Shape of Becoming

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Shape of Becoming is a reflective experience centered around the question "Who shaped you?". Inspired by Japanese Noh theater and the Zen meditation practice of sutra tracing, the experience invites reflection on personal growth through a performance of Benjamin Britten’s String Quartet No. 2, movement and spoken-word storytelling, and a culminating collective ritual mirroring the […]

Ekmeles: Another World

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Ekmeles performs a concert anchored by the world premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas's ...wie aus einer anderen Welt..., commissioned by NYSCA. Other works to be performed include Peter Ablinger's Studien nach der Natur.

Celebrating Jim McNeely

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Celebrating Jim McNeely, a retrospective concert on September 10 at New York’s DiMenna Center for Classical Music, pays tribute to this singular body of work, featuring performances of some of the most iconic compositions from across his career, performed by an 18-piece jazz orchestra stacked with key McNeely associates. The concert includes appearances by special […]

NO HAY BANDA

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Steven Kazuo Takasugi Il Teatro Rosso, 2025* for soprano, violin, cello, bass clarinet, bass trombone, piano, percussion, electronics, and video * US premiere NO HAY BANDA

International Contemporary Ensemble

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Ashkan Behzadi Carnivalesque, 2014-2016 or flute, bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, and cello Tebogo Monnakgotla Wooden Bodies, 2020 for string quartet Corie Rose Soumah Tossed Parachutes of Lilacs and Lungs, 2025* for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, electric guitar, violin, viola, cello, and electronics * US premiere Co-commissioned by Darmstadt Summer Course and The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable […]

Endlings, Yarn/Wire

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Endlings, Yarn/Wire False Division, 2025* * World premiere Endlings Yarn/Wire

Talea Ensemble, Claire Chase

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Chaya Czernowin the divine thawing of the core, 2025* for 6 flutes, 6 oboes, 6 trumpets, trombone, tube, piano, percussion, and 3 cellos * US premiere Co-commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust, Darmstadt Summer Course, and the Lucerne Festival supported by Foundation Pierre Boulez featuring Claire Chase, contrabass flute soloist Talea Ensemble Claire Chase, Contrabass […]

Sixtrum Percussion

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Jennifer Higdon Splendid Wood, 2006 Éric Champagne Onde de choc, 2020, rev 2022* * US premiere Jordan Nobles Still Life, 2006, rev 2011* * NY premiere Balinese Ceremonial Music I. Pemoengkah, 1934/arr. 2022* arr. Fabrice Marandola * US premiere Steve Reich 6 Marimbas, 1986 Sixtrum Percussion

Bozzini Quartet

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Cassandra Miller Three Songs, 2025* I. Ange II. Claire III. Bella * US premiere Co-commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust, Le Vivier, Soundstreams, Darmstadt Summer Course, and Quatuor Bozzini with support from Canada Council for the Arts Taylor Brook Vinetan Songs, 2025* * World premiere Co-commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust, Le Vivier, Soundstreams, and Quatuor […]

Sixtrum Percussion

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Ondrej Adámek Fishbones, 2007 Pierre Jodlowski Mécano 1, 2004 Juri Seo Shuî, 2017 arr. Sixtrum Percussion Pierre Jodlowski 24 Loops, 2007 Dominic Thibault D'aure et du pluie - Célérité, 2020* * US premiere Léa Boudreau D'aure et du pluie - Jeu d'eau, 2020* * US premiere Samuel Bobony D'aure et de pluie - À grand fracas, 2020* * US premiere Sixtrum Percussion

Ensemble Nikel, Noa Frenkel

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Please join us for a free screening of Shadow Axe at 6:00 pm. At 7:00 pm doors open for this concert. Christopher Trapani Sunk 45s, 2025* for saxophone, electric guitar, Korg organ, and percussion * World premiere Co-commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust and TUP/Philharmonie Essen - NOW Festival Bekah Simms Spectra, 2025* for saxophone, electric guitar, […]

