Neil Leonard
Ongoing permanent installation
Beyond Beauty
Hiranoya Hotel, Gamagoori, Japan
Composed by Neil Leonard (01/2023), duration 10:00
Quadraphonic sound composition comprising electronic sound, saxophone, field recording
Commissioned by Toto Onsen Art Museum, Purchased for permanent installation by the Hiranoya Hotel, Gamagoori, Japan
September 15, 2023–January 14, 2024
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold
Featuring Leonard's seven collaborative multimedia works with Campos-Pons
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art and Overlook, 4th Floor
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11238
Friday, December 22, 2023, 8pm
Phill Niblock 90th Birthday Winter Solstice: 24 Hours of Music and Film, Part 2
Roulette
(1st live set) David Watson, Bag and ExplWatson
(2nd) Chris McIntyre, ExplTiltBrass
(3rd) Neil Leonard
509 Atlantic Avenue
(Entrance on the Corner of Third Avenue; Accessible Entrance on Atlantic Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 8pm
Terry Riley In C
Harvard New Music Ensemble
Leonard, alto saxophone
Paine Hall, Music Buidling
Harvard University
3 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 8pm
“Harmolodic double bill”
Legendary guitarist James Blood Ulmer
Dave Bryant Quartet
Dave Bryant (keyboards), Neil Leonard (saxophone), Fred Williams (bass), and James Kamal Jones (drums).
Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church
1555 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02138
September 9 - October 7, 2023
INCORPOREA + AEROPHONIA x ERESIE PELLEGRINE
Immersive site-specific installation in collaboration with p.pourri
Presented by Eresie Pellegrine association
Chiesa Madonna degli Studenti
Lecce, Italy
September 15, 2023 - January 14, 2024
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold
Featuring seven multimedia artworks made in collaboration with Neil Leonard
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Pkwy
Brooklyn, NY 11238
The exhibit travels to Nasher Museum of Art, Frist Art Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum
Friday, September 1, 2023
Taiwan East Coast Land Arts Festival
Taitung, Taiwan
Performances with Musa Jazz Trio, Amis Kakeng
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Cross Cities Summer Festival
Sant’ Agata de’ Goti, Benevento, Italy
Solo concert and set with Sonic Alliances, Stefano Silvestri, Sabrina Carnevale, Valentino Santacangelo, Rosanna de Lucia, Donatella Nicolardi
Wednesday, July 19 at 7:30 PM
Finish High School in Outer Space
David Friend Recital Hall
921 Boylston Street
Boston MA, 02115
A retrospective of faculty member Michael Bierylo's musical work featuring Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with special guests Roger Miller, Neil Leonard, Daedelus, and Phil Lima.
July 6, 2023
American Embassy
Bujumbura, Burundi
Neil Leonard Quintet
Concert to celebrate U.S. Independence
June 21-24, 2023
Marahaba Music Festival
International Music Forum for Africa
Bujumbura, Burundi
Concerts wiht Zelly Zougaa, Joshua Fang, Mapao Swahili Jazz, Timy Nassor
Neil Leonard,
Sunday, June 11, 2023, 18:30
"Casino degli Angeli"
Presicce-Acquarica, Lecce (LE), Italy
The Casino degli Angeli is a building characterized by remarkable craftsmanship, consisting of an octagonal frescoed main floor, a loggia with balustrades, and a dramatic split staircase. Built in the second half of the 18th century during a flourishing period of agricultural culture in the lower Salento region, the Casino degli Angeli bears witness to progressive changes in the surrounding landscape—from the agricultural conversion of the 18th century to the emergence of a more recent industrial/commercial area—all while maintaining the same preciousness as a fossil.
In continuity with the research that connects performative practices to the submerged potential of particular architectures, studioconcreto has invited the interdisciplinary artist, saxophonist, and composer Neil Leonard to compose a site-specific sound piece. Leonard's composition originates from the study of Turandot, Giacomo Puccini's unfinished opera, and revisits the musical dialogue between the East and the West at the beginning of the 20th century when Puccini altered the sound of European opera by incorporating Asian themes and harmonies.
The composition resonates with the circular form of the architecture and becomes part of a lyrical installation that envelops the audience, where the archaic structure shapes new forms of perception. A fragment taken from a popular Chinese song used in Turandot is expanded over time and performed by five opera singers who, through their voices, create an expanded sonic environment.
Curated by studioconcreto
Performers: Neil Leonard, Siyin Wang, Yu Zhang, Yue Tian, Xiao Chen, Nanjin Kong
Limited seats: To participate, please send an email to: info.studioconcreto@gmail.com
Assistant Producer and Audio Specialist: Mauro Diciocia
Special thanks to the Cazzato - Carratta family and Eresie Pellegrine
Produced with the patronage of the Conservatory of Lecce and the Municipality of Presicce-Acquarica.
April 19-June 11, 2023
SONS ACIRAPATI
Pelourinho, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
The Sons Acirapati exhibition featured my installations Frequências Futuras and O Espírito Sopra. For years, the Galeria Solar Ferrão exhibited the collection of Smetak’s one hundred and ten “Plastica Sonoras” and remains the sole exhibitor of his work. Galeria Solar Ferrão invited me to curate an exhibition of my installations including a 10 Smetak’s “Plastica Sonora.”
March 13 - May 1, 2023
Sacatar Foundation Fellowship
Instituto Sacatar on the Island of Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil
At its beachside estate on the island of Itaparica, Instituto Sacatar provides artists time and space to create new works within an international community of artists, many of whom explore the unique cultural heritage of Bahia, Brazil. Since 2001, the Foundation has granted more than 450 residencies to individuals from 70 countries and has directly supported countless community programs and educational and cultural events in Brazil and around the world.
Jan 20 - Feb 19, 2023
Miya Onsen Art Project
My multimedia installation Beyond Beauty is presented by the Toto Onsen Art Museum and Hiranoya Hotel
1-21 Minamiyama, Miya-cho
Gamagoori-shi, Aichi-ken, Japan 443-0021
January 14 - April 1, 2023 Apparition Room
Western Front, Gallery
Admission: Free
https://westernfront.ca/events/apparition-room
The video Sacred Bath (1990) featuring Leonard’s 31:00 minute soundtrack, created with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, is included in Apparition Room. The exhibition presents artworks from Western Front’s archives, to celebrate its 50th year.
