Pop-Up Concerts | Ensemble Signal
Ensemble Signal and Brad Lubman
Continuing the theme from their September Pop-Up appearance, Ensemble Signal returns with another program of solo works. This concert features two pieces by one of the Ensemble’s favorite composers, Hilda Paredes, including the U.S. premiere of her Intermezzo malinconico for bass clarinet, alongside two works by David Lang for solo percussion, both of which were originally commissioned by another Miller Theatre featured artist, Steven Schick. This unique pairing gives audiences a chance to experience a range of experiments in the solo form, and compare how these master composers and musicians have navigated the idiosyncrasies of their chosen instruments.
Tuesday, February 11 at 6 PM
Free
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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CD Release for There Never is No Light
There Never is No Light is the first solo album by ICE’s Joshua Rubin. The album, the second release on ICE’s new artist-curated label, TUNDRA, features world premiere recordings of works for clarinet and electronics by Mario Diaz de Leon, Mario Davidovsky, Ignacio Baca Lobera, Olly Wilson, alongside works by Suzanne Farrin, and Rubin.
Wednesday, February 12 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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The Crossroads Project
Laura Kaminsky
Responding to one of society’s greatest challenges, this multi-media work on climate change weaves together a chorus of artistic and scientific voices. With the Fry Street Quartet, physicist Dr. Rob Davies, composer Laura Kaminsky, artist Rebecca Allan and photographer Garth Lenz.
Thursday, February 13 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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Machine Music | Qubit
Music and installations for four Disklaviers by Ranjit Bhatnagar, David Bird, Courtney Bryan, Natacha Diels, Bjoern Erlach, Paul Grabowsky, Alec Hall, Bryan Jacobs, and George Lewis.
Thursday, February 13 at 8 PM
Tickets $10-$15
Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY
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Out Front: Out Front | American Composer’s Alliance
The concert will feature works selected, performed, and championed by young performers who specialize in new music. ACA is also paying tribute to two members on the program: Harley Gaber (1943-2011), and Allan Blank (1925-2013). Blank’s Interacting Patterns was his last completed solo instrumental work and is a world premiere.
Friday, February 14 at 7 PM
Tickets $10
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Ramin Arjomand: Reinterpretations series
Ramin Arjomand and Sam Pluta perform at Spectrum.
Friday, February 14 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Sarah Neufeld
Sarah Neufeld
Neufeld performs selections from her debut solo album Hero Brother (Constellation Records), channeling her formative influences like Steve Reich, Iva Bittova, and Arthur Russell into new compositions whose electro-acoustic and avant-folk sensibilities shift from restrained, stately ambience and emotive etude to raw kinetic energy.
Friday, February 14 at 8 PM
Tickets $15
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY
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Composer-Performer Series, hosted by Matt Marks
Matt Marks
Matt Marks hosts a composer-performer series at Spectrum.
Saturday, February 15 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Augustus Arnone, piano: Michael Finnissy’s complete The History Of Photography In Sound Concert 3 (of 4)
Pianist Augustus Arnone continues his traversal of Michael Finnissy’s mammoth eleven movement cycle of solo piano works, The History Of Photography In Sound, with the third of four concerts: February 16, at Spectrum, New York City. Concert 3 will be devoted to the longest movement in the cycle, Kapitalistische Realisme (mit Siziliänische Männerakte und Bachsche Nachdichtungen) (1999-2000). Like all the other movements, this vast movement is loaded with references to other historical samples, including music by Beethoven, Busoni, Meyerbeer, and Sicilian folktunes. Unique to this movement is a monumental Bach pastiche in the center of the work, which weaves allusions to Cantata fragments and textures and unfolds a series of intricate canonic games, reminiscent of Bach’s Musical Offering.
Sunday, February 16 at 3 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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