2015
October 8-10: Einstein’s Mozart
Performed by Kate with artists of the Manchester Music Festival, Manchester, VT
October 8 and 9:
Four concerts for approximately 1000 students from 15 elementary through high school schools in the Manchester area
October 10:
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester
Featuring Quartet in D Major, K. 575
and Quartet in D Major, K. 465 “Dissonance”
June 20:
Poet’s House, NYC
20th-anniversary celebration of the famed cross-continental poet journal The Dark Horse, founded and edited by Gerry Cambridge.
2013
Einstein’s Mozart
Saturday, April 13, 2013, at 6 PM
Kate with students of the Bard College Conservatory of Music
“Bard at the Landing”
First Presbyterian Church
Hudson, NY
Featuring Quartet in D major, K 575
Scot Moore, violin
Reina Murooka, violin
Rosemary Nelis, viola
Stanley Moore, cello
Quartet in C major, K 465 “Dissonance”
Jiamin Wang, violin
Jiazhi Wang, violin
David Toth, viola
Rylan Gajek-Leonard, cello
www.claveracklanding.org
2012
Once Upon the Wind
(A one-act opera)
Monday June 25th 2012 at 7:00
Composer: Theo Popov
Librettist: Kate Light
Presented in a group of four one-acts.
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY 10025
http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/7188-opera-in-eden
Saturday, June 9
Panel Discussion
With contributors to “Villanelles,” edited by Marie-Elizabeth Mali and Annie Finch, 2012
Conference on Form and Narrative, West Chester University, West Chester, PA
Einstein’s Mozart
Kate with The Madison String Quartet
Sunday, March 25th, 2012 at 4 PM
Featuring Quartet in Bb Major, K. 458, “The Hunt”
Bernardsville Methodist Church
22 Church Street, Bernardsville, NJ
(908) 766-0669
Directions
Poetry Reading
Launch of anthology “The Book of Villanelles,” edited by Marie-Elizabeth Mali and Annie Finch
Everyman Library Press, 2012
Saturday, March 31st, 2012 at 8 PM
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, between Bleecker and Houston
F train to Second Ave, or 6 train to Bleecker
For complete list of readers: http://www.bowerypoetry.com/#Event/111464
(212) 614-0505
Directions
$8 cover
Einstein’s Mozart
Special “Community Concerts at Second” Educational Concert
Kate with Baltimore Symphony musicians Ken Goldstein and James Umber, violins, Peter Minkler, viola, and Seth Low, cello
Monday, April 16, 2012 at 10:30 AM
Featuring Quartet in C Major, K. 465, “The Dissonance” and Quartet in Bb Major, K. 458, “The Hunt”
Second Presbyterian Church, 4200 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, MD
(443) 759-3309
Directions
Free Admission
Students from the Guilford, Waverly and Barclay schools will be attending
The Life and Love of Joe Coogan
November 9 and 19, 2012
Otterbein University Opera Theater
Battelle Fine Arts Center
Westerville, Ohio
Saturday, June 9
Panel Discussion
With contributors to “Villanelles,” edited by Marie-Elizabeth Mali and Annie Finch, 2012
Conference on Form and Narrative, West Chester University, West Chester, PA
Once Upon the Wind
(A one-act opera)
Monday June 25th 2012 at 7:00
Composer: Theo Popov
Librettist: Kate Light
Presented in a group of four one-acts.
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY 10025
http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/7188-opera-in-eden
2011
Gravity’s Dream, for a cappella chorus
Music by Steven Stucky, text by Kate Light
December 8
Eastman Chorale
Eastman School of Music
Gravity’s Dream, for a cappella chorus
Music by Steven Stucky, text by Kate Light
October 1-9
“The Esoterics” Tour
Seattle. Medina, and Tacoma, WA
The Lighter Side: Words of Kate Light
Featuring Music by Masatora Goya
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street , NYC
Presented by SERIAL UNDERGROUND with BLUE HOUR PRODUCTIONS, INC.
