I’m Director and co-founder of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) where we study and teach A Course in Miracles and meditation under the guidance of CRS Founder Yasuko Kasaki. I’m also a multi-disciplinary artist and curator/producer of music, dance, theater, film and visual arts events and the organizer of the Sufi Dance NYC meetup group. You can explore my music/dance/theater performance photography and video here.
Tomoko Sugawara
Eurasia Consort
Eurasiaconsort.com
Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church, 3/23/23
Photos by Christopher Pelham
#tomokosugawara #eurasiaconsort #midtownconcerts #kugo #harp #earlymusic #silkroad #musicphotography
Anne-Emilie Gendron
emilieannegendron.com
INTERWOVEN at Resobox EV, 3/11/23
interwovenmusic.org
Photo by Christopher Pelham
#violin #resobox #interwovenmusic #interwomen #chambermusic #stringquartet #musicphotography
Samer Ghadry
SoundGarden by Metropolis Ensemble
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
February 12, 2023
Photo by Christopher Pelham
Samer Ghadry is a Brooklyn-based musician and healing sound practitioner. He uses a variety of droning and overtoning instruments such as gong, voice, bowls, and forks to craft relaxing, rejuvenating, and holistically transporting sound journeys in various settings. Samer has a background in percussion and improvisation and has toured and recorded with musicians Matthew Dear, Angel Deradoorian, and Dave Harrington, and has appeared in recent works such as Alanis Morsette`s The Storm Before the Calm and the film Everything Everywhere All At Once.
#metropolisensemble #samerghadry #soundgarden #soundinstallation #gongbath #soundbath #musicphotography #gong
Thank you to everyone who joined us last night for Shoko Nagai`s TOKALA ensemble featuring Shoko Nagai (piano/accordion), Satoshi Takeishi (percussion) and Sita Chay (violin)!
http://www.shokonagai.net/shoko-nagais-tokala
http://www.sitachay.com
Photos by Christopher Pelham.
#tokala #silkroad #accordion #violin #asianmusic #shokonagai #sitachay #satoahitakeishi #musicphotography
Lunar New Year Parade
Chinatown NYC, 2/12/23
#lunarnewyear #lunarnewyear2023 #lunarnewyearparade #chinesenewyear #chinatownny #chinatownnyc
Szu Hua (Mia) Chen, viola
https://miachenmusic.com
New Asia Chamber Music Society
Lunar New Year Salon Concert
February 2, 2023
Museum of Chinese in America
Photo by Christopher Pelham
#viola #chambermusic #stringquartet #mocanyc #nacms #newasiachambermusicsociety #musicphotography #musicofchineseinamerica
Lunar New Year Parade
Chinatown, NYC 2/12/23
#lunarnewyear #chinesenewyear2023 #yearoftherabbit #chinatownnyc #dragon
Erika Dohi (synths)
Lauren Cauley (violin with pedals)
Metropolis Ensemble’s
Art in the Garden: Biophony SoundGarden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden 2/12/23
Photo by Christopher Pelham
#violin #soundbath #bbg #brooklynbotanicgarden #musicphotography
Sara Serpa
Metropolis Ensemble’s
Art in the Garden: Biophony SoundGarden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden 2/12/23
#violin #soundbath #bbg #brooklynbotanicgarden #musicphotography
Lunar New Year Parade
Chinatown, NYC 2/12/23
#yearoftherabbit #lunarnewyear #chinesenewyear #chinatownnyc #lunarnewyearparade #lunarnewyearparadenyc
Calligrapher Kanako Sehara
from Kotohogi performance workshop
Berlin 2022
Photo by Christopher Pelham
#calligraphy #calligrapher #kotohogi #dock11 #yukokaseki #kanakosehara #mihotsujii #dancephotography #berlin #livepainting
Congrats to Terri Lyne Carrington and all her amazing collaborators for her 2023 Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album
For “New Standards Vol. 1”!
https://www.terrilynecarrington.com
Pictured: Terri Lyne Carrington
from In the Green Room
By Jen Shyu & Sumi Tonooka
at Asia Society, 1/12/23
Photo by Christopher Pelham
#inthegreenroom #asiasociety #terrilynecarrington #grammys #grammy2023 #drummer
#musicohotography #composer
Congrats to Linda May Han Oh for her 2023 Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album
For “New Standards Vol. 1”!
https://lindamayhanoh.com
https://www.terrilynecarrington.com
Pictured: Linda May Han Oh
from In the Green Room
By Jen Shyu & Sumi Tonooka
at Asia Society, 1/12/23
Photo by Christopher Pelham
#inthegreenroom #asiasociety #lindamayhanoh #grammys #grammy2023 #bassist #musicphotography #composer
Rino Aise
https://www.rinoaise.com
Rockwood Music Hall,2/1/23
Photo by Christopher Pelham
#shamisen #sanshin #japanesemusician #roxkwoodmusichall #rinosaurs #musicphotography #rinoaise
Rose Hsien, violin
NEW ASIA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY
Lunar New Year Salon Concert
At Museum Of Chinese In America
Feb 2, 2023
photo by Christopher Pelham
Taiwanese violinist Rose Hsien, currently based in London, is building a strong international reputation as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician through distinctive and unusually mature performances across Europe, Asia and the United States with orchestras such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic and the Russian Symphony Orchestra and in venues including Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, Rudolfinum’s Dvorak Hall, the Barbican and Wigmore Hall.
https://www.rosehsien.com
https://newasiacms.org
https://www.mocanyc.org
#rosehsien #mocanyc #newasiachambermusicsociety #violin #musocphotography
André Matos
M³ Festival
Greenwich House Music Hall, 6/21/22
Photo by Christopher Pelham
André will be playing with Sara Serpa and Dov Manski on Feb 3 at Neighborhood Church of Greenwich Village, 269 Bleecker St.