Shadow Axe

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Please join us for this free, special screening. A short talk between H. Paul Moon and Yaron Deutsch will precede the film. Stick around afterwards for the 7:30pm concert with Ensemble Nikel and Noa Frenkel (tickets sold separately). Shadow Axe, 2025* A film portrait of electric guitarist, Yaron Deutsch (39 minutes) * NY premiere H. Paul Moon, Filmmaker Yaron Deutsch, Electric guitarist This […]

JACK Quartet: Rand Steiger

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Rand Steiger Introspective Trilogy, 2016-2025* 1. Undone (2016) 2. Inward (2017) 3. Rage/Resolve (2025) * World premiere JACK Quartet

Miranda Cuckson

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Robert Rowe Melting the Darkness, 2013 for violin and CD Lidia Zielinska RAPSODIA, 2004 for violin and CD Rand Steiger Longing, 2021 for violin and electronics Diego Tedesco Portrait Number I, 2020 for violin and fixed media electronics Kaija Saariaho Frises, 2011 for violin and electronics Miranda Cuckson, Violin Rand Steiger, Electronics

JACK Quartet: Nursalim Yadi Anugerah

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Nursalim Yadi Anugerah Aphid and a Palm on the Top of Orange Cliff, 2025* for string quartet and computer-controlled kadedek * World premiere Commissioned by JACK Quartet

Dal Niente/Beyond This Point: Steen-Andersen

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Simon Steen-Andersen Asthma, arr. 2025* for solo bellows, ensemble, and video * NY premiere Ensemble Dal Niente/Beyond This Point Simon Steen-Andersen Run Time Error, 2009-2020 for joystick-controlled video Simon Steen-Andersen, solo performer Simon Steen-Andersen Black Box Music, 2012* for amplified box, ensemble, and video * NY premiere Ensemble Dal Niente/Beyond This Point

Andrew Blanch: Spanish Romance

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

After a hugely successful USA tour in 2024, Australian guitar virtuoso Andrew Blanch returns to the USA with his much-loved program, Spanish Romance—a vibrant and heartfelt celebration of the Spanish guitar. The evening begins with Andrew’s stunning solo performance, tracing the instrument’s history from the timeless beauty of Bach to the lively, expressive works of […]

Andrew Blanch: Spanish Romance

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

After a hugely successful USA tour in 2024, Australian guitar virtuoso Andrew Blanch returns to the USA with his much-loved program, Spanish Romance—a vibrant and heartfelt celebration of the Spanish guitar. The evening begins with Andrew’s stunning solo performance, tracing the instrument’s history from the timeless beauty of Bach to the lively, expressive works of […]

Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance’s 25th Anniversary Season

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Join us this summer to celebrate Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance’s 25th anniversary as a NYC-based contemporary ballet company. This season honors the collaborators who’ve shaped our creative trajectory, bringing together dancers from the early years, current company members, and guest artists, showcasing the range of artists within the CLD family. The program includes the world premiere […]

Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance’s 25th Anniversary Season

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Join us this summer to celebrate Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance’s 25th anniversary as a NYC-based contemporary ballet company. This season honors the collaborators who’ve shaped our creative trajectory, bringing together dancers from the early years, current company members, and guest artists, showcasing the range of artists within the CLD family. The program includes the world premiere […]

PIAZZOLLA100 FEST: Cuartetango & Guests

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

PIAZZOLLA100 Festival's opening night is a unique multidisciplinary program featuring 2xLatin GRAMMY nominated Cuartetango string quartet with GRAMMY-winner Rodolfo Zanetti on bandoneon, instrumental, vocal and dance repertoire from Gardel and Le Pera to Piazzolla. This special evening concludes with "The Rites of Love," a new string quartet composition by Leonardo Suarez-Paz, the artistic director of […]

La Nuit de la Musique Française

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Sonéa Music Association presents its inaugural concert, La Nuit de la Musique Française. Music Director Hansol Seok leads Ensemble Sonéa in an enchanting journey through captivating French classical works by Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc, and Roussel. Experience this unique, intimate performance, exploring the diversity and beauty of this exquisite repertoire.

We Crossed the River: A Multimedia Chamber Opera

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

WE CROSSED THE RIVER is a multi-media collaboration between Dominican-American novelist Angie Cruz (author of Let It Rain Coffee, Soledad, and the widely acclaimed Dominicana) and composer Eric Moe about the detention of children in camps at the U.S. border. Cruz bases her text on the searing testimonios of detainees. This newly expanded version of […]

Ekmeles: moveable frames

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Ekmeles performs a program of new microtonal works, anchored by the world premiere of Catherine Lamb's moveable frames, commissioned by Ekmeles with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. Other new works will be given their New York premieres, and second performances after their recent premiere in Seattle, by composers William Dougherty, Joël-François […]

DramaEtMusica

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

DramaEtMusica is an interdisciplinary performance series curated by Chen Shuhe Yue, showcasing experimental music theater, intermedia performance, and cross-genre collaboration. This event features a dynamic lineup, including a participatory dance performance, an electronic live set, amplified balloons with video projection, intermedia theater, and physical theater with sound objects. Featuring both guest artists and open call […]

Through Depths and Shadows: Orchestral Visions of Now

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

On Thursday, May 22nd, 2025, at 7:30 PM in the DiMenna Center's Cary Hall, the League of Composers/ISCM presents a concert of innovative and expressive new works featuring premieres by Justin Weiss, Pamela Madsen, Paul Salerni, and Roger Reynolds. The Orchestra of the League of Composers will be conducted by Louis Karchin and David Fulmer.

On Circe: An Opera featuring Azalea Twining

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

This hour-long opera retells the myth of the Greek goddess Circe. Best known for transforming men into animals, Circe, in this libretto is found interrogating immortality, and lamenting her exile to a small island, while simultaneously manifesting herself as various historical figures across time and space.  Electroacoustic/acoustic music and libretto by Elizabeth Hoffman. Azalea Twining as […]

Weinberg, Ustvolskaya, Klein

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

The second of the concerts, on May 13th at the Dimenna Center, will include two American premieres of works of the great composer, who has only recently been rediscovered, Mieczysław Weinberg: his Clarinet Concerto op. 104 and his last work, the 4th Chamber Symphony op. 153. Rounding out the program will be Gideon Klein, a […]

The Serious and The Absurd

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Is there a distinction between the two? Ensemble Fantasque presents works from the Renaissance era until today, encompassing more than five centuries worth of music. Music in this concert embodies the serious, emotional, ridiculous and the bizarre, along with nonsense language. Whether you are a fan of chromatic music, or a lover of pure simplicity, […]

Karl Kilb IV

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Karl Kilb IV performs a collection of his original compositions for solo piano and a piano trio. Doors Open: 6:30 PM Start: 7:00 PM Karl Kilb IV, piano Victoria Lin, cello Priscilla Tam, violin

“scars plummet to the corners”

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

"music of introverted intensity" - The New Yorker " 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 Michael Hersch’s concert-length cycle “scars plummet to the corners” was delayed almost five years. Emi […]

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Schumann, and Beethoven

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

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 Xiang, Featured Soloist Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Overture in C Major R. Schumann Cello Concerto in A […]

Lisgar CI Spring Music

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

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 the end of the war, the ensemble became an official school orchestra, the first ever […]

Stony Brook Premieres!

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

Contemporary Chamber Players Directed by Eduardo Leandro Join us on April 10th (Staller Center Recital Hall) and April 11th (DiMenna Center for Classical Music, NYC) to hear four new premieres by John Fitz Rogers, Earl Maneein, Mark Nowakowski, and Paula Matthusen as part of our annual Stony Brook Premieres! It is said that “history doesn’t […]

The New Manila Envelope

Mary Flagler Cary Hall

panSonus presents the world premiere of composer Max Vinetz’s "The New Manila Envelope", an evening-length song cycle for soprano, percussion, and electronics. Fluidly combining voice, percussion, theater, and electronics, "The New Manila Envelope" explores the intersections of memory, identity, and transformation. This ambitious work is brought to life by panSonus, an interdisciplinary duo that seeks […]