Pulsing & Shaking: Concert 1
Christopher Cerrone
Pulsing & Shaking annually celebrates New Music created in New York, spotlighting premiere pieces through the lens of the last century’s groundbreaking works. There will be performances of piece by Ramin Arjomand, Evan Phoenix Kent, Raphael Saphra, Eddie Bean, Molly Herron, Paul Frucht, Andrew Niess, Josh Cohen, Kyle Dubin, Chris Cerrone, and Michael Gordon.
Monday, February 23 at 8:00 PM
Free
Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY
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Classical at the Cornelia: Sounds of Being
Featuring music and performances by Jessica Meyer, viola, and Florent Ghys, bass.
Monday, February 23 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $10 + $10 minimum
The Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, New York, NY
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MATA Composer’s School: Joel Puckett: “A Performance a Day: working toward the 365 club.”
Joel Puckett
Joel Puckett will give a crash course on how to get your music performed more.
Tuesday, February 24 at 5:00 PM
TIckets $5 (comes with free drink)
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Pulsing & Shaking: Concert 2
Julius Eastman
Pulsing & Shaking annually celebrates New Music created in New York, spotlighting premiere pieces through the lens of the last century’s groundbreaking works. This concert features music by Steve Reich, Adam Holmes, Nico Muhly, Fjóla Evans, David Lang, Alex Mumford, Kyle Tieman-Strauss, Julia Wolfe, Esther Lamneck/Paola Lopreiato, Max Ardito, and Julius Eastman.
Tuesday, February 24 at 8:00 PM
Free
Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY
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Aaron Burnett and The Big Machine
Incorporating elements of traditional jazz, modern classical, and electronic music, Aaron Burnett presents a musical statement of his current musical standpoint and musical influences with five new compositions featuring an incredible lineup.
Tuesday, February 24 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $15 members/students/seniros
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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AXIOM
Composer Gyorgi Ligeti (photo credit: H.J. Kropp)
AXIOM performs Ligeti’s Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles) (2000) with countertenor Eric Jurenas and percussion ensemble; Six Bagatelles for wind quintet; Concerto for Cello (1966) with Juilliard cellist Jay Campbell, an Artist Diploma student; and Kammerkonzert (Chamber Concerto) (1970).
Wednesday, February 25 at 8:00 PM
Free
Alice Tully Hal, 1941 Broadway, New York, NY
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Coupled Perceptions
In this concert, Gil Morgenstern is joined by dancer/choreographer Mary Cochran and pianist J.Y. Song in an exploration of these questions through music and dance. The musical works will first be performed as they were originally written, giving the audience the opportunity to become familiar with them. These works will then reappear over the course of the program, reinterpreted with original choreography, giving the audience the chance to experience them as completely different works.
Thursday, February 26 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $40, $20 students
Avenues: The World School, 259 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY
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2015 People’s Commissioning Fund Concert | Ecstatic Music Festival
Bang on a Can All-Stars – Photo by Peter Serling
This year the Bang on a Can All-Stars will give the world premieres of works by three PCF-commissioned composers: Glenn Kotche, Jace Clayton, and Ben Frost. The concert will also include the New York premiere of selections from Erdem Helvacioglu’s Tales of Resistance and Oppression, Michael Gordon’s For Madeline, and music from the PCF vault: Donnacha Dennehy’s Streetwalker and Annie Gosfield’s Overvoltage Rumble.
Thursday, February 26 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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Orchestra Underground: Sins and Songs
The program features music by My Brightest Diamond, Daniel Schnyder, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Carman Moore, and Kurt Weill.
Friday, February 27 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $43-$50
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York, NY
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Paula Matthusen | Avant Music Festival
Paula Matthusen
New and recent works investigating the acoustic facets of city sites of historical significance through live performance, field recordings, and explored resonance. This evening will include the World Premiere of new work for Mantra, Dither, and Philip White developed under Matthusen’s current fellowship with the American Academy in Rome.
Friday, February 27 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $12, $8 students
Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY
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Jade Simmons
Jade Simmons presents a concert of her own original works and transcriptions that she debuted at SXSW last year.
Friday, February 27 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15 advance, $20 day of show
SubCulture, 45 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Dynamic Music Festival: Concert 1
Nina C. Young
Dynamic Music Festival is an annual new music festival in New York City dedicated to premiering and performing works by composers attending universities in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. The goal of Dynamic Music Festival is to bring together composers from different schools to showcase their music on the same program. This concert features works by Gideon Broshy, Douglas Friedman, Alex Burtzos, Kyle Tieman-Strauss, Even Phoenix Kent, Peter Michael von der Nahmer, Max Ardito, and Nina C. Young.
Saturday, February 28 at 8:00 PM
Free
Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY
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John Cage | Avant Music Festival
Virtuosic vocal ensemble, and long-time festival favorite, Ekmeles sings 1979’s ethereal Hymns and Variations for twelve amplified voices and other choral works bridging John Cage’s chance techniques and subtractive harmonies, including ear for EAR (antiphonies), Four Solos for Voice, and FOUR2.
Saturday, February 28 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $12, $8 students
Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY
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Automatic Music Hackathon
Learn about recent research, tools, and art related to algorithmic music composition, and make new music from scratch! Talks by Spotify Principal Music Scientist Tristan Jehan, Columbia professor Brad Garton, composer/engineers Andreas Jansson and Jonathan Marmor. Workshops on algorithmic composition with SuperCollider and Euterpea/Haskell. Concert of the day’s hacks at 8 PM.
Saturday, February 28 at 8:00 PM
Free
Spotify, 45 West 18th St New York, NY
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Dynamic Music Festival: Concert 2
Dynamic Music Festival is an annual new music festival in New York City dedicated to premiering and performing works by composers attending universities in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. The goal of Dynamic Music Festival is to bring together composers from different schools to showcase their music on the same program. This concert features works by Paul Frucht, Chung Eun Kim, Matthew Kennedy, Christopher Kaminski, Vincent Calianno, and Will Stackpole.
Sunday, March 1 at 8:00 PM
Free
NYU Steinhardt, Room 303, 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY
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