Event Information
- Fri01Mar2024
Eighth Annual Concert - First Encore
8:00 pmMarc A, Scorca Hall
National Opera Center
330 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001 7th Floor
The Bowers Fader Duo are thrilled to invite you to an encore presentation of our Eighth Annual New American Art Song Concert. We will play songs that were written or arranged for us in the past year. Featuring composers Frank Brickle, Kim Sherman, Larry Nelson, Justin Casinghino, Douglas Boyce, Heather Gilligan, and Paul Salerni.Admission – $20 cash only at the door - Tue26Mar2024
Music Tuesday: Bill Anderson, Mascha Kaleko & Seeking Refuge
1:30 pmSarah Lawrence College
Performing Arts Center PAC Reisinger Auditorium
1 Mead Way Bronxville, NY 10708
Music Tuesday: Bill Anderson, Mascha Kaleko & Seeking Refuge
Oren Fader and Jessica Bowers join Bill Anderson, Joan Forsyth and others playing music inspired by Mascha Kaleko
- Sat13Apr2024
Bowers Fader Duo Eighth Annual Concert - Second Encore
3:00 pmManhattan Plaza Ellington Room 2nd Floor
400 West 43rd St. New York, NY 10036
The Bowers Fader Duo are thrilled to invite you to an encore presentation of our Eighth Annual New American Art Song Concert. We will play songs that were written or arranged for us in the past year. Featuring composers Frank Brickle, Kim Sherman, Larry Nelson, Justin Casinghino, Douglas Boyce, Heather Gilligan, and Paul Salerni.Free Admission - Sat20Apr2024
“Passionate Geometries” Richard Cameron-Wolfe
8:00 pmLeonard Nimoy Thalia
2537 Broadway, New York, NY 10025
The artist collective Nomads NYC presents “Passionate Geometries” a 53-year retrospective concert of the creative work of composer Richard Cameron-Wolfe
More info and tickets: https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/vp-passionate-geometries
The artist collective Nomads NYC presents “Passionate Geometries” a 53-year retrospective concert of the creative work of composer Richard Cameron-Wolfe, featuring eight challenging contemporary works – three premieres and five first stagings, the evening offering a provocative interplay of art-forms: visual art [by Kevin Teare], chamber music, drama, opera, dance, and poetry/literature. The evening features fourteen outstanding New York City contemporary performing artists plus special guests from New Zealand, Russia/Kazakhstan, Boston, and Los Angeles.
The program opens with Iris – scuro/chiaro for piano – in memory of pianist Menahem Pressler, performed by his former student Gayle Blankenburg. Next is the micro-opera A Sound-Shroud for Bill Knott – portraying the iconoclastic American poet as he confronts his mortality (featuring Butoh dancer Mariko Endo); then the cello-piano duet Time Refracted (possibly abstract, possibly not). The first half concludes with Heretic, a micro-opera for guitarist, inspired by Arthur Machen’s haunting 1907 novel The Hill of Dreams, performed by Aaron Larget-Caplan.
The second half begins with Cameron-Wolfe’s 1970 micro-opera MeMarie, sung by Nina Berman; written just after the passing of Marie, his beloved grandmother. Next is the dance duo Lilith – in Alisher Khasanov’s provocatively eccentric choreographic reinterpretation of the legend; then the US premiere of Cameron-Wolfe’s 2023 microtonal guitar sextet Arcturus – 36 strings traversing the outer limits of tonality. The evening concludes with the micro-opera Passionate Geometries – in which a discouraged young poet is taunted and ultimately inspired by her Muse, liberated.
- Sat04May2024
Poetica Musica: Bach and Way Beyond
8:00 pmOld Westbury Gardens
71 Old Westbury Road, Old Westbury, NY 11568
Bach and Way Beyond
An intriguing combination of instruments and musical styles
Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 8:00pm
Artists: Barry Crawford, flute, Oren Fader, guitar, Eleanor Valkenburg, soprano, Molly Morkoski, piano
Works by Bach, Handel, Bartok, Beach, Chopin and others
Tickets are $25.00 for members, seniors and students.
