Tuesday, August 16, 2022 | 7:30 PM

Dimenna Center

450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018​

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Michael Klingbeil
Tear of the Clouds, 2008

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Andile Khumalo
Broken Mirrors of Time, 2021*

Mun-Tzung Wong, piano
* US premiere

Intermission

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Erin Gee
Mouthpiece XI , 2009
with Erin Gee, vocal soloist

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Sky Macklay
Microvariations, 2016-17

Under the direction of Michel Galante, Argento has become an essential source of adventurous new music.

– Alex Ross, The New Yorker

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The Argento New Music Project’s fierce emotional commitment onstage and relentless determination to master all technical aspects of its repertoire has inspired world renowned composers such as Tristan Murail, Beat Furrer, and Georg Friedrich Haas to regard them as the best interpreter of their music in the United States. Argento first gained prominence at New York’s “Sounds French Festival” in 2003 and were shortly thereafter invited to work closely with Elliott Carter and Pierre Boulez for the opening concert of the French American Cultural Exchange. From its inception, the group has dedicated itself to a thorough command of the microtonal challenges of contemporary Spectral composers, an effort that culminated in their first CD Winter Fragments, winner of the prestigious Record Geijutsu 2010 Record Academy Award for best recording.

Argento has presented world premiere performances of works by leading composers such as Tristan Murail, Helmut Lachenmann, Bernhard Lang, Sebastian Currier, Fred Lerdahl, and Philippe Hurel, as well as exciting emerging composers including Sabrina Schroeder, Murat Yakin, Erin Gee, Yoni Niv, Victor Ádan, Hila Tamir, Sang Song, Daniel Iglesias, and many others. Argento brought one of the most influential recent masterpieces of contemporary music, in vain, by Georg Friedrich Haas, to New York, at a time when the composer was unknown and unperformed in America. US premieres include works by Salvatore Sciarrino, Luca Francesconi, Michael Jarrell, Olga Neuwirth, Enno Poppe, Gérard Pesson, Mathias Spahlinger, Gérard Grisey, and Eva Reiter. Equally important, Argento introduced American composers to foreign audiences in its many performances at international festivals throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Argento has produced over thirty studio recordings, many of which have been professionally released on well-known labels such as Bridge, Aeon, and Harmonia Mundi. As a guest ensemble, it has worked closely to develop new works with graduate students from universities including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Columbia.

Argento is committed to expanding the reach of contemporary music to new audiences. From 2009-2015, Argento and the Austrian Cultural Forum co-produced the Moving Sounds Festival, merging contemporary concert music with other artistic worlds including dance, architecture, sound art, electronica, and turntablism. In recent concerts, the group has endeavored to expand its reach beyond contemporary music audiences by including works by 14th, 19th, and early 20th century composers in a musically driven, innovative, and non-conformist manner.

Recent highlights include a performance with legendary soprano Frederica von Stade at Weill Hall in Sonoma, California, and world premiere performances of the following works: Ann Cleare’s eyam ii, commissioned by the Arts Council of Ireland and premiered at the Library of Congress; Jérôme Combier’s Conditions de lumiere, commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation and premiered in both New York and Paris; and Beat Furrer’s spazio immergente, commissioned by the Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg and premiered in its entirety at the composer’s first American portrait concert at Carnegie Hall.

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Argento's reputation builds on its cohesion as a chamber ensemble, demanding technical preparation, and a probing interpretive commitment to the music. Independent of commercial endeavors, the Ensemble relies on the hard work of its musicians, volunteers, board members, and your generous support.

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The ASO presents the U.S. Premiere of Sergei Taneyev’s final work, At the Reading of a Psalm. Conceived as a massive statement of Russian Orthodox faith at the onset of WWI, this large-scale cantata for full orchestra, double chorus, and vocal soloists showcases the dramatic effect of Taneyev’s contrapuntal mastery. This performance is being presented in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival and its 32nd season: Rachmaninoff and His World.

