Semiosis Quartet performs my piece I’ll Swallow Your Soul alongside several other pieces at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music’s High School Composition Intensive (HSCI), at which I am composition faculty.

8:00pm

The Boston Conservatory - Seully Hall

8 The Fenway, Boston

Aaron Jay Myers - I’ll Swallow Your Soul
Caroline Shaw - Entr’acte
Carlos Simon - Loop
Jessie Montgomery - Duo for Violin and Cello
Aaron Jay Myers - For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky
Darien Thomas - Fluid

Suggested Donation - $10-15

Semiosis Quartet presents an evening of music at United Parish in Brookline, MA at 7pm

Aaron Jay Myers - I’ll Swallow Your Soul
Caroline Shaw - Entr’acte
Carlos Simon - Loop
Jessie Montgomery - Duo for Violin and Cello
Aaron Jay Myers - For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky
Darien Thomas - Fluid

Suggested donation $10-15 at the door.

NYC's Noise Catalogue comes to Boston to give a concert with violinist (and violist) Nicole Parks. They are performing music of composers with ties to the US and Hungary, including my violin duo For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky.

Sunday May 7th, 2023 - 7pm
New School of Music in Cambridge
25 Lowell St
Cambridge, MA 02138
Suggested Donation - $10-15

Hanjali - co-composed by Madeline Hocking and Dániel Matei of Noise Catalogue
Fluid - Darian Thomas
Compare the Way We Move - Molly Herron
On/Zeker - Anthony Green
For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky - Aaron Jay Myers
Selections from 44 Duos - Béla Bartók
Invertita - Traditional Hungarian, arr. Madeline Hocking

NorthStar Duo performs my piece Save One Life, You Save The World Entire for flute and baritone saxophone at Salem State University for their Faculty Showcase Concert

Bertolon School of Business

352 Lafayette St.

Salem, MA 01970

7:30pm

Connecticut Summerfest - Contemporary Music Festival

The Hartt School - Berkman Recital Hall

4:00pm

NorthStar Duo performs my bari sax and flute piece Save One Life, You Save The World Entire alongside pieces by Missy Alvarez, Anthony R. Green, Melika M. Fitzhugh, Nicole DeMaio, Eliza Gelinas, & Erin Leigh Harris.

The concert is free and open to the public. The concert will also be live-streamed here: https://youtu.be/ufwXIzeceVA

PDF Program Booklet: https://www.ctsummerfest.org/.../ctsf_2022_season_program... See less

Wednesday March 30th at 8 pm in GSU's Florence Kopleff Recital Hall

Chamber Cartel returns with its first concert in 2 years! Chamber Cartel is fortunate enough to perform during the SoundNOW Festival, a week-long contemporary music festival that highlights contemporary music and performing ensembles in Atlanta.

The program highlights works from composers near and dear to the Cartel's heart. We hope to see you at this FREE historic concert!

Program

Riding with Death - Drew Baker

The Toy Robot’s Mechanical Heart - Christopher Adler

Night Of Pan - Aaron Jay Myers

Three Canticles of the Birds - John Luther Adams

Cold Mountains, One belt, heart-break green - Carolyn Chen

Domination of Black - Drew Baker

Jascha Narveson created a stunning video to go along with my piece, Paroxysm, which will be presented on this online event.

Join us with musicians and artists
Deniz Khateri, Jascha Narveson, Deb Todd Wheeler, composer Reena Esmail, composer/electric guitarist Aaron Jay Myers, vocals Danielle Pinals, Tyler Russell, & Andrew Wheeler, bassist and vocals Terrance Reeves, drummer Daniel T. Lewis, cellist Lev Mamuya, ​bass clarinetist Kevin Price, mandolin player Brian Potts, and NewGal Director & pianist Sarah Bob.

Zoom live reception with participants 5 minutes after conclusion of event.

FEBRUARY 6, 2022
7:30PM

VIRTUAL EVENT
in partnership with Longy School of Music of Bard College

For more details and tickets, click HERE.

Thursday, May 27, 2021

• 7:00 PM 8:00 PM

Please enjoy an evening with us as we play works, some commissioned especially for NorthStar Duo and others transcribed for our instrumentation in line with our work to champion works for winds.