General admission $30.00
For information, please call in advance (516) 333-0048 ext. 301
For reservations, visit www.oldwestburygardens.org
71 Old Westbury Road, Old Westbury, NY 11568
- Sun19May2024
Musica Viva NY PERPETUAL LIGHT: Mozart and Golijov
5:00 pmAll Souls Church
1157 Lexington Avenue,
New York, NY 10075
Mozart’s imposing Requiem—a swansong of sorts that has been shrouded in mystery from its inception—has fascinated performers, musicologists, and audiences for almost a quarter of a millennium. The Musica Viva NY choir and orchestra pair Mozart’s masterpiece with an equally imposing work by the brilliant Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov.
- Golijov, Oceana
- Mozart, Requiem
- Sun16Jun2024
The Chapel Restoration Sunday Music Series
4:00 pmThe Chapel Restoration
45 Market Street
Cold Spring, New York 10516Oren Fader, Guitar
Music by Bach, Dowland, Anderson, Ferrante, Bogdanovic, Albeniz
The guitarist Oren Fader played Brilliantly.” – The New York Times.
“His scholarship, technique, and intelligent musicianship are plainly evident and the beauty of his tone is consistently compelling.” –Guitar Review
“Guest guitarist Oren Fader brought out his instrument’s capacity for excitement and shimmering brilliance throughout Aranjuez.” – Omaha.com
Classical and electric guitarist Oren Fader (orenfader.com) has performed in Asia, Europe, and throughout the United States. Concerto performances include the Villa-Lobos Guitar Concerto with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez with the New Jersey, Danbury, and Omaha Symphonies.
In addition to performing as a soloist, Mr. Fader is much in demand as a New York City chamber musician. He has performed hundreds of concerts with a wide range of classical and new music groups, including the Met Chamber Ensemble, New York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, Cygnus Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, ICE, Taconic Music, Argento Ensemble, New York Festival of Song, Mark Morris Dance Group, Music From Japan, Poetica Musica, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Festival performances include Aspen, Tanglewood, Mostly Modern, Bach Oregon, Istanbul, Yellow Barn, Deer Valley, Bard, Sebago Long Lake, and Morelia, Mexico. With the group Poetica Musica he has represented the United States on State Department tours including concerts and outreach in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Copenhagen, Iceland, Gayana, Israel, Jordan, and Tajikistan.
He performs frequently with mezzo soprano Jessica Bowers as the Bowers Fader Duo. For each of the past 6 years, they have presented New American Art Songs for Mezzo and Guitar, a program of songs written for the duo. To date, the duo has presented the world premiere of over 25 pieces. Their first recording, Between Us All (New Focus Recordings) has gotten excellent press from Opera News and American Record Guide, and their second recording, “People Places, and Pets” (Bridge Records) features the music of Paul Salerni.
Mr. Fader is well known for his performances of contemporary music. He has premiered over 200 solo and chamber works with guitar, and can be heard on 50 commercial recordings and film, including classical guitar parts for the films Everything Is Illuminated (Schreiber), and Little Women (Gerwig). His solo recordings include Another’s Fandango, featuring 500 years of guitar music (produced by Grammy Award winner Adam Abeshouse), and First Flight, a disc of 10 premiere solos written for Mr. Fader by New York City composers.
Mr. Fader received his undergraduate degree from SUNY Purchase and his Master of Music degree from Florida State University. His major teachers include David Starobin and Bruce Holzman. Since 1994 Mr. Fader has been on the guitar and chamber music faculty of the Manhattan School of Music. He also directs the classical guitar programs at SUNY Purchase and Montclair State University, and is on faculty of the Borough of Manhattan Community College.
