Performances
When and Where | Details |
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 will spend 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 | 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. |
February 16 and 17, 2020 | Norm records in the Netherlands Norm joins a recording project with new collaborator pianist Setareh Nafisi in Groningen. |
January 4, 2020 | 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. |
December 9, 2019 | Norm performs Storm Songs suddenlyLISTEN presents Storm Songs, Warm Music for an Icy Night with Norm, Sarah Albu (Montreal) and Ellen Gibling (Halifax NS). |
October 20, 2019 | Norm performs with Muse Bots! suddenlyLISTEN presents Muse Bots in concert with Norm, Arne Eigenfeldt (Vancouver) and Derek Charke (Wolfville NS). |
August 14, 2019 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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. |
February 23, 2019 | Norm performs mouvance in Montreal
mouvance is performed in Montreal as part of Montreal Nouvelles Musiques Festival. |
February 20, 2019 | 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 | Norm performs in Contact
Norm joins Brandon Auger and dancers Sara Coffin and Julia Carr in their Halifax suddenlyLISTEN show. |
January 4, 2019 | 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 | 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 | 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. |
October 4, 2018 | 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 |
October 2, 2018 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
June 23, 2018 | Norm at Festival ForFest, Czech Republic
Norm joins composer/performers Nicola Baroni, Yati Durant and Massemiliano Messieri at the 29th annual Festival ForFest. |
May 26, 2018 | 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 | Norm with Gina Burgess
Norm joins Halifax composer and violinist Gina Burgess to open the 2018 OBEY Convention |
April 9 – 19, 2018 | 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. |
March 27, 2018 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. |
January 5, 2018 | 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. |
November 12, 2017 | 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)! |
November 10, 2017 | Collateral:
Collateral continues its national tour in Charlottetown. |
November 9, 2017 | Sound Symposium presents Collateral
Collateral: Sam Shalabi (Montreal/Cairo), Norman Adams, Tim Crofts begins its 2017/2018 national tour in St. John’s. |
May 13, 2017 | 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. |
April 7, 2017 | 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 | 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! |
February 15, 2017 | 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. |
November 30, 2016 | 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! |
October 15, 2016 | Nocturne
suddenlyLISTEN presents improvisers Adams, Crofts, Auger and Cameron playing to a new Gavin MacLean film |
May 24, 2016 | suddenlyLISTEN presents Xavier
suddenlyLISTEN presents important improvisers in concert: Xavier Charles (France), Franz Hautzinger (Austria) and Eric Normand (Quebec) with Adams as well! |
May 13 and 14, 2016 | 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. |
May 5, 2016 | suddenlyLISTEN presents The C/A/P Trio
The Crofts Adams Pearse Trio performs graphich scores by Cormier, Brown and Hynes |
March 9, 201 | suddenlyLISTEN presents Ben Grossman in Hurdy Gurdy
suddenlyLISTEN presents Ben Grossman improvising with Auger, Adams and Gray |
January 9, 2016 | Norm with Symphony Nova Scotia
Norm performs The Nameless Hour by Norman Symonds |
December 10, 2015 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |