https://sethparkerwoods.com Seth Parker Woods Tue, 18 May 2021 18:49:11 +0000 https://sethparkerwoods.com en https://sethparkerwoods.com/Home Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:28:38 +0000 Seth Parker Woods https://sethparkerwoods.com/Home https://sethparkerwoods.com/About Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:56:25 +0000 Seth Parker Woods https://sethparkerwoods.com/About Hailed by The Guardian as “a cellist of power and grace” who possesses “mature artistry and willingness to go to the brink,” three-time GRAMMY®-nominated cellist Seth Parker Woods has established his reputation as a versatile artist and innovator across multiple genres. Woods’ projects delve deep into our cultural fabric, reimagining traditional works and commissioning new ones to propel classical music into the future. As The New York Times wrote, “Woods is an artist rooted in classical music, but whose cello is a vehicle that takes him, and his concertgoers, on wide-ranging journeys.” <img width="4898" height="3265" width_o="4898" height_o="3265" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4af3642bf036641e113c52d6953fc4bfebb11c556484378e9e0e62b1bfa1f3b1/Seth-Parker-Woods-4---Credit-Ben-Gibbs.jpg" data-mid="194251283" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4af3642bf036641e113c52d6953fc4bfebb11c556484378e9e0e62b1bfa1f3b1/Seth-Parker-Woods-4---Credit-Ben-Gibbs.jpg" /> Following a notable 2024/25 season that included his debuts with both the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras, Woods enters the 2025/26 season with several high-profile engagements. He joins longtime musical partner Hilary Hahn in the world premiere performances of Carlos Simon’s double concerto, appearing with the National Symphony under Gianandrea Noseda and with the St. Louis Symphony under Stéphane Denève. He also makes his solo debut at London’s Barbican Centre, returns to Brazil for the South American premiere of Nathalie Joachim’s cello concerto Had To Be with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, and performs with Ensemble Resonanz in his debut at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, featuring works by Jessie Montgomery, Chinary Ung, and Julius Eastman. In January 2026, Woods premieres a new trio formation with soprano Julia Bullock and pianist Conor Hanick on a national tour that includes a world premiere by composer Tania León, with appearances at CAP UCLA, 92Y, Virginia Tech, Eastman School of Music and the University of Chicago. <img width="2700" height="1800" width_o="2700" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b008cf05327a1b4b69c5fba25c916d20f2f4ecc6a2b85c08319952834695e77/AC_IceCello_0041.jpg" data-mid="49692015" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b008cf05327a1b4b69c5fba25c916d20f2f4ecc6a2b85c08319952834695e77/AC_IceCello_0041.jpg" /> A prominent champion of contemporary composers, Woods has premiered numerous concertos written specifically for him. These include Tyshawn Sorey’s For Roscoe Mitchell with the Seattle Symphony; Nathalie Joachim’s Had To Be at Spoleto Festival USA and with the New York Philharmonic, Orchestre Métropolitain (Montreal), and Chautauqua Symphony; Julia Adolphe’s Chrysalis with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; and the American premiere of Rebecca Saunders’s Ire with the Seattle Symphony. His GRAMMY®-nominated, autobiographical tour-de-force Difficult Grace has been performed to critical acclaim at 92NY, the Harris Theater in Chicago, CAP UCLA, the San Diego Symphony, and the University of Pennsylvania. As a recitalist and chamber musician, Woods has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, Konzerthaus Dortmund, and Harvard University, among many others. He has curated and performed in tributes to the music of Julius Eastman at Lincoln Center and to the chamber music of George Walker at The Phillips Collection. <img width="640" height="457" width_o="640" height_o="457" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/127424ff8e97bbd6a6c9c10d0ecfe35a6323fe6c237d4581b17f5b2a54ca5987/seth-bio.jpg" data-mid="242260238" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/127424ff8e97bbd6a6c9c10d0ecfe35a6323fe6c237d4581b17f5b2a54ca5987/seth-bio.jpg" /> Woods’s discography includes the GRAMMY-nominated Difficult