concerts
2012
Subterranean Art House, Berkeley
w. Jason Hoopes, Kanoko Nishi, Aram Shelton, Nate Wooley
International Festival of Improvisation Hurta Cordel, MADRID
SOLO
01/26
Casa Encendida, Madrid
International Festival of Improvisation Hurta Cordel, MADRID
conducting the FOCO Orchestra
Cornell University
SOLO and with Annie Lewandowski
Intakt Records at The Stone, New York
3/01
with Shahzad Ismaily and Matthias Bossi (8pm)
with Lucas Niggli (10pm)
3/02
with Co Streiff (10pm)
(Elliott Sharp/Melvin Gibbs/ Lucas Niggli at 8pm)
WHISPERINGS
with FF, Franziska Baumann, Michel Wintsch, Lionel Friedli
Les Autres Musiques Aujourd'hui
SOLO
with Lucia Recio
at the Banlieues Bleues Festival, Paris
WHISPERINGS
with FF, Franziska Baumann, Michel Wintsch, Lionel Friedli
with Alfred Zimmerlin
first duo with my colleague in the Basel Musik Akademie's improvisation program
04/18
Musik Akademie Basel, location tba
Mannheim Global Strings 2012
SOLO
Centro Stabile, Vicenza, Italy
with THERESA WONG
AREA SISMICA, Forlì, Italy
SOLO and with THERESA WONG
LUZERN
trio with Fredi Studer & Katharina Weber
improvising in Montréal
details tbd
05/02
Casa del Popolo, Montréal
Montréal, Québec
a live video/music improvisation with director and VJ Peter Mettler to help kick off his cinematic retrospective
COSA BRAVA EUROPEAN TOUR
To celebrate the release of our second album,The Letter, on the Intakt label.
05/16
NEED CONCERT - ANY IDEAS?
Platz für Andere Musik, Uster, Switzerland
with Lucas Niggli
Nantes, France
with percussionist Edward Perraud, following on from their performance in Tours (one of Fred's favorite concerts of last year)
Batofar, Paris
with Bérangère Maximin
I-Boat, Bordeaux
with Bérangère Maximin
LONDON, Cafe Oto residency
the what-seems-to-have-become annual two-day bash in London's friendliest venue, featuring the first time Fred and Christian have performed together in over 20 years!
07/06
with John Edwards and Mark Sanders
07/07
with Christian Marclay
GRAVITY Re-imagined
performed by Fred Frith (bass, guitar, violin, piano)
with
Thorny Brocky
Aaron Novik, bass clarinet
Kasey Knudsen, alto sax
Marie Abe, accordion
Dina Maccabee, violin
Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
Jamie Moore, drums
Melody Ferris, voice
and
Dominique Leone Band
Dominique Leone, keyboards
Aaron Novik, clarinets
Ava Mendoza, guitar
Jordan Glenn, drums
Lisbon, Portugal
Lotte Anker trio, w. FF and Ikue Mori