Feb 7 @
36 events found.
Please note, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music does not provide ticketing for the events at its location. To inquire about tickets to an event, please see the individual event for contact information.
Feb 13 @
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”... Read More
Feb 14 @
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.
Feb 20 @
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... Read More
Feb 22 @
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... Read More
Mar 7 @
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.
Mar 13 @
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... Read More
Mar 14 @
Sunü Quartet: Winter Concert
Sunü Quartet presents our debut winter concert, showcasing both the origins and hidden gems of the piano quartet repertoire. Our program features Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G Minor and Mendelssohn’s Piano Quartet in B Minor, alongside other ensemble... Read More
Mar 14 @
FROM KONTRAKTOVA SQUARE
In the 19th century, the Contracts House on Kyiv’s Kontraktova Square was not only a trading space but contained a concert hall where many of the era’s musical and literary luminaries performed their works. From Kontraktova Square recreates... Read More
Mar 15 @
UKRAINIAN TONE POEMS
Celebrating its sixth season, UCMF 2025 “Letters and Notes” is inspired by Ukraine’s rich literary tradition, featuring Ukrainian and North American composers influenced by both Ukrainian and world literature. The final evening will present instrumental works inspired by... Read More
Mar 20 @
What Is American: Rhythm Nation
What Is American: Rhythm Nation is the next issue in PUBLIQuartet's What Is American series, a GRAMMY®-nominated album and touring project. This second volume features and celebrates American rhythmic traditions as expressions of bodily autonomy and tacit history-keeping.... Read More
Mar 22 @
In the Presence of Absence
This concert consists of three newly composed solo works: "How quiet - at the bottom of the lake, peaks of clouds" for solo violin, performed by Marina Kifferstein; "Zinnia" for solo percussion, performed by Ellery Trafford; and "Stillness... Read More
Mar 27 @
Barcelona-New York Connection
The North/South Chamber Orchestra, directed by Max Lifchitz, performs vocal and instrumental music by Anna Cazurra from Barcelona and New York-based Stefania de Kenessey. Soloists include mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna, pianists Alvar Rubio and Donna Weng Friedman, and narrator... Read More
Mar 29 @
The New Manila Envelope
panSonus presents the world premiere of composer Max Vinetz’s "The New Manila Envelope", an evening-length song cycle for soprano, percussion, and electronics. Fluidly combining voice, percussion, theater, and electronics, "The New Manila Envelope" explores the intersections of memory,... Read More
Apr 11 @
Stony Brook Premieres!
Contemporary Chamber Players Directed by Eduardo Leandro Join us on April 10th (Staller Center Recital Hall) and April 11th (DiMenna Center for Classical Music, NYC) to hear four new premieres by John Fitz Rogers, Earl Maneein, Mark Nowakowski,... Read More
Apr 11 @
Labyrinth: new works for solo cello and community
Labyrinth, a program by cellist Thea Mesirow, centers on textures and sounds that exist between silence and fullness to create a shared close resonance. There will be two new pieces written for solo cello by Maya Bennardo and... Read More
Apr 12 @
Sarah Weaver Ensemble: Transmission Series
Contemporary Solo, Chamber, Large Ensemble pieces by Sarah Weaver (composer/conductor) and collaborations.
Apr 20 @
Lisgar CI Spring Music
Lisgar Collegiate Institute, a high school for grades 9 to 12, was established in 1874. The music program began in 1918 with the orchestra being formed to raise the spirits of students from the daily news of WWI... Read More
Apr 22 @
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Schumann, and Beethoven
Join the Westside Chamber Players for an exciting evening of music, featuring orchestral works by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel and Beethoven, alongside Schumann's Cello Concerto at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall. Julius Akira Mauldin, Conductor and Artistic... Read More
Apr 23 @
How to Become an Idea: Christopher Otto plays Samuel Clay Birmaher
This concert presents the world premieres of two works for solo violin by Samuel Clay Birmaher that attempt to recall the experience of existence before life. Both pieces were written for Christopher Otto—a founding member of the JACK... Read More
Apr 25 @
“scars plummet to the corners”
"music of introverted intensity" - The New Yorker "[the] evening’s high point ... tender to tough to chillingly still and mysterious ... magical" - San Francisco Classical Voice Written during the height of the Covid pandemic, a complete... Read More
Apr 26 @
Schumann’s Dilemmas: New Voices, New Answers
Pianist David Kaplan joins Argento to present seven modern composers and their response to Schumann's Musical Enigmas.
