Areté Venue & Gallery in January

Source: Areté Venue & Gallery.

WISE: Women Innovating Sound Experience
Thursday, 1/9/20, 8:00 pm
A night of live experimental performances by women-identified artists working with handmade electronics/instruments, live coding, sound objects, and audiovisual performance. Hosted by WISE: Women Innovating Sound Experience; A community supporting women-identified artists working in sonic & media arts; expanding use of technology, time and space.
Featuring: Thessia Machado, Melody Loveless, Viola Yip and Roberta Michel.

Will Sing for Wine Live!
Sunday, 1/12/20, 5:30 pm
This intimate live event will be a feast for the senses as we indulge in “old world” musical repertoire and vintages. In this hour-long program, Rebecca Richardson, soprano and pianist Felix Jarrar will be performing both well-known and less performed classical vocal works with piano by composers such as Debussy, Verdi, Obradors, and more! Each musical set will be paired with a carefully selected wine representing the country from which the music originated. Tickets are $20/ person up until 12 hours before the event, at the door for $25 (cash only). Ticket includes entry to the event, all wines paired with the concert, and light snacks before and after the concert.

Sabine Weyer, piano
Thursday, 1/16/20, 8:00 pm
Luxemourg pianist Sabine Weyer is an acclaimed soloist, having performed all over the globe, mainly in Europe but also in China (Shanghai and Pekin) and Russia. Sabine published her first commercial CD in Autumn 2015, with music by Rameau and Debussy, CD published by the Austrian label “Paladino” and recorded in the world-famous Konzerthaus in Vienna. The CD has been released in more than 60 countries over the world. Her new solo CD called “Bach to the future”, with transcriptions by famous works by Bach, was released on the market at the beginning of December 2017 and won the “Supersonic Award” by Pizzicato. The latest CD-production on Ars Label was recorded with the Nordwestdeutsche.
PROGRAM
A.Scriabine Preludes op 11
N.Bacri Sonata N.2 Op 105
N. Miaskovsky Sonata N.2 op 13

Hotel Elefant / Bearthoven
Saturday, 1/18/20, 7:00 pm
Hotel Elefant, “one of New York’s fastest rising new music outfits” (Time Out New York) opens its season on Friday, September 27, at Areté Venue & Gallery, with a program of music by Carlos Bandera and Sean Harold, selected from a recent call for scores; Patrick Castillo, Alexandra Gardner, and Kaija Saariaho (Oi kuu); and culminating in Lois V Vierk’s iconic 1989 masterpiece, Red Shift, for cello, electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion.
PROGRAM
Fjóla EVANS: Warped Threads – Hotel Elefant
Leaha Maria VILLARREAL: The Crossing* – Bearthoven
EVANS: Shoaling – Bearthoven
VILLARREAL: Crossing the Rubicon* – Hotel Elefant *world premiere
Admission: pay what you will

Ensemble in Process: Migration in Sounds
Sunday, 1/19/20, 7:00 pm
Three of New York’s most exciting pianists—-Brian Mark, Isabelle “Izzy” O’Connell, and Kathleen Supové—-come together to explore the subject of migration and human struggle in a multidisciplinary setting. Special guest: flutist Tessa Brinckman. Program includes works by Meredith Monk, Missy Mazzoli, Randall Woolf, Howie Kenty, and Mary Kouyoumdjian, among others. World premieres by Valerie Coleman and Raymond Deane.