Rachel Burckardt’s Mount Auburn Requiem
On Saturday, September 28th at 6:00 pm, the Boston-based Tutti Music Collective and the New York-based Modus Operandi Orchestra (MOO) will join forces for a captivating evening of music at the SUNY Purchase Performing Arts Center’s Recital Hall. This special concert, conducted by Maestro Justin Bischof, will feature the renowned Celtic tenor Ciarán Nagle and… Read more »
Sep 24, 2024
Willful Devices + Davu Seru + Michelle Kinney
Pat O'Keefe and Scott L. Miller have been performing as the electroacoustic duo Willful Devices since 2008. Michelle Kinney and Davu Seru are both huge presences in the Minnesota improv community, and Pat and Scott have long collaborative relationships with both of them. This is the first time they will perform as a quartet, drawing… Read more »
Sep 24, 2024
GVO Opening Concert and Mill Creek Trombone Concerto World Premiere
Golden Valley Orchestra ( MN) will be giving their opening concert, with music dedicated to women composers. They will also be premiering my biggest piece yet, 10 years in the making, The Mill Creek Trombone Concerto, named for the "oasis of nature" in Youngstown Ohio, where I went to school. I've included a blog post… Read more »
Sep 24, 2024
Los Ricos and Sekou McMiller & Friends
Join us for an electrifying double-bill dance performance as we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the CUNY Dance Initiative! Experience two alumni of this groundbreaking residency program: Los Ricos featuring flamenco powerhouses Sonia Olla & Ismael Fernández, and Afro Latin Soul, featuring Sekou McMiller, a leader in the Afro Latin dance movement.
Sep 24, 2024
Armstrong Now: Amyra León
Presented in partnership with the Louis Armstrong House Museum, please join us to celebrate the culmination of Amyra León’s Armstrong Now 2023 Residency. Amyra, a musician, author, director, and proud Harlem native, presents a unique piece inspired by her deep dive into the living archives of Louis Armstrong.
Sep 24, 2024
Washington Square Cointemporary Music Society
A concert of new works presented by the Bergamot String Quartet. Music by Jaime Oliver, Ioannis Angelakis, Ledah Finck, Joel Rust, and Caroline Shaw.
Sep 24, 2024
Cirque Kalabanté: Afrique en Cirque
Montréal-based troupe Cirque Kalabanté combines breathtaking acrobatics with live music, delivering performances that are described as ‘high-flying,’ ‘jaw-dropping,’ and ‘mind-blowing.’ Afrique En Cirque symbolizes the strength, agility, and joy of life in African culture. Be transported into a realm that combines traditional African arts with North American modern circus performance. Mesmerizing, melodious, and magical, this… Read more »
Sep 23, 2024
SydeBoob Duo presents: Translucent Landscapes
Join us for an evening of music with sounds both brazen and blue, wrapped in a translucent wave of works for soprano voice and flute. Program: Ursula Mamlok, Haiku Settings Adolphus Hailstork, Yuhwa Anthony Braxton, Composition no. 304 Max Johnson, Translucent Yawn Andrew Hamilton, O'ROURKE Katherine Pukinskis, Drift Ellen Ruth Harrison, Between Magic and Possibility
Sep 23, 2024
Cleveland Chamber Music Society presents Imani Winds and pianist Michelle Cann
Cleveland Chamber Music Society presents the Grammy Award-winning Imani Winds with pianist Michelle Cann. The program includes two of Francis Poulenc’s most beloved chamber pieces and features recent works by Paquito D'Rivera and Valerie Coleman written especially for the Imanis, plus the world premiere of Circadian Rhythms by Viet Cuong co-commissioned by CCMS. Celebrating over… Read more »
Sep 23, 2024
Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival with violinist Irina Muresanu
Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival presents violinist Irina Muresanu in a program called Four Strings Around the World. Included is music by Jerod Impichaachaaha’ Tate, Reza Vali, Violeta Dinescu, Shirish Korde, Victoria Bond and others. The multi-media program includes short videos designed to enhance an understanding of various cultures. Also on the program: arias… Read more »
Sep 23, 2024
Momenta Festival IX: Ives at 150
The Momenta Quartet's annual festival returns for the ninth year celebrating 150 years of Charles Ives. Over four nights, each member of the quartet curates a diverse program of music. With programs that blend the old and new, the "intriguing programming" (The New York Times) and "striking originality" (I Care If You Listen) of the… Read more »
Sep 23, 2024
Orpheus & Garrick Ohlsson
Orpheus proudly welcomes back Garrick Ohlsson, a trusted Mozart partner acclaimed for "producing a sound so lush it almost glistens" (Seattle Times) to perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9, Jeunehomme. Plus music by Brahms, and a world premiere by six-time Grammy-Award winner Billy Childs!
