Performance Calendar

The New York Chamber Players Orchestra in a Concert of Contemporary Music

Part I Giacomo Franci The Plot Against You Poema Sinfonico for Violin and Dark Orchestra (World Premiere) Garry Ianco, Violinist Giacomo Franci, Conductor   Part II John Russo Three Studies for Clarinet and Orchestra (World Premiere) A Winter Sketch for Clarinet and Orchestra (World Premiere) William Popp Choros tou Kalamata for Clarinet and Orchestra (World […]

Fair Trade Season Finale

Our 2021-22 season finale, and first in-person concert in two years, will feature the exquisite pianist Alexandra Joan in Dvorak's Piano Quartet No. 2 alongside two works by brilliant young composers, Brittany J. Green and Anthony R. Green.

Music in Action: A Concert Against Gun Violence

In times of tragedy, it can be difficult to find words to express our grief, anguish, and frustration. This concert is intended to serve as a response to recent mass shootings and rising gun violence across the U.S., spoken in our universal language: music. The program centers around themes of immense loss, but also affords […]

TS 2022: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Amy Williams Telephone, 2021 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Felipe Lara Metafagote, 2015 Heller and Lewandowski Arnold Schoenberg Kammersymphonie op 9, 1906 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Todd Phillips, violin Eric Wyrick, violin Ramon Carrero-Martínez, viola Eric Bartlett, cello Gregg August, bass Elizabeth Mann, flute Gilles Cheng, oboe Roni Gal-Ed, oboe Nuno Antunes, clarinet Michael Lowenstern, […]

TS 2022: Ning Yu

Stefan Prins Piano Hero #1, 2011-12 for midi-keyboard, live electronics and video David Bird Iron Orchid, 2021* for piano and electronics * US premiere Stefan Prins Piano Hero #2, (2011, rev. 2013/2016) for midi-keyboard, grand piano, live cameras, video and live electronics Michael Beil Key Jack, 2016* for a pianist without piano with live video and […]

TS 2022: Argento New Music Project

Michael Klingbeil Tear of the Clouds, 2008 Andile Khumalo Broken Mirrors of Time, 2021* * US premiere Erin Gee Mouthpiece XI , 2009 with Erin Gee, vocal soloist Sky Macklay Microvariations, 2016-17

TS 2022: Sō Percussion

Angélica Negrón Gone, 2018 Commissioned by Andrew W. Siegel Premiered on June 22, 2018 at Caramoor Music Fesival, Katonah, New York. Written for Sō Percussion. Angélica Negrón Go Back, 2022 Written for Sō Percussion Vijay Iyer Torque, 2018 Julia Wolfe Forbidden Love, 2019 Forbidden Love was co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, The John […]

TS 2022: Ensemble Signal

Darian Donovan Thomas New Work, 2022* * world premiere Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Ensemble Signal George Lewis Seismologic, 2017 Jessen and Stine George Lewis Tales of the Traveller, 2016* * US premiere Ensemble Signal with Nicole Mitchell, flute soloist and Voyager Interactive Computer, piano Ensemble Signal Brad Lubman, conductor Paul Coleman, Sound Director Tim Munro, Flute […]

TS 2022: Yaron Deutsch

Fausto Romitelli Trash TV Trance, 2002 Pierluigi Billone Sgorgo Y, 2012* * US premiere Klaus Lang chanson lointaine et douce, 2021* * world premiere Lisa Illean Tiding I, 2021* * US premiere Avshalom Ariel All the boys forgot about you, 2018* * US premiere Yaron Deutsch Electric guitar

TS 2022: Yarn/Wire

Misato Mochizuki Le Monde des Ronds et des Carrés, 2015 Igor Santos New Work, 2022* * world premiere Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Enno Poppe/Wolfgang Heiniger Tonband, 2008/12 Yarn/Wire Laura Barger, piano Russell Greenberg, percussion Sae Hashimoto, percussion Julia Den Boer, piano Sam Torres, electronics

TS 2022: JACK Quartet

Eric Wubbels phren, 2022* * world premiere Co-commissioned by Bludenzer Tage Zeitgemäßer Musik and the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Catherine Lamb string quartet / grow (out), 2009 JACK Quartet Christopher Otto, violin Austin Wulliman, violin John Pickford Richards, viola Jay Campbell, cello

TS 2022: Bozzini Quartet

Maxime Corbeil-Perron New Work, 2022* * world premiere Co-commissioned by Bozzini Quartet and the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Simon Martin Musique d'art, 2015* * US premiere 'Musique d'art (2015)'' is a work originally conceived by "Projections libérantes'', Quebec. with Pierre-Alexandre Maranda, double bass Pierre-Alexandre Maranda double bass Bozzini Quartet Clemens Merkel, violin Alissa Cheung, violin Stéphanie Bozzini, viola Isabelle Bozzini, cello

