MuseConnect, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is proud to present its opening gala concert at The DiMenna Center in 2018! This concert features renowned musicians Lan-In Winnie Yang, Kevin Shue, Max Tan, Tzuyi Chen, Julia Kang, and Jordan Bak. At MuseConnect, our Board Chair Pauline Huang, Music Director Lan-In Winnie Yang, Program Director Kevin Shue, Marketing […]
Khari Joyner and friends invites you to join for an exciting evening of music for a the live release of Cel=Locomotion, his debut solo album recently released. You will hear music from around the world and from the baroque era through the 21st century, which includes recently released and unpublished works by Joyner, PetrolMusic and […]
New Focus Recordings celebrates the release of Unraveling Beethoven, the exceptional new album from violinist Nicholas DiEugenio and pianist Mimi Solomon. Unraveling Beethoven ushers Beethoven into the 21st century, with unique sensibilities to complement and transform his timeless violin sonatas with new works created by visionary composers Tonia Ko, David Kirkland Garner, Jesse Jones, Robert […]
RAM's opening program of the 2018-19 season, “Modern Americana,” celebrates quintessential American sounds from this century and last. In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s centennial, RAM clarinetist Thomas Piercy and guest pianist Karén Hakobyan will perform his Sonata for clarinet and piano, a work reflecting his youthful enthusiasm. Ned Rorem’s 95th birthday will also be celebrated […]
We're celebrating the release of our second album, Wired, on New Focus Recordings! With musical inspiration ranging from Aphex Twin to electronic dance music, Wired is a portrait of technology's integration into modern life. As people try to emulate computers and we build computers that emulate people, the question of who is controlling whom becomes […]
Please join us for a an intimate evening of chamber music with the Brentano Quartet in celebration of our 10th Anniversary! Funds raised will support Lyra Music Workshop students and programming as we enrich lives and build community through classical music. 6:00PM Cocktails and Hors d'oeuvres 7:00PM Lyra Workshop Student, Ari Freed 7:15PM Brentano Quartet […]
The Ear - a composer duel. Think ‘The Voice’ for composers, but way rowdier. Nuttier. Cheering in the middle of the music. Heckling the emcee. Drinking. Voting for the pieces you want to hear again. Six composers vie for your affection in this irreverent classical reboot. Dress up with style and attitude and get ready […]
Composers Concordance presents 'Estonian Connections’. Featuring flute soloists Maarika Järvi and Monika Mattiesen, pianist Mark Kostabi with the CompCord String Orchestra, Arkady Leytush – conductor. Performing compositions by Estonian composers: Juri Reinvere,Tuulikki Bartosik, Kristjan Jarvi, Mark Kostabi and Heino Eller. As well as music inspired by Estonian culture composed by: Gene Pritsker, Charles Coleman, Dan […]
NY Jazz Composers' Mosaic is happy to announce that its first concert will be held at this beautiful venue The DiMenna Center in Midtown West, Manhattan, NYC. Founded by three New York-based composers, Jihye Lee (South Korea), Rafael Piccolotto de Lima (Brazil) and Migiwa Miyajima (Japan), the Composers' Mosaic produces events that connect cultures from […]
iconiQ The Soundtrack Orchestra presents the history of American animation through music and song. The nostalgic scores and lively themes from classic Hanna-Barbera, Disney, Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon series will be performed by a chamber pop orchestra accompanied by live projection.
