This week: concerts in New York (February 4, 2019 – February 10, 2019)

Anaïs Maviel: who is this ritual for and from?

In collaboration with choreographer Daria Faïn, composer and 2019 Van Lier Fellow Anaïs Maviel will offer a solo performance incorporating material that has nurtured her practice thus far. Designed as a performative ritual establishing a throughline between loneliness and relation, body, time and space, self and tools and machines, the night will transition into a duo set with pianist Sam Yulsman.
Tuesday, February 5 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Lunar New Year

The New York Philharmonic’s annual Lunar New Year celebration returns with a program featuring Tan Dun’s new violin concerto, Experience Fire Ritual; Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite; Mozart’s The Magic Flute; and more.
Wednesday, February 6 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35-$115
Lincoln Center, David Geffen Hall, New York, NY
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Soloicity

Molly Joyce’s Light series with Metropolis Ensemble concludes with a night of composer-performer sets, with styles ranging from folk to pop to experimental, and seemingly everything in-between. Composer/performers include Lea Bertucci, Carla Canales, Margaret Davis, Liz Faure, Sarah Goldfeather, Molly Joyce, Anna Meadors, Angélica Negrón, and Emily Wells.
Thursday, February 7 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students, free for members
Metropolis Ensemble, 1 Rivington Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Conduit: Duo Dialogues

This performance will explore unique sonorities and energetic rhythmic exchanges between bass clarinet and percussion. It will feature Comfort Patterns by Anna Meadors, You Broke It, You Bought It by Timo Andres, and the premiere of Kyle Tieman-Strauss’s Abject.
Thursday, February 7 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15
Areté, 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Robert Ashley: Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)

This newly reconstructed opera by the late Robert Ashley (written in 1985 and first performed in 1991) follows the adventures of its protagonist Linda, whose travels and romances can be read as attempts at assimilation and cultural cross-pollination, with varying degrees of success and rejection. The metaphor stretches in time from 1492—the beginning of a European consciousness of America and the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews from Spain—to the late 1940s on the West Coast (representing the future of the USA). Densely layered streams of text, lush live vocals, and a minutely structured electronic orchestra combine to present Ashley’s portrait of the American psyche.
Thursday, February 7 to Saturday, February 9 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25, $20 members
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY
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The Lost Words: Ashkan Behzadi and Fjóla Evans

Amalgama presents a performance of new commissions from their 2018-19 season project, The Lost Words The program features Ashkan Behzadi’s Willow and Fjóla Evans’s Dandelion.
Thursday, February 7 at 8:00 PM
$15 suggested donation
The National Opera Center, Placido Domingo Hall, 330 7th Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY
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ETHEL and Friends: Erhu and Cello Duo

Wang Guowei and Michael Katz perform contemporary works by Zhou Long, Lei Liang, and Yang Yong, along with original arrangements inspired by traditional Chinese classical and folk music.
Friday, February 8 & Saturday, February 9 at 5:00 PM
Free with museum admission
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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CURATOR SERIES | Fisher/Lau Project & Aviary/Berrow Duo

The program will center around pieces by living female composers, including works by Ann Cleare, Augusta Read Thomas, Diana M. Rodriguez, and a world premiere by Emily Praetorius. It will be the first collaboration between Berrow Duo and Aviary, two like-minded groups who share a passion for pushing the boundaries of their combined instrumentation.
Friday, February 8 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $10-$15
MISE-EN_PLACE, 678 Hart Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Parhelion Trio / SugarCave

SugarCave is a trio/band featuring Liz Faure (guitar), Alishan Gezgin (piano), and Addy Sterrett (vocals). Their focus is on original compositions and new arrangements of works ranging from early music to contemporary and pop artists. Parhelion will be premiering a brand new piece by Daniel Felsenfeld as well as performing works by Philip Glass, Sidney Boquiren, and Wendy Griffiths.
Friday, February 8 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15
Areté, 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Argento New Music Project: The Voices of Erin Gee

Argento New Music Project presents selections of Erin Gee’s vocal works spanning from 2000 to 2016 performed by the composer herself alongside the musicians of Argento’s ensemble—including the NYC premiere of Mouthpiece 29 and the world premiere of Mouthpiece 33.
Friday, February 8 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Bearthoven / Scott Wollschleger: American Dream Release Show

Bearthoven (Karl Larson, piano; Pat Swoboda, double bass; and Matt Evans, percussion) releases its second album, American Dream, on Cantaloupe Music. To celebrate the release, the ensemble will perform the album in its entirety. The album features the works of composer Scott Wollschleger, including his Gas Station Canon Song, American Dream, and We See Things That Are Not There.
Friday, February 8 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18, $15 students/seniors
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Kronos Quartet

Kronos Quartet spotlights music from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya—seven predominantly Muslim nations that have figured prominently in current events. Joining Kronos will be Mahsa Vahdat, Iranian vocalist and advocate for freedom of expression.
Friday, February 8 at 9:00 PM
Tickets $63-$75
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Silent Film Night | Composers Concordance

Composers Concordance, in conjunction with Goddard Riverside Community Arts, presents Silent Film Night, an event combining contemporary music compositions with a myriad of brief cinematic works past and present. The concert features compositions by Lynn Bechtold, Seth Boustead, Dan Cooper, Lara St. John, Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker, Anton Rovner, and Stefan Zeniuk.
Saturday, February 9 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $12 students/seniors
Goddard Riverside, Bernie Wohl Center, 647 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY
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Bagatelles Without Tonality

Pianist Max Lifchitz will perform Franz Liszt’s Bagatelle Without Tonality as part of a recital with commentary featuring works by composers from throughout the Americas.
Sunday, February 10 at 7:00 PM
Free
The National Opera Center, Placido Domingo Hall, 330 7th Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY
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