Performance Calendar

PRISM Quartet with Rudresh Mahanthappa

Tonight’s 8:30 show at DiMenna Center has been **CANCELLED** due to unforeseen circumstances. All tickets pre-purchased and otherwise will be fully refunded! We deeply apologize and hope to see you at our next event. The 6pm SHOWCASE Concert at the CMA Conference is still happening! Please come if you are attending!! We’d love to see […]

MuseConnect presents Meet the Master Series

MuseConnect is delighted to start its new season with “Meet The Master Series”, presenting a masterclass and a concert of violinist William Wei, laureate of the prestigious 2015 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition, and joined by MuseConnect's music director/pianist Dr. Winnie Yang on the second half to perform a violin/piano duo concert. Program includes William […]

The NYCP Orchestra celebrates Beethoven’s Anniversary

Program: Beethoven Piano Concerto no.1 in C Maj. Giacomo Franci Pianist/Conductor, Schubert Rondo for Violin and Strings Mei Mei Wei Violinist, Beethoven Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Maj. Lily Ye Violinist, Mei Mei Wei is the mother of Lily Ye. Both are coming from Shanghai, China for this memorable event. Mei Mei is […]

Johannes Brahms — Contrarian and Advocate of Love

Academic Festival Overture, op. 80, arranged for two pianos & eight hands Sixteen Waltzes, op. 39b, for piano duet Haydn Variations, op. 56b, for two pianos Quintet in F minor, op. 34b, arranged for two pianos Chih-Long Hu, Chu-Fang Huang, Shijun Wang, Xiao-Feng Wu, & Alvin Zhu, piano

NYFOS Next: Director’s Choice

New York Festival of Song has a storied history of commissioning and premiering vocal works, and since its founding, the organization has particularly celebrated American song. Hosted and curated by Michael Barrett, NYFOS’s co-founder, Associate Artistic Director, and co-pianist, this program looks back at some of the beautiful songs NYFOS has helped bring to the […]

A Salute to Our Lost Youth — Stephen Beus & Xiao-Feng Wu in Recital

Alessandro Marcello (1669-1747): Adagio from Oboe Concerto (arr. J.S. Bach, BWV 974) Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849): Introduction and Rondo, op. 16; Barcarolle, op. 60 Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915): Piano Sonata no. 4 in F-sharp major, op. 30 Xiao-Feng Wu   Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951): Piano Sonata in F Minor, op. 5 Samuel Barber (1910-1981): Piano Sonata in E-flat […]

Recurring

Tales of Hopper

Tales of Hopper is the fruit of a collaboration between choreographer Cherylyn Lavagnino and composer Martin Bresnick inspired by the work of American painter Edward Hopper. This theater-dance work casts the dancers as figures plucked from selected Hopper paintings, illuminating human connections through gestural movement steeped in subtext, as Bresnick’s original composition for piano, violin, […]

OPEN REHEARSAL: The Carnival of the Animals and the Zoo

CN Philharmonic is pleased to announce our 2019 - 2020 3rd Season, OPEN REHEARSAL of Spring Educational Concert. Led by Maestro David Jeong, CN Philharmonic will perform Saint-Saens The Carnival of the Animals, Copland Appalachian Spring for 13 instruments, and Jeong The Zoo (world premiere). Children and adults of all ages are welcome to attend. […]

The Carnival of the Animals and the Zoo

CN Philharmonic is pleased to announce our 2019 - 2020  3rd Season, Spring Educational Concert. Led by Maestro David Jeong, CN Philharmonic will perform Saint-Saens The Carnival of the Animals, Copland Appalachian Spring for 13 instruments, and Jeong The Zoo (world premiere). Children and adults of all ages are welcome to attend. Tickets available online […]

MWE Winter Concert – Onward and Upward

A sonic journey through a myriad of musical emotional expression. This concert is full of music that will bring out some intense emotions at times, yet at other times it becomes very playful. This concert is another thrilling event that you don't want to miss! Repertoire: Variations on America - Charles Ives The Ash Grove […]

