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Immerse your children in music and astronomy. You and your child will take your seat inside a full symphony orchestra and experience Gustav Holst's The Planets as you never have. Not only will you hear, see and feel the... Read More
Fasten your seat belts for an interstellar ride sitting INSIDE a full symphony orchestra experiencing Gustav Holst's intergalactic tone poem "The Planets" and Ligeti's evocative "Atmosphères". We are joined in this InsideOut Concerts immersive orchestral experience by Dr.... Read More
Wet Ink's debut program of works for piano trio, featuring a new set-length trio by Eric Wubbels (piano) written over an extended period of close collaboration for Josh Modney (violin) and Mariel Roberts (cello). Eric Wubbels's new work... Read More
JACK Quartet plays music by current doctoral composition students at Columbia University Pieces by: Katherine Balch Jessie Cox Saad Haddad Uri Kochavi Shih-Wei Lo
NowNet Arts Festival 2019 February 17, 2019 2:00pm EST and 7:00pm EST New York, Chicago, London, Toronto, Zurich NowNet Arts Festival is an annual curated event featuring premieres of contemporary network arts works by multiple artists for the... Read More
With a libretto using nature writings from Henry David Thoreau's journal, spoken by commissioning ensemble, the Akros Percussion Collective, and Thoreau's political writings, sung by celebrated Italian-American soprano Stacey Mastrian, this opera celebrates the life and continued relevance... Read More
PARMA Recordings presents an immersive program of contemporary works for string quartet, performed by the internationally acclaimed Sirius Quartet. The conservatory-trained Sirius Quartet shines with precision, soul, and raw energy, championing a forward-thinking, genre-defying approach that melds perfectly... Read More
Join us for a CD Release Recital by the pianist Anna Shelest presenting her new album Donna Voce. Works by Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Cecile Chaminade, Lili Boulanger, and Chia-Yu Hsu. The performance will last approximately... Read More
Ekmeles is a vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance of new and rarely-heard works, and gems of the historical avant garde. New York is home to a vibrant instrumental New Music scene, with a relative paucity of vocal... Read More
Sat, March 9th at The DiMenna Center 8pm (Doors open at 7:30pm) Tickets - $17 ($15 at door) Duo Noire Program - Mary Kouyoumdjian: Byblos Ray Lustig: Figments: 7E Clarice Assad: Hocus Pocus I. Abracadabra! II. Shamans III.... Read More
The game's afoot! A giant is dead, and his body lies at the base of a great beanstalk. The police believe young Jack is responsible. But the boy insists that he's innocent, and begs the help of the great detective Sherlock Holmes... Read More
In this installment of NYFOS NEXT—the moveable modern song salon from the "indefatigable art-song devotees" (The New Yorker) at New York Festival of Song, Pulitzer Prize finalist and Guggenheim fellow Kate Soper curates a program that explores the... Read More
The Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra's fourth concert of the season features three commissions and a performance by the Cobalt Quartet. Alongside a new work by the MSO's Composer-in-Residence, Niki Harlafti, the ensemble will present music by Lara Poe and... Read More
Praised by the New York Times for their "imaginative programming," and the Washington Post for their "captivating performances," the award-winning Aizuri Quartet (www.aizuriquartet.com) comes to DiMenna Center with 'Intricate Machines,' a program of string quartets composed in the... Read More
On Saturday April 6th, at 7pm, Kettle Corn New Music presents piano duo HereNowHear in a concert of premieres by Loren Loiacono, Emily Cooley, and Walter Zimmermann, with Luciano Berio, Steven Stucky, and George Crumb's epic masterwork, Celestial... Read More
This concert, titled “Artists' Journey,” underscores ICOA’s core values: innovative performance, storytelling, and cultural confluence. The concert will feature Vitali’s Chaconne with French violinist Virgil Boutellis-Taft in his ICOA debut and immersive classical music experience that brings the... Read More
Talea Ensemble is celebrating its 10th anniversary season with an evening of music. Over the course of the evening, musicians of Talea perform defining works from the ensemble's first 10 seasons and celebrate what's to come. The program... Read More
Chinese pianist Xiying Zou will be displaying her mixture of incredible virtuosity and emotionally charged playing. She will present pieces by Granados, Frank Bridge, Beethoven and Yann Tiersen.
