Resonant Bodies Festival Night 1: Charmaine Lee & Conrad Tao, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Jane Sheldon
Opening night of this three-day festival of experimental vocals features new and celebrated work from longtime collaborative duo Charmaine Lee and Conrad Tao, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, and soprano Jane Sheldon.
Tuesday, September 3 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Resonant Bodies Festival Night 2: Anaïs Maviel, Kate Soper, Ted Hearne
Kate Soper–Photo by Liz Linder
On night two of the festival, Anaïs Maviel accompanies herself on a custom-made 14-string kamale n’goni as she interweaves storytelling and vocal improvisation, Kate Soper and Sam Pluta (electronics) engage in exploratory improvisation, and Ted Hearne previews a new song cycle set to Dorothea Lasky’s poetry collection, AWE.
Wednesday, September 4 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Resonant Bodies Festival Night 3: Stephanie Blythe, Arooj Aftab with Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily, Erin Gee
Stephanie Blythe and Blythely Oratonio in “Dito and Aeneas: Two Queens, One Night”–Photo by Steven Pisano
Stephanie Blythe brings her drag persona, tenor Blythely Oratonio, to the stage; Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily perform an improvised journey that blends jazz, indie rock, and Sufi minimalism; and Erin Gee presents solo works, including her legendary Mouthpieces, as well as work with the Argento Ensemble.
Thursday, September 5 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Both Eyes Open
Ensemble Ipse, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, and First Look Sonoma present Both Eyes Open – a workshop presentation of Max Giteck Duykers’s new opera with a libretto by Philip Kan Gotanda.
Friday, September 6 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20, $10 students
ShapeShifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Place, Brooklyn, NY
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Looking at You
Kamala Sankaram
HERE and Opera on Tap in association with Experiments in Opera presents the world premiere of Looking at You by composer Kamala Sankaram, librettist Rob Handel, and director Kristin Marting. Looking at You is an immersive techno-noir operatic experience that confronts surveillance capitalism and the erosion of individual privacy in a digitized world.
Friday, September 6 and Saturday, September 7 at 8:30 PM; Sunday, September 8 at 4:00 PM
Tickets $15-$50
HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
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Sirius Quartet | Rite of Summer Music Festival
Sirius Quartet performs Paths Become Lines by Jeremy Harman, Beside the Point by Fung Chern Hwei, Ceili by Fung C.H., New World, Nov 9, 2016 by Gregor Huebner, Knives Out by Radiohead arranged by G. Huebner, #STILL by G. Huebner, To A New Day by Fung C.H., and Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles arranged by G. Huebner.
Saturday, September 7 at 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM
Free
Governors Island, Nolan Park, New York, NY
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Transients: Genuine Fake
Qubit presents the French ensemble soundinitiative in their US debut, with two days of performances and installations. An ensemble with a similar focus on blurring the lines between composer/performer/ audience, as well as concert/installation/theatre, TRANSIENTS is two full days of new works from France and the United States.
Saturday, September 7 at 4:00 PM
Tickets $10
37-18 Northern Boulevard, Queens, NY
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13th Season Debut: Badinage | Metropolis Ensemble
Paul Wiancko
New sounds from a modern string band, featuring Alexi Kenney, violin, Ayane Kozasa, viola, Gabriel Cabezas, cello, and Paul Wiancko, cello with music ranging from the French baroque, traditional Swedish folk tunes, and new works and arrangements by Paul Wiancko and Gabriella Smith.
Saturday, September 7 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20, $10 students
Metropolis Ensemble, 1 Rivington Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Spark Duo
Spark Duo (Kate Amrine, trumpet and Ford Fourqurean, clarinets and electronics) premieres a set of new works by Howie Kenty, Edmund Scott Miller, and Jinhee Han.
Sunday, September 8 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, Brooklyn, NY
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Transients: spaceinitiative
Qubit presents the French ensemble soundinitiative in their US debut, with two days of performances and installations. An ensemble with a similar focus on blurring the lines between composer/performer/ audience, as well as concert/installation/theatre, TRANSIENTS is two full days of new works from France and the United States.
Sunday, September 8 at 4:00 PM
Tickets $10
37-18 Northern Boulevard, Queens, NY
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Piano+ #16
The third season of Piano+ begins with a program of new and recent solo piano works by Germaine Sijstermans, Gabriela Areal, Hollas Longton, Elizabeth Adams, and Vladan Kulišić performed by Teodora Stepančić.
Sunday, September 8 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, Brooklyn, NY
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Miolina
Miolina
Violin duo, Miolina, kicks off their 2019-20 season with a program at Rockwood Music Hall in Manhattan that includes world premieres of new works by composers Gene Pritsker and Fabio Turchetti. In addition, the duo will present the NYC premiere of Mark Zaki’s Vagabondage. Other recent works are by Lynn Bechtold, Eve Beglarian, Sunny Knable, and Manu Chao, with classics of the 20th Century by Luciano Berio, Astor Piazzolla, and Ángel Villoldo.
Sunday, September 8 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $10
Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 3, 185 Orchard Street, New York, NY
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