Artists include: Kathy Acker, Abbas Akhavan, Eleanor Antin, Joan La Barbara, Martin Bartlett, Rebecca Belmore, bill bissett, Maggie Boyd, Hank Bull, Nao Bustamante, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Dana Claxton, Kate Craig, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Jane Ellison, Robert Filliou, Coco Fusco, General Idea, Rana Hamadeh, Mona Hatoum, Michael Henry, Gordon Hutchens, Tari Ito, Charmian Johnson, Nile Koetting, Alison Knowles, Danny Kostyshin, Neil Leonard, Glenn Lewis, James Luna, Rita McKeough, Eric Metcalfe, Kate Metten, Michael Morris, Bryan Mulvihill, Antoni Muntadas, Gailan Ngan, Wayne Ngan, Judy Radul, Emily Sheppard, Corin Sworn, Vincent Trasov, Zainub Verjee, Laura Wee Lay Laq, Hildegard Westerkamp, Paul Wong, Cornelia Wyngaarden, T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss.
December 10, 2022 - April 30, 2023
Tang Teaching Museum
Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Elevator Music 45
Sonance for the Precession
Quadraphonic sound installation
Location: Elevator
Free and open to the public
https://tang.skidmore.edu/exhibitions/484-elevator-music-45-neil-leonard-sonance-for-the-precession
Elevator Music 45: Neil Leonard—Sonance for the Precession presents a quadraphonic sound installation that explores the orbital journeys of our solar system’s planets. The earth’s precession—it spins on an axis and spins around the sun—causes our vantage points of the night sky to subtly shift each moment as it “wobbles” back and forth on its axis every 26,000 years. In this installation, the approximately 60-minute audio, based on alto saxophone recordings and electronic sounds, advances in circular motion around the listener, sonically animating the elevator and encouraging reflection on the variant rates of planetary orbits around the sun and on our ever-changing place in the universe.
Jan 20 - Feb 19, 2023
Miya Onsen Art Project
My multimedia installation Beyond Beauty is presented by the Toto Onsen Art Museum and Hiranoya Hotel
1-21 Minamiyama, Miya-cho
Gamagoori-shi, Aichi-ken, Japan 443-0021
Friday, January 20, 2023
Performance at Hotel Meizanso
414-1 Mitanicho
Gamagori City, Aichi Prefecture
TEL.0533-68-4641
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/23faa5bea060e5c60c5e68c0eae213da73566a18?page=1
January 27, 2023
STUMP BASE JINGUMAE, Tokyo Japan
Concert with Asuka Akagawa utilizing a live 5.1 mix
STUMP BASE JINGUMAE
2 Chome-31-9 Jingumae
Shibuya City, Tokyo 150-0001
January 29, 2023
Ftarri, Tokyo Japan
Concert with Ken Ikeda
Details: TBA
Okano Bldg. B1 Floor, 1-4-11 Hongo,
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Saturday, November 5, 2022
TransCultural Exchange’s 2022 International Conference
Reporting from the Field: The Caribbean, India, Ukraine, Lapland and Burundi
Moderator: Neil Leonard, Composer, Musician and Professor, Berklee College of Music https://transculturalexchange.org/conference-2022/
September 29, 2022
Healing Wind
Solo saxophone and electronics
Fabrica, Treviso, Italy
https://www.fabrica.it/en/neil-leonard-at-fabrica/
September 27-29, 2022
Sound installation and sonic intervention workshop
Fabrica, Treviso, Italy
https://vimeo.com/756698224?fbclid=IwAR0-5Wk7OmOMdvhEGeb3P6-aJy_jmqhW8MwkRBfn7bYc8W17i18KRPZS3pY
September, 2022
New Music Box
Article: Contemporary music in Boston, profiling five Boston composers. The composers wrote shot entries on the Boston music scene, our musical lives here and responses working in Boston during the global pandemic. https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/different-cities-different-voices-boston/?fbclid=IwAR1XS_EqF-pucbaXfNMuJI7y3kCO6kuvNhYgs6Ddnam-7wou6hBSBymD2m4
August 18, 2022
David Bryant and Friends
Dave Bryant - keyboard
Neil Leonard - saxophones and electronics
Bruno Raberg - bass and electronics
Harvard-Epworth Church
1555 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138
August 2-3, 2022
Marahaba Music Expo Residency
Concert with Timy Nassor Band
Neil Leonard - alto sax
Zanzi Restaurant
Bujumbura, Burundi
June-September, 2022
Giuliano Perin Good Vibes Quintet
Six concerts in Veneto, Italy
Details TBA
Friday, December 17 at 9pm
EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Forty--first Annual Festival with no fancy name
Neil Leonard (Boston)
Home on the 4th - Audio/visual compositions for alto saxophone, electronic processing and video; the program features A/V recent collaboration with Pierce Warnecke, an electroacoustic duet with percussionist Michael Evans, and an A/V composition made with percussionists Román Diaz and Sandy Perez
Streaming on the Wave Farm Website:
https://wavefarm.org/radio/partner-streams/schedule/e7hkxy
www.experimentalintermedia.org
Saturday, December 4 + Sunday, December 5, 2021 - from noon until 11pm
Double Infinity
Featuring Double Entendre Amnon Wolman + Neil Leonard
A series of 88 quarter-hours, during the 22 hours, with about 300 performers all together
Now archived on www.experimentalintermedia.org
Thursday, November 19, 2021 at 7pm.
Faculty Concert, Electronic Production and Design Department
solo saxophone and computer performance
Berklee College of Music
David Friend Recital Hall
921 Boylston Street
Boston, MA, 02115
Free and open to the public
November 1, 2021 - March 1, 2022
CT::SWaM / The Wrong Biennale
virtual exhibition including a new work and, a 360 audio of Sonance for the Precession
Details TBA
Sunday, October 24, 2021, 3-5pm
WhiteBox and 2B&2C
Present
WHITE NOISE V
Phill Niblock - Composition
Michael Schumacher – Composition
Tom Chiu – Violin/Composition
Neil Leonard — Saxophone/Composition
Matt Sullivan and Beatrice A. Martino – Oboe / Choreography
Masks and proof of vaccination required
IL GIARDINO @ BED-STUY MANSION
247 Hancock Street, Brooklyn
Thursday, October 12, 2021, 7:30
Red Room @ Cafe 939, Berklee College of Music
live streamed at https://livestream.com/berklee
Explorations of Identity
Sarah Marie Bugeja - leader voice and piano
Isaac Hiller - drums
Ksenia Vasileva - bass
Hidemi Akaiwa - piano
Emmanuel Ramirez - guitar
Sheila del Bosque - flute
Ray Logan - soprano sax
Alex Rashad - Tenor sax
with special guest
Neil Leonard - alto sax
Mondah, August 2, 2021
Sonance for the Precession, 12” vinyl LP
Excerpts from a sound installation based on alto saxophone recordings and electronic sound.
