr 6, 2025

Twelfth Night · Caramoor

Past events

Sep 28, 2024

Alumni And Faculty Event: And, We, Each · Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

Jul 28, 2024

Mexico and Argentina · Valley of the Moon Music Festival

Future and recently performed repertoire

Cello in Demented Words by Holzer

AMOC / American Modern Opera Company

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