Grace (Cedille Records, 2023); music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir with Claire Chase (New Focus); and multiple recordings as part of Wild Up’s Eastman Project, including the GRAMMY-nominated Eastman Vol. 4: The Holy Presence, which features Woods as soloist in Eastman’s The Holy Presence of Joan of Arc. His next solo recording, From Ordinary Things, will be released by Platoon in March 2026. Since 2022, Woods has served on the faculty of the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California and was appointed the Robert Mann Chair in Strings and Chamber Music in 2024. He has also taught at the Music Academy of the West and the Ilumina Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He holds degrees from Brooklyn College and the Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel, as well as a PhD from the University of Huddersfield. He has served as Artist in Residence with the Kaufman Music Center and the Seattle Symphony, was honored at the Seattle Symphony’s 25th Anniversary Silver Gala in 2023 and received the 2022 Chamber Music America Michael Jaffee Visionary Award. Woods is also recognized for his distinctive personal style, having appeared on Best Dressed lists in Vanity Fair, Variety, Texas Monthly, and the OC Register. Seth Parker Woods is a Pirastro Artist and endorses Pirastro Perpetual Strings worldwide.&nbsp; <img width="4898" height="3265" width_o="4898" height_o="3265" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1964d107e5a59972f841c51f7306ef398e05f90fe8bde880ef99ff742aa5290/Seth-Parker-Woods-7---Credit-Ben-Gibbs.jpg" data-mid="194251286" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1964d107e5a59972f841c51f7306ef398e05f90fe8bde880ef99ff742aa5290/Seth-Parker-Woods-7---Credit-Ben-Gibbs.jpg" /> Download High Resolution Press Kit Photo Credits (Top to Bottom): Ben Gibbs, OnTheRadio, Chris Lee, Ben Gibbs https://sethparkerwoods.com/Calendar Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:49:20 +0000 Seth Parker Woods https://sethparkerwoods.com/Calendar <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/363d2093a3124c88d3e7a9ad879e5c423306114df2aea226bc3964f608846f21/Seth-Parker-Woods_NMCDifficultGrace-photobyDahliaKatz-16.png" data-mid="208023815" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/363d2093a3124c88d3e7a9ad879e5c423306114df2aea226bc3964f608846f21/Seth-Parker-Woods_NMCDifficultGrace-photobyDahliaKatz-16.png" /> Performance Schedule January 15, 2026UCLA: From Ordinary Things&nbsp;Center for the Art of Performance, UCLA | Los Angeles, CATickets: https://cap.ucla.edu/event/seth-parker-woods-julia-bullock-and-conor-hanick January 18, 2026University of Chicago: From Ordinary Things Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts | Chicago, ILTickets: https://chicagopresents.uchicago.edu/concerts-and-events/julia-bullock-and-seth-parker-woods-conor-hanick &nbsp; January 23, 202692nd Street Y: From Ordinary Things Kaufman Concert Hall | NYC, NYTickets: https://www.92ny.org/event/julia-bullock-seth-parker-woods-and-conor-hanick January 25, 2026Eastman: From Ordinary Things Eastman Theatre | Rochester, NYTickets: https://boxoffice.esm.rochester.edu/theatre/events/kilbourn-concert-series-presents-seth-parker-woods-julia-bullock-conor-hanick/ January 28, 2026Virginia Tech: From Ordinary Things Moss Arts Center, Anne &amp; Ellen Fife Theater | Blacksburg, VATickets:&nbsp;https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/bullock-woods-hanick.html February 17, 2026South Florida Symphony - Had To Be New World Center | Miami, FloridaTickets: https://southfloridasymphony.org/masterworks-3/ February 18, 2026South Florida Symphony - Had to Be The Parker | Fort Lauderdale, FLTickets: https://southfloridasymphony.org/masterworks-3/ February 21, 2026South Florida Symphony - Had to Be Tennessee Williams Theatre | Key West, FLTickets: https://southfloridasymphony.org/masterworks-3/ March 12, 2026National Symphony Orchestra with Hilary Hahn in Carlos Simon Double Concerto premiere The Kennedy Center | Washington, DCTickets: https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2025-2026/noseda-hahn/ March 13, 2026National Symphony Orchestra with Hilary Hahn in Carlos Simon Double Concerto premiere The Kennedy Center | Washington, DCTickets: