Join us as we launch the 2025 Composers Now Festival with an electrifying evening hosted by Tania León, the visionary Founder and Artistic Director of Composers Now. This event kicks off a month-long celebration spotlighting the voices of living composers across the nation.
On Saturday, February 8th, 2025, at 7 PM, Composers Concordance presents Pizza Pizzicato at St. John's in the Village. The event will feature the virtuosic saxophonist Todd Rewoldt alongside the CompCord String Quartet, performing newly written compositions for this unique sonic combination.
To celebrate the Lunar New Year 2025, the New York Philharmonic will be led by the Chinese-born woman conductor Tianyi Lu, featuring the Korean violinist Inmo Yang, in a program featuring compositions, among others, the Chinese-American woman composer Chen Yi's violin concerto Chinese Folk Dance Suite, and the Korean woman composer Unsuk Chin's Prologue from A Mad Tea-Party, from her opera Alice in Wonderland.
New Chamber Ballet presents the world premiere of Vox, choreographed by Miro Magloire to music by Elizabeth Gartman, along with The Density of Bones, to music by Ya-Lan Chan.
Pianists Marc Peloquin and Roberto Hidalgo present a concert of works for solo piano and piano four-hands.
The program will include David Del Tredici’s “Ode to Music”, Philip Wharton’s “Water-Lore”, selections from Francis Poulenc’s “Nocturnes” as well as the complete Maurice Ravel ballet “Ma mère l’Oye” for piano four-hands, including Marc Peloquin’s arrangements of the five interludes.
Secret City is turning five! For the first time in over two years—and under its new, enchanting administration—we open the gates to a world where dreams whisper and magic dances.
The portal opens in Harlem, but its exact location will be revealed only when the time is right. Mark February 27, 28, and March 1 on your calendar and keep your heart attuned to the signs. Stay close, stay curious, and be ready to claim your key to the magic.