ACA Composers Now! with 20>>21
As part of New York’s city-wide festival, Composers Now! the American Composers Alliance is collaborating with 20>>21, to present works by Elizabeth Bell, Lawrence Dillon, Phillip Rhodes, Christopher Shultis, Peter Westergaard, and Lewis Nielson.
Monday, February 18 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $10, Students $5, Children FREE, Day of Show $15
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway New York, NY
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SHOWDOWN @ JACK
Elevator Rose
Multi-billed evening of new music ensembles including performances by thingNY, Elevator Rose, Anti-Social Music, IKTUS and Quiet City.
Monday, February 18 at 8 PM
Tickets $10
JACK, 505 1/2 Waverly Ave., Brooklyn, NY
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ACA Composers Now! with Lunatics at Large
As part of New York’s city-wide festival, Composers Now! the American Composers Alliance is collaborating with Lunatics at Large, to present recent works by Richard Brooks, Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Eleanor Cory, Brian Fennelly, Thomas Flaherty, Jan Gilbert, and Louis Karchin.
Tuesday, February 19 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $10, Students $5, Children FREE, Day of Show $15
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway New York, NY
Mostly Strings
New York Composers Circle presents a program that includes the music of Roger Blanc, Richard Brooks, Jacob E. Goodman, Carl Kanter, Debra Kaye, Eugene Marlow, and Richard D. Russell.
Tuesday, February 19 at 8 PM
Suggested donation $10
St. Peters Church at Citigroup Center, 619 Lexington Ave., New York, NY
Juilliard Composition Concert
This concert features new works by Juilliard composers.
Tuesday, February 19 at 8 PM
FREE
Paul Hall, The Juilliard School, 155 West 65th, New York, NY
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The Density of Air | Tristan Perich
Tristan Perich
The Density of Air, Tristan Perich’s new composition for pianist Vicky Chow, places the solo piano in a delicate sea of white noise. Forty loudspeakers will be wired to hand-built electronics and will blanket the stage, each producing barely audible durations of white noise, accumulating in drifting waves of sound.
Tuesday, February 19 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, member/students/seniors $10
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Ecstatic Music Festival | Deerhoof & Dal Niente with Marcos Balter
Deerhoof and the contemporary ensemble Dal Niente will collaborate on a new work for the first time after sharing a bill in Chicago’s Millennium Park last summer as part of the Wordless Music Series. The program includes a new work by Brazilian-born composer Marcos Balter for Deerhoof and Dal Niente, arrangements by Greg Saunier of Deerhoof songs for Dal Niente, and a performance of works by Balter for Dal Niente.
Wednesday, February 20 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25, $20 for 3+ concerts, $15 students, $150 festival pass
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York , NY
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Songs and Cycles by Gilda Lyons & Daron Hagen
The music of Gilda Lyons and Daron Hagen is performed.
Thursday, February 21 at 1 PM
FREE
Trinity Church Wall Street, 74 Trinity Pl New York, NY
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Eavesdropping: Opening concert with thingNY
Experimental music ensemble thingNY will present works by two of its master chefs. The evening will feature a mouthful of selections from Paul Pinto’s ‘minis’, a group of short pieces focusing on aspects of text delivery, along with bite size servings from Erin Rogers’ latest work ‘Trajectories’ for 5 vocal instrumentalists, electronics and communal harp. The evening will culminate with ONE of the following:
a. salad bar
b. entrée
c. dessert
d. group improv
Thursday, February 21 at 7 PM
Tickets $10
The Tank,151 W. 46th St., 8th Floor New York, NY
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First Songs: Dawn Upshaw and the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program
Dawn Upshaw performs a recital with pianist and Bard faculty Kayo Iwama, the singers of the program, and the Bard Collaborative Piano Fellows. The concert will feature the world premier of a work by George Tsontakis, written for Dawn Upshaw and Kayo Iwama, as well as new works composed by current students and recent alumni of Bard College and Conservatory.
Thursday, February 21 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35, Members $25
The Morgan Library & Museum, Gilder Lehrman Hall, 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Thomas Buckner, with Ensemble L’Art Pour L’Art
Baritone Thomas Buckner welcomes Hamburg-based Ensemble L’Art pour L’Art, a premiere contemporary music ensemble celebrating 30 years as an ongoing ensemble in 2013. Renowned for their recordings of works by American composers James Tenney, John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Alvin Lucier, their recent recording Haltbar Gemacht won the ECHO-Klassik Music Award. Works Include Matthias Kaul’s “Thinking About Air… A Song” and “Games for 5″, Michael Meierhof’s “Rostfrei”, Christian Wolff’s “Edges”, and John Cage’s “Four6”.
