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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 […]
New York Choral Society 2021-22 Season: Love In Action
The chorus will make its return to live performance with “Love in Action.” The concert of choral music will bring together works of eight contemporary American composers including Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer), Rosephanye Powell (a ChoralQuest composer), Abbie Betinis (a ChoralQuest composer), Morten Lauridsen, and others to explore universal themes of reflection, […]
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 on the same subject. The piece that resulted has resounded strongly in the choral world, and Musica Viva NY and the Aeolus Quartet are honored […]
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Tai Murray and Friends: Piano Quintets
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 program of quintets, traditional and contemporary. Schubert’s beloved “Trout” Quintet accompanies Xhosa composer Bongani Ndodana-Breen’s Intlanzi Yase Mzantsi (The Fish From South Africa, based on […]
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Kaufman Music Center – Music Speaks: Crossing Borders – Jamal Aliyev, cello & Dominic Cheli, piano
Kaufman Music Center – Music Speaks: Crossing Borders – Jamal Aliyev, cello & Dominic Cheli, piano
ERNEST BLOCH – From Jewish Life (1925) FAZIL SAY – 4 Cities Cello Sonata (2012) ERNEST BLOCH – Nigun (Improvisation from Baal Shem) (1923) L.D. MALASHKIN – Romance ‘I met you’ ERNEST BLOCH – Méditation hébraïque (1924) FAZIL SAY – Song Yiğidim Aslanım (My Brave, My Lion) The ideas of east meeting west, Islamic to […]
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Kaufman Music Center – Ecstatic Music: Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund Concert
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 […]
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Dreams of Freedom – Family Concert
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 Smith Moore, Coleridge Taylor Perkinson, and Adolphus Hailstork (a BandQuest composer). Music of freedom, of triumph, of inspiration. This concert features the recent winner of the […]