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World Premiers of James Ilgenfritz "String Quartet No 1: Unbroken" & "Apophenia IV" PLUS works by Stephanie Griffin, Anders Nilsson, & Andam Rudolph. More information at thestonenyc.com
Co-sponsored by the League ISCM.
The Stone
55 W. 13th St. NYC
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8
Dvoark: Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90 "Dumky"
with Melody Fader, piano; Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin
Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow St. NYC
www.melodyfader.com
TOTAL EMBRACE: Leonard Bernstein at 100
St. Paul’s Chapel - Free
Wachner – Gaudé: an LB Anniversary for Large Orchestra
Copland – Connotations
Mahler – Symphony No. 4
NOVUS NY with Jessica Muirhead, soprano; Julian Wachner, conductor
https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/music-arts/2017-2018/total-embrace
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Ilya Kaler, violin
Saad HADDAD – Risala*
BRAHMS – Violin Concerto in D Major
SHOSTAKOVICH – Symphony No. 9
*Princeton Symphony Orchestra Co-Commission.
Richardson Auditorium
Princeton, NJ
www.princetonsymphony.org
Program to include music of Christopher Stark. More information and tickets at edison.wustl.edu/event/momenta-quartet-2
The 560 Music Center
560 Trinity Ave.
St. Louis, MO
This concert will draw from the experimental chamber music composed in the 1960s by fellows at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) of the Instituto Di Tella in Buenos Aires, which was a major meeting point for composers from Latin America. Composer Alberto Ginastera founded the center in 1962 and directed it until it closed in the early '70s. The program is co-curated by Americas Society's Music Director Sebastián Zubieta and musicologist Laura Novoa (Buenos Aires), and will feature performances by Momenta Quartet, among others.
Program
Graciela Paraskevaídis (Argentina, 1940–2017): Magma II (1968) for four trombones
Jorge Sarmientos (Guatemala, 1931–2012): String Quartet no. 1, op. 37 (1966)
Mariano Etkin (Argentina, 1943–2016): Entropías (1965) for two horns, trumpet, two trombones, and tuba
and Estáticamóvil II (1966) for string trio
This concert is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the Americas Society website at www.as-coa.org.
Americas Society
680 Park Ave. NYC
Joseph Haydn, Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 20, No. 1
Claude Baker, String Quartet No. 3
Julian Carrillo, Dos Bosquejos (Two Sketches)
Benjamin Britten, Quartet No. 3 in G, Op. 94 “Death in Venice”
More information at louisvillechambermusic.wordpress.com
Comstock Hall
150 W Brandeis Avenue
Louisville, KY 40208
Momenta continues its multi-year project with musicologist Alejandro Madrid performing the thirteen string quartets of Mexican composer Julian Carrillo (1875-1965) as well as performing works by Cornell faculty.
April 14, 8pm
Music of Cornell Faculty Composers
featuring works by Roberto Sierra, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, and Kevin Ernste.
Barnes Hall
April 15, 2pm
The Carrillo Project
Works by Julian Carrillo, including String Quartet No. 5 (1937), the world-premiere of String Quartet No. 12 (1964), and the Piano Quintet with pianist Ryan McCullough.
Klarman Hall
April 18, 8pm
The Carrillo Project
World-premieres of String Quartet Nos. 9 and 10 (1959) and a repeat performance of the Piano Quintet with pianist Ryan McCullough.
Barnes Hall
All events are free and open to the public.
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
St Urban brings the salon experience into the 21st century, exploring the culture of composers and their contemporaries. With chamber music at its core and an annual world premiere, our intimate evenings engage audience and artists in music and conversation.
More information at www.st-urban.com. Memberships are currently sold out.
Beethoven Spring Sonata
Weill Lieder
Rihm Ophelia Sings
Milhaud La Création du Monde
Arr. For Piano Quintet
Sharon Harms, soprano
Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin
Momenta String Quartet
Lenore Davis, piano
Bernstein: Fancy Free
Barber: Knoxville: Summer 1915
Baker: J’ai deux amours
Baker: La Conga blicoti
Hanson: Symphony No. 2, “Romantic”
March 11, 8:00pm
March 12, 2:00pm
More information at irisorchestra.org
Germantown Performing Arts Center
Germantown, TN
MOMENTA QUARTET:
EMILIE-ANNE GENDRON, violin
ALEX SHIOZAKI, violin
STEPHANIE GRIFFIN, viola
MICHAEL HAAS, cello
IGOR LESCHISHIN, oboe
SOLOMIYA IVAKHIV, violin
MYROSLAV SKORYK, piano
MYKOLA SUK, piano
RYAN KAMM, double bass
Partita No. 5 in modo retro for Solo Piano (1975); Carpathian Rhapsody for Solo Violin and Piano, arranged by the composer for Solo Violin and String Quartet (2005); Oboe Concerto, arranged by the composer for Solo Oboe, String Quartet, Solo Violin, and Double Bass (2017); Diptych for String Quartet (1993); Three Jazz Pieces for Four Hands: 1. Pleasant Stroll, 2. Persistent Motif, 3. In Folk Style.
