Music From Empty Holes

Join us for a public program and musical performance in conjunction with Kate Teale’s exhibition, Vanishing Points, in collaboration with composer Manuel Sosa, and featuring Alexander Erlich-Herzog on the clarinet. The event will comprise organic conversation between Sosa and Teale, punctuated throughout by musical interludes by Sosa as well as two short solo clarinet pieces by Erlich-Herzog. The duration of each piece will be determined by the performers in situ.

Kate Teale would like to acknowledge sound artist Douglas Henderson, whose work by the same name inspired this program. 

Alexander Erlich-Herzog is a senior at the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia, PA), where he studies with Anthony McGill and YaoGuang Zhai. In High School he studied with Nuno Silva, and last summer he worked with Michael Rusenik at the Aspen Music Festival. He has been a member of the Boston Philharmonic Youth Symphony, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, as well as the Boston Youth Symphony, with which he has been the soloist in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto (2021). In his free time, Alexander enjoys soccer, reading, and chess.

Manuel Sosa is a Venezuelan/American composer, educator, and percussionist, who resides in Brooklyn, New York. His orchestral and chamber music works have been performed in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and his scholarly writings have been published in Europe and South America. He has received fellowships from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Meet the Composer (New Music USA), and the Corporation of Yaddo. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School, with further studies in South America and Europe, and he teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School. (www.musikasilentis.com)

Kate Teale is a British born artist living and working in Brooklyn. Her work spans painting, drawing, and installation. She received NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowships in Drawing (2023) and in Painting (2008), and a Joan Mitchell Foundation artist development grant (2018). Teale has shown with Studio10 Gallery, and her work can be seen in Pierogi Gallery’s flat files. Recent exhibitions in DUMBO include “Window Window” at Main Windows (2025), “Hole” at Undercurrent (2022), and “Blurr” at Platform (2022). She has written feature articles for the UK art magazine Contemporary Art, and has curated exhibitions at Platform Project Space, and the Kerr Gallery, Western Michigan University, and as founder/director of Big&Small/Casual Gallery. Kate has a studio in DUMBO, as part of the Two Trees Cultural Space Subsidy Program. Her IG is @katetealestudio and her website is www.kateteale.com 

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