- Sat22Jun2024
Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY
2 pm and 8 pmCarnegie Hall, NYC
Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY
Celebrating FINAL FANTASY XVI and XIV with Masayoshi Soken
Saturday, June 22, 2024 2 PM and 8 pm Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage - Thu27Jun2024
Imitations
7:00 pmGreenwich House
46 Barrow St. 10014 NYC
Composers Concordance Presents
Imitations
Contemporary Fugues, Canons, Inventions, and Other Imitative CompositionsThursday, June 27th, 2024 7pm
Greenwich House
46 Barrow St, NYCTICKETS
$20 in advance
$30 at the doorComposers: Seth Boustead, Dan Cooper, Denise Koncelik,
Lisa Neher, Daniel Palkowski, David Post, Gene Pritsker,
Anton Rovner, Bill Schimmel.Performers:
Dr. William Schimmel – accordion,
Markus Kaitila, Daniel Palkowski – piano,
Bart Platteau – flute,
Dan Cooper – percussion,
CompCord Guitar Quartet:
Oren Fader, Greg Baker, Adam Negrin, Jay SorceLOCATION
Greenwich House, 46 Barrow St. 10014 NYC - Tue02Jul2024
France Summer Music YXIE presents The Bowers Fader Duo
8:00 pmhttps://francesummermusicyxie.com/
All concerts at L'église Saint-Médard Villeblevin
Bowers Fader Duo perform music written for them by
William Anderson, Victoria Bond, Frank Brickle, Justin Casinghino, David Claman, Heather Gilligan, Tim Mukherjee, Martin Rokeach, Paul Salerni, Randy Woolf
- Wed24Jul2024
Staunton Music Festival
Trinity Episcopal Church
214 W Beverley St, StauntonHistorias de Cuba
Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Trinity Episcopal Church
214 W Beverley St, Staunton$22 – $38
Discounts available for
youth, college, & militaryDoors open 6:30 | Preconcert talk 6:45
All seating is reserved.The sounds of Cuba provide the inspiration for this eclectic program, offering music by Gershwin, Gottschalk, Tania León, and Hans Werner Henze.
Gershwin | Cuban Overture, for orchestra
Salas | Cándido Corderito, for sopranos and strings
Gottschalk | Souvenir de la Havane, for piano
Brouwer | Two movements from Quintetto for Guitar and Strings
Trad/arr. Tania León | El Manisero, for vocal ensemble
Henze | from El Cimarrón, a music-drama for bass voice and chamber ensemble** Based on the memoirs of an escaped slave, the text for El Cimarrón includes descriptions of enslaved individuals and may not be suitable for all ages.
- Fri16Aug2024
Bard Music Festival - Berlioz and his world
7:00 pmFisher Center at Bard, Manor Ave, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY 12504
https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bmf24-p7/
Tickets start at $25
$5 tickets for Bard students are made possible by the Passloff Pass.
Livestream: $20; Free for Members; Reservations Required
6:30 pm • Preconcert Talk with Peter Bloom
7 pm • Performance: Jana McIntyre, soprano; Noah Stewart, tenor; Alfred Walker, bass-baritone; Luosha Fang ’10, viola; Piers Lane and Orion Weiss, piano; and othersHector Berlioz (1803–69)
Harold en Italie, Op. 16 (1834; arr. Liszt)
Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840)
Cantabile (1823) (Violin and Guitar)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47)
Andante and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14 (1830)
Piano works and arias by Louis Spohr (1784–1859), Fromental Halévy (1799–1862), Adolphe Adam (1803–56), Mikhail Glinka (1804–57), Michael Balfe (1808–70), Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–88)
- Sat24Aug2024
Staunton Music Festival - Historias de Cuba
7:30 pmTrinity Episcopal Church
214 W Beverley St, Staunton Virginia
$22 – $38
Discounts available for
youth, college, & militaryDoors open 6:30 | Preconcert talk 6:45All seating is reserved.
The sounds of Cuba provide the inspiration for this eclectic program, offering music by Gershwin, Gottschalk, Tania León, and Hans Werner Henze.
Gershwin | Cuban Overture, for orchestra
Salas | Cándido Corderito, for sopranos and strings
Gottschalk | Souvenir de la Havane, for piano
Brouwer | Two movements from Quintetto for Guitar and Strings
Trad/arr. Tania León | El Manisero, for vocal ensemble
Henze | from El Cimarrón, a music-drama for bass voice and chamber ensemble** Based on the memoirs of an escaped slave, the text for El Cimarrón includes descriptions of enslaved individuals and may not be suitable for all ages.
- Sun08Sep2024
Bow and Pluck Happy Guitar and Violin
4:00 pmArtistic Club Luba
441 Mountain View Road, Englewood NJ
Tel: 646-436-8819
Vladimir Tsypin, violin
Oren Fader, guitar
Works of Debussy, Bach, John Williams, and Piazzolla
- Sun15Sep2024
The Village Trip Presents: In Memory of Sean Satin
7:00 pmGreenwich Music House
46 Barrow Street
New York, NY 10014 United - Sat21Sep2024
The Village Trip GuitarFest 24: Microtonal Village American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm EDTSt John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States
- Thu26Sep2024
Concerts in the Heights
1:00 pmLehman College Art Gallery at Lehman College, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, NY 10468
“Cafés and Gypsies”
Baroque, Piaf-selections and originals, including Bach Partita No.1 in B-flat BWV 825 arranged for horn and guitar.
