AMOC* celebrates Latin American poets and the voices of women with its production of John Adams’s El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered, featuring a libretto by Peter Sellars and production conceived by AMOC* soprano Julia Bullock, with a return to The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine for a second year, capping off a tour of cities across the US.

El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered features AMOC* members soprano Julia Bullock, guest soloist contralto Jasmin White, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, bass-baritone Davóne Tines, violinists Keir GoGwilt and Miranda Cuckson, cellist Coleman Itzkoff, bassist Doug Balliett,flutist Emi Ferguson, pianist Conor Hanick, and percussionist Jonny Allen. Additional New York-based musicians and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street join the AMOC* members.

El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered will be conducted by Christian Reif, who created the new arrangement and premiered the initial, distilled arrangement as part of Julia Bullock’s residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where The New York Times called it “intimate, affecting and quietly rich with activism.” A rarely performed work, El Niño “explores the central themes of the nativity – miracles, the unique relationship between birthparent and child, and gift giving,” said Bullock, whocurated the selections being performed.and whose ”voice and vision are forces to be reckoned with” (Opera News).

The Lillian and Maurice Barbash J.S. Bach Competition will celebrate its Fifth Anniversary with a gala concert featuring past laureates: Avery Fisher Career Grant recipients violinist, Rachell Ellen Wong, and double bassist, Nina Bernat; Young Concert Artists International Auditions winner, violinist, Lun Li; and Tianyou Ma, winner of the Bach Prize at both the Singapore and Menuhin International Violin Competitions.

The concert is presented by Gotham Early Music Scene (GEMS). 

J.S. Bach Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052R

Rachell Ellen Wong, violin with Twelfth Night

FREE CONCERT

Presented in partnership with Carnegie Hall Citywide.

Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis, except for season ticket holders, who receive a reserved seat as part of the subscription.

Doors open at 4:30pm.

Baroque specialist Katie Hyun and multi-faceted harpist Bridget Kibbey team up to explore “Baroque Two Ways,” with the debut performance of the Uptown Manhattan Consort. Traversing the early to high baroque, performing at 415hz and 440hz, the gut strings are united in virtuosic counterpoint and undulating melodies that speak just as powerfully today! Katie is a powerful leader in the New York baroque scene and beyond, which we’ll witness as she takes the helm of this Consort in works by Biber, J.S. Bach, Corelli and Vivaldi. 

“Hyun played the demanding part….with great sensitivity and top-shelf artistry” cleveland.com

"Kibbey has the world at her fingertips." Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

Katie Hyun, violin
George Meyer, violin
Coleman Itzkoff, cello
Bridget Kibbey, harp

Luciano Berio - Les Mots sont allés

György Ligeti - Cello Sonata

Michael Hersch - Sonata No. 2

Co-presented by Yellow Barn and New England Conservatory

With this concert we remember our beloved Roger Tapping, a faculty member at Yellow Barn from 2003 to 2021 and at New England Conservatory from 2008-2016. Roger Tapping’s musical legacy is in great part represented by the musicians who honor him with their performances on this evening’s concert. Beyond definition, his presence in the lives of these musicians was a shining example of why human beings should make music.

This evening’s program includes five of nine works commissioned by Yellow Barn as part of a special commissioning project in memory of Roger Tapping.

This is an in-person event with a public livestream, available here: www.necmusic.edu/live.

Carnegie Hill Concerts presents:

Ortiz the Musician

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Featuring compositions by Keir GoGwilt, Wilfrido Terrazas, Kyle Motl, and Vicente Hansen Atria
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Featuring performances and improvisations by:

Miranda Cuckson
Alec Goldfarb
Keir GoGwilt
Conrad Harris
Coleman Itzkoff
Kyle Motl
Wilfrido Terrazas

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Ortiz the Musician is a performance project sounding the complex intertwinement of music and colonization in 16th-century Mexico. The original music for this project is inspired by the life of the eponymous Ortiz — a shadowy figure mentioned in Alejo Carpentier’s monograph on music in Cuba. According to Carpentier, Ortiz played the vihuela and taught dance. He joined Hernán Cortés’s army in Trinidad, Cuba, and was later granted a lot of land in Tenochtitlan/Mexico City, where he installed a school of dance and music.

