Jonah Sirota: Strong Sad Album Release Concert
Violist Jonah Sirota celebrates his newest National Sawdust Tracks album, STRONG SAD, a classical new music commissioning and recording project featuring newly composed elegies by Paola Prestini, Nico Muhly, Valgeir Sigur∂sson, Robert Sirota, A.J. McCaffrey, and Rodney Lister, as well as new work from the duo Mondegreen, and a debut composition by Jonah Sirota himself.
Tuesday, June 26 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo
The Newman and Oltman Guitar Duo is joined by Brazilian guitarist João Luiz in a concert celebrating Music from the Americas. In addition to works by Brazilian composers Machado, Jobim, Simas, Clarice Assad, Villa-Lobos and Bellinati, the program will also feature works by US native Paul Moravec and Argentinean Astor Piazzolla.
Wednesday, June 27 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $20, $10 students
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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Kinan Azmeh Presents Layale Chaker
Layale Chaker
Violinist and composer Layale Chaker’s debut album Inner Rhyme is a suite that explores aesthetics of Arabic poetry. This pre-release concert unveils musical threads mapped through the rhythmical cycles of the twelve classical Arabic poetic meters. Listeners will feel the fluidity of oral and free forms, the abstraction of language into the physical contour of verses, and the percussive potential of words. Beyond expression, the composition process tries to capture the shape and essence of epic testimonials on life, death, war, and love that make the heart of Arabic poetry.
Thursday, June 28 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $29
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Knot an Opera!
Fresh Squeezed Opera presents the New York premiere of Constantin Basica’s Knot an Opera! Directed by Michael Hofmann, Knot an Opera! is a multidisciplinary satirical series of absurdist scenes that hit on a range of topics including internet culture, American popular music, and the state of funding for the arts, mixing electronic music with traditional operatic practices. Think: meme opera meets opera that challenges the state of the arts in the United States. The Business Cat Dance Party will follow the final performance, open to everyone.
Thursday, June 28 to Saturday, June 30 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20 online, $25 at door
Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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Kronos Quartet & Soo Yeon Lyuh
Kronos Quartet (photo: Jay Blakesberg)
This concert is a collaboration between San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet and Korean musician Soo Yeon Lyuh. Each will perform a 30-minute solo set, then come together for Lyuh’s Yessori (Sound from the Past), in an arrangement for string quartet and traditional Korean instruments.
Thursday, June 28 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $55
92nd Street Y, Buttenwieser Hall, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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SORA Quartet
Scott Wollschleger
SORA performs the world premiere of Scott Wollschleger’s new string quartet Hollow City, alongside Bartok’s String Quartet No. 2, and Philip Glass’s Mishima.
Saturday, June 30 at 7:00 PM
$15 suggested donation
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, 85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY
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