John King Curates The Stone
John King
John King’s residency at The Stone is an immersion into works from the past 20 years from his catalogue, including 7 world premieres performed by a multitude of ensembles and performers.
Tuesday, May 5 to May 10 at 8:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Tickets $15
The Stone, Avenue C & 2nd Street, New York, NY
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Collaboration | Niloufar Nourbakhsh
The program includes and original work, plus pieces by Caroline Shaw, Missy Mazzoli, and Laura Kaminsky.
Friday, May 8 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Sofia Gubaidulina + Bach
Composer Sofia Gubaidulina (photo credit: www.remusik.org)
Sofia Gubaidulina shares a special affinity with Bach: both artists’ music are influenced by their faith, and they share a unique blend of emotional transcendence and compositional rigor. Gubaidulina’s Chaconne for piano directly reflects her interest in Baroque forms, while her Meditation is both literally based on a Bach cantata tune and formally inspired by numerology, the practice of using spiritually or otherwise significant numbers – a technique Bach himself employed.
Friday, May 8 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25-$35
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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David Behrman, James Rushford & Klaus Lang, Julius Eastman, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Barbara Monk Feldman, John McGuire | Tectonics Festival New York 2015
The program turns its attention to composer and multimedia artist David Behrman, who performs Wave Train and Long Throw. A solo piece by John McGuire, known for his “postminimalist” synthesis of minimalism and serialism, is performed by soprano Beth Griffith. Pianist Joseph Kubera presents a solo program including works by Julius Eastman as well as the Canadian composers Chiyoko Szlavnics. James Rushford and Klaus Lang return for a first-time duo performance, commissioned for Tectonics Festival NY.
Friday, May 8 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $12 members/students
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York, NY
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Works by Nate Young & Mario Diaz de Leon, Klaus Lang, Morton Feldman & Annea Lockwood | Tectonics Festival New York 2015
Morton Feldman
Tectonics Festival New York 2015 opens at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights with a program utilizing their pipe organ, built in 1900.
Friday, May 8 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $12 members/students
First Unitarian Congregational Society, 116 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY
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NYU Symphony
Each half of the program will open with a piece by one of the winners of the 2015 NYU Steinhardt Composition Competition: Brian Paul and Brian Haller. The first half of the program will feature Philip Glass’s Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra, with soloists Alex Appel and Zac Robason, winners of the 2015 NYU Steinhardt Percussion Competition. The second half of the program will feature Valgeir Sigurðsson’s score to Dreamland, performed live to the Icelandic documentary by Andri Snær Magnason. A pre-concert talk with Sigurðsson, Haller, and Paul will begin at 7:15 PM.
Friday, May 8 at 8:00 PM
Free
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Nate Wooley: Seven Storey Mountain V, Maya Dunietz, Fritz Welch, TILT play William Dougherty | Tectonics Festival New York 2015
Tilt Brass – Photo J. Christenson
Members of TILT Brass perform the works of emerging American composer William Dougherty for trombone quintet. Glasgow-based Fritz Welch, a drummer, percussionist, and vocalist who became a cult figure as part of Peeesseye, performs solo. Israeli sound artist Maya Dunietz presents the U.S. premiere of her solo work Boom, for vocals, electronics, piano, and video. The festival closes with the premiere performance of Seven Storey Mountain V, by Nate Wooley.
Saturday, May 9 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $12 members/students
Abrons Art Center, 466 Grand Street, New York, NY
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Contemporary Insights
Zach Seely presents a Marcelo Toledo portrait concert.
Saturday, May 9 at 9:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Voluptuous Virtuosity
This iteration of Marilyn Nonken’s Voluptuous Virtuosity series featuring pianist Marcus Ostermiller.
Sunday, May 10 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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