Periapsis Music and Dance is excited to present the second program of its first season as part of the Queens New Music Festival. Not only will we offer a wide variety of new music by emerging and established composers performed by our talented resident musicians, we will present these works with new choreography by …

Running as a common thread through this program is a stream of constant sixteenth notes. Other than this musical commonality, the pieces couldn’t be more different. The old work on the program, Steve Reich’s “Different Trains,” for string quartet and playback, is a dark work about the holocaust and a seminal work, musically, for the …

New music ensemble TWO SIDES SOUNDING presents BROOKLYNQUEENS EXPRESSWAY, a concert featuring vocalists Daniel Neer and Eleanor Taylor and pianist Mila Henry in works that explore life in Brooklyn and Queens through snapshots of New Yorkers’ everyday modes of transportation. The program includes the premiere of BQE, an urban cantata by composer Robinson McClellan and …

Thomas Piercy: Tokyo to New York – 東京 と ニューヨーク A concert of new music by contemporary Japanese composers based on their thoughts about NYC and works by non-Japanese composers influenced/inspired by Japan (“Nihon no shiten” – “Japanese perspective”).  This concert will be visually backed by projections of photos of New York City by photographer …

HANS TAMMEN & THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA: PIKAIA Hans Tammen uses Earle Brown’s open form composition idea as a starting point to create a large multimovement piece for string and wind quartets, keyboards, rhythm section, voice and live sound processing. The composer has gathered a dream-team of some of the most virtuosic instrumentalists to ever elude labels or …

Crossings: New York – Pittsburgh New works for cello by the composers of Random Access Music (NYC) and Alia Musica (Pittsburgh) The Random Access Music composers’ collective presents  Kate Dillingham and Amir Khosrowpour. Dillingham (Vc.) and Khosrowpour (Pno) will perform 6 new works—5 world premieres—by the composers of RAM and the Pittsburgh-based collective, Alia Musica, …

Violinist Karen Kim, composer Patrick Castillo, and poet Keno Evol present a program of contemporary solo violin music with the added dimensions of electronics and spoken word. The program revisits an experimental salon evening presented at The Third Place Gallery in Minneapolis on the occasion of the John Cage centenary—a meditation on Cage’s legacy, featuring …

Duo Sonidos is an award-winning chamber duo founded in 2006 by classical guitarist Adam Levin and violinist William Knuth at the New England Conservatory. In 2010, Duo Sonidos released their debut CD to widespread critical acclaim and won 1st prize at the Luys Milan International Chamber Music Competition in Valencia, Spain.  Their mission is nothing …

Recognized by The New Yorker and TimeOut New York for presenting one of the ten best classical performances in 2012, Mantra Percussion is committed to substantially expanding the future of percussion repertoire. By commissioning and performing new, significant works for large percussion ensemble by both prominent and emerging composers, Mantra Percussion is committed to breathing …