Akoh/XI Records/Williams Museum College of Art
Co-Produced by Joseph Branciforte
Vinyl cut by Scott Hull at Masterdisk
https://neilleonard.bandcamp.com/album/sonance-for-the-precession
Friday, July 26, 2021, 7:30 PM
Red Room @ Cafe 939, Berklee College of Music
Kseniia Vasileva - leader, bass
Arina Bagaryakova - vocals
Cristián Tamblay - drums,
Hidemi Akaiwa - keyboards,
Sheila Del Bosque Fuentes - flute.
Featuring professors
Neil Leonard - saxophone
David Fuze Fiuczynski - guitar
Saturday, July 10, 2021, 8:00PM
WhiteBox: White Noise IV
XI Records release concert Phill Niblock, Tom Chiu, Neil Leonard, Michael Schumacher and Dave Seide
4201 1st Ave, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY, NY 11232
July 3, 2021
Tzlil Meudcan Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
Loushy | Art & Projects
5 Ma'avar Yabok Tel Aviv 6744007
Sonance for the Precession quadraphonic sound installation (stereo mix 2019)
http://www.tzlilmeudcanfestival.com/event/3july2021/
Non-Event
July 7, 2021
online presentation
Home on the 4th, A/V work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wyYcPSXe0I
“Home on the 4th” was written during social turmoil, quarantine, and personal reflection. It consists of five real-time, audio-visual improvisations to reflect the times. This piece was completed on the 4th
Musicworks Magazine
Spring Issue #139
Walter Smetak: Smetak & Interregno, LP reviews
https://www.musicworks.ca/reviews/walter-smetak-smetak-interregno
Tuesday, March 10th - Sunday March 15th of 2020
XIVth International Festival of Electroacoustic And Electronic Music
“Musica Para Danza 2019”
Electroacustic composition by Neil Leonard
Celebrating the Centennial of Maestro Juan Blanco
Musica Para Danza 2019 is a homage to Juan Blanco’s ground breaking tape composition, Musica Para Danza (1961). This new composition uses the form and melodic material of Blanco’s original to recreate a new companion rendered using digital synthesis and artist-made software. Blanco’s work as a composer, cultural ambassador, and teacher deeply impacted my work.
March 2020
Centro de Experimentación e Investigación en Artes Electrónicas (CEIARTE) of the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina
An Electric Collaboration:
Electronic Music in the Multimedia Works of
Neil Leonard and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
http://ceiarteuntref.edu.ar/2020/10/electronic-music-in-the-multimedia-works-of-neil-leonard-and-maria-magdalena-campos-pons
Thu, Feb 27, 6:30 p.m - Tue, Mar 3, 4:00 p.m., 2020
The Museum of Modern Art
Baño Sagrado
Film by Magdalena Campos, music by Neil Leonard
The Museum of Modern Art
Roy and Niuta Titus Theater
11 W 53rd St
New York, NY 10019
My sound for the video Baño Sagrado with Magdalena Campos video excerpt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmlpygkCG2s&feature=youtu.be
Tuesday, February 25 - Saturday, May 9, 2020
30 minutes before sunset daily
Bennington College, Usdan Gallery
Sonance for the Precession
Quadraphonic outdoor sound installation
located outside the ground entrance to Visual and Performing Arts Center (VAPA)
Bennington College
One College Drive
Bennington, VT 05201-6003
Free and open to the public
Sonance for the Precession is a site-specific sound installation created by artist, musician, and composer Neil Leonard. The electroacoustic composition, played for 30 minutes each day half an hour before sunset, explores ancient ideas connecting the precession, or movement, of the equinox with the harmonic series. The composition provides a context to reflect on how Hindu and Greek theories of astronomy and acoustics developed through intercultural exchange as far back as prehistoric times. The installation was premiered atop the historic Hopkins Observatory situated adjacent to the Williams College Museum of Art in autumn, 2019.
Friday, January 31, 2020
Electric Root
Neil Leonard - saxophone, electronics, video
Sandy Pérez - percussion
Vanessa Lindberg - voice
MAGMA - Movement Arts Gloucester
11 Pleasant Street, Suite 64
Gloucester, MA 01930
Tickets 15$ in advance
20$ at door
Electric Root performs After Irma, a multimedia suite for folkloric ensemble, saxophone, electronics, and video.The piece addresses the devastating impact of global warming on the culture in Matanzas, Cuba.
Friday, October 18, 2019
7:30 PM 9:00 PM
Animated Films of Karen Aqua
with live soundtracks by the Ken Field Alto Sax Quartet plus drums
Ken Field, Neil Leonard, Stan Strickland, Lihi Haruvi
Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation
Boiler House Jazz Series
154 Moody Street
Waltham, MA 02453
9/18/19 - 12/22/19 - played for 30 minutes before sunset
Williams College Museum of Art
Sonance for the Precession
Immersive Sound Installation
Currier Quad, located next to the Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College
Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267
Free and open to the public
https://wcma.williams.edu/sonance-for-the-precession/
Sonance for the Precession is a site-specific sound installation created by artist, musician, and composer Neil Leonard for the Berkshire quad on the Williams campus. The electroacoustic composition, played for 30 minutes each day half an hour before sunset, explores ancient ideas connecting the precession, or movement, of the equinox with the harmonic series. The composition provides a context to reflect on how Hindu and Greek theories of astronomy and acoustics developed through intercultural exchange as far back as prehistoric times. The installation highlights the historic Hopkins Observatory situated adjacent to the Williams College Museum of Art and questions how astronomy can inform contemporary artistic practice.
September 23, 2019 6:15 PM
Williams College Museum of Art
Equisonace
Neil Leonard - saxophones/electronics
Currier Quad, located next to the Williams College Museum of Art
Williams College
Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267
Free and open to the public
https://wcma.williams.edu/event/equisonance/
During this celebration of the Autumnal Equinox, Leonard will play the saxophone accompanied by live electronics in celebration of the Autumnal Equinox.
May 2019
Concerts in Israel
Levontin 7 Club, Tel Aviv
Mazkeka, Jerusalem, Israel
Details TBA
Articles for New Music USA (2018):
https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/sonic-cartography/
https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/sonic-cartography-ii-questions-of-scale/
https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/sound-architecture-and-necromancy/
https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/sound-architecture-ii-fog-ruins-and-ellington/
Saturday, June 22, 2019, 8PM
Lilly Pad
Neil Leonard - saxophones/electronics
Joe Branciforte / Theo Beckman duo
The Lily Pad
1353 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02139-1340
$15 Cover
Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 8:00-9:00 PM
NYU AVERY FISHER CENTER
Three works of electroacoustic music, presented and sound-engineered by Michael Schumacher.
Compositions by Neil Leonard, Amnon Wolman and Jim O’Rourke.
