Imani Uzuri – Photo by Petra Richterova

This week: concerts in New York (March 2 – March 8, 2015)

Rolf Schulte Tribute Concert

Rolf Schulte

Rolf Schulte

Association for the Promotion of New Music honors classical violinist Rolf Schulte for lifetime achievement of this most extraordinary artist, who has devoted himself courageously to the cause of living American composers.
Wednesday, March 4 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $35, $20 students/seniors
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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RAM Presents: Perceptions of Beauty

The concert includes 5 world premieres by Guy Barash, David Fetherolf, Gilbert Galindo, Wang Jie, and Frances White.
Wednesday, March 4 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10
The Little Secret Theatre, 4402 23rd Street, Long Island City, New York
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Augusta Read Thomas | Composer Portraits

Augusta Read Thomas - Photo by Jason Smith

Augusta Read Thomas – Photo by Jason Smith

This composer portraits concert features the music of composer Augusta Read Thomas.
Thursday, March 5 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25-$35
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Christian Wolff at 80

A program of Christian Wolff‘s compositions including Song for Six (written for the finale of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Park Avenue Armory in 2011), Quintet (premiered at Roulette in 2009), a selection of Exercises, and a percussion duo.
Thursday, March 5 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $30, $25 members/students/seniors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Imani Uzuri | Avant Music Festival

Imani Uzuri - Photo by Petra Richterova

Imani Uzuri – Photo by Petra Richterova

Uzuri premieres a new cantata inspired by the eclectic composer’s rural Southen roots embodied within the coded, polyphonic and revelatory legacy of the Black American quilt making tradition.
Friday, March 6 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY
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New American Romantics | New Amsterdam Singers

Featuring composers of our time with poems of Frost, Yeats, Agee, Graves, and Hardy.
Friday, March 6 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $25 at the door
The Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th Street, New York, NY
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RAM Presents: Perceptions of Beauty

Guy Barash - Photo by Shimpei Takeda

Guy Barash – Photo by Shimpei Takeda

The concert includes 5 world premieres by Guy Barash, David Fetherolf, Gilbert Galindo, Wang Jie, and Frances White.
Friday, March 6 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
The DiMenna Center, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Randy Gibson | Avant Music Festival

Gibson’s continually evolving meditative drone-epic Apparitions of The Four Pillars in The Midwinter Starfield under The Astral 789 Duet reaches new heights of complexity and clarity in the longest and most detailed presentation of the work to date.
Saturday, March 7 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY
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Kaija Saariaho

Kaija Saariaho

Alan Gilbert and assistant conductor Courtney Lewis conduct an all-Nordic program including works by Per Norgard, Đuro Živković, and Kalevi Aho as well as the US premiere of the string orchestra version of Kaija Saariaho’s Terra Memoria.
Saturday, March 7 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY
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Self-Portrait | Contemporaneous

Contemporaneous, a 21-member New York-based ensemble, will mark its fifth anniversary with Self Portrait, which presents five works commissioned by Contemporaneous, including four world premieres and works by artists in the ensemble. The diverse pieces explore the rich, often complex, relationship between music and self-expression. Taken together, they offer a picture in sound of the ensemble at the present moment, informed by its history and imagining its future.
Saturday, March 7 at 7:30 PM
Free
DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Mary Flagler Cary Hall, 450 West 37 Street, New York, NY
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Kronos Quartet

This concert includes a new work commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Beyond Zero: 1914–1918, a multimedia production that features music by Aleksandra Vrebalov and a film by Bill Morrison. A native of the former Yugoslavia, Vrebalov’s work recounts her firsthand experiences in the war-torn Balkans of the 1990s, set against Morrison’s film that includes seldom-seen World War I footage from the Library of Congress.
Saturday, March 7 at 9:00 PM
Tickets $55-$65
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Reinterpretations: Solo Practice

Ramin Arjomand

Ramin Arjomand

This month at Reinterpretations, Ramin Arjomand presents a long form all-improvisation solo piano program.
Sunday, March 8 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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New American Romantics | New Amsterdam Singers

Featuring composers of our time with poems of Frost, Yeats, Agee, Graves, and Hardy.
Sunday, March 8 at 4:00 PM
Tickets $20, $25 at the door
The Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th Street, New York, NY
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speakOUT | Hotel Elefant

Hotel Elefant’s spring concert continues their third season theme “speakOUT,” representing artists who are utilizing music to reflect on issues both personal and political. Not only will the program “speakOUT” by focusing on these issues, but the program itself will raise its voice by featuring an all-female cast of composers, presenting innovative work by featured composer Paola Prestini along with emerging composers Lainie Fefferman and Leaha Maria Villarreal.
Sunday, March 8 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $17 advance, $20 day of show
SubCulture, 45 Bleecker Street, Downstairs, New York, NY
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