Face the Music
On January 14, Face the Music performs at Roulette with Mazz Swift and the International Contemporary Ensemble. They will perform works by Mazz Swift following a residency with the vocalist, composer, improviser, and Juilliard-trained violinist.
Monday, January 14 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $10 online, $15 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Sounding Circuits: Audible Histories
Curated by artist and composer Seth Cluett, current artist-in-residence at Nokia Bell Labs and Acting Director of the Computer Music Center at Columbia University, Sounding Circuits: Audible Histories features a state-of-the-art immersive multi-channel audio system surrounded by rare objects, artifacts, and recordings from the early history of electronic music. The exhibition will be on display from January 15, 2019, through March 23, 2019, in the Library’s Vincent Astor Gallery.
Tuesday, January 15 through Saturday, March 23
Free
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY
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Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine
Tyshawn Sorey (photo: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)
Julia Bullock inhabits the body of a reimagined Joséphine Baker on the steps of The Met’s Great Hall in this consideration of the life and legacy of the famous singer, activist, and cultural icon. With text by poet Claudia Rankine and score created by Tyshawn Sorey, Perle Noire—”black pearl”—was conceived in collaboration with theater director Peter Sellars, and is performed with Sorey and the new music collective International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).
Wednesday, January 16 & Thursday, January 17 at 8:00 PM
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Great Hall, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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NYC songSLAM | songSLAM FESTIVAL
The flagship event for Sparks & Wiry Cries, the NYC songSLAM is a unique competition for emerging composer/performer teams to premiere new art song. In the poetry-slam tradition, audience members vote on their favorite performances, and $2,000 in cash prizes are awarded.
Thursday, January 17 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Relevant Tones Live at LPR: The Etudes Project Vol. 1
Jenny Lin
Virtuoso pianist Jenny Lin premieres piano etudes by each of the ten ICEBERG New Music member composers. The new etudes will be paired with etudes from the classical canon. The concert will the last live broadcast of WFMT’s “Relevant Tones” series, hosted by Seth Boustead.
Thursday, January 17 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18-$22
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Quartet121 : Inaugural Concert
Katherine Balch
Quartet121 is a New York City-based string quartet dedicated to the performance of new works. Their debut concert explores contemporary music from Elliott Carter to Reiko Füting, and emerging composers such as Katherine Balch and Camila Agosto.
Friday, January 18 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $10, $5 students/seniors
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Gene Pritsker’s Sound Liberation
Sound Liberation takes the stage of lower east side’s The Delancey to perform an eclectic set of music composed by Gene Pritsker. Premieres include Granite for trumpet, guitar, bass, and drums. Also, the premiere of a composition based on a poem of Erik T. Johnson called The Caring Dead, with the poet as narrator.
Friday, January 18 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $10
The Delancey, 168 Delancey Street, New York, NY
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Guitar Plus
Guitarist and composer David Leisner with guitarists Benjamin Verdery and João Luiz and vocalists Courtenay Budd, Devony Smith, and Janna Baty, join forces in a celebration of Mr. Leisner’s 65th birthday which features three of his song cycles for voice and guitar.
Friday, January 18 at 7:30 PM
$25-$30
Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY
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Judith Berkson/Ty Citerman/Sara Serpa + Ganavya & Rajna
An evening of original contemporary settings of radical Yiddish labor songs and poems for voices, guitar, piano and electronics alongside new work at the nexus of Indian musical traditions and creative music, reflecting on whiteness and the various alchemies of power.
Friday, January 18 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15
Areté, 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY
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RaaDie: Vast Potential
Trumpet meets e-zither and electronics. Vienna-based trumpeter Lorenz Raab and composer, bassoonist, and zither player Christof Dienz present the US premiere of their debut-album Vast Potential.
Friday, January 18 at 7:30 PM
Free
Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY
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Word of Mouth: Mark Campbell in Song | songSLAM FESTIVAL
Kevin Puts
Songs featuring the words of poet and lyricist Mark Campbell performed by soprano Martha Guth, baritone Jesse Blumberg, and pianist Erika Switzer. The concert showcases world premiere song cycles by Mark Baechle and Kamala Sankaram, and songs by Conrad Cummings, Ricky Ian Gordon, Stephen Hoffman, Gihieh Lee, Robert Paterson, and Kevin Puts.
Friday, January 18 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $35, $20 students
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Benzaquen Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Visions of Silence
Cantata Profana rarely heard works by Salvatore Sciarrino, Galina Ustvolskaya, Alvin Lucier, Alessandro Piccinini, and Tarquinio Merula.
Friday, January 18 & Saturday, January 19 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $30, $15 students
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 346 West 20th Street, New York, NY
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Unheard-of//Dialogues Album Release
Unheard-of//Ensemble–Photo by Michael Yu
Unheard-of//Ensemble celebrates the release their first album Unheard-of//Dialogues. They present new works from the album written for them by Christopher Stark, Reiko Füting, Nathan Hudson, Michael Lanci, Erin Rogers, and the premiere of a new duo lumine by Leah Asher.
Saturday, January 19 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Expressions of Love: Stephanie Blythe and friends | songSLAM FESTIVAL
Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, pianist Alan Louis Smith, soprano Maggie Finnegan, and pianist Daniel Overly perform world-premiere song cycles by Juliana Hall and Scott Gendel, and music by Alan Louis Smith and more.
Saturday, January 19 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $45, $20 students
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Piano+ #12
The next Piano+ concert features a solo performance by Ofir Klemperer from his album MS-20 and a new work by Douglas Farrand for various keyboards instruments performed by LCollective.
Saturday, January 19 at 9:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, Brooklyn, NY
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#MeToo: Pathways to Healing | songSLAM FESTIVAL
Kamala Sankaram
Featuring a world premiere song cycle by Natalie Draper with texts by Judy Grahn, and world premiere song by Nailah Nombeko with text by Mahzi Kane. Other featured composers include Elizabeth Vercoe, Nina Simone, Leslie Uyeda, Kamala Sankaram, Sheila Silver, Gabrielle Rosse Owens, Ethyl Smyth, Aretha Franklin, Melanie Safka and more.
Sunday, January 20 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $35, $20 students
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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