Comprised of eight spectacular cellists from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, BoCoCelli presents a concert of exciting new music. Catch the a new piece for cello octet and FM Radio by  Boston Conservatory at Berklee alum Jennifer Bewerse. Directed by Rhonda Rider, musician and professor of Cello, Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

Comprised of eight spectacular cellists from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, BoCoCelli presents a concert of exciting new music. Catch the a new piece for cello octet and FM Radio by  Boston Conservatory at Berklee alum Jennifer Bewerse. Directed by Rhonda Rider, musician and professor of Cello, Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

Comprised of eight spectacular cellists from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, BoCoCelli presents a concert of exciting new music. Catch the a new piece for cello octet and FM Radio by  Boston Conservatory at Berklee alum Jennifer Bewerse. Directed by Rhonda Rider, musician and professor of Cello, Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

Comprised of eight spectacular cellists from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, BoCoCelli presents a concert of exciting new music. Catch the a new piece for cello octet and FM Radio by  Boston Conservatory at Berklee alum Jennifer Bewerse. Directed by Rhonda Rider, musician and professor of Cello, Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

Nat Evans presents a performance of music, spoken text, field recordings, and video projection about death, ecology, climate change, farming, insects and the thread between them all. Joined by Scott Worthington and Jen Bewerse.

An evening of solo pieces composed and performed by Rachel Beetz with a world premiere of Luna for amplified cello performed by Jennifer Bewerse elaborating on the many spheres of artistic influence including those from friends, colleagues, and celestial bodies. Spheres of Influence alludes to political and gravitational influences asking us to reflect on how humans and non-humans inform our creative voices when we appear to work alone.

Experiments in Electronic Sound offers a platform for musicians and artists whose works blur the boundaries between composition, improvisation, and sound art. The festival follows a rich tradition at CalArts for embracing alternative ways of thinking, being, and creating in relation to electronic sound. By presenting a series of concerts, the Herb Alpert School of Music and the Experimental Sound Practices program invites the community to come together and share their work. We are excited to listen, discuss, wonder, and enjoy.

Jennifer will open the final concert of the festival with her composition Things That Beep performed by Eric KM Clark.

Join us for an electrifying concert of new music, featuring premieres from 12 of today's most exciting emerging composers.

From 1965 to 1971, James Tenney composed the Postal Pieces, a collection of scores written on the back of postcards composed for and dedicated to friends. In 2020, Jennifer Bewerse began writing postal pieces inspired by Tenney’s project as a way to create art and keep in touch with friends during the pandemic. Southland Ensemble, Los Angeles’s indispensable proponents of contemporary music, presents a concert of solos from Tenney’s Postal Pieces alongside solos from Bewerse’s postal pieces, including several world premieres.

“Flock” will present a special reconvening of The Readers Chorus, led by Sara Roberts, for the first time in several years. Formed to utter into the world all manners of language as sound, the chorus will perform Black/White Oratorio by Robert Lax & John Beer, entirely composed of names of colors, for Dog Star 20. As with language, Mason Moy begins the evening with bringing together a vocabulary of pitches through his new composition for string trio.