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.

Feb 2 @

The Planets: The Full InsideOut Concerts Experience

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
Feb 2 @

Wet Ink: Piano Trios

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
Feb 9 @

JACK Quartet plays Columbia Composers

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
Feb 17 @

NowNet Arts Festival 2019

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
Feb 28 @

Lost in the Woods

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
Mar 7 @

PARMA Recordings Presents Sirius Quartet

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
Mar 8 @

Donna Voce – CD Release Recital

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
Mar 9 @

EKMELES performs ICEBERG

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
Mar 9 @

Quince Ensemble & Duo Noire

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
Mar 28 @

NYFOS Next: Kate Soper & Friends

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
Mar 30 @

Megalopolis in Manhattan

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
Apr 5 @

Aizuri Quartet: Intricate Machines

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
Apr 6 @

HereNowHear Piano Duo

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
Apr 10 @

Artists’ Journey

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
Apr 20 @

Talea 10th Anniversary Celebration

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
May 7 @

US premiere of Eric Wubbels’ Voided Cross (for Michael Heizer)

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
May 13 @

Illuminations

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
May 19 @

Season Finale: Beethoven, Nechustan, and Schumann

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
May 24 @

KHORIKOS Triple Album Release Show

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
Jun 17 @

Bach Dialogues with Pedja Mužijević

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
Jun 19 @

Goldberg Variations with Pierre Hantaï

French harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations in an immersive concert experience with special lighting designed by Burke Brown.
Jun 21 @

Play-Play: A Toy/Piano Concert (NYC Debut)

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
Jul 16 @

The Piano Music of Robert DeGaetano

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.
Jul 19 @

DeGaetano Composition Institute World Premieres

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.
Aug 8 @

Dancing Notes

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

TIME:SPANS – Christina Kubisch: Electrical Walks

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
Aug 11 @

TIME:SPANS – JACK + IRCAM: Czernowin HIDDEN

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
Aug 12 @

TIME:SPANS –

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
Aug 13 @

TIME:SPANS – Nikel

Enno Poppe Fleisch , 2017 * US premiere Mark Barden witness. , 2012 * * US premiere INTERMISSION Chaya Czernowin Sahaf , 2017 Oliver Thurley Who's veil remains inscrutable , 2014 * US premiere Stefan Prins Fremdkoerper #2... Read More
Aug 14 @

TIME:SPANS – Nikel: Peter Tscherkassky Films

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
Aug 16 @

TIME:SPANS – After Experimental Music: Okkyung Lee

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

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