Kaufman Music Center – Past Concerts
Kaufman Music Center – What Makes It Great? Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings
Monday, April 4, 2022 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (EDT)
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York, NY, United States
$60
Kaufman Music Center – Ecstatic Music: Holland Andrews & Darian Donovan Thomas with Methods Body
Thursday, March 31, 2022 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (EDT)
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York, NY, United States
$25 ($15 student)
Kaufman Music Center – Piano Dialogues: Anthony de Mare – LIAISONS
Saturday, March 26, 2022 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (EDT)
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York, NY, United States
Program includes works by
Jeff Beal,
Stephen Sondheim,
Stephen Hough,
Mark Bennett,
Paola Prestini,
Marc Schubring,
Ethan Iverson,
Christopher Cerrone,
Frederic Rzewski,
Conrad Tao,
Steve Reich,
David Rakowski, and
Kevin Puts.
$25
Kaufman Center & NYFOS: Love Songs in 176 Keys – 4 hands, 4 voices, 4 countries
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (EDT)
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York, NY, United States
Heitor Villa-Lobos
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Selected works
Johannes Brahms — Selected works
Gabriel Fauré — Selected works
Darius Milhaud — Selected works
George Gershwin — Selected works
Johannes Brahms — Selected works
Gabriel Fauré — Selected works
Darius Milhaud — Selected works
George Gershwin — Selected works
$20-$70
Kaufman Music Center – Music Speaks: Undiluted Days – Merz Trio
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (EST)
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York, NY, United States
Program includes works by
Claudio Monteverdi,
Franz Joseph Haydn,
Jeffrey Mumford,
Alma Mahler,
Louis Guglielmi,
Carlo Gesualdo,
Traditional,
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and
Richard Strauss.
$30 ($15 student tickets by phone/in person)
Kaufman Music Center – Bridges: Kamala Sankaram & Bombay Rickey
Saturday, February 19, 2022 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (EST)
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York, NY, United States
Kamala Sankaram
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Crescent
(world premiere; voice & electronics)
Kamala Sankaram — Ololyga (voice & electronics)
Kamala Sankaram — The Far Shore (tenor & piano)
Kamala Sankaram — Eight Phases of Luna (soprano, baritone & piano)
Kamala Sankaram — Ololyga (voice & electronics)
Kamala Sankaram — The Far Shore (tenor & piano)
Kamala Sankaram — Eight Phases of Luna (soprano, baritone & piano)
$25
NYFOS: Buenos Aires, Then & Now
Tuesday, February 15, 2022 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (EST)
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York, NY, United States
Carlos Guastavino
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Selected works
Alberto Ginastera — Selected works
Carlos López Buchardo — Selected works
Astor Piazzolla — Selected works
Ariel Ramírez — Selected works
Alberto Ginastera — Selected works
Carlos López Buchardo — Selected works
Astor Piazzolla — Selected works
Ariel Ramírez — Selected works
$20-$70
Fast Forward: 2022 Kaufman Music Center Concerto Competition Winners Concert
Sunday, February 6, 2022 @ 5:30pm – 6:30pm (EST)
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York, NY, United States
The 2022 Concerto Competition winners from Kaufman Music Center’s Lucy Moses School, Special Music School and Young Artist Program perform …
Free ($15 suggested donation)
Kaufman Music Center – Bridges: Charles Yang & Peter Dugan
Saturday, February 5, 2022 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (EST)
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York, NY, United States
From Ravel to The Beatles to their own compositions, the genre-bending “classical-meets-rockstar-duo” (The Wall Street Journal) will featur…
$25 ($10 student)
Kaufman Music Center – Ecstatic Music: Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund Concert
Thursday, January 20, 2022 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (EST)
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York, NY, United States
Program includes works by
Jeffrey Brooks,
Nick Dunston,
Fred Frith,
Soo Yeon Lyuh,
Tomeka Reid,
Aeryn Santillan,
Ken Thomson, and
Trevor Weston.
