PREVIOUS SHOWS

October 28, 2020

Sarah Hennies Recording Release, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY

8:00 PM, Streamed online, check roulette.org for more info

Bent Duo will perform Sarah Hennies Unsettle along with Bearthoven on a free streamed event to celebrate the release of “Spectral Masconsities” on New World Records, info here


July 2020

Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Duo Workshop, Darmstadt, Germany

Bent Duo was selected as one of four duos to attend the Darmstadt Duo Workshop with Jennifer Walshe and David Helbich to create new work

postponed to July 2021 due to COVID-19


Performance Studies Network, University of Huddersfield, UK

Lecture-Recital: “Queer Sounding Bodies: Recognition, resistance, and solidarity in queer performance practice”

postponed due to COVID-19

July 2 - 5, 2020


Miller Theatre Pop-Up, NYC

6:00 PM - FREE - 1962 Broadway (at 116th St) NEw York, NY

Alison Knowles: Shuffle for two performers

Ted Hearne: One of Us, One of Them for piano and percussion

Betsy Jolas: Music for Joan for vibraphone and piano

Scott Wollschleger: We See Things That Are Not There for vibraphone and piano

Eve Beglarian: Play it Like a Girl (2014) for keyboards (2014)

postponed due to COVID-19

June 2, 2020


113 Composer Collective in Brooklyn

4:00 pm - $15/$5 students/children under 18 are free - Areté Venue and Gallery - 67 West St, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Twin Cities-based 113 will present four new works for Bent Duo by Joey Crane, Sam Krahn, Joshua Musikantow and Tiffany M. Skidmore

postponed due to COVID-19

April 5, 2020


Bard College

Sarah Hennies: Unsettle

Matt Sargent: Fourth Illumination

New works by Nicolas Fopeano and Meghan Mercier

postponed due to COVID-19

March 15, 2020


Princeton Sound Kitchen, Princeton, NJ

Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall - Princeton University

Bora Yoon: excerpts from Casual Mircales with Cortney Orlando, violin

December 3, 2019


TIME SPANS 2019

8PM - $20/$10, $70 festival pass - Dimenna Center - 450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018

Sarah Hennies: Unsettle for vibraphone, piano and bells

Bent Duo is opening for Deerhoof who are performing “In All Languages: Deerhoof Plays Hits of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s”, tickets and more info here

Part of AFTER EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC

August 18, 2019


Le Petit Versailles, NYC

8:00 PM - FREE - 247 E 2nd St (Between Aves B and C), New York, NY 10009

premiere of Bent Duo’s performance-installation Ramble

project trailer here

performed in conjunction with with “Museum with Building” installation, more info here

August 16, 2019


Woodstock Artist Association, Woodstock, NY

1:00 PM - FREE - 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498

Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston for flute, percussion and piano with Kelli Kathman, flute

performed in conjunction with “Philip Guston: The Essential Line” exhibition, more info here

August 10, 2019


Miller Theatre Pop-Up, New York, NY

6:00 PM - FREE - 1962 Broadway (at 116th St) NEw York, NY

Hannah Lash: C for vibraphone and piano

Mayke Nas: Digit #2 for two players and piano

Sarah Hennies: Unsettle for vibraphone, piano and bells

More info here

June 4, 2019


May 11, 2019

Fresh Sounds, San Diego, CA

7:30 pm - $20/$10 students - White Box Live Arts, Liberty Station 2590 Truxton Rd #205  San Diego, CA

Alison Knowles: Shuffle

Steve Reich: Clapping Music

Matt Sargent: Fourth Illumination for piano and vibraphone duo with seven recorded pianos and seven recorded vibraphones PREMIERE

Sarah Hennies: Settle

Bent Duo: Into the Out of the

More info here


March 15, 2019

Peabody Institute at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

7:30PM - Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall

Bora Yoon: Casual Miracles for violin, percussion and piano with Courtney Orlando, violin PREMIERE

more info here


December 16, 2018

DiMenna Center, New York, NY

8PM - $15/$10 at door - 450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018

Jace Clayton: Salt Wood Salt Wire Salt Salt

Casey Anderson: ghostses

Allison Knowles: Shuffle

Scott Wollschleger: Folding

Matthias Kaul: Two Together

Salt Wood Salt Wire Salt Salt is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC.


December 14, 2018

Inwood Art Works Gallery, New York, NY

8PM - Free - 4875 Broadway, NY, NY 10034

Alison Knowles: Shuffle

Steve Reich: Clapping Music

Matthias Kaul: Two Together

Scott Wollschleger: Folding

Jace Clayton: Salt Wood Salt Wire Salt Salt

more info here


El Barrio’s Artspace PS109

8pm - 215 E 99th St, New York, NY 10029


Workshop performance

Jace Clayton: Salt Wood Salt Wire Salt Salt

Bent Duo: Out of the In to the

Jace Clayton: DJ set

Salt Wood Salt Wire Salt Salt is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC.

