Events Archive

2016

Sunday, May 15, 7:00 pm
Premiere of new chamber music piece, Scarsdale, NY
As the recipient of a Hoff-Barthelson/Copland House Commission, Gerald Cohen is writing a new work, “The Ocean of Peace,”  for the students of the Hoff-Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale, NY. The premiere of the new composition will be held at the Orchestra + Ensemble concert of the School, Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 468 Rosedale Ave., White Plains.
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Sunday, May 15, 4:30 pm
Premiere of Oseh Shalom, Greenwich, CT
Premiere of Gerald Cohen’s Oseh Shalom, composed in honor of the Centennial of Temple Shalom in Greenwich, and performed by Cantor Asa Fradkin and the Youth Choir of the synagogue, with the composer at the piano.
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Wednesday, May 4, 6:00 pm
Excerpts from Steal a Pencil for Me at Fort Worth Opera’s Frontiers Festival
Excerpts from Gerald Cohen’s Steal a Pencil for Me (libretto by Deborah Brevoort) will be performed by artists from the 2016 Fort Worth Opera Festival as part of the week-long Frontiers Festival, which features the work of eight selected composer/librettist teams. Kahn Auditorium, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX.
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Sunday, April 24, 2:00 pm
Premiere of excerpts of Voyagers at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Premiere of the 1st movement of Gerald Cohen’s Voyagers, a tribute to the Voyager Spacecraft and the music of the “Golden Record” that accompanies the spacecraft on their interstellar mission. Performed at the Planetarium of the museum by clarinetist Vasko Dukovski and the Cassatt String Quartet, with accompanying astronomical visualizations. Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, NY.
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More info about Voyagers and its presentation at the Hayden Planetarium and other Planetariums


Saturday, April 16, 9:00 pm
Classical Café: Chamber Music of Gerald Cohen, Scarsdale, NY
Gerald Cohen’s Variously Blue and Yedid Nefesh, from the album SEA OF REEDS, will be performed at the “Classical Café” concert at Shaarei Tikvah Congregation. Performers include Sarah Adams, viola; Jennifer Choi, violin; Vasko Dukovski, clarinet; Alexandra Joan, piano. Shaarei Tikvah, 46 Fox Meadow Road, Scarsdale, NY.
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Sunday, April 3, 2:30 pm
Performance of Dayeinu at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
Gerald Cohen’s Dayeinu will be performed by the 400-voice HaZamir: the International Jewish High School Choir, with the composer at the piano, in their 2016 Gala Concert.
At Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium), 57th St. and 7th Ave., Manhattan.
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2015

Sunday, December 13, 7:30 pm
Performance of L’dor Vador, Merkin Concert Hall
Zamir Chorale and Zamir Noded, Matthew Lazar, conductor, perform Gerald Cohen’s L’dor Vador as part of their concert of American and Israeli choral music. Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, Manhattan.
http://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/zamir-chorale-and-zamir-noded1/


Saturday, December 12 through Friday, December 18
Performance of Adonai Ro’i as part of University of Chicago Motet Choir’s East Coast Tour
The University of Chicago Motet Choir, James Kallembach, conductor, will perform Gerald Cohen’s Adonai Roi, on six concerts in the December 2015 tour. Concert will take place in Carnegie, PA; Washington, DC; Philadelphia, Boston, and New York. For details, see information at the link below.
http://motet.uchicago.edu/tour.shtml


Sunday, June 14, 3:00 pm
Performance of L’dor Vador, ChoralFest USA 2015
The Zamir Chorale, conducted by Matthew Lazar, perform my L’dor Vador as part of ChoralFest USA, a celebration of American choral music. Symphony Space, Broadway and 95th Street, Manhattan. FREE admission.
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Sunday, May 31, 3:00 pm
Excerpts of Steal a Pencil for Me at the Center for Jewish History, New York
Excerpts of my opera Steal a Pencil for Me will be performed as part of the concert “Music in our Time”, a presentation of the American Society for Jewish Music.  Sung by Robert Balonek, Ilana Davidson, Nikhil Navkal, Toby Newman and Ricardo Rivera, with Stanislaw Fridman, piano.  The concert will also include music by Irving Fine, Osvaldo Golijov, Laura Kaminsky, Richard Neumann, and Remy Yulzari.
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Sunday, May 31, 2:00 pm
Performance of Sea of Reeds, Lanconia, NH
Sea of Reeds, for two clarinets and piano, performed by Nicholas Graham and Matthew M. Marsit, clarinet; Scott Smedinghoff, piano. Taylor Community Sunday Chamber Music Series, Lanconia, NH.


