2012!!! \ Jan /

* KAY SOLO + JACOB WICK SOLO *
very happy to be sharing the evening with Mr. Jacob Wick (in town from the far-off lands of San Fran) as part of the Rachet Series, curated and hosted by Frank Rosaly


if you want to come -- please RSVP with "house concert" in the subject line as soon as possible to 11trombones@yahoo.com. then, a confirmation email with the address for the concert will be sent to you. 
more info:
ratchetseries.blogspot.com/p/friday-january-13th-2012-at-830pm-in.html

FRIDAY the 13th of January
8:30 pm - somewhere in the Ukranian Village, Chicago
$10 suggested donation



* PRETTY MONSTERS in Chicago *
featuring Jeff Parker - guitar, Tim Daisy - drums / percussion, Erica Dicker - violin - coming all the way from Cincinnati!
Adam Busch from Sonoi will play a solo set to kick things off.
www.whistlerchicago.com

SUNDAY 1/22

@ the Whistler, 2421 N. Milwaukee Ave
9:30 pm - FREE!

* MYOPIC *

with Paul Giallorenzo

MONDAY 1/30

@ Myopic Books, 1564 N. Milwaukee Ave

7:30 pm - FREE

Leonardo Music Journal 21: Beyond Notation

I'm very honored to be included on the CD accompanying the 21st issue of the Leonardo Music Journal. Curated by Andrew Raffo Dewar, I'm in the company of greats such as Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, Guillermo Gregorio, James Fei, and Matt Marble.

I contributed my piece Inside UFO 53-32 for string quartet recorded by the Flux Quartet.

Check it all out here: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/journal/toclmj21.html

New Album on Klangbad

A while back I spent a remarkable few days in a small town in Germany playing & recording, eating & drinking, wandering around & thinking -- with wonderful people.
The musical results comes out NOV 25 on Klangbad:

Spielweise Drei
featuring: Uma Paul, F.M. Einheit (formerly of Einsturzende Neubauten), Hans Joachim Irmler (of Faust), and Katherine Young

http://www.klangbad.de/xtc/product_info.php/info/p160_Irmler--FM-Einheit--Paul--Young---Spielwiese-3.html

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