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Spring/Summer 2024: Three Upcoming NYC Performances

April 27 @ 2 PM – Marshall Opera Oral History Project – Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center

Joel’s opera-in-progress, Outcast at the Gate, has been chosen for inclusion in a performance on Saturday April 27, at 2 PM, given as part of the Marshall Opera Oral History Project at Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center. The excerpt is Oedipus’s Prayer to the Furies, sung by the wonderful bass-baritone Andrew Richardson, with Amir Farid on the piano. Tickets are free but should be reserved well in advance. Preview below:

May 11 @ 7 PM – KeyedUp Music Project – Tenri Cultural Institute

KeyedUp Music Project will be presenting Joel Feigin Up Close, featuring three of his works, Four Meditations from Dogen for piano, Veranderungen for violin and piano, and the Mountains and Rivers Trio for violin, cello, and piano, as well as music of Brahms on May 11 at 7 PM at the Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 W. 13th St, New York, NY. The performers will be Claudia Schaer, violinist, Robert LaRue, cellist, and Marc Peloquin, pianist. More information.

July 1 @ 7 PM – Progressive Musicians Laureate Gala at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall

The Lehner Quartet will be performing Joel’s string quartet, Mosaic in Two Panels, at the Progressive Musicians Laureate Gala on July 1 at 7 PM at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 57th St. and 7th Ave. in Manhattan. The musicians of the Lehner Quartet are violinists Natasha Bogacheck and Zino Bogachek, violist Philippe Chao, and cellist Igor Zubkovsky. More information.

Outcast at the Gate, an opera by Joel Feigin based on Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles.

New opera Outcast at the Gate selected for CCO’s Development Series

I’m pleased to announce that my new opera, Outcast at the Gate, has been selected for the Center for Contemporary Opera’s Development Series. An hour-long excerpt will be performed in a workshop setting at New York’s Symphony Space on June 14. Tickets and information are available at symphonyspace.org/events/vp-cco-presents-outcast-at-the-gate-in-workshop.

Outcast at the Gate is a drama about refugees: a blind old man, supported by his daughter, seeking food and shelter. It is also a drama of redemption: the old man is “stained to the core of his existence,” and at the same time somehow innocent: he is Oedipus, former king of Thebes, who has unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. The end will reveal him as a prophet, blind, but leading his daughters and the King of his new homeland to a miraculous appointment with the waiting Gods.

I am grateful to conductor and CCO artistic director Sara Jobin for her work to make this happen, and to creative team, lead by stage director Sara Erde, pianist and coach Brent Funderburk, and stage manager Tracey Woolley. The cast includes singers Aaron Theno, Kristina Bachrach, Anna Laurenzo, David Gordon, and Eric McKeever.

Benefit Concert with The Elaris Duo for Sandy Hook Promise

On May 2 at 7:30 pm, The Elaris Duo (Larisa Elisha, violin, and Steven Elisha, cello) will perform a benefit concert of my music, along with pieces by Schulhoff and Kodaly in New York. All of the proceeds from the concert will go to Sandy Hook Promise, a non-profit set up after the 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Sandy Hook Promise’s mission is national — to protect children from gun violence so no other parent experiences the loss of their child by engaging and empowering parents and communities with targeted prevention programs in the areas of mental wellness early-identification & intervention, social & emotional development and firearm safety & security. More information on their programs is available at SandyHookPromise.org.

As for the concert, I will be joining the Elaris Duo on piano to perform a special preview of my piece An Offering: For The Families of Newtown.They will be premiering Shifting Spirits, for violin and cello, and I will also perform some of my piano works.

The concert is at the DiMenna Center For Classical Music. Tickets are available now at brownpapertickets.com/event/1434131.

Performances and discussion in Japan

Some of my music will be presented on Sunday, May 20 at Kanack Hall in Yokohama, Japan. This Zen in Music concert is presented as part of a meeting of the Japan Institute of Rhythm.

The event will feature violinist Junko Ando and pianist Daidouji Rentarou performing Gently Flowing, Sonata for Violin and Piano (2010). I will perform the first and third of my Four Meditations from Dogen (1994). Music by composer Kouichi Kiriyama will also be presented.

On May 19, I’ll take part in a panel discussion on “Schoenberg in America” presented by the Musicological Society of Japan. It will begin at 2:00 p.m. in the Art Hall of Meiji-Gakuin University of Tokyo.