Reinaldo Moya, Mark Thome, Matt Welch: New Opera

Three new operas are showcased in excerpts: Miguel Angel by Reinaldo Moya, She: An Opera of Adventure by Mark Thome, and The Three Truths by Matthew Welch. Concert presentation with video projections, including Ensemble 20-21, the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble, and several extraordinary singers. New Works In Progress is co-sponsored by the American Composers Alliance Young Composers Project.

$10; Day of Show $15

Ekmeles will appear with the Talea Ensemble, performing the US premiere of FAMA by Beat Furrer

Ekmeles will appear with the Talea Ensemble, performing the US premiere of FAMA by Beat Furrer

SongFusion presents part 1 of their NewYorkNOW Series. GAY WORDS/GAY MUSIC, a concert that explores issues of gay life (sex, exploration, love and loss) in a program that is sometimes touching, sometimes scintillating, and always personal. The concert will be followed by a panel discussion with all of the program’s composers – Eve Beglarian, David Del Tredici, Paula Kimper, David Leisner, Ben Moore, Ned Rorem, Glen Roven, and David Sisco – led by music/media scholar and NYU professor Martin Scherzinger!

New York City Opera
Offenbach - La Perichole

New York City Opera
Offenbach - La Perichole

New York City Opera
Offenbach - La Perichole

New York City Opera
Offenbach - La Perichole

with the Chameleon Arts Ensemble
Earl Kim - Illuminations
John Cage - Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs

with the Chameleon Arts Ensemble
Earl Kim - Illuminations
John Cage - Wonderful WIdow of Eighteen Springs

College of William and Mary orchestra
Lindsey Jacobs - Thoughts
Wagner - Liebestod

Mary will spend a week in residence at the College of William of Mary, which will culminate in the premiere of Lindsey Jacob's Thoughts, with the College of William and Mary orchestra

John Cage's Apartment House 1776

In celebration of Avant Media’s 10th year, this afternoon performance of Cage's wonderful musicircus, Apartment House 1776, features singers Imani Uzuri, Mary MacKenzie and others, with an instrumental ensemble of Avant Media alumni and friends, including: Matt Beckemeyer, Gelsey Bell, Eve Beglarian, Drew Blumberg, Nicole Camacho, Randy Gibson, MIVOS, William Lang, Eleonor Sandresky, Jessica Schmitz, Cleek Schrey, Jude Traxler, and more.

Admission: $12/Students $8

Argento Ensemble: "Pierrot Lunaire"
New York based Argento Ensemble presents Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire with other recent works influenced by Schoenberg's compositional language, including solo and ensemble works by Elliott Carter, Matthias Pintscher, and David Fulmer. Michel Galante, director.

Mary appears with Le Train Bleu, a critically-acclaimed new music ensemble led by Ransom Wilson.

Program:
Thomas Adés - Living Toys for ensemble
Matt Marks - Sex Objects (ft. Mary Mackenzie, Matt Marks, and Jeff Gavett)
Eric Nathan - Toying for solo trumpet
Lawrence Dillon - Seven Stories for soprano and ensemble (premiere)

Admission: $20

Ekmeles performs works by living American composers at Roulette as part of the 24th season of the Interpretations series. Following their set at 8PM will be a performance by the Pheeroan akLaff Ensemble.

Louis Karchin – To the Sun
Louis Karchin – To the Stars (Premiere of new arrangement for Ekmeles)
Aaron Cassidy – I, purples, spat blood, laugh of beautiful lips
Ben Johnston – I’m goin’ away
Ben Johnston – Rose
Ken Ueno – Shiroi Ishi
Evan Johnson – Three in, ad abundantiam (US Premiere)
Bryan Jacobs – Do You Need, Do To Me, 18 Me, 18 Mean
Personnel for concert

Mary Mackenzie, soprano
Rachel Calloway, mezzo soprano
Patrick Fennig, countertenor
Eric Dudley, tenor
Jeffrey Gavett, baritone
Steven Hrycelak, bass
Eric Sedgwick, piano (guest)

Mary will appear as Despina in the world premiere of Jonathan Dawe's Cosi Faranno Tutti, a prequel to Da Ponte's Cosi Fan Tutte.

