Breakfast Calculus is a duo project of Teagan Faran (strings) and Leo Sussman (winds). Based in Ithaca, NY, the nesting pair met while personifying various rare birds in a John Luther Adams piece, and they haven’t stopped squawking and honking together ever since. Dedicated to rambunctiously pluralistic noise-making, Leo and Teagan celebrate life’s simple pleasures – from buttermilk waffles to fundamental theorems – through a scrumptious hodgepodge of partially-derivative music. The duo’s musical domain continuously integrates original tunes, jocular arrangements, and unbounded improvisations. Recent audience choice award-winners at Ithaca’s Old Greeny Fringe Festival and recipients of the New York Women Composers’ Seed Money Grant, they’re equally at home on a concert stage, in a blackbox theater, and in front of a class of second-graders.

James Falzone will present his solo work, When Will Soon Be Then? for clarinet, piano, penny whistles, shruti box, and percussion. Falzone is an acclaimed member of the international jazz and creative music scenes, a veteran contemporary music lecturer and clinician, and an award-winning composer who has been commissioned by chamber ensembles, dance companies, choirs, and symphony orchestras around the globe. He leads his own ensembles Allos Musica, Elaía Ensemble, Renga Ensemble, and the duo Wayfaring with Chicago bassist/vocalist Katie Ernst, and is a member of the Tapestry Ensemble and many projects connected to composer/pianist Wayne Horvitz. James has released a series of critically acclaimed recordings on Allos Documents, the label he founded in 2000, and appears on numerous recordings as a sideman. He performs throughout North America and Europe, appears regularly on Downbeat  magazine’s Critics’ and Readers’ Polls, and was nominated as the Clarinetist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist Association. James is a Backun clarinet artist and plays penny whistles made for him by Chris Abell.

Curated by Haley Freedlund for Nonsequitur‘s NonSeq series.