This week: concerts in New York (November 11, 2019 – November 17, 2019)

Carol Wincenc 50th Anniversary Celebration

The evening celebrates flutist Carol Wincenc in her fiftieth year of performing. The program includes a screening of a clip from Leonard Yakir’s documentary film The Ruby Concerts, along with performances of Debussy, Mozart, and newly commissioned works. Featuring Carol Wincenc, flute; Jake Heggie, piano; and the Escher Quartet.
Tuesday, November 12 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $35, $25 members, $10 students
The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
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Music From Exile | Daedalus Quartet

Israeli pianist Renana Gutman joins the Daedalus Quartet to present a sonic exploration of the human response to repression and exile. The program starts with the third string quartet of Viktor Ullman, written in Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943, prior to the Austrian-born composer’s murder at Auschwitz. This is followed by Babel, a New York premiere string quartet by the composer Gabriel Bolaños, whose family fled Nicaragua in the 1990s. The program closes with Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s piano quintet, composed in Moscow after his escape from the Nazi invasion of Poland.
Tuesday, November 12 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $16-$36
Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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Grace Park, Violin

Violinist Grace Park performs the world premiere of Mason Bates’s piece Shenandoah and performs music by Beethoven, Kirchner, Dvořák, and Brahms.
Tuesday, November 12 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20
Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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The Latin American Art Song: A Celebration

Vocalists Celia Castro, Ilya Martinez, Mario Arevalo, and Rafael Lebron join forces with pianist Max Lifchitz for a celebration of the Art Song as practiced in the Caribbean and Latin America during the last 100 years. The evening will showcase music penned by composers from Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico. Composers whose works will be featured include Hector Campos-Parsi, Jose Elizondo, Narciso Figueroa, Carlos Guastavino, Jaime Leon, Max Lifchitz, Ricardo Mora, Juan Morel Campos Tata Nacho, and Teodoro Valcarcel.
Tuesday, November 12 at 8:00 PM
Free
The National Opera Center, Marc A. Scorca Hall, 330 7th Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY
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Journey’s End | Neil Rolnick

Neil Rolnick presents an evening of deeply personal new work thematically organized around the passing of his wife, Wendy, in 2018. Journey’s End, a New York City premiere features pianist Kathleen Supové and explores the remarkable peace Wendy achieved toward the end of her life and through her transition to the next. Messages, a solo-laptop piece accompanied by dancers Julia Bengtsson and Mauricio Vera, uses deleted voicemail messages, recovered posthumously, and integrated with the fiddle music they discuss.
Tuesday, November 12 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Not then, not yet

Choreographer Tiffany Mills’s Not then, not yet, created in collaboration with Puerto Rican composer Angélica Negrón and French vocalist/composer Muriel Louveau, examines states of transition, drawing inspiration from the liminal space between endings and new beginnings.
Wednesday, November 13 to Saturday, November 16 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $20
The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street, New York, NY
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American Composers Orchestra

The concert features the world premiere of 2017 ACO Underwood Commission winner Hilary Purrington’s concerto for guitar and orchestra, Harp of Nerves, with guitar soloist JIJI. Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton will sing in the world premiere of new orchestrations of Charles Ives’ songs, by composers Hilary Purrington, Hannah Lash, and Jonathan Bailey Holland. The New York City premiere of 2018 MacArthur Fellow Matthew Aucoin’s Evidence completes the program.
Wednesday, November 13 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $43
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Line : Voices | Nouveau Classical Project

The Nouveau Classical Project performs a concert of avant-garde music and performance pieces, including a newly commissioned work by Paul Pinto.
Wednesday, November 13 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
Areté, 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Music at the Close: A Collaborative Exploration of Shakespeare’s Richard II

Glassbox Collective partners with directors from the 2018 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab to present a collaborative, multidisciplinary exploration of Shakespeare’s Richard II. The program is structured around 10 new works for small string and woodwind ensembles. These compositions, in conjunction with an improvisatory group consisting of piano extended-techniques, upright bass and disassembled drum-kit, interact with a group of five actors to create a dynamic amalgam of music, text, and movement.
Wednesday, November 13 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25 to $35
Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Bang on a Can and The Jewish Museum present: Theo Bleckmann

Jazz singer, new music composer, and long-time collaborator with Bang on a Can, Theo Bleckmann takes on the songbook of British pop icon Kate Bush in a project entitled Hello Earth! – The Music of Kate Bush that goes beyond re-creating her music to further realms of sound and interpretation. Joining him on this performance are long-time collaborators percussionist Ben Wittman, bassist Chris Tarry, and keyboardist Henry Hey, along with special guest, multi-instrumentalist Caleb Burhans on viola, guitar, and laptop.
Thursday, November 14 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20 general, $16 students/seniors, $12 members
The Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, and Bryce Dessner | NY Phil

Bryce Dessner joins the NY Phil to play electric guitar in the New York Premiere of his piece Wires. Also on the program is Tchaikovsky and Sibelius.
Thursday, November 14 at 7:30 PM; Friday, November 15 and Saturday, November 16 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $34-$99
Lincoln Center, David Geffen Hall, New York, NY
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Premieres Vol. 13 | loadbang

loadbang performs world premiers by Erik Carlson, Cristina Lord, Oren Boneh, and Yu Kuwabara and works by Daniel Bayot and Alex Mincek.
Thursday, November 14 at 7:30 PM
The National Opera Center, 330 7th Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY
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Annea Lockwood | Composer Portraits

