Appearances

CRUMB: METAMORPHOSES, BOOK II (Asian premiere)
Mathematical Encounters: A Diderot Legacy
 
 
Monday, February 19, 7.30 pm 

Conservatory Concert Hall
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Free admission
   
ystmusic.nus.edu.sg

Launch and book signing for

BECOMING MARGARET LENG TAN

A Performance and Fireside Chat
with Margaret Leng Tan & author Low Lai Chow
 
 
Sat, November 11, 2pm 

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Singapore
In collaboration with Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)
Esplanade Concourse

Free admission
   
esplanade.com

Singapore Writers Festival/National Library Board
Book launch with toy piano performance for

BECOMING MARGARET LENG TAN

Featuring Margaret Leng Tan & author Low Lai Chow
 
 
Sun, November 19, 1.30pm to 2.30pm

The POD, Level 16
National Library Building

100 Victoria St, Singapore 188064

Free admission
   
singaporewritersfestival.com

Library of Congress November 19, 2022
Coolidge Auditorium

GEORGE CRUMB REMEMBRANCE CONCERT

 
 
loc.gov
youtube.com/watch

NIGHTCAP post-concert conversation 

loc.gov
youtube.com/watch

DRAGON LADIES DON’T WEEP
 
 
Fri, March 10 at 7.30pm
Sat, March 11 at 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Sun, March 12 at 7.30pm

Taipei International Festival of Arts 2023
Experimental Theater
Taipei, Taiwan
   
npac-ntch.org

CRUMB: MAKROKOSMOS BOOK II
CHRISTOPHER HOPKINS: ARCHED INTERIORS II
(New York premiere)
HANS OTTE: Selections from DAS BUCH DER KLÄNGE
(The Book of Sounds)
  
 
Sat, 3 Dec, 7.30 pm

National Sawdust
Brooklyn, New York
   
nationalsawdust.org

CRUMB: MAKROKOSMOS BOOK II
(Washington DC premiere)
CHRISTOPHER HOPKINS: ARCHED INTERIORS II
(world premiere)
COWELL: CHANGING WOMAN (a revival)
  
 
Sat, 19 November, 8 pm

Library of Congress
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 1st Street SE
Washington, DC
 
loc.gov

XXIV International Chopin & Friends Festival
JOHN CAGE (1912-1992)
30th anniversary of his passing
  
 
Sat, November 12, 7 pm

Polish and Slavic Center
177 Kent Street, Greenpoint
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Free admission
 
nydai.org

DRAGON LADIES DON’T WEEP
  
 
Fri, 28 Oct, 7:30pm
Sat, 29 Oct, 1:30pm & 7.30pm 

OzAsia Festival
Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide, Australia
 
ozasiafestival.com.au

DRAGON LADIES DON’T WEEP
  
 
Fri, 21 October, 8pm
Sat, 22 October, 3pm & 8pm

Singtel Waterfront Theatre at Esplanade
Singapore
 
esplanade.com

Keynote speaker for opening of the
25th Association of Asia Pacific Performing Arts
Centres (AAPPAC) Conference, hosted by
Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay
  
 
Wed–Fri, 19–21 October  

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay
Singapore
 
eventbrite.sg

GEORGE CRUMB: MAKROKOSMOS BOOK II
CHRISTOPHER HOPKINS: ARCHED INTERIORS II
  
 
Thurs, 29 September, 7.30pm

Grusin Music Hall
University of Colorado at Boulder
Free admission
 
cupresents.org

THE DUET PROJECT: DISTANCE IS MALLEABLE
with EIKO OTAKE
 
Fri, 15 April at 7 pm
Sat,16 April at 7 pm
Sun,17 April at 3 pm

Skirball Theater
New York University
New York City
 
nyuskirball.org

Discount code for $20 tickets: DUET20

J-CHOES (world premiere)
(John Cage-Hans Otte-Erik Satie)
A far-fetched but indispensable musical (hi)story
 
Fri, 8 April, 9 pm

Teatro Viriato
Viseu, Portugal
 
teatroviriato.com

Mon, 11 April, 7 pm

Goethe Institut Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal

goethe.de

ORIENT:OCCIDENT – CAGE:OTTE
Margaret Leng Tan and Joana Gama  
 
Saturday, November 6, 7pm

Culturgest
Lisbon, Portugal
 
culturgest.pt

2021 AUSTRALIAN ART MUSIC AWARDS
Work of the Year (Dramatic)


Winner: Dragon Ladies Don’t Weep   

australianmusiccentre.com

Past Performances

ART + LIVE, Resonates With
Virtual performance launch:
 
