Name: Performance: Moon Unit
Start: 2025-12-06T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-06T22:00:00-05:00
Location: 175 Washington St

A free improv set and the premiere of two pieces: “(un)becoming” by Dylan Dukat and “Mapped of Scars Along Interior Skin” by Dani Elizalde
About this Event

2/3 members of Moon Unit will perform a set of free improv set and premiere two pieces: “(un)becoming” by Dylan Dukat and “Mapped of Scars Along Interior Skin” by Dani Elizalde.

Doors: 7:30pm

Music: 8pm

Suggested Donations: $5+

Moon Unit is Olivia Katz, Steph Tamas, and Rob Karpay.

Olivia Katz is a radiant, engaging, and dynamic cellist, improviser, teacher, and composer with a passionate interest in contemporary classical music. Olivia strives to create an interactive, inventive, and accessible environment in which the audience is encouraged to experience classical music, art, and beauty through a new lens. In addition to musicians and composers, Olivia collaborates with playwrights, singers, painters, actors, sculptors, and poets in multiple contexts and is dedicated to bringing artists’ visions to life. Currently in Boston, Olivia privately teaches many cello students in the greater-Boston area, regularly performs and records around the city and along the East Coast, composes [mostly] text and graphic-based open-instrumentation pieces for various groups and individuals around the U.S., is on the administrative board of New Music Mosaic, and is the administrative assistant for the Boston-based contemporary ensemble Hinge Quartet. Olivia is in three ensembles around the East Coast: Moon Unit–an eccentric multi-instrumentalist trio that specializes in free improvisation; pomo—an ethereal cello, voice, and electronics trio based in New York City; and Semiosis Quartet–a Boston-based string quartet dedicated to presenting a captivating and diverse contemporary classical repertoire.

Steph Tamas is a saxophonist, composer, and improviser based in New York City. His saxophone playing is primarily in the contemporary/living music field which promotes premiering new works, collaboration, improvisation across all styles, and performance art. As a composer, most of his work is conceptual and encourages a love for learning and laughing. Outside of music, Steph enjoys weightlifting, basketball, comedy shows, and exploring.

UVA’s Overlook Gallery is located at 175 Washington St., Brighton, MA 02135 – inside of the large historically preserved church. The gallery is on the lower level of the building. There is an accessible ramp in the rear of the building and an elevator inside. For parking, please park on Washington St.