Composition Residency
Rebekah takes a moment to breathe and work on compositions for her next album.
Rebekah takes a moment to breathe and work on compositions for her next album.
Rebekah Plays a solo show at the incredible Japanese new music Festival - The Kanazawa International Experimental Music Festival.
She’ll premiere pieces by Tam Pham, Lukas Ligeti, and MASUDA Kenta, along with performing her arrangement of Eastman’s The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc and two of her own compositions.
She’ll be playing a few improvised shows with festival collaborators as well.
Link + More info coming soon
Rebekah is thrilled to perform a program of new music for bassoon choir by composers from the African Diaspora, on the iconic Pop-Up series by Miller Theatre at Columbia University
PROGRAM
Brittany J. Green
Righteous Rage (2024) for solo bassoon and seven pre-recorded bassoons
world premiere
commissioned by Rebekah Heller
Jessie Cox
Sonic Cartographies (2021) for solo bassoon and six pre-recorded bassoons
commissioned by Rebekah Heller
Fay Victor
Nurture (for Ingram) (2024) for solo bassoon and seven pre-recorded bassoons, world premiere (solo version)
commissioned by Rebekah Heller
Joy Guidry
How Hot is the Sand at 6pm? (2020) for voice and bassoon, with pre-recorded bassoons
commissioned by Rebekah Heller
Julius Eastman (arr. Rebekah Heller)
The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc (1981/2024), for solo bassoon and nine pre-recorded bassoons
Rebekah curates and conducts the Oberlin Sinfonietta and the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble in their final May concerts.
Rebekah is thrilled to make her conducting debut at the world-renowned Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.
More details and links coming soon.
Photo by Cherylynn Tsushima for Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Rebekah is thrilled to make her conducting debut at the iconic NYC new music festival, TIME:SPANS.
More info and links coming soon
Photo by Cherylynn Tsushima for Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Rebekah Conducts International Contemporary Ensemble in Paris, at the iconic Reid Hall.
More info coming soon.
Rebekah conducts and performs with International Contemporary Ensemble in two programs during their Berlin Residency at the Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt
November 8
Composing While Black, Berlin Edition
November 10
An evening with Com Chor Berlin
Free improv show with Fay Victor - voice, Sofia Borges - drums, Achim Kaufman - piano + Toby Delius - clarinet and tenor saxophone
Rebekah conducts International Contemporary Ensemble in two concerts during their Peabody University Residency.
September 25
The Future is Now II
An evening of student Compostions
September 26
Composing While Black
Rebekah conducts International Contemporary Ensemble for 2023 MacArthur Fellow Courtney Bryan’s Miller Theatre Composer Portrait
Photo by Rob Davidson for Miller Theatre
Rebekah performs in a new ICE commission of experimental artist Earl Howard
Info / ticket link forthcoming
Three Short Duos for Bassoon:
Bassoon/Bass Guitar
Bassoon/Voice
Bassoon/Bassoon
Concert includes a Talkback with the artists:
Rebekah Heller + Maribel Alonso (bassoons), Jochem van Dijk (bass guitarist), Fay Victor (composer, voice)
Rebekah joins vocalist and longtime duo partner Fay Victor and saxophonist and composer Matana Roberts for Matana’s Stone Residency.
One night only
August 1, 8:30
$20 at the door
Rebekah is joined by 10 of the world’s most impressive bassoonists for a one-night only, once-in-a-lifetime event.
Experience the magic of 10 LIVE BASSOONS playing new sounds by incredible composers.
TICKETS
On June 8, at the Fridman Gallery, the HELLER BASSOON ENSEMBLE will present the WORLD PREMIERES of::
Grand Street Counterpoint, by Steve Reich, arranged for bassoons by Rebekah Heller
The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc, by Julius Eastman, arranged for bassoons by Rebekah Heller, and featuring vocalist Damian Norfleet singing the haunting Prelude
Nurture (for Ingram), for 8 bassoons, by Fay Victor (who will be in attendance)
PERFORMERS:
Maribel Alonso
Trey Coudret
Alexander Davis
Ryan Ghassemi
Joy Guidry
Stephanie Patterson
Sara Schoenbeck
Jamael Smith
Joseph Swift
Francisca Wright
CONDUCTOR:
Lester St. Louis
GUEST VOCALIST:
Damian Norfleet
TICKETS
FREE SHOW!!!!!!!!!
Rebekah plays the US premiere of Grand Street Counterpoint, her collaboration with legendary composer Steve Reich, and the World Premiere of Heller’s bassoon arrangement of Julius Eastman’s The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc, for solo bassoon and 9 pre-recorded bassoons.
Performance date: 5:30pm, May 4th; BRIC arts
Featuring 50+ concerts , Long Play also showcases a dense network of inventive music venues in Brooklyn – with performances at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Roulette, Public Records, BRIC, Murmrr, Irondale Center for the Arts, The Center for Fiction, plus outdoor events and more. A limited number of 3-day Early Bird Festival and Supporter Passes are on sale now!
