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Resonance: A Conversation and Live Performance About the Power of Music
ChamberQUEER and Hive Mind Books are partnering to celebrate the paperback release of When The Harvest Comes. Denne Michele Norris’s debut novel tells the story of someone who must confront his painful past—and his deepest desires around gender, love, and sex. Moderated by ChamberQUEER co-founder and co-organizer Danielle Buonaiuto, Norris will appear in conversation with Yaz Lancaster, experimental artist, composer, and violinist, about the power of music to help us better understand ourselves. Lancaster will also be performing original music at the event. Following the conversation, Norris will sign copies of her book.
Accessibility information: Seating is first come, first serve. We have 20 chairs and standing room after that. If you are unable to stand for the duration of the event, please contact us and we will reserve a seat for you. Hive Mind Books is a small space.
A ramp is available for the front door. Without it, there is a big step up into the space. There is an ADA accessible bathroom. If you have questions about accessibility, please give Hive Mind Books a call: (347) 487-0033. Emails might not be seen right away.
Sing for your Seniors
Sing for Your Seniors brings professional performing artists to older adults in care communities to reduce isolation and foster connection through music. Spend a moment on Thursday afternoon with ChamberQUEER and SFYS as we bring our LGBQT+ elders at Edie Windsor SAGE Center a variety of tunes that are sure to bring a smile to their faces and cheer to their hearts.
Following the performance of artists Danielle Buonaiuto, Jules Biber, MaKayla McDonald, and Missy Fogarty accompanied by Kent Dennis, there will be time to connect with community members.
Between the music and the conversations, we hope to fill the center with energy that is sure to last for days.
Accessibility information: An elevator on the ground floor is available to visitors. The center also has ADA accessible restrooms.
This event is open to the public and does not require a sign up.
STAGE: Solutions for Trans Artists to Get Equity!
Join us on Sunday, April 26 on Zoom for the first meeting of a new monthly community gathering for trans performing artists.
Led by Katherine Goforth, Teiya Kasahara and Dorian Block in collaboration with ChamberQUEER and Amplified Opera, these meetings will be a space for trans artists to share mutual support, exchange knowledge, and work together on the challenges particular to our community.
Our initial goal is to find solutions to transphobia and trans exclusion, with a focus on issues relevant to careers in the performing arts. Topics will include self-producing, navigating casting practices and career trajectory. Meetings will have both structured and unstructured time. Participants will have the opportunity to share their personal experiences and needs with the group.
Future sessions will include guest speakers, listening sessions, and formats shaped by what participants need.
We’re not an emotional support group. We’re finding Solutions for Trans Artists to Get Equity!
Privacy/Information Use: We will send an email with a brief summary of each gathering and include any relevant information or links to keep you connected and informed. The content of the meeting will not be fed to AI. Your privacy will always be respected: this will be the only use of your email address.
All trans performing artists are welcome. If you’re not sure you’re a performing artist, come anyway. Feel free to DM or email hello@chamberqueer.org with questions.
GENVAS Presents: ChamberQUEER
Join ChamberQUEER at GENVAS' Pride in Progress 2026, a festival celebrating the art, culture, & life of the LGBTQ community & the people who love them. ChamberQUEER headlines the first evening of the festival with a program that honors the vital contributions of queer women, non-binary and trans artists and organizers across the history of feminist activism. From the 19th-century suffragettes to the radical lesbian bar owners of the 1970s to the 21st-century founders of ChamberQUEER, feminist, lesbian, and trans organizing has always been a project of solidarity and community — often in spaces that went unnoticed by the mainstream. We bring these legacies to life through music, visual art, archives, and dialogue, affirming that democracy, equity, and justice are inseparable from community.
Featuring:
Danielle Buonaiuto, voice
Jules Biber, cello
Andrea Christie, piano
In works by:
Eve Beglarian | Margaret Bonds | Rossa Crean | Gilda Lyons
Adela Maddison | Kala Pierson | Ethel Smyth | and more
Free with Registration, or book a seat and a drink for $25
ChamberQUEER in the Drawing Room: A Radical Salon Experience
ChamberQUEER is heading to New Jersey for a one night only immersive salon experience — an experience that asks guests to reimagine the classical concert.
Can the space be welcoming? Can the audience be as much a part of the performance as the performers? Can we amplify voices often overlooked?
This program held in Express Newark’s stunning Drawing Room takes us through time. “At the heart of the evening is Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17, a powerful and expressive work that highlights her enduring brilliance including works composed by Eve Beglarian, Jennifer Higdon, Jessie Montgomery, Margaret Bonds, and Stephanie Leotsakos.” By centering women and non-binary composers, we are asking the audience to reconsider the traditional presentation of classical music and imagine the Drawing Room as our own respite to engage with one another wholly and with ease.
Featuring:
Andrea Christie, piano
Danielle Buonaiuto, voice
Jules Biber, cello
Theo Espy, violin
Registration is free. This performance is part of the Cultural Programming Grant and hosted by Rutgers University-Newark's Department of Arts, Culture and Media, (ACM) and SHINE Portrait Studio @ Express Newark.
