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November 1–2 at Wesleyan UniversityComposer Paula Matthusen's expansive, 24-hour, multi-tiered space for sonic engagement and reflection. A participatory experience featuring visual artist Olivia Valentine, poet Tung-Hui Hu, and audio interpretations by Singularity and Metropolis Ensemble.
“Feel free to participate, listen, explore the space, and carry sound with you.” —Paula Matthusen
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Flame Keepers
Jakub Ciupinski's pandemic-born perpetual sonic art installation. 127 composer contributors since 2021 and growing.
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Metropolis Ensemble is a Grammy-nominated nonprofit that creates, commissions, and produces site-specific performances, new works, recordings, and concerts.
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Liquidverse
Created for Cosm, the world's first 87-foot diameter LED dome, composer Ricardo Romaneiro’s immersive audiovisual symphony debuts with Metropolis Ensemble (Andrew Cyr) and The Crossing (Donald Nally). Now open at Cosm LA and Cosm Dallas.On September 27 at Cosm LA, Ricardo Romaneiro and Andrew Cyr joined Cosm Studios’ Neil Carty for a panel discussion and Q&A about how this project came to life.
"Cosm offers a canvas for boundless creativity." —Ricardo Romaneiro
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Biophony Pop-Up NYC
In September 2024, 77 musicians hosted our annual pop-up concert series at pedestrian plazas and open streets across New York City, performing works by 95 composers, with participation from NYC Department of Transportation and New York State Council on the Arts.
“Metropolis is providing an avenue for collaborative musical exploration, all while providing free accessible music for my community.” —Alfredo Colón
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In A Grove at Prototype
January 16–19, 2025Join us at PROTOTYPE, the annual festival of visionary opera-theatre and music-theatre works by pioneering contemporary artists, for the New York Premiere of composer Christopher Cerrone and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann’s opera, In A Grove.
“This is a story told over and over again from different perspectives... where themes, repetition, and variation help us navigate and understand this mysterious tale.” —Christopher Cerrone
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Timo Andres: Fiddlehead
On September 21 at Wethersfield Estate and Garden, Metropolis Ensemble and composer/pianist Timo Andres presented a sold-out concert of solo piano works inspired by Andres’ recent Carnegie Hall debut, including Duke Ellington, Philip Glass, Frederic Rzewski, Timo Andres, and Gabriella Smith.
“Fomenting its gestural language from spirals, springs, coils, vortices, loops-de-loop, and other calligraphic flourishes, Fiddlehead is an irrepressible stream of piano energy.” —Timo Andres
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Biophony: Solstice
Sunrise and Sunset concerts on June 20, 2024 at Brooklyn Botanic Garden featured a sweeping World Premiere arrangement of Simeon ten Holt’s “Canto Ostinato” performed by 52 musicians including Metropolis Ensemble, pianist Erik Hall, and Sandbox Percussion.
“Since recording the piece alone at home I've dreamed of performing it live with other musicians. I couldn't have asked for a more exciting or ideal opportunity than this.” —Erik Hall
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Loud and Soft
Molly Joyce's new interactive work featuring Sandbox Percussion.
"I find it fascinating how sound descriptions underscore the subjectivity of sound." —Molly Joyce
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Timo Andres: The Blind Banister
Chamber orchestra concerti captured by Silas Brown in Dolby Atmos for Nonesuch Records. Metropolis Ensemble (Andrew Cyr, conductor), Inbal Segev, solo cello, and Timo Andres (solo piano).“Original, arresting and eclectic” (The Guardian)“Editor’s Choice… I cannot recommend this album highly enough” (Gramophone)“Worth the wait” (NPR)
“It’s increasingly rare to record an orchestra in this level of detail... to make a record of the time.” —Timo Andres
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Shriek Variations
Wye Oak's reimagined 2014 indie-sensation with composer William Brittelle, Metropolis Ensemble, and Paul Wiancko.“A massive variation, a new symphonic retelling” (NPR, WDET)“Brittelle’s orchestral reimaginings are the centerpiece” (Stinkweeds)
“We’ve learned so much throughout our ensuing creative partnership and friendship.” —Jenn Wasner
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Metropolis Ensemble projects are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Metropolis Ensemble is made possible in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and a constellation of generous donors and foundations.