Brooklyn-based trio Tigue fuses the precision of contemporary classical music with art-rock energy. In addition to creating its own visionary works, Tigue actively commissions new music from leading composers, and has been praised for its “imaginative, distinctive, hypnotic yet kinetic blend of indie classical, minimalism, post-rock, and drone music” (New York Music Daily). With its …
Roshni Samlal - tabla Abhik Mukherjee - sitar Kane Mathis - oud/kora/electronics Karl Clinton- Electronics Brinda Guha - dance Emily Mcloughlin - dance Bleue Liverpool - live visuals Roshni Samlal’s “Drum Rites: old forms|new encounters” seeks to create an interdisciplinary performance flow that is a series of new contexts for traditional tabla repertoire, through collaboration, …
The trailblazing, Grammy-nominated jazz pianist and composer Vijay Iyer joins forces with an all-star ensemble of equally brilliant, inventive, and musically multilingual performer/composers Himanshu Suri (formerly of Das Racist), guitarist Rafiq Bhatia (Son Lux) and drummer/rapper Kassa Overall for a voyage across multiple musical landscapes, articulated by the individual brilliance of the four collaborators. Pakistani …
Students from Kaufman Music Center's Lucy Moses School and Special Music School perform a program dedicated to international solo and chamber works written after 1966.
Bring a friend, grab a drink, and join some of today’s most interesting performers onstage at Miller Theatre on select Tuesday evenings. Miranda Cuckson returns to Miller Theatre’s stage with a solo concert. A favorite of audiences for her great range of repertoire and styles, she’s become one of the most sought after performers of …
This show is sold-out but is copresented by Q2, a streaming radio service. You can catch the show online.
Six brand new compositions that began as a part of the Composers' Seminar last semester. Featured composers are Jean-Patrick Besingrand, Daniel Fox, Peter Kramer, Nathan Pell, Charles Rudig, and Matthew Sandahl. contemporaneous.org Contemporaneous is an ensemble of 21 musicians whose mission is to bring to life the music of now. Recently recognized for a “ferocious, focused …
The musically omnivorous string quartet ETHEL, whom The New York Times has described as “indefatigable and eclectic” and The New Yorker has deemed “vital and brilliant,” returns to National Sawdust to present the third chapter of ETHEL’s HomeBaked project. With its focus on emerging NYC-based composers, the project, which began in 2010, has already produced eight compositions, many of which have entered …
Set 1 | Yalini Dream w/ special guests: Jendog Lonewolf, Varuni Tiruchelvam & reg e. gaines Set 2 | Aikyam Ganavya Doraiswamy (vocals) Sharik Hasan (piano) Rajna Swaminathan (mrudangam) Max Ridley (bass) w/ special guests Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy (violins) Featured Women’s Organization: Women’s World Banking ------- Yalini Dream llankai Tamil Blood, Manchester Born, …
This is the premiere of Vital Signs – a documentary series about the future of classical music by director J.M. Harper (produced by Lonelyleap). Made over the last four years, it features artists like Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Caroline Shaw, yMusic (The National, Bon Iver, St. Vincent), Son Lux, Nico Muhly, …
About the Show Miya Masaoka Eleonore Oppenheim Mari Kimura Bohemian Trio Inn-fest is a two-act mini-festival curated by innova Recordings and showcasing an all-star cast of composers and performers fro its New York contingent. As the label of the Minnesota-based American Composers Forum, innova is dedicated to expanding the boundaries of new music. Since 1982, …
About the Show Humayun Khan and Douglas J. Cuomo have formed Turquoise Lake, an eight-piece ensemble of musicians from a variety of improvisational traditions to create music that blends the raga tradition of North India and Afghanistan, Farsi poetry of the great Sufi masters, and Afghan folk melodies and ghazals, with western jazz and rock …
