Leo Sussman presents a lecture-recital exploring the depiction and performance of monstrosity through music, featuring works by Assaf Shatil, Lisa Bielawa, and Lisa R. Coons.
Family-friendly immersive performances in Prospect Park May 3!
Experiential Orchestra is excited to bring Brad Balliett's Field Guide to Imaginary Birds for two rounds of performances on May 3 (rain date May 4) in Prospect Park, from 1-2pm and 3-4pm. This event is FREE.
Meet starting at 12:45pm at the Picnic House, where directions and a "Field Guide" will be handed out. Six musicians will be spread throughout the forest in Prospect Park – take a stroll through the woods and try to discover them all!
Performing a range of chamber and improvised works in collaboration with Teagan Faran and others at the Greencastle Summer Music Festival.
Performing a wide range of repertoire on several concerts as a faculty artist at the Lawrence Chamber Music Festival.
Leo performs various programs as an artist in residence with the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival in Maryland from August 15–24.
Music of the Spirit: Solace in Our Time
The music of György Kurtág and Sofia Gubaidulina, both now in their 90's and two of the most acclaimed composers of the last fifty years, share an intensity in their work that reveals a beauty based on struggle and the necessity to communicate. Both are hermetic composers who offer poetic and ultimately cathartic visions of sound, and the performance will take advantage of the beautiful acoustics and space of Sage Chapel. Please join Ensemble X for this musical balm. Performers include Misha Bjerken, Xak Bjerken, Richard Faria, Guillaume Pirard, Annette Richards, Elizabeth Simkin, Leo Sussman, and Diego Vásquez.
Performing works by Carlos Simon and Abby Swilder on Teagan Faran’s album release show, featuring a double bill with tonguetide (a solo project of Swidler’s).
Leo performs Luciano Berio’s Sequenza I for solo flute and Pierre Boulez’s Sonatine for flute and piano on a program curated by Tina Deng honoring the centennial of both composers. Program also includes Arnold Schönberg’s Phantasy Op. 47 for violin and piano, Berio’s Sequenza VIII for violin, and Berio’s Six Encores for piano.
Leo Sussman, flute
Jisu Choi, violin
Tina Deng, piano
Performing a scrumptious assortment of solo and chamber works with violinist Teagan Faran and pianist Calvin Hu, paired with a delectable five-course dessert tasting menu designed and prepared by acclaimed Bay Area pastry chefs Jimmy Wong and Samantha Ho. Curated by Calvin Hu.
Leo performs various programs as an artist in residence with the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival in Maryland from August 17–25.
Performing a wide range of repertoire on several concerts as a faculty artist at the inaugural Lawrence Chamber Music Festival.
Performing a range of chamber and improvised works on the opening night celebration of the 2024 Greencastle Summer Music Festival.
Leo presents a doctoral lecture-recital exploring the depiction and performance of monstrosity through music, featuring works by Assaf Shatil, Lisa Bielawa, and Lisa R. Coons.
Performed in collaboration with pianist Nicole Brancato.
Explore the artistic side of eclipses through this multi-disciplinary literary, musical, visual celebration of the first total eclipse of the sun to cross the state of Indiana since 1869. Featuring an exciting collaboration with 15 Hoosier poets—including well-loved local authors Joseph Heithaus, Eugene Gloria, Alexander Komives and Alejandro Puga, along with Indiana’s first Poet Laureate Joyce Brinkman and live improvised music by Eric Edberg, Teagan Faran, Micah Layne, Leo Sussman and Iona Wagner. Co-created in collaboration with Brick Street Poetry, DePauw University Creative School, Greencastle Arts Council and the Greencastle Summer Music Festival.
Duo recital with Teagan Faran (violin and viola) on DePauw University School of Music’s Lunchbox series. Featuring premieres of new commissions by Abby Swidler and Yaz Lancaster, plus music by CPE Bach, Béla Bartók, François Devienne, and original arrangements.
Leo Sussman (flute) and Teagan Faran (strings) present From Time to Time, a musical journey through stages of life featuring music by Evan Williams, Carlos Simon, Peter Schickele, François Devienne, Reena Esmail, Ursula Mamlok, CPE Bach, Haskell Small, and Clark Eastham.
