Upcoming Concerts:
2/5/2012 Michael Pisaro and Taku Sugimoto at the wulf.
The premiere of a new ensemble work composed by Michael Pisaro and legendary Tokyo based guitarist and composer Taku Sugimoto for the Dog Star Orchestra.
5pm | the wulf. | 1026 S Santa Fe. #203 | Los Angeles, Ca.
3/21/2012 Ear Meal Webcast by Alan Nakagawa
Trio Kobayashi will be performing on the LA Artstream webcast. Music by Wolfgang von Schweinitz and others.
9:30 | your computer | laartstream.com/earmeal
3/23,24,30,31/2012 Overtone Industries Woman in the Wall
A new opera by O-Lan Jones using medieval modes with medieval and contemporary instruments. I'll be performing on sackbut.
8pm | 9635 Venice Blvd. | Culver City, Ca.
4/13/2012 Gnarwhallaby at UCSC.
Gnarwhallaby will be an ensemble in residence at UC Santa Cruz's annual April in Santa Cruz contemporary music festival. We will be premiering works by graduate composers on a concert split with the music of David Mahler. More info tba.
Gnarwhallaby is Brian Walsh [clarinets], Matt Barbier [trombones], Derek Stein [cello] and Richard Valitutto [keyboard].
4/17-20/2012 Trio Kobayashi at UCSD.
The second part of our residency will be premiering and recording doctoral student works. Our concert is on 4/17.
8pm | UCSD School of Music | 9500 Gilman Dr. | La Jolla, Ca.
5/10,12-13,17-20,24-27/2012 Anne LeBaron's opera, Crescent City.
Presented by the Industry L.A. more details tba.
5/22/2012 Gnarwhallaby on MicroFest
Gnarwhallaby will presenting a concert on MicroFest 2012, an annual festival of microtonal music in Los Angeles at the wonderful Velaslavasay Panorama. Music by Ron Nagorcka, Klaus Lang and Matt Barbier. Tickets are available here.
8pm | Velaslavasay Panorama | 1122 W 24st St. | Los Angeles, Ca
$15 | $12 for students and VP Memembers
Selected Past Performances:
12/6/09 ,,duo performs music of John Cage. The Wulf 6pm.
12/7/09 Pasadena Creative Music Series. Performing Grisey and Varese. Pasadena Public Library 7pm.
12/17/09 Solo trombone recital. Music of Grisey, Krieger, Schweinitz.the Wulf. 8pm
1/5/10 Music of Larry Polansky. The Wulf. 8pm
2/9/10 Music of Jurg Frey. The Wulf 8pm.
2/16/10 Trio Kobayashi Takes on the Beast. Music by Larry Polansky, Ori Barel, Corelli and Krieger. The Wildbeast, 8pm.
3/14/10 Music of Ingram Marshall, Ulrich Krieger, David Rosenboom, Matt Sargent & Chris Kallmyer. Concert co-curated with Chris Kallmyer. The Wildbeast 5pm
3/25/10 ,, duo Master class with UBC Trombonists on applications of Just Intonation for brass instruments.UBC School of Music, vancouver, B.C. 1:45pm
3/26/10 Atrux Collective presents ,,duo. Works of Wadle, McIntosh, Tholl & Cage. Vivo. 8pm
3/27/10 ,,duo at Gallery 1412, Seattle, Wa. Music of Wadle, Cage & Schweinitz. 8pm
4/27-30 performances of Andrienne Kennedy's Sun. Danrae Wilson's puppetry thesis, music by Matt Barbier
4/30/10 U.S. Premiere of Gerard Grisey's Les Espaces Acoustics at RedCat with NCP www.redcat.org
5/1/10 New Music After Grisey- trio kobayashi performs the Plainsound Brass Trio by Wolfgang von Schweinitz at redcat
5/5/10 A Party for Betty (at redcat) performing Kurtag's 6 pieces for trombone and piano with Josh Foy
5/16/10 additional kobayashi performance of the Plainsound Brass Trio at RedCat as part of CalArt's contribution to the Ring Cycle: Ring Cycle LA- Considering Wagner
6/6/10 Dogstar Orchestra at the Compound, hwy 138. Performing JUZ by von Schweinitz
6/13/10 MicroFest- Just Brass- microtonal brass works of Haba, Wadle, Krieger, Schweinitz and Ives. Ocean Park Church/8pm.
7/29-31/10 Red Cat's Now Festival. Rae Shao-Lan and Tashi Wada's Systems of Us for 3 dancers and 5 musicians. $18
10/7/10 Trio Kobayashi performs in John Cage's 44 Harmonies with Dan Rosenboom and the CalArts Orchestra. WildBeast, CalArts- 8pm.
11/16/10 Trio Kobayashi plays and discusses Xenakis's Linaia-Agon in Music of Iannis Xenakis. CalArts, 4pm
11/26/10 Klangwerktage. Music of Rosenboom, von Schweinitz and McIntosh. Hamburger with Andrew McIntosh.
