Selected press for New Gallery Concert Series
November 12, 2025
Hear host Arun Rath, NewGal’s featured visual artist, Neetu Singhal, and NewGal’s founding artistic director.
April 29, 2022
April 7, 2021
June 13, 2025
“New Gallery Concert Series finds inclusion in every aspect onstage, and its audience reflects it. It feels tautological: inclusive programs beget inclusive audiences. The grace and empathy exhibited by Bob and her new music stage-mates…found itself reflecting from the audience as well…”—Keith Powers
April 15, 2023
December 26, 2019
“[Bob’s] role as a catalyst and inspiration…makes her so important to Boston’s new music scene…[with] her invaluable New Gallery Concert Series…a playful storm of acoustic and electronic timbres.”
February 6, 2023
begin there with the New Gallery Concert Series.
October 16, 2022
August 13, 2024
Hear a recent interview with Sarah Bob, founding director, and multimedia performance artist Daniel Callahan.
April 19, 2022
5 Questions to Sarah Bob (pianist) about New Gallery Concert Series
October 21, 2019
Hear pianist Sarah Bob, composers Shaw Pong Liu and Curtis K Hughes in discussion with “Not Brahms or Liszt” host Alley Stoughton on NewGal’s recent debut album …nobody move…
A few media highlights
— check out our YouTube!
EZDEHAM (2019)
by Bahar Royaee
Text by Forugh Farrokhzad Visual art by SHEILA GALLAGHER *WORLD PREMIERE Deniz Khateri, vocals; Bahar Royaee instrumentals & electronics written for the animation Diasporan, which addresses feminine perspective of the struggle of immigration.
“Fragility and Resilience,” New Gallery Concert Series’s 21 Season Opener, recorded in part on August 20, 2020 at Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music of Bard College Sarah Bob, New Gal Founding Artistic Director Featured Visual Artist Sheila Gallagher
Video credit: Scott Quade
Video Event in its entirety at https://youtu.be/c2KGOxgEvIY
STRANGESCAPE SUITE
Improv on Heatscape
Improvised by Danny Rivera, vocals; Shaw Pong Liu, violin and erhu; Brian Friedland, piano; Aaron Trant, drums Based on featured visual artist Ola Aksan’s “Heatscape, 2022″
To see complete event, go to: • NewGal Presents: begin there (complete) For program and notes, go to: https://longy.edu/wp-content/uploads/… https://www.newgalleryconcertseries.org/ from NewGal’s 23rd season virtual event: BEGIN THERE
Recorded with audio/video engineer David Mather Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music of Bard College, December 2022 Premiered January 29, 2023 Produced by Sarah Bob and video editor Scott Quade
TYAPHAKA
for string trip with dancer
by C. Ingram
Tyaphaka (a ball with water or an eye) for string trio (2016-17)
by Clifton Ingram (1983)
New Gallery Concert Series 2019 Call for Scores Winner
I. weathered tile, foyer : paschalia (courante)
II. corps de logis : filled with furniture (slow-going) / opening to intarsia, walls
of segmented tracery, collecting insect bodies (le langage des mouches)
III. piano nobile (upstairs, impossibly flooded) : enfilade/defilade
IV. basement (model city, alone) : dry, humming
Katherine Winterstein, violin; Ashleigh Gordon, viola; Francesca McNeeley, cello; Ramiro Vaughan Purpose, dancer
Featured visual artist: Karl Stephan, painter
Sarah Bob, New Gal Founding Artistic Director
Jeffrey Means of Suono Vivo Audio Service
Video Editor: Scott Quade
First broadcast on May 1, 2021 for “Manifestation,” the New Gallery Concert Series’s 21st Season Finale. Event in its entirety: https://youtu.be/wfR4mqdbb8w
Program notes: https://longy.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/NewGalleryMay.pdf