Mary will appear as Despina in the world premiere of Jonathan Dawe's Cosi Faranno Tutti, a prequel to Da Ponte's Cosi Fan Tutte.

Mary will appear as Despina in the world premiere of Jonathan Dawe's Cosi Faranno Tutti, a prequel to Da Ponte's Cosi Fan Tutte.

Shuffle Concert

Shuffle Concert

Ekmeles - New York/Netherlands Exchange Project

Mary will perform vocal ensemble works of Thanasis Deligiannis, Eve Beglarian, and Michael Edgerton

Mary Mackenzie, Soprano
Rachel Calloway & Amirtha Kidambi, mezzo soprano
Patrick Fennig, Countertenor
Matthew Hensrud, Tenor
Jeff Gavett, Baritone
Avery Griffin, Bass

Ekmeles, a new music vocal ensemble, will present the vocal works of Courtney Bryan

Mary Mackenzie, Soprano
Rachel Calloway, Mezzo Soprano
Patrick Fennig, Countertenor
Matthew Hensrud, Tenor
Jeff Gavett, Baritone
Avery Griffin, Bass

SongFusion present's the opening concert of their 2012-2013 season, a tribute to Claude Debussy.

Songs of Debussy, Massenet, Mussorgsky, Yamada, Satie and a special performance of the incidental music for Chanson de Bilitis with special guest Denise Massé as our narrator.

Mary Mackenzie & Tory Browers, Soprano
Naomi O'Connell, Mezzo Soprano
Michael Kelly, Baritone
Liza Stepanova & Kathleen Tagg, Piano
Denise Massé, narrator

Mary Mackenzie, Soprano and Paul Hersh, Piano

An All-Schubert Recital featuring his late solo piano pieces, Shepherd on the Rock, and selected lieder.

Mary Mackenzie, Soprano and Paul Hersh, Piano

An All-Schubert Recital featuring his late solo piano pieces, Shepherd on the Rock, and selected lieder.

Mary will appear as soprano soloist in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana

Mary will appear as soprano soloist in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana

Shuffle Concert will embark on their second tour of Israel, performing in the Herzelia Concert Series and the Felicija Blumenthal Festival. Visit Shuffle Concert's website for details!

Centennials:
Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (1912)
Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps (1913)
(Pre-Concert Talk with Elizabeth Seitz, 7 PM)

with:
Randall Hodgkinson and Leslie Amper, pianos
Sharan Leventhal, violin and viola
Joshua Gordon, cello
Anne Bobo, flute
Gary Gorczyca, clarinets

Tickets: $35, $48, $59

Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire

with members of Carnegie Hall's Academy Program

Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire

with members of Carnegie Hall's Academy Program

Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire

with members of Carnegie Hall's Academy Program

SongFusion presents States of Mind

A program of songs designed to explore Love & Hate, Joy & Sorrow, and Wonder & Desire.

with:
Victoria Browers, Soprano
Michael Kelly, Baritone
Liza Stepanova & Kathleen Tagg, piano
Kevork Mourad, visual artist

Mary will appear with the Continuum Ensemble as part of the Wall to Wall series at Symphony Space.

Copland: As It Fell Upon a Day
Cage: Living Room Music

The Music of Jonathan Katz

Mary will premiere Jonathan's new cycle for soprano, featuring the poetry of Molly Meachem.

Mary and soprano Lucy Shelton will perform Pascal Dusapin's Two Walking as part of the Gertrude's Paris series at Symphony Space

Opera America's Salon Series
An Evening with Wang Jie

Mary will perform a variety of Wang Jie's vocal works, including A Prayer and excerpts from Nannan

Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, Soprano & Alan Hamilton, Piano

A solo recital featuring works of Rameau, Webern, Hindemith, Barber, Satie, and Harbison.