https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2025-2026/noseda-hahn/ March 14, 2026National Symphony Orchestra with Hilary Hahn in Carlos Simon Double Concerto premiere The Kennedy Center | Washington, DCTickets: https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2025-2026/noseda-hahn/ April 10, 2026St. Louis Symphony with Hilary Hahn in Carlos Simon Double Concerto premiere Powell Hall | St. Louis, MOTickets: https://shop.slso.org/8648/8697 April 11, 2026National Symphony Orchestra with Hilary Hahn in Carlos Simon Double Concerto premiere Powell Hall | St. Louis, MOTickets: https://shop.slso.org/8648/8698?z=0 April 12, 2026National Symphony Orchestra with Hilary Hahn in Carlos Simon Double Concerto premiere Powell Hall | St. Louis, MOTickets: https://shop.slso.org/8648/8699?z=0 April 16, 2026Sao Paulo Symphony (OSESP) with Elena Schwarz and Nathalie Joachim cello concerto Sala Sao Paulo | Sao Paulo, BrazilTickets: https://osesp.art.br/osesp/pt/concerto/1577 April 17, 2026Sao Paulo Symphony (OSESP) with Elena Schwarz and Nathalie Joachim cello concerto Sala Sao Paulo | Sao Paulo, BrazilTickets: https://osesp.art.br/osesp/pt/concerto/1577 April 18, 2026Sao Paulo Symphony (OSESP) with Elena Schwarz and Nathalie Joachim cello concerto Sala Sao Paulo | Sao Paulo, BrazilTickets: https://osesp.art.br/osesp/pt/concerto/1577 June 17, 2026Ensemble Resonanz: &lt;&lt;blood &amp; cause&gt;&gt; Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal | Hamburg, GermanyTickets: https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/de/programm/ensemble-resonanz-seth-parker-woods/23393 June 18, 2026Ensemble Resonanz: &lt;&lt;blood &amp; cause&gt;&gt; Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal | Hamburg, GermanyTickets: https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/de/programm/ensemble-resonanz-seth-parker-woods/23394 Past Concerts 2025 February 13 - Boston Celebrity Series: Thus Spoke Their VerseFebruary 23-March 4 - Tour with Wild UpMarch 4 - LA Philharmonic Green Umbrella with Wild UpMarch 29 - REDCAT Presents Wild Up and Seth Parker WoodsMay 16/17/18 - LA Philharmonic Julia Adolphe Cello Concerto PremiereMay 31 - San Diego Symphony Presents Difficult GraceJune 28 - AMOC: Julius Eastman: A Power Greater Than at Lincoln Center (curator)June 29 - AMOC: Julius Eastman: The End Is Not In Sight at LC (curator)October 23 - Royal Northern College of Music: Thus Spoke Their Verse (Manchester, UK)October 24 - Barbican: Thus Spoke Their Verse (London, UK)October 28 - Barbican: Julius Eastman with AMOC (curator and artist) 2024 January 7 - 14 - Ilumina Festival January 24 - 27 - Sphinx Competition: Judge February 1 - Live! at the Library February 10 -&nbsp;Wild Up: The Music of Julius Eastman February 11 -&nbsp;Gay Guerilla: A Hands-On Experience of the Life, Music, and Legacy of Julius Eastman February 25 -&nbsp;Chamber Music Detroit “Seth Parker Woods and Friends” April 11 -&nbsp;Arthur Ross Gallery Presents Difficult Grace June 1 -&nbsp;Spoleto Festival USA Presents World Premiere of Joachim Cello Concerto June 7 - Next Fest Presents World Premiere of Rebecca Saunders’ Ire June 8 - Next fest Presentes Rebecce Saunders’ Ire June 16-30 - Music Academy of the West Teaching Artist June 21 -&nbsp; Julius Eastman / Seth Parker Woods: The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc August 8 - Chatauqua Institution Presents Joachim’s Cello Concerto August 15 - Seth Parker Woods: The Holy Present of Joan d’Arc, Bemis Center August 25 - 31 Ruhrtriennale with Wild Up September 13 - USC Thornton Symphony Concert October 11 - Seth Parker Woods at NYC’s The Greene Space October 17 &amp; 18 - NY Philharmonic: Afromodernism: Music of African Diaspora November 15 - Newport Classical Presents Seth Parker Woods: Thus Spoke Their Verse November 16 - Dumbarton Concerts Presents Seth Parker Woods November 24 - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum x Kyle Marshall x Seth Parker Woods November 26-30 - Tour with Orchestre Métropolitain, Quebec 2023 January 28 –&nbsp;Great Northern Festival Presents Iced Bodies February 7-10 – Residency at Oberlin Conservatory February 12-13 –&nbsp;Recitals with Andrew Rosenblum&nbsp; February 24 –&nbsp;World Premiere of Freida Abtan’s My Heart is a River (Seattle Symphony Commission)&nbsp; Mar 3 –&nbsp;Recital