Scorchio Quartet
Scorchio Quartet
The Scorchio String Quartet, known for its artistry, eclectism and collaborations with David Bowie, Lou Reed, Philip Glass, Trey Anastasio and others, bring to life new works by Beatboxing sensation Rahzel, electric tinged jazz pianist/composer Richard Sussman, Emmy Award-winning composer Earl Rose, Klezmer Violinist Alicia Svigals and Scorchio founder/electro-acoustic violist Martha Mooke.
Monday, February 24 at 8 PM
Tickets $15 advance, $20 at door, $10 students
The Cutting Room, 44 East 32nd St, New York, NY
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Benefit event for Robert Boston’s new chamber opera Trust in the You of Now
Ouroboros Co. and Spectrum NYC present a concert to benefit the upcoming production of Trust in the You of Now, a new chamber opera by Robert Boston, libretto by Kimberly Pau. Performances will be by Robert Boston and members of the orchestra who will be featured in the premiere of the first act of the opera at Theater for the New City on May 15-18, 2014.
Tuesday, February 25 at 9 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Saul Williams & Mivos Quartet | Ecstatic Music Festival
Mivos Quartet – Photo by Ralf Puder/Nana Fran
The adventurous Mivos Quartet make a memorable night of new music with legendary poet and performer Saul Williams. The program is centered around the US premiere of NGH WHT, a major composition by Saul Williams and Thomas Kessler, originally written for the Arditti Quartet. Williams and Mivos will also present new solo and collaborative work created together, including a broad new interpretation of Williams’s No One Ever Does.
Wednesday, February 26 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W 67th St, New York, NY
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AXIOM
Jeffrey Milarsky
The concert includes Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas’ Monodie (1998-99). Led by Jeffrey Milarsky, the evening also includes Oliver Knussen’s Two Organa, Op. 27 (1995); Louis Andriessen’s Zilver (1994); and David Lang’s cheating, lying, stealing (1993, rev. 1995).
Thursday, February 27 at 8 PM
Free
Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway, New York, NY
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Brothers Balliett
Brad and Doug Balliett, the creative, engaging and energetic hosts of WQXR’s “Brothers Balliett” program, present a new series at Spectrum.
Thursday, February 27 at 10 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Concert 1 | Pulsing & Shaking
David Lang
Works by Timo Andres, Matt Frey, David Lang, Conrad Winslow, Ramin Amir Arjomand, Kieran Conaway, Benjamin Ash, Matt Sullivan, Kyle Tieman-Strauss, and Ryan Buchanan, all performed by student chamber ensembles.
Friday, February 28 at 8 PM
Free
NYU Pless Hall Black Box Theatre, 82 Washington Square East, New York, NY
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Tenth Intervention Presents: Music from the Lyonosphere
Featuring several premieres.
Friday, February 28 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Alex Mincek | Avant Music Festival
Alex Mincek
Alex Mincek presents an evening of new and recent works featuring percussion and saxophone, featuring Mincek on saxophone and members of the Talujon percussion ensemble.
Friday, February 28 at 8 PM
Tickets $12, $8 members/students
The Wild Project 195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY
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Mirah & Susie Ibarra | Ecstatic Music Festival
Two iconoclastic composer/performers with their ears open to an enormous range of sounds and forms, composer/percussionist Susie Ibarra and vocalist/songwriter Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn, debut a new collaborative work exploring the substance and ethereality of spacewalks, sound and the human experience: How has perception and perspective been altered by the advent of star sailing? Written for small ensemble, the piece integrates percussion, strings and voice in a delicate and inquisitive opera. The program also includes new arrangements of works by both artists. With Steven Reker, voice; Alex Guy, viola; and Matt Gold, percussion.
Saturday, March 1 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W 67th St, New York, NY
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Iktus Percussion Presents
Iktus Percussion
Iktus Percussion is pleased to announce the 2014 installment of The Firehouse New Music Series. One of the featured highlights of our concert season, Iktus will host some of New York City’s most cutting edge, diverse, and electrifying experimental new music ensembles and performers. This event will feature: Mariel Roberts.
Saturday, March 1 at 8 PM
Tickets $10
The Firehouse Space, 246 Frost St., Brooklyn, NY
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Randy Gibson’s Apparitions Of The Four Pillars In The Midwinter Starfield Under The Astral 789 Duet | Avant Music Festival
The closing performance of the festival features Gibson’s ongoing meditative Apparitions Of The Four Pillars in a newly revised three hour performance featuring Randy Gibson, Voice and Sine Waves; Jen Baker and William Lang, Trombones; Drew Blumberg and Erik Carlson, Violins; Meaghan Burke, Cello with video sculpture by Oscar Henriquez, and lighting design by Kryssy Wright.
Saturday, March 1 at 8 PM
Tickets $12, $8 members/students
The Wild Project 195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY
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Concert 2 | Pulsing & Shaking
Philip Glass – Photo by Steve Pyke
Works by Philip Glass, Tae Hong Park, Steve Reich, Michael Kropf, Alexander Mumford, Evan Kent, Sam Reising, and Edward Bean, with performances by student chamber ensembles and the NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble.
Saturday, March 1 at 8 PM
Free
NYU Frederick H. Loewe Theatre, 35 W. 4th St., New York, NY
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Opening Concert | Music For Contemplation
At the premier concert, Tyler Wilcox (bass clarinet) and Christopher Johnson (organ) perform long quiet drones of Eva-Maria Houben’s tranquility , written especially for the series.
Saturday, March 1 at 8:05 PM
Tickets $15 at the door. Season pass for all six concerts $75.
Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, 259 North 5th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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