June 19, 2021

National Gallery Singapore
 
facebook.com/nationalgallerysg

TWINKLE DAMMMIT!
Virtual screenings
 

April 1 – 14, 2021  

Esplanade, Theatres on the Bay
Singapore

Twinkle trailer and details:
esplanade.com

DRAGON LADIES DON’T WEEP 

Thurs – Sun, April 1 – 4, 2021
Thurs – Sat: 8pm
Sat & Sun: 3pm

Esplanade, Theatres on the Bay
Singapore

esplanade.com

TWINKLE DAMMIT!
The World of Margaret Leng Tan

The award-winning film by Chuang Xu 
UK premiere

DOC 'N ROLL Film Festival, London
8–15 November

docnrollfestival.com

The Quietus.com preview:

thequietus.com

TWINKLE DAMMIT!
The World of Margaret Leng Tan

A film by Chuang Xu
World premiere

Brooklyn Film Festival
May 29June 7

brooklynfilmfestival.org

Online screenings free with registration:

brooklynfilmfestival.org/bff-audience-registration

WORLD PIANO DAY

Sydney Opera House
Saturday, March 28
Streaming broadcast (now on demand)

sydneyoperahouse.com

CANCELLED (due to COVID-19)

DRAGON LADIES DON’T WEEP

Wed – Sun, March 25 – 29
Wed – Sat: 8pm
Sun: 3pm
Esplanade, Theatres on the Bay
Singapore

esplanade.com

CANCELLED (due to COVID-19)

DRAGON LADIES DON’T WEEP

Wed – Friday, March 18 – 20, 7pm
The Studio
Sydney Opera House

Sydney
NSW, Australia

sydneyoperahouse.com

DRAGON LADIES DON’T WEEP
World premiere
Asia TOPA


Friday, February 28, 7.30pm
Playhouse
Arts Centre Melbourne

Melbourne
Victoria, Australia

artscentremelbourne.com.au

DRAGON LADIES DON’T WEEP
The Asia Society/Arts Centre Melbourne Salon Series

Saturday, February 15, 2 to 3pm
Theatre, Te Ian Potter Centre
Federation Square
Melbourne
Victoria, Australia

asiatopa.com.au

MINIATURE MEETS MONUMENTAL
Re:Formers Fest


Friday, November 1, 7pm
Rachmaninoff Hall
Moscow Conservatory
Moscow, Russia

reformersfest.com

MARGARET LENG TAN:
CRUMB’S METAMORPHOSES (Asian premiere)


Wednesday, October 23, 7.30pm
Conservatory Concert Hall
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music
National University of Singapore

Singapore

ystmusic.nus.edu.sg

Bowerbird presents
ZEITGEIST: GEORGE CRUMB AT 90
Night 2: KOSMOS


Makrokosmos, Book I (Adam Tendler)
Metamorphoses, Book I (Margaret Leng Tan)
Friday, October 11, 8pm
Annenberg Center, Harold Prince Theater
3680 Walnut Street Philadelphia

bowerbird.org

LET’S TALK DANCE

Merce Cunningham symposium
Saturday, October 5, 4pm
Justice Forum
The Kennedy Center
Washington D.C.

kennedy-center.org

JOHN CAGE: MUSIC FOR MERCE

Merce Cunningham at 100 celebration
Wednesday, October 2, 7.30pm
The Reach, Skylight Pavilion
The Kennedy Center
Washington D.C.

kennedy-center.org

MINIATURE meets MONUMENTAL
(including Australian premiere of George Crumb’s Metamorphoses)
Extended Play Festival

Saturday, August 31, 7.30pm
City Recital Hall
Sydney

cityrecitalhall.com
cityrecitalhall.com/margaret-leng-tan

MINIATURE meets MONUMENTAL

Friday, August 23, 7.30pm
Elizabeth Murdoch Hall
Melbourne Recital Centre
Melbourne

melbournerecital.com.au

The New York Botanic Gardens presents:
THE ORCHID SHOW: SINGAPORE
In the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory


nybg.org


TOY TOY TOY!: Reflections on a Singapore Childhood
Sunday, April 21
Saturday, April 27
Sunday, April 28
at 1pm in the Janet and Arthur Ross Gallery

nybg.org


The All-Garden pass provides access to both events:

nybg.org/visit/admission


Video featuring Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay &
Botanic Gardens, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.