with Andrew Rosenblum in Chattanooga, TN&nbsp;&nbsp; Mar 9 – Recital with Andrew Rosenblum at The Wallis (Los Angeles, CA)&nbsp; Mar 16 –&nbsp;Chad Lawson Trio at Count Basie Center for the Arts&nbsp; Mar 18 -&nbsp;Chad Lawson Trio at Washington Performing Arts Mar 24 –&nbsp;Chad Lawson Trio at Auburn University Mar 25 –&nbsp;Chad Lawson Trio at Emory University Apr 1 –&nbsp;Big Ears Festival with King Britt and Moksha Black Apr 20 –&nbsp;Harris Theatre Presents&nbsp;Difficult Grace May 25 –&nbsp;Carnegie Hall Presents Claire Chase’s Density Series&nbsp; October 1 -&nbsp;Troy Chromatics Concert Series October 14 - Chicago Humanities Festival - Solo Recital October 18 -&nbsp;Boston Premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s “UBIQUE” November 8 -&nbsp;Hilary Hahn &amp; Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective November 9 - Hilary Hahn Presents: Seth Parker Woods December 11-21 - American Modern Opera Company Tour, “El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered” 2022Jan 29 - ICED BODIES at Weisman Art Museum Feb 26 - Collaboration with Flutronix in Chapel Hill, NC Mar 10 - Difficult Grace in Toronto, ON Mar 24 - Recital at the Strathmore&nbsp; Mar 29 - Recital with Hilary Hahn and Andreas Haefliger (WPA) Apr 1 -&nbsp; Recital with Hilary Hahn and Andreas Haefliger (CSO) Apr 9&nbsp; -&nbsp;Chamber Music Detroit with Imani Winds June 6 - Spoleto Festival with John Kennedy June 8-12 - Guest with AMOC at Ojai Festival June 19 - The Britt Festival with Teddy Abrams June 25 - Difficult Grace at Hopkins Center for the Arts Aug 6 - Aspen Music Festival with Timothy Weiss Sep 10 - Chad Lawson Trio Sep 11-15 - Recording Session for Solo CD on Cedille Records Sep 23 - Release of The U.S. and the Holocaust (Soundtrack) Oct 20-21 - Chad Lawson Trio Oct 23-24 - Chad Lawson Trio Nov 4-6 - A&nbsp;Celebration of the Music of George Walker (Curator &amp; Performer) Nov 12 - Solo Recital Nov 19 - 92NY Presents World Premiere of Difficult Grace in NYC (New Version) Dec 4 - UCLA CAP Presents West Coast Premiere of Difficult Grace Dec 8-11 - Residency 2021 Feb 26 - Sound/Sites Performance Film premiere April 5 - Ammerman Center for the Arts and Technology Residency April 26-30 - Stanford University Graduate Composers Residency May 23 - Center for New Music residency (Northwestern University May 25 - Ecstatic Music Series, featuring Roderick George June- Fausto Romitelli Cello Concerto at Spoleto Festival (Postponed) June - Next Festival of Emerging Artists June 22 - Harvard Music Festival with Judith Gordon June 26 - New Directions Cello Festival July 4 - Louisville Orchestra with Teddy Abrams, conductor July 12-18 - Chosen Vale Cello Seminar (virtual) Aug 1-10 - Vivace Cello Festival (Wilmington, NC) Aug 26 - TIME:SPANS Contemporary Music Festival Sept 3-4 - AMOC: EASTMAN at Little Island Festival Oct 29 - George Lewis Recombinant Trilogy concert Oct 30 - 92Y recital with Andrew Rosenblum, piano (debut)Nov 12 - Faculty recital, University at Buffalo 2020Feb 9 - Solo Recital at Octave 9 March 5 - Faculty Tea Time concert at University of Chicago March 21 - Iced Bodies West Coast Premiere- Power to the People! Festival, Disney Hall (Cancelled) March 26 - George Lewis &nbsp;Composer Portrait Concert at Issue Project Room April 2-3-Discourse project with Flutronix April 17- EMPAC Residency and solo performance, Troy, NY May 14-Stanford CCRMA Recital and residency, Stanford, CA Jun 18-20-New Music Gathering performance, Portland, OR May 23 - American premiere of Fausto Romitelli Cello Concerto at Spoleto Festival November 9 - Premiere of Tyshawn Sorey Cello Concerto with Seattle Symphony, Seattle, WADecember 19 - Tyshawn Sorey Cello Concerto with Atlanta Symphony 2019 Jan 31, 2019-Duo recital with Andrew Rosenblum at Arts Club of Chicago Feb 14, 2019-National Gallery of Art - Washington, D.C. Recital Feb 2019-Dal Niente New Music New College Mar 2019-Derek Bermel Octave 9 concert Mar 5, 2019-University of Baltimore Recital (Dehiscence Recital) Mar 22, 2019-Octave 9 Marathon recital&nbsp; Mar 28, 2019-Dartmouth Recital - Hopkins Center for the Arts , Festival of New Music April 13, 2019-Jacaranda concert of Buffalo School- Julius Eastman May 3, 2019- Look and Listen Festival (NYC) May 24, 2019-Two Wings- Chicago Symphony June 1, 2019-Noon