Sound Worlds with Ilana Zaks
Enjoy an hour of music for violin and electronics. The program includes music by Hunter Prueger, Silent Moment, Brannon Warn-Johnson, A Year with Cancer and Patrick Long, Shadow Steps. Sound Worlds brings awareness to underrepresented composers and sounds from their life experiences to the violin. By telling these stories through their music in live performances,… Read more »
Dec 23, 2024
Reticulations
Experience the premiere of Reticulations, a new composition with live electronics and a unique percussion set-up by composer Eric Lemmon, featuring the experimental duo lowpass (comprised of percussionists Taylor Long and Rob Cosgrove). Using custom analog and digital electronics as well as physical materials, Lemmon and the duo shape a sonic landscape where the slightest… Read more »
Dec 23, 2024
Lara Downes & Friends: A Reflection on America
Iconoclastic pianist Lara Downes is joined by Theo Bleckmann, Helga Davis, Arturo O'Farrill, Martha Redbone, Vuyo Sotashe and Curtis Stewart in a collective expression of this American era. With music ranging from traditional spirituals and iconic folk anthems to new works in progress, these visionary artists gather to contemplate the long arc of history, to… Read more »
Dec 22, 2024
PRISM Quartet with Miguel Zenón – World Premiere of El Eco del Tambor
The all-sax PRISM Quartet joins forces with the Grammy Award-winning composer/saxophonist, MacArthur Fellow, and long-time collaborator Miguel Zenón for the world premiere of Zenón’s newest work, El Eco del Tambor (The Echo of the Drum). Zenón writes, “El Eco del Tambor is an extended, multi-movement saxophone quintet that draws on rhythmic traditions from around the… Read more »
Dec 22, 2024
PRISM Quartet with Miguel Zenón – World Premiere of El Eco del Tambor
The all–sax PRISM Quartet joins forces with the Grammy Award-winning composer/saxophonist, MacArthur Fellow, and long-time collaborator Miguel Zenón for the world premiere of Zenón’s newest work, El Eco del Tambor (The Echo of the Drum). Zenón writes, “El Eco del Tambor is an extended, multi-movement saxophone quintet that draws on rhythmic traditions from around the… Read more »
Dec 22, 2024
“Fresh premieres and Timeless Dvorak” with pianist Orli Shaham and friends
ALEX ROBERTSON: String Trio (world premiere) SHERIDAN SEYFRIED: Violin Sonata (world premiere) ~Intermission~ DVOŔÁK: Piano Quintet in A Major Experience the expressive lyricism of Dvořák's A Major Piano Quintet, a tour de force that blends elements from Czech folk music with original melodies. This quintet is considered to be one of the masterpieces in the… Read more »
Dec 20, 2024
Percussionist Michael Yeung at Baruch PAC
Baruch Performing Arts Center launches its spring concert season with the award-winning percussionist Michael Yeung. Yeung is winner of the prestigious Susan Wadsworth International Auditions by Young Concert Artists. He has toured the world as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral performer. Yeung has appeared with the internationally acclaimed Percussion Collective and performed with the… Read more »
Dec 20, 2024
Unheard-of Dialogues Series: Memory Fragments
Join Unheard-of for the first Dialogues show of 2025 on January 18th, 8:00 PM at Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street, New York, NY. In this Dialogues show, we pair newly written movements of Vicki Nguyen's Ginger Flavored Bubblegum and David Crowell's Memories of the Imagined. Nguyen's work explores transcendence from grief by honoring… Read more »
Dec 19, 2024
Luna Composition Lab: Virtual Master Class with Clara Warnaar
Percussionist and composer, Clara Warnaar, tends towards interdisciplinary projects, actively playing and commissioning new music. In addition to being a member of the Contemporary Ensemble, Clara has appeared as a guest artist with Yarn/Wire, the Bang on a Can Orchestra, and Ensemble Signal, and also has a solo ambient project and is the drummer for… Read more »
Dec 19, 2024
Sonic Explorations in Troy
