Past Concerts

Salon 33

This house concert should be fun! Potluck at 6pm and concert at 7pm! Please visit here for more information about Salon 33.

Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 6 PM
Princeton, New Jersey

Brooklyn New Music Collective

We are looking forward to performing for this series run by the fabulous Mike Rose! Come hear some new music in Park Slope! We’ll be performing Siegfried Thiele’s Trio from 1986 for flute, viola and cello. The program will also include works by  Howard Lew, Michael Rose, Glen Roven, Timucin Sahin and Roger Stubblefield.

For ticket information please visit here.

Friday, March 15, 2019 at 7 PM
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, New York

Composer Now at BMCC

We’re looking forward to being part of this program, performing Douglas Anderson’s Reverse Variations on Arkansas Traveler. The program will also inclde works by Quentin Angus, Joyce Moorman and JD Parran.

Admission is free! Come join us for what is bound to be a fun afternoon!

Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 3 PM
Theatre II of the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers Street, New York CIty

House Concert 2019!

We’ll be playing a Fundraiser for Ashmont Hill Chamber Music in Dorchester, MA, performing works by Schubert, Stanley Grill, Jorge Amado and Leonard Bernstein, followed by delicious food and drink in a super cool house.

Please contact Mary Beth Alger at alger.marybeth@gmail.com for further details or visit here to reserve your ticket.

Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 7 PM

Tenri Cultural Institute 2018

We’re very excited to be presenting the winning composition from our first 8SW Composer Competition at this year’s Tenri concert. The work, Eidos II is by the young Cuban composer Jorge Amado. If we’re lucky, we’ll be able to introduce you to Jorge as well!

We’re also thrilled to be bringing the West Coast to you again with works by Stephen Blumberg, Mark Winges and Tom Flaherty. More info coming soon.

To order tickets, please visit here.

Friday, November 16, 2018 at 7:30 PM
43A West 13th Street, New York City

Aperitif Concerts for the Neighborhood

We can’t wait to play at this very cool and popular venue! If you happen to be in San Francisco, please join us for a sneak peak at some of the repertoire we’ll be performing back east at the Tenri Cultural Institute one week later. For more information please visit here. We’ve got a fun evening planned that will include works by old and new friends such as  Martin Rokeach, Mark Winges, Tom Flaherty, and Stanely Grill.

We’re told that this place fills up quickly so be sure to make your reservation well in advance! You can purchase tickets through Brown Paper Tickets here.

Friday, November 9, 2018 at 7 PM
405 Shrader St. (Shrader at Oak) San Francisco, California

Festival of New American Music – Educational Events

We’re looking forward to continuing our residency with the Festival of New American Music with a concert and day of  master classes and workshops at Cosumnes River College.

Wednesday, November 7, 2018
California Sate University, Sacramento, California

Festival of New American Music

We’re very honored to have been invited to perform and give educational programs at the Festival of New American Music at Sacramento State! We’re also super excited about being in sunny California in November.

We’ll be performing Tertium Quid (2002) by Stephen Blumberg, Loki’s Lair by Mark Winges and Melville’s Dream, by Stanley Grill, both recently composed Eight Strings & a Whistle, along with some favorites from our debut album Albert’s Window and more! This is going to be so much fun!

For more information please visit here!

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 at 7 PM
California Sate University, Sacramento, California

8SW Pops Up Again

We had so much fun in June, we’ve decided to pop up again with another short program of works in progress. Seating will be limited. If you are interested in joining us, please email us!

Monday, October 8, 2018 at 4:15 PM
Pop Up Location!

Groupmuse

We’re very excited to be performing our first Groupmuse event. We’ll be performing works by Spencer Snyder, Stanley Grill, Tom Flaherty, Schubert and Leonard Bernstein! If you are interested in in joining Groupmuse and coming to this event, please visit here.

Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 3:30 PM
Groupmuse Event location

8SW Pops Up

with a short program of works in progress. Seating will be limited. For more information please email us.

Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at 7:15 PM
Pop Up Location!

Bronx Community College

We’re looking forward to this! Details coming soon!

Thursday, March 8, 2018 at Noon, 2155 University Ave, Bronx, New York

8SW Composer Competition Deadline

Submissions for our first 8SW Composer Competition are due by 11.59pm on January 12, 2018. For more information please check our 8SW Composer Competition page.

Friday, January 12, 2018

Cuba Here We Come

We could not be more excited to have been invited to perform contemporary works by American composers and give a workshop for students for Cuba’s Festival for Contemporary Music, Festival de la Habana. We’ve also been invited to visit and perform at a few music schools while we’re there. Our concert will take place at the Sala Teatro del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes on November 14 at 8pm. More news coming soon!

Saturday, November 11, 2017 18:00 to November 19, 2017 21:00
Havana, Cuba

Greenburgh Public Library

We are really looking forward to performing in this stunning building!

Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 2 PM
300 Tarrytown Road, Elmsford, New York

Tenri Cultural Institute 2017

This year’s concert, a few weeks early, includes Red and White, a new work by Spencer Snyder and the premiere of Tom Griffin’s Where Three Roads Meet.  Additionally, we will be performing Douglas Anderson’s Chamber Symphony No. 3, Peter Köszeghy’s haunting Souls and a charming trio by Mozart’s contemporary, Paul Wranitzky.

Tickets are on sale now! Please visit Brown Paper Tickets to reserve your seats!

Friday, October 27, 2017 at 7:30 PM
43A West 13th Street, New York City

Kimball Farms Retirement Community

Open to Community Residents only

Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 7:30 PM
Lenox, Massachusetts

Benefit Gala

We’re very excited to be holding our 2017 benefit at La Nacional!

The afternoon will be in honor of the first 8SW Composer Competition! We hope you will be able to join us for some little bites, delicious sangria, some music, an auction! Read our blog to learn more about the competition.

If you would like to make an additional contribution please visit here:

Or you can mail your contribution to:

Eight Strings & a Whistle, Inc.
937 Eighth Avenue, #3A
New York, NY 10019Sunday, March 19, 2017 at 4 PMLa Nacional, 239 West 14th Street, New York CIty

In RealTime

We’re very excited to be returning to NJCU. For more info please visit here.

Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 3 PM
Ingalls Recital Hall, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, New Jersey

Tenri Cultural Institute 2016

We’re looking forward to returning to our beloved New York City venue! This year, we will be performing both new an old friends, Hilary Tann, Paul Théberge, Jim Hiscott, Günter Bialas and Merrill Clark. Their works use the past to reflect the present, be it musical ideas or a view of the world we live in today: Hilary Tann’s The Walls of Morlais Castle illustrates the contrasts between the time this Welsh castle was a vibrant place and its present day state of ruin, and Paul Théberge’s atmospheric Maqām, composed in 1978, is inspired by the ancient Persian and Arabic system of melodic motives. Jim Hiscott’s droll Les Larmes de Polichinellecombines characteristics of the commedia dell’arte tradition with the folk music of Naples, and German composer Günter Bialas’s warm, richly colored and occasionally humorous neoclassical Trio from 1945, makes use of such traditional forms as the sinfonia and the gavotte in a mid twentieth century, post war context, whereas Merrill Clark uses a non-vocal setting of William Butler Yeats’ The Second Coming to color and inform his Sinfonia Ternion Gestalt. Be sure to check our our latest Featured Composer interview with Merrill!

Tickets are on sale now! Please visit Brown Paper Tickets to reserve your seats!

Friday, November 18, 2016 at 7:30 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street, New York City

Music From Good Shepherd 2016

We’re looking forward to our annual Fall concert in this beautiful church. We’ll be performing works by Hilary Tann, Paul Théberge and Günter Bialas.

We’re also thrilled that Paul Théberg will be coming to New York to work with us on his beautiful trio, Maqām. He will be attending the concert so be sure to come by and meet him!

Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 6 PM
1950 Batchelder Street, Brooklyn, New York

Spectri Sonori

We’re very exctied to be heading to New Orleans in September to perform on the Spectri Sonori series at Tulane University! We’ll be performing works by Paul Théberge, Merril Clark, Hilary Tann, Jim Hiscott and Albert Roussel. More details coming soon!

Monday, September 19, 2016 at 7 PM
Dixon Recital Hall, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Monday Afternoon Chamber Music | St. Joseph’s College

We will be performing a 45 minute program on this afternoon in the same beautiful space as the day before. For directions please visit here.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Monday, April 11, 2016 at 1 PM
The Parlors, Tuohy Hall, 245 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, New York

Chamber Music | St Joseph’s College

Located on Clinton Avenue between Dekalb and Willoughby Avenues in Brooklyn, we are looking forward to performing in this former mansion in beautiful Clinton Hill. For directions please visit here or call (718) 940-5351.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 3 PM
The Parlors, Tuohy Hall, 245 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, New York

LiveSounds

For more information about LiveSOUNDS at Third Street Music School Settlement, please visit here! The concerts are free and open to the public.

We’re excited to be performing in the newly renovated Anna-Maria Kellen Concert Hall!

Friday, March 11, 2016 at 7 PM
Third Street Music School Settlement, 235 East 11th Street, New York CIty

Irvington Library Trustees Concert Series

Looking forward to appearing here for the first time!

Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 4 PM
Irvington Public Library, 12 South Astor Street, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York

Music on Main Concert Series

We’re looking forward to performing Albert Roussel’s Trio, Op. 40 and Edmund Cionek’s Bad Robots, both from our recent release, Albert’s Window. Bartok, Schubert and Robert Davidson’s Conversations are also included on this program.

For more information please visit here.

Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 4 PM
The First Congregational Church of Stockbridge, 4 Main Street, Stockbridge, MA

Woodland Hill Montessori School

Concert and Masterclass at the Woodland Hill Montessori School

Friday, February 26, 2016 at 1 PM
100 Montessori Place, Rensselaer, New York

Tenri Cultural Institute 2015

We’ll be celebrating the release of our debut recording, Albert’s Window, at our annual concert here this year!  Come hear us perform Edmund Cionek’s fun and dark humored Bad Robots, one of the works featured on this release!

We’ll also be performing the world premiere of Frank E. Warren’s beautiful and delicate for: 8 Strings & a Whistle, and Octavio Vazquez’s Trio for Flute, Viola and Cello. Completed in 2003, Vazquez’s Trio expresses emotional extremes from languid sadness to biting sarcasm to brutal devastation. Rounding out the program will be a charming work by eighteenth century composer, Josef Mysliwecek and Béla Bartók’s earthy and rollicking Romanian Folk Dances.

The concert will be followed by a reception. Albert’s Window will be available for sale! Come join the fun!

Tickets are on sale now at  Brown Paper Tickets!

Friday, November 20, 2015 at 7:30 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street, New York City

Art on the Corner Concert Series

We’re very excited to be kicking off our season at Art on the Corner! Stay tuned for more info!

Sunday, November 8, 2015 at 3 PM
Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, 7420 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York

Classical Discoveries Goes Avant Garde

Hear us on the radio on WPRB 103.3 FM!

Marvin Rosen, host of Classical Discoveries, will be celebrating the Labor Day holiday with a program of music by American composers. Included will be a live recording, from our concert at Spectrum this past May, of Peri Mauer’s Thought’s Torsion.

Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 11 AM
WPRB 103.3 FM

Concert at Spectrum

Please join us at Spectrum for a collaborative concert with the wonderful pianist Beth Levin, for the premiere Scott Brickman’s quartet, Ninetly Six Strings and Two Whistles! We’ll also be performing Thought’s Torsion by Peri Mauer,  Octavio Vazquez’s Trio and selections from Chopin’s Piano Sonata Op.35.