NYU First Performance Club

Ekmeles sings new works written for them by NYU Graduate Composition students Wang Jie, Friederich Kern, Adam Mirza, Efraín Rozas, & Maria Stankova

Mary will perform Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2 with the Borromeo String Quartet for one of the opening concerts of the Gardner Museum's new Calderwood concert hall.

Shuffle Concert!

with Eliran Avni, piano; Hassan Anderson, oboe; Sean Lee, violin; Linor Katz, cello; and Moran Katz, clarinet.

Tickets may be purchased here: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9265975;jsessionid=6D11D69DF7CADA90A82499002DAA0364

SongFusion presents Liszt: The Man and the Artist through the mirror of his Songs.

with Victoria Brouwers, soprano
Michael Kelly, baritone
Lisa Stepanova & Kathleen Tagg, piano

Shuffle Concert's West Coast Tour

Shuffle Concert Tour of the West Coast!

Shuffle Concert Tour of the West Coast!

Shuffle Concert Tour of the West Coast!

Shuffle Concert Tour of the West Coast!

Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble
Johannes Schoellhorn - Madrigali a Dio
Martin Iddon - Hamadryads
Gesualdo - 2 madrigals
Peter Ablinger - Studien nach der Natur
Elliott Carter - Mad Regales
Bettendorf - Decomposed Madrigals

Admission: free

Songfusion's opening concert of the 2011-2012 Season!

Book of Uncommon Prayer: spirituality around the globe
Songs of Ravel, Wolf, Larsen, Szymanowski, Harbison, and Musto

With:
Tory Browers, soprano
Michael Kelly, baritone
Liza Stepanova & Kathleen Tagg, piano

Guest Artists:
Naomi Campbell, mezzo soprano
Brent Ryan, tenor
Henrik Heide, flute
Edward Klorman, viola
Andrew Janss, cello
Ryan Jackson, organ

Admission: $10

Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble
Johannes Schoellhorn - Madrigali a Dio
Pascal Dusapin - Two Walking
Peter Ablinger - Studien nach der Natur
James Tenney - Hey when I sing & a Rose round

Admission: $15

John Gidwitz's 70th Birthday Celebration

Mary will perform three new works by composers Lisa Bielawa and Dan Visconti, as well as lieder by Wolf, Debussy and Milton Babbitt

Open to the public. Free admission.

Continuum Ensemble
Wang Jie - A Longing for Spring
Valentin Bibik - Two Psalms

New York City Opera VOX 2011

Mary will appear in the ensemble for Paola Prestini's De Deo

Admission: $15

New York City Opera VOX 2011

Mary will appear in the ensemble for Andrew Gerle's The Beach and Huang Ruo's Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

Admission: $25

The MATA Festival presents the Metropolis Ensemble

Mary will be performing Remmy Canedo's Instantanea 6 for soprano, violin, cello, and electronics

Admission: $20

Continuum Ensemble
Wang Jie - A Longing for Spring (world premiere)
Carman Moore - SHE (NY premiere)

SongFusion

Shuffle Concert

Shuffle Concert

Shuffle Concert

Shuffle Concert

Shuffle Concert

Shuffle Concert

Jonathan Dawe - Prometeo Redux

Shuffle Concert!

Admission: $30; $15 Students/Seniors

Shuffle Concert!

Imagine a live performance of a Pop song immediately followed by a Baroque concerto. Imagine a concert program with more than 40 possible pieces in 15 different musical styles. Imagine a concert where the pieces performed are chosen by...you! At Shuffle Concert, your imagination becomes reality.

This performance is a fund-raiser to help sponsor two educational concerts at the American International School in Even Yehuda, Israel.

Admission: $50

Continuum Ensemble

Kancheli: Exil

with the Continuum Ensemble

Kancheli: Exil

Introducing...SongFusion, a New York-based ensemble dedicated to presenting a wide range of art song repertoire in innovative ways. Join us for our first concert, a preview of the 2010-2011 season.

