BIO

Winner of the 2015 CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, Either/Or is a flexible chamber ensemble based in New York City that presents a repertoire of new and recent chamber music informed equally by American Experimentalism and European avant-garde practice, with special emphasis on artists outside the institutional mainstream and on works exploring nontraditional ensemble formations.  Director Richard Carrick and guest curator Christopher McIntyre draw on a broader collective of 17 regular soloists (and guests) to realize the unique requirements of each project.  Since its founding in 2004, Either/Or has premiered more than 125 works (as well as dozens of student compositions), toured throughout the US and Sweden, and recorded for labels such as New Focus, New World Records, Starkland, and Sterling Classics.

EO performing Joanna Ward’s A London plane tree hid me from the sun (2022), NOv. 2023 - Photo by Inga Chinilina

UPCOMING CONCERTS

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The Music of Talib Rasul Hakim (EO & ICE)
May 18
The Music of Talib Rasul Hakim (EO & ICE)

Either/Or and International Contemporary Ensemble collaborate on a program of works by Society of Black Composers co-founder Talib Rasul Hakim at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Post concert panel with EO’s Richard Carrick and Chris McIntyre and MacArthur Fellows George Lewis, Courtney Bryan, and Tyshawn Sorey.

Either/OR performs Talib Rasul Hakim's Profiles on November 23, 2021 at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York.

Either/OR premieres Richard Carrick’s The Atlas for extended piano and string quartet at the DiMenna Center on Sep 20, 2023.

Either/ OR plays (a)long lines: we'll draw our own lines (2004/rev. 2017) by Chiyoko Szlavnics on November 2, 2022 at the Tenri Cultural Institute.

Either/OR performs Talib Rasul Hakim's Profiles on November 23, 2021 at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York.