Carol Robinson

Listening session
2023-04-07 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Salon d’écoutes, Geneva, Switzerland
The composer and clarinetist lets us discover and hear music that she particularly likes.

Concert (Radigue)
2023-04-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Salle des pas perdus, Geneva, Switzerland
After Philadelphia and Knoxville, Carol Robinson and Nate Wooley bring Eliane Radigue’s OCCAM RIVER III to Geneva.

Concert (Barthélémy, Cali, Repeckaïte, Robinson, Cocker, Hendrix, Joplin, McDonald, Slick)
2023-04-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Auditorium du Conservatoire, Gennevilliers, France
50 / 50 Woodstock, a concert for voices, mandolin, guitar and harp inspired by Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.

Music by Claude Barthélémy, Fabien Cali, Justina Repeckaïte, Carol Robinson, Country Joe McDonald, Grace Slick, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker and Janis Joplin

the TrioPolycordes & Ensemble vocal Sequenza 9.3 – Catherine Simonpietri, conductor

Concert (Barthélémy, Cali, Repeckaïte, Robinson, Cocker, Hendrix, Joplin, McDonald, Slick)
2023-04-14 20:00 - 22:00 | Théatre de La Barcarolle, Saint-Omer, France

Concert (Robinson)
2023-05-20 20:00 | CCAM-scène nationale, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
The Musique Action festival at the CCAM in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, will be hosting the premier of Blanc de neige, my new piece for Archipel Nocturne (Violaine Gestalder – saxophone, Christelle Séry – electric guitar, Louis-Michel Marion – double bass). They will each also be playing solos from THE WEATHER PIECES.

Concert (Bernard, Carter, Delavigne, de Montclair, Hisatome, Robinson, Scelsi)
2023-09-10 14:30 - 17:00 | Péniche Bali, Juvisy sur Orge, France
The innovative Festival Embarque ! proposes 6 concerts on a moving barge, including a performance by Mathieu Steffanus (clarinets, recorders) and Mayu Sato-Brémaud (flutes, recorders).

Concert (Radigue & Robinson)
2023-09-25 19:30 - 21:00 | Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
As part of a four-concert retrospective dedicated to Éliane Radigue, our composition OCCAM HEXA V will be performed by Ensemble Klang in the Cartier Foundation’s beautiful garden.. The Dédalus ensemble will also be performing OCCAM HEPTA I..

Concert (Radigue)
2023-10-09 19:30 - 21:00 | Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
As part of a four-concert retrospective dedicated to Éliane Radigue, Carol Robinson – birbyne and Rhodri Davies – harp will be performing OCCAM III and OCCAM RIVER XVI. in the exhibition space of stunning sculptures by Ron Mueck.

Concert (Radigue & Robinson)
2023-10-20 20:00 - 21:30 | Baarsporthalle, Donaueschingen, Germany
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The Donaueschinger Musiktage festival presents the premiere of a major new piece for orchestra, Occam Océan Cinquanta performed by the orchestra of the Südwestrundfunk. This concert opens the festival, with premieres by Matana Roberts, Clara Iannotta and Sara Glojnaric as well.

Matana Roberts
Elegy for Tyre: “Welcome to the World through my eyes…” (world premiere)
Sara Glojnaric
sugarcoating #4 (German premiere)
Clara Iannotta
where the dark earth bends (world premiere)
Éliane Radigue & Carol Robinson
Occam Océan Cinquanta (world premiere)

Concert (Radigue)
2023-10-30 20:30 - 21:30 | Philharmonie Essen, Essen, Germany
The NOW! festival in Essen will include a concert by Carol Robinson & Louis-Michel Marion performing music by Éliane Radigue.
OCCAM RIVER XXVIII, birbyne and viola da gamba
OCCAM RIVER VIII, bass clarinet and 5-string double-bass

Concert (Radigue)
2023-11-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Huddersfield Town Hall, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
ASYMPTOTE VERSATILE (1963-64) 90’ world premiere
An exceptional event organized by Rhodri Davies and performed by an ensemble of French, British and Irish musicians, many of whom are longtime performers of Eliane’s Radigue’s very special music.
Xavier Charles clarinet
Bertrand Gauguet sarrusophone
Carol Robinson bass clarinet
Thierry Madiot bass trombone
Angharad Davies violin
Dominic Lash double bass
Julia Eckhardt viola
Rhodri Davies harp
Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh viola
Aonghus McEvoy guitar
Susan Geaney bass flute
Hannah Miller french horn

