Upcoming and Recent Performances
Chaconne #28 – August 14, 2015
Private performance while serving as Artist Faculty at Bennington Chamber Music Conference. Greenwall, Auditorium, Bennington College, Vermont 10:30pm The work is certainly changing, literally under my own hands. Allemande, Corrente, Sarabande, Gigue, Chaccone: deep within that one continuous flow of thoughts and feelings some core element is starting to emerge, beginning to come to my awareness.…
Read MoreChaconne #27 – August 7, 2015 Bennington, Vermont
Tonite, 10:30 pm in Greenwall Auditorium on the campus of Bennington College.
Read MoreTOMORROW NIGHT! June 6th, 7pm NYC 43 W. 13th Street 10011
A wonderful early evening program: Composer/Bassist Jeffrey Levine and Friends: featuring a selection of his solo piano works performed by Adrienne Kim, Shem and Jeff performing his ballet music Three Dances from Paper Castles, AND – with cellist Julia Bruskin and violist Désirée Elsevier – Schubert’s Piano Quintet “The Trout”. Refreshments offered starting at 6:30 PM, music at 7 (donations invited) Tenri…
Read MoreChaconne #26 – April 6, 2015 Private home NYC
I am very excited to be playing for one of my dear creative colleagues next Monday. Since the last Chaconne (#25, 12/28/2014) I have been focussed on moving my residence, and have allowed the Bach to lie fallow through the deep winter. Now it is Spring, and I am coming back to the Bach after…
Read MoreChaconne #25 – December 28, 2014 5pm – Private performance
in memory of my friend Lev Gogish. White Plains, NY
Read MoreChaconne #24 – 5pm Sunday July 13 2014 – Guilford CT
Greene Gallery, on the Guilford Green – Guilford, Connecticut 5 PM – $15 admission to benefit Guilford Better Chance RSVP 29 Whitfield St, Guilford, CT 06437 (203) 453-4162
Read MoreEvolution – March 19th 8 PM Bennington College
Evolution of a 21st Century Violinist Violinist Shem Guibbory with Percussionist Rex Benincasa March 19, 2014, 8 P.M. FREE ADMISSION Deane Carriage Barn Bennington College, Bennington Vermont “I have played everything from Bach to Debussy, for real art should be international” violinist Eugene Ysaÿe Adagio and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 1001 (circa 1722/1723) …
Read MoreChaconne #22 Bennington College March 18, 10 PM
On campus in the CAPA LENS. Tuesday night’s 10 p.m. performance of the entire D Minor Partita produced one of the most memorable results I have ever experienced as a soloist. The audience of about 60 or so stayed sitting together in a profound, relaxed silence for a good 8-10 minutes. Slowly, one or two…
Read MoreChaconne #21 – December 17, 2013 Jackson Heights Jewish Center
7:00 Holiday Concert at the Jackson Heights Jewish Center, Queens I have played this seasonal concert for many years and it is always great fun – so many wonderful people from the neighborhood show up, and the programs are always interesting! A really fine Tango segment (singer Chris Vasquez and pianist Cesar Vuksic), Arabic music (including Simon…
Read MoreChaconne #20 – December 8, 2013 – private home
for colleagues and friends. This performance was a good one – I was happy with the spirit and mood I was able to create; I had to keep substituting listening deeply for thinking, for mental activity. I worked a lot at exploring many places for playing at soft dynamic levels, leaving the higher levels…
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