Mia Zabelka, Phill Niblock, and Katherine Liberovskaya
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents the Austrian violinist and vocalist Mia Zabelka with experimental video artist Katherine Liberovskaya. The evening also features the legendary intermedia artist Phill Niblock performing his signature hypnotic compositions.
Monday, April 8 at 7:30 PM
Free
Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY
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International Contemporary Ensemble
The International Contemporary Ensemble performs the world premieres of works by NYU graduate student composers Fabian Beltran, Michael Seltenreich, Vasiliki Krimitza, Aine Eva Nakamura, and Michael Rose.
Monday, April 8 at 8:00 PM
Free
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York, NY
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And All the Days Were Purple
Alex Weiser
Celebrate the debut of and all the days were purple, a new album by composer Alex Weiser featuring Yiddish and English poems set to music. Performances by Eliza Bagg, Daniel Schlosberg, Maya Bennardo, Hannah Levinson, Hannah Collins, and Mike Compitello, will include a selection of songs from the new album, as well as the premiere of new arrangements of Yiddish and Hebrew songs from the YIVO Archives by composers Joel Engel, Moses Milner, Lazare Saminsky, and Alexander Veprik, created by Weiser for the occasion.
Tuesday, April 9 at 7:00 PM
Free
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
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False Harmonics #3
Bearthoven
Bearthoven premieres new works by Katherine Balch and Sarah Hennies. Opening the evening will be the premiere of a new duo featuring vocalist Luisa Muhr and guitarist Wendy Eisenberg.
Tuesday, April 9 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $10 advance, $15 doors
Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, NY
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SEVEN)SUNS and Gabriel Zucker | String Theories Festival
The String Orchestra of Brooklyn‘s annual String Theories Festival focuses on music for strings written in the 21st century. This year’s festival opens with a double bill of chamber ensembles that push the boundaries of traditional chamber music to include influences of jazz, noise, and metal.
Tuesday, April 9 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Xavier Foley
Xavier Foley, doublebass, and Kelly Lin, piano, perform music by Vivaldi, Schubert, Foley, and Glière.
Wednesday, April 10 at 12:00 PM
Tickets $20, $15 members
The Morgan Library & Museum, Gilder Lehrman Hall, 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
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International Contemporary Ensemble
The International Contemporary Ensemble presents an event featuring artists from the ICEcommons composer-discovery database—Merche Blasco, Sofy Yuditskaya, and David Coll—in collaboration with the Radical 2 percussion duo. Guest performers include Shelley Hirsch, Dafna Naphtali, Jess Rowland, and Margaret Schedel.
Wednesday, April 10 at 7:30 PM
Free
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York, NY
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Matt McBane + Build
Matt McBane + Build perform a new set of music in advance of recording their third album.
Wednesday, April 10 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
Areté, 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY
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J. G. Thirlwell, John King, and Lisa Renée Coons | String Theories Festival
String Orchestra of Brooklyn
On the second and final night of this year’s String Theories Festival, the String Orchestra of Brooklyn performs two world premieres by John King and J.G. Thirlwell, and a recent work by Lisa Renée Coons.
Wednesday, April 10 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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In the Mists
Lisa Moore
Through forest scenes and horizons complete with mists, hunts, and a healing song by Ishi, this concert links European and American composers with abundant, imaginative imagery. From Robert Schumann to Missy Mazzoli, Lisa Moore presents a blended collection of cinematic piano music, inspired by our natural world, and human yearnings. Composers include Ludwig van Beethoven, Martin Bresnick, Leoš Janáček, Missy Mazzoli, Frederic Rzewski, and Robert Schumann.
Thursday, April 11 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
Metropolis Ensemble, 1 Rivington Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Here & Now Series: In Celebration of Andrew Rudin’s 80th Birthday
This intimate portrait features a pianists Marcantonio Barone, Carl Patrick Bolleia, Beth Levin, and Andrew Rudin; clarinetist Alan Kay; violinist Elmira Darvarova; and cellist Samuel Magill performing works and a New York premiere by Andrew Rudin.
Thursday, April 11 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $35, $30 seniors, $20 students/children
Bargemusic, 1 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY
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American Composers Orchestra
Du Yun–Photo by Matt Zugale for Miller Theare
American Composers Orchestra performs a new work on the subject of migration by Pulitzer Prize-winning Chinese composer Du Yun, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall. There’s also a Morton Feldman work inspired by ancient manuscripts found along the Silk Road and Gloria Coates’s daring exploration of unconventional string tuning.
Thursday, April 11 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $43 to $51
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Under Northern Lights | New York Scandia Orchestra
The New York Scandia Orchestra performs music from Scandinavia. The concert will feature composers Carl Nielsen and Bernhard Crusell. Scandia’s music director Dorrit Matson will be conducting the concert. Clarinetist Steven Hartman will be the featured soloist.
