This week: live streamed concerts (June 8, 2020 – June 14, 2020)

on June 8, 2020 at 6:00 am

ChamberQUEERantine: A Digital Pride Month Festival!

Every night at 7:00 PM Eastern Time from June 8-23, 2020, ChamberQUEER will be live on their Facebook page with a new half-hour program of queer artists, presenting a wide variety of musical offerings.
Monday, June 8 to Sunday, June 14 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time
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Virtual Commissions: Dylan Crossman | Works & Process

Every Sunday and Monday, Works & Process will premiere brand new virtual commissions. Created at home by artists familiar to Works & Process audiences, these virtual commissions financially support artists and champion their creative process during these challenging times.
Monday, June 8 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
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House Music | Metropolis Ensemble

Metropolis Ensemble’s series, House Music, reflects its values of putting community at the heart of its practice, and allows it to continue to create opportunities for artists to do what they do best: make and share new music. All artists are being paid for their work. Metropolis Ensemble is commissioning performers to present bite-sized works from contemporary composers, as well as composers to create new works specifically for this series, which are then recorded from wherever the artists are sheltering. “House Music” launched in late March and streams live every Tuesday and Thursday.
Tuesday, June 9 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time
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A Conversation With Composer & Pianist Vijay Iyer | Next Festival 2020

Vijay Iyer–Photo by Kyle Dorosz for Miller Theatre

Next Festival 2020 hosts a conversation with composer and pianist Vijay Iyer.
Tuesday, June 9 at 6:00 PM Eastern Time
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LoVid | Isolated Field Recording Series

In response to COVID-19’s impact, ISSUE is commissioning artists to produce field recordings to be streamed over the course of this challenging and isolated time. This series will support artists directly in an unprecedented moment of uncertainty, struggle, and financial risk and emphasize the solidarity of artists working in a situation where everyday life is confined and separated. Focusing on recordings from artists’ current conditions, the series will broadly approach the field recording as an expanded form and open invitation to experiment with home audio recording during this period of social distancing.
Wednesday, June 10 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time
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House Music | Metropolis Ensemble

Metropolis Ensemble’s series, House Music, reflects its values of putting community at the heart of its practice, and allows it to continue to create opportunities for artists to do what they do best: make and share new music. All artists are being paid for their work. Metropolis Ensemble is commissioning performers to present bite-sized works from contemporary composers, as well as composers to create new works specifically for this series, which are then recorded from wherever the artists are sheltering. “House Music” launched in late March and streams live every Tuesday and Thursday.
Thursday, June 11 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time
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Dawn Kasper | Isolated Field Recording Series

Dawn Kasper by t-space studio

In response to COVID-19’s impact, ISSUE is commissioning artists to produce field recordings to be streamed over the course of this challenging and isolated time. This series will support artists directly in an unprecedented moment of uncertainty, struggle, and financial risk and emphasize the solidarity of artists working in a situation where everyday life is confined and separated. Focusing on recordings from artists’ current conditions, the series will broadly approach the field recording as an expanded form and open invitation to experiment with home audio recording during this period of social distancing.
Thursday, June 11 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time
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Misty Shore Music Salon: Twilight Hour #3 – Dream Dialogues

Chou Wen-chung

The Misty Shore Duo – Chen-Hui Jen (piano) & Jacob Sudol (electronics) – will be presenting their third concert in a series of live-streamed concerts from their living room. This concert is titled Dream Dialogues and features works by Kee Yong Chong, Wen-Chung Chou, Chen-Hui Jen, and Orlando Jacinto Garcia with videos by Singrid Tanghe and Jacek Kolasinski.
Friday, June 12 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time
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Alone Together | Jennifer Koh

Violinist Jennifer Koh’s Alone Together is an online commissioning project that brings composers together in support of the many freelancers among them. Twenty-one composers have each agreed to donate a new, 30-second micro-work for solo violin while also recommending a fellow composer to write their own 30-second solo violin work on paid commission from the artist-driven nonprofit ARCO Collaborative. Koh will premiere a selection of these donated and commissioned works each Saturday at 7:00 p.m Eastern Time.
Saturday, June 13 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time
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Resonating Earth

Pianist Carolyn Enger will perform Resonating Earth, a multimedia program of works by Bach, Debussy, Messiaen, Philip Glass, John Luther Adams, Erik Satie, Arvo Pärt, John Cage, and Caroline Shaw, via Facebook live stream.
Sunday, June 14 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time
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Bang on a Can Marathon

Bang on a Can–Photo by Peter Serling

Bang on a Can presents 6 hours of nonconformist, noncommercial, boundary-smashing music from all over the globe. The marathon kicks off at 3 PM with Rhiannon Giddens and closes off with Terry Riley. Don’t miss a rare solo performance by Roscoe Mitchell and 10 world premieres commissioned especially for the day among 25 live performances with musicians connecting from around the USA, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Switzerland, Scotland, Italy, Ireland, Lithuania and more.
Sunday, June 14 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time
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Virtual Commissions: BalletX with Hope Boykin, Rena Butler, Caili Quan, and Penny Saunders

Every Sunday and Monday, Works & Process will premiere brand new virtual commissions. Created at home by artists familiar to Works & Process audiences, these virtual commissions financially support artists and champion their creative process during these challenging times.
Sunday, June 14 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
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golden sun

Saxophonist Bryan McNamara broadcasts a live performance of Eva-Maria Houben’s golden sun every day from Sunday through Friday during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Live@NationalSawdust

Live@NationalSawdust is a digital home for the voices and work of the artists they have hosted over the past 5 seasons in their Brooklyn venue. Live@NationalSawdust will feature weekly releases from their archive of live performances and is free for audiences across the globe.
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Opera of the Week | Beth Morrison Projects

BMP is keeping the work of our artists out in the world as theaters are shuttered by offering an “Opera of the Week,” which will stream on their homepage.
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