Ralph van Raat
David Lang
Pianist Ralph van Raat plays the music of Louis Andriessen, David Lang, and John Adams.
Monday, May 12 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15-$25
(Le) Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Kathleen Supové and Mohammed Fairouz
Mohammed Fairouz
This event celebrates the collaboration of pianist Kathleen Supové and the exciting young composer Mohammed Fairouz. In preparation for making the first CD ever devoted solely to Fairouz’s piano music, Supové will perform the complete Piano Miniatures, as well as Piano Sonata #2, The Last Resistance.
Tuesday, May 13 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Nadia Sirota and Missy Mazzoli
Nadia Sirota performs music by Missy Mazzoli at SubCulture.
Tuesday, May 13 at 8 PM
Tickets $15-$20
SubCulture, 45 Bleecker Street, Downstairs, New York, NY
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American Composers Orchestra Spring Benefit
ACO’s Spring Benefit will begin with a cocktail reception, followed by dinner and performances by some of the composer-performers and soloists who have appeared with ACO, including Maya Beiser, ACO Artistic Director Derek Bermel, Courtney Bryan, Mellissa Hughes, Ingrid Laubrock, Andrew McKenna Lee, ACO Music Director George Manahan, Milica Paranosic, Christopher Trapani, Ian Williams and Benjamin Verdery. ACO’s Spring Benefit is a rare opportunity to hear these incredible artists in such an intimate setting.
Wednesday, May 14 at 6 PM
Tickets $500-$10,000
Tribeca Rooftop 2 Desbrosses Street, New York, NY
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Film to Stage | Tribeca New Music Festival
John Corigliano
Featuring music by Carter Burwell, John Corigliano, Douglas Cuomo, Frank London, Rob Schwimmer, and Bora Yoon.
Wednesday, May 14 at 7 PM
Tickets $20-$35
The Cell, 338 West 23rd Street, New York, NY
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Robert Vuichard & Broadway Chamber Players at Bloomingdale School of Music
Composer Robert Vuichard presents an evening of new works and arrangements premiered in collaboration with the newly minted Broadway Chamber Players in this, the culminating program of his 2013-14 EtM Con Edison Composers’ Residency at Bloomingdale School of Music.
Wednesday, May 14 at 7:30 PM
Free
Bloomingdale School of Music, 323 West 108th Street, New York, NY
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VisionIntoArt’s Ferus Festival presents Niloufar Talebi
Through a multimedia evening of song, words, and images, Talebi reveals her process of creating a cycle of connected and tightly-knit operas happening at various points in Persian/Iranian history. With soprano Cree Carrico, mezzo-soprano Sarah Heltzel, and pianist Mila Henry.
Wednesday, May 14 at 10 PM
Tickets $15
The Stone, East 2nd Street & Avenue C, New York, NY
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Stainless Staining | Tribeca New Music Festival
Steve Reich
Featuring music by Donnacha Dennehy, Ryan Francis, Florent Ghys, Christopher Cerrone and Steve Reich.
Thursday, May 15 at 7 PM
Tickets $20-$35
The Cell, 338 West 23rd Street, New York, NY
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Reich + Bach
American icon Steve Reich curates a program pairing two powerhouse sacred works for voices and chamber ensemble. A setting of Hebrew psalms, Tehillim is Reich at his transcendent best, by turns meditative and ecstatic. Reich credits Bach’s cantata as an important inspiration, its third-movement duet a model for his own. The thread of taking inspiration from the past extends to the Bach: his cantata was based on a Martin Luther hymn, which was itself an adaptation of a 12th-century Easter tune.
Thursday, May 15 at 8 PM
Tickets $25 – $35
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway New York, NY
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Yumi Hara Trio | Eavesdropping
Don’t miss an opportunity to experience rhythmically intense improvised music rooted in the fusion between Avant-Rock and concert music aesthetics, as the adventurous UK based trio presents an extraordinary program for voice, piano, amplified clavichord, percussion, and electronics. Yumi Hara, Chris Cutler, and Hideki Kato are regular commuters across the increasingly porous border between improvisation and composition. The program includes compositions by Yumi Hara and Lindsay Cooper as well as improvisations.