André Matos is a NYC based and Portuguese native multi faceted guitarist whose main focus, in recent years, has been playing solo guitar. Matos creates original songs, moments and landscapes, using traditional guitar sounds as well as expanding through effect manipulation and looping. His stellar career in jazz and songs is shown through several collaborations over the last 15 years, namely two critically acclaimed albums co-led with singer Sara Serpa, as well as several iterations of his own trio of guitar-bass-drums.
https://www.andrematosmusic.com
#andrématos #saraserpa #m3festival #guitarist #greenwichhousemusicschool #musicphotography #jazzphotography #jazzguitar
Jen Shyu
In the Green Room: Layering Legacies of Asian and Black American Women in Jazz
Created by Jen Shyu & Sumi Tonooka
Asia Society, Jan 12, 2023
Photo by Christopher Pelham
Supported in part by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation as part of its Creative Inflections program, a first-of-its-kind initiative to support leading jazz artists and presenting organizations in innovative collaborations that enable artists to take creative risks and expand the genre’s listenership by attracting younger and more diverse audiences.
https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/green-room
Tomorrow night 1/27 8pm ET, Carolina Performing Arts presents Jen Shyu`s Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses at UNC-CH
https://carolinaperformingarts.org/events/jen-shyu-zero-grasses/
#inthegreeroom #jenshyu #mutualmentorshipformusicians #carolinaperformingarts arts #uncchapelhill #jazz #womeninjazz #asianjazzmusicians #jazzphotography #musicphotography #asiasociety #dorisdukefoundation
Maya Keren
Concert for Reproductive Rights, 8/27/22
Photo by Christopher Pelham
I’ll be presenting Maya’s ensemble Careful in the Sun in Crossing Boundaries Concert Series #19 in the White Room at CRS on 1/28/23. Details at crsny.org
Maya is a pianist, vocalist, composer, and songwriter from Philadelphia. A recent Princeton graduate and M³ cohort alumn, “they are interested in the process of environing people, voices, instruments, and sounds in ways that invite connection with one’s erotic instinct, embody compassionate and queer relations with the self and the collective, and destabilize learned systems of domination.”
mayakerenmusic.com
#mayakeren #carefulinthesun #composer #mutualmentorshipformusicians #crossingboundaries #pianist #musicphotography #princeton
Emmanuel Michael
M³ Festival Day 1
Greenwich House Music Hall
June 16, 2022
Photo by Christopher Pelham
Emmanuel will be playing with Maya Keren’s ensemble Careful in the Sun on Jan 28, 2023 at CRS. Details: crsny.org
He has been a part of various diverse ensembles and has had the honor to work with a wide variety of artists such as Rufus Reid, Wycliff Gordon, Matt Wilson, Keyon Harrold, and Immanuel Wilkins. Michael was also a member of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Peer-to-Peer All-Star Sextet of 2019, giving him the honor of touring and holding workshops through several schools within the state of Oklahoma with jazz icons Steve Wilson and Lisa Henry, under the direction of Dr. J.B Dyas and Bart Marantz. Michael also toured throughout parts of China and Taiwan under Carnegie Hall’s NYO Jazz 2019 with Sean Jones and Kurt Elling, allotting him the honor of working for two weeks in New York with artists such as Shammie Royston, Obed Calvaire, Erika Von Kleist, and Mathew Stevens. Michael now attends the Manhattan School of Music and works as a professional musician in New York City.
https://www.sfjb.org/emmanuel-michael
#m3festival #electricguitar #guitar #jazzguitar #musicphotography #jazzphotography #EmmanuelMichael #carefulinthesun #greenwichhousemusicschool
Sufi Master Farima Berenji, Ph.D.
https://linktr.ee/farimadance
at Last Frontier NYC, Oct 21, 2022
Photo by Christopher Pelham
#whirling #farima_dance #rumipoetry #whirlingdervish #devotional #sufidance #sacreddance #iraniandance #lastfrontiernyc #dancephotography
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Celebrating Rumi's Birthday — Wendi Weng & The Brooklyn Nomads, 9/30/22 at L — Private Gallery
Wednesdays at Noon 28 — Paradise Laboratory with gamin & Jungwoon Kim 2
Wednesdays at Noon 27 — Paradise Laboratory with gamin & Jungwoon Kim 1
Wednesdays at Noon 25: Oud Taksim Huzzam by Tomchess
Wednesdays at Noon 24: Paradise Laboratory 5 with gamin and Galen Passen — Part 3
Wednesdays at Noon 22: Sarve Kharaman (Graceful Cyprus)
Wednesdays at Noon 21: Paradise Laboratory 5 with gamin and Galen Passen — Part 2
Wednesdays at Noon 20: Paradise Laboratory 5 with gamin and Galen Passen — Part 1
Wednesdays at Noon 19: "Marlboro Man" and "A Girl and a Guitar" by Rie Tamuro タムロリエ