$20 / Day Includes Access to All daytime & evening events

WORKSHOP : ZEENA PARKINS / Filling the Hearspace: Never to Sound Again the Same - 3pm

Experience multi-valent modes of listening through improvisation and expanded musical entanglements: following energetic pathways, tuning our engagements, collective knowing, collaboration and generosity (open to musical improvisers with some previous experience).

Listening Session & In-Person Interview: COOPER-MOORE - 5pm

90-minutes of immersion into the iconic composer, pianist, instrument builder, storyteller Cooper-Moore’s multi-decade body of work, including rarely heard recordings from Cooper-Moore’s personal archive, and an in-person conversation moderated by pianist/composer/improviser Mara Rosenbloom.

Zeena Parkins / Nate Wooley / Ryan Sawyer - 7:30 pm

Zeena Parkins - Electric Harp+Objects
Nate Wooley - Trumpet+Objects
Ryan Sawyer -Drums

INTERSTELLAR DUO 8:30 pm

Jamal R. Moore - woodwinds, electronics, percussion
Warren Crudup III - drums

$20 / day includes access to all day & eve events

WORKSHOP: KYOKO KITAMURA & RACHEL BERNSEN (open to all!) - 5:00 pm

Vocalist/Improviser Kyoko Kitamura & Choreographer/Dancer Rachel Bernsen join forces for an integrated workshop that invites participants to rediscover the natural unity between sound and movement with two highly experienced artist-educators. Instruments welcome but not required.

Selendis S.A. Johnson / Hans Young-Binter / Josh Matthews - 7:30 pm

Selendis S.A. Johnson - vibraphone
Hans Young-Binter - piano
Josh Matthews - drums

Janice Lowe’s Museoetry - 8:30 pm

Edmonia/WildFire, A SoundVerse Cycle
Poems by Tyehimba Jess, Janice Lowe, Composer
Edmonia Lewis was a Reconstruction-era Afro-Mississaugan sculptor who willed herself to Rome to practice her craft. This song cycle and improvisation are inspired by the sculptor’s dialogue with earth-hewn materials, their textural beauty and the complexity of shaping freedom from a hostile political landscape.
Janice Lowe - piano, voice, composition /
Olithea Anglin - voice & electronics / Yohann Potico - bass guitar / Melissa Almaguer - tap dance percussion

Daniel Carter Trio - 6 pm

Daniel Carter - multiple instruments
Ayumi Ishito - tenor sax
Yuko Togami - drums

Daniel Carter Quartet - 7 pm

Daniel Carter - multiple instruments
Ayumi Ishito - tenor sax
John Blum - piano
Yuko Togami - drums

Dawn after Dawn - 8 pm

Daniel Carter - multiple instruments
Jon Rosenberg - loops/effects
Aaron Namenwirth - preparred guitar

$20

7 pm

Paul Sakai - Percussion
Alex McGrath - Electronics
Francesca H - Soprano Sax

8 pm

Stan Zenkov - Multiple Windwood
Sandy Ewen - Guitar
Ken Kobayashi - Drums

9 pm

Nate Wooley - Trumpet
Michael Foster - Sax
Eli Wallace - Piano
Michael TA Thompson - Drums

$20

Choi/Sacks/Sperrazza - 7:30 pm

Yoon Sun Choi - voice
Jacob Sacks - piano
Vinnie Sperrazza - drums

Tammy Scheffer Trio - 9:00 pm

Tammy Scheffer - voice
Martin Nevin -bass
Sebastian Ammann - piano

Choi/Sacks/Sperrazza is a trio that has been making music together for over 20 years. Featuring Yoon Sun Choi (voice), Jacob Sacks (piano), and Vinnie Sperrazza (drums), the group reimagines standards and songs they love with a deeply intuitive, exploratory approach. Though bass-less, the trio’s sound is full and harmonically rich, never feeling lacking in depth or foundation. Their long-standing musical relationship allows for seamless interplay, creating fresh, spontaneous interpretations with every performance.

Vocalist and composer Tammy Scheffer has been an active presence in NYC’s music scene for nearly two decades, moving between jazz, progressive rock, improvisation, and contemporary classical music. Praised by the Chicago Tribune as “innovative, provocative and alluring,” she has appeared on recordings with Stefan Bauer, Amanda Monaco, and Joe Phillips, and performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, Birdland, the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, and the San Sebastian Jazz Festival.
Tonight's program features Tammy’s original music, shaped through live looping, layered textures, and improvisation, woven together with the intimacy and storytelling of the singer-songwriter tradition.

$20

Phillip Santos Trio - 7 pm

Michael Eaton - soprano/tenor sax
Evan Palmer - bass
Phillip Santos - drums

Steve Cohn Voyager Quintette - 8 pm

Daniel Carter - multiple instruments
Ayumi Ishito - tenor sax
Steve Cohn - piano/flutes
John Menegon - bass
Marvin "Bugalu" Smith - drums

Christi/Pearring/Crane - 9 pm

Ellen Christi - voice
Jeff Pearring - sax
Evan Crane - bass

$20

Novoa/Jones: Synesthesia - 8 pm

Eva Novoa - piano, synth, gongs & drawings
Art Jones - analog toys & electronics, images

Jones/Raees: Sounds for Imagined Cinema - 8:45 pm

Art Jones - analog toys and electronics, images
Ayesha Raees عائشہ رئیس - poetry and images

$20

Eva Novoa (pianist/composer) is based in Brooklyn since 2012 and has performed at The Stone, Barbès, Nublu, Cornelia Street Café, iBeam, Mis-en-place, or The Lilypad in Boston. She has performed/recorded with Gerald Cleaver, Masa Kamaguchi, Daniel Carter, Francisco Mela, Drew Gress, Devin Gray, Billy Mintz, Satoshi Takeishi, Mat Maneri amongst others. “A bold and restless pianist, moving easily between acute precision and painterly fervor” - DownBeat. Her albums are released on the independent label 577 records.

Art Jones (analog toys and electronics, images) is a film-and-sound maker and interdisciplinary artist. He has performed at Roulette Intermedium, Ibeam, MoCada, and internationally. His most recent composition: Remote Viewing part 1, is included in the sound art index and listening compilation Volume 4, Quiet listening for outdoors.

Ayesha Raees عائشہ رئیس (poetry and images) is a poet and artist identifying as a hybrid creating hybrid poetry through hybrid forms. Her interdisciplinary work places poetry at its center and delves into paint, film, sound, theater, performance, and collaboration with the intention of breaking conventional ideas of linear language, form, and genre to materialize a space of belonging for marginalia and their narratives.

About Novoa/Jones: Synesthesia:
An audiovisual collaboration exploring the theme of overcoming aspects of the contemporary moment: seeing the world with one’s own eyes over self-surveillance, commitment over compromise, and choosing to live with senses blasting over existing in a coma of the soul. Sound and image blooms in layers of texture, poetry, and synesthesia.

8 pm

Vinnie Sperrazza: solo drums

8:45 pm

Josh Dion: drums, voice, and other percussive methods

$20

As originally planned in February 2026: Vinnie plays solo. Josh plays solo. A duet will conclude. Don't miss it.

Quinn/Kang/Edgcomb - 8 pm

Aaron Quinn: Guitar/Composition
Celine Kang: Guitar
Aaron Edgcomb: Drums

Juanma Trujillo Quartet - 9 pm

Kevin Sun: Saxophone
Juanma Trujillo: Guitar/Composition
Eivind Opsvik: Bass
Matt Honor: Drums

$20

Art Lande - Piano
Dean Johnson - Bass
Brian Drye - Trombone
Bruce Williamson - Woodwinds
Mike McGinnis - Woodwinds
Hamir Atwal - Drums

$20

Art Lande - Piano
Danielle Wertz - Vocals
Sam Priven - Saxophone
Dean Johnson - Bass

$20

Mike McGinnis’s Between Green - 8 pm

Mike McGinnis - Saxophone
Brian Drye - Trombone
Jacob Sacks - Piano
Carmen Quill - Bass
Vinnie Sperrazza - Drums

The Gleaners - 9 pm

Dana Lyn - Violin
Kyle Sanna - Guitar
Matt Kanelos - Piano

$20

8 pm

Robert Boston - Piano
Dmitry Ishenko - Bass
Kevin Shea - Drums

9 pm

Megumi Yonezawa - Piano
Evan Crane - Bass
Ken Kobayashi - Drums

$20

Michel Gentile FLOW - 8 pm

Michel Gentile - flute
Mike McGinnis - clarinet
Jacob Garchik - trombone
Chris Lightcap - bass
Tom Rainey - drums

Rob Garcia Sizzle Ensemble - 9 pm

Josh Deutsch - trumpet
Tomas Majcherski - tenor saxophone
Yago Vazquez - piano
Kim Cass - bass
Rob Garcia - drums

