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NEW ALBUM out JUNE 4
Purchase Clever Machines at any of these:
New Focus Recordings
Bandcamp
Amazon (digital)
Amazon (hard copy)
Naxos Direct
Barnes & Noble
News Cafe, Pawtucket, RI
Thursday, May 29th, 2025
8pm / $10 / 21+
DIRT PILE (sludge punk/psychedelic noisecore)
STRYGA (blackened crust)
RHIZARIA (black/death metal) - my band
SORDID SPELL (doom metal)
My black/death metal band, Rhizaria, is playing at O’Brien’s Pub with Dysthymia and Agēōtan
Doors 7pm, Show at 8pm
21+
$10 in advance, $12 at the door
Rhizaria (black/death metal) https://rhizaria.bandcamp.com/album/demo
Dysthymia (black metal - DSBM) https://dysthymiaband.bandcamp.com/
Ageotan (antifascist black metal): https://ageotan.bandcamp.com/track/the-scythe-of-olde
RHIZARIA (black/death metal)
GLOOMLURKER (death/doom metal)
AGĒŌTAN (antifascist black metal)
The Worthen Attic, Lowell, MA
Doors at 8pm, Show at 8:30pm
$10, 21+
Point01Percent is a monthly improvised music series at The Lilypad in Cambridge, MA
7:30pm, $15 at the door
7:30
Forbes Graham - trumpets
Jill Christensen - piano & synthesizer
Aaron Jay Myers - guitar
8:30
Pandelis Karayorgis - piano
Jorrit Dijkstra - saxophones
Miki Matsuki - drums
NakedEye Ensemble presents pieces from their album A Series of Indecipherable Glyphs, including my piece, Strabismus, for flute, clarinet, tenor saxophone, electric guitar, electric bass, cello, piano, and drum set.
Music by Richard Belcastro, Molly Joyce, Rusty Banks, Aaron Jay Myers, and Frank Zappa
Sunday, March 16, 4:00pm
Black Squirrel Club
1049 Sarah St, Philadelphia, PA 19125
Get TICKETS HERE
In honor of the 250th anniversary of Concord’s role in the American Revolution, the program will feature the world premiere of Unrest by local composer and CCM faculty member Aaron Jay Myers, commissioned by Concord Conservatory.
Friday, February 7, 2025, 7:30 pm
Purchase tickets in advance or payable at the door for this event. ($25 General Admission and free for students 18 and under)
Join CCM faculty speaker Jackson Carruthers as he recounts how each featured musical selection broke with the conventions of its time, launching the artform and its audience into the next era.
CCM faculty artists soprano Rose Hegele and cellist Steve Marotto, along with guests, violinist Nicole Parks, pianist Elaine Rombola Aveni, and percussionist Matt Sharrock will perform this array of boundary-breaking music.
Atlanta’s Chamber Cartel performs my piece, NIGHT OF PAN, for flute, vibraphone, toy piano, and harp along with others at Georgia State University for the SoundNOW Festival.
More details soon!
My black/death metal band, Rhizaria, is playing at AS220 in Providence, RI, with Gloomlurker, Blessed Be, and Killashandra Doe.
Doors 7pm, Show 8pm
$10, All Ages
Doors at 8pm, Show at 9pm
$10, 21+
My black/death metal band, Rhizaria plays alongside Ageotan (Antifascist black metal), Blessed Be (punky death metal), and Had I Not Known (noise rock) at O’Brien’s Pub in Allston, MA.
Get Tickets HERE
An Evening With NakedEye Ensemble
West Art
800 Buchanan Avenue, Lancaster, PA
Doors at 7pm, music begins at 7:30
$16 in advance, $20 at the door
Buy tickets HERE
Are you ready to explore the edges of musical convention? Critcially acclaimed ensemble NakedEye brings their 2022 album A Series of Indecipherable Glyphs to West Art, a collection of works for chamber ensemble that take inspiration from rock and minimalist music. Featuring searing electric guitar parts, growling saxophone solos, virtuosic piano riffs, and compelling percussion, NakedEye plays captivating music by:
Frank Zappa: Sinister Footwear II
Whitney George: [These Hands] Hold Nothing
Rusty Banks: Dum Spectas Fugio
Molly Joyce: Less is More
Aaron Jay Myers: Strabismus
Richard Belcastro: Nepetalactone
Led by pianist Ju-Ping Song, this collection of incredible musicians makes music come alive in a dynamic way that few can.