More info Here
Rebekah joins ICE colleagues Fay Victor, Alice Teyssier, Clara Warnaar and Nathan Davis in an evening of Call for ___ premieres featuring composers Bonita Oliver and Sylvain Souklaye. She also joins Varun Rangaswamy in the performance of a piece for 2 bassoons by Victor.
TICKETS COMING SOON
More info Here
The International Contemporary Ensemble returns to NYU Skirball with a program of works by composer/pianist Anthony Davis and composer/vocalist Leila Adu-Gilmore. The evening will feature Adu-Gilmore’s Mahakala Oratorio (2020-23, world premiere of the live version) and Alyssum (2014); and Davis’s Wayang No. II (Shadowdance) (1982), Clonetics (1983), and a special solo performance by Davis. Drawing on an ultra-cosmopolitan range of musical and cultural sources, Leila Adu-Gilmore and Anthony Davis exemplify some of the many ways in which Afrodiasporic new music becomes revealed as an intercultural, multigenerational space of innovation that offers new subjects, histories, and identities.
More info Here
WEDNESDAY 2/7 - CROSSFADES QUARTET
Isabel Lepanto Gleicher (flutes)
Shara Lunon (vocals and electronics)
Clara Warnaar (percussion and electronics)
Rebekah Heller (bassoon and vocals)
THURSDAY 2/8 - TRIO
Jessie Cox (drums)
Joy Guidry (bassoon)
Rebekah Heller (bassoon)
FRIDAY 2/9 - Victor / Heller DUO
Fay Victor (Voice)
Rebekah Heller (Bassoon)
SATURDAY 2/10 - TRIO
Wendy Eisenberg (guitar)
Brian Chase (drums)
Rebekah Heller (bassoon)
Rebekah makes her International Contemporary Ensemble Conducting DEBUT on a concert featuring the music of George Lewis and members of the AACM at the Part Avenue Armory
Rebekah joins colleagues from International Contemporary Ensemble, the Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra, and Douglas Ewart for a program of both pre-composed and improvised works.
Photo by Jeenah Moon
Rebekah joins International Contemporary Ensemble for this one-of-a-kind experience:
In response to John Cage’s unrealized project, Noh-opera: Or the Complete Musical Works of Marcel Duchamp, which he envisioned to premiere in Japan, Tomomi Adachi seamlessly integrates the alluring aspects of opera and noh, using AI to compose music and lyrics from koan—short Zen Buddhist riddles.
Rebekah performs with International Contemporary Ensemble for a program featuring composers from the African Diaspora, curated by George Lewis.
Featuring works by Courtney Bryan, Brittany J Green, and more.
Rebekah premieres new compositions and improvisations for solo bassoon.
She also plays a set with International Contemporary Ensemble colleagues Joshua Rubin and Fay Victor.
More info and ticket link forthcoming
photo by Tarishi Gupta
Fay Victor and Rebekah Heller perform at the Mutual Mentorship for Musicians Festival at Roulette! Performing compositions by both Victor and Heller, their thrilling collaboration heavily features free improvisations.
Rebekah performs works by Joy Guidry, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi and herself, and teaches a guest artist class at UNAM Mexico City’s first Bassoon Festival.
Hosted by frequent collaborator, Bassoonist Maribel Alonso
Rebekah performs with International Contemporary Ensemble. Works by Wadada Leo Smith, Andile Khumalo and more.
Rebekah performs Grand Street Counterpoint, a new piece by Steve Reich for Solo Bassoon and 10 pre-recorded bassoons at the International Double Reed Society Convention in Bangkok.
Rebekah presents the World Premiere of Grand Street Counterpoint by Steve Reich at the Born Creative Festival in Tokyo.
She’ll also be performing solo works by:
Joy Guidry
Jessie Cox
Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
Nathan Davis
More info:
https://www.borncreativefestival.com/bassoon
Rebekah joins colleague Fay Victor as Co-Director of this Summer’s Ensemble Evolution - a program by The International Contemporary Ensemble in Partnership with The New School’s College of Performing Arts.
Public concerts on June 26 and 29
More info at https://iceorg.org/ensemble-evolution
Rebekah returns to The New World Symphony for a week of coaching and performances in Miami Beach, Florida
Rebekah joins 4 International Contemporary colleagues, composer and performer Tyshawn Sorey and vocalist Juila Bullock in this intimate and moving work about the artistry and activism of Josephine Baker. Directed by Peter Sellers.
Opera Forward Festival, Amsterdam
Rebekah joins International Contemporary ensemble in a deep dive of longtime collaborator and Rome Prize Winner Suzanne Farrin’s work
https://iceorg.org/events/2023/2/2/composer-portrait-suzanne-farrin
Come party with me as we celebrate the beautiful and wild 20 year history of the International Contemporary Ensemble!!
Rebekah joins Mexico City based Bassoonist and Improvisor Maribel Alonso for an exciting duo show