to Midnight,&nbsp; Monday Evening Concert playing Philip Glass June 6, 2019-I AM A MAN recital (COOS)- Boston (Hibernian Hall) June 22, 2019-Music of Tania Leon at Rockefeller Foundation’s The Bellagio Center (Bellagio, Italy) TBA-Boston Conservatory Residency and Recital &nbsp; Aug 6-10-Recording music of Daniel Fulmer with Kimberley Beasley, University of Jacksonville, FL Sep.12-The Phillips Collection recital feat. Andrew Rosenblum, Washington D.C. Sep 15-19-WildUp Residency, Virgina Tech&nbsp; Sep 20-WildUp, Moss Arts Center, Virgina Tech Sep 22-National Gallery with WildUp, Washington, D.C. Sep 24-26-Julius Eastman Album with WildUp Oct 1-3- Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago with Choreography Kim Brandt + Nate Wooley Oct 27-COOS Gardner Museum, Boston, MA Nov 16-Iced Bodies HCMF premiere, Huddersfield, UK Dec 11-Octave 9 recital with Bonnie Whiting and cellists of Seattle Symphony 2018 June 3, 2018-Clara Latham: Bertha the Mom, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY&nbsp; October 18-20, 2018-Seattle Sympony Rebecca Saunders Cello Concerto/ Ravel Kaddish November 26, 2018-Signature Series Recital, Art Institute, Chicago&nbsp; December 13, 2018-Convergences Series at Arete Gallery, Chicago Dec 18, 2018-Monday Evening Concerts - Steve Reich Music for 18, Los Angeles *Photograph by Dahlia Katz https://sethparkerwoods.com/Press Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:55:54 +0000 Seth Parker Woods https://sethparkerwoods.com/Press <img width="5000" height="3334" width_o="5000" height_o="3334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4181cf340ab16276c1d8e06ae0edf7f04c63846d23e96e7f839be1038827ec6/22BH1657.jpg" data-mid="179955332" border="0" data-scale="57" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4181cf340ab16276c1d8e06ae0edf7f04c63846d23e96e7f839be1038827ec6/22BH1657.jpg" /> “A cellist of power and grace” – The Guardian" a cellist of prodigious technical gifts and sharp intellect... Woods is an artist rooted in classical music, but whose cello is a vehicle that takes him, and his concertgoers, on wide-ranging journeys." – The New York Times "dazzlingly inventive... a musician of uncommon communicative power" – Gramophone Magazine “He gave the piece a soulful, technically impeccable, and affectionate reading that injected a needed narrative impulse” - San Francisco Classical Voice "one of the finest young cellists of his generation" – Gothamist "In its curated cacophony, Difficult Grace elicits the same kind of awe you feel perusing your smartest friend’s bookshelf: Here are the ideas, artists, and words that shaped Woods, arranged in plain sight. Luckily for us, his library is ever growing." – Chicago Reader “Throughout the set, Parker Woods showcased the range and depth of his instrument through virtuosic performances that combined both technical prowess and delicate grace." – I Care If You Listen"Cellist Seth Parker Woods did the audience a service in reviving “Lamentations” by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, a singular composer who spent the twilight of his career at the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago. We need to hear more of “Perk’s” music, and in performances as impassioned as Woods’.”– Chicago Tribune"...cellist Seth Parker Woods, who is quickly becoming a groundbreaking new-music star both in the avant-garde and pop worlds.” – Los Angeles Times “Utterly thrilling, and Woods unstoppable performance was outstanding.” – 5:4Recent Press Highlights Strings Magazine May 2023 Cover Article on Difficult GraceBillboard Magazine Feature for Difficult Grace Album, April 2023Chicago Reader Feature on Difficult Grace, April 202Gramophone Magazine April 2023 – Review of Difficult GraceThe Strad Podcast #78: Seth Parker Woods on practising octaves for cellistMinnesota Star Tribune Feature on Iced Bodies, January 2023Review: In ‘Difficult Grace,’ a Cellist Moves Beyond Classical Confines, The New York TimesCellist Seth Parker Woods brings Great Migration-inspired program to NYC, Gothamist/WNYCFive Minutes That Will Make you Love the Cello, The New York Times5 Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Composers, The New York TimesIced Bodies, The Strad MagazineNewcity Music 45: Who Keeps Chicago in Tune 2020Seattle Symphony, Beyond