Holiday Harmonies
December 18th, 2021
Celebrate the holidays with Brooklyn Youth Chorus at the beautiful Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph, with a stirring and dynamic concert of contemporary music and holiday classics, featuring students from our Teen division and acclaimed performing ensembles, with special appearances by members of the Grammy-nominated orchestra collective Metropolis Ensemble.
Join Brooklyn Youth Chorus to start the holidays and leave full of the spirit of the season.
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.
Biophony Festival 2021
September 18th, 2021
This event, presented for the first time as part of Make Music Autumn, is the grand finale of Metropolis Ensemble’s summer-long project where the orchestra-collective's musicians and composers created their own new music pop-up events across NYC.
Each performance and listener-experience of Biophony at Brooklyn Botanic Garden will be unique, as determined by the unlimited flexibility of instrumentations, the topography of the site, and the freedom given to participants to choose their own musical adventure.
Biophony Pop-Up NYC 2021
July 21—September 17, 2021
Introducing a city-wide ritual bringing new music to new places.
Samora Pinderhughes' Grief
Grief is a new project of revolutionary songs by pianist-vocalist-composer Samora Pinderhughes. It speaks truth to power, calling out the sufferings caused by racial capitalism, policing and prison systems, and oppressive ideologies. These are freedom songs, abolitionist songs, and songs that unpack what so many have experienced this past year, while also suggesting pathways for collective response and resistance.
The Meta Simulacrum
Using the symbology of our shared past to look forward into an uncertain future of climate change, machine sentience, and the ever-expanding cyber universe, this extraordinary collective debuts the first material generated through the Meta Simulacrum, an interdisciplinary, alternate-reality digital platform designed by composer/producer William Brittelle.
Matthew Evan Taylor: Postcards to the Met
March 2021—March 2022
The Metropolitan Museum of Art / MetLiveArts and Metropolis Ensemble present a monthly video series featuring composer and performer Matthew Evan Taylor.