May 14, 2022
90+ musicians perform new flexible, open-score pieces at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, inspired by nature’s musicians: birds.
March 27, 2022
Musicians from PinkNoise Ensemble explore music that pushes the sound world of each instrument, including two World Premiere performances from Mert Morali and Jen Baker.
March 24, 2022
An evening-length composition at The Met drawing on African American, South Indian, and European musical practices.
February 6th, 2022
Claire Dickson's album release celebration, with Grey Mcmurray and Lesley Mok
Starland is Claire Dickson's debut album as a solo artist and producer, created on a tall ship in the Arctic Circle and in her Brooklyn apartment. With guitarist Grey Mcmurray and drummer Lesley Mok, this music comes alive with added spontaneity and imagination.
January 30th, 2022
Exceptet presents new experimental material, including the World Premiere of a new work by Rome Prize-winning composer Katherine Balch commissioned for Exceptet by the Barlow Endowment. Quartet121 opens up each set.
December 18th, 2021
Celebrate the holidays with Brooklyn Youth Chorus at the beautiful Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph, with a stirring and dynamic concert of contemporary music and holiday classics, featuring students from our Teen division and acclaimed performing ensembles, with special appearances by members of the Grammy-nominated orchestra collective Metropolis Ensemble.
Join Brooklyn Youth Chorus to start the holidays and leave full of the spirit of the season.
December 14th, 2021
Erika Dohi and Lauren Cauley co-present two intimate sets of reflective, electro-acoustic experimentation. Featuring Dohi performing songs on keyboards and synths from her latest album I, Castorpollux, out now on 37d03d, and new works by Cauley for prepared violin and electronics.
Craft cocktails and other surprises await.
December 13th, 2021
Join harpist/composer Hannah Lash and violin/viola duo andPlay (Maya Bennardo violin and Hannah Levinson, viola) for an evening of music to celebrate the release of composer Adam Roberts’ Bell Threads on New Focus Recordings. The concert will feature the world premiere of Rounds for solo harp, commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for Lash, as well as the New York premiere of Diptych.
December 12th, 2021
Gather at LPR to celebrate the release of 3 albums from New Amsterdam, including NOW Ensemble and Sean Friar’s Before and After, Phong Tran’s The Computer Room, and Charlotte Greve’s Sediments we move.
October 30th, 2021
Inspired by the 60s-70s Fluxus art movement, artists will perform historic Fluxus works and new Fluxus-inspired compositions. Read more at fifthwallperformingarts.com
October 17th, 2021
Bird’s Eye is the latest project from saxophonist and composer David Leon with Doyeon Kim on gayageum and Lesley Mok on drumset & percussion. Inspired by the folkloric musics of Cuba and Korea, the compositions weave rigorous ensemble writing and guided improvisation to investigate collectivity. As a recipient of New Music USA’s 2021 Creator Development Fund, Bird’s Eye will workshop new compositions during a series of residencies to be completed by year’s end.
September 18th, 2021
This event, presented for the first time as part of Make Music Autumn, is the grand finale of Metropolis Ensemble’s summer-long project where the orchestra-collective's musicians and composers created their own new music pop-up events across NYC.
Each performance and listener-experience of Biophony at Brooklyn Botanic Garden will be unique, as determined by the unlimited flexibility of instrumentations, the topography of the site, and the freedom given to participants to choose their own musical adventure.
July 21—September 17, 2021
Introducing a city-wide ritual bringing new music to new places.
Grief is a new project of revolutionary songs by pianist-vocalist-composer Samora Pinderhughes. It speaks truth to power, calling out the sufferings caused by racial capitalism, policing and prison systems, and oppressive ideologies. These are freedom songs, abolitionist songs, and songs that unpack what so many have experienced this past year, while also suggesting pathways for collective response and resistance.
Using the symbology of our shared past to look forward into an uncertain future of climate change, machine sentience, and the ever-expanding cyber universe, this extraordinary collective debuts the first material generated through the Meta Simulacrum, an interdisciplinary, alternate-reality digital platform designed by composer/producer William Brittelle.
December 24, 2020 / Online Event
Watch the premiere of a new live score co-commissioned by Kennedy Center and Metropolis by electro-acoustic composer Ricardo Romaneiro.
March 2021—March 2022
The Metropolitan Museum of Art / MetLiveArts and Metropolis Ensemble present a monthly video series featuring composer and performer Matthew Evan Taylor.
December 4-23, 2020 / The Wethersfield Estate
A brand-new, live, immersive, reimagining of the Holiday Classic for safe family viewing
December 12-20, 2020 / Online Event
Global program with artists, performing arts professionals and audiences from 6 countries
October 27, 2020 / Online Event
Metropolis Ensemble’s Debut Digital Festival, curated by Immanuel Wilkins, Erika Dohi, Daniel Anastasio, and Ryan Francis and hosted by House of Yes and (Le) Poisson Rouge.