$15. General Admission
$10. Students and seniors

Spectrum is a second floor space, is accessible by stairs and regretably does not have an elevator.

Sunday, May 24, 2015 at 3 PM
Spectrum NYC, 121 Ludlow St #2, New York, New York

Annual Benefit 2015

Please join us at the beautiful Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater studios for our second annual benefit! Come and enjoy some delicious small bites, champagne, a fabulous view and a short preview of our upcoming season.

Seating is limited. We recommend that you reserve your tickets now.

$50/person

for an additional donation of $25 or more you will receive a free copy of our new CD, due for release in late 2015 plus an invitation to the release party!

If you would like to purchase tickets or make a contribution with a check, please email us: 8stringswhistle@gmail.com

If you would like to use a credit card or PayPal account please click on the Donate button below. Before checking out, please be sure to click on “Number of Tickets/Contribution” in the Pupose column and enter the number of tickets you would like to purchase. 

Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 6 PM
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, 405 West 55th Street, New York City

Tenri Cultural Institute 2014

Our annual concert at the Tenri Cultural Institute will be a wonderful event, including the premiere of Thought’s Torsion by Peri Mauer and Scott Brickman’s French Suite. We’ll also be performing Albert Roussel’s Trio, Op. 40, a charming work by Paul Wranitzky, Mark Winges’ Dusk Music and Martin Rokeach’s Going Up? Tickets go on sale in October!

Friday, November 21, 2014 at 8 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street, New York City

Music from Good Shepherd 2014

Sunday, November 9, 2014 at 6 PM
1950 Batchelder Street, Brooklyn, New York

Queens New Music Festival 2014

We’re very excited to have been invited to participate in this season’s Queens New Music Festival. We’ll be performing Dag Gabrielson’s Food once again with soprano, Helen Gabrielson. We’ll also be performing Stefan Weissman’s Songs from Schumann, Randall Snyder’s New Ghost Tones and Scott Brickman’s French Suite.

For more information, please visit here.

Saturday, May 17, 2014 at 2 PM
The Secret Theatre Main Stage, 4402 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY

Samuel Staples Elementary School

We’re looking forward to spending the day at Samuel Staples Elementary where we’ll be performing arts-in-education programs.

Monday, April 28, 2014 at 10 AM
Easton, Connecticut

Concert at CCNY/CUNY

Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at 2 PM
Shepherd Hall, CCNY/CUNY, New York City

National Association of Composers at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church

We’re excited to be performing Scott Brickman’s French Suite again. The program will also include the music of Max Lifchitz and Allen Brings, performed by Hannah Levinson and Siri Rico.

A free event!

Monday, April 7, 2014 at 8 PM
Christ and St. Stephen’s Church, 120 West 69th Street, New York City

Hendrick Hudson Free Library

This will be the last stop on our Spring tour. The program will include Martin Rokeach’s Going Up? Be sure to check out Suzanne’s interview with Marty on our Featured Composer page! We’ll also be performing works by Schubert, Robert Davidson and John Newell. For directions to the Library please vist here – be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the page.

Sunday, March 23, 2014 at 2 PM
185 Kings Ferry Road, Montrose, New York

Arts in the Village

We’re thrilled to be performing in charming Rehoboth! Our program will include works by C.P.E. Bach, Schubert, Robert Davidson and John Newell as well as a work written for Doriot Anthony Dwyer, formerly of the BSO, by Peter Jona Korn. For more information please visit here.

Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 7:30 PM
Goff Memorial Hall, 124 Bay State Road, Rehoboth, Massachusetts

University of Maine at Presque Isle

We are very excited to be performing in Presque Isle for the first time. We’ll be performing Maine composers Scott Brickman and John Newell, as well as works by Martin Rokeach, Randall Snyder, Peter Jona Korn and Robert Davidson. For more information please visit here.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 7 PM
Weiden Auditorium, University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque Isle, Maine

Madawaska Schools

We’re looking forward to visiting the schools in Madawaska, Maine, playing for the students and talking about what we do!

