first show back in Chicago

PROTEST HEAVEN jazz and improvised music series

KATHERINE YOUNG

solo bassoon + + +

- and -

PAUL GIALLORENZO/BRIAN LABYCZ

synthesizer + modular synthesizer

@ Heaven Gallery - 1550 North Milwaukee, 2nd floor, 60622

10pm, donation suggested

New York Times Review of TARGET:furnace

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/arts/dance/target-furnace-at-chocolate-factory-review.html


music highlights include: 


"[A]bsorbing...Katherine Young’s live original score for bassoon, violin and percussion, performed with Christine Bard and Erin Benim, served as a lushly spare aural landscape....[M]arvelously charged...."


[photo credit: Nicholas Young]

November in New York

TARGET:furnace


TARGET::furnace is an hypnotic and symphonic jewel. Within a highly defined musical and visual environment, a powerful performer unfolds a mesmerizing topology where ferocious impact and charm work hand in hand to reveal the hidden geometry of a warrior heart. 


Commissioned and performed by Marýa Wethers

Choreography and production design by Daria Faïn

Composed by Katherine Young
Performed with musicians Christine Bard and Erin Benim

also on the program: Cipher by Samita Sinha
Wed Nov 2-Sat Nov 5 

@ The Chocolate Factory   chocolatefactorytheater.org
8 pm - $15

PRETTY MONSTERS
katherineyoung.bandcamp.com/album/pretty-monsters

featuring Erica Dicker - violin, Owen Stewart-Robertson - guitar, Mike Pride - percussion

presented by Cavalier Music  -  w/ Afuche and Doug Balliett

Sun Nov 6
@ Big Snow -  89 Varet St, Brooklyn NY 11206 (Montrose L stop and the Flushing JM stop)
doors at 8:30 pm


NARANJO-STANKOVA-YOUNG
a new trio with Ivan Naranjo (electronics) and Maria Stankova (voice-electronics) will be making its debut!


we've been working on a recording for Peira records that will come out in the winter, and given that it's almost halloween, ivan might even wear a Stockhausen mask!


also playing: Daniel Blake - saxophone


Sun Oct 30
@ Douglass Street Music Collective   295douglass.org

Absence of Wax release

LA-based net label Absence of Wax has released my piece Underworld (Dancing) for tuba and Wurlitzer as a single!

performed by Dan Peck (tuba) and Emily Manzo (Wurli)

check it out and download for free here: http://devinsarno.com/absenceofwax/?p=621

* HIGH ZERO *

I am excited to have been invited to perform as part of the 2011 High Zero Festival, along with Zeena Parkins, Kaffe Matthews, John Butcher, and others.
9/22-9/25 @ Baltimore
highzero.org/


update:::
High Zero 2011 was amazing! So many great people, so much great music. Thanks everyone!!

* SUMMER ACTIVITIES *

6/22 - !Skirl Fest!

w/ Leah Paul's Bike Lane featuring Paul, Chris Speed, Jessica Pavone, and k.a.y.

9 pm

@ Littlefield's, Brooklyn

6/25 - John Zorn Improv Night

8 pm, 10 pm

@ the Stone, NYC

7/16 - Weasel Walter / Evan Lipson / Katherine Young

@ the Freedom Garden, Brooklyn

7/17 - Andrew Lafkas Large Ensemble + BBQ!

5-8 pm

@ Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn

secretprojectrobot.org

7/20 - Fredrick Rzweski's Coming Together and Attica

A special event as part of an exhibition entitled Time Again

7 pm

@ SculptureCenter, Long Island City

sculpture-center.org

7/21 - Mike Pride, Owen Stewart-Robertson, k.a.y. + special guest

also w/ Brad Henkel's "Shopping List for the World Ends"

--- performed by: Jake Henry, Joe Moffett, Ben Syversen, Kenny Warren, Dustin Carlson, Owen Stewart-Robertson, and Sean Ali
7 pm

@ Douglass Street Music Collective

295douglass.org

8/06 - Archie Carey performs my solo amplified bassoon composition Relief

as part of his "Evening of Bassoonery"

8 pm

@ Machine Project, Los Angeles

machineproject.com

8/10-8/16 - Architeuthis Walks on Land in residency at the Rensing Center

@ Pickens, SC
rensingcenter.org

Late May and Early June - 2x2x2x2

the next few weeks seem to be all DUO projects for me!

wed 5/25
9 pm
@ Sycamore Flower Shop + Bar
1118 Cortelyou Road, Brooklyn

set 1: Katherine Young (bassoon+) vs. Jacob Wick (trumpet)
set 2: C.J. Boyd
set 3: Jason Ajemian & Co.

fri 5/27
@ I-Beam
68 7th Street, Brooklyn
8 pm
Architeuthis Walks on Land -- Amy Cimini (viola) + Katie Young (bsn)
Broadcloath -- Anne Rhodes (voc), Nathan Bontrager (clo) Adam Matlock (acc/rec)

then...

fri 6/3
the Heroes -- Michael Kenney + Katherine Young -- present Releasing Bound Water from Green Material redux. Mike is remaking the sculptural projector he made for my IPR show about a year ago. instead of projecting outward, it'll be wholly self-contained, with video projections, different vantage points, and vents through which you can listen to my music!
@ Janet Kurnatowski Gallery
205 Norman Avenue, Brooklyn

part of the group show "Temporary Antumbra Zone." friday night is the opening and the show is up through the month of june.


sun 6/5
as part of a two-day John Cage MusicCircus event celebrating Roulette's new home in Brooklyn, i'll be performing "Composer Karaoke" with Clara Latham. we will be doing instrumental karaoke to our own compositions, complete with karaoke videos and scrolling play-along scores!
@ Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
sometime between 1 and 6 pm