Thursday, May 15 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, $12 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Integrations | ECCE Ensemble
Premieres by Yu-Hui Chang and Schuyler Tsuda. Also featuring works by Gerard Grisey, Mark Andre, Liza Lim, Yu-Hui Chang, John Aylward, Schuyler Tsuda and Wei-Chieh Lin. A fascinating concoction of emerging composers and masters.
Thursday, May 15 at 8 PM
Tickets $20, $10 students with ID
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 W. 37th St., New York, NY
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No Ordinary Window | Tribeca New Music Festival
Featuring music by Martha Mooke and Jessica Meyer.
Friday, May 16 at 7 PM
Tickets $20-$35
The Cell, 338 West 23rd Street, New York, NY
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Teen New Music Riot! | Queens New Music Festival
Face the Music – Photo by Meg Goldman
Face the Music and the Special Music School High School join forces for 90 minutes of new music written and performed by the under 18 crowd.
Friday, May 16 at 8 PM
Tickets $20
The Secret Theatre Main Stage, 4402 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY
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Queens New Music Festival
Featuring Eight Strings & a Whistle (2 PM), H2 Quartet (4 PM), Duo RoMi (6 PM), and Ghost Ensemble (8 PM).
Saturday, May 17 at 2 PM
Tickets $20
The Secret Theatre Main Stage, 4402 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY
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Poetry in Motion | Tribeca New Music Festival
Christopher Cerrone
Featuring music by Christopher Cerrone, Jacob Cooper, Ted Hearne, Andrew Norman, and Eric Shanfield. Curated by Christopher Cerrone.
Friday, May 16 at 7 PM
Tickets $20-$35
The Cell, 338 West 23rd Street, New York, NY
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TROUBLEfuturesongs: Trouble in Tahiti + two shorts
Underworld Productions Opera presents TROUBLEfuturesongs, an evening of Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti plus the staged premieres of two shorts: Voice for a Future Nightingale by Justine F. Chen and Outerborough Songs by Thomas Deneuville. The evening explores desire, denial and domestication in the context of these three short operas, each of which has a couple at its center. The evening is conceived and directed by Gina Crusco and will be conducted by Mark Shapiro.
Saturday, May 17 through Monday, May 19
Tickets $40 advance, $45 same day
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Queens New Music Festival
Featuring Composers Concordance (2 PM), TAK Ensemble (4 PM) , and Trio Kavak (6 PM).
Sunday, May 18 at 2 PM
Tickets $20
The Secret Theatre Main Stage, 4402 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY
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Ramin Arjomand: Reinterpretations
Ramin Arjomand’s Reinterpretations series continues at Spectrum.
Sunday, May 18 at 3 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Devil’s Duo | Tribeca New Music Festival
Featuring music by John Adams, Richard Einhorn, Howard Hersh, Nico Muhly, Terry Riley, Mary Rowell, and Tracy Silverman.
Friday, May 16 at 7 PM
Tickets $20-$35
The Cell, 338 West 23rd Street, New York, NY
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Calligrammes at FERUS Festival | Albert Behar
Calligrammes is a new song cycle for soprano Ariadne Grief and composer / accordionist Albert Behar that celebrates the 100-year anniversary of Guillaume Apollinaire’s visual poetry. Inspired by cubism, Apollinaire broke free from linear text and set his poems in the shapes of birds, flowers, and stopwatches. Behar’s compositions take this poetic spontaneity to new ground, creating an otherworldly space between Apollinaire’s world and ours. The evening will feature original costumes by Gretchen Vitamvas.
Sunday, May 18 at 10 PM
Tickets $15
The Stone, East 2nd Street & Avenue C, New York, NY
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