Respire | Lea Bertucci
Lea Bertucci
Lea Bertucci will premiere Respire, a composition for an ensemble of six acoustic instruments and four-channel synthesis. Conceived as a meditation on the act of breathing, this work will be based on long form patterns of inhalation/exhalation and will examine the relationship between acoustic and electric sound. The instrumentalists will be distributed throughout the balcony of Roulette’s theater to create dynamic movement of acoustic sound. Speakers will also be strategically placed throughout the theater, which will allow the synthesizer a similar sort of mobility, at turns blending and contrasting electric and acoustic sound.
Monday, January 14 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, members/students/seniors $10
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Grand Band performing Simeon ten Holt’s “Canto Ostinato”
Grand Band performs Simeon ten Holt’s Canto Ostinato, the sprawling minimalist masterpiece for multiple pianos in a concert at (le) poisson rouge memorializing the composer’s recent death. The evening-length work is a complex tapestry of repetitive layers strung together in a flexible structure, ensuring that no two performances are alike– in the words of Ton van Asseldonk, his ‘compositions are not just single works, but rather a collection of an infinite number of compositions, all hidden in a single written code.’ With this performance of his most famous work, the six pianists of Grand Band pay homage to this creative genius who was at his best when writing for multiple pianos.
Tuesday, January 15 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15 advance, $20 day of show
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Ear Heart Music Series | Trio Kavak and the Claremont Trio
Trio Kavak
Trio Kavak pairs with Claremont Trio in a program of new music inspired by art and poetry. The concert includes the NY premiere of Helen Grime’s Three Whistler Miniatures with additional works by Donald Crockett, Gabriela Lena Frank, Sean Shepherd, Fang Man, Andrew Struck-Marcell, and Angélica Negrón. A number of the pieces will feature projections of the inspiring visual art that informed the music. In others, special guest artist Kevork Mourad performs his spontaneous painting technique on a shared stage, as art and music develop in counterpoint.
Tuesday, January 15 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, members/students/seniors $10
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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The Amphibian Video/Music Series at HiArt! Gallery | Momenta Quartet
Momenta performs works by John Cage and Elizabeth Brown featuring original video art by John Gurrin and Lothar Osterburg, and string quartets by Haydn, Kenneth Brown, and David Fox; with Elizabeth Brown, theremin.
Wednesday, January 16 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Gallery at HiArt!, 227 West 29th Street, Studio 4R, New York, NY
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Along The Midnight Edge | Random Access Music, Obsidian Brass Quintet
Obsidian Brass Quintet
The New York-based composers’ collective Random Access Music (RAM) will collaborate with the Obsidian Brass Quintet—who make their New York debut— presenting five world premieres by RAM composers along with the winning score from RAM’s 2012 call for scores, Balsamic Reduction, by PoChun Wang. In addition to the New York premiere of Balsamic Reduction by guest composer PoChun Wang, the program features four world premieres of new brass quintets, including Manly Romero’s Poetic License; David Fetherolf’s Patrolling Barnegat; Gilbert Galindo’s Hope for a New Era; Allen Schulz’s Indefinite Bellows and Uncertain Murmurs. The program also includes the world premiere of a new arrangement of Jonathan Pieslak’s Fanfare.
Thursday, January 17 at 8 PM
FREE (with $10 table minimum)
Waltz-Astoria, 23-14 Ditmars, Blvd Astoria, Queens, NY
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Orchestra Underground: Time Travels | American Composers Orchestra
The concert, led by ACO music director George Manahan features music that explores the concept of time – its mutability, importance, and role as an organizing principle. Lukas Foss’ 1960 masterwork, Time Cycle, is the centerpiece for the program, with soprano Jennifer Zetlan as the soloist. The evening also includes the world premiere of composer and soprano Kate Soper’s now is forever I. Orpheus and Eurydice for Voice and Orchestra featuring the composer as soloist, the world premiere of Kyle Blaha’s Triptych, and the US premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Zhou Long’s Bell Drum Towers.
Friday, January 18 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $40 & $50
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 7th Avenue New York, NY
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Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble with ICE | John Zorn
Oberlin’s Contemporary Music Ensemble joins with special guest artists of the International Contemporary Ensemble for an evening of music at DiMenna Center’s Cary Hall, featuring Oberlin graduates and faculty as well as the world premiere of The Tempest by John Zorn.
Friday, January 18 at 8 PM & 10 PM
FREE
DiMenna Center, Mary Flagler Cary Hall, 450 West 37th Street New York, NY
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Coin Coin | Matana Roberts
Matana Roberts – Photo by Brett Walker
For her residency last fall Robert’s used it as a performance lab, experimenting/workshopping/ considering conceptual ideas that are the building blocks of her in progress blood narrative COIN COIN. For tonight’s performance she will be premiering a piece based off of that exploratory work that will be developed into a chapter of the series called called DEBT. This will not be a new complete chapter of the series, just a consideration of new thoughts she may infuse into the fuller realized work as a whole somewhere along the way in the 12 part narrative.
Friday, January 18 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, members/students/seniors $10
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Along The Midnight Edge | Random Access Music, Obsidian Brass Quintet
The New York-based composers’ collective Random Access Music (RAM) will collaborate with the Obsidian Brass Quintet—who make their New York debut— presenting five world premieres by RAM composers along with the winning score from RAM’s 2012 call for scores, Balsamic Reduction, by PoChun Wang. In addition to the New York premiere of Balsamic Reduction by guest composer PoChun Wang, the program features four world premieres of new brass quintets, including Manly Romero’s Poetic License; David Fetherolf’s Patrolling Barnegat; Gilbert Galindo’s Hope for a New Era; Allen Schulz’s Indefinite Bellows and Uncertain Murmurs. The program also includes the world premiere of a new arrangement of Jonathan Pieslak’s Fanfare.
Friday, January 18 at 8 PM
Tickets $20
Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY
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