Mary Mackenzie & Victoria Browers, soprano
Michael Kelly, baritone
Lisa Stepanova & Kathleen Tagg, piano

Program:
States of Mind - Schubert, Schumann, Strauss and James Primosch

Songs Sans Piano - John Corigliano and Virgil Thomson

New York's New Millennium - John Musto

Franz Liszt - A Birthday Tribute - Songs of Love

$10 suggested donation

Mary will appear in the US premiere of Hilarion Alfeyev's St. Matthew Passion

appearing with Shuffle Concert
Shuffle Concert changes the rules of performance as you know it. In this musical celebration the AUDIENCE chooses what pieces will be performed! From Baroque, Classical and Romantic to Jazz, Pop and Broadway, Shuffle Concert performances offer an exciting fusion of great music, for every musical taste. Neither the audience members nor the performers themselves know which works will be requested each night and therefore the musicians maintain a rich and extensive menu of over 40 musical works derived from 14 different styles. The result - a unique performance each time.

appearing with the Continuum Ensemble
John Weinzweig - Trialogue for soprano, flute, and piano

Talea Ensemble Boulez Festival

Boulez: Improvisations sur Mallarmé No. 1 and 2

Argento New Music Project
Orbiting Pierrot Lunaire, Series 3
Mary will be performing Book III from Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire.

Suggestion Donation $10

Argento New Music Project
Orbiting Pierrot Lunaire, Series 3
Mary will be performing Book III from Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire.

Suggestion Donation $10

Shuffle Concert
A special Shuffle Concert for families! An interactive musical show with new categories such as Disney, Let's Dance and Fairy Tale Music.

Admission: $20 adults; $10 children

New Juilliard Ensemble
Lucrezio. Un oratorio materialistico. Parte seconda: amore for speaker, soprano, baritone and 12 instruments
with Jeffrey Gavett, baritone

Argento New Music Project
Orbiting Pierrot Lunaire, Series 3
Mary will be performing Book III from Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire.

Suggestion Donation $10

Talea Ensemble
Bernhard Lang: DW 16: Songbook 1 (US Premiere)

Admission: $29; $15 Students/Under 30

Appearing with the Continuum Ensemble
Milton Babbitt: Now Evening After Evening
Carman Moore: SHE (An Appreciation) *premiere*

Argento New Music Project is pleased to present a new weekly concert series titled Lunar Movements: A Constellation of Contemporary Music Orbiting Pierrot Lunaire. Throughout Fall 2010, five monthly programs are slated for the superb acoustic space of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York in midtown Manhattan.

Orbiting Pierrot Lunaire Book 2
Mary will be performing Book II from Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Brian Ferneyhough's On Stellar Magnitudes.

Suggestion Donation $10

Mary will appear as Angelica in Jonathan Dawe's Cracked Orlando, a chamber opera and ballet. Cracked Orlando draws upon Vivaldi's version and recasts fragments of the baroque music using compositional workings based upon fractal geometry into new music.

Argento New Music Project is pleased to present a new weekly concert series titled Lunar Movements: A Constellation of Contemporary Music Orbiting Pierrot Lunaire. Throughout Fall 2010, five monthly programs are slated for the superb acoustic space of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York in midtown Manhattan.

Orbiting Pierrot Lunaire Book 2
Mary will be performing Book II from Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Brian Ferneyhough's On Stellar Magnitudes.

Suggestion Donation $10

Mary will appear as Angelica in Jonathan Dawe's Cracked Orlando, a chamber opera and ballet. Cracked Orlando draws upon Vivaldi's version and recasts fragments of the baroque music using compositional workings based upon fractal geometry into new music.

Mary will appear as Angelica in Jonathan Dawe's Cracked Orlando, a chamber opera and ballet. Cracked Orlando draws upon Vivaldi's version and recasts fragments of the baroque music using compositional workings based upon fractal geometry into new music.

Yale in New York
Performing Christopher Cerrone's Averno

Admisson $15

Argento New Music Project is pleased to present a new weekly concert series titled Lunar Movements: A Constellation of Contemporary Music Orbiting Pierrot Lunaire. Throughout Fall 2010, five monthly programs are slated for the superb acoustic space of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York in midtown Manhattan.