$20

Celebrating two new albums on Connection Works Records

Yoon Sun Choi - voice/piano
Elsa Nilsson - flutes
Deidre Rodman - piano/voice
Brittany Karlson - bass

$20

Yoon Sun Choi, born in South Korea, raised in Canada and now a New York-based improvising vocalist and pianist using her vocal prowess that transitions effortlessly from resonant, haunting melodies to deep, resonant wails. Yoon has made significant contributions to the music scene over her twenty-year-long career performing and collaborating with esteemed artists including Mark Dresser, Darius Jones, Jacob Sacks, and Kenny Wheeler, on prestigious stages such as The Blue Note, Birdland, and Carnegie Hall.

Brooklyn-based flutist and composer Elsa Nilsson’s work engages high-level
improvising and layered, cinematic orchestration; her artistry, an earnest and actionable
desire to collaborate with multimodal artists and the changing world around her. The
Gothenburg native’s solo leader releases include include Atlas Of Sound - Quila Quina
(2024), Pulses (2023), Atlas Of Sound - Coast Redwoods (2022), Dark Is Light Is (2021),
Hindsight (2020), After Us (2018) and Salt Wind (2017). She’s named Flutist Of The Year in
the Downbeat 2025 poll, is the 2018 winner of the National Flute Association’s Jazz
Flute Competition, and the recipient of multiple Chamber Music America grants,
including a 2022 New Jazz Works grant for Band of Pulses.

Originally from Idaho, Deidre Struck is a composer, pianist, and singer who moved to NYC in 1997 to play keyboards with the Big Apple Circus. She has three jazz albums on the Sunnyside label, one of which, Twin Falls, is a duo album with renowned bassist Steve Swallow.
She toured extensively with all-female group The Lascivious Biddies, and in 2010 began working at Carnegie Hall as a teaching artist with The Lullaby Project During her many years teaching at the summer camp her two daughters attended, Deidre fell in love with theater, and now writes and plays with Brooklyn Children’s Theater.

Bassist Brittany Karlson is an adventurous musician with roots in jazz, improvised, and Appalachian music. Karlson is ½ of the Neuburg/Karlson duo with longtime collaborator drummer/percussionist Nick Neuburg. When performing solo, Karlson improvises, performs original songs under the moniker Karl, or ducks behind her bass with sound objects/props. She is a dedicated music educator, AmSAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher, and assisted stretch practitioner. From Chicagoland, lived in Boston, based in Brooklyn, NY.

Mara Rosenbloom / DoYeon Kim / Joe Fonda - 8 pm

Mara Rosenbloom - Piano
DoYeon Kim - Gayageum & Voice
Joe Fonda - Bass

$20

7 pm

Matt Knoegel - Sax
Jeff Miles - Guitar
Adam Lane - Bass
Ken Kobayashi - Drums

8 pm

Ryan Siegel - Alto Sax
Diego Hedez - Trumpet
Luke Glavanovits - Vibraphone
Nigel Fregozo - Bass

9 pm

Hans Young-Binter - Piano
Melissa Almaguer - Tap Dance
Joshua Mathews - Drums

$20

Michel Gentile/Rob Garcia duo - 8 pm

Michel Gentile - flutes
Rob Garcia - drums

Judi Silvano’s Garden Winds - 9 pm

Judi Silvano - voice
Haruna Fukuzawa - flute
Claire De Brunner - bassoon

$20

Beyond Flute Group - 7 pm

Cheryl Pyle- c flute /alto flute
Michael Eaton- soprano sax
Sylvain Leroux-c flute/fula flute
Gene Coleman-bass flute/piccolo

Protein - 8 pm

Dave Sewelson - baritone sax
Joe Ruddick - keys
Dave Hofstra - bass
Charles Downs - drums

9pm

Jeff Pearring - alto sax
Teddy Rankin-Parker - cello
Ken Filiano - bass
Paul Sakai - drums

$20

Siren Xypher Collective

Kyoko Kitamura - Voice + Found Objects
Melanie Dyer - Viola + Voice
Mara Rosenbloom - Piano + Voice

2 Sets at 8 and 9 pm

$20

“…speculative improvising at its finest with a cohesive, inspired set of original works in which all three women sang their songs, animated their texts and improvised virtuosically with intelligently controlled abandon.“— DownBeat Magazine

Siren Xypher Collective is a New York City-based performing and producing collective of three established composer-improvisers Melanie Dyer (viola, voice), Mara Rosenbloom (piano, voice) and Kyoko Kitamura (voice, found objects), presenting intricate original works which combine art songs, spoken words and free-flowing improvisation. Their love for, and extensive experience in, these musical genres generate deep sonic conversations full of humor, warmth, surprises and fire. Siren Xypher Collective has been selected for the 2026 Artists in Residence at Avaloch Farmhouse Music Institute.

