This week: concerts in New York (February 25, 2019 – March 3, 2019)

Cutting Edge Concerts

The February 25 program will begin with pianist Nadia Shpachenko-Gottesman performing works from her recently released CD, The Poetry of Places. Composers represented on the CD, all who will be present include: Lewis Spratlan, Harold Meltzer, Hannah Lash, James Matheson, Amy Beth Kirsten, Jack Van Zandt, and Victoria Bond. The second half of the program features Japanese-American composer Paul Chihara’s Amatsu Kaze, performed by mezzo-soprano Sophia Maekawa; clarinetist Alan Kay, flutist Elizabeth Mann, violinist Jesse Mills, cellist Paul Wiancko, and pianist Rieko Aizawa.
Monday, February 25 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20 advance, $30 day of show
Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Third Sound | Pop-Up Concerts

Third Sound, the New York-based collective of chamber music superstars, makes its Miller debut with an eclectic program of pieces spanning a century. Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony, Op. 9, anchors two more recent creations, including one by Third Sound Director Patrick Castillo.
Tuesday, February 26 at 6:00 PM
Free
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Josiah Cuneo: The Screen Above

Positioned in the lineage of Expanded Cinema, The Screen Above is a new multi-media performance featuring original choreography, music and live video created and led by Josiah Cuneo.
Wednesday, February 27 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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The Harlem Chamber Players’ 11th Annual Black History Month Celebration

This concert will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the importation of the first black slaves to America. The Harlem Chamber Players commissioned composer Adolphus Hailstork to write the concert aria Nobody Know for this event. The composer and librettist Herbert Martin will be in attendance.
Thursday, February 28 at 6:30 PM
Free
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY
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Irreversible Entanglements, Amina Claudine Myers & Nicole Mitchell | Ecstatic Music Festival

The performance features Irreversible Entanglements in a first-time collaboration with two Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians members: the pianist/vocalist/improviser Amina Claudine Myers and the composer/flutist Nicole Mitchell.
Thursday, February 28 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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Musical Ecologies: Pamela Z – Other Rooms

The 2018-19 season of Musical Ecologies continues Thursday, February 28 with San Francisco-based composer/performer Pamela Z. Well-known for her mixed-media solo performances that incorporate voice, electronics, video, found objects and midi-based gesture controllers, Z will perform a selection of short works and excerpts from her extensive solo repertoire, using processing on her voice, and manipulating live and sampled sounds with her gestures.
Thursday, February 28 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10
Old Stone House of Brooklyn & Washington Park, Brooklyn, NY
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ILLUMINATIO | Invisible Anatomy

Tribeca New Music presents composer/performer ensemble Invisible Anatomy’s new show ILLUMINATION: five world premieres integrating music, video, and light, woven together into an evening-length multimedia spectacle directed by Michael McQuilken. ILLUMINATION explores the practical, aesthetic, and ideological applications of light—our primary means of orienting ourselves and conveying information—as a way to examine conflicting viewpoints, the limits of language and communication, and moments when perceptual information does not match up with our expectations and understanding.
Thursday, February 28 at 8:00 PM & Friday, March 1 at 6:30 PM and 9:00 PM
Tickets $20, $15 students/seniors
the cell, 338 West 23rd Street, New York, NY
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[Switch~ Ensemble]

[Switch~] brings two world-premiere commissions to life by the winners of their 2016-17 International Call for Scores: Adrien Trybucki and Esaias Järnegard. [Switch~] also gives the US premiere of Timothy McCormack’s karst survey.
Thursday, February 28 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Areté, 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Inbal Segev: 21st Century Women

Inbal Segev performs solo cello works by five of today’s prominent female composers: Missy Mazzoli, Reena Esmail, Anna Clyne, Gity Razaz, and Kaija Saariaho. The program’s focal point, Legend of Sigh, is a new multimedia, immersive piece for cello and electronics written for Segev by Razaz with video and projection design by filmmaker Carmen Kordas.
Thursday, February 28 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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~Nois

This features three world premieres by New York-based composers Nathan Hudson, Howie Kenty, and Ed Rosenberg III. The other pieces on the program are Gemma Peacocke’s Dwalm, Pauline Oliveros’s Thirteen Changes, and Georg Friedrich Haas’s Saxophonquartett.
Friday, March 1 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
Areté, 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY
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CreArt Music Series at Greenwich House of Music

CreArtBox’s soloist, Julia Yang (cello), Guillermo Laporta (flute), and Josefina Urraca (piano) will offer a trio performance that includes Felix Mendelssohn and Joseph Haydn’s Piano Trios and Three Water Colors by Philippe Gaubert. The performance will also include two contemporary pieces by Turkish composer Elif Ebru Sakar and American composer Ned Rorem and a multimedia design in collaboration with sculptor Edjo Wheeler.
Friday, March 1 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20-$50
Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY
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Density 2036, part vi | Claire Chase

For the sixth year of Density 2036, her 23-year project to commission an entirely new body of repertory for solo flute each year until the 100th anniversary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5, Claire Chase premieres new works by Olga Neuwirth, Phyllis Chen, Pamela Z, and Sarah Hennies, featuring Constellation Chor. She will also be joined by instrumentalist and composer Tyshawn Sorey for a reprise of their collaboration from Density, part iv.
Friday, March 1 & Saturday, March 2 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25 general, $20 members
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY
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Japanese Composers Influenced by John Cage | Music From Japan

On Saturday, March 2nd, Japanese Composers Influenced by John Cage, curated by musicologist Miyuki Shiraishi, will feature six composers. A highlight of the program will be the world premiere of a new piece by Takahiro Kuroda, commissioned by Music From Japan. The concert will be preceded by a lecture by the curator, and followed by an open forum with a question and answer session.
Saturday, March 2 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20, $15 students/seniors
Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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~Nois

This features three world premieres by New York-based composers Nathan Hudson, Howie Kenty, and Ed Rosenberg III. The other pieces on the program are Gemma Peacocke’s Dwalm, Pauline Oliveros’s Thirteen Changes, and Georg Friedrich Haas’s Saxophonquartett.
Sunday, March 3 at 4:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 3, 185 Orchard Street, New York, NY
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The Works of Yumi Saiki | Music From Japan

The Works of Yumi Saiki will include a cross-section of the composer’s work over the past fifteen years. It too will be followed by an open forum with New York and Japanese composers, critics, and scholars.
Sunday, March 3 at 5:30 PM
Tickets $20, $15 students/seniors
Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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Gelsey Bell, Anaïs Maviel, Megan Schubert: QUARTET

Drawing from a wide array of inspirations, techniques, and genres, three acclaimed vocalist-composers—Gelsey Bell, Anaïs Maviel, and Megan Schubert—come together to write new pieces for each other. Each world premiere reflects the individual style of the composer while capitalizing on the collaborators’ flexible voices and improvisational intelligence.
Sunday, March 3 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Piano+ #13

The next Piano+ concert features works for ensemble by Eva-Maria Houben, Maya Verlaak, and Alison Isadora, a piece for four musicians on one piano by Lucie Vítková, and a solo piano piece by Coleman Zurkowski. Performed by LCollective: Denera James, Danielle Mink-Bellizzi, Douglas Farrand, Matt Lau, Rachel Mangold, Jesse Greenberg, Rahul Nair, Chrostopher Foss, Assaf Gidron, and Teodora Stepančić.
Sunday, March 3 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
Areté, 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY
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