10/9/20 10/9/20

Metropolis Launches Flame Keepers

What if a concert could go on forever? This fall, we're launching a new digital installation conceived by Jakub Ciupinski.

6/25/19 6/25/19

William Brittelle's Forbidden Colors

A WALK-ABOUT CONCERT AND LISTENING PARTY IN THE STYLE OF A ROVING ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC MUSIC MINI-FESTIVAL FEATURING PERFORMANCES AND HARD-WIRED INSTALLATIONS HAND-CRAFTED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE "PROFOUNDLY HIGH-FIDELITY" (NEW YORK TIMES) CUSTOM-BUILT SOUND SYSTEM AT PUBLIC RECORDS

June 25, 2019

6/15/18 6/15/18

LPR X Anniversary

METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE JOINS IN CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF VILLAGE VENUE (LE) POISSON ROUGE, IN A SET FEATURING JAKUB CIUPINSKI AND KRISTIN LEE

June 15, 2018

9/27/16 9/27/16

Celebrate: Metropolis Ensemble Turns Ten

Celebrate a decade of innovation in music with a roving party.

9/19/16 9/19/16

Brooklyn Magazine: At Home With "Brownstone"

“Give these young performers points for novelty. “

9/19/16 9/19/16

Brooklyn Magazine: At Home with “Brownstone”: the Metropolis Ensemble Celebrates Ten Years

What makes “Brownstone,” as an evening-long event and as an individual piece of music, different is “that individual audience members have near total control over how they experience and hear the work,”

9/15/16 9/15/16

The New Yorker: Goings On — Brownstone

“Give these young performers points for novelty. “

5/16/16 5/16/16

Brownstone

What would a house sound like if it could sing?
May 16, 2016

5/9/16 5/9/16

Washington Post: Music takes over every inch of the Phillips Collection

“The Phillips Collection had an artsy, New York vibe on Sunday when the Metropolis Ensemble took over the place, literally.”

5/8/16 5/8/16

Brownstone

Involving musicians and electronic elements placed through several floors, galleries, and former domestic spaces of The Phillips Collection.

May 8, 2016

12/10/15 12/10/15

Groove

A playlist by Jakub Ciupinski

11/3/15 11/3/15

An Uncommon Duo: Kristin and Jakub

Theremin and violin will take the stage together at the new music venue National Sawdust with Jakub Ciupinski and Kristin Lee.

6/15/15 6/15/15

Edible Manhattan: At This Pop-up, a Composer and a Chef Sync Performances

Jonah Reider is the culinary half of the duo behind “Brownstone,” a food- and music-based pop-up billed as “an experiential treasure-hunt of sound, taste and color.”

1/27/15 1/27/15

Wall Street Journal: Walk and Listen

In the Upper East Side townhouse that the American Irish Historical Society calls home, a violinist ambled down the stairs while tuning her instrument and a harpist improvised with electronic sounds that came from the walls.

1/23/15 1/23/15

Brownstone

American Irish Historical Society
January 23, 2015

10/3/14 10/3/14

Concord Monitor: Chamber group brings site-specific composition to Kimball House at Capitol Center for the Arts

This site-specific electro-acoustic composition living art installation by Jakub Ciupinski will not only be performed this weekend, but it will be performed by Metropolis Ensemble through the historic, Victorian-era Kimball House at the Capitol Center for the Arts.