2025

BLU, Milan Italy

Endless Song
solo exhibition: audio/video installation


2025

Pasaj Istanbul, Istanbul Türkiye

Spectral Variations
solo exhibition: sculpture, music/video, generative software sound installation 


2025

Platforms Project independent art fair, Athens, Greece


Tip-Ex me, Tip-Ex you, Words break through, peek-a-boo - Pasaj Istanbul booth


2024

Galway Arts Center, Galway, Ireland


The Branch, The Fork, The Harrow - the Woodland Symposium group exhibition, audio/video installation

2023

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland,
Earth Rising Festival 


the Woodland Symposium group exhibition
audio/video installation, listening workshop

2021

Park Avenue Armory, New York City, NY, USA

‘We Hold These Truths’
video by Shani Jamila, music and sound design by Brett Sroka


2019

Lévy Gorvy Gallery, New York City, NY, USA


In House - Artist Who Work at Lévy Gorvy,
sound installation featuring Alicia Hall Moran


2019

Wumin Art Center, Cheongju, South Korea -

‘I don’t know the ending’
video by Sujin Lee, music by Brett Sroka

2018

Manifesta 12 Palermo, Palermo Italy

ReSignifications, collage installation by Shani Jamil - sound installation by Brett Sroka



2017

Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia

‘I don’t know the ending’
video by Sujin Lee, music by Brett Sroka


2017

Galway Jazz Festival, Galway City, Ireland

music performance: Rauno Nieminen - jouhikko, kantele, flute Brett Sroka - live computer instrument

2017

Clifden Arts Festival, Clifton, Ireland -

Sine Qua Non generative sound installation featuring Alicia Hall Moran (voice)

2017
Winter Jazz Festival, New York, NY

​BREATHE - Craig Harris ensemble, Brett Sroka - trombonist



2016
Harvard University - The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
'Altar' video by Shani Jamila, music by Brett Sroka featuring Alicia Hall Moran

exhibition: Carrie Mae Weems: I once knew a girl…


2016

New Museum, New York, NY
‘Altar’ video by Shani Jamila, music by Brett Sroka featuring Alicia Hall Moran



2015

Music for Contemplation, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Stuart Dempster, Tromba-Annuncation, Brett Sroka - Brett Sroka - trombonist


2015

Fridman Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Sine Qua Non - solo exhibition: performance/sound installation with Alicia Hall Moran (voice)

2014

Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York City, NY, USA

The Tri-Centric Foundation Festival,

Andre Vida, Moving Scores, Brett Sroka - trombonist


2015

Robert Turner Gallery / Institute for the Electronic Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, USA


Sine Qua Non
solo exhibition: performance/sound installation with Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet)



2014

Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Sine Qua Non
premiere/solo exhibition: performance/sound installation with Carl Maguire (piano)

2013

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA masterclass/performance

2012

The Sonic Circuits Festival, Washington, DC, USA
music performance: Ergo (electro-acoustic trio)

2011

The Stone, New York, NY, USA
music performance: Ergo (electro-acoustic trio)
featuring Jason Moran

2010

BAM Cafe Live, Brooklyn, NY, USA
music performance: Ergo (electro-acoustic trio)

Awards & Residencies

2025

American Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship, USA/Finalnd

2024

Arts Mid Hudson - Individual Artist Grant

2021/2022/2023

The Arts Council of Ireland - Interface Inagh, residency/grant, Ireland

2020

NYFA - The Tri-State Relief Fund to Support Non-Salaried Workers in the Visual Arts

2019

Cité Internationale des Arts, residency - Paris, France

2019

Skriduklauster, residency, Fljótsdalsvegur, Iceland

2017

Interface Inagh, residency - Inagh Valley, Ireland

2017

CAMAC, residency, Marnay Sur Siene, France

2016

Album of the Year - Ergo “As subtle As Tomorrow”