Brad Balliett (bassoonist, composer, and avid bird-watcher), has composed individual imaginary bird songs for 6 Experiential Orchestra musicians, spread throughout the forest in Inwood Hill Park. Walk through Inwood Park between 11am-1pm and try to discover all six! Pick up your maps at 218th and Indian Road; No tickets required.
Rain date: Sunday September 10
Leo performs various programs as part of the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival in Maryland from August 20-26.
Leo performs a program of solo and chamber music, including collaborations with festival artistic director Eric Edberg and choro trio Toco Rio.
Free live performances from local musicians in a beautiful community garden. There will be baked goods and drinks for a suggested donation, with proceeds to benefit the performers. Pet/kid friendly!
The DePauw University School of Music faculty chamber ensemble presents a concert themed around sustainability and renewal, framing themes of environmental justice climate grief through the lens of the question “what if…?”
DePauw University Faculty Recital:
Leo Sussman, flute
Maria Lyapkova, piano
Celebrating flute & piano music by women composers, including works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Tania León, Mel Bonis, Valerie Coleman, Lili Boulanger, and Cécile Chaminade.
From raucous dances to tenebrous meditations—anything can happen when the moon goes down!
Brazilian choro, Venezuelan joropo, and Argentinian tango intertwine with modern works by Molly Joyce, Andrea Reinkemeyer, and George Crumb in this flute and percussion concert featuring music of the night from across the Americas.
Stand Clear is a project of Riley Palmer and Leo Sussman, dedicated to rambunctiously pluralistic noisemaking. We're delighted to also feature percussionists Dániel Matei and Jonathan Collazo on this concert.
Duo recital with Teagan Faran, violin and viola, on DePauw University School of Music’s Lunchbox series. Featuring music by Reena Esmail, Peter Schickele, Haskell Small, Evan Williams, Viktoria Elisabeth Kaunzner, Hubert Hoche, Carlos Simon, Clark Eastham, and François Devienne.
Backyard Gold Mine is the DePauw University School of Music faculty chamber ensemble. The group’s debut concert, “Dawn,” showcases music inspired by beginnings: ranging from Haydn’s “Sunrise” string quartet to faculty member James Beckel's “Dialogues,” this program brings sound and light to every corner of Kresge Auditorium. A spirit of renewal pervades the evening, looking ahead as the School of Music joins the new Creative School at DePauw. The event also features poetry from creative writing students of Prof. Joe Heithaus, and includes performances by faculty violist Nicole Brockmann and student violinist Anna Tessman (‘24) in addition to the core sextet.
Performing Melissa Dunphy's Handshake and Evan Williams’s Wild Velvet on a program that also includes works by Drew Zaremba during their residencies for DePauw University School of Music’s yearly Music of the 21st Century festival.
Performing Evan Williams’s if/else for flute and live electronics on a program that also includes works by Melissa Dunphy and Drew Zaremba during their residencies for DePauw University School of Music’s yearly Music of the 21st Century festival.
ConnectFive Wind Quintet creative residency at Avaloch Farm Music Institute, in collaboration with composer Julian Bennett Holmes.
Performing Jean-Michel Damase’s Trio for two flute and piano (with Meera Gudipati and Kay Kim), as well as Joseph Bodin de Boismortier’s Concerto Op. 15 no. 6 in E minor with an ensemble of former students of Ransom Wilson.
Performing Julia Wolfe’s Oxygen on the Gala Concert at the National Flute Association Convention in Chicago. This piece, scored for twelve flutes, will be performed in gross fashion with twelve flutists to a part under the direction of Ransom Wilson!
Watch the video premiere of the piece here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRqbgkw18Qg
Performing chamber compositions of Jeff Lederer with the Morningside Tone Collective on the Little (i) Music Festival
Free live performances from local musicians in a beautiful community garden. There will be baked goods and drinks for a suggested donation, with proceeds to benefit the performers. Pet/kid friendly!
Free live performances from local musicians in a beautiful community garden. There will be baked goods and drinks for a suggested donation, with proceeds to benefit the performers. Pet/kid friendly!
Premiering my piece “Past the Threshold” for MUGIC motion controller on a lunchtime concert
Premiering my piece “Synkinesis [after La Folia]” for EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument) on a lunchtime concert that also features performances by Dániel Matei, Emmalie Tello, and Gabriel Garcia.
