Indexical is pleased to present an evening of original works from MOONS (Judith Berkson, Laura Cetilia, Katie Porter, and Christine Tavolacci).

As a daughter of mixed heritage, Mexican-American musician, Laura Cetilia is at home with in-betweenness, straddling multiple worlds as cellist / composer / educator / artist while working within acoustic / electronic / traditional / experimental sound practices. Her compositions have been described as "unorthodox loveliness" (Boston Globe) and hailed as "alternately penetrating and atmospheric" (Sequenza 21). Her works have been performed by San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, TAK Ensemble, Loadbang, Mivos Quartet, Splinter Reeds, Dog Star Orchestra, a.pe.riod.ic, LCollective, Taceti Ensemble (Bangkok, Thailand) among others. Laura plays with Mem1 (established in 2003 with Mark Cetilia, electronics/ modular synth) Moons, n/ether, noeplace, Ordinary Affects, and LCollective. After receiving her D.M.A. in Music Composition in 2024 from Cornell, Laura became certified as a Deep Listening®️ Practitioner from the Center for Deep Listening and returned to teaching cello and experimental music practices at Community MusicWorks, an organization that provides free instruments and lessons in underserved areas of Providence, RI.

Katie Porter is a Brooklyn-based clarinetist, performer/composer, writer, and artist. Devoted to collaboration, Katie's projects include: Phase to Phase a bass clarinet duo with Lucio Capece in Berlin, Malosma a bass clarinet and bass flute duo with Christine Tavolacci in LA, Eternities with sound artist Bob Bellerue in NYC, Red Desert Ensemble with percussionist/composer Devin Maxwell, Quartet or Two Duos with James Ilgenfritz, Lucie Vitkova, and Teerapat Parnmonkol in NYC, and MUD with poet/filmmaker Anne Penders in Brussels. Passionate about fostering musical communities, she co-founded Listen/Space in Brooklyn, the Listen/Space Commissions in the mountains of Utah, and the biennial VU Symposium for experimental, electronic and improvised music.

Christine Tavolacci is a Los Angeles based flutist specializing in contemporary and experimental music. Currently, she is active as a soloist, improviser, curator and chamber musician both in California and internationally. She is co-founder and co-director of Southland Ensemble, and has been a frequent performer in the Monday Evening Concerts series in Los Angeles, the world's longest-running series devoted to contemporary music. Christine has also performed with The Industry, Ojai Festival, LA Phil Noon to Midnight, the Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, the Angel City Jazz Festival, and Microfest. She has had the pleasure of working in close contact with many celebrated 20th and 21st century composers, such as Christian Wolff, James Tenney. Larry Polansky, Clarence Barlow and Jug Frey. Christine has been involved in the premieres of many new works, including those by Alvin Lucier, James Saunders, Laura Steenberge, Michael Pisaro, Carolyn Chen and Catherine Lamb. Her playing has been released on Orenda Records, Bridge Records, BIG EGO Records, Slub Music(Japan) and Tzadik.

Judith Berkson is a mezzo-soprano, pianist and composer living in Los Angeles, California. She has collaborated with Kronos Quartet, Wet Ink, Yarn/Wire and City Opera and has presented work at Picasso Museum Malaga, Roulette, Le Poison Rouge, Joe's Pub, The Stone, Barbes, Bang On A Can, and the 92 Street Y. She has received a Six Points Fellowship, a Jerome Foundation grant, Meet The Composer grant, New Music USA funding and support from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her solo album "Oylam" (ECM Records) was called "Standards and Schubert and liturgical music, swing and chilly silences, a beautiful Satie-like piece to open and close the record" by Ben Ratliff of the New York Times. Judith composed music for the film Christopher at Sea (2022), a queer retelling of Schubert's song cycle Winterreise which premiered at Sundance and the Venice Biennale, and won awards at SXSW and at Outfest LA. Her latest chamber opera Partial Memories premiered at the NODO Festival in Ostrava, Czechia. It was dedicated to forgotten female artists Janet Sobel and Mary Gartside and featured the Ostravska Banda. Judith is also a cantor and has collaborated on Yiddish and cantorial music with Frank London and Theodore Bikel. As a vocalist she has premiered works by Enno Poppe, Alvin Lucier, Rick Burckhardt and Chaya Czernowin. She has served as DMA Lecturer at California Institute of the Arts and as a guest lecturer at Columbia University and at The New School.