Avant Music News

Nonclassical (Wednesday) Nonclassical, a genre-blurring British nightclub series and record label run by the young composer Gabriel Prokofiev (grandson of Sergei), showcases two of the artists on its roster: GéNIA, a pianist and the great-grandniece of Vladimir Horowitz; and Joby Burgess, a percussionist and sampler player. Mr. Prokofiev will serve as the host and D.J., spinning selections from Nonclassical recordings between the live performances. At 7:30 p.m., Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, near Thompson Street, West Village , (212) 505-3474, lepoissonrouge.com; $10. (Smith)

‘Varèse: (R)evolution’ (Monday and Tuesday) The reputation of Edgard Varèse, a composer born in Paris in 1883 and chiefly based in the United States from 1915 until his death in 1965, rests on a small, idiosyncratic and viscerally absorbing body of work, virtually all of which will be featured in these two Lincoln Center Festival concerts. On Monday the International Contemporary Ensemble, So Percussion, Musica Sacra and other artists perform Varèse’s solo and chamber works; Alan Gilbert conducts the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday. Monday at 8 p.m., Alice Tully Hall; Tuesday at 8 p.m., Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center , (212) 721-6500, lincolncenter.org. For Monday’s concert, $30 tickets remain; for Tuesday’s, $40 tickets remain. (Smith)

Evolving Music/Evolving Voice (Monday) This weekly series, an offshoot of the Vision Festival, gathers a diverse array of musicians under the banner of progressivism. First up here, at 7 p.m., is the singer Maryanne de Prophetis, with backing from the keyboardist Landon Knoblock and the drummer Tony Moreno; at 8 the Chicago flutist Nicole Mitchell leads a trio she calls Truth or Dare. Then comes an ensemble led by the tenor saxophonist Ras Moshe (at 9) and a collective trio consisting of the bassist Dominic Lash, the guitarist Joe Morris and the trumpeter Nate Wooley (at 10). Local 269, 269 East Houston Street, at Suffolk Street, Lower East Side , (212) 228-9874; $10 per set, $15 for two sets or $20 for the night (subtract $3 for student rates). (Chinen)

Kirk Knuffke Group (Wednesday) A trumpeter of open-ended perspective and sound technique, Kirk Knuffke features his own sharp-cornered music in this working band with Brian Drye on trombone, Reuben Radding on bass and Jeff Davis on drums. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Tea Lounge, 837 Union Street, near Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn , (718) 789-2762, tealoungeny.com; $5 suggested donation. (Chinen)

Jenny Scheinman’s Mischief & Mayhem (Friday through Sunday) Ms. Scheinman often goes for rustic charm as a violinist, but she never ceases to be an adventurous improviser. Her partners in this band, formed a few years ago, are the engagingly prickly guitarist Nels Cline, the stalwart bassist Todd Sickafoose and the polymorphically propulsive drummer Jim Black. At 9 and 11 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village , (212) 255-4037, villagevanguard.com; $25 cover, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)

Trio 3 (Sunday) This avant-garde supergroup, with Oliver Lake on alto saxophone, Reggie Workman on bass and Andrew Cyrille on drums, has been working on and off for 20 years. Capable of tenderness as well as turbulence, it’s a collective that explores every available option in the course of a performance — even when there’s a substitute in play, as in the case of Mark Helias, filling in for Mr. Workman on this concert, which features the premiere of a piece called “Proximity.” At 8 p.m.; gate opens at 7 p.m., Museum of Modern Art Sculpture Garden , (212) 708-9491, moma.org; free. (Chinen)