History
Past Forecast Music Concerts Seasons
Forecast Music was founded in Brooklyn, NY in 2001 by four composers looking to find a hands-on way to get their works performed outside of the usual academic or traditional concert arenas. The founding members were Julie Harting, Eric Schwartz, Giancarlo Vulcano, and Gal Ziv. The group became an active part of New York City’s vibrant contemporary music scene from 2002-2009. During that time the group evolved from its origins as a contemporary music band, presenting the works of just its four founding composers, to a wide ranging non-profit contemporary music organization, performing work from composers throughout NYC and around the country in innovative, accessible fashion. An annual call for scores began in 2005, and literally thousands of scores flowed in from across the globe over four years. Forecast Music has always presented a mix of premieres and the all important second, third, and beyond performances for composers, but in 2006 began to annually commission new work from local composers, a thrilling part of the ever expanding new music mission. In 2010 Forecast began the transition from New York City to Winston-Salem, North Carolina. We are now set to assume the mantle of the Triad’s premiere contemporary music organization, and we couldn’t be more excited!
2011-2012 Season
The Triad Composers Project
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011 – The Garage, Winston-Salem, NC
Mark Engebretson: Two Duos: 1) Floam 2) Whack-a-Mole
Eric Schwartz: The Horror Show
Michael Burns: E toro nga Hau: The Three Winds
Alejandro Rutty: Witchcraft Recipes #5C
*Lawrence Dillon: Sparkling in the Dark
*Kenneth Frazelle: Violin Bonkers
Performers: Jacqui Carrasco, Taimur Sullivan, Carla Copeland-Burns, James Douglass, Michael Burns, Kris Keeton, Scott O’Toole, and Saxton Rose
*world premiere
Check out the fabulous review from the great folk at CVNC: http://cvnc.org/article.cfm?articleId=5156
2008-2009 Season
The Stravinsky Standard
Saturday, November 1, 2008 – Tenri Cultural Institute, Manhattan, NY
Igor Stravinsky: The Owl and the Pussycat
James Barry: Songs of Issa
Igor Stravinsky: Le cinq doigts
Eric Schwartz: The Incredible, Disappearing Vampire Music
Igor Stravinsky: Three Pieces for Clarinet
Demetrius Spaneaus: 3 Graces for Clarinet
*Patrick Castillo: Introit (realization 1)
Performers: Mike McCurdy, Elaine Kwon, Eric Schwartz, Amberleigh Aller, Christine Perea, Yuri Namkung
Words & Music III: 2008 Call for Scores Winners
Friday, December 4, 2009 – Rene Weiller Concert Hall, Manhattan, NY
***Jeff Meyer: La Beaute
James Barry: Songs of Issa
Jody Redhage: Starlings
*Eric Schwartz: Tra La La
**James Holt: Ham-Sah
***Clifton Callender: chansons innocents
Redhage: This November
Demetrius Spaneas: Moonlight of Lost Dreams
Barry: unfullfilled
Performers: Cameron Russell, Jeff Myers, Isabelle O’Connell, Jacquelyn Familant, Elaine Kwon, Jody Redhage, Amberleigh Aller, William Harvey, Rose Bellini
*world premiere
**Forecast Music commission
*** call for scores winner
2007-2008 Season
In the Boonies: a Cage, in Motion, with Light, and People, on a Thursday
(or an eclectic evening of contemporary music)
Friday, December 7, 2007-Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
Ned McGowan: Workshop
Leonard Mark Lewis: As in Stained Light
John Cage: Three Pieces for Flute Duet
Alan Scott: Currents
**James Barry: Boondoggle
Robert Paterson: Thursday
Eric Schwartz: We the People