TS 2022: Talea Ensemble

Igor Santos portrait IO, 2020* * US premiere Katherine Balch drip music, (2019, arr. 2021)* * world premiere Rebecca Saunders Skin, 2015-16* * US premiere with Juliet Fraser, soprano TALEA Ensemble James Baker, conductor Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, flute Michelle Farah, oboe Rane Moore, clarinet Erin Rogers, saxophone Nicolee Kuester, horn Sam Jones, trumpet Stephen Gosling, piano Steven Beck, piano William Schimmel, […]

International Youth Music Competitions – IYMC Prize Winners Recital 2022

International Youth Music Competitions presents the Prize Winners Recitals. Come and experience world class performances by Category Winners from around the world. IYMC is a monthly online music competition for all ages, instruments and genres. Two Recitals are scheduled at 2:00 pm and 7:00, with different performers at each recital.  

Hyaku: One Hundred Dreams

Join Pianist-Composer Satoko Fujii and Her All-Star Band for the Live Recording of her 100th album as a Leader featuring: Wadada Leo Smith and Kappa Makion, trumpet Ingrid Laubrock, saxophones Sara Schoenbeck, bassoon Ikue Mori, electronics Brandon Lopez, acoustic bass Tom Rainey and Chris Corsano, drums and percussion. Tickets $20 at the door Please note […]

We Lived Happily During the War: world premiere by Mathew Rosenblum

TALUJON and Jamie Jordon give the world premiere of Mathew Rosenblum's We Lived Happily During the War for soprano and six percussionists. Based on a poem by Ilya Kaminsky, it is also a meditation on the composer’s family history, especially his grandmother’s escape from Ukraine after the massacre in her town during the 1919 pandemic. […]

Ramin Arjomand Solo at The DiMenna Center

Iranian-American pianist and composer Ramin Amir Arjomand presents an evening-length solo improvisation. Arjomand's improvisations have drawn attention in the United States and abroad. Arjomand's work is born of a complex opposition of cross-cultural creative impulses. His long-form improvisations pursue extremes of sound intensity, pushing the limits of spontaneous thinking while seeking simultaneously, and equally intensely, […]

From Bach to Mozart: A Classical Journey, featuring Chris Martin, Principal Trumpet, New York Philharmonic FULL INSIDEOUT EXPERIENCE WITH RECEPTION

Designed for Adults: Join us for a musical journey from Bach through Haydn leading to Mozart, featuring Christopher Martin, principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic as our soloist. You will experience some of the most beautiful and expressive music ever written from your seat inside the orchestra. Following this engaging program, enjoy a reception […]

Lukas Foss Centennial Celebration: Chamber Works of 5 Decades

We celebrate composer Lukas Foss on the 100th anniversary of his birthyear with chamber works from five decades, performed by faculty of the University at Buffalo’s Department of Music. Foss was a brilliant, exploratory musician whose compositional output ranged over major trends of the 20th century. We also highlight his profound relationship with Buffalo and […]

The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, Conductor, Petr Kotik Performs The Music Of The World Renowned AACM New York City Chapter, Inc. Composers

On October 15, 2022, The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, AACM, New York City Chapter, Inc. 57 Years of Artistic Dedication presents The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, Conductor, Petr Kotik performs the music of the world renowned AACM New York City Chapter, Inc. Composers | Dr. Muhal Richard Abrams, Thurman Barker, Adegoke […]

Premiere Works XXVIII: Music From China Performs Works by Joel Hoffman, Zhou Long, Shen Yiwen, Wang Guowei, Hua Yanjun

Music From China presents the 28th season of contemporary Chinese music featuring premieres of commissioned works and music composed for Chinese and Western instruments. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT DOOR ONLY ON DAY OF CONCERT. $20 for general admission $10 for students/seniors PROGRAM JOEL HOFFMAN: huǒ shénhuà/Fire Myth** (world premiere) for dizi, pipa, erhu, cello, vibraphone SHEN […]

Jessie Cox and the Sun Ra Arkestra

On November 5th Jessie Cox and the Sun Ra Arkestra present a new work, commissioned by the Paul Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. Doors open at 7pm with the first live screening of a film of Jessie Cox’s opera “As A Song of A World,” which was directed […]

BACH Brandenburg Concerti LIVE at DiMenna NYC

Pegasus: The Orchestra celebrates its Fifth Season with Bach's magnificent Brandenburg Concerti No. 4 and No. 5 and Vivaldi Trio Sonata. Join us for this special evening focused on some of the most innovative Baroque masterpieces held in an intimate setting of DiMenna Center in NYC. Soloists Eiko Kano, violin and Kaori Fujii, flute will […]

Experiential Orchestra and ChamberMusicNY present An Evening with Curtis Stewart Featuring the music of Perkinson, Perry, and Stewart

Curtis Stewart, one of the most penetrating artists of his generation, joins Experiential Orchestra and Grammy®-winning conductor James Blachly as guest artist and curator in a concert that features the New York premiere of Julia Perry's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, in a new edition by Roger Zahab. Perry's music has seen increased attention in […]