$25
Music Speaks: Crossing Borders – Jamal Aliyev, cello & Dominic Cheli, piano
Tuesday, January 18, 2022 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (EST)
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York, NY, United States
Ernest Bloch
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From Jewish Life, B. 54
Fazıl Say — Dört Şehir ("Four Cities")
Ernest Bloch — Baal Shem, B. 47 (II. Nigun)
Leonid Malashkin — I Met You
Ernest Bloch — Méditation hébraïque, H. 55
Fazıl Say — Yiğidim Aslanım ("My Brave, My Lion")
Fazıl Say — Dört Şehir ("Four Cities")
Ernest Bloch — Baal Shem, B. 47 (II. Nigun)
Leonid Malashkin — I Met You
Ernest Bloch — Méditation hébraïque, H. 55
Fazıl Say — Yiğidim Aslanım ("My Brave, My Lion")
$30
Kaufman Music Center – Tuesday Matinees: Dmytro Choni, piano
Tuesday, January 11, 2022 @ 2:00pm – 3:00pm (EST)
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York, NY, United States
Claude Debussy
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Images Book 2
("Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut" ("And the moon descends on the temple that was"))
Claude Debussy — L'isle Joyeuse ("The Isle of Joy"), L. 106
Johannes Brahms — Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36
Alexander Scriabin — Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp major, Op. 30
Alberto Ginastera — Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 22
Claude Debussy — L'isle Joyeuse ("The Isle of Joy"), L. 106
Johannes Brahms — Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36
Alexander Scriabin — Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp major, Op. 30
Alberto Ginastera — Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 22
$20
Kaufman Music Center – What Makes It Great? The Irving Berlin Songbook
Monday, December 20, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (EST)
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York, NY, United States
Irving Berlin
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"Cheek to Cheek" from Top Hat
Irving Berlin — "I Got Lost in His Arms" from Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin — "You're Just in Love" from Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin — "I Got the Sun in the Morning" from Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin — "I Got Lost in His Arms" from Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin — "You're Just in Love" from Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin — "I Got the Sun in the Morning" from Annie Get Your Gun
$60
Kaufman Music Center – Piano Dialogues: Timo Andres
Thursday, December 16, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (EST)
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York, NY, United States
Robert Schumann
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Waldszenen ("Forest Scenes"), Op. 82
Sarah Goldfeather — Selected works (world premiere)
Eric Shanfield — Timo Variations
Sarah Goldfeather — Selected works (world premiere)
Eric Shanfield — Timo Variations
$25 ($10 student)
Kaufman Music Center – Broadway Close Up: Sing Me a Story
Monday, December 13, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (EST)
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York, NY, United States
Program includes works by
John Kander,
Rupert Holmes,
William Finn,
Jerry Bock,
Arthur Sullivan,
Joni Mitchell,
Noël Coward,
Dan Fogelberg,
David Yazbek,
Marvin Hamlisch,
Edward Kleben,
Cole Porter, and
Barry Manilow.
$70
Ecstatic Music Series: Seth Parker Woods / Difficult Grace (on-demand until 6/1/2021)
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (EDT)
Online event
Fredrick Gifford – Difficult Grace
Monty Adkins – Winter Tendrils (with film by Zoë McLean)
Nathalie Joachim – The Race: 1915 (with images of Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series)
Freida Abtan – My Heart Is A River
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – asinglewordisnotenough 3 [invariant] (with choreographer/dancer Roderick George)
Monty Adkins – Winter Tendrils (with film by Zoë McLean)
Nathalie Joachim – The Race: 1915 (with images of Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series)
Freida Abtan – My Heart Is A River
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – asinglewordisnotenough 3 [invariant] (with choreographer/dancer Roderick George)
$15
Kaufman Music Center: Fast Forward – ChamberFest
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (EDT)
Online event
Chamber ensembles from Kaufman Music Center's Special Music School High School perform movements from piano trios & string quartets; cellist Seth Parker Woods joins for Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1.
Free ($15 suggested donation)
Kaufman Music Center: Fast Forward – ComposerFest
Thursday, April 29, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (EDT)
Online event
Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School and Lucy Moses School perform music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, and Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
$15 suggested donation
Kaufman Music Center: Performance as Process with Conrad Tao
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm (EDT)
Online event
Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence Conrad Tao illustrates a deeper look into his work in piano, electronics, composition, & improvisation as the program for his May KMC concert comes into focus.
Free (Free)
Kaufman Music Center: Solar Flare – Luna Composition Lab
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (EDT)
Online event
Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center premiere works by 2020-21 Fellows of the Luna Composition Lab, a national mentorship program for teen-age female, non-binary, & gender-nonconforming composers.
Free (Free)