Fifteen Years of Momenta | Momenta Festival V
Momenta Festival V opens with a celebration of Momenta’s 15th anniversary with selected milestones from their unique and eclectic personal repertoire along with world premieres by Matthew Greenbaum and the Chamber Music America commission of Alvin Singleton. The Momenta Quartet is joined by baritone Brad Walker.
Tuesday, October 15 at 7:00 PM
Free
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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Albert Cano Smit
Pianist Albert Cano Smit makes his New York debut with a world premiere by Stephen Hough, Partita for piano.
Tuesday, October 15 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20
Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Night Dances | Momenta Festival V
Roberto Sierra – Photo by Ellen Zaslaw
“Dreamy and hallucinatory works inspired by or evocative of night music- contrasts of darkness and light, mysterious atmospheres and manipulations of time, extremes of character and emotion.” This is how violinist Emilie-Anne Gendron describes her program which features the world premiere of Roberto Sierra’s String Quartet No. 3, written for and dedicated to Momenta. Also on the program is Ligeti’s String Quartet No.1.
Wednesday, October 16 at 7:00 PM
Free
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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Concrète Jungle
Concrète Jungle is a work of sound art performed live by composer Dan Siegler and special guests. The piece is inspired by and takes its title from musique concrète, an electroacoustic genre in which readymade sounds are employed in place of instrumentation. Featuring hundreds of intricately edited New York voices, Concrète Jungle highlights borough-specific accents, linguistic filler, and word repetitions to form assembled sentences and musical grooves.
Thursday, October 17 and Friday, October 18 at 7:30 PM
$15 suggested donation
The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY
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American Voices | Momenta Festival V
Featuring the world premiere of Christopher Stark’s Seasonal Music, American Voices highlights music all written in the past 15 years.
Friday, October 18 at 7:00 PM
Free
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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What Keeps Me Awake
Angélica Negrón
The Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra performs music by Angélica Negrón, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Johannes Brahms on their opening concert of the season.
Friday, October 18 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $5 advance, $7 door, children free
George Washington Educational Campus, 549 Audubon Avenue, New York, NY
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Soundlines | George Lewis
George Lewis–Photo by Emily Peragine
Soundlines: A Dreaming Track is George Lewis’s musical interpretation of percussionist and composer Steven Schick’s journal documenting his 700-mile walk from the US-Mexico border to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006. Directed by Jim Findlay, Schick performs as speaker and percussionist, joined by a chamber ensemble featuring eight musicians from the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and electronics.
Friday, October 18 and Saturday, October 19 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35-$45
NYU Skirball, 566 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY
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Moments | Michael Vincent Waller & R. Andrew Lee
R. Andrew Lee will perform the latest music of composer Michael Vincent Waller, in celebration of the October release of Moments via Unseen Worlds.
Friday, October 18 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $12
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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What Keeps Me Awake
The Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra performs music by Angélica Negrón, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Johannes Brahms on their opening concert of the season.
Saturday, October 19 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $5 advance, $7 door, children free
Fort Washington Collegiate Church, 729 West 181st Street, New York, NY
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Toy Stories | Momenta Festival V
Phyllis Chen
“Toy Stories is inspired by a recent, life-changing event that I experienced on May 2, 2019: the birth of my son. While I have long been interested in the unconventional sounds of toy instruments, this year’s festival seemed like the right time for a ‘toy program’.” – Alex Shiozaki. For the final concert of the 2019 festival, the Momenta Quartet is joined by toy pianist Phyllis Chen.
Saturday, October 19 at 7:00 PM
Free
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Strange Scenes: The Music of Wolfgang Rihm II
Wolfgang Rihm – Photograph by A.T Schaefer
For the first time, New York City is hosting a festival celebrating the music of Wolfgang Rihm (b. 1952). This is the second concert in a series of events stretching over three months, and will present intimate settings of the poetry of Mörike & Rückert; the piano trio Strange Scene II, which was meant as an homage to Robert Schumann; as well as the US premiere of ET LUX, a “requiem” for vocal quartet and string quartet.
Saturday, October 19 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15-$25
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Ives Concord Centennial Anniversary Concert
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the completion of Charles Ives’ ground-breaking “Concord” Sonata, pianist Jason Hardink will perform the work on Ives’ birthday along with selections of his Studies and the world premiere of Jason Eckardt’s a melody which the air had strained, a piece which combines original music with reimagined passages from the Sonata, commissioned expressly to commemorate its centennial. The concert also features flutist Claire Chase.
Sunday, October 20 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Piano+ #17
New solo, duo, and ensemble works by Germaine Sijstermans, Vladan Kulišić, Grzegorz Marciniak, Assaf Gidron, and Teodora Stepančić for clarinet, sine tones, keyboards, and piano, featuring Douglas Farrand on trumpet and melodica.
Sunday, October 20 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15
Areté, 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY
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