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YMUSIC IS FORMED
May 5th 2008
yMusic’s first band meeting, at the communal table of Landmarc, a restaurant in the Time Warner Center in New York City.
May 27, 2008
YMUSIC’s first
concert
Ars Nova in Manhattan
yMusic playes excerpts of Gabriel Kahane’s work-in-progress For The Union Dead, based on poetry by
Robert Lowell
June 1st, 2009
yMusic meets with New Amsterdam Records to discuss putting out an album of commissioned music.
December 20th, 2009
yMusic’s first recital at the Brooklyn Library
2010
March 3, 2010
yMusic plays the American Songbook series at Lincoln Center, with Gabriel Kahane
Music NOW commissions Annie Clark (St. Vincent) to write a work for yMusic, entitled Proven Badlands.
July 2010
Clarice Jensen
joins yMusic on Cello
Hideaki, Clarice, CJ, Rob, Alex, Nadia in 2010
2011
Feb 2011
Son Lux enlists yMusic as he writes an album in a month, as part of the RPM challenge. We Are Rising is released June 28th
2012
Feb 8, 2012
yMusic join Richard Reed Parry and Ryan Lott for the Ecstatic Music Festival, debuting the Music for Heart and Breath Sextet
July 1, 2012
yMusic joins Richard Reed Parry, Nico Muhly, and Bryce and Aaron Dessner upstate to record the album Music for Heart and Breath
playing the Spiegeltent at the Sydney Festival in 2013
May 2013
yMusic head to the famous Phish Barn in Vermont, to record their second album, Balance Problems
January-February 2014
yMusic hits the road! Residencies at Emory, Duke, Western US tour
April, 2014: yMusic record Gabriel Kahane’s arrangement of Beck’s Mutilation Rag, part of his Song Reader project
July 31st, 2014
yMusic perform with José González for Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors
September 30, 2014
Balance Problems is released
yMusic starts “Rockin’ this Bitch” with Ben Folds — making up songs on-the-spot in live shows
July 2015
yMusic perform solo at the first Eaux Claires Fesitval, curated bu Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner
September 2015
yMusic starts season-long residency at New York Live Arts, culminating in a multimedia project with Marcos Balter, Bill T. Jones, and Dianne McIntyre
September 11, 2015
Ben Folds and yMusic release So There
September 2016
yMusic are finalists in the Walter W. Naumburg International Chamber Music Competition
December 2, 2016
SOLD OUT yMusic recital at Carnegie Hall
featuring works by Son Lux, Timo Andres, Andrew Norman, Caroline Shaw, Sufjan Stevens, Chris Thile, Missy Mazzoli and Robert Sirota
2017
February 2017
yMusic record God Only Knows with John Legend and Cynthia Erivo for the Grammy Awards
March/April 2017
yMusic tour Germany with Anohni, including an appearance at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
yMusic play sufjan Stevens, live in the lobby of the Michelberger Hotel in Berlin
June 2017
yMusic joins Bruce Hornsby for his Funhouse Fest in Williamsburg, VA
June 2017
yMusic performs at the Sarasota Music Festival
July 2017
yMusic celebrates 10 years of collaboration with Gabriel Kahane in a special concert at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, NY
September 2017
yMusic and the Tallest Man On Earth perform at Pioneer Works
September 2017
yMusic records two new arrangements for Paul Simon’s upcoming album In The Blue Light
2018
March/April 2018
yMusic tour - highlights include an interdepartmental residency at University of Southern Claifornia with the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and USC Thornton School of Music, and the world premiere of Robert Sirota’s Luminous Bodies with Jeffrey Kahane
September 2018
Paul Simon releases In the Blue Light. yMusic appears on three tracks, with arrangements by Bryce Dessner, Robert Sirota, and Rob Moose
October 2018
yMusic at Barishnikov Arts Center in NYC and Nuit Blanch in Paris
March 2019
After a pep talk from Paul Simon, yMusic start collaboratively composing works
yMusic record “You’ve Got Time” with Regina Spektor for the final season of Orange is the New Black
May 4, 2019
yMusic return to Carnegie Hall for another sold out show
September 2019
yMusic and Emily King perform live on WNYC’s SOUNDCHECK
2020
January 2020
yMusic play Winter Jazzfest show, featuring Emily King, at Bowery Ballroom
February-March 2020
yMusic tour with Bruce Hornsby
March 5, 2020
yMusic play release show at Rockwood Music Hall
May 14, 2020
During the early COVID-19 lockdown, yMusic appear on Living Music: Pirate Radio Edition, along with Emily King and Judd Greenstein, who wrote a new work, Together, that could be performed with the real time lags of Zoom in mind.
