Events

2025 Composers Now Festival
New York City

02/22/2025

KeyedUp Music Project: Fantasy Worlds

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.

Tenri Cultural Center
43A West 13Th St, New York, NY 10011
2025 Composers Now Festival
New York City

02/22/2025

Ramin Arjomand Solo

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.

The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018 - 8 pm
2025 Composers Now Festival
Chicago

02/22/2025

University of Illinois Springfield - Running To Home

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.

UIS Studio Theatre
One University Plaza, MS PAC 397 Springfield, IL 62703 - 7 pm
2025 Composers Now Festival
New York City

02/23/2025

Composers Concordance: PRISM

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

Steel Wig Music
939 8th Ave (56th St) Suite 502, NYC - 7 pm
2025 Composers Now Festival
New York City

02/23/2025

Da Capo Chamber Players: Elements

Elements​: Composers thinking about nature​​

Greenwich House
46 Barrow St, NYC - 8 pm
2025 Composers Now Festival
Los Angeles

02/23/2025

LACMA: Sonic Borders

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.

LACMA
5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
2025 Composers Now Festival
Chicago

02/23/2025

Frequency Festival: Ensemble Dal Niente

Dal Niente closes this year’s Frequency Festival with a program centered around two world premieres by two of the ensemble’s favorite composers: Aida Shirazi and Hilda Paredes. Paredes and Shirazi have each written a large-scale new work for voice and ensemble featuring soprano Carrie Henneman Shaw.

Constellation
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL, 60618 - 8:30 pm
2025 Composers Now Festival
New York City

02/24/2025

Grace Music Festival

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!

The Cutting Room
44 East 32nd Street New York City - 5:30 pm
2025 Composers Now Festival

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

7 pm

IMPACT

IMPACT - Carla Lucero

Composers Now YouTube Channel
2025 Composers Now Festival
New York City

02/26/2025

Composers Interviewing Composers

L'Embarqement pour Cythère

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

Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012 - 8 pm
2025 Composers Now Festival
New York City

02/26/2025

TJG: Hayoung Lyou Quartet

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

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway, New York, NY 10001 - 7:30 pm & 9:30 pm
2025 Composers Now Festival
New York City

02/26/2025

Brooklyn College Conservatory: Winter Composers Concert

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.

Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts, Don Buchwald Theater
2920 Campus Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11210- 7 pm
2025 Composers Now Festival
New York City

02/27/2025

TJG: Hamish Smith

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

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway, New York, NY 10001 - 7:30 pm & 9:30 pm
2025 Composers Now Festival
New York City

02/27/2025

Curtis Stewart

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.

Merkin Hall - Kaufman Music Center
Abraham Goodman House 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023 - 1 pm
2025 Composers Now Festival
New York City

02/27/2025

C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective Open Rehearsal

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!

Ballroom, Houghton Hall
22 E 30th St, New York, NY 10016 - 7 pm
2025 Composers Now Festival
New York City

02/27 - 02/28/2025

Paracademia: Secret City - Live

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.

Secret Location in Harlem
2025 Composers Now Festival
New York City

02/28/2025

TJG: Mary Halvorson: Canis Major

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).

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway, New York, NY 10001 - 7:30 pm & 9:30 pm
2025 Composers Now Festival
New York City

02/28/2025

Mosaic Composers Collective: INSIDE // OUTSIDE

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.

Balance Arts Center - Karl Kemp Performance Space
151 West 30th Street - 3rd floor - 7:00 pm
2025 Composers Now Festival
New York City

02/26 - 02/28/2025

Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble

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.

Irish Arts Center
The JL Greene Theatre Irish Arts Center 726 11th Avenue Hell's Kitchen, NYC - 7:30 pm
2025 Composers Now Festival
New York City

02/28/2025

BSM: Percussion & Electronics

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

Bloomingdale School of Music
323 West 108th Street New York, NY 10025 - 7:00 pm