Monday, March 17, 2014 00:00 to 23:59
Madawaska, Maine

Concerts in the St. John Valley, Maine

Our week in the most northern part of Maine will include school programs and concerts in Fort Kent and Presque Isle!

Sunday, March 16, 2014 14:00 to March 18, 2014 21:00

Spring into the Arts Festival

We’ll be at University of Maine at Fort Kent. The program will include the premiere of UMFK faculty member, Scott Brickman’s French Suite, composed for us in 2012. For more information please visit here.

Sunday, March 16, 2014 at 2 PM
University of Maine Fort Kent, Fox Auditorium, Fort Kent, Maine

Annual Benefit

Please join us for music and cocktails in celebration of our fifteenth season at our first annual benefit. Please email us for more information. Seating is limited. Please RSVP by January 5, 2014.

Friday, January 17, 2014 at 7 PM
Klavierhaus, 211 West 58th Street, New York City

Tenri Cultural Institute 2013

We’ll be returning to the Tenri Cultural Institute for our annual Fall concert in New York City with a trio of premieres. We have a great program planned including music by our most recent featured composer, Robert Davidson. Be sure to read about him on our Featured Composer page! We’ll also be premiering works by John Newell and Randall Snyder. You can catch John’s interview with Suzanne in our archived Featured Composer section.

Tickets are on sale now at Brown Paper Tickets!

Friday, November 22, 2013 at 8 PM
43A West 13th Street, New York City

Music from Good Shepherd

We’re delighted to be returning to Good Shepherd. Be sure to come hear us perform C.P.E. Bach, John Newell and Robert Davidson in this beautiful space in Marine Park, Brooklyn.

Sunday, October 27, 2013 at 6 PM
1950 Batchelder Street, Brooklyn, New York

Machias Bay Concerts

We’ll be performing works by C.P.E. Bach, Peter Jona Korn, Australian composer Robert Davidson and Pèter Köszeghy. Included on the program will also be ….and nothing remains the same composed for us by Maine’s own John Newell. You can read about John on our Featured Composers page. For more information please vist here.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Centre Street Congregational Church, Machias, Maine

L’Association Culturelle et Historique

Ahh..the beautiful St. John River Valley! This space has come to feel like home to us. We’re so excited to be coming back again.

For those of you who have never been here, L’Association Culturelle et Historique is the huge green and gold National Register monument between Van Buren and Madawaska. All tickets will be sold at the door: $15 each.

Sunday, June 30, 2013 at 7 PM
Lille, Maine

Bayport-Blue Point Public Library

Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 2 PM
203 Blue Point Avenue, Blue Point, New York

Friends of the Library 2013

We’ve been performing here regularly since we first formed Eight Strings & a Whistle. We’re very excited to be invited back! Progam information will be coming soon!

Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 3 PM
Dorothy Henry Branch, 66 Rt. 94, Vernon, New Jersey

La Grua Center

Come hear us perform John Newell’s …and nothing remains the same. We’ll also be performing Michael Kibbe’s Trio Pastoral, Opus 3, Souls by Pèter Köszeghy and works by Von Call and Beethoven.

For directions please visit here.

Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 5 PM
The Old Foundry Building at Stonington Commons, Stonington, Connecticut

Tenri Cultural Institute 2012

Friday, November 16, 2012 at 8 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street, New York City

Good Shepherd Church 2012

We’ll be collaborating with soprano Helen Gabrielsen, performing Dag Gabrielsen’s Food!

