Ensemble Adapter at ExRotaprint
I help the venerable Ensemble Adapter celebrate the 20th anniversary of their collaboration with the composers collective Klangnetz. These wonderful players once hosted the International Contemporary Ensemble in Berlin, and are featured with us on a disc of works by Felipe Lara, recorded at Roulette in Brooklyn.
Winterreise with Andrew Munn at Buddhistisches Tor
The wonderful bass Andrew Munn and I bring back our performance of Schubert’s Winterreise to Berlin. The dramatic setting of Buddhistisches Tor will frame the cycle evocatively.
International Contemporary Ensemble at the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival
Co-presented by the Ukrainian Institute in Kyiv and in special partnership with Ukraïner cultural media archive, UCMF’s three concerts will explore Places (March 19), Peoples (March 20), and Practices (March 21) with music by 17 Ukrainian composers, including 14 U.S. premieres, ranging from Crimean jazz to Ukrainian Jewish folk traditions.
The festival launches with Places on Thursday, March 19, 2026, presented in collaboration with the International Contemporary Ensemble. This opening program explores the relationship between geography and imagination, portraying how Ukraine’s vast and varied landscapes — from the Carpathian Mountains to post-industrial mining towns — shape the sonic imagination of its composers. Featured works include Vela Invecti by Alla Zahaykevych, Branching by Ostap Manulyak, Voice of the Mountains by Victor Kaminsky, Terricone by Anna Korsun (new arrangement co-commissioned by International Contemporary Ensemble and UCMF), and Five Minutes After Leaving the Bomb Shelter by Ivan Nebesnyy. Purchase tickets here.
Recital with William Socolof, Bass-Baritone
The extraordinary young bass-baritone William Socolof and I give a spring recital at the idyllic Schloss Britz. The program includes works by Milhaud, Schönberg, Debussy, Schubert, and Haydn.
Tanglewood Music Festival Residency
I return to the Tanglewood Music Festival as a chamber music coach, lecturer, and performer. Teaching the extremely talented students of the fellowship program at TMC is the highlight of my year. I work equally with pianists, singers, instrumentalists, and composers, from music of the Baroque to the newest works. I also give yearly lectures on the non-piano keyboards and figured-bass continuo.
Duo program with Tomoki Park at Klangmanufaktur, Hamburg
The brilliant pianist Tomoki Park and I play a duo program for Klangmanufaktur Hamburg’s Kohärenz series. This is our debut as a duo, with music very important to us both.
Stravinsky: Concertino
Satie: Trois Morceaux en forme de poire
Mozart: Andante and Five Variations, K. 501
Schubert: Grand Duo Sonata in C major, D. 812
Folk concert with Canto dell Sass'
I play as a guest with Canto dell Sass’, the venerable folk duo of flutist and vocalist David Eschmann and cellist Mathis Mayr. Our program, Malarazza, explores folk music of Germany and Italy, played with the most modern instrumental techniques.
Photo © Clo Catalan
Concert with Katalin Károlyi at Budapest Music Center
I give the first of several recitals with the singular mezzo-soprano Katalin Károlyi, in the grand library of the Budapest Music Center. The focus is poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke.
Program includes:
Peter Lieberson: Rilke Songs
Dai Fujikura: Bright Codes
Debussy: Songs TBA
Schönberg: Der verlorene Haufen and Am Strand
Thomas Böttger: Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke
International Contemporary Ensemble at Wien Modern
This Fall, the International Contemporary Ensemble will present two concerts in celebration of George Lewis and his legacy at Wien Modern, Vienna’s highly influential festival of new music. These programs are presented in collaboration with the Webern Ensemble Neue Musik of the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (MDW). As part of ICE’s Composing While Black series, the first program features works by Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, Anthony Braxton and others, while the second includes large-scale works by Lewis, Chaya Czernowin and Hannah Kendall.
