Rivington

An incubator space for artist discovery and audience connection

1 Rivington St, New York, NY 10002

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Current Season Artists In Residence

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    Erika Dohi: Shinboku

    2025–26 | A Rivington concert series curated by composer and pianist Erika Dohi in collaboration with Metropolis Ensemble and Forgotten Futures, exploring the power of slowness in a culture of acceleration.

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  • A young man with black hair, wearing a dark jacket and pants, sitting on a stool against a black background, holding a wooden violin.

    Henry Wang: Metropolis Mixtape Sessions

    2025–26 | A Rivington concert series curated by Grammy-winning violinist Henry Wang in collaboration with Metropolis Ensemble. Complete details to come.

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Recent Projects

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    Erika Dohi: In Visible Roads

    2019 | A Rivington festival of musical cartography with the piano as guiding compass in collaboration with Blueprints Piano Series, featuring 20 pianists, 28 living composers, and 10 instrumental collaborators.

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  • A detailed aeronautical navigation chart showing routes, waypoints, and navigation aids for flights over the Atlantic Ocean, including contour lines, landmasses, and airports.

    Gabriel Cabezas: Waypoints

    2019–20 | A Rivington roving concert series in collaboration with cellist Gabriel Cabezas, tracking a personal exploration across an open time period of project development.

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  • Abstract artwork with swirling black, pink, and gray hues, featuring a white cube at the center surrounded by dynamic brushstrokes.

    Molly Joyce: Light

    2018 | A Rivington concert series from composer Molly Joyce highlighted the wide-ranging, innovative, and socially motivated work of artists today, focusing mainly on music made by women.

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    The Brothers Balliett: Interactive Shakespeare

    2017 | A Rivington performance-party series produced by The Brothers Balliett, celebrating community, music, free-flowing wine, and Shakespeare’s greatest works, where the audience plays a vital part.

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    David Kaplan: 5 Nights 11 Pianists

    2017 | A Rivington concert series in collaboration with pianist David Kaplan, celebrating the piano in all its forms with maverick pianists on the vanguard of New York’s new music scene.

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    Christopher Cerrone: Reiterations

    2018–19 | A Rivington concert series in collaboration with composer Christopher Cerrone, exploring how both sounds and working-relationships evolve over long periods of time.

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  • A woman with long brown hair, wearing a black blazer and black leather pants, is sitting on a black block while playing a large, ornate wooden harp against a textured blue-gray wall.

    Bridget Kibbey: Atlas

    2017 | A Rivington concert series in collaboration with harpist Bridget Kibbey, featuring music spanning the globe and centuries of musical tradition, from today’s Afro-Colombian folk grooves.

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Artist-in-Residence Series at Rivington

Metropolis Ensemble’s Artist-in-Residence series invites select composers and performers from our collective to shape multi-event arcs—talks, workshops, open rehearsals, and performances—so ideas move swiftly from sketch to stage in our intimate gallery-loft. Each residency comes with a supported framework that lets artists lead, experiment, and connect directly with audiences.

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A World of Imagination

To better serve our community, Metropolis founded Rivington—an event and incubator space on the Lower East Side—in collaboration with galleries Candice Madey and MARINARO. From 2017–2020, this light-filled room hosted 100+ concerts, readings, festivals, and artist-led series.

Steps from the New Museum, Rivington centers intimate music-making: immersive concerts, open rehearsals of new work, and interactive demonstrations that put listeners close to the creative process.

Rivington anchors our pipeline for rising artists. Within a low-barrier framework for audiences—pay-what-you-wish access—musicians and composers in a supported framework develop projects, build a body of work, and connect with listeners and the broader community between our larger productions.

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