2025
January 24 (12pm)
Bangor Symphony presents Lunch & Learn with Lucas Richman and special interplanetary performance by Martha Mooke
Versant Power Astronomy Center & Jordan Planetarium
Orono, ME
January 26 (3PM)
Bangor Symphony Orchestra: GRAMMY® award-winning electric-violist Martha Mooke in a groundbreaking performance featuring her piece "Invisible Hands" for 5-string electric viola and orchestra. The concert, themed around composers honoring composers, will also include Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ibert's Hommage à Mozart, and Mozart's Symphony No.41, Jupiter.
Collins Center for the Arts
2 Flagstaff Road, Orono, ME
February 12 (1:45pm)
TMEA 2025 Presenting The Power of Music: Incorporating Technology as a Musical Tool
Sponsored by Yamaha for TI:ME
San Antonio, TX
February 18 (7pm)
Beats and Bars with RAHZEL, feat. Jeff Dess and Martha Mooke
Gilligan Student Union Building 129, NJCU, Jersey City, NJ
March 3 (7:30pm)
38th Annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert: Philip Glass and Friends
With Laurie Anderson, Patti Smith, Angelique Kidjo, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Orville Peck, Jackson Browne, Michael Stipe, Gogol Bordello, Allison Russell, Arooj Aftab, tUNE-yARDS, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Tenzin Choegyal, The Scorchio Quartet and always some surprise guests!
Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
2024
January 25 (3:30PM & 4:30PM)
NAMM Show/GenNext Program
Speakers: Martha Mooke, Ignacio Lara Romero, Lourdes Rosales, Matt Bell, George Nicholson
Anameim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA
February 4 (12:30pm/PT)*
66th GRAMMY&trades; PREMIERE CEREMONY®
(*this is the earlier ceremony where most of the awards are presented)
Peacock Theater, Los Angeles, CA
February 22-24
NJMEA Conference 2024 (New Jersey Music Educators Association)
details tba
Atlantic City, NJ
February 26 (7:30pm)
37th Annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert: Philip Glass and Friends
With Laurie Anderson, Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers, Gogol Bordello, Maya Hawke and Christian Lee Hutson, Jlin, Bowen Yang, Tenzin Choegyal, Patti Smith Band and Martha Mooke and the Scorchio Quartet
March 21-23
ASTA National Conference 2024 (American String Teachers Association)
details tba
Louisville, KY
April 24 (7:30PM)
Multi-Style/Multi-Media String X-Travaganza: Cloud Stories & other Extra Natural Phenomena with special guest Edmar Castañeda
Margaret Williams Theatre, Hepburn Hall
2039 Kennedy Blvd, Jersey City, NJ
May 11 (7PM)
The Flagpole Radio Café presents GRAMMY® Award winner Martha Mooke.
Edmund Town Hall Theatre
Newtown, CT
May 19 (7PM)
SZALON: Martha Mooke premieres Essence of Szalon dedicated to Andrea Clearfield.
Click here to reserve tickets for the in person Salon or information for the online Zalon.
Philadelphia, PA
June 9 (12PM Doors/Brunch Menu; 1PM ET Performance)
Carla Patullo and the Scorchio Quartet perform their GRAMMY® Award winning album "So She Howls".
The Cutting Room
44 East 32nd St, New York, NY
October 5 (12:15-6pm)
Women Ascending.
A celebration of the human spirit and election-season information session. Featuring Laurie Anderson, Martha Mooke, Lucy Walker and Lhakpa Sherpa. Presented by The Women Ascending Committee, Upstate Films, Play for the Vote & The League of Women Voters. $100 suggested donation. Proceeds benefit get-out-the-vote efforts.
12:15p: Amelia: A Listening Party with Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson's first new album since 2018's Grammy-winning Landfall comprises 22 tracks about renowned female aviator Amelia Earhart's tragic last flight. Anderson wrote the music and lyrics. She is joined on the album by Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, and Anohni, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota, and Kenny Wolleson. Presented in Dolby Atmos immersive sound. Introduced by Play for the Vote and Laurie Anderson and followed by a Q&A with Laurie.