Wikithon with Boulanger Initiative
Join Boulanger Initiative and ChamberQUEER for a co-hosted, virtual Wikithon editing party! Whether you’re a seasoned editor or a first-timer, help expand and improve Wikipedia entries highlighting women’s achievements across history, culture, and the arts. Bring your curiosity, your keyboard, and your love for stories that deserve to be told.
Expanding the collective understanding of the contributions and impact of gender-marginalized composers is integral to cultivating inclusivity and representation in music. Wikipedia is one of the most accessible platforms when it comes to raising awareness; however, many of the articles present overstate the family and relationships of gender-marginalized composers while severely understating their professional achievements.
This month, we will focus on LGBTQ+ composers like Ethel Smyth and Ruth Anderson, working to organize their articles, update citations, and more! Open to all experience levels, training included.
Boulanger Initiative advocates for women and all gender marginalized composers. We foster inclusivity and representation to expand and enrich the collective understanding of what music is, has been, and can be. We promote music composed by women through performance, education, research, consulting, and commissions.
Winter Solstice Show-AND-Tell
Sometimes we get inspiration from the stars! Held on the night of the winter solstice, this gathering will be grounded and grounding. Recording artist, composer, and friend of ChamberQUEER Rossa Crean has shared a special ritual with us that we will share with you. Come prepared to release and invite in a new season of rest and renewal with our LGBTQ+ siblings.
We'll bring the vibes and if you'd like, bring your musical offerings and your cosmic crew. See you at Branded Saloon!
Free admission - Let us know you’re coming HERE
A Dance of Life
Violinist Giancarlo Latta, joined by pianist Robert Fleitz, presents works for violin and piano by composers who died during the AIDS crisis.
The Nebula Project, Volume 2: Helix
Luna Composition Lab and ChamberQUEER present the second installment of The Nebula Project on November 3.
OPEN SUBMISSION
ChamberQUEER has reopened its annual Open Submission period, running for the second time this year! Please visit our Open Submission page for more details and to apply.
Submissions are due by 11:59 PM on July 15; all artists who submit work will be contacted with decision information before September 2025.
We can’t wait to see all the amazing queer art you’re making, and hear how we can be involved in supporting its realization!
Wear Yellow Proudly: Memoirs of a Gaysian
Memoirs of a Gaysian explores the unique stories and perspectives of Queer-Asian artists. Too often, queerness and Asian identity are compartmentalized—same-sex marriage remains inaccessible in many Asian countries, and traditional family values have long silenced LGBTQ+ voices within the community. Highlighting works by queer and Asian composers and librettists, singers Spencer Britten and Chuanyuan Liu and pianist Jeremy Chan juxtapose songs and arias from the standard repertoire with music by living composers. The beautiful union of queer and Asian identities in composer Dylan Trấn’s song cycle Ba, a setting of poetry by Ocean Vuong, intermingles with pieces by Brian C. Armbrust, Huang Ruo, Alice Ping Yee Ho, and more.
Tickets $10-40 - PURCHASE HERE
Queer Artist/Author Mixer & Show-and-Tell
Join us for the third installment of our hit community series Show-and-Tell on our 2025 Pride Festival! We’re delighted to be partnering with Hive Mind Books this time around - they’re a queer bookstore and coffee shop in Bushwick with a vibrant community of authors and art lovers, and we’re so grateful to them for hosting us. Bring your big & small ideas, your curiosity, or just your cute self to meet some new friends and future collaborators - it’s sure to be an afternoon teeming with positive vibes and bad-ass queer art. Fill out this form if you know you want to perform or share something (approx. 5-7 minutes long, please!) with the class, or if you prefer to listen, feel free to just show up. Let's chill, chat, and celebrate our brilliant LGBTQ+ colleagues and friends!
Free admission - REGISTER TO PERFORM HERE
String QUEERtet
Come celebrate Brooklyn Pride with CQ at our birthplace and favorite neighborhood queer bar, Branded Saloon! We’ll be jamming out al fresco for Open Streets; cofounder Jules Biber has assembled a rockstar string QUEERtet to perform everything from Corelli to Chappell Roan - plus we’re sure to have a few guest stars drop by too…
Free - no reservations required
Only This Room: An Immersive Performance
Only This Room is an immersive, site-specific evening of music and performance collaboratively devised by an intergenerational cohort of queer artists: international composer and performance artist Anthony R. Green, acclaimed yangqin player Mantawoman (Silk Road Ensemble), singer and harpist Ruth Cunningham (Anonymous 4), marimbist and cultural activist Steph Davis, and ChamberQUEER cofounder and soprano Danielle Buonaiuto Co-conceived with award-winning composers inti figgis-vizueta and Eve Beglarian,Only This Room weaves together words and music of queer ancestors past and present, imagining new ways to create a shared genealogy and manifest a vision for the future.
