2018-2019 Season
Saturday, May 18, 2019 | 7:00 pm
Littlefield | 635 Sackett Street | Brooklyn, NY
in association with World Music Institute
18 and over | Seated $25 | Standing $10
Wild new music with Contemporaneous and berimbau sextet Projeto Acromusical. Featuring music by Alhaji Bai Konte, Joanna Newsom, Zhou Long, Gregory Beyer, Elliot Cole and Alexis Lamb.
Friday, April 26, 2019 | 8:00 pm
Cary Hall | DiMenna Center | 450 West 37th Street | New York, NY
Presented by ICEBERG New Music
General admission $20 | Students & seniors $10
Musicians from Contemporaneous will premiere works by ICEBERG composers Drake Andersen, Alex Burtzos, Yu-Chun Chien, Will Healy, and Harry Stafylakis.
Monday, April 17, 2019 | 8:00 pm
Taplin Auditorium | Fine Hall, Princeton University Fine Hall | Princeton, NJ
Presented by Princeton Sound Kitchen
FREE
Contemporaneous performs new works by Princeton University graduate composers Natalie Dietterich, Molly Herron, James Moore, Tom Morrison, and Annika Socolofsky along with faculty composer Dan Trueman.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 | 7:30 pm
Roulette | 509 Atlantic Avenue | Brooklyn, NY
General admission $18 in advance | $25 at door
A celebration of the radically diverse ways we express our lives through music, featuring sets by Boio, Forward Music Project, and Warp Trio. Contemporaneous closes with set of music by Henry Threadgill, Violet Barnum, and Sarah Goldfeather.
Sunday, February 24, 2019 | 8:00 pm
Roulette | 509 Atlantic Avenue | Brooklyn, NY
Presented by Roulette
General Admission $18 online | $25 at door
Composed by Ned Rothenberg, Beyond C is a concerto for improvising woodwind soloist and an ensemble of variable instruments.
February 20 and 21, 2019 | 7:00 pm
National Sawdust | 80 North 6th Street | Brooklyn, NY
Presented by Beth Morrison Projects
General Admission $25
BMP: Next Generation is a new initiative to discover the next generation of music-theatre and opera-theatre compositional voices. The two finalists chosen in the 2018 cycle, Michael Lanci and Emma O’Halloran, return to National Sawdust in February to showcase new and original 30-minute works.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 | 7:00 pm
The Flea Theater | 20 Thomas St | New York, NY
Presented by Experiments in Opera and Contemporaneous
FREE (RSVP required)
Experiments in Opera and Contemporaneous present a workshop performance of Chunky in Heat, is a multi-composer work based on a libretto by A.M. Homes and directed by Alison Moritz. The premiere will take place May 31-June 2, 2019.
January 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, and 12, 2019 | 8:00 pm
Baruch Performing Arts Center | 55 Lexington Avenue | New York, NY
Presented by PROTOTYPE Festival in association with New Vision for Opera and Baruch Performing Arts Center
Tickets $30-75
Straight from the Royal Opera House’s sold-out production, PROTOTYPE presents the US premiere of 4.48 Psychosis, featuring Contemporaneous with a cast from the UK.
Saturday, October 27 | 5:00-7:00 pm
at the magnificent loft of architect Alexandr Neratoff | SoHo, New York City (RSVP for address)
Lydia Chapin, Aaron Jay Kernis, and Elena Siyanko — honorary co-hosts
Admission $100 (fully tax-deductible — purchase)
Or FREE if you become a Contemporaneous VISIONARY at the Adventurer or Trailblazer level.
Sunday, October 21, 2018 | 7:00 pm
National Sawdust | 80 N 6th Street | Brooklyn, NY
$25 General admission | Purchase tickets
Lithuanian-American composer and performer Abraham Brody draws on his Baltic roots in a new song cycle that he will perform alongside Contemporaneous. The ensemble also performs music of Conor Brown and Nomeda Valanciute.
Friday, May 31, 2019 | 7:00 pm
Saturday, June 1, 2019 | 7:00 pm
Sunday, June 2, 2019 | 3:00 pm
The Flea Theater | 20 Thomas Street | New York, NY
Presented by Experiments in Opera and Contemporaneous
Tickets $35 | $25 students & seniors
Chunky in Heat is an opera based on a libretto by celebrated author A. M. Homes and features music by Jason Cady, Paula Matthusen, Erin Rogers, Aaron Siegel, Shelley Washington and Matthew Welch. This production is directed by Alison Moritz.