Monica Bauchwitz violin, Karl Kramer horn, Oren Fader guitar, Marcus Rojas tuba, Will Holshouser accordion
- Sun06Oct2024
Concierto de Aranjuez, Oren Fader, guitar
3:00 pmSaunders Trades and Technical High School
183 Palmer Road, Yonkers NY
Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra
Ariel Rudiakov – Music Director and Conductor
Concierto de Aranjuez Oren Fader, guitar
Handicapped accessible, ample parking
More info: (571) 310-7060
All Concerts are Free of Charge! - Fri18Oct2024
Bowers Fader Duo Ninth Annual New American Art Song Concert
7:30 pmEllington Room at Manhattan Plaza
400 West 43rd St. Second Floor
Bowers Fader Duo perform works written for them by Shanan Estreicher, Gene McBride, Gene Pritsker, David Saperstein, Kim Sherman,and Paul Salerni.
Free admission.
- Sat23Nov2024
Memorial for Harold Meltzer
3:00 pmMERKIN HALL
Kaufman Music Center
Abraham Goodman House
129 West 67th Street
(btw Broadway and Amsterdam)
New York, NY 10023
T 212 501 3330Please join family, friends, and colleagues in celebrating the life and work of Harold Meltzer (June 8, 1966 – August 12, 2024).
Meltzer was known for his inventive, colorful, and meticulous work often inspired by architecture and literature. The program will include Meltzer’s Brion (2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Bride of the Island (2016), and Piano Quartet (2016). Performers will include the Cygnus Ensemble, Paul Appleby, Serena Canin, Dan Panner, Raman Ramakrishnan, and Tom Sauer.
Friends will miss Harold’s charm, humor, quick wit, innovative music, and endless curiosity about people and the worlds they inhabit.
For those who wish to make a memorial gift, Harold’s family is requesting support for a recording of Meltzer’s setting of Aracelis Girmay’s poem, You Are Who I Love, his last completed work, which was premiered by The Crossing and Sandbox Percussion in February 2024. Tax deductible donations may be made directly to The Crossing’s Harold Meltzer Recording Fund.
Free Event No tickets required
- Wed04Dec2024
A concert Featuring the music of Ben Boretz and Frank Brickle
7:00 pmGreenwich House Music School
46 Barrow Street New York, NY 10014
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ben-boretz-and-frank-brickle-tickets-1086024290889
Las Americas en Concierto
with The Village Trip & Marsyas ProductionsMusic by Ben Boretz & Frank Brickle at Greenwich House Music School
featuring
pianist Beth Levin
violinist Pauline Kim Harris
pianist Andrew Zhou
Bowers Fader Duo
guitarist Pascaul Araujo
e-guitarist Kyle Miller
Bodies Electric – John Chang, Aiden Lyons, Pascual Araujo, William Anderson
pianist Steve Beck
guitarist Daniel Conant
pianist Joan ForsythSince her age twelve debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Beth Levin has been celebrated as a bold interpreter of challenging works, from the Romantic canon to leading modernist composers like David Del Tredici and Frank Brickle, both of whom have written works for her. The New York Times praised her “fire and originality”, while The New Yorker called her playing “revelatory”.
Benjamin Boretz
— Partita for Piano
— O for e-guitar
— A Question, a Rose for violin solo
–2 musics for Lukas Foss
–the sun poured molten glass on the fieldsFrank Brickle
–Plague Pieces
–For Ben [Boretz]
–Catullus 101 for 2 guitars and voice
–Genius Loci for mandoin & guitar
–Midnight Round for e-guitar choirMilton Babbitt
–DanciPascual Araujo
–Tri-harmonicBabbitt, Boretz & Brickle have all lived a life in music that gradually and inexorably built a musical hermeneutics, wherein a musical perspective/orientation triumphs over the hermeneutics of suspicion (suspicion of words). In this perspective, musical experience is the model or basis for a broader approach to difficult normative questions — grounding and value structuring. Brickle was a serious student of Ben’s Metavariations and Babbitt was a very early and enthusiastic reader of it.