Orbiting Pierrot Lunaire Book 2
Mary will be performing Book II from Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Brian Ferneyhough's On Stellar Magnitudes.

Suggestion Donation $10

New Music New Haven Chamber Music Series
Performing Christopher Cerrone's Averno

Argento New Music Project is pleased to present a new weekly concert series titled Lunar Movements: A Constellation of Contemporary Music Orbiting Pierrot Lunaire. Throughout Fall 2010, five monthly programs are slated for the superb acoustic space of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York in midtown Manhattan.

Orbiting Pierrot Lunaire Book 2
Mary will be performing Book II from Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Brian Ferneyhough's On Stellar Magnitudes.

Suggestion Donation $10

Appearing with the Continuum Ensemble
Milton Babbitt: Now Evening After Evening
Carman Moore: SHE (An Appreciation) *premiere*

Mary will be featured with other Songfest participants on the American Songbook concert. This concert features musical theatre songs by Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Victor Herbert, Kern, Porter, Gershwin, and more! American composer John Musto will be accompanying the singers.

Free Admission.

Songfest 2010 - New Voices in American Song

The recipient of a Stern Fellowship, Mary will appear in a series of masterclasses and concerts, performing standard and present a recital featuring works by Songfest composers-in-residence.

Program:
Laitman - Four Dickinson Songs
Musto - The Old Grey Couple
Moore - Selections from So Free am I...
Harbison - Selections from Songs After Hours
Cipullo - Late Summer

Free Admission

Concert dates TBD

Mary will join Julio Elizalde, pianist, for his final doctoral recital

Program:
Debussy - Selected Songs
Golijov - Lua descolorada
Rachmaninoff - Songs, op. 38

The Continuum Ensemble presents Spotlight on Georgia: New Music from an Ancient Tradition Featuring a world premiere of a new work by Josef Bardanashvili

ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble) will present The Music of Louis Andriessen, presented by (Le) Poisson Rouge and Carnegie Hall as part of a month-long celebration of the eminent Dutch composer’s music and his 70th birthday. The concert will be preceded by a discussion with the composer and Robert Hurwitz, president of Andriessen's longtime U.S. record label, Nonesuch Records.

The program will include a screening of Peter Greenaway’s 1991 30-minute video film, M is for Man, Music, Mozart with a live performance of Andriessen’s score, conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky and featuring soprano soloist Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie. In addition, pianist Eric Huebner will perform three solo works, Image de Moreau, Trois Pieces, and Trepidus. Andriessen’s Facing Death, for amplified string quartet, completes the program.

Steans Institute "Musicians from Ravinia" tour

David McCarroll, Violin
Miriam Fried, Violin
Emily Deans, Viola
Nicholas Canellakis, Cello
Roman Rabinovich, Piano
Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, Soprano

PROGRAM
Beethoven - Piano Trio No 1 in E-flat Major, Opus 1, No. 1
Schoenberg - String Quartet No. 2, Opus 10
Franck - Piano Quintet in F Minor

$15

Steans Institute "Musicians from Ravinia" tour

David McCarroll, Violin
Miriam Fried, Violin
Emily Deans, Viola
Nicholas Canellakis, Cello
Roman Rabinovich, Piano
Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, Soprano

PROGRAM
Beethoven - Piano Trio No 1 in E-flat Major, Opus 1, No. 1
Schoenberg - String Quartet No. 2, Opus 10
Franck - Piano Quintet in F Minor

$40 adult/$20 student/$5 5-15 yrs

Steans Institute "Musicians from Ravinia" tour

David McCarroll, Violin
Miriam Fried, Violin
Emily Deans, Viola
Nicholas Canellakis, Cello
Roman Rabinovich, Piano
Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, Soprano

PROGRAM
Beethoven - Piano Trio No 1 in E-flat Major, Opus 1, No. 1
Schoenberg - String Quartet No. 2, Opus 10
Franck - Piano Quintet in F Minor

