2017-2018 Season
Wednesday, July 25, 2018 | 6:30 pm
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music | 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
FREE | Register here
Co-presented by The Dream Unfinished and Contemporaneous
Join us for this open rehearsal and the New York premiere of Kareem Roustom's Dabke for triple string quartet.
Monday, July 9, 2018 | 7:00 pm
Flushing Town Hall | 137-35 Northern Blvd, Queens, NY
FREE | Register here
Co-presented by The Dream Unfinished and Contemporaneous
This collaborative performance of musicians from Contemporaneous with New York activist orchestra The Dream Unfinished features the American premiere of Huang Ruo's The Sonic Great Wall, a piece for audience and chamber ensemble.
Sunday, June 24, 2018 | 4:00 pm
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street | Brooklyn, NY
$29 | Purchase tickets
In its season finale, Contemporaneous joins forces with Face the Music to present new works by Face the Music students, alumnae of LUNA, and Sarah Goldfeather, who was commissioned by Contemporaneous as part of Contemporaneous IMAGINATION.
Thursday, June 21, 2018 | 5:00 am-9:00 pm
Liberty Park | 155 Cedar St, New York, NY
FREE
Co-presented by Contemporaneous, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Make Music New York
Contemporaneous IMAGINATION presents SUNRISE / SUNSET by composer Brian Petuch, a 16-hour communal performance that tracks the movement of the sun from sunrise to sunset on the longest day of the year (June 21).
Contemporaneous performs on the Bang on a Can Marathon:
~ 1:30 pm — Dylan Mattingly: Stranger Love: Act I, Scene 13, "Jubilee"
~ 2:30 pm — Fjóla Evans: Eroding
~ 3:50 pm — Jeffrey Brooks: After The Treewatcher, Capriccio (with the Bang on a Can All-Stars)
~ 5:30 pm — Jeffrey Brooks: The Passion (with the Bang on a Can All-Stars)
Saturday, March 17, 2018 | 7:00 pm
Presented by Beth Morrison Projects
National Sawdust | 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
Tickets and information
Sunday, February 25, 2018 | 4:00 pm
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street | Brooklyn, NY
Ticket information forthcoming
Become a part of the world premiere of And Flowers Showered, an immersive concert length exploration of the self through music, movement, and architecture by visionary Latvian composer Krists Auznieks.
Friday, February 16, 2018 | 7:00 pm
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street | Brooklyn, NY
Ticket information forthcoming
In celebration of Pulizer, Grawermeyer, Grammy, and Academy Award winning composer John Corigliano's 80th birthday, Contemporaneous performs his work Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan.
Thursday, January 25, 2018
State University of New York at Binghamton
In the culminating event of a residency at the State University of New York at Binghamton, Contemporaneous performs world premiere works by graduate students of Daniel Thomas Davis. Stay tuned for more details!
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 | 7:00 pm
Presented by PROTOTYPE Festival and Contemporaneous
Roulette | 509 Atlantic Avenue | Brooklyn, NY
Tickets and information
Contemporaneous performs on the 2018 PROTOTYPE Festival, the premier opera-theater festival, with a concert presentation of the first act of composer Dylan Mattingly and librettist Thomas Bartscherer's Stranger Love.
Saturday, October 28, 2017 | 7:30 pm
Presented by National Sawdust and Irish Arts Center
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street | Brooklyn, NY
General admission $29 | Tickets and information
Opening Contemporaneous' year-long residency at National Sawdust, the sensational vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird joins Contemporaneous to perform a program of music from his native Ireland.
Friday, September 22, 2017 | 8:00 pm
Saturday, September 23, 2017 | 2:00 pm AND 8:00 pm
Sunday, September 24, 2017 | 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Presented by Pig Iron Theater Company and FringeArts
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania | Zellerbach Theatre
3680 Walnut Street | Philadelphia, PA
General admission $39 | Tickets and Information
Witness the world premiere of Pig Iron Theater's epic synthesis of theatre, music and design that contemplates a future of ominous environmental predictions and rapid technological change.
Thursday, September 21, 2017 | 10:00 PM
Presented by Urbanworld Film Festival
AMC Empire | Theater 12
234 West 42nd Street | New York, NY
General admission $16.50 | Tickets and information
Hear Contemporaneous on the big screen co-artistic director Dylan Mattingly's score for the independent film QUEST.
Saturday, August 19, 2017 | The Clark Art Institute
3:15 pm Musical Prelude | Thomas Schütte: Crystal
4:00 pm Concert | Spencer Terrace at Lunder Center
Presented by Clark Art Institute
225 South Street | Williamstown, MA
Free and open to the public | More information
At the lovely Clark Art Institute in Western Massachusetts, Contemporaneous celebrates the work of mid-century artist Helen Frankenthaler with a program or works by contemporaneously active American composers Frederic Rzewski, Philip Glass, Pauline Oliveros, and Meredith Monk.
Sunday, August 13, 2017 | 1:00 pm AND 3:00 pm
Presented by Rite of Summer Music Festival
Governors Island | Nolan Park
Free! | More information
Bring a picnic and the dog to enjoy music by Emma O'Halloran, Ian Gottlieb, and Finnegan Shanahan!
Friday, July 27, 2018 | 7:00 pm
Saint Peter's Church | 619 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
$25 General | Purchase tickets
Co-presented by The Dream Unfinished and Contemporaneous
Contemporaneous performs with New York activist orchestra The Dream Unfinished in SANCTUARY, an evening of music and dialogue that highlight TDU's season theme of immigration. Music by first and second generation American composers Vijay Iyer, Kareem Roustom, George Walker, Tania León, and Huang Ruo.