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.

Dec 21 @

A Winter Solstice Celebration

The Independent Promoters Alliance invites you to join us for a musical winter solstice celebration! Mars Williams Presents An Ayler Xmas, with Mars Williams; Nels Cline; Steve Swell; Chris Corsano; Hilliard Greene; and Fred Lonberg-Holm. Saxophonist Mars Williams... Read More
Jan 6 @ Featured Featured January 6, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - January 8, 2020 @ 5:00 pm

Broken Silence

Erin  Rogers (tenor saxophone), Kristen McKeon (alto saxophone), Dan Joseph, Dev Ray and Alex Lahoski (ebow steel string acoustic guitars) and Craig Shepard (speaker) present music supporting listeners to engage with text drawn from court testimony connected with the... Read More
Jan 17 @ Featured Featured Recurring

songSLAM Festival

The Global Platform Dedicated to Art Song Presents its Flagship songSLAM Festival January 17 – 18 at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall in New York City. The second annual festival includes a songSLAM hosted by... Read More
Jan 17 @

PRISM Quartet with Rudresh Mahanthappa

Tonight’s 8:30 show at DiMenna Center has been **CANCELLED** due to unforeseen circumstances. All tickets pre-purchased and otherwise will be fully refunded! We deeply apologize and hope to see you at our next event. The 6pm SHOWCASE Concert... Read More
Feb 7 @

MuseConnect presents Meet the Master Series

MuseConnect is delighted to start its new season with “Meet The Master Series”, presenting a masterclass and a concert of violinist William Wei, laureate of the prestigious 2015 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition, and joined by MuseConnect's music... Read More
Feb 13 @

NYFOS Next: Director’s Choice

New York Festival of Song has a storied history of commissioning and premiering vocal works, and since its founding, the organization has particularly celebrated American song. Hosted and curated by Michael Barrett, NYFOS’s co-founder, Associate Artistic Director, and... Read More
Feb 25 @ Recurring

Tales of Hopper

Tales of Hopper is the fruit of a collaboration between choreographer Cherylyn Lavagnino and composer Martin Bresnick inspired by the work of American painter Edward Hopper. This theater-dance work casts the dancers as figures plucked from selected Hopper... Read More
Feb 29 @

The Carnival of the Animals and the Zoo

CN Philharmonic is pleased to announce our 2019 - 2020  3rd Season, Spring Educational Concert. Led by Maestro David Jeong, CN Philharmonic will perform Saint-Saens The Carnival of the Animals, Copland Appalachian Spring for 13 instruments, and Jeong... Read More
Mar 7 @

MWE Winter Concert – Onward and Upward

A sonic journey through a myriad of musical emotional expression. This concert is full of music that will bring out some intense emotions at times, yet at other times it becomes very playful. This concert is another thrilling... Read More
Mar 19 @

PARMA Recordings Presents Division of Memory

Join GRAMMY nominated Cuban-American cellist Tommy Mesa for an evening of music at the DiMenna Center in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. Accompanied by pianist Yoon Lee, Special Prize winner of the Anton G. Rubinstein International Piano Competition,... Read More
Aug 12 @ August 12, 2021 - August 16, 2021

TIME:SPANS 2021 // EMPAC Wave Field Synthesis Array Showcase

3-D Compositions by Miya Masaoka • Nina C. Young • Bora Yoon • Pamela Z Co-Presented by TIME:SPANS and The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute EMPAC Showcase of commissioned... Read More
Aug 17 @

TIME:SPANS 2021 // Taylor Brook ‘Virtutes Occultae’

PROGRAM Taylor Brook Virtutes Occultae, (2016-2020) microtonal music for 6 keyboards Performers Laura Barger Julia Den Boer Thomas Feng Isabelle O’Connell Cory Smythe Ning Yu Commissioned by the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust
Aug 19 @

TIME:SPANS 2021 // JACK Quartet

PROGRAM Eduardo Aguilar HYPER (2021)* Khyam Allami New Work (2021)* inti figgis-vizueta patterns in non-linear time (2021)* Brittany J. Green New Work (2021)* *World premiere
Aug 20 @

TIME:SPANS 2021 // Wet Ink Ensemble

PROGRAM Ben Lamar Gay New Work (2021)* Alex Mincek New Work (2021)* Mariel Roberts New Work (2021)* Sam Pluta New Work (2021)* *World Premiere All new works commissioned by the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust.
Aug 21 @

TIME:SPANS 2021 // Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo

Amy Williams 10 Microludes for György Kurtág, a selection, 2015-2017* Marcos Balter, Hang (2017) Amy Williams, In the Shadows (2017) Jason Eckardt, Toll (2017) Katharina Rosenberger, Bogen (2017) Philippe Manoury, G for K (2016) Carola Bauckholt, When they... Read More
Aug 23 @