December 8, 2018


December 6, 2018

Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

7 PM - Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland Street 
Cambridge MA

Jace Clayton: Salt Wood Salt Wire Salt Salt

Bent Duo: Out of the Into the

Jace Clayton: DJ set

more info here


November 29, 2018

University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

7PM - Recital Hall Performing Arts Center - St Anthony Ave, New Orleans, LA 70122

Hannah Lash: C for vibraphone and piano

Ted Hearne: One of Us, One of Them for percussion and piano

Matthias Kaul: Two Together for two performers

Steve Reich: Clapping Music for two performers

Premiere of new works by Ana Zaveriuha, Dylan Hunter, Cory Diane Ashby and Kenneth Collins


November 28, 2018

Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

7:30pm - Dixon Recital Hall - Newcomb Circle, New Orleans, LA 70118

Sarah Hennies: Unsettle for vibraphone, bells and piano

Casey Anderson: Argument for two speakeres

Scott Wollschleger: Folding for keyboards

Premiere of new works by Z.V. Pine and Stephen Montalvo


November 27, 2018

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Lecture “Re-evaluating Technology in 21st Century Performance”

sponsored by LSU Experimental and Digital Media & LSU Composition Departments


February 21, 2018

Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles, CA

8PM - $7 at door - 1816 S Main St

Allison Knowles: Shuffle for two performers

Simone Forti: Censor for two performers

Matthias Kaul: Two Together for two performers

Scott Wollschleger: Folding for solo toy piano

Liza Lim: An Elemental Things for solo woodblock

Casey Anderson: white space for radios


February 11, 2018

SUNY-Orange, Middletown, NY

3PM, William and Henry Richards Theatre, Orange Hall

Steve Reich: Clapping Music

Hannah Lash: C for vibraphone and piano 

Henry Cowell (arr. Solomon): Music from Ritual of Wonder

Christopher Parker (arr. Bent): Miniatures for Piano

Mayke Nas: Digit #2 for two players and a piano

Scott Wollschleger: Digital Sensations no. 1

Arvo Pärt (arr. Bent): Spiegel im Spiegel for bowed vibraphone and piano

Ted Hearne: One of Us, One of Them for percussion and piano


February 9, 2018

SUNY-Orange, Middletown, NY

11AM, Orange Hall, Room 23

Masterclass: "Music Outside the Box"


October 11, 2017

Hartt School of Music, West Hartford, CT

Composition Department Seminar

Lecture: "New Performance Practices in Contemporary Music"


October 11, 2017

Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT

Casey Anderson: ghostses for two speakers and objects (2017)

Matthias Kaul: Two Together for two performers (2014)

Sarah Hennies: Psalm 2 for solo snare drum (2009) with video by Gene Gort

Tristan Perich: qsqsqsqsqqqqqqqqq for three toy pianos and three-channel 1-bit tones (2009) with Doug Perry

Simone Forti: Censor for two performers (1961)


Sept 17, 2017

Evenings for Creative Music, Buffalo, NY

7:00 PM - Donation - 695 Elmwood Ave

Sarah Hennies: Unsettle for piano, vibraphone and bells PREMIERE

Casey Anderson: ghostses for two speakers and objects


June 30, 2017

University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Performing Indeterminacy: An International Conference

"The Music of Casey Anderson: Indeterminate Language"

Casey Anderson: ghostses for two speakers and objects


April 22, 2017

DiMenna Center, New York City

co-presented by League of Composers/ISCM

John Luther Adams: Four Thousand Holes for piano, percussion and electronics

Henry Cowell: Music from Ritual of Wonder for percussion and piano

Betsy Jolas: Music for Joan for vibraphone and piano

Hannah Lash: C for vibraphone and piano

Ted Hearne: One of Us, One of Them for percussion and piano

Donald Martino: "Cannon Ball" from A Jazz Set for vibraphone and piano


February 1, 2017

Betalevel, Los Angeles

8:00pm - FREE - 963 N. Hill St.

Casey Anderson: ghostses for two speakers and objects PREMIERE

Casey Anderson: Argument for speakers

Sarah Hennies: Settle for two players on one vibraphone

John Cage: One for piano solo

John Cage: One4 for percussion solo


January 31, 2017

Center for New Music, San Francisco 

7:30pm - $15/$10 - 55 Taylor St.

with Inner Movements (Crystal Pascucci, cello and Mark Clifford, vibes)

Crystal Pascucci: Sonata for Prepared Piano & Vibraphone with Mixed Percussion PREMIERE

Hannah Lash: C for vibraphone and piano

Ted Hearne: One of Us, One of Them for percussion and piano

Aaron Siegel: Under Such Cover for cello, vibraphone and piano

Pauline Oliveros: One Word (Sonic Meditation XII) for speakers

Casey Anderson: possible rounds for speakers