Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center
February 2012 Calendar of Events
129 West 67th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam) New York, NY 10023
Tickets at 212 501 3330 or http://www.kaufman-center.org See press contacts for individual concerts below.
Kaufman Center Presentations at Merkin Concert Hall
Sat, 2/4/12, 7:30 pm Ecstatic Music Festival: Jherek Bischoff and the Wordless Music Orchestra With special guests David Byrne, Craig Wedren, Greg Saunier, Mirah, Zac Pennington, Carla Bozulich, Charlie Looker and Sam Mickens.
Tickets: $25 Press contact: Joan Jastrebski, 212 501 3386, [email protected]
Sun, 2/5/12, 11 am Broadway Playhouse: Stephen Sondheim Kids discover the musicals of the great Stephen Sondheim through sing-alongs, interactive games and a mini-musical, with songs from Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, Follies and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
Tickets: $20 Press contact: Joan Jastrebski, 212 501 3386, [email protected]
Tue, 2/7/12, 7:30 pm Ecstatic Music Festival: Sxip Shirey & Angélica Negrón With special guests Todd Reynolds, Noveller, Jonny Rodgers and the teen alt-classical sensations Face the Music giving the world premiere of Negrón’s El Gran Caleidoscopio.
Tickets: $25 Press contact: Joan Jastrebski, 212 501 3386, [email protected]
Wed, 2/8/12, 7:30 pm Ecstatic Music Festival: Richard Reed Parry, Son Lux & yMusic Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire, Bell Orchestre) and Son Lux (aka Ryan Lott) take on the role of composer and each written new works for yMusic
Tickets: $25 Press contact: Joan Jastrebski, 212 501 3386, [email protected]
Thu, 2/9/12, 7:30 pm Ecstatic Music Festival: This Will Destroy You, Christopher Tignor/Slow Six & A Far Cry The self-conducted string orchestra A Far Cry joins forces with post-rock powerhouse This Will Destroy You and composer Christopher Tignor and his band Slow Six. The program includes Tignor’s work for string orchestra and electronics, Thunder Lay Down In the Heart, as well as new arrangements for Slow Six and A Far Cry. This Will Destroy You will present string-augmented versions of their atmospheric instrumental pieces.
Tickets: $25 Press contact: Joan Jastrebski, 212 501 3386, [email protected]
Sun, 2/12/12, 4 pm Lucy Moses School Concerto Winners Concert. Competition winners from Kaufman Center’s Lucy Moses School perform solo works with orchestra.
Tickets: $12 Press contact: Joan Jastrebski, 212 501 3386, [email protected]
Tue, 2/14/12, 8 pm & Thurs, 2/16/12, 8 pm New York Festival of Song: A Modern Person’s Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up Anne-Carolyn Bird, soprano; Liza Forrester, mezzo-soprano; Alex Mansoori, tenor; Jesse Blumberg, baritone and Steven Blier, piano
Works by Berlin, Sondheim, The Bobs, Bolcom, Coward, Jason Robert Brown, Ed Kleban and others.
Tickets: $55, 40 Press contact: Aleba Gartner, 212 206 1450, [email protected]
Tue, 2/21/12, 2 pm Tuesday Matinees: León Bernsdorf, piano Schubert: Sonata in c minor, D. 958 Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 Schubert/Liszt: Transcription of "Auf dem Wasser zu Singen" Schumann/Liszt: Transcription of "Widmung," S. 566 Liszt: Sonata in b minor, S. 178
Tickets: $17 Press contact: Joan Jastrebski, 212 501 3386, [email protected]
Thu, 2/23/12, 7:30 pm Ecstatic Music Festival / New Sounds Live® Nick Zammuto & Jason Treuting Hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer
Nick Zammuto of The Books and Jason Treuting of So Percussion break away from their bands for an evening of spelling bees, homemade videos and fantastically-textured music, joined by janus, guitarist Grey McMurray and vocalist Daisy Press.
Tickets: $25 Press contact: Joan Jastrebski, 212 501 3386, [email protected]
Sat, 2/25/12, 7:30 pm Ecstatic Music Festival: Glasser & Roomful of Teeth The polyglot vocal octet Roomful of Teeth presents a new collaboration with Glasser (Cameron Mesirow), a new work by Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs), and other works.
Tickets: $25 Press contact: Joan Jastrebski, 212 501 3386, [email protected]
Additional Events at Merkin Concert Hall
Please note individual press contacts for each event.
