August-Early September 2013

I've got a some really exciting projects coming up in the next month! I'll be recording a new record with Amy Cimini as Architeuthis Walks on Land, and performing the complete version of my multi-movement piece Four Chambered Heart with Till by Turning and beautiful video by Paul Rowley in New York. Guess summer is over! Details below.

Architeuthis Walks on Land: EMPAC Residency
8/26-9/2 Amy Cimini and I will be in Troy, New York, recording a new record as Artists-In-Residence at EMPAC.

Till by Turning performs Four Chambered Heart
Launching the Music at First 2013-2014 season, Till by Turning premieres my concert-length cycle of pieces Four Chambered Heart. We are thrilled that award-winning filmmaker and visual artist Paul Rowley has created a video installation for the performance that hints at the work's avian and apocalyptic preoccupations.

Watch a preview video here! http://vimeo.com/70723507

Written for Till by Turning, Four Chambered Heart is a meditation on Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. In this 8-movement piece for violin, viola, bassoon and piano, Young explores Messiean’s musical materials and time-suspending techniques through her own musical language, incorporating open and song forms, amplification, and noise. Four Chambered Heart grafts material and mundane apocalyptic suggestions onto Messiaen’s spiritual concerns. Coming from and returning to visual silence, Rowley has crafted a video for each of the piece’s interior 6 movements using colorful patterns, shifting repetitions, and suggestive imagery. 

June and July 2013

The Life You Save May Be Your Own
for flute, bass clarinet, cello, piano, percussion and multi-channel tape
performed at SICPP 2013
7 PM
Brown Hall, NEC
www.sicpp.org

PRETTY MONSTERS
Sat 6/29
with Spektral Quartet
performing the music of Haydn, Stephen Gorbos, Verdi, Liza White, Francisco Castillo Trigueros, Mozart, Ben Hjertmann, Alex Temple, and Beethoven!
9 PM
@ the Hideout, 60642
www.hideoutchicago.com

Tue 7/2
with hungry cowboy (record release!) + Cloud Becomes Your Hand
8pm 
@ The Silent Barn, 603 Bushwick Ave 11206
www.silentbarn.org

UPCOMING SHOWS: April-May 2013

Mon 4/29 - MIKROS Festival
As the opening night of the MIKROS Festival, I'll be performing with Ashley Paul (reeds, etc.) and Kathryn Schulmeister (bass). We will each perform solo sets, followed by the premiere of a trio piece by Ryan Krause.
@ Panoply Performance Lab, 104 Meserole St., 11206
8 PM

Wed 5/1 - premiere!
Northwestern University's Contemporary Music Ensemble premiers my new chamber orchestra piece, Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight, featuring violin soloist Austin Wulliman.
@ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 20208
7:30 PM

Sat 5/12 - solo and trio 
with Coppice (Noe Culler and Joseph Kramer)
and with Hal Rammel
@ Constellation, 60618

8:30 PM

Thu 5/16 - Parlour Tapes+ "The Guilty Party"
I'll be playing a bit with Alejandro Acierto as part of this wild murder mystery fundraiser event!
http://parlourtapes.com/

Wed 5/29 - Olivia Block + Carol Genetti + KAY
with the Green Pasture Happiness (Aaron Zarzutzki - modular synth, no-output turntable; Daniel Fandiño - modular synth, guitar; Brian Labycz - modular synth)
@ the Hideout, 60642
10 PM

APRIL 2013 - Jessica Pavone & Katherine Young: SOLOS Tour

Super excited for these upcoming shows in Switzerland and Germany! 

Jessica Pavone and I will each be performing new solo sets.