This performance features seven performers bridging baroque, improvisatory, and experimental traditions to reconstruct the musical world of Ortiz.

private event

Overview

Ruckus is a shapeshifting, collaborative Baroque band with a visceral and playful approach to early music. ARCADIAN VISIONS features Ruckus with soloists Emi Ferguson and Rachell Ellen Wong in joyful dialogue with the rustic pastoral traditions of 18th-century London and New England. Featuring trio sonatas by George Frideric Handel and Thomas Arne, country dances from Igntius Sancho, instrumental hymns from William Billings and Daniel Read, and a new work from Celeste Oram.

Handel, Sancho, Oram & Billings: a joyful dialogue with the rustic pastoral traditions of 18th century New England and London. 

The concert features Trio Sonatas by George Frideric Handel, country dances from Ignatius Sancho, instrumental hymns from William Billings and Daniel Read, and a new work from Celeste Oram.

Ruckus is a shapeshifting early music band. From its core team of continuo masters, it expands into varied configurations with a roster of some of North America's leading soloists of Baroque repertoire.

Flutist, vocalist, and composer Emi Ferguson can be heard live in concerts and festivals as a soloist and member of the Handel and Haydn Society, AMOC*, the New York New Music Ensemble, and the Manhattan Chamber Players. Emi’s recordings for Arezzo Music, Fly the Coop: Bach Sonatas and Preludes (2019 with Ruckus) and Amour Cruel (2017) were amongst the top 10 albums on the Classical Billboard Charts and showcase Emi’s fascination with reinvigorating music of the past.

Recipient of a prestigious 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant - the first baroque artist in the respected program’s history - and Grand Prize winner of the inaugural Lillian and Maurice Barbash J.S. Bach Competition, violinist Rachell Ellen Wong is a rising star on both the historical performance and modern violin stages, and has performed throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, Costa Rica, Panama, China, and New Zealand. 

Pre-show dinner is catered with a Mediterranean flavor by Door Prize, a pop-up restaurant in the Berkshires that has taken the main dining area of MASS MoCA, Bondhu, among many others. Drinks are catered by Berkshire Cider Project.

Opus Illuminate is thrilled to be partnering with Sey Coffee for a new series of concerts that will pair coffees from different regions with music that was influenced by or writen in those regions. This event will feature three works for String Quartet: the fifth string quartet by Colombian composer Blas Emelio Atehortúa; “Mu Kkubo Ery’Omusaalaba,” by Ugandan composer Justinian Tamusuza; and “Carrot Revolution” by Gabriella Smith. The concert will be accompanied by three coffee tastings from Sey‘s collection of incredible coffee, all included in the ticket price! The concert will be played by violinists Nathan Meltzer and Kevin Zhu, violist Devin Moore, and cellist Coleman Itzkoff.

pr-isms of sound

A Journey Through
the Culture-Verse

Thursday, 6/22 at 8pm
artXnyc, Meatpacking District

Join us at artXnyc, one of the MPD’s newest and most dynamic cultural spaces, as we traverse through myriad eras of time —from premodern past to meta-modern future— via the aesthetic dimensions of taste, smell & sound.

Music 

Rachell Ellen Wong, violin
Coleman Itzkoff, cello 

Wine 

Darby Wagner, GNOSES

Food

Zacarías González, ediciones

String Quartets with Nathan Meltzer, Kevin Zhu, and Devin Moore

Music for violin, cello, and voice by students of Composer Michael Hersch

Private event in honor of the sculptor’s birthday

Program:

Haley Olson - Keepers for solo cello (5')

Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Vier Kurze Studien for solo cello (3')

Carolyn Chen - from How to Fall Apart (4')

György Ligeti - Sonata for Solo Cello (7')

Missy Mazzoli - Beyond the Order of Things (after Josquin) for solo cello (4')

Luciano Berio - Les mots sont allés (4')

- intermission -

Michael Hersch - Sonata No. 2 for Unaccompanied Cello (40')

Program#1 @ 7 pm

-Balliett, Doug. "Honorius" from Rome is Falling (full ensemble feat. Anthony) (10 minutes)

