Bergamot Quartet Extended Feat. Sonya belaya
Nov
20

Bergamot Quartet Extended Feat. Sonya belaya

Bergamot Quartet Extended is a monthly concert series featuring BQ and our collaborators.

BQE is a time for friends to gather, hear great music, and celebrate community together.

Join us for another Fall BQE on Wednesday, 11/20, featuring Brooklyn-based pianist and composer Sonya Belaya!

Venue: Barbès

Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm

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Tribeca New Music: Best in Score 2024
Nov
2

Tribeca New Music: Best in Score 2024

Season Opener: Tribeca New Music 2024 Festival

Join us for an exhilarating evening of contemporary music as Tribeca New Music launches its 2024-25 season with the Bergamot Quartet, performing live at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. This dynamic concert will feature the winning compositions from the 2024 TNM Young Composer Competition, as well as world premieres and recent works.

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Ballet Collective: The Entrance is the Exit
Nov
1

Ballet Collective: The Entrance is the Exit

Are transitions a beginning or an ending? They’re both. The entrance is the exit.

2 premieres, 1 revival, and 11 NYCB dancers investigate.

BalletCollective’s 2024 season THE ENTRANCE IS THE EXIT will feature two world premiere ballets and a revival of an acclaimed 2023 work, all of which creatively inspect the duality of change and the connections between endings and beginnings as interpreted by leaders in fields ranging from architecture to ballet to contemporary music to visual art.

All performances feature live musical accompaniment and a cast of dancers from the New York City Ballet.

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Ballet Collective: The Entrance is the Exit
Oct
31

Ballet Collective: The Entrance is the Exit

Are transitions a beginning or an ending? They’re both. The entrance is the exit.

2 premieres, 1 revival, and 11 NYCB dancers investigate.

BalletCollective’s 2024 season THE ENTRANCE IS THE EXIT will feature two world premiere ballets and a revival of an acclaimed 2023 work, all of which creatively inspect the duality of change and the connections between endings and beginnings as interpreted by leaders in fields ranging from architecture to ballet to contemporary music to visual art.

All performances feature live musical accompaniment and a cast of dancers from the New York City Ballet.

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Ballet Collective: The Entrance is the Exit
Oct
30

Ballet Collective: The Entrance is the Exit

Are transitions a beginning or an ending? They’re both. The entrance is the exit.

2 premieres, 1 revival, and 11 NYCB dancers investigate.

BalletCollective’s 2024 season THE ENTRANCE IS THE EXIT will feature two world premiere ballets and a revival of an acclaimed 2023 work, all of which creatively inspect the duality of change and the connections between endings and beginnings as interpreted by leaders in fields ranging from architecture to ballet to contemporary music to visual art.

All performances feature live musical accompaniment and a cast of dancers from the New York City Ballet.

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Ballet Collective: The Entrance is the Exit
Oct
29

Ballet Collective: The Entrance is the Exit

Are transitions a beginning or an ending? They’re both. The entrance is the exit.

2 premieres, 1 revival, and 11 NYCB dancers investigate.

BalletCollective’s 2024 season THE ENTRANCE IS THE EXIT will feature two world premiere ballets and a revival of an acclaimed 2023 work, all of which creatively inspect the duality of change and the connections between endings and beginnings as interpreted by leaders in fields ranging from architecture to ballet to contemporary music to visual art.

All performances feature live musical accompaniment and a cast of dancers from the New York City Ballet.

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Opera Saratoga: The Other Side of Silence Workshop Performance
Oct
16

Opera Saratoga: The Other Side of Silence Workshop Performance

  • Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Opera Saratoga join forces this October to present a workshop performance of THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE by librettists Mark Steidl and Katherine Skovira and composer Robert Whalen.  THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE is a new opera for synthetic and acoustic voices written by and for people who use Alternative Assistive Communication. The story draws direct inspiration from the life of Mark Steidl, a gender non-binary person who uses an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) device to talk with the world.  

Join us for the Workshop Performance on Wednesday, October 16th at 7pm in the acoustically stunning Concert Hall at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC). The performance is free and open to the public; click here to reserve your ticket now.

This workshop performance is presented as part of the 2024 International Symposium On Assistive Technology For Music And Art (ISATMA).

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Bergamot Quartet Extended Feat. Brian Ellis
Oct
6

Bergamot Quartet Extended Feat. Brian Ellis

Bergamot Quartet Extended is a monthly concert series featuring BQ and our collaborators.

BQE is a time for friends to gather, hear great music, and celebrate community together.

Join us for the first Fall 2024 edition of our BQE series on Sunday, 10/6, featuring composer-creator and coding-whiz Brian Ellis!

Venue: Sisters Bk

Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm

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Flying South: featuring Samuel Torres Latin Chamber Ensemble
Oct
4

Flying South: featuring Samuel Torres Latin Chamber Ensemble

Samuel Torres Latin Chamber Ensemble Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
with special performance at Aaron Davis Hall

City College Center for the Arts proudly celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with Flying South, a musical performance by Latin Grammy Award-winning percussionist, composer and arranger, Samuel Torres and his Latin Chamber Ensemble. Torres will be joined by Bergamot Quartet and guest soloists Maria Raquel and Mauro Torres. Flying South will take us south of the border, integrating a mix of musical styles including llanera and cumbia from Colombian folklore, Venezuelan joropo, Peruvian festejo, Argentinian tango, Cuban bolero and New York salsa. The concert takes place on Friday, October 4, at 7 p.m. at Aaron Davis Hall, 129 Convent Avenue at West 135th Street. General admission tickets are $30 with discounts for seniors and students.

