Wet Ink: 20th Anniversary Bash
Wet Ink Ensemble celebrates 20 years of music making in NYC and around the world with a concert celebrating the work of the ensemble’s four composer members—Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta, Kate Soper, and Eric Wubbels. The concert will feature a retrospective look at “classics” of Wet Ink‘s repertoire, including Alex Mincek’s From Nowhere to Nowhere and Kate Soper’s Door, and new sounds including Sam Pluta’s binary/momentary iii for solo cello featuring Mariel Roberts and the world premiere of a new work for Wet Ink‘s core septet of composer-performers by Eric Wubbels.
Monday, April 1 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Rebecca Fischer | Pop-Up Concerts
Jessie Montgomery
Violinist Rebecca Fischer makes her Pop-Up debut with a girl-power program of solo violin works by seven contemporary composers, two of which were written expressly for her. Music by Gabriela Lena Frank, Lisa Bielawa, Paola Prestini, Jessie Montgomery, Shih-Hui Chen, Missy Mazzoli, and Suzanne Farrin will be performed.
Tuesday, April 2 at 6:00 PM
Free
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Legion | RighteousGIRLS
RighteousGIRLS, a piano and flute duo who explore beyond the acoustic medium, expand their sonic world with a program that highlights immersive multi-track layering, field recordings, improvisation, and electronica.
Tuesday, April 2 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
Metropolis Ensemble, 1 Rivington Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Vocal Works and Sontag Works
Nathalie Joachim performs at Resonant Bodies 2018–Photo by Gretchen Robinette
Paola Prestini’s weeklong residency at The Stone kicks off with Liv Redpath and Amanda Gookin performing works by Prestini and Nathalie Joachim.
Tuesday, April 2 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $20
The Stone, The New School Glass Box Theatre, 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Iranian Female Composers Association in collaboration with Hypercube Ensemble: Another Birth
IFCA and Hypercube join forces to present the music of Iranian female composers. The program includes three commissions for Hypercube along with works by IFCA founding members. Inspired by the poetry of the well known Iranian female poet, Forough Farrokhzad (1934–1967), Another Birth is the second full concert curated by IFCA.
Wednesday, April 3 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $20 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Kelsey Lauritano and Andrew Sun
Mezzo-soprano Kelsey Lauritano and pianist Andrew Sun give the US premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s Without Music. The duo also performs music by Franz Schubert, Maurice Ravel, and Manuel de Falla.
Wednesday, April 3 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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New Zealand Meets New York
This concert features music by New Zealand composers Jeremy Mayall and Horomona Horo and New York composers Gene Pritsker and Milica Paranoisc.
Wednesday, April 3 at 8:00 PM
Free
Michiko Studios – Stage 2, 149 West 46th Street, New York, NY
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Solos and Duos
Andy Akiho
Paola Prestini’s weeklong residency at The Stone continues with Francesca de Pasquale, Ian Rosenbaum, Jonah Sirota, and Jeffrey Zeigler performing works by Prestini and Andy Akiho.
Wednesday, April 3 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $20
The Stone, The New School Glass Box Theatre, 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Foley Opera and Other Vocal Worlds
Paola Prestini’s weeklong residency at The Stone continues with Eve Gigliotti, Gyan Riley, Jeffrey Zeigler, Os Vocal Ensemble performing works by Prestini and Eve O’Donnell.
Thursday, April 4 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $20
The Stone, The New School Glass Box Theatre, 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Intricate Machines | Aizuri Quartet
Aizuri Quartet–Photo by Shervin Lainez
Aizuri Quartet performs music by Nina C. Young, Sky Macklay, Daniel Temkin, Phil Taylor, and Katherine Balch.
Friday, April 5 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10-$20 online, $15-$25 cash at door
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Galina Ustvolskaya | Blank Forms
Marianne Schroeder performs Galina Ustvolskaya’s 12 preludes and piano sonatas 1 – 6 as part of the Blank Forms series.
Friday, April 5 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25, $18.75 members
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 346 West 20th Street, New York, NY
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Works for Violin Featuring Rebecca Fischer
Composer Paola Prestini
Paola Prestini’s weeklong residency at The Stone continues with Rebecca Fischer performing works by Prestini and Matthew Fuerst.
Friday, April 5 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $20
The Stone, The New School Glass Box Theatre, 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Kettle Corn New Music
Loren Loiacono
Kettle Corn New Music presents piano duo HereNowHear in a concert of premieres by Loren Loiacono, Emily Cooley, and Walter Zimmermann, with George Crumb’s Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos Book IV) completing the evening.
Saturday, April 6 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $20
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Port Mande: Clarinetist Mark Dover and pianist Jeremy Jordan
Port Mande features clarinetist Mark Dover (of Imani Winds) and pianist/producer Jeremy Jordan. The evening is a veritable variety show, with special guests and a vast spectrum of selections, from Schumann’s Dichterliebe to Mark Dover’s own Vocalise to a hip hop set with rapper POES.
Saturday, April 6 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Leonardo | Jonathan Berger
Jonathan Berger
Featuring baritone Tyler Duncan, a libretto drawn entirely from da Vinci’s own notebooks, and designs by Gabriel Calatrava, this work invites us to enter da Vinci’s world—one in which we never stop questioning, examining, renewing our intellect, and seeking truths.
Saturday, April 6 at 8:00 PM
Tickets from $35
92nd Street Y, Kaufmann Concert Hall, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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Nelson Patton
Paola Prestini’s weeklong residency at The Stone concludes with the Nelson Patton duo performing works by Prestini and Nelson Patton.
Saturday, April 6 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $20
The Stone, The New School Glass Box Theatre, 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Mass in Blue: The Music of Will Todd
DCINY presents an evening of music by English composer Will Todd led by Maestros James Meaders (DCINY Conductor) and Alicia Walker (DCINY Guest Conductor), respectively.
Sunday, April 7 at 2:00 PM
Tickets from $20
Lincoln Center, David Geffen Hall, New York, NY
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Orchestral Brilliance
The Greenwich Village Orchestra explores the full range of what a modern orchestra can be. Eric Mahl leads Debussy’s impressionistic Nocturnes, then New York Philharmonic bass trombonist George Curran joins the orchestra as soloist in Chris Brubeck’s Prague Concerto. The concert closes with Richard Strauss’s Suite from Der Rosenkavalier.
Sunday, April 7 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $20
All Saints Church, 230 East 60th Street, New York, NY
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Jeremy Gill
Composer Jeremy Gill showcases his compositions inspired by the words of Whitman, the philosophy of Pascal, and the film The Last Tango in Paris.
Sunday, April 7 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $29
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Michael Hersch
Spectrum presents the New York premiere of Michael Hersch’s new work rake forth the embers, the first song he has written for voice and piano since he completed a cycle for Thomas Hampson in 2010. As he did for the earlier cycle, Hersch uses text from the poetry of Thomas Hardy.
Sunday, April 7 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, Brooklyn, NY
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