TIME:SPANS 2021 // Talea Ensemble, Tony Arnold

Catherine Lamb parallaxis forma, 2016 for voice and ensemble with Tony Arnold, soprano Sarah Hennies New Work, 2021* * World premiere Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Oscar Bettison La Arqueología del Neón, 2021* * World premiere Commissioned... Read More
Aug 24 @

TIME:SPANS 2021 // Yarn/Wire

Andrew McIntosh Little Jimmy, 2020* Wolfgang Heiniger Neumond, 2018* Zosha Di Castri Tachitipo, 2016 * World premiere Yarn/Wire Ian Antonio, percussion Laura Barger, piano Russell Greenberg, percussion Ning Yu, piano
Aug 27 @

TIME:SPANS 2021 // Anthony Cheung

Anthony Cheung All Roads, 2018 Gilles Vonsattel, piano Spektral Quartet Anthony Cheung Elective Memory, 2015 Anthony Cheung, piano Miranda Cuckson, violin Anthony Cheung The Real Book of Fake Tunes, 2015 Claire Chase, flute Spektral Quartet Spektral Quartet Maeve Feinberg, violin Clara Lyon, violin Doyle... Read More
Sep 28 @

Welcome Back Family and Friends Chamber Concert

Friends and Family is a chamber concert that features American Composers Orchestra (ACO) musicians performing works by a broad array of composers, many of whom are near and dear to the orchestra. PROGRAM STEVEN GERBER: Five Greek Folksongs... Read More
Oct 23 @

New Canons

PROGRAM RAQUEL ACEVEDO KLEIN: Polyphonic Interlace RAY LUSTIG: Latency Canons CHRIS KALLMYER: All Possible Music PAULINE OLIVEROS: Environmental Dialogue TREVOR NEW: Cohere 15’ (ACO commission, world premiere) We usually try to ignore latency (the delay between live sound and transmitted... Read More
Oct 31 @

A Lady from Silk Road

Lucina Yue plays GUZHENG and KONGHOU 3 New KONGHOU pieces with world premieres 3 GUZHENG Classical piece Composers Anlun Huang Yuzhai Zhao Yuguo Zhou Sam Wu Tian Tian Masatora Goya This event is free of charge. No kids,... Read More
Dec 2 @

Marilyn Shrude 75th Birthday Celebration Concert

Lost Dog presents an all-star concert, featuring three of New York's most dynamic new music ensembles, in celebration of the 75th birthday of distinguished American composer Marilyn Shrude. Including performances of: LOST DOG NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE Sotto Voce... Read More
Dec 19 @

Concert of New Commissions and Premieres

Ensemble Ipse is delighted to present this concert of four new commissions by acclaimed composers Peter Apfelbaum, Aruán Ortiz, Kirsten Broberg, and Ursula Kwong-Brown, and a world premiere by the late composer James Sellars. PROGRAM: Peter Apfelbaum, new... Read More

Past Events

The NowBeat Concert

This in-person event will feature performances of works by The NowBeat Project's Composer-Mentors, as well as the world premiere of a string quartet by the recipient of The NowBeat Commission, Zachary Jarvis (2023 Cycle Alumnus). All of these compositions will... READ MORE

Celestial Music by Hidayat Husain Khan

Please join us in experiencing the music of Hidayat Husain Khan. A direct descendant and proponent of one of the most treasured lineages of Eastern classical music and the youngest son of the legendary Ustad Vilayat Khan, Hidayat Husain Khan... READ MORE

Upon Reflection: An Opera in Ten Images

This chamber opera with lush projections by composer Frances White and librettist/photographer Wendy Steiner features soprano Sherezade Panthaki and the members of Parthenia: Lawrence Lipnik on recorders; Beverly Au, Rosamund Morley, and Lisa Terry on viols. The setting is a... READ MORE

Upon Reflection: An Opera in Ten Images

This chamber opera with lush projections by composer Frances White and librettist/photographer Wendy Steiner features soprano Sherezade Panthaki and the members of Parthenia: Lawrence Lipnik on recorders; Beverly Au, Rosamund Morley, and Lisa Terry on viols. The setting is a... READ MORE

Piano Recital

Laurence Cummings, will present a recital dedicated to his late father, Chris. “My dad taught me to play piano when I was very young. Forging a connection to the instrument happens over a long stretch of time on many different... READ MORE

Moments

The complete culmination of works written and arranged by David “Cestari” Chung for his upcoming album “In A Moment”, “Moments” is a story of reflection and maturity. Throughout his epic, sounds of music of all genres collide: Jazz, classical, RnB,... READ MORE