Since 2006, Metropolis has encouraged creativity and self-expression through teaching composition to NYC students in our education program, Youth Works.

Metropolis Ensemble, a talented freelance orchestra, responded with skill and exuberance to Mr. Tan’s thrusting arms and clutching fingers.

Hallucinations, Metropolis Ensemble’s recent production at (Le) Poisson Rouge, was a mind-bending juxtaposition of acoustic, orchestral instruments with electronics.

On a beautiful early spring evening, over 150 friends and patrons of Metropolis Ensemble gathered to honor our “founding visionaries.”

Metropolis Ensemble presents a seductive vision of classical music’s future: young violin virtuosos and guys in jeans playing pieces on laptops.

What impressed most was the diversity of approaches that the composers involved took to stretching a more or less conventional chamber ensemble’s sound through electronic legerdemain.

Metropolis Ensemble is delighted to announce a classical nomination in the 53rd Grammy Awards for Avner Dorman’s Mandolin Concerto.

“Pro Sound Effects is participating in a unique, location-specific music concert called Brownstone, conceived by the New York City-based chamber orchestra Metropolis Ensemble.”

Eleven-year-old Zachary Detrick might barely stand as tall as a cello, but his imagination soars as high as a New York City skyscraper.

“Zachary and I have been working together for about two months now, and I’m constantly surprised by his imagination and facility.”

Metropolis was really an umbrella group that brought together instrumental soloists, chamber ensembles, singers and a few composers for a benefit performance for Partners in Health.

With the start of the new year, we want to pause a moment to reflect on the four years since Metropolis Ensemble’s founding in 2006.