New Music by 5 Georgian Composers

Save the date! Join us to hear New Music by 5 brilliant composers from the republic of Georgia. Performed by world class musicians and filled with diverse program, this event is sure to please every art enthusiast. Welcoming reception will give you a chance to meet and chat with the extraordinary composers; Dato Chkuaseli, Koki […]

Mosaic Composers Collective: DEBUT

Mosaic Composers Collective, featuring Kevin Arthur Jr., Aidan Arbona, Naamia Rivera, Murphy Severtson, Alexa Letourneau, and Ashtyn Brown, is a gathering of composers in pursuit of an intimate – yet fearless – sound exploration of humanity’s many colorful spheres. Centered in curiosity, the Collective strives to create and curate that which challenges the world around […]

PinkNoise Presents: Systema naturae by Mauro Lanza and Andrea Valle

Join us for our most ambitious project yet as PinkNoise presents the North American premiere of the epic four-part cycle Systema naturae for instruments and electromechanical devices by Andrea Valle and Mauro Lanza. The work is inspired by Carl Linnaeus's book of the same title, which through his pioneering work on zoological nomenclature, sought to […]

PRISM Quartet Meets Bang on a Can

The intrepid PRISM Quartet (saxophones) presents a portrait of Bang on a Can‘s visionary co-founders/co-artistic directors in an all-saxophone program featuring the premiere of “in a delirium” by Michael Gordon alongside performances of “Cha” by Julia Wolfe and “Revolutionary Etudes” by David Lang. After performing Lang’s work and subsequently commissioning Wolfe in 2015, PRISM now […]

Pei-Chun Liao & Chih-Long Hu Piano Recital

PROGRAM Schubert: Fantasy in F Minor for piano duet, D940 Schubert/Liszt: Ständchen, Der Müller und der Bach, Die Forelle Messiaen: Cantéyodjayâ Percy Grainger: Fantasy on George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess for two pianos

Greece & Art Song: In Myth and Tradition

Winner of the 2022 Federation of the Art Song Fellowship Competition, the London-based voice/piano duo of Jared Michaud and Christina Koti will perform a recital of art songs influenced by Greek traditions and culture by Greek and non-Greek composers alike. With songs in Greek, French, German, Russian, and English by composers such as Schubert, Ravel, […]

Ramin Arjomand Solo

Pianist and composer Ramin Amir Arjomand's improvisations have drawn attention in the United States and abroad. Arjomand's work is born of a complex opposition of cross-cultural creative impulses. His long-form improvisations pursue extremes of sound intensity, pushing the limits of spontaneous thinking while seeking simultaneously, and equally intensely, a compositional unity characteristic of fully-notated music. […]

Rachmaninoff | Hakobyan & Antonov | piano and cello

2007 international Tchaikovsky competition gold medalist Sergey Antonov and pianist Karén Hakobyan play Rachmaninoff’s beloved sonata for piano and cello, as well as works by Arutiunian, Piazzolla, and Davidoff. Please join us for this beautiful program in the comfortable intimacy and superb acoustic of the DiMenna Center's Cary Hall.

Past Events

Fantastyka (Sci-fi)

Ukrainian contributions to Sci-fi will be placed in dialogue with other traditions as Solomiya Moroz’s world premiere commission is paired with a new arrangement of Taylor Brook’s Star Maker Fragments, based on British author Olaf Stapledon’s novel. Rounding out the... READ MORE

Emanations

Laura Cocks and Jeff Siegfried explore boundaries and emergence in works by Nicholas Cline, Santiago Diez-Fisher, Anthony R. Green, Tiffany M. Skidmore, Franco Venturini, and Alyssa Weinberg.

Ramin Arjomand Solo

Iranian-American pianist-composer Ramin Arjomand's work is born of a complex interplay of cross-cultural creative impulses. His long-form improvisations reach extremes of sound intensity, pushing limits of spontaneous thinking while seeking simultaneously, and equally intensely, a compositional unity characteristic of fully-notated... READ MORE

Three Concerti

The North/South Chamber Orchestra performs three concertos for strings by Max Lifchitz, the ensemble’s founder and director. Featured soloists are Dylan Hamme on violin, Colin Brookes on viola, and Sam DeCaprio on cello. Admission is Free, but reservations are required.... READ MORE

Benjamin Hochman Piano Recital

Winner of Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Career Grant, pianist and conductor Benjamin Hochman celebrates Valentine's Day with Romantic showpieces and modern discoveries.

Nocturnes and Nightmares: Music of the Night

Widely acclaimed as a performer and teacher, the Bachauer Gold Medalist Stephen Beus performs a solo piano concert focused on music of the night, including pieces by Amy Beach and Franz Liszt, and Nikolai Medtner’s haunting “Night Wind” Sonata.