sydney skybetter and associates & the Ear Heart Music Ensemble – Cold House
David Lang
The Ear Heart Music Ensemble debuts in a collaborative performance of contemporary dance repertory featuring the Brooklyn-based skybetter and associates. The selection of music is icy and transcendent, anticipatory of the impending winter season. Flutist and Ear Heart Music director Amelia Lukas will lead the ensemble in Karen Tanaka’s gorgeous and otherwordly Frozen Horizen for flute, string quartet, double bass, and percussion. This general feeling of stillness and cold is given new dimension by themes of violence and darkness, and a warped sense of self and other in the choreography of Sydney Skybetter. The dance portion of the program includes Temporary Matters, set to selections from Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Englabörn; Cold House You Kept set to String Quartet no. 2, Quasi una Fantasia by Henryk Górecki; and the New York premiere of Eveningland, Skybetter’s recent commission by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, featuring selections from David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Little Match Girl Passion in its version for four vocal soloists, percussion, and electronics.
Monday, November 18 at 8 PM
Tickets $20, Members/Students/Seniors $15
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn NY
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Catalyst Quartet | Pop-Up Concert
Catalyst Quartet
Catalyst Quartet makes their Miller debut with a program that features a work by their own violinist Jessie Montgomery—a student of Joan Tower—alongside works by Tower, Philip Glass and jazz great Paquito D’Rivera. Catalyst is comprised of top winners and alumni of the renowned Sphinx Competition, an annual competition designed to identify and champion outstanding young string players in the Black and Latino communities.
Tuesday, November 19 at 6 PM
Free
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Contagious Sounds
Featuring music by Ted Hearne, Adrian Knight, Travis Laplante, Andrew Norman, Caroline Shaw, Jason Trueting and Scott Wollschleger.
Tuesday, November 19 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $10
Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia St, New York, NY
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Charles Wuorinen: Virtuoso Works for Solo Piano and String Quartet
This 75th birthday tribute concert celebrates some of the virtuoso chamber works of Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Charles Wuorinen, performed by musicians for whom they were written.
Wednesday, November 20 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35; $25 for Members
The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
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New Voices, New Music
Hotel Elefant
New Voices, New Music is the culminating performance of a six-day workshop led by members of the International Contemporary Ensemble and Pultizer Prize–winning composer David Lang, 2013–2014 holder of the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall. Eastman BroadBand, gnarwhallaby, Hotel Elefant, and Mivos Quartet will perform music by Robert Honstein, Daniel Goode, Mary Kouyoumdjian and more.
Wednesday, November 20 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, 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, November 21 at 1 PM
Free
Trinity Wall Street, 74 Trinity Place, New York, NY
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Andy King
The music of Andy King is performed.
Thursday, November 21 at 7 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students and seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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New Music Collection | MuSE Sounds of Arts Festival
Cadillac Moon Ensemble
A contemporary music showcase performed by Cadillac Moon Ensemble and Iktus Percussion. Featuring works by Wei-Chieh Lin, Rick Burkhardt, Nicholas Deyoe, Levy Lorenzo, Cory Bracken and Hiroya Miura.
Thursday, November 21 at 8 PM
Tickets $15 advance, $20 at the door General Admission, $12 Seniors & Students
The Secret Theatre – Little (Studio 104), 44-02 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY
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A celebration: Benjamin Britten at 100
On the 100th birthday of Benjamin Britten, Aron Zelkowicz will play the composer’s three cello suites.
Friday, November 22 at 7 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students and seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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The American Dream
Exploring the romantic notion of the American Dream, this evening features the Cassatt Quartet performing the “American” quartet by Dvořák, Peter Schickele’s American Dream, and Source Code, a new commissioned work by Jessie Montgomery.
Friday, November 22 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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21c Liederabend, op. 3 | BAM Next Wave Festival
Missy Mazzoli
Boasting 10 world premieres, this unique weekend event—which played to sold-out audiences in its last two incarnations—pairs video artists and lighting designers with new-music ensemble NOVUS NY, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and top soloists. The eclectic, impeccably curated lineup is different each night and includes a commissioned song cycle by British-born composer Anna Clyne and music by Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli, Eric Whitacre, Marie Incontrera, David T. Little, Olga Neuwirth, Judd Greenstein, Paola Prestini, Ted Hearne, Mohammed Fairouz, and many others.
Friday, November 22 to Saturday, November 23 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20-$45
BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
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Party & Play: A Modern Day Chamber Music Reading Party
Co-curated by the avant-stalwart violin duo String Noise (Pauline Kim Harris and Conrad Harris) and composer John Glover, Party and Play is new kind of concert platform combining the casual comfort of a house party with the highest standards in artistry and performance. Part curated concert and part free-for-all, musicians and composers are invited to sign up for the house band or propose works for the curated concert, or just show up the night of with a score or instrument in hand for reduced admission. Audiences are invited in to witness the unexpected as we give first readings or second hearings to new chamber works. Everything from the avant-garde and experimental to singer/songwriters are welcome.
Saturday, November 23 at 6 PM
Tickets $10 advanced, or at the door if you have your instrument or a score in hand for the free-for-all; $20 general audience advance; $25 General audience at the door
Firehouse Space, 246 Frost Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Decoda: Line and Expression
There is a world of nuance in the use of lines—in etchings as well as in music. In this concert, Decoda (formerly known as The Declassified) presents a program that, like etchings, creates momentum and interplay through the use of musical lines, making evident the connection between the free and improvisational aesthetic of the etching process and music written using similar techniques. The program includes music by Rameau, Adès, Golijov, Muhly, Pärt, and Couperin.
Saturday, November 23 at 7 PM
Tickets $30
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY
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Nouveau Classical presents: Composed Cocktails
Composed Cocktails is a hybrid concert and party series. Enjoy an evening of eclectic sounds while imbibing music-inspired cocktails. Following the concert is a dance party.
Saturday, November 23 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students and seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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American Patterns | So Percussion
So Percussion performs a program that includes a major work they commissioned from David Lang, as well as the world premiere of a new work by composer-guitarist Bryce Dessner.
Saturday, November 23 at 9 PM
Tickets $43 – $50
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY
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New Morse Code
The program will pair new works of Paul Kerkes for piano, percussion, and cello with complementary pieces by other American composers, and will be performed by New Morse Code (Hannah Collins, cello; Michael Compitello, percussion) and Kerkes. The program will center around Trio in Two Parts, a new work that Kerkes wrote for New Morse Code and himself that was premiered at the Yale School of Music in March. The concert will also would also feature Kerke’s Reach, —written for TwoSense—and other works for piano, percussion, and cello by fellow Yale alumni Hannah Lash, Marc Mellits, and Daniel Schlosberg.
Sunday, November 24 at 3 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students and seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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The Music of Dinos Constantinides
An intimate evening of festive original Mediterranean-inspired music. Dinos Constantinides has written over 250 compositions, several of which have been recorded for Centaur records and performed throughout the US, Europe and Asia.
Sunday, November 24 at 8 PM
Tickets $50
Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, 881 7th Ave New York, NY
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