Robert Honstein

April events

admin — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:34:24 +0000

April is full of concerts, come see me at one of them!

Thursday, April 5, 7PM

Night Mixes Face the Music The Tank 151 W. 46th Street New York, NY

The teen new music ensemble Face the Music plays my Night Mixes alongside Steve Reich’s Double Sextet and Philip Glass’s Glassworks. Check out this great NY Times article about Face the Music.

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Late winter recap

admin — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:10:23 +0000

Though it may have felt more like spring than winter, February and March were nonetheless a flurry of activity. Here are some highlights:

Copland House

For about four weeks I had the privilege of staying at Copland House, which as the name suggests was Copland’s house. Now outfitted for extended stay composer residencies, Copland House is a [...]

I know the feeling

admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:51:14 +0000

A demo for my new email song, ‘I know the feeling’.

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This will be the third movement of Why are you not answering?. Color Field Ensemble premiered the piece at the Red Note Music Festival in Normal, Illinois but all you New Yorkers can see it on April 5 at the [...]

Recording Sesh

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:08:47 +0000

Last weekend I had the pleasure of heading into the recording studio with my friends from New Morse Code. In addition to being hyper-skilled, intelligent, and sensitive musicians, Hannah, Mike and Anne (the morse coders) were down to earth and easy to work with. We spent a few hours recording my piece Patter. Maybe it’s [...]

Upcoming Events!

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:33:06 +0000

A bunch of things happening in the coming weeks. Come see one of them! Patter at the 92Y Tribeca

On Saturday, January 28th at the 92Y Tribeca New Morse Code – Hannah Collins, Mike Compitello, and Anne Lanzilotti – play my trio Patter along with tunes by Andy Akiho, Matthew Barnson, Alejandro Vinao, Kurtag and Norgard. [...]

Marionette

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:47:41 +0000

Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Trombone, Percussion, Violin, Double Bass

Marionette was composed for Sleeping Giant’s collaboration with Ensemble ACJW. Tasked with creating a companion piece to L’Histoire du Soldat, each Giant crafted a very personal response to the Stravinsky. We called the collection Histories because through developing our responses it was as if we were all discovering [...]

Night Scenes from the Ospedale

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:48:57 +0000

strings + harpsichord

One of my most exciting projects of 2011 was a collaboration with the Sebastian Chamber Players on something we called the Vivaldi Project. Our goal was to produce a show that seamlessly interwove early and new music. 2011 happened to be the 300th anniversary of Vivaldi’s seminal work L’Estro Armonico, so we decided [...]

Email Songs on Q2

admin — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:46:39 +0000

Okay, this is pretty cool.

As part of Sleeping Giant’s December Q2 residency (in which we programmed a month’s worth of shows for Hammered!, more about that here), the folks at Q2 were kind enough to record my piece Is it Auburn? in the esteemed Greene Space. Tema Watstein, Mariel Roberts, Karl Larson and Owen Weaver [...]

The Vivaldi Project

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:14:10 +0000

This fall I’ve been working on a very cool project with two NYC based baroque ensembles: The Sebastian Chamber Players and Quodlibet. We hatched a plan for a program that would interweave Vivaldi Concerti Grosso from his Op.3 collection L’Estro Harmonico and a set of interludes written by moi. The idea was to create a [...]

Laying it down

admin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:20:32 +0000

About a month ago I went into the studio with Concert Black to record a demo of my piece RE: You. While I’ve spent some time in the studio recording other people’s music, I’ve never had the chance to do it with my music. Being able to hear everything in such pristine detail, while also [...]