Nyokabi Kariuki: The Colour of Home (2021)
Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson: Rotations III (2017)
George Lewis: Melodies for Miles (2022)
Andile Khumalo: Schaufe[r]nster II (2024)
Njabulo Phungula: Playground Postcard (2020)
Anthony Braxton: Ghost Trance Music (1995–2006, Auswahl)
Unerhörte Musik with Alexina Hawkins, viola
I make my debut on the distinguished Unerhörte Musik series with the wonderful Australian violist Alexina Hawkins. The program, titled Imprints, will also be broadcast live: https://youtube.com/live/S8JNqHF5PXE
Program includes:
Paul Kerekes: Four Pieces
Brett Dean: Rooms of Elsinore
Buddenbrooks with Meike Rötzer in Reinickendorf
Narrative meets world literature: Meike Rötzer brings Thomas Mann's Nobel Prize-winning work "Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family" to life on September 9, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. at the Humboldt Library. With her unique narrative performance, she unravels the complex web of Mann's characters and motifs for the audience.
Actress Meike Rötzer conjures up a theater for the ears with extraordinary forms of narrative, offering the audience virtuoso new approaches to world literature. Renowned pianist and keyboardist Jacob Greenberg will accompany her on the piano.
In "Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family," Thomas Mann, whose 150th birthday will be celebrated in 2025, tells the story of the rise and gradual decline of the respected Lübeck merchant family Buddenbrooks – spanning four generations. The novel questions the relationship between tradition and generation, between personal aspiration and familial duty, and casts a glance behind the facade of seemingly stable family structures. When Thomas Mann began writing his family epic at the age of 22, he had no idea that he would receive the Nobel Prize for his debut novel just a few years after its publication.
Tanglewood Music Festival Residency
Working with the amazing fellowship students at the Tanglewood Music Festival is always a highlight of my year. I coach instrumental and vocal chamber music, and provide guidance to the pianists who attend; my lectures are on non-piano keyboards (harpsichord, celeste, harmonium) and figured bass reading.
Jacob Greenberg and Viola Yip at KM28
Jacob Greenberg and Viola Yip present a new composition for harmonium and air-based electronics. These acclaimed composer-performers devise a counterpoint loop of jointly originated air sounds, with a nuanced exchange of the acoustic harmonium bellows and a newly-developed instrument that allows electronics to emerge from inflatables and human body movements.
Berlin Institut für Kritische Theorie with Andrew Munn, bass
The wonderful bass Andrew Munn and I return to our Berlin Verses project, Hanns Eisler’s political settings of poetry by Bertolt Brecht, for the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory’s annual conference.
Wege durch das Land with actress Meike Rötzer
I appear with the master storyteller Meike Rötzer at Nordrhein-Westphalen’s celebrated Wege durch das Land festival for music and literature. We debut a new version of Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks, with newly composed music for harmonium and clavichord.
Charles Ives disc release concert
Join me to belatedly celebrate the release of my disc of Charles Ives songs and solo pieces at Soapbox Gallery in Brooklyn. The amazing singers Sharon Harms and Alice Teyssier join me for the event, and we’ll perform a generous helping of Ives that shows the breadth of his work.
$20 in-person tickets offset the venue rental. Livestream tickets are pay-what-you-want.
Tickets: https://www.soapboxgallery.org/events/jacobgreenberg
Northwestern University residency with International Contemporary Ensemble
I join my wonderful ICE colleagues for an extended residency at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, playing in collaboration with students and lecturing on our recent programming and collaborative initiatives. Concert pieces TBA.
Finale MaerzMusik 2025: I AM ALL EARS
Konzert-Installation
Finale Märzmusik 2025: I AM ALL EARS
Wojtek Blecharz / Corie Rose Soumah / Pauline Oilveros / Tom Johnson / Sam Dunscombe / Jennifer Torrence u. a.
TWO SHOWS: 17:00 and 19:00
The finale of the Märzmusik 2025 festival, co-curated by Wojtek Blecharz, explores listening as a relational practice and questions traditional formats for performing music. Following a guiding principle of Éliane Radigue - "You can be in the furthest corner and still hear the entirety of what is going on" - the finale decentralizes the stages in the Festspielhaus and invites listeners into the open spaces and at the same time into the microcosms of sound.