General Admission $25
Students/Seniors $10
UIA Members free
More information at ukrainianinstitute.org
Ukrainian Institute of America
2 East 79th Street
New York, NY 10075
February 17th, 8pm: The Works of Tokuhide Niimi
February 18th, 5:30pm: Diversification of Japanese Contemporary Music
For the 43rd season MFJ will present its third year of the Artist Residence Program to facilitate dialogue between composers, critics and music scholars from the US and Japan.
The Works of Tokuhide Niimi,will feature three of the composer’s pieces, including one new work commissioned by MFJ. The Momenta Quartet, the C4 Vocal Ensemble and other world-renowned New York-based musicians will perform these inspiring works. Diversification of Japanese Contemporary Music, is curated by Dr. Toshie Kakinuma and will feature new work by Japanese composers. The evening will include two world premieres of MFJ commissions written by Makiko Nishikaze and Mayu Masuda. Ms. Masuda’s new piece is written for voice and wagon, an ancient Japanese 6-string koto. Kayoko Nakagawa will perform this exciting new repertoire on this rare instrument.
Scandinavia House/Victor Borge Hall
58 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Information at musicfromjapan.org
SIX. TWENTY. OUTRAGEOUS.
Three Gertrude Stein Plays in the Shape of an Opera
When an oddball couple, their sassy housekeeper, a sewing machine, and a deranged radio all start singing, Stein’s playful language is transformed into the ecstatic and uncannily beautiful new opera from composer Daniel Thomas Davis, librettist Adam Frank, and director-designer Doug Fitch. From a shopping expedition that turns into an erotic adventure to a presidential election party that goes prophetically and horribly wrong, Stein’s genius for upending convention is made startlingly relevant to our own cultural and political moment. This world premiere features an all-star lineup including vocalists Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek (Anonymous 4), Ariadne Greif, and Andrew Fuchs, joined by the Momenta Quartet and musical director David Bloom.
Tickets and more information at symphonyspace.org
Friday, Feb. 9, 7:30pm
Saturday, Feb. 10, 7:30pm
Sunday, Feb. 11, 2:00pm
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
New York, NY 10025-6990
Lost Dog New Music Ensemble presents a festival of music exploring the contemporary music scene in the United Kingdom.
Including performances of music by Julian Anderson, Richard Barret, Mark Bowden, Philip Cashian, Anna Clyne, Tom Coult, Tansy Davies, Helen Grime, Deirdre Gribbin, Ken Hesketh, Colin Matthews, Anna Meredith, Thea Musgrave, Mark Simpson, Martin Suckling.
Tenri Cultural Center, NYC
More information at https://www.lostdognewmusic.org/
Momenta presents a new theatrical string quartet piece for children based on N.M. Bodecker’s delightful illustrated children’s book "The Lost String Quartet." It features original music by Stephanie Griffin, theater direction and narration by Fernando Villa Proal, and newly created percussion instruments by Michael Evans.
The Lost String Quartet is a far-fetched story about all the terrible mishaps that befall a string quartet on its way to a concert in the thick of winter. Using the ebullient Finale of Mozart’s String Quartet in G, K. 387 as a point of departure, the music is a set of variations that become more outrageous as the story develops and the instruments are compromised, culminating in a finale played on homemade instruments.
Visit YouTube for The Making of the Lost String Quartet featuring music, interviews, and more!
December 4, 5, 6, 8- private performances through the Time In Children's Art Initiative.
Public performance December 10 at 11am. Children and adults of all ages are welcome! Seating is limited, so please make a reservation at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3181579.
HiArt Gallery
227 W. 29th St. 4R, NYC
Two programs of innovative music from two distinctive and influential composer-performers with extensive histories around the world.
