Our new virtual project, House Music, features bite-sized performances of both new works from musicians sheltering in place around the world.

METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE DEBUTS AT NATIONAL SAWDUST IN A SPECIAL SCREENING OF THE ICONIC SILENT FILM METROPOLIS SET TO ORIGINAL MUSIC BY RICARDO ROMANEIRO

March 10, 2020

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

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

This is the kind of big, bold, sometimes even crazy symphonic work of which we could use a lot more, with orchestral brass and strings competing with fat synthesizers, rock drums, choral singing, and more.

GRAMMY-NOMINATED METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE GATHERS A SUPER-GROUP OF INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED SOLOISTS AND COMPOSER/PERFORMERS FROM BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, COLOMBIA, SPAIN, AND THE UNITED STATES TO SHOWCASE FOLK-INSPIRED NUEVO LATINO MUSIC AS IT INTERMIXES WITH NEW YORK’S CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL SCENE.

January 7, 2020

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

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

Bach+Yardbird Festival features music by saxophonist/composer Immanuel Wilkins, flautist Emi Ferguson, baroque ensemble Ruckus, and jazz ensemble Bird Blown out of Latitude.

Public Records in collaboration with resident composer Christine Renee present a new venue in Gowanus Brooklyn exploring sound art.

Keys to Code is a keyboard festival inspired by technology, from inventions in early times to today’s hardware evolving to music that is live coded.

On paper, the project could appear bombastic, what with the army of resources utilized, yet he somehow makes full use of said resources without the result becoming overblown.

With this collaboration between Nonesuch Records and New Amsterdam, walls of genre are broken down as sounds morph and blend throughout Spiritual America.

Brittelle’s inimitable blend of chamber pop forms a shape-shifting sonic collage: ripped edges, buzzing synthesizers, melodies that echo, morph, and transform in an instant—like a rush of memories overwhelming the senses.

GUATEMALAN-BORN SINGER-SONGWRITER GABY MORENO IS JOINED BY THE WOMEN OF LATIN ALTERNATIVE QUARTET LADAMA AND THE GRAMMY-NOMINATED CHAMBER ORCHESTRA METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE (ELINOR RUFEIZEN, GUEST CONDUCTOR) TO PERFORM MUSIC FROM ¡SPANGLED!—HER COLLABORATIVE NONESUCH ALBUM WITH AMERICAN MUSICIAN, SONGWRITER, ARRANGER AND PRODUCER VAN DYKE PARKS.

December 2, 2019

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

METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE IS THRILLED TO JOIN THE COLLECTIVE 37D03D (UPSIDE-DOWN “PEOPLE”) TO GATHER FOR A WEEK TO COMPOSE, COLLABORATE AND PRESENT MUSIC, VISUAL ART, AND LITERATURE IN A VARIETY OF SPACES AND SETTINGS.

November 22-23, 2019

UNHEARD-OF//ENSEMBLE PERFORMS AN ECLECTIC PROGRAM OF TRIO WORKS FOR CLARINET, VIOLIN, AND CELLO

October 29, 2019

CENTERED AROUND TWO SONGS THAT CELEBRATE NEW YORK CITY, REFLECTING VIOLINIST/COMPOSER JESSIE MONTGOMERY’S LOWER EAST SIDE UPBRINGING AND ECLECTIC INFLUENCES. SELECTIONS FROM HER BAND BIG DOG LITTLE DOG AND BY VIOLIST/COMPOSER JESSICA MEYER TIE TOGETHER A CELEBRATION OF PLACE, FRIENDSHIP, AND PROCESS.

October 24, 2019