Five Works, One Evening:
Sinfonia COncert

The Orchestra of the League of Composers, conducted by David Fulmer, presents its annual Sinfonia Concert. The program features Bruce Reiprich's Inflorescence with flutist Jennifer Grimm, Sheree Clement's Intermezzo no. 13, Fred Lerdahl's Chords, Amy Williams's Telephone, and Christopher Cerrone's The Pieces that Fall to Earth.

Thursday, May 28, 2026 | 7:30 pm
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
Cary Hall
450 West 37th Street New York, NY 10018

Program

Bruce Reiprich — Inflorescence
Jennifer Grimm, flute

Sheree Clement — Intermezzo no. 13

Fred Lerdahl — Chords

— Intermission —

Amy Williams — Telephone

Christopher Cerrone — The Pieces that Fall to the Earth
Kaileigh Riess, soprano

David Fulmer, conductor
The Orchestra of the League of Composers

Tickets: $30 Advance | $40 Doors | $15 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)
Doors open: 7:00 PM
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COMMUNITIES AND CONTINUITIES

Magpie Duo, joined by guest viola and clarinet, opens its MAGPIE Festival with a program that traces a lineage of memorial and homage across a century of new music — from Webern’s miniature 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano and Berg’s clarinet Pieces, through Messiaen, Takemitsu’s Rain tree sketch II in memoriam Olivier Messiaen, and Knussen’s Prayer Bell Sketch in memoriam Tōru Takemitsu, to substantial recent works by Anthony Cheung and Jörg Widmann.

Friday, May 29, 2026

Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church
Washington Heights
New York, NY

Program

Anton Webern — 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7
Alban Berg — 4 Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5
Olivier Messiaen — Prélude
Tōru Takemitsu — Rain tree sketch II in memoriam Olivier Messiaen
Oliver Knussen — Prayer Bell Sketch, Op. 29 — in memoriam Tōru Takemitsu

— pause —

Anthony Cheung — Elective Memory
Jörg Widmann — Es war einmal…

Magpie Duo
Lauren Conroy, violin | Matthew Schultheis, piano
with guest artists, viola and clarinet

NEW WORKS FOR FLUTE, CLARINET, AND PIANO

The new-music collective .thrum — Kelly Sulick (flute), Jiyeon Choi (clarinet), and John Mayhood (piano) — presents three world premieres written for the trio, set against two evocative ecoacoustic works. Matthew Burtner’s ‘A’aa draws on volcanic lava-flow recordings; Donald Reid Womack’s ‘Aina roots itself in Hawaiian landscape; and Allen Cohen, Dongryul Lee, and Yura Suh complete the program with newly commissioned premieres.

Greenwich House Music School
Recital Hall
46 Barrow Street
New York, NY

Program

Matthew Burtner — ‘A’aa for flute, clarinet, volcanic lava flow, and electroacoustics
Donald Reid Womack — ‘Aina for flute, clarinet, and piano
Dongryul Lee — Resonant Currents (world premiere — .thrum commission)
Yura Suh — Radiant Fragments (world premiere — .thrum commission)
Allen Cohen — The Wright Place (world premiere — .thrum commission)

.thrum
Kelly Sulick, flute  |  Jiyeon Choi, clarinet  |  John Mayhood, piano

FIELD GUIDE TO IMAGINARY BIRDS

Composer and bassoonist Brad Balliett and Experiential Orchestra invite audiences on a guided walk through the Prospect Park Ravine for an outdoor, site-specific chamber-music experience. Nine wind players are scattered through the landscape, and the music shifts as listeners move between them. The 45-minute program — featuring Arboretum and the premiere of an expanded Field Guide to Imaginary Birds — is performed twice, so audiences can experience it from a different vantage point each time.

Saturday, June 6, 2026
(rain date: Sunday, June 7, 2026)
Prospect Park — The Ravine
Brooklyn, NY

Program

Brad Balliett — Arboretum
Brad Balliett — Field Guide to Imaginary Birds (expanded version, world premiere)

Experiential Orchestra
Brad Balliett

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN & WELSH SONG

Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams brings his US tour to White Street, Lower Manhattan, for a recital of contemporary American and Welsh song. The program centers on the world premiere of John Metcalf’s Six Epilogues — a cycle bookended by Shakespearean farewells, from Puck’s mock-appeal at the close of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Prospero’s “Our revels now are ended.” Williams pairs the premiere with cycles by John Harbison, Louis Karchin, Elena Ruehr, William Bolcom, and Friedrich Heinrich Kern.

White Street Concert Series
Lower Manhattan
New York, NY

Program

John Harbison — Flashes and Illuminations
Louis Karchin — Two Songs
Elena Ruehr — Lullabies and Spring Songs
William Bolcom — Gettysburg: July 1, 1863
John Metcalf — Six Epilogues (world premiere)
Friedrich Heinrich Kern — Five Lieder

Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone

SONIC ODYSSEY

Pianist Niklas Sivelöv brings his international Sonic Odyssey tour to the National Opera Center in New York, presenting a program of solo piano works by an international roster of composer-performers — Cindy Cox, Douglas Knehans, Pamela Madsen, Spiros Mazis, Edward Smaldone, and Sivelöv himself. The recital is part of a tour that culminates in an audio-visual recording project.

National Opera Center (Opera America)
330 Seventh Avenue, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10001

Program

Solo piano works by:
Cindy Cox  |  Douglas Knehans  |  Pamela Madsen
Spiros Mazis  |  Niklas Sivelöv  |  Edward Smaldone

Niklas Sivelöv, piano

Additional concerts will be announced soon.