9th: Trio with Denman Maroney and Tim Hodgkinson, plus quintet with John Butcher and Hannah Marshall, Cafe Oto, Dalston, London
Review by Geoff Winston here.
12th: Set Ensemble (DL, Sarah Hughes, David Stent), music by Antoine Beuger and Craig Shepard, Intercapillary Places, Parasol Unit, London
25th: Gannets, Central Bar, Newcastle
26th: Gannets, Band on the Wall, Manchester
Review by Dean Wilkins here.
27th: Gannets, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Some photos by riotcitygirl here.
8th: 7-hour duo with Rhodri Davies (the music of the Wandelweiser Collective, including premieres of compositions by Eva-Maria Houben and Michael Pisaro), Glasgow University, Glasgow
20th: trio with d'incise and Christoph Schiller, Insubordinations Microfestival, Luzern
21st: quartet with Diatribes & Hannah Marshall, Insubordinations Microfestival, Geneva
22nd: duo with Dragos Tara, Insubordinations Microfestival, Lausanne
26th: Alexander Hawkins Ensemble, Evan Parker Presents, The Vortex, London
28th: Azut, Old Bookbinders, Oxford
29th: Tongues of Fire, Bishops Lydeard Town Hall, Somerset
February
5th: duo with Evan Parker, Cafe Oto, London.
6th: London Improvisers Orchestra, including concerto for Dominic Lash conducted by Dave Tucker, Cafe Oto, London
7th: duo with Alex Ward, Boat-Ting, London
11th: duo with Chris Cundy, Xposed Club, Cheltenham
12th: 3-hour performance of Michael Pisaro's Mind is Moving (with Jennifer Allum, Jamie Coleman, Tim Parkinson, Henri Vaxby and others), The Nunnery, London
Reviews by Richard Pinnell and David Grundy.
17th: Performance by The Set Ensemble as part of the Audiograft festival, compositions by Radu Malfatti and Stefan Thut, plus Fluxus pieces, Holywell Music Room, Oxford.
Reviews by Ricard Pinnell and David Grundy.
22nd: Oxford Improvisers Orchestra play John Zorn's Cobra and concerto for Dominic Lash conducted by Pat Thomas, plus small group performances, The Old Bookbinders, Oxford
23rd: Solo performance and duo with Sean Bonney, Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford
25th: Duo with Javier Carmona plus quintet with Carmona, Daniel Thompson, Olie Bryce and Will Connor, St Leonards Church, Shoreditch, London
26th: Sextet with Diatribes, Phil Durrant, Patrick Farmer and Hannah Marshall, St Leonards Church, Shoreditch, London
27th: Fundraiser for Medical Aid for Palestinians and leaving UK concert, Cafe Oto, London
Review by Richard Pinnell.
April
3rd: duo with Adam Parkinson, Cafe Orwell, Brooklyn, NYC
11th: duo with Fay Victor, Clemente Soto Velez, Manhattan, NYC
18th: Karl Berger's Stone Workshop Orchestra, The Stone, Manhattan, NYC
21st: duo with Nate Wooley, wfmu, Jersey City
available to stream or download here.
May
2nd: Karl Berger's Stone Workshop Orchestra, The Stone, Manhattan, NYC
7th: trio with David Stent and Harris Eisenstadt, Ibeam, Brooklyn, NYC
Photographs here.
9th: Karl Berger's Stone Workshop Orchestra, The Stone, Manhattan, NYC
10th: Gowanus Company with Jon Irabagon, Mike Pride, Josh Sinton, David Stent, Sara Schoenbeck and more, Douglass Street Music Collective, Brooklyn, NYC
12th: Antoine Beuger's Dedekind Duos and Cage's Music for Piano (arr. Chabala) with Barry Chabala & Katie Porter, Sound Series at Presents Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
23rd: Karl Berger's Stone Workshop Orchestra, The Stone, Manhattan, NYC
26th: John Hastings' Symmetric Convergence with Hastings, Chabala, Porter and Travis Just, Incubator Arts Project, St Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, Manhattan, NYC
27th: music by John Lely, Paul Newland and James Saunders with John Hastings, Travis Just, Devin Maxwell and Quentin Tolemieri, Incubator Arts Project, St Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, Manhattan, NYC
30th: Karl Berger's Stone Workshop Orchestra, The Stone, Manhattan, NYC
June
6th: Karl Berger's Stone Workshop Orchestra, The Stone, Manhattan, NYC
14th: Trio with Ingrid Laubrock and Federico Reuben, The Super Coda, Cafe Orwell, Brooklyn, NYC
Net album available for download at Squib-box.
