Caroline Davis’ Portals is an immersive sound and haptic experience, drawing upon the idea of mourning and ancestral communications as textural entities.

New York City based guitarist Giacomo Baldelli, notes as "one of the most complete Italian guitarist of his generation" (GDR), performs works for electric guitar - both solo and with electronics. The program features Until It Blazes by Eve Beglarian, Garcia Counterpoint by Bryce Dessner, We Grow Accustomed to the Dark by Francis White, By This River by Brian Eno and Darker then Light by Giorgio Colombo Taccani - world premiere that will be dedicated to the memory of David Lynch.

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Composers Concordance presents a Double Feature with the electro acoustic duo Tasman & Noizepunk and the eclectic ensemble Sound Liberation.

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An evening of chamber music featuring bassoon and contrabassoon music by Williams, Wolfgang, Hindman, Taaffe Zwillich, and Cuong with guest performers.

Coffee Concert No. 2: Adam W. Sadberry, Flute, with Joe Williams, Piano

The Coffee Concert series features a wide array of chamber music, general admission seating, and complimentary coffee and treats.

The 26-year-old flutist interweaves his virtuosic practice with a deeply personal history. Music of William Grant Still, Clara Schumann, JS Bach, Cecile Chaminade, Allison Loggins-Hull, Tom Jabim, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and Valerie Coleman.

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The music of FIU Alumni Composers takes center stage performed by the members of the NODUS Ensemble.

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Saxophonist and composer Jerome Sabbagh was born in Paris in 1973 and has been living in Brooklyn since 1995. A prolific forward-thinking composer, as well as a musician with a deep connection to the well of the jazz tradition, he has recorded eleven albums as a leader, and was one of Paul Motian's last saxophone players.

Burton’s music fuses classical finesse, avant-garde exploration, and jazz’s deep-rooted groove into a dynamic sonic experience.

In an exciting panorama of composition, improvisation and extraordinary performance, Shoko Nagai (electronics, Moog), Satoshi Takeishi (drums) and Robert Dick (flute) present a new ensemble -- Daruma Plus!

Join us for a night of Brazilian music arranged for guitar and vibraphone, exploring genres including samba, classical, bossa nova, and pagode.

Double Duo, Gentile-Romano and Sonic Tonic

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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.

Join us to celebrate NYC nostalgia and music composer Concetta Abbate's 10 year anniversary of her debut album FALLING IN TIME (Waterbug Records © 2015).

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Welcome to Seasons Rituals, featuring soloists from Bridge to Everywhere, plus a new composition by Kian Ravaei performed by Rachel Iba (violin) and Kate Myers (dancer) with choreography by Annie Kahane.

Minneapolis-based composer and 2019 McKnight Composers Fellow JG Everest presents a special luminary edition of his Winter Sound Garden at Wild River State Park, where he is MNPAiR Artist-in Residence for 2025.

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PRIYA (she/her) is an NYC-based performer & producer. She is known for her versatility of vocal style, language & genre. As an artist & academic, her work explores queer love, identity, belonging & healing. She combines performance and theory to entice us to enjoy the pleasures of life while healing from the prickly pains. Experience the world premiere of her debut unreleased album at NYC's The Cutting Room on February 8th, 2025.

The Westerlies, “an arty quartet…mixing ideas from jazz, new classical, and Appalachian folk” (The New York Times) are a New York-based brass quartet comprised of Riley Mulherkar and Chloe Rowlands on trumpet, and Andy Clausen and Addison Maye-Saxon on trombone.

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The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), one of New York’s leading cultural venues, presents the Owls with special guest Claire Chase, flute on Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 7:30pm ET on the Buttenwieser Hall stage at The Arnhold Center and streaming online.

Eight-time Grammy winner Billy Childs has “sidestepped categorization as an intrepid hard bopper” (The New Yorker), collaborating with jazz luminaries like J.J. Johnson, Joe Henderson, Wynton Marsalis, and Dave Holland, as well as eminent classical and contemporary artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Sting, and the Kronos Quartet. Admired for his versatility, technical mastery, and deep emotional expression, the renowned pianist and composer makes his Miller debut with his all-star quartet.

Members of The Harlem Chamber Players -- violinists Ashley Horne and Claire Chan, violist William Frampton, and cellist Wayne Smith -- will perform a concert of works by past and living Black composers as well as a European classic.

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.

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On February 11th, in honor of Black History Month, the New York Musicians Collective invites you to The Cutting Room for a spectacular evening celebrating the iconic guitarist and songwriter, Ernie Isley of the Isley Brothers. Known for his groundbreaking contributions to music, Ernie's innovative guitar work and soulful songwriting have left an indelible mark on the world of rhythm and blues.