Contemporary works by composer Sarah Weaver. "Sound in Peace (2016)" Joe McPhee, multiple instruments, Sarah Weaver, electronics. "Symmetry of Presence (2018)" David Taylor, bass trombone, electronics, Sarah Weaver, electronics. "Fountain of Synthesis (2018)" Jane Ira Bloom, soprano saxophone, Yoon Sun Choi, voice, Julie Ferrara, oboe, english horn, Joe McPhee, multiple instruments, Ned Rothenberg, woodwinds, Min […]
The PRISM Quartet joins forces with Miguel Zenón and Susie Ibarra in a wide-ranging program for saxophones and percussion. Zenón and PRISM perform works by Chris Potter, Matthew Levy, and Zenón himself from the Quartet’s Heritage/Evolution project. H/E draws on the saxophone’s cross-cultural heritage to blend jazz with everything from Western and South Indian classical […]
Talujon Percussion performs recent works by the dynamic and groundbreaking composers of the Wet Ink collective in an evening of immersive sound. At the center of the program is Sam Pluta’s Four Sixes, an eighteen minute work in which the performers surround the audience, enveloping them in a process that develops inexorably from sparse attacks to […]
Immerse your children in music and astronomy. You and your child will take your seat inside a full symphony orchestra and experience Gustav Holst's The Planets as you never have. Not only will you hear, see and feel the music unfold around you sitting with the musicians inside the orchestra, but you will be treated to […]
Fasten your seat belts for an interstellar ride sitting INSIDE a full symphony orchestra experiencing Gustav Holst's intergalactic tone poem "The Planets" and Ligeti's evocative "Atmosphères". We are joined in this InsideOut Concerts immersive orchestral experience by Dr. Jacqueline Faherty — senior scientist and astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden […]
Wet Ink's debut program of works for piano trio, featuring a new set-length trio by Eric Wubbels (piano) written over an extended period of close collaboration for Josh Modney (violin) and Mariel Roberts (cello). Eric Wubbels's new work combines a microscopic attention to tuning with the austerity and simplicity of Medieval music, following complexes of […]
JACK Quartet plays music by current doctoral composition students at Columbia University Pieces by: Katherine Balch Jessie Cox Saad Haddad Uri Kochavi Shih-Wei Lo
NowNet Arts Festival 2019 February 17, 2019 2:00pm EST and 7:00pm EST New York, Chicago, London, Toronto, Zurich NowNet Arts Festival is an annual curated event featuring premieres of contemporary network arts works by multiple artists for the NowNet Arts Ensemble and collaborating groups. The works are performed live via the internet by artists in […]
With a libretto using nature writings from Henry David Thoreau's journal, spoken by commissioning ensemble, the Akros Percussion Collective, and Thoreau's political writings, sung by celebrated Italian-American soprano Stacey Mastrian, this opera celebrates the life and continued relevance of Henry David Thoreau, composed in 2017, the bi-centennial of his birth. With nature texts selected in […]
PARMA Recordings presents an immersive program of contemporary works for string quartet, performed by the internationally acclaimed Sirius Quartet. The conservatory-trained Sirius Quartet shines with precision, soul, and raw energy, championing a forward-thinking, genre-defying approach that melds perfectly with the works of six visionary composers: Brian Field, Ian Erickson, Jennifer Castellano, Marga Richter, Mari Tamaki, […]
Join us for a CD Release Recital by the pianist Anna Shelest presenting her new album Donna Voce. Works by Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Cecile Chaminade, Lili Boulanger, and Chia-Yu Hsu. The performance will last approximately one hour and without intermission. Cocktail reception and CD signing to follow.
