Michael Finnissy Festival
Michael Finnissy
Augustus Arnoneis featured on this concert of new music.
Monday, March 23 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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ECCO | Music Mondays
The conductor-less string band ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra) performs a program featuring Tchaikovsky’s beloved Serenade and Osvaldo Golijov’s high-octane tango Last Round.
Monday, March 23 at 7:30 PM
Free
Advent Lutheran Church/Broadway United Church of Christ, 2504 Broadway, New York, NY
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Yarn/Wire | Pop-Up Concerts
Yarn/Wire – Photo by Bobby Fisher
Yarn/Wire performs two new works that introduce an extra component to their unique piano and percussion make-up: electronics.
Tuesday, March 24 at 6:00 PM
Free
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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John Adams “Confirmed” Dances
The Attacca Quartet
The Attacca Quartet performs John Adams’s John’s Book of Alleged Dances.
Tuesday, March 24 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $45
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY
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Michael Finnissy Festival
Collide-O-Scope Music is featured on this concert of new music.
Tuesday, March 24 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Duo Scorpio & Arkora: Songs from the Rainshadow’s Edge | Ear Heart Music
Andy Akiho
This performance offers the US premiere of Benton Roark’s watershed song cycle, Songs from the Rainshadow’s Edge. Duo Scorpio rounds out the program with new works by Andy Akiho and Nico Muhly, while Ear Heart Music Director Amelia Lukas makes a special appearance in Takemitsu’s gorgeous and rarely performed piece Bryce for flute, two harps, and two percussion. Additional guest artists include actress Angela Dee and percussionist Owen Weaver.
Tuesday, March 24 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Michael Finnissy Festival
International Contemporary Ensemble is featured on this concert of new music.
Wednesday, March 25 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Parallels | Meehan/ Perkins Duo
Composer Tristan Perich (photo credit: © d. yee / Cantaloupe Music)
Celebrating the launch of Tristan Perich’s new Compositions recording series, GAP presents the Meehan/ Perkins Duo in an evening-length performance of Perich’s Parallels at the Sky Gallery. Part performance, part exhibition, the evening will also include Tristan’s self-created room sized drawing machine.
Wednesday, March 25 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15 advance, $20 day of show
The Sky Gallery, 460 Union St., Brooklyn, NY
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String Theories 1 | String Orchestra of Brooklyn
The String Theories Festival kicks off with the New York premiere of Andrew Norman‘s The Companion Guide to Rome, plus recent chamber works by Scott Wollschleger, Leah Asher, and John Stulz. The performance is curated by violist Anne Lanzilotti, who will also be performing alongside Meaghan Burke, cello; Lavinia Pavlish, violin; John Stulz, viola; and Alice Teyssier, flute.
Wednesday, March 25 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford St, Brooklyn, NY
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Juilliard Dances Repertory
Juilliard dancers present their annual showcase of important repertory works, including Martha Graham’s Dark Meadow, set to music by Carlos Chavez conducted by Aaron Sherber, and Merce Cunningham’s BIPED, set to music by Gavin Bryars.
Wednesday, March 25 to Saturday, March 28 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $15 students
The Juilliard School, Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY
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Pierre Boulez: A 90th Birthday Celebration
Pierre Boulez (photo credit: A. Warme-Janville)
Pianist Conor Hanick celebrates one of the period’s greatest musical minds, and winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2015 Grammy Awards, Pierre Boulez.
Thursday, March 26 at 1:00 PM
Free with museum admission
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 918, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY
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String Theories 2 | String Orchestra of Brooklyn
Samuel Carl Adams
The second concert of the String Theories Festival features violinist Rachel Lee Priday and pianist David Kaplan presenting a program of works by Chris Cerrone, Scott Wollschleger, Samuel Carl Adams, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Friday, March 27 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford St, Brooklyn, NY
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Synthesis & Samples Hackathon
Make new art from scratch! Learn about recent research, tools, and art related to sound synthesis and audio sampling. Talks at Noon by Spotify Principal Music Scientist Tristan Jehan, composer/engineer Travis McDemus, artist/musician Luis Queral, and NYU Music Tech professor Steven Litt. Workshops at 2 PM on audio synthesis and sampling with a variety of tools. Concert of the day’s hacks at 8 PM.
Saturday, March 28 at 8:00 PM
Free
Spotify, 45 West 18th St New York, NY
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String Theories 3 | String Orchestra of Brooklyn
Composer Sofia Gubaidulina (photo credit: www.remusik.org)
For the third concert of String Theories, violinist Erica Dicker and pianist Emily Manzo present a program of works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Judd Greenstein, and the US premiere of Ig Henneman‘s In the Storm of Roses for solo violin.
Saturday, March 28 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford St, Brooklyn, NY
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Ensemble Pamplemousse
New and recent works by and for inventive new music group Ensemble Pamplemousse
Sunday, March 29 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10-$15
JACK, 505 1/2 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn NY
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String Theories 4 | String Orchestra of Brooklyn
The final concert of String Theories culminates at Roulette, where violist Miranda Sielaff performs a set of solo John Harbison etudes, followed by members of Contemporaneous performing a new string quintet by Dylan Mattingly. Finally, the String Orchestra of Brooklyn and loadbang present two SOB-commissioned world premieres by Reiko Füting and Mario Diaz de Leon, alongside recent works by Füting, Richard Carrick, and Justé Janulyté.
Sunday, March 29 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $15 students/seniors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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