Performance Calendar

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.

Jan 23 @

PRISM Quartet Meets Bang on a Can

The intrepid PRISM Quartet (saxophones) presents a portrait of Bang on a Can‘s visionary co-founders/co-artistic directors in an all-saxophone program featuring the premiere of “in a delirium” by Michael Gordon alongside performances of “Cha” by Julia Wolfe and... Read More
Jan 28 @

Pei-Chun Liao & Chih-Long Hu Piano Recital

PROGRAM Schubert: Fantasy in F Minor for piano duet, D940 Schubert/Liszt: Ständchen, Der Müller und der Bach, Die Forelle Messiaen: Cantéyodjayâ Percy Grainger: Fantasy on George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess for two pianos
Feb 17 @

Greece & Art Song: In Myth and Tradition

Winner of the 2022 Federation of the Art Song Fellowship Competition, the London-based voice/piano duo of Jared Michaud and Christina Koti will perform a recital of art songs influenced by Greek traditions and culture by Greek and non-Greek... Read More
Feb 24 @

Ramin Arjomand Solo

Pianist and composer Ramin Amir Arjomand's improvisations have drawn attention in the United States and abroad. 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... Read More
Mar 14 @

Rachmaninoff | Hakobyan & Antonov | piano and cello

2007 international Tchaikovsky competition gold medalist Sergey Antonov and pianist Karén Hakobyan play Rachmaninoff’s beloved sonata for piano and cello, as well as works by Arutiunian, Piazzolla, and Davidoff. Please join us for this beautiful program in the... Read More
Mar 28 @

Written for Talea

Talea Ensemble presents the world premieres of new works by Louis Karchin, Tyshawn Sorey, and Anthony Cheung.
Apr 4 @

Mahler in New York

Through carefully chosen excerpts from works of forthcoming music, film, and literature, Argento explores the last years of Mahler’s life (1907–1911), during which he survived devastating personal crises, lived in New York City and conducted the New York... Read More
Apr 18 @

Herding Cats

Argento produces and a performs a New York concert with friends and collaborators from the Baltimore-based icarus Quartet. This concert features two world premieres and the music of composers from five continents: Lang Chen, Amy Beth Kirsten, Marcos... Read More
Apr 27 @

The New York Chamber Players Orchestra in Concert

Come join us for the performance of the majestic Brahms Piano Concerto 1 with Giacomo Franci, Pianist, and Paolo Scibilia, Conductor. In the second part Giacomo Franci will conduct several solo and orchestra pieces featuring 4 extremely talented... Read More
May 19 @

Composer’s Voice featuring Chatterton-McCright Duo

Composer's Voice returns to the concert arena featuring the Chatterton-McCright Duo. Flutist Linda Chatterton and pianist Matthew McCright are champions of new music and dedicated to the empowerment of living composers and their works. This new hybrid performance... Read More
May 25 @

The World Premiere of Live Forever

Philippe Treuille will premiere his first flute concerto, Live Forever, featuring flute soloist Daniela Mars, and First Dimension Ensemble, conducted by Jean-Pierre Schmitt. The concert will also feature two other compositions by Treuille, Tessellations and Rejuvenation in Red.... Read More
Jun 6 @

Sorrel Hays Rediscovered

The North/South Symphony Orchestra and the NY Virtuoso Singers under the direction of Max Lifchitz premieres four works by the late American composer Doris Hays. Contralto Kirsten Sollek, and pianist Huizi Zhang will appear as soloists. Reserve a... Read More
Sep 8 @

Bergamot Quartet – Best in Score

Tribeca New Music is thrilled to present the Bergamot Quartet - Best in Score 2023. This concert will feature new and recent works including Arcade by Charles Peck who won first prize in the TNM 2023 Young Composer... Read More
Sep 9 @

Cantata No. 1: An Island Seen and Felt

Jonathon Crompton's genre-defying new work for two sopranos, string quartet, alto saxophone, and electric guitar receives its world premiere. Cantata No. 1: An Island Seen and Felt marks a distinct evolution of Crompton's compositional practice, which is rooted... Read More

Past Events

PIAZZOLLA100 FEST: Cuartetango & Guests

PIAZZOLLA100 Festival's opening night is a unique multidisciplinary program featuring 2xLatin GRAMMY nominated Cuartetango string quartet with GRAMMY-winner Rodolfo Zanetti on bandoneon, instrumental, vocal and dance repertoire from Gardel and Le Pera to Piazzolla. This special evening concludes with "The... READ MORE

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, intimate performance,... READ MORE

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 U.S. border.... READ MORE

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 New York... READ MORE

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 video projection,... READ MORE

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 Reynolds. The... READ MORE