This week: concerts in New York (February 11 – February 17, 2013)

Don’t Even | Contemporaneous

Contemporaneous performs music by Sean Friar, Jeremy Podgursky, Andrew Norman, and David Lang. The concert is for Neighborhood Classics at New York’s P.S. 142, hosted by artistic directors Simone Dinnerstein and James Matheson.
Monday, February 11 at 7 PM
Tickets $15 in support of P.S. 142
P.S. 142, 100 Attorney Street, New York, NY
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Choi Joonyong + Hong Chulki

Choi Joonyong and Hong Chulki have been leading figures in the emerging experimental music community in Seoul for the last 15 years. In addition to both being highly active collaborators and prolific performers, Choi and Hong are organizers, documenters and advocates of this vital community. Balloon and Needle, a label they co-founded, has released experimental music from Korea since 2000. ISSUE presents an evening duo concert with Choi and Hong, in anticipation of an upcoming series documenting the practices flourishing in Seoul, coming in Fall 2013.
Monday, February 11 at 8 PM
Tickets $15 in support of P.S. 142
155 Freeman St., Brooklyn, NY
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Brentano String Quartet premieres Steven Mackey’s One Red Rose

On February 12, the Brentano String Quartet will perform  the world premiere of a composition by Steven Mackey at Carnegie Hall. One Red Rose was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. [Read our interview of Steven Mackey here!]

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Carnegie Hall | Zankel Hall
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Carter Memorial Concert at Elebash Hall

Pianist  Ursula Oppens, clarinetist Charles Neidich and violinist Rolf Schulte join doctoral students of the CUNY Graduate Center cellist Caroline Bean, violinist Caroline Chin, pianist Aaron Likness, and pianist Steven Beck in a concert celebrating the extraordinary works of Elliott Carter at Elebash Recital Hall, Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Wednesday, February 13 at 7:30 PM
Free, Reservations Required
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center
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2013 Avant Music Festival | Randy Gibson’s Apparitions of the Four Pillars In The Midwinter Starfield Under The Astral 789 Duet

Bookending the festival are presentations of AMF Artistic Director Randy Gibson’s fully-immersive, constantly evolving work, which features string players Drew Blumberg and Mariel Roberts, trombonist William Lang and vocals by Gibson in a lush sine wave drone.  By far Gibson’s most radical work,  Apparitions springs from the tradition pioneered by Gibson’s teacher and mentor, La Monte Young, and uses simple harmonic building blocks (four pure intervals in Just Intonation) to create an otherwordly, meditative experience that fully envelops the listener. [Read R. Andrew Lee’s interview of Randy Gibson!]

Friday, February 15 at 8 PM
Tickets $12/$8
The Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street, New York City
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Diagesis/Mimesis | Alex Waterman

Alex Waterman premieres a set of new solo works for amplified cello, radios, found sounds, and assorted strings. A rare outing for this renowned performer, the event marks his first solo performance in two years. The evening opens with Cameron Keith Gainer’s Luna del Mar, a short film featuring a soundtrack composed and performed by Waterman.

Saturday, February 16 at 8 PM
Tickets $12, $10 members+students
155 Freeman St., Brooklyn, NY
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2013 Avant Music Festival | John Cage’s Apartment House 1776 and Percussion, Voice, and String

In celebration of Avant Media’s 10th year, this afternoon performance of Cage’s Apartment House 1776 features singers Imani Uzuri, Mary MacKenzie, and Matoaka Litte Eagle, with an instrumental ensemble of Avant Media alumni and friends, including: Matt Beckemeyer, Gelsey Bell, Drew Blumberg, Nicole Camacho, Randy Gibson, MIVOS Quartet, The Guidonian Hand, Mary Rowell, Eleonor Sandresky, Jessica Schmitz, Cleek Schrey, Jude Traxler, and more.

The evening concert focuses on Cage’s more intimate works: a percussion ensemble, Mangobot, directed by MANTRA percussion’s Jude Traxler, with Joe Bergen, Al Cerulo, and Nick Woodbury, performing Third Construction, Double Music, and Three² as well as works for voice and violin, featuring festival co-curator and vocalist Megan Schubert, violinistMary Rowell, and vocalists Gelsey Bell and Kjersti Kveli. Included on the program will be Experiences II, Eight Whiskus, Cheap Imitation,Forever and Sunsmell, and Litany for The Whale.

Saturday, February 16

• Apartment House 1776, 4 PM
• Composer Roundtable Discussion, 5 PM
• Percussion, Voice, and String, 8 PM

Tickets $12/$8
The Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street, New York City
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2013 Avant Music Festival | Kitty Brazelton’s The Art of Memory

Kitty Brazelton, the genre-hopping punk-classical composer premieres a new song cycle for large ensemble that explores the “art of memory, the perception of time, and the nature and place of Myth and Faith in human life.” Using the writings of St. Augustine and plainchant (St. Ambrose’ Deus creator omnium) as organizing pillars of the work, Brazelton brings to life a work that reaches back to the fourth century while posing piquant questions on 21st-century life. With texts in Latin and English, Brazelton will be joined on stage by vocalists Megan Schubert and Dafna Naphtali (also designing the work’s electronic sounds); string players Megan Atchley,Nioka Workman and Lisa M Dowling; keyboardist Eleonor Sandresky; reed-player Jay Rattman and guitarist Hui Cox.

Sunday, February 17 at 3 PM
Tickets $12/$8
The Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street, New York City
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Inaugural Concert | Periapsis Music and Dance

Periapsis Music and Dance was founded in 2012 by composer/pianist Jonathan Howard Katz and dancer/choreographer Leigh Schanfein in response to the growing gap between dance performance and live musical performance in the NYC arts scene. They will present a new work by their joint artistic directors, Jonathan Howard Katz and Leigh Schanfein, and will also feature pieces by invited guest choreographers and composers
Sunday, February 17 at 8 PM
Tickets $18 ($13.50 students) in advance and $20 ($15 students) at the door
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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