$20

2010 Steans Institute "Musicians from Ravinia" tour

David McCarroll, Violin
Miriam Fried, Violin
Emily Deans, Viola
Nicholas Canellakis, Cello
Roman Rabinovich, Piano
Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, Soprano

PROGRAM
Beethoven - Piano Trio No 1 in E-flat Major, Opus 1, No. 1
Schoenberg - String Quartet No. 2, Opus 10
Franck - Piano Quintet in F Minor

$23 adult/$18 senior/$15 member/$10 college student/$5 under 18

Mary will appear with the Continuum Ensemble, in a three day residency at Williams College. The program will feature a commission by Cuban-born composer Ileana Perez-Velasquez.

A part of the Works & Process series, the Guggenheim will present Hector Parra's Hypermusic:Ascension, a chamber opera for soprano and chamber ensemble.

$30/$25 members/$10 students

Hypermusic: Prologue
Barcelona composer Hector Parra of the IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique organized by Pierre Boulez) in Paris, will perform a version of the Hypermusic with Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, soprano. Hypermusic is a unique project for intercommunication between science, music and art. The opera libretto was written by the prestigious theoretical physicist Lisa Randall of Harvard University.

“Hypermusic Prolouge: A Projective Opera in Seven Planes"

A conversation with video clips about the multimedia music-theater piece, with composer Hèctor Parra and librettist Lisa Randall, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Physics, Harvard University, and Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, soprano. Moderated by arts journalist Alicia Anstead. Admission is free.

Ravel - Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
with Yegor Shevtsov, piano, and students from Manhattan School of Music

Matthijs van Dijk - Of Love, a song cycle for soprano, cello, and piano

Mary joins the Oakwood Chamber Players for their Christmas Lights concert. Come enjoy a program of old and new holiday music!

Tickets: $20 Adult, $15 Seniors, $5 Students

Mary will appear with the Juilliard School's AXIOM Ensemble, an ensemble dedicated to performing the masterworks of the 20th-century repertoire. This is the first concert for AXIOM's 2009-2010 residency at Le Poisson Rouge.

Program:
György Ligeti:
Ten Pieces for Winds (1968)
Horn Trio (1982) for violin, horn, and piano

Harrison Birtwistle:
Five Distances (1992) for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon
Three Settings of Celan (1989-1994) for soprano, two clarinets, viola, cello, and double bass

Mario Davidovsky:
Duo Capriccioso (2003) for violin and piano

Pre-concert conversation with composer Mario Davidovsky and Jeff Milarsky from The Juilliard School.

Admission: $15

Le Poisson Rouge is a multimedia art cabaret founded by musicians on the site of the historic Village Gate. Dedicated to the fusion of popular and art cultures in music, film, theater, dance, and fine art, the venue's mission is to revive the symbiotic relationship between art and revelry; to establish a creative asylum for both artists and audiences.

Mary will appear with Axiom, the Juilliard School's new music ensemble, performing Birtwistle's Three Settings of Celan, a chamber piece for soprano, two clarinets, viola, cello and doublebass.

Mary joins the Talea Ensemble for their new program, "The Forbidden". This program is a part of a new series in collaboration with the iO String Quartet, that compares and contrasts the new and the old.

Program:
Georges Aperghis - Sept Crimes de l'amour
Janacek - String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters"
Other works TBD

Continuum Ensemble - CHINA IN AMERICA

World premieres of Bun-Ching Lam - Le vin des amants - and Huang Ruo - Nuo Drama. With striking, adventurous works from the younger generation of Chinese-born composers who have settled in the U.S.

Merkin Concert Hall
at Kaufman Center
129 West 67th Street
Tickets $20, seniors/students $10
(212)501-3330

Steans Institute "Musicians from Ravinia" tour

David McCarroll, Violin
Miriam Fried, Violin
Emily Deans, Viola
Nicholas Canellakis, Cello
Roman Rabinovich, Piano
Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, Soprano

PROGRAM
Beethoven - Piano Trio No 1 in E-flat Major, Opus 1, No. 1
Schoenberg - String Quartet No. 2, Opus 10
Franck - Piano Quintet in F Minor

New York City Opera, known for looking forward to new composers, directors and singers, pauses before its re-launching in Fall 2009 to look back at the 20th Century - a dynamic era in music including minimalism, electronic music, jazz and neo-classicism.