Thursday, April 11 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25
Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Past Perfect | MATA Festival
Matt Evans
The 21st annual MATA Festival opens with Past Perfect, a triptych of intimate works that use dis- and re-embodied voices to reflect how our choices define us. Cellist John Popham joins the Bennardo-Larson Duo to animate works by Julie Herndon and Matt Evans framing Dutch composer Thomas Bensdorp’s revealing personal drama Family Plot for video and automated music boxes.
Thursday, April 11 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY
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andPLAY | Hotel Elefant
andPlay
Hotel Elefant celebrates spring at Areté Venue and Gallery with a split bill with violin-viola duo andPlay that explores the work of SkyMacklay and Anthony Vine.
Friday, April 12 at 7:00 PM
Pay what you want
Areté, 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Rhythms of India | Face the Music & Brooklyn Raga Massive
Brooklyn Raga Massive joins forces with Face the Music, a dynamic youth program dedicated to post-genre music by living composers (including its own members), for an evening inspired by South Asian classical music.
Friday, April 12 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25, $20 members
The Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, New York, NY
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Light Music | Thierry de Mey
Percussionist Adam Rosenblatt will perform Belgian composer Thierry de Mey’s Light Music, in which movements and gestures produce light and sound through interactive technology. This interdisciplinary solo performance will be bookended by Viennese classics performed by St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble.
Friday, April 12 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street #501, New York, NY
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IRL | MATA Festival
Friends of MATA, and their conductor, Carl Bettendorf, are joined by guest vocalists Lucy Fitz Gibbon and Charlotte Mundy for irl, a program that examines the complexity of communication in today’s world. Composers, filmmakers, and performers from Iceland to Turkey to Brazil come together to explore the ways in which intent can be misunderstood, systems can fail, and how human communication can seem impossible.
Friday, April 12 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY
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ModernMedieval Trio of Voices
Caroline Shaw
ModernMedieval Trio of Voices was created by Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, a former member of the vocal quartet Anonymous 4, with Martha Cluver and Eliza Bagg (from the celebrated ensemble Roomful of Teeth) rounding out the trio. Following their triumphant debut at The Met in 2016, they return with a fresh repertoire of medieval and contemporary works in a program designed specifically for The Met Cloisters: chants by Hildegard von Bingen combined with new commissions by Caroline Shaw, Caleb Burhans, Daniel Thomas Davis, Joel Phillip Friedman, and Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek.
Saturday, April 13 at 1:00 PM
Tickets $55 adults, $1 children
The Met Cloisters, The Fuentidueña Chapel, 99 Margaret Corbin Drive, New York, NY
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Bound
Huang Ruo
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.
Saturday, April 13 at 8:00 PM & Sunday, April 14 at 5:00 PM
Tickets $36
Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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Future Perfect | MATA Festival
The Friends of MATA are joined by pianist Conrad Tao, performing Remy Siu’s Foxconn Frequency no. 2, a multimedia theater work that questions perfection, pedagogy, and factory culture, and – wrapped in aluminum foil – vocalist Paul Pinto, in works that make the future come alive in all of its sensory overload. The conclusion of MATA’s Festival mainstage events at the Kitchen, Future Perfect visits a world of androids, bots, and zombies where yesterday’s science fiction is tomorrow’s reality.
Saturday, April 13 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY
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Competition Winners/9 Premieres | New York Virtuoso Singers
Guy Barash – Photo by Shimpei Takeda
The New York Virtuoso Singers performs works by Yusei Hata, Peter Mainetti, Paige Pearson, Justin Taveras, Alex Whittington, Guy Barash, Elizabeth Skola Davis, Russell Horton, Louis Karchin, and Thomas Stumpf. They will also perform the American premiere of Thea Musgrave’s Missa Brevis.
Saturday, April 13 at 8:00 PM
Contribution suggested
Advent Lutheran Church, 2504 Broadway, New York, NY
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JACK Quartet
JACK Quartet performs the complete Elliott Carter string quartets, following their appearance at Wigmore Hall, London. Composed between 1951 and 1995, the quartets will be performed in one program with two intermissions.
Sunday, April 14 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $35, $25 members
The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
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So We Must Make the Journey | Lorelei Ensemble
John Luther Adams
Lorelei Ensemble, a nine-voice all-female ensemble based in Boston, combines distinct and distant repertoires of medieval and contemporary repertoires, ranging from 9th-century Byzantine chant to 21st-century minimalism. Their April program at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola considers the parallel sacred journey of the natural world and the human race that lives within it, with music from medieval English texts, John Luther Adams, Maggi Payne, Byzantine abbess Kassia, and David Lang, among others.
Sunday, April 14 at 4:00 PM
Tickets $20 to $80
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, 980 Park Avenue, New York, 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.
Sunday, April 14 at 5:00 PM
Tickets $32-$75
Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, New York, NY
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Eclectic Bands
Composers Concordance co-presents with Robert Brashear the program Eclectic Bands, featuring groups distinguished by their unusual instrumentations and brazen combinations of styles.
Sunday, April 14 at 8:00 PM
Shrine World Music Venue, 2271 7th Ave, New York, NY
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