Concert (Robinson)
2024-02-22 | Lycée Fabert, Metz, France
The trio Archipel Nocturne will be performing four of my Weather Pieces, including Blanc de Neige (Aide à l’écriture d’une œuvre original du ministère de la Culture) written specially for them. The rehearsals and performance will take place at the very musical Lycée Fabert, involving the students as much as possible in the process.
Violaine Gestalder, saxophone – Christelle Séry, electric guitar – Louis-Michel Marion, contrebasse
Organized by Fragm/ent

Concert (Scelsi)
2024-02-29 - 2024-03-02 | Don Bosco Cultural Center, Basel, Switzerland
Scelsi specialist Marianne Schroder organizes this beautiful festival in the gorgeous Don Bosco Cultural Center. It will be good to play the music of the master.

Concert (Farrenc, Jones, Matsui, Piaf, Renié, Robinson, Sanson, Sylvestre)
2024-03-07 19:30 - 21:00 | Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris, France
Every celebration of creative women counts! For International Women’s Rights Day and Women’s Month 2024, the Fondation des Etats-Unis in Paris honored former and current FEU composers and performers. The program designed by Isabelle Pazar, illustrated this year’s theme perfectly: Investing in Women: Accelerating Progress. I was glad to be included in the program. (music by Farrenc, Jones, Matsui, Piaf, Renié, Robinson, Sanson, Sylvestre)

Screening (d'Ayala Valva)
2024-03-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Institut Français Milano, Milano, Italy
As part of the Milano Triennale, there will be a projection of Standing Waves, Sebastiano d’Ayala Valva’s film on the making of Occam Océan Cinquanta by Éliane Radigue and Carol Robinson, with the SWR orchestra in Stuttgart.

Lecture
2024-03-14 10:00 - 11:30 | Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität, Linz, Austria
I will be giving a lecture about the open composition systems with electronics that I use in my Weather Pieces, as well as the collaborative co-compositional process developed with Éliane Radigue. It is part of an annual three-day seminar on improvisation and jazz hosted by the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Linz.
Live Stream: https://www.bruckneruni.at/live/

Concert (Radigue & Robinson)
2024-04-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
The retrospective of Éliane Radigue’s work continues at the Foundation Cartier with two nights of duets in the sumptuous exhibition by Bijoy Jain, including the premiere of OCCAM XXIII for saxophone and our co-signed OCCAM RIVER XXII.

Concert (Brophy, Milliken, Robinson, Scelsi, improvisations)
2024-05-03 20:00 - 21:00 | Höchster Schloßplatz 1, Frankfurt, Germany
Ventures (Cathy Milliken & Carol Robinson) will be giving a retrospective concert in Frankfurt to celebrate thirty years of creative collaboration with the photographer Jürgen Wiesner.

Concert (Radigue & Robinson)
2024-05-05 19:00 - 20:00 | The Space at irondale, Brooklyn, United States
Bang on a Can brings the outstanding Ensemble Klang to Brooklyn. They will be playing our OCCAM HEXA V as part of this year’s Long Play Festival.

Concert (Radigue) postponed
2024-05-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
As part of a three-concert series dedicated to Éliane Radigue, Carol Robinson, birbyne and Rhodri Davies, harp, will be performing OCCAM I, OCCAM III and OCCAM RIVER XVI inside the exhibition of Leonor Antunes during the grand opening of the new Gulbenkian Centro de Arte Moderna.

Concert / fiesta release party
2024-10-03 18:30 - 23:00 | Pol_n, Nantes, France
Come celebrate the release of our album La démesure du pas, recorded by Christophe Havard during musical walks here and there. For the occasion we will be a quintet, to make Nantes sound. As a bonus, there will be an exhibition of drawings/scores by Matthieu Prual, and special listening stations. With Matthieu Prual, Carol Robinson, Gabriel Lemaire, Joris Rühl and Toma Gouband.

