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THURSDAY, March 2
8pm Composer Portraits: Øyvind Torvund
Program:
Øyvind Torvund – Plans for Future Ensemble Pieces (2020, rev. 2023) version for flute, clarinet, electric guitar, 2 keyboards, 2 percussion, and string quartet
Øyvind Torvund – Untitled School/Mud Jam/Campfire Tunes (2014) for piano/percussion quartet, projected images, and electronic sound
Performers:
Cocks Laura, flute
Moore Rane, clarinet
Baldelli Giacomo, guitar
Jack Quartet
Yarn/Wire
VENUE: Miller Theatre at Columbia University
ADMISSION: $20FRIDAY, March 3
7.30pm + 9.30pm Angelica Sanchez
Angelica Sanchez -piano
Adam O’Farrill -trumpet/electronics
Matt Pavolka -bass
Reggie Nicholson -drums
VENUE: The Jazz Gallery
ADMISSION: $15-$40FRIDAY, March 3
Connie Crothers Compassion
8 pm Melvin Gibbs – el bass / William Parker – bass
8:30pm Patricia Nicholson – dance, text / Ava Mendoza – gtr / William Parker – bass
9 pm Melvin Gibbs – el bass / William Parker – bass / Ava Mendoza – gtr
Nick Lyons – sax / Kazzrie Jaxen – piano / Andrea Wolper – voice
Melanie Dyer- viola / Warren Smith, TA Thompson – drums
Patricia Nicholson – dance, text
VENUE: Shift
ADMISSION: $15-20SATURDAY, March 3
8pm solo and duo improvisations
solo Aliya Ultan – cello, violin, voice
duo Chris Pitsiokos – alto sax with Tizia Zimmerman – accordion
duo Richard Lenz – bass clarinet, suitcase synth with Kevin Murray – drums
VENUE: The Record Shop (360 Van Brunt)
ADMISSION: $10SATURDAY, March 4
7.30pm + 9.30pm Sylvie Courvoisier
Sylvie Courvoisier -piano
Patricia Brennan -vibraphone
Thomas Morgan -bass
Dan Weiss -drums
VENUE: The Jazz Gallery
ADMISSION: $15-$40SUNDAY, March 5
6pm Max Johnson + Brandon Lopez improvised double double bass madness
VENUE: Barbes
ADMISSION: $15SUNDAY, March 5
8pm Kato Hideki: Hope & Despair
Kato Hideki: acoustic bass
Doug Wieselman: clarinet & electronics
Masahiko Kono: trombone & electronics
Gordon Beeferman: piano
Ryan Sawyer: drums & percussion
VENUE: Roulette
ADMISSION: $20/$30MONDAY, March 6
8pm TILT
Kalia Vandever – trombone/voice
Isabel Crespo Pardo – voice
Carmen Rothwell – bass/voice
VENUE: Seeds
ADMISSION: $20WEDNESDAY, March 8
7:30pm Mannes Orchestra: Douglass, Zhou, Higdon, and Hailstork
Program:
John Thomas Douglass: Pilgrim Overture (1867-1876) orchestrated by Philip Ewell (2022)
Adolphus Hailstork: Survive (Symphony No. 4) – World Premiere
Zhou Tian: Concerto for Orchestra – NY Premiere
Jennifer Higdon: The Light That We Can Hear, Valerie Coleman – Soloist – NY Premiere
Presented by The New School’s College of Performing Arts.