Ticket holders will need to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 using a vaccine approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) in order to enter the building. Masks must be worn at all times.

Event Details

American Composers Orchestra holds its 31st EarShot Readings (formerly Underwood New Music Readings) in June 2023 in New York City, conducted by Tito Muñoz.

In this initial reading session, hear the works of today’s emerging composers in an open rehearsal with American Composers Orchestra members and artistic staff. Audiences get an immersive view into what happens when an ensemble sits down to read a new work for the first time. Featured artists, venue and more details will be announced in early 2023. The rehearsal is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Capacity is limited.

EarShot is a program of the American Composers Orchestra, in partnership with the League of American Orchestras, American Composers Forum, and New Music USA. Over the past 10 years the program has initiated dozens of composer/orchestra/conductor relationships across the country offering opportunities to more than 100 composers. In 2016, ACO launched a composer archive of past EarShot compositions as a resource to the field. Orchestras across the country and around the world rely on EarShot to identify and connect with creative artists, as well as to advise on commissions, competitions, and program design.

Call for Scores | Deadline: September 9, 2022

The American Composers Orchestra is seeking composers/artists with works for full symphonic orchestra to be rehearsed, performed, and recorded by the American Composers Orchestra in New York, NY, offering selected participants the opportunity to collaborate with mentors including established orchestral composers, members of the American Composers Orchestra, and industry leaders. For over a generation, EarShot Readings (est. 2008) as well as ACO’s New Music Readings (‘Whitaker’ from 1993-2009, ‘Underwood’ from 2009-2020, ‘EarShot in NYC’ from 2022 onwards), have provided all-important career development and public exposure to the country’s most promising emerging composers, with over 350 composers participating. ACO is making this call for scores for recorded readings taking place June 1-2 in New York City.

Event Details

The Gathering: A Collective Sonic Ring Shout on Saturday, May 7, 2022 at the Apollo Theater is a sonic quest rooted in the African and African-American ritual of the Ring Shout, co-presented by American Composers Orchestra and the Apollo Theater, co-curated with National Black Theatre in partnershipwith Gateways Music Festival and Harlem Chamber Players.

The Gathering is a sonic quest rooted in the African and African American ritual of the Ring Shout, directed by National Black Theatre’s Executive Artistic Director Jonathan McCrory and conducted by Chelsea Tipton with choirmaster Gregory Hopkins. A Shout, or Ring Shout, is an ecstatic, transcendent religious ritual, first practiced by enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and in the United States, in which worshipers move in a circle while shuffling, stomping, and clapping.

Woven together through a diverse array of multidisciplinary artists featuring new musical works for orchestra and choir, this evening-length event, anchored by a 70-member orchestra and 60-voice choir composed of singers, professional and amateur, from multiple African American churches and choral ensembles in New York, brings the ancestral tradition of the Ring Shout into a contemporary context, opening a space to collectively grieve, to awaken joy as a source of liberation, and to find love as a form of resistance. The evening includes the New York premiere of Seven Last Words of the Unarmed by Joel Thompson, Carlos Simon’s Amen!, and Courtney Bryan’s Sanctum. These works are in conversation with a new commission by Tony Award-winner Jason Michael Webb, world premieres of new arrangements by Toshi Reagon and Nona Hendryx, plus Say Her Name sung by Abby Dobson. Please join us for an evening created to honor our present needs for a collective space of remembrance.

The Gathering collaboration includes an array of powerful community engagement activities leading up to the performance, with the intent of creating space for hope, healing, and the collective exhale. For a full list of those activities, click here.

All audience members will be required to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 with a vaccine authorized by the World Health Organization or the Food and Drug Administration and must maintain appropriate face coverings in accordance with current CDC guidelines. Learn more here.

The Gathering: A Collective Sonic Ring Shout is generously supported by Art for Justice, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Linda and Stuart Nelson, Anonymous, JP Morgan Chase, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and The New York Community Trust.

Steinway is the official piano sponsor of The Gathering.