The omnivorous sonic explorations of Nick Zammuto (The Books) come together with the equally far-reaching soundworld of Grammy-winning vocal octet Roomful of Teeth, who explore the full range of the human vocal apparatus, from Tuvan throat singing and yodeling to Korean P’ansori and Persian classical singing. The performance features new works by Zammuto and others …
About the Show Pre-show talk with Robert Thurman and Philip Glass Philip Glass and Foday Musa Suso famously collaborated on the album The Screens composed as music for a production of the play by Jean Genet, the score for the film Powaqqatsi, and on the concert work Orion. As part of a celebration of Philip …
About the Show Unremembered is an hour-long, thirteen-part song cycle for seven voices, chamber orchestra, and electronics by composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, inspired by poems and illustrations by writer and visual artist Nathaniel Bellows (W.W. Norton, HarperCollins). A meditation on memory, innocence, and the haunted grandeur of the natural world, Unremembered recalls strange and beautiful happenings experienced …
About the Show Alternative Guitar Summit 2017: Guitars of Heaven, Guitars of Hell Founded and produced by Joel Harrison and Life Force Arts, The “Summit” is a yearly gathering of some of the most creative guitarists on earth. Each of these acts is a stand out, deliciously unique in the world of new music, improvisation, …
Alif Laila - sitar Ehren Hason - tabla Featured Women’s Organization: Sakhi Alif Laila is an accomplished sitarist from Dhaka, Bangladesh, disciple of late Ustad Mir Qasem Khan, nephew of Ustad Alauddin Khan. She continued under the tutelage of Partha Chatterjee, Krishna Bhatt and Kushal Das. She has performed all over the world at various …
About the Show Singer-composer Ted Hearne premieres an intimate and ecstatic collection of vocal music, accompanied by a band of longtime friends and new collaborators. Hearne’s The Source, called by Ptichfork “some of the most expressive socially engaged music in recent memory — from any genre,” and “a twenty-first century masterpiece” by the New York …
About this National Sawdust+ Show Pussy Riot presents its new music-theater project, PUSSY RIOT THEATRE. They will perform the world premiere of a new piece, “Revolution,” based on the book of Maria Alyokhina – one of the leaders of Pussy Riot. This is Maria’s personal story of Pussy Riot, including their legendary protest punk actions …
About the Show “Inspired by old American parlor songs, I’ve written a set of “Work Songs” on the general subject of artists writing about their work. The best song cycles, I think, take on the same subject at different angles, and chip away at it until something is revealed. Artists’ working habits have always …
Come Round David Felder: partialrestoration (2011) for sextet and electronics * Rand Steiger: Light on Water (2013) for flute, piano & electronics Anthony Cheung: Roundabouts (2009-10) for solo piano Jacob Druckman: Come Round (1991) for sextet * * NYNME commission Featuring the New York New Music Ensemble Emi Ferguson, flute Linda Quan, violin Christopher Finckel, violoncello Daniel Druckman, percussion Stephen Gosling, piano James Baker, conductor …
Part of a week-long residency at The Stone. Duos with the imaginative baritone Thomas Buckner.
Priya Darshini (voice) Zach Fredman (oud) Max ZT (dulcimer) Daniel Ori (bass) Rich Stein (percussion) Dave Eggar (cello) Uri Sharlin (accordian) Yosef Goldman (voice) Featured Women’s Organization: Exhale to Inhale The Epichorus performs the music of roots, new songs based in ancient sounds; they are lineage holders of traditions from Greece, Egypt, Syria, and …
Part of a week-long residency at The Stone. This show features Miya Masaoka on koto and Ken Filiano on bass with Rober Dick on flutes.
Last Night is based on the 118 songs played by New York musical host David Mancuso on June 2, 1984, at one of the last parties of the 99 Prince Street location of his seminal New York dance party, the Loft. The film shows each record played that night in sequence, from beginning to end, …
Part of a week-long residency at The Stone. Featuring Tiffany Chang, drums and Robert Dick, flutes.
