Jeffrey Zeigler Premieres Works by Brown University Composers

Name: Jeffrey Zeigler Premieres Works by Brown University Composers
Start: 2025-12-06T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University

Schedule

Sat, 06 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University | Providence, RI

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, and Wang Lu 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. This event takes place at 7pm on Saturday, December 6 at in Martinos Auditorium at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts (154 Angell Street, Providence). Admission is free and open to the public.
This event is made possible in part through the Visiting Artist Fund.
Program
(Subject to changes)
Jessica Shand: five short meditations on an egg (2025) (world premiere)
for flute and cello
Nicholas Bentz: They too are ghosts (2025) (world premiere)
For solo cello
Isaac Barzso: Ended still then (glacial erratic) (2025) (world premiere)
for solo cello
Sofía Rocha: title TBD (2025) (world premiere)
for solo cello
James May: echontologies (2025) (world premiere)
for voice, solo cello and electronics
Han geul Lee: Mirrors (2025) (world premiere)
for solo cello
I-Lly Cheng: The First Impression of Providence (2025) (world premiere)
for cello and live electronics
Eric Nathan: 0. from Division of Time (2025) (3 minutes)
for solo cello
Anthony Cheung: Distance Over Speed (2016) (4 minutes)
for solo cello
Wang Lu: Singing (2025) (5-7 minutes), world premiere
for solo cello
About Jeffrey Zeigler
Jeffrey Zeigler is one of the most innovative and versatile cellists of our time. Strings Magazine says Zeigler is “widely known for pushing boundaries and breaking conventions”. The New York Times has described Zeigler as “fiery”, and a player who performs “with unforced simplicity and beauty of tone”. Acclaimed for his independent streak, Zeigler has commissioned dozens of works, and is admired as a potent collaborator and unique improviser. As a member of the internationally renowned Kronos Quartet from 2005-2013, he is the recipient of the Avery Fisher Prize, the Polar Music Prize, the President’s Merit Award from the National Academy of Recorded Arts (Grammy’s), the Chamber Music America National Service Award and The Asia Society’s Cultural Achievement Award.
Following his tenure with Kronos, his multifaceted career has led to collaborations with a wide array of artists and innovators such as Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Hauschka, Vijay Iyer, Robin Coste Lewis, Yo-Yo Ma, Julie Mehretu, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Carl Hancock Rux, Foday Musa Suso, and Tanya Tagaq. He has also performed as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Toronto Symphony, the Royal Danish Radio Symphony, the New Century Chamber Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra under the batons of Peter Oundjian, JoAnn Falletta, Dennis Russell Davies and Dmitry Sitkovetsky.
Recent concertos written for him include Mark Adamo’s Last Year (at Carnegie Hall with the American Composers Orchestra), Andy Akiho’s Cello Concerto (Sun Valley Music Festival Oregon Symphony, Bozeman Symphony, Columbus ProMusica and South Carolina Philharmonic) and Amy Brandon’s Simulacra (Open Waters Festival, Nova Scotia).
His most recent solo album, Houses of Zodiac, is his first full collaboration with his wife, trailblazing composer Paola Prestini. It is a multimedia experience that combines spoken word, movement, music, and imagery into a unified exploration of love, loss, trauma and healing.
Alongside Paola Prestini, Zeigler is the Co-Artistic Director of VisionIntoArt, a non-profit new music & interdisciplinary arts production company based in New York. He is the Director of the National Sawdust Ensemble of National Sawdust, an artist-led, multidisciplinary new music venue in the heart of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he sits on the Advisory Board. Additionally, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Chamber Music America and CelloBello and is on the Honorary Committee of the Sphinx Organization. Zeigler teaches cello and chamber music at Mannes School of Music.