“Division of Time” World Premiere
“Division of Time," an evening-length work for cello, Yamaha Disklavier™ piano and jugglers, features cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and London-based Gandini Juggling performing music composed by Eric Nathan with choreography by Gandini Juggling, in a groundbreaking celebration and exploration of music, movement, and technology. "Division of Time" speaks about humanity and its relationship to numbers, weaving a dramatic arc that is both thrilling and touching, complex and visceral, poetic and humorous.
No One is Forgotten
Co-composed by Paola Prestini and Sxip Shirey
Libretto by Winter Miller
Creative producer Eve Gigliotti
Music direction by Michelle Rofrano
Performed by Kathleen Chalfant, Eve Gigliotti, Amelia Workman
Cellist Jeffrey Zeigler
Sound conception, design and engineering by Lucas Corrubia
Produced by Cath Brittan
Stage directed by faculty member Elena Araoz
Originally commissioned by Dallas Opera, Eve Gigliotti and Emitha/Lexicon Classics
Wallace Theater
Presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts
PuSh Festival | Tanya Tagaq Trio
World Premiere of Split Tooth: Saputjiji, a new performance by Tanya Tagaq drawing from her acclaimed book Split Tooth and her new album Saputjiji.
National Sawdust | Huang Ruo String Quartet
Composer's Note:
Symbolizing the cycle and circle of an hour the piece is to be performed live without a break. Its structure is like a Tibetan sand mandala, created slowly from the central essence point expanding outward into its colored fullness, and then to be subtracted from it inwards back to the central essence point, fulfilling the
spiritual and life cycle and journey of traveling from nothing (emptiness) to something (fullness), and then back to nothing (emptiness). A colorful perfect world created by sands, although beautiful, yet it will eventually return back to dust. By going through this entire journey, what will remain afterwards is the fulfillment and internal peace laying in the heart...
Open Heart - MLK Tribute Concert
Chicago Sinfonietta
Cello, Jeffrey Zeigler
Conductor, Maestra Mei-Ann Chen
Sunday, January 18, 2026
4:00 PM - Wentz Concert Hall – Naperville, IL
Monday, January 19, 2026
4:00 PM - The Auditorium – Chicago, IL
Brown composer concert
Cellist Jeffrey Zeigler completes his semester-long residency at Brown with a concert of new works for solo cello and electronics. Zeigler gives world and local premieres of new works by Brown University faculty composers Anthony Cheung, Eric Nathan, Wang Lu and Joseph “Butch” Rovan as well as world premieres by students in Brown’s Music and Multimedia Composition PhD Program: Isaac Barzso, Nicholas Bentz, Jessica Shand, James May, Han geul Lee, I-Lly Cheng, Sofía Rocha. Admission to this event is free and open to the public.
Akiho Concerto “Nisei”
Saturday, November 22 7pm
The Lindemann Performing Arts Center
Program:
Andy Akiho
Nisei
Jeffrey Zeigler, cello
T. Gotsch
Portrait of a Cardinal (World Premiere)
Maurice Ravel
Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2
Division of Time
Brown University hosts the workshop premiere of Division of Time, a work brings together the London-based Gandini Juggling, renowned cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, and Brown professor and composer Eric Nathan in a collaborative exploration of music, movement, and technology.
Program
Eric Nathan: Division of Time (Workshop Premiere)
For Cello and Player Piano
Choreography by Gandini Juggling
Mexico Now Festival
The world premiere screening of the documentary made around Prestini's 'Con Alma' will take place at the Mexico Now Festival in New York, venue to be confirmed. The film is a musical and cinematic ode that charts isolation to liberation. Magos Herrera and Paola Prestini, together with some of the most outstanding musicians in the international contemporary scene, create an iconic album during the most devastating pandemic of our time; aiming to leave a blueprint of their experience and reaching out to collectively heal through the power of music
The Old Man and the Sea
October 10 at 7:30 PM and October 12 at 2:00 PM
The Old Man and the Sea
Music by Paola Prestini
Libretto by Royce Vavrek
Directed and cocreated by Karmina Šilec
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway
Jeffrey Zeigler as featured cellist
Presented by the Wexner Center for the Arts and Opera Columbus.
Paola Prestini: Houses of Zodiac
October 1-3 with performances starting at 6 & 7:30pm
Jeffrey Zeigler, Dai Matsuoka, Georgina Pazcoguin, Maria Popova
Houses of Zodiac is produced by VisionIntoArt, and was created in part at MASS MoCA. The project was commissioned by Jill Steinberg, with additional support by Sundance Institute’s Interdisciplinary Program (IDP), and premiered on June 4 and 5, 2022 at The Broad as part of the exhibition Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow.
Presented by Death of Classical
Virtuoso & Belcanto: Workshop Guest
Saturday August 2, 2025
Virtuoso & Belcanto Festival will host cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, former member of the Kronos Quartet and one of the most innovative and versatile musicians of our time. It will be an all-round interview, exploring current trends in contemporary classical music between Europe and the United States, hearing the voice of one of the protagonists.
