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2024 Composers Now Festival

February 28, 2024

8pm

Bakithi Kumalo

Presented by Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning.

Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning
161-4 Jamaica Ave, Queens, NY 11432
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 28, 2024

7:30pm

Idris Frederick

This show is a journey through time and space as we perform for you a collection of music composed by Idris Frederick. Idris’s music has been described as ethereal, heavy hitting, extremely funky, and infectious. We hope to bring you a performance that not only will keep you on the edge of your seat but will also leave you with a deeper understanding of yourself and the world around you through the power of music.

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor), New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 26, 2024

7:30pm

Tomas Fujiwara's 7 Poets Trio & The Tomeka Reid Quartet

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 25, 2024

7:30pm

The Trio - Threadgill/Iyer/Prieto

Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, and Dafnis Prieto form a groundbreaking musical trio that defies genre boundaries and electrifies audiences worldwide.

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor), New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 25, 2024

8pm

Joan Tower at 85!

Da Capo Chamber Players honor on of their founding members, eminent composer, and Da Capo’s pianist for their first 15 years!

Tenri Cultural Institute
3A W 13th St, New York, NY 10011
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 25, 2024

7:30pm

Sound Liberation Trio

Presented by Composers Concordance.

Nublu
151 Ave C, New York, NY 10009
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 25, 2024

7:30pm

Alkemie And Guest Artist Amanda Gookin: A Worthy Mirror

“A Worthy Mirror” project represents a time-traveling dialogue with the 12th-century trobairitz—the feminine counterpart of the poet-composers known as troubadours.Together with guest artist Amanda Gookin of Forward Music Project, we are commissioning eleven female and non-binary composers to respond to and converse with the 36 extant trobairitz texts (of which we only have music for one).

National Sawdust
80 North 6th St, Brooklyn, NY 11249
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 24, 2024

4pm

Black History Month Concert

Presented by The Harlem Chamber Players.

Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library
10 Grand Army Plz, Brooklyn, NY, 11238
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 24, 2024

7pm

Celebrating Aaron Jay Kernis

Presented by Keyed Up Music Project.
Melissa Fogarty, soprano
Marc Peloquin, piano

National Opera Center
330 Seventh Ave (7th FL), New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 24, 2024

7pm

Tango Prism

Presented by Composers Concordance.

Steel Wig Music
939 8th Ave (Suite 502) New York, NY 10019
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 23 & 24, 2024

7:30pm

David Virelles

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 24, 2024

Composers Interviewing Composers

Dan Blake and Robert Dick

2B&2C
9th Ave B, New York, NY 10009
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 23, 2024

8pm

Shan Sui/Mountain Water

Presented by North/South Consonance.

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018

February 22, 2024

7pm

C4 Open Rehearsal

C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective

St Luke's Lutheran Church
308 West 46th Street New York, NY 10036
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 22, 2024

7:30pm

Recabarren / Menares / Vazquez 'Familia' album release

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 22, 2024

7:30pm

Low Key' #32 Chamber Concert Series

The Sky Vault
20 Pine St, New York, NY 10005
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 21, 2024

7 pm

Winter Composers Concert

Conservatory of Music composers present their new acoustic and electroacoustic works.

Don Buchwald Theater, Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts
2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11210
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 21, 2024

7:30pm

Ingrid Laubrock’s Lilith

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 18, 2024

8pm

Tutte le Corde

Presented by NYU Steinhardt.

NYU Black Box Theater
82 Washington Square E, New York, NY 10003
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 18, 2024

11am

Duo Kayo

Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10019
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 16 & 17

Angelica Sanchez 'The Brilla Suite'

Presented by The Jazz Gallery Fellowship Commission 2023.

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 16 & 17, 2024

7:30pm

Composers Interviewing Composers

VOX

Presented by New Chamer Ballet.

James and Martha Duffy Performance Space at Mark Morris Dance Center
3 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 17, 2024

7pm

Memory Palace Ensemble

Presented by Composers Concordance.

Gallery MC
549 W 52nd St, NY, New York 10019
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 16, 2024

7pm

"of Love."

