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Upcoming shows

Past gig Highlights

Over the last 15 years, these are the ones that hit hard, leaving (beauty) marks and gratitude.

Daisy Press

"an Index of Metals" w/Phace

2018-2022

Austria, Germany, Spain

Crucify the heart! It's melodramatic bombastic fun yet deadly sincere.

Encoded in Romitelli's compositional voice here was the approach of his own (young) death, a liminal space where voices can finally learn to tell the truth. And at the end of this piece, Fausto's voice invites mine to screech and shriek like an unhinged prehistoric flying grief monster. Deep gratitude to Fausto and Phace.

Daisy Press show

Hildy in the Catacombs

Sept. 7-9. 2022

Greenwood Cemetery, NYC

These shows were a culmination of years of Hildy exploration, the release of my first record, and an invitation from Death of Classical to combine magic.  I was accompanied by a bunch of ghosts in these catacombs, and delighted by the gigantic stage presence of the pom-pom-sized mouse who scurried his reign of terror underfoot at all 6 out of 6 shows. Dat you, Hildy? 

Daisy Press

"Moving Architecture" w/Phace

2015-2022 (ongoing)

Vienna, Barcelona, NYC

A sacred and beautifully difficult piece that I've been making sense of since 2012, composed a decade ago for my voice by Bernhard Lang.  Every time I return to this landscape it offers new gifts and new gut-punches.  And asks the poignant question: "What is home?" 

Daisy Press

Saunders' "YES"  w/Klangforum

Sept 27, 2021

Jahrhunderthalle, Germany

A new place in every way. New high notes. New low notes, all both personally and professionally, making for an intense and wonderful first gig with Klangforum. I got to do all kinds of weird stuff to Molly Bloom's soliloquy via Rebecca Saunders and her wild voice.

Daisy Press

"Ketamine the Musical"

2016-2022 (ongoing)

House of Yes, BK, NYC

The best "musical" I've ever been a part of.  House of Yes at the height of its powers. Who knew that Hildegard can pull us all out of our collective K-hole?  

Daisy Press

"Drumming: A group Hallucination"

2017-2018

House of Yes, NYC

Imagining that Reich and Circus would be a perfect match, this was a brainchild I produced a few times at House of Yes, featuring Sandbox Percussion, Katherine Crockett, and the opportunity to fly through the sky while singing resultant patterns. Highly recommended experience.

Daisy Press

"Consonantia" w/Marcuslikesit

July 7-9, 2018

Tanja Grunert Gallery, NYC

A foray into a world that felt immediately like home, explored with one of the most unique, gifted, and truly sexy humans I have known. I was lucky enough to "tie" with Marcuslikesit, a true shibari master (skilled at a zillion other things too.) He's an opera singer, so he and I created a piece about suspension and tension, vocally and otherwise. A favorite human in a real conversation where vulnerability went both ways.

Daisy Press

"Four: a Sci-Fi Drama"

May 10, 2017

House of Yes, NYC

A collab at House of Yes where I performed as a topless tree to my own composition - a new level of freedom for me. I was almost killed in rehearsal by Anya Sapoznikova and I have everything on video. Forever grateful to the glitter-covered incubator of HoY.

So Percussion

"Drumming" with Nexus and So

2005-2017

Lincoln Center, NYC

The ultimate percussion trance party banger. Since 2005 I've been lucky enough to sing Reich with the original Reich guys, So Percussion and Nexus, and sometimes Reich himself.  We have taken this piece everywhere, and even made a celebratory website about its 50th birthday, including a video where you watch the whole thing.

Daisy collage

"THREE VOICES" at MoMa

May 10, 2013

MoMa, NYC

A big naked performance of Feldman's "Three Voices." My recording of this piece has never been released, possible it never will.  I'm never not haunted by the snowstorm and tombstones that Feldman evokes, and the immaculate, perfect pop refrain of "Who'd have thought that snow falls?"

Daisy Press and Aleph Guitar Quartet

LANG/Smolka/Winkler with Aleph

2017-2022 (ongoing)

Graz, Austria

In NYC, Stuttgart , Karlsruhe, and Graz, I have joined the incredibly gentle and miraculous Aleph Guitar Quartet to present many premieres, one of which we recorded and just released: works of Smolka.  We also offered Lang's "Cold Trip" and Gerhard Winkler wrote "Frostblues" for us.

Daisy Press and Phace

"Voi(rex)" with Argento/IRCAM

May 5, 2005

Miller Theater, NYC

The first big BIG show after grad school with the virtuosic Argento Ensemble and the most terrifying piece I've ever met.

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