Last Night is based on the 118 songs played by New York musical host David Mancuso on June 2, 1984, at one of the last parties of the 99 Prince Street location of his seminal New York dance party, the Loft. The film shows each record played that night in sequence, from beginning to end, …
Acclaimed for “consistently champion contemporary music with consistent excellence” (The New York Times), American Composers Orchestra showcases two premieres—one commissioned by Carnegie Hall—by two cutting-edge composers and a classic from Steve Reich, Tehillim (Hebrew for “psalms”). Inspired by cantillation he heard in Israel, Reich sets four psalms in an exotically scored and rhythmically invigorating work …
Part of a week-long residency at The Stone: Stephanie Griffin, viola; Ned Rothenberg, alto sax, bass clarinet and shakuhachi; Satoshi Takeishi, drums; Robert Dick, flutes. "A rich and varied improvisational banquet!"
Part of a week-long residency at The Stone: Vince Bell, spoken word and song David Mansfield, guitars of all types Ratzo B. Harris, bass Robert Dick, flutes and voice
About the Show Mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer and all-star collection of musicians will perform the New York premiere of Harold’s complete song cycle Variations on a Summer Day, for voice and nine instruments, setting the twenty stanzas of the Wallace Stevens poem of the same name. The nonpareil Boston Chamber Music Society, with Max Levinson, piano, …
Part of a week-long residency at The Stone: celebrating the release of Robert Dick's solo contrabass flute CD on Tzadik. (PS: if you've never seen or heard a contrabass flute, you must check this out!)
The new collaborative project Sélébéyone takes the conversation between jazz and hip hop to “feverish new heights” (The WIRE), drawing from Senegalese Rap, French Spectral Music, Modern Jazz, Underground Hip-Hop, …
About the Show Nicole Mitchell: Maroon Cloud with Aruan Ortiz (piano), Fay Victor (vocals), Tomeka Reid (cello), Nicole Mitchell (flutes, composition, electronics) “That warm dark realness was a doorway between worlds and she visited often. This is where all sound, dreams, and ideas lived. A cloudy dark purple space where forms emerged from formlessness, some …
Trina Basu (violin) Anjna Swaminathan (violin) Camila Celin (guitar, sarod) Tali Rubinstein (recorder) Amali Premawardhana (cello) Roshni Samlal (tabla) Lauren Crump (percussion) Morley (voice) Roopa Mahadevan (voice) Priya Darshini (voice) Pyeng Threadgill (voice) Haleh Gafori (voice) Featured Women’s Organization: Ms. Foundation Women's Raga Massive presents a Round Robin, bringing together 12 women who will perform …
About the Show Four Oceans explores ritualistic forms of interplay in an improvised context. A new group, it combines the talents of Old Time Relijun frontman Arrington De Dionyso, Rupert Huber of the famous Viennese trip-hop duo Tosca, and globetrotting drummer/composer Lukas Ligeti. De Dionyso, who is also a painter, performs on bass clarinet and …
Three Generations: John Adams and Terry Riley Zankel Hall Seating Chart (PDF) Part of the Steve Reich–curated Three Generations exploration of the changing direction of concert music, this evening focuses on the pioneering first generation of composers. In his revolutionary In C, Terry Riley took 53 phrases, or modules, and gave players the freedom to …
St. Louis Symphony John Adams's The Gospel According to the Other Mary Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage John Adams’s critically acclaimed and mesmerizing new take on the Passion story, The Gospel According to the Other Mary, tells the story of Christ’s last days from the perspective of three people closely attached to him: Mary Magdalene, …
Please note the installation will be closed April 6–12. This installation requires a timed ticket. MORE For PSAD Synthetic Desert III (1971), Doug Wheeler has altered the structure and configuration of a museum gallery in order to control optical and acoustic experience. He has transformed the room into a hermetic realm, a “semi-anechoic chamber” designed to …
About the Show The second annual NS Percussion Festival takes over the venue on April 1, curated by contemporary percussion gurus Ian Rosenbaum and Andy Akiho. The afternoon marathon features a startlingly diverse range of percussive styles with back-to-back performances by Payton MacDonald, Sandbox Percussion, Max ZT and Andrew Nemr, Ayano Kataoka, Kenneth Salters & …
“Recently Added” is a 3 concert arc. It is an exploration of the complete works of living composers who have made significant additions to the string quartet repertoire. This is a follow-up to our project called “the 68” where we played the complete string quartets of Haydn. This installment will feature the works of John Adams. …