Register and RSVP at http://grpm.us/5_aYfA

Hovory by Karl Reiner
Save One Life, You Save The World Entire by Aaron Jay Myers
Study for Flute and Sop. Sax by Buck McDaniel ***PREMIERE***
Duo for Flute and Oboe by Alberto Ginastera
Duo for Flute and Clarinet by Robert Muczynski

Register and RSVP at: http://grpm.us/5_aYfA

Strange Trace presents several works online, including my Two Songs of Social Unrest, for their Holiday Gala and fundraiser. More details HERE

Chamber Cartel performs my percussion and violin duo Constantly On The Verge Of Tears at Reinhardt University’s Contemporary Arts Festival. Performed at the Falany Performing Arts Center alongside pieces by Marcos Balter, Anthony Donofrio, Drew Baker, Hans Thomalla, and Franco Donotoni.

Semiosis Quartet performs my piece I’ll Swallow Your Soul alongside pieces by Chihchun Chi-sun Lee & others TBA.

Pao Arts Center, 99 Kneeland St. Boston, MA

$10-15 suggested donation

Alan Theisen (saxophone) and Marianne Parker (piano) present a recital of music contained in the forthcoming NewMusicShelf Anthology of New Music for Alto Saxophone Vol. 1 curated by Alan Theisen. Composers include: Stephanie Ann Boyd, Wes Flinn, George N. Gianopoulos, Anthony R. Green, Chia-Yu Hsu, Lori Laitman, Quinn Mason, Aaron Jay Myers, Garrett Shatzer, Clare Shore, Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn, Alan Theisen, Cassie Wieland, Chelsea Williamson, Tetsuya Yamamoto, and Roger Zare.

Marc A. Scorca Hall at The National Opera Center, 330 7th Ave 7th Floor, New York, New York 10001

Saturday, Jan. 4th, 2020, 7-9pm

October 23rd // 7PM
Allen Hall, Community Music Center of Boston (34 Warren Avenue / Boston, MA)
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Stephanie Lamprea and Zach Sheets perform solos and duos by Kate Soper, Marti Epstein, Chaya Czernowin, myself, and more! Stephanie will be performing my solo piece, Lichens III, commissioned by her.

Peridot Duo is performing my soprano duo Oh, The Irony and others. Also on the concert are Sentient Robots, Alessandra Hollowell, and Chris Gunnell. Other composers featured on the concert are Daniel Reifsteck, Mark Bolan Konigsmark, Christa Duggan, Izi Austin, & Zachery Di Lello.

Outpost 186

186 1/2 Hampshire St, Cambridge, MA 02139

Vocalist Stephanie Lamprea performs my new work Lichens III alongside works by Cullyn D. Murphy & Louis d’Heudieres during Cleveland’s Re:Sound festival. Exact day TBA More details HERE.

Third Life Studio, 33 Union Square, Somerville, MA, 7:30pm

Anna Clyne - Rest These Hands
Missy Mazzoli - Dissolve, O My Heart
Biber - Passacaglia
Aaron Jay Myers - Lichens II (performed by my awesome wife, Nicole Parks!)

Special appearances by Natalie Cristina Calma Gómez playing Édith Canat de Chizy - irisations pour violon solo
and Gramm Drennen playing Ley Line by Jacob Cooper and In manas tuas by Caroline Shaw

NakedEye Ensemble performs my piece Strabismus for flute, clarinet, tenor saxophone, elec. guitar, elec. bass, cello, piano, & drum set alongside pieces by Florent Ghys, Randall Woolf, Richard Belcastro, Rusty Banks, and Frank Zappa during the Queens New Music Festival. Friday, May 19 at 5pm.

Secret Theatre, 4402 23rd StreetLong Island City, NY, 11101

Saxophonist, Joe Wolf, performs two of my pieces - Clairsentience (clarinet & alto sax) and Self Image (alto flute & alto sax) - at Zion Lutheran Church in Lancaster Pennsylvania, 85 Brandt Blvd Landisville, PA  17538

Peridot Duo sings work by Carolyn Chen, premieres commissioned works by Aaron Jay Myers and Daniel Felsenfeld, and Chaya Czernowin's Manoalchadia for two female voices and bass flute

Ticket price TBD

NakedEye performs my commissioned octet, Strabismus, along with selections from its album “Storylines Crossing”, commissioned works and premieres on the Burgner Chamber Series at Lebanon Valley College.

