LAU NOAH'S "A DECADE OF MIRACLES" - A FOLK OPERA IN DEFENSE OF HUMAN ART
Classical, jazz and folk musicians trade songs by ear and memory, never written down and never improvised. Expect a short film, an early listen to the record, and a live set.
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Alune Wade & Family Affair / faiith (presented by the JGI)
Senegalese bassist Alune Wade brings Family Affair, an album that feels like a reunion, with West African traditions and contemporary jazz in dialogue. A celebration, not a tribute.
DVT: Traveling Shoes Experience
Composer Damani Rhodes, vocalist VADIA, and poet Tongo Eisen-Martin make their debut as a trio, folding jazz, soul, and spoken poetry into something close to a sacred rite.
Nicoletta Todesco: The Cockroach Diary
A one-woman operetta for voice, classical guitar, and electric guitar, where a cockroach becomes an artist's unlikely muse. It begins intimate, drifts into outer space, and returns changed.
Anthony Roth Costanzo: How You Get High
A pre-release party for the book Countertenor and its companion album, with readings by celebrity guests and countertenors, a live performance, and a closing DJ Prince Terrence set.
Eleanor Alberga: The String Quartet Cycle
The Green Room Ensemble plays all three of Eleanor Alberga's string quartets, each different in style and tone, plus the world premiere of her Second Piano Quintet with her at the piano.
HANDEL + HENDRIX With Dither, R.B. Schlather, and Ruckus
Electric guitar quartet Dither open with new commissions channeling Hendrix's experimental language, then director R.B. Schlather and Ruckus shrink Handel's final opera, Deidamia, to chamber scale.
makemake presents: Wholly Unwinding (A New Musical) - NYC Premiere
A new musical that's part folk concert, part immersive ritual, part dance party, turning scars into songs. Come ready to move and sing as the audience becomes fellow travelers.
inti figgis-vizueta’s Music for Transitions with Andrew Yee and Rothko String Quartet
Composer inti figgis-vizueta brings her debut album to life with cellist Andrew Yee and the Rothko String Quartet, in playful, ecstatic improvisation on land, wind, and rivers.
Disco Bambino Presents: An Italian Disco Revolution
Giuseppe Savoni, aka Disco Bambino, opens with a conversation on Italian disco, then plays a set from his own archives of forgotten gems from the '70s and '80s, made for dancing.
Morley — Meditations on The Gift of Awe Record Premiere Celebration
A prayerful, genre-defying song cycle of vocal soundscapes, rhythm and improvisation, played by Morley with a vocal trio and chamber ensemble. Songs lean toward calm and healing.
Murmrr Presents Numero Group - 23rd Anniversary Celebration w/ Laraaji, The Album Leaf, Shira Small
A label birthday show spanning the Numero Group catalog, with Laraaji, The Album Leaf, and Shira Small playing live. It's an all-ages night, part of the label's pop-up farewell run.
makemake presents: Opera Praktikos’ La Sonnambula
Opera Praktikos rebuilds Bellini and Romani's The Sleepwalker so spoken, sung, and signed languages work as one voice, with accessibility built in from the start rather than added on.
Hannah Ishizaki, Chiori Miyagawa, and Mark Campbell: A Thousand Generations
Hannah Ishizaki is writing a one-act chamber opera in 11 scenes, retelling the folk story The Crane's Gratitude for three vocalists, chamber ensemble, and electronics.
Hildegard Commission Concert 2026
Four rising composers each write new music answering an illustration from Hildegard von Bingen's codices, brought to life with animations and projections in an immersive setting.
Caleb Wheeler Curtis & Jason Moran: "Incantation" Album Release Celebration
Saxophonist Caleb Wheeler Curtis and MacArthur fellow Jason Moran celebrate their album on Imani Records, exploring space, time, and melody through a shared fascination with musical ancestry.
Emily Wells - Mirror Father - a workshop performance
Emily Wells's opera, years in the making, in workshop form: a "mirror father" and the phantom daughter he dreams of compare queerness, art, and why neither chose a child.
Peni Candra Rini's Jiwa Kala, with Shahzad Ismaily and Andy McGraw Presented by World Music Institute
Javanese singer and composer Peni Candra Rini weaves Sufi poetry into contemporary music, joined on stage by ethnomusicologist Andy McGraw and multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily.
Francisca Valenzuela
Raw, poetic, piano-based art-pop sung in Spanish, from an artist described as one of the boldest of her generation. Deeply personal confessions that still feel universal.
LPR Presents: Diles que no me maten
A five-piece band working on a first-thought, best-thought basis, shaping krautrock-style jams into wiry art rock with bluesy ballads. Escrito en Agua is their most accessible album yet.
