Classical Music Listings From The New York Times

From NYTimes.com:

Avant Music Festival (Friday through Sunday; through Feb. 23) Organized by the composer Randy Gibson and the soprano Megan Schubert, this new-music festival features among the highlights of its opening weekend the most recent version of Mr. Gibson’s “Apparitions of the Four Pillars,” on Friday at 8 p.m.; a performance of John Cage’s “Apartment House 1776,” on Saturday at 4 p.m.; and, on Sunday at 3 p.m., the punk-classical composer and singer Kitty Brazelton. Various times, the Wild Project, 195 East Third Street, East Village, avantmedia.org; $12, $8 for students in advance; $15, $10 for students at the door. (Woolfe)

Bargemusic (Friday) There are always interesting concerts happening at Bargemusic, Brooklyn’s floating concert hall, a scenic and ideally intimate space for chamber music. Friday’s “Here and Now” program, part of the contemporary music series, is especially enticing. Two brilliant artists, the violinist Miranda Cuckson and the pianist Blair McMillen, play duos by Sean Shepherd, Steven Burke, Morton Feldman and (a premiere) Harold Meltzer. It was recently announced that Mr. Shepherd is writing a major piece for the New York Philharmonic’s 2013-14 season. At 8 p.m., Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing, next to the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, (718) 624-4924, bargemusic.org; $35, $30 for seniors, $15 for students. (Tommasini)

Ensemble ACJW (Monday) This excellent group — consisting of talented young professional musicians from the Academy, a program of Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute — offers the New York premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s “Set That on Fire,” as well as Brahms’s Trio in E flat for Violin, Horn and Piano and Poulenc’s Sextet for Piano and Winds. At 7:30 p.m., Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800, carnegiehall.org; $30. (Vivien Schweitzer)

Talea Ensemble (Tuesday) This searching modern and contemporary music group presents a fascinating program of early works by Hans Werner Henze and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Henze’s “Whispers From Heavenly Death” from 1948 will feature the soprano Sylvie Robert, and the pianist Steven Beck will be on hand for his Piano Sonata from 1959. Stockhausen’s 1964 “Mikrophonie I” will feature the percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky. At 7 p.m., German Consulate New York, 871 United Nations Plaza, Manhattan, taleaensemble.org; free, but a RSVP must be sent to germanconsulatenyc@gmail.com. (Woolfe)

Dawn Upshaw (Thursday) This soprano’s advocacy of contemporary music has been unstinting even in her prominent teaching career. (She is the artistic director of the vocal arts program at Bard College.) For this annual event with singers and pianists from the program as well as the Bard pianist Kayo Iwama, she presents the premiere of a work by George Tsontakis and new compositions by Bard students and alumni. At 7:30 p.m., Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street, (212) 685-0008, Ext. 560, themorgan.org; $35. (Woolfe)