Hearing Voices: Music of Kate Soper
Erin Lesser (L) and Kate Soper (R) – Still from “Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say (2010-11)”
The music of Kate Soper is featured on this iteration of Music Mondays.
Monday, May 11 at 7:30 PM
Free
Advent Lutheran Church, 2504 Broadway, New York, NY
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CONTACT!: New Music from Italy
This concert features musicians from the New York Philharmonic performing a program of music of today from Italy including three premieres. The works represent different generations, regions and styles, from the legendary Luciano Berio to 30-year-old Vittorio Montalti, who won the Silver Lion at the 2010 Venice Biennale.
Monday, May 11 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35
SubCulture, 45 Bleecker Street, Downstairs, New York, NY
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Trio Casals
Romanian cellist Ovidiu Marinescu returns to Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall for an eclectic evening of solo cello and piano trio premieres by composers Nicholas Anthony Ascioti, John Carollo, Diane Jones, Brian Noyes, Osias Wilenski, and Robert Fleisher.
Tuesday, May 12 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25
Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Silent Cranes: The Music of Mary Kouyoumdjian, Performed by Kronos Quartet and Hotel Elefant
Mary Kouyoumdjian (photo: Dominica Eriksen)
To commemorate the centennial of the Armenian Genocide – an event that led to the extermination of 1.5 millions of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks in 1915 – Roulette presents an evening of music by Armenian-American composer Mary Kouyoumdjian. For the American composer whose family fled Turkey and who values the freedom of speech, the genocide continues to be a topic as relevant as it was before.
Tuesday, May 12 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $15 members/students/seniors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Face the Music with the Kronos Quartet | Queens New Music Festival
The kick-off concert, produced in conjunction with Musica Reginae will feature Face the Music students along with the Kronos Quartet.
Wednesday, May 13 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
The Church-in-the-Gardens, 50 Ascan Avenue, Forest Hills, NY
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Lost Dog New Music Ensemble | Queens New Music Festival
John Luther Adams
The Lost Dog New Music Ensemble headlines the Queens New Music Festival, in a program of works by 2014 Pulitzer‐prize winning composer John Luther Adams.
Thursday, May 14 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
The Secret Theatre Main Stage, 4402 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY
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Rétes
This iteration of Eleonor Sandresky’s Rétes series features music by composer Du Yun.
Friday, May 15 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Random Access Music & Iktus Percussion | Queens New Music Festival
Iktus Percussion
RAM composers team up with Iktus Percussion and pianist Julia Den Boer to present new works by Stephen Cabell, Gilbert Galindo, Wang Jie, Frances White, and others that delve into the concepts of light and dark.
Friday, May 15 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
The Secret Theatre Main Stage, 4402 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY
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Transmissions | [Switch~ Ensemble]
MATA Interval presents “Transmissions,” an evening of multimedia and electroacoustic works that inhabit the underexplored regions that separate acoustic and electronic music, featuring [Switch~ Ensemble], ensemble-in-residence at the Eastman Computer Music Center, and soloists Sophie Burgos, Lucy Dhegrae, and Jeff Gavett.
Friday, May 15 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20-$30, $15 students
The DiMenna Center, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Jonah Rosenberg: Ode to Jackeen with Ensemble Sans Maître
Ode to Jackeen with Ensemble Sans Maître, plus an opening solo set from the beauteous Florent Ghys on bass.
Friday, May 15 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10
The Firehouse Space, 246 Frost Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Bearthoven and Patchwork
Bearthoven
Bearthoven and Patchwork team up for an evening of brand new works and commissions.
Friday, May 15 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
Scholes Street Studio, 375 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY
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Eco-Music Big Band | Queens New Music Festival
The Eco-Music Big Band presents Resistance/Tradition, a cross-section of its most dynamic repertoire.
Saturday, May 16 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $20
The Secret Theatre Main Stage, 4402 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY
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Giacomo Baldelli & OOOPStudio | Queens New Music Festival
Giacomo Baldelli & OOOPStudio perform Nidra, a 60-minute performance for electric guitar and video, is a multi-sensory meditation on the dichotomies of internal and external, the subconscious and conscious, dreams and reality.
Saturday, May 16 at 5:00 PM
Tickets $20
The Secret Theatre Main Stage, 4402 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY
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Julia Den Boer
Helmut Lachenmann
Pianist Julia Den Boer performs a program with music by Beat Furrer, George Aperghis, and Helmut Lachenmann.
Saturday, May 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Percussia | Queens New Music Festival
Percussia is a Jackson Heights, Queens-based ensemble for percussion, flute, harp, and viola that presents contemporary music incorporating a variety of stylistic influences ranging from video games to pop and world music. This program will showcase duos for harp and percussion performed by Jackson Heights resident Ingrid Gordon and Forest Hills resident Susan Jolles.
Saturday, May 16 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
The Secret Theatre Main Stage, 4402 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY
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Ensemble 365 | Queens New Music Festival
Ensemble 365 presents “Eastern Currents: Contemporary Music of Asia,” a program featuring chamber and solo works by composers from Azerbaijan (Franghiz Ali-Zadeh), China (Bun-Ching Lam and Bright Sheng), India (Ravi Shankar), Iran (Ramin Heydarbeygi), Japan (Toru Takemitsu), and Taiwan (Ming-Hsiu Yen).
Sunday, May 17 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $20
The Secret Theatre Main Stage, 4402 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY
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Ramin Arjomand: Reinterpretations
Ramin Arjomand
Ramin Arjomand’s Reinterpretations series continues at Spectrum.
Sunday, May 17 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Emerson Quartet
The program features the New York premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s String Quartet No. 5 as well as Mozart’s Quintet for Strings in E-flat and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence.
Sunday, May 17 at 5:00 PM
Tickets starting at $30
Alice Tully Hal, 1941 Broadway, New York, NY
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ISSA Sonus Ensemble | Queens New Music Festival
A coined term from Sanskrit prefix “dvi” meaning “two” and the word “raag” loosely meaning “color”, DVIRAAG is an evocative program of works, mostly duets for flute with viola or cello, that bridges music traditions with underlying hues of Eastern and Middle Eastern soundscapes. This concert features ISSA Sonus Ensemble.
Sunday, May 17 at 5:00 PM
Tickets $20
The Secret Theatre Main Stage, 4402 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY
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Violists of The Azure Ensemble
The Azure Ensemble presents violists Anne Lanzilotti and Karen Ritscher, performing contemporary works for the viola. They will be joined by Karl Larson, piano, and composer Hannah Selin on electronics. Both Selin’s Oflactory Bulbs and Scott Wollschleger’s Soft Aberrations were written specifically for the performers on this concert and developed through close collaboration.
Sunday, May 17 at 6:00 PM
Tickets $10
The Firehouse Space, 246 Frost Street, Brooklyn, NY
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