Ian David Rosenbaum

My good friend Tawnie Olson just wrote a beautiful guest blog post over at the Janus Trio website, part of their Mouth-Piece series.

Tawnie and I met back while I was at Yale, I was playing one of the percussion parts in her thesis composition. Shortly after, I asked her to write a piece for the Wanmu percussion trio and she wrote As Rain Hollows Stone.

Ever since then, I’ve been begging her to write me a marimba solo, and she’s finally doing it! The piece will be called No two blackbirds, and it’s a unique take on birdsong. I premiered the first movement back in September in San Diego, check that out here. The world premiere will be at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. on March 23rd.

Here’s the blog post – check it out.

Hey folks,

Just a quick update from out here in San Diego where I played last night on the Fresh Sound series in a beautiful little warehouse. I just saw a review that came out – and I loved this closing line in particular:

“I had my doubts about how interesting a night of solo percussion could be– but I have to admit that the performance was amazing…”

You can read the entire review here and here are a couple pictures from the show:

Next stop, LA for one more performance of Christopher Cerrone’s Memory Palace at theItalian Cultural Institute!

A few weeks ago, I sat down (digitally) with Jim Chute of the Union Tribune in San Diego to talk a little bit about my San Diego debut on the Fresh Sound series on October 1st.

Here’s the article.

We talked a lot about what I was going to play on the show (Akiho, Cage, Cerrone, Viñao and some new work by my good friend Tawnie Olson + more) but our conversation veered into a far more interesting direction.

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I’m out in Southern CA for the next couple of weeks playing solo shows in Carlsbad, San Diego and Los Angeles. One of the main things I’m doing out here is giving the West Coast premiere of Christopher Cerrone’s excellent piece for percussion and electronics, Memory Palace. Chris describes the work as a ‘kind of paean to places and people that have deeply affected me’. Each of the five movements represents a deeply meaningful part of his life and many of them feature field recordings that he made of things like cricket choruses and wind chimes. It’s an incredibly beautiful piece and I’m thrilled to be playing it! You can find more info about each event over on my calendar, but here’s a quick listing:

Carlsbad Music Festival
WHEN: Saturday, September 21st at 1:45pm
WHERE: St. Michael’s Chapel in Carlsbad
$10 advance tickets that get you in to both my show AND What’s Next? Ensemble or $5 tickets at the door per show.

Fresh Sound Series
WHEN: Tuesday, October 1st at 8pm
WHERE: Bread & Salt (1955 Julian Avenue in San Diego)
$15 general/$10 student tickets available at the door

The Industry LA Invisible Cities Preview Event
WHEN: Saturday, October 5th at 8pm
WHERE: Istituto Italiano di Cultura in LA
FREE admission, but you must send a note to rsvp.iic@esteri.it to RSVP.