Thu, 2/2/12, 7:30 pm Insoo Park & Friends and Rachel Lee KCS Benefit Concert Sung Joon Kim, Dong Won Shin, InJoon Yang & Gil Ung Yun, tenors; Sang J. Park, flute; and Eunmi Moon, piano
Tickets: $100, 35 Press contact: Annie Shin, 718 353 2253
Sat, 2/5/12, 7:30 pm Beyond Categories: The Roni Ben-Hur Trio with violinist Julie Kurtzman Ann Goodman Recital Hall Roni Ben-Hur, guitar; Julie Kurtzman, violin; Santi Debriano, bass; Duduka Da Fonseca, drums
Tickets: $20 Press contact: Roni Ben-Hur, [email protected]
Sun, 2/5/12, 3:30 pm A Black History Month Tribute: The African American Spiritual Sherry Boone, Harriett D. Foy and Brandie Sutton, sopranos
Works by Hall Johnson, Undine Smith Moore, E. Simpson-Curenton, Roland Hayes, H.T. Burleigh, Lawrence Brown and Edward Boatner.
Tickets: $75 Press contact: Patrick A. Bradford, 917 744 1225
Mon, 2/6/12, 7:30 pm Concertante Xiao-Dong Wang, violin; Rachel Shapiro, viola; Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; Christopher Grymes, clarinet and Xak Bjerken, piano
Jonathan Leshnoff: Yiddish Dance Suite Bartók: Contrasts Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26
Tickets: $26 Press contact: Josephine Hemsing, 212 772 1132
Sat, 2/11/12, 8 pm Ureuk Symphony Orchestra Christopher Junmu Lee, conductor David Park, violin and Ben Shinkook Kwak, tenor
Schumann: Symphony No. 1 “Spring” Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Puccini: Nessun Dorma from “Turandot” Korean art songs
Tickets: $50, 30 Press contact: Christopher Lee, 201 888 4875
Mon, 2/13/12, 7 pm Congregation Beth Simchat Torah (CBST) What’s Love Got to Do With It? Re'ut Ben-Ze'ev, cantorial soloist; The CBST Community Chorus, Music Director Joyce Rosenzweig and others
Songs of parental love to romantic love, including arias and art songs, gems from musical theater, Song of Songs and more.
Tickets: $40 Press contact: Ilene Sameth, 212 929 9498
Sat, 2/18/12, 8 pm Music From Japan Festival 2012: Resonances of the Kugo Fuyuhiko Sasaki, kugo (angular harp), with Mayumi Miyata, sho; Hitomi Nakamura, hichiriki and shoga; Takeshi Sasamoto, ryuteki and haisho; Kyoko Kato, hokyo
Sukeyasu Shiba: reconstruction from Dunhuang fragments: “Kyu Kosomon” and “Kyukyokushi” Sukeyasu Shiba: Winds from Ikaruga Fuyuhiko Sasaki: To Be Human (World Premiere) with poem by Jotaro Wakamatsu Toshi Ichiyanagi: Still Time II Akiko Yamane: Dots Collection No. 13 (World Premiere) Takehito Shimazu: Four Haiku Four Seasons of Iitate (set to haiku by “madei ambassador” Madoka Mayuzumi) (World Premiere) Maki Ishii: Chronology 1200
7 pm Lecture – Speaker: Norio Kanno, Mayor of Iitate Village, Fukushima
Tickets: $20 Press contact: Louise Barder, 21C Media Group, 212 245 2110
Sun, 2/19/12, 2 pm Music From Japan Festival 2012: Commissioned Chamber Premieres
Music From Japan Chamber Ensemble with Mayumi Miyata, sho; Hitomi Nakamura, hichiriki and Wonjung Kim, voice Chikage Imai: new work (World Premiere) Noriko Koide: Embroidery (World Premiere) Junmei Suzuki: new work (World Premiere) Toshiya Watanabe: new work (World Premiere) Akiko Yamane: Toki yo Megure: Madei no rondo (“Time, Come Around: Madei Rondo”) set to a poem by Toma Ibu (World Premiere) Post-Concert Discussion
Tickets: $20 Press contact: Louise Barder, 21C Media Group, 212 245 2110
Sun, 2/26/12, 12:30 & 3 pm, Mon, 2/27/12, 10:30 am New York Philharmonic Very Young People’s Concerts: Treble and Bass
Rebecca Young, host Stories by Dorian Rence and illustrations by Marion Schoevaert An introduction to classical music through active listening and hands-on music making with members of the New York Philharmonic, designed for 3 to 6-year-olds.
Tickets: Call 212 875 5656 Press contact: Theodore Wiprud, 212 875 5734
Ticket Information
Tickets at 212 501 3330 or http://www.kaufman-center.org
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center 129 West 67th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam) New York, NY 10023
Press contact for Kaufman Center presentations in Merkin Concert Hall: Joan Jastrebski 212 501 3386 [email protected]
Kaufman Center: New York’s creative home for listeners, learners and performers Kaufman Center is one of New York City's most vibrant cultural organizations, combining the finest in music education for all ages with world class performance in the acoustically superior Merkin Concert Hall. Founded in 1952 as a community school for pre-conservatory music training, today's Kaufman Center provides entertainment, education and inspiration for more than 75,000 New Yorkers each year. In addition to Merkin Concert Hall, it is home to Lucy Moses School, New York’s largest community arts school, and the Special Music School, New York’s only public school for musically gifted children.