Composer and cornetist Graham Haynes presents Killing Time Carving Space for solo cornet with electronics, plus world premieres of two new chamber works: String Quartet no. 1, with The Momenta Quartet, and Prelude and Fugue for Flutes, with the Graham Haynes Flute Ensemble, with Michel Gentile, Anders Bostrom, Mayu Saeki, Domenica Fossati, and Jamie Baum.
Trombonist and composer David Taylor presents Big Stories for a Small Group, featuring his band David Taylor and the Calithumpians, with Taylor (bass trombone and vocals), Ron Stabinsky (piano and vocals), Moppa Elliot (double bass and vocals), and Kevin Shea (percussion and vocals). Featuring texts by Johann Friedrich Von Schiller, Hippocrates, Black Sabbath, Dante, Led Zeppelin, and Heinrich Heine.
Tickets and more information at interpretations.info
In song, chamber music, and four operas since 1998, composer-librettist Mark Adamo has returned again and again to a theme of becoming: how human beings—young and old, ancient and modern, real or imagined—struggle with, or embrace, the new characters time and circumstance turn them into.
As his new opera, Becoming Santa Claus, is released on DVD this fall, the composer will talk to Steve Smith between pieces about what’s changed, and what hasn’t, in his music. The artists of the Momenta Quartet pace three extraordinary singers through the a core sample of the work itself.
Kara Dugan, mezzo-soprano
Daniel T. Curran, tenor
Jarrett Ott, baritone
Matt Boehler, bass
Momenta Quartet, string quartet
Tickets and information at https://nationalsawdust.org/event/a-night-of-mark-adamo/
Momenta Quartet is joined by Marcy Rosen and Samuel Rhodes for their PCMS debut performance.
Poll: Quartet [World Premiere/PCMS Commission in honor of Robert Capanna]
Singleton: Quartet No. 3, Somehow We Can
Fernández: Quartet No. 2, Sin tiempo [Philadelphia Premiere]
Schulhoff: String Sextet
American Philosophical Society
Benjamin Franklin Hall
427 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
More information and tickets: pcmsconcerts.org
Momenta Quartet performs music by Mozart, Britten, and Stephanie Griffin. More information at chapelrestoration.org
Chapel Restoration
45 Market St.
Cold Spring, NY
Fader-Gendron-Haas trio performs music of Brahms and Dalit Warshaw. Wine and cheese reception to follow the concert. Information at www.melodyfader.com
Church in the Gardens
50 Ascan Ave, Forest Hills, Queens, NY
New Chamber Ballet
Stray Bird: A Danced Tribute To Ursula Mamlok
German Academy New York, 1014 Fifth Avenue, New York
A danced tribute to composer Ursula Mamlok, who as a teenager fled from the Nazis, arrived in New York after traveling across three continents, and became one of her generation’s visionary composers. With choreography by Miro Magloire, Rebecca Walden, and Mara Driscoll, performed by the dancers of New Chamber Ballet, the Momenta Quartet, and selected soloists. .
Free, but advance tickets required - click here.
Thursday, October 5th, 2017, 7pm [SOLD OUT - Waiting List Only] and 8:30pm
Friday, October 6th, 2017, 6:30pm [SOLD OUT - Waiting List Only] and 8:30pm [Limited number of seats available]
Four distinctively themed programs, each curated by a different member of Momenta Quartet.
