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Summer 2010
Performance of String Quartet No. 2 by the Borromeo String Quartet
Sunday, July 4, 7:30 p.m. Taos, New Mexico
String Quartet No. 2 performed by the Borromeo String Quartet, as part of the Taos School of Music Chamber Music Festival. This performance is as a result of the piece winning the 2009 Copland House Borromeo Award.
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Performance of Hebrew Songs for violin and piano
Sunday, July 4, 8:00 p.m., Sonoma State University, CA.
Performance of arrangements of three of Gerald’s liturgical songs, arranged for violin and piano. Performed by Wendy Sharp, violin, as part of a faculty concert of California Summer Music. Sonoma State University, CA.
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PAST EVENTS
April-June 2010
Performance of song cycle The Dogwoods
Saturday, April 17, 7:30 p.m., Rockville, MD
Rachel Brook, soprano, JJ Penna, piano, perform Gerald’s song cycle The Dogwoods, settings of poems by Maryland poet Linda Pastan, as part of a concert of Ladino, Yiddish, Operetta and new American songs. Temple Beth Ami, 14330 Travilah Rd, Rockville, MD.
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Performance of The Ocean of Peace lies ahead of me
Saturday April 24, 8:00 p.m., New York, NY
The Ocean of peace lies ahead of me, set to words of Rabindranath Tagore, performed by the New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, conductor, at the Festival for Universal Sacred Music, (as a winner of their 2010 Composition Contest). At Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY. Tel: 212.501.3303.
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“Gerald Cohen and friends”, concert at Columbia University
Tuesday April 27, 6:00 p.m., New York, NY
Concert of the music of Gerald Cohen, performed by Cantors Gerald Cohen, Natasha Hirschhorn, Benjie Ellen Schiller, and the joint choruses of the cantorial schools of Jewish Theological Seminary and Hebrew Union College. St Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, 116th Street and Broadway, New York, NY. Free Admission.
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Directions to St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University
Premiere of new cantorial compositions at Cantors Assembly convention
Wednesday, May 5, 8:00 p.m., New York, NY
Premiere of “New Music for a New Mahzor”; Gerald was one of ten composers commissioned by the Cantors Assembly to write music for the new High Holiday prayer book being published for Conservative Synagogues. Performed by Gerald Cohen. Tickets sold at door: $35. Park Avenue Synagogue, 50 East 87th Street, New York, NY.
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Performance of Five Hebrew Songs for clarinet duo and piano
Sunday, May 23, 3:00 p.m., New York, NY
Performance of arrangements of five of Gerald’s liturgical songs, arranged for clarinet duo and piano. Performed by the Grneta Duo (Vasko Dukovski and Ismail Lumanovski, clarinets) and Alexandra Joan, piano, as part of a concert “Music in Our Time”, presented by the American Society for Jewish Music. Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY.
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Premiere of Grneta Variations for clarinet duo and piano
Thursday, May 27, 8:00 p.m., New York, NY; NOTE: DATE CHANGE
Premiere of Grneta Variations, for two clarinets and piano, written for the Grneta Duo (Vasko Dukovski and Ismail Lumanovski, clarinets) and Alexandra Joan, piano. The concert, entitled “Eastern Madness", features composers that feature eastern influences in their music.
Tickets sold at door: $15. Bechstein Piano Centre, 207 West 58th Street , New York, NY.
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Performance of V’higad’ta L’vincha, in Montreal
Sunday, May 30, 3:00 p.m., Montreal, Quebec
Performance of V’higad’ta L’vincha (“And you shall tell your child”, Passover cantata), by Concerto Della Donna, Iwan Edwards, conductor. Christ Church Cathedral, 1444 Avenue Union, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Premiere of Hebrew Songs for violin and piano
Sunday, June 13, 3:00 p.m., New Haven, CT
Performance of arrangements of four of Gerald’s liturgical songs, arranged for violin and piano. Performed by Wendy Sharp, violin, and Gerald Cohen, piano, as part of a concert celebrating Wendy Sharp’s 50th birthday. Sprague Hall, Yale University, 470 College St., New Haven, CT.
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Jan.-March 2010
Premiere of Variously Blue for clarinet, violin and piano
Sunday, Feb 7, 3:00 p.m., New York, NY
Premiere of Variously Blue for clarinet, violin and piano, commissioned by the Verdehr Trio.
