APPLICATION: OPEN MIC CALL FOR SCORES
Following in the footsteps of a traditional "open mic" event, this program adapts the idea for a new music context with the chamber orchestral forces of Contemporaneous serving as the band, providing an opportunity for composers of all ages and skill levels in the community to submit their work — in any stage of its development — to be performed in a free performance.
HIDE AND SEEK (SHOW 1)
Contemporaneous and Choral Chameleon join forces for a collaborative evening centered around the world premiere of Composer, Collaborator, Vocalist, Laptop Player, and dear friend to both organizations Zachary Ritter’s new work, HEAPS. This 40-minute sound collage of Imogen Heap’s iconic track Hide and Seek melds choir, chamber orchestra, electronics, and live processed solo vocals by Amber Evans. The program also includes shorter performance sets for both ensembles.
HIDE AND SEEK (SHOW 2)
Contemporaneous and Choral Chameleon join forces for a collaborative evening centered around the world premiere of Composer, Collaborator, Vocalist, Laptop Player, and dear friend to both organizations Zachary Ritter’s new work, HEAPS. This 40-minute sound collage of Imogen Heap’s iconic track Hide and Seek melds choir, chamber orchestra, electronics, and live processed solo vocals by Amber Evans. The program also includes shorter performance sets for both ensembles.
Virtual Community Salon
The Virtual Community Salon is a free and recurring online community gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.
Colgate University Residency Concert 3
As part of Contemporaneous Ensemble’s residency at Colgate University. The program presents an afternoon of music by Colgate students and works by Pauline Oliveros, John Luther Adams, David Lang, and Frederic Rzewski.
Life So Simple: From Birth To Death
Select Movements from Michael Folmer Hansen’s Symphonies No. 0-3 about love, maternity, service, struggle and acceptance orchestrated by Emilio Guarino and performed by Contemporaneous.
KAATSBAAN | HISTORY OF LIFE: ACT 1
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s 2024 Festival & Contemporaneous present an early look at an upcoming work, History of Life, by composer Dylan Mattingly and librettist Thomas Bartscherer. Part céilí, part rock concert, part astral meditation on the history of the world, History of Life is a wild ecstatic musical vision that resurrects the ancient form of the epic – a massive musical poem weaving together a vast collection of the stories of our world to form a new mythology of ourselves and our place within its history.
Virtual Community Salon
The Virtual Community Salon is a free and recurring online community gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.
Virtual Community Salon
The Virtual Community Salon is a free and recurring online community gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.
Virtual Community Salon
The Virtual Community Salon is a free and recurring online community gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.
THE PRECIPICE (SHOW 2)
Weaving together text and music from journal entries, poems, voice memos, and previous works by Karl Ronneburg & Grey Rose Grant, The Precipice is a 100-minute abstract chamber-rock opera that explores the formation of self and our relationship with moments of transition. The show asks: how do the metaphors and myths by which we construct our identity hold us back, and how do we leave behind relationships, places, and visions of self without losing the part of them that made us who we are?
THE PRECIPICE (SHOW 1)
Weaving together text and music from journal entries, poems, voice memos, and previous works by Karl Ronneburg & Grey Rose Grant, The Precipice is a 100-minute abstract chamber-rock opera that explores the formation of self and our relationship with moments of transition. The show asks: how do the metaphors and myths by which we construct our identity hold us back, and how do we leave behind relationships, places, and visions of self without losing the part of them that made us who we are?
Virtual Community Salon
The Virtual Community Salon is a free and recurring online community gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.
Virtual Community Salon
The Virtual Community Salon is a free and recurring online community gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.
Virtual Community Salon
The Virtual Community Salon is a free and recurring online community gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.
Virtual Community Salon
The Virtual Community Salon is a free and recurring online community gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.
Colgate University Residency Concert 2
As part of Contemporaneous Ensemble’s residency at Colgate University. The program includes works by Ryan Chase, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Michael Kropf, Dylan Mattingly, Harriet Steinke, and Shelley Washington.
Songs at Night
Songs at Night is an intimate evening of musical transfiguration, centered around the world premiere of a large-scale new song cycle by composer Lila Meretzky drawing on the poems of Yiddish-language poet Anna Margolin.
Virtual Community Salon
The Virtual Community Salon is a free and recurring online community gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.
Virtual Community Salon
The Virtual Community Salon is a free and recurring online community gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.
Virtual Community Salon
The Virtual Community Salon is a free and recurring online community gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.
Virtual Community Salon
The Virtual Community Salon is a free and recurring online community gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.
Virtual Community Salon
The Virtual Community Salon is a free and recurring online community gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.
Parables: Music of Jali Bakary Konteh & Mafu Conteh
Parables is a collaborative project featuring the music and performances of Gambian griots Mafu Conteh and Jali Bakary Konteh in partnership with the chamber orchestra forces of Contemporaneous. The Gambian Mandinka tradition of music and oral history has been passed down for hundreds of years and generations of griot families, and Mafu Conteh and Jali Bakary Konteh are the current bearers of that cultural legacy.
Virtual Community Salon
The Virtual Community Salon is a free and recurring online community gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.
[SOLD OUT] Sarah Davachi's “Brass Chant” | Concert 2
Musicians from Contemporaneous will descend on MoMA PS1 to perform two long-form new works by composer Sarah Davachi on September 14th and September 15th.
[SOLD OUT] Sarah Davachi's “Brass Chant” | Concert 1
Musicians from Contemporaneous will descend on MoMA PS1 to perform two long-form new works by composer Sarah Davachi on September 14th and September 15th.
Virtual Community Salon
The Virtual Community Salon is a free and recurring online community gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.
Dreams of One / All
Dreams of One / All is a majestic vision of musical experience featuring artistic dreams from all over the world which imagine and reimagine the relationship of a single instrument — from amplified bubble-wrap to the "Hardanger D'amore" fiddle — with the many-voiced force of a large ensemble…
Virtual Community Salon
The Virtual Community Salon is a free and recurring online community gathering space hosted by Contemporaneous, where anyone can come to share artistic work in all stages of development, along with ideas, dreams, and conversation.
Tacos, Tequila & Tavener’s Protecting Veil
The first and second times were pretty charming, but when it comes to food, drink, and classical music in beautiful Green-Wood Cemetery, our third go ‘round is definitely the charm-iest...
Stranger Love
6 hours long, scored for 28 musicians (including three microtonal pianos), 8 singers, and 6 dancers with music by composer Dylan Mattingly and text by Thomas Bartscherer, Stranger Love is a grand celebration of being alive…
Swan Songs
Swan Songs is a new evening-length immersive operatic work commissioned by Contemporaneous, created by composer Ethan Braun and librettist Vikram Devasthali…