Performance Calendar

2017 TIME SPANS CONCERTS III: JACK Quartet

2017 TIME SPANS CONCERTS III: JACK Quartet As part of the 2017 TIME SPANS Festival, JACK Quartet presents the New York premiere of John Luther Adams' Everything That Rises (2017). The 2017 TIME SPANS Festival is presented by The Earle Brown Music Foundation.

2017 TIME SPANS CONCERTS IV: QUATOUR BOZZINI

As part of the 2017 TIME SPANS Festival, Quatour Bozzini presents a concert of works by Jürg Frey - Unhörbare Zeit (2004-06) and String Quartet 3 (2010-2014).  Bozzini’s CD featuring these two masterpieces has already become a critically acclaimed recording. TIME SPANS brings the music live to New York City. The 2017 TIME SPANS Festival […]

2017 TIME SPANS CONCERTS V: Talea Ensemble

2017 TIME SPANS CONCERTS V: Talea Ensemble As part of the 2017 TIME SPANS Festival, Talea Ensemble presents the US premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas' Hyena with Mollena Lee Williams-Haas as storyteller. The 2017 TIME SPANS Festival is presented by The Earle Brown Music Foundation.

SEA CHANGE Season Opener

The Chelsea Symphony is thrilled to return to The DiMenna Center for Classical Music for the opening series of its twelfth season, SEA CHANGE, featuring music inspired by the natural world. This season showcases compelling works with a focus on nature and environmental stewardship.   TCS welcomes back soloist Phil Rashkin to the stage as […]

SEA CHANGE Season Opener

The Chelsea Symphony is thrilled to return to The DiMenna Center for Classical Music for the opening series of its twelfth season, SEA CHANGE, featuring music inspired by the natural world. This season showcases compelling works with a focus on nature and environmental stewardship.   Violist Elise Frawley returns to the TCS stage as the […]

The DiMenna Center Benefit

An evening of music, cocktails, and conversation to benefit The DiMenna Center for Classical Music Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce, mezzo-soprano superstar Joyce DiDonato, jazz trumpeter and vocalist Bria Skonberg, and Maestro Rob Fisher share the stage for one night only at an intimate benefit event for The DiMenna Center for Classical Music on Monday, September 18. Guests will […]

New Morse Code: Simplicity Itself Album Release Show

This concert event celebrates the release of “Simplicity Itself,” a debut offering from New Morse Code (Hannah Collins, cello; Michael Compitello, percussion) on New Focus Recordings.  New Morse Code will perform works by composers featured on the album including Tonia Ko, Paul Kerekes, Caroline Shaw, and Robert Honstein, and will welcome special guests Thomas Kotcheff […]

Steven Mackey and Jason Treuting Album Release Concert featuring So Percussion

Join composer-guitarist Steven Mackey and composer-percussionist Jason Treuting to celebrate the release of their first collaborative album, Orpheus Unsung, on New Amsterdam Records. Door at 7:30. The "smart and dazzling" (Village Voice) quartet So Percussion (of which Treuting is a member) will take part in the festivities as well, performing in sections of Orpheus Unsung, […]

Pegasus: The Orchestra – Debut Concert

The principal string players of Pegasus: The Orchestra – with founder, conductor, and acclaimed pianist Karén Hakobyan – present their season opener and debut performance with a unique program that takes us from the traditional to the innovative, displaying their dexterity and enthusiasm. The program begins with the world premiere of Hakobyan’s spiritually uplifting, complex […]

Folk Tunes

We invite you to join the Talea Ensemble for an all American program of new and recent works, including Shawn Jaeger’s “The Cold Pane” (2013), Ben Johnston’s String Quartet #4 “Amazing Grace” (1973), and Christopher Trapani’s “Waterlines” (2005/2012). Tonight’s composers hail from Georgia, Louisiana, and Kentucky, and although their works weave together a variety of […]

FUSE

On October 21st, at 7:30 p.m. Benzaquen Hall, composers from the USA and Italy will gather to create a concert that fuses acoustic and electronic music with film.  Internationally acclaimed guitarist Nando Di Modugno, flutist Linda Wetherill, and pianist Markus Kaitila will weave their talents with the newest qualities of electronic music and film.  The […]

A Transatlantic Something (Pritsker, Cooper, Burlas, Matej)

A Transatlantic Something is a program comprised of works by American composers Gene Pritsker and Dan Cooper, and by a duo of leading Slovak contemporary composers, Daniel Matej and Martin Burlas. It presents the current sound of contemporary music from both sides of the Atlantic. While Pritsker and Cooper are among the most prolific composers […]

The Classical Saxophone Project: Happy Birthday, Mr. Sax!

CSP celebrates the 203rd birthday of Adophe Sax, the father of the saxophone. Students of Western Connecticut State University will perform, in small and large ensembles, a diverse array of music featuring the entire saxophone family of instruments!

Phibbs and Friends

A celebration of music for multiple french horns, featuring the works of Milton Phibbs, with original compositions and arrangements by other New York artists. A wide variety of selections from over five centuries of musical styles. Free Admission, Reception to follow.