youtube.com

MINIMALISM REDUX
Minimalist Music from its Antecedents to its Offshoots

Wed, Thurs, January 23, 24, 7.30pm
In conjunction with the exhibition
Minimalism: Space. Light. Object.
National Gallery Singapore
Free admission

nationalgallery.sg

Trailer: youtube.com

TOY, TOY, TOY!
Toy piano performance and talk

Saturday, January 26, 3pm
National Gallery Singapore
Free admission

nationalgallery.sg

THE DUET PROJECT: Distance is Malleable

With Eiko Otake
Tuesday, November 20, 7 pm
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
110th Street and Amsterdam Ave.
New York City
Free admission

dance-enthusiast.com

CURIOS by Phyllis Chen
METAMORPHOSES (Book l) by George Crumb


Thursday, November 1, 8.30pm
REDCAT
Los Angeles, CA

redcat.org

CAGE, COWELL, CRUMB

Venice Biennale
Wednesday, October 3, 4.30pm
Ca’ Giustinian Sala Delle Colonne
Venice

labiennale.org

TOY TOY TOY!

TransArt Festival
Sunday, September 30, 11am
Museion di Bolzano
Piazza Siena 1
39100 Bolzano/Bozen

transart.it

CLOWN CABARET!

The New York Clown Theater Festival
Thursday, September 20, 7pm
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11211
(between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street)

bricktheater.com

TOY TOY TOY!

With RE:SOUND Collective
Friday, September 14, 8:15pm
YST Conservatory Concert Hall
National University of Singapore
Singapore

resoundcollective.org

TOY PIANO PLUS....

Saturday, June 2, 7 pm
Female Composers’ Festival
Spectrum
70 Flushing Ave, Garage A
Brooklyn, NY 11205

York Street stop on the F Train
DeKalb Avenue stop on the B, D and Q trains
connect to B57 and B69 Buses

spectrumnyc.com

METAMORPHOSES, BOOK l by George Crumb (New York premiere)
HELIX by Kelly Moran (world premiere)
SACRED MONSTER by Suzanne Farrin (world premiere)
And works by Cage and Toby Twining


Ecstatic Music Festival
Thurs, April 26, 7.30 pm
Merkin Concert Hall
(Kaufman Music Center)
129 West 67 Street
New York , NY 10023

CD launch of Metamorphoses on Mode Records at the concert

Trailer and info at:
kaufmanmusiccenter.org

2017 UNCAGED TOY PIANO FESTIVAL

December 8, 13 & 14
Various locations in NYC

uncagedtoypiano.org
facebook.com/phyllis.chen

METAMORPHOSES by George Crumb

Wed, November 8, 8 pm
(6.15 pm: gallery access)
Barnes Foundation
2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19130

barnesfoundation.org

SOUNDS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE:

Alireza Mashayekhi, Cage, Cowell and others
Performed by Cyrus Forough / Ramin Amir Arjomand / Margaret Leng Tan / Daisy Press
Thurs, November 2, 8pm
ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place
Brooklyn, NY 11201

http://issueprojectroom.org/

METAMORPHOSES by George Crumb (German premiere)

Sun, October 21, 11 am, 2 pm, 5 pm
Donaueschinger Musiktage
Museum Art.Plus
Donaueschingen
Germany

donaueschingen.de

VEXATIONS by Erik Satie

Tues, September 26, 7 pm
through Wed, September 27, 1 pm
Guggenheim Museum, NYC
Performed by a relay of pianists
(MLT at 12 am and 1.40 am)
In conjunction with
Mystical Symbolism:
The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892–1897

guggenheim.org

COWELL, CAGE, CRUMB

Friday, June 9, 8.30 pm
Holland Festival
Muziekgebouw
Amsterdam
Including the European premiere of
George Crumb’s Metamorphoses

hollandfestival.nl

CRUMB & THE EXPERIMENTAL TRADITION
(symposium)


Saturday, June 10, 2 pm
Holland Festival
University Theater
University of Amsterdam

hollandfestival.nl

THE THREE Cs: CAGE, COWELL, CRUMB
Pioneers of the Avant-Garde Piano


Sunday, May 7, 4 pm
National Gallery of Art
Washington DC
Featuring the world premiere of
George Crumb’s Metamorphoses

nga.gov

Metamorphoses trailer:

vimeo.com

THE THREE Cs: CAGE, COWELL, CRUMB (sneak preview)

Friday, April 28, 8pm
Dowd Hall
SUNY Cortland
Cortland NY
Free admission

cortland.edu

BEYOND THE SILENCE:
The Legacy of John Cage (workshop)


Saturday, 4 February, 2-4 pm
National Museum of Singapore
The Salon, Level 1

eventbrite.sg

SATIEfaction (Asian premiere)
Erik Satie, Cage and Beyond


Friday, 20 January, 7.30 pm
Post-concert Q&A
National Museum of Singapore
In conjunction with the exhibition
“What is Not Visible is Not Invisible”

nationalmuseum.sg

Residency at University of Maryland, College Park, MD:
THE THREE Cs: CAGE, COWELL, CRUMB workshop