3:30p: Mountain Queen CLOSE UP, with Lucy Walker and Lhakpa Sherpa, preceded by a performance by Martha Mooke and a presentation by the League of Women Voters
Lhakpa Sherpa's life straddles two wildly disparate worlds: as an immigrant dishwasher in Connecticut, and as a boundary-breaking mountaineer. Lucy Walker, the Oscar-nominated director of The Waste Land and The Crash Reel, follows Lhakpa, who was once forced to conceal her gender to pursue the sport she loves, as she sets out to prepare for her record tenth summit of Mount Everest. With a performance from the acclaimed violist Martha Mooke and a presentation by the League of Women Voters and followed by a Q&A with Lucy Walker and Lhakpa Sherpa. (U.S., 2023, 105m)
Orpheum Theatre
198 Main Street, Saugerties, NY

October 27 (6-8pm)
Election Antidote: Fortify with an Evening of Music and Meditation at SPIN
Music, Meditation and Ping Pong
Tibet House US presents an evening to re-center and find joy! SPIN X Tibet House present a night of musical performances by Tenzin Choegyal, Martha Mooke, Rahzel Brown, a meditative sound bath with Franck Raharinosy, Nigol Koulajian and Margot Langman — libations, snacks, and ping-pong on Sunday, October 27, from 6-8 pm. Revitalize in community and embrace a positive vision for the future a week before the US elections.
Spin
48 E 23 Street, NYC

November 7-9 (9:45-10:40am)
67th National Conference of the College Music Society
CMS Performance Council Discussion/Q&A: Exemplaries of Expanding Directions in Creative, Innovative, and Interdisciplinary Performance Artistry, Research, and Pedagogy
Panel: Sarah Chan (Stanford University), John Irrera (Virginia Tech), Timothy Mark Cheek (University of Michigan), Yunn-Shan Ma (Rochester Institute of Technology), Martha Mooke (NJCU), Bradley Patrick Parker.
Washington Hilton
Washington, D.C.
December 5-8
NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION 2024 Winter Conference
"The Power of Music: Incorporating technology as a musical tool" presented by Martha Mooke, Dec. 5, 7pm-8pm
Rochester, NY
2023
February 12 (1pm)
Martha Mooke: Sixty Years On! Concert/Celebration
With Special Guests!
Complimentary admission with proof of donation to Multi-Style Strings Scholarship Fund.
The Cutting Room
New York, NY
February 17 (8pm)
New York Theatre Ballet with special guests Martha Mooke and Bridgman|Packer Dance
NYTB will perform Toulouse's Dreams, a work by Bridgman and Packer created for the company with a live original musical score by Martha Mooke. Bridgman|Packer will perform excerpts from their work Under The Skin. Also on the program are works by Jerome Robbins and Pam Tanowitz.
The Egg Center for the Performing Arts
Empire State Plaza
Albany, NY
February 23
Presenting "Tools for your Multi-Style Strings Toolbox" session
NJMEA Conference
Atlantic City, NJ
March 1 (7:30pm)
36th Annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert
With Philip Glass, Allison Russell, New Order's Bernard Sumner, Laurie Anderson, Gogol Bordello, Marc Anthony Thompson of Chocolate Genius, Inc., Zsela, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Tenzin Choegyal, Martha Mooke and The Scorchio Quartet, The Patti Smith Band, and more to be announced!
Carnegie Hall
New York, NY
March 3 (7pm)
"Be the Mountain" concert performance
Featuring Tibetan musician Tenzin Choegyal, Martha Mooke and the NJCU Multi-Style Strings Ensemble with special guest Jesse Paris Smith. (additional details tba)
Ingalls Recital Hall, Rossey Hall
New Jersey City University
2039 Kennedy Blvd
Jersey City, NJ 07305
March 8 (11:30am-1pm)
SXSWEDU
Feature Performance/presentation &kmdash; Igniting the Imagination: Music & Creative Process
Austin Convention Center, Room 16AB
Austin, TX
March 17
Presenting "Tools for your Multi-Style Strings Toolbox" session
ASTA National Conference
Orlando, FL
October 22 (5pm)
Sundays with Earl Rose and Friends - An Eclectic Music & Conversation Series
Café Carlyle is proud to announce an exciting new eclectic music series curated by the renowned composer and 29-year-pianist-in-residence at Bemelmans Bar, Earl Rose. The inaugural event will feature two exceptional performers: Laurie Anderson and Martha Mooke.