-Ortiz, Gabriela. "Denibee," (bass; flute; percussion)  (14 minutes)

-Man, Fang. "Thirsty Stone I" (two violins and drums) (8:30)

-Aucoin, Matthew. "This Earth" (counter-tenor and piano) (8 minutes)

-Vivaldi, Antonio."Sol da te" (ensemble feat. Anthony and Emi) (10 minutes)

Program #2 @ 9 pm

-Miller, Cassandra. "About Bach" (string quartet) (25 minutes)

-McIntosh, Andrew. "Little Jimmy" (2 piano 2 percussion) (30 minutes)

Details TBA

Sonic Alchemy

with Mina Gajić, YuEun Kim, and Coleman Itzkoff

Saturday, April 8, 2023, 4:00 p.m.

The Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theater

2590 Walnut St., Boulder, CO 80302

Featuring:

Mina Gajić, piano

YuEun Kim, violin

Coleman Itzkoff, cello

Following stunning performances at BBF’s 2022 Festival Week, the trio is reunited in a program that compares and contrasts the mystical Byzantine influence in the music of Arvo Pärt with Mozart’s music from the European Enlightenment. The two styles are brought together with poetic and imagematic works of Pēteris Vasks. The trio’s recording of this repertoire will be released later in 2023, so you’ll be the first to hear it live at The Dairy.

REPERTOIRE:

W.A. Mozart Fantasia in C minor, K. 475
Pärt Fratres for cello and piano
Vasks The White Scenery for piano solo
Vasks Interior Castle for violin and cello
Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel for violin and piano
Mozart Fantasia in D minor, K. 397
Pärt-Mozart Adagio for piano trio

Ruckus with Emi Feruson, flute
Fly the Coop: Music of J.S. Bach

Sonata in C Major, BWV 1033
Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034
Sonata in E Major, BWV 1035
Selected Preludes

Emi Ferguson, flute; Elliot Figg, harpsichord; Clay Zeller-Townson, bassoon; Arash Noori, lute; Doug Balliett, baroque bass and violone; Paul Holmes Morton, cello, banjo; Coleman Itzkoff, cello

Ruckus is a baroque ensemble with a fresh, visceral approach to early music, a “shapeshifting” band comprising some of today’s leading soloists of Baroque repertoire. Their collaboration with acclaimed English-American flutist Emi Ferguson is a joyous, kaleidoscopic romp through some of Bach’s most playful and transcendent works, with new arrangements of Bach’s Flute Sonatas and Keyboard Preludes that explode Bach’s bass lines into a rainbow of textures and colors, continually shifting like light over the landscape as Ferguson’s flute lines dance above.

“a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination” — The New York Times

“panache, and the jubilant, virtuosic verve of a bebop-Baroque jam session” — Boston Musical Intelligencer

Ruckus with Emi Feruson, flute
Fly the Coop: Music of J.S. Bach

Sonata in C Major, BWV 1033
Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034
Sonata in E Major, BWV 1035
Selected Preludes

Emi Ferguson, flute; Elliot Figg, harpsichord; Clay Zeller-Townson, bassoon; Arash Noori, lute; Doug Balliett, baroque bass and violone; Paul Holmes Morton, cello, banjo; Coleman Itzkoff, cello

Ruckus is a baroque ensemble with a fresh, visceral approach to early music, a “shapeshifting” band comprising some of today’s leading soloists of Baroque repertoire. Their collaboration with acclaimed English-American flutist Emi Ferguson is a joyous, kaleidoscopic romp through some of Bach’s most playful and transcendent works, with new arrangements of Bach’s Flute Sonatas and Keyboard Preludes that explode Bach’s bass lines into a rainbow of textures and colors, continually shifting like light over the landscape as Ferguson’s flute lines dance above.

