NYC Winter Jazzfest

The NYC Winter Jazzfest will return to form in 2022, with 10 nights of programming in Manhattan and Brooklyn beginning on Thursday, January 13, 2022 to Saturday, Jenuary 22, 2022. There will be over 100 groups, 500 musicians including Jen Shyu (a ChoralQuest composer), and across 12 venues. NYC Winter Jazzfest will partner with BBC […]

Tai Murray and Friends: Piano Quintets

Violinist, Tai Murray (“superb,” N Y Times), joins violist, Melissa Reardon (“virtuosic,” Classical Voice); cellist, Raman Ramakrishnanan (“admired,” New Yorker); bassist, Doug Balliett; and Artistic Director Aaron Wunsch for a […]

Kaufman Music Center – Ecstatic Music: Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund Concert

World Premieres by Tomeka Reid, Ken Thomson and Fred Frith New Arrangements of Works by Nick Dunston, Aeryn Santillan, Jeffrey Brooks, Trevor Weston and Soo Yeon Lyuh Bang on a Can’s annual People’s Commissioning Fund Concert returns with a high-octane concert of world premieres and an expanded nine-piece Bang on a Can All-Stars lineup! Jen […]

Dreams of Freedom – Family Concert

An introduction to the dream and message of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—created especially for young listeners. With music by more than a century of Black composers including Florence Price, William Grant Still, Undine […]

Concert 2: Songs of Struggle, Compassion, and Redemption

Troubled by the onslaught of killings of unarmed Black men, Emmy Award-winning composer Joel Thompson wrote his Seven Last Words of the Unarmed in 2015, after finding Brooklyn-based journalist and artist Shirin Barghi’s #lastwords project […]

Event Series From Silenced to Singing

From Silenced to Singing

The program includes the rescheduled and highly anticipated world premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s (a McKnight fellow) work celebrating women’s voices and written in commemoration of the centenary of women’s suffrage. Featuring illuminated portraits […]

Event Series From Silenced to Singing

From Silenced to Singing

The program includes the rescheduled and highly anticipated world premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s (a McKnight fellow) work celebrating women’s voices and written in commemoration of the centenary of women’s suffrage. Featuring illuminated portraits […]

Sphinx Symphony Orchestra with EXIGENCE

Conducted by Tito Muñoz and Eugene Rogers (ACF's ChoralQuest series editor), the concert will feature 2015 Sphinx Medal of Excellence recipient soprano Janai Brugger in a program including works by […]

Event Series From Silenced to Singing

From Silenced to Singing

The program includes the rescheduled and highly anticipated world premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s (a McKnight fellow) work celebrating women’s voices and written in commemoration of the centenary of women’s suffrage. Featuring illuminated portraits […]