Performances

When and Where	Details
January 13, 2024	Humans and Machines at Mount Allison U, Sackville NB Chamber music by Walshe, Dupuis, Sokolovic and more, with Nadia Francavilla, Carl Philippe Gionet and others.
December 5, 2023	Norm and Joe Norm and Joe Sorbara (Guelph ON) premiere their “everything on the table” duo at Radstorm in Halifax. Also with Andrew Mackelvie, India Gailey and Meghan Gilhespy.
November 23 – 26, 2023	suddenlyLISTEN and Resonance New Music, Saint John, Halifax and Sackville Performs and records with Helen Pridmore and Andrew Reed Miller in Saint John, Halifax (7:30pm, Nov 25 at St David’s Presbyterian, presented by sL), and Sackville NB (Struts Gallery at 2pm, Nov 26).
November 17 – 19, 2023	MusicUNB Contemporary Music Festival, Fredericton NB Norm plays 3 concerts at UNB. Works by Agocs, Shaw, Smith, Mazzoli, and more.
November 2 to 8, 2023	Grounds for Goodness in Halifax Norm takes part in the Halifax iteration of Grounds for Goodness, a multidisciplinary work by Toronto’s Ruth Howard. Collaborations with Jackson Fairfax Perry, Lou Shepard, Jaike Koyote, Lily Falk and others.
November 3 and 4, 2023	PLAY Norm provides music and sound design for Jacinte Armstrong‘s performance piece PLAY, presented at All Nations Church Hall, by Mocean Dance of Halifax.
October 4, 2023	The Music Room, Halifax A concert celebrating TMR Chamber Series’ 20th anniversary! Mahler and Schubert, with Isabelle Fournier, Susan Sayle and Simon Docking.
September 26, 2023	Inner Space Concerts Norm performs classical chamber music with Jack Chen, Susan Sayle and Renaud Lapierre as part of ISC’s 10th anniversary concert In Halifax.
March 19, 2023	suddenlyLISTEN presents Scores Norm performs new graphic scores with Tim Crofts, Nicole Rampersaud, Nicola Miller, Terri Hron and Charlotte Hug at The Music Room in Halifax at 7:30. more info
February 4, 2023	suddenlyLISTEN presents HaliRiki in Halifax Norm performs with HaliRiki (Éric Normand, Brandon Auger, Antoine Létourneau-Berger) at St David’s Presbyterian Church at 7:30. more info
January 10, 2023	Unfolding River at Open Waters Festival Norm performs in Tom Richard’s ensemble at the new Strug Concert Hall.
December 3, 2022	suddenlyLISTEN presents Norm and Collateral Collateral, Norm, Sam Shalabi and Tim Crofts, join up again to perform in Halifax. At St David’s Presbyterian Church at 7:30. More info
November 24, 2022	Norm performs on Dominus Vobiscum Norm collaborates with multidisciplinary artist Christopher Webb, pianist Holly Arseneault and several others on a new “presentation of painting, prose and sound” At All Saints Cathedral at 7:30. More info
October 22, 2022	Norm and Andrew Reed Miller at Arts Atlantic Norm and Andrew present a live duo with live processing by WL Altman from Saskatoon! A part of Saint John NB’s Arts Atlantic Symposium.
October 14 to 16, 2022	Norm at UNB Contemporary Music Festival 2022 Norm will be performing in 2 concerts at the festival, playing works by Sophie Dupuis and Ana Sokolovich, and maybe some others! More info
September 22 to 25, 2022	The Remotions at IICSI Norm will be in residence at the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation at U of Guelph as part of the presentation of Rebecca Caine’s multiPLAY project.
September 19 to 21, 2022	Norm with Joe Sorbara in Guelph Norm spends a few days with the beautiful percussionist Joe Sorbara, hanging, recording, and performing at Silence in Guelph. Details TBA
September 18, 2022	Collateral at Guelph Jazz Festival! Collateral (Sam Shalabi, Norm and Tim Crofts) perform a 12pm show at the renowned Guelph Jazz Festival! At the Guelph Youth Music Centre. More info
August 28, 2022	House Concert in Charlottetown Norm performs a solo concert on Upper Prince Street in Charlottetown! He will play works by Bach, Sokolovic, Shaw, a world premiere by Arne Eignefeldt and a new creation of his own entitled, Howells Creek. By Invitation only!