17th: Duo with Keith Kirchoff, The Lilypad, Cambridge, MA
21st: Brad Farberman's Stringful Souls with Jason Kao Hwang, Sarah Bernstein, Ken Filiano and others, plus special guest Marty Ehrlich, University of the Streets, Manhattan, NYC
29th: Trio with Solomiya Moroz and Valerie Kuehne, The Super Coda, Cafe Orwell, Brooklyn, NYC
July
3rd: Quartet with Angharad Davies, Julia Eckhardt, Stefan Thut (music by Herbert, Lely, Lash, Thut, Pisaro), Säulenhalle Landhaus Solothurn, Switzerland
Net album available for free download at Compost and Height.
4th: Quartet with Angharad Davies, Julia Eckhardt, Stefan Thut (music by Shepard, Werder, Thut, Pisaro), Atelier Pia Maria, Biel, Switzerland
10th: With Aperiodic (music by Lash, Malfatti, Houben, Epstein, Werder), Elastic, Chicago
11th: Duo with James Falzone, Myopic Books, Chicago
11th: Quartet with Nick Mazzarella, Jeff Parker and Tim Daisy, Skylark, Chicago
13th: Quintet with James Falzone, Jeb Bishop, Jeff Parker and Tim Daisy, The Hideout, Chicago
18th: Karl Berger's Stone Workshop Orchestra, The Stone, Manhattan, NYC
28th: Gowanus Company with James Falzone, Josh Sinton, Weasel Walter, Tom Blancarte and more, Douglass Street Music Collective, Brooklyn, NYC
29th: James Falzone's Ground Quartet (with Harris Eisenstadt and Nate Wooley), Ibeam, Brooklyn, NYC
30th: James Falzone's Ground Quartet, Super Coda, Cafe Orwell, Brooklyn, NYC
August
14th: Brad Farberman's Stringful Souls, with special guest Steve Dalachinsky, Local 269, Manhattan, NYC
24th: Trio with Fay Victor and Andrew Bemkey, 92YTribeca, Manhattan, NYC
September
1st: Trio with Barry Chabala and Ben Owen (music specially composed by Antoine Beuger and Michael Pisaro), opening night of Amplify 2011:Stones, The Stone, Manhattan, NYC
5th: Duo with Alex Ward, Boat-Ting, London
6th: Predicate, The Vortex, London
14th: music by Michael Pisaro, with Pisaro, Chabala and Greg Stuart, Gravity Wave festival, the Stone, Manhattan, NYC
22nd: Quartet with Josh Sinton, Brad Farberman, Douglass St Music Collective, Brooklyn, NYC
23rd: Gowanus Company with Tony Buck, Magda Mayas, Josh Sinton, Ingrid Laubrock, Owen Stewart-Robinson, Nate Wooley, Douglass St Music Collective, Brooklyn, NYC
26th: Karl Berger's Stone Workshop Orchestra, The Stone, Manhattan, NYC
28th: Duo with Ricardo Tejero, Brooklyn, NYC
29th: Duo with Tim Hodgkinson and Denman Maroney, The Stone, Manhattan, NYC
October
1st: Quartet with Ricardo Tejero, Steve Swell and Andrew Drury, Funkadelic Studios, Manhattan, NYC
4th: Trio with Johnny Chang and Lucio Capece (music by Manfred Werder), O Tannenbaum, Berlin
5th: Trio with Richard Barrett and Matthias Müller, Sowieso, Berlin