VENUE: Starr Theater, Alice Tully Hall
ADMISSION: $17.50WEDNESDAY, March 8
8PM Michaël Attias, Chris Pitsiokos, Joe Morris, Kevin Murray
VENUE: Shift
ADMISSION: $15WEDNESDAY, March 8
8:30 pm Quartet
Jon Irabagon (sax) Uri Caine (piano) Mark Helias (bass) Barry Altschul (drums)
VENUE: The Stone
ADMISSION: $20FRIDAY, March 10
7pm Alvin Lucier’s So You . . . (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice)
Charles Curtis, cello, Anthony Burr, clarinet, vocalist Jessika Kenney
VENUE: Amant – Géza
ADMISSION: $8FRIDAY, March 10
8:30 pm Nonet
Jon Irabagon (sax) Peter Evans (trumpet) Miles Okazaki (guitar) Wendy Eisenberg (guitar) Levy Lorenzo (laptop, kulintang, vibraphone) Matt Mitchell (piano) Michael Formanek (acoustic bass) Chris Lightcap (electric bass) Dan Weiss (drums)
VENUE: The Stone
ADMISSION: $20SATURDAY, March 11
2 PM: So You . . . (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice)
3:15 PM: Susan Howe in conversation
5 PM: Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas, In Memoriam Jon Higgins, and Slices for Cello and Pre-recorded Orchestra
VENUE: Amant – Géza
ADMISSION: $12SATURDAY, March 11
8pm Sirius Quartet
Fung Chern Hwei, violin
Gregor Huebner, violin
Sunjay Jayaram, viola
Jeremy Harman, violoncello
VENUE: Barbes
ADMISSION: $20SATURDAY, March 11
8:30 pm Tentet
Jon Irabagon (sax) Mazz Swift (violin, voice) Peter Evans (trumpet) Miles Okazaki (guitar) Wendy Eisenberg (guitar) Levy Lorenzo (laptop, kulintang, vibraphone) Matt Mitchell (piano) Michael Formanek (acoustic bass) Chris Lightcap (electric bass) Dan Weiss (drums)
VENUE: The Stone
ADMISSION: $20MONDAY, March 13
8pm Davey Williams Memorial Concert
George Cartwright – Saxophone
Chris Cochrane – Electric Guitar
Andrew Drury – Drums/Percussion
Judy Dunaway – Amplified Tenor Balloon
Bruce Golden — Multi-Percussion
Susan Hefner – Movement
Shelley Hirsch — Voice
Evan Lipson – Double Bass
Clifford McPeek — Trumpet, Conducting
Taylor Rouss – game calls/soprano sax
Ann Rupel – Electric Bass
Elliot Sharp – Electric Guitar
LaDonna Smith – Violin
John Zorn — Saxophone
VENUE: Roulette
ADMISSION: Free with RSVPTHURSDAY, March 16
8 PM Musical Ecologies: Joseph Kubera
VENUE: Old Stone House of Brooklyn
ADMISSION: $15FRIDAY, March 17
7 pm Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival: Inspirations
Borys Liatoshynsky, Violin Sonata, op. 19 (1926)
Alban Berg, Vier Stücke for Clarinet and Piano, op.5 (1913)
Borys Liatoshynsky, Two Romances, op. 8 (1921)
Borys Liatoshynsky, Two Pieces for Viola and Piano, op.65 (1965)
Valentyn Sylvestrov, Mystères (1964)
Volodymyr Zahorstev, Volumes (1965)
Borys Liatoshynsky, Concert Etude-Rondo, op.55 (1962, rev. 1967)
VENUE: The Kaufman Music Center
ADMISSION: $15-60SATURDAY, March 18
8pm Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival: Evolutions
Serhii Vilka, Switchings (2020)
Alex Voytenko, GZI, (2009, rev. 2014)
Andrii Didorenko, Seven Ukrainian Folk Songs (2022)
Anna Arkushyna, “…So they grow like sunflowers”, (2022)
Olena Ilnytska, Nocturne for solo piano (2019)
Yana Shliabanska, atropa belladonna (2022)
Duo SAS
VENUE: The Kaufman Music Center
ADMISSION: $15-60SUNDAY, March 19
3pm Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival: Conversations
Borys Liatoshynsky, Quartet No. 3, op. 21 (1928)
Béla Bartók, Quartet No. 3 (1927)
Borys Liatoshynsky, Quartet No. 4, op. 43 (“Suite on Ukrainian Themes”) (1943)
Aaron Copland, Sextet (1937)
VENUE: The Kaufman Music Center
ADMISSION: $15-60SUNDAY, March 19
4PM Shamrock Spring
Program:
Frolicking with the Birds by Marty Regan
koto and cello
Torio by Douglas J, Cuomo
shamisen, shakuhachi and piano
Sunday Man by Jake Tantleff
shakuhachi, cello, piano and percussion
Sky Dive by James Nyoraku Schlefer
shakuhachi, cello, piano and percussion
Intercultural Mash-Up on Irish Tunes
shakuhachi, shamisen, cello, piano and percussion
VENUE: Tenri Cultural Institute
ADMISSION: $20WEDNESDAY, March 22
7.30pm & 9.30pm Ingrid Laubrock‘s Lilith
Ingrid Laubrock -tenor & soprano saxophone
David Adewumi -trumpet
Adam Matlock -accordion
Yvonne Rogers -piano
Eva Lawitts -double bass
Henry Mermer -drums
VENUE: The Jazz Gallery
ADMISSION: $15-40WEDNESDAY, March 22
8pm Stephan Crump, Ken Filiano, Shelley Hirsch, Hans Tammen
VENUE: shift
ADMISSION: $15THURSDAY, March 23
8PM Still House Plants, Melvin Gibbs, and ..