May 1, 2022	Norm and Jennifer King at Cecelia Concerts Norm Join pianist Jennifer King in a Sensory- Friendly concert of classical music for young people at Halifax Central Library’s O’Regan Hall. More info
April 8, 2022 Halifax NS	suddenlyLISTEN presents Norm with Strata and Isabelle Duthoit Isabelle Duthoit (France: clarinet/voice) Join Strata at The Music Room in Halifax.
March 31, 2022 Halifax NS	Chimera CD release concert at St David’s Presbyterian Church Chimera (Francois Houle, Norm and Tim Crofts) release Constellations a CD recorded remotely in Halifax and Vancouver, in 2021.
February 8, 2022 Saint John NB	Norm at Resonance New Music Norm collaborates with Andrew Miller, Arthur Bull, Robin Streb and Joel Cormier at The Stone Church in Saint John. This video will be found on the Resonance website. Video and more information
January 28, 2022 Wolfville NS	Norm and India Gailey at Acadia U Norm and fellow cellist India Gailey perform for music students at Acadia University. with a special appearance by Derek Charke! Music is by India and Norm and Boccherini!
January 9, 2022 Halifax and online	Strata at Open Waters Festival Strata (Norm and Brandon Auger) play Re:Grain, a 2 hour “live installation” of electronic music built from samples from other Open Waters concerts.
January 8, 2022 Halifax and online	Norm at Open Waters Festival Norm joins Lukas Pearse, India Gailey and Sarah McCabe in an all-strings show of improvised music. At the suddenly virtual Open Waters Festival!
October 23, 2021 Halifax, NS	Augmented Celli at suddenlyLISTEN Augmented Celli perform at suddenlyLISTEN, in The Cobb Lobby. more information
October 20, 2021 Waterloo, ON	Augmented Celli at NUMUS Augmented Celli performa at NUMUS Concerts. At the Walper Hotel in Kitchener, Ontario. more information
October 15 to 26, 2021 Toronto, Waterloo, Wolfville, Halifax	Augmented Celli education tour Norm and Nicola Baroni (Italy), join again as Augmented Celli at Canadian Universities! They play for and lecture students at University of Toronto, Laurier University, Acadia University and undertake a major composition project with students at Dalhousie University’s Fountain School of the Performing Arts.
October 9, 2021 Rimouski, Quebec	Strata plays at Rencontres des Musiques Spontanées 32 in Rimouski QC Haliriki is Norm and Brandon Auger with Antoine Letourneau and Eric Normand more information
May, 2021	Norm releases +/- music on Bandcamp more information
April 27, 2021 online	The Remotions at Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina SK Norm and The Remotions, present at the MultiPLAY exhibit at Dunlop Art Gallery. The Remotions is made up of performers from Saskatoon, Kelowna, and Regina, as well as Norm in Halifax!
April 15, 2021 Halifax, Canada	suddenlyLISTEN presents The Music of Lou Sheppard Norm and an ensemble including Derek Charke, Gina Burgess, Jackson Fairfax Perry and Clare MacDonald interpret the graphic scores of Nova Scotian media artist Lou Sheppard. At St David’s Presbyterian.
February 2021	Chimera Collaborates Chimera (Francois Houle, Norm and Tim Crofts) collaborate at a distance on improvisations, collaborative creation and recording from The Music Room in Halifax.
January 9, 2021 Halifax, Canada and Online	Norm and CAP at Open Waters Festival The Crofts Adams Pearse Trio reforms to perform a live streamed concert at Upstream Music’s 2021 Open Waters Festival.
August 2020 Online	Norm performs at IICSI’s virtual Improv Fest 2020 International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation presented a virtual 24 hour festival of creative music featuring many top international improvisers recording from a variety of locations and situations.
summer 2020 Online	Adams Charke Exchange Videos Norm and Canadian composer and flute virtuoso Derek Charke, recorded videos of improvisations, from isolation and together throughout spring, summer and fall of 2020. Find them here.