Apr 29 @
Soprano Saxophone and String Quartet
Soprano Saxophone and String Quartet delves into the intricacies of contemporary chamber music, featuring saxophonist Shivam Patel, pianist Karl Larson, and string quartet. Works by Mark Kuss and Scott Lindroth offer a glimpse into nuanced compositional worlds, while... Read More
May 3 @
Karl Kilb IV
Karl Kilb IV performs a collection of his original compositions for solo piano and a piano trio. Doors Open: 6:30 PM Start: 7:00 PM Karl Kilb IV, piano Victoria Lin, cello Priscilla Tam, violin
May 9 @
The Serious and The Absurd
Is there a distinction between the two? Ensemble Fantasque presents works from the Renaissance era until today, encompassing more than five centuries worth of music. Music in this concert embodies the serious, emotional, ridiculous and the bizarre, along... Read More
May 13 @
Weinberg, Ustvolskaya, Klein
The second of the concerts, on May 13th at the Dimenna Center, will include two American premieres of works of the great composer, who has only recently been rediscovered, Mieczysław Weinberg: his Clarinet Concerto op. 104 and his... Read More
May 16 @
On Circe: An Opera featuring Azalea Twining
This hour-long opera retells the myth of the Greek goddess Circe. Best known for transforming men into animals, Circe, in this libretto is found interrogating immortality, and lamenting her exile to a small island, while simultaneously manifesting herself... Read More
May 17 @
Destined Light
Introducing light beat — Paul on piano, Miwha on cello. We’re sharing something close to our hearts: Destined Light — a concert shaped by memory, connection, and light, featuring works by Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Fauré. We’re performing... Read More
May 20 @
The Colors of Spring
The North/South Chamber Orchestra, directed by Max Lifchitz, brings to life five recent works by living composers. Music by Cathy Kuo, Alexandro Rodriguez, Judith Shatin, Liliya Ugay, and Manjing Zhang will be heard in New York for the... Read More
May 22 @
Anthems of Dialogue
BETA Quartet has been endorsed to premiere three (3) new commissioning works for the 2024-2025 Anthems of Dialogue initiative. This innovative project features works by narrative-driven composer, pedagogue, and flutist Erin Spencer, DownBeat® Magazine Award Winner and saxophonist... Read More
May 22 @
Through Depths and Shadows: Orchestral Visions of Now
On Thursday, May 22nd, 2025, at 7:30 PM in the DiMenna Center's Cary Hall, the League of Composers/ISCM presents a concert of innovative and expressive new works featuring premieres by Justin Weiss, Pamela Madsen, Paul Salerni, and Roger... Read More
May 23 @
DramaEtMusica
DramaEtMusica is an interdisciplinary performance series curated by Chen Shuhe Yue, showcasing experimental music theater, intermedia performance, and cross-genre collaboration. This event features a dynamic lineup, including a participatory dance performance, an electronic live set, amplified balloons with... Read More
May 25 @
Ekmeles: moveable frames
Ekmeles performs a program of new microtonal works, anchored by the world premiere of Catherine Lamb's moveable frames, commissioned by Ekmeles with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. Other new works will be given their... Read More
May 31 @
We Crossed the River: A Multimedia Chamber Opera
WE CROSSED THE RIVER is a multi-media collaboration between Dominican-American novelist Angie Cruz (author of Let It Rain Coffee, Soledad, and the widely acclaimed Dominicana) and composer Eric Moe about the detention of children in camps at the... Read More
Jun 7 @
La Nuit de la Musique Française
Sonéa Music Association presents its inaugural concert, La Nuit de la Musique Française. Music Director Hansol Seok leads Ensemble Sonéa in an enchanting journey through captivating French classical works by Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc, and Roussel. Experience this unique,... Read More
Jun 12 @