PARMA Recordings Presents Division of Memory

Join GRAMMY nominated Cuban-American cellist Tommy Mesa for an evening of music at the DiMenna Center in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. Accompanied by pianist Yoon Lee, Special Prize winner of the Anton G. Rubinstein International Piano Competition, Mesa will be performing both classic and modern works. This eclectic program showcases both Mesa and Lee's […]

The NYCP Orchestra in a live streaming Concert

We present 4 enormously talented winners of the 10th Annual Concerto Competition from 13 to 16 years old. As a thank you for the suggested donation of $30, we will send you the link and password to attend this live virtual concert Program is rich and diverse and the talent is world class Giacomo Franci, […]

TIME:SPANS 2021 // EMPAC Wave Field Synthesis Array Showcase

3-D Compositions by Miya Masaoka • Nina C. Young • Bora Yoon • Pamela Z Co-Presented by TIME:SPANS and The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute EMPAC Showcase of commissioned works by Miya Masaoka, Bora Yoon, and Pamela Z and a new work by Nina C. Young […]

TIME:SPANS 2021 // Taylor Brook ‘Virtutes Occultae’

PROGRAM Taylor Brook Virtutes Occultae, (2016-2020) microtonal music for 6 keyboards Performers Laura Barger Julia Den Boer Thomas Feng Isabelle O’Connell Cory Smythe Ning Yu Commissioned by the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust

TIME:SPANS 2021 // JACK Quartet

PROGRAM Eduardo Aguilar HYPER (2021)* Khyam Allami New Work (2021)* inti figgis-vizueta patterns in non-linear time (2021)* Brittany J. Green New Work (2021)* *World premiere

TIME:SPANS 2021 // Wet Ink Ensemble

PROGRAM Ben Lamar Gay New Work (2021)* Alex Mincek New Work (2021)* Mariel Roberts New Work (2021)* Sam Pluta New Work (2021)* *World Premiere All new works commissioned by the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust.

TIME:SPANS 2021 // Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo

Amy Williams 10 Microludes for György Kurtág, a selection, 2015-2017* Marcos Balter, Hang (2017) Amy Williams, In the Shadows (2017) Jason Eckardt, Toll (2017) Katharina Rosenberger, Bogen (2017) Philippe Manoury, G for K (2016) Carola Bauckholt, When they go low we go high (2017) Caspar Johannes Walter, Spiel mit dem Unendlichen (2016) Peter Eötvös, O […]

TIME:SPANS 2021 // Talea Ensemble, Tony Arnold

Catherine Lamb parallaxis forma, 2016 for voice and ensemble with Tony Arnold, soprano Sarah Hennies New Work, 2021* * World premiere Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Oscar Bettison La Arqueología del Neón, 2021* * World premiere Commissioned by the Talea Ensemble and made possible by a grant from the Fromm Music Foundation TALEA Ensemble

TIME:SPANS 2021 // Yarn/Wire

Andrew McIntosh Little Jimmy, 2020* Wolfgang Heiniger Neumond, 2018* Zosha Di Castri Tachitipo, 2016 * World premiere Yarn/Wire Ian Antonio, percussion Laura Barger, piano Russell Greenberg, percussion Ning Yu, piano

TIME:SPANS 2021 // Seth Parker Woods + Pierre Alexandre Tremblay

George E. Lewis Not Alone, 2014-15 Fredrick Gifford Difficult Grace, 2019 Monty Adkins Winter Tendrils, 2014/2020 Nathalie Joachim The Race: 1915, 2019 Ryan Carter Default Mode Network, 2019 Freida Abtan My Heart Is a River, 2020 Pierre Alexandre Tremblay asinglewordisnotenough 3 , 2015 Seth Parker Woods, cello Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, electronics

TIME:SPANS 2021 // Anthony Cheung

Anthony Cheung All Roads, 2018 Gilles Vonsattel, piano Spektral Quartet Anthony Cheung Elective Memory, 2015 Anthony Cheung, piano Miranda Cuckson, violin Anthony Cheung The Real Book of Fake Tunes, 2015 Claire Chase, flute Spektral Quartet Spektral Quartet Maeve Feinberg, violin Clara Lyon, violin Doyle Armbrust, viola Russell Rolen, cello

