Bent Duo | Pop-Up Concerts
Bent Duo performs music by Sarah Hennies, Hannah Lash, and Mayke Nas.
Tuesday, June 4 at 6:00 PM
Free
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Hildegard Competition Concert
National Sawdust hosts a concert of world premieres by the winners and runners-up of its second Hildegard Competition for emerging female, trans, and non-binary composers. The winners of the 2019 competition are inti figgis-vizueta of the U.S., Niloufar Nourbakhsh of Iran, and Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir of Iceland; their newly commissioned works will be premiered by the National Sawdust Ensemble, which is anchored by cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and makes its formal debut under the baton of Lidiya Yankovskaya.
Tuesday, June 4 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $20
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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New Amsterdam Album Release – ShoutHouse
ShoutHouse celebrates the release of their debut full-length digital album, Cityscapes.
Tuesday, June 4 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15-$25
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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As One
Laura Kaminsky
Two voices share the role of the sole transgender protagonist, Hannah, in this story that follows her journey to self truth. With empathy and humor, As One traces Hannah’s experiences from her youth in a small town to her college years on the West Coast, and finally to Norway where she is surprised at what she learns about herself. Two rotating casts that emphasize diversity and the universal nature of its story. Music by Laura Kaminsky and libretto by Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed.
Tuesday, June 4 and Thursday, June 6 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $30-$95
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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Nick Dunston: La Operación
Composer and bassist Nick Dunston closes his year-long Van Lier Fellowship with the premiere La Operación, a multi-movement composition written for soprano voice, two alto saxophones, two double basses, and two percussionists. Inspired by the 1982 documentary of the same name by Ana María García, La Operación is an abstract interpretation of a historical phenomenon involving colorism in Puerto Rico, eugenics, medical malpractice, second-wave feminism, and American colonialism.
Tuesday, June 4 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Open Borders Concert
The North/South Consonance Ensemble performs five works by composers from Brazil and the US. To be heard in New York for the first time are recent works by Jorge Antunes, Timothy Kramer, Max Lifchitz, Paul Richards, and Sarah Wald.
Tuesday, June 4 at 8:00 PM
Free
Christ and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 120 West 69th Street, New York, NY
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Riverside Symphony
The program will open with the New York Premiere of Kalevipoeg in California, an imagining of an encounter between a mythical creature from Californian-born composer Lembit Beecher’s Estonian roots and modern-day San Francisco. Canadian violinist Blake Pouliot will then take center stage in his New York debut with Bartók’s two Rhapsodies for Violin and Orchestra with Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony concluding the program.
Thursday, June 6 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $34-$65
Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, New York, NY
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Interpretations: String Noise | The String Trio of New York
George Lewis–Photo by Emily Peragine
Violin duo String Noise will present a world premiere by George Lewis, the first in his new series of works for ensembles and computer sound processing. Also making its world premiere is Pauline Kim Harris’s 100 Thimbles in a Box for Syrinx (acoustic synthesizer) and two violins (featuring Spencer Topel). Rounding out the program are the works Holding Pattern by Sam Yulsman, and The Life of Information by Jessie Cox.
Thursday, June 6 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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The Blue Sea Slumbers | Chelsea Music Festival
This evening’s works span over 500 years and highlight the great heritage of choral singing through the versatility of the GHOSTLIGHT Chorus. Rarities for mixed choir by Clara Schumann and Johannes Ockeghem are paired with J.S.Bach’s masterful motet for double chorus. GHOSTLIGHT then joins Festival musicians in Binna Kim’s festival commission stacked emotions and the world premiere performance of Requiem by Kathryn Salfelder.
Saturday, June 8 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $60
St. Paul’s Church, 315 West 22nd Street, New York, NY
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The String Orchestra of Brooklyn: Music of Kline, Spears, and Eastman
Julius Eastman
The String Orchestra of Brooklyn (SOB) returns to Roulette to perform world premieres of newly commissioned works by composers Gregory Spears and Phil Kline alongside a reimagination of Julius Eastman‘s dense minimalist masterpiece Gay Guerrilla. Phil Kline’s Four Songs from Florida Man is a first-hearing of a song cycle-in-progress that features vocalist Theo Bleckmann, while Gregory Spears’s Concerto for Two Trumpets and Strings features trumpeters Brandon Ridenour and Andy Kozar.
Saturday, June 8 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International
DCINY presents Grammy Award-winning conductor and composer Christopher Tin and the Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers in Calling All Dawns. Jonathan Griffith, DCINY’s principal conductor, leads the choir and orchestra in Robbie Ray’s Gospel Mass.
Sunday, June 9 at 2:00 PM
Tickets $20-$100
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Shepherdess
Shepherdess presents an EP and music video release party for After written by composer Joel Thompson. The program also includes three world premieres by NYC- based composers Mary Prescott, Viola Yip, and natalie[dot]computer, that have each been inspired by the duo’s mission to commission new works by underrepresented voices in contemporary music. Also on the program are works written for the duo by Bethany Younge, Annika Socolofsky, Annie Hui Hsin Hsieh, and Luis Fernando Amaya.
Sunday, June 9 at 6:00 PM
Free
Areté, 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Piano+ #15
Featuring new works for piano and electronics by Laura Cetilia and YoungEun Kim; piano, trumpet, and others by Eugene Kim; M by Germaine Sijstermans; and Cecilia Arditto’s Gespleten Piano for piano, lamps, and tape recorders.
Sunday, June 9 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $15
Areté, 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY
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