Arvo Pärt – Photo by Peeter Langovits

This week: concerts in New York (May 26 – June 1, 2014)

Scarlatti:Cage:Sonatas

John Cage (Courtesy CalArts / Photo: Steven Gunther)

John Cage (Courtesy CalArts / Photo: Steven Gunther)

David Greilsammer, piano & prepared piano, performs music by Scarlatti and Cage.
Tuesday, May 27 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15-$25
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Hauschka

Hauschka is the alias of German pianist composer Volker Bertelmann, who currently resides in Dusseldorf. Having studied classical piano for ten years, his work as Hauschka is based upon a playful exploration of the possibilities of the ‘prepared’ piano – a playfully disruptive intervention into the preconceived idea of the piano as a pure-toned, perfected instrument waiting for a gifted virtuoso to play on it.
Tuesday, May 27 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $20
Glasslands, 289 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY
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The Year of the Horse | Svjetlana Bukvich

Svjetlana Bukvich

Svjetlana Bukvich

The Year of the Horse electro-acoustic set by Bosnian-New Yorker Svjetlana Bukvich (minimoog, piano, voice) features four boundary-breaking compositions from EVOLUTION, her recent release on PARMA’s Big Round Records, and new work for vocals and electronics.
Tuesday, May 27 at 9 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Erik Carlson

Erik Carlson will present a program of solo violin music by composers from the Wandelweiser collective. Music of Wandelweiser composers is often marked by great sparseness and beauty. Erik has long held a passion for this music, and is very pleased to play these rarely performed works.
Wednesday, May 28 at 6:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Ensemble LPR

Featuring Timo Andres (piano) , Christopher Rountree (conductor) , and music of Mozart, Britten, Timo Andres, and Ted Hearne.
Wednesday, May 28 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15-$30
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Potential Energies | Nouveau Classical Project

Nouveau Classical Project

Nouveau Classical Project

The Nouveau Classical Project creates imaginative work through collaborations between the classical music and fashion worlds. The ensemble joins forces with choreographer Barbie Diewald and composer Trevor Gureckis to create Potential Energies, a bold new modern ballet where musicians, transcending their conventional roles, are paired with a dancer. These pairs act as two sides to a single identity attempting to reconcile ambitions with reality. Inspired by the emerging adulthood of the Millennial Generation, the arduous journey of artists, hope, and rude awakenings, Potential Energies is a daring undertaking by artists who are not only creating the work, but also living it.
Thursday, May 29 at 8 PM
Tickets $28, $50 VIP, $20 students
BAM Fisher, Fishman Space, 321 Ashland Pl, New York, NY
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Frederic Rzewski

A concert featuring the music of Frederic Rzewski at Roulette.
Thursday, May 29 at 8 PM
Tickets $20, $15 members/students/seniors, Free for all access members
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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HK Gruber’s Gloria – A Pig Tale

Alan Gilbert Conducts HK Gruber’s Gloria – A Pig Tale.
Thursday, May 29 and Friday, May 30 at 7 PM, and Sunday, June 1 at 2 PM
Tickets $60
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave New York, NY
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Sounds of Serendipity

Part 4 of concert series curated by NY-based conductor and composer Peter Breiner, great grandson of Antonin Dvorak.
Friday, May 30 at 7 PM
Free
Czech Center, 321 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
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Bang on a Can All-Stars and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street

Julia Wolfe - Photo by Peter Serling

Bang on a Can All-Stars performs new music from Julia Wolfe. Also, the Philharmonic performs electric guitarist/composer Steven Mackey’s Dreamhouse, a tour de force combining styles from Baroque to rock in an exploration of the American Dream.
Friday, May 30 at 8 PM & Saturday, May 31 at 7 PM
Tickets $49
Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY
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Dawn of Midi | Rite of Summer Music Festival

Dawn of Midi performs at the Rite of Summer Music Festival.
Saturday, May 31 at 1 PM & 3 PM
Free
Governor’s Island, New York, NY
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Chris Cerrone at Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy

Christopher Cerrone

Christopher Cerrone

Composer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Christopher Cerrone presents the culminating program of his 2013-14 EtM Con Edison Composers’ Residency at Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy. Chris will discuss his site-specific opera, Invisible Cities. Premiering in LA’s Union Station in the fall of 2013, this piece earned Chris the 2014 Pulitzer Prize Finalist nomination and a New Music USA Featured Project award for the upcoming recording. Chris will also present a performance of his piece Memory Palace a solo work for custom-built percussion instruments and electronics, performed by Ian David Rosenbaum.
Saturday, May 31 at 2 PM
Free
Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy, 179 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra

Arvo Pärt - Photo by Peeter Langovits

Arvo Pärt – Photo by Peeter Langovits

This concert, produced by the Arvo Pärt Project at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, celebrates the music of composer Arvo Pärt. The program features ensembles closely associated with Pärt’s work, and his premiere recordings, for the past two decades. The composer himself comes to New York for the first time since 1984 for this event.
Saturday, May 31 at 8 PM
Tickets $30-$130
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY
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Tilt Brass

TILT Brass presents an all-trombone program including the first live realization of the tape score to Phill Niblock’s A Third Trombone for trombone octet. The program also features a preview of trombone septet music by TILT Director Chris McIntyre for an upcoming site-specific event in August and virtuosic solo performances by Will Lang (Xenakis‘ tour de force Keren), Jen Baker (Giacinto Scelsi‘s wonderful Three Pieces) and Jacob Garchik (rarely heard work by Downtown legend Peter Zummo who will be on-hand and performing).
Saturday, May 31 at 8 PM
Tickets $10
South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford Street Brooklyn, NY 11217
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Ensemble 212

Highlighting the Grand Prize Winners of its 2013-14 Young Artist Competition, violinist, Alice Ivy-Pemberton and cellist, Derek Louie, this concert will also feature a world premiere by Composer in Residence, Ke-Chia Chen, to commemorate the orchestra’s 10th anniversary.
Saturday, May 31 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $25, $12 student
Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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