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Timo Andres: The Blind Banister
Released March 22, 2024 on Nonesuch Records with Timo Andres, Silas Brown, and Andrew Cyr.
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.
Infinite Staircase
Pianist Han Chen performs 18 newly commissioned works celebrating the etudes of György Ligeti.
Biophony Pop-Up NYC 2023
New music in new places that celebrate our city’s diverse neighborhoods.
Biophony: Face the Music 2023
Choose your own sonic adventure with Metropolis and Kaufman Music Center’s teen new music program.
Eternal September: Open House + Beta Launch Party
Explore an alternate reality internet of mythological nostalgia.
Life Returns: Digital Premiere
Join us for the digital premiere of Life Returns, our March 2022 concert at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Biophony: SoundGarden
An audiovisual tapestry and lighting installation at Brooklyn Botanic Garden running in sync with plant-generated binaural soundscapes and live musicians.
Holiday Harmonies
Celebrate the holidays with Brooklyn Youth Chorus at the Cathedral of St. Joseph with special appearances by Metropolis.
Kanter/I Creation Prize Concert
The Mivos Quartet performs new and recent works by Brown, Haven, and Mumford.
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.
A Memorial Tribute: Ingram Marshall
A Memorial Tribute to late American composer Ingram Marshall featuring Metropolis artists at The Greene Space and live on WNYC.
For the Birds
Larger-than-life bird stilt walkers and bird puppets dance to processional music in Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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.
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.
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.

