Recent Events:

9/14-17/11: ICE presents the music of James Dillon

red fish blue fish joins the International Contemporary Ensemble and others in a festival featuring the music of Scottish composer James Dillon at the Miller Theatre.  More information here.

9/20-24/11: Speaking Of and After Cage tour with Allen Otte (featuring a performance at The Stone, NYC)

 

Bonnie once again joins percussionist Allen Otte in their program Speaking of and After Cage: mainly music for speaking percussionist. It's a continuous program featuring unique realizations of works by John Cage as well as music by Corey Dargel, Ferderic Rzewski, and themselves. 

 

1/17/12: LA Phil's Green Umbrella Series

Percussion group red fish blue fish joins Bang on a Can in a program of music by Steve Reich, featuring the composer's epic Music for 18 Musicians. 8 pm. More info here.

8/5-15/11: Stockhausen Courses

6/10/2011: Ojai Music Festival

5/16/2011: Rochester Knocking

8 pm, California State University, San Marcos

Bonnie and members of red fish blue fish collaborate with visual artist Monica Duncan. Rochester Knocking is a multi-media instrumental-theater work. Project Description: The middle class home at the turn of the century includes numerous technological devices with which Americans developed strange relationships. As if trying to coax the phantom phenomenal specter from the mechanisms, surfaces, and wirings of the parlor piano, the living room radio, Kodak Brownie cameras, door hinges, and table tops, 19th/20th century American lifestyle cultivated a repertoire of gestures and sounds that transcend pure object-hood. Via psychoanalytic experiments with hysterics, human radio antennae, and vibration therapy, Rochester Knocking conjures the spirit of the silent film star, Louise Brooks, in order to lead a vaudevillian tour of real and imagined historical homes. More information here

5/6/2011:                             the UCSD/Stanford connection

Bonnie and other UCSD musicians perform works by Stanford composers Juan Cristobal Cerrillo, Bruno Ruivaro, and Erik Ulman. Features special guest Andrew McIntosh on viola. UCSD's CPMC Recital Hall. 6:30 pm. Free.

2/16-20/2011: Tune-in Music Festival: Park Avenue Armory, New York

Percussion group red fish blue fish joins new music ensemble eighth blackbird in four days of concerts featuring the music of John Luther Adams, Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, and John Cage. More info here.

1/9/2011: DMA recital no. 2

Bonnie plays mainly music of Stockhausen, plus a world premiere by Carolyn Chen and works by Globokar and Lockwood. 8 pm, UCSD Experimental Theater. Free. More information here.

11/18: red fish blue fish percussion group

8 pm, UCSD's Conrad Prebys Music Center. Book IV from Crumb's American Songbook with Aleck Karis and Susan Narucki. More information here.

11/10: PASIC 2010, Indianapolis, IN

Bonnie performs Rzewski's To the Earth at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Indianapolis, IN. She joins So Percussion, the Meehan/Perkins Duo, and She-e Wu in an evening concert (8 pm) exploring the ecology of percussion

11/9/2010 University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. 

Bonnie returns to CCM to perform her realization of  Cage's 51'15.657" for a speaking percussionist. Post-concert lecture to follow. 6 pm, Watson Recital Hall, free.  More information here

11/7/2010 Oberlin Conservatory

Bonnie comes back to Oberlin to perform and talk about her new realization of Cage's 51'15.657" for a speaking percussionist. 8 pm, room 25 in the conservatory, free! More information here.

10/16: The Wulf in LA                   with Danny Holt

Bonnie joins longtime friend and collaborator pianist Danny Holt, violinist Andrew McIntosh, and soprano Stephanie Aston in an evening of music by John Cage. The second half of the program features Bonnie's new realization of Cage's 51'15.657" for a speaking percussionist. 8 pm. Free, donations accepted. More information and directions here.

10/1-2: Seattle Percussion Collective 

Bonnie heads back up to Seattle to play with the Seattle Percussion Collective. Friday the 1st is an all-Cage program, featuring Bonnie's realization of 51'15/657" for a speaking percussionist at Gallery 1412 in Capitol Hill. On Saturday the 2nd,  under the umbrella of the Wayward Music Series, the group puts on a show in the Chapel in Wallingford with works by Globokar, Stockhausen, Peter Garland, and Mark Applebaum. Both shows are at 8 pm, with a sliding-scale donation at the door.

