UPCOMING MUSIC EVENTS
PRISM Quartet
Premieres
Sunday, June 7 — 4:00pm
PRISM Quartet presents a program of new music from an exceptional collection of composers, featuring the world premiere of a new work by clarinetist/saxophonist, composer, conceptualist, and Blue Note recording artist Don Byron, winner of the Rome Prize and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. The program includes additional premieres by DownBeat Critics Poll winner (rising star on the tenor) Grant Stewart, a saxophonist/composer whose collaborators have included Jimmy Cobb, Renee Fleming, Clark Terry, Etta Jones, Brad Mehldau, and Harry Connick, Jr.; composer/conductor and winner of PRISM Quartet’s Robert Capanna Commissioning Award Teddy Poll, who served as resident conductor with the Houston Grand Opera and assistant conductor at the Glimmerglass Festival and San Francisco Opera; and 18-year-old Henry Vidaver, winner of the PRISM Quartet/Walden School Student Commissioning Award. Rounding out the program is Emily Cooley’s Dissolve from the Quartet’s recent single on XAS Records. Cooley, whose music has been described as “a beautiful delicacy” by Vermont Today, was the inaugural winner of PRISM’s Robert Capanna Commissioning Award (2018).
Admission: Pay-what-you-wish, with tickets available for $10, $22.50, and $35
Tickets can be purchased at eventbrite.com
Doors open at 3:45pm
Learn more at prismquartet.com
North/South Consonance, Inc
On the Move!
Tuesday, June 9 — 7:00pm
Join us for an enchanting spring evening on Tuesday, June 9, as the North/South Chamber Orchestra presents a captivating concert featuring works by talented composers from Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States.
Experience the artistry of Dorothee Eberhardt, Gianmaria Griglio, Max Lifchitz, and Jonathan McNair, with the gifted violinist Garry Ianco shining as our featured soloist.
Admission Free
Doors open at 6:40pm
Learn more at northsouthmusic.org.
The New York Scandia Symphony
2026 Scandinavian Music Festival
Saturday, June 13 — 7:00pm
Join us for a beautiful program of musical treasures from Scandinavia. Scandia’s music director Dorrit Matson will lead the Scandia Chamber Orchestra in a performance featuring Northern European composers.
Lisa Hansen will be the soloist in the “Flute Concerto” by Swedish Baroque composer Johan Helmich Roman. A newly commissioned work by Danish composer Josefine Opsahl, titled All we know is that it Radiates will be performed in New York for the second time. Another contemporary piece on the program is created by Scandia’s composer in residence, Frank Foerster and titled The Eagles of Inwood Hill. The program also includes music by Danish Romantic composer Niels W. Gade. The great Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson will be honored with a performance of his Gustaviansk Svit, which represents the Neo-Baroque style. Both Josefine Opsahl and Frank Foerster will be present and will introduce their compositions.
Admission is free
Learn more at nyscandia.org.
New York Opera Alliance
NYOA Next
Monday, June 15 — 7:30pm
The New York Opera Alliance (NYOA) is a service organization for small opera companies in the New York City area. One of its annual events is NYOA Next, a concert featuring member companies.
Among this year’s performers, Brooklyn’s Regina Opera Company will perform excerpts from Bizet’s Carmen and Opera for the Earth features an aria and duet from Puccini’s Tosca. Opera Praktikos presents selections from their upcoming rethinking of Bellini’s La Sonnambula and Collectio Musicorum offers an insight into the origins of operetta with selections from the works of Jacques Offenbach. The SAS Performing Arts Company and The Bronx Opera will also present previews of their upcoming seasons.
Admission: $20. Tickets can be purchased at the door.
Doors open at 7:00pm
Learn more at nyoperaalliance.org.
North/South Consonance, Inc
Season Finale
Tuesday, June 16 — 7:00pm
The North/South Chamber Orchestra is concluding its 46th consecutive season of promoting music by living composers.
Clarinetist Berkeley Price and bassist Troy Rinker will perform as soloists.
The concert will showcase works from the Czech Republic, France, and the United States.
The program includes compositions by Max Lifchitz, Deon Nielsen Price, Simone Tolomeo, and Martin Vitous.
Admission Free
Doors open at 6:40pm
Learn more at northsouthmusic.org.
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