Presented by Death of Classical. Violinist, visionary, and DoC veteran Curtis Stewart celebrates Valentine’s Day in the Crypt, with his Grammy-nominated program of Love.

Church of the Intercession
550 W 155th St, New York, NY 10032
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 15, 2024

7 pm

IMPACT

IMPACT - Stefania de Kenessey

Composers Now YouTube Channel
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 15, 2024

8pm

NYU Orchestra Honors Black History Month

Iris Cantor Theatre
36 E 8th St, New York, NY 10003
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 15, 2024

7:30pm

Roy Hargrove Big Band

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 15, 2024

6:30pm

16th Annual Black History Month Celebration

Presented by The Harlem Chamber Players.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY, 10037
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 15, 2024

8pm

Justin Adams & Mauro Durante

Presented by World Music Institute.

Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 14, 2024

7:30pm

Anthony Hervey Quintet - Valentine's Day Celebration

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 14, 2024

"Lunch Music Cafe"

Presented by Perennial Muse.

Park Slope Center for Successful Aging
463A 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 12, 2024

8pm

Piano Crosscurrents

Presented by North/South Consonance.

National Opera Center
330 Seventh Ave (7th FL), New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 11, 2024

4pm

Composers Interviewing Composers

Mosaic Composers Collective

Presented by In Transit: Changing NY & Miolina

Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th St, New York, NY 10011
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 11, 2024

7pm

Austin Wulliman: The News From Utopia

Presented by JACK Quartet.

The News From Utopia is the title of violinist Austin Wulliman‘s debut release as composer. This concert presents and celebrates the premiere of several works by Wulliman, including the breaking News.

Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 11, 2024

7pm

The Orders & In4mation

Presented by Composers Concordance.

Silvana Harlem
300 West 116th St, New York, NY 10026
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 10, 2024

7pm

A Night of Jazz In Tribeca

2024 Composers Now Festival

February 9 & 10, 2024

6pm

ETHEL & Friends Series at The Met

ETHEL and Friends is a music series lovingly programmed for “Date Night” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Great Hall Balcony Cafe on the 2nd Floor, by the resident ensemble, ETHEL. “Date Night” Artists perform 3 sets on Fridays and Saturdays from 6 - 8:30 PM.

The Met Fifth Avenue - Great Hall Balcony Cafe
1000 5th Ave. New York, NY, 10028
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 10, 2024

7:30pm

Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 9-12, 2024

Titanic: the musical

Presented by NYU Steinhardt Program in Vocal Performance. Titanic , the epic musical by Maury Yeston and Peter Stone, features romance, adventure, and intrigue on a grand scale. Directed by original Broadway cast member and adjunct faculty member Ted Sperling, TITANIC is the first full musical theater production in the new Iris Cantor Theatre, showcasing the state-of-the-art capabilities of the venue.

Iris Cantor Theatre
38 W Houston St, New York, NY 10012
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 10, 2024

6pm

FantAsia!

Presented by INTERWOVEN. A concert program and event celebrating the composition of Asian folklore-inspired works on the night of the Lunar New Year 2024.

Our Saviour's Atonement Lutheran Church
178 Bennett Ave, New York, NY 10040
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 9, 2024

7:30pm

Nicola Caminiti: The Intemperance of Human Feelings

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 9, 2024

8:30pm

Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius

The Iridium
1650 Broadway, New York, NY 10019
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 9, 2024

7:30pm

Low Key' #31 Chamber Concert Series

Presented by Composers Concordance.

The Sky Vault
20 Pine St, New York, NY 10005
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 8, 2024

7:30pm

Sonya Belaya: Nalichniki

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 8, 2024

6pm

Macabea: Workshop Performance

Macabéa is an opera by Suzanne Farrin based on the novel The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector. It is an electro-sonic operatic experience with film and music that examines the cultural, psychological, and spiritual manifestations of poverty and power.

Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 7, 2024

7:30pm

Bergamot Quartet Extended featuring Erika Dohi

Bergamot Quartet is Ledah Finck and Sarah Thomas, violins; Amy Tan, viola; and Irène Han, cello. Founded at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore in 2016, Bergamot Quartet is based in New York City and was the Graduate String Quartet in Residence at the Mannes School of Music for 2020-2022.

