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12/03/2026

NYC Friends, Fam, and Music Lovers: I’m back Come join us, this Saturday, March 14th at 7:00 pm, for my dear friend Piotr Orlov’s Dada Strain night at Light & Sound Design Studios in Greenpoint. I’ll be playing with the stellar trumpet and electronics maven Chris Williams, on a line-up including live sets from Christopher Hoffman and from Prince of Queens, with music selection from Piotr Orlov. Thank you to FourOneOne for their support of this series. This will be an amazing night! Please join us!

Venue address provided with RSVP and ticket purchase, using link in bio.

06/03/2026

NYC Friends, Fam, and Music Lovers: Christina Wheeler is back next week! Come join us, next Saturday, March 14th at 7:00 pm, for my dear friend Piotr Orlov’s Dada Strain night at Light & Sound Design Studios in Greenpoint. I’ll be playing with the stellar trumpet and electronics maven Chris Williams, on a line-up including live sets from Christopher Hoffman and from Prince of Queens, with music selection from Piotr Orlov. Special thanks to FourOneOne for their support of this series. This will be an amazing night! Please join us!

Venue address provided with RSVP and ticket purchase, using link below:

https://www.eventcreate.com/e/dada-3-14

Dada Strain: Christopher Hoffman, Christina Wheeler & Chris Williams, Prince of Queens on March 14, 2026. Find event and ticket information.

26/02/2026

The Deutsche Jazz Preis has nominated in the vocal catgegory for the German Jazz prize. This nomination is shared with three amazing vocalists, Almut Kühne, , and dear friend . Thank you for this honor.

10/11/2025

Hello NYC family, friends, and music, movement, and art lovers: I’m delighted to share that I am coming back to New York next week! On Thursday, November 20th, 5:30–8:00 pm, at the Guggenheim Museum, please join bassist Luke Stewart, who has invited drummer Warren G “Trae” Crudup III, movement artist Miriam Parker, harpist Cassie Watson Francillon, and me, to collaborate on a new performance inspired by Rashid Johnson's current exhibition, A Poem for Deep Thinkers. I will sing and play Array mbira, autoharp, QChord, and electronics, and present new text inspired by and in response to Johnson’s exhibition. This will be a fantastic sound and movement activation! Come join us!

Special thanks to Adam Shore for your support.

https://www.guggenheim.org/event/late-shift-at-guggenheim/2025-11-20

08/05/2025

Berlin friends, family, and music-lovers: This Sunday, May 11 at 7:00 PM / 19h, at Radialsystem, Berlin, I will be presenting a newly commissioned audio-visual, electro-acoustic, chamber ensemble work: From the Quarter to the (W)hole: What Lies at the Center of Infinity in the Oceans of the Universe?

I would like to continue with introducing you to the participating artists: next is Vinicius Cajado.

Vinicius Cajado is a musician from São Paulo, Brazil. His music makes use of silence at the same volume and pace that makes the use of harsh noise. He blends storytelling, minimalism, maximalism, spectral music, avant-garde and contemporary Brazilian music concepts into a super fast reactive playing. Using improvisation and deep listening also as a form of empathy, exchanging views, ideas, and reinventing himself from the first till the last note played on stage. Vinicius has received different accolades across the globe such as “debut record of the year” by the New York City Jazz Record for his first solo recording Monu, and also has been prized with additional honors for most unique and creative playing at the international society of bassists in Europe. His recent release Storm Dance (Not Two Records) with the legendary bassist Joëlle Léandre is described as “ a stunning, powerful and meaningful addition to the lineage of improvised duo bass recordings, Léandre and Cajado have given us a vital recording, worthy of repeated listenings,” by the legendary bassist Mark Dresser.

More artist profiles will be coming in the next days, including further information on the project. Mark your calendars and stay tuned!

Details in link below and also in bio above:

https://bit.ly/4hvVzHS

Photograph: Victoria Nazarova

17/04/2025

Berlin friends, family, and music-lovers: SAVE THE DATE!

Next month, Sunday, May 11 at 7:00 PM / 19h, at Radialsystem, Berlin, I will be presenting a newly commissioned audio-visual, electro-acoustic, chamber ensemble work: From the Quarter to the (W)hole: What Lies at the Center of Infinity in the Oceans of the Universe?

Set on a dinghy in parts unknown, this fictive tone-poem suite unfolds through the interwoven stories of four migrant survivors from a disappeared Ghost Boat. Scored for electro-acoustic chamber ensemble, triptych video, and spatialized audio, the work traces memory, dreamed futures, and the solace sought in the wake of loss—toward the possibility of salvation through speculative imagination.