6th, 7th, 8th: Just Not Cricket, Berlin (groups with Tom Arthurs, Tony Bevan, Gail Brand, Rhodri Davies, John Edwards, Shabaka Hutchings, Orphy Robinson, Alex Ward and Trevor Watts)
9th: Quartet with Brad Farberman, Josh Sinton and Devin Gray, Local 269, Manhattan, NYC
12th: Sextet with Diatribes, Dragos Tara, Josh Sinton and Nate Wooley, Douglass St Music Collective, Brooklyn, NYC
13th: Setxtet with Diatribes, Dragos Tara, Matthew Oestrowski and Andrea Parkins, Super Coda, Counting Room, Brooklyn, NYC
16th: Duo with Alex Ward, Downtown Music Gallery, Manhattan, NYC
16th: John Zorn Improv Night, the Stone, Manhattan, NYC
21st: trio with Joe Morris and Alex Ward, the Lilypad, Cambridge, MA
22nd: trio with Joe Morris and Alex Ward, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
25th: trio with Fay Victor and Elizabeth Harnik, Korzo, Brooklyn, NYC
29th: Diatribes Quintet (with Patrick Farmer and Hannah Marshall), St Leonards Church, Shoreditch, London
30th: Diatribes Quintet (with Patrick Farmer and Hannah Marshall), Port Mahon, Oxford
31st: Diatribes Quintet (with Patrick Farmer and Hannah Marshall), The Cube, Bristol
November
1st: Diatribes Quintet (with Patrick Farmer and Hannah Marshall), Fizzle, Lamp Tavern, Birmingham
2nd: Diatribes Quintet (with Patrick Farmer and Hannah Marshall), Red House, Sheffield
3rd: Diatribes Quintet (with Patrick Farmer and Hannah Marshall), Manchester
4th: Diatribes Quintet (with Patrick Farmer and Hannah Marshall), Green Door Store, Brighton
10th: Convergence Quartet, Literary and Philosophical Library, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
11th: Convergence Quartet, Leeds University
12th: Convergence Quartet, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading
13th: Convergence Quartet, Vortex, London (part of London Jazz Festival)
15th: Trio with Ricardo Tejero and Federico Reuben; and quartet with Tony Marsh, Servant Jazz Quarters, Dalston, London
19th: Adventures in Sound, London Jazz Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall Front Room: quartet with Matt Maneri, Corey Mwamba and Chris Sharkey; and Gannets
December
5th: Diatribes Quintet (with Jonas Kocher and Hannah Marshall), Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich
6th: Diatribes Quintet (with Jonas Kocher and Hannah Marshall), Oblo, Lausanne
8th: Diatribes Quintet (with Jonas Kocher and Hannah Marshall), Eglise St-Germain, Geneva
4th: Quartet with Will Connor, Kay Grant and Anthony Donovan, Boat-Ting, London
5th: Alexander Hawkins Quartet (with Shabaka Hutchings and Mark Sanders), The Vortex, London.
Reviews: Financial Times; All About Jazz.
16th: Solo, live on Disorder at the Border, Resonance FM.
The pieces I performed are available online here.
22nd: Duo with John Russell, New Year New Sounds, Battersea Arts Centre, London.