New York City Opera Orchestra
George Manahan, Conductor
Jennifer Zetlan, Soprano
Jean Laurendeau, Ondes Martenot
Aleck Karis, Piano
Jessica Zhou, Harp
Women of the New York City Opera Chorus

Time Cycle, Lukas Foss
Trois petite liturgies de la presence divine, Olivier Messiaen
Danses sacree et profane, Claude Debussy
Pulcinella, Igor Stravinsky

Saturday, April 11 at 8pm
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center

Tickets Now On Sale - $25

French Modernism: Past and Present
Juilliard Percussion Ensemble
Daniel Druckman, Director

EDGARD VARESE Ionization (1931)
YANN ROBINS Titans (2008)*
JEAN BARRAQUE Chant aprés chant (1966)

FREE tickets available 3/17 at the Juilliard Box Office

Mozart’s exploration of tangled love, desire and conflict between the sexes takes center stage in this masterful comedy of manners. Featuring an exciting ensemble cast, Madison Opera’s production of Cosi fan Tutte returns the company to the elegant and newly-renovated Capitol Theater—a perfect venue for Mozart’s intimate work. With a virtuosic score and a charming production, Cosi fan Tutte will surely delight audiences. In his Madison Opera debut, Kelly Kuo serves as conductor for this production with staging by Metropolitan Opera director Kristine McIntyre. Fiordiligi - Jessica Jones, Dorabella - Michele Losier, Despina - Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, Ferrando - John Bellemer, Guglielmo - Joshua Hopkins, Don Alfonso - Tony Dillon

Cost: $16/$46/$68/$81/$102

Mozart’s exploration of tangled love, desire and conflict between the sexes takes center stage in this masterful comedy of manners. Featuring an exciting ensemble cast, Madison Opera’s production of Cosi fan Tutte returns the company to the elegant and newly-renovated Capitol Theater—a perfect venue for Mozart’s intimate work. With a virtuosic score and a charming production, Cosi fan Tutte will surely delight audiences. In his Madison Opera debut, Kelly Kuo serves as conductor for this production with staging by Metropolitan Opera director Kristine McIntyre. Fiordiligi - Jessica Jones, Dorabella - Michele Losier, Despina - Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, Ferrando - John Bellemer, Guglielmo - Joshua Hopkins, Don Alfonso - Tony Dillon

Cost: $16/$46/$68/$81/$102

A Philharmonic Fanfare (1997) Eric Ewazen Amnesia Redux (2002) Lee Hyla A Still Small Voice (2008) * David McMullin
Piano Trio No. 1 (1969) John Harbison
Eight Poems of William Bronk (1998) Robert Cogan
Sonnets from John Donne (1968-91) Malcolm Peyton
Jubilation (1991) Pozzi Escot
Symphonic Aphorisms (2007) Mohammed Fairouz

Cost: $15/$7

The Music of Wang Jie
with the Music-Theatre Group
Serenade in B, for violin solo
Game for Two, for two pianos
In Wind They Cleave, for soprano, baritone, and chamber ensemble
Dance for Two, for percussion solo

New England Conservatory Composers Series
Performing Bonsai Journal by Mohammed Fairouz

"Modern Myths"
Aries (World Premiere) -- dance by Thodos Dance Chicago, music by Karlheinz Stockhausen
Sonnet to Orpheus (Chicago Premiere) -- Richard Danielpour
Vajrapani (World Premiere) -- dance by Prajwal Ratna Vajracharya set to traditional Tantric Buddhist music
Hayagriva (American Premiere) -- Param Vir
Fulcrum Point New Music, featuring: Thodos Dance Chicago Stephen Burns, trumpet/electronics Mary Mackenzie, soprano Prajwal Ratna Vajracharya, Nepalese dance

Tickets: $30/$15