Ekmeles is a vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance of new and rarely-heard works, and gems of the historical avant garde. New York is home to a vibrant instrumental New Music scene, with a relative paucity of vocal music. Ekmeles was founded to fill the gap by presenting new a cappella repertoire for solo voices, […]
Sat, March 9th at The DiMenna Center 8pm (Doors open at 7:30pm) Tickets - $17 ($15 at door) Duo Noire Program - Mary Kouyoumdjian: Byblos Ray Lustig: Figments: 7E Clarice Assad: Hocus Pocus I. Abracadabra! II. Shamans III. Klutzy Witches Quince Ensemble Program - Jennifer Jolley: Prisoner of Conscience (NY Premiere) Maja Linderoth: Connected (NY […]
The game's afoot! A giant is dead, and his body lies at the base of a great beanstalk. The police believe young Jack is responsible. But the boy insists that he's innocent, and begs the help of the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his colleague, Dr. Watson. Can they untangle this magical mystery? Experience the next stage in the development […]
In this installment of NYFOS NEXT—the moveable modern song salon from the "indefatigable art-song devotees" (The New Yorker) at New York Festival of Song, Pulitzer Prize finalist and Guggenheim fellow Kate Soper curates a program that explores the wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice when combined with electronics. Featuring voice and tape works by […]
The Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra's fourth concert of the season features three commissions and a performance by the Cobalt Quartet. Alongside a new work by the MSO's Composer-in-Residence, Niki Harlafti, the ensemble will present music by Lara Poe and a new arrangement by Michael Brinzer. Cobalt will present Jeremy Rapaport-Stein's prize-winning work from the MSO's Call […]
Praised by the New York Times for their "imaginative programming," and the Washington Post for their "captivating performances," the award-winning Aizuri Quartet (www.aizuriquartet.com) comes to DiMenna Center with 'Intricate Machines,' a program of string quartets composed in the last five years by some of America's most exciting young composers, including Nina C. Young, Sky Macklay, […]
On Saturday April 6th, at 7pm, Kettle Corn New Music presents piano duo HereNowHear in a concert of premieres by Loren Loiacono, Emily Cooley, and Walter Zimmermann, with Luciano Berio, Steven Stucky, and George Crumb's epic masterwork, Celestial Mechanics" (Makrokosmos Book IV) completing the evening. Founded in 2016, HereNowHear consists of pianists Ryan MacEvoy McCullough […]
This concert, titled “Artists' Journey,” underscores ICOA’s core values: innovative performance, storytelling, and cultural confluence. The concert will feature Vitali’s Chaconne with French violinist Virgil Boutellis-Taft in his ICOA debut and immersive classical music experience that brings the audience inside the orchestra. “Artists' Journey” traces the internal struggle of an artist through varied repertoire spanning […]
Talea Ensemble is celebrating its 10th anniversary season with an evening of music. Over the course of the evening, musicians of Talea perform defining works from the ensemble's first 10 seasons and celebrate what's to come. The program kicks off with Talea playing “Talea” by Gérard Grisey. Other highlights include a world premiere by Hans […]
Chinese pianist Xiying Zou will be displaying her mixture of incredible virtuosity and emotionally charged playing. She will present pieces by Granados, Frank Bridge, Beethoven and Yann Tiersen.
Hypercube presents the US premiere of Eric Wubbels’ Voided Cross (for Michael Heizer) a high-intensity, 45-minute work that saturates the boundaries of space, ear, room, and conscious attention. Scored for saxophone, electric guitar, piano/accordion/synth, and percussion, Hypercube pushes the limits of sound and execution in bringing this work to life, bridging electronic and acoustic worlds. […]
The Pit Stop Players presents the world premiere of legendary Broadway orchestrator Jonathan Tunick's "Serenade for Strings," the world premiere of Joshua Rosenblum's "Einstein¹s Dreams Concert Suite," and the American premiere of Kevin Lau's "Illumination," a double concerto for piano, percussion, and strings, with soloists Garah Landes and Greg Landes. Also on the program: incandescent […]
For their season finale, the Fair Trade Trio will be presenting the world premiere of Alon Nechushtan‘s Fractured Fairy Tales, a work dedicated to the Fair Trade Trio, along with Beethoven's String Trio, Op. 9, No. 1. The trio will join forces with pianist Taisiya Pushkar for Schumann’s Piano Quartet to round out their 2018/19 […]
KHORIKOS is excited to announce three new forthcoming albums of choral music which we know and love dearly. We're excited to share Joy and Grief and Rest -- a collection of some of our favorite works for a cappella vocal ensemble -- as well as Josquin des Prez's under-recorded motet cycle "Vultum Tuum Deprecabuntur," AND […]
LOST DOG NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE marks the Finale of the Leonard Bernstein Centennial in New York City, with the world premiere of new orchestrations of Bernstein's ballet scores 'Dybbuk' and 'Fancy Free'. Fancy Free (1944), about three sailors on leave in New York City during World War II, is a sparkling touchstone of Bernstein's jazzy, […]