Performers: Christine Perea, Jeremy Justeson, Leonard Mark Lewis, Michele Gentile, Julianne Klopotic, Jody Redhage, Elaine Kwon, Amberleigh Aller, Michael McCurdy
From Around the Block: 2007 Call for Scores Winners
Saturday, May 3, 2008- Pianos, Manhattan, NY
***Peter Lane: Taqsim, for clarinet and tape
***Paul Leary: OriginX
***Mark Kilstofte: Sonata, for alto sax and piano
Eric Schwartz: The Short, Sad Story of the Guinea Pig (That Died)
Performers: Iktus Percussion Quartet (Roy Campbell, Chris Graham, Justin Wolf), Christian Rodriguez, Paul Leary, Alexander Mouton, Elaine Kwon
**Forecast Music commission
*** call for scores winner
2006-2007 Season
Brooklyn, NY 1900-2006
Thursday, October,26, 2006 – Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Aaron Copland: Three Songs from Old American Songs
Jennifer Higdon: rapid fire
Wil Smith: Crushed
James Barry/Linnea Paskow: Piecing
**George Brunner: The Last Flash of Light Before the Beginning
*Eric Schwartz: The Horror Show
Performers: Dan Hughes, Laura Barger, Christine Perea, Jody Redhage
New York City and Beyond: 2006 Call for Scores Winners
Thursday, March 22, 2007- Yamaha Piano Salon, Manhattan, NY
**George Brunner: The Last Flash of Light Before the Beginning
***Karim Al-Zand: Four Fables
James Barry: Unfulfilled
Eric Schwartz: The Incredible, Disappearing Vampire Music
Randall Woolf: Adrenaline Revival
***Mike McFerron: Torrid Mix
Performers: Christine Perea, Demtrius Spaneas, Elaine Kwon, Julia MacLaine, Kathleen Supove
*world premiere
**Forecast Music commission
*** call for scores winner
2005-2006 Season
Thursday, November 3, 2005 – South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY
Ian Moss: Movement
Robert Morris: Motet on Doo-Dah
*Eric Lyon: Deer Park
*James Barry: Boondoggle
*Eric Schwartz: Shame
Performers: Reizen Ensemble (Patricia Sonego, Christine Perea, Mike McCurdy, Hiromi Abe, Stephanie Griffin, Alistair MacRae, Troy Rinker), Jonathan Shapiro, Harry J. Marenstein
2005 National Call for Scores Concert featuring flutist Christine Perea
Friday, December 2, 2005 – Christ & St. Stephen’s Church, Manhattan, NY
Friday, December 9, 2005- Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn, NY
***Daniel Asia: Plum-DSII
***Peter Lieuwen: Shadows of Winters Passed
***Daniel Kessner: Priere et scherzo
***Arthur Gottschalk: Contrary Variants
***Jason Eckardt: Flux
***Zack Browning: Network Slammer
Performers: Christine Perea, Laura Berger, Alistair MacRae, JoAnne Maffia
Words & Music II
Saturday, April 22, 2006 – The Dorothy Jones Theater at Singers Forum, Manhattan, NY
Libby Larsen: Margaret Songs: three songs from Willa Cather
James Barry: Unfulfilled
Lewis Spratlan: Mayflies
JoAnne Maffia: Run on Sentence
Eric Schwartz: The Conqueror Worm
Performers: Amy Barton, Tad Hardin, Enid Blount, Alistair MacRae, Jeanne Golan, Chrissy Fong, John Savage, Christine Perea, Lisa Bost-Sandberg, Harry Marenstein, William Bailey, Hiromi Abe, Patricia Sonego, James Noyes, Russell Greenberg
*world premiere
*** call for scores winner
2004-2005 Season
Saturday, November 6, 2004 – Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Robert Dick: everyone@universe.existence (text by Marvin Bell)
Schwartz: Diabolus en Musica
James Barry: Shabby Chic
Performers: Christine Perea, Anthea Jackson, Mike McCurdy, Cathy Yang, Carolyn James, Harry Marenstein
Interactive Chamber Music
Saturday, March 19, 2005 – The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn, NY
*Schwartz: Thunk!…A Ghost Story
