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This week: concerts in New York (January 23, 2017 – January 29, 2017)

OpenICE at Abrons Underground

As its next installment of free OpenICE initiatives, International Contemporary Ensemble presents a rare performance of German composer Wolfgang Rihm’s hourlong string trio Musik für Drei Streicher.
Monday, January 23 at 8:00 PM
Free
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York, NY
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Marilyn Nonken | Pop-Up Concerts

Marilyn Nonken

Marilyn Nonken

Pianist Marilyn Nonken returns to Miller Theatre with works written specifically for her by two composers: Liza Lim and Elizabeth Hoffman.
Tuesday, January 24 at 6:00 PM
Free
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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Pacifica Quartet and Jörg Widmann

Jörg Widmann - Photo by Marco Borggreve

Jörg Widmann – Photo by Marco Borggreve

Pacifica Quartet returns to 92Y with a varied program that includes Haydn’s G Major String Quartet as well as composer/clarinetist Jörg Widmann’s “Hunt” Quartet. Finally, Widmann joins the Pacifica onstage for Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet.
Tuesday, January 24 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $40
92Y, Kaufmann Concert Hall, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street, New York, NY
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Roundtable | Composers Concordance

The concert will include a round­table panel of artists, musicians, and poets, who will be onstage providing commentary. The panel will include Beth Fertig (contributing editor, WNYC), Mark Stewart (guitarist), David Baker (poet), Charles Coleman (composer/­vocalist), and Paul Mills aka Poez (poet). The audience will be invited to tweet their immediate reactions to the music, with the tweets projected live onscreen during the performance. The concert will feature music by Svjetlana Bukvich, Dan Cooper, Melissa Grey, Peter Jarvis, Robert Levin, Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker, and Randy Woolf.
Thursday, January 26 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $10-$25
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Double Trouble: Supové/O’Connell

Kathleen Supové

Kathleen Supové

Pianists Kathleen Supove and Isabelle ‘Izzy’ O’Connell come together for a concert of two piano music, including newly commissioned works by Molly Thompson and Brian Mark.
Thursday, January 26 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $10, $5 students
Yamaha Artist Services Piano Salon, 689 5th Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY
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Live 45 Concert: L45-007

The evening will feature four pieces by composers Andrew Noseworthy and Phong Tran. Noseworthy, a Brooklyn­-based composer, guitarist, arranger and improviser from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, will be presenting a work for solo melodica, as well as the world premiere of his piece for prepared horn and tape. Tran is a Brooklyn­-based composer, electronic musician, and visual artist who will be sharing two world premieres: a work for piano and a self-­performed piece for electronics. Solo performances will be by pianist Miki Sawada and hornist Elizabeth Fleming Martignetti.
Sunday, January 29 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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