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Sky Islands by Susie Ibarra- Premiere (Copy)
Jul
20

Sky Islands by Susie Ibarra- Premiere (Copy)

IN-PERSON

Thu 18 Jul 2024

7:30 - 9 p.m.

725 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10021 

$30 Nonmembers, $20 Members. Students and Seniors: Use coupon code SENSTU at checkout for discount!

Join us for the world premiere of Filipinx composer and percussionist Susie Ibarra's Sky Islands, a musical tribute to our rich and fragile ecosystems inspired by the distinct rainforest habitats of Luzon, Philippines. The piece is composed for Ibarra’s eight-piece music ensemble, including the Extended Filippino Talking Gong Ensemble with Claire Chase on flute, Alex Peh on piano, and Levy Lorenzo and Ibarra on percussion, joined by the four-member Bergamot Quartet comprising violinists Ledah Finck and Sarah Thomas, violist Amy Huimei Tan and cellist Irène Han. The piece features the interlocking rhythms and melodies of Philippine Northern style bamboo, gong, and flute music, performed on new sound sculptures of gong metals titled Floating Gardens. Sky Islands is commissioned by Asia Society, with support from Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, NYSCA, and NYFA Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Artists Grants. 

Sky Islands is a musical call to action, drawing awareness to dwindling biodiversity, changing climate and global community practices. This program is part of the COAL + ICE exhibition and series of programs at Asia Society, Feb. 13-Aug. 11, 2024, designed to provoke thought and action on climate change.

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Sky Islands by Susie Ibarra- Premiere
Jul
18

Sky Islands by Susie Ibarra- Premiere

IN-PERSON

Thu 18 Jul 2024

7:30 - 9 p.m.

725 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10021 

$30 Nonmembers, $20 Members. Students and Seniors: Use coupon code SENSTU at checkout for discount!

Join us for the world premiere of Filipinx composer and percussionist Susie Ibarra's Sky Islands, a musical tribute to our rich and fragile ecosystems inspired by the distinct rainforest habitats of Luzon, Philippines. The piece is composed for Ibarra’s eight-piece music ensemble, including the Extended Filippino Talking Gong Ensemble with Claire Chase on flute, Alex Peh on piano, and Levy Lorenzo and Ibarra on percussion, joined by the four-member Bergamot Quartet comprising violinists Ledah Finck and Sarah Thomas, violist Amy Huimei Tan and cellist Irène Han. The piece features the interlocking rhythms and melodies of Philippine Northern style bamboo, gong, and flute music, performed on new sound sculptures of gong metals titled Floating Gardens. Sky Islands is commissioned by Asia Society, with support from Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, NYSCA, and NYFA Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Artists Grants. 

Sky Islands is a musical call to action, drawing awareness to dwindling biodiversity, changing climate and global community practices. This program is part of the COAL + ICE exhibition and series of programs at Asia Society, Feb. 13-Aug. 11, 2024, designed to provoke thought and action on climate change.

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Bergamot Quartet Extended - Gabriel Zucker
Jun
18

Bergamot Quartet Extended - Gabriel Zucker

Bergamot Quartet Extended is a monthly concert series featuring BQ and our collaborators.

BQE is a time for friends to gather, hear great music, and celebrate community together.

Join us for the Summer 2024 edition of our BQE series on Tuesday, 6/18, featuring our friend and brilliant jazz pianist Gabriel Zucker!

Venue: Cutelab NYC; RSVP for address

Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm

Tickets on eventbrite $15, tickets at door $18

Check out Gabriel's cool stuff below!

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MATA Festival 2024 - Changing Voices
May
16

MATA Festival 2024 - Changing Voices

Changing Voices responds to the idea of connections — composer to performer; humans to nature; technology to music — and how it is integrated into the fabric of music-making and always evolving. This concert’s performances feature the Bergamot String Quartet as well as select composers performing their own works.

Works Available by the Following Composers:

Danae Benson // Vasiliki Krimitza // Giuseppe Gallo-Balma // Angela Elizabeth Slater // Leo Chang // Daniel Sabzghabaei // Annie Aries Ruefenacht // Christian Quinones

About MATA 2024

INTEGRATION:
Music/Technology + Human/Nature

The 26th annual MATA Festival will be presented over four nights at Fotografiska New York, reflecting a newly forged relationship between the MATA Festival and the famed Contemporary Museum of Photography, Art and Culture in Gramercy. The theme of this year’s festival, conceived in alignment with the museum’s spring exhibition, is “INTEGRATION: Music/Technology + Human/Nature” – an exploration of human connection against the backdrop of ever-advancing technology that is changing how we relate to one another and make music.

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Mar
7

Zane Forshee and Bergamot Quartet

Embark on a sonic journey as award winning guitarist Zane Forshee teams up with the mesmerizing Bergamot Quartet in a concert that blends mind-bending guitar licks with the virtuoso prowess of a string quartet in an all American program that blurs the lines between classical and popular genres.

Tickets: $16.50

Venue: Manor Mill, 2029 Monkton Rd, Monkton, MD 21111

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Mar
6

Bergamot Quartet with Zane Forshee

Peabody professor and guitarist Zane Forshee joins the all-alumnae Bergamot Quartet for a program of contemporary works, including two world premieres.

Admission is free. This event will be livestreamed.

Venue: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001

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Feb
20

Appalachian State University Residency

Program:

Eli Greenhoe, mirror/braid

Ledah Finck, Quilting Song

Tania León, Esencia, Mvt. 2

Tui St. George Tucker, Chorale Prelude & Sonata

Caroline Shaw, Plan & Elevation

Anna Roberts-Gevalt, After Lester

Tuesday, February 20

6:00pm Appalachian State University, Rosen Hall

813 Rivers St, Boone, NC 28607

This event is free and seating is general admission.

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