CompCord Big Band
CompCord Big Band returns to The Cutting Room to premiere ten brand new compositions by Aaron Alter, Richard Sussman, Franz Hackl, John Clark, Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, Melanie Mitrano, Gerson Galante, Carlton Holmes, Alon Nechushtan, and Scott Hoefling.
Monday, March 5 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20 advance, $25 at door
The Cutting Room, 44 East 32nd Street, New York, NY
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Yarn/Wire
Yarn/Wire
Yarn/Wire perform the US premiere of Catherine Lamb’s curvo totalitas, is a 45-minute work that shifts perceptions, allowing the listener to get lost in its sound world.
Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00 PM
Free
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Sō Percussion & JACK Quartet
Sō Percussion and JACK Quartet come together for an evening of premieres including the US premiere of Philip Glass’s String Quartet No. 8 and the world premiere of Donnacha Dennehy’s Broken Unison, both co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall as part of its 125 Commissions Project. The program also includes the New York premiere of Dan Trueman’s Songs That Are Hard To Sing for the two ensembles together.
Tuesday, March 6 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $38-$48
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Our America
Our America spotlights contributions immigrants have made to the tapestry of American music. The concert includes two world premieres: Remain by Randall Eng and Three Songs to Poems by E. E. Cummings by Daniel Rein. The program also includes arrangements of the spirituals “Gospel Train,” “I’ve Been in the Storm So Long,” and “Ain’t That Good News”; and other selections by Irving Berlin, Victor Herbert, Kurt Weill, Leonard Bernstein, and George Gershwin.
Wednesday, March 7 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $30-$55
The Great Hall at The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York, NY
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Devotion | C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective
C4: the Choral Composer Conductor Collective
C4 shares the stage with the Men’s Ensemble of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus for an evening of contemplative music. C4 sings Wolfram Buchenberg’s Vier geistliche Gesänge and Carlos Pérez Tabares’ Simple Motets for male voices. The Brooklyn Youth Chorus Men’s Ensemble performs several works, including Jamie Klenetsky Fay’s I Remain and Karen Siegel’s Infinite Hour, and C4 joins the Men’s Ensemble for Martha Sullivan’s Devotion .
Thursday, March 8 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Cathedral, 113 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Unheard-of//Ensemble
Unheard-of//Ensemble performs new works from their upcoming album, Unheard-of//Dialogues. The album explores the connections of modern artistic voices musically, personally, and historically, examining the modern voice of Messiaen quartet instrumentation through works by Erin Rogers, Reiko Fueting, Nathan Hudson, Michael Lanci, Kevin Laskey, and Nickitas Demos.
Friday, March 9 at 8:00 PM
Free
MISE-EN_PLACE, 678 Hart Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Hymn to the Dawn
Photo by Phil Mansfield
The New Amsterdam Singers will give the world premiere performances of composer/vocalist Lisa Bielawa’s new choral work Walks of Life. The concerts also include music by Carson Cooman, Hugo Distler, Morton Gould, Gustav Holst, György Orbán, Per Gunnar Petersson, Willy Richter, Wallingford Riegger, Charles Villiers Stanford, and Nancy Wertsch, and explore the theme of songs of serenity and joy.
Friday, March 9 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25
Broadway Presbyterian Church, 601 West 114th Street, New York, NY
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Bargemusic
Caroline Shaw
Composer and pianist Timo Andres performs music by Caroline Shaw, Christopher Cerrone, Eric Shanfield, Janacek, and himself.
Friday, March 9 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $40, $35 seniors, $20 students
Bargemusic, 1 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY
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A Night of World Premieres
The Bloomingdale School of Music (BSM) is pleased to present its annual student composing project, Album for the Young (A4TY) in recital. The A4TY Student New Music Project at BSM encourages students (ages 7-17) to compose new music and commissions professional composers to write original works for its students. The program will include the premiere of a new work by composer, Beata Moon and will feature more than 30 student compositions, divided over two concerts.
Saturday, March 10 at 4:30 PM & 6:30 PM
Tickets $12
Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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The House Is Black Media Project
Multidisciplinary Iranian-American vocalist and artist Sussan Deyhim will perform the New York premiere of The House Is Black Media Project, a years-in-the-making work that marshals various facets of her dauntless career—opera, cinema, poetry, theater, video and performance art—to manifest the world of Iranian modernist Forough Farrokhzad’s poetry and film.
Saturday, March 10 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $35
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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Devotion | C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective
C4 shares the stage with the Men’s Ensemble of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus for an evening of contemplative music. C4 sings Wolfram Buchenberg’s Vier geistliche Gesänge and Carlos Pérez Tabares’ Simple Motets for male voices. The Brooklyn Youth Chorus Men’s Ensemble performs several works, including Jamie Klenetsky Fay’s I Remain and Karen Siegel’s Infinite Hour, and C4 joins the Men’s Ensemble for Martha Sullivan’s Devotion .
Saturday, March 10 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
Church of the Holy Apostles, 296 9th Avenue, New York, NY
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Hymn to the Dawn
The New Amsterdam Singers will give the world premiere performances of composer/vocalist Lisa Bielawa’s new choral work Walks of Life. The concerts also include music by Carson Cooman, Hugo Distler, Morton Gould, Gustav Holst, György Orbán, Per Gunnar Petersson, Willy Richter, Wallingford Riegger, Charles Villiers Stanford, and Nancy Wertsch, and explore the theme of songs of serenity and joy.
Sunday, March 11 at 4:00 PM
Tickets $25
Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th Street, New York, NY
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