The Knights
The Knights perform music by Colin Jacobsen, Benjamin Britten, Eric Jacobsen, Kyle Sanna, Lisa Bielawa, and Felix Mendelssohn.
Tuesday, June 18 at 7:00 PM
Free
Temple Emanu-El, 5th Avenue and East 65th Street, New York, NY
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Alex Weiser: State of the Jews
Alex Weiser
For his residency at Roulette, composer Alex Weiser presents an evening of songs culminating in a work-in-progress performance of the complete first act of his opera-in-progress, State of the Jews, with librettist Ben Kaplan.
Tuesday, June 18 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 door
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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North/South Chamber Orchestra
North/South Chamber Orchestra concludes its 39th consecutive season performing five exciting works by composers from Italy and the Americas. To be heard in New York for the first time are recent works by Hayg Boyadjian, Federico Ermirio, Max Lifchitz, and Julia Mermelstein. Also, a work for strings by Teresa Carreno, the 19th-century pianist-composer from Venezuela.
Tuesday, June 18 at 8:00 PM
Free
Christ and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 120 West 69th Street, New York, NY
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Cecilia Lopez: RED
Fusing architecture, installation, and performance, Argentinian composer, musician, and media artist Cecilia Lopez closes her Roulette residency creating a living acoustic environment that uses the unique architecture of Roulette’s theater. In RED two large woven wire nets hung from Roulette’s ceiling hold instruments to create a complex feedback organism that reflects and refracts the space into a mesmerizing audio experience. The suspended drums and double bass act as resonant bodies intensified by the instruments simultaneously played in the space by percussionist Gerald Cleaver and bassist Brandon Lopez.
Thursday, June 20 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Caitlin Cawley and Ford Fourqurean
Percussionist Caitlin Cawley and clarinetist Ford Fourqurean host a double set of works using interactive electronics and multimedia. Caitlin will present a program of theatrical works for percussion and electronics, featuring David Adamcyk’s Six Drawings by Randall for amplified balloon, electronics and projected art by Julia Randall, as well as original compositions and improvisations. She also premieres a new work written for her by Carolyn Chen. Ford performs works from Project M, an initiative developing new music for clarinet and Mugic sensor through Max and Max4Live, including premieres by Rojin Sharafi and Lisa Atkinson as well as the New York premiere of Unstuck in Time by Mark Micchelli.
Friday, June 21 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
Spectrum, 70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, Brooklyn, NY
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My Undying Love: An Amusement
American Chamber Opera presents My Undying Love: An Amusement, a one-act opera by Melissa Shiflett.
Friday, June 21 and Saturday, June 22 at 8:00 PM; Sunday, June 23 at 2:00 PM
Tickets $18-$25
University Settlement House, 184 Eldridge Street, New York, NY
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ChamberQUEER: Concert 1
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The program features the music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, as well as other local composers Jessica Meyer, inti, and the late Pauline Oliveros, alongside music by Ethel Smyth. The program is rounded out by early-music selections of Corelli, to open a discussion about queering the canon of classical music.
Friday, June 21 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10-$18
Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), 421 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Make Music New York
Make Music New York returns for a day full of music making around the city. Visit the website to see everything happening in the five boroughs.
Friday, June 21 All Day
Free
Various locations around New York, NY
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All About Russia
Composers Concordance and Project 142 will co-present a concert exploring different aspects of Russian culture, including its impassioned and perseverant music, literary, and dance traditions. Featuring compositions by Mark Belodubrovsky, Dan Cooper, Joseph Pehrson, Gene Pritsker, Sebastian Pritsker, Anton Rovner, Sergei Rachmaninoff, David Rozenblatt, and Igor Stravinsky.
Saturday, June 22 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Words & Music
Composers Concordance presents a concert featuring the myriad ways that contemporary music composition and language can intersect. Music by Leo Brouwer, Gloria Coates, Dan Cooper, Peter Jarvis, Jay Kauffman, Mark Kostabi, Gene Pritsker, Bill Schimmel, Ralph Schutti, Bjørn Bolstad Skjelbred, David Rothenberg, and Charlie Rauh.
Sunday, June 23 at 6:00 PM
Tickets $15
Jim Kempner Fine Art, 501 West 23rd Street, New York, NY
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ChamberQUEER: Concert 2
Caroline Shaw–Photo by Kait Moreno
ChamberQUEER will present its final concert of the series, featuring the music of Hildegard von Bingen; Jessica Meyer; Saunder Choi; and Caroline Shaw. Madrigals of Gesualdo Monteverdi and Thomas Tallis are interwoven with the modern selections, as well as with improvisations on guitar by Grey McMurray, to explore the dialogue between early and contemporary music.
Sunday, June 23 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10-$18
Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), 421 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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