Winterreise at Salon S with Andrew Munn, bass
I perform the unadorned Schubert Winterreise with Andrew Munn for this intimate salon performance with hot soup and drinks in a private space in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Inquire for the precise location and reservation details!
postWinterreise Workshop Performance
Bass Andrew Munn, sound artist Kat Austin and I perform a workshop reading of Schubert’s ever-timely song cycle Winterreise, with a layer of composed electronics to place the music in the natural world.
Berlin Neukölln location and time to be announced.
EislerTag: Lecture at the Hanns Eisler Society and “Berlin Verses” with Andrew Munn, bass
EislerTag – Sa. 7.12.2024
16.00 - 17.00 Uhr
Vortrag „Hanns Eisler und die Wien-Film am Rosenhügel“
Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmidl, Wien
Eintritt: 2,- EUR
17.30 – 18.30 Uhr
Konzert „Berlin Verses“
Andrew Munn, Gesang / Jacob Greenberg, Klavier
Lieder von Hanns Eisler: Hollywood Elegies (Adaption von Andrew Munn), An die Nachgeborenen
Arnold Schönberg: Fünf Klavierstücke op. 23
https://www.andrewrobertmunn.com/berlin-verses
Eintritt: 10,- EUR
Kontakt / Kartenreservierung
Internationale Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft e. V.
Petra Hildebrand-Wanner, Tel. 0170 / 930 17 59
Tel. (+49) 030 / 61 28 84 61, E-Mail: IHEG@hanns-eisler.de
ICE at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Paris
This event celebrates a new generation of Afrodiasporic composers and their diverse modes of sonic experimentalism. By presenting perspectives that have historically been missing from academic research, concert programs, and journalistic coverage, this program demonstrates the important role that new music from the African diaspora can play as an intercultural and cross-generational incubator for new themes, stories and identities.
International Contemporary Ensemble residency at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
The Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany (HKW, House of World Cultures) is sponsoring the residency “Always, Already There: An Incubator for Afrodiasporic New Music,” from November 4-10, 2024. The project includes public rehearsals and concerts, workshops, lectures and panel discussions, with the goal of collectively nurturing and developing new modes of expertise on contemporary Afrodiasporic sonic experimentalism, as well as presenting perspectives that have been largely ignored in academic research, concert programs, and journalistic coverage, especially in Europe. The residency offers professionals, students and the interested public an insight into the work of a new generation of Afrodiasporic composers, and is intended to demonstrate the important role that new music from the African diaspora can play as an intercultural and cross-generational incubator for new themes, stories and identities.
George Lewis, Professor of American music at Columbia University and artistic director of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) from New York, will serve as guest curator for this project. Musicians from ICE, guest performers, and twenty composers and sound artists from around the Afrodiasporic world of new music will be participating.
"Soziale Frage" with Andrew Munn at HIDALGO Festival Munich
With the bass Andrew Munn, I play a duo program called “Soziale Frage” (Social Questions) in the abandoned former Galeria Kaufhaus in Munich. Imagining a future utopian space, the music serves to illustrate the injustice of the world which has been overcome. American folk songs by Jean Ritcher and Hazel Dickens is juxtaposed with songs by Hanns Eisler (on texts by Brecht), Schubert, Henry Purcell, Ruth Crawford Seeger. A Sonic Meditation by Pauline Oliveros rounds out the program.
Preview: "Soziale Frage" with Andrew Munn at HIDALGO Festival Munich
With the bass Andrew Munn, I play a preview of the following night’s performance at HIDALGO Festival in Munich. Program, evening time, and location TBA.
Polyaspora Festival at Peabody Institute
With the support of a generous grant from the Nexus Awards, Dr. Felipe Lara, Pulitzer Prize Finalist for 2024 and Associate Professor and Chair of Composition at The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, will lead Polyaspora, a five-day contemporary music festival, at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. in fall 2024. Hosted by the Peabody Institute and curated by Professor Lara and George Lewis of Columbia University, Polyaspora centers Black and Brazilian perspectives in contemporary music alongside a showcase of new musical works by Peabody Conservatory students. The globally renowned and New York City-based International Contemporary Ensemble will serve as guest performers and educators for the festival. The festival includes three concerts with pre-concert talks at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center’s state-of-the-art Theatre, and one concert on the Peabody Institute’s Baltimore campus. All four concerts will be free and open to the public. Additional workshops and open rehearsals at Peabody will be open to JHU and Peabody students to attend and participate in.
