Voices and Piano
Peter Ablinger and Eric Wubbels will perform selections from Peter Ablinger’s “Voices and Piano” series. The highlight of the evening is the world premiere performance of the newest addition to the series, a work using the voice of American performance artist Diamanda Galás.
Tuesday, January 28 at 7:00 PM
Free
Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY
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Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund Concert | Ecstatic Music Festival
Julius Eastman
A New Sounds co-presentation hosted by John Schaefer Featuring world premieres by Amanda Berlind, Alvin Curran, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and Qasim Naqvi, plus New York composer Phil Kline’s Exquisite Corpses and Julius Eastman’s super-groove Stay on It.
Tuesday, January 28 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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Mother Sparrow | Sonya Belaya and Eryka Dellenbach
Roulette presents the premiere of Mother Sparrow, a film by Eryka Dellenbach with accompanying live music performance by composer Sonya Belaya’s ensemble Dacha with dance by Nola Sporn Smith and Dellenbach.
Tuesday, January 28 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Omer Quartet & Hanzhi Wang
Katherine Balch–Photo by Ted Moore
Young Concert Artists’s Omer Quartet and accordionist Hanzhi Wang team up with a program that includes With Each Breathing by YCA Composer Katherine Balch, a work inspired by the composer’s love for, and fragmented memories of, Beethoven’s late string quartets.
Wednesday, January 29 at 12:00 PM
Tickets $25
The Morgan Library and Museum, Gilder Lehrman Hall, 225 Madison Ave, New York, NY
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Gender & Music Programming
Cellist Amanda Gookin (photo by Ryan Scherb)
Talea hosts a conversation on gender in music programming and education. The event features Talea’s Victoria Cheah in conversation with Amanda Gookin (cellist, co-founder of PUBLIQuartet, Forward Music Project, faculty at Mannes) and Bill Solomon (percussionist, scholar, member of Bent Duo, founder of the Queer Percussion Research Group). How might an organization best approach its programming decisions to represent diverse gender identities in programming? How do our perceptions of music relate to perceptions of gender norms? And what are some resources available to performers, administrators, educators, and listeners when considering gender representation in today’s music?
Wednesday, January 29 at 7:00 PM
Free
University Settlement, 273 Bowery, New York, NY
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PREformances with Allison Charney
Allison Charney
Violinist Miranda Cuckson will make her series debut with a performance of Dave Soldier’s Anvil and Hammer (seguiriya). Soprano Allison Charney, cellist Susan Salm, and pianist Craig Ketter will perform Marianna Rosett’s Kaddish. Violinist Lisa Tipton and cellist Susan Salm will perform Wolfgang Florey’s Farbehnaut.
Thursday, January 30 at 2:00 PM
Tickets $30
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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You Are Under Our Space Control | Object Collection
The Brooklyn-based performance group Object Collection returns to La MaMa for the world premiere of the utopian “space-opera,” You Are Under our Space Control (YAUOSC). Fusing experimental music, political activism, and theater, this new production draws from space travel, transhumanism, astronautics, and the resurrection of the dead to re-envision the future of our daily lives.
Thursday, January 30 to Saturday, February 1 at 8:00 PM; Sunday, February 2 at 5:00 PM
Tickets $25, $20 students/seniors
La MaMa, 66 East 4th Street, New York, NY
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Invocation V
Invocation is a series on the last Friday of every month curated by Drew Wesely and Eli Wallace featuring durational musical performances paired with installation art works created specifically for each iteration. Musicians and artists work in coordination to create an immersive environment in which all present become equal participants to the space in which they are enveloped.
Friday, January 31 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
Mirror in The Woods, 575 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY
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SHOFAR RAGS XXL | Alvin Curran
American composer, performer, improviser, sound artist, and writer Alvin Curran premieres SHOFAR RAGS XXL, a solo performance fusing the archaic sound of shofar with digital technologies.
Friday, January 31 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Double Standard & hear|say
Sarah Hennies
New York-based duos Double Standard (Jennifer Gersten, violin; Laura Davey, piano) and hear|say (Iva Casián-Lakoš, cello; John Ling, percussion) perform music by Sky Macklay and Sarah Hennies, as well as premieres by Erika Dohi, John Ling, and Ed RosenBerg III.
Saturday, February 1 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
Areté, 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Jakob Kullberg
Chris Grymes and Open G Records present Danish cellist Jakob Kullberg in an evening of recent music by Nordic composers.
Sunday, February 2 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $29
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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