On December 1st, the A/B Duo will premiere one of my latest works, limb for contrabass flute (doubling piccolo) and percussion. The concert will take place at The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood at 2pm, and is being presented by the Anaphora Ensemble as part of their 3rd annual Sounds of Chicago series. Tickets are $5 at the door. Also featured on the program are works by Jenna Lyle and Carolyn O'Brien (check out my interview with Jenna Lyle here).
If you're in New York, the A/B duo will perform limb at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music on December 7th at 8pm. Tickets can be purchased online for $20 (student rate is $15). The Brooklyn program will include works by Adam Cuthbert, Ian Dicke, Carolyn O'Brien, Matthew Joseph Payne, and Ivan Trevino.
limb was commissioned by and written for the A/B Duo, a.k.a. Meerenai Shim and Christopher Jones. The project enabled me to work with a unique instrumentation that includes the extremes of the flute family mixed with vibraphone, Thai gong, wind gong, and crotales. Needless to say, this has been an exciting opportunity from a compositional and collaborative standpoint.
You can order the A/B Duo's release "The Things We Dream About" at their Bandcamp page and view their performance calendar at abduo.net.