VENUE: Shift
ADMISSION: $25/$30THURSDAY, March 23
7.30pm & 9.30pm Ben Goldberg’s Glamorous Escapades
Ben Goldberg -clarinet + compositions
John Ellis -tenor saxophone
Michael Coleman -synthesizer
Will Bernard -electric guitar
Ben Allison -bass
Allan Mednard -drums
Maleek Washington -dance
VENUE: The Jazz Gallery
ADMISSION: $15-40FRIDAY, March 24
8:30 pm Sexmob
Steven Bernstein (trumpet) Briggan Krass (sax) Tony Scherr (bass) Kenny Wollesen (drums)
VENUE: The Stone
ADMISSION: $20SATURDAY, March 25
8:30 pm Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra
Steven Bernstein (trumpet, slide trumpet, flugelhorn) Curtis Fowlkes (trombone) Charlie Burnham (violin) Scott Robinson (clarinet) Peter Apfelbaum (tenor sax) Erik Lawrence (baritone sax) Steve Cardenas (guitar) Ben Allison (bass) Ben Perowsky (drums)
VENUE: The Stone
ADMISSION: $20SATURDAY, March 25
7:30pm Ensemble intercontemporain
Program:
Schoenberg Five Pieces, Op. 16 (arranged for chamber ensemble by Schoenberg)
Matthias Pintscher Sonic Eclipse (NY Premiere)
Boulez Dérive 2
VENUE: Zankel Hall
ADMISSION: 49-59SUNDAY, March 26
8 PM John Zorn’s New Masada Quartet
John Zorn: sax
Julian Lage: guitar
Jorge Roeder: bass
Kenny Wollesen: drums
VENUE: Roulette
ADMISSION: $30/$40MONDAY, March 27
8 PM Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet
Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, Shane Parish, and Bill Orcutt
VENUE: Roulette
ADMISSION: $30/$40MONDAY, March 27
8PM Nate Wooley and Josh Modney
VENUE: Scholes Street Studio
ADMISSION: $20TUESDAY, March 28
7:30pm Written For Talea
Talea Ensemble presents the world premieres of new works by Louis Karchin, Tyshawn Sorey, and Anthony Cheung.
VENUE: The DiMenna Center
ADMISSION: TBDTHURSDAY, March 30
7:30PM The New Series: Spotlight on Composer Reena Esmail
Reena ESMAIL Blaze (2019) for violin and tabla
ESMAIL The light is the same for wind quintet
ESMAIL Saans (2017) for piano trio
ESMAIL Who makes a clearing (2022) for soprano, violin, and cello
ESMAIL Meri Sakhi Ki Avaaz (My Sister’s Voice) (2019) version for Hindustani singer, soprano, and piano quintet
VENUE: The Julliard School, Harris/Woolfson Orchestral Studio
ADMISSION: FreeTHURSDAY, March 30
7:30 PM Cassatt String Quartet with Magdalena Baczewska
Program:
Florence Price (1887–1953), String Quartet No.1 in G major (1929)
Florence Price (1887–1953), Fantaisie nègre, No. 1, for piano solo
Dorothy Rudd Moore (1940–2022), Modes for String Quartet (1968)
Amy Beach (1867–1944), Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor Op 67 (1907)
Cassatt String Quartet
Magdalena Baczewska, piano
VENUE: The Italian Academy
ADMISSION: FreeTHURSDAY, March 30
8PM Composer Portrait: Nicole Mitchell
Repertoire
Nicole Mitchell Transitions Beyond (2021) for soprano, flute, violin, clarinet, and cello
Nicole Mitchell Inescapable Spiral (2017, rev. 2020)
Nicole Mitchell Whispering Flame (2017) co-composed by Nicole Mitchell and Lisa E. Harris
Nicole Mitchell Procession Time (2017)
Nicole Mitchell Building Stuff (2015)
Performers:
Lisa E Harris, voice
Mazz Swift, violin
Mitchell Nicole, flute
International Contemporary Ensemble
VENUE: Miller Theatre at Columbia University
ADMISSION: $20MARCH 30 – APRIL 8
Phelim Mcdermott & Philip Glass: Tao Of Glass
Tao of Glass is their most fantastical collaboration yet. This New York Premiere marries ten new works from Glass with ten theatrical meditations on life, death, and Taoist wisdom. Performed by McDermott with a virtuosic ensemble of musicians and puppeteers, Tao of Glass is a storytelling tapestry, underscored by Glass’s mesmerizing music, and shot through with Improbable’s trademark magical stagecraft.
VENUE: NYU Skirball
ADMISSION: $78-100
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