Performed by the Verdehr Trio at the Kosciuszko Foundation,15 East 65th Street, New York, NY
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Performance of excerpts of Sarah and Hagar
Wednesday, March 3, 10:30 a.m., New York, NY
Excerpts from opera Sarah and Hagar performed as part of the senior cantorial recital of soprano Star Trompeter.
Performed at Hebrew Union College, 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY. Free Admission.
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Performance of Variously Blue for clarinet, violin and piano
Sunday, March 7, 4:00 p.m., Washington, DC
Performance of Variously Blue for clarinet, violin and piano, commissioned by the Verdehr Trio.
Performed by the Verdehr Trio at the Phillips Collection, 1600 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC
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Concert of Jazz and Jewish music
Saturday, March 13, 8:00 p.m, Scarsdale, NY
Gerald joins jazz trumpeter and arranger John Sneider, who will be giving a concert of standards, originals, as well as jazz versions of my compositions. Shaarei Tikvah, 46 Fox Meadow Road, Scarsdale, NY. Email office@shaareitikvah.org for reservations.
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Performance of V’higad’ta L’vincha
Sunday, March 14, 4:00 p.m., New York, NY
V’higad’ta L’vincha performed by joint choruses of the cantorial schools of Jewish Theological Seminary and Hebrew Union College.
Center for Jewish History. 15 West 16th Street,New York, NY.
Fall 2009
Chamber music performance in Illinois
Friday, October 16, Chicago, IL
Performance of Yedid Nefesh, for clarinet, viola and piano, at Northeastern Illinois University. J. Lawrie Bloom, clarinet; Maria Lambros, viola; Diane Walsh, piano. www.neiu.edu
Premiere of clarinet works in New York
Tuesday, November 24, New York, NY
Vasko Dukovski, clarinettist, performs Preludes and Debka for clarinet and string quartet and Clarinet duo arrangements of Hebrew Songs at the Juilliard School. www.vaskodukovski.com
Spring/Summer 2009
Premiere of new choral piece
Saturday, March 28, 7:30 p.m., Piscataway, NJ
Dodi li va’ani lo (My beloved is mine and I am his) from the Song of Songs, (premiere), commissioned by the Cantabile Chamber Chorale and performed at a concert of songs celebrating the beauty and creation of the earth.
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Second performance of new choral piece
Sunday, April 26, 7:30 p.m., Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Dodi li va’ani lo (My beloved is mine and I am his) and other Cohen compositions, performed at the annual concert of the Beth Shalom Choir. www.tbshastings.org
Cantor/composers in concert
Monday, May 11, 7:30 p.m., Scarsdale, NY
Joint concert with multi-talented Cantors Natasha Hirschhorn and Benjie Ellen Schiller, featuring many of our compositions, and Jewish, Broadway, and classical selections. Shaarei Tikvah Congregation, Scarsdale, NY Click here for more information on this concert
Chamber music performance in Maine
Saturday, August 22, 8 p.m., Portland, ME
Performance of Yedid Nefesh, for clarinet, viola and piano, at the Portland Chamber Music Festival. Todd Palmer, clarinet; Maria Lambros, viola; Dena Levine, piano. www.pcmf.org
2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008, Portland, OR Trio for Viola, Cello, and Piano performed by Michelle Matthewson, viola, Justin Kagan, cello, and Cary Lewis, piano. http://www.oldchurch.org
Friday, June 13, 2008, Baltimore, MD Yih'yu L'ratson (May the words), for cantor, chorus viola, and piano, premiere at Friday night services; commissioned by Baltimore Hebrew Congregation in honor of Cantor Judith Rowland. Cantor Rowland will sing the solo, with Maria Lambros, viola; Jimmy Galdiari, conductor. http://www.bhcong.org
Tuesday, June 17, 2008, Kerhonkson, NY Lakol Z’man (To everything a season) performed at the Cantors Assembly Convention New Music Session. Elisheva Dienstfrey, soprano; James Gloth, baritone. This piece was originally commissioned by Cantor Gloth for the dedication of the sanctuary of Congregation B’nai Israel, Sylvania, OH.