April 13th @ Kab de L'usine - Geneva, Switzerland
http://kalvingrad.com/
April 14th @ The Museum of Contemporary Art - Basel, Switzerland
http://www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/en/museum-fuer-gegenwartskunst
April 15th @ Mulbau - Luzern, Switzerland
http://www.mullbau.ch/index.html
April 16th @ Madame Claude - Berlin, Germany
https://www.facebook.com/MadameClaudeBerlin
April 17th @ Oberdeck - Hannover, Germany

April 18th @ Baustelle Kalk - Cologne, Germany

http://baustellekalkpost.blogspot.com/
April 19th @ Hahnengasse - Ulm, Germany
April 20th @ Bavarian Public Radio - Munich, Germany

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES: Feb-Mar-April-2013

Thu 2/28-Sat 3/2 - E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E
E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E is an epic, town hall musical that pleads the case for a more empathetic economy, proposing, with Thomas Paine and Martin Luther King, money as everyone’s. Created by choreographer Daria Faïn and poet Robert Kocik, in collaboration with composer Katherine Young, vocalist Samita Sinha and The Commons Choir, E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E was developed by researching the sonic and connotative powers of language. 26 dancers, singers and actors treat our current inequity crisis with reparative tones, tunes and intentions while drawing on the body as horn of plenty.

The instrumental music is performed by and was developed in collaboration with Jen Baker (trombone) and Sam Sowyrda (percussion).
@ New York Live Arts, 219 W. 19th St, 10011
7:30 PM
Tickets
More info

 
Fri 3/8 - Solo Set with Noise-Bridge / Eliza Brown / Chris Fisher-Lochhead
Performing new and revamped solo pieces, I will open for new music duo Noise-Bridge (Christie Finn and Felix Behringer) from Germany. Noise-Bridge premieres two commissions by Chicago-based composers Eliza Brown and Chris Fisher-Lochhead.
@ Elastic Arts, 2830 N Milwaukee Ave, 60618
8 PM

Sat 3/9 - Trio with Jim Baker and Frank Rosaly
@ Heaven Gallery, 60622
9 PM

Tue 4/2 - Till by Turning performs Matt Marble
@ Princeton University as part of the Sound Kitchen Series
7 PM

April 13-21 - European Double Solo Tour with Jessica Pavone

Nov-Dec 2012: Pretty Monsters in Chicago + + +

Sun 11/4
JACKSON/ROEBKE
Keefe Jackson - reeds, Jason Roebke - bass
+
PRETTY MONSTERS
Katherine Young - bassoon, Erica Dicker - violin, Owen Stewart-Robertson - guitar, Mike Pride - drums & percussion


10 pm @ the Hungry Brain, 60618

more details:
http://umbrellamusic.org/

This show will feature the musicians who recorded the record -- violinist Erica Dicker, guitarist Owen Stewart-Robertson, and percussionist Mike Pride -- and will be the first time that we've all played together in Chicago. Would be great to see you there!

Write-up in the Reader about the show and the record: 
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/katherine-youngs-pretty-monsters-keefe-jackson-and-jason-roebke/Event?oid=7696450


Thurs 11/29
with JAMES FALZONE'S EARLY MUSIC CONVENTION:
James Falzone - clarinet, Jason Stein - bass clarinet, KAY - bassoon + electronics, Lou Mallozi - turntables and electronics, Josh Abrams - bass, Tim Daisy - drums and marimba, Frank Rosaly - drums and electronics

9 pm @ Elastic, Chicago
www.elasticrevolution.com

Sat 12/1
Prom Night Record's Save the Date series, co-produced by J. Sinton:
PRETTY MONSTERS
+
HAG:BradHenkel/SeanAli/DavidGrollman and TWINS OF EL DORADO:KristinSlipp/JoeMoffett(CD RELEASE!)

8 pm @ Douglass Street Music Collective, Brooklyn

Sat 12/15
Protest Heaven presents:
GIALLORENZO/YOUNG/DAISY
Paul Giallorenzo - piano, synthesizer, KAY, Tim Daisy - drums
+
REMPIS/KESSLER/ZERANG
Dave Rempis - saxophones, Kent Kessler - bass, Michael Zerang - drums

9pm @ Heaven Gallery, 60622

E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E rescheduled due to Sandy

Having rehearsed and teched, we were ready to go with E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E when Sandy hit, knocking out power in Lower Manhattan. NYLA is still without power as of Thursday, so the show has been cancelled for this week. The plan is to reschedule sometime this season.

Everyone from the production is safe and sound, so that is the main thing.