the Stage with Seth Parker Woods Look and Listen Festival 2019 Recital Review Strings Magazine Cover Story 2017Bristling Energy: The Best Classical Music Moments of the Week, The New York TimesTwo Wings collaboration with Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran, The Chicago TribuneBest of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical: January 2016Julius Eastman Monday Evening Concerts, Los Angeles TimesAlbum Review by Tim Rutherford JohnsonPercorsi Musicali, Album ReviewDiMenna Center Review with Fred Ho feature, I&nbsp;Care if You ListenReview of Michael Vincent Waller album with feature of Seth Parker WoodsInterview about Julius Eastman&nbsp;Seattle Times Preview of Solo Recital Iced Bodies, Those Who Make WavesIced Bodies,&nbsp;Cacophony MagazineSEM Ensemble review – Roscoe Mitchell played with startling precision,&nbsp;The&nbsp;Guardian&nbsp; Best Albums of 2016, 5:4HCMF 2016: Seth Parker Woods, Ensemble Resonanz + Elliott Sharp + Gareth Davis, 5:4HCMF 2014: Quatuor Bozzini, Electric Spring @ 20, 5:4 Photo Credit: Bailey Holiver https://sethparkerwoods.com/Contact Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:49:40 +0000 Seth Parker Woods https://sethparkerwoods.com/Contact <img width="3265" height="4898" width_o="3265" height_o="4898" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/725595520d5ea38209080766adb24228ab418c1f1d18a96202300e25eee59cc4/SethParkerWoods1-CreditBen-Gibbs.jpg" data-mid="194254184" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/725595520d5ea38209080766adb24228ab418c1f1d18a96202300e25eee59cc4/SethParkerWoods1-CreditBen-Gibbs.jpg" /> Global ManagementIntermusica Martin Wittenberg,&nbsp;Director&nbsp; Ph:&nbsp;+1 646 470 4662‬ E:&nbsp;mwittenberg@intermusica.com Catherine Gibbs, Associate Director (Europe and selected territories)Ph: +44 20 7608 9946 E:&nbsp;cgibbs@intermusica.com Rachel Feldhaus, Associate Artist ManagerPh: +1 619 762 8336 E:&nbsp;rfeldhaus@intermusica.com Public Relations Primo Artists Katy Salomon, VP Public Relations Ph: +1&nbsp;646 801 9406E: katy@primoartists.com Download High Resolution Press Kit Contact Seth Seth Parker Woods seth@sethparkerwoods.com&nbsp; <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa93f7aae49e3ebac08557735f4a457b645fed96d3ca74bac822f53da9075949/Pirastro-photo.jpeg" data-mid="152321526" border="0" data-scale="32" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa93f7aae49e3ebac08557735f4a457b645fed96d3ca74bac822f53da9075949/Pirastro-photo.jpeg" /> *Photo by Ben Gibbs https://sethparkerwoods.com/Media Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:40:23 +0000 Seth Parker Woods https://sethparkerwoods.com/Media AUDIOJulius Eastman: The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc asinglewordisnotenoughJ. 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Bach Sol Majeur Suite: Allemande and Courante Martin Boykin Piano TrioMartin Iddon: Morea _________________________ VIDEO Difficult Grace Ice Bodies Not Alone Alvin Singleton: Argoru II Almost Human Marina Khorkova: a priori Reciprocal Structures: Glass Light Sound_________________________ PHOTO GALLERY <img width="3265" height="4898" width_o="3265" height_o="4898" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/725595520d5ea38209080766adb24228ab418c1f1d18a96202300e25eee59cc4/SethParkerWoods1-CreditBen-Gibbs.jpg" data-mid="194254040" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/725595520d5ea38209080766adb24228ab418c1f1d18a96202300e25eee59cc4/SethParkerWoods1-CreditBen-Gibbs.jpg" /> <img width="4898" height="3265" width_o="4898" height_o="3265" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/faadfd922495dd9bd13af3f19d97c034115fb1ef21959e4fb37e88268347e6a0/Seth-Parker-Woods-4---Credit-Ben-Gibbs.jpg" data-mid="194254031" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7d93c66a9ad3d7e3787d8504f6f7483e5cd1f323ecdce8386862966525735d0/SPW-05.jpg" data-mid="152323276" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7d93c66a9ad3d7e3787d8504f6f7483e5cd1f323ecdce8386862966525735d0/SPW-05.jpg" /> https://sethparkerwoods.com/Difficult-Grace Tue, 18 May 2021 18:49:11 +0000 Seth Parker Woods https://sethparkerwoods.com/Difficult-Grace <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/363d2093a3124c88d3e7a9ad879e5c423306114df2aea226bc3964f608846f21/Seth-Parker-Woods_NMCDifficultGrace-photobyDahliaKatz-16.png" data-mid="176041612" border="0" data-scale="86" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/363d2093a3124c88d3e7a9ad879e5c423306114df2aea226bc3964f608846f21/Seth-Parker-Woods_NMCDifficultGrace-photobyDahliaKatz-16.png" />Photo Credit: Dahlia Katz DIFFICULT GRACEAn evocative, theatrical, and genre-bending collaboration with choreographer/dancer Roderick George, Difficult Grace is a multimedia concert tour de force conceived by and featuring Woods in the triple role of cellist, narrator/guide, and movement artist, performing music written for and with Seth by Freida Abtan, Monty Adkins, Fredrick Gifford, Ted Hearne, Devonté Hynes a.k.a Blood Orange, Nathalie Joachim and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay. Heightened by film, spoken text, dance and visual artwork by Jacob Lawrence, Barbara Earl Thomas, Zoë McLean, and Freida Abtan, Difficult Grace is a semi-autobiographical exploration of identity, past/present histories and personal growth that draws inspiration from the Great Migration, the historic newspaper The Chicago Defender, immigration, and the poetry of Kemi Alabi and Dudley Randall. Commissioned for Seth Parker Woods by the 92nd Street Y with the generous support of Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting. Co-commissioned by the Harris Theater, UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, and The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth. The world premiere of Difficult Grace&nbsp;was presented by the Seattle Symphony at Octave 9: Raisbeck Music Center at Benaroya Hall in February 2020.“Seth Parker Woods’s audiovisually mouthwatering performance”&nbsp;— CHICAGO TRIBUNE “married the cellist’s most introspective playing with an affecting visual narrative…”&nbsp;— GRAMOPHONE <img width="1013" height="564" width_o="1013" height_o="564" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29c796057a8b5156544f98a6627e8f8aae11b0fb3cbd5fc8a32fd4c88cdef6c7/Screen-Shot-2023-04-20-at-9.15.48-AM.png" data-mid="176041429" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29c796057a8b5156544f98a6627e8f8aae11b0fb3cbd5fc8a32fd4c88cdef6c7/Screen-Shot-2023-04-20-at-9.15.48-AM.png" /> https://sethparkerwoods.com/Ice-Bodies Wed, 10 Jul 2019 18:20:29 +0000 Seth Parker Woods https://sethparkerwoods.com/Ice-Bodies Back to A/V <img width="2700" height="1800" width_o="2700" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b63dcb1fb7ca8c16a36483936e1858df203135e471e853361403ccd15c0d7b16/Seth-Parker-Woods_Ice-Cello.jpg" data-mid="46363977" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b63dcb1fb7ca8c16a36483936e1858df203135e471e853361403ccd15c0d7b16/Seth-Parker-Woods_Ice-Cello.jpg" /> ICED BODIES: Ice Music for ChicagoSeth Parker Woods and Spencer TopelTopel &amp; Woods copyright 2017 Voice-hearing and undiagnosed schizophrenia in the African American community is linked to incidences of police brutality and prison abuse across the United States. Many at-risk individuals with mental health problems not incarcerated, often end up homeless and unaided. Iced Bodies is an interactive performance installation for cellist and electronic instrumental ice sculpture seeking to dramatize the ephemerality of matter in phase transition.The inherent vulnerability of a melting ice sculpture—with its eventual destruction—serves as a commentary to overlooked and undocumented cases of mental disability within underrepresented populations. This work serves as an ode to these struggling minds, and bruised, tattered, and broken bodies on display.Vocal emanations from within the cello serve to bridge socio-political themes in this work to the introspective and personal experience of the audience. In addition to sounds captured and activated through the ice, a disembodied male voice is heard reciting poetic phrases sonically-diffused on spatialized glass sculptures. These sounds serve as sonic feedback loops, evoking the isolation and neglect of voice hearers battling mental disorders. The audience at the end is left to revel in the visual image of freed bodies, represented by shards of ice, electronic entrails, and the sounds of an unrestrained voice liberated from the ice, symbolized by the performer clutching a sound emitting transducer. Through