Wednesday, December 7, 11.30am
Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Thursday, December 8, 8pm
Kogod Theater
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

theclarice.umd.edu

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
featuring
Phyllis Chen’s CURIOS
and other works
at
OZ ASIA FESTIVAL
Adelaide, Australia
Wednesday, September 28, 8pm
Nexus Arts

ozasiafestival.com.au

indaily.com.au

ODE TO SCHROEDER

Schroeder Hall
Green Music Center
Sonoma State University
Sunday, May 1, 3pm

gmc.sonoma.edu

TOY PIANO workshop

New York University
Thursday, April 14, 8pm
Provincetown Playhouse,
133 Macdougal Street
Free admission

events.nyu.edu
facebook.com

Residency at University of Maryland, College Park:
THE THREE Cs: CAGE, COWELL, CRUMB workshop


3800 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1625
Wedneday, April 13, 11am

theclarice.umd.edu

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Tuesday, April 12, 8pm

theclarice.umd.edu

SORCERESSS OF THE NEW PIANO screening

Monday, April 11, 7.30pm

theclarice.umd.edu

DANSPACE PROJECT:
AN EVENING WITH EIKO & GUESTS


St. Mark’s Church
131 East 10th St (at 2nd Ave)
New York City
Tuesday, March 15
Video installation opens 5.30pm
Poetry, dance, music at 7pm
MLT performs Cage and Somei Satoh
Free admission

danspaceproject.org

AFTER FUKUSHIMA
Fifth Anniversary 24-Hour Vigil


St. Mark’s Church
131 East 10th St (at 2nd Ave)
New York City
Friday, March 11, 10pm to
Saturday, March 12, 10pm
Eiko performs Friday, 9pm (tix required)
Artists perform each hour on the hour
MLT performs Sat 8pm
Free admission

eikoandkoma.org

GREAT BIG STORY on CNN.com

greatbigstory.com
youtube.com

UNCAGED TOY PIANO FESTIVAL on SINOVISION

en.sinovision.net
youtube.com

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
ASTOR CHINESE GARDEN COURT
performance on EN.SINOVISION.NET


en.sinovision.net
youtube.com

UNCAGED TOY PIANO FESTIVAL:
TOYS AND MOVING IMAGES


Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35th Avenue
Astoria, NY 11106
(NQ train to 3rd stop in Queens, 36th Ave)
(718) 777-6800
$15 / $9 (member)
Friday, December 4, 7:00pm

movingimage.us


AFTER-PARTY!

The Uke Hut
36-01 36th Avenue
Astoria, NY 11106
(Take NQ train to 3rd stop in Queens, 36th Ave)
(916) 500-8680
$10, tickets at door
Friday, December 4th, 9:30pm

ukehut.com

New recordingmore information >>

Metamorphoses (Book I)

GEORGE CRUMB
The Goldfish

 

METAMORPHOSES (Book I)
Ten Fantasy Pieces (after celebrated paintings)

George Crumb
for Amplified Piano

Black Prince (Paul Klee)

The Goldfish (Paul Klee)

Wheatfield with Crows (Vincent van Gogh)

The Fiddler (Marc Chagall)

Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Southhampton Water
(James McNeil Whistler)

Perilous Night (Jasper Johns)

Clowns at Night (Marc Chagall)

Contes barbares (Paul Gauguin)

The Persistence of Memory (Salvador Dali)

The Blue Rider (Vasily Kandinsky)

 

She Herself Alone

TOBY TWINING
An American in
Buenos Aires
(excerpt)

 

more information >>

SHE HERSELF ALONE
The Art of the Toy Piano 2 (CD/DVD)

for toy pianos, toy instruments, piano, voice

JOHN CAGE
Suite for Toy Piano • Dream

ERIK GRISWOLD
Old MacDonald’s Yellow Submarine

TOBY TWINING
An American in Buenos Aires (A Blues Tango)

GEORGE CRUMB
Put My Little Shoes Away

JEROME KITZKE
The Animist Child

ROSS BOLLETER
Hymn to Ruin

LAURA LIBEN
She Herself Alone

ERIK GRISWOLD
Old MacDonald’s
Yellow Submarine (excerpt)

Toys Are Us
OLD MACDONALD’S YELLOW SUBMARINE
by Erik Griswold, from Tan’s ABC broadcast, was Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s official entry at the UNESCO International Music Council’s International Rostrum of Composers

May 31 – June 4, 2010
Lisbon, Portugal

www.imc-cim.org

Old Mac’s Sub is one of 14 works recommended for worldwide airplay through the Rostrum’s broadcast affiliates in 32 countries.