Feldstein Immersion Room
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 7th Floor
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Free
March, February 22, 2019, 8 PM
Animated Films of Karen Aqua
with live soundtracks by the Ken Field Alto Sax Quartet plus drums
Ken Field, Neil Leonard, Stan Strickland, Lihi Haruvi
Institute of Contemporary Art
25 Harbor Shore Drive
Boston, MA 02210
$21 ICA/Crash Arts members + students / $25 nonmembers
https://www.icaboston.org/events/animated-films-karen-aqua
Monday, March 4, 2019 - 7:30PM
After Irma
Neil Leonard 60th Birthday Concert
Leonard - saxophone, electronics, video
Sandy Pérez - percussion
Román Díaz - percussion
Diego López - percussion
Vanessa Fredrickson - voice
Jason Lim - modular synthesizer
Monday, March 4, 2019 - 7:30PM
David Friend Recital Hall
921 Boylston Street
Boston, MA, 02115
https://www.berklee.edu/events/neil-leonard-after-irma
Admission: Free
Leonard premieres a multimedia
work for folkloric ensemble, saxophone, electronics, and video.
Debuting the Leonard Series of Instruo Media modular synthesizers.
Produced with support of the Newbury Comics Faculty Fellowship.
Friday, December 21, 2018, at 6:00 PM
Phill Niblock : Winter Solstice - 6 Hours of Music and Film
Featuring Chris McIntyre, trombone; Neil Leonard, saxophones
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave
(Corner of Third Avenue)
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Monday, December 10, 2018 - 8:30PM
Berklee Off the Grid
Featuring Ned Rothenberg, Dave Tronzo, Allan Chase, Neil Leonard, Bruno Raberg, Francisco Mela, Ksenia Vasileva, Giogio Albanese
Berklee College of Music
Electronic Production and Design Recital Hall
22 Fenway, Room 112
Boston MA, 02215
Admission: Free
Sunday, October 28, 2018, 8:30PM
Narrow Shoulder - pieces by Neil Leonard and Amnon Wolman
Amnon Wolman - electronics and video
Neil Leonard - Saxophones and electronics
ShapeShifter Lab
18 Whitwell Pl
Brooklyn, New York 11215
(646) 820-9452
Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 7:00-9:00 pm
Julius Eastman’s Gay Guerrilla and other works
In collaboration with Claire Chase, Harvard University Music Dept. Professor of the Practice + Neil Leonard, Artistic Director, Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute
Holden Chapel
Harvard University
24 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Ongoing, August-October, each Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 2018
Lavender Ruins - Quadraphonic composition for Fog x Ruins
Fujiko Nakaya - fog
Shiro Takatani - light
Neil Leonard - sound
72 sunset concerts, 900 mist nozzles, 38 LED lights, 4 waterproof speakers.
7pm and 8pm in August - every Friday, Saturday, Sunday
6pm and 7pm in September - every Friday, Saturday, Sunday
5pm and 6pm in October - every Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Overlook Shelter Ruins at Franklin Park
https://www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/lavender-ruins-3/2018-10-28/
PLEASE CHECK DETAILED DIRECTIONS:
https://www.emeraldnecklace.org/20th/visit/
Tuesday, October 30, 2018, 7:30 pm
In Response: Students Perform Responses to Tony Conrad’s works
In collaboration with Claire Chase, Harvard University Music Dept. Professor of the Practice + Neil Leonard, Artistic Director of the Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Harvard University
Level 3, Bookshop
24 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
https://carpenter.center/program/fall-2018-exhibitions-and-programs
Sunday, October 14, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Neil Leonard / Miguel Nuñez Duo
Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation
Boiler House Jazz Seriese
154 Moody Street
Waltham, MA 02453
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boiler-house-jazz-neil-leonardmiguel-nunez-duo-tickets-49878342465
Thursday, September 20, 2014, 7:30 pm
Electronic Production and Design Faculty Showcase
Berklee College of Music
David Friend Recital Hall
921 Boylston Street
Boston, MA, 02115
617 747-2261
Admission: Free
https://www.berklee.edu/events/electronic-production-and-design-faculty-showcase-0
July, 2018
Montalvo Arts Center
Lucas Artists Residency Program
New installation and concert
March 23 - March 24, 2018
Relatives
Constance DeJong & Tony Oursler with sound by Neil Leonard
The Kitchen
512 W 19th St
New York, New York, 10011
Tickets $20 General / $15 Members
http://thekitchen.org/event/constance-dejong-tony-oursler-relatives
Friday, March 16, 2018
Emergency Vehicles Only
Amnon Wolman, computer
Neil Leonard, saxophone
Aktuelles Musikprogramm
Literarisches Quartier
Schönlaterngasse 9, 1010 Wien, Vienna
http://www.alte-schmiede.at/programm/2018-03-16-1900/
Friday, February 23, 2018, 8 PM
SOUNDING THE CLOUD
Neil Leonard, Stephen Vitiello & Scanner
Institute of Contemporary Art
25 Harbor Shore Drive
Boston, MA 02210
$10 ICA members + students / $15 nonmembers
https://www.icaboston.org/events/sounding-cloud
January 30, 2018 7:30 PM
Binge Watch
Collaborative performances by students of the Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute and BoCo Dance.
Berklee College of Music
David Friend Recital Hall
921 Boylston Street
Boston, MA, 02115
https://www.berklee.edu/events/binge-watch-presented-interdisciplinary-arts-institute-and-boco-dance
Admission: Free
Thursday, November 30, 2017, 8:30 PM - 11:30 PM
Amnon Wolman, Neil Leonard, Francesca Caruso, Mem1
111 Summer St
Providence, RI 02903-4009
Monday, November 13, 2017, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
University of Belo Horizonte
Concert/lecture with Neil Leonard, Marco Scarassatti
UFBA
Minas, Gerais, Brazil
Friday, November 10, 2017, 8:00PM - midnight
Multiplicidades Festival
Carlos Casas' Avalanche with
Casas, Neil Leonard, Nikhil Uday Sing, Chelpa Ferro, DJ Nado Leal
Éden
Rua Sacadura Cabral, 109 - Centro
Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Sunday, September 10 2017, 4:00pm – 10:00pm
CT::SWaM presents a program of spatial sound pieces
Bob Bellerue, Jason Brogan, Mike Bullock, Sabisha Friedberg, Neil Leonard
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street
Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
Saturday, July 22, 8PM-9PM
Documenta `14 - Bar Matanzas with
Phill Niblock, Amnon Wolman, Neil Leonard, Katherine Liberovskaya
works for saxophone and electronic sounds
Kulturzentrum Schlachthof
Mombachstraße 10-12
34127 Kassel
https://www.schlachthof-kassel.de/startseite.html
Thursday, June 8 - Sunday, July 18, 2017
Documenta 14
Bar Matanzas opening events
Neil Leonard and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Bar Matanzas is an intervention by Campos-Pons and Leonard that unpacks the design, beverage, and culinary culture of Matanzas, known as the “Athens of Cuba.”