Sunday, October 1 (7 pm) Air from Another Planet
Dixon Place Theater, 161 A Chrystie Street
Curated by Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin
With Elizabeth Brown, theremin, and video art by Lothar Osterburg
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Rosary Passacaglia for solo violin in g minor, C. 105 (“Guardian Angel,” ca. 1676)
Alyssa Weinberg: Unstrung (2017) for solo violin NY Premiere
Kee Yong Chong: Silence Cosmos (2005) for string quartet
Michael Small: White Space – Meditation on Saenredam (2015) for solo violin US Premiere
Elizabeth Brown: Piranesi (2007/12) for theremin and string quartet; video by Lothar Osterburg
Arnold Schoenberg: IV. Entrückung (“Rapture”) from String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 for soprano and string quartet (1907-08); world premiere version for theremin and string quartet
Monday, October 2 (7 pm) Tyrants and Liberators
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue
Curated by Stephanie Griffin, violist
With Telmary Diaz, reciter, Christopher Oldfather, piano, and Hilliard Greene, jazz bassist and composer
Alvin Singleton: Somehow We Can for String Quartet (1994)
Agustín Fernández: String Quartet No 2, Sin tiempo (2013, commissioned for Momenta by the Koussevitzky Foundation)
Griffin/Greene: Improvised duo based on Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Arnold Schoenberg: Ode to Napoleon (1942) for string quartet, reciter and piano
Tuesday, October 3 (7 pm) A Room with a View
The Italian Academy at Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
Curated by Michael Haas, cello
With guests Samuel Rhodes, viola, and Marcy Rosen, cello
Benjamin Britten: String Quartet No. 3 in G Major, Op. 94 (1975)
Claude Baker: Années de Pèlerinage: Italie (“Years of Pilgrimage: Italy”) (2016-17) world premiere, commissioned by the Barlow Foundation for Momenta Quartet
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence Op. 70 for string sextet (1890)
Wednesday, October 4 (7 pm) Forces of Creation
The Center at West Park, 165 W.86th Street (West Park Presbyterian Church)
Curated by Alex Shiozaki, violinist
With guest Nana Shi, pianist
Hiroya Miura: Singularity (2012, rev. 2017) world premiere of revised version
Per Nørgård: String Quartet No. 8 “Night Descending Like Smoke” (1995-97)
João Pedro Oliveira: Magma, for violin and electronics (2014)
Darius Milhaud: La création du monde, op. 81b for piano quintet (1923)
Free concerts, all at 7pm
More information at http://www.momentaquartet.com/mf3/
Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10
Webern: 2 Lieder, Op. 8
Webern: 4 Lieder, Op.13
Gubaidulina: Concordanza
Webern: Kantate 1, Op. 29
Epstein: Flower World
Webern: Das Augenlicht, Op.26
Webern: Variations, Op. 30
Webern: Symphony, Op. 21
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and NOVUS NY; Julian Wachner, conductor
Free
St. Paul's Chapel
More information at https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/music-arts/2017-2018/times-arrow
Ostrava Days 2017 and the Ostrava Center for New and Experimental Music presents Momenta New York.
Program:
Julián Carrillo: Meditación from dos Bosquejos (1927)
Petr Kotík: String Quartet No. 2 "Torso" (2011-13)
Petr Bakla: Major Thirds (2016)
Alex Mincek: String Quartet No. 3 (2010)
Pawel Malinowski: I <3 Franz. (2016)
Rebecca Bruton: Evening Cream (2015)
Bálint Laczkó: Rhapsodie Of 132 (2013)
More information at www.newmusicostrava.cz
Triple Hall Karolina
Ostrava, Czech Republic
The Fischer Center at Bard College and the American Symphony Orchestra present Dvorak's rarely heard opera Dmitrij. More information at http://fishercenter.bard.edu/calendar/event.php?eid=132293
Cantata Profana is a fearless vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble now finishing its fifth season of presenting “every kind of classical music you might imagine” (New Yorker). We’re thrilled to be at the amazing HERE in SoHo for Ancient Groove Music – our take on the evolution of dance and groove and beat from the dark ages to the age of minimalism. A rollicking good show with tunes and jams from the Renaissance to Schubert to Bartok to Steve Reich. Join us for a wild adventure featuring many of CP's core artists and friends.
Program to include Steve Reich's NY Counterpoint, David Lang's Cheating, Lying, Stealing, John Adam's John's Book of Alleged Dances, Robert Honstein's Why are you not answering?, and music of Schubert, Biber, and Bach.
Friday, June 23, 7:00pm
Saturday, June 24, 7:00pm
Sunday, June 25, 2:00pm
More information at http://here.org/shows/detail/1914/
A pioneer of minimal music with works often being of long duration and featuring slow tempi and quiet dynamics Petr Kotik celebrates 75 years with special guests Philip Glass, George Lewis and Alex Mincek in conversations and performances in a retrospective program of his most iconic works. In addition to these guests, also performing will be members of the S.E.M. Ensemble, oboist Jacqueline LeClair and the Momenta Quartet.
(le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker St. NYC
http://lpr.com/lpr_events/nothing-everything-changes-petr-kotik-june-21st-2017/
Momenta Quartet performs John Adam's Book of Alleged Dances with new choreography by MeenMoves artistic directer Sameena Mitta.
June 8, 8pm
June 9, 8pm
Tickets and more information at www.meenmoves.com
Momenta Quartet and pianist Melody Fader perform Schumann's Piano Quintet. Also on the program is Schumann's DIchterliebe with tenor Richard Cox.
Reception to follow
NOVUS NY performs Philip Glass's Symphony No. 5 at Trinity Wall St.
Friday, May 19, 8:00pm
Saturday, May 20, 8:00pm
https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/music-arts/2016-2017/philip-glass-symphony-no-5
