New York and The Netherlands | TRANSIT’s DoubleBill Festival
Jacob Cooper
TRANSIT’s DoubleBill Festival highlights emerging composers from New York as well as another city. This format allows our audiences to hear the latest offerings from composers in a cultural hotspot. This concert features music by Christopher Cerrone, Jacob Cooper, Daniel Wohl, Kate Moore, Mayke Nas and Peter Adriaansz.
Monday, May 27 at 8 PM
Tickets $12, $10 for students. Cash only at the door.
Church of the Advent Hope, 111 E 87th St, New York, NY
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The Butchershop Quartet, Barbez, Kid Millions/Jim Sauter Duo
The Butchershop Quartet will present its rendition of Stravinksy’s Rite of Spring on the centennial of its Parisian debut. Sets by Barbez and Kid Millions/Jim Sauter Duo.
Wednesday, May 29 at 8 PM
Tickets $10
Littlefield | 622 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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Three World Premieres by South American Composers | Momenta Quartet
Arthur Kampela
Momenta performs world premieres by three Latin American composers, including the long-awaited complete version of Uma Faca Só Lâmina (“A Knife All Blade,” 1998) by Arthur Kampela, as well as two works written especially for the quartet.
Thursday, May 30 at 7 PM
Tickets $20 at the door; Free for Americas Society members
The Americas Society, 680 Park Ave., New York, NY
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Gregg Kallor’s CD release concert
Gregg Kallor will be celebrating the release of his highly-anticipated album A Single Noon, co-produced by two-time Grammy award-winning pianist Fred Hersch.
Thursday, May 30 at 7:30 PM
SubCulture, 45 Bleecker Street, downstairs space
Tickets $15-$18
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Bodiless at Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy
Gabrielle Herbst
Brooklyn-based composer and singer Gabrielle Herbst presents a performance of her opera-in-progress, Bodiless, for which she received a Jerome Foundation commission through Roulette. This work for three sopranos and ensemble will feature the composer joined by sopranos Ariadne Greif and Margaret Dudley with members of Contemporaneous.
Friday, May 31 at 6 PM
Free
Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy | 179 Pacific St, Brooklyn
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Hammerklavier Project | Dr. Faustus
French Music of Today | Ensemble Linea
No Starch | Voxare String Quartet
Journaling (Part Five) | Cornelius Duffalo
Inaugurated in 2009, Journaling is a series of performances in which Dufallo documents his own work with extraordinary living composers while tracking various paths in twenty-first century music. The next installment is Part Five featuring a world premiere by Todd Reynolds and a U.S. premiere by Syrian composer Kinan Azmeh with works by Kinan Azmeh, Cornelius Dufallo, and New York based Israeli composer Guy Barash. Alongside Dufallo, Reynolds and Azmeh will perform in their pieces.
Saturday, June 1 at 7 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, Second Floor New York, NY
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Action Painting: the Edges of Sound | Ensemble Moto Perpetuo and Ensemble Linea
The Chelsea Symphony featuring Mark O’Connor
Mark O’Connor
Violinist and composer Mark O’Connor joins The Chelsea Symphony for the finale of the orchestra’s seventh season. The performance will feature the New York City premiere of O’Connor’s The Improvised Violin Concerto, the first concerto to feature an entirely improvised solo part over a through-composed orchestral score.
Saturday, June 1 at 7 PM
Tickets $45/$35/$25; Members, Seniors, Students $40/$30/$20
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway New York, NY
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Excerpts from THE LONG WALK, an opera
The Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Family Auditorium at the JCC,
334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th street
Tickets $25
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