Upcoming events.
Arcana New Music Ensemble presents Postal Pieces 3
Bowerbird is pleased to present the Arcana New Music Ensemble performing its third iteration of “Postal Pieces,” a concert featuring living composers in Philadelphia and beyond composing postcard-sized works inspired by James Tenney’s unorthodox set of compositions.
Melinda’s piece, For One or More Musicians: Known , written in 2025, will be performed.
For tickets and information, here.
Treatise Revisited
Arcana New Music Ensemble is excited to revisit Cornelius Cardew’s groundbreaking work Treatise at The Rotunda. In November 2025 the ensemble performed about 20 pages of the 200 page work; this year the ensemble will perform a different set of pages accompanied with projections of the score.
More info here.
Siren Songs (8th iteration)
Melinda returns for another iteration of the community music project, siren songs, at Foy Park, with the test sirens from the Limerick Clean Energy Plant.
Centers - on the lineup for Fire Museum Presents
Pageant: Soloveev
(607 Bainbridge St, Philadelphia, PA 19147)
Melinda’s project, Centers, is on the lineup with Mandible Trio and and Pushovers.
Centers is Melinda Rice's project for 5-string looping violin and guest based on processing information on hyperscale data centers in the US. The performance relies on musical traditions of improvisation, minimalist music, and protest music to translate the numbers of dates centers operating, being built, planned, and in the process of being planned into loops of sound. Like much of Melinda's work, this is music that fosters space for considering and reckoning with what is.
For more information and tickets, here.
Bach's Lunch with Amy K. Bormet
Amy K. Bormet and Melinda Rice return with original music and standards to Community Music School’s free Bach’s Lunch series at noon.
Halloween Concert at the Berman
Joining with Ursinus’s Wind Band for the violin solo in Danse Macabre. Costumes encouraged.
Friday Noon Concert Series at Arts Club of Washington
Amy K. Bormet and Melinda Rice, original songs on piano and violin
Interview on G-Town Radio
Big thanks to Tom Casetta and Judah Weekes for having me and Thomas Schuttenhelm on the show this week. Listen here.
Music in the Park
Music written in anticipation of the Limerick Generating Station’s 2pm siren, to be playing with the siren, if we can hear it this month. Outdoors and open.
Bach’s Lunch Concert Series
Noon
Community Music School, Trappe, PA
February 16, 2023
Melinda Rice joins with harpist Candace Lark and pianist Alan Dynin to present a program that includes works inspired by dance. The program includes Astor Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango and Claude Debussy’s Sonata in G minor for violin and piano.
Craft in America Study Center, Los Angeles CA
Craft in America House Band, Songs of Love and Demise, with special guest Downpilot
The Craft in America House Band is a collective of musicians who have been performing at the Craft in America Study Center for more than twelve years. Join us for a lively evening as members Terry de Castro, Melinda Rice, Chris Silagyi and Argenta Walther perform some of their favorite contemporary, traditional and original songs.
Downpilot is the project of Seattle singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and recording/mix engineer Paul Hiraga. Downpilot will perform songs from the forthcoming new album ‘The Forecast’ along with songs chosen from a body of work spanning seven albums.