PREformances with Allison Charney
Soprano Allison Charney, flutist Marya Martin, and pianist Donna Weng Friedman will perform a new setting of The Clara Cycle by Kim D. Sherman in anticipation of its premiere on the series Her/Music;Her/Story at the Chaminade Music Club. The concert also features a performance of Mohammed Fairouz’s Domination of Darkness presented by countertenor Jeffrey Mandelbaum and flutist Tara Helen O’Connor.
Monday, May 6 at 1:00 PM
Tickets $30
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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Brooklyn Rider & Kinan Azmeh | Music Mondays
Brooklyn Rider–Photo by Erin Baiano
Brooklyn Rider and Kinan Azmeh perform music by Caroline Shaw, Azmeh, Colin Jacobsen, and Beethoven.
Monday, May 6 at 7:30 PM
Free
Advent Lutheran Church, 2504 Broadway, New York, NY
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big dog little dog | Pop-Up Concerts
Jessie Montgomery
big dog little dog is the brainchild of artists Jessie Montgomery and Eleonore Oppenheim. The duo uses an improvisational composition technique that draws on numerous genres.
Tuesday, May 7 at 6:00 PM
Free
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Nordic Noir: My Beautiful Decay 1973, Ejnar Kanding
American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) performs music by Danish artists whose work has been fostered by the mood of the north, both geographical and philosophical, including Ejnar Kanding and My Beautiful Decay 1973 (alias Carsten Bo Eriksen).
Tuesday, May 7 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15-$20
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Hypercube presents: Voided Cross by Eric Wubbels
Hypercube presents the U.S. premiere of Eric Wubbels’s Voided Cross and performs additional works by Erin Rogers and Nick Deyoe.
Tuesday, May 7 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Solar Flare: World Premieres by the 2019 Luna Composition Lab Fellows
Shelley Washington–Photo by Peter Yankowsky
The five 2019 Fellows in Kaufman Music Center’s Luna Composition Lab mentorship program for young, female-identifying, non-binary,5 and gender non-conforming composers will premiere their commissions at Merkin Hall. The program also includes music by Shelley Washington, Mary Halvorson, and Alex Temple.
Wednesday, May 8 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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chromic
Chromic makes its debut at MISE-EN_PLACE. The program features a world premiere by Samn Johnson, inspired by Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things, for two prepared pianos and electronics.
Thursday, May 9 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
MISE-EN_PLACE, 678 Hart Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Arto Lindsay, Ikue Mori, YoshimiO
Performers Arto Lindsay, Ikue Mori, and YoshimiO come together for a special evening of music.
Thursday, May 9 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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The Percussion Collective
This concert features the world premiere of Alejandro Vinao’s Stress and Flow the NY premiere of Garth Neustadter’s Seaborne, and the world premiere of Theo Woodward’s Living Geometries of the Emergent Breath.
Thursday, May 9 at 8:00 PM
Free
Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY
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Ekmeles: Mystical Paths
Ekmeles
Ekmeles presents Mystical Paths in the transporting acoustic of the crypt of the Church of the Intercession. The program includes musical realizations of five paths humans have used for centuries to transcend reality – food, fantasy, logic, religion, and silence.
Friday, May 10 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20
The Church of the Intercession Crypt, West 155th and Broadway, New York, NY
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Oracle | Periapsis Music and Dance
Hilary Purrington
The title work, by guest choreographer Norbert De La Cruz III and composer Harry Stafylakis, explores self-knowledge through the mythic idea of the all-seeing oracle. Additional world premieres include Elle ne m’aime pas, by choreographer Hannah Weber and composer Jonathan Howard Katz, and conjuring MAEJHH, by guest choreographer Annalee Traylor and composer Hilary Purrington. The program is rounded off with encaged, by choreographer Erin Dillon and composer Jonathan Howard Katz, plus guest works presented through the Periapsis Open Series.
Friday, May 10 at 8:00 PM & Saturday, May 11 at 3:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Tickets $27, $15 students
Kumble Theater, 1 University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
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Animal Gallery | Composers Concordance
Taking inspiration from photographs, artworks, and short films of various animals, composers and performers will present compositions that transform those influences into sound, as images of the works that prompted their creativity are shown onscreen during the performance.
Friday, May 10 at 8:00 PM
Estonian House, 243 East 34th Street, New York, NY
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New York Chamber Players
NYCP shares two premieres and two familiar Mozart masterworks in the season’s final orchestral concert. Mozart’s beloved Eine kleine Nachtmusik and joyful Divertimento No. 3 in F major are paired with Samuel Adler’s Gedenkfeier and a new double concerto by Eric Nathan.
Saturday, May 11 at 8:00 PM
Free
W83 Auditorium, 150 West 83rd Street, New York, NY
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Blo∂hofnír | MATA Festival
Composer Kristín þóra Haraldsdóttir brings poet Ger∂ur Kristný’s words to life in a work of contemporary music for the #MeToo era. Featuring haunting vocal harmonies and period instruments, Bló∂hófnir (Bloodhoof) is a sonic realization of Ger∂ur Kristný’s award-winning poem by the same name.
Saturday, May 11 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20-$30
University Settlement, Speyer Hall, 184 Eldridge Street, New York, NY
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New York Youth Symphony
Pianist Fei-Fei performs Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the NYYS Orchestra, led by Music Director Michael Repper. Also on the program is the world premiere of Close Up at a Distance by Ryan Lindveit, and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5.
Sunday, May 12 at 2:00 PM
Tickets $20-$75
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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10th Annual Comp-Play-Comp Marathon | Composers Concordance
For the 10th consecutive year, Composers Concordance invites dozens of composer-performers to answer a question, “What kind of music do you compose if you know you’re to be one of the performers?” This time around, they add a theme into the fray, as composers are asked to write 4-minute works on the theme of “Animals”‘ The 3-hour marathon will showcase composer-performers in a cavalcade of short pieces.
Sunday, May 12 at 6:00 PM
DROM, 85 Avenue A, New York, NY
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