This week: concerts in New York (April 16, 2018 – April 22, 2018)

Yuko Fujiyama Ensemble: Album Release Celebration

After a 15-year hiatus, pianist Yuko Fujiyama returns to Roulette to perform with her new quartet and celebrate the release of their new album, Night Wave.
Monday, April 16 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Dialogue With the Ghost

Debra Kaye’s work Dialogue With the Ghost, featuring cellist Arthur Cook, will be presented by the National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA) on its Spring Serenade concert.
Monday, April 16 at 8:00 PM
Free
Christ and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 120 West 69th Street, New York, NY
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Encounters | Look + Listen Festival

WQXR Terrance McKnight will host two sets at The Drawing Center. Saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock and vibraphonist and composer Joel Ross will improvise two sets in response to artwork by Terry Winters in the Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions exhibit in the main gallery.
Thursday, April 19 at 6:00 PM & 7:30 PM
Free
Drawing Center, 35 Wooster St, New York, NY
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Frederic Rzewski | Composer Portraits

 

Though American composer Frederic Rzewski is best known for his scores responding to social and political uprisings around the world, one of his earliest pieces was of a more familiar variety—a string quartet, composed when he was just 17 years old. Now approaching 80, Rzewski is still composing. For his second appearance on the Composer Portraits series, Miller Theatre highlights this very early work, followed by the world premiere of Rzewski’s latest string quartet, co-commissioned for the occasion.
Thursday, April 19 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20-$30
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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ECCE and Court-Circuit: French/American Music in Dialogue

ECCE and Court-Circuit join forces to present works by Christophe Bertrand, Philippe Hurel, David Felder, Philippe Leroux, and John Aylward. The ensembles themselves will present smaller chamber works featuring members of each ensemble. Then, Maestro Jean Deroyer from Court-circuit will lead the combined ensembles in performances of Philippe Hurel’s Figures Libre and the world premiere of John Aylward’s Narcissus.
Thursday, April 19 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Tuned Squared | Art of Sound

Melissa Grey will direct a performance of Pauline Oliveros’s Tuning Meditation (1971), a vocal improvisation beginning with a single pitch, at the site of Max Neuhaus’s sound installation Times Square (1977). The installation exposes a rich, harmonic sound texture of the resonance of the Square’s underground tunnel junction, which would otherwise remain unheard.
Friday, April 20 at 7:30 PM
Free
Times Square, 46th and Broadway pedestrian island, New York, NY
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Yarn/Wire Plays ICEBERG

Yarn/Wire will premiere works by ICEBERG composers Victor Baez, Alex Burtzos, Derek Cooper, Max Grafe, and Emily Praetorius. Also on the program is a work by a winner of ICEBERG’s second call for scores. Like every ICEBERG event, this concert features an open bar happy hour beginning at 7:30, and a discussion with the composers and performers after the show.
Friday, April 20 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10-$20
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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SOLO | Ensemble Échappé

Lex54 Concerts presents a program of premieres, including the New York premiere of Michael Hersch’s Violin Concerto, featuring violinist Miranda Cuckson. Also on the April 20 program are three other premieres: Jonathan Dawe’s brand new clarinet concerto, Astounding Angels; the New York premiere of Nina C. Young’s Vestigia Flammae; and the world premiere of Ensemble Échappé-commissioned Snowlight by Phil Taylor.
Friday, April 20 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25, $15 students
St. Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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Scripted Open Mic, Vol. 2

Scripted Open-Mic brings together New York composers to present a concert drawing inspiration from popular music. Original singer/songwriter tunes to hip-hop chamber music. Inventive covers of existing songs to experimental alternative tracks. Presented in the style of your favorite, local 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, April 20 at 8:00 PM
Free
MISE-EN_PLACE, 678 Hart Street, Brooklyn, NY
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A Room of One’s Own: Nadia Botello’s Sono/Aqua | MATA Festival

This concert will be a truly immersive event. The audience, having passed through stages of listening from the audible to the vibrational, will be invited to enter a sonified pool to become one with sound: generating, altering, and ultimately becoming sound incarnate.
Saturday, April 21 at 6:30 PM
Tickets $25
Imagine Swimming, 40 Harrison Street, New York, NY
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Perimeters Pre-Concert Performance | Look + Listen

