Off the Beaten Path Music Series plans to return in 2025! Keep posted for details!
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.
Make a tax-deductible contribution to Off the Beaten Path Music Series!
We are proud to have RhizomeDC as our 501(c)3 fiscal sponsor. To make a tax-deductible contribution, follow link below and be sure to include “OBP Music Series” in the text field:
If you prefer to donate by check, make your check payable to Rhizome DC, and include “OBP Music Series” in the “memo” line.
Checks may be sent to the following address:
Rhizome DC
c/o Lewis Krauthamer
3910 Havard St. Silver Spring, MD 20906
Past performances:
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
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NOA EVEN, saxophones
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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
