BIO

Winner of the 2015 CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, Either/Or is a flexible chamber ensemble based in New York City that presents a repertoire of new and recent chamber music informed equally by American Experimentalism and European avant-garde practice, with special emphasis on artists outside the institutional mainstream and on works exploring nontraditional ensemble formations.  Director Richard Carrick and guest curator Christopher McIntyre draw on a broader collective of 17 regular soloists (and guests) to realize the unique requirements of each project.  Since its founding in 2004, Either/Or has premiered more than 125 works (as well as dozens of student compositions), toured throughout the US and Sweden, and recorded for labels such as New Focus, New World Records, Starkland, and Sterling Classics.

EO performing Joanna Ward’s A London plane tree hid me from the sun (2022), NOv. 2023 - Photo by Inga Chinilina

UPCOMING CONCERTS

Featured
Transpositions: Music by Anthony Braxton, Mendi + Keith Obadike
Dec 8
Transpositions: Music by Anthony Braxton, Mendi + Keith Obadike

Either/Or presents an evening of works that situate the players and their audience in a compelling dialogic relationship between notation and improvisation, featuring Anthony Braxton's pivotal and rarely heard Composition No.98 (1981) for quartet and selections from Mendi + Keith Obdike's graphic score collection Big House/Disclosure (2007).

Either/OR performs Talib Rasul Hakim's Profiles on November 23, 2021 at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York.

Either/OR premieres Richard Carrick’s The Atlas for extended piano and string quartet at the DiMenna Center on Sep 20, 2023.

Either/ OR plays (a)long lines: we'll draw our own lines (2004/rev. 2017) by Chiyoko Szlavnics on November 2, 2022 at the Tenri Cultural Institute.

Either/OR performs Talib Rasul Hakim's Profiles on November 23, 2021 at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York.