Classical Music Listings From The New York Times

From NYTimes.com:

American Modern Ensemble (Tuesday) This exceptional new-music group celebrates the coming of winter with the New York premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis’s “Pieces of Winter Sky” and the world premiere of Robert Paterson’s “CAPTCHA,” alongside Mr. Paterson’s “Winter Songs” and works by Russell Platt, Tania Leon and Steven Burke. At 8 p.m., DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, Manhattan, americanmodernensemble.org; $10 online, $25 at the door. (Zachary Woolfe)

Ear Heart Music (Wednesday) This searching series of cross-genre collaborations continues with an evening of theatrically inclined new music featuring the formidable soprano Lucy Shelton and the Dolce Suono Ensemble. The central offering is the New York premiere of Jeremy Gill’s “Ode: A Dramatic Cantata,” but the concert also includes works by Shulamit Ran, Roussel, Messiaen and Daniel Catán. At 8 p.m., Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, near Third Avenue, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, roulette.org, (917) 267-0363; $20, $15 for students and 65+. (Woolfe)

International Contemporary Ensemble (Tuesday) The innovative ICElab series pairs composers and performers in a collaborative process that yields substantial new compositions. Here, in the first of three free concerts at Roulette in December, the musicians offer a work by the Bulgarian composer-vocalist-improviser Maria Stankova and a song cycle by Sasha Siem, a British-Norwegian composer and singer-songwriter. At 8 p.m., Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, near Third Avenue, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, (917) 267-0363, roulette.org; free. (Schweitzer)

Composer Portraits: Anna Thorvaldsdottir (Thursday) This Miller Theater series zooms in on the mesmerizing music of the Icelandic composer (who trained in San Diego) with a range of chamber works not heard before in New York and one haunting track from her arresting album “Rhizoma.” Richard Carrick conducts a roster of musicians, including the one-of-a-kind harpist Zeena Parkins, the percussionist David Shively and the new-music ensemble Either/Or. At 8 p.m., Miller Theater, Broadway at 116th Street, Morningside Heights, (212) 854-7799, millertheatre.com; $20 to $30, $18 for students and 18 and under. (da Fonseca-Wollheim)