Cost: Free - Ticket Required Artist(s): Gordon Beeferman is a composer, pianist, and improviser based in New York City. He has created and performed innovative opera, chamber and orchestra music, avant-jazz, and numerous collaborations with choreographers, writers, and video artists. His varied projects include bands that perform his compositions: an organ trio; Other Life Forms, a quartet; Zero Gravity, a multi-stylistic song project, and Music for an Imaginary Band, a septet (“a commanding avant-jazz ensemble” —Time Out New York). His music has been performed by the New York City Opera orchestra, Momenta Quartet, Minnesota Orchestra, Albany Symphony, California EAR Unit, St. Urban Concerts, Talea Ensemble, Quartet New Generation recorder collective, and remarkable soloists like sopranos Sharon Harms and Alice Teyssier, bassoonist Peter Kolkay, pianist Steve Beck, and violinist/vocalist Eden MacAdam-Somer. He has composed three operas with librettist Charlotte Jackson: The Rat Land, praised as “complex and daringly modern” by The New York Times, The Enchanted Organ: A Porn Opera, scenes of which have been performed to sold-out theater and nightclub audiences in downtown Manhattan, and The Ninth Floor, a one-act supported by the MAP Fund. A versatile and eclectic musician, Beeferman has performed with numerous improvisers, ensembles, singers, and theatrical productions at venues from the Coney Island Museum to the Berlin Festspielhaus. Recent collaborators include dancer Susan Hefner, guitarist Chris Cochrane, saxophonist Yoni Kretzmer, and vocalists Shelley Hirsch and Carol Lipnik. Beeferman has received commissioning grants from the Fromm Foundation, Concert Artists Guild, and the BMI Foundation, among others. He has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Copland House, and Ucross, and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. A native of Cambridge, Mass., he studied privately with NEC’s Ran Blake and Hankus Netsky during his teenage years. His recordings are available on a host of labels including Summit, zOaR, Minor Amusements, Different Track, Innova, Generate, Clang, and OutNow. Gordon Beeferman, piano Eden MacAdam-Somer, violin, voice, feet Joe Morris, bass CMA students Alexis Ward, Hanei Cho, Chenjie Gu, Jackson Janis, Maggie Zang, Qiruo Zhang, Seungeun Lee, William Wei, Wilson Jiang, voice Bella Navarro, Lio Itaya, violin Julius Boxer-Cooper, flute Jonas Miclisse, saxophone Pang Yi Lee, pipa Leah Liu, guzheng Elfie Shi, vibraphone Andy Messier, Tom Chiu, guitar Wesley Stoker, Diana Reid, cello Eva Paddock, bass Malachi Turner, electric bass Avi Randall, piano Yilin Chen, percussion Program: All compositions by Gordon Beeferman Solo Piano Improvisation
Wander and Weep
Do You?
Rink
The Sway Excerpts from Apocalypscapades
New Wave
Path
Hey, Songs Live Stream: Tickets: Event Type: Concert Category: Contemporary Musical Arts Open to the Public: Yes programlink: Update: 09/10/2026 14:49 Join us for a special residency concert with composer, pianist, and improviser Gordon Beeferman, joined by CMA Department Chair Eden MacAdam-Somer: (voice/violin/foot percussion), CMA and Jazz faculty Joe Morris: (bass) and CMA students in Jordan Hall. The program features Beeferman's works, drawing on a multitude of genres and influences, including songs, compositions and improvisations on solo piano, and scored improvisations for trio and large ensemble. Tonight's program also features The Sway, a piece commissioned by and written for Eden MacAdam-Somer in honor of the CMA department's 50th anniversary. This extraordinary work for solo performer on voice, violin, and percussive dance joins others on the program in blurring the lines between contemporary improvisation, classical virtuosity, and avant-jazz innovation. The live stream of this event is available to NEC Community members only. To watch the stream, please click the “Streaming Access” button at the top of the page and enter the NEC Community streaming password on the video window labeled “NEC-Produced Stream” when prompted.