OBP Music Series is a performance series based in Washington, DC, whose focus is unconventional, adventurous and experimental forms of musical composition and the music of underrepresented composers.
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Future:
Sat., November 22, 2025: 7pm UDC Theater of the Arts
Join us for an evening of exciting and innovative chamber music, including music by Lisa Perry, Chris Dench, Ruby Fulton, Jeremy Lyons, Ruth Schonthal, and a performance of Train Journey Fragments for solo guitar and mixed ensemble (2010/14) by Lewis Krauthamer.
Jeremy Lyons (guitar)
Lisa Perry (voice, keyboards)
Peter Kibbe (cello)
Laura Armstrong (clarinet)
Connor Milstead (lap steel guitar)
Zach Wilson (percussion)
Lewis Krauthamer (piano)
Past:
Sat., April. 12th, 2025: 7pm UDC Performing Arts Recital Hall
Matchstick Percussion Quartet performs the music of: Joshua Mallard, Han Hitchen, Jamie Koller, Tucker Johnson, Sebastian Zhang, Emily McPherson, and Malcolm Taylor.
and
Lewis Krauthamer presents the premieres of Awakening One and Awakening Two, featuring guitarists Jeremy Lyons and Connor Milstead.
Sat., Oct. 12th, 2019: 2pm UDC Performing Arts Recital Hall
Lewis Krauthamer: Two Pieces for Double Bass and Lap Steel guitar
Zachary Crabtree, double bass; Lewis Krauthamer, lap steel guitar
and
NOA EVEN, saxophones
a t o m i c
Newly commissioned solo works for saxophone, interactive electronics & video
Christopher Biggs: Imprints in Time
LJ White: bodies immutable (video by Jason Charney)
Emily Koh: b(locked.orders) (video by Michiko Saiki)
José Martínez: Do I Regret? (video by Michael Bruner)
Off the Beaten Path Composers’ Collective Performance
Tues. August 6, 2019: 7:30pm Rhizome DC
Olivia Weise, Tim Bedford, Michael Gancz, Víctor Arce and Lewis Krauthamer present newly composed works for Trombone, Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Trickeyboard, Percussion and Electronics. Join us as we perform and discuss explorations into microtonality, theatricality, spectralism, graphic notation, political activism, indeterminacy and miscellaneous. This performance is the culmination of an 8-week long collaborative summer composition workshop.
Sat., Dec. 8th, 2018: 2pm UDC Performing Arts Recital Hall
The Balance Campaign performs works by Aida Shirazi, Roberto Sierra, Angélica Negrón, Shulamit Ran and Christopher Cerrone
Sat., April 7th, 2018: 2pm UDC Performing Arts Recital Hall
The Atlantic Guitar Quartet performs music by Lewis Krauthamer, Philip Glass and others.
January 23rd, 2018: 12:30 pm UDC Performing Arts Recital Hall
Performance and discussion on Free Improvisation by Weed Tree (Layne Garrett and Amanda Huron) and Luke Stewart (double bass).
April 8th, 2017, 2pm UDC Performing Arts Recital Hall
Works by Jacob TV, Stephen Lilly, Michael Boyd, Lewis Krauthamer and more. Featuring Laura Armstrong (clarinet), Zachary Crabtree (double bass), Michael Boyd (trombone) and others.
April 9th, 2016, 2pm UDC Performing Arts Recital Hall
Program:
Charles Ives (arr. L. Krauthamer): “Chorale” from 3 Quarter-Tone Pieces, arranged for mixed ensemble
Lewis Krauthamer: Four Virginian Ballads on Themes of Human Weakness for solo guitar accompanied by spoken/recorded text by French poet Combor.
– performed by Thomas Schuttenhelm
José Elguezabal: Interlude for microtonal keyboards, from his new Solche Konfrontationen
Tom Licata: Not once, but… for solo clarinet performed by Laura Armstrong
Thomas Schuttenhelm: Six Moments Musicaux for Clarinet and Guitar
Tom Johnson (arr. L. Krauthamer): Rational Melodies Nos. 4 and 10
Tom Johnson: Failing, performed by Zachary Crabtree