Kulturzentrum Schlachthof
Mombachstraße 10-12
34127 Kassel
https://www.schlachthof-kassel.de/startseite.html
Thursday, April 6 - Sunday, July 16, 2017
Documenta 14
Matanzas Sound Map (2017)
Neil Leonard and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
10 channels of audio, projected video, cast glass, blown glass, handmade paper, coconut tree bark, coconuts shells, Calea stone
Matanzas Sound Map explores the sonic landscape of Matanzas, from the harbor neighborhoods where iconic musical forms were born to remote estuaries where one imagines Cuba as it sounded before human intervention. The installation creates an aural cartography made in collaboration with sugar growers, musicians, musicologists and scientists.
Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA)
Nikos Kessanlis Exhibition Hall
Pireos 256
18233 Athens
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 11 am–9 pm, Thursday, 11 am–11 pm
Sunday, May 28, 22:30
Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute and Aegean College
Tesla at BIOS
Peireos 84. 10435
Athens. Greece
+30 210 3425335
Friday, April 28 at 8 PM
Washington Street Art
Neil Leonard and Joseph Branciforte
Joseph Branciforte will present a quad ambient set on fender rhodes, tape loops, electronics, and found objects.
Leonard presents live quadraphonic adaptations of works from “Matanzas," his upcoming vinyl LP release. The compositions were created during a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency in Captiva, Florida in 2016 with field recordings from Cuba made in 2016 for the installation "Matanzas Sound Map" created for documenta 14.
321 Washington St
Somerville, MA 02143
https://www.facebook.com/events/439615129720040/
Documenta 14
Listening to Matanzas
Diary entry for Documenta 14 Notes and Works section of the website
by Neil Leonard and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
http://www.documenta14.de/en/notes-and-works/9331/listening-to-matanzas
Matanzas
Neil Leonard - alto saxophone and compositions incorporating electronics, field recordings
scheduled for release in May, 2017
Electronic saxophone recorded at RR Residency 21 and field recordings recorded in Matanzas, Cuba.
TEN DAYS SIX NIGHTS: NIGHT THREE
Sunday, March 26, 2017, 18.30–21.00
Conception, films, photographs and sound score by Phill Niblock
Neil Leonard, tenor saxophone
David First, guitar
Thomas Ankersmit, analogue synth
Lori Lixenberg, voice
Guy De Bievre, lap steel guitar
Elisabeth Schilling, Dance
Tate Modern
The Tanks
Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
£12
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ten-days-six-nights/night-three
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Experimental Intermedia
SCREEN COMPOSITIONS 13 - Curated by Katherine Liberovskaya
featuring collaborations by: Magdalena Campos-Pons / Neil Leonard; Paul Clipson / Byron Westbrook; Julie Doucet / Anne-f. Jacques; Janene Higgins / Cassis B Staudt; Luis Macias / Alfredo Costa Monteiro; Geoff Matters / Dok Gregory; Laetitia Morais / Carlos Guedes; Dafna Naphtali / Hans Tammen; Mercedes Peris / Ferrer-Molina; Paola Pisani / Alessandro Fogar
Program TBA
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor
NYC, NY 10013
http://experimentalintermedia.org/concerts/16/Dec16.shtml
Friday, March 3, 2017 - 7:00 PM
The Bucket System:
A new electronic music and improvisation system by Palle Dahlstedt, Per Anders Nilsson and Gino Robair at the University of Gothenburg.
Per Anders Nilsson, concept and live electronics
Palle Dahlstedt, concept and live electronics
EPD faculty
Dr. Richard Boulanger - trumpet and csound
Neil Leonard - soprano saxophone
Lee Gilboa - clarinet and csound
Emmett Palaima - guitar and csStomp (custom Csound FX Processor)
Sakura Tsuruta - keyboard and csound
D’Anthony Wooten - keyboard
Xingyu Yao - keyboard
Wen-Na Tsao - keyboard
Greg McRae - drums
Jacob Richter - csSpectral Csound iPad App
Nikhil Singh - csGrain Csound iPad App
Blake Adelman - CsoundForLive Plugins
Berklee College of Music
Electronic Production and Design Recital Hall
22 Fenway, Room 112
Boston MA, 02215
Admission: Free
Saturday, December 17, 2016, 9:00 PM
Amnon Wolman
Security Vehicles Only and Flagger Ahead
Featuring Wolman (computer) Neil Leonard (saxophone) and students from the Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute
Experimental Intermedia
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor
NYC, NY 10013
http://experimentalintermedia.org
A new collaboration between Neil Leonard and Amnon Wolman called Security Vehicles Only that employs two poems by John Ashbery; the piece is scheduled for premiere at the Tectonics Festival in Tel Aviv in November; at EI, Security Vehicles Only will be performed together with Amnon’s Flagger Ahead for visual live performers that will be presented by a group of student-artists from Berklee College of Music, Boston
Sunday, December 11, 2016 - 4:00 PM
Amnon Wolman
Security Vehicles Only and Flagger Ahead
Featuring Wolman (computer) Neil Leonard (saxophone) and students from the Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute
Berklee College of Music
Electronic Production and Design Recital Hall
22 Fenway, Room 112
Boston MA, 02215
Admission: Free
Wednesday, November 23 - 7:30PM
Amnon Wolman
Security Vehicles Only
Featuring Wolman (computer) Neil Leonard (saxophone)
Tectonics Festival
TMU-NA Performance Art Theatre
8 Shonzino st.,
Tel Aviv, Israel
Saturday, May 14, 2016
National Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
Identified, Performance by
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Neil Leonard
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, performance
Neil Leonard - composition, saxophone, electronics
Terence Blanchard - trumpet
Oriente Lopez percussion/flute/piano
Ramon Garcia Perez “Sandy"
Lázaro Cárdenas Batel -percussion
Vanessa Fredrickson voice
Oscar Rousseaux -Cuban percussionist / vocalist
Randy Rosso-Cuban percussionist / vocalist
Ernesto Gattel - percussion
Frank Williams- percussionist
Duke Ellington School Jazz Band
Monifa Love-performance
Dell Hamilton- performance
Helina Metaferia-performance
Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 8:15 PM
Wired for Jazz: Terence Blanchard and Neil Leonard
Presented by The Electronic Production and Design Department
Berklee Performance Center
136 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston MA, 02115
Admission: $8 in advance (discount applied at checkout), $12 day of show, general admission
https://www.berklee.edu/events/warm-and-wired-epd-department-showcase
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 7:00PM
Stir: Neil Leonard & Rudresh Mahanthappa, saxophones
with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
25 Evans Way
Boston, MA 02115
Tickets: $5-$15 | Purchase online or at 617 278 5156
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/events/6933
Friday March 11, 2016 - 8PM
Stephen Vitiello + Neil Leonard duo (quadraphonic set)
