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This week: concerts in New York (October 9, 2017 – October 15, 2017)

Michael Hersch

Michael Hersch

… das Rückgrat berstend | Michael Hersch

Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja teams up with cellist Jay Campbell for the world premiere of Michael Hersch’s … das Rückgrat berstend, on a program that showcases extreme styles of music-making by composers from Gibbons to Xenakis. The new duo for violin/speaker and cello is one of several works Kopatchinskaja has commissioned from Hersch.
Monday, October 9 & Tuesday, October 10 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $45
Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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Steven Mackey and Jason Treuting Album Release Concert with So Percussion opening

Steven Mackey

Composer-guitarist Steven Mackey and composer-percussionist Jason Treuting celebrate the release of their first collaborative album, Orpheus Unsung, out on New Amsterdam Records on October 6.
Wednesday, October 11 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Sphinx Virtuosi

String works from the Baroque to the present day are performed by the young musicians of the Detroit-based Sphinx Organization. They performan Vivaldi’s Concerto in B-flat Major and Beethoven’s Op. 133, as well as a new work by Jimmy López, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, and much more.
Friday, October 13 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $12.50-$80
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Limpe Fuchs | Blank Forms

Limpe Fuchs is a German sound artist and instrument builder whose vibrant performances develop from a real time engagement with the ecology of the space at hand.
Friday, October 13 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 members
Artists Space, 55 Walker Street, New York, NY
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Concert 1 | 2017 Progressive Chamber Music Festival

Sirius Quartet

This evening of the festival features performances by Sirius Quartet, Mark Feldman, Mario Forte, Kalmanovitch Coleman Reichman Trio, Allison Loggins-Hull, and Joe Blaxx.
Saturday, October 14 at 6:30 PM
Tickets $20
Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY
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Brain-on-Fire | Hypercube

Composer Louis Andriessen (photo: © Francesca Patella)

Hypercube performs an evening of high-energy works for mixed quartet comprised of multiple saxophones, electric guitar, piano and percussion. Featuring Louis Andriessen’s work Hout, and Philippe Hurel’s Localized Corrosion, the program will also highlight Chris Cerrone, Mikel Kuehn, and Philip Schuessler.
Sunday, October 15 at 5:00 PM
Tickets $15-$20
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Concert 2 | 2017 Progressive Chamber Music Festival

Theo Bleckmann–Photo by Cora Wagoner Photography

This evening of the festival features performances by Theo Bleckmann, Ben Monder, String Noise, Colin Hinton Quartet, Shoko Nagai, Marco Capelli, and Jeff Davis.
Sunday, October 15 at 6:30 PM
Tickets $20
Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY
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Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir

Cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, presents new works for solo cello exploring her roots in Iceland. From Vetur by Melia Watras, based on a folksong inspired by the poems of Sæunn’s great grandfather, to 48 images of the Moon by Thurídur Jónsdóttir, which includes field recordings from a secluded shore in the Westfjords of Iceland, to a brand new work by young Icelandic composer Halldór Smárason, all of the pieces have profound ties to this tiny country in the middle of the North Atlantic. Also on the program is Páll Ragnar Pálsson’s Aftershock.
Sunday, October 15 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, Brooklyn, NY
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BR-Laser, MSHR, and Yatta | Moving Sounds Festival

Roulette welcomes back Austrian Cultural Forum New York’s Moving Sounds Festival, an annual international festival of music, visual media and aesthetic dialogue that features emerging and pioneering artists focused on electronically generated music, engaging improvisation, and cutting edge technology. This year’s festival is co-curated by Austrian electronic arts center Ars Electronica and Brooklyn-based nonprofit technology studio Eyebeam. The opening night of the festival, taking place on Sunday, features audiovisual experimentalists BR-Laser, MSHR, and Yatta.
Sunday, October 15 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15-$20
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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