Benjamin Boretz (benjaminboretz.org) was born in 1934. He was one of the first composers to work with computer-synthesized sound (Group Variations II, 1970–72). In the late 1970s and 1980s he converged his compositional and pedagogical practices in a project of real-time improvisational music-making, culminating in the formation at Bard College of the music-learning program called Music Program Zero, which flourished until 1995. Much of the work of this project is posted on the website bejaminboretz.org under the title THE INNER STUDIO. Central to this project were a series of duo keyboard conversations with J. K. Randall, some of which are issued on OPEN SPACE CDs.
His writings include Meta-Variations, Studies in the Foundations of Musical Thought (1970) which addresses the epistemological questions involved in the cognition and composition of music, and propounds a radically relativistic/individualistic/ontological reconstruction of the musical creative process. LANGUAGE, AS A MUSIC (1976) is a verbal-vocal composition that explores the originary qualities of music and language.
In 1962 Boretz co-founded (with Arthur Berger) the composers’ magazine Perspectives of New Music. In 1988 he, Elaine Barkin and J. K. Randall founded Open Space (a composers’ cooperative for recordings, books, and scores). The Open Space Magazine was started in 1999 (with Mary Lee A. Roberts), and is currently edited with Dorota Czerner, Tildy Bayar, Jon Forshee, Dean Rosenthal, and Arthur Margolin. He was principal music critic for The Nation from 1962 to 1970. His texts and music from the 1950s to the present are published and recorded by OPEN SPACE.
Composer Frank Brickle has pursued an eccentric path to the music he is writing now. He was born, musically speaking, into High Modernism: at Princeton, his chief teacher and mentor was Milton Babbitt, and he worked long and hard to master the esoteric style and techniques of that milieu. Between then and now, however, he has worked even longer and harder to mould those same arcane techniques to the needs of a much wider range of styles, from high down to low, and much in between. Brickle has created over eighty-five compositions, and a number of arrangements and transcriptions, for a wide range of instrumental ensembles and media.
Many of his earlier pieces employ synthesized and processed sound. Over time, however, he has concentrated increasingly on writing for instruments and the voice, as he has come to treasure especially the unique moment when the performers have begun to be comfortable with the score and start making the music their own. And while his music has been evolving a great deal over more than four decades, he has attached much importance to continuity: Rather than rejecting 20th-century Modernism, he has devoted much effort to adapting and transforming its methods and techniques into a more personal, expansive, intimate, and inviting dialect.
Guitarist/composer Pascual Araujo lives in Queens New York. He studied guitar with William Anderson at Queens College. He is a freelance musican and a member of the NYC Classical Guitar Orchestra and the The Villate Trip Guitar Orchestra.
- Fri06Dec2024
Music on the Hill performing Conrad Susa's Carols & Lullabies: Christmas in the Southwest
7:30 pm10 Lyons Plains Road, Westport
(U.U. Congregation in Westport)
Carols & Lullabies
the Festival Chorus & Children’s Chorus with guitar, harp, & percussion
featuring Conrad Susa’s “Carols & Lullabies: Christmas in the Southwest”
https://www.musiconthehillct.org/events
- Sat07Dec2024
Cecilia Chorus Bach and Bernstein
8:00 pmStern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Carnegie Hall
57th Street & 7th Avenue, Manhattanhttps://ceciliachorusny.org/back-and-bernstein
BACH AND BERNSTEIN
Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein
Mass (Concert excerpts) by Leonard Bernstein
Christmas Cantata BWV 63 by J.S. Bach“Awake, psaltery and harp! I will rouse the dawn!” The Cecilia Chorus of New York celebrates the season with music by Leonard Bernstein and J.S. Bach. A famous advocate for world peace, Bernstein crafted a musical plea for unity in divided times with his by turns rousing and serene Chichester Psalms. His Mass (with additional lyrics by Tony Award-winner Stephen Schwartz) pulls classical, rock, and pop idioms into exhilarating musical synthesis. Rounding out the evening is Bach’s only Christmas cantata to use four trumpets, in its first-ever Carnegie Hall performance.
With Every Voice Children’s Chorus, Nicole Becker, Director; All-City Chorus, Kristy Jung, Director; Singers’ Workshops at Teachers College, Columbia University, Jeanne Goffi-Fynn, Director.
December 7, 2024
Saturday, 8pmStern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Carnegie Hall
57th Street & 7th Avenue, Manhattan
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