Non-Event
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116
Tickets: $12 / $10 members and students
http://www.nonevent.org/upcoming/stephen_vitiello_neil_leonard/
Thursday March 10, 2016
Neil Leonard/Stephen Vitiello Duo
186 Carpenter St.
Providence, RI
http://186carpenter.tumblr.com/about
details TBA
Monday March 7, 2016
Neil Leonard/Stephen Vitiello Duo
University of Maine, Farmington
details TBA
Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 7:30PM
Concert for 100 Mobile Devices
David Friend Recital Hall
921 Boylston Street
Boston, MA, 02115
https://www.berklee.edu/events/neil-leonard-transonic
Admission: Free
The Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute (BIAI) presents a concert for 100 mobile devices in which the audience will perform new, interactive works using the a.bel application running on iOS devices (iPhones/iPads). Music by Carlos Guedes (INESC TEC, NYU Abu Dhabi), José Alberto Gomes (Casa da Música), Neil Leonard (Berklee College of Music, Boston USA), and Rui Penha (INESC TEC, FEUP)
Saturday, February 20, 2016 - 7:30PM
Carlos Casas (featuring Neil Leonard and students from the Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute)
Berklee College of Music
Electronic Production and Design Recital Hall
22 Fenway, Room 112
Boston MA, 02215
Admission: Free
Monday, January 25, 2016 - 8:00PM
Outpost
David Bryant - keyboards
Neil Leonard - saxophone/electronics
Jeff Song - cello
Curt Newton - drums/percussion
$10 suggested donation
Outpost 186 1/2 Hampshire Street
Inman Square, Cambridge MA, 02139
http://www.zeitgeist-outpost.org
Thursday January 21, 2016 - 6:00 PM-9:00PM
Agridulce (Bittersweet)
Performance with
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Neil Leonard - saxophones
Oriente Lopez - keyboard/percussion
Sandy Perez - percussion
Yusnier Sanchez - percussion
Peabody Essex Museum
East India Square
161 Essex Street
Salem, MA 01970
Members and Salem residents (with ID) free, nonmembers $10
http://www.pem.org/visit/pemPM#january
January 16 - February 28, 2016
True Bread: Sound Installation
Opening: Friday, January 15 - 6-8:00PM
Boston Cyberarts Gallery
141 Green Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130.
Located in the Green Street T Station on the Orange Line.
Friday, Saturday & Sundays 12 – 6PM
Admission: Free
Wheelchair accessible
http://bostoncyberarts.org/true-bread-event/
January 9 - April 3, 2016
Alchemy of the Soul: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Collaborative installation with Campos-Pons and sound installation
Peabody Essex Museum
East India Square
161 Essex Street
Salem, MA 01970
Adults $18, seniors $15, students $10, Youth (16 and under) and Salem, Mass. residents admitted free*.
http://pem.org/sites/alchemy/ (ONLINE CATALOG)
Open Tuesday-Sunday, 10AM-5PM
Open the third Thursday of every month 10AM-9:00PM
Closed Mondays (except holidays)
Thursday, July 16, 2015, 8:30 PM
Spectrum
Music by Neil Leonard
Neil Leonard - Saxophone/electronics
Oren Fader - Guitar
Also featuring a set by guitarist William Anderson
121 Ludlow, Second Floor
New York, New York
(917) 528-1656
http://www.spectrumnyc.com
Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
TEDx Fenway.
Agitate/Innovate/Evolve
Solo performance saxophone and electronics
Details TBA
Friday April 17th, 2015
Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras
The Music of Neil Leonard
Concert with video and 5.1 sound diffusion
CMMAS
Morelos Norte 485 esquina con , Col. Morelia Centro
C.P. 58000, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
http://www.cmmas.org
Thursday March 19th, 2015, 7:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Transonic, directed by Neil Leonard
Music inspired by Jean-Michel Othoniel, Gardner Museum artist in residence
Transonic
Neil Leonard - saxophone, live electronics
Joanne Brackeen - piano
Gadi Sassoon - live electronics
Anthony Baldino - modular synthesizer
Jason Lim - modular synthesizer
Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum
280 Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/events/6189
Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum
280 Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
http://www.gardnermuseum.org
February 9-13, 2015
Berklee Valenica Campus
Concerts and workshops TBA
December 7-9, 2014
FIND & University Abu Dhabi Institute
REVERSIBLE: Narrating Identity from the Inside Out and Outside In
lecture/presentation on current works
Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 8:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
program in Art, Culture and Technology
Double CD release event - For Kounellis & Mil Maneras
Wiesner Building, Bartos Theater (E15 lower level)
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public
http://act.mit.edu/
Saturday, October 11, 2014, 9:00 pm
Experimental Intermedia
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor
NYC, NY 10013
http://experimentalintermedia.org
Stephen Vitiello, Neil Leonard, Phill Niblock and students of Berklee College of Music
Niblock's Sethworks (played by students) and a new, Niblock composition for tenor saxophone, Ronet, played by Leonard; a new collaboration by Vitiello and Leonard that starts with close up field recordings created at Mountain Lake Biological Station in Virginia - saxophone, field recordings, analog and digital processing; an audible partner to Vitiello's recent installation at American Contemporary Gallery which focuses only on the low frequencies (below the threshold of hearing) - artifacts from the recordings of the same birds
Friday, October 3, 2014 - 7:30PM
Alvin Curran (featuring Neil Leonard on one piece)
Berklee College of Music
Electronic Production and Design Recital Hall
22 Fenway, Room 112
Admission: Free!
Wheelchair accessible
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Performance by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Neil Leonard
in conjunction with Carrie Mae Weems'
Past Tense: Future Perfect
Maria Madgalena Campos-Pons - Fefa
Neil Leonard - bass clarinet
Jen Baker - trombone
Monique Buzzarté - trombone
Dick Griffin - trombone
Kiane Zawadi - euphonium
Elena Kakaliaguo - french horn
Jay Rozen - tuba
Joseph Daley - tuba
Oriente Lopez - percussion, flute
Diego Lopez - bata, voice
Roman Diaz - percussion, voice
Natasha Diggs - voice
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10128
http://www.guggenheim.org
March 28, 2014 - 8:00 PM
Concert with Phill Niblock, Katherine Liberovskaya, Alan Margolis and Neil Leonard
University of Maine Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center
Orono, ME, 04469
Admission Free
http://calendar.umaine.edu/event/umaine-artist-lecture-series-phill-nibl...
