Brooklyn Youth Chorus & Kronos Quartet
Brooklyn Youth Chorus – Photo by Joshua Simpson
Enjoy cocktails and light supper at the stylish Green Building followed by a performance featuring BYC with Kronos Quartet at Roulette. The evening honors longtime board member Hillary Richard. The program presents BYC commissions, including a world-premiere by Julia Wolfe and works by Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond). New York premieres by Aleksandra Vrebalov and Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), and works by Bryce Dessner (The National, Clogs) are also featured as part of a new series of BYC co-commissions with BAM.
Tuesday, May 7 at 8 PM
Tickets $45
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Acqua Alta (High Water) | Jenny Q Chai
Jenny Q Chai
Acqua Alta (High Water) will be the anchor of a month-long programming focus on global warming at Spectrum, with sound and video installations based on data curated by Ian Fenty, whose doctoral dissertation at MIT addressed ’s new studied of global warming and its effects on our oceans. John Cage’s athletic Water Walk (see schematic attached/above) is the centerpiece of the program. Written in 1959, John Cage’s Water Walk is scored for a number of objects, including bathtub, rubber duck, prepared piano and five radios. It was originally premiered on the Italian TV show Lascia O Raddoppia. Ninnananna from Marco Stroppa’s Miniature Estrose—a lullaby in which its out of worldly tremors creates a gentle watery shimmer and explores the two relations between two states of mind, with initiated knowledge one might trace hidden lullabies by Brahms, Schubert, Stravinsky and an Italian lullaby Stroppa’s mother used to sing to him. Scarlatti and Gibbons provides the sensation of traveling back in time in Italy, while Debussy and Ravel adds their watery imagery. Three world premieres by Nils Vigeland, Milica Paranosic and Michael Vincent Waller reflect contemporary composers’ take on global warming. To complete the experience, the stage and the hall are transformed with projections of Italian Renaissance paintings, which stunningly portray the luminous beauty of Italy.
Tuesday, May 7 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow St., 2nd floor, New York, NY
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Benjamin Kreith: My New Address | Eavesdropping
Benjamin Kreith presents a recital of contemporary violin music featuring ‘My New Address’ by Italian composer Stefano Scodanibbio. The program includes solo works by Javier Arias Bal, Luciano Chessa, Laurie San Martin, David del Puerto, and Anton Vishio. Daniel Cullen will join Kreith to perform his piece ‘Stream’ for violin and electronics.
Thursday, May 9 at 7 PM
Tickets $12, $10 advance
The Tank 151, W 46th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY
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A Musical Sacrifice | Tribeca New Music Festival
New works by Florent Ghys, Patrick Gran,t Joshua Lopes, Terry Riley, Jacob TV, and additional works by Lisa Coons, and Daniel Felsenfeld. Performed by Kathleen Supové, piano, and James Moore, guitar.
Friday, May 10 at 8 PM
Single Admission $20 – Students/Seniors $15
The Cell, 338 W 23rd St, New York, NY
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Mivos/Kanter Prizewinner Concert
Mivos Quartet – Photo by Ralf Puder/Nana Fran
The program will feature the winner of the 2012 Mivos/Kanter Prize, Chris Fisher-Lochhead for his piece Dig Absolutely, as well as pieces by David Grant and Thomas Ades.
Friday, May 10 at 8 PM
A.R.T./New York – South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford Street Brooklyn NY
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Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open: Chamber Works with Mivos Quartet
Connection Works presents Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open: music by Michel Gentile, Rob Garcia, Daniel Kelly.
Saturday, May 11 at 8 PM
Tickets $10
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, 58 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Keyboard Practice
Christopher Taylor – Photo by UW-Madison, University Communications – Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Pianist Christopher Taylor performs music by Bach and Rzewski at Miller Theatre.
Saturday, May 11 at 8 PM
Tickets $35 – $40
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Musicians from Marlboro III
Celebrating its 48th season during 2012-2013, the Musicians from Marlboro touring program was created as an extension of Vermont’s Marlboro Music Festival, founded in 1951. The tours are noted not only for joyous performances of both lesser-known works and chamber music classics, but also for offering valuable experience to artists at the beginning of their careers. Since inception, the Musicians from Marlboro tours have introduced such great talents as Richard Goode, Yefim Bronfman, Jaime Laredo, Murray Perahia, Paula Robison, András Schiff, Peter Serkin, Richard Stoltzman, and Benita Valente, as well as many of the exceptional artists now heard in the Emerson, Juilliard, and Tokyo Quartets, and the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio.
Saturday, May 11 at 8 PM
Tickets $13
High School of Fashion Industries, 225 W 24th St New York, NY
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“1, 2, 3″ | NYsoundCircuit 4.3
NYsoundCircuit – the multimedia salon series – closes the season with one of its most varied sonic and visual explorations yet. Featured is the one and only turntablist Maria Chavez, making it as easy as “1,2,3” with a solo, duo, and finally a trio set woven through the evening with Sandy Ewen and Daniel Neumann. Also lined up are Angélica Negrón premiering a new set of songs for voice, clocks, accordions, toys, and electronics and violinist Andie Springer performing “Dandelion” by Mark Kouyoumdjian, exploring childhood manipulations of old home movies. Trumpeter Hugo Moreno performs “Toying” by Chelsea Music Festival Composer-in-Residence Eric Nathan. Saxophones wail as the New Thread Quartet delivers music from the lyrical to the virtuosic. Daniel Neumann performs a multi-channel live improvisation, “A Corner as a Field” while the Curt Sydnor Quartet reimagines the architecture of Louis Sullivan in “Materials and their Destiny.”
Saturday, May 11 at 8 PM
Tickets $12, $25 & unlimited drinks (Credit cards accepted)
DiMenna Center, 450 W 37th St New York, NY
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Tribeca Monsters! | Tribeca New Music Festival
Works by Armando Bayolo, Richard Cionco, Annie Gosfield, Judd Greenstein, Joseph Waters, Randall Woolf, and a special tribute to William Duckworth. Performed by Geoffrey Burleson, piano, and Mary Rowell, violin.
Saturday, May 11 at 8 PM
Single Admission $20 – Students/Seniors $15
The Cell, 338 W 23rd St, New York, NY
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Re-Imaginings | Tribeca New Music Festival
Works by Mason Bates, Eve Beglarian, Annie Gosfield, Ethan Iverson, Phil Kline, James Mobberley, Nico Muhly, David Rakowski, Frederick Rzewski, Steve Reich, and Geoff Sheil. Performed by Anthony de Mare, piano.
Sunday, May 12 at 3 PM
Single Admission $25 – Students/Seniors $15
The Cell, 338 W 23rd St, New York, NY
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The Living Earth Show | Tribeca New Music Festival
Works by Samuel Carl Adams, Timo Andres, Christopher Cerrone, Luciano Chessa, Brian Ferneyhough, and Adrian Knight. Performed by Andrew Meyerson, percussion, and Travis Andrews, guitar.
Sunday, May 12 at 8 PM
Single Admission $20 – Students/Seniors $15
The Cell, 338 W 23rd St, New York, NY
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