March 1, 2020 Halifax, Canada	Norm performs Performance Practice suddenlyLISTEN presents Isaiah Ceccarelli, and Katelyn Clark from Montreal, along with Nadia Francavilla and Norm, in Performance Practice: a concert featuring compositions and improvisations for organetto, percussion, violin and cello. More information
February 16 and 17, 2020 Groningen, the Netherlands	Norm records in the Netherlands Norm joins a recording project with new collaborator pianist Setareh Nafisi in Groningen.
January 4, 2020 Halifax, Canada	Norm performs solo at Open Waters Festival Norm performs a solo set for cello and live processing at Upstream Music Associations’s Open Waters Festival 2020. More information
December 9, 2019 Halifax, Canada	Norm performs Storm Songs suddenlyLISTEN presents Storm Songs, Warm Music for an Icy Night with Norm, Sarah Albu (Montreal) and Ellen Gibling (Halifax NS). More information
October 20, 2019 Halifax, Canada	Norm performs with Muse Bots! suddenlyLISTEN presents Muse Bots in concert with Norm, Arne Eigenfeldt (Vancouver) and Derek Charke (Wolfville NS). More information
August 14, 2019 Saint-Jacques, Canada	*Norm performs mouvance* in Saint-Jacques QC** mouvance is performed in Saint-Jacques as part of LA Festival acadien de la Nouvelle Acadie.
May 10 and 11, 2019 Caunes, France	Chamber music in Caunes Norm will join Richard Hornsby, Nadia Francavilla, Susan Sayle and French performers to play two concerts of chamber music in Caunes, France as part of a new festival!
April 18 to 30, 2019 Wolfville, Canada	Recording the music of Carmen Braden Norm takes part in a major recording project, capturing the chamber music of Canadian composer Carmen Braden. With Nadia Francavilla, Susan Sayle, Gillian Smith, Derek Charke and others.
March 18 to 23, 2019 Wolfville, Canada	Wolfville residency Scottish composer Nick Fells and Norm join to complete the composition for cello and multichannel electronics, at Acadia University’s Electronic Music Studio.
March 2 and 3, 2019 Halifax, Canada	Norm performs with Tanya Kalmanovitch Tanya Kalmanovitch is in Halifax to perform on the suddenlyLISTEN Series and in a presentation of “The Tar Sands Songbook”. Norm accompanies Tanya in Tar Sands Songbook, co-presented with The Ecology Action Centre of Halifax. As well he performs with Tanya, Donald MacLennan and Andrew Miller in a suddenlyLISTEN show. More information
February 23, 2019 Montreal, Canada	*Norm performs mouvance* in Montreal** mouvance is performed in Montreal as part of Montreal Nouvelles Musiques Festival. More information
February 20, 2019 Halifax, Canada	Norm performs on Music Room Series Norm joins violist Susan Sayle and violinist Isabelle Fournier in a concert of duos, including Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello.
February 9, 2019 Halifax, Canada	Norm performs in Contact Norm joins Brandon Auger and dancers Sara Coffin and Julia Carr in their Halifax suddenlyLISTEN show. More information
January 4, 2019 Halifax, Canada	Norm performs in mouvance Norm joins Suzie LeBlanc and an ensemble of musicians in the premiere of mouvance, by Jerome Blais. mouvance is a fully staged suite of music with lyrics by contemporary Acadian poets. Presented as part of the Open Waters Festival 2019.
November 10, 2018 Lunenburg, Canada	Norm performs with poet Alice Burdick Norm joins Lunenburg poet Alice Burdick at a Lexicon Salon for interpretations from her latest book of poetry, at Lexicon Books. co presented by suddenlyLISTEN.