Upcoming China Tour in May 2020, visiting Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and more cities in China. Details will be updating soon.

YALE PHILHARMONIA

The 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth is celebrated with a performance of the composer’s Choral Fantasy, with the Yale Glee Club and faculty pianist Boris Berman, the Triple Concerto, with violinist and YSM alumna Sunmi Chang '09AD '08MM, faculty cellist Paul Watkins, and faculty pianist Melvin Chen, and the revolutionary Third Symphony, “Eroica.”

Beethoven: Fantasia in C minor for piano, chorus, and orchestra, Op. 80
Beethoven: Concerto for violin, cello, and piano, Op. 56
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55

Tickets from $12, Yale Faculty/Staff from $8, Students FREE*
$3 surcharge on tickets purchased at the door

https://music-tickets.yale.edu/single/eventDetail.aspx?p=20126

Presented by the Paulus Hook Music Foundation in the United States, multi-percussionist Shiqi Zhong performs a solo percussion recital celebrating the 40th anniversary of the establishment of Sino-US diplomatic relations. The program features works by Alexej Gerassimez, Mongo Santamaría, John Psathas, Jorge Cardoso and Per Nørgård. Two world premieres by Chinese composers Heng Liu and Lu Wang (dk) combine electronic music with live percussion and visual designs by Kjell van Sice and Yiyao Nie.

More Information please visit: https://www.carnegiehall.org/en/Calendar/2019/12/27/Shiqi%20Zhong%20Percussion%200800PM

This programs virtuosity is thrilling, and its intensity will keep you on the edge of your seat. Soapbox Gallery presents multi-percussionist Shiqi Zhong and pianist Max Barros. A solo percussion recital featuring works by Gerassimez, Santamaria, Psathas, Cardoso, and Norgard as well as two newly written pieces combining electronic music, live percussion and visual arts by emerging Chinese composers Lui and Wang. This concert will take on a journey of world travel from South America to East Asia. A variety of tastes of music ranging from ancient Chinese to modern electronics.

More Information: https://www.soapboxgallery.org/coming-up/max-barros

YSM ENSEMBLES

Works by DMA candidate Krists Auznieks and master of music degree candidate Miles Walter receive premieres on a program that features percussionist and School of Music alumna Jisu Jung.

Free Admission

More Information: https://music-tickets.yale.edu/single/eventDetail.aspx?p=20233

YALE PHILHARMONIA

Guest conductor Ludovic Morlot, whose recent leadership of the Seattle Symphony earned that ensemble Gramophone's 2018 Orchestra of the Year award, conducts the Yale Philharmonia in a performance of music by Prokofiev.

Tickets from $12, Yale Faculty/Staff from $8, Students FREE*
$3 surcharge on tickets purchased at the door

*Ticket is required for entry. Orchestra section only. Limit 2 student tickets per login/ID. Yale students may reserve online using a valid Yale netID and password. Students of other institutions must call or visit the box office and show student ID.

Though performances in Woolsey Hall will remain unaffected by construction on the Schwarzman Center, concertgoers will experience minor inconveniences. Read here for more information.

NEW MUSIC NEW HAVEN

Faculty composer Hannah Lash's Folksongs for piccolo, harp and percussion, two movements from faculty composer Christopher Theofanidis' Quintet for B-flat clarinet and string quartet, and music by composition students Eli Greenhoe, Alexis Lamb, Ryan Lindveit, Paul Mortilla, and Frances Pollock.

Free Admission

A performance of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, about which the composer’s one-time assistant, legendary conductor Bruno Walter, wrote, “The world has now a masterpiece which shows its creator at the summit of his life, of his power, and of his ability,” and Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, K.297b, with faculty artists Stephen Taylor, oboe, David Shifrin, clarinet, Frank Morelli, bassoon, and William Purvis, horn.

Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, K.297b
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor (1902)

Tickets from $12, Yale Faculty/Staff from $8, Students FREE*
$3 surcharge on tickets purchased at the door

*Ticket is required for entry. Orchestra section only. Limit 2 student tickets per login/ID. Yale students may reserve online using a valid Yale netID and password. Students of other institutions must call or visit the box office and show student ID.

Though performances in Woolsey Hall will remain unaffected by construction on the Schwarzman Center, concertgoers will experience minor inconveniences. Read here for more information.

7月7日纽约北京同乡会和纽约华人总商会举行新闻发布会宣布，将于2019 年 9 月 6 日晚在纽约林肯中心共同主办“金秋之夜”大型音乐会。

据介绍音乐会將以全明星陣容呈現。多位中美艺术家共同为观众奉献一场高艺术水平的音乐会。

美国著名华裔钢琴演奏家殷承宗和美国亚文交响乐团将联袂为大家带来极具影响力的《黄河钢琴协奏曲》。

同场献艺的还有国际杰出小提琴大师林昭亮；演唱过多首经典歌曲的当代著名女歌唱家郑绪岚；曾获“梅兰芳金奖”的著名京剧演员李军；有国风美少年之誉的中国流行音乐创作型歌手霍尊等。

纽约北京同乡会会长蒋健、纽约华人总商会会长徐家树表示，林肯中心David Geffen Hall 是林肯中心最大的音乐厅，可容纳将近2800人，是世界级的音乐舞台。希望通过这一音乐盛会增进中美两国人民的文化交流，纪念中美建交40周年。

音乐会将于2019年 9 月 6 日 (周五)晚 7 时 30 分在林肯中心大卫·格芬厅举办，地址：林肯中心广场 10 号，W. 65 街。

Every year, The New York Big Apple Music Festival holds from July to August at the Aaron Copland School of Music at the Queens College in New York City, USA. We welcome piano, strings, woodwinds, brass, youth orchestra and vocal students.

The festival brings students together with world-class soloists and educators for a unique two-week of education, exchange, and performance. Through one-on-one instruction, master classes, and chamber music workshops, the next generation of classical musicians will have the opportunity to improve both their musicianship and professional skills. We welcome vocal, string, and piano students.

The festival is sponsored and affiliated with Paulus Hook Music Foundation, under the leadership of music director Ms. Yiduo Liu.

This recital will take place in the Orchestra Rehearsal Room in the Adams Center for Musical Arts.

Free Admission

The Norwalk Symphony Orchestra (Not) Just For Kids program is a lively, fun and interactive program designed to be educational as well as entertaining...and it's free!  Members of the orchestra demonstrate their instruments, play for the children, and answer questions in hour long presentations. Throughout the season presentations are made for all instrument families: strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. All programs end with attendees having a chance to hold and try to play a beginning level instrument in the “Petting Zoo”.

NEW MUSIC NEW HAVEN

Featuring music by guest composer Jane Ira Bloom '76BA '77MM and works by YSM's student composers.

Free Admission

"WEST SIDE STORY"

SYMPHONIC CONCERT VERSION

Based on a Conception of JEROME ROBBINS

Book by ARTHUR LAURENTS Music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Entire Original Production Directed and Choreographed by

JEROME ROBBINS

Originally Produced on Broadway by Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince by arrangement with Roger L. Stevens

Tony, Maria, Bernardo, Anita, Jets vs. Sharks, and Officer Krupke! And the songs: Maria, Somewhere, and Tonight from Leonard Bernstein’s ground-breaking classic, with full orchestra, chorus and outstanding featured vocalists. Presented in collaboration with New Paradigm Theatre, Kristin Huffman, Producing Partner and Shakespeare on the Sound's Claire Kelly, Stage Director. Come and be amazed and enchanted all over again!

Ameri-China International Music Academy (ACIMA)

2019 International Winter Piano Festival

February 10~20, 2019 in New York City

Performing Rapsodie espagnole for 2 percussion and 2 pianos by Maurice Ravel, arr.Peter Sadlo

Performing Christmas Skit Drama - THE DELIVERER II by Heejung Park