More details on the venue website HERE.
My black/death metal band, Rhizaria plays alongside Vacuist and The Promised End at Deep Cuts in Medford, MA
Doors at 7pm
$10 in advance, $15 at the door, buy tickets HERE
18+
RHIZARIA - 8:00-8:30
THE PROMISED END - 8:45-9:15
VACUIST - 9:30-END
Saturday, Dec. 16th - 6:30pm
200 State Street, Boston, MA 02109
NorthStar Duo performs my flute and baritone sax piece written for them, Save One Life, You Save The World Entire, alongside pieces by Cole Reyes, Joshua Oxford, Anthony R. Green, and more.
For more details and to make your reservation, click HERE
Semiosis Quartet performs my piece I’ll Swallow Your Soul alongside several other pieces at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music’s High School Composition Intensive (HSCI), at which I am composition faculty.
8:00pm
The Boston Conservatory - Seully Hall
8 The Fenway, Boston
Alex Marcelo + J D Parran + Daniel Carter
Anagram Ensemble: Andrew Drury + Thomas Buckner + James Ilgenfritz
Nicole Parks plays Lichens II by Aaron Jay Myers
Aaron Jay Myers - I’ll Swallow Your Soul
Caroline Shaw - Entr’acte
Carlos Simon - Loop
Jessie Montgomery - Duo for Violin and Cello
Aaron Jay Myers - For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky
Darien Thomas - Fluid
Suggested Donation - $10-15
Semiosis Quartet presents an evening of music at United Parish in Brookline, MA at 7pm
Aaron Jay Myers - I’ll Swallow Your Soul
Caroline Shaw - Entr’acte
Carlos Simon - Loop
Jessie Montgomery - Duo for Violin and Cello
Aaron Jay Myers - For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky
Darien Thomas - Fluid
Suggested donation $10-15 at the door.
NYC's Noise Catalogue comes to Boston to give a concert with violinist (and violist) Nicole Parks. They are performing music of composers with ties to the US and Hungary, including my violin duo For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky.
Sunday May 7th, 2023 - 7pm
New School of Music in Cambridge
25 Lowell St
Cambridge, MA 02138
Suggested Donation - $10-15
Hanjali - co-composed by Madeline Hocking and Dániel Matei of Noise Catalogue
Fluid - Darian Thomas
Compare the Way We Move - Molly Herron
On/Zeker - Anthony Green
For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky - Aaron Jay Myers
Selections from 44 Duos - Béla Bartók
Invertita - Traditional Hungarian, arr. Madeline Hocking
NorthStar Duo performs my piece Save One Life, You Save The World Entire for flute and baritone saxophone at Salem State University for their Faculty Showcase Concert
Bertolon School of Business
352 Lafayette St.
Salem, MA 01970
7:30pm
Connecticut Summerfest - Contemporary Music Festival
The Hartt School - Berkman Recital Hall
4:00pm
NorthStar Duo performs my bari sax and flute piece Save One Life, You Save The World Entire alongside pieces by Missy Alvarez, Anthony R. Green, Melika M. Fitzhugh, Nicole DeMaio, Eliza Gelinas, & Erin Leigh Harris.
The concert is free and open to the public. The concert will also be live-streamed here: https://youtu.be/ufwXIzeceVA
PDF Program Booklet: https://www.ctsummerfest.org/.../ctsf_2022_season_program... See less
Wednesday March 30th at 8 pm in GSU's Florence Kopleff Recital Hall
Chamber Cartel returns with its first concert in 2 years! Chamber Cartel is fortunate enough to perform during the SoundNOW Festival, a week-long contemporary music festival that highlights contemporary music and performing ensembles in Atlanta.
The program highlights works from composers near and dear to the Cartel's heart. We hope to see you at this FREE historic concert!
Program
Riding with Death - Drew Baker
The Toy Robot’s Mechanical Heart - Christopher Adler
Night Of Pan - Aaron Jay Myers
Three Canticles of the Birds - John Luther Adams
Cold Mountains, One belt, heart-break green - Carolyn Chen
Domination of Black - Drew Baker
Jascha Narveson created a stunning video to go along with my piece, Paroxysm, which will be presented on this online event.
