Charles Ives Concert Series
The Charles Ives Concert Series, presented by the Danbury Music Centre in Danbury, CT, regularly features the music of Charles Ives and other American composers. This event is the NY debut of the series, consisting of works by Ives, previous composers-in-residence Justin Dello Joio and Nina C. Young, current composer-in-residence Robert Paterson, and the series’s artistic directors, Paul Frucht and Jon Cziner.
Monday, May 13 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25; $20 advance; $10 seniors, students, and children
Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Tigue: This New Forest
This New Forest is an evening-length performance inspired by ecological speculations fusing nature and machine; translating authentic and imagined biological systems into a musical world that is rhythmic, immediate and physical. The evening combines two NYC premieres of works by Paula Matthusen and Elori Kramer with Tigue’s original music.
Monday, May 13 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Yarn/Wire/Currents: Olivia Block, Sarah Hennies
Yarn/Wire
Now in its seventh iteration, Yarn/Wire continues its collaboration with Blank Forms to present large-scale works commissioned by the ensemble. This year’s Currents will feature a new work by Sarah Hennies and the NYC premiere of Olivia Block’s Calibration Circle (2016).
Tuesday, May 14 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $11.25 members
Zürcher Gallery, 33 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Bouchara
NYC based new music sinfonietta Ensemble Échappé, led by conductor Ben Grow, pairs up with guest soprano Alice Teyssier to present a set of 21st-century large ensemble works programmed around Claude Vivier sonically captivating 1981 masterpiece, the love song Bouchara.
Tuesday, May 14 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25, $20 students
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Kopernikus
Claude Vivier
Music of the Americas presents the New York premiere of composer Claude Vivier’s chamber opera Kopernikus. In what Vivier described as a “ritual opera of death,” the central character — a young woman named Agni — descends into a dream world where “mystical beings borrowed from stories gravitate around her: Lewis Carroll, Merlin, a witch, the Queen of the Night, a blind prophet, an old monk, Tristan and Isolde, Mozart, the Master of the Waters, Copernicus and his mother. These characters could be Agni’s dreams that follow her during her initiation and finally into her dematerialization.” The concert features Meridionalis, Americas Society’s vocal ensemble, and International Contemporary Ensemble.
Wednesday, May 15 & Thursday, May 16 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $20, members free
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY
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Alva Noto
Devoted to the concept of reductionism, German composer Carsten Nicolai strips music down to its fundamental components of sound. His video work provides a ghostly, digital atmosphere for the personification of data and information as noise. Bits and bytes come to life in this hallucinatory experience.
Wednesday, May 15 & Thursday, May 16 at 7:00 PM
Tickets from $45
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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Remix of the Animals | CompCord Festival
Camille Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals is the impetus for this program, for which composers were asked either to provide electronic remixes or to write original electronic compositions.
Thursday, May 16 at 9:00 PM
Free
Symphony Space, Bar Thalia, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Murasaki’s Moon | On Site Opera
This site-specific opera delves into the life and work of one of the most extraordinary women in Japanese history, Lady Murasaki, author of what is considered the world’s first novel. Shocking modern parallels will be revealed as the story follows Lady Murasaki on her non-traditional path to become one of the most significant literary figures of all time.
Friday, May 17 at 4:00 PM and 6:30 PM; Saturday, May 18 at 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM; Sunday, May 19 at 11:00 AM and 3:00 PM
Tickets $75-$85
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 217, The Astor Court, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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Premieres + Pairings | Piercy + Yoon
Clarinetist and hichiriki player Thomas Piercy continues his concerts of premiering music composed for him by composers from around the world. The young composers in this concert come from Iran, France, China, Japan, and Thailand. This concert will present seven premieres of solos and duos composed for clarinet/bass clarinet, hichiriki and piano. Pianist Jiung Yoon joins Piercy in these premieres as well as performing his own piano pairings …but I repeat myself… a program of minimalist/repetivist piano music pairings.