Tickets are $35 or Pay-What-You-Can - PURCHASE HERE
Tributaries: A Wet Ritual for Witnessing
Tributaries: A Wet Ritual for Witnessing is a ritual about water, about time, about absence, about queer ancestors who have been lost and who we commit to remember. It is a ritual of blessing and complicity, of coming together, of mixing. The performance invites you to remember, reflect, and repeat this ritual, always concluding in tight embrace. Conceived by Victoria Perrie, Jehan Roberson, Sophie Seita, and Naomi Woo for Sembrando Humedad in Mexico City, it has now been reimagined as a nomadic performance-workshop that incorporates post-ritual art therapy, offered by Dani Minuskin, as a space for intentional artmaking to reflect, process, and integrate as a group.
Tributaries was conceived under the auspices of The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions, a project initiated in 2020 by Sophie Seita and Naomi Woo that transplants, reroots, and propagates a queer, feminist gardening society founded by 12th century mystic and musician Hildegard von Bingen, and is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
In this ritual, we will be using water as an archive and material for gathering, for invocation. We therefore invite you to bring:
a small bottle/jar/vial of water from a body of water near your home (a river, the sea, a pond, a canal).
a queer ancestor/spirit who was lost to the waters, this particular water, or the water of time and attention, or a queer ancestor who can serve as a guide to navigate the waters.
Free Admission - RESERVE HERE
BaroQUEER: Here’s the Summer, Sprightly, Gay
A celebration of radical love for Pride, Here’s the Summer, Sprightly, Gay features CQ cofounders Jules Biber, Danielle Buonaiuto, and Brian Mummert alongside early music virtuosi Keats Dieffenbach, Rafa Prendergast, and Peter Lim performing music by Hildegard von Bingen, Astor Piazzolla, Barbara Strozzi, and more. Join us amongst the Rubens and Rembrandts (name that Rufus Wainwright song that will also appear on the show…) for an explosion of queer joy!
Free with Museum admission - no reservations required
BaroQUEER: Here’s the Summer, Sprightly, Gay
A celebration of radical love for Pride, Here’s the Summer, Sprightly, Gay features CQ cofounders Jules Biber, Danielle Buonaiuto, and Brian Mummert alongside early music virtuosi Keats Dieffenbach, Rafa Prendergast, and Peter Lim performing music by Hildegard von Bingen, Astor Piazzolla, Barbara Strozzi, and more. Join us amongst the Rubens and Rembrandts (name that Rufus Wainwright song that will also appear on the show…) for an explosion of queer joy!
Free with Museum admission - no reservations required
BaroQUEER: Historically Informed
CQ 2025: Queer Ancestry OPENING NIGHT!!
NB: this concert is SOLD OUT. We will have a stand-by line beginning at 7 PM on the eve of the concert; if ticketed patrons have not arrived by 7:25 PM, we will begin releasing seats to the standby line at that time.
The iconoclastic Brooklyn collective ChamberQUEER teams up with Grammy-winning Boston institution the Handel and Haydn Society for BaroQUEER: Historically Informed, presented by Carnegie Hall Citywide. Co-curated by superstar countertenor Reginald Mobley and CQ cofounders Brian Mummert and Jules Biber, this concert asks: "whose histories inform the way we play and perceive Baroque music, and what would it mean to center performers’ voices and stories?" Featuring music by composers ranging from George Frideric Handel and Jean-Baptiste Lully to Julius Eastman and Caroline Shaw, the program celebrates queer perspectives that have shaped the early-music revival and influenced generations of boundary-breaking artists.
BaroQUEER: Historically Informed
A Very Special Boston Pre-Pride Performance!
The iconoclastic Brooklyn collective ChamberQUEER teams up with Grammy-winning Boston institution the Handel and Haydn Society for BaroQUEER: Historically Informed. Co-curated by superstar countertenor Reginald Mobley and CQ cofounders Brian Mummert and Jules Biber, this concert asks: "whose histories inform the way we play and perceive Baroque music, and what would it mean to center performers’ voices and stories?" Featuring music by composers ranging from George Frideric Handel and Jean-Baptiste Lully to Julius Eastman and Caroline Shaw, the program celebrates queer perspectives that have shaped the early-music revival and influenced generations of boundary-breaking artists.
Tickets are Pay-What-You-Wish - RESERVE HERE
The Rhythm Method: Resistance Strategies
What does resistance sound like? Co-presented by The Rhythm Method and ChamberQUEER, this program gives voice to queer liberation struggles and radicalism, journeying through a whirlwind of anger, fear, unbridled joy, and resilience.
The premiere of “Glitter, Shards of Rain” by Cristiano Melli connects the 1969 Stonewall riots to the composer’s lived experience of growing up gay in Brazil. Abi Prían-Gallardo’s new work, “Barracas,” responds to the traumatic lesbophobic murders of three women in Buenos Aires in May of 2024. Works by Leah Asher and Erica Navarro stretch to emotional extremities. Finally, Hannah Kendall’s “How ruin nested…” responds to the tragic homophobic murders of two men in their Dallas, TX home in 2011. We met Abi & Erica through our Open Submission process, and can't wait for The Rhythm Method to share their music with you!
Free Admission - RESERVE HERE