About

7:30 PM
Vigilante Coffee Co.
Hyattsville, Maryland

Equilibrium is a composer-performer showcase, featuring many of my own compositions, alongside a few other contemporary composers, with friends and collaborators. This is a pretty informal performance; food and drink are provided, and audience members are encouraged to partake! Specialty drinks will also be available for purchase from Vigilante Coffee. You don’t need to wait for a pause in the program to get yourself more food or drink, however, be respectful of those around you who are listening to the music. Donations are gratefully accepted in order to offset the cost of the venue, food and drink, and most importantly, to compensate the performers. The suggested donation for tonight’s performance is $30.00, and links to donate via PayPal, Venmo, or credit/debit card can be found lower down on this page.

Please only attend if you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and wear a well-fitting mask any time you are not eating or drinking.

Program

Calibration Megan DiGeorgio
Liquidation
Formation
with Roger Zahab, violin

Another Megan DiGeorgio
Solution
Cricket-Viol Arlene Sierra

seed/quiescence Megan DiGeorgio
Erin Snedecor, cello
Almost Out of the Sky
with Nathaniel Wolff, oboe,
Erin Snedecor, cello,
and Emory Hensley,
percussion
Limestone and Felt Caroline Shaw
with Erin Snedecor, cello
and now encounter trees Megan DiGeorgio
with Roger Zahab, violin,
and Erin Snedecor, cello

Donate

The suggested donation for attending tonight’s performance is $30.00.
Donations will be used to offset the cost of the venue, food and drink, and most importantly, to compensate my collaborating musicians. Any amount you can contribute is greatly appreciated.
You may donate at the links below using PayPal, Venmo, or with a credit/debit card.

Artist Bios

erin snedecor

Erin Snedecor is a multi-genre cellist based in the Washington, DC area who specializes in contemporary chamber music, improvisation, and collaborative art. She works and performs with a wide variety of ensembles and orchestras in the DC and Maryland area including the Wolf Trap Orchestra, District Strings, and Annapolis Symphony.

While her training is primarily classical, she has used the influence of rock, folk, and electronica to improvise and compose in new styles, leading her to many unconventional collaborations and performances with DC area rock bands, theater companies, dance troupes and beyond. Her current projects include her indie/folk duo Black Rhinoceros, rock band Pompeii Graffiti, indie/folk duo Black Rhinoceros, her electroacoustic solo project Zooxanthellae, and contemporary ensembles Balance Campaign and earspace.

Erin received her BM from Ithaca College with and her MM at University of Maryland.

roger zahab

Roger Zahab enjoys instigating fairly complex and unpredictable interactions through his activities as composer, violinist/violist, improvisor, conductor, teacher, and writer. As performer/conductor he has fostered premieres of more than 200 works and his repertoire, spanning some 700 years from Guillaume de Machaut to the present.

Roger’s work as composer and improvisor is primarily focused on the intersections of time, memory, and music’s place in the community and society at large. Recordings are available on many labels and sites including Albany, Bandcamp, Crystal Records, Koch International Classics, Naxos, and

Truemedia as well as through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.

He teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and and is a Core Founding Faculty member of Vermont College of Fine Art's MFA in Music Composition program.

www.rogerzahab.net

Nathaniel wolff

Nathaniel Wolff believes in the power of music to forge human connection and help listeners understand the world more deeply. He is currently the oboist for University of Maryland’s graduate fellowship woodwind quintet IGNIS, a group dedicated to bold performances and meaningful community engagement. Nathaniel loves promoting contemporary music. He has closely collaborated and premiered works by composers like Adrian Wong, William Kenlon and Pauline Ng, and has performed at the 2018 Midwest Composer’s Symposium. Equally comfortable operating in more traditional spaces, Nathaniel has performed at summer festivals like the NSO’s Summer Music Institute and Brevard Music Center. He is forever indebted to his teachers, especially Mark Hill, Nancy Ambrose King, Elizabeth Koch Tiscione and Kim Lorch. When he’s not making reeds you can find him completing a crossword puzzle, watching a Formula 1 highlight reel or perusing a Washington DC museum.

Emory hensley

Emory Hensley is a performer and educator currently residing in Maryland. He is a founding member of 10-can percussion, a contemporary percussion group committed to the performance of new and classic works for percussion. Emory also performs with Balance Campaign, a chamber music group dedicated to discovering and showcasing modern works in the Washington D.C. area.

Emory received his Master of Music Degree in Percussion Performance from The University of Tennessee under Dr. Andrew Bliss and Keith Brown, and his Bachelors Degree in Music Education from Mars Hill University under Dr. Brian Tinkel.