Korean Cellist, composer and improviser Ha-Yang Kim premieres new chamber works with funding from the Van Lier Fellowship.  With musical influences ranging from western classical music, American experimentalism, rock, jazz, and improvised music, to non-western musical sources from Bali, Korea and South Indian classical music (Karnatic), Ha-Yang has collaborated/performed with many diverse musicians such as Cecil Taylor, John Zorn, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Louis Andriessen, and Larry Polansky.

"Erik Friedlander can do things with a cello that should have a reasonable listener fearing for her life… Rostropovich one second and Rottweiler the next." (Pitchfork).  Cellist and composer Erik Friedlander will perform works from his always changing solo repertoire, focusing on the music from two solo cello CD's: Block Ice & Propane - inspired by American roots music and Friedlander's own history as a young guitar player, the album's thirteen tracks feature a kind of back porch pizzicato and rich evocative bowed landscapes; and Volac ten rich and romantic compositions from Zorn’s challenging Book of Angels.

Jane Rigler (flutist, improviser, composer, educator, producer) is known for her innovations in new flute performance, techniques and musical vocabulary. Jane’s compositions cover the gamut of simple solo acoustic pieces inspired by language, to complex interactive electronic works that pay homage to painting, poetry and dance.  An active featured performer in contemporary music festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe, Rigler presents “To Painting (a la pintura)” (2006-07) – a composition for flute, piano, cello, electronics and dance. 

Floriculture, led by composer/pianist Carl Maguire with Stephanie
Griffin, Oscar Noriega, John Hebert and Dan Weiss, has developed a kaleidoscopic and tactile sound in Maguire's rhythmically sensuous music. All About Jazz says, "the composed sections appear, then blend into the improvisations, which then mutate back into composition. No sharp lines demarcate anything, and 'Denizen Green' is a major statement of compositional technique and improvisational ability. The band shows itself to be an organic unit that evolves with the music. Each piece gives no hint where it is going to go, creating a palpable tension as the [music] proceeds, since the sense of compositional unity created by the theme keeps building, while at that same time
that same feeling is being pulled apart by the improvisation of the
players." Tonight the band premieres new music.