Chatterbird performs Vasilis Kostas’s Kalesma on April 29, 2022 at The Nashville Parthenon. Additional works from this program are available on chatterbird’s Vimeo page.
Chatterbird performs Vari-Colored Songs by Leyla McCalla (with poetry by Langston Hughes) on March 23, 2022 at National Museum of African American Music.
Chatterbird performs Body and Soul, After the Plague, by Mark Volker. Read more about the piece here. Recorded at the Parthenon in Nashville, TN, May 2021.
The world premiere of "Come By Here," a new work by Nashville-based composer Dave Ragland, for clarinet and spoken word. This video was commissioned and recorded for chatterbird’s Virtual Chamber Music Series. To watch all seven video performnaces in the series, visit the Virtual Chamber Music Series page here.
Chatterbird performs Mahakala Oratorio, by Leila Adu. Read more about the piece here. Recorded at Eastside Manor in December 2020 (following COVID-safe protocols).
Chatterbird performs Robert Honstein’s Down Down Baby. Recorded in Cumberland Park, Nashville, October 2019. Directed and edited by Lauren Balthrop. Audio recording by Kevin Edlin.
A trailer for Hello Gold Mountain, a work for chamber orchestra, guzheng, and oud. Written by Wu Fei and premiered by Wu Fei, Shanir Blumenkranz, and chatterbird at Vanderbilt University, 2/23/19. Directed by Tom Krueger and edited by Lauren Balthrop. Audio recording by Kevin Edlin.
Wu Fei meets chatterbird. January 2018. Directed by Tom Kreuger and edited by Lauren Balthrop.
Wu Fei leads chatterbird in an improvisation to accompany historic clips from Metro Archives and the Nashville Public Library, 1/30/18 at Vanderbilt University’s Turner Hall.
Wu Fei + the Wu Force + chatterbird perform YA LI DA. Music by The Wu-Force, orchestrated by Wu Fei. Musicians: Wu Fei (guzheng/voice) Abigail Washburn (banjo/voice) Kai Welch (piano/voice), and chatterbird. Recorded at Vanderbilt’s Turner Hall, 1/30/18.
chatterbird and Jason Treuting perform Amid the Noise, 3/18/18 @ Vanderbilt's Ingram Hall.
chatterbird performs Awake, Awake, by David Kirkland Garner.
Featuring soprano, alto flute, banjo, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, and cello. Recorded 11/19/15 in concert at CLUB ROAR:
chatterbird performs Life is (_______), by Jason Treuting.
Featuring piccolo, toy piano, mandolin, and small percussion. Recorded 11/19/15 in concert at CLUB ROAR:
chatterbird performs Taking Up Serpents, by Paula Van Goes.
Featuring saxophone and tambourine. Recorded live in concert at CLUB ROAR, 11/19/15:
Live recording of But I Voted for Shirley Chisholm, by Ted Hearne.
Recorded 5/30/15 in concert at abrasiveMedia: