April 9th, 2018
Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival, Gramercy Opera, and Quog Music Theater, Inc., honor the late composer Eric Salzman with the world premiere staged production of his last major work and his only true opera, Big Jim & the Small-time Investors. Watch their performance by clicking the video below.
April 16th, 2018
The acclaimed string quintet Sybarite5 is joined by master shakuhachi player and composer James Nyoraku Schlefer. The program features the world premieres of The Voice of Water for String Quintet by Victoria Bond, and a sextet by Schlefer, both written especially for Sybarite5. Also on the program, Pulitzer Prize winning composer Paul Moravec’s virtuosic and chromatic Shakuhachi Quintet. This concert is presented in collaboration with Kyo-Shin-An Arts. Watch their performance by clicking the video below.
Bridges 1. Trestle Bridge
Bridges 2. Stone Bridge
Bridges 3. Golden Gate
Bridges 4. Brooklyn Bridge
April 23rd, 2018
Boston-based Hub New Music performs the New York premiere of Robert Honstein’s Soul House, Laura Kaminsky’s The Full Range of Blue and the premiere of a new arrangement of Victoria Bond’s Bridges. Watch their performance by clicking the video below.
April 30th, 2018
Cygnus Ensemble performs a program of premieres with its all-star ensemble. The world premiere by David Del Tredici features his son, the trombonist Felix Del Tredici. The acclaimed soprano Tony Arnold performs “My Mother in Love” by Anna Weesner, the winner of the 2018 Virgil Thomson Award in Vocal Music. Vox n Plux – soprano Elizabeth Farnum, with guitarists William Anderson and Oren Fader – performs the premiere of Richard Festinger’s “Joyce Settings”; and the Cygnus Ensemble premieres Morris Rosenzweig’s “Drang Nicht”. Watch their performance by clicking the video below.