2022
Feb 2022
yMusic play first live concert since the onset of the pandemic, in a cocnert curated by Laurie Anderson Joe’s Pub in NYC
April 2022
yMusic joins Chris Thile for a set of concerts in Laguna Beach
May 5th, 2023
yMusic releases their fifth album ‘YMUSIC’
released on the band’s 15th anniversary. The album consists of 9 original compositions
2008
February 22, 2008
Rob Moose and CJ Camerieri play a show with the National at BAM, 50 feet across the stage from each other. They run into an old friend, Nadia Sirota, at the afterparty (at Frank’s Cocktail Lounge), and the three of them discuss forming group that can play chamber music and support popular artists with the same precision and energy.
yMusic’s original personnel (from left): Hideaki Aomori, Alex Sopp, Rob Moose, Nadia Sirota, Mike Block, CJ Camerieri
2009
Jan 8th 2009
yMusic and Gabriel Kahane at (Le) Poisson Rouge premiere For the Union Dead (complete)
yMusic plays on New Amsterdam Records’ Archipelago Series 2010
April 2010
Bryce and Aaron Dessner invite yMusic to play their Music NOW festival in Cincinnati, alongside St. Vincent and Justin Vernon.
Late 2010
yMusic begins work on a collaborative album with Shara Nova of My Brightest Diamond
January 20th 2011, yMusic and Shara Nova play for Studio 360
August 30th, 2011
YMUSIC release debut album Beautiful Mechanical
works by Ryan Lott (of Son Lux), Annie Clark (of St. Vincent), Shara Nova (of My Brightest Diamond), Sarah Kirkland Snider, Judd Greenstein, and Gabriel Kahane
July 2012
yMusic appear on Dirty Projectors’ album Swing Lo Magellan, joining the band for a November appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman.
2013
January 11th ,2013
yMusic opens for and accompanies the Dirty Projectors at Carnegie Hall. They repeat the show at the Sydney Opera House, and play a solo show at the Spiegeltent as part of the Sydney Festival
yMusic Kickstarts Balance Problems, their second album
2014
January 20th, 2014
yMusic premieres The Measure of All Things, a live documentary by Sam Green about the Guinness Book of World Records, at the Sundance Festival
March 2014
Gabriel Cabezas Joins yMusic on cello
September 2014
yMusic and Richard Reed Parry tour, ending the Hollywood Bowl
October 2014
yMusic opening for Blake Mills
October 2014
yMusic start writing and recording with Ben Folds for his upcoming album So There
2015
March 2015
yMusic embark on world tour with Ben Folds.
yMusic performs solo works, and serves as Ben’s band, with drummer Sam Smith - tour highlights include appearances at the Royal Opera House, Sydney Opera House, and Bonnaroo Music Festival
yMusic play Andrew Norman - from an opening set on the Jose Gonzales tour
2016
March 2016
yMusic go on US tour with Jose Gonzales
“After a year of touring with a band focused on percussion and vocals I look forward to playing many of the same songs in a different style,” says Jose, “I’m very excited to go on tour with yMusic! I love their setup and taste in arrangements, being six super talented musicians playing strings, flute, clarinet and trumpet, it feels like it opens us up from sounding energetic and avant-garde to classic and delicate.”
August 2016
yMusic perform with the Staves at the Eaux Claires II Festival
December 3 2016
yMusic opens for Bon Iver at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn
February 17, 2017
yMusic release third studio album, First
music written by Ryan Lott of Son Lux
Art by Alex Sopp
All tracks written by Ryan Lott (Son Lux)
Alex Sopp’s stop-motion video for Sunset Boulevard
June 16 2017
yMusic and Paul Simon Play a set of new arrangements of classic songs at Eaux Claires III
The show was nearly cancelled due to rain. A narrative account with audio was featured on the podcast Meet the Composer
November 24, 2017
yMusic and the Staves release The Way is Read on Nonesuch Records
December 2017
yMusic and the Staves perform at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN, and on Live From Here with Chris Thile
May 2018
YMUSIC EMBARK ON WORLD TOUR WITH Paul Simon
Highlights include shows at the Hollywood Bowl, Hyde park, and Madison Square Garden
October 13, 2018
yMusic appear with Paul Simon on SNL
2019
January 2019
yMusic and Paul Simon appear on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert
April 19, 2019
yMusic appear on Bruce Hornsby’s album
Absolute Zero
April 26, 2019
yMusic releases “…which enables us to fly”
music by Marcos Balter, with a documentary about working with Bill T. Jones and Dianne McIntyre
July-September 2019
yMusic launch residency at the Bell House in Brooklyn, pairing original compositions, chamber music, and collaborations with music makers popular artists, including Amos Lee, Skip LaPlante and Emily King
November 2019
yMusic play LA show at Largo, with Lucius
February 14, 2020
yMusic release fourth album, Ecstatic Science
music by Missy Mazzoli, Gabriella Smith, Paul Wiancko and Caroline Shaw
Summer 2020
yMusic double down own writing, exchanging files via email and recording work remotely.
2021
yMusic appears on Cal Performances at Home, with a set of video premiers of their self-composed music, as well as works by Gabriella Smith and Andrew Norman
February 11, 2022
yMusic released EP and film Together, with music by Judd Greenstein, recorded remotely
2023
January 11, 2023
yMusic returns to Carnegie Hall for Zankel Hall’s first concert in-the-round in 20 years
