Resonant Bodies Festival 2018: Paul Pinto, Helga Davis, Lucy Dhegrae
Resonant Bodies Festival returns to Roulette. Opening night features Paul Pinto premiering a set of 15 songs for extended vocal technique and drone, designed as a companion piece to Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King; Helga Davis will present a project with her closest NYC-based collaborators; and Resonant Bodies Festival director Lucy Dhegrae along with Talea Ensemble will perform Waterlines by Christopher Trapani, with new works by Jessie Montgomery, Du Yun, Katherine Young, Eve Beglarian, Angélica Negrón, and Osnat Netzer, directed by Alison Moritz.
Tuesday, September 11 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20 onlines, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Resonant Bodies Festival 2018: Jen Shyu, Nathalie Joachim, Caroline Shaw
Caroline Shaw
The second night of the Resonant Bodies Festival opens with composer/performer Jen Shyu presenting her solo work Nine Doors; Nathalie Joachim pays homage to Haitian Creole songs; Prize-winner Caroline Shaw (of Roomful of Teeth) will perform works of her own composition.
Wednesday, September 12 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Resonant Bodies Festival 2018: Sarah Maria Sun, Pamela Z, Gelsey Bell
Pamela Z
Closing night of the Resonant Bodies Festival begins with German soprano Sarah Maria Sun collaborating with International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) on works by Georges Aperghis, Rebecca Saunders, Thierry Tidrow, and Màtyàs Seiber; the legendary San Francisco-based Pamela Z will perform a number of her compositions for voice and electronics; and composer/soprano and 2014 Resonant Bodies Festival performer Gelsey Bell returns.
Thursday, September 13 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Divine Mysteries: Ángeloi
Divine Mysteries: Ángeloi will feature the world premiere of Polish composer Emil Wojtacki’s Compline: Ángeloi. The piece is a modern setting for period instruments of the Catholic Compline office, sung in Latin and presented in the extraordinary form, the most ornate and detailed version of the liturgy. The program will also feature the world premiere of 2017 MATA-commissionee Kristina Wolfe’s Antiphon, a meditative reflection on the fluid nature of time, inspired by medieval liturgy.
Friday, September 14 at 8:00 PM
Admission by free will donation
The Church of the St. Francis Xavier, 46 West 16th Street, New York, NY
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Glass Farm Ensemble
Glass Farm Ensemble performs Denis Schuler’s 1444, Rico Gubler’s IR, Michael Jarrell’s Etude, Alban Berg’s Adagio, and Stefano Gervasoni’s Adagio ghiacciato.
Friday, September 14 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10
Scholes Street Studio, 375 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Wet Ink 20th Season Opening Concert
Wet Ink Trio: Sam Pluta, Eric Wubbles, and Josh Modney (photo: Alexander Perrelli)
The concert celebrates two album releases—Wet Ink: 20, an album featuring the 28 musicians of the Wet Ink Large Ensemble released on Carrier Records on September 15, 2018, and Josh Modney: Engage, Wet Ink Executive Director Josh Modney’s 3-disc debut solo violin album released on New Focus Recordings on August 3, 2018. The performance includes works by longtime Wet Ink collaborators Rick Burkhardt and Sky Macklay, performed by Wet Ink’s core septet of composer-performers, alongside works by Wet Ink members such as Eric Wubbels’ the children of fire come looking for fire for violin and piano and the world premiere of Kate Soper’s new solo work The Fragments of Parmenides with Soper herself on piano and vocals. The concert also features the premiere of Josh Modney’s Engage Quintet, a new collaboration that recontextualizes Modney’s Violin Solos from the Engage album in an ensemble setting with musicians Cory Smythe (piano), Charmaine Lee (voice), Sam Pluta (electronics), and Ian Antonio (percussion).
Saturday, September 15 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10, students free
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Mary Flagler Cary Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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