This event is FREE for all to attend Troy Savings Bank Music Hall is delighted to announce that Improv Spaces will be artists-in-residence and working on a collaborative incubator project with artists from the Capital region that will be workshopped with the public and then premiered at the Improv Spaces Music Festival. Improv Spaces co-directors,… Read more »
Dec 19, 2024
Ensemble Dal Niente + Macie Stewart
Dal Niente teams up with composer and multi-instrumentalist Macie Stewart for an evening of music at Elastic Arts. This is the fifth in a series of shared programs between Dal Niente and other respected Chicago artists, supported by a DCASE Chicago Artists Recovery Program Grant. For the past year and a half, Macie has been… Read more »
Dec 19, 2024
Reflections on Monk and Bach featuring Ron Carter and String Quartet ETHEL
The “avatar of ‘post-classical’ music—the virtuosic string quartet ETHEL (The New Yorker)” and legendary bassist Ron Carter join forces for an unforgettable classical-jazz mashup performance at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, March 13, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. Centered on the music from Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk, an album… Read more »
Dec 17, 2024
Sofia Jernberg with Tomeka Reid, Craig Taborn & Ole Morten Vågan
Saturday, January 25th at 8pm, ISSUE Project Room’s 2025 Winter Season Opening concert co-presented with Brooklyn Music School brings together Ethiopian-born Swedish experimental vocalist Sofia Jernberg and American composer-cellist Tomeka Reid. Building on their first collaboration in 2021–Meditations for Voice & Cello, a digital commission for ISSUE’s Distant Pairs series–the duo reunites for their first-ever… Read more »
Dec 16, 2024
Derek Gripper
Following two sold-out performances at St. Anne and the Holy Trinity Church, as well as a sold-out World Music Institute and MB1800 concert with Ballaké Sissoko in 2023 at Corpus Christi Church in Manhattan, Derek Gripper returns to NYC to perform an intimate concert benefitting WMI’s programming and mission. Gripper is South Africa’s leading guitarist,… Read more »
Dec 16, 2024
Pahua
World Music Institute presents Pahua, a self-produced project fronted by Paulina Sotomayor, a composer, percussionist, DJ, and producer based in Mexico City. Pahua sets her empowering lyrics to a soundtrack of folkloric rhythms and electronic beats. Starting her career as the vocalist in the neo-cumbia project Sotomayor that she created with her brother. she went… Read more »
Dec 16, 2024
Music Mondays presents: JACK Quartet & Shai Wosner, piano
The “superheroes of the new music world” (Boston Globe) join forces with “transcendent” pianist Shai Wosner (N Y Times) for a wide-ranging program of Renaissance and new music. They bring to life music by Henry Purcell and modern classics including Ruth Crawford Seeger’s String Quartet 1931 and George Benjamin’s ragtime-inspired Relativity Rag alongside more recent… Read more »
Dec 15, 2024
Chaeyoung Park at The Morgan Library & Museum
Enjoy a midday interlude with the Morgan’s noontime recitals. In partnership with Young Concert Artists, the series showcases a new generation of musicians. Chaeyoung Park has been praised as a passionate pianist who “does not play a single note without thought or feeling.” (New York Concert Review). Embracing a broad range of classical music literature,… Read more »
Dec 15, 2024
Young Concert Artists Presents Chelsea GuoYoung Concert Artists Presents Chelsea Guo
Young Concert Artists presents cellist Chelsea Guo, making her highly anticipated New York debut at the Kaufman Music Center in New York. The heart of the program is the friendship and mutual inspiration born in 19th century Paris between Polish composer Fréderic Chopin, and Spanish mezzo-soprano and acclaimed pianist Pauline Viardot. Audiences will experience the… Read more »
Dec 15, 2024
JACK Quartet Plays John Zorn
In this CD release concert, JACK quartet proudly announces the long-awaited release of their 2 CD set of the complete string quartets of John Zorn. This exciting evening features two of Zorn’s greatest masterworks—Memento Mori (with Ikue Mori as a guest soloist) and the challenging Necronomicon—marking his triumphant return to the string quartet medium after… Read more »
