The Interpretations Series 34 season continues on Thursday April 11th, 2024 with a split bill featuring the music of composer/performers David Behrman and Ben Neill.A composer and artist,Behrman will present current updates on a project he did together with Ben Neill and his Mutantrumpet in the 1980s and early 90s. The performers will be Neill on Mutantrumpet and John […]

The Interpretations Series 34th season begins on Thursday March 7th, 2024 with a split bill featuring the music of composer/performers Yuko Fujiyama and Reggie Nicholson. Pianist Yuko Fujiyama leads her trio Contemporary East with drummer Lesley Mok and dancer Miki Orihara. The trio will perform original compositions and improvisations with the aesthetics of Eastern expression.  Drummer/percussionist Reggie Nicholson will lead his quintet, the Reggie Nicholson Brass Concept, with Eddie Allen (trumpet), Marshall Sealy (horn), Steve Swell (trombone), and Joe Exley (tuba). The group will perform Nicholson’s original compositions from the […]

The Interpretations Series 33rd season concludes on Thursday April 13th, 2023 with a split bill featuring the music of composers Alexandra Gardner and Johannes Sidenius. Composer Alexandra Gardner will present new and recent works for instruments and electronics, including Juniper for solo shakuhachi, and Ayehli for marimba and electronics, Seduction Involves Patience for viola & soundtrack, Cypress for baritone sax and soundtrack, and Lantana for soprano saxophone and soundtrack. With Elizabeth Brown, shakuhachi, percussionist Jeff Stern, […]

Our Interpretations event with Adam Rudolph and Tyshawn Sorey on February 9th, 2023 has been reviewed in the April issue of The Wire Magazine:

The Interpretations Series continues on Thursday February 9th, 2023 with composer/percussionists Adam Rudolph and Tyshawn Sorey.Continuing a creative association that began in 2018 with a series of percussion duet concerts at The Stone, Rudolph and Sorey will present a two-part collaborative program. The first half will feature a set of duo improvisations utilizing drum kit, […]

SCOTT ROBINSON / WADADA LEO SMITHNOV 3 AT ROULETTE The Interpretations Series continues on Thursday November 3rd, 2022 with split bill featuring the music of multi-instrumentalist/composer Scott Robinson & composer/trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. A respected performer in all areas of jazz,Robinson will present Hypocycloid, a suite of original compositions based on a set of parametric […]

PETR KOTIK 80th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION“MANY MANY WOMEN”SEP 29 AT ROULETTE, 6PM – MIDNIGHT The Interpretations Series opens its 33rd season on Thursday September 29th, 2022 with Petr Kotík’s monumental, six-hour piece Many Many Women (1975–78) performed by members of S.E.M. Ensemble under the composer’s direction. The performance will begin at 6:00PM and conclude at Midnight […]

The Interpretations Series 32nd season concludes on Thursday May 12th, 2022, with new and recent works by composer Tom Hamilton. New York based composer Tom Hamilton will offer new and recent mixed-media works including TH SR, a video work by Mimi Garrard featuring dancer Samuel Roberts with Hamilton’s electronic score; Habitat Paradox, a work for […]

KAREN POWER, STUART SAUNDERS SMITHWITH QUIET MUSIC ENSEMBLE, ISABELLE O’CONNEL AND OTHERSAT ROULETTE THURSDAY APRIL 7, 8PM The Interpretations Series 32nd season continues on Thursday April 7th, 2022, with a split program featuring music by composers Karen Power and Stuart Saunders Smith. Visiting from Ireland, Power will preside over the US premiere of sonic pollinators, a work pairing Irish pollinators with a unique […]

The Interpretations Series 32nd season continues on Thursday March 10th, 2022 with baritone ​Thomas Buckner​ performing his 31st annual concert premiering newly commissioned works. The concert will take place at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students & seniors, available at Roulette.org and Interpretations.info. The program will include three new works by composer/performers, all of whom will also perform:  Particle Bey by Earl Howard ​(synthesizer); Gold/Crack by ​Pauline Kim Harris ​(violin); ​and All Most the Blues by JD Parran ​(woodwinds). […]