2021-2022 Season
Friday, August 12, 2022 | 7:30-9:30 pm
Zoom Video Conferencing
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The Virtual Community Salon is a free entirely online community-gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation. You can present artistic work or just come to listen!
Friday, July 15, 2022 | 7:30-9:30 pm
Zoom Video Conferencing
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The Virtual Community Salon is a free entirely online community-gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation. You can present artistic work or just come to listen!
Friday, June 17, 2022 | 7:30-9:30 pm
Zoom Video Conferencing
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The Virtual Community Salon is a free entirely online community-gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation. You can present artistic work or just come to listen!
Saturday and Sunday, April 23-24, 2022 | 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
New York Botanical Garden | 2900 Southern Blvd., Bronx, New York 10458
Tickets $15-30 | Purchase
What sound does a leaf make when it falls? How rhythmic is the wind as it blows?
Encounter a performance inspired by the natural world, featuring music by artists from across the world centering around the sounds of Alhaji Bai Konte, the Gambian griot and a bearer of the Mandinka oral tradition. Through this music, Contemporaneous surrounds you with sound that celebrates the return of warmer weather.
Also featuring works by Eve Beglarian, Kui Dong, Philip Glass, Vladimir Martynov, and Zachary Ritter.
Friday, April 8, 2022 | 7:30-9:30 pm
Zoom Video Conferencing
Free! | Register here
The Virtual Community Salon is a free entirely online community-gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation. You can present artistic work or just come to listen!
March 20th, 2022 | 6pm PDT
CALLING ALL MUSICIANS AND AUDIENCE MEMBERS!
IN Celebration of the spring Equinox, Contemporaneous in collaboration with New Music Bay Area and Alternating Currents, will present a community performance of Terry Riley's seminal 1964 composition "In C" on Sunday, March 20, 2022 at the Albany Bulb at 6pm PDT.
Bay Area musicians of all ages and skill levels, on any instrument, are invited to join this participatory communal event to welcome the new season. All are welcome — follow the link above to join.
Presented by Fordham University as part of their Voices Up! concert series combining new music and poetry, Songs for the Earth is a concert inspired by the grandeur of the natural world and the need to preserve it for future generations. A concert inspired by the grandeur of the natural world and the need to protect and preserve it, now and in the future. The event includes two world premieres: Joshua Groffman's "Lemur" and Lawrence Kramer's "Ecospheres," both for baritone Nathaniel Sullivan and chamber ensemble. Both works set poems from Elisabeth Frost's poetic sequence "Remains," whose title refers both to mortal remains and to what remains of the world we want to keep. Also on the program are compositions by Marcos Balter, Gabriella Smith, and Julius Eastman. Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 154 W 57th St., New York City. 8 PM, February 28, 2022. $25; $15 for students and retirees.
Contemporaneous will be joining Cave Canem, an organization whose mission is to cultivate the artistic and professional growth of African-American poets, for a unique virtual event celebrating the life and work of Russell Atkins. Atkins is known primarily as a poet, but is also an accomplished composer. Tragically, most of his music manuscripts were destroyed, leaving few performances of his musical work. Contemporaneous has produced a video of a new performance of a surviving solo piano work of Atkins', performed by core pianist Milena Gligić, which will be shared during this event, alongside other discussion and celebration of Atkins' work.
Friday, February 18, 2022 | 7:30-9:30 pm
Zoom Video Conferencing
Free! | Register here
The Virtual Community Salon is a free entirely online community-gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation. You can present artistic work or just come to listen!
September 18, 2021 | 2:00-10:00 pm
Irondale Center | 85 South Oxford Street | Brooklyn, NY
Tickets available soon
Come celebrate 10 years with us on September 18, 2021 at our inaugural Day of Imagination. This day-long festival is an ode to idealism, featuring world premieres of four thrilling, ambitious, and deeply impactful passion projects, all curated from our Contemporaneous IMAGINATION open call. The festival presents new works by composers from around the world: Kara-Lis Coverdale, Brian Petuch, Andrés Martínez de Velasco, and Dylan Mattingly.