A tiger’s purr, burning pianos, helium balloons, and the Hudson River have all played a part in the music of Annea Lockwood. The intense focus on deep listening of sonic details from nature and electronics has formed the basis of the eclectic output of the New Zealand-born composer and sound artist. Yarn/Wire returns to perform a world premiere commission, alongside three other works, including the technically demanding Becoming Air, written for and performed by trumpeter Nate Wooley.
Thursday, November 14 at 8:00 PM
Tickets starting at $20
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Betsey Biggs | Musical Ecologies

The 2019-20 season of Musical Ecologies continues Thursday, November 14th with Boulder, CO-based composer and artist Betsey Biggs.
Thursday, November 14 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10
The Old Stone House in Washington Park, 3rd Street & 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Connections | C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective

In Connections, the first cycle of C4’s 15th season, C4 explores what it means to connect to others through music, shared experience, technology, and more. Joined by the piano/violin duo aTonalHits, C4 will premiere the duo’s piece Three for Four, with text inspired by miscommunications with the Apple artificial intelligence Siri. aTonalHits will also join C4 for Reena Esmail’s When the violin and the world premiere of Perry Townsend’s Stock Purchase Agreement. Also on the program: works by Robert Cohen, Natalie Dietterich, Ko Matsushita, David See, and Caroline Shaw.
Thursday, November 14 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20 advance, $25 at door, $5 children
St. Joseph’s Church, 404 East 87th Street, New York, NY
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PinkNoise

PinkNoise will present three new commissions exploring electro-acoustic sounds along with works by Zosha Di Castri and Chaya Czernowin. The multi-media performance will include video projections and improvisation with live electronics in an exploration of alternative spaces and sounds.
Thursday, November 14 at 8:00 PM
Saint John’s in the Village, 218 West 11th Street, New York, NY
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muted blast/2, works for solo piano, piano with electronics, & tape

meta.ξ, a collective of Greek composer/artist/design-curators, present a concert of works featuring piano, electronics, double bass, interspersed with electro-acousmatic music. meta.ξ is bi-laterally based between the United States and Greece, with members living and working everywhere in between. The collective aims to strengthen the voice of the post-crisis generation of Greek composers, while embracing subversive and under-represented artists internationally.
Friday, November 15 at 8:00 PM
Free
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Narcissus: Music for Tenor and Harp

The Friends of Music at Christ & Saint Stephen’s team up with ChamberQUEER to co-present a recital featuring tenor Andrew Fuchs and harpist Parker Ramsay. Showcasing music by gay composers over the last two centuries, the program will include Schubert’s Songs of the Harper, a selection of songs by Reynaldo Hahn, and a setting of T.S. Eliot’s “The Death of Saint Narcissus” by Benjamin Britten. The evening also features a new commission for solo harp from London-based composer Geoff King.
Saturday, November 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20
Christ and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 120 West 69th Street, New York, NY
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Tenth Intervention

Tenth Intervention performs two world premieres: I get awfully lonely when I’m ignored … by Anthony R. Green and a collaborative work [if a wolf should come out of the forest] written by Kyra Sims (text) and Lainie Fefferman, Dorian Wallace, and Evan Williams (music).
Saturday, November 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $10 advance, $15 at door
Theatre 71, 152 West 71st Street, New York, NY
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Connections | C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective

In Connections, the first cycle of C4’s 15th season, C4 explores what it means to connect to others through music, shared experience, technology, and more. Joined by the piano/violin duo aTonalHits, C4 will premiere the duo’s piece Three for Four, with text inspired by miscommunications with the Apple artificial intelligence Siri. aTonalHits will also join C4 for Reena Esmail’s When the violin and the world premiere of Perry Townsend’s Stock Purchase Agreement. Also on the program: works by Robert Cohen, Natalie Dietterich, Ko Matsushita, David See, and Caroline Shaw.
Satuday, November 16 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20 advance, $25 at door, $5 children
Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street, New York, NY
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New York Youth Symphony

Pianist Harmony Zhu makes her Carnegie Hall debut with a performance of one of Beethoven’s masterworks. The program also includes a world premiere by Marco-Adrián Ramos, Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade.
Sunday, November 17 at 2:00 PM
Tickets $20-$75
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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BluePrint Fellowship Concert

The BluePrint Fellowship, a new National Sawdust initiative in collaboration with Juilliard, is a dual-track career, project mentoring, and commissioning course developed to support student composers. For the fellowship’s inaugural season, Juilliard composition students, Evan Anderson, Hannah Ishizaki, Katie Jenkins, Cheng Jin Koh, and Marc Migo will present their commissioned BluePrint projects performed by both Juilliard students and the National Sawdust Ensemble. Project mentors for the fellowship, spearheaded by Paola Prestini, include women composers such as Prestini, Claire Chase, Reena Esmail, Nathalie Joachim, Laura Kaminsky, and Alex Temple.
Sunday, November 17 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $20
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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