Performance Calendar

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, […]

Expanding on his program “Haydn Dialogues,” which has been presented by Lincoln Center and the Verbier Festival, Pedja Mužijević presents a program of keyboard works by Bach interspersed with spoken word and contemporary piano works by emerging composers David Fulmer and James Joslin  in the intimate setting of Cary Hall at The DiMenna Center for […]

French harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations in an immersive concert experience with special lighting designed by Burke Brown.

If you think the toy piano is just an toy instrument for kids to play, think again! Pianist Huizi Zhang and composer-pianist Gu Wei will present an evening of contemporary music featuring pieces by Phyllis Chen, Jun An Chew, Daniel Despins, Chris Parrello, Yuting Tan, and Gu Wei. Join us and prepare to be enchanted […]

As part of Orchestra of St. Luke's 2019 DeGaetano Composition Institute, Jacob Greenberg performs a solo piano recital dedicated to the piano works of the late Robert DeGaetano.

The 2019 DeGaetano Composition Institute culminates in the world premieres of four works for chamber orchestra developed over the course of the Institute and performed by Orchestra of St. Luke’s conducted by Ben Gernon.

New York Jazz Composers’ Mosaic returns to the DiMenna Center’s Carry Hall after their well-received first show last December. 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 around the world through jazz. We believe jazz […]

FREE Event, (Walk-ins are welcome, but you will be limited to one hour on your own with headphones, credit cards will be kept on file to ensure safe return of devices.) FREE Guided Tours with Christina Kubisch (reservations required) except on August 17 and 18 for a maximum of 10 participants per group Daily Guided […]

HIDDEN , 2014 For string quartet and electronics JACK Quartet Christopher Otto, violin Austin Wulliman, violin John Pickford Richards, viola Jay Campbell, cello IRCAM engineers IRCAM Computer Music Production, Serge Lemouton IRCAM Sound Engineer, Sylvain Cadars TIME:SPANS Sound Engineer, Caley Monahon-Ward Concert will be approximately one hour.

Marina Rosenfeld Deathstar Reduction , 2017-19 * World premiere Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Yarn/Wire + Marino Formenti, piano Marina Rosenfeld My Body , 2019 * World premiere Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Yarn/Wire + Marina Rosenfeld, objects Marino Formenti Yarn/Wire Russell Greenberg, percussion Ian Antonio, percussion […]

Enno Poppe Fleisch , 2017 * US premiere Mark Barden witness. , 2012 * * US premiere INTERMISSION Chaya Czernowin Sahaf , 2017 Oliver Thurley Who's veil remains inscrutable , 2014 * US premiere Stefan Prins Fremdkoerper #2 , 2010 * US premiere NIKEL Brian Archinal, percussion Yaron Deutsch, electric guitar Antoine Françoise, piano and […]

Outer Space – together with L’Arrivée (1997/1998) and Dreamwork (2001) – is part of Tscherkassky’s “CinemaScope Trilogy,” which draws on fragments of Hollywood films. It utilizes footage from The Entity (S. J. Furie, 1981), a psychological horror film, in which the female protagonist is pursued by an invisible ghost. Simon Løffler Dream Work , 2018 […]

AFTER EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC Two Tables Olivia Block October 26th, 1984 Raven Chacon solo AFTER EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC is co-curated by Thomas Fichter and Ben Piekut. concert will be approximately one hour and thirty minutes

AFTER EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC Okkyung Lee "once upon a time, we used to share this same light…" , 2019 * World premiere Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Okkyung Lee, composer/performer/sound design Chris Corsano and Ches Smith, drums Ganavya Doraiswamy and Sara Serpa, voices Maeve Gilchrist, harp Caley Monahon-Ward, electronics AFTER EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC […]

AFTER EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC Matana Roberts I call america , 2019 * World premiere Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Matana Roberts, composer/performer Jaimie Branch, trumpet Matt Lavelle, bass clarinet and pocket trumpet Maria Grand, tenor saxophone Geng/King Vision Ultra, wordspeak and sampler Roberto C. Lange, wordspeak/electronics Tomas Fujiwara, drums International Contemporary Ensemble […]

AFTER EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC Opener: Bent Duo (Bill Solomon, percussion; David Friend, piano) perform Sarah Hennies Unsettle, 2018, (30 min) INTERMISSION Deerhoof In All Languages: Deerhoof Plays Hits of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s Deerhoof John Dieterich, guitar Satomi Matsuzaki, voice/bass guitar Ed Rodriguez, guitar Greg Saunier, drums Deron Pulley, sound design Caley Monahon-Ward, […]

Michael Oesterle Daydream Mechanics V , 2001 Michael Oesterle String Quartet No.4 , 2019 * US premiere Co-commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Ana Sokolović Commedia dell'arte, excerpts , 2010-13 Bozzini Quartet Clemens Merkel, violin Alissa Cheung, violin Stéphanie Bozzini, viola Isabelle Bozzini, cello Concert will be approximately one hour and fifteen […]