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.

Aug 26 @

TS 2022: Bozzini Quartet

Maxime Corbeil-Perron New Work, 2022* * world premiere Co-commissioned by Bozzini Quartet and the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Simon Martin Musique d'art, 2015* * US premiere 'Musique d'art (2015)'' is a work originally conceived by "Projections libérantes'', Quebec.... Read More
Aug 27 @

TS 2022: Talea Ensemble

Igor Santos portrait IO, 2020* * US premiere Katherine Balch drip music, (2019, arr. 2021)* * world premiere Rebecca Saunders Skin, 2015-16* * US premiere with Juliet Fraser, soprano TALEA Ensemble James Baker, conductor Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, flute Michelle Farah, oboe Rane Moore, clarinet... Read More
Sep 20 @

Hyaku: One Hundred Dreams

Join Pianist-Composer Satoko Fujii and Her All-Star Band for the Live Recording of her 100th album as a Leader featuring: Wadada Leo Smith and Kappa Makion, trumpet Ingrid Laubrock, saxophones Sara Schoenbeck, bassoon Ikue Mori, electronics Brandon Lopez,... Read More
Sep 30 @

Ramin Arjomand Solo at The DiMenna Center

Iranian-American pianist and composer Ramin Amir Arjomand presents an evening-length solo improvisation. 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... Read More
Nov 5 @

Jessie Cox and the Sun Ra Arkestra

On November 5th Jessie Cox and the Sun Ra Arkestra present a new work, commissioned by the Paul Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. Doors open at 7pm with the first live... Read More
Nov 15 @

BACH Brandenburg Concerti LIVE at DiMenna NYC

Pegasus: The Orchestra celebrates its Fifth Season with Bach's magnificent Brandenburg Concerti No. 4 and No. 5 and Vivaldi Trio Sonata. Join us for this special evening focused on some of the most innovative Baroque masterpieces held in... Read More
Dec 9 @

New Music by 5 Georgian Composers

Save the date! Join us to hear New Music by 5 brilliant composers from the republic of Georgia. Performed by world class musicians and filled with diverse program, this event is sure to please every art enthusiast. Welcoming... Read More
Dec 16 @

Mosaic Composers Collective: DEBUT

Mosaic Composers Collective, featuring Kevin Arthur Jr., Aidan Arbona, Naamia Rivera, Murphy Severtson, Alexa Letourneau, and Ashtyn Brown, is a gathering of composers in pursuit of an intimate – yet fearless – sound exploration of humanity’s many colorful... Read More
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

Past Events

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 Director Wangshu... READ MORE

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 casualties.  At... READ MORE

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 ZongYun We,... READ MORE

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, and Paula... READ MORE