Bound
Inspired by the news headline: “Diane Tran, Honor Student at Texas High School, Jailed for Missing School.” Bound, from composer Huang Ruo, in a new production from Ashley Tata, examines the experience of a Vietnamese immigrant family torn between the notion of the American dream and preserving their cultural heritage.
Monday, April 15, Wednesday, April 17 & Thursday, April 18 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $36
Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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Levy Lorenzo & Peter Evans
In a new program of co-composed works for trumpet, percussion, and electronics, Levy Lorenzo and Peter Evans build off the work documented on their debut album Q, released in October 2018 on Evans’s More is More label—advancing methods of combining traditional and experimental approaches of rhythm and sound, with both acoustic and electronic instruments.
Monday, April 15 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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George Crumb at 90: Part I
Chamber Music Society pays tribute to Crumb with two probing programs which reveal the composer in all his kaleidoscopic creativity. Featured in this CMS mini-festival is pianist Gilbert Kalish, whose definitive interpretations helped fuel Crumb’s meteoric rise.
Tuesday, April 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $32-$75
Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, New York, NY
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Israeli Chamber Project
In Israeli Chamber Project’s 3rd year at BPAC, their program focuses on homages. Brahms’s C minor Piano Quartet is a deeply personal homage to his unattainable muse, Clara Schumann. Bartok’s is to two of the great virtuosos of the 20th century – jazz great Benny Goodman and Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti. Johann Anton André pays homage to Mozart in his reimagining of a violin sonata for the unusual combination of string trio and clarinet. And finally, Yinam Leef, pays tribute to the violist and composer Oedeon Partos in his Triptych.
Tuesday, April 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $16-$36
Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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The Sonic World of the String Orchestra
Photo by Phil Mansfield
Lisa Bielawa conducts the Mannes String Orchestra in this special presentation of the Philip Glass Institute. As the inaugural Composer-in-Residence and Chief Curator of the Philip Glass Institute, Lisa Bielawa crafted this program which includes Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 3 and her own work, The Trojan Women. The concert also features the world premieres of the string orchestra versions of three works: two arias from Bielawa’s made-for-TV and online opera Vireo, sung by Rowen Sabala; Jon Gibson’s Chorales for Relative Calm; and David T. Little’s 1986.
Tuesday, April 16 at 7:30 PM
Free
The New School, John L. Tishman Auditorium, University Center, 63 5th Avenue, Room U100, New York, NY
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Premieres Vol. 12 | loadbang
George Lewis–Photo by Emily Peragine
loadbang performs world premieres of works by George Lewis, Claus-Steffen Mankopf, and loadbang’s Carlos Cordeiro, and Jeffrey Gavett.
Thursday, April 18 at 7:30 PM
The National Opera Center, Marc A. Scorca Hall, 330 7th Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY
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David T. Little | Composer Portraits
David T. Little – Photo by Merri Cyr
American Contemporary Musical Ensemble (ACME) and Third Coast Percussion present a program of music by composer David T. Little.
Thursday, April 18 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20-$30
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Nate Wooley | Musical Ecologies
Originally from Oregon, Wooley has been based in New York City since 2001 where he is active in a range contemporary classical, jazz, noise, and electronic music as an interpreter, improviser, and composer. Wooley will perform a version of his long-form solo trumpet work Coyote, which takes its initial impulse from Joseph Beuys’s I Like America and America Likes Me performance, in which the artist is locked in a gallery space with a live coyote. In Coyote, Wooley acts as the ritual performer through a series of slow, subtle and deliberate movements involving the entire body, with the trumpet being the mechanistic other. The evening will begin with a conversation hosted by series curator Dan Joseph.
Thursday, April 18 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10
The Old Stone House in Washington Park, 3rd Street & 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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CreArtBox
CreArtBox and Greenwich House present a concert with music by Kevin Puts, Brahms, Saint-Saëns, and Carl Maria von Weber.
Friday, April 19 at 7:30 PM
Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY
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Music for Mother Earth | The Dream Unfinished
Laura Kaminsky
The event will include performances of works by composers who hail from communities impacted by environmental issues and include a public conversation discussing the arts as a vehicle for climate activism with composer Laura Kaminsky, musicians Emily Kalish and Kyle Walker, and executive director Eun Lee, which will be moderated by NYSEC leader Anne Klaeysen.
Sunday, April 21 at 11:00 AM
Free
New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street, New York, NY
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