Thursday, February 21 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, Students/Seniors/Roulette Members $10
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY
Alan Gilbert Conducts Brahms, Bloch and Rouse
Alan Gilbert conducts Christopher Rouse’s Phantasmata, Bloch’s Schelomo with soloist Jan Vogler, and Brahms’s Symphony No. 1.
Thursday, February 21 at 7:30 PM & Friday, February 22 at 11 AM
Tickets $41 – $123
Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza New York, NY
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Nick Hallett’s Rainbow Passage | Avant Music Festival
Nick Hallett presents the world premiere of Rainbow Passage for voices and electronics. Using a diagnostic text by speech scientist Grant Fairbanks as a starting point, Rainbow Passage contains every sound of the English language. These sounds are first intoned literally by the singers (Daisy Press and Megan Schubert), and then processed through electronic means to create a musical language. A capella passages incorporate elements of Western plainchant and extended vocal technique. Like much of Hallett’s work, Rainbow Passage will be presented as media ritual, in collaboration with live cinema artist Brock Monroe. Hallett will perform live electronics and sing with Press and Schubert.
Friday, February 22 at 8 PM
Tickets $12, $8 students
The Wild Project 195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY
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Ecstatic Music Festival | Laurel Halo, Julia Holter & Daniel Wohl with Transit
Composer/performers Laurel Halo, Julia Holter and Daniel Wohl join forces for a new collaborative commission, performed by all three artists along with Wohl’s TRANSIT ensemble. Halo, Holter and Wohl will also present songs and compositions with new arrangements and configurations for live instrumentalists.
Saturday, February 23 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25, $20 for 3+ concerts, $15 students, $150 festival pass
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York , NY
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Versions of the Truth and Setting the World at Five and Seven | Frank J. Oteri
Baritone/male soprano Phillip Cheah and pianist Trudy Chan will present an evening of music by Frank J. Oteri. The highlight of the program will be two world premieres: Versions of the Truth (2012), a song cycle based on twelve poems by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), commissioned by the ASCAP Foundation’s Charles Kingsford Fund, which was written expressly for Mr. Cheah and Ms. Chan; and Setting The World at Five and Seven (2008), which will be performed by Trudy Chan. The program also includes the first complete public performance of Oteri’s the nurturing river (1982), a song cycle that will also be performed by Mr. Cheah and Ms. Chan, based on 14 sonnets by James R. Murphy; and Palindrome (1984) for piano, performed by Mr. Cheah.
Saturday, February 23 at 8 PM
Tickets $15
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street, New York, New York
Randy Gibson’s Apparitions Of The Four Pillars In The Midwinter Starfield Under The Astral 789 Duet | Avant Music Festival
Randy Gibson’s fully-immersive, constantly evolving work Apparitions of the Four Pillars, featuring string players Drew Blumberg and Mariel Roberts, trombonists Jen Baker and 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. Accompanied by video sculpture from Oscar Henriquez and lighting design by Kryssy Wright, and with performers improvising while following a set of guidelines, every performance of Apparitions is a fully-enveloping totality; a completely unique, unrepeatable experience.
Saturday, February 23 at 8 PM
Tickets $12, $8 students
The Wild Project 195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY
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Composer Portraits | Enno Poppe
Enno Poppe (photo credit: Kai Bienert)
Enno Poppe (b. 1969) is one of Germany’s most talked-about composers. The founder and conductor of Berlin’s ensemble mosaik, Poppe is as inspired by his experience with and love of chamber ensembles as it is by his theoretical interest in the nearly infinite permutations possible with even the tiniest musical motives. The new piano-percussion ensemble Yarn/Wire joins returning favorites the JACK Quartet for this fascinating Portrait.
Saturday, February 23 at 8 PM
Tickets $25 – $30
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway (at 116th Street), New York, NY
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Music From Japan Festival | Japanese Tone Colors on Western Instruments
The concert features music from Japan from over the last 45 years as well as a world premiere by Music From Japan-commissioned composer Jummei Suzuki.
Sunday, February 24 at 2 PM
Tickets $20, Festival Weekend Pass $35, Student/Senior Rush (Sunday only) $12
Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Ave New York, NY
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