Barry: Displace
Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet
*Randy Woolf: Franz Schubert
Performers: The Sirius String Quartet (Rachel Golub, Meg Okura, Ron Lawrence, Dave Eggar)
Friday, May 20, 2005 – The Knitting Factory, Manhattan, NY
John Cage: Living Room Music
Missy Mazzoli: Between Heaven and Headlights & Orizzonti (films by Alice Lovejoy and Nora Gortcheva)
*Schwartz : The Beantown Masacree
Andrew Shapiro: Songs
*Barry: Mandelay
Performers: Christine Perea, Enid Blount, Ian Antonio
*world premiere
2003-2004 Season
Words and Music
11/4/03 The Knitting Factory, Manhattan, NY
Harting: The Charred Bones of Joan of Arc Speak from the Grave (text by Gregory Ford)
Schwartz: Rock Star
*Ziv: The Tower of Babel
Schwartz: We the People
Performers: Christine Perea, Enid Blount, Angela Harris, Duo-Lin Peng, Laura Barger, Mike McCurdy, Erin Harting, Harry Marenstein, Judith Barnes, Elena McEntire, Aram Tchobanian, Juan Jose Ibarra
2nd Anniversary Concert
2/27/04 Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
*Schwartz: Dos Leches Para el Hombre #1
Harting: Sextet
*Schwartz: Dos Leches Para el Hombre #2
*Ziv: Ambient Z
*Schwartz: Dos Leches Para el Hombre #3 (space cadet blooze)
Yoav Gal: Colonnade, from Mosheh, a video opera (visuals by Yoav Gal and Heather Green)
Performers: The Ensemble Pamplemousse with Harry Marenstein (Natcha Diels, Jonathan Rossman, Jordana Elliot, Yaniv Segal, Beth Meyers, Greg Deferment, Heather Green, Argeo Ascani, Michael Lavallebass, Andrew Greenwald), Kevin Gallagher, Oren Fader
2002-2003 Season
8/31/02 Raw Space Studios (AugustArt Festival), Manhattan, NY
Schwartz: Zymurgy (Kings County Remix)
Harting: hoc est corpus meum
Vulcano: 3X3
*Vulcano: The Rehearsal
Harting: Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano
Ziv: The Prince
Schwartz: Post
Performers: Debbie Buck, Romulo Benavides, Enid Blount, Jackie Martelle, Lawrence Zernig, Yvonne Troxler, Oren Fader, Mike McCurdy
9/10/02 South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY
*Schwartz: Sapere Aude
Ziv: Woodwind Quintet
*Schwartz: The Sixth Toe
Harting: Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano
Vulcano: The Rehearsal
Performers: Christy Vaughan, Richard Paratley, Megan Weiss, Liz Player, Jeff Wilday, Angela Wilmont, Evelyn De Maria, Jacqueline Martelle, Lawrence Zoernig, Yvonne Troxler, Enid Blount
10/8/02 South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY
*Schwartz: Diabolus en Musica
*Ziv: The Walk
*Harting: The Charred Bones of Joan of Arc Speak from the Grave (text by Gregory Ford)
*Vulcano: Flood
Performers: Jacqueline Martelle, Enid Blount, Alicia Lagger, Pat Muchmore, Yvonne Troxler, Mike McCurdy, Harry Marenstein
11/16/02 South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY
*Vulcano: The end of the world (film by Elizabeth Whitney Bedford)
Harting: hoc est corpus meum
Schwartz: The Spirits of the Dead (text by Edgar Allan Poe)
Gal Ziv: Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Guitar
Vulcano: My Morphine (Wintro)
Performers: Romulo Benavides, Debbie Buck, Nathan Hetherington, Yvonne Troxler, Liz Player, Jovanina Pagano, Oren Fader, Enid Blount, Janine Nichols
12/10/02 South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY
Harting: Four Movements for Solo Piano
*Schwartz: A Poison Tree (text by William Blake)
*Ziv: Stay Tuned
Schwartz: Snap, Crackle
Schwartz: Ice
Vulcano: Broadway Boogie-Woogie
