GatherNYC: ETHEL + Layale Chaker
From their beginnings in 1998, the members of ETHEL have prized collaboration. In recent years, the quartet has struck up a particularly fruitful collaboration with the Lebanese-born, Brooklyn-based violinist and composer Layale Chaker. Their album Vigil offers a chance to document some of that collective work, with each member of ETHEL contributing a piece and… Read more »
Nov 18, 2024
AUTOMAT0M: A Dream Punk Show
In connection with "Recording the Ride: The Rise of Street-Style Skate Videos," MoMI presents a free punk show featuring the cyberpunk, hardcore music of Automat0m! As seen in the soundtrack selections of many skate videos in the exhibition, the fast tempos of punk music were an essential part of ’80s and ’90s skate culture and… Read more »
Nov 18, 2024
Third Annual “Let’s Celebrate” Holiday Opera Series Dec 14-15
Mirroring the city’s demographics, Let’s Celebrate! serves up a collection of three 20-minute operas telling stories about holidays and families from various cultures around the world. With post-show panel discussions about intersectionality during the holiday season, this year’s concert embraces the traditions of Mexico’s Black Christ at Chalma, Uzbekistan’s Navruz, a national holiday celebrating the… Read more »
Nov 18, 2024
GatherNYC: Deborah Buck + Orli Shaham
Violinist Deborah Buck, praised by The Strad as having a “surpassing degree of imagination and vibrant sound,” and pianist Orli Shaham, described as a “brilliant pianist” by The New York Times, present a program to celebrate Clara Schumann's legacy. In addition to works by Robert and Clara Schumann, the program features the couple's circle of… Read more »
Nov 18, 2024
GatherNYC: MATA
GatherNYC presents Music at the Anthology (MATA), an incubator for adventurous emerging artists in the early stages of their careers, presents, supports, and commissions composers, regardless of their stylistic views or aesthetic inclinations. For its first collaboration with GatherNYC, MATA will showcase highlights from previous festivals as well as selected works from its global Call… Read more »
Nov 18, 2024
Tuesdays @ Monk Space Presents Sarah Gibson: Small Chamber Works
Sarah Gibson was a beloved member of our community and was frequently featured on Tuesdays @ Monk Space as a composer and pianist. Join us for an evening celebrating her life and music by exploring her small chamber works. Performers include Aperture Duo, Eclipse Quartet, Alyssa Park, Vicki Ray, and members of Brightwork Ensemble. This… Read more »
Nov 18, 2024
Sputter (PLUGS IN THE) Box
Sputter (PLUGS IN THE) Box is Sputter Box’s first concert with electronics and video projections, featuring five premieres by composers DM R, Nolan Hildebrand, X. Lee, Kennedy Taylor Dixon, and Tania Cortés Becerra for bass clarinet, voice, percussion, electronics, and video art. Each composer’s piece focuses on a topic they relate to, including Colombian popular… Read more »
Nov 17, 2024
GatherNYC: Daedalus Quartet
Winners of the highest honor in string quartet playing, the Banff International String Quartet Competition, the Daedalus Quartet will perform the visceral, folk-inspired sixth string quartet by Béla Bartók, alongside the atmospheric, pop-influenced Space Between by acclaimed composer and Guggenheim fellow Anna Weesner. GatherNYC is a revolutionary concert experience founded in 2018 by cellist Laura… Read more »
Nov 15, 2024
Chamber vs. The 1s & 2s
Chamber vs. The 1s & 2s Composers/DJ’s Gilbert Galindo – aka Casa De Galindo & Gene Pritsker – aka Di.J. Noizepunk Featuring A Fashion Show by Rain Creative LLC Saturday, December 14th, 2024 at 7pm Red Eye NY 355 W 41st Street NYC TICKETS $20 in advance $30 at the door For Immediate Release –… Read more »
Nov 15, 2024
GatherNYC: Toomai Quintet + Maria Brea
GatherNYC brings the Toomai String Quintet, an ensemble dedicated to expanding the Latin American chamber music repertoire, to MAD in this family-friendly concert of music from Cuba, Brazil, and Mexico. The program features Cuban composer Keyla Orozco’s The Song of the Cicada (2024) for narrator and quintet, inspired by Onelio Jorge Cardoso’s vivid children’s story… Read more »
