Shannon Reilly
Saturday June 21st
doors at 7:30pm | performance at 8:00pm*
$20 tickets at the door / $10 student tickets with ID / sliding scale
This performance is supported by BROILER, an Oracle Egg Residency series providing 3 to 7 day residencies to incubate ambitious new work in sound and performance. Learn more here.
***NOTE: performance time may move to 6pm due to ongoing curfew in place for downtown Los Angeles. We will keep this page and our Instagram updated with the latest information. Thank you for understanding.
P R O G R A M
Shaking* by Erich Barganier
The Wonderland Series by Anna Heflin
Violinist Shannon Reilly presents two dramatic multimedia works, exploring her identity through simultaneous live performance, filmed media, singing, and acting. Reilly’s career launched with Anna Heflin’s 2019 solo opera The Wonderland Series, a “viscerally expressive fever dream” (ROC City News) which she’s performed in her professorship at UB SUNY, for Rochester’s Fringe Festival, and for MATA Presents in NYC. In this west-coast premiere, Shannon examines the mysterious background and Biblical obsessions of Wonderland and its author, alongside the world premiere of Erich Barganier’s Shaking. Shannon’s most recent commission examines growing up in modern Christianity and how it shaped her identity, demanding she reimmerse herself in the inherently performative world of an American church service as a conscious interloper. Shannon will follow her performance with an interactive discussion on the performer-composer relationship and building collaboration.
Shannon Reilly
Violinist Shannon Reilly thrives in the passionate pursuit of musical excellence. She regularly appears with ensembles and concert series including the Buffalo’s Friends of Vienna series, Liminal Space Ensemble, NYC's MATA Presents, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. A dedicated collaborator and performer of experimental music, Reilly has been Concertmaster for the University at Buffalo’s June in Buffalo Festival since 2019, where she also spent four years as violin professor before teaching at Buffalo Suzuki Strings. She appears on albums by Anna Heflin and Connor D'Netto. Reilly holds a Masters degree in violin performance from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Reneé Jolles and Brad Lubman. She lives in Niagara Falls with her three dogs.
Erich Barganier
Erich Barganier is a composer and multi-instrumentalist hailing from St. Petersburg, Florida who currently resides between New York City and Durham, NC. He writes chamber, orchestral, film, solo instrumental and electronic music that explores experimental technology, the edge of noise, improvisation, generative processes, and new forms of notation. Barganier is a performing member of the electric guitar/clarinet/electronic experimental music duo Shutterspeed Duo with Ford Fourqurean, a member of backlined collective, and is an active soloist on the oud, electric guitar, and mandolin.
Anna Heflin
Anna Heflin is a composer and writer who constructs high-octane, humorous, and sensual worlds with non-linear narratives that thrive on musical and psychological fragmentation. Her long-term collaborations with individual artists and organizations developed over years of working as a freelance violist are central to her process and her core values include trust, risk taking, experimentation, play, open communication, and creative problem solving. Recent highlights include the sold-out run of Heflin’s The INcomplete Cosmicomics (2025) — her hour-long Calvino-riff opera full of “sly humor and eternal cosmic peace” (Classical Voice North America) for vocalizing cellist Aaron Wolff and looper at The Tank in NYC as produced by Experiments in Opera. Heflin is currently based in Los Angeles pursuing her Doctorate in Music Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music.