Sep 23, 2024
Jo Andres’ Dreaming Out Loud with Jennifer Reeves, Lisa Rinzler, Lucy Sexton, Elliott Sharp & Axine M
Friday, October 4th at 8pm, ISSUE Project Room presents Jo Andres’ short film Dreaming Out Loud (1990) at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. limited-capacity theater. After exploding onto the downtown New York performance art scene in the 1980s and 90s, Andres was amongst contemporaries Jennifer Reeves, Lisa Rinzler, Lucy Sexton & Elliott Sharp, who will join ISSUE this Fall to host a discussion on the legacy… Read more »
Sep 23, 2024
Jo Andres’ Black Kites with Eszter Balint, Mimi Goese, Katie Porter & Hahn Rowe
Thursday, September 26th at 8pm, ISSUE Project Room presents Jo Andres’ award-winning film Black Kites (1996), and a unique performance featuring the film’s source text based on the 1992 wartime journals of Bosnian visual artist Alma Hajric, as part of the 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival. The film will be screened at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. limited-capacity theater. Following the screening, several… Read more »
Sep 23, 2024
Sofia Rei: Folk and Futurism
World Music Institute presents Folk and Futurism: A new project from Argentinian vocalist, composer, and producer Sofía Rei. Rei created Folk & Futurism as a follow-up to her critically acclaimed album Umbral (threshold). This project, exploring the convergence of traditional Latin American folk culture with contemporary genres and digital technologies, will feature some of the… Read more »
Sep 23, 2024
ModernMedieval Voices, Grand Electric & Alex Sopp, flute
This program explores the intersection between medieval vocal music and modern chamber music, from the meditative to the ecstatic. Longtime member of vocal supergroup Anonymous 4, Jacquiline Horner-Kwiatek, leads ModernMedieval Voices (“exquisitely sung,” Wall Street Journal) in chants by Hildegard von Bingen as well as new music by Caroline Shaw and Caleb Burhans; Grand Electric… Read more »
Sep 22, 2024
Larsen, Caplan, Brahms, Schubert & Orff
The Oratorio Society of New York opens its 24-25 season at Carnegie Hall with an eclectic program of choral music highlighted by the ever-popular Carmina Burana, with a rare performance of Orff’s two-piano/percussion orchestration. Program also includes works by Brahms, Schubert, Libby Larsen, and Oliver Caplan.
Sep 22, 2024
Limen VIII by Tilen Lebar
An installation in a concert setting that intends to present a spectral mutation of the sonic material that initially reveals the sound of extensive improvisations with an electroacoustic guitar. An ongoing cycle of works inspired by anthropologist Arnold van Gennep, the phenomenon of liminal spaces and the phenomena of anemoia and kenopsia. Tilen Lebar is… Read more »
Sep 22, 2024
Water Vision by Luc Vitk
Luc Vitk’s electroacoustic installation and performance work, WATER VISION, is an audience participatory piece that involves people blowing through straws into water at specific points in a pre-composed score which then generates three hours of water music to be played in the installation space on non-performance days. In the performance, six microphones collect the water… Read more »
Sep 22, 2024
The Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra Presents “Dances”
The Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra presents our season opener Dances, exploring music written for and inspired by dance around the world. Program: Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances Brian Morales: Harlem Dances (premiere of arrangement for string orchestra commissioned by the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra) Leonard Bernstein: Fancy Free Dance and music are two intertwined art… Read more »