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Concert of music by Neil Leonard in collaboration with Brazilian musicians/artists
Universidade Federal da Bahia Salvador da Bahia,
Brazil Time and location, TBA
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 7:30 PM
Explorations of Eavesdropping with "Scanner"
David Friend Recital Hall
921 Boylston Street Boston, MA, 02115
617 747-2261
Admission: Free
http://www.berklee.edu/events/berklee-interdisciplinary-arts-institute-e...
An evening of works by Neil Leonard and Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute students created in collaboration with pioneering audio artist Robin Rimbaud aka "Scanner."
Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 7:00 PM
The music of Phill Niblock
Rollins Chapel Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire
$17.00 - $25.00
http://act.mit.edu/videos/2013/03/two-lips-performance/
https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/phill_niblock
Featuring Neil Leonard, and Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute Guitar Quintet (Jason Hwa Jia Lim, Pamela Hersch Gonzalez, Jonas Margraf, Jake Moskow, James Forrest)
Thursday, February 20, 2014 - 8:15 PM
Sun Ra Cosmic Centenary
Berklee Performance Center
136 Massachusetts Avenue,
Boston, MA, 02115
617 747-2261
Admission: $8 in advance (discount applied at checkout), $12 day of show,
This concert celebrating Sun Ra's 100th anniversary features Arkestra members Marshall Allen, Charles Davis, and Danny Ray Thompson with Diane Richardson, voice; Carolyn Wilkins, keyboards; Ron Mahdi, bass; Ron Savage, drums; Ricardo Monzon, percussion; Charlie Harris, trumpet; Dave Harris, trombone; Stan Strickland, Lance Van Lenten, Neil Leonard, and Daryl Lowery, reeds; David Clark, arranger and conductor.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 9:00
Lillypad
David Maxwell - piano
Neil Leonard - alto and soprano saxophone
John Lockwood - bass
Bob Gullotti - drums
1353 Cambridge Street
Inman Square, Cambridge, MA
http://lilypadinman.com
CD Release Juan Blanco Nuesto Tiempo (Our Time)
Innova Recordings: 248
Produced by Neil Leonard and Philip Blackburn
The CD features the first piece of electroacoustic music realized in Cuba and performances by Guillermo Barreto, Tata Guines and Neil Leonard.
http://www.innova.mu/albums/juan-blanco/nuestro-tiempo-our-time
Saturday, November 9, 2014 at 5:30 PM
María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Neil Leonard
Performance for the inauguration of the new wing of the Queens Museum
Neil Leonard, saxophone
Oriente Lopez, piano
Mauricio Herrera, percussion
Roman Diez, Percussion
Queens Museum of Art New York Ave
Flushing Meadows Corona Park Queens, NY 11368
(718) 592-9700
Through Sunday, October 27, 2013
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Neil Leonard
Featuring Leonard's True Bread: 2 video, 10 channel audio installation
Stephan Stoyanov Gallery
29 Orchard Street,
New York, New York 10002
(212) 343-4240
http://www.stephanstoyanov.com
Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 8:00
Dave Bryant - keyboards
Badal Roy - table, voice
Tom Hall - tenor saxophone
Neil Leonard - alto and soprano saxophones
Jacob William - bass
Outpost
186 1/2 Hampshire
Street Inman Square, Cambridge, MA
http://www.zeitgeist-outpost.org
October 24, 2013
Recording sessions with
David Bryant - piano/compositions/leader
Tom Hall- tenor sax
Neil Leonard - alto/soprano sax
Curt Newton - percussion
Eric Rosenthal - percussion
Jeff Song - cello
Jacob William - bass
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 7PM
Jewett Art Gallery
Neil Leonard, saxophones/electronics/compositions
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA, 02481
Free and open to the public
https://www.facebook.com/events/1410312959186125/
July 25-31, 2013
Recording at Studio Pablo Milanes
Neil Leonard - alto and soprano saxophones
Joanne Brackeen - piano
Los Hermanos Arango
Miguel Nuñez Quartet
Saturday, June 1 - Sunday, November 24, 2013
55 Venice Biennial: "The Encyclopedic Palace"
Cuban pavilion of Venice Biennial
Venice, Italy
Featuring work by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Neil Leonard
http://www.labiennale.org
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 8:00pm
The Art of the Improvisers concert series
Works by Neil Leonard (saxophone/electronics) and Robin Eubanks (trombone/electronics)
MIT Hayden Library Building
Killian Hall (Rm. 14W-111)
160 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 7:30pm
Sound Shapes: Compositions for interactive multimedia by Berklee faculty
Berklee College of Music
David Friend Recital Hall
921 Boylston Street
Boston, MA, 02115
Free and open to the public
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Le Festival International du Film sur l'art (FIFA)
Film Screening "Detras Del Muro"
Featuring Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Neil Leonard's work in the 11 Havana Biennial
Montreal, Canada
Time/Location TBA
http://www.artfifa.com
Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 7:00-9:00pm
Presentation of "Working Title," a monograph on the avant-garde musician, filmmaker, and performer Phill Niblock
Featuring BIAI students perform work by Niblock
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wiesner Building, ACT Cube (E15-001/lower level)
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public
http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/public-programs/working-ti...
Monday, March 11, 2013 at 7PM
Jewett Art Gallery
Music of Phill Niblock
Neil Leonard, saxophones
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA, 02481
Free and open to the public
Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 8PM
Middlebury College
Music of Phill Niblock
Neil Leonard, saxophones
Johnson Memorial Art Building
Middlebury Vermont
December 20-23, 2012
Jazz Plaza - Havana International Jazz Festival
Details TBA
Havana, Cuba
Thursday, December, 6, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Neil Leonard - saxophones
Oriente Lopez - piano
Women of Color Conference
Boston, MA
Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute event
Friday, November 30, 2012
Juan Delgado Calzadilla presents the film
Detras del Muro
Friday/Saturday, November 16, 17, 2012
Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute event featuring
Mike Ladd
Details TBA
Sunday, November 4, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Neil Leonard/David Bryant/Jacob William/Curt Newton
Joe Morris Trio
Private event
Boston, MA
Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 1:00 PM
Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute event featuring
Boston Book Festival
Copley Square, Boston
Details TBA
Friday, October 26, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Neil Leonard/Huo Siyu
Reinterpretations of traditional Chinese music for
Huo Siyu - voice
Neil Leoanrd - saxophone/electronics
Yunnan Provincial Museum
Yunnan, China
Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Neil Leonard - saxophones
Oriente Lopez - piano
Women of Color Conference
Boston, MA
Saturday, September 8, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Emile Tobenfeld Birthday Concert
Outpost 186 1/2 Hampshire Street
Inman Square,
Cambridge, MA
http://www.zeitgeist-outpost.org
Saturday-Sunday,September 1-2, 2012
Premire of Du Long
National Theater and Dance Troupe of China
Music by Neil Leoanrd, Huo Siyu
Beijing Exhibition Center Theater,
135 Xizhimen Waidajie, Xicheng District
Beijing, China
Saturday, July 28, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Neil Leonard/David Bryant/Don Miller/Chris Bowman
Jack and Luna's Cafe
3928 Main Street
Stone Ridge, New York
Tel: 845 687 9794
Jackandlunas.com
Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 5:00 PM
Neil Leonard/Huo Siyu
Reinterpretations of traditional Chinese music for
Huo Siyu - voice
Neil Leoanrd - saxophone/electronics
Location TBA
Bengbu, An Hui Province, China
Thursday, June 21, 2012, at 8:00 PM
PHILL NIBLOCK : Summer Solstice
Featuring Dither Guitar Quartet, Neil Leonard, and a trombone quartet.