Heritage/Evolution Marathon: PRISM Quartet featuring Melissa Aldana, Chris Potter, Rudresh Mahanthappa, and Terell Stafford

The intrepid PRISM Quartet celebrates the release of its new album, Heritage/Evolution, Volume 2 with a marathon concert at NYC’s DiMenna Center featuring sax giants Chris Potter and Rudresh Mahanthappa performing compositions from the album by Potter and PRISM’s own Matthew Levy. But that’s not all. PRISM also launches the third phase of its Heritage/Evolution […]

Welcome Back Family and Friends Chamber Concert

Friends and Family is a chamber concert that features American Composers Orchestra (ACO) musicians performing works by a broad array of composers, many of whom are near and dear to the orchestra. PROGRAM STEVEN GERBER: Five Greek Folksongs (after Ravel) AUGUSTA GROSS: Towards Night ALVIN SINGLETON: Argoru VIII KAREN LEFRAK: Daybreak; When MELINDA WAGNER: Unsung […]

New Canons

PROGRAM RAQUEL ACEVEDO KLEIN: Polyphonic Interlace RAY LUSTIG: Latency Canons CHRIS KALLMYER: All Possible Music PAULINE OLIVEROS: Environmental Dialogue TREVOR NEW: Cohere 15’ (ACO commission, world premiere) We usually try to ignore latency (the delay between live sound and transmitted sound) in virtual concerts...but what if it's an integral part of the music? Join American Composers Orchestra […]

The New York Chamber Players Orchestra in Concert

The New York Chamber Players is one of New York City's finest chamber orchestra. One of our missions is to support the very best of youth classical musicians. The Concert will be on Saturday October 23rd at 8 pm at Cary Hall –DiMenna Center (450 W.37th St. NYC). It’s possible to attend this Concert in […]

Contemporary Narratives: New Works for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano

The NYC Contemporary Music Symposium presents the Zodiac Trio in a musical journey through six bold, contemporary works for clarinet, violin, and piano.  Heralded by Radio France as "A breathtaking ensemble of virtuosity and sensitivity," the Zodiac Trio has established itself as the leading international trio of its kind. Join us for an evening of […]

A Lady from Silk Road

Lucina Yue plays GUZHENG and KONGHOU 3 New KONGHOU pieces with world premieres 3 GUZHENG Classical piece Composers Anlun Huang Yuzhai Zhao Yuguo Zhou Sam Wu Tian Tian Masatora Goya This event is free of charge. No kids, no food and drink. Building will check ID and Vaccine Card.

Marilyn Shrude 75th Birthday Celebration Concert

Lost Dog presents an all-star concert, featuring three of New York's most dynamic new music ensembles, in celebration of the 75th birthday of distinguished American composer Marilyn Shrude. Including performances of: LOST DOG NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE Sotto Voce (2012) A Window Always Open on the Sea (1990) Within the Wall (2018; 2021) *WORLD PREMIERE OF […]

Strange Tales: Works by Wang Lu, inti figgis-vizueta, Alvin Lucier

Join Talea for a free, immersive program featuring the world premiere featuring inti figgis-vizueta's 'Primavera crown,' Alvin Lucier's 'Music for Cello & One or More Amplified Vases,' and the world premiere of Wang Lu's 'November Airs.' Inspired loosely by the ancient Chinese mythological anthology, "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio," Wang Lu's "November Airs" explores […]

Concert of New Commissions and Premieres

Ensemble Ipse is delighted to present this concert of four new commissions by acclaimed composers Peter Apfelbaum, Aruán Ortiz, Kirsten Broberg, and Ursula Kwong-Brown, and a world premiere by the late composer James Sellars. PROGRAM: Peter Apfelbaum, new work, IPSE COMMISSION & WORLD PREMIERE Aruán Ortiz, new work, IPSE COMMISSION & WORLD PREMIERE Kirsten Broberg, […]

Ramin Arjomand Solo at The DiMenna Center

Iranian-American pianist and composer Ramin Amir Arjomand presents an evening-length solo improvisation. 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. Their sound structure draws […]

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.