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October 28–31, 2025
Presenting newly commissioned with BalletCollective’s 2025 developing choreographers.
February 6–7, April 26, 2026
Soprano Mikaela Bennett joins forces with the Metropolis with works by Molly Joyce and Sarah Kirkland Snider.
June 20, 2025 at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Matthew Evan Taylor’s Afropneuma at sunrise and Erik Hall’s reimagining of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians.
June 7, 2025
Presenting World Premiere works by University of Buffalo artists at Silo City, celebrating the festival’s 50th anniversary.
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Metropolis plays a central role in the creation of diverse, innovative, and multidisciplinary projects. Here are some examples of our work:
2015–2025
Metropolis collaborated with composer Christopher Cerrone and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann on a haunting new opera and studio album recording.
2024
Metropolis collaborated with rising indie pop star and singer-songwriter Caroline Rose on orchestral arrangements of their fan-favorite tracks.
Ongoing Series
Flame Keepers is a live-streaming sonic art installation that weaves together multiple streams of music into unexpected, evolving combinations.
Ongoing Series
Discover new music around every corner of the city in a series of citywide site-specific music experiences for everyone.
Metropolis projects have been presented by Hollywood Bowl, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NBC's The Tonight Show, Celebrate Brooklyn, Le Poisson Rouge, The Kennedy Center, and more.
Metropolis produces ground-breaking and highly-technical albums with diverse recording studios and non-traditional labels including Nonesuch, Def Jam, Naxos, Merge, and New Amsterdam.
Metropolis brings together genre-bending expert artists for each multifaceted project, including Questlove, Tyondai Braxton, Emily Wells, Roscoe Mitchell, Timo Andres, Du Yun, Vivian Fung, and more.
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Discover some of the memorable concerts, albums, and digital projects we’re produced over the years.
Free pop-up concerts on open streets and pedestrian plazas across the city, expanding community access to new music.
A performative sculpture sailing in Central Park’s Harlem Meer and featuring a Metropolis brass ensemble presented with Creative Time.
An all-star mashup celebrating the pioneering works of electronic music, curated by Questlove at Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Our Grammy-nominated debut studio recording featured mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital on Naxos Records.
Tan Dun conducts Metropolis at Lincoln Center in his thrilling scores from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; The Banquet; and Hero.
An immersive soundbath experience by Ricardo Romaneiro in Brooklyn Botanic’s conservatory ecosystems.
A new family-friendly opera based on Philip Pullman’s novel, featuring Metropolis artists and fantastical puppets at New Victory Theater.
What would a house sound like if it could sing? An immersive concert experience with acoustic musicians and electronics filling private homes.
Our ongoing music laboratory on the Lower East Side has hosted over one hundred intimate concerts and workshops since 2017.
The studio recording of an eighty-seven-piece work for orchestra, choir and electronics released on New Amsterdam / Nonesuch Records.
A Metropolis commissioned remix of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring presented at Celebrate Brooklyn.
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February 6-7, April 26, 2026
Soprano Mikaela Bennett joins forces with the Metropolis with works by Molly Joyce and Sarah Kirkland Snider.
October 28–31, 2025
Presenting newly commissioned with BalletCollective’s 2025 developing choreographers.
June 7, 2025
Presenting World Premiere works by University of Buffalo artists at Silo City, celebrating the festival’s 50th anniversary.
February 14, 2025
Weaving together modern jazz quartet and baroque instruments.
January 16—19, 2025
Director Mary Birnbaum and music director Andrew Cyr present Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann’s haunting new opera at Prototype Festival.
November 1–2, 2024
Paula Matthusen’s expansive, twenty-four hour, multi-tiered space for sonic engagement and reflection presented at Wesleyan University.
September 27, 2024
Join Ricardo Romaneiro, Andrew Cyr, and Neil Carty to discover how Liquidverse came to life in Shared Reality.
September 21, 2024
An intimate evening of solo piano works from composer/pianist Timo Andres and works by Duke Ellington, Philip Glass, Frederic Rzewski, and Gabriella Smith.
August 31—September 29, 2024
Discover an immersive soundtrack across New York City’s neighborhoods.
June 20, 2024
Experience the summer solstice in a kaleidoscope of sound and ecstatic music. Featuring Metropolis Ensemble, Sandbox Percussion, and Erik Hall.