Programs include:
COMPOSING WHILE BLACK – Afrodiasporic New Music Today
In tandem with the publication of the bilingual English/German edited volume bearing the same name, edited by Harald Kisiedu and George E. Lewis, this program presents sonically audacious new music by Nicole Mitchell, Jeffrey Mumford, Andile Khumalo, Leila Adu-Gilmore, Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, and Tebogo Monnakgotla.
ANTROPOFAGIA – Brazilian Perspectives
This program features today’s leading musical voices of the Brazilian diaspora and explores the complexities and intersections of identity, race, history and cultural ethos from within a Brazilian framing. Includes works by Felipe Lara, Jocy de Oliveira, Igor Santos, Marcos Balter, Arthur Kampela, and Michelle Agnes. Pre-Concert Talk with Dr. Alejandro L. Madrid from Harvard University.
THE FUTURE IS NOW I & II
Each of these programs features seven newly composed premieres by Peabody Conservatory students, scored for solo instruments and chamber ensembles.
Additional activities include two workshops on open scores led by ICE members and open rehearsals for Peabody students.
Journey to the Center of the Earth with Meike Rötzer
I join the master storyteller Meike Rötzer for another exciting reading of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, auf Deutsch. Kulturhaus Karlhorst generous hosts me again for incidental music played on clavichord and harmonium. It’s always interesting to hang around the Lichtenberg neighborhood.
Art Opening for painter Jens Hanke: Visuelle Osmose im Nachtbetrieb
I play for another wonderful art opening of the painter Jens Hanke at the historic Kulturhaus Karlshorst in Berlin, Visuelle Osmosis im Nachbetrieb (Visual Osmosis in Post-Operation). Selections on harmonium and clavichord to be announced.
Souvenirs de Voyage at Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
I play the premiere of a new chamber piece by Xinyang Wang with colleagues at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
Program includes:
Xinyang Wang: New Work for flute, harp, percussion, violin, cello, and piano (world premiere)
Das Lied von der Erde at Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
I play in a second performance of the brilliant Schönberg/Riehm chamber arrangement of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, with distinguished soloists and conductor Donald Runnicles.
Das Lied von der Erde at Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
I play in the brilliant Schönberg/Riehm chamber arrangement of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, with distinguished soloists and conductor Donald Runnicles.
Russian Odyssey at Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
I play Galina Ustvolskaya's remarkable Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano with colleagues at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
Program includes:
Galina Ustvolskaya: Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano
Tanglewood Music Center faculty residency
Teaching at the Tanglewood Music Center is a highlight of my year. I work with the extremely talented Fellows on chamber music with instruments and voices, and I lecture on diverse keyboard instruments.
Meike Rötzer and Journey to the Center of the Earth at Schloss Britz
I continue my collaboration with the amazing actress and storyteller Meike Rötzer for a performance at the idyllic Schloss Britz in southern Neukölln. Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, which is the subject of a dual historical and art exhibit at the Schloss, is the occasion for this event. Meike reads an abridged version of the epic proto-science fiction novel (auf Deutsch), with live semi-improvised accompaniment on clavichord and harmonium.
Concert with Andrew Munn at Kühlhaus
The extraordinary bass Andrew Munn and I will give an event at the vast Kühlhaus space in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Time TBA and ticket information coming soon.
Program includes:
Eisler: Hollywood Liederbuch (selections)
Schönberg: Fünf Klavierstücke, op. 23
Busoni: Zwei Lieder aus Goethes Faust
Brahms: Vier Ernste Gesänge, op. 121
Five Days in May with Elaine Mitchener
I join my wonderful colleague, the English vocalist Elaine Mitchener, at the DAAD Program’s daadgalerie with the best contemporary music players in Berlin. I play harmonium for this event of improvised sets with old and new friends.