Erik Griswold: Action Music 2 (2018) – US Premiere
David Smooke: Stony Run, Baltimore (2018) – World Premiere
Zack Browning: Decade of the Dragon (2015)
Aaron Jay Myers: Strabismus (2016)
Rusty Banks: Surface Tensions (2015)

Lutz Recital Hall - Blair Music Center At Lebanon Valley College, 101 N. College Ave, Annville, PA 17003

This Semiosis Quartet concert will include my solo violin piece, Lichens II. The concert program is as follows:
Karim Al-Zand, Fantasy on Bulgarian Rhythms (2013)
Bright Sheng, The Stream Flows (1990)
Shih-Hui Chen, Fantasia on the Theme of Plum Blossoms (2007)
Aaron Jay Myers, Lichens II (2017)
Steven Snowden, Appalachian Polaroids (2011)

Second Sunday Concert Series presents Popebama

Erin Rogers - saxophones, Dennis Sullivan - percussion

The Second Sunday Concert Series presents monthly concerts with Boston area musicians & beyond, programmed by Music Director Aaron Jay Myers.

New School of Music, Sunday, Dec. 9, 4:00-6:00pm

$10 admission, $5 for students

Following St. Peter’s veneration in 33, Popebama formed 2000 years later in a swarm of warm honey and wooden harmonicas, collecting sounds of years past and forging textures of tomorrow. Through virtuosic execution of non-traditional sounds, NYC-based composer-performers Erin Rogers (saxophones) and Dennis Sullivan (percussion), apply text, electronics, and high-energy instrumental writing, to communicate to worlds beyond measly Earth (though we love Earth and the rich soil).

Specializing in works conceived by Rogers and Sullivan, Popebama collaborates with composers such as Paul Pinto, Matthew Shlomowitz, Eric Wubbels, Jenna Lyle, Daniel Silliman, and Andrew Greenwald. The duo has performed in living rooms, concert halls, record shops, auditoriums, garages, abandoned warehouses, cafes, university recital halls, your mom’s summer home, bookstores, basements, and theatres, for audiences ranging from 1000 ecstatic fans to 1 sound guy. Featured on the Edmonton Fringe Festival, Permutations Series, Home Audio, Avant Garasement, Sound Traffic Series, Diabolical Records (Salt Lake City), VU Symposium, and Bodies-As-Technology / Squaring-the-Circle, with lauded performances at the 2017 New Music Gathering (Bowling Green), NASA 2018 Biennial Conference (Cincinnati), SPLICE Festival (Michigan), and the inaugural Re:Sound Festival (Cleveland). Popebama’s 2018/19 season includes engagements at UMass Amherst, and Ball State University, with featured appearances on yarn|wire’s Stone residency (NYC) and a European tour.

Photo by Nate May

Equilibrium is being hosted by Original Gravity for this diverse & energetic program, including my piece SKIN for tenor saxophone & marimba!

Rock Steady - Evan Williams (solo alto sax) - 4.5'

Two-Faced - Curtis Hughes (alto sax + perc) - 9'

How to be a Deep Thinker in Los Angeles - Jennifer Jolley (solo perc) - 5'

SKIN - Aaron Jay Myers (tenor sax + mba) - 10'

---intermission---

Massabesic - Brenna Noonan (e. gtr, vibes) - 4'

Talking to the Moon - Yoon-Ji Lee (solo e. gtr) - 10'

Incite - Dan VanHassel (e. gtr, mba) - 10'

Philipp Stäudlin, saxophones

Dan VanHassel, electric guitar

Matt Sharrock, percussion

Second Sunday Concert Series presents Area 9 Quartet

(saxophones): Sean Mix, Seychelle Corbin, John Rabinowitz, Kangyi Liu

The Second Sunday Concert Series presents monthly concerts with Boston area musicians & beyond, programmed by Music Director Aaron Jay Myers.

New School of Music, Sunday, Nov. 11, 4:00-6:00pm

$10 admission, $5 for students

The Area 9 Quartet is a Boston-based ensemble dedicated to exploring the rich, diverse and ever growing chamber music repertoire for saxophone. Recent performances have included works by Bach, Debussy, Glazunov and Vaughan Williams, as well as compositions by Sidney Bechet, Paul McCartney, Freddie Mercury and Herbie Hancock. Area 9 is also proud to have commissioned and debuted new works by contemporary composers, including Jun Feng’s “Somehow, Tango”, performed at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA in 2015, and Michael Kosch’s “Castle in the Air”, which Area 9 premiered at the Metropolitan Playhouse in NYC in December of 2016.

The Second Sunday Concert Series at Boston Sculptors Gallery presents NorthStar Duo (Adrienne Baker - flutes, Seychelle Corbin - saxophones). NorthStar Duo will premiere my piece Save One Life, You Save The World Entire for flute & baritone saxophone alongside Anthony R. Green's Spirituals for Wind Duo & new duos by Ulysses Kay, Alberto Ginastera, & Robert Muczynski.