Café Carlyle
The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel
35 E. 76th St.
New York, NY 10075
2022
January 6 (10:30am ET)
Martha Mooke presents "Feeding the Creative Soul: Navigating the Need to Nourish the Creative Spirit and the Body It Lives In" (Virtual)
Ultimate Music Business Summit (Jan. 6-8). An amazing 3 days of actionable information from leading experts in building music businesses and much more. Speakers include Martha Mooke, Drew X Coles, Arthur Breur, Dr. Garrett Hope and others!
February 12
"Igniting the Imagination" – a tribute to David Bowie's creativity
NJCU School of Business, Jersey City, NJ
details tba
February 25 (8pm) To be rescheduled at a later date
World Premiere of Toulouse's Dreams
New York Theatre Ballet with special guests Bridgman|Packer Dance and live music by Martha Mooke
The Egg Center for the Performing Arts
Albany, NY
March 3 (7:30pm)
Tibet House Benefit Concert Virtual Edition
Celebrating 35th Tibet House US and Philip Glass at 85!
Carnegie Hall
New York, NY
March 4-5
NYC Premiere: Toulouse's Dreams
New York Theatre Ballet with special guests Bridgman|Packer Dance and live music by Martha Mooke
Florence Gould Hall
55 E 59th St, New York, NY
March 10 (7:30pm)
Foreman Institute of Creative and Performing Arts Presents
Martha Mooke, violist & composer with the Hartwick College Wind Ensemble; Andrew Pease, director;
Anderson Theater, Anderson Center for the Arts
Oneonta, NY
March 18 (2:15pm)
The Ever Increasing Value of a Performance Degree in MultiStyle Strings
ASTA National Conference (March 17-19)
Atlanta, GA
April 8-14
Beats Per Revolution Tour featuring Rahzel, Martha Mooke and the NJCU All Stars
April 8: NJCU, Margaret Williams Theatre, Jersey City, NJ
April 9: Washington, DC, tba
April 14: The Cutting Room, NYC
August 3 (7pm)
Martha Mooke, Joe Deninzon and Sweet Plantain String Quartet join will be joined by the Multi-Style String Symposium All-Stars! (participants in the 2022 NJCU Multi-Style String Educators Symposium) for an evening of sonic fusion of Latin, Jazz, Classical, Rock, Electric and more! Admission Free. For information on the Symposium: njcu.edu/stringsymposium
New Jersey City University
Gilligan Student Union Building, 2nd floor
2039 Kennedy Blvd.
Jersey City, NJ
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August 7 (7pm)
Martha Mooke joins celebrated Kathak dancer Jin Won and tabla player Mike Lukshis in "Andaaz - an immersive exploration of Rhythm and dance, as part of the Festival of India@75.
Ailey Citigroup Theater
405 West 55 Street, NYC
September 8 (1-2pm via Zoom)
MAESTRA presents: Multi-Style Strings: playing outside the box (with Martha Mooke)
Electro-acoustic violist/composer Martha Mooke shares insights and experiences on forging a unique, rewarding path in the music industry. Replay available soon at https://maestramusic.org/
October 27-29
PopTech 2022: Departure/Arrival
Eaton Hotel, 1201 K St NW
Washington, DC
2021
January 8 (9pm ET)
Mike Garson's "A Bowie Celebration - just for one day!"" The DAVID BOWIE ALUMNI Experience
Livestream (the show will be available to watch for 24 hours)
March 3-6
American String Teachers Association National Conference (Virtual)
March 4 - Herstory: Women of the Multi-Style Movement Thursday, 3:45 PM
March 5 - Tools for your Multi-Style Strings Teaching Toolbox, 4:30 PM
September 25th, 2021 (2-7pm)
BLOCK PARTY IN THE GARDEN, a gathering for Climate Week NYC! Featuring Patti Smith, Jesse Paris Smith, Lenny Kaye, Nikolai Fraiture, Jonathan Toubin (DJ set), Acapella Soul, Arts Elektra, Adam Amram Family Band and Martha Mooke.
October 2 (4-4:50pm)
2021 ASTA/NJ VIRTUAL FALL SYMPOSIUM
Tools for Your Multi-Style Strings Teaching Toolbox
Presented by Martha Mooke & Joe Deninzon, New Jersey City University
This session will help teachers identify, and offer, tools needed to incorporate multi-style strings in a classroom or private studio.
