PREformances with Allison Charney
Moshe Knoll
ArtsAhimsa Orchestra led by Thomas Elefant will perform Moshe Knoll’s Psalm 133 with violinist Laura Goldberg, soprano Allison Charney and narration by Allison’s father, veteran actor Jordan Charney. Argentinian mezzo-soprano Malena Dayen will preview arias from her upcoming Piazzolla tango opera, Maria de Buenos Aires. New York Philharmonic cellist Ru-Pei Yeh and award-winning pianist Helen Huang will present Brahms e-minor concerto for cello and piano.
Monday, February 2 at 12:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 members, $5 seniors
JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
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Festival Opening Night | NYFOS Next
The opening night of NYFOS Next’s new festival format is curated by NYFOS Artistic Director Michael Barrett. Excerpts from Gabriel Kahane’s 2013 work Three Vernacular Songs will be premiered, and songs from new musicals by Adam Guettel and George Steel will be previewed. The evening also includes a piece from Jonathan Dove and a debut vocal work by the intriguing Navajo composer Juantio Becenti, with whom Barrett has worked at the Moab Music Festival.
Tuesday, February 3 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15
OPERA America’s National Opera Center, 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY
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Nostalghia | Music of Valentin Silvestrov
Jenny Lin
Pianist Jenny Lin performs music by Silvestrov, Stravinsky, and Scriabin.
Wednesday, February 4 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15-$20
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Jake Schepps Quintet
The program features newly commissioned long-form works by composers hailing from the contemporary classical world (Marc Mellits and Matt McBane) and mandolinist-composer Matt Flinner helping to bridge the genre gap with a monumental new four-movement work rooted in the worldly new acoustic aesthetic.
Wednesday, February 4 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15 advance, $20 day of show
SubCulture, 45 Bleecker Street, Downstairs, New York, NY
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Juilliard String Quartet
The recital features Haydn’s Quartet in G Major, Op. 33, No. 5; Shulamit Ran’s Quartet No. 2, Vistas; and Beethoven’s Quartet in F Major, Op. 135.
Thursday, February 5 at 8:00 PM
Free
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
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Missy Mazzoli | Composer Portraits
Missy Mazzoli – Photo Stephen Taylor
This Portrait highlights Mazzoli’s diverse works for strings, from solo pieces for cello and violin to works such as Harp and Altar, a love song to the Brooklyn Bridge that fuses string quartet with pre-recorded electronics and the poetry of Hart Crane.
Thursday, February 5 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20-$30
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Obsession
Drawing inspiration from an exhibition that examines Paul Cézanne’s lifelong, intimate—some would say obsessive—artistic dialogue with his wife, muse, and model, Hortense Fiquet, Attacca mines a similar relationship: that of Czech composer Leoš Janáček and the married woman thirty-seven years his junior, Kamila Stösslová, with whom he exchanged more than seven hundred letters, and who inspired his quartets.
Friday, February 6 at 7:00 PM
Tickets included in museum admission
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY
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Guitarist Dan Lippel in Richard Carrick Presents: Friday Night Loud
Steve Reich
Guitarist Dan Lippel will play a set of electric guitar music including his timbrally heterogenous version of Steve Reich’s classic Electric Counterpoint, Peter Gilbert’s Ricochet Remix, and Fausto Romitelli’s iconic Trash TV Trance for guitar, effects, sponge, and electric razor.
Friday, February 6 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Priday / Kaplan: New Music for Violin and Piano | MATA Interval
MATA Interval opens its eighth season by presenting acclaimed violinist Rachel Lee Priday and pianist David Kaplan in a concert of new works by young composers working in and around old traditions.
Friday, February 6 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $20, $15 Students
SubCulture, 45 Bleecker Street, Downstairs, New York, NY
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Midwinter Festival: FIRSTS | Dessoff Choirs
In Dessoff’s early years, several choral compositions received their American and world premieres under the batons of Margarete Dessoff and Paul Boepple. This concert adds new commissions by Robert Convery and Michael Conley to the impressive roster of Dessoff premieres and revisits some of those famous firsts.
Saturday, February 7 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25-$35, $15 students/seniors, 12 & under free
Saint Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
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Live 45
Michael J. Vince
Live 45 is set to host its first concert on February 7th at Spectrum NYC in a format familiar to most audiophiles. Inspired by settling down to a cup of coffee and an old 45 record, the program will consist of two new “singles” by composers Sebastian Danila and Michael J. Vince.
Saturday, February 7 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Listening With Numbers
Martha’s Vineyard composer Dean Rosenthal comes to NYC in a rare appearance, offering three works from the last three years, all NYC premieres. All three instrumental pieces, one each for piano, violin, and oboe, are based on mathematical paradigms such as combinatorics, permutations, and tiling.
Saturday, February 7 at 9:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Neighborhood Concert: Roomful of Teeth
Room Full of Teeth (photo credit” npr.org)
Roomful of Teeth performs music by William Brittelle, Eric Dudley, Rinde Eckert, Wally Gunn & Maria Zajkowski, Merrill Garbus, and Brad Wells.
Sunday, February 8 at 2:00 PM
Free
New York Hall Of Science, Viscusi Gallery ,47-01 111th Street, Queens, NY
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American Salon: Marianne Gythfeldt
The concert features premieres of 4 electro-acoustic pieces written for Ms. Gythfeldt by New York-area composers.
Sunday, February 8 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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