I am honored and excited to be awarded the McKnight Fellowship of 2024-25!
More details here
Still Life with Squares will be performed as part of the amazing program of TimeSpan festival this summer. The piece will have a revised electronic part so all the instruments will be digitally extended.
More details here
I am super excited to share that my new album Melting Planets will be released by Innova Recording Label this summer.
Collaborators: Lauren Siess and Cole Blouin
Recorded and mixed at greyfade studio @josephbranciforte
the site-specific vocal participatory promenade 'A Message from Gaia' is a new project commissioned by the Loud Foundation and premiered in the framework of the International Arts Festival Regarding Goddesses 2021-2022 in Tel Aviv. The project was realized in a partnership with Old Jaffa Development Company, the Ganei Yehoshua Company (Park Ha'Yarkon) and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance Anthony Heidweiller, artistic direction in association with Meitar Ensemble.
https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/cohen751
This week I am going to participate in the Flame Keepers project. I will upload new original material every seven hours. Metropolis Ensemble organizes this project. As a result, the piece will evolve as an open-ended collective composition designed to run forever.
Rocio Bolaños & Panos Ghikas present Classic Escalation of Commitment
Jesse Langen will play a new version of Study of Battles for electric guitar.
More details here:
https://www.dalniente.com/all-events/2021/11/1/dal-niente-university-of-iowa?fbclid=IwAR2KByKXvPT5wk8XH0geeqNrNHv863qVTB8mM9VBbd9A2m-mmaRn0E2eAM8
A MESSAGE FROM GAIA
The site-specific vocal participatory promenade
Thursday, October 21, 18:00 - Park Ha’Yarkon
Meeting point: Corner of Bnei Dan street and Brandeis Street)
Friday, October 22, 12:00 - Park Ha’Yarkon
(Meeting point: Corner of Bnei Dan street and Brandeis Street)
October 23, 16:00 & 18:00 - Old Jaffa
(Meeting point: Suspended Orange Tree statue, Hazorfim 8 Jaffa)
More details here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/986289565560170/
Quarantine Puzzles Program
more details can be found here:
I am so happy to take part in the summer festival Omaha Under the Radar that takes place between July 15-19, 2020.
We will perform the most up-to-date version of my intermedia piece, Hunter.
More details about the festival:
https://www.undertheradaromaha.com/festival-lineup
I am grateful for the Fromm Foundation for granting me a composition commission to write a new ensemble and multimedia work for ensemble soundinitiative.
We are four Composers-Performers. We have a new band called Ultravioleta and that is very exciting. We will perform together a first show in a gallery in Boston area on March 19, 8pm.
**Due to the Covid19 situation I couldn’t attend, but my musical materials will be there.
Morte details here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/536884760289928/
Riley Leitch
Riley Leitch is an experimental trombonist dismantling barriers between disciplines and advocating dialogue across traditional concert roles. In this program, Riley will premiere three new works where the trombone is paired with theatre (The Hunter), dance and movement (Oscar), and augmented reality (Vox II). The trombone as a versatile instrument brings depth to these disciplines in a bold new way. Jenna Lyle's Oscar creates a simulacrum of human motion with 8mm tape and trashbags. Omar Peracha's Vox II incorporates and gamifies the actions of audience members via iOS. Sivan Cohen Elias' The Hunter explores a world's oceans made of trash where impossible creatures evolve and a solitary trombone turns into a hunter's equipment and mechanical tools.
Jenna Lyle: Oscar for trombone and tape (premiere)
Omar Peracha: Vox II (premiere)
Sivan Cohen Elias: The Hunter (premiere)
See more:
https://www.facebook.com/events/605701666905485/
Ensemble Interface from 2010 in our concert in Vienna, Konzerthaus 18th of December in 2019
I am currently collaborating with the Young Batsheva Ensemble dancer/choreographer Robin Nimanong for his new work. More details TBA.
I'm delighted to take part in this amazing panel, in which Vero Rose Smith, Peggy Mead-Finizio and I will be discussing the many aspects of using and communicating with technology within our arts. It is open to the public, so if you are in Iowa City and up for it, come! Details are in the poster below!
I will be presenting my work at the composition seminar, University of Chicago.
https://humanities.uchicago.edu/calendar/details/CAL-ff808081-683bdf4c-0168-3e40b8b8-00005964eventscalendar%2540uchicago.edu
MANA Constellation - High Concept Lab Residency Show
Performed by Opera Butoh Lab:
Sara Zalek
Mabel Kwan
Sivan Cohen Elias
A brand new version for a lovely older piece from 2006 will be played by Espaces Divers at
the Auditorium de la BNU in Strasburg.
· Hosted by Lovemusic and Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire - BNU
Happy to have a first taste presenting our new collaboration project with HighConceptLab, this Thursday at Constellation Chicago. Sara Zalek and Mabel Kwan will perform an interaction performance to audio-visual framework I have designed for them. The result is a brain full of SECRETS. More details in here!
Jonathan Hannau will be performing some original works and my piano solo version of Playground, Puzzle III, for The Paper Machete magazine at the Green Mill at 6:30 pm!
Come by to hang and hear this and other works by other amazing artists! #cocktailhour
From now on my scores can be found on Babel Scores.
I'm very honored and delighted to join and be part of this great library!
