Ensemble Signal | Pop-Up Concerts
Helmut Lachenmann
This Pop-Up celebrates childlike inspirations, and the wonder of creativity. Sean Griffin’s Pattycake is a musical riff on a simple clapping game, while Helmut Lachenmann’s Ein Kinderspiel, or “Child’s Play,” was designed to be technically simple enough that a child could play it. The performance is rounded out by a work from Austrian composer Clemens Gadenstätter and Elliott Carter’s Two Diversions for piano.
Tuesday, April 14 at 6:00 PM
Free
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Curiouser and Curiouser | MATA Festival
MATA welcomes Sweden’s Curious Chamber Players for a night that moves from the primeval depths skyward. The concert features music by Tomi Räisänen, Todd Tarantino, Carlos Gutiérrez Quirog, Wang Lu, Johan Svensson, and Malin Bång.
Tuesday, April 14 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $16 students/seniors
The Kitchen, 512 W 19th St, New York, NY
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Curious Chamber Players
Curious Chamber Players
Curious Chamber Players play music by Nordic composers, such as Bent Sørensen (DK), Simon Steen Andersen (DK), Ida Lundén (DK), Rei Munakata (SE) and Malin Bång (SE) in a program with a blend of acoustic objects and flute, guitar and piano.
Wednesday, April 15 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Mad Filaments and Ungovernable Shoots | MATA Festival
MATA goes full blast in an unforgettable evening that probes all that we understand to work together to create music. The program includes music by Bjørn Erik Haugen, Jasna Veličković, Mirela Ivičević, Megan Grace Beugger, and Adam Basanta/Julian Stein/Max Stein.
Wednesday, April 15 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $16 students/seniors
The Kitchen, 512 W 19th St, New York, NY
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Unreasonable Vision | MATA Festival
Momenta Quartet
The Momenta Quartet joins with friends for a fascinating evening of games, visions, and sublimities. Featured composers include Michalis Paraskakis, Daniel Moreira, Guy Barash, Alex Weiser, Eric Nathan, and Idin Samimi Mofakham.
Thursday, April 16 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $16 students/seniors
The Kitchen, 512 W 19th St, New York, NY
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Bearthoven Buckshot | MATA Festival
Bearthoven
The eccentrically-named trio of piano, percussion, and bass known as Bearthoven takes the stage with a widely-varied program of new music that challenges the notion that the instrumentation makes the music.
Friday, April 17 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $16 students/seniors
The Kitchen, 512 W 19th St, New York, NY
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Incomparable Contrivances | MATA Festival
MATA closes its festival with Talea Ensemble in an evening of percussion-rich works that explore technology, machines, and resonances.
Saturday, April 18 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $16 students/seniors
The Kitchen, 512 W 19th St, New York, NY
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Ramin Arjomand: Reinterpretations
Ramin Arjomand
This month at Reinterpretations, Ramin Arjomand and Julianna Mateyko perform John Ashbery’s epic polyphonic poem “Litany.”
Sunday, April 19 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Tokyo to New York
New music by Tokyo and New York City composers are featured.
Sunday, April 19 at 4:00 PM
Tickets $25, $15 students/seniors
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Eavesdropping | Guy Barash
Guy Barash – Photo by Shimpei Takeda
UK-based pianist Xenia Pestova is featured on this iteration of Eavesdropping.
Sunday, April 19 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Danielle Schwob and John Zorn performed by Vicky Chow, Jennifer Choi, and Michael Nicolas
Vicky Chow, Jennifer Choi, and Michael Nicolas team together to perform new solos and trios by Danielle Eva Schwob and John Zorn. They will premiere Schwob’s Three Self Portraits, inspired by the art work of David Hockney, Lucian Freud, and Francis Bacon alongside John Zorn’s first and latest piano trios, Amour Fou and The Aristos–ten metaphysical ambiguities for violin, cello, and piano in what will be an intense and enchanting evening of chamber and solo music.
Sunday, April 19 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $15 members/students/seniors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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