World Premiere of After the Season, a song cycle by Light and Goya
Echo and Narcissus from Metamorphoses, a musical-in-progress by Light and Goya
Songs written with Ben Green, New poems
Performed by Sarah Caldwell Smith, Arlo Hill, Kate Light, Nate Festinger, Jeff Marder, Masatora Goya,
and special guests Lauren Worsham and Jimmy Roberts
Einstein’s Mozart
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 3 PM
With the Gabriel Chamber Ensemble and guest violinist Barbara Jaffe
Jerusalem Lutheran Church, 252 Dock Street
Schuykill Haven, PA
$15/$12 seniors; free to children and students
Featuring Mozart’s Quartets K. 387 and K. 590
570-953-2778
http://www.gabrielensemble.org/
Reading
Bach at One series
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 1 PM
Trinity/St. Paul 9/11 Memorial Events
St. Paul’s Chapel Broadway/Fulton Street, NYC
Music includes Bach’s Cantata BWV 131, performed by the Trinity Choir and Orchestra
New York City
Reading with April Lindner, Joshua Mehigan, Tyehimba Jess, and David Yezzi
Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 6-9 PM
Benefit for West Chester University’s Poetry House
La Pomme, 37 West 26th Street
New York City
Bach at One Series, New York City
Monday April 18th, 2011 at 1 PM
A complete Bach Cantata will be performed, with Kate reading her poetry
St. Paul’s Chapel, Broadway and Fulton Street
Free Admission
Maundy Thursday
Thursday April 21, 9 PM to Midnight
Annual Dante’s Inferno Marathon Reading
Featuring Molly Peacock, Marilyn Nelson, and many poets and translators
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Amsterdam/112th
New York City
Reading at Rosemont College
Friday, April 22, 2011 at 6:30 PM
With fiction writer Steve Almond and non-fiction writer Curtis Smith
Bryn Mawr campus, Main Building
2010
Einstein’s Mozart
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 1 PM
With the Madison String Quartet
New York Art Educators (NYAE) Annual Fall Conference
Double Tree Hotel, Somerset, NJ
The Life and Love of Joe Coogan
Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 8 PM and Sunday, September 26, 2010 at 3 PM
Opera in one act, adapted from “The Dick Van Dyke Show”
Libretto by Kate Light Music by Paul Salerni
Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
http://zoellnerartscenter.org
Einstein’s Mozart
Sunday, September 19, 2010, at 3 PM
With the Open Heart String Quartet
St. Peter’s Church
137 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY
Echo and Narcissus from Metamorphoses
Thursday April 8, 2010 at 8 PM
Friday April 9 at 9 PM
Saturday April 10 at 9 PM
Sunday April 11 at 3 PM
Shortened Attention Span Musical Festival
The Players Theater
115 Macdougal Street
NY, NY 10012
Ithaca College Choir 2010 Tour: “Dreams” Program
Including “Gravity’s Dream,” Music by Steven Stucky, Text by Kate Light
Tuesday March 16 at 7:30
Herndon United Methodist Church
Herndon, VA 20170
Wednesday, March 17 at 6:45
John Know Presbyterian Church
Greenville, SC
Thursday, March 18 at 7:30
Piedmont Baptist Church
Marietta, GA 30066
Friday, March 19 at 7:30
Holy Trinity Parrish
Decatur, GA 30030
(404) 377-2622
Saturday, March 20 at 7:30
First Presbyterian Church
617 North Elm Street
Greensboro, NC 27401
Saturday, March 27 at 8:15
Ford Hall, Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY
Einstein’s Mozart
Music School of Delaware
Kate with the Serafin String Quartet
Featuring Quartets K. 387 and K. 458 “The Hunt”
Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 3 PM
Milford Branch, 10 South Walnut Street
Milford, DE 19963
Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 3 PM
Wilmington Branch, 4101 Washington Street
Wilmington, DE 19802
2009
Ithaca College School of Music, Ford Hall
Saturday November 14, 2009
World premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Stucky’s setting of Kate’s poem “Gravity’s Dream,” for a cappella chorus, conducted by Laurence Doebler. Commissioned by Ithaca College for the Ithaca College 31st Annual Choral Festival and premiered at the last concert of the festival.
The piece will be published by Theodore Presser Music.