Nov 14, 2024
GatherNYC: Sarah Elizabeth Charles + Jarrett Cherner
GatherNYC presents vocalist and composer Sarah Elizabeth Charles, hailed as “soulfully articulate” by The New York Times, and acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Jarrett Cherner with music from their debut album as a duo. The album, called Tone, centers its concept on the magical, fleeting and delicate nature of life as well as the need… Read more »
Nov 14, 2024
GatherNYC: ensemble132
ensemble132 presents a genre-bending program honoring the expansive legacy of two musical icons for their joint 150th birthday: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Maurice Ravel. This group of all-star chamber musicians drawn from the rosters of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Marlboro Music Festival, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and more, explores these composers’ influence on other… Read more »
Nov 14, 2024
MANICBURG album release party
MANICBURG, a new theatrically-driven alt-rock project headed by composers Ray Lustig and Luigi Porto will perform a song set with 5-member band at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg Brooklyn, to mark the band's debut album release. Doors open at 8pm, MANICBURG goes on at 9pm. Release-party discounts on vinyl LPs and merch.
Nov 14, 2024
GatherNYC: Gabriel Cabezas
GatherNYC presents acclaimed cello soloist and chamber musician Gabriel Cabezas with a creatively constructed solo cello program that explores a wide range of timbral possibilities on the instrument. Bringing his thoughtful virtuosity to music by some of the most important compositional voices of his generation including Jessie Montgomery, Allison Loggins-Hull, Paul Wiancko, Alyssa Weinberg and… Read more »
Nov 14, 2024
GatherNYC: Emi Ferguson (flute) + Dan Tepfer (clavichord)
Two of NYC’s most acclaimed and versatile artists come together for a program of baroque delights by Bach, Bonporti and more. Dan Tepfer is a #1 Billboard-charting keyboard player who is equally at home in classical and jazz realms, while Emi Ferguson is a 2023 recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, known for… Read more »
Nov 14, 2024
BlackBox Ensemble Presents: Dialogues in Duality
On Saturday, November 23rd, the BlackBox Ensemble presents a series of works unified in their explorations of physicality and duality. Featuring works by Anthony Cheung, Annie Nikunen, Bekah Simms, Baljinder Sekhon, James Diaz, Brittany J. Green and Reilly Spitzfaden, we traverse dialogues between present and memory, sound and silence, structure and freedom, clarity and complexity,… Read more »
Nov 11, 2024
GatherNYC: Excelsis Percussion Quartet
Hailed as, "one of the most innovative and exciting percussion ensembles to emerge in the golden age of chamber music" (Jonathan Haas, New York University) for their immersive sound world, this international group of women with a multilingual combination of five languages join together to speak the universal language of rhythm, rooted in their belief… Read more »
Nov 11, 2024
GatherNYC: W4RP
On December 8, GatherNYC presents the groundbreaking W4RP trio. Described as, “a talented group that exemplifies the genre-obliterating direction of contemporary classical music” (Columbia Free Times), W4RP (née Warp Trio) is an internationally touring cross-genre chamber music experience. The one-of-a-kind trio ensemble reflects the combination of Juilliard-trained members juxtaposed with members steeped in rock and… Read more »
Nov 11, 2024
GatherNYC: The Knights + WQXR – Play Out!
GatherNYC, WQXR and The Knights present Play Out!, an interactive, intergenerational family program (recommended 5 years old +) that focuses on what it means to feel deeply, and how our big emotions are the foundation for how we relate to ourselves and interact with others. Play Out! explores how music is an incredible outside representation… Read more »
