Notes on Fiction: “Heart of Darkness” Recital Featuring Megan Ihnen and Jennifer Ellis
Drawing upon powerful 20th and 21st Century musical compositions, harpist Jennifer Ellis and mezzo-soprano Megan Ihnen create a stark and multifaceted performance based on the themes in Heart of Darkness.
Monday, May 18 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15 non-members, $12 members
The Center for Fiction, 17 East 47th Street, New York, NY
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Recent Works | LONGLEASH
LONGLEASH’s first annual Recent Works Show presents four trios by young composers. Every piece on the program draws inspiration from an existing work of music, literature, film, or painting.
Monday, May 18 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10 advance, $15 day of show
The DiMenna Center, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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NewMusicBox LIVE
With its first-ever live event, hosted by NewMusicBox Editors Frank J. Oteri and Molly Sheridan, NewMusicBox LIVE showcases three very different artists each telling their own stories through words and music. The featured artists are Matana Roberts, Joan Tower, and Gabriel Kahane.
Tuesday, May 19 at 7:00 PM
Free
SubCulture, 45 Bleecker Street, Downstairs, New York, NY
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Ear Heart Music
Composer John Zorn (photo credit: macfound.org)
In its last concert, finishing its final season as a presenter, Ear Heart Music presents star power with the International Contemporary Ensemble and the JACK Quartet performing works from Jason Eckardt’s new CD Subject and music by John Zorn, including the world premiere of Autumn Rhythm.
Tuesday, May 19 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $15 members/students/seniors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Hercules in Mato Grosso
In collaboration with the Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón (CETC), Music of the Americas presents the U.S. premiere of the staged opera Hercules in Mato Grosso, which explores the early twentieth-century travels of French-Brazilian photographer Hercules Florence in the Brazilian rainforest.
Wednesday, May 20 at 7:00 PM
$20, $10 students/seniors, Free for AS and YPA members
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, New York, NY
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Melody and Company Chamber Series
Momenta Quartet
Pianist, Melody Fader joins together with the Momenta Quartet to perform the music of Beethoven, D.J Sparr, and Dvorak.
Wednesday, May 20 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Toomai String Quartet: The Early Quintets Project, Part III
Toomai String Quintet performs the third installment of their Early Quintets Project, a series that pairs new works by exceptional participants in New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers program (ages 10 – 13) with related music by preeminent contemporary composers.
Thursday, May 21 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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American Immersion | Clemens Gadenstätter
JACK Quartet – Photo by Henrik Olund
The ACFNY teams up with Talea Ensemble to present the third installment of their annual American Immersion series, this year featuring Austrian composer Clemens Gadenstätter. The opening concert features an evening of contemporary chamber music, where the JACK Quartet will perform US premieres of Gadenstätter’s works for small ensembles and a special ACFNY commission from 2012.
Thursday, May 21 at 7:30 PM
Free
Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY
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Nature’s Bounty
The final program in the 2014-2015 Reflections Series International season will present music and text inspired by personal encounters with both natural and man-made landscapes, immortalizing them through works of unparalleled beauty and drama. This artistic journey, from flowing crystalline streams in China to the haunting terrain of the Middle East to the wide open prairies of the American Great Plains, includes music by Aaron Copland, Antonin Dvořák, Zhou Long, and Riad El-Soumbati, along with text from the works of Mary Shelly, Naguib Mahfouz, and Gaetano Cipolla.
Thursday, May 21 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $40, $20 students
Avenues: The World School, 259 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY
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American Immersion | Clemens Gadenstätter
Talea Ensemble – Photo by Beowulf Sheehan.
The ACFNY teams up with Talea Ensemble to present the third installment of their annual American Immersion series, this year featuring Austrian composer Clemens Gadenstätter. In this culminating concert concluding his residency, Talea Ensemble will perform the world premier of a work commissioned by the ACFNY specifically for this occasion, as well as U.S. premiers of Gadenstätter’s large ensemble pieces.
Thursday, May 21 at 8:00 PM
Free
Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY
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In Real Time | Lara Downes
Lara Downes is in residence at Spectrum May 18-20, working on new commissions and recording projects with a range of prominent NYC-based composers with whom she enjoys longstanding collaborations, including Mohammed Fairouz, Daniel Felsenfeld, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Daniel Roumain.
Thursday, May 21 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Barry Chabala
Guitarist Barry Chabala performs music by Eva-Maria Houben, Michael Vincent Waller, Jurg Frey, and Eva-Maria Houben.
Friday, May 22 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Piano Vectors for 6 pianos :a world premiere by John King
John King
Taka Kigawa, Jenny Lin, Laura Barger, Tania Tachova, Joseph Kubera and Ning Yu premiered Piano Vectors by John King. A major work of 80 minutes duration, this piece places the six pianists at chance-determined locations throughout the 50,000 square foot space, filling the air with mysterious layers of sound creating an entrancing aural tapestry. The piece explores King’s cosmic ideas on the organization of time, space and sound.
Friday, May 22 to May 23 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10
Knockdown Center, 52-19 Flushing Avenue, Maspeth, NY
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Melody & Harmony Hackathon
Luke DuBois, Luisa Pereira, and Brian McFee talk about physical interfaces for playing with harmony, computational analysis of melody and harmony in audio, and more. Talks at noon and concert at 8 PM.
Saturday, May 23 at 8:00 PM
Free
Spotify, 45 W 18th St New York, NY
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Beth Levin & 8 Strings and a Whistle
Beth Levin and 8 Strings and a Whistle perform the music of Scott Brickman.
Sunday, May 24 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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The Cellar and Point + Build
The Cellar and Point and Build perform a double bill at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2. The Cellar and Point will be performing music from their recent critically acclaimed record on Cuneiform, “Ambit.” Build will premiere 2 new pieces as well as performing music from their first two records on New Amsterdam.
Sunday, May 24 at 7:00 PM
Free
Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2, 196 Allen Street, New York, NY
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Dartmouth Contemporary Music Lab
The Contemporary Music Lab (CML) performs original compositions and improvisations alongside new realizations of seminal works, using a flexible combination of acoustic and electronic instruments.
Sunday, May 24 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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