King Midas section of Metamorphoses
Sunday, November 8, 2009
The Golden Fleece Square One Series
48th Street Studios, NYC
2008
Echo and Narcissus from Metamorphoses
Sunday, November 23, 2008
The Golden Fleece Square One Series
48th Street Studios, NYC
Einstein’s Mozart
February 20, 2008
Colorado College
With the Colorado Chamber Players
Packard Hall, 5 W. Cache La Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, CO
Featuring String Quartet in C Major, K. 465 and Quintet in C Major, K. 515
Reading
February 19, 2008
Colorado College Visiting Writers Series
Colorado Springs, CO
Einstein’s Mozart
February 12, 2008
South Avenue School
With the Albert String Quartet
Abridged for Young Audiences
Beacon, NY
Einstein’s Mozart
January 25, 2008
Alexander Hamilton School
With the Albert String Quartet
Abridged for Young Audiences
Morristown, NJ
Einstein’s Mozart
January 6, 2008
Chamber Music Toledo
With the Zin String Quartet
Maumee Indoor Theatre
601 Conant Street, Maumee, OH
Featuring String Quartets in D minor, K. 421 and F Major, K. 590
2007
Einstein’s Mozart
November 18, 2007
With Kammermusik, directed by Dale Stuckenbruck
Waldorf School, Cambridge Avenue
Garden City, LI
Featuring String Quartets in D minor, K. 421 and F Major, K. 590, “Prussian”
Einstein’s Mozart
November 12, 2007
Vanderbilt University
With the Blair String Quartet
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Featuring String Quartet in G Major, K. 387 and Quintet in G minor, K. 516
Reading
November 13, 2007
Vanderbilt University
Buttrick Hall, Room 101
Nashville, TN
Einstein’s Mozart
September 23, 2007
New York Multi-Arts Centers’ Conference and Retreat
With the Albert String Quartet
Minnowbrook Conference Center
Blue Mountain Lake, NY
Einstein’s Mozart
April 30, 2007
With the Albert String Quartet
South Street Seaport District Cultural Association Gallery & Performance Space
Beekman & Front Streets
New York, NY
Featuring Quartets in Bb Major, K. 458 and C Major, K. 465
Oceanophony
February-March, 2007 (18 performances)
Louisville Orchestra
Louisville, KY
2006
Reading and Public Lecture
November 27, 2006
Musashino Art University
Tokyo, Japan
Reading/Book Launch for Gravity’s Dream: New Poems and Sonnets
September 26, 2006
Nicholas Roerich Museum
319 West 107th Street
New York, NY
Reading
October 15, 2006
New York Times’ Great Read in the Park
Bryant Park (42nd and 6th)
New York, NY
Donald Justice Award Reading for Gravity’s Dream: New Poems and Sonnets
June 7, 2006
West Chester University
Sikes Hall
West Chester, PA
Four Readings and Talks on Writing
April 27-29, 2006
Interlochen Arts Academy
Interlochen, MI
April 28 Talk: “Multiple Hats Disorder”
April 28 Texts and Poems of Oceanophony
April 27 On Songwriting
April 27 Reading with Lindsay Ahl
www.interlochen.org
Einstein’s Mozart Premiere Performances
January 19-24, 2006
With the Colorado Chamber Players
Featuring Quartet in C Major, K. 465 and Quintet in Eb Major, K. 614
January 20, 2006
Longmont Senior Center
910 Longs Peak Ave
Longmont, CO
January 21, 2006
Mizel Arts Center
350 S. Dahlia Street
Denver, CO
January 22, 2006
University Park United Methodist Church
2180 S. University Blvd
Denver, CO
Educational Performances
January 24, 2006: Tennyson Knolls Elementary School, Arvada, CO
January 24: Broomfield High School, Broomfield, CO
January 23: Virginia Court Elementary School, Aurora, CO
January 23: Sunset Ridge Elementary School, Westminster, CO
January 19: Stanley British Primary School, Denver, CO
2005
Oceanophony
July 17, 2005
Chamber Music Northwest
Reed College, Portland, OR
Oceanophony
March 11- April 8, 2005
The Colorado Chamber Players
Denver, Aurora, Broomfield, and Parker, CO
Oceanophony
March 9, 10 and 13, 2005
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Family Concerts
Merkin Hall
New York, NY
Oceanophony
January 26, 2005
North Jersey Philharmonic
Bergen County Academies
Hackensack, NJ
Reading
January 18, 2005
Bowery Poetry Club
With Amy Meckler and Wendy Wisner
New York, NY
2004
Reading
December 18th, 2004
Shakespeare’s Sister
With Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Donna Masini & David Yezzi
270 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY
Reading and Public Lecture
December 2, 2004
Musashino Art University
Tokyo, Japan
Readings and Talks
November 14, 2004
DC International Poetry Festival
2 PM: Texts and Poems of Oceanophony
4:15 PM Panel chaired by Dana Gioia: Poetry at the End of Print Culture
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Ave.