Join us with musicians and artists
Deniz Khateri, Jascha Narveson, Deb Todd Wheeler, composer Reena Esmail, composer/electric guitarist Aaron Jay Myers, vocals Danielle Pinals, Tyler Russell, & Andrew Wheeler, bassist and vocals Terrance Reeves, drummer Daniel T. Lewis, cellist Lev Mamuya, bass clarinetist Kevin Price, mandolin player Brian Potts, and NewGal Director & pianist Sarah Bob.
Zoom live reception with participants 5 minutes after conclusion of event.
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
7:30PM
VIRTUAL EVENT
in partnership with Longy School of Music of Bard College
For more details and tickets, click HERE.
Thursday, May 27, 2021
7:00 PM 8:00 PM
Please enjoy an evening with us as we play works, some commissioned especially for NorthStar Duo and others transcribed for our instrumentation in line with our work to champion works for winds.
Register and RSVP at http://grpm.us/5_aYfA
Hovory by Karl Reiner
Save One Life, You Save The World Entire by Aaron Jay Myers
Study for Flute and Sop. Sax by Buck McDaniel ***PREMIERE***
Duo for Flute and Oboe by Alberto Ginastera
Duo for Flute and Clarinet by Robert Muczynski
Register and RSVP at: http://grpm.us/5_aYfA
Strange Trace presents several works online, including my Two Songs of Social Unrest, for their Holiday Gala and fundraiser. More details HERE
Chamber Cartel performs my percussion and violin duo Constantly On The Verge Of Tears at Reinhardt University’s Contemporary Arts Festival. Performed at the Falany Performing Arts Center alongside pieces by Marcos Balter, Anthony Donofrio, Drew Baker, Hans Thomalla, and Franco Donotoni.
Semiosis Quartet performs my piece I’ll Swallow Your Soul alongside pieces by Chihchun Chi-sun Lee & others TBA.
Pao Arts Center, 99 Kneeland St. Boston, MA
$10-15 suggested donation
Alan Theisen (saxophone) and Marianne Parker (piano) present a recital of music contained in the forthcoming NewMusicShelf Anthology of New Music for Alto Saxophone Vol. 1 curated by Alan Theisen. Composers include: Stephanie Ann Boyd, Wes Flinn, George N. Gianopoulos, Anthony R. Green, Chia-Yu Hsu, Lori Laitman, Quinn Mason, Aaron Jay Myers, Garrett Shatzer, Clare Shore, Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn, Alan Theisen, Cassie Wieland, Chelsea Williamson, Tetsuya Yamamoto, and Roger Zare.
Marc A. Scorca Hall at The National Opera Center, 330 7th Ave 7th Floor, New York, New York 10001
Saturday, Jan. 4th, 2020, 7-9pm
October 23rd // 7PM
Allen Hall, Community Music Center of Boston (34 Warren Avenue / Boston, MA)
Stephanie Lamprea and Zach Sheets perform solos and duos by Kate Soper, Marti Epstein, Chaya Czernowin, myself, and more! Stephanie will be performing my solo piece, Lichens III, commissioned by her.
Peridot Duo is performing my soprano duo Oh, The Irony and others. Also on the concert are Sentient Robots, Alessandra Hollowell, and Chris Gunnell. Other composers featured on the concert are Daniel Reifsteck, Mark Bolan Konigsmark, Christa Duggan, Izi Austin, & Zachery Di Lello.
Outpost 186
186 1/2 Hampshire St, Cambridge, MA 02139
Vocalist Stephanie Lamprea performs my new work Lichens III alongside works by Cullyn D. Murphy & Louis d’Heudieres during Cleveland’s Re:Sound festival. Exact day TBA More details HERE.
Third Life Studio, 33 Union Square, Somerville, MA, 7:30pm
Anna Clyne - Rest These Hands
Missy Mazzoli - Dissolve, O My Heart
Biber - Passacaglia
Aaron Jay Myers - Lichens II (performed by my awesome wife, Nicole Parks!)
Special appearances by Natalie Cristina Calma Gómez playing Édith Canat de Chizy - irisations pour violon solo
and Gramm Drennen playing Ley Line by Jacob Cooper and In manas tuas by Caroline Shaw