“a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination” — The New York Times

“panache, and the jubilant, virtuosic verve of a bebop-Baroque jam session” — Boston Musical Intelligencer

Ruckus with Emi Feruson, flute
Fly the Coop: Music of J.S. Bach

Sonata in C Major, BWV 1033
Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034
Sonata in E Major, BWV 1035
Selected Preludes

Emi Ferguson, flute; Elliot Figg, harpsichord; Clay Zeller-Townson, bassoon; Arash Noori, lute; Doug Balliett, baroque bass and violone; Paul Holmes Morton, cello, banjo; Coleman Itzkoff, cello

Ruckus is a baroque ensemble with a fresh, visceral approach to early music, a “shapeshifting” band comprising some of today’s leading soloists of Baroque repertoire. Their collaboration with acclaimed English-American flutist Emi Ferguson is a joyous, kaleidoscopic romp through some of Bach’s most playful and transcendent works, with new arrangements of Bach’s Flute Sonatas and Keyboard Preludes that explode Bach’s bass lines into a rainbow of textures and colors, continually shifting like light over the landscape as Ferguson’s flute lines dance above.

“a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination” — The New York Times

“panache, and the jubilant, virtuosic verve of a bebop-Baroque jam session” — Boston Musical Intelligencer

Ruckus with Emi Feruson, flute
Fly the Coop: Music of J.S. Bach

Sonata in C Major, BWV 1033
Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034
Sonata in E Major, BWV 1035
Selected Preludes

Emi Ferguson, flute; Elliot Figg, harpsichord; Clay Zeller-Townson, bassoon; Arash Noori, lute; Doug Balliett, baroque bass and violone; Paul Holmes Morton, cello, banjo; Coleman Itzkoff, cello

Ruckus is a baroque ensemble with a fresh, visceral approach to early music, a “shapeshifting” band comprising some of today’s leading soloists of Baroque repertoire. Their collaboration with acclaimed English-American flutist Emi Ferguson is a joyous, kaleidoscopic romp through some of Bach’s most playful and transcendent works, with new arrangements of Bach’s Flute Sonatas and Keyboard Preludes that explode Bach’s bass lines into a rainbow of textures and colors, continually shifting like light over the landscape as Ferguson’s flute lines dance above.

“a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination” — The New York Times

“panache, and the jubilant, virtuosic verve of a bebop-Baroque jam session” — Boston Musical Intelligencer

Ruckus with Emi Feruson, flute
Fly the Coop: Music of J.S. Bach

Sonata in C Major, BWV 1033
Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034
Sonata in E Major, BWV 1035
Selected Preludes

Emi Ferguson, flute; Elliot Figg, harpsichord; Clay Zeller-Townson, bassoon; Arash Noori, lute; Doug Balliett, baroque bass and violone; Paul Holmes Morton, cello, banjo; Coleman Itzkoff, cello

Ruckus is a baroque ensemble with a fresh, visceral approach to early music, a “shapeshifting” band comprising some of today’s leading soloists of Baroque repertoire. Their collaboration with acclaimed English-American flutist Emi Ferguson is a joyous, kaleidoscopic romp through some of Bach’s most playful and transcendent works, with new arrangements of Bach’s Flute Sonatas and Keyboard Preludes that explode Bach’s bass lines into a rainbow of textures and colors, continually shifting like light over the landscape as Ferguson’s flute lines dance above.

“a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination” — The New York Times

“panache, and the jubilant, virtuosic verve of a bebop-Baroque jam session” — Boston Musical Intelligencer

Ruckus with Emi Feruson, flute
Fly the Coop: Music of J.S. Bach

Sonata in C Major, BWV 1033
Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034
Sonata in E Major, BWV 1035
Selected Preludes

Emi Ferguson, flute; Elliot Figg, harpsichord; Clay Zeller-Townson, bassoon; Arash Noori, lute; Doug Balliett, baroque bass and violone; Paul Holmes Morton, cello, banjo; Coleman Itzkoff, cello

Ruckus is a baroque ensemble with a fresh, visceral approach to early music, a “shapeshifting” band comprising some of today’s leading soloists of Baroque repertoire. Their collaboration with acclaimed English-American flutist Emi Ferguson is a joyous, kaleidoscopic romp through some of Bach’s most playful and transcendent works, with new arrangements of Bach’s Flute Sonatas and Keyboard Preludes that explode Bach’s bass lines into a rainbow of textures and colors, continually shifting like light over the landscape as Ferguson’s flute lines dance above.

“a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination” — The New York Times

“panache, and the jubilant, virtuosic verve of a bebop-Baroque jam session” — Boston Musical Intelligencer