Long Play Festival: David Handler’s Life Like Violence (world premiere screening)
Part of Bang on a Can's Long Play Festival 2025.
Join composer, violinist and NYC impresario David Handler, presenting the world premiere screening of five music videos created for his upcoming debut album, "Life Like Violence" (out May 16th on Cantaloupe Music).
Handler composes acoustic and electronic music that has been described by the New York Times as “eerie and superbly wrought…exploring polarities of light and dark, the sacred and the profane.”
Screening followed by Q&A moderated by Steve Smith, a writer and editor based in New York City. He has written about music for The New York Times and The New Yorker, and served as an editor for The Boston Globe, Time Out New York, and NPR.
David Handler is a composer, violinist/violist, and entrepreneur. He has collaborated with leading classical performers and popular artists alike, and has received premieres and commissions from Lincoln Center, BAM, and Central Park’s Naumburg Orchestral Concerts. Handler is the co-founder and owner of (Le) Poisson Rouge as well as the founder and co-artistic director of Ensemble LPR, for which the New Yorker referred to him as “the Ian Schrager of the music scene.” Handler’s speaking engagements include Lincoln Center, New York University, and Johns Hopkins University, and he sits on the boards of CavanKerry Press and the David Lynch Foundation. He is a citizen of the United States and Ireland; he lives in Brooklyn, NY.