Sisters
900 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11238
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 4, 2024

3pm

NY Phil Ensemble

Ensembles of Philharmonic musicians perform in intimate Merkin Hall. Hear the individual talents that make up the Orchestra and experience the passion and personality of the performers with a program that includes works by Mozart, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and Brahms.

Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center
129 W 67th St, New York, NY 10023
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 4, 2024

11am

Joe Lovano + The Overlook: Douglas Cuomo's "Seven Limbs"

Presented by Gather NYC. The Overlook returns to GatherNYC to present Douglas J Cuomo’s meditative and ecstatic work “Seven Limbs” for string quartet and improvised saxophone with the legendary, Grammy-winning Joe Lovano.

Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10019
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 4, 2024

7pm

Deep Listening(Kevin Kenkel, Michael Beharie, and Molto Ohm)

Deep Listening at The Parkside Lounge: a night of live electronic performances by Kevin Kenkel, Michael Beharie, and Molto Ohm with special guest Taja Cheek. Enjoy experimental instrumentations, psychedelic resonances, and cosmic sonic explorations.

The Parkside Lounge
317 E Houston St, New York, NY 10002
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 4, 2024

2pm

Sō Percussion Concert

Forum, Lewis Arts Complex, Princeton University
136 Alexander St, Princeton, NJ 08540
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 4, 2024

7pm

After Vivaldi

Presented by North/South Consonance

Christ & St Stephen’s Church
120 West 69th St, New York, NY 10023
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 3, 2024

7:30pm

Anthony Tidd's SANITY

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 3, 2024

Alvin Singleton's Argoru I-IX

Presented by The Julliard School.

Chelsea Factory
547 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 3, 2024

6:30 pm

Violins & Poems 'War'

Presented by Composers Concordance presents.
Violinists & Poets meet to explore the subject of 'War'

The Delancey
168 Delancey St, New York, NY 10002
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 2, 2024

7pm

Third Street Live Sounds

Presented by The Harlem Chamber Players.

Third Street Music Settlement, Anna Maria Kellen Concert Hall
235 E 11th St, New York, NY 10003
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 2, 2024

7:30pm

Fima Ephron and the First Light Band

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 2, 2024

7pm

Love Notes - Voice Faculty Song Recital

Presented by Bloomingdale School of Music, with original compositions by Ongama Mhlontlo.

David Greer Recital Hall, Bloomingdale School of Music
323 W 108th St, New York, NY 10025
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 1, 2024

7:30pm

Caleb Wheeler Curtis Trio

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2024 Composers Now Festival

February 1, 2024

8:30pm

TRIO: BREW

Presented by Arts for Art, OUT MUSIC FESTIVAL.

Theater For the New City
155 1st Ave, New York, NY 10003
2024 Composers Now Festival

Wednesday, January 31

7:30pm

2024 Festival Opening Event

Hosted by Tania León, featuring the 2024 Visionary Awards, Dwight Andrews, Philip Glass and Libby Larsen.

National Sawdust
80 N 6th St, Brooklyn, NY 11249

January 25, 2024

7pm EST

IMPACT

IMPACT with Joelle Wallach

January 18, 2024

7pm EST

IMPACT

IMPACT with Eric Lemmon

January 16, 2024

7pm EST

Composer Curator

Composer Curator: Annie Gosfield

Chat live with Annie Gosfield and her guest creatives

YouTube Stream

Thursday, November 9, 2023, 6 pm

Dialogues

Dialogues No. 12

Bargemusic

Saturday, July 22, 2023, 2 pm

Dialogues

Dialogues No. 11

Van Cortlandt House Museum Lawn
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 28, 2023

7:30pm

Voices of Ascension: Circle in Motion

Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 27, 2023

6:30pm

Tabea Debus, recorder & Adam Cockerham, archlute

The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 27, 2023

7pm

My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama MEETS Bodies Electric

Loft393
393 Broadway (2nd Floor), New York, NY 10013
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 26, 2023

2pm

Warp Trio

Wave Hill
4900 Independence Ave, Bronx, NY 10471
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 26, 2023

2pm

Bronx Arts Ensemble: Lucia Bradford with Kyle Walker

Christ Church
5040 Henry Hudson Pkwy E, Bronx, NY 10471
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 26 , 2023

8 pm

Composers Interviewing Composers

Da Capo Chamber Players: Women Composers and a premiere

David Bridges talks with Barbara White & David Sanford. World premiere by David Sanford.

