BlackBox Ensemble at the Noguchi Museum. Photo by Don Stahl.
Spring 2026
February 21, 2026 | BlackBox Ensemble | Composers Now Festival
Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, Brooklyn, NY
leana PÉREZ-VELAZQUEZ Columnas de Luz
Urusla MAMLOK Die Laterne
Nathalie JOACHIM I’m Right Here
Tania LEON In the Field
Douglas BOYCE Ovid in Tomis
March 9, 2026 | NEC Opera
Boston, MA
PUCCINI Gianni Schicchi
March 18, 2026 | BlackBox Ensemble | Williams College
Williamstown, MA
April 9, 2026 | BlackBox Ensemble | Eastern Carolina University
Greenville, NC
April 19, 2026 | BlackBox Ensemble | University of Richmond
Modlin Center for the Arts, Richmond, VA
Peni Candra RINI New Work
April 25, 2026 | BlackBox Ensemble
DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY
Andile KHUMALO Shades of Words
Elliot CARTER A Mirror on Which to Dwell
Paul NOVAK when i was nine/a diagnosis
Unsuk CHIN Akrostichon-Wortspiel
May 23, 2026 | BlackBox Ensemble | MATA Festival
DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY
Morton FELDMAN For Frank O’Hara
Morton FELDMAN I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg
Past highlights
January 8, 2026 | BlackBox Ensemble | Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art
Washington, D.C.
Anthony CHEUNG Clocks for Seeing
Misato MOCHIZUKI Suikinkutsu
Tania LEON In the Field
Baldwin GIANG Pipa Boy: Three Scenes from the Post-Diaspora
December 6, 2025 | BlackBox Ensemble | Bowerbird Concerts
University Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, PA
Annie NIKUNEN All Mass is Interaction
Ileana PEREZ VELAZQUEZ Columnas de Luz
Baldwin GIANG butterfly, posthumously
Nathalie JOACHIM I’m Right Here
James DIAZ mil cuartos blancos en linea recta
December 5, 2025 | BlackBox Ensemble | National Sawdust
Brooklyn, NY
Anthony CHEUNG Clocks for Seeing
Misato MOCHIZUKI Suikinkutsu
Baldwin GIANG butterfly, posthumously
Baldwin GIANG Pipa Boy: Three Scenes from the Post-Diaspora (U.S. Premiere)
September 27-28, 2025 | Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
Steinmetz Concert Hall, Orlando, FL
Assistant to Eric Jacobsen
ROSSINI William Tell Overture
GRIEG Piano Concert
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5
July 11-12, 2025 | BlackBox Ensemble | PS21 Center for Contemporary Performance
Chatham, NY
EASTMAN Femenine
with Kyle Marshall Choreography
May 11, 2025 | BlackBox Ensemble | Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
Speculative Listening: The Sonic World of Julius Eastman
Co-curated by Isaac Jean-François
Hildegard von BINGEN quia ergo femina
GRISEY Périodes
EASTMAN Buddha
EASTMAN Macle
Barbara KOLB Three Place Settings
EASTMAN Joy Boy
May 3, 2025 | BlackBox Ensemble | Bang on a Can LONG PLAY Festival
The Space at Irondale, Brooklyn, NY
Speculative Listening: The Sonic World of Julius Eastman
Co-curated by Isaac Jean-François
Hildegard von BINGEN quia ergo femina
GRISEY Périodes
EASTMAN Buddha
Barbara KOLB Three Place Settings
EASTMAN Joy Boy
April 17, 2025 | Divertimento Ensemble
Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT
BERIO Naturale per viola, percussione e voce registrata
Francesco FIORENZANI From the Absence
Eric MAESTRI I asked Pennati what he has thought of Koh Tao (world premiere)
Ivan FEDELE Mixtim
March 5-7, 2025 | Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, IT
Research-led Performance: Music for Ensemble Around Pierre Boulez Workshop
BOULEZ Mémoriale
VARÉSE Octandre
