Emerald City Music: An Evening with Mikaela Bennett
Soprano Mikaela Bennett joins forces with the Metropolis with works by Molly Joyce and Sarah Kirkland Snider.
BalletCollective: Echoes of the Unseen
Presenting newly commissioned with BalletCollective’s 2025 developing choreographers.
Myth of Tomorrow
Erika Dohi’s studio album with producer William Brittelle, releasing October 24 on Switch Hit & Figure 8 Recording.
Open House at One Rivington
Celebrate with our art gallery collaborators Candice Madey and Marinaro on the Lower East Side.
Summer Solstice Celebration
Matthew Evan Taylor’s Afropneuma at sunrise and Erik Hall’s reimagining of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians.
June In Buffalo Festival
Presenting World Premiere works by University of Buffalo artists at Silo City, celebrating the festival’s 50th anniversary.
Roscoe Mitchell: Metropolis Trilogy
Weaving together modern jazz quartet and baroque instruments.
LIQUIDVERSE: Microcosm & Macrocosm
An immersive audiovisual symphonic experience from composer Ricardo Romaneiro and Cosm Studios, for the world’s first 87-foot diameter 12K LED domes.
Caroline Rose
April 2–5, 2024 at Brooklyn Steel and BOMBYX
A genre-bending orchestral collab with singer-songwriter Caroline Rose and arranger Lena K. Simon on tour in Williamsburg and Northampton.
Wye Oak: Shriek Variations
March 22, 2024 on Merge Records
Seminal indie rock duo Wye Oak, Paul Wiancko (strings), and Metropolis Ensemble are releasing a reimagined version of the band's 2014 record, Shriek, to celebrate its 10-year anniversary.
Tyondai Braxton: Telekinesis
November 11, 2022 on New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records
Tyondai Braxton’s Opus Klassik-nominated album, Telekinesis — the first studio recording of an eighty-seven-piece work for electric guitars, orchestra, choir and electronics.
Samora Pinderhughes: Grief
April 15, 2022 on Stretch Music and Ropeadope
Composer, pianist, vocalist, and multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes released his new album, GRIEF with Metropolis Ensemble / Argus Quartet.
Solos and Improvisations
March 27, 2022
Musicians from PinkNoise Ensemble explore music that pushes the sound world of each instrument, including two World Premiere performances from Mert Morali and Jen Baker.
Classical Composition, Folk Traditions, and Combining the Two
Han Chen speaks with composer Hsu Chiayu, whose work blends Chinese and western techniques and bond over their shared experience as Taiwanese immigrants.
Life Returns
March 24, 2022
An evening-length composition at The Met drawing on African American, South Indian, and European musical practices.
Claire Dickson's Starland
February 6th, 2022
Claire Dickson's album release celebration, with Grey Mcmurray and Lesley Mok
Starland is Claire Dickson's debut album as a solo artist and producer, created on a tall ship in the Arctic Circle and in her Brooklyn apartment. With guitarist Grey Mcmurray and drummer Lesley Mok, this music comes alive with added spontaneity and imagination.
Tree Lines
January 30th, 2022
Exceptet presents new experimental material, including the World Premiere of a new work by Rome Prize-winning composer Katherine Balch commissioned for Exceptet by the Barlow Endowment. Quartet121 opens up each set.
Transitioning Out from a Period of Grief and Healing
Han Chen speaks with composer, improviser, and pianist Jonah Haven about the process of writing a new solo piano work co-commissioned by Han Chen and Metropolis Ensemble.