Hypercube presents the US premiere of Eric Wubbels’ Voided Cross (for Michael Heizer) a high-intensity, 45-minute work that saturates the boundaries of space, ear, room, and conscious attention. Scored for saxophone, electric guitar, piano/accordion/synth, and percussion, Hypercube pushes... Read More
The Pit Stop Players presents the world premiere of legendary Broadway orchestrator Jonathan Tunick's "Serenade for Strings," the world premiere of Joshua Rosenblum's "Einstein¹s Dreams Concert Suite," and the American premiere of Kevin Lau's "Illumination," a double concerto... Read More
For their season finale, the Fair Trade Trio will be presenting the world premiere of Alon Nechushtan‘s Fractured Fairy Tales, a work dedicated to the Fair Trade Trio, along with Beethoven's String Trio, Op. 9, No. 1. The... Read More
KHORIKOS is excited to announce three new forthcoming albums of choral music which we know and love dearly. We're excited to share Joy and Grief and Rest -- a collection of some of our favorite works for a... Read More
LOST DOG NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE marks the Finale of the Leonard Bernstein Centennial in New York City, with the world premiere of new orchestrations of Bernstein's ballet scores 'Dybbuk' and 'Fancy Free'. Fancy Free (1944), about three sailors... Read More
Expanding on his program “Haydn Dialogues,” which has been presented by Lincoln Center and the Verbier Festival, Pedja Mužijević presents a program of keyboard works by Bach interspersed with spoken word and contemporary piano works by emerging composers... Read More
French harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations in an immersive concert experience with special lighting designed by Burke Brown.
If you think the toy piano is just an toy instrument for kids to play, think again! Pianist Huizi Zhang and composer-pianist Gu Wei will present an evening of contemporary music featuring pieces by Phyllis Chen, Jun An... Read More
As part of Orchestra of St. Luke's 2019 DeGaetano Composition Institute, Jacob Greenberg performs a solo piano recital dedicated to the piano works of the late Robert DeGaetano.
The 2019 DeGaetano Composition Institute culminates in the world premieres of four works for chamber orchestra developed over the course of the Institute and performed by Orchestra of St. Luke’s conducted by Ben Gernon.
New York Jazz Composers’ Mosaic returns to the DiMenna Center’s Carry Hall after their well-received first show last December. Founded by three New York-based composers, Jihye Lee (South Korea), Rafael Piccolotto de Lima (Brazil) and Migiwa Miyajima (Japan),... Read More
Aug 10 @
August 10, 2019 @ 5:00 am - August 21, 2019 @ 3:00 pm
FREE Event, (Walk-ins are welcome, but you will be limited to one hour on your own with headphones, credit cards will be kept on file to ensure safe return of devices.) FREE Guided Tours with Christina Kubisch (reservations... Read More
HIDDEN , 2014 For string quartet and electronics JACK Quartet Christopher Otto, violin Austin Wulliman, violin John Pickford Richards, viola Jay Campbell, cello IRCAM engineers IRCAM Computer Music Production, Serge Lemouton IRCAM Sound Engineer, Sylvain Cadars TIME:SPANS Sound... Read More
Marina Rosenfeld Deathstar Reduction , 2017-19 * World premiere Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Yarn/Wire + Marino Formenti, piano Marina Rosenfeld My Body , 2019 * World premiere Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music... Read More
Outer Space – together with L’Arrivée (1997/1998) and Dreamwork (2001) – is part of Tscherkassky’s “CinemaScope Trilogy,” which draws on fragments of Hollywood films. It utilizes footage from The Entity (S. J. Furie, 1981), a psychological horror film,... Read More
AFTER EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC Two Tables Olivia Block October 26th, 1984 Raven Chacon solo AFTER EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC is co-curated by Thomas Fichter and Ben Piekut. concert will be approximately one hour and thirty minutes
AFTER EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC Okkyung Lee "once upon a time, we used to share this same light…" , 2019 * World premiere Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust Okkyung Lee, composer/performer/sound design Chris Corsano and Ches... Read More
"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
This concert presents the world premieres of two works for solo violin by Samuel Clay Birmaher that attempt to recall the experience of existence before life. Both pieces were written for Christopher Otto—a founding member of the JACK Quartet—and this... READ MORE
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 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