October 9, 2018 Halifax, Canada	Norm performs with Shoju-Sennenno-Midori Norm joins Shoju-Sennenno-Midori a quartet of calligrapher, ikebana artist, biwa and percussion in their Halifax suddenlyLISTEN show. More information
October 4, 2018 Venezia, Italy	Norm and Nicola Baroni: Augmented Cellos at La Biennale di Venezia Norm and Nicola at La Biennale di Venezia, Sala L’Armi. Premierings new work by Derek Charke and Arne Eigenfeldt, and performing pieces by Blais, Casserley, and Baroni More information
October 2, 2018 Bologna, Italy	Norm and Nicola Baroni at The Bologna Conservatory Norm and Nicola perform in Bologna at the Music Conservatory. Also collaborating with Lawrence Casserley, Arne Eigenfeldt, Gianni Mimmo. Improvising and playing pieces by Baroni, Casserley, Eigenfeldt and Blais. /td>
September 26, 2018 London UK	Norm and Nicola Baroni in Edinburgh Norm joins composer/performers Nicola Baroni, Yati Durant, Magda Durant and Massemiliano Messieri at St Cecilia’s Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland. Playing works by Durant, Baroni, Messieri, and Blais.
September 23, 2018 London UK	Norm and Nicola Baroni at The Colourscape Festival Norm and Nicola at Clapham Common’s Colourscape Music Festival. Also collaborating with Lawrence Casserley, Alison Blunt and Hannah Marshall More information
June 23, 2018 Kromeriz, Czech Republic	Norm at Festival ForFest, Czech Republic Norm joins composer/performers Nicola Baroni, Yati Durant and Massemiliano Messieri at the 29th annual Festival ForFest. More information
May 26, 2018 Halifax Central Library	Daniel MacNeil in concert Norm joins an all-star band again to present the multi-cultural music of composer, guitarist and oudist Daniel MacNeil
May 24, 2018 Halifax Central Library	Norm with Gina Burgess Norm joins Halifax composer and violinist Gina Burgess to open the 2018 OBEY Convention
April 9 – 19, 2018 Across Canada!	Collateral on tour Collateral – Sam Shalabi, Norm and Tim Crofts perform in Rimouski, Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria to promote their 2017 cd. More information
March 27, 2018 CBC, Halifax NS	The Music of Daniel MacNeil Norm joins an all-star band to present the multi-cultural music of composer, guitarist and oudist Daniel MacNeil
March 10, 2018 The Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax NS	Adams and Pritchard Norm and Barbara Pritchard perform a program of Canadian works for cello and piano including Ballad by Linda Catlin Smith.
March 9, 2018 The Garden Room at Acadia University, Wolfville NS	Adams and Pritchard Norm and Barbara Pritchard perform a program of Canadian works for cello and piano including Ballade by Linda Catlin Smith.
February 1, 2018 Denton Hall Acadia University, Wolfville NS	Acadia New Music Festival presents Grisey and Sokolovic Norm plays Vez by Sokolovic and as part of the WIRED ! Ensemble (Mark Hopkins, Derek Charke, Eileen Walsh, Gillian Smith, Susan Sayle, Norman Adams, Simon Docking) in Gerard Grisey’s Vortex Temporum. More information
January 5, 2018 The MacAloney Room at The Fountain School for the Arts, Halifax, NS	suddenlyLISTEN and Upstream presents Francois Houle (Vancouver), Norman Adams, Tim Crofts Upstream and suddenlyLISTEN present Norm with legendary Vancouver clarinettist Francois Houle, and Tim Crofts at the 2018 Open Waters Festival. More information
November 12, 2017 The Presbyterian Church of St. David, Halifax, NS	suddenlyLISTEN presents Collateral Collateral (Sam Shalabi, Norman Adams, Tim Crofts) continues its national tour in Halifax on a bill with Arthur Bull, Scott Thomson (Montreal) and Roger Turner (UK)! More information
November 10, 2017 The Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown PE	Collateral: Collateral continues its national tour in Charlottetown. More information
November 9, 2017 Suncor Hall Memorial University, St. John’s NF	Sound Symposium presents Collateral Collateral: Sam Shalabi (Montreal/Cairo), Norman Adams, Tim Crofts begins its 2017/2018 national tour in St. John’s. More information
May 13, 2017 The Artesian, Regina SK	IICSI presents Norm Adams, Helen Pridmore and W.L. Altman Old friends reunited in performance at the 2017 University of Regina IICSI Improvisation and Mobility conference. More information
April 7, 2017 St. David’s Presbyterian, Halifax	Nicola Baroni and Norm Adams Norm and Italian cellist and composer Nicola Baroni join to place pieces for computer and 2 celli as well as improvisations.
