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 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
Apr 8 @

Ramin Arjomand Solo at The DiMenna Center

Iranian-American pianist and composer Ramin Amir Arjomand presents an evening-length solo improvisation. 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 limits of spontaneous thinking... Read More
May 22 @

Fair Trade Season Finale

Our 2021-22 season finale, and first in-person concert in two years, will feature the exquisite pianist Alexandra Joan in Dvorak's Piano Quartet No. 2 alongside two works by brilliant young composers, Brittany J. Green and Anthony R. Green.
Jul 28 @

Music in Action: A Concert Against Gun Violence

In times of tragedy, it can be difficult to find words to express our grief, anguish, and frustration. This concert is intended to serve as a response to recent mass shootings and rising gun violence across the U.S.,... Read More
Aug 13 @

TS 2022: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Amy Williams Telephone, 2021 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Felipe Lara Metafagote, 2015 Heller and Lewandowski Arnold Schoenberg Kammersymphonie op 9, 1906 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Todd Phillips, violin Eric Wyrick, violin Ramon Carrero-Martínez, viola Eric Bartlett, cello... Read More
Aug 14 @

TS 2022: Ning Yu

Stefan Prins Piano Hero #1, 2011-12 for midi-keyboard, live electronics and video David Bird Iron Orchid, 2021* for piano and electronics * US premiere Stefan Prins Piano Hero #2, (2011, rev. 2013/2016) for midi-keyboard, grand piano, live cameras, video... Read More
Aug 16 @

TS 2022: Argento New Music Project

Michael Klingbeil Tear of the Clouds, 2008 Andile Khumalo Broken Mirrors of Time, 2021* * US premiere Erin Gee Mouthpiece XI , 2009 with Erin Gee, vocal soloist Sky Macklay Microvariations, 2016-17
Aug 17 @

TS 2022: Sō Percussion

Angélica Negrón Gone, 2018 Commissioned by Andrew W. Siegel Premiered on June 22, 2018 at Caramoor Music Fesival, Katonah, New York. Written for Sō Percussion. Angélica Negrón Go Back, 2022 Written for Sō Percussion Vijay Iyer Torque, 2018... Read More
Aug 19 @

TS 2022: Ensemble Signal

Darian Donovan Thomas New Work, 2022* * world premiere Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Ensemble Signal George Lewis Seismologic, 2017 Jessen and Stine George Lewis Tales of the Traveller, 2016* * US premiere Ensemble Signal with Nicole... Read More
Aug 22 @

TS 2022: Yaron Deutsch

Fausto Romitelli Trash TV Trance, 2002 Pierluigi Billone Sgorgo Y, 2012* * US premiere Klaus Lang chanson lointaine et douce, 2021* * world premiere Lisa Illean Tiding I, 2021* * US premiere Avshalom Ariel All the boys forgot about you, 2018*... Read More
Aug 24 @

TS 2022: Yarn/Wire

Misato Mochizuki Le Monde des Ronds et des Carrés, 2015 Igor Santos New Work, 2022* * world premiere Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Enno Poppe/Wolfgang Heiniger Tonband, 2008/12 Yarn/Wire Laura Barger, piano Russell Greenberg, percussion Sae Hashimoto, percussion... Read More
Aug 25 @

TS 2022: JACK Quartet

Eric Wubbels phren, 2022* * world premiere Co-commissioned by Bludenzer Tage Zeitgemäßer Musik and the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Catherine Lamb string quartet / grow (out), 2009 JACK Quartet Christopher Otto, violin Austin Wulliman, violin John Pickford Richards, viola Jay... Read More
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

Past Events

“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 presentation of... READ MORE

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