October 7 (7-9pm)
New Commons Project at the University of Maine at Farmington presents Martha Mooke, "Mission: Imagination"
Electro-acoustic violist and David Bowie collaborator Martha Mooke explores and interprets David Bowie's "search for unconscious intelligence", inspired by his creative process of combining disassociated ideas to spark the creative muse. Emery Community Arts Center, University of Maine at Farmington Academy Street, Farmington, ME.
October 16 (10am-12noon)
NJCU Multi-Style Strings Open House
Showcasing our exciting new NJCU Multi-Style Strings program (BA starting Fall 2022)!
Performances by our Multi-Style String students and faculty, complimentary Multi-Style lessons, and tour of our technology in music lab (aka The Pedal Room).
2020
January 31(8pm)
Laurie Anderson with special guest Martha Mooke
happylucky no. 1
734 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11216
February 19-22
Artist Residency at Frostburg State University
Frostburg, MD
February 21 (7:30pm)
Guest Artist Recital
Electro-Acoustic violist Martha Mooke will perform as part of the Department of Music Guest Artist Series in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU's Performing Arts Center. The performance is free and open to the public.
101 Braddock Road, Frostburg, MD, Frostburg, 21532
February 26 (7:30pm)
Tibet House US Benefit Concert
Artistic director and curator Philip Glass will be joined by the Scorchio Quartet, Patti Smith Band, and others tba.
Carnegie Hall, NYC
March 4-7, 2020
Featured performer/presenter including "Violas on the Verge" session with Rudolf Haken and Drew Alexander Forde, aka #ThatViolaKid
ASTA 2020 National Conference
Orlando, FL
March 14 (10am-4pm)
NJCU in collaboration with NJASTA present Multi-Style Strings Day curated by Multi-Style Strings Director Martha Mooke. Workshops and Masterclasses with Martha Mooke, Joe Deninzon and Daniel Bernard Roumain
Ingalls Recital Hall, Rossey Hall, New Jersey City University
2039 John F. Kennedy Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07305
Registration required
April 22 (9pm)
PopTech Prelude
with electric violist Martha Mooke and Beat Boxing legend Rahzel
U Street Music Hall
1115 U Street NW, Washington, DC 20009
May 22 (4pm)
#Quarantide
Backstage in the Green Screen Room featuring Jean Luc Ponty, Laurie Anderson, Jon Anderson, Clara Ponty, Martha Mooke, Jean de Reydellet, Tony Agnello & Richard Factor
Live on Facebook and YouTube
May 28 (8pm)
Moogmentum in Place
Live Stream Festival presented by the Bob Moog Foundation, celebrating the May 23rd birthday of Bob Moog and the one year anniversary of the Moogseum
Live on Facebook
October 22
Berklee String Department presents: Martha Mooke: ON THE VERGE - "CREATIVE CAREERS IN ELECTRIC STRINGS"
Boston, MA
October 22
PopTech 2020: What a time to be alive: Commemorating Opening Day
A conversation with Beatrice Finn, Maurice Mitchell and Phillip Agnew, musical interlude by Rahzel Brown and Martha Mooke
On YouTube
November 17 – December 9
AES Latin American Virtual Tour 2020 (in partnership with Eventide)
Nov. 17 - Sala de Audio, Mexico
Nov. 19 - UNIANDES, Colombia
Nov. 25 - UDLA, Ecuador
Dec. 2 - Orson Welles, Peru
Dec. 3 - UNITEPC, Bolivia
Dec. 9 - AURAL, Argentina
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2019
January 24 (5pm)
Martha will be performing at the Eventide Booth (Booth #4633, Hall D) at NAMM. You can also catch her in the Yamaha pavilion at the Anaheim Marriott Hotel, details tba. https://www.namm.org/
January 27
Performance at Andrea Clearfield's Salon (private event)
Philadelphia, PA
February 7 (7:30pm)
Scorchio Quartet once agains joins Philip Glass with Laurie Anderson, Jon Batiste, Stephen Colbert, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff, New Order's Bernard Sumner, Sturgill Simpson, Tenzin Choegyal and Angelique Kidjo and the Patti Smith Band.
