Rebekah conducts a World Premiere by Brittany J. Green
with the Harlem Chamber Players
Commissioned by Cheswatyr Commissions and Produced by Composers NOW

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Rebekah performs the masterpiece Quasi Hoquetus, by Sofia Gubaidulina, with her Mannes Colleagues: Milan Milisavljevic, viola, and J.Y. Song, Piano on a program featuring chamber music collaborations by Mannes Faculty Members

https://event.newschool.edu/manneschamberfestfall2025

Rebekah performs with her International Contemporary Ensemble Colleagues the music of the legendary Anthony Braxton and innovative composer / guitarist Mary Halverson

FREE with RSVP

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Rebekah is thrilled to make her conducting debut at the iconic NYC new music festival, TIME:SPANS
with The International Contemporary Ensemble

featuring US premieres by Marcos Balter and Corie Soumah
TIX and more info

PROGRAM

Ashkan Behzadi: Carnivalesque (2014-16)
for conductor, flute (piccolo), bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello

Tebogo Monnakgotla: Wooden bodies (2020)
for string quartet

Corie Rose Soumah:  Tossed Parachutes of Lilacs and Lungs (2025, US Premiere)
Co-commissioned by Darmstadt Summer Course and The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust
for conductor, flute, clarinet, percussion, electric guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello, electronics 

Marcos Balter: New Work (2025, US Premiere)
Co-commissioned by International Contemporary Ensemble, Darmstadt Summer Course and The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust
for conductor, flute, clarinet, percussion, electric guitar, electric bass, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, electronics

Thierry Pécou: Méditation sur la fin de l'espèce (2017)
for conductor, flute/alto flute, [Cb Cl- contrabass clarinet?], electric guitar, keyboards, solo cello, violin, double bass, electronics (tape)

PERFORMERS

International Contemporary Ensemble
Rebekah Heller, conductor
Mariel Roberts, cello

Alice Teyssier, flute
Campbell MacDonald, clarinet
Daniel Lippel, electric guitar
Randy Zigler, electric bass
Erika Dohi, piano
Modney, violin
Gabriela Diaz, violin
Wendy Richman, viola
Mariel Roberts Musa, cello
Levy Lorenzo, percussion and electronics

Photo by Cherylynn Tsushima for Miller Theatre at Columbia University

Rebekah plays a solo electro-acoustic show, featuring music by her and others.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rebekah-heller-tickets-1323615502599?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

Concerts with Fay Victor and Josh Rubin, along with a solo performance on the FROMM Distinguished Scholar series featuring the work of Rand Steiger.

Fromm show INFO / TIX
April 4 at 7pm

Rebekah is thrilled to perform a FREE program of new music for bassoon choir by composers from the African Diaspora, on the iconic Pop-Up series by Miller Theatre at Columbia University

PROGRAM

Fay Victor                  
Nurture (for Ingram) (2024) for solo bassoon and seven pre-recorded bassoons, world premiere (solo version)
commissioned by Rebekah Heller

Brittany J. Green        
Righteous Rage (2024) for solo bassoon and seven pre-recorded bassoons 
world premiere 
commissioned by Rebekah Heller

Jessie Cox
Sonic Cartographies (2021) for solo bassoon and six pre-recorded bassoons 
commissioned by Rebekah Heller

Julius Eastman (arr. Rebekah Heller)
The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc (1981/2024), for solo bassoon and nine pre-recorded bassoons 

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Rebekah conducts International Contemporary Ensemble for 2023 MacArthur Fellow Courtney Bryan’s Miller Theatre Composer Portrait

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Photo by Rob Davidson for Miller Theatre

Rebekah performs in a new ICE commission of experimental artist Earl Howard

Info / ticket link forthcoming

Three Short Duos for Bassoon:
Bassoon/Bass Guitar
Bassoon/Voice
Bassoon/Bassoon
Concert includes a Talkback with the artists:
Rebekah Heller + Maribel Alonso (bassoons), Jochem van Dijk (bass guitarist), Fay Victor (composer, voice)

Rebekah joins vocalist and longtime duo partner Fay Victor and saxophonist and composer Matana Roberts for Matana’s Stone Residency.