Washington, DC
Oceanophony
October 7, 2004
Arizona Museum for Youth
Mesa, AZ
Reading
June 14, 2004
Manu Restaurant
With Alison Woods
99th and Broadway
New York, NY
Reading
June 7, 2004
Spoleto USA
Dock Street Theater Courtyard
Charleston, South Carolina
Reading
May 29, 2004
With Michael Palma, Christine Potter, and Terese Coe
Bowery Poetry Club
New York, NY
Oceanophony
May 16, 2004
La Jolla Music Society
Sherwood Auditorium, Museum of Contemporary Art,
La Jolla, CA
Oceanophony
May 7 and 11, 2004
Rye- Mamaroneck Elementary and Middle Schools
Mamaroneck, NY
Reading
May 4, 2004
Keuka College
Keuka Park, NY
Oceanophony
May 1, 2004
American Museum of Natural History
Milstein Hall of Ocean Life
New York, NY
Reading
April 26, 2004
Cal State LA
Los Angeles, CA
Oceanophony
April 25, 2004
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Family Concert
Alex Theatre
Glendale, CA
Oceanophony
April 4, 2004
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Family Concerts
Merkin Concert Hall
New York, NY
Reading
April 3, 2004
Ear Inn
With Joe Harrison
326 Spring Street
New York, NY
Reading
March 10, 2004
Cornell University
Balch Hall
Ithaca, NY
2003
Reading
December 8th, 2003
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, CT
Benefit Reading for the Kitengesa Community Library Project in Uganda
September 17, 2003
Hunter College
With Sarah Antine, Marisabel Bonet, Theresa Liu, and Shelagh Patterson
68th and Lexington
New York, NY
Reading
October 6, 2003
Chapters A Literary Bookstore
With Carol Frost
1001 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC
Reading
October 22, 2003
Cafe Makor of the 92nd Street Y
With Wade Newman, Adam Kirsch, Suzanne Noguere, David Yezzi
New York, NY
Reading
October 26, 2003
Rutgers University
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
New Brunswick, NJ
www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu
Reading
November 6th, 2003
The New School
With Zoo Press Poets
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY
Oceanophony (with pre-concert talk)
August 24, 2003
Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival
Tilden Arts Center
West Barnstable, MA
Oceanophony
August 10, 2003
World Premiere: La Jolla SummerFest
Shedd Aquarium
La Jolla, CA
Reading
August 13, 2003
The Cornelia Steet Cafe
With Yasmin Dalisay and Angelo Verga
29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY
Reading
August 23, 2003
Woodstock Poetry Festival
With Paul Muldoon, Nick Flynn, and Sofi & John Hall
Keynote Reading
July 11, 2003
Wordstock Poetry Festival
State College, PA
Reading
May 1, 2003
Hunter College
New York, NY
Reading
April 6, 2003
Barbes
376 9th St.
Brookyn, NY
Book Release Reading and Reception for Open Slowly
April 1, 2003
Nicholas Roerich Museum
New York, NY
Reading, “Celebrate Connecticut Arts Week”
March 26, 2003
Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT
www.fairfield.edu
Reading
March 24, 2003
Northern Westchester Center for the Arts
272 N. Bedford Road
Mount Kisco, NY