New York City Jazz Record

2015

Southern Fingerlakes New York Council on the Arts Grant

2015

Institute of Electronic Art, research grant/residency, Alfred University, NY, USA

2014

Arteles Creative Center, residency, Haukihjarvi, Finland,

2014

Finlandia Foundation National Grant

2014

Ptarmigan, residency, Talinn, Estonia

2013

Vilnius Academy of Art - Nida Art Colony, residency, Nida, Lithuania

2013

Institute of Electronic Art, research grant/residency, Alfred University, NY, US

2012

I-Park Foundation, residency, East Haddam, Connecticut, USA


2012

Artists Summer Institute

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council / Creative Capital

2011

I-Park Foundation, residency, East Haddam, Connecticut, USA

2006

Best Debut CD - Ergo "Quality Anatomechanical Music Since 2005"

All About Jazz-NY

2001

Queens Council on the Arts Grant

Publications

2020

Terry Adkins Interview Project, with Jason Moran and Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Lévy Gorvy Gallery

2019

‘Pine music and Polyphony the trees, the water, you’ ‘From dream to dream’ Interface Inagh with Artisan House, edited by Alannah Robins

Cultural Program Curator at Lévy Gorvy Gallery, New York/London

2019

Anthony Vine commission / Rhythm Method string quartet exhibition: Pierre Soulage - A Century

2018

Lea Bertucci /TILT Brass ‘Vertical Octet’ three floor spatial sound work exhibition: Calder/Kelly

2018

Nova Guitar Duo - Scarlatti to Stella

exhibition: Frank Stella, London

2018

Maria Chavez - turntable set

exhibition: Francois Morellet & James Turrell

2018

Greg Tate & Burnt Sugar Arkestra - live, improvised score to Synapse,

exhibition Terry Adkins

2017

Alicia Hall Moran, Brandon Ross, Melvin Gibbs,

exhibition Pat Steir: Kairos

2017

Peter Evans -The Meeting of Edgar Varese and Charlie Parker exhibition: Willem De Kooning/Zao Wouki

2017 Yves Klein - Monotone-Silence Symphony, conductor Petr Kotik,

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

2016 Sandbox Percussion - works by Cage, Reich and others exhibition: Joel Shapiro

2016 Jen Shyu - Seven Breaths, Solo Rites

exhibition: Chung Sang-Hwa

2016 Jason Moran - solo piano

exhibition: DRAWING THEN: American Drawings of the Sixties

2015 Eric Hawkins Dance Company - Motherwell Amour - Lucia Dlugoslewski

exhibition: Robert Motherwell: Elegy to the Spanish Republic

Recordings (as composer and bandleader)

2025

Brett Sroka “The Imperfection Etudes” with Barış Büyükyıldırım
Actuator Records

2025
Cherubim “falling” Actuator Records

2016

Ergo “As subtle as tomorrow” Cuneiform Records

2013

Cherubim “The Joyful Shrieks of the Cherubim!” Zeromoon Records

2012

Ergo "If Not Inertia" featuring Mary Halvorson - guitar,

Cuneiform Records

2009

Ergo “Multitude, Solitude” Cuneiform Records

2006

Ergo "Quality Anatomechanical Music Since 2005" Actuator Records

2001

Brett Sroka "Hearsay" featuring Jason Moran, Avishai Cohen

Fresh Sound New Talent Records

Film Scores

2014

Shirin Neshat: Retrospective - by Sujin Lee, Museum of Modern and Contemporary, Seoul, Korea