Carnegie Hall, NYC
Concert and gala dinner tickets: https://tibethouse.us/annual-benefit-concert/
February 25 (8pm)
Performance & conversation "Plugging in the Creative Spirit: Electronics and Improvisation." Moderated by Craig Morris
Frost School of Music, University of Miami, Fillmore Hall
Monday, March 4
Women + Art - Winter Salon featuring Martha Mooke
Private event, NYC
March 5 (7pm)
A Bowie Celebration: The David Bowie Alumni Tour
Martha joins longtime Bowie pianist Mike Garson and other key alumni of David Bowie's bands for an unforgettable evening of Bowie's songs.
Irving Plaza, NYC
March 6-8
American String Teachers Association National Conference
Albuquerque, NM
March 25 (6:30pm)
Guest artist with the Complete Unknowns performing music of Bob Dylan
City Winery, NYC
May 16-17
Maine Music Educators Association Conference
UMaine Orono
October 19
Special Guest Artist at the 2019 MacDowell Colony New Hampshire Benefit, along with award winning novelist Sigrid Nunez.
October 20 (3pm)
Private performance for MacDowell Colony patrons
October 20 (7pm)
Salon concert presented by Cold Comfort Farm House Concerts
Peterborough, NH
Oct 23 - Oct 26
PopTech 2019: Shift
Martha Mooke, featured performer/composer
Point Lookout, Maine
2018
March 3 (7:30pm)
tibethouse.us/annual-benefit-concert/
Artistic director and curator Philip Glass will be joined by Carly Simon, Patti Smith, Dev Hynes, Techung, Rhiannon Giddens, Stephin Merritt, Resistance Revival Chorus, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Ben Taylor, Los Vega, Scorchio Quartet, Patti Smith Band.
Carnegie Hall, NYC
March 28 (7:30pm)
intersect8: Anatomy of Fusion (Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia)
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
April 1 (2:30pm)
World Premiere of Invisible Hands by Martha Mooke, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Dirk Brossé, conductor.
Perelman Theater
Philadelphia, PA
April 2 (7:30pm)
World Premiere of Invisible Hands by Martha Mooke, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Dirk Brossé, conductor.
Perelman Theater
Philadelphia, PA
April 7 (11:30am)
The Women Composers Festival of Hartford
Gruss Hall, Austin Arts Center
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
May 19 (4:45pm)
New Music Gathering
Boston Conservatory at Berklee
8 Fenway, Boston, MA
June 9 (9:30pm)
Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project (CUSP)
CODA
2247 Professor Ave, Cleveland, OH
July 24 (1-3pm)
No Ordinary Window climbs to new heights!
On Tuesday, July 24, One World Commons, high up on the 64th floor of One World Trade Center, presents Martha Mooke's No Ordinary Window. *NOTE: This performance is exclusively available for tenants and guests of One World Trade Center.
July 25 (8:30-11am)
Martha joins Marvin Rosen, host of Classical Musical Discoveries, for a live in-studio performance and interview on the airwaves of Princeton University's WPRB, 103.3FM. Tune in to www.wprb.com to listen live from 8:30-11:00am, or, if you miss the live stream, access the program at a later date at the mp3 archives at www.classicaldiscoveries.org.
July 27 - August 3
Concert/Workshops at Harmony Program Summer Camp
Public schools throughout New York City
September 2 (7pm)
Thalia and Her Sisters
Concert of works by women composers. Music by Martha Mooke, Alex Shapiro, and Elizabeth Lehr. Ron Wasserman, double bass, Martha Mooke, viola, Alan Moverman, keyboard.
Lower level of Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, NY 10025
September 5 (9pm)
Solo performance at Carrie Able Gallery
409 Keap St., Brooklyn, NY 11211
September 7 (8pm)
Guest artist with the Complete Unknowns performing their unique interpretations of Bob Dylan's music.
Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, NY 11211
October 1
Guest Artist/Speaker, Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music
October 29
Exclusive concert of No Ordinary Window in upper Manhattan salon.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Limited seating.
Email for details: info@Sonic9Productions.com
October 31 — November 3
PopTech 2018: Courage
Martha Mooke, featured performer
Point Lookout, Maine
November 26
Guest Artist/Speaker, The Juilliard School, NYC
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