From New York’s Spectrum:
– Matthew Greenbaum featuring Mari Kimura & Cynthia Folio (May 2)
– Gamin and ETHEL (May 2)
– Eunmi Ko (May 3)
– Zach Seely’s (con)temporary (in)sights series continues with two dates this month.
First up: Ryan Muncy (May 3)– Passover Band (May 7)
– Flin van Hemmen: Canyons Jazz (May 7)
– Niloufar Nourbakhsh (May 8)
First half solo piano; second half collaboration with Lisa Flanagan, Karen Hayden;
Lisa Casal-Galietta, Maiko Hosado, Pamela Martinez & Naomi Moser– Spectrum Friday Prog. featuring Jeremy Nesse (May 8)
– Poetry reading hosted by Mark Weiss featuring Louis Asekoff, Sally Fisher & Weiss (May 9)
– Mick Rossi’s Outliers series returns with Michael Bates, Jeff Davis & Rossi (May 9)
– Zach Seely’s (con)temporary (in)sights series continues with its second date this May
featuring a Marcelo Toledo Portrait Concert (May 9)– Marilyn Nonken’s Voluptuous Virtuosity series continues with two dates this month. (May 10)
First up: Marcus Ostermiller– Stuart Breczinski’s Title Pending series (May 10)
– Alexandria Smith, Anthony Coleman, Trio Almathi & Parsons Instrument Design (May 14)
– Gabriel Zucker presents Thursdays on the Spectrum (May 14)
Martha 439 Jefferson: Gabriel Zucker & David Su– Eleonor Sandresky’s Retes series continues with Du Yun (May 15)
– Julia Den Boer (May 16)
– Hans Tammen’s Dark Circuits series featuring Matthew Ostrowski: Negative Differential Resistance (May 16)
– Ramin Arjomand’s Reinterpretations series (May 17)
– Guy Barash’s Eavesdropping series with special guest Kate Dillingham (May 17)
– Spectrum launches Melody and Company Chamber series with Melody Fader and guests, Momenta Quartet (May 20)
– Toomai String Quintet: The Early Quintets Project, Part III (May 21)
A series that pairs new works by exceptional participants in New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers program
(ages 10-13) with related music by preeminent contemporary composers.– Lara Downes: in Real Time May 21)
World premieres in progress live-streamed in real time
Featured: Daniel Felsenfeld, Mohammed Fairouz, Sarah Kirkland Snider & Daniel Bernard Roumain– Barry Chabala presents Wandelweiser & Waller curated by Michael Vincent Waller (May 22)
Premieres by Waller, Eva-Maria Houben & Jurg Frey.– Scapegoat: Noam Birestone/Joshua Hyde/Mauricio Pauly (May 23)
– Late Night with The Brothers Balliett (May 23)
– Beth Levin/8 Strings and a Whistle: Music of Scott Brickman (May 24)
Beth Levin, Suzanne Gilchrest, Ina Litera & Matthew Goeke– Dartmouth Contemporary Music Lab (May 24)
– Erika Tazawa (May 27)
– Susan Seliger presents Out By Ten featuring ESP Vocal Jazz Trio, Jeremy Jordan & Tricia Rose Burt (May 28)
– Seth Boustead: Film, Music for Film and Otherwise – in town from Chicago (May 29)
– Cellar and Point Presents (May 29)
– Aaron Roche (May 30)
– Marilyn Nonken’s Voluptuous Virtuosity series continues with its second date this month
featuring Yoo-Jung Kim. (May 31)– New York New Music Collective (May 31)
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