Past Projects
Princeton Sound Kitchen
Sputter Box was in residency at Princeton University as a part of their Princeton Sound Kitchen, giving graduate composition students the opportunity to work with professional musicians. This program featured new works by Aliayta Foon-Dancoes, Kennedy Taylor Dixon, and Onche Rajesh Ugbabe.
The second half of the concert featured Gemma Peacocke’s “A Strange Power,” a evening length cantata about the tangled web of romance, free love, creation, and death in the early lives of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley and her step-sister, Claire Clairmont. Sputter Box was joined by Charlotte Mundy as Mary, Aaron Wolff on cello, and Isabelle O’Connell on piano.
The Blackbird Creative Lab
Sputter Box was one of three chamber ensembles to participate in this two-week creative immersion hosted by Grammy-award winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird.
joint concert
Sputter Box joined forces with eco|tonal at Astoria Art House for a night filled with premieres, and ensemble favorites.
6TH YEAR GALA
Sputter Box is celebrated 6 years of commissioning music for clarinet, voice, and percussion with their annual gala. Funds raised through this gala went towards Sputter Box’s upcoming season.
Winter Premieres
Sputter Box premiered new works by Noah Magnus and Kevin Kay, as well as a North American premiere by Filippo Scaramucci at Scholes Street Studio in Brooklyn.
5th Year gala
Sputter Box celebrated 5 years of commissioning music for clarinet, voice, and percussion by hosting their first ever annual gala. Check out the Current Projects page to find information on this year’s gala.
Millenium composers Initiative
Sputter Box premiered six pieces by MCI composers at Scholes Street Studio in Brooklyn. New works by Ali Balighi, Eddie Jonathan Garcia Borbon, Dominic Matthews, Isaac Mayhew, Conner Leigh Shaw and, Dylan Trần.
Queens Arts Fund
Sputter Box just wrapped up the premiere of Daijana Wallace and Kakia Gkoudina’s “stillness to……..” in a two day weekend of concerts centered around the theme of stillness. These concerts and subsequent recordings were made possible by the Queens Council on the Arts New Work Fund.
MINNESOTA FRINGE 2022
Sputter Box was a part of the 2022 Minnesota Fringe Festival performing works Georges Aperghis, Daniel Townsend, and Brendan Sweeney. Shows were held at the Bryant Lake Bowl Theatre in downtown Minneapolis.
Bouman Fellow Ensemble
Sputter Box premiered Silen Wellington’s piece “by the cauldron [in your hips]” in the spring of 2022. Silen is a 2021-2022 Kinds of Kings Bouman Fellow!
University of Florida
Sputter Box was in residence at the University of Florida as collaborating artists with the graduate composition studio for the 2021-2022 season. Check back soon for some thrilling new videos of these compositions.
Minnesota Fringe 2021
Sputter Box was a part of the 2021 Minnesota Fringe Festival, virtually performing works by Bethany Younge, Alan Hankers, Georges Aperghis, Beau Kenyon, and miniatures from their album.
Sputter (shrinks the) Box
In the middle of March 2020, Sputter Box put out a call for 1-minute compositions for bass clarinet, soprano, and djembe. Composers were not only limited in their instrumentation but also by the performers’ desire to not disturb their neighbors too much as they recorded their parts separately from their New York apartments.
Avaloch Farm
Sputter Box was in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute during the Summer of 2019. There, they worked with composers Alan Hankers, Joe Krycia, and Chris Newman alongside ensemble coach and choreographer Neil Parsons to create three new works for their ensemble. The residency culminated with a premieres recital at Areté Gallery and Venue in Brooklyn, October 2019.
Sputter (Lifts the) Box
As an all-white, cisgender and able-bodied ensemble, we recognize that our efforts in commissioning and collaborating must offset our own racial and cisgender homogeneity. We have a lot of work to do to become an actively anti-racist organization. We would like to share with you works by BIPOC artist that we are each listening to.
Sputter (open) Box
From January 2019-February 2020, Sputter Box hosted a monthly open improvisation session for all artistic disciplines and ability levels. Musicians, visual artists, dancers, writers, (and more) were all invited to attend and participate.