26th: Oxford Improvisers tribute to Derek Bailey, various groupings of many musicians, Folly Bridge Inn, Oxford
28th: Quartet with Marcio Mattos (cello), Raoul van der Weide (bass) and Oscar Jan Hoogland (amplified clavichord), and octet with these musicians plus Javier Carmona (drums), Yedo Gibson (reeds), Dave Tucker (guitar) and Mikael Zsafirowisk (guitar). Overtoom 301, Amsterdam
30th: London Improvisers Orchestra and Royal Improvisers Orchestra, Bimhuis, Amsterdam
February
3rd: Braindead Collective, Vortex, London
9th: Dominic Lash Trio, Le Swing Jazz Club, Madrid
10th: Barkingside, Festival Hurta Cordel, Madrid
15th: Solo as part of Exuberant Trust showcase, Holywell Music Room, Oxford
16th: Predicate, Vortex, London
21st: Trio with Matt Milton (violin) and David Thomas (viola), Portland Arms, Cambridge
24th: Trio with Ricardo Tejero and Steve Noble, Flim Flam, Ryan's Bar, Stoke Newington, London
March
7th: London Improvisers Orchestra, Cafe Oto, London
8th: Cowley Cobra, Folly Bridge Inn, Oxford
9th: Butcher Lash Russell, Fizzle, Lamp Tavern
10th: Butcher Lash Russell, Cube Cinema, Bristol
11th: Butcher Lash Russell, Cafe Oto, London
12th: Butcher Lash Russell, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading
15th: Quartet with Alison Blunt (violin), Anna Kaluza (alto saxophone) and Sam Britton (electronics), HMS President, London
15th: Predicate, Boat-Ting, London
17th: Alexander Hawkins Quartet, The Others, London
19th: MEL, O3 Gallery, Oxford
23rd: Roland Ramanan Tentet, Cafe Oto, London
24th: Electric Barkingside, Flim-Flam, Ryans Bar, Stoke Newington, London
April
11th: Trio with Joe Morris and Nate Wooley, Douglass St Collective, Brooklyn, NYC
Review here.
16th: Trio with Paul May and Alex Ward, First Annual Sussex Poetry Festival, Brighton
17th: Trio with THF Drenching and David Stent, First Annual Sussex Poetry Festival, Brighton
20th: Trio with Steve Noble and Alan Wilkinson, Royal College of Art, London
20th: Squint (string quintet featuring Eric Clarke, Jill Elliot, Bruno Guastalla, DL and Philipp Wachsmann), Port Mahon, Oxford
21st: Squib-Box, Handel Museum, London
28th: Julie Kyaer's Cardboard Whale, Flim Flam, Stoke Newington, London
19th: Music with (and by) Bruno Guastalla, Cafe Reason Diamond Nights, Oxford Brookes Drama Studio, Oxford
22nd: Roland Ramanan Tentet, The Vortex, London
23rd: Quartet with Marjolaine Charbain, Javier Carmona and Ricardo Tejero, Brussels
24th: BER.IO (Berlin Improvisers Orchestra), Wendel, Berlin
25th: Trio with Javier Carmona and Ricardo Tejero, quartet with Liz Allbee and large group with Clayton Thomas, Timothy O'Dwyer, Matthias Muller and Christian Marien, Berlin
26th: Quintet with Alison Blunt, Javier Carmona, Anna Kaluza and Ricardo Tejero, Miss Hecker, Berlin
27th: Quartet with Javier Carmona, Anna Kaluza and Ricardo Tejero, Cafe Niesen, Berlin
28th: Quartet with Javier Carmona, Anna Kaluza and Ricardo Tejero, Wendel, Berlin
July
1st: Quartet with Javier Carmona, Hilary Jeffrey and Simon Rose, Sowieso, Berlin
2nd: Quartet with Javier Carmona, Mark Charig and Chrisoph Irmer, Wuppertal
6th: Alexander Hawkins Ensemble, Radley College, nr. Oxford
7th: Alexander Hawkins Ensemble, Derby
9th: Alexander Hawkins Ensemble, Newcastle
10th: Alexander Hawkins Ensemble, The Vortex, London
11th: Alexander Hawkins Ensemble, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading
15th: Predicate, Port Mahon, Oxford Oxford Times review.
17th: The Set Ensemble - DL & David Stent, two compositions by Antoine Beuger, Oxford The Watchful Ear review.
19th: Trio with Joe Morris and Nate Wooley, Local 269, New York
August
7th: Omi International Musicians Residency Concert, Omi, New York State
9th: Omi International Musicians Residency Concert, Roulette, New York City
12th: world premiere of the bass version of calme etendue by Antoine Beuger, Incubator Arts, St Mark's Church, New York City
Review by Brian Olewnick; review and photos by Yuko Zama.
