Feature Holiday 2024
Feature Holiday 2024
Empowering the Future
Please consider making an end-of-year gift to Metropolis Ensemble today. Your support makes a lasting impact, and we are deeply grateful for your partnership in this creative journey.
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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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In A Grove
January 16–19, 2025 at PROTOTYPE Opera Festival
"Themes, repetition, and variation help us navigate and understand this mysterious tale." —Christopher Cerrone
Experience the New York Premiere of composer Christopher Cerrone and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann’s haunting new opera co-produced by Metropolis Ensemble.
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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With your support, Metropolis Ensemble can make a real difference in the lives of our talented artists and inspire audiences everywhere.
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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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DRIFT / LOOP
November 1–2 at Wesleyan University
"Audiences felt free to participate, listen, explore the space, and carry sound with them." —Paula Matthusen
Composer Paula Matthusen's expansive, 24-hour, multi-tiered space for sonic engagement and reflection featured Olivia Valentine, Tung-Hui Hu, Singularity, and Metropolis artists.
This project was initiated and commissioned by Metropolis Ensemble and conductor / producer Andrew Cyr in 2020. You can support our site-specific performances.
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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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The Loop is a passionate community of Metropolis Ensemble supporters who empower our talented artists through their generosity every month.
A $25 monthly gift provides employment for one new artist every year.
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Biophony Pop-Up NYC
September 2024 across New York City
“Metropolis is providing an avenue for collaborative musical exploration, all while providing free accessible music for my community.” —Alfredo Colón
Our annual concert series at NYC pedestrian plazas and open streets with 77 performers, works by 95 composers, New York State Council on the Arts, and NYC DOT.
Bring our Biophony projects to life, empowering and employing hundreds of artists. Together we can amplify impact and promote greater community access to the arts.
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Fiddlehead
September 21 at Wethersfield Estate and Garden
“Fomenting its gestural language from spirals, springs, coils, vortices, loops-de-loop, and other calligraphic flourishes, an irrepressible stream of piano energy.” —Timo Andres
Metropolis and Timo Andres presented a sold-out concert of solo piano works inspired by Andres’ recent Carnegie Hall debut, including Ellington, Glass, Rzewski, and Smith.
You can make a real difference in the lives of talented multidisciplinary artists and inspiring audiences everywhere by celebrating new music commissions.
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Help us raise funds for the Metropolis artist community. Invite your own social circles to join you on a mission to build a hopeful future for new music to thrive.It only takes a few minutes to build your campaign.Feature Solstice
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Biophony: Solstice
June 20 at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
“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
Hundreds of visitors gathered at sunrise and sunset for Simeon ten Holt’s “Canto Ostinato” with 52 musicians including Metropolis, Erik Hall, and Sandbox Percussion.
Since 2021, 30,000+ audiences have experienced Biophony projects in 125 locations across NYC with 650 artists and 43 new original commissioned musical works.
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Feature Loud and Soft
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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Flame Keepers
Jakub Ciupinski's pandemic-born perpetual sonic art installation. 140 composer contributors since 2021 and growing.
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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.