One night only

August 1, 8:30
$20 at the door

http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=2

Rebekah is joined by 10 of the world’s most impressive bassoonists for a one-night only, once-in-a-lifetime event.
Experience the magic of 10 LIVE BASSOONS playing new sounds by incredible composers.

TICKETS

On June 8, at the Fridman Gallery, the HELLER BASSOON ENSEMBLE will present the WORLD PREMIERES of::

Grand Street Counterpoint, by Steve Reich, arranged for bassoons by Rebekah Heller

The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc, by Julius Eastman, arranged for bassoons by Rebekah Heller, and featuring vocalist Damian Norfleet singing the haunting Prelude

Nurture (for Ingram), for 8 bassoons, by Fay Victor (who will be in attendance)

PERFORMERS:

Maribel Alonso
Trey Coudret
Alexander Davis
Ryan Ghassemi
Joy Guidry
Stephanie Patterson
Sara Schoenbeck
Jamael Smith
Joseph Swift
Francisca Wright

CONDUCTOR:
Lester St. Louis

GUEST VOCALIST:
Damian Norfleet

TICKETS

FREE SHOW!!!!!!!!!
Rebekah plays the US premiere of Grand Street Counterpoint, her collaboration with legendary composer Steve Reich, and the World Premiere of Heller’s bassoon arrangement of Julius Eastman’s The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc, for solo bassoon and 9 pre-recorded bassoons.

Performance date: 5:30pm, May 4th; BRIC arts

Featuring 50+ concerts , Long Play also showcases a dense network of inventive music venues in Brooklyn – with performances at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Roulette, Public Records, BRIC, Murmrr, Irondale Center for the Arts, The Center for Fiction, plus outdoor events and more. A limited number of 3-day Early Bird Festival and Supporter Passes are on sale now!

TICKETS

More info Here

Rebekah joins ICE colleagues Fay Victor, Alice Teyssier, Clara Warnaar and Nathan Davis in an evening of Call for ___ premieres featuring composers Bonita Oliver and Sylvain Souklaye. She also joins Varun Rangaswamy in the performance of a piece for 2 bassoons by Victor.

TICKETS COMING SOON

More info Here

The International Contemporary Ensemble returns to NYU Skirball with a program of works by composer/pianist Anthony Davis and composer/vocalist Leila Adu-Gilmore. The evening will feature Adu-Gilmore’s Mahakala Oratorio (2020-23, world premiere of the live version) and Alyssum (2014); and Davis’s Wayang No. II (Shadowdance) (1982), Clonetics (1983), and a special solo performance by Davis. Drawing on an ultra-cosmopolitan range of musical and cultural sources, Leila Adu-Gilmore and Anthony Davis exemplify some of the many ways in which Afrodiasporic new music becomes revealed as an intercultural, multigenerational space of innovation that offers new subjects, histories, and identities.

TICKETS

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Rebekah makes her International Contemporary Ensemble Conducting DEBUT on a concert featuring the music of George Lewis and members of the AACM at the Part Avenue Armory

TICKETS

Rebekah joins colleagues from International Contemporary Ensemble, the Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra, and Douglas Ewart for a program of both pre-composed and improvised works.

Photo by Jeenah Moon

Rebekah joins International Contemporary Ensemble for this one-of-a-kind experience:

In response to John Cage’s unrealized project, Noh-opera: Or the Complete Musical Works of Marcel Duchamp, which he envisioned to premiere in Japan, Tomomi Adachi seamlessly integrates the alluring aspects of opera and noh, using AI to compose music and lyrics from koan—short Zen Buddhist riddles.

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Rebekah performs with International Contemporary Ensemble for a program featuring composers from the African Diaspora, curated by George Lewis.

Featuring works by Courtney Bryan, Brittany J Green, and more.

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Rebekah premieres new compositions and improvisations for solo bassoon.

She also plays a set with International Contemporary Ensemble colleagues Joshua Rubin and Fay Victor.
More info and ticket link forthcoming

photo by Tarishi Gupta