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New York Times: The Best Classical Music of 2025, So Far
“Part murder mystery, part psychological séance, In A Grove became the highlight of this year’s Prototype in January. Metropolis Ensemble’s shimmering performance contributed to the dream-like unreality... leaves listeners suspended between ambiguity and wonder.”
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Summer Solstice
Friday, June 20 / 5:15am and 8:30pm / Brooklyn Botanic GardenMetropolis Ensemble celebrated the World Premiere of Matthew Evan Taylor’s Afropneuma at sunrise and Erik Hall’s World Premiere reimagining of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians at sunset—two powerful works inspired by breath and transformation.
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Metropolis Trilogy
World Premiere with Emi Ferguson, Immanuel Wilkins Quartet, and Ruckus
February 14 (7:30pm) at DACAMERA HoustonAudiences experienced a large-scale, three-movement World Premiere from iconic innovator Roscoe Mitchell, co-commissioned by Metropolis Ensemble.
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In A Grove
January 16–19, 2025 at PROTOTYPE Opera FestivalNew York Premiere of composer Christopher Cerrone and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann’s new opera co-produced by Metropolis Ensemble. Photo credit Maria Baranova
Listen to our studio recording: “a vividly immersive thriller... a richly produced recording… with the nimble Metropolis Ensemble.” (New York Times, Best Albums of 2023)
Did you know? Since 2015 Metropolis has providing key incubation investments and development support for the commissioning and presentation of this bold new work.
You can help fund a team of 30 collaborators — musicians, singers, stage lighting and costume designers, producers, and conductors — to bring this new production to life.
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Flame Keepers
Jakub Ciupinski's pandemic-born perpetual sonic art installation. 140 composer contributors since 2021 and growing.
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Forward Into Light
A New Album from Composer Sarah Kirkland SniderMetropolis Ensemble is collaborating with Sarah Kirkland Snider and Grammy-winning producer Silas Brown to record her acclaimed orchestral works.
Together with our world-class partners, your sustaining gift will support Sarah's $100K Challenge Grant and help bring this new recording project to life.
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A New Opera
Written by Composer Vivian Fung and Librettist Royce VavrekMetropolis Ensemble and Edmonton Opera are collaborating on a new opera based on family history and mental health. World Premiere coming soon.
You can shape the future of this project development with a transformative gift that yields tangible results by employing multiple artists.
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Best of Albums 2024
New York Times, Gramophone, and NPR celebrate Timo Andres: The Blind Banister“Behaves like a single, grand gesture of descending scales and fascinating harmony” (New York Times)
“A beautifully recorded introduction to Timo Andres’s pianistic voice” (Gramophone)
“Mesmerizing… darkly textured… pensive yet filled with promise” (NPR)
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Feature Grammy 2025
2025 GRAMMY Awards Nominee
Best Engineered Album, Classical — Timo Andres: The Blind BanisterOur recent studio album is nominated for engineers Silas Brown, Doron Schachter, and Michael Schwartz and mastering engineer Matt Colton, performed by Metropolis Ensemble, conductor Andrew Cyr, Timo Andres, and Inbal Segev.
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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
Now playing at Cosm LA and Cosm Dallas
"Cosm offers a canvas for boundless creativity." —Ricardo Romaneiro
Experience composer Ricardo Romaneiro’s immersive audiovisual symphony created for Cosm, the world’s first 87-foot diameter 12K LED dome and spatial audio system.
Listen to 118 artists from Metropolis Ensemble (Andrew Cyr, conductor) and The Crossing (Donald Nally, Conductor), with producers Silas Brown and Andrew Cyr.
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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 Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and a constellation of generous donors and foundations.