This week: concerts in New York (October 14 – October 20, 2013)

American Brass Quintet

The American Brass Quintet (ABQ), entering its 53rd season, performs the world premiere of alumnus Sebastian Currier’s Cadence, Fugue, Fade (2013) on Juilliard’s Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital on Monday, October 14 at 8 PM in Paul Hall. The program also features David Snow’s Dance Movements (1981), William Lovelock’s Miniature Suite (1967), Josquin des Prés’ Chansons, and Four Madrigals by Luca Marenzio, edited by Raymond Mase.
Monday, October 14 at 8 PM
Free
Paul Hall (at the Juilliard School), 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, Broadway at 65th Street New York, NY
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Charles Neidich

The concert features Thomas Kessler’s Unisono for three clarinets, Mozart’s Divertimenti for three basset horns and Charles Neidich’s own composition Licorice Prelude for twelve clarinets.
Tuesday, October 15 at 6 PM
Free
Morse Hall, The Juilliard School, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY
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Aleph Guitar Quartett

Works for four guitars by Fuentes, Deutsch, Jakober, Hidalgo and GF Haas.
Tuesday, October 15 at 7:30 PM
Free
Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY
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Modernism through a Northern Italian Lens

The Italian Academy hosts the League of Composers/ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music) with a world premiere by Milanese master Giacomo Manzoni (b. 1932). World premieres by two of Manzoni’s former students, Peyman Farzinpour and Daniele Venturi, deepen the Northern Italian focus, accompanied by compatible works by composers from Austria, Ireland and the US, with a world premiere by Manzoni’s American contemporary, Martin Boykan (b. 1931). Comprised of short pieces, Modernism through a Northern Italian Lensfeatures five world premieresin total with John McLachlan rounding out the new works as well as compositions by Dina Koston, Georg Friedrich Haas, Robert Martin and Fred Lerdahl.
Wednesday, October 16 at 7 PM
Free
The Italian Academy, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
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ICE album release event: Xenakis chamber concertos on Mode Records

An all Xenakis program.
Wednesday, October 16 at 7 PM
Tickets $15
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, Second Floor, New York, NY
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ACME

ACME will be performing the music of their own violinist and 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw at Arts Brookfield / World Financial Center, in a performance curated by John Schaefer, host and producer of WNYC Radio’s popular radio shows New Sounds and Soundcheck.
Wednesday, October 16 at 7 PM
Free
Brookfield Place Winter Garden, 200 Vesey St, New York, NY
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Ear Heart Music: American Modern Ensemble & Mazzini Dance Collective – Frantic Gnarly Still

Ear Heart Music presents American Modern Ensemble and Mazzini Dance Collective in a collaborative concert and dance performance, Frantic Gnarly Still. Works include Lembit Beecher’s dramatic Frantic Gnarly Still (NYC premiere), Pierre Jalbert’s gripping Visual Abstract, Jason Haney’s moody Epigrams (NYC premiere), Tight Sweater, an energetic work by self-proclaimed neo-Baroque composer Marc Mellits, and The Thin Ice of Your Fragile Mind by AME’s house composer and Artistic Director, Robert Paterson. Both the Jalbert and Paterson works will be presented with world premiere choreographies by Annmaria Mazzini, principle of Mazzini Dance Collective.
Wednesday, October 16 at 8 PM
Tickets $20, $15 members/students/seniors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Concerts at One | Britten

Celebrated favorites and rarely-performed works of Britten’s repertory will be presented, led by Director of Music and the Arts, Julian Wachner, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and NOVUS NY. Other featured artists include tenor Nicholas Phan, cellist Matt Haimovitz, and The Trinity Youth Chorus.
Thursday, October 17 at 1 PM
Free
Trinity Wall Street, 74 Trinity Place, New York, NY
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Ancient Melodies, Modern Echoes

In honor of Benjamin Britten’s centennial year, soprano Esteli Gomez and guitarist Colin Davin weave Britten’s Songs from the Chinese (Op. 58) and Nocturnal After John Dowland (Op. 70) with the lute songs of English Renaissance composer John Dowland, and a new commission by American composer Caroline Shaw, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
Thursday, October 17 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25, $15 students
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 3 West 65th Street, New York, NY
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Interpretations | Gene Coleman & Ensemble N_JP, Momenta Quartet

Gene Coleman presents the New York premiere of Spiral Network and Sendai Transmissions, a world premiere of a new commissioned work by Chamber Music America. Both works will be performed by Ensemble N_JP, an ongoing cross-cultural project with Japanese and Western instruments, and with special guest vocalist, baritone Thomas Buckner. Momenta Quartet will perform string quartets composed by improvisional artists, including Yusef Lateef, Arthur Kampela, Gordon Beeferman, and a world premiere from Adam Rudolph.
Thursday, October 17 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, $10 members/students/seniors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York
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Eavesdropping: Plugged & Unplugged | guitarist Nadav Lev, mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham and violinist Miranda Cuckson