ROULETTE
509 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
www.roulette.org
Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Neil Leonard/Oriente Lopez Duo
Women of Color Conference
Private event
Boston, MA
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Neil Leonard- saxophones
Mimi Rablson - violin
Joe Morris - guitar
John Voigt - bass
Michal Evans - percussion
Outpost 186 1/2 Hampshire Street
Inman Square,
Cambridge, MA
http://www.zeitgeist-outpost.org
May 11 - June 11, 2012
"FeFa"
Performance/installation by
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons/Neil Leonard
Havana Biennial
Wilfredo Lam Center
Havana, Cuba
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Williams College
Location and time - TBA
Interactive-electroacoustic compositions/performances by
Ileana Perez Velazquez, Sam Pluta, Kathryn Alexander, Juraj Kos, Jeff Roberts
and Neil Leonard
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Phill Niblock
New England Conservatory
Performances of music by Phill Niblock with Neil Leonard on saxophones and
clarinets.
Brown Hall New England Conservatory
290 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Neil Leonard/Joanne Brackeen Duo
American Culture Center
University of Shanghai for Science & Technology
516 Jungong Road
Shanghai 200093, China
Friday, January 13, 2012, 10:00 PM
Lilly Pad
David Maxwell's OutTakes Unlimited
David Maxwell - piano
Phil Grenadier - trumpet
Neil Leonard - saxophones
The Lily Pad
1353 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02139-1340
http://www.lily-pad.net/
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Casa Las Americas, Havana, Cuba
"Rito de Iniciación/Rite of Initiation" video screening
I contributed music/sound to María Magdalena Campos-Pons' tour-de-force video "Rito de Iniciación/Rite of Initiation," created at the Western Front, Vancouver. This video was recently screened at the Smithsonian Institute Museum of African Art.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 8:15 PM
Berklee Performance Center
Los Hermanos Arangos
Direct from Havana Cuba
Berklee Performance Center
136 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston MA 02115
Los Hermanos Arangos is an ensemble from Guanabacoa, Cuba where Yoruba, Abakua and other African traditions are preserved in their most authentic form in the Americas. The Arangos are the only Cuban band to use completely unaltered Afrocuban ritual voice/hand drumming as the basis for a modern repertoire that integrates electric bass, keyboards, brass/winds (no drumset). Leaders, Feliciano and Eugenio Arango are the top-call percussionist/bassist in Cuba and toured with Chucho Valdes, Afrocuban All-Stars, N.G. La Banda, Pablo Milanes, Emiliano Salvador.
Thursday and Friday, March 8 & 9, 2012, 11:30am – 1:30pm
Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum
Ana Prvacki - "Wandering Band"
Performance to celebrate the opening of the New Wing of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, designed by Italy's premiere Architect, Renzo Piano.
Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum
280 Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/
Thursday, April 5, 2012, 8PM
Phill Niblock
New England Conservatory
Performances of music by Phill Niblock with Neil Leonard on saxophones and clarinets.
Brown Hall at the New England Conservatory
290 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Williams College
Location and time - TBA
Interactive-electroacoustic compositions/performances by Ileana Perez Velazquez, Sam Pluta, Kathryn Alexander, Juraj Kos, Jeff Roberts and Neil Leonard
May 11 - June 11, 2012
Wilfredo Lam Center
Havana Bienial
"FeFa" - performance/installation with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
María Magdalena Campos-Pons
Journeys
I contributed sound for her tour-de-force installation "Spoken Softly with Mama", 1998.
(Mixed-media installation of embroidered silk and organza over ironing boards with photographic transfers, embroidered cotton sheets, cast glass irons and trivets, wooden benches, six projected video tracks, and stereo sound; dimensions variable. Purchased 1999; National Gallery of Canada.)
October 7, 2011–January 8, 2012
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
http://fristcenter.org/calendar-exhibitions/detail/maria-magdalena-campo...
María Magdalena Campos-Pons
MAMA/RECIPROCAL ENERGY
I contributed sound for installations and video screening
October 13–December 8, 2011
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/gallery/exhibits/exhibit_campos-pons.php
Marcel's Window - CD Release Concert
Friday, Novermber 18, 2011 at 5:00PM
Philadelphia Art Museum
Neil Leonard - woodwinds
Tom Lawton - piano (Dave Douglas, Don Byron)
Lee Smith - bass (Mongo Santamaria, Cedar Walton, Roberta Flack)
Craig McIver - drums (Max Roach M-Boom, Odean Pope)
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
China Conservatory
Concert with members of National Music and Dance and Troupe
Details TBA
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Bryant / Leonard / Simons / Newton @ Outpost
Dave Bryant - keyboards
Neil Leonard - saxophones and electronics
Junko Fujiwara Simons - cello
Curt Newton - drums
Outpost 186 1/2 Hampshire Street
Inman Square, Cambridge, MA
http://www.zeitgeist-outpost.org
Havana Jazz Festival, December 2011
Marcel's Window - CD Release Concerts
Thursday, December 15 –Tito Junco Concert Hall of Bertolt Brecht Theater
Saturday, December 17 – Workshop National School of Arts (ENA)
Sunday, December 18 – Concert Casa de Cultura de Plaza
Berklee Faculty Jazz Quintet
Neil Leonard - director/composer/saxophones
Joanne Brackeen - piano
John Lockwood - bass
John Ramsey - drums
December 7 & 8, 2011 ,11:30am – 1:00pm
Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum
Ana Prvacki - Wandering Band
The "Wandering Band" is a performance of vocalists and musicians performing on voice, piano, bass and saxophone wandering freely through the Gardner Museum. Conceived by artist Ana Prvacki, the Wandering Band artists will perform their daily practice of exercises, repertoire and improvisation while strolling through the galleries.
Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum
280 Fenway
Boston, MA 02115, United States
(617) 566-1401
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/