WEBERN Symphony op. 21
Niccolò CASTIGLIONE Tropi
January 18, 2025 | BlackBox Ensemble | University of Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition
Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
October 19, 2024 | BlackBox Ensemble | Timucua Arts Foundation
Orlando, FL
Jessie COX Quantify
Brittany J. GREEN Shift.Unravel.BREAK
George LEWIS Arcades
James DIAZ mil cuartos blancos en linea recta
October 4, 2024 | BlackBox Ensemble | University of South Carolina Southern Exposure Series
Columbia, SC
May 24, 2024 | BlackBox Ensemble | Foundation des Etas-Unis
Paris, FR
Film premiere: The Sound of Space Between Us
Annie Nikunen & Joelle Santiago, Choreographers
Peter Cheng, Liana Zhen-ai Kleinman, and Annie Nikunen, Dancers
Kevin Chui, Cinematography
Featuring works by Seth Cluett, Morton Feldman, Dai Fujikura, Annie Nikunen, and inti figgis-vizueta
February 14, 2024 | Divertimento Ensemble
Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT
David Antúnez RODRÍGUEZ Son mis voces cantando para que no canten ellos
Antonio LA SPINA Efemeride II
Beat FURRER Cold and calm and moving
Enno POPPE Schrank
February 7-8, 2024 | BlackBox Ensemble | Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art
Washington, D.C.
BlackBox performs a two-concert series at the Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art including a reprise performance of Borrowed Landscape by tauchgold and Dai Fujikura.
February 7
Angelica NEGRÓN Espacios, objectos, sonidos y tiempo
Tristan MURAIL Paludes
Baldwin GIANG butterfly, posthumously
George LEWIS Arcades
February 8
Dai FUJIKUA Being As One
TAUCHGOLD/FUJIKURA Borrowed Landscape
January 20-21 2024 | BlackBox Ensemble 5th Anniverary Festival
Brooklyn, NY
January 20 | ShapeShifter Lab
Paul NOVAK Somatic Interludes
Bobby GE Pupil of Light
Jessica MEYER The dappled light just beyond her skin
Baldwin GIANG butterfly, posthumously
Yaz LANCASTER Gender Envy
After-Hours Concert - chamber works by Brittany J. GREEN, Nina SHEKHAR, SAARIAHO, Lucy McKNIGHT, Paul KEREKES, Yaz LANCASTER, and Tyler NEIDERMAYER
January 21 | Roulette Intermedium
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Ró
Tristan MURAIL Paludes
Angélica NEGRÓN Espacios, objectos, sonidos y tiempo
Seth CLUETT Interference is partial/afterimage
FELDMAN Dance Passage from Piano and String Quartet
Dai FUJIKUA Being As One (w/ choreography by Joelle Santiago)
Annie NIKUNEN The Sound of Space Between Us
With electronic soundscapes by Tyler NEIDERMAYER
November 8, 2023 | BlackBox Ensemble | Noguchi Museum
Queens, NY
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Ró
TAKEMITSU Rain Spell
inti FIGGIS-VIZUETA Form the Fabric
TAUCHGOLD/Dai FUJIKURA Borrowed Landscape (staged premiere)
November 8, 2023 | BlackBox Ensemble | Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
The Sound of Space Between Us: a site-responsive music and dance performance.
Seth CLUETT Interference is partial/afterimage
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Spectra
Dai FUJIKURA Being As One
Annie NIKUNEN The Sound of Space Between Us
inti FIGGIS-VIZUETA Form the Fabric
Meg STUART Choreographic Exercises
Choreography by Annie Nikunen and Joelle Santiago
Annie Nikunen, Peter Cheng, and Liana Zhen-ai Kleinman, Dancers
September 11, 2023 | Divertimento Ensemble
Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT
George BENJAMIN At First Light
LIGETI Piano Concerto
Maria Grazie Bellochio, Piano