11/28/10 Music of Rosenboom, von Schweinitz and McIntosh. Berlin- CowShed with Andrew McIntosh
12/15/10 Music of Marc Sabat at the Wulf- 8pm. Hairy Hippie Happy premiere by Trio Kobayashi and a piece for masses of brass
12/18/10 Music by Marc Sabat at Beyond Baroque.Marc Sabat's Hairy, Hippy, Happy. Performed by Trio Kobayashi. Also on the program are Andrew McIntosh and John Schneider.
7:30pm | Beyond Baroque | 681 Venice Blvd. | Venice, CA
1/28-30/11 CEAIT Festival at REDCAT: Music by Xenakis. Linaia-Agon by Iannis Xenakis. Performed by Trio Kobayashi with Chris Porter as our referee/scorekeeper. REDCAT at the Walt Disney Concert Hall | 631 W. 2nd St. | Los Angeles
2/9/11 Trio Kobayashi at UCSD. The trio will be premiering a new piece by Nicholas Deyoe, as well as performing works by Iannis Xenakis, Wolfgang von Schweinitz and Larry Polansky.
3/25/11 FEEDBACK: Music & Biology Trio Kobayashi performs with Mark Trayle premiering a new piece in his 'feedbrass' series. 8pm at Machine Project
4/16/11 MicroFest 2011. Performing my solo realization of David Rosenboom's In the Beginning. Etude I (trombones). @MIMODA Studio in Little Ethiopia. 5772 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90019. 8pm $10 online, $15 at door.
5/21-22/11 Multi-media Installation by DanRae Wilson. Music by Matt Barbier- at Machine Project.
6/22/11 $2 Shows at Royal T.8pm. Performing the music of Daniel Corral, Edison Denisov and Andrew McIntosh. Additional performances of the Berio Cello Sequenza and David Johnson's Dark Wing
7/3/11 the wulf. takes over MOCA for their Sunday Studio. It will be an all day event. At roughly 1pm I'll be performing Wolfgang von Schweinitz's JUZ as well as a piece for trombone and tuba by Larry Polansky with Luke Storm.
8/6/2011 An Evening of Bassoonery at Machine Project Performing music of Odeya Nini with bassoonist/composer Archie Carey on his show at Machine. 8pm.
9/22-24/11 Zoophilic Follies at RedCat's Now Festival. Designed by DanRae Wilson and Caitlin Lainoff. Music by Daniel Corral. Performing with Timur and the Dime Museum.
8:30pm | RedCat at Walt Disney Concert Hall | 631 W. 2nd St. | Los Angeles, Ca.
10/19/11 Ear Meal Webcast by Alan Nakagawa
Solo music by David Rosenboom, Nick Deyoe and myself.
It's an awesome program that happens every week. Watch it! All previous shows are archeived as well.
9:30pm | your computer | laartstream.com/earmeal
10/30/11 Trio Kobayashi at the Echo
Trio Kobayashi performs on Timur and the Dime Museum's Halloween show at the Echo. Kobayashi will be performing Xenakis's Linaia-agon and possibly joining the Dime Museum for a few tunes.
5:30pm | 1822 W Sunset Blvd. | Los Angeles, Ca.
11/5/11 the elusive gnarwhallaby appears at the wulf.
First performance by a new quartet of Derek Stein, cello, Brian Walsh, clarients, Richard Valitutto, piano and myself on trombone. Works by Henry Gorecki, Marc Sabat, Steffen Schleiermacher, Edison Denisov and Morton Feldman.
8pm | the wulf. | 1026 s. santa fe ave #203 | Los Angeles, Ca.
11/12/11 Los Angeles Trombone Choir
Concert presented by LATC at CalArts's Roy O Disney Concert Hall. Music by Kevin Austin, Matt Barbier, OutKast, Dippre and more. Bill Reichenbach will be a featured soloist. Will also be broadcast live online with ROD's WebCam.
8pm | CalArts | 24700 McBean Pkwy. | Valenica, Ca.
11/14/11 Trio Kobayashi at UCSD.
Music by Marc Sabat, John Cage, Peter Ablinger, Heinrich Isaac and Bach. With Eric Derr on 60" tamtam. This is the first trip in a two part residency for the composition program at UCSD.
8pm | UCSD School of Music | 9500 Gilman Dr. | La Jolla, Ca.
1/16/2012 facesplitter for populist records.
I'll be performing Nicholas Deyoe's solo trombone piece facesplitter at Populist records cd release party. This will be their first release and is an album of Nicholas Deyoe's music. Cupcakes and Beer (from Eagle Rock Brewery- the namesake of populist records) will be served.
1pm | Machine Project | 1200 D N. Alvarado | Los Angeles, Ca.
Gnarwhallaby will be performing on Liz Glynn's Black Box as part of Pacific Standard Time. We;ll be performing music by Joan Franks Williams, Henry Gorecki, Morton Feldman and possibly more. The event is free and the Black Box runs from January 19-29th.
9pm | 830 North Highland | LA 90038
SASSAS: Welcome Inn Time Machine. I'll be performing in James Tenney's Swell Pieces 2 & 3 (from the Postal Pieces). Eagle Rock's Welcome Inn will be transformed into a venue for a free six hour concert featuring experimental music originating in Southern California between 1949-1977.
4-10pm | Welcome Inn Motel | 1840 Colorado Blvd | LA 90041
