last month at
@goethe_boston with
@rebassca ✨🎻🔊
Rebecca Lawrence – double bass
Isaac Roth Blumfield – modular synthesizer & laptop
John Pax - sound engineer
mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield
March 17, 2026 at Goethe Institut Boston
Based in Berlin, Germany, Rebecca Lawrence (b. 1995) is known for her collaborative work as a contemporary and early music double bassist in Europe and the USA. Most at home in creative small ensemble environments, Rebecca is passionate about working with living composers and providing a solid ensemble foundation while imagining new possibilities for the double bass and its predecessors in various contexts. Rebecca has performed with Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, ensemblekollektiv Berlin, Tempus Konnex, Ensemble Experimental, the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, and appeared at many of Europe’s most important music festivals including ManiFeste, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, and Time of Music.
Isaac Roth Blumfield is a composer from Saint Paul, Minnesota, currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He writes experimental music for acoustic and electronic instruments, exploring resonance, materiality, and affect through expanded approaches towards instruments, objects, and electronics. His music looks for uncanny places and expressions that embrace the beauty, pain, and strangeness of life.
His music has been influenced through work with performers such as Schallfeld Ensemble, Ensemble Proton Bern, SWR Symphonieorchester, Yarn/Wire, Ensemble Multilatérale, line upon line percussion trio, Ensemble Modern, and Quartetto Maurice at programs such as the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Darmstädter Fereinkurse, Klangspuren Schwaz, Impuls, the Banff Centre for Creativity, New Music on the Point, and Ticino Musica Festival. His music has been broadcast on Swiss, Austrian, and Southwest German public radio and has received scholarships and residencies from the Hirschmann Stiftung, Fondation Nicati- De Luz, and the SWR Experimentalstudio. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Harvard University, studying with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku.