Sun, May 17 4:00 pm
Performance of Variously Blue, Tribeca New Music Festival
Variously Blue, for clarinet, violin and piano, performed by Vasko Dukovski, Jennifer Choi, and Alexandra Joan. This concert also features other new and recent works for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano by Rick Baitz, Kevin Eppich, Phillip Golub, David Rakowski, and Jacob TV. The Cell, 338 W 23rd St, New York, NY.
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Sunday, May 17, 2:00 pm
Performance of Sea of Reeds, Hanover, NH
Sea of Reeds, for two clarinets and piano, performed by Nicholas Graham and Matthew M. Marsit, clarinet; Scott Smedinghoff, piano. Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Sponsored by Vaughan Recital Series
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Saturday, April 25, 9:00 pm
You and the night and the music: A Jazz concert
The fantastic jazz trumpet player John Snieder will be playing with his band at Shaarei Tikvah in Scarsdale, and I will have the great joy of singing with him: several of my compositions, and some jazz standards.  The concert will begin at 9 p.m., and include wine, cheese and dessert with admission.
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SEA OF REEDS FEATURED ON PERFORMANCE TODAY
APM’s nationally syndicated program Performance Today featured the performance of Gerald Cohen’s Sea of Reeds from the November 2014 concert at Le Poisson Rouge.
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Thursday, March 26, 7:00 pm
Cafe Shirah, A Cantorial Cabaret
Annual concert presented by the H.L. Miller Cantorial School of the Jewish Theological Seminary, this year given in honor of Cantor Gerald Cohen.  Cantor Cohen, and students and faculty of the School, will perform in an informal and lively concert.  Proceeds for the concert will benefit HaZamir (see event below!).  At the Jewish Theological Seminary.
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Sunday, March 22, 4:00 pm
Premiere of L’dor Vador, Avery Fisher Hall
Premiere performance by HaZamir, the International Jewish High School Choir, of Gerald Cohen’s L’dor Vador. Conducted by Matthew Lazar. Commissioned by the Cantors Assembly for Hazamir. At Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY.
View video of L’dor Vador from the premiere performance


Sunday, March 8, 9:30 am
Presenter, “Art of Healing” conference
Presenter at conference on “The Art of Healing” at the Jewish Theological Seminary, a day of learning to explore the integration of art into pastoral care.  At the Jewish Theological Seminary.
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Monday, February 2, 7:00 pm
Performance of Playing for our lives
The Cassatt String Quartet performs Gerald Cohen’s Playing for our lives, a piece commissioned by them: a tribute to the musicians and music of the Terezin concentration camp. Also with vocal performances by Gerald Cohen. Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center, Midland TX.
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2014

Saturday, November 22, 7:30 pm
Saint Mark’s Gospel
A solo performance by Christopher Johnson of the Gospel according to St. Mark. Featuring music from Gerald Cohen’s CD: SEA OF REEDS
St Paul’s Church, 199 Carroll Street, Brooklyn NY
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/893559


Saturday, November 15, 7:30 pm
Concert: Night of Music and Joy
Concert of more than 20 of Westchester’s Cantors, will feature several of Gerald Cohen‘s compositions, Temple Israel, 1000 Pinebrook Boulevard, New Rochelle, NY 10804
http://www.wjcouncil.org/


Tuesday, November 11, 7:00 pm
CD Release concert at Le Poisson Rouge to celebrate release of SEA OF REEDS
Concert at Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street in Manhattan. Featuring Vasko Dukovski, Alexandra Joan, Ismail Lumanovski, Jennifer Choi
http://lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/gerald-cohen-sea-of-reeds-november-11th/


Monday, May 13,  Lexington, VA
Residency on “Music and the Sacred” and presentation of compositions at Washington and Lee University


Sunday, May 4,  7:30 pm, Hastings on Hudson, NY
Performance of Uvtuvo M’chadesh for SATB chorus, viola and piano
Commissioned by Temple Beth Shalom


Friday, March 21, 7:30 pm, Ridgefield, CT
Residency at Temple Shearith Israel: Performance of several compositions as part of Shabbat service, and discussion and excerpts of opera Steal a Pencil for Me.


Friday, January 31, 7:30 pm, Hastings on Hudson, NY
World Premiere of Uvtuvo M’chadesh for SATB chorus, viola and piano
Commissioned by Temple Beth Shalom, as part of their Shabbat Shirah—Sabbath of Song program
http://www.tbshastings.org/programs/shabbat-shirah-sabbath-song
Temple Beth Shalom, 740 North Broadway Hastings-on-Hudson, NY


Sunday, January 26, 3:00 pm, North Bethesda, MD
Performance of Yedid Nefesh, for clarinet, viola, and piano
Performed by Rob Patterson, clarinet;  Maria Lambros, viola; Audrey Andrist, piano.
http://www.strathmore.org/eventstickets/calendar/view.asp?id=9715
The Mansion at Strathmore, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD


Thursday, January 16, 7:30 pm, New York, NY
Showcase performance of excerpts from the opera Steal a Pencil for Me
Presentation of excerpts of this new opera in two acts (music by Gerald Cohen, libretto by Deborah Brevoort), based on the wartime love story of Holocaust survivors Jaap and Ina Polak.  Note: tickets are very limited for this event.  Please contact Gerald Cohen for ticket information.
www.stealapencilopera.com
National Opera Center, at Opera America, 330 Seventh Avenue, at 29th Street, New York City


2013

Saturday, December 7, 8:00 pm, Mt Kisco, NY
World Premiere of new arrangement of Three Songs, for voice, violin, cello and piano
Commissioned by Bet Torah; on a concert by the Duke Piano Trio, also including works of Haydn, Schoenfield and Shostakovich
http://www.bettorah.org/index.aspx
Bet Torah, 60 Smith Ave., Mt Kisco, NY


Sunday, June 2, 3 pm, New York, NY
Performance of Grneta Variations, for two clarinets and piano, by the Grneta Ensemble; as part of the American Society for Jewish Music’s concert Music in Our Time. Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street New York, NY.


Friday, May 31, 7:30 pm Rye, NY
Performance of Playing for our lives, for string quartet; as part of a concert by the Cassatt String Quartet. Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester, 2125 Westchester Ave. East, Rye, NY.


Tuesday, May 22, 7:30 pm, New York, NY
Convention of the Cantors Assembly
Premiere of new arrangement for women’s chorus of Adonai Ro’i, as part of a concert celebrating the Women of the Cantorate; Park Avenue Synagogue, 50 East 87th Street, New York, NY.


Sunday, April 28, 2013, 3:00 pm, Scarsdale, NY
Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 7:00 pm, New York, NY
Premiere of Steal a Pencil for Me, a new opera in two acts
Premiere (In concert form) of the opera Steal a Pencil for Me, with libretto by Deborah Brevoort. The opera is a love story, set in the Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, and based on the lives of Dutch survivors Jaap and Ina Polak.
Read about this opera
Learn more about the story of the Polaks


2012

Thursday December 6, 7:30 p.m., Symphony Space, New York, NY
Performance of Playing for our lives, written for the Cassatt String Quartet, at their concert “From a Vanished World”. The composition is a memorial to the musicians and music that were an essential part of the fabric of the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II.
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Saturday, December 1, 7:30 p.m., Piscataway, NJ
Performance of Lakol Z’man – For Everything a Season by the Cantabile Chamber Chorale, Rebecca Scott, cond., as part of their Silver Jubilee concert.  Christ United Methodist Church, 485 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ.


Sunday, April 22*, 3 p.m., Scarsdale, NY
Tuesday April 24**, 6 p.m., New York, NY
Two performances by the Cassatt String Quartet of Playing for our lives for string quartet
*The performance on April 22, 3 p.m. at Shaarei Tikvah 46 Fox Meadow Road in Scarsdale, is part of a concert commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day, and includes music written at Terezin, and an interview with Dutch survivors Jack and Ina Polak.
**The performance on April 24, 6 p.m. at the Feinberg Auditorium of the Jewish Theological Seminary 3080 Broadway (122nd Street), New York, NY, is part of a concert of music by the composers on the faculty of the H.L. Miller Cantorial School at JTS.