Sunday, November 11, 2012 at 6 PM
1950 Batchelder Street, Brooklyn, New York

Joyful Noise! Concert Series

Sunday, October 21, 2012 at 4 PM
First Congregational Church, Guilford, Connecticut

L’Association Culturelle et Historique 2012

We’re so excited to be performing in this space once again! For those of you who have never been here, L’Association Culturelle et Historique is the huge green and gold National Register monument between Van Buren and Madawaska. All tickets will be sold at the door: $15 each.

Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 7 PM
Lille, Maine

Schoodic Arts for All Concert Series

We are so happy to be going back to Schoodic Arts for All with a program filled with seduction, spiritualism, elegance and turbulence!

From the more traditional side, we’re going to perform our own arrangement of Beethoven’s Variations on Là ci darem la mano from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, as well as the late 18^th century composer, Leonhard von Call’s graceful Trio in G Major, Op. 142.

We’ll also be performing the Maine premiere of Souls, composed for us in 2011 by Hungarian composer, Pèter Köszeghy. Inspired by the Hungarian Shaman tradition which focuses on the connection between the physical and spiritual worlds, Souls is a pathway created by sound from the material to the spiritual world.

We’ll be rounding out the program with Tom Flaherty’s Moments of Inertia and Dawn Avery’s Hi’iaka.We’re looking forward to revisiting Moments of Inertia, a work we started performing in Fall, 2011. You can read about Tom and Moments of Inertia in our Featured Composer section.  Hi’iaka is among one of our first commissions and was composed in 2003. Hi’iaka is the Hawaiian Goddess who restores life and this particular work is based on a Hawaiian naming chant which restores life through the giving of new names.

For more information please visit here.

Friday, June 8, 2012 at 7 PM
Hammond Hall, Winter Harbor, Maine

Good Shepherd Church 2011

Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 6 PM
1950 Batchelder Street, Brooklyn, New York

Tenri Cultural Institute 2011

Friday, November 11, 2011 at 8 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street, New York City

Music @ 1

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 1 PM
Ingalls Recital Hall, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, New Jersey

Maurice River Music Salon Concerts

Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 2:30 PM
Maurice Town, New Jersey

South Huntington Library Recital Series

Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 2:30 PM
145 Pidgeon Hill Road, Huntington Station, NY

April in Maine, Part 2

Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 2 PM
L’Association Culturelle et Historique du Mont-Carmel in Lille

April in Maine Part 1

Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 8 PM
University of Maine Fort Kent, Fox Auditorium, Fort Kent, Maine

Tenri Cultural Institute 2010

Friday, November 19, 2010
Tenri Cultural Institute, New York City

Good Shepherd Church Concert

Sunday, November 7, 2010
Good Shepherd Church, Brooklyn, New York

CCNY/CUNY Concert

Friday, October 29, 2010
CCNY/CUNY, Shepard Hall, New York City

Tribeca Performing Arts Center Concert

Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York City

Chocolate Church Arts Center Concert

Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath, Maine

The Louise McKeon Chamber Music Concert Series

Sunday, May 2, 2010
Keeler Tavern Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut

Music of Roberto Scarcella Perino

Friday, April 30, 2010
Casa Italiana Zerilli/Marimò, NYU, New York City

Borough of Manhattan Community College Concert

Collaborated with Howard Meltzer, pianist, performing Variationis Achesmisticae by Byron Adams

Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York City

Tenri Cultural Institute Concert

Friday, November 20, 2009
Tenri Cultural Institute, New York City

Skidmore College Concert

Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 8 PM
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York

Friends of the Library Concert

Sunday, October 25, 2009
Friends of the Library, Vernon, New Jersey

CUNY Concert

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
CUNY, New York City

Bar Harbor Music Festival

Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Bar Harbor Music Festival, Bar Harbor, Maine

L’Association Culturelle et Historique Concert

Sunday, July 12, 2009
L’Association Culturelle et Historique du Mont Carmel, Lille, Maine

Eastport Arts Center Concert

Friday, July 10, 2009
Eastport Arts Center, Eastport, Maine