Upcoming Events

MATA INTERVAL 6.3
Presented by MATA — a collaborative show with C4 Choral Collective
Featuring music by MATA alumni Ryan Brown, Bryce Dessner, David Moore, and Wil Smith

Thursday, May 16, 2013 | 8:00 pm
Galapagos Art Space | 16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY
21 and older
Tickets $20 — purchase here







Gabrielle Herbst Workshop Performance
Contemporaneous performs an excerpt from Bodiless, experimental singer and composer Gabrielle Herbst's opera in progress. This performance is part of Gabrielle's Exploring the Metropolis Composer Residency.
Friday, May 31, 2013 | 6:00 pm
Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy | 179 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY

Yotam Haber's Last Skin at Music with a View
Presented by Music with a View
Friday, June 21, 2013 | 6:00 pm
The Flea Theater | 41 White Street, New York, NY



Past Events this Season

Theater is EvilContemporaneous plays with Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra!
Contemporaneous joins the one and only Amanda Palmer in music from her new album!
Presented by Live Arts Bard
September 5 and 6, 2012 | 7:30 pm — Plus a show for Bard students only on September 4!
Theater Two, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College

Tehillim
Featuring Steve Reich's timeless masterpiece Tehillim and Judd Greenstein's epic Vayomer Shlomo

Saturday, September 29, 2012 | 8:00 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Bard College

Sunday, September 30, 2012 | 5:30 pm
Contemporaneous plays the first ever performance at the brand new venue of New Amsterdam Presents!
Van Dyke Park (98A Van Dyke Street, Brooklyn, NY)


Collaborative concert with Fermata
Featuring music by Philip Glass and Dylan Mattingly along with works by students at Brown University
Saturday, October 13, 2012 | 8:00 pm
Roberts Underground, Brown University, Providence, RI

Coming Together
A collaborative show with Brooklyn-based bands Tween and Unconscious Disturbance, featuring Frederic Rzewski's brazen Coming Together
Friday, November 16, 2012 | 10:30 pm
SMOG, Bard College


Educational Events at Manhattan's PS 142
Thursday, November 29
Contemporaneous presents two fun and engaging educational events at the Lower East Side's PS 142, introducing kids in grades 2 through 5 to the music of their time!



Shut Your Eyes
World premiere by Contemporaneous member Conor Brown along with music by Bryce Dessner (guitarist of The National) and Donnacha Dennehy's Grá agus Bás

Friday, November 30, 2012 | 6:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Bard College

Saturday, December 1, 2012 | 7:00 pm
Presented by Neighborhood Classics
P.S. 142 (100 Attorney Street, NYC) — F to Delancey or J, M, Z to Essex
Tickets $15 in support of P.S. 142 — Purchase here


Residency at Williams College and I/O Fest
Williams College presents Contemporaneous in a 2-day residency including readings, workshops, and two performances! We will be bringing music by Dylan Mattingly, Marc Mellits, David Moore, and Nico Muhly.
Performances Saturday, January 12, 2013 | 2:00 pm AND 8:00 pm
The '62 Center for Theater and Dance | Williams College | Williamstown, MA

DON'T EVEN

Featuring the world premiere of the revised version of Sean Friar's Clunker Concerto for junk car, with TIGUE Percussion, along with bold, head-banging music by David Lang, Andrew Norman, and Jeremy Podgursky

Hudson Valley:
Sunday, February 10, 2013 | 8:00 pm
Olin Hall | Bard College

New York City:
Monday, February 11, 2013 | 7:00 pm
Presented by Neighborhood Classics
P.S. 142 | 100 Attorney Street, NYC | F to Delancey or J, M, Z to Essex
Tickets $15 in support of P.S. 142 | Purchase here or at the door

Educational Events at Manhattan's PS 142
Monday, February 11
Contemporaneous presents two fun and engaging educational events at the Lower East Side's PS 142, introducing kids in grades 2 through 5 to the music of their time!



New Music Bake Sale 2013
Come hang out with members of Contemporaneous and a bunch of other new music groups at this fun and tasty event. We'll have some great home-cooked baked goods!
Sunday, March 3, 2013 | 4:00-11:00 pm
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave. (at 3rd Ave.), Brooklyn, NY
Admission $10




Voices Up!

Presented by Fordham University's Poets Out Loud
World premiere settings of Fordham prize-winning poets in new works by John Boggs, Ryan Chase, and Lawrence Kramer! Also featuring works by Lisa Bielawa and Ryan Brown.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 | 7:30 pm
12th Floor Lounge | Fordham University at Lincoln Center, NYC

The Bakkhai

Featuring a brand new recording of a new work by co-artistic director Dylan Mattingly, this event will include engaging demonstrations of his process in setting of the choruses from the classic Euripides in ancient Greek! Note that Contemporaneous will not appear live in this event.

Saturday, April 13, 2013 | 4:00 pm
Presented by the Classical Studies Program at Bard College
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Bard College

There Is Another Sky
Our Hudson Valley series season finale!

Don't miss world premieres by founding co-artistic directors David Bloom and Dylan Mattingly and works by John Halle, Gabriella Smith, and George Tsontakis!

Sponsored by the Peter S. Reed Foundation
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 | 7:00 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Bard College
Join us for an after-party following the show!



Extemporaneous
Contemporaneous plays Terry Riley's In C with YOU!
Saturday, April 27, 2013 | 5:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Bard College


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