Participating artists include:

Christina Wheeler: Concept, composition, sound design, music, performance, voice, glass harmonica, kora, balafon, mbira and percussion

Dudù Kouate: Percussion, xalam, kanjira, djembe, tama, calabash, African flutes, electronics

Biliana Voutchkova: Violin

Penelope Gkika: Violin

Dina Maccabee: Viola

Judith Hamann: Cello

Vinicius Cajado: Bass Claire Fristot,

Claire Fristot / Alice FWonderland: Video

More details will be coming in the next days, including profiles on all the artists and further information on the project. Mark your calendars and stay tuned!

Special thanks to Radialsystem, Musikfonds e.V., Eventide Audio, and chase bliss for their generous support in making this project possible.

https://bit.ly/4hvVzHS

Radialsystem - From the Quarter to the (W)hole: What Lies at the Center of Infinity in the Oceans of the Universe?

04/04/2025

Hi All!

Come join me today with the lovely crew at chase bliss on Discord, to chat about my music, their wonderful gear, all things music and tech, plus what’s coming up for me presenting new music and sound at Radialsystem. We're live at 12:00 PM Central time / 7:00 PM Central European Time. Join us!



https://discord.gg/de3yWkQKs8?event=1356658046528393413

28/10/2024

Dear Berlin Family, Friends, and Music Lovers,

I wanted to let you know about a very special series that's coming up next week at Haus der Kulturen der Welt: composer/professor George Lewis has curated a festival, Always, Already There: An Incubator for Afrodiasporic Music, featuring the work of Afrodisaporic composers of contemporary music:

https://www.hkw.de/programme/always-already-there/

The International Contemporary Ensemble is coming from New York for a week's residency to present the works in concert on Thursday through Sunday, November 7–10, along with free panel discussions starting November 4–10.

I will be presenting a new work, From the Quarter to the (W)Hole: A Prelude, on Thursday, November 7, 8:30 pm/20h30, and will participate on a panel discussion, Decolonizing Electronics, on Wednesday, November 6, 6:30 PM/18h30.

This will be a historic event, and we would love to see you all there. For anyone with financial constraints who would like to attend my concert, do please be in touch via DM; I have some guest list spaces to share.

Ein Inkubator für afrodiasporische Neue Musik

03/09/2024

NY Fam, Friends, and Music Lovers: I'm delighted to share that the wonderful So Percussion ensemble has invited me to present a special salon concert this Saturday, September 7,2024 at 7:30 pm at their Brooklyn studio, 20 Grand Avenue, #205, Brooklyn, 11205.

I will present a solo set and then some of Sō Percussion's members will join me for a premiere first live set ever playing together. The studio and the building are wheelchair accessible.

We would love for you to join us and look forward to seeing you Saturday!

21/05/2024

Berlin Friends: I'm delighted to share with you that this Sunday, 26 May 2024 at 8:30 PM / 20h30, I will be joining Chris Abrahams (The Necks) for our first duo concert at ausland, Lychener Str. 60, 10437 Prenzlauerberg:

https://ausland.berlin/event/tree-abrahams-wheeler

Chris Abrahams: piano
Christina Wheeler: voice, glass armonica, array mbira, autoharp, qchord, theremini, electronics

Chris and I first met in Berlin, and then recorded together in Sydney, Australia in Chris’s home studio. This ausland concert will be our first time performing together live. For this special local concert, I will include my glass armonica processed through electronics.

We will share the bill with TREE, the long-term collaboration of Chris Abrahams, Burkhard Beins, and Andrea Ermke, who play “unusual minimalist improvisation music…long sustaining sounds…wonderfully unified work of drone-like improvisation…with a lot more happening inside.”— Frans De Waard, Vital Weekly

TREE
Chris Abrahams: DX7
Burkhard Beins: analog synth, live-electronics
Andrea Ermke: mini discs

Tickets are 10€ at the door, and early arrival is encouraged.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Photos: Shervin Lainez / Tim Williams / Christian Kesten

18/03/2024

Wonderful news! Berlin-based friends and visitors:

Tomorrow, Friday, March 29 at 8:00 PM / 20H, I, Christina Wheeler will present a local Berlin concert at KM28, our first duo performance with percussionist/multi-instrumentalist, vocalist extraordinaire
Dudù Kouate.

Dudù and I first met playing with the Art Ensemble of Chicago for their album recording and performances during their 50th Anniversary season.

Here is the FB invite:

Christine Wheeler & Dudù Kouaté

Concert details are below:

Christina Wheeler: voice, glass armonica, Array mbira, QChord, autoharp, Theremini, electronics

Dudù Kouaté: percussion, xalam, kanjira, djembe, tama, calabash, African flutes, vocals, electronics.

KM 28: Karl-Marx-Straße 28, 12043 Neukölln-Berlin

This is a special occasion, because I will premiere playing my glass armonica live here in Berlin for the first time.

Mark your calendars. We look forward to seeing you there!

01/11/2023

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