Beethoven, Ishizaki, & Brahms
Wednesday, July 9 7:30 pm-9:00 pm
Studzinski Recital Hall
12 Campus Road S Brunswick, ME 04011
Program:
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Sonata for Piano and Cello No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2
Amir Eldan, cello • Pei-Shan Lee, piano
Hannah Ishizaki
Obon Uta (World Premiere)
Jeffrey Zeigler, cello
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34
Itamar Zorman, Janet Ying, violin • Melissa Reardon, viola • Keiko Ying, cello • Ran Dank, piano
Tanya Tagaq Trio: National Indigenous Peoples Day at Celebration Square
Friday June 20, 2025
Jeffrey Zeigler as part of the Tanya Tagaq Trio. Tanya Tagaq, Polaris Prize-winning Inuk artist delivering raw, electrifying throat singing like no other
Celebration Square
300 City Centre Dr
Mississauga, ON L5B 3C1, Canada
The Image
Program:
The Image - Stephen Main
Divided - Jessie Montgomery
June 4, 2026 6:30-8:30pm
Trinity Church
89 Broadway
New York, NY 10006
Sensorium Ex (World Premiere)
Sensorium Ex is an ambitious new opera by acclaimed composer Paola Prestini, co-directed by Jerron Herman and Jay Scheib, that synthesizes artificial intelligence, disability, and the arts in a groundbreaking and innovative artistic work.
May 22-25, 2025
Common Senses Festival
Omaha, NE
National Sawdust | Kronos Quartet Concert
More information coming soon
May 3, 2025
National Sawdust
South Carolina Philharmonic | Andy Akiho's concerto 'Nisei'
Program Overview:
Maurice Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
Andy Akiho: Cello Concerto (SC Phil Co-Commission)
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, op. 14
April 26, 2025 7:30pm
Koger Center for the Arts
Morihiko Nakahara, Conductor
Flushing Town Hall | The Music of Chen Yi
Program Details:
Chen Yi: Sprout
Zhou Long: Chinese Folk Songs
Chen Yi: Sound of the Five
March 29, 2025 2pm
Flushing Town Hall
137-35 Northern Blvd
Queens County, NY 11354
The Brooklyn Public Library | The Music of Chen Yi
Program Details:
Chen Yi: Sprout
Zhou Long: Chinese Folk Songs
Chen Yi: Sound of the Five
March 28, 2025 7pm
The Brooklyn Public Library - Central Branch
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY11238
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts | The Music of Chen Yi
Program Details:
Chen Yi: Sprout
Zhou Long: Chinese Folk Songs
Chen Yi: Sound of the Five
March 27, 2025 6pm
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture | The Music of Chen Yi
Program Details:
Chen Yi: Sprout
Zhou Long: Chinese Folk Songs
Chen Yi: Sound of the Five
March 27, 2025 7pm
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
450 Grand Concourse
Bronx County, NY 10451
Orchestra of St. Lukes | The Music of Chen Yi
Program Details:
Chen Yi: Sprout
Zhou Long: Chinese Folk Songs
Chen Yi: Sound of the Five
March 23, 2025 2pm
Snug Harbor Cultural Center - Newhouse Center Of Contemporary Art
Umeå International LittFest | Tanya Tagaq Trio
Final Program to be announced February 8
March 15, 2025
Föreningen Littfest
Umeå, Sweden
National Sawdust | Hildegard Commission Concert
More information coming soon
March 6, 2025
National Sawdust
National Sawdust | 2025 Composers Now Festival Opening Event
Join us as we launch the 2025 Composers Now Festival with an electrifying evening hosted by Tania León, the visionary Founder and Artistic Director of Composers Now. This event kicks off a month-long celebration spotlighting the voices of living composers across the nation.
Highlights of the evening Include:
2025 Visionary Awards
First Commission - World Premiere
Live Performances
January 29, 2025 7:30pm
National Sawdust
Joe's Pub | Tanya Tagaq Trio
Program Details:
Tanya Tagaq
Jeffrey Zeigler
January 14th, 2025 9:30pm
Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10003
National Sawdust | We Were Fridays In-process Residency
Program Details:
This is a private, invitation-only work-in-progress presentation of We Were Fridays. Tickets are not available to the public.
January 13, 2025 5pm
National Sawdust
Manhattan Marathon: New York City Winter Jazz Fest 2025
Program Overview:
5:30 PM Doors
6:00 PM Kaoru Watanabe's Bloodlines
7:15 PM Brandee Younger Trio
8:30 PM Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
9:45 PM Air Legacy Trio
11:00 PM Linda May Han Oh
12:15 AM Jakob Bro w/ Mark Turner, Craig Taborn, Marcus Gilmore
January 10, 2025 5:30pm
The Keith Haring Theater, Performance Space NY