saga - National Sawdust

SÀGA

Jan 9-10, 2016

Special offer:

Use code SAGALATE for $15 ticket to the 10pm show on 1/9

Dez Mona is one of Belgium’s finest indie bands whose style fuses jazz, gospel, spirituals, and drama. For the creation of Sága, they engage in a sparkling collaboration with B.O.X. (Baroque Orchestration X), along with the outstanding vocalist Gregory Frateur. Sága is a theatrical song cycle, which deals with “homecoming” as its main theme.

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Adji Cissoko by Karolina Kuras — Adji Cissoko
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unnamed-5 — JL Marlor
JL Marlor is a Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist, composer and educator. Known for her narrative-driven multi genre chamber music, her work examines the intersections between the collective and the individual as it relates to protest and social change, drawing heavily from Slavic women’s music, riot grrrl punk, plainchant, and American protest music.
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unnamed-1 — Lynne Procope
Lynne Procope is a Trinidadian poet living in New York. She is a Cave Canem fellow, former National Poetry Slam champion, and co-author of the collaborative collection, Burning Down the House. Her poems are widely published across the hemisphere. She is a writer, educator, editor, curator, former ED and co-founder of the louderARTS Project, editor in chief of Union Station Magazine, and current creative director of LEAF Global Arts' Lit Live Series.
March 2, 2021/by Zan Emerson

web — Marisa Michelson and Miriam Parker
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kyle abraham (1) — Kyle Abraham, A.I.M, and Jlin
January 9th • 6pm Eastern
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active hope image (1) — Active Hope
January 8th • 5pm Eastern
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AshKoosha_OzgeCone (1) — Ash Koosha with YONA
January 7th • 6pm Eastern
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Jorinde Keesmaat — Jorinde Keesmaat
Jorinde Keesmaat is a Dutch director of opera and staged classical concerts. From 2016 through 2019, she is Guest Director-in-Residence at the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York. In her immersive multidisciplinary work, Keesmaat plays with the relationship between spectator and actor / musician. In her projects, she explores the possibilities of an individual approach to the public. The conventional boundaries between classical concerts, opera and theatre are of little import in her work.
December 2, 2020/by Zan Emerson

Brianna Mims_Photo by Bennet Perez — Brianna Mims
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Molly Joyce – photo by Shervin Lainez — Molly Joyce
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Amy Hall Garner_Photo by Luis Alberto Rodriguez — Amy Hall Garner
December 1, 2020/by Zan Emerson

100119nsp — NationalSawdust+ presents: Jad Abumrad’s “Covering Home” with Caroline Shaw, Bora Yoon, and Shelley Washington
October 1st

sonja photo new 2020 — Sonja Mutić
Sonja Mutić is a composer, performer, and PhD candidate at Harvard University. She works with sounds at thresholds of silence, harmony, and noise, using minimal means to create textures of maximal expressive weight.
February 18, 2020/by Zan Emerson

FLANN 05 — Flannery Cunningham
Flannery Cunningham is a composer and musicologist fascinated by vocal expression, auditory perception, and the resonances of environmental sounds.
February 18, 2020/by Zan Emerson

Jimena Maldonado 1 — Jimena Maldonado
Jimena Maldonado is a Mexican composer based in The Hague. Having studied both composition and photography, she is interested in combining the two disciplines in order to achieve alternative forms of both composing and presenting her work.
February 18, 2020/by Zan Emerson

Brooklyn Raga Massive-187-2 — Women’s Raga Massive: Legacies
March 8th

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis: Screening and Live Score with Metropolis Ensemble and Ricardo Romaneiro
March 10th

image2 (4) — Sonic and Womxyn Amplify
March 6th

191016_Cosmico_Launch-1 — Private Room
• 400 square feet
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• 50 standing

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191109_Cosmico_Interior-1 — Cosmico
• 500 square feet
• 35 seated
• 50 standing

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Nike Pop-Up — Nike Joyride Cafe
Nike Joyride Cafe Nike partnered with The Infatuation for a pop-up in our attached restaurant space for the month of September. Notable eateries from all over New York participated each week in feeding those who had just finished a mile-long run using the Nike Run Club app. Every weekend had a different theme, including Pasta, Burgers, and Tacos.
January 30, 2020/by Zan Emerson

Adidas Nite School Graduation
Adidas Nite School Graduation Adidas held its graduation event at National Sawdust for students of their Nite School, which promotes leaders in street art, music production, and entrepreneurship. The event featured Nite Jogger sneakers, custom brand activations, surprise DJ performances, and glow in the dark cocktails from our bar program.
January 30, 2020/by Zan Emerson