Learn for life. Our group truly believes in this idea that we're all lifelong students of the music and have an extreme desire for growth. Come hear the new year's version of how we've been evolving and growing with our sound.

Originally started in the rehearsal space that would later become The Jazz Gallery, the Roy Hargrove Big Band had its inaugural performance at the Greenwich Village Jazz Festival in 1995. Since then, the band has toured domestically and internationally and has played everywhere from the Blue Note Tokyo to the Hollywood Bowl.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture presents The Harlem Chamber Players’ 17th Annual Black History Month Celebration. The featured guest artist are cellist-composer Akua Dixon and soprano Candice Hoyes. This concert will include the New York premiere of the jazz cellist-composer Akua Dixon's We The People, the last movement of which will be a world premiere, thanks to a generous grant from the Cheswatyr Foundation.

In the fresh snow, every footstep is marked with magic. A young boy wakes to find that the first snow of winter has fallen overnight– an exciting day of adventure awaits. Peter delights in making footprints in the snow and meeting new friends, before returning home to the cozy embrace of Mama and Daddy. Based on the Caldecott Medal-winning book by Ezra Jack Keats, Joel Thompson and Andrea Davis Pinkney’s The Snowy Day brings centerstage the fleeting but indelible magic of childhood.

Sachal Vasandani is recognized for his singular voice, with a tone and unique phrasing that mark him as one of the most compelling artists on the scene today.

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.

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Composers Concordance presents Octogenarians at Gallery MC in Hells Kitchen.

Arta Jēkabsone will share her original music alonside Latvian Folk Music selections. The evening will be filled with positivity, smiles and laughter. Arta is bringing a wonderful quartet that consists of NYC-scene emerging artists and friends.

Chelsea Randall, founder of the American Mavericks Project (AMP) dedicated to piano music by Black American composers, presents a guest lecture-recital for Newark School of the Arts featuring piano works by some of today’s most exciting contemporary Black composers including Nkeiru Okoye, Krystal Folkestad, Joyce Solomon Moorman, AMP’s 2024 Call for Scores winners Lawren Brianna Ware and Jeremiah Evans, Wildflower Composers alums Mena Williams and Chloe Clarke Smith and others.

This evening is dedicated to the revolutionary art of the meeting of minds and blending of souls that was crucial to the music of Fred Ho. The players may interpret, respond, or (re)act as they see fit to the music, writing, or spirit that he made during his 3 decades-plus as a radical creative force. It’s a laboratory for playing, testing out things, and making things swing!

New Performance Traditions is proud to present a gripping new production of Both Eyes Open, an experimental electroacoustic opera by Brooklyn-based composer Max Giteck Duykers and Berkeley- based librettist and playwright Philip Kan Gotanda.

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NYU Steinhardt’s annual Tutte le Corde festival celebrates the music of our times. Performers in the Piano Studies program premiere pieces written specifically for the occasion by students in Concert Composition. This year’s edition features works by Claudia Beroukhim, Kyle Berry, AJ Francisco, Jesús Flores, Adam Harrington, Rain Michael, Cody Nakagawa, Diego Paredes-Vincent, and William Rhodes. Performers include Miles Avery, Sergio Cordero, Julia Hananel, Helen Jiang, Kangyeon Kim, Phil Lee, YingQi Wang, Andrew Wilson, and Wenyi Xiong.

GatherNYC presents vocalist and composer Sarah Elizabeth Charles, hailed as “soulfully articulate” by The New York Times, and acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Jarrett Cherner with music from their debut album as a duo.

Beyond Duo - Robert Dick & Cheryl Pyle,  Explorations and Improvisations for two flutes.

Religious and musical rites across the ages inspire two contemporary works based on ancient texts and more modern rituals. For her Requiem, composed in 2019, Courtney Bryan draws upon burial traditions of different cultures, from the Anglican Church to the Tibetan Book of the Dead, New Orleans jazz funerals to neoshamanistic rituals.

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The Misty Shore Duo – Taiwanese composer and pianist Chen-Hui Jen, alongside Miami-based composer and computer musician Jacob David Sudol – present a concert of new music for acoustic piano and electronics.  Featuring Wen-Chung Chou's classic work The Willows are New, based on a traditional Chinese guqin work; Chen-Hui Jen's innovative work exploring novel inside piano techniques; Jacob Sudol's "Be melting snow…" for piano, keyboard, and live electronics; and Alvin Lucier's classic Still Lives for piano and sine waves.

Tyler Bullock II intends to transmit positive energy through the music that he and his band members produce. Similar to the way that Tyler’s favorite musicians such John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock have uplifted and inspired him with their work, Tyler strives to use his own original voice as a composer and pianist to raise people’s spirits.

Composers Concordance presents 'The Painters at Westbeth.

