Either/Or travels to Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. EO will reprise its Fall 2025 performance of artist Stephen Prina's String Quartet for Six Players (1976) during the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery’s exhibit Mozart's Chair.
Photo: Maria Baranova. Digital Image © 2025 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
On November 16, Either/Or returns to MISE-EN_PLACE in Harlem to present a set of works that create singular sound worlds by various means, from live-electronics and altered field recordings to natural tuning systems and group improvisation. Composers include Chiyoko Szlavnics, George Lewis, Chris McIntyre, and Luc Ferrari.
On December 18 in historic Speyer Hall at University Settlement, Either/Or debuts EO Improv Orchestra (EOIO), an on-going project intended to grow EO’s creative capabilities as a group by grappling with historical, contemporary, and future approaches to framing improvisation.
Image: Excerpt from Zeena Parkins’ Lace Piece, Movement II/Action Cards (2010)
EO marks Morton Feldman's centenary with two special works, Instruments 1 (1974) and Bass Clarinet and Percussion (1981), as well as Victoria Cheah’s It has only shelves (2024), written for EO, and Christian Wolff’s tribute to Feldman, For Morty (1987).
Richard Carrick’s The Path
Stephen Prina at MoMA - EO collaborates with International Contemporary Ens. performing “The Way He Always Wanted It II, Movement 4” (2008) and the world premiere of “A Lick and a Promise” (2025) (photo by D. Grubbs)
Stephen Prina at MoMA - EO collaborates with International Contemporary Ens. performing “The Way He Always Wanted It II, Movement 4” (2008) and the world premiere of “A Lick and a Promise” (2025) (photo by D. Grubbs)
Stephen Prina at MoMA - EO plays "String Quartet for 6 Players" during the performance survey “A Lick and a Promise.” (image from Prina’s "String Quartet for Six Players, No. 7, 6, 2, 1" (1976 –2023); Acrylic, ink, and graphite on polyester drafting film)
Stephen Prina at MoMA - EO plays "String Quartet for 6 Players" during the performance survey “A Lick and a Promise.” (image from Prina’s "String Quartet for Six Players, No. 7, 6, 2, 1" (1976 –2023); Acrylic, ink, and graphite on polyester drafting film)
Stephen Prina at MoMA - EO plays “Concerto for Modern, Movie, and Pop Music for 10 Instruments and Voice” (2010) during the survey “A Lick and a Promise.” (photo by D. Grubbs)
Stephen Prina at MoMA - EO plays “Concerto for Modern, Movie, and Pop Music for 10 Instruments and Voice” (2010) during the survey “A Lick and a Promise.” (photo by D. Grubbs)
On June 3rd, Either/Or performs a rich program of solo and spontaneous ensemble works by Barbara Benary, Adrian Knight, John King, and Leroy Jenkins in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
Bowerbird and FringeArts of Philadelphia present Pure Lucia – Night 2: Duende Otherness, a program of compositions by legendary Polish-American New York composer Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925 – 2000). Either/Or performs her 1965 work Lords Of Persia, a score created for the Erick Hawkins Dance Co.
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 returns to the Miller Theatre for the NYC premiere of Richard Carrick's L'Algérie, for extended piano, violin, cello, and oud, first premiered in Boston in February 2024.
A an exciting concert presented by The Stone as part of Jennifer Choi’s residency, the evening will feature Jennifer Choi (violin), EO Director Richard Carrick (extended piano), John Popham (cello), Bahar Badieitabar (oud) and Rafael Herida (drums).
Either/Or and International Contemporary Ensemble collaborate on a program of works by Society of Black Composers co-founder Tālib Rāsúl Hākím at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Post concert panel featuring three MacArthur Fellows, composers Courtney Bryan, Tyshawn Sorey, and George Lewis, with Harald Kisiedu (Co-Editor of Composing While Black) and Either/Or’s Richard Carrick and Chris McIntyre.
On Tuesday, February 20th at Berklee College of Music Either/Or will premiere Richard Carrick’s latest piece, L'Algérie, for extended piano, violin, cello, and oud, at Berklee's David Friend Recital Hall.
EO presents two long form works featuring the world premiere of a newly commissioned piece by Victoria Cheah and a realization (by Anton Lukoszevieze) of Henning Christiansen's classic Fluxus 1973 work "Requiem of Art (fluxorum organum II) Opus 50".
On November 15th, Either/Or returns to University Settlement’s Speyer Hall with an expansive program of works by composers Hannah Kendall, Jō Kondō, Inga Chinilina. Kaija Saariaho, Leroy Jenkins, and Joanna Ward.
Either/Or presents the rescheduled NYC premiere of Director Richard’s Carrick’s "The Atlas" for Extended Piano and String Quartet at the DiMenna Center's Benzaquen Hall on Sep 20th at 8pm.
Either/Or Ensemble (EO) presents Perspectives and Disclosures, an evening of solo, duo, and ensemble music assembled by EO Curator and trombonist Chris McIntyre athistoric Speyer Hall at University Settlement House in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Works by Toshi Ichiyangi, Paula Matthusen, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Mendi+Keith Obadike, Diderik Wagenaar, and Joanna Ward (whose I AM HOPING I DON'T MISS YOU (2020) is excerpted above.)
The Atlas is an hour long concert work composed by EO Director Richard Carrick that is the result of a musical investigation influenced by the process of creating an atlas. Scored for string quartet and piano and featuring significant inside the piano techniques, it shows the composer’s own set of varied experience performing avant-garde, experimental, and improvised musics.
Either/Or joins the fray during Infrequent Seams’ Streamfest 2022 at Roulette, presenting works by Jō Kondō, Talib Rasul Hakim, James Díaz, and Katherine Young
EO dives deep into the singular sound world of Canadian-born, Berlin-based composer Chiyoko Szlavnics within the intimate acoustic at Tenri Cultural Institute.