Wednesday, April 11, 8:30 p.m., Ankara, Turkey
Performance of Grneta Variations and Five Hebrew Songs, both for clarinet duo and piano, as part of the concert “Eastern Madness” With the Grneta Ensemble: pianist Alexandra Joan and clarinetists Vasko Dukovski and Ismail Lumanovski.  29th International Ankara Music Festival, Ankara, Turkey.


Saturday, February 4, 5:30 p.m. New York, NY
World Premiere of Playing for our lives for string quartet, written for the Cassatt String Quartet; performed by them as part of the Music of Now Marathon at Symphony Space in NYC.  The composition is a memorial to the musicians and music that were an essential part of the fabric of the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II.
Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY


Wednesday, January 18, 7:30 p.m. New York, NY
New York City premiere of Yedid Nefesh, for clarinet, viola and piano, at a concert of the Kaleidoscope Series at the WMP Concert Hall. Performed by Vasko Dukovski, clarinet; Maria Lambros, viola, and Alexandra Joan, piano.  These performers have recently recorded this composition for a CD to be released in 2014.


2011

Thursday, November 10, 8:00 p.m. Baltimore, MD
Performance of Yedid Nefesh, trio for clarinet, viola and piano
Yedid Nefesh, for clarinet, viola and piano, performed by J. Michael Richards, Maria Lambros and Audrey Andrist at a concert at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, on Thursday, November 10, at 8 p.m. The concert, Maria Lambros and Friends, is a program of “Three Centuries of Music by Jewish Composers.”
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Sunday, October 30, 4:00 p.m. Norfolk, VA
Premiere of We are loved by an unending love, with text by Rabbi  Rami Shapiro, at Temple Ohef Sholom in Norfolk, VA on Sunday, October 30 at 4 p.m. The piece was commissioned by Temple Ohef Shalom, and was performed by the temple choir, with Robynne Redmon, mezzo, conducted by Charles Woodward.


Thursday, June 2, 7:00 p.m. New York, NY
The premiere of my new one-act opera, SEED, written with librettist David Simpatico, will be on Thursday June 2, at 7 p.m. at Symphony Space in NYC.  Presented along with three other one-act operas by my colleagues in American Lyric Theater’s Composer Librettist Development Program, of which I was resident artist in 2010-2011.
Symphony Space, Broadway and 95th Street, Manhattan.


Wednesday, May 25, 8:00 p.m. Chevy Chase, MD
Performance, and Washington area premiere, of the Passover Cantata V’higad’ta L’vincha (And you shall tell your child) by Zemer Chai, D.C.’s premier Jewish Choir, Eleanor Epstein, Artistic Director.  Ohr Kodesh Congregation, 8300 Meadowbrook Lane, Chevy Chase, MD.


Sunday, April 3, 3:00 p.m. Philadelphia, PA
Premiere of arrangements of my Five Hebrew Songs for clarinet, viola and piano.  Performed as part of Nashirah’s concert in celebration of Passover, “And You Shall Tell Your Children.”  Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA.


Sunday, April 3, 3:00 p.m. Scarsdale, NY
The Grneta Ensemble (Vasko Dukovski and Ismail Lumanovski, clarinets; Alexandra Joan, piano), performers with whom I have had a wonderful collaboration in recent years performing a concert featuring my Grneta Variations and Five Hebrew Songs, both written for the ensemble.  Also includes my performing vocal selections with the group, and concert music by Bartok, Mendelssohn, Fairouz, and Grign.  Shaarei Tikvah, 46 Fox Meadow Road, Scarsdale, NY.


Sunday, March 27, 6:00 p.m. New York, NY
Performance of Adonai Ro’i (Psalm 23) by HaZamir, the International Jewish High School Choir, at Rose Hall, Lincoln Center.  HaZamir is a network of Jewish youth choirs, founded by Matthew Lazar, that gathers each year for a culminating festival  and concert in New York. Fredrick P. Rose Hall, Broadway and 60th Street, Manhattan.


Friday, March 25, 8:00 p.m. Utrecht, the Netherlands
Performance of the Passover cantata V’higad’ta L’vincha (And you shall tell your child) by Medusa, a women’s choir in Utrecht, The Netherlands, conducted by Tanya Worron.