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A Brazilian-inspired festa, to bring Miami Beach into Carnival season. Gilmar Gomes, the Brazilian percussionist and multi-instrumentalist best known for his decades-long work with Enrique Iglesias, will be joined by special guests for an evening of electic jazz-world music vibes.

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The North/South Chamber Orchestra performs three concertos for strings by Max Lifchitz, the ensemble’s founder and director.

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Prospect's annual Musical Theater Lab returns to the stage with a line-up of hot-off-the-presses, original short musicals created by a cadre of up and coming artists!

deVon Russell Gray will offer two contrasting sets of music utilizing free improvisation, semi modular synthesis, piano, and vocalizations. These sets are a continuation of sonic explorations that will offer a guiding framework for new compositions for the trio of Gray, Hanson, and Seru (WE SICK, Innova 2023) featuring Melvin Gibbs and Sandbox Percussion.

Join Miami Light Project and Live Arts Miami for a multifaceted storytelling project exploring how guns shape our lives.Step into the world of Arms Around America by Dan Froot & Company, a powerful and thought-provoking performance that opens a window into the lives of American families navigating their complex relationships with guns. Through a constellation of diverse stories, the show delves into how fear, love, power, identity, and entitlement intersect with gun culture, all set against the backdrop of socio-economic upheaval and cultural tensions.

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.

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Iranian-American pianist-composer Ramin Arjomand's work is born of a complex interplay of cross-cultural creative impulses. His long-form improvisations reach extremes of sound intensity, pushing the limits of spontaneous thinking while seeking simultaneously, and equally intensely, a compositional unity characteristic of fully-notated music.

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Pianist Kathleen Supové explores the subjects of Migration and  the search for identity. Works by Randall Woolf, Tom Flaherty, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Rahilia Hasanova, and Supové herself.

Composers Concordance presents 'Prism,' a concert event inspired by Tango music and more.

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Elements​: Composers thinking about nature​​

This 260-minute (4 hour 20 minute) sound installation/composition was inspired by the Tonalpohualli, a pre-Columbian astrological calendar based on the cycles of Venus. The piece aimed to give museum visitors an experience of the unique sounds and sonic capabilities of eight different border sonic devices.

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Join Grace Church School's music department for an exciting night of music at the Cutting Room! This concert will feature the Middle School Jazz and Pop Band, the High School Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combo and GraceNotes. The groups will be joined by world renown trombonist, Wycliffe Gordon!

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Douglas Dunn + Dancers will present the world premiere of L'Embarqement pour Cythère, an evening-length work for 12 dancers.

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Pianist and composer Hayoung Lyou makes her leader debut at The Jazz Gallery, presenting music from her recent release "The Myth of Katabasis."

This special concert will feature Conservatory of Music composers presenting their new acoustic and electroacoustic works. Douglas Cohen, Faculty Coordinator and Bruno Voigt, Program Coordinator.

New Zealand-born jazz artist, Hamish Smith, has quickly become one of the most in-demand bassists on the New York jazz scene.

See the result of groundbreaking artists mentoring a new generation of outstanding young performers. The violinist-composer, Kaufman Artist-in-Residence and six-time Grammy nominee performs with outstanding young musicians from Kaufman Music Center.

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C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective invites you to experience music from our upcoming concert at our Free Open Rehearsal! C4 is excited to announce 'Awestruck: Songs of Science & Spirituality', our upcoming concert with Brooklyn Youth Chorus on March 14th and 15th. Get a behind-the-scenes look at how we bring compositions to life, meet the composers and conductors shaping the future of choral music, and witness the creative process in action. Whether you're a singer, composer, or just a lover of choral music, this is your chance to discover C4. Join us for an evening of groundbreaking music with C4!

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.

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Guitarist, composer and MacArthur fellow Mary Halvorson has been described as “a singular talent” (Lloyd Sachs, JazzTimes), ”NYC’s least-predictable improviser” (Howard Mandel, City Arts), “one of the most original jazz guitarists of our time” (Peter Margasak, Bandcamp Daily), and “one of today’s most formidable bandleaders” (Francis Davis, Village Voice).

Join Mosaic Composers Collective and SydeBoob Duo in an exploration of how our interior galaxies interact with the systems and societies that we must move our bodies through.

At INSIDE // OUTSIDE, you'll have the chance to hear eight world premieres performed by Anna Elder and Sarah Steranka of SydeBoob – followed by a brief Composer Q&A – and engage in casual conversation and community-building at a reception immediately following the concert.

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Join us for a groundbreaking musical experience as Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra take the stage for a three-night residency at the Irish Arts Center’s JL Greene Theatre.

A concert program of new and recent works for solo percussion, interwoven with a variety of live electronic elements. Featuring Josh Perry, percussion.​