Multifaceted guitarist Nadav Lev hosts illustrious mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham and violin sensation Miranda Cuckson, in a unique concert of contemporary music with strong rock and folk influences. The program offers a refreshing mix of musical languages, and includes works by Steve Mackey, Manuel de Falla, Jorge Liderman and others.
Thursday, October 17 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, $12 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, Second Floor, New York, NY
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In Celebration of Ned Rorem’s 90th Birthday

The clarinetist Thomas Piercy will honor the 90th birthday of composer Ned Rorem with a “ROREM at 90” concert at NYC’s Bargemusic. One of America’s most honored composers, winner of both the Grammy Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Rorem turns 90 this October 23rd. Mr. Rorem will be the guest of honor at this concert.
Friday, October 18 at 7 PM
Tickets $35, $30 Senior, $15 Student
Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing near the Brooklyn Bridge
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Benjamin Britten: The Complete Songs for Tenor and Guitar

Celebrating the Britten centenary, tenor Rufus Müller and guitarist David Leisner present a rare performance of the complete oeuvre, plus the landmark Nocturnal for solo guitar.
Friday, October 18 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $32, Member $27, Under 30 (with valid ID) $20
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway New York, NY
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NYU Mix | NYU Percussion Ensemble

The NYU Percussion Ensemble performs a concert of premieres by NYU composers Alex Appel, Nell Shaw Cohen, Fjola Evans, Josue Collado Fregoso, Sam Reising, Kyle Tieman-Strauss, Michael Vince, Benjamin Wenzelberg, and Blake Wynia.
Friday, October 18 at 7:30 PM
Free
Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY
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The Harlem Sound Project | Horn and Hindemith

On the program is Sonata for Horn in F and Piano (1939), Sonata for Alto Horn and Piano (1943), Concerto for Horn and Orchestra (1949), and Sonata for Four Horns (1952).
Saturday, October 19 at 1 PM
Free (donations accepted)
Our Saviour’s Atonement, 178 Bennett Avenue, New York, NY
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Sirius Quartet

Works by Gregor Huebner, Jeremy Harman, Fung Chern Hwei, and the 2013 Young Composer winner Scott Etan Feiner.
Saturday, October 19 at 7 PM
Tickets $30, reserved seating and open bar; $20 general admission.
The Cell, 338 West 23rd Street, New York, NY

Michael Hersch Portrait Concert

The concert will honor Hersch with a program of his works, including two New York premieres. Miranda Cuckson will open the concert with a performance of Hersch’s in the snowy margins for unaccompanied violin. Then Gary Louie will perform the New York premiere of the composer’s of ages manifest for unaccompanied alto saxophone, followed by Cuckson with Five Fragments. Soprano Ah Young Hong and pianist Michael Sheppard will unite for the first New York performance of How Far the Cradle, and Hersch himself will close the concert with selections from his celebrated 150-minute work, The Vanishing Pavilions.
Saturday, October 19 at 8 PM
Free
DiMenna Center for the Arts, Mary Flagler Cary Hall, 450 W 37th St, New York, NY

Permutations101913 | TAK

Program: David Bird SERIES IMPOSTURE, Marcelo Toledo Aliento/Arrugas, John Zorn The Tempest, Benjamin Attahir On Virtuosity, Taylor Brook Ecstatic Music, and David Bird Veil//Akousmatikoi.
Saturday, October 19 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
201 W. 113th St. New York, NY 10026 (basement entrance)
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Brooklyn New Music Collective

A concert put on by the Brooklyn New Music Collective.
Sunday, October 20 at 3 PM
Tickets $15
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, Second Floor, New York, NY
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Sirota Playing Sirota

Organist and Episcopal priest Victoria Sirota will perform a selection of works by her husband, composer Robert Sirota. The program will begin with Johann Sebastian Bach’s Pièce d’Orgue (Fantasia) in G (BWV 572), followed Robert Sirota’s Letters Abroad for Organ and Piano, Two Chorale Preludes, and Celestial Wind. These pieces, performed by Victoria Sirota, will be featured on Sirota’s upcoming CD, Robert Sirota Organ Works Vol. 1, set for release in June 2014, the same month that Sirota’s Apparitions will be premiered at the American Guild of Organists Convention in Boston.
Sunday, October 20 at 5 PM
Free
The Cathedral Church of Saint John The Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
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