Kronos Quartet & Face the Music | Ecstatic Music Festival
The Kronos Quartet joins NYC’s youth new music ensemble Face the Music to perform new works written for Kronos’ “Fifty for the Future,” a commissioning, education and legacy project showcasing contemporary approaches to the string quartet that features new works by today’s composers. The two ensembles will perform separately and together. Face the Music will perform Yotam Haber’s From the Book and Kala Ramnath’s Amrit.
Monday, February 5 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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Telegraph Quartet
The Telegraph Quartet, winners of the 2016 Naumburg Competition, will perform the world premiere of composer Robert Sirota’s third string quartet, Wave Upon Wave.
Tuesday, February 6 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20
Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Lara Downes: FOR LENNY
Composer John Corigliano (photo credit: johncorigliano.com)
Pianist Lara Downes celebrates the launch of her Sony Classical debut album FOR LENNY, a Leonard Bernstein centennial tribute that spans the landscape of American music from the past, present, and future. Downes, joined on stage by singer Rhiannon Giddens, performs new arrangements of Bernstein’s songs and world premiere tributes by American composers such as Stephen Sondheim, John Corigliano, Stephen Schwartz, Michael Abels, Ned Rorem, and others
Wednesday, February 7 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $29
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Nico Muhly and Friends Investigate the Glass Archive
This program features world premieres of Glass songs, as arranged by composer and collaborator Nico Muhly. Over his long career, Glass has written countless pieces of music for his ensemble: a band of his friends and close collaborators, performing them with his own community of musicians. In these brand-new arrangements, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Muhly brings together a new community of musicians to perform some of Glass’s lesser-known music.
Thursday, February 8 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $66 to $77
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Exceptet Winter Concert: Premieres by Sarah Goldfeather, Brendon Randall-Myers, Matt Evans
Sarah Goldfeather
New York-based ensemble Exceptet performs three brand new works: Episodic Memory (learning to hurt) by Brendon Randall-Myers, which draws on brain processes regarding trauma; mesh by Matt Evans, inspired by human’s impact on the environment; and Mouth Full of Ears by Exceptet’s very own violinist Sarah Goldfeather, which illustrates contemporary political discourse in a musical manner.
Thursday, February 8 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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SIX. TWENTY. OUTRAGEOUS.
Ariadne Greif (photo credit: Aidan Schultz-Meyers)
When an oddball couple, their sassy housekeeper, a sewing machine, and a deranged radio all start singing, Gertrude Stein’s playful language is transformed into the new opera from composer Daniel Thomas Davis, librettist Adam Frank, and director-designer Doug Fitch. This world premiere features a lineup including vocalists Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, Ariadne Greif, and Andrew Fuchs, joined by the Momenta Quartet, under the musical direction of David Bloom.
Friday, February 9 to Saturday, February 10 at 7:30 PM & Sunday, February 11 at 2:00 PM
Tickets $30, $26 members, $20 30 and under
Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Lorelei Ensemble | 5 Boroughs Music Festival
5BMF presents the nine-voice Lorelei Ensemble in a program of vocal works spanning centuries of vocal traditions, from the late-Medieval to contemporary Americana.
Friday, February 9 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
Church of St. Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street, New York, NY
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Tour de Force | Eliza Garth
Eliza Garth celebrates the release of her new album Tour de Force on Albany Records. The album features Garth’s performances of the complete Piano Preludes of composer Sheree Clement paired with Perry Goldstein’s Of Points Fixed and Fluid, a work commissioned by Garth
Friday, February 9 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20, $10 students/seniors
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Jennifer Higdon (photo: J.D. Scott)
The CSO gives the New York premiere of a new Low Brass Concerto by composer Jennifer Higdon. The work brings four members of the Orchestra’s renowned low brass section to center stage: Principal Trombone Jay Friedman, Trombone Michael Mulcahy, Bass Trombone Charles Vernon, and Principal Tuba Gene Pokorny. It is paired with Stravinsky’s Scherzo Fantastique, Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes as well as Chausson’s Poème de l’ amour et de la mer featuring mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine.
Friday, February 9 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25.50 to $170
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Scripted Open Mic, Volume 2
Scripted Open-Mic brings together New York composers to present a concert drawing inspiration from popular music with original singer/songwriter tunes and hip-hop chamber music to covers of existing songs and experimental alternative tracks. Presented in the style of an open-mic night, the composers introduce and perform their works by dim lamp light and the audience is encouraged to react as they feel moved.
Friday, February 9 at 8:00 PM
Free
MISE-EN_PLACE, 678 Hart Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The CSO performs the New York premiere of many words of love by CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Samuel Adams as well as Verdi’s overture to I vespri Siciliani along with Brahms’s Symphony No. 2.
Saturday, February 10 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25.50 to $150
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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ArchiTAK
TAK Ensemble–Photo by David Bird
TAK ensemble and Architek percussion blend forces to present newly commissioned works by composers David Bird, Taylor Brook, Myriam Bleau, and Isaiah Ceccarelli. The program features works inspired by a range of sources, from René Descarte’s obsession with a life- sized clockwork doll which travelled with him everywhere, to the musical and metaphysical meanings of a ‘pulse,’ to a 19th-century account of the life of Saint Edward the Confessor.
Saturday, February 10 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Piano+ #4
Piano+ is a monthly concert series at Spectrum curated by composer and pianist Teodora Stepančić, dedicated to new and recent piano music. This concert features music by Tom Johnson, Assaf Gidron, and Coleman Alexander Zurkowski.
Sunday, February 11 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, Brooklyn, NY
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Piano Motion
Composers Concordance presents ‘Piano Motion,’ a concert event pairing new piano compositions with contemporary dance. As pianists Christopher Vassiliades, Jai Jeffryes, and Isabelle O’Connell perform brief solo sets, dancers Max Pollak, Julie Fotheringham, and Livya Howard-Yashar meld techniques from tap, modern dance, jazz, classical ballet, Afro-Cuban, and body percussion to the varied music. This program features compositions by Otto Luening, Ann Warren, Christopher Vassiliades, Dan Cooper, Dominy Clements, Faye-Ellen Silverman, Gene Pritsker, Joseph Pehrson, and Masatora Goya.
Sunday, February 11 at 4:00 PM
Tickets $7 to $12
St. Marks Church-In-The-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY
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