Visual artist Emma Sulkowicz and composer Sean Harold will perform a new composition specifically for Sulkowicz’s installation The Floating World. Sulkowicz’s actions will feed Harold’s music, causing it to morph throughout the piece. This blending of performance with percussion will culminate first in the disintegration of these tasks and sounds, before resurrecting them in a moment of catharsis.
Saturday, April 21 at 7:00 PM
Free
The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Time Travelers to Versailles

Early-music vocal group TENET and the new music group Metropolis Ensemble come together for a hall-of-mirrors time warp. Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles is coupled with two world premieres: a new cello concerto by Timo Andres inspired by John Vanderlyn’s Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles, and a new work for period and modern instruments by Caroline Shaw inspired by the exhibition.
Saturday, April 21 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $50
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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andPlay + Kylwyria

andPlay (Maya Bennardo, violin, and Hannah Levinson, viola) and Kylwyria (Erica Dicker, violin, Julia Den Boer, piano and John Gattis, horn) perform works by Alvin Lucier, Nicholas DeMaison, and Christian Wolff along with world premieres by Leah Asher, Bethany Younge, and Viola Yip.
Saturday, April 21 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
Areté Venue and Gallery,67 West Street #103, Brooklyn, New York
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Perimeters | Look + Listen Festival

Cellist Mariel Roberts performs Davíð Brynjar Franzson’s Cartography of Time and Patchtax will perform the New York premieres of the winning works from their recent call for scores to composers who identify themselves as marginalized, with original works by Sofia Scheps, Evelin Ramón, and Rosalie Burell. Mellissa Hughes and Philip White will perform their original takes on selections from The Great American Songbook. The program will include improvisations by performing duo Peter Evans and Levi Lorenzo with special guests Dan Peck and percussionist Dennis Sullivan. Mellissa Hughes will also perform the 2018 Composers Competition winning piece by Doug Balliett, Ozymadius.
Saturday, April 21 at 8:00 PM
Free
The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Pacific Symphony

Philip Glass’s season-long Carnegie Hall residency concludes with a Carnegie Hall debut by the Pacific Symphony by commemorating the composer’s famous collaborations with the legendary Ravi Shankar. The program includes Glass’s “Meetings Along the Edge” from Passages, a piece based on a theme written by Shankar, as well as the New York premiere of The Passion of Ramakrishna, a work honoring the Hindu holy man, which was originally co-commissioned, premiered, and recorded by the orchestra. Shankar’s daughter, Anoushka Shankar, takes center stage as soloist in her father’s Concerto No. 3 for Sitar and Orchestra.
Saturday, April 21 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $16.50-$90
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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The Chelsea Symphony

The Chelsea Symphony performs John Luther Adams’s Become Ocean on Earth Day at the American Museum of Natural History.
Sunday, April 22 at 2:00 PM
Included with museum admission
American Museum of Natural History, Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY
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Art of the Trio | Art of Sound

Featuring The Progression Ensemble (accordion-guitar-cello) and The Baseless Ensemble (saxophone-cello-voice) in a program of over a dozen art-inspired premieres. The program will include music by Gene Pritsker, Bjorn Bolstad Skjelbred , Dan Cooper, Christopher Cook, Michael Dilthey, Mehdi Hosseini, Peter Wetzler, Conrad Kehn, Peter Jarvis, Matthew Kennedy, Andrey Stolyarov, Scott Harding, and Ben Stonaker.
Sunday, April 22 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, Brooklyn, NY
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Into the Hot, Out of the Cool | Kit Fitzgerald and Peter Gordon

Long-standing collaborative duo Peter Gordon (keyboard, sax, electronics) and Kit Fitzgerald (video) present Into the Hot, Out of the Cool. The performance will feature large-scale video paintings by Fitzgerald accompanied by a six-piece musical ensemble directed by Gordon. Fitzgerald’s visual imagery will include video drawings, animations, and camera imagery—mixed and processed live—combining early analog and current digital technology.
Sunday, April 22 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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