9/23: Palomar College Performing Arts Series

(San Marcos, CA)

Bonnie performs her realization of Cage's 51'15.567" for a speaking percussionist. 12:30. Free and open to the public. 

9/5-14: New Zealand 

Bonnie and percussionist Allen Otte (of Percussion Group Cincinnati) present 

Speaking Of and After Cage

Mainly music for vocalizing percussionists by John Cage, with Frederic Rzewski and New Zealanders Annea Lockwood and Gao Ping.

9/5: Wellington Day of Percussion, Wellington

hosted by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the New Zealand School of music. 2:15-4 pm: New Zealand School of Music.

9/6: Workshop for Composers: New Zealand School of Music

9/6: Frederick Street Sound and Light Exploration Society, Wellington

7:30 pm. Experimental vocalist Chris Tonelli opens. More information here.

9/7: Whitirea Polytechnic, Wellington. 11:30 am, concert and talk. More information here.

9/8: University of Waikato, Hamilton

Lunchtime recital series (1 pm.) Workshop to follow. More information here.

9/13-14: University of Canterbury School of Music, Christ Church

Monday at 1 pm: Workshop for composers

Tuesday at noon: performance.

More information  here. CHCH CONCERT CANCELED DUE TO EARTHQUAKE

7/13-8/15 2010: CCM Spoleto 

Bonnie travels to Spoleto, Italy for a month to perform orchestral and chamber music. For a complete performance schedule and more information, look here.

6/3/2010: 51'15.657" for a speaking percussionist

Bonnie presents the official premiere of  her solo simultaneous realization of a combination of all of John Cage's 45' for a speaker and his 27'10.554" for a percussionist. 7 pm, in the recital hall (room 126) in UCSD's Conrad Prebys Music Center. 

5/30/2010 6 pm

Come see an informal preview performance of Bonnie's  new realization of  Cage's percussion/speaking music: 51'15.657" for a speaking percussionist. Bassist Scott Worthington opens at 7, playing music by Lucier.  Free, plenty of food and beer.  

Doors at 6.

Scott Worthington at 7

Cage at 7:21.616

345 15th St. San Diego 92101

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From the 5 south, take the Imperial Ave exit and your first right, right, left and right and you're here.  Plenty of on-street parking.  The front door is next to the large potted cacti.

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UCSD improv ensemble 5/29,  12:30 pm

The UCSD improv ensemble travels to the Pacific Beach Library. Free. More info. here.

4275 Cass Street, San Diego, CA 92109

UCSD improv ensemble 5/19/2010, 8 pm

Bonnie joins a group of improvisers  at UCSD headed up by bassist Mark Dresser. Expect a diverse offering of free and free-ish improv, soundpainting, potlids, spatialization, etc. CPMC concert hall, free.

5/7/2010 8 pm

red fish blue fish and Greg Stuart perform music by Michael Piasaro, including the world premiere of his 45-minute work for 16 percussionists Hearing Metal III. Sushi Center for the Arts, Downtown San Diego. $10. 

5/11/2010: red fish blue fish

UCSD's resident percussion ensemble plays music by Mark Applebaum, Lewis Nielson, and Luigi Nono. 8 pm, CPMC concert hall. More information here

4/28/2010: Palimpsest plays Varese, et cetera

UCSD's new music ensemble Palimpsest plays music by Edgard Varese as well as companion pieces by faculty and student composers. 7 pm, Conrad Presbys Concert Hall. More information here.

1/22/2010: Mark Applebaum: Metaphysics of Notation

Bonnie presents a new realization of Mark Applebaum's Metaphysics of Notation. For this year-long installation, Applebaum has invited various musicians to respond to his fabulously intricate graphic score, on display at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Noon-1 pm. Free. More information here.

1/22/2010: New music by UCSD composers

Bonnie, bassist Scott Worthington, and soprano Tiffany DuMouchelle premiere a new work by Yvonne Wu.  This concert features a total of seven new works by UCSD composers. 8 pm, Conrad Presbys Music Center concert hall. Free.

1/13/2010: ICE and red fish blue fish play Xenakis

The percussion group red fish blue fish opens up for the International Contemporary Ensemble, playing Xenakis' rarely-heard Zythos. 7 pm, Conrad Presbys Concert Hall, at UCSD. More information here.