Childish Major @childishmajor — Spotify’s Butter Cafe
Spotify’s Butter Cafe Inspired by Spotify's hit playlist "Butter," the company hosted a private showcase for 300 guests at National Sawdust with local hip-hop, alternative soul, and jazz musicians frequently featured on the playlist.
January 30, 2020/by Zan Emerson

NSplus 2 — NationalSawdust+ presents : A Spatial Sound Lab Hosted by Laurie Anderson & Arto Lindsay
February 22nd

AN+GLEACHT+9 — Jennifer Walshe and Mivos Quartet
March 1st

CE-9 — POSTPONED – Rosehardt
March 12th

Sandbox Percussion
February 28th

Sxip Shirey’s Hour of Charm: Mother Tree Prayers
February 16th

AdHoc presents: Okay Kaya
February 13th

shrines split — Shrines
February 19th

Screen Shot 2020-01-08 at 9.29.26 PM — Samora Pinderhughes: Sounds of Saving’s Feedback Sessions
February 7th

Screen Shot 2020-01-08 at 5.01.29 PM — Cristina Spinei
February 29th

Screen Shot 2020-01-02 at 2.03.46 PM — The Lot Radio presents: Eli Keszler (solo)
February 18th

cuddle — DISRUPT: Cuddle Magic & Frank LoCrasto
February 1st

post_nationalsawdust_02c_wide — Ramy Essam “Tahrir and Beyond” with special guest Ganzeer
January 25th

banner image — NationalSawdust+ presents: “Beyond Butterfly and the Don”
January 24th

duo rogers (1) — John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Miles Okazaki and Dan Weiss
February 26th

Anna Webber by Peter Gannushkin 2 — John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Anna Webber – Idiom VI
January 29th

NightgownsBannerNYE — Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns: New Year’s Eve (Late Show)
December 31st

NightgownsBannerNYE — Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns: New Year’s Eve (Early Show)
December 31st

artist development — Artist Development Workshops
The BluePrint Fellowship program is a dual-track career and project mentoring course designed to share a blueprint for success with emerging composers by leveraging the extensive project development knowledge of the National Sawdust team in tandem with hands-on mentorship from leading composers in the field.
December 13, 2019/by Zan Emerson

2017_MwensoShakes-SocialMedia_ByElizabethLeitzell_0017 — A workshop of new music by Mwenso and the Shakes
January 30th

Timbalooloo_Kids_With_Instruments_Med_Res_photo_credit_dusan_reljin — Oran Etkin: Timbalooloo Jazz For Kids Duo Series
March 7th

Timbalooloo_Kids_With_Instruments_Med_Res_photo_credit_dusan_reljin — Oran Etkin: Timbalooloo Jazz For Kids Duo Series
Feburary 1st

RafiqBhatia-JohnKlukas-HighResJPG — Rafiq Bhatia: Standards Vol. 1 (EP Release)
February 5th

Screen Shot 2019-12-09 at 3.30.11 PM — Winter Jazzfest
January 17th

TheHumposter-1920×1080-01 — The Hum presents Greta Kline (Frankie Cosmos) and Jilian Medford (Ian Sweet)
January 18th

Flow-Space-no-text — Flow Space: Ricardo Romaneiro, Liquid Light Lab, and Lori Ann Ferreri
January 26th

Screen Shot 2019-11-18 at 11.22.21 AM — Kwanzaa Fest
December 28th

2017_MwensoShakes-SocialMedia_ByElizabethLeitzell_0030 — Mwenso and the Shakes
February 20th

Kadhja Bonet
December 8th

the rev — The Revolution Vol. 47: King Klavé, THE EITHER, and Aya Jack
February 27th

Against the Grain Theatre: “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup”
February 15th

“Through You” workshop — FERUS Festival: Eve Gigliotti “Untitled (inspired by Film Stills)”
January 17th

image1 (8) — FERUS Festival: Sonic + Womxyn Amplify “SEASONS”
January 14th

Screen Shot 2019-12-10 at 2.30.47 PM — FERUS Festival: Sarah Hennies & Mara Baldwin “Come ‘Round Right”
January 12th

134 crop — FERUS Festival: Lucy Dhegrae “A Barely Arching Bridge”
January 11th

Print — FERUS Festival: Sister Sylvester “The Eagle and the Tortoise”
January 10th

