BLACKBOX festival night 2
January 21, 2024
Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY
Photos by Kayla Miller
BLACKBOX FESTIVAL NIGHT 1
January 20, 2024
ShapeShifter Lab, Brooklyn, NY
Photos by Kayla Miller
BORROWED LANDSCAPE
BlackBox Ensemble presents the live premiere of Borrowed Landscape, a play by tauchgold with music by Dai Fujikura, at the Noguchi Museum, alongside works by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Takemitsu, and inti figgis-vizueta.
November 8, 2023
The Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY
Photos by Don Shahl
THE SOUND OF SPACE BETWEEN US @ CLARK ART INSTITUTE
October 1, 2024
The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
Photos by Rachel Cruz
all the things we cannot see
BlackBox Ensemble performs works by Ari Sussman, Igor Silva, Cole Reyes, Eliza Brown, Jimena Maldonado, and inti figgis-vizueta
March 3, 2023
Culture Lab LIC, Queens, New York
Photos by Rider Foster
outside the box festival
BlackBox presented a festival of multidisciplinary performances at Hudson River Park Pier 45. Performances include a new dance piece choreographed by Joelle Santiago, featuring dancer Liana Kleinman and music by Annie Nikunen, a poetry reading by Connie Li, and a musical storytelling family workshop by Art Beyond the Ink. Throughout the day, BlackBox performed works by Ari Sussman, Cole Reyes, Paul Novak, Brittany J. Green, Annie Nikunen, and Tanner Porter.
September 3, 2022
Hudson River Park Pier 45, Manhattan, NY
Photos by Kayla Miller
Flyover country
The BlackBox Ensemble performs the world premiere of Erich Barganier’s “Flyover Country,” an evening-length work for chamber ensemble, speaker, and fixed media based on poetry by John McCarthy.
April 8, 2022
Cary Hall, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Manhattan, NY
Photos by Mei Stone
“Intersections”
The BlackBox Ensemble performed the world premiere of Annie Nikunen’s “The Love of Being Lost in Anonymity” and Paul Novak’s “reflected tides,” alongside Brittany J. Green’s “Intersections” and Novak’s “prisms and mirrors.”
December 11, 2021
Grace & St. Paul’s Church, Manhattan, NY
Photos by Kate Swede-Taillon
blackbox with tanner porter
The BlackBox Ensemble opened the 2021-2022 season with the live premiere of Tanner Porter’s “Honey,” alongside works by Brittany J. Green, Jimena Maldonado, and Bekah Simms.
October 2, 2021
Uncommonly Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Photos by Sam Gray, Uncommonly Studio
avaloch farm
The BlackBox Ensemble recently returned from a residency at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute in Boscawen, New Hampshire, where we workshopped new pieces by Paul Novak and our very own Annie Nikunen, both of whom were in residence with us.
August 1-10, 2021
Avaloch Farm Music Institute, Boscawen, NH
Photos by Ryan McCullough
avaloch farm
The BlackBox Ensemble recently returned from a residency at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute in Boscawen, New Hampshire, where we workshopped new pieces by Paul Novak and our very own Annie Nikunen, both of whom were in residence with us.
August 1-10, 2021
Avaloch Farm Music Institute, Boscawen, NH
Photos by Ryan McCullough
Gallery of sound
The concept for Gallery of Sound started as an attempt to reflect on our experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic as we emerged from its grip. Each work on the program was a meditation on the themes that occupied our minds in 2020 - distance and connection, isolation and community, time passing and time standing still. Held at RPM Underground in Midtown, each solo piece was performed for small audience in an isolated room, while ensemble pieces were performed on the main stage.
June 22, 2021
RPM Underground, Manhattan
Photos by Toby Winarto
Presented December 12, 2020
Recorded November 14, 2020 at the Church of St. John’s in the Village, NYC
Photos by Toby Winarto
elegy
Created while performances for live audiences were still not feasible, “Elegy” featured a program of works meditating on loss, grief, and transcendence by Juhi Bansal, Carlos Simon, Yaz Lancaster, Brittany J. Green, and Jessica Mays.
julius eastman’s “FEMENINE”
The BlackBox Ensemble teams up with Sound Off: Music for Bail to produce an outdoor performance of Julius Eastman’s Femenine, featuring a volunteer roster of NYC contemporary musicians, to raise money for bail funds.
September 23, 2020
Marsha P. Johnson State Park, Brooklyn, NY
Photos by Paul Borque