March 7, 2017 The Bus Stop Theatre, Halifax	suddenlyLISTEN presents Cory Unleashes suddenlyLISTEN presents the amazing Cory Bowles with Norm Adams and D’Arcy Gray! There will be singing, moving, and maybe some yelling. We are telling it like it is! More information
February 15, 2017 The Music Room, Halifax	Adams and Pritchard play Canadian Music The Music Room Chamber Series presents Norman Adams and Barbara Pritchard playing music for cello and piano by Hatzis, Dupuis, Westercamp and others. More information
November 30, 2016 The Bus Stop Theatre, Halifax	suddenlyLISTEN presents Conversations suddenlyLISTEN presents 3 dancers (Armstrong, Coffin, Baker) making new work with 3 musicians (Adams, Auger, Halley) multidisciplinary connections at their finest and most expressive! More information
October 15, 2016 1313 Hollis Street, Halifax	Nocturne suddenlyLISTEN presents improvisers Adams, Crofts, Auger and Cameron playing to a new Gavin MacLean film More information
May 24, 2016 1313 Hollis Street, Halifax	suddenlyLISTEN presents Xavier suddenlyLISTEN presents important improvisers in concert: Xavier Charles (France), Franz Hautzinger (Austria) and Eric Normand (Quebec) with Adams as well! More information
May 13 and 14, 2016 The DANSpace, Halifax	suddenlyLISTEN presents The Cello of Mr. O A remount of the popular multi generational, multi media show based on the book by Jane Cutler, featuring performances by Karen Bassett, Jacinte Armstrong, Adams, with composition by Naylor, projections by Pearse and direction by Pitsiavas. More information
May 5, 2016 St David’s Presbyterian Church, Halifax	suddenlyLISTEN presents The C/A/P Trio The Crofts Adams Pearse Trio performs graphich scores by Cormier, Brown and Hynes More information
March 9, 201 The Bus Stop Theatre, Halifax	suddenlyLISTEN presents Ben Grossman in Hurdy Gurdy suddenlyLISTEN presents Ben Grossman improvising with Auger, Adams and Gray More information
January 9, 2016 The Sir James Dunn Theatre, Halifax	Norm with Symphony Nova Scotia Norm performs The Nameless Hour by Norman Symonds
December 10, 2015 The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, UK	Norm in Glasgow The UK tour continues/concludes as Norm plays with Adam Linson (Glasgow: bass) and Nick Fells (Glasgow: electronics) in Glasgow!More information
December 4, 2015 i’klectik, London, UK	Norm on INTERLACE Series with Lexer and Kanngiesser Norm plays duos with Sebastian Lexer (Glasgow: piano +) and Ute Kanngiesser (London: cello) in London!More information
November 17, 2015 St. Matthews United Church, Halifax, NS	suddenlyLISTEN presents Bozzini Quartet + 4 suddenlyLISTEN presents the esteemed Quatuor Bozzini (Montreal) with Lemieux, Destaultels, Sayle and Adams in performances of Cardew Derome, and Wolff.More information
November 13, 2015 Lunenburg, NS	Arthur Bull book launch at Lexicon Books Norm joins poet and guitarist Arthur Bull (Digby Neck NS) to perform “The Bird Project” and launch Arthur’s new book of poetry “Woodlot”.More information
October 4, 2015 1313 Hollis St. Halifax, NS	suddenlyLISTEN presents Pedersen, Dulberger and Adams Norm joins Craig Pedersen (Montreal: trumpet) and Shayna Dulberger (Brooklyn NY: bass) for a set, in preparation for a new recording.More information