experimentation, a carefully sculpted sonic universe exposes and amplifies the raw beauty of ice acoustics. Choreographic strikes, taps, scrapes, bowing and gouges produced by Woods, translate into sound by Topel who responds, processes and diffuses these actions across glass panels suspended around the gallery. Over several hours Woods feeds the sonification of material transformation by hastening the process through meditative and violent destruction. Once melted away, fragments of ice reveal the inner “organs” of the sculpture, consisting of hydrophones, wires, and a black Lucite fin.Iced Bodies programmatically engages the cellist by supplanting the cold body—the frozen body—of those lost to mental illness and violence in the African American community, with that of the ice cello. The voice, represented by trapped and fragmented vocalizations from within the ice, links mental illness to the conversation around neglect for those individuals battling these conditions, and acts as a call to action for those of us who can do more to help. In 1972, artist Jim McWilliams devised a piece for cellist Charlotte Moorman called Ice Music for London. Moorman, nude, “played” a cello-shaped ice sculpture with a plexiglass “bow” for multiple hours. On the 45th anniversary of the original work, Seth Parker Woods and Spencer Topel readdressed McWilliams’ concept with an immersive two-hour performance installation experience. Woods, in a wetsuit, played an obsidian ice cello as Topel mixed and spatialized the sounds from the ice across seven panes of glass distributed around the gallery. Read more here: Cacophany Magazine,&nbsp;MIT Music Journal Review &amp; Twentieth-Century Music&nbsp;&nbsp; Funded in part by:The Arts Club of ChicagoDCaseThe Thayer School of EngineeringDartmouth College Cinematography: Ben Kolak, Scrappers Film GroupVideo Editing: Spencer Topel and Ben KolakSound: Ben Kolak https://sethparkerwoods.com/asinglewordisnotenough Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:46:33 +0000 Seth Parker Woods https://sethparkerwoods.com/asinglewordisnotenough Back to A/V Company is a state of being here, on an album which speaks in worlds. In Edward Hamel’s Gray Neon Life the cellist is his own companion, uttering words which are not so much spoken over the music as sprayed on and under it, made both surface and core: adornment and essence. This double figure – cellist and voice in one – is Seth Parker Woods, and the piece in both concept and execution is a vehicle for his co-creative input, ranging from the precise choice of pitch material to the derivation of the texted component from the SAMO© tag of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s and Al Diaz’s New York street art, of which Woods is an aficionado. What Hamel makes from it is a sort of manifesto for city life and city art, summoned into existence by a harmonic double stop which, recurring as a fourfold refrain, finally offers a tentative way out … or on. On, at first, into a hall of mirrors. The three remaining works on this album – two of them, like Gray Neon Life, written for Woods – surround the cello with electronically produced sounds, and in the first two, by Michael Clarke and George Lewis, these sounds are derived in real time from the cello’s own material. In Pierre Alexandre Tremblay’s asinglewordisnotenough3 (invariant) the sound sources are more diverse, and yet the work’s worlds are again conjured forth by this lone yet multiple figure. Here he is at the centre of it all: muse and master of ceremonies, devising it all for company. © 2016 John Fallas For more detailed information and to purchase physical copies of the album please visit www.confrontrecordings.com/seth-parker-woods Artwork by Massimiliano Siccardi Credits: Released November 25, 2016 Seth Parker Woods : violoncello + voice Recorded at the University of Huddersfield, UK, 13 - 16 July 2016 Lead engineer and Producer : Pierre Alexandre Tremblay Assistant engineers : Frederic Dufeu, Dave Jones and Sebastien Lavoie Mixing and Mastering by Christopher Botta at Staple Chest Audio, Harrison Pl., Brooklyn, NY https://sethparkerwoods.com/J-S-Bach-Sol-Majeur-Suite Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:02:57 +0000 Seth Parker Woods https://sethparkerwoods.com/J-S-Bach-Sol-Majeur-Suite Back to A/V