Debuting in early 2022, Siren Xypher Collective has since performed in various music series including Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum Jazz Poetry Month and the InGardens series at Governors Island supported by Arts for Art and West Harlem Art Fund, and was featured on the BBC3 Freeness podcast “Peace Pieces“. DownBeat Magazine recently described the group as “speculative improvising at its finest with a cohesive, inspired set of original works in which all three women sang their songs, animated their texts and improvised virtuosically with intelligently controlled abandon.”1

Siren Xypher Collective is the production and curatorial team behind Brooklyn Free Spirit Festival of which Mara Rosenbloom serves as the artistic director, with Kyoko Kitamura and Melanie Dyer as production consultants and co-producers. Now in its third year, Brooklyn Free Spirit Festival will take place on July 11—12, 2026 at Ibeam.

Ivan Chen solo piano
William Parker, Nakadegawa-Lee, Marc Edwards Trio

$20

Sakina Abdou/Ingrid Laubrock

Sakina Abdou - tenor saxophone
Ingrid Laubrock - saxophones

Sakina Abdou/Lester St.Louis

Sakina Abdou - tenor saxophone
Lester St.Louis - cello

$20

French saxophonist Sakina Abdou comes to IBeam for two duo performances that highlight different sides of her improvising language. Her meeting with Ingrid Laubrock brings together two saxophonists deeply attuned to space, texture, and the unpredictable turns that can emerge from close listening, while the duo with cellist Lester St. Louis moves into more physical terrain where bowed strings and fractured tones blur into dense, restless sound. Both sets promise the kind of intimate music that thrives in IBeam’s close quarters.

8 pm

Ryan Siegel - Alto Sax
Adam Lane - Double Bass
Patrick Golden - Drums

9 pm

Ayako Kanda - Voice
Anthony Coleman - Piano
Evan Palmer - Double Bass
Ken Kobayashi - Drums

$20

Carol Liebowitz/Patrick Holmes/Stephanie Griffin/Adam Lane - 2pm

Carol Liebowitz - piano
Patrick Holmes - clarinet
Stephanie Griffin - viola
Adam Lane - bass

Ursel Schlicht/Adam Lane/Vijay Anderson - 3pm

Ursel Schlicht - piano
Adam Lane - bass
Vijay Anderson - drums

Virg Dzurinko/Claire de Brunner/Ryan Messina - 4 pm

Virg Dzurinko - piano
Claire de Brunner - bassoon
Ryan Messina - trumpet

$20

Eva Novoa - piano & Chinese gongs
Francesco Marcocci - bass
Billy Mintz - drums

A piano trio with the one and only Billy Mintz on drums not to miss! Eva Novoa on piano and the amazing Francesco Marcocci on bass.

$20

Richard Tabnik - sax
Andy Fite - guitar
Gene Perla - bass
John McCutcheon- drums

$20

Titus Abbott Trio - 7:30 pm

Titus Abbott - Saxophones
Sean Conly - Bass
Michael Sarin - drums

New Old Timers - 9:00 pm

Jeremy Udden - saxophone
Vinnie Sperrazza - drums
Aryeh Kobrinsky - bass
Aaron Irwin - saxophone

$20

Titus Abbott Trio - Tangible Mystery Album Release!

7 pm

Stan Zenkov - Multi Wind
Eric Plaks - Piano
Zach Swanson - Bass
Ken Kobayashi - Drums

8 pm

Kaelen Ghandhi - Sax
Evan Palmer - Bass
Nick Neuburg - Drums

9 pm

Eric Shorter - Sax & Percussion
Evan Crane - Bass
Peter Glynn - Drums

$20

Tony Romano - guitar and compositions
Michel Gentile - flute, alto flute, piccolo
Gary Wang - bass
Rob Garcia - drums

$20

Anthony Coleman, Piano
Adam Lane, Bass
Patrick Golden, drums

$20

Anthony Coleman continues to celebrate his 70 years of creative energy with this remarkable new trio. High energy, creatively calculated, masterfully manipulated imrprovised creations from a new band with a brand new CD and world tour ahead. Do not miss this master of the piano for an electric evening of acoustic free flowing creative music.