ePhemera | Unplay Festival
Conrad Tao – Photo by Elizabeth Farmer
ePhemera is devoted to electroacoustic music that not only exists within the present but actively operates within some more transient, ephemeral framework. Music by Conrad Tao, Tristan Perich, Sideband, Todd Reynolds, and more.
Tuesday, June 11 at 8 PM
$25 Three-night festival pass, $10 single admission
The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main St Brooklyn, NY
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REPlay | Unplay Festival
REPlay is, as its title suggests, a RE-playing of “familiar” works, spanning centuries. Music by Julia Wolfe, Steve Reich, Olivier Messiaen, John Adams and more performed by Face The Music, Sriracha, Conrad Tao, and IKTUS.
Wednesday, June 12 at 8 PM
$25 Three-night festival pass, $10 single admission
The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main St Brooklyn, NY
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Hi/r/stories | Unplay Festival
Hi/r/stories is about directly engaging with history. If ePhemera and REPlay both explore alternatives to specific narratives in “classical” music, Hi/r/stories is centered around narrative itself. Music by Frederic Rzewski, Iannis Xenakis, Paul Pinto, and more, performed by ThingNY, Face The Music Pannonia Quartet, and IKTUS.
Thursday, June 13 at 8 PM
$25 Three-night festival pass, $10 single admission
The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main St Brooklyn, NY
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Indexed | TIGUE
INDEXED opens with Brooklyn’s ObTuse AbsurdiTies, the solo project of Dennis Sullivan in which he puts forth a nonpareil product rooted in the intersection of music, theater, and analog electronics. Sullivan will perform a selection of works from Alexander Schubert, Georges Aperghis and Vinko Globokar with intent to create a product devoid of genre classification that will appeal to all ears. Elliot Cole will close the night with his project HANUMAN’S LEAP, an experiment in traditional epic storytelling through Cole’s unique melding of Hip Hop, Reggae and Art Rock. Along with members of TIGUE, Cole retells a story from the Ramayana about a monkey’s jump from India to Sri Lanka.
Thursday, June 13 at 8 PM
Tickets $10
JACK, 505 1/2 Waverly Ave., Brooklyn, NY
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Musical Ecologies
The inaugural season of Musical Ecologies concludes on Thursday June 13 with a solo performance by series creator and composer Dan Joseph. Continuing his exploration of the electroacoustic hammer dulcimer, Joseph will perform the latest iteration of his ongoing work Dulcimer Flight.
Thursday, June 13 at 8 PM
Admission by contribution.
The Old Stone House, 336 Third Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
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Ensemble LPR and Jennifer Koh, violin
Jennifer Koh
Ensemble LPR joins violinist Jennifer Koh to present a unique program as a part of LPR X 5: A Celebration of Le Poisson Rouge’s Fifth Anniversary. The program will include John Zorn’s Passagen for Solo Violin (2011) and Charles Wuorinen’s Spin 5 for violin and 18 Players, among other pieces to be announced. Composer Charles Wuorinen will be in attendance for the event as well.
Friday, June 14 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20-$30
(le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Bridges to Britten | Chelsea Music Festival
CMF 2013’s Opening Night celebrates Benjamin Britten’s centenary and his rich imprint that still influences music and artists to this day. Britten’s Cello Sonata and Introduction and Burlesque for two pianos, Frank Bridge’s Three Idylls for string quartet, CMF 2013 Composer-in-Residence Eric Nathan’s Oboe Quartet New York Premiere, and William Walton’s exuberant Piano Quartet are program highlights.
Friday, June 14 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $65, $55 senior/student
Visual Arts Gallery at the School of Visual Arts, 601 West 26th St., New York, NY
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Permutations Concert Series presents Fonema Consort
Fonema Consort returns to NYC in June for their second appearance with the new music concert series Permutations in Harlem, NYC, featuring NYC’s Megan Schubert (voice). They will be performing some of their favorite and most intense duos while enjoying frosty beverages in the atmospheric upTOWN, underGROUND. Music by Luciano Berio, Pascal Dusapin, Brian Ferneyhough, Beat Furrer, and more.
Friday, June 14 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, students $10.
upTOWN, underGROUND , 201 W. 113th St, New York, NY
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Lights on Baroque | Chelsea Music Festival
This inaugural Baroque event of the Chelsea Music Festival features music from the great masters Arcangelo Corelli and Matthew Locke alongside a musical and visual modern-day reflection on the period. Each half of the program explores both original works of the 17th and 18th centuries as well as 20th and 21st century perspectives including the world premiere of In Situ by 2013 Composer-in-Residence Edmund Finnis.
Saturday, June 15 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $40, $30 students/seniors
Dillon Gallery, 555 West 25th St., New York, NY
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The Music of Caleb Burhans | Alarm Will Sound
Alarm will sound performs the music of Caleb Burhans with itsnotyouitsme at (le) poisson rouge.
Saturday, June 15 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20-$35
(le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Multitude, Solitude | Chelsea Music Festival
Rarely performed gems of the British-Italian chamber music repertoire fill this intimate program. The concert title is drawn from the World Premiere piece for String Quartet by CMF 2013 Composer-in-Residence Eric Nathan. Other highlights include works by Britten, Puccini, Berio, Sollima and John Ireland.
Saturday, June 16 at 6 PM
Tickets $30, $20 students/seniors
Dillon Gallery, 555 West 25th St., New York, NY
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Bang on a Can Maraton
The Bang on a Can Marathon, part of River to River Festival, is back! This year’s edition will feature performances by Alarm Will Sound, Asphalt Orchestra, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Maya Beiser with the Provenance Project Band, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Le Cabaret Contemporain, David Cossin & Ben Reimer, Peter Evans, Monica Germino, Hotel Elefant, Yungchen Llamo & Anton Batagov, NYU Steel Pan Ensemble, NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Talk Normal, TILT Brass, Shara Worden, and more.
Watch our video of last year’s 25th marathon!
We will be live tweeting from the Marathon so make sure to follow us: @icareifulisten!
Sunday, June 16 from 1 PM to 9 PM+
Free
Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts @ Pace University
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