Tenri Cultural Institute
43A W 13th St, New York, NY 10011
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 25, 2023

8pm

Arun Luthra's Konnakol Jazz Project

I-Beam Brooklyn
168 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 25, 2023

8pm

Judy Collins: Wildflowers

The Town Hall
123 W 43rd St, New York, NY 10036
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 25, 2023

7pm

KeyedUp MusicProject: Transformations

Tenri Cultural Institute
43A W 13th St, New York, NY 10011
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 24, 2023

8pm

Ramin Arjomand Solo

The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 23, 2023

8pm

North/South Consonance: American Promise

Christ & St Stephen's Church
120 W 69th St, New York, NY 10023
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 23, 2023

7:30pm

Eunbi Kim: it feels like a dream

Jerome Robbins Theater, Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 22, 2023

7:30pm & 9:30pm

Lolivone de la Rosa Organ Quartet

Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 22, 2023

7pm

Brooklyn College Conservatory: Winter Composers Concert

Don Buchwald Theater Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts
2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11210
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 22, 2023

12pm

Hanzhi Wang, accordion & Steven Banks, saxophone

Gilder Lehrman Hall, The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 21, 2023

7:30pm

Arts & Ideas Performing Artists Series

featuring Cellist Craig Hultgren

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2023 Composers Now Festival

February 21, 2023

7pm

IMPACT

Composers Now IMPACT: Theresa Wong

YouTube
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 19, 2023

3pm

NY Virtuoso Singers: American Invention

Christ & St. Stephen's Church
120 W 69th St, New York, NY 10023
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 19, 2023

2pm

Celebrating Valentine's

Roderick Williams, baritone & Ken Noda, piano

The Town Hall
123 W 43rd St, New York, NY 10036
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 19, 2023

8:30 pm

Composers Interviewing Composers

Composers Concordance: In4Mation

Bitter End
147 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 19, 2023

6pm

Composers Interviewing Composers

Sylvan Winds: Plugged-In

Karen Siegel talks with Svjetlana Bukvich to discuss her combination of wind instruments with electronics.

National Opera Center
330 7th Ave (7th Floor) New York, NY 10001
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 18, 2023

7pm

Composers Concordance: Tango

Steel Wig Music
939 8th Ave, Suite 502, New York, NY 10019
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 17, 2023

9:30pm

Simon Moullier Quartet "ISLA" Album release

Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 16, 2023

7:30pm

FURIOSUS

Opera in two acts by Roberto Scarcella Perino

Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 W 67th St, New York, NY 10023

February 16, 2023

9:30pm

'Untitled'

Presented by Beyond Category

Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 16, 2023

6:30pm

15th Annual Black History Month Celebration

Presented by The Harlem Chamber Players

The Schomburg Center
515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10037
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 14, 2023

7:30pm

Voices of Ascension: Love, Loneliness, and Lamentation

Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 14, 2023

7pm

Holographic Principle Concert and Masterclass

Don Buchwald Theater Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts
2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11210
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 14, 2023

3pm

Zifeng Michael Zheng, piano

Don Buchwald Theater Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts
2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11210
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 12, 2023

4pm

The Harlem Chamber Players: Black History Month

Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch
10 Grand Army Plz, Brooklyn, NY 11238
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 11, 2023

7:30pm

How to Fall Apart

Presented by AMOC (American Modern Opera Company)

Jerome Robbins Theater, Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 11, 2023

7:30pm & 9:30pm

TRION + 1

Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway (5th floor) New York, NY 10001
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 11, 2023

7:30pm

Uptown Nights: Nikara Warren's "Black Wall Street"

Harlem Stage
150 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 11, 2023

7:30pm

Caroline Shaw

Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 W 67th St, New York, NY 10023
2023 Composers Now Festival

February 10, 2023

8pm

Connors/Cochrane & Pavone/Haynes/Ilgenfritz

IBeam Brooklyn
168 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215