Concert (Radigue)
2024-10-18 19:30 - 20:30 | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
As part of Leonor Antunes’ “the constant inequality of leonor’s days”, the newly reopened Gulbenkian Centro de Arte Moderna will host a three-concert series dedicated to music by Éliane Radigue. (curation Carol Robinson)
22/09/24 OCCAM XIX, OCCAM XXVII
Louis-Michel Marion, 5 string double bass and Erwan Keravec, bagpipes
18/10/24 OCCAM I, OCCAM III, OCCAM RIVER XVI
Rhodri Davies, harp and Carol Robinson, birbyne
19/10/24 OCCAM II, OCCAM XXVI, OCCAM RIVER XXIII
Silvia Tarozzi, violin and Enrico Malatesta, percussion

Concert (von Bingen, Frey, Robinson, Scelsi)
2024-10-27 18:00 - 19:00 | Pavillon d’Artois, Vaux sur Seine, France
The unveiling of a new project for voice and basset horn, featuring ecstatic music spanning different centuries and styles. with Hélène Faucher, contralto & Carol Robinson, basset horn.

Pavillon d’Artois https://www.vauxsurseine.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Pavillon-dArtois.pdf

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Concert (Giner, Hong, Rey, Robinson)
2024-11-10 18:00 - 19:30 | Petit Kursaal, Besançon, France
The Festival POTE is presenting L’illusion des étangs II, a new version of my L’illusion des étangs, this time, for 9 musicians, which should be very interesting.

Screening and concert (d’Ayala Valva, Radigue / Robinson)
2024-12-29 20:00 - 22:00 | Kursaal Santalucia, Bari, Italy
Angoli, the eclectic international festival in Bari, will be hosting a projection of “Stehende Wellen”, Sebastiano d’Ayala Valva’s film about the making of Occam Océan Cinquanta (Radigue/Robinson) with the SWR Symphony Orchestra. A concert of OCCAM RIVER XXII (Radigue/Robinson) performed by Bertrand Gauguet, saxophone and Carol Robinson, bass clarinet, will follow.

Concert (Hennies, Mitchener & Huynh, Radigue / Robinson)
2025-01-09 20:00 - 23:00 | Korzo, den Haag, Netherlands
Ensemble Klang performs works of stillness and immersive minimalism on the opening night of this year’s Musical Utopias. The two sets revolve around musical memory and conjure vivid aural recollections to contrasting effect.

Concert (Ablinger, Buzzi, Fullman, Kammerer Newman, Oliveros, Ortiz, Radigue / Robinson, Russolo, Walshe / Conrad)
2025-01-17 19:30 - 21:30 | Wigmore Hall, London, United Kingdom
Premiere of the latest Radigue / Robinson work, OCCAM DELTA XXIII, with musicians from Ensemble Klang performing as part of the London Contemporary Music Festival. With Erik-Jan de With – baritone sax, Anton van Houten – trombone and Joey Marjis – percussion.

CD release concert (Robinson & Teyssot-Gay)
2025-02-26 20:30 - 22:00 | La Marbrerie, Montreuil, France
Join us for the release of our new CD, STOP KILLING US. 55’ minutes of tenderness and almost violent intensity for bass clarinet, electric guitar and live electronics.
Carol ROBINSON composition, texts, bass clarinet, voice
Serge TEYSSOT-GAY electric guitar
Bandcamp release February 20,2025
https://carol-robinson.bandcamp.com/album/stop-killing-us

accueil en résidence et enregistrement au GMEM — Centre national de création musicale (Marseille)

Concert (Radigue)
2025-03-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Conzertgebouw, Brugges, Belgium
Some of original performers of Éliane Radigue’s music reunite to play several early pieces from OCCAM OCEAN as part of SLOW (36 hours) at the stunning Conzertgebouw. Julia Eckhardt – viola, Carol Robinson – bass clarinet & birbyné (Lithuanian reed instrument), Rhodri Davies – harp

Concert (Robinson – Teyssot-Gay – Testu)
2025-05-12 19:30 - 21:30 | Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
Live recording for Anne Montaron‘s program A l’improviste / Radio France
Carol Robinson, clarinets – Serge Teyssot-Gay, electric guitar – CharlotteTestu, double bass
This time, the trio of subtle improvisers let themselves be carried away by sounds that seem to originate in nature.
Broadcast on France Musique, Sunday June 15 at 9pm (Carrefour de la Création).
First half: Violaine Gestalder, saxophones and effects pedals – Loris Binot, prepared piano, Kaoss Pad and magnetic bow
