Mark O’Connor & Maggie O’Connor, PUBLIQuartet | Music Mondays
Violinists Mark O’Connor and Maggie O’Connor are joined by PUBLIQuartet to perform music by Dvořák, Mark O’Connor, and traditional bluegrass and folk music improvisations.
Monday, February 24 at 7:30 PM
Free
Advent Lutheran Church, 2504 Broadway, New York, NY
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Refractions | Duo ING
Duo ING present a program of contemporary violin music featuring recent pieces by Eric Nathan, Sean Shepherd, and Daniel Temkin in the context of works by J.S. Bach and Debussy’s Violin Sonata, the composer’s final completed composition.
Monday, February 24 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $10, $5 students
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Austin Wulliman & Conrad Tao
Conrad Tao–Photo by Brantley Gutierrez
Violinist Austin Wulliman and pianist Conrad Tao perform recent works, including four world premieres.
Tuesday, February 25 at 6:00 PM
Free
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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MƆːNꞮŊ
Gelsey Bell–Photo by Gretchen Robinette
mɔːnɪŋ (pronounced as “mourning”/ “morning”) is an opera by Gelsey Bell about the triumphs and legacy of an Earth devoid of humans.
Tuesday, February 25 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15
HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
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Mary Prescott: Loup Lunaire
Roulette resident artist Mary Prescott presents the world premiere of Loup Lunaire—a prequel to her spring interdisciplinary performance piece, Mother Me. Loup Lunaire is a conceptual character study of the Mother Wolf done through musical and performative explorations. Prescott creates an interior portrait of the Mother Wolf by examining primal behaviors, natural cyclic patterns, and the unresolved reconciliations of psychological and spiritual dualities.
Wednesday, February 26 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Parlando Presents: Dual Selves
Gabriela Lena Frank at Children’s Hospital of Michigan (photo: Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
A 75-minute concert exploring the relationship between music and dual identities. The program explores how certain dualities of self (nationality, traditions and relationships) are represented musically. Works include Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Gabriela Lena Frank’s Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, and Franz Schreker’s Intermezzo.
Thursday, February 27 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25-$35
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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Concert 1 | Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival
A concert of works by some of Ukraine’s most well-established composers, including Myroslav Skoryk’s Three Extravagant Dances, Ihor Shcherbakov’s Canzone for Two Violins, Virko Baley’s Journey after Loves, Yevhen Stankovych’s Kupala Songs, and Hanna Havrylet’s A Red Sun after Oleksander Oles.
Friday, February 28 at 6:00 PM
Free
The Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
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Sandbox Percussion
Sandbox Percussion Quartet – Photo by Noah Stern Weber
A/V 360 presents a release show for Sandbox Percussion’s debut album, And That One Too, with music by longtime Sandbox collaborators Andy Akiho, David Crowell, Amy Beth Kirsten, Thomas Kotcheff, and Ricardo Romaneiro, plus a special performance by composer and multi-instrumentalist David Crowell. The concert features visuals by Mau and lighting design by Dominick Chang, and makes use of National Sawdust’s state-of-the-art Spacemap® and Constellation® systems from Meyer Sound.
Friday, February 28 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Man Forever aka Kid Millions: The Accident
The U.S. premiere of the narrative performance by percussionist John Colpitts, also known as Man Forever and Kid Millions, exploring the car accident that nearly ended his life and its aftermath. Colpitts is joined by Noah Hecht (drums), Greg Fox (drums, modular synths), Brian Chase (drums), Matt Evans (percussion, piano), Jessica Pavone (viola), Tristan Kasten-Krause (bass).
Friday, February 28 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Concert 2 | Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival
A concert of works including Nikolai Roslavet’s Meditation, Valentyn Sylvestrov’s Songs for Vasyl Slipak and Kitsch Music, Ostap Manulyak’s Oracle, Svyatoslav Lunyov’s Dances of New Russians, and Ivan Taranenko’s Global Bells, among many others.
Saturday, February 29 at 6:00 PM
Free
Hunter College, Lang Recital Hall, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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Cristina Spinei
Composer and pianist Cristina Spinei presents a concert of chamber music exploring mysticism and superstition from her new album Ex Voto. Spinei is joined by violinist Alicia Enstrom, cellist Emily Brausa, bassist Paul DeFiglia, and percussionist Colleen Phelps.
Saturday, February 29 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25 advance, $29 doors
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Wingjammer | Composers Concordance
Composers Concordance hosts Wingjammer, a contemporary music concert with complimentary chicken wings. Pieces featured on the concert include American Haiku for cello and viola by Paul Wiancko, Follies for violin, cello, and percussion by Dan Cooper, Drama for viola and piano by Gene Pritsker, and David Soldier’s Night Flights, May 5, 2019, which shows the bird migrations over the continental United States on that night as recorded by radar and displayed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Saturday, February 29 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $10 (includes chicken wings)
Spectrum, 70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, Brooklyn, NY
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Missy Mazzoli & Kelly Moran | Ecstatic Music
Kelly Moran
The performance will feature the world premieres of Mazzoli’s The Night Ahead and No Real Fate for piano four-hands and electronics, and Moran’s Don’t Trust Mirrors for two pianos, one prepared. Mazzoli will also perform her own works solo and with violinist Olivia De Prato, and Moran will perform a solo set of songs from her recent album, Ultraviolet, as well as new material.
Saturday, February 29 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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The Little Match Girl Passion | NYC Master Chorale
The program features a cappella octavos anchored by David Lang’s the little match girl passion.
Saturday, February 29 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25
Church of the Holy Apostles, 296 9th Avenue, New York, NY
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New York Youth Symphony
Cellist and Sphinx Competition 2019 Senior Division 1st Place Laureate Sterling Elliott joins Music Director Michael Repper and the NYYS Orchestra for a performance of Dvořák’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B minor. The program also features the world premiere of The Sycamore and The Oak by Tanner Porter, commissioned by First Music and composed in a collaboration with students from KIPP Academy Middle School. The concert concludes with Respighi’s Pines of Rome.
Sunday, March 1 at 2:00 PM
Tickets $20-$75
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Concert 3 | Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival
Concert featuring Leonid Hrabovsky’s Trio for Violin, Bass, and Piano, Anna Korsun’s Wehmut, Svyatoslav Lunyov’s Zehn Stücke, and Ludmila Yurina’s Silicon Interferences, amongst other works by their students and peers.
Sunday, March 1 at 4:00 PM
Free
Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th Street, New York, NY
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Jennifer Walshe and Mivos Quartet
Jennifer Walshe performs at Battersea Arts Centre during the 2019 Proms–Photo by Chris Christodoulou
Composers and vocalist Jennifer Walshe is joined by Mivos Quartet for two recent compositions. In EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT, Walshe considers our relationship with technology and the encroachment of the internet on every face of life, articulating a world of rapidly accumulating information that arrives at a frenetic, nearly punishing speed. AN GLÉACHT is based on an unfinished film by reclusive artist Caoimhín Breathnach who for decades made tapes and films on astronomy, folkore, crystallography, and found video footage that he believed had the power to heal and shift consciousness. Walshe and Mivos perform a live score to accompany a screening of the film, which Walshe completed.
Sunday, March 1 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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