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 – Bozzini Quartet

Michael Oesterle Daydream Mechanics V , 2001 Michael Oesterle String Quartet No.4 , 2019 * US premiere Co-commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Ana Sokolović Commedia dell'arte, excerpts , 2010-13 Bozzini Quartet Clemens Merkel, violin... Read More
Sep 20 @ Featured Featured Recurring

Rise Up: Here to Stay

The Chelsea Symphony opens its fourteenth season RISE UP with the September 20-21 concert series, “Here to Stay,” featuring pieces from the American canon: Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, the three-movement Prelude, Fugue and Riffs by... Read More
Sep 28 @ Featured Featured

Pianos, Strings, & Other Things

"Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings." - Wassily Kandinsky Composers Concordance presents 'Pianos, Strings, & Other Things' on Saturday, September 28th at 8pm at The DiMenna Center... Read More
Oct 4 @

One Piece 20th Anniversary Orchestral Tribute

Take a musical voyage to the Grand Line in salute to One Piece for its 20th anniversary! The chamber orchestra concert will feature iconic music from the series by Kohei Tanaka, Shiro Hamaguchi, and Shouko Fujibayashi. Produced and... Read More
Oct 12 @

“Telegrams” – Season 7 Opening Concert

This program showcases TAK’s newest member, clarinetist Madison Greenstone, performing "Telegrams," an 18-minute work for solo bass clarinet and bluetooth speakers by Michelle Lou. Lou, one of our commissioned composers this season, will be programmed alongside works by... Read More
Oct 17 @

Refractions

'Refractions' is a Beo String Quartet original production that showcases four unique and exciting works, each of which have a link to light and the transformation of light. Whether it be the appearance or disappearance of light, or... Read More
Oct 30 @

The New York Chamber Players in Concert

Concert of the winners of the 9th Annual Concerto Competition with Giacomo Franci Conductor of the NYCP Orchestra 1st Prize Winner - Leah Amory, Violinist 2nd Prize Winner - Chris Zandieh, Pianist 3rd Prize Winner - Sooah Jeon,... Read More
Nov 1 @ Featured Featured

Synchrony Series: Album Release Concert

Jane Ira Bloom, soprano saxophone, Ned Rothenberg, woodwinds, Julie Ferrara, oboe, James Zollar, trumpet, Ray Anderson, trombone, David Taylor, bass trombone, Min Xiao-Fen, pipa, Denman Maroney, piano, Mark Dresser, bass, Gerry Hemingway, drumset, Sarah Weaver, conductor, composer Sarah... Read More
Nov 2 @

Megalopolis: Season Opener

Molly Herron: Sun Changes (MSO Commission/World Premiere) Lucie Robert-Diessel: Doppelchor (NY Premiere) Josiah Catalan: Rift (NY Premiere) Maurice Karkoff: Sechs Albumblätter (US Premiere) Jay Schwartz: Lament (MSO Commission/World Premiere) Featuring: Briana Elyse Hunter, mezzo-soprano The MANA Quartet About... Read More
Nov 9 @

2019 Annual “Fusion” Charity Night

"To be seen, To be known" Join us to enjoy a captivating evening this year of distinguishing artworks and music presented by New York's most exciting emerging artists and musicians. "GlamOur Piano Duo", "Flute Duo by Jackie Traish... Read More
Nov 15 @

Muted Blast (.2), presented by meta.ξ

meta.ξ , a collective of Greek composers/artists/design-curators, present a concert of cutting-edge works featuring piano, electronics, double bass, and electroacousmatic music. The members of meta.ξ aim to strengthen the voice of the post-crisis generation of Greek composers, while... Read More
Nov 22 @

Kyle Simpson Chamber Orchestra Presents A Trip To the Moon

Featuring a unique audio-visual experience, award-winning composer and internationally performed artist Kyle Simpson D.M.A. and his chamber orchestra will perform live at Cary Hall. The concert will feature a live performance and screening of George Méliès’ two most... Read More
Dec 12 @

Julián De La Chica — Solo Piano

Composer & pianist Julian De La Chica returns to the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York City, to premier his new ambient/minimal Piano Cycle Op. 10 "Scenes of a Silent Movie". In this intimate, solo recital,... Read More
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

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