Border Crossing: Music of Derek Bermel with JACK Quartet
Composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel joins the JACK Quartet for his clarinet quintet A Short History of the Universe plus additional works by Bermel.
Monday, May 7 at 7:30 PM
Free
Advent Lutheran Church, 2504 Broadway, New York, NY
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The Future Is Bright | NYU Percussion Ensemble
An evening featuring percussionist Peter Ferry and the music of Elliot Cole, including the world premiere of a work composed for the NYU Percussion Ensemble. The Future is Bright is curated by Peter Ferry.
Monday, May 7 at 8:00 PM
Free
Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY
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Oratorio Society of New York
Paul Moravec
Kent Tritle conducts two world premieres. Sanctuary Road, by Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell tells of journeys toward freedom on the Underground Railroad led by William Still, an African American abolitionist. We Are One by Behzad Ranjbaran presents texts from different periods, cultures, and languages, reflecting on the human desire for mutual respect and peace.
Monday, May 7 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25-$90
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Cecilia Lopez: machinic fantasies
machinic fantasies is a performative installation based on the idea of producing a sonic and visual live “mediation process/machine”. The work, which is the result of Argentinean composer and artist Cecilia Lopez’s investigations spanning many years, utilizes multichannel video and sound spatialization techniques to augment the audience’s perception of specific kinetic sound objects.
Tuesday, May 8 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Tristan Perich: Drift Multiply
Composer Tristan Perich (photo credit: © d. yee / Cantaloupe Music)
As part of Red Bull Music Festival New York, composer and sound artist Tristan Perich will premiere his most ambitious project yet: A piece for 50 violins and 50 self-built 1-bit speakers. Perich investigates the spaces where the physical world meets the abstract world of computational electronics, writing intricate arrangements that blend lo-fi 1-bit sound with cascading melodies. Also performing will be Lesley Flanigan.
Wednesday, May 9 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20
The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
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Che Chen with Talice Lee and Patrick Holmes
Guitarist and multi-instrumentalist in 75 Dollar Bill, his project with drummer Rick Brown, Che Chen has taken this Roulette/Jerome Foundation commission as an opportunity to push deep into the sound worlds of modal improvisation, untempered tunings, and extended, slow-moving durational structures. Built around a just intonation tuning matrix and modes devised by Chen, this intimate, evening-length work aims to slow the listener’s attention and direct it towards minute differences in pitch, timbre, and awareness.
Wednesday, May 9 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Dalton Chorale
The Dalton Chorale, under the direction of David Shuler, presents a concert of 20th- and 21st-century choral works. On the evening program are Jonathan Dove’s Missa Brevis (2009), Grayston Ives’s The Canticle of Brother Sun (1996), Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna (1997), and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Five Mystical Songs (1906-11). Accompanying the Chorale will be Paolo Bordignon on the organ, and Peter Stewart will be the baritone soloist.
Wednesday, May 9 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25
Brick Church, Park Avenue and 91st Street, New York, NY
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EPOCH | Periapsis Music and Dance
Anne Lanzilotti
This concert features three world premieres from Periapsis Music and Dance, plus guests from the Periapsis Open Series. The three premieres each have a different pairing of composer and choreographer: choreographer Erin Dillon with composer Jonathan Howard Katz, choreographer Janis Brenner with composer Leah Asher, and choreographer Wendell Gray II with composer Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti.
Thursday, May 10 at 8:00 PM & Sunday, May 12 at 3:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Tickets $30, $20 students
Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts at LIU Brooklyn, 1 University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
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Rumpelstiltskin | Rhymes With Opera
Ruby Fulton
In Rhymes With Opera’s Rumpelstiltskin, themes of greed, bargaining, magic, and unconditional love combined with elaborate costumes, queer drag culture, and loud makeup transform a very old story into a new, modern opera, inspired by the San Francisco performance troupe, The Cockettes. For this world premiere, the character of Rumpelstiltskin grapples between the two sides of their personality, and will be portrayed by two singers simultaneously. In fact, this unique take on Rumpelstiltskin’s duality is very much reflected in the opera’s creative process: the music is a unique collaboration by Rhymes With Opera co-artistic directors Ruby Fulton and George Lam, with an original libretto by Chicago-based John Clum.
Friday, May 11 & Saturday, May 12 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
124 Bank Street Theatre, 124 Bank St, New York, NY
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Chiara String Quartet: Philip Glass Premiere
Chiara Quartet – Photo Liz Linder
Chiara String Quartet gives its final major performance presented by MetLiveArts. This culminating concert, celebrating 18 years together, is centered around the New York premiere of Philip Glass’ Piano Quintet “Annunciation,” with pianist Paul Barnes. The Chiara String Quartet opens the program with Nico Muhly’s Diacritical Marks, written for them in 2011, and concludes with Beethoven’s String Quartet in A minor, Op.132.
Saturday, May 12 at 2:00 PM
Tickets $45-$65
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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And So Now
BAM presents a new experimental work by Ben Vida that examines the aural threshold between verbal sense and nonsense. Featuring a quartet of vocalists, And So Now oscillates between the phonetic and the linguistic; at times the tempo and rhythm of the speech lifts the language outside the realm of communication, shifting it into pure sound. Cyclical singing is juxtaposed with spoken monologues foregrounding the material aspects of language. As the vocalists exchange words and phrases, a narrative develops, revealing how the communicative “signal to noise” ratios have fallen out of balance. Accompanying the vocalists is a soporific bed of electronically synthesized audio.
Saturday, May 12 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $18
BAM Fisher, Fishman Space, 321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY
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Innovator Lab: Laura Cocks
Laura Cocks performs new works for flute, electronics, and mixed media as part of Qubit’s Innovator Lab series.
Saturday, May 12 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10-$15
Project Q, 1850 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
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Gene & The Vocalists
Composer Gene Pritsker presents a concert of his vocal music.
Saturday, May 12 at 9:00 PM
Free
Symphony Space, Bar Thalia, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Bang on a Can Marathon
David Lang, Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe – Photo by Peter Serling
The 2018 Bang on a Can Marathon will feature 10 hours of music By: Jeffrey Brooks, Tom Chiu, Fjola Evans, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Nicole Lizee, Dylan Mattingly, Jessie Montgomery, Brendon Randall-Myers, Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, Gabriella Smith, Galina Ustvolskaya, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Alex Weiser, and Julia Wolfe.
Sunday, May 13 at 12:00 PM
Free
NYU Skirball, 566 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY
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Patterns in a Chromatic Field
Patterns in a Chromatic Field is a late work by Morton Feldman, an 80-minute odyssey for cello and piano exploring different degrees of stasis and patterns of harmony and color. This performance features pianist Marilyn Nonken and cellist Stephen Marotto.
Sunday, May 13 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $25, $15 students/seniors
St. Bart’s, 325 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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Ka Baird: centers: 4 channels
For her Jerome Foundation Residency at Roulette, Ka Baird will premiere centers: 4 channels, two pieces incorporating 4-channel synthesis with spatialized light and movement. The first part of the evening will premiere piano: vivification exercises, a work written for piano and electronics that plays with dissonance and consonance of tone, interference patterns between frequencies, repetition, rhythm, and chromatic stumbles. Crystal Penalosa will add additional electronics for the last exercise of this piece.
Sunday, May 13 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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