Fall 2023 Tour
October 25, 4:30-6:00 PM: BaroQUEER at Boston College (Boston, MA)
October 26, 3:30-6:00 PM: BaroQUEER and Workshop at Early Music America Summit (Boston, MA)
November 3, 3:00-6:00 PM: Coffee Hour (3:00-4:00) and
Choose-Your-Own-Adventure (4:30-6:00) at Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME)
November 4, 3:00-4:30 PM: Messiah Multiplied with Classical Uprising (Brunswick, ME)
November 5, 3:00-4:30 PM: Messiah Multiplied with Classical Uprising (Portland, ME)
Baroqueer @ shapeshifter lab
Monday, October 23, 7:00-8:30
ChamberQUEER presents
BaroQUEER at ShapeShifter Lab, BK
From sarabandes to tangos (and everything in between), ChamberQUEER's BaroQUEER program at ShapeShifter Lab explores the influence of dance forms on the canon of early western classical music in Europe and its colonies, as well as their legacy in the music of today. This program recontextualizes “historically informed performance” as a critically conscious conversation with the past, highlighting the co-opting of French and English country dances by the French court as ground zero for a trajectory of musical evolution that extended far enough into the present to include the disco-influenced Stay on It by Julius Eastman.
Additional featured repertoire in this recital will include works by Charpentier (Que je sens de plaisir from La Feste de Ruel), Cullen O’Neil (Suite in G Minor), Arcangelo Corelli (from the Trio Sonatas), Rufus Wainwright (Poses), Astor Piazzolla (Oblivion), and more surprises.
Accompanying ChamberQUEER's core lineup of Jules Biber (baroque cello), Danielle Buonaiuto (soprano) and Brian Mummert (baritone), the evening will also feature special guest performers Rafa Prendergast (baroque violin), Keats Dieffenbach (baroque violin), Peter Lim (harpsichord and recorder), and Eli McCormack (male soprano). Musicologist and friend of ChamberQUEER Isaac Jean-François has provided research and curatorial support for this program.
Concert Information
Monday, October 23, 2023, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
ShapeShifter Lab | 837 Union St | Brooklyn, NY 11215
Tickets: $25 for general admission and $10 for students and arts workers.
If you are able to pay more to support this program, please feel free to add to your ticket price or make a donation directly to ChamberQUEER.
If paying for a ticket presents a hardship for any reason, please contact danielle@chamberqueer.org.
Access
Nearby accessible subway station: Atlantic Av/Barclay Ctr
Shapeshifter Lab is on the ground floor with an accessible entrance.
Restrooms will be all-gender for our event.
Masks are strongly encouraged and will be provided at the door.
Sensory advisement: This program involves string instruments and singers, unamplified, but we do make a big noise :)
If you have an access need that’s not listed, please contact us and let us know!
CQ 2023:
We Refract
Five Boroughs Music Festival Co-Presents
ChamberQUEER 2023: We Refract
Celebrating Pride Month June 9-11
ChamberQUEER 2023: We Refract meditates on questions that strike at the heart of the ensemble’s commitment to building queer communities: How does navigating a life outside of heteronormativity impact one’s relationships? How does it shape understanding of one’s own identity? And how can music express and communicate these experiences? To respond to these questions, these seven artists have crafted a musical experience blossoming from queer collectivity. This celebration of Pride Month gives new voice to queer musical icons past and present, honors the power of music created in the room, and provides space for the audience to help weave a sonic tapestry of queer community.
Pieces written by a dream team of composers, improvisers, and performers including Jules Biber, Aviva Jaye, Alexis C. Lamb, Brian Mummert, Rajna Swaminathan, Darian Donovan Thomas, and Yoshi Weinberg are linked in concert by improvisations to create a continuous and unified concert-length world premiere.
Tickets: $25, sliding scale. Available at the links and at the door.
No-one turned away for lack of funds. If you need a free ticket, please email us.
If you would like to help support the sliding-scale program, please email us.
Concert Information
Friday, June 9, 2023 at 8:00 p.m.
Littlefield | 635 Sackett St | Brooklyn, NY 11217
Saturday, June 10, 2023 at 8:00 p.m.
Red Eye NY | 355 W 41st St | New York, NY 10036
Sunday, June 11, 2023 at 3:00 p.m.
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art | Building C, 1000 Richmond Terrace | Staten Island, NY 10301
BaroQUEER
Branded Saloon (603 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn)
March 7, 2023 | 7:30 PM
Admission by donation
ChamberQUEER presents BaroQUEER, an intimate concert of chamber music from Hildegard and Bach to Julius Eastman and Rufus Wainwright. Join us as we explore under-performed historic composers, such as Johann Rosenmueller and Maddalena Sirmen, and make connections to modern works, including pieces by CQ artist Kebra Seyoun-Charles.
Performing are Kevin Devine, harpsichord; Rafa Prendergast, baroque violin; Jessica Meyer, baroque viola; Jules Biber, baroque cello; Kebra Seyoun-Charles, double bass; Brian Mummert, baritone; and Danielle Buonaiuto, soprano.
CQ @ TWS Concerts at One
Untie That Knot
St Paul’s Chapel (209 Broadway) or online
Wed Nov 2 at 1 PM
Free
Join members of ChamberQUEER as we explore the intersection of queerness and Christianity, exploring and contesting historical understandings of queer and marginalized people’s place in a world shaped by the church.
Through works by composers ranging from Hildegard von Bingen and Marc-Antoine Charpentier to Tania León and Michael Gilbertson, and including two world premieres by Michael Genese and Martha Sullivan, CQ posits a modern queer communitarian outlook on Christianity - acknowledgement of and care for the oppressed, reconciliation in place of retribution, and speaking truth to powerful institutions.
Our concert confronts the institution of Christianity, calling upon the church to better live out its professed values and to relinquish the control over people's bodily autonomy that it has wielded, for its own benefit, for centuries.