Off the Map: Emissary Quartet

Emissary Quartet believes that the creative possibilities of flute quartet are unexplored and underdeveloped. “Off the Map” celebrates the winning compositions of EQ’s international Call for Scores, part of our ongoing efforts to expand the flute quartet repertoire. The program features new masterworks by winning composers Karina Baras, Sung-Hyun Yun, and Kai-Young Chan. Paired with […]

SONG INSTALLATION (MECHANICAL INSTRUMENTS BY NICK YULMAN)

For the opening night of the Uncaged Toy Piano Festival, Nick Yulman will fill the DiMenna Center’s Benzaquen Hall with  'Song Installation', an array of digitally controlled mechanical instruments, creating an immersive listening environment for listeners to explore. These musical automata will accompany disembodied voices emanating from radios, and perform a musical program that ranges […]

ALL TOY IN C

We start off this 9th season of UnCaged with an all-inclusive performance of Terry Riley’s iconic work In C. For a typical uncagean twist, In C will be performed entirely on toy instruments!  In C is a minimalist masterpiece composed by Riley in 1964 for an indefinite number of performers which uses a mosaic of […]

NYC Debut: The Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra

After a successful debut in Massachusetts, the Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra (MSO) is thrilled to present their NYC debut at the DiMenna Center's Cary Hall. This concert will include the world premiere of a new work by Jesse Limbacher, as well as the NYC premiere of Alex Burtzos's "Megalopolis" and Stephen Dankner's Symphony for Saxophone Chamber […]

JOSÉ MAURÍCIO NUNES GARCIA TRIBUTE, NYC

This program features José Maurício Nunes Garcia’s Solo pieces for Harpsichord played by Prof. Mário Trilha, Phd at Universidade do Estado do Amazonas and a Multimedia work: José Maurício: Epiphany 250 by Composer Angelica Faria inspired by Garcia’s Work, performed by Orquestra Brasileira de Arte, Cultura e História - OBACH, from Brazil. José Maurício: Epiphany […]

JOSÉ MAURÍCIO NUNES GARCIA TRIBUTE, NYC

This program features José Maurício Nunes Garcia’s Solo pieces for Harpsichord played by Prof. Mário Trilha, Phd at Universidade do Estado do Amazonas and a Multimedia work: José Maurício: Epiphany 250 by Composer Angelica Faria inspired by Garcia’s Work, performed by Orquestra Brasileira de Arte, Cultura e História - OBACH, from Brazil. José Maurício: Epiphany […]

Interhere: Sarah Weaver Ensemble with Mark Dresser, Solo Bass

“Interhere” is an evening of two contemporary compositions by Sarah Weaver based on concepts of networked spaces. “Polydimensional Transformation” (2016) is a work for solo bass, dedicated to bassist Mark Dresser. The music incorporates Dresser’s unique approach to harmonics and expresses an accumulation of inner networked spaces, multiple states of material, and transformation over time. […]

Benefit Concert for the Puerto Piano 2018

Pianist and faculty member of the Puerto Rico International Piano Festival gives a recital to benefit the 2018 edition of the festival. He will perform works by Medtner, Scriabin and Mussorgsky. 

$30

ISCM Presents All of the Above playing SMALDONE and KNEHANS

The League ISCM is proud to sponsor emerging virtuoso sextet ALL OF THE ABOVE in a moving and visceral program of new works by American composers Edward Smaldone and Douglas Knehans. All of the Above is a contemporary chamber group devoted to creating unique and innovative musical experiences by collaborating with composers and challenging the […]

Solo Piano Jazz, NY Concert III

Pianist and composer of the award-winning solo piano album Solo: Live in New York, internationally acclaimed jazz pianist Takeshi Asai, is back in New York for a series of solo piano concerts. Acclaimed for his trio works, such as the French Trio and the New York Trio, Takeshi’s solo works are no less popular and […]

Szuyin and Her Ensembles

The concert consists by Russian Composers, Scriabin, Stravinsky and Arensky. Szuyin will be the pianist playing throughout the concert. The program includes Scriabin Prelude Op.11 No.15 in D-flat Major, Stravinsky The Rite of Spring for four hands version, and Arensky Piano trio No.1 in D minor, Op.32.

The Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra: New Works Series

Hailed as an ensemble of "impeccable technique and inspired interpretation" by composer Stephen Dankner, the Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra will present the fourth and final concert of their New Works Series. Featuring works by: Werner Wolf Glaser (NYC Premiere) Edvard Grieg Gleb Kanasevich (MSO Commission and NYC Premiere) Nima Janmohammadi (MSO Commission and NYC Premiere)

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LEEDS INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION 2018 FIRST ROUND

For the first time in its long history, the Leeds International Piano Competition comes to New York for the First Round. Since its beginnings in 1963, ‘The Leeds’ has discovered the world’s most exciting pianistic talent and has brought the artistry and technical brilliance of young pianists to audiences for more than 50 years. Past […]

Color Theory 2.0: Saxophones and Percussion

New location/time Christ & St. Stephen's Church 120 West 69th Street New York, NY 10023 June 03, 2018 at 3:00 PM The PRISM Quartet presents Color Theory 2.0 following the 2017 release of the group’s critically acclaimed COLOR THEORY album with So Percussion and Partch. Color Theory 2.0 spotlights Susie Ibarra and Tyshawn Sorey, groundbreaking […]