Sasha Siem with Special Guest Jonathan Pfeffer
Sasha Siem
Sasha Siem performs at Joe’s Pub. Her album “Most of the Boys,” produced by Valgeir Sigurosson (Feist, Bjork, Bonny Prince Billy) was released this month. Siem has written music for the London Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Opera House, Rambert Dance Company, Opera North, The Aldeburgh Festival, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Neue Vocalisten Stuttgart, The London Sinfonietta, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Listen to Kind Man’s Kiss feat. Mivos Quartet:
Monday, July 22 at 7 PM
Tickets $15
Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St New York, NY
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My Brightest Diamond, Emily Wells, Kronos Quartet | Kronos at 40
Vocalist/composer Sadovska joins Kronos in the premiere of her work regarding the catastrophic Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster of 1986, which took place in her native Ukraine.
Thursday, July 25 at 7:30 PM
Free
Damrosch Park, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY
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Pulverize the Sound | Peter Evans, Tim Dahl, Mike Pride
Peter Evans at the Bang on a Can Marathon 2013
Pulverize the Sound is a collaborative trio featuring Peter Evans on trumpet, Tim Dahl on electric bass/electronics, and Mike Pride on drums and percussion. This performance will feature the results of two days of workshopping and co-composing new works for the group. Maximizing the large space of Roulette’s acclaimed Art Deco performance space, Pulverize the Sound will incorporate orchestral percussion and sound experimentation within new, long-form compositions of musical and sonic extremity.
Thursday, July 25 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, members/students/seniors $10
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Kronos Quartet with special guests Magda Giannikou and Vân-Ánh Võ, The Gloaming | Kronos at 40
Kronos Quartet – Photo by Jay Blakesberg
The acclaimed string quartet focuses on global connections. The all-star Irish supergroup The Gloaming brings traditional music into the future.
Friday, July 26 at 7:30 PM
Free
Damrosch Park, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY
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Found Sound Nation | Kronos at 40
Festival performers, enthusiastic audience members, and unsuspecting passersby can lay down a track with this mobile production team, the education and outreach wing of preeminent new-music experimenters Bang on a Can. Creating on the fly, they turn spontaneous sonic expressions into catchy tracks for later download.
Friday, July 26 to Sunday, July 28
Free
Josie Robertson Plaza, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY
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Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Kronos Quartet, Face The Music, Elena Moon Park | Kronos at 40
Brooklyn Youth Chorus at the Bang on a Can Marathon 2013
Asian folk songs for kids, DIY instruments, contemporary classical music, and graceful interpretations of vocal works by young performers.
Saturday, July 27 at 12 PM
Free
Hearst Plaza, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY
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Rise | Matt Siffert
Matt Siffert will premiere a new group of songs entitled ‘Rise,’ written for himself (voice) and harp.
Saturday, July 27 at 6 PM
Tickets $10
Barbès, 376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Kronos Quartet, Asphalt Orchestra, Jacob Garchik | Kronos at 40
Kronos premieres new works by electronic vanguardists. Asphalt rearranges an alt-rock classic. Garchik leads a trombone choir.
Sunday, July 28 at 6:30 PM
Free
Damrosch Park, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY
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