Underwood New Music Readings (Working Rehearsal) | American Composers Orchestra
Nina C. Young
This year, six of the nation’s most promising composers in the early stages of their professional careers have been selected from over 150 submissions received from around the country for American Composers Orchestra’s Underwood New Music Readings. The selected composers – Jonathan Blumhofer, Louis Chiappetta, Joshua Groffman, Saad Haddad, Arthur J. McCaffrey, and Nina C. Young – represent a broad spectrum of musical backgrounds and sound worlds.
Monday, April 8 at 10 AM
FREE
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Underwood New Music Readings (Run-Through) | American Composers Orchestra
The six new compositions for the Underwood New Music Readings will be run through.
Tuesday, April 9 at 7:30 PM
FREE
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Stridulitrum | Zach Layton
Zach Layton – Photo by axoxnxs/Flickr
Brooklyn-based composer Zach Layton who will present a new work for string quartet and bowed electric guitar entitled Stridulitrum. Performed by Alex Waterman (cello), Amy Cimini (viola), Eli Spindel (violin), Laura Ortman (violin) and the composer (bowed electric guitar), the work is inspired by a study of the sound production process used by many insects involving the scraping together of different body parts, typically legs or wings.
Thursday, April 11 at 8 PM
Admission by contribution
The Old Stone House, 336 Third Street, bet. 4th/5th Avenues, Park Slope, Brooklyn
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The Sau-Wing Lam Collection In Action | Salome Chamber Orchestra
In four concerts during the 2012-13 season, New York’s dynamic young Salomé Chamber Orchestra will present programs featuring members and guest artists performing on instruments from The Sau-Wing Lam Collection of Rare Italian Stringed Instruments, a selection of which will be on view in the Metropolitan Museum’s André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments through June 30, 2013. In this program, violinist Philippe Quint joins Salomé co-founders Sean Avram Carpenter and violist David Aaron Carpenter in performances of works featuring viola: Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, and String Orchestra, K. 364; Lera Auerbach’s Sogno di Stabat Mater for Violin, Viola, Vibraphone, and Orchestra (2008); and and Paganini’s Sonata per la Grand Viola et Orchestra Op. 35, featuring violist David Aaron Carpenter, violinist Philippe Quint (performing on the “Bavarian” Stradivari in the Mozart work), and violinist Sean Carpenter (performing on the “Baltic” Guarneri del Gesù of 1731).
Friday, April 12 at 7 PM
Tickets $35
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave New York, NY
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New Juilliard Ensemble
The New Juilliard Ensemble performs new music by Mohammed Fairouz, David Hertzberg, Eugene Astapov, Luca Lombardi, and Laura Elise Schwendinger.
Friday, April 12 at 8 PM
FREE
Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater, 1941 Broadway (on 65th St between Broadway & Amsterdam), New York, NY
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Dark Circus | Cadillac Moon Ensemble
Cadillac Moon Ensemble
In a concert of world premieres, Cadillac Moon Ensemble explores the dark and creepy side of circuses & clowns. With four world premieres by composers Rick Burkhardt, Daniel Felsenfeld, Nicholas Deyoe, and Tim Hansen, distinctive compositional voices add their interpretation of dark circus in this concert of daring pageantry.
Friday, April 12 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students & seniors
Norman S. Benzaquen Hall, DiMenna Center, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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The Nouveau Classical Project presents Composed Cocktails
Composed Cocktails is a hybrid concert and party series presented by The Nouveau Classical Project, a hybrid music ensemble and creative production hub. Enjoy an evening of eclectic sounds while imbibing music-inspired cocktails custom designed by Georgi PremiumVodka. Listen to Pierrot Lunaire as you sip a Sad Clown, a cherry vodka-based concoction, this delectable concoction will be made along with other music inspired cocktails.
Friday, April 12 at 8 PM
Tickets $20 on advance, $25 day of show
(le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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The Phoenix Concerts presents Nordic Currents: New Music from Scandinavia
Since 2005, The Phoenix Concerts has commissioned, premiered, and presented over one hundred contemporary composers’ works on nearly fifty concerts in Manhattan, Beijing, Saratoga Springs, and Seattle. This program features music by Einar Englund, Katarina Leyman, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Kaaija Saariaho, Aulis Sallinen, and Andrea Tarrodi.
Friday, April 12 at 8 PM
$10 donation at the door, FREE for students
St. Matthew & St. Timothy, 26 West 84th Street, New York, NY
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Jeremiah Bornfield and Neil Prufer at DiMenna Center
Jeremiah Bornfield
Award winning soprano Trudy Craney (Nixon in China), The Helix Piano Trio, and other instrumental guests will perform vocal and solo works by two young New York composers: Jeremiah Bornfield and Neil Prufer. We are running a sweepstakes on Facebook until April 11, Midnight EST: win two tickets!
Saturday, April 13 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20
DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues
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Bonjour
Made up of Ashley Bathgate (cello), James Moore (guitar), Eleonore Oppenheim (bass), and Florent Ghys (double bass), Bonjour will perform works by Florent Ghys at the Metropolitan Room.
Saturday, April 13 at 11:30 PM
Tickets $20
Metropolitan Room 34 W 22nd St, New York, NY
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