Performers: Yvonne Troxler, Adrien Roberts, Jackie Martelle, Lawrence Zoernig, Richard Paratley, Megan Weiss, Liz Player, Jack Chan, Angela Wilmont, Julian Molitz
One Year Anniversary Concert
2/8/03 Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Harting: String Quartet
Vulcano: The end of the world (film by Elizabeth Whitney Bedford)
*Ziv: Iyov (a musical drama)
*Vulcano: Cold Snap Rag
*Schwartz: We the People
Performers: Harry Marenstein, Alicia Lagger, Jesse Schifrin, Kelly Dylla, Simone Uranovsky, Stephanie Bonte, Aram Tchobanian, Enid Blount, Mike McCurdy, Laura Barger
Variations on a Debussy Prelude
3/25/03 South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY
Claude Debussy: Des pas sur la neige
*Schwartz: Debussy Variation
Igor Stravinsky (arrangement: Vulcano): Symphonies of Wind Instruments
*Schwartz: When old corruption first begun (text by William Blake)
*Ziv: A piece inspired by Debussy’s “Des pas sur la neige”
Ziv: Time Pieces
*Harting: Echo of Debussy
*Vulcano: Debussy Prelude 6, Book 1
Performers: Yvonne Troxler, Christine Perea, Enid Blount, Aram Tchobanian, Yakov Amar, Simone Uranovsky
Timetable @ Forecast Music
4/15/03 South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY
*Vulcano: Calder Piece #1: Seascape, 1947
*Schwartz: Macabre
*Vulcano: Calder Piece #2: Calderberry Bush, 1932
*Harting: Ya Wahaab
*Vulcano: Calder Piece #3: Gong, 1957
*Ziv: The People Running By (text by Franz Kafka)
*Vulcano: Mobile for Eric
Performers: The Timetable Percussion Trio (Joseph Tompkins, Matthew Gold, Matt Ward)
5/20/03 South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY
*Ziv: Imprints (choreography by Arielle Javitch and Takemi Kitamura; Software art by Golan Levin)
*Vulcano: 20 Questions (actor: Karen Curious)
*Harting: Solve et Coagula (artwork by Gwen Sprinkle)
*Schwartz: Symbiotic (paintings by Erin Raines)
Performers: Sharmila Daniel, Matt Ward, Enid Blount, Yvonne Troxler, Angela Wilmont, Julian Molitz
2001-2002 Season
1/22/02 South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY
Gal Ziv: Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Guitar
*Eric Schwartz: Zymurgy for Electric Guitar and Loops
Julie Harting: Sonata for Solo Piano
Giancarlo Vulcano: NY Resolution
Harting: Ave Maria
Vulcano: Two Salsa Music Arrangements
Schwartz: Rn’Fn’R
Performers: Liz Player, Laurence Fader, Oren Fader, Yvonne Troxler,, Barbara Lee, Enid Blount, The Carpentier Quartet (Francisco Salazar, Romulo Benavides, Sam Marchan, Danielle Guideri)
3/5/02 South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY
Harting: hoc est corpus meum
Ziv: Three Hebrew Songs (text by Nathan Alterman)
Schwartz: Three Images for Solo Piano
Vulcano: 5 Bagatelles for Piano
Schwartz: Zymurgy (Kings County Remix)
Performers: Adelaide Federici, Hadas Carmi, Ofra Yitzhaki, Hsin-Jung Tsai
4/5/02 South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY
*Vulcano: 3X3
Schwartz: The Blackbirds are Rough Today (text by Charles Bukowski)
Ziv: Time Pieces
*Schwartz: Rock Star
Harting: Procession for Four Percussionists
Performers: Romulo Benavides, Adrien Roberts, Seth Rozanoff, Amir Eldan, Enid Blount
5/7/02 South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY
Harting: Quartet for Saxophones
Ziv: The Prince
Vulcano: Danze per Archi
Ziv: String Quartet
*Schwartz: Post
Ziv: Gulliver’s Groove
Performers: Martha Hyde, JD Paran, Mark Hynes, Tim Otto, Oren Fader, Adelaide Federici, Katharina Grossmann, Amy Kimball, Jovanina Pagano, Lawrence Zoernig, Enid Blount, Seth Rozanoff, Kevin Garcia
