Upcoming Event
BalletCollective: Echoes of the Unseen
October 28–31 / 7:30pm / Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC
Metropolis Ensemble and BalletCollective are collaborating to present newly commissioned works with choreographers Alysa Pires and Chloe Crenshaw, composers Nicky Sohn, Ellis Ludwig-Leone, 7038634357 (Neo Gibson), and visual artists linn meyers and Siyan Camille Ji.
News Alert
New York Times: The Best Classical Music of 2025, So Far
“Part murder mystery, part psychological séance, In A Grove became the highlight of this year’s Prototype in January. Metropolis Ensemble’s shimmering performance contributed to the dream-like unreality... leaves listeners suspended between ambiguity and wonder.”
Upcoming Event
Myth of Tomorrow Album Release
November 3 / 6:30pm / 1 Rivington Street, NYC
Celebrate the release of Erika Dohi’s new album, Myth of Tomorrow, with live sets by Lauren Cauley, Matt Evans, David Leon, and Erika Dohi bring select tracks to life, with a pre-show immersive sound experience by multimedia artist Phong Tran.
News Alert
2025 Grammy Award Nominee
Best Engineered Album, Classical — Timo Andres: The Blind Banister
“The orchestra suddenly falls away, leaving the pianist to wrestle with the two basic elements of the piece, rising and falling.” —Timo Andres
Our recent studio album is nominated for engineers Silas Brown, Doron Schachter, and Michael Schwartz and mastering engineer Matt Colton, performed by Metropolis Ensemble, conductor Andrew Cyr, Timo Andres, and Inbal Segev.
New Album
Erika Dohi: Myth of Tomorrow
Album Release October 24 on Switch Hit / Figure 8 Recording
Myth of Tomorrow, the second album by composer-pianist Erika Dohi, is a sonic meditation on catastrophe, resilience, and rebirth. The record is produced by Grammy-winning composer and producer William Brittelle and with support from Metropolis Ensemble.
Upcoming Series
Shinboku
Starts November 3 / 1 Rivington Street, NYC
Get ready to experience a Rivington artist-in-residence series shaped by composer and pianist Erika Dohi working with Forgotten Futures’ vast trove of electronic and electro-acoustic instruments as process-driven tools.
Ongoing Project
Rivington Returns!
1 Rivington Street, NYC
Our incubator space for artist discovery and audience connection is back! Join us at Rivington for immersive concerts, open rehearsals of new work, and interactive demonstrations that put listeners close to the creative process.
Recent Project
Celebrating the Summer Solstice
On June 20, Metropolis Ensemble presented two World Premieres at Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Matthew Evan Taylor’s Afropneuma at sunrise and Erik Hall’s reimagining of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians at sunset—two powerful works inspired by breath and transformation.
Ongoing Project
Flame Keepers
Experience our real-time perpetual sonic art installation created by Jakub Ciupinski. 140+ composer contributors since 2021, weaving together multiple streams of music into unexpected, evolving combinations.
Upcoming Album
Forward Into Light
A New Album from Sarah Kirkland Snider on New Amsterdam Records / Nonesuch Records
Metropolis Ensemble is collaborating with composer Sarah Kirkland Snider and Grammy-winning producer Silas Brown to record her acclaimed orchestral works.
Studio Albums
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Him Sophy: Bangsokol
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Vivian Fung: Dreamscapes
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Molly Joyce: Loud and Soft
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Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann: In A Grove
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Tyondai Braxton: Telekinesis
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Questlove and The Roots: Undun
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Timo Andres: Home Stretch
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Ricardo Romaneiro: The Coarse Air
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Emily Wells: this world is too ___ for you
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William Brittelle: Spiritual America
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Pieta Brown: We Are Not Machines
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William Brittelle: Alive in the Electric Snow Dream
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Matthew Evan Taylor: The Unheard Mixtapes
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Phong Tran: The Computer Room
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Jakub Ciupinski: Flame Keepers
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Wye Oak: Shriek Variations
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Samora Pinderhughes: Grief
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Timo Andres: The Blind Banister
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Kalia Vandever: Regrowth
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Gity Razaz: The Strange Highway
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Ricardo Romaneiro: Liquidverse
Metropolis Ensemble is a Grammy-nominated nonprofit based in NYC dedicated to commissioning, producing, and performing ambitious projects in new music.
Ongoing Project
Liquidverse
Now playing at Cosm LA and Cosm Dallas
"Cosm offers a canvas for boundless creativity." —Ricardo Romaneiro
Experience composer Ricardo Romaneiro’s immersive audiovisual symphony created for Cosm, the world’s first 87-foot diameter 12K LED dome and spatial audio system.
Listen to 118 artists from Metropolis Ensemble (Andrew Cyr, conductor) and The Crossing (Donald Nally, Conductor), with producers Silas Brown and Andrew Cyr.
