DAVID CIERI | In Performance

FROM CARNEGIE HALL - MAY 9TH 2023

Big appreciation for the amazing audience that showed up for New Sounds WQXR/John Schaefer’s live silent film score series - January 27th 2023 at The Winter Garden Performance Space in New York City. This was the second live performance of a new score that I wrote for The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl TH Dreyer’s 1928 silent film masterpiece.

PERFORMING SELECTIONS FROM THE SCORE FOR THE PREMIERE OF HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT IN BILLINGS MONTANA - JUNE 27 + 28 - ALBERTA BAIR THEATER

CARNEGIE HALL - MAY 2022 - WITH TREVOR DUNN (BASS) AND ARUN RAMAMURTHY (VIOLIN)

TEDX PERFORMANCE 2022 (AND TALK TO COME) WITH THE IMMEASURABLY SONOROUS EMPIRE MARCHING ELITE

LIVE - IBLA RAGUSA SICILY

Performing the new score for Carl TH Dreyer’s 1928 THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC - January 24th 2020 at WNYC’s The Jerome L Greene Space

David Cieri & Friends at Carnegie Hall | Weill Recital Hall (2018)

A new arrangement and orchestration of Gyorgy Ligeti's ‘Ricercata 7’ by David Cieri

Anjna Swaminathan (Violin), Shahzad Ismaily (Percussion), Mike Brown (Bass), Adan Vasquez (Harp), Vasko Dukovski (Bass Clarinet), Jorge Garcia-D’Leon (Clarinet), David Cieri (Piano & Bass Waterphone)

Filmed & edited by Marika Hacking & Francesco Saviano of Unarmed Media

David Cieri & Friends at Carnegie Hall | Weill Hall (2017)

David Cieri (Piano), Anjna Swaminathan (Violin), Shahzad Ismaily (Percussion), Adam Vasquez (Harp)

David Cieri and Friends at Carnegie Hall_Weill Hall 2012

Playing with a fragment from Duke Ellington’s - Chinoiserie - Rubin Kohdeli (cello) and Mike Brown (bass)

David Cieri & Friends at Carnegie Hall | Weill Recital Hall (2016)

Danielle Blau's poem ‘A Suicide Bomber (Twelve Seconds To Go) Beholds the Teeming Marketplace & Foresees His Death’
[originally published as "The Suicide Bomber's Song, Minutes Before" in Narrative Magazine]

David Cieri (Piano & Waterphone), Danielle Blau (Reading), Adam Maalouf (Pan Drums), Adam Good (Oud), Mike Brown (Bass), Megumi Saruhashi (Violin)

Filmed by Chris Ewers

David Cieri & Friends at Carnegie Hall | Weill Recital Hall (2013)

David Cieri (Piano), Mike Brown & Reuben Radding (Bass), Rubin Kodheli (Cello), John McCarthy & Mark Stolte (Bagpipes)

Filmed by Jonathan Mardukas

Natasha Trethewey reads ‘Enlightenment’
with music by David Cieri, Shahzad Ismaily & Jake Leckie

Gavagai Music + Reading Series: 11/10/2016, The Owl Music Parlor (Brooklyn, NY)
US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey reads ‘Enlightenment’ with original live music composed & improvised by David Cieri (Piano), Shahzad Ismaily (Drums), Jake Leckie (Bass)

David Tomas Martinez reads ‘Hoodies’
with music by David Cieri & Mike Brown

Gavagai Music + Reading Series: 4/19/2016, Cornelia St. Cafe (NY, NY)
Poet David Tomas Martinez reads ‘HOODIES’ with original live music composed & improvised for his work by David Cieri (Piano) & Mike Brown (Bass)

Yusef Komunyakaa
with music by David Cieri & Mike Brown

Gavagai Music + Reading Series: 3/17/2016, Cornelia St. Cafe (NY, NY)
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa reads ‘The Plea’, ‘When Loneliness Is a Man’, ‘Sugar’, ‘Believing in Iron’, ‘Dolphy's Aviary’, ‘Anodyne’, and ‘Requiem’, with live music composed and improvised by David Cieri (Piano) & Mike Brown (Bass).

‘The Secret Rite of the Magpie’ by David Cieri
performed by La Camerata Washington Heights

La Camerata Washington Heights performing ‘The Secret Rite of the Magpie’
David Cieri, composer | Tania Leon, conductor
From the Association of Dominican Classical Artists’ Gala Concert Series VII ‘Composers in New York’, October 20, 2016 at Aaron Davis Hall, Marian Anderson Theater
Filmed & edited by Erwin Perez, audio recorded by Daniel Montoya