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.
Open House at One Rivington
Celebrate with our art gallery collaborators Candice Madey and Marinaro on the Lower East Side.
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.
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.
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.
Lavender in Yellow
December 14th, 2021
Erika Dohi and Lauren Cauley co-present two intimate sets of reflective, electro-acoustic experimentation. Featuring Dohi performing songs on keyboards and synths from her latest album I, Castorpollux, out now on 37d03d, and new works by Cauley for prepared violin and electronics.
Craft cocktails and other surprises await.
Bell Threads
December 13th, 2021
Join harpist/composer Hannah Lash and violin/viola duo andPlay (Maya Bennardo violin and Hannah Levinson, viola) for an evening of music to celebrate the release of composer Adam Roberts’ Bell Threads on New Focus Recordings. The concert will feature the world premiere of Rounds for solo harp, commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for Lash, as well as the New York premiere of Diptych.
NewAm’s Triple Al3um Holiday Release Show
December 12th, 2021
Gather at LPR to celebrate the release of 3 albums from New Amsterdam, including NOW Ensemble and Sean Friar’s Before and After, Phong Tran’s The Computer Room, and Charlotte Greve’s Sediments we move.
Fluxus Fest 2021
October 30th, 2021
Inspired by the 60s-70s Fluxus art movement, artists will perform historic Fluxus works and new Fluxus-inspired compositions. Read more at fifthwallperformingarts.com
David Leon: Bird's Eye
October 17th, 2021
Bird’s Eye is the latest project from saxophonist and composer David Leon with Doyeon Kim on gayageum and Lesley Mok on drumset & percussion. Inspired by the folkloric musics of Cuba and Korea, the compositions weave rigorous ensemble writing and guided improvisation to investigate collectivity. As a recipient of New Music USA’s 2021 Creator Development Fund, Bird’s Eye will workshop new compositions during a series of residencies to be completed by year’s end.
Cambodian Living Arts Festival
December 12-20, 2020 / Online Event
Global program with artists, performing arts professionals and audiences from 6 countries
If Not, Winter
JENNY BECK’S SETTING WRAPS SAPPHO’S AND CARSON’S WORDS IN A DREAMY, IMMERSIVE SOUNDSCAPE SO THAT WE MIGHT HEAR SAPPHO’S POETRY OUT LOUD ONCE MORE, PERHAPS NOT AS SHE WOULD HAVE HAD IT, BUT HOW IT SINGS TO US NOW: DISTANT, PRESENT, LOST, REACHABLE, AND EXQUISITELY ALLURING.
February 20, 2020
Oracle Hysterical + Hub New Music
COMPOSER-COLLECTIVE ORACLE HYSTERICAL, WITH COLLABORATORS HUB NEW MUSIC, ARE CREATING AN EVENING-LENGTH COLLECTION OF SONGS INSPIRED BY THE EXPEDITIONS OF A WIDE-RANGING GROUP OF AMBITIOUS, GRITTY – AND OFTEN NAIVE, CRUEL, AND MYOPIC EXPLORERS.
January 17, 2020
A Very ChamberQUEER HoliGay
CHAMBERQUEER'S GETTING COZY FOR THE HOLIDAYS WITH SOME OF OUR MOST BELOVED CHAMBER MUSIC, FROM STRING SEXTETS TO MOZART OPERA, ALL PERFORMED IN THIS FREE CONCERT BY SOME OF NYC'S BEST QUEER MUSICIANS.
December 29, 2019
NewAm x Metropolis Ensemble Holiday Party
JOIN NEWAM AND METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE FOR OUR HOLIDAY PARTY!
December 12, 2019
JACK Studio Readings
IN TANDEM WITH JACK’S PROGRAM TO COMMISSION ARTISTS WHO OTHERWISE MAY NOT HAVE ACCESS TO PROFESSIONAL ENSEMBLES, THE QUARTET IS PARTNERING WITH METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE TO HOST A READING SESSION FOR SIMILAR ARTISTS WITH EXISTING WORKS FOR QUARTET.
December 9, 2019
Oak and the Ghost
ALBUM RELEASE FOR NATHAN SCHRAM'S OAK AND THE GHOST ON NEW AMSTERDAM RECORDS. FEATURING THE ATTACCA QUARTET, SCHRAM’S MUSIC MESHES THE ACOUSTIC WORLD OF CLASSICAL STRING QUARTET WITH THE BUMPS, BRUISES, AND RICHNESS OF MODERN ELECTRONICA.
November 23, 2019