Friday, May 17 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25, $10 students/seniors
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Celestial Journey
Tarik O’Regan
Celestial Journey features a multi-disciplinary collaboration with the New York City Master Chorale, Yarn/Wire, and the 17th Street Dance from the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC. The program will include music by New York composers Jonathan Leshoff, Abraham Kaplan, and Tarik O’Regan.
Friday, May 17 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25-$50
Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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The Connecting Vine: Legacy of Nadia Boulanger
In collaboration with Suite Française and Dr. Philip Lasser, we present a special salon lecture-concert on the profound and lasting influence of one of the greatest musical pedagogues of the 20th century, Nadia Boulanger. The Strings of Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra will take you inside works by Bach, Ravel, David Diamond, Virgil Thomson, and more.
Saturday, May 18 at 3:00 PM
Free
Fort Washington Collegiate Church, 729 West 181st Street, New York, NY
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Nuptialis and Baptismus Premieres
This concert will showcase the premieres of two new masses for full choir and orchestra by Philippe Treuille. The first half of the program will feature Nuptialis, a wedding mass. The second half of the program will feature Baptismus, a baptism mass.
Saturday, May 18 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $35-$150
Church of the Incarnation, 209 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
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The Chelsea Symphony
Courtney Bryan
The Chelsea Symphony performs Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 as well as Courtney Bryan’s Sanctum, originally written for the American Composers Orchestra in 2015. The work by the New Orleans native is for orchestra and recorded sound and explores the sonic atmospheres of improvisation in Holiness-preaching traditions.
Saturday, May 18 at 8:00 PM & Sunday, May 19 at 2:00 PM
Tickets $25
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Homage to Peace | Musica Viva NY
Musica Viva NY concludes its 2018-19 season with Homage to Peace. The program Duruflé’s Ubi Caritas and Requiem, Op. 9; Poulenc’s Concerto for Organ, Timpani, and Strings, Op. 36, with organist Renée Anne Louprette; and Pärt’s Da Pacem Domine for mixed choir and string orchestra.
Sunday, May 19 at 5:00 PM
Tickets $40
The Brick Church, 1140 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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Mostly Mutts’ Art | CompCord Festival
All the music will have been inspired in some way by our canine companions. Audience members are also invited to bring along their dogs to participate in a Best In Show.
Sunday, May 19 at 5:00 PM
St. Marks Church-In-The-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY
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The Stonewall Operas
These four brand-new 30-minute operas are written and composed by alums of NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, as part of the Advanced Opera Lab led by Randall Eng, Associate Arts Professor of GMTW, and Sam Helfrich, Associate Arts Professor of Design for Stage & Film at Tisch. The operas are designed by Tisch students from the Design Department and choreographed by students from the Dance Department, directed by students from the New School, and performed by professional opera singers from American Opera Projects.
Sunday, May 19 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $35
The Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher Street, New York, NY
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Vocal Resolutions: Balancing Bubbles
Ellen Reid
In partnership with the Shallaway Youth Choir of Newfoundland, the concert is curated by 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid and YPC Artistic Director Francisco Núñez and will be highlighted by the world premiere of Reid’s So Much on My Soul, a YPC commission on the theme, to be premiered by both of the evening’s choirs.
Sunday, May 19 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15-$25
Gerald W. Lynch Theater, 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY
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Fair Trade Trio at the DiMenna Center
For their season finale, the Fair Trade Trio will be presenting the world premiere of Alon Nechushtan‘s Fractured Fairy Tales along with Beethoven’s String Trio, Op. 9, No. 1. The trio will join forces with pianist Taisiya Pushkar for Schumann’s Piano Quartet.
Sunday, May 19 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15-$25
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Benzaquen Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Secular Sacred Music
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents for the first time a concert on secular sacred music featuring performances of two choral masterworks, Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel and David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion.
Sunday, May 19 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 members/students
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
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