15th, 16th & 17th: Fete Quaqua festival of improvised music with John Russell, Chris Burn, John Butcher, Tania Chen, Lol Coxhill, Aleks Kolkowski, Akio Suzuki, Sabu Toyozumi, Alex Ward and Ute Wasserman, The Vortex, London
9th: Antoine Beuger, "Landscapes of Absence (1)" (with Angharad Davies, Tim Parkinson, David Stent and Carol Watts), PolyPLY, Centre for Creative Collaboration, London
21st: Predicate, Ryan's Bar, Stoke Newington, London
25th: Trish Elphinstone Quintet, Jurg Frey's "Invention" (solo piano) and Azut, V-Peru Benefit Concert, St Michael at the Northgate, Oxford
27th: duos and trio with Clayton Thomas (double bass) and Hannah Marshall (cello), St Leonards Church, Shoreditch, London
October
3rd: London Improvisers Orchestra, Cafe Oto, Dalston, London
4th: Trio with Ian Smith (trumpet) and Javier Carmona (drums), Boat-Ting, London
7th: Tongues of Fire, Thurloxten Village Hall, Somerset
11th: Roland Ramanan Tentet, quartet with Charles Hayward, Phil Minton and Ian Smith, group with Hayward, Orphy Robinson, Pat Thomas, Chris Biscoe a.o., Harry Beckett Memorial Concert, Cafe Oto, Dalston, London
12th: trio with Pat Thomas (piano) and Lawrence Casserley (signal processing instrument) and sextet with Pete McPhail, Adam Linson and David Stent, Oxford Improvisers, Folly Bridge Inn, Oxford
15th: Paul Whitty, "ricercare, or where the f*** are we?", with Paul Whitty a.o., Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
21st: Mowgli, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
27th: Withboat (trio with Patrick Farmer and David Thomas), Sacred Trinity Church, Manchester
29th: The Maltsters, Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford
30th: Sextet with Phil Durrant, Hannah Marshall, Patrick Farmer and Diatribes, St Leonards Church, Shoreditch, London The Watchful Ear review.
November
4th: Predicate, The Vortex, London
7th: Large ensemble directed by Evan Parker, Sonorities Festival, Queen Mary's University Belfast
9th: Roland Ramanan Tentet, HMS President, London
10th: Duo with Patrick Farmer (compositions by Antoine Beuger and Taylan Susam), part of Musicircus directed by Stephen Montague, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
11th: Too Hot To Handel Too, Handel House Museum, London
13th: Music Marathon (performances with the Set Ensemble [compositions by Beuger and Michael Pisaro], Squint and Exquisite Corpse), St Hilda's College, Oxford
14th: Cohesion 2010 (performances with Anne Ryan, the Oxford Improvisers Orchestra and more), Pegasus Theatre, Oxford
15th: Dominic Lash Trio, Folly Bridge Inn, Oxford
21st: Quaqua (with John Russell, Yoko Arai, Max Eastley, Satoko Fukuda, Henry Lowther, Hannah Marshall, Phil Minton, Hideaki Shimada and Roger Turner), The Vortex, London
23rd: Trio with John Butcher and Elisabeth Harnik, The Red Hedgehog, London
25th: Roland Ramanan Tentet plus trio with Tony Marsh and Noel Taylor, Luna Fringe, Luna Lounge, London
26th: WithBoat, Newtown, Wales
28th: solo, Corpus Christi College Chapel, Cambridge
December
2nd: solo, Counting Backwards, Manchester
5th: London Improvisers Orchestra, HMS President, London
10th: trio with John Butcher and John Russell, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Festival, CCA, Glasgow
11th: quartet with Maggie Nicols, Armin Sturm, Emma Roche, & with Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Festival, CCA, Glasgow
18th: music of James Saunders (solo & with Patrick Farmer, Sarah Hughes, Kate Hendry, David Stent & Bruno Guastalla), private location, Oxford