Sunday, March 6, 7:30 p.m. New York, NY
Premiere of new arrangements of two of my best-known songs, Adonai Ro’i  and Y’varech’cha, for voice and string quartet.  Performed by Cantor Marina Shemesh and the Cassatt String Quartet, on a concert that also includes music by Andy Teirstein, and Schubert’s Death and the Maiden Quartet. The Brotherhood Synagogue, 28 Gramercy Park South, Manhattan.


Friday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. New York, NY
Premiere of Evening Meditations, for SATB chorus and piano.  This piece was commissioned by the Horace Mann Chamber Choir, Timothy Ho, conductor. The texts of the piece are two contemporary English translations of Jewish liturgical settings that focus on the sense of wonder at the daily motion of the earth, sun and stars.  Saint Jean Baptiste Church, 184 East 76th Street, (Lexington Avenue), Manhattan.


Sunday, January 30, 1:00 p.m. New York, NY
“Freshly Brewed” Showcase Concert–opera scenes written by composers and librettists of the Composer Librettist Development Program of the American Lyric Theater.  Performed at Opera America, 330 Seventh Avenue (29th Street). I have written, with librettist David Simpatico, “I am Sarah Palin”–an aria for the character of Sarah Palin, based on her 2008 convention speech; it will be sung by mezzo Heather Johnson. The program will also feature arias based on other historical figures, including Josephine Baker, Carlo Gesualdo and Emperor Hirohito.
More information about the Composer Librettist Development Program


Sunday, January 23, 6:00 p.m., New York, NY
Performance of Grneta Variations for clarinet duo and piano, as part of the concert Classicals & Supper with the Grneta Ensemble. With pianist Alexandra Joan and clarinetists Vasko Dukovski and Ismail Lumanovski.  Drom, 85 Avenue A (b/w 5th & 6th) New York, NY.


Sunday, January 16, 6:00 p.m., New York, NY
Performance of Five Hebrew Songs, for clarinet duo and piano, as part of the concert Classicals & Supper with the Grneta Ensemble. With pianist Alexandra Joan and clarinetists Vasko Dukovski and Ismail Lumanovski.  Drom, 85 Avenue A (b/w 5th & 6th) New York, NY.


Sunday, January 16, 3:00 pm, Yonkers, NY
Performance of Preludes and Debka for clarinet and string quartet by the Bronx Arts Ensemble, on a program also featuring works of Debussy and Schubert. 96 Franklin Avenue, Yonkers, NY


2010

Premiere of choral piece “An Odd Bus”

Saturday, November 6, 8:00 p.m. Beachwood, OH

Premiere of “An Odd Bus” as part of Sacred Rights, Sacred Song, a choral work of six composers,  focusing on the rights of religious pluralism in Israel. Fran Gordon Immerman, Creator & Producer.  Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, 23737 Fairmount Blvd, Beachwood, OH

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Performance of Adonai Ro’i in Rome, as part of an interfaith conference at the Vatican

Tuesday, November 16th,  Rome, Italy

Performance of Adonai Ro’i (Psalm 23) as part of a Conference on Catholic-Jewish Relations being held at the Vatican.  The piece will be sung by a group of twenty cantors from the American Conference of Cantors. Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri, Rome, Italy.

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Performance of Grneta Variations and Five Hebrew Songs for clarinet duo and piano

Tuesday, November 23, 7:30 p.m., New York, NY

Performance of Grneta Variations and Five Hebrew Songs, both for clarinet duo and piano, as part of the concert “Eastern Madness” With pianist Alexandra Joan and clarinetists Vasko Dukovski and Ismail Lumanovski.  WMP Concert Hall, 31 East 28th Street, (between Park South & Madison Ave.), New York, NY

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Premiere of new opera scenes as part of the Composer-Librettist Development Program

Sunday, December 12, 1:00 p.m. New York, NY

“Freshly Brewed” Showcase Concert—music of Gerald Cohen and other composers and librettists from the Composer-Librettist Development Program of the American Lyric Theater.  Performed at Opera America, 330 Seventh Avenue (29th Street), 16th Floor, New York, NY 10001

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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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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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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@nullshaareitikvah.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.


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


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.

www.cantabilechamberchorale.org


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.