2013

Judith Modrak: The Hive - documentary by Janice Ahn

2013

The Jerusalem Syndrome - documentary by Sohrab Pirayesh

2012

Nature Boys - comedy/drama short by Tim Young starring Ilana Glaser

2009

Worms - documentary short film by Catherine Weiss

2009

Iced Beauty - art film by Laureta Ismailej

2008

Frying Pan To The Head - dramatic short film by Catherine Weiss

• 2008 Maine International Film Festival

2007

Windows and Blinds - dramatic short film by Sohrab Pirayesh

2007

Like Snow Flakes In December - documentary short film by Ari Kaplan

2007 Space Times Square - documentary/art film by Barry Vacker

• 2009 First Person Arts Festival, Philadelphia, The Arts Bank

• 2009 Living Arts of Tulsa, New Genre Fest XVI, Tulsa, OK

• 2009 Monkey Town, New York City

• 2008 Radar Hamburg International Independent Film Festival, Hamburg

• 2008 Student Film Festival, Communication University of China, Beijing

• 2008 Cinema Du Reel Festival, Paris, Centre Pompidou

• 2008 21st Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX

• 2007 International Digital Media Arts Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Lexicon - documentary/art film by Sara Jordeno

• 2007 Surround sound installation, Muscarnok Museum, Budapest, Hungary

Education

2008 MaxMSP 1, Harvestworks, New York, NY

1999 Thelonius Monk Institute Jazz Colony, Jazz Aspen Snowmass

1997 B.M. trombone, Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY

Instruments and skills

Trombone, piano, voice,

Computer programs: Max/MSP/Jitter, Logic Pro, Reason, Pro-tools, Finale, Sibelius, Adobe Illustrator, Final Cut Pro

Selected Press

“Lévy Gorvy Gallery takes music seriously enough to retain the services of an astute cultural program curator, Brett Sroka, himself an accomplished composer and trombonist. On Sroka’s watch, the gallery has presented ambitious performances by Peter Evans, Burnt Sugar, Alicia Hall Moran, and Maria Chavez, each linked in some meaningful way to the art then on view. From conception to execution, this event was a thoroughgoing success.” - The Log (nationalsawdust.com)

"This wildly experimental electro-acoustic ensemble, led by trombonist, composer and computer maven Brett Sroka and featuring guitarist Mary Halvorson, drummer Shawn Baltazor and keyboardist Sam Harris, concocts some strangely compelling music. From the droning, Terry Riley-inspired loops of “Sorrows of the Moon” to the exquisite music-box pointillism of “Two for Joy” and the free-jazz vehicle “Little Shadow,” nothing is predictable or tame on If Not Inertia. "

Jazz Times (Bill MIlkowski)

"Ergo uniquely combined live modifications of sound with chordal materials that were deeply rooted in traditional jazz harmonic practice. The hybrid cross-genre sound focused on the lengthy, developed rhythmic and melodic lines that referred to minimalism while avoiding any obvious clichés.”

M.I.T. Computer Music Journal (Ross Feller Gambier)

"Ergo's trombonist Brett Sroka, keyboardist Carl Maguire and drummer Shawn Baltazor are all part of a generation for which Autechre and Sigur Rós are as pressing a concern as Armstrong and Sun Ra. That's certainly evident in the band's timbral sophistication, spacy contours and slinky grooves." Time Out, New York (Steve Smith)

"Trombonist Brett Sroka’s dreamy trio makes small, incremental moves sound profound, mixing together some ominous keyboard tinkle, a bit of digitally enhanced brass, and enough textural percussion to keep the whole thing fluid. Rather unique. Tonight, Sroka’s enlisted the mighty Jason Moran to handle those keys."

The Village Voice (Jim Macnie)

"Ergo offers a compelling vision of how jazz can thrive in the context of processed textures... 21st Century fusion, ya’ll — the way ahead." destination-out.com [five overlooked gems] (Jeff Golick)

"...into completely new horizons similar to nothing you've heard before... captivating, hypnotic, and attractively exotic music"

All Music Guide

"atmospheric...takes full advantage of electronic programming and cross-genre appropriation."

The New York Times

"... has lots of sound sculpture in him. His rather dramatic art music is both texturally rich and compositionally engaging."
The Village Voice

"Sroka has huge ears and catholic tastes, using these to good effect on this moody and memorable recording."
Cadence Magazine