10/7/2009: Red Fish Blue Fish at UC San Diego

Bonnie performs as a member of UCSD's resident percussion ensemble, Red Fish Blue Fish headed up by Steve Schick. This concert, in the newly-opened Conrad Presbys Concert Hall, features music by Reich, Bartok, Barraque, and Lang. 7 pm, $10 general/$5 students/free with UCSD id. More information here.

8/22-9/10/09: Lucerne Festival Academy: Lucerne, Switzerland

Bonnie collaborates with Pierre Boulez, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and teachers from IRCAM as a part of the Lucerne Festival Academy.  Concerts include music by Saariaho, Boulez, Widmann, Debussy, and others. More information here.

8/14/2009: Wayward Music presents: The Seattle Percussion Collective/Bonnie Whiting Smith, 8 pm

Bonnie returns to the Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood, this time with The Seattle Percussion Collective. More information here: www.waywardmusic.blogspot.com  

 7/23/2009:

                               Oberlin Percussion Institute, Oberlin, OH, 8 pm

 Bonnie gives a solo recital featuring text pieces by Cage, Rzewski, Kitzke, Globokar and others at 8 pm at the Oberlin Conservatory. She'll also present a companion masterclass on Friday the 24th at 9 am. This concert is part of a week-long series of events taking place at the Oberlin Percussion Institute. More information here: http://www.oberlin.edu/con/

 6/26-29/09: Altamont, NY

Asterisk performs and gives workshops at the Old Songs Festival of Traditional Music and Dance. Complete schedule TBA. More information at www.oldsongs.org. 

6/13-23/09: Banff Centre for the Arts, AB, Canada

Bonnie performs and studies at the Roots and Rhizomes Summer Percussion Residency headed up by Steve Schick at the Banff Centre. Highlights include performances of music by Reich and Xenakis as well as world premiers by John Luther Adams and Mark Applebaum.

5/29/09: University of Washington, 7 pm

Bonnie performs Jeremy Jolley's new quartet, Essai, for percussion, flute (Clifford Dunn), viola (Brianna Atwell), and guitar during an evening of works by University of Washington composers. In the UW music building's Brechemin Auditorium. $5 at the door. More information here.

5/15/09: new music grab bag            Gallery 1412, Seattle, WA 8 pm

Bonnie presents an evening of various and sundry music, featuring new works by Seattle composers, original realizations of older music, and free(ish) improv. 

Music by:

3/26-29/09 Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle

Cornish presents a four day festival celebrating the percussion music of John Cage, Lou Harrison, and their mentor Henry Cowell. Bonnie joins the Pacific Rims Percussion Quartet in Harrison's Suite and Cage's Imaginary Landscape no. 2. For festival schedule, ticketing, and directions, look here.

3/6/09: Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis, IN, noon

Bonnie performs with the organist David Sinden at  Christ Church Cathedral in Monument Circle as part of their Lenten recital series. The program includes Cage's introspective In a Landscape, Rzewski's To the Earth and features new music by James Welsch for vibraphone and organ.

2/27/09: MoMus ensemble, Cincinnati, OH 8 pm 

Bonnie joins CCM's new music ensemble in works by Morton Feldman (Rothko Chapel), Tan Dun (Circle with four trios, conductor, and audience) and Robert Maggio (Barcarole). In the Studio Theater. Free. More information here.

2/28/09: Creativa in Fairfield, OH, 7:30

Bonnie and poet Keith Wahle present a new collaboration, featuring Keith's collection of five-word poems, a typewriter, and assorted percussion instruments.  Donations accepted. More info. here.

 2/11/2009: Master's Recital, Cincinnati, OH 6:45pm

 Bonnie plays percussion music in exchange for a fancy piece of paper from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music!  Music by Rzewski, Kitzke, Almada, Whiting Smith, and others.  At CCM's studio theater; free.

 1/31/09: Creativa in Fairfield, OH, 7:30

Bonnie performs Rzewski's To the Earth, Neil Parsons (of Asterisk) performs his new choreographed version of Bernstein's Elegy for Mippie II, and other people do other things in a creative free for all. At Tanze Performing Arts Space in Fairfield. Free.  More here.

12/10/08: Jack Straw Productions presents the music of Richard Johnson, 7:30 pm

Composer/instrument-builder Richard Johnson showcases some of his music and experimental instruments. As part of the evening, Bonnie performs Johnson's new percussion solo Fragile Cosmology. At Jack Straw Productions: 4621 Roosevely Way NE, Seattle. Free