Print — FERUS Festival: Sister Sylvester “The Eagle and the Tortoise”
January 10th

rev46 — The Revolution Vol. 46: donSmith, Alita Moses, and OJ in the Yams
January 23rd

the rev dec event image — The Revolution Vol. 45: Michael Wingate, Maitri, and Childish Japes
December 19th

Agnes Obel
January 16th

Agnes Obel
January 17th

Jakob Kullberg — Jakob Kullberg
February 2nd

Screen Shot 2019-10-24 at 3.15.14 PM — Face the Music: Home with Nathalie Joachim, Trevor New, and Peter Askim
February 10th

zk_snowmelt — Zoë Keating
February 23rd

zk_by_chasejarvis2 — Zoë Keating
February 23rd

Screen Shot 2019-10-23 at 3.44.32 PM — Lucy Shelton
December 15th

Screen Shot 2019-11-14 at 10.00.31 AM — SOLD OUT – COLORXSTUDIOS Presents: Kojey Radical, Gaidaa, and Dua Saleh
November 15th

JLB curtain call Zurich phot credit Ellen Rietbrock — Joan La Barbara
Composer and vocalist Joan La Barbara is renowned for developing a unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques that have influenced generations of other composers and singers.
October 17, 2019/by Zan Emerson

unnamed (1) — The Lot Radio presents: Arp, Ana Roxanne, Yale Evelev, and Cz Wang
December 12th

Protected: BluePrint Fellowship Course Materials

October 10, 2019

BANNER photo — NationalSawdust+ presents  “Inside Juggling”
December 3rd

Lucas Debargue_34 Credit Xiomara Bender — Lucas Debargue, piano
January 22nd

just glasses for web (1) — Meredith Monk’s Birthday Dance Party
November 20th

11-2 bw — Sye Elaine Spence: “On Shadows”
November 2nd

MDL-0513-2 — DESSA
November 22nd

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Halloween Live Score + Party
October 31st

National Sawdust workshop with Julliard Students — BluePrint Fellowship Concert
November 17th

EP Main Home Pic — ENSEMBLE / PARALLAX
October 4th

Event Image — The Wali Sanga and Ghost Funk Orchestra
October 24th

Resonator Fest @ NS — Resonator Festival
October 5th

4537–2019-03-13-17-39-35 — AdHoc presents: Hayden Thorpe
November 5th

CarolinaEyck_byAnandaCosta (1) — Carolina Eyck
October 25th

fred frith — John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Fred Frith and Heike Liss
August 28th

Miho Hazama and m_unit
November 13th

Christopher Tignor
October 18th

Telefon Tel Aviv
October 16th

SAUCE 10 — SAUCE: Sessions at National Sawdust
August 31st

SAUCE 9 — SAUCE: Sessions at National Sawdust
August 29th

SAUCE 8 — SAUCE: Sessions at National Sawdust
August 24th

SAUCE 7 — SAUCE: Sessions at National Sawdust
August 22nd

SAUCE 6 — SAUCE: Sessions at National Sawdust
August 17th

SAUCE 1 — SAUCE: Sessions at National Sawdust
August 1st

unnamed (1) — Summer Labs: Avery Leigh’s Night Palace “In The Night Palace”
September 17th

Screen Shot 2019-08-27 at 1.41.04 PM — Summer Labs: Alaina Ferris’ “The Lydian Gale Parr”
September 16th

_N6A0655 (1) — Summer Labs: Eliot Krimsky’s “Wave in Time”
September 18th

SAUCE 3 — SAUCE: Sessions at National Sawdust
August 8th

SAUCE 4 — SAUCE: Sessions at National Sawdust
August 10th

SAUCE 5 — SAUCE: Sessions at National Sawdust
August 15th

SAUCE 2 — SAUCE: Sessions at National Sawdust
August 3rd

Ted Hearne 4 – photo by Jen Rosenstein (1) — Ted Hearne
Acclaimed for making audacious, politically acute music for our time that traverses boundaries of style and discipline, composer and singer Ted Hearne has been heralded for producing “some of the most expressive socially engaged music in recent memory” (Pitchfork).
July 24, 2019/by Zan Emerson

ash koosha — Ash Koosha
From the underground punk-rock scene in a repressive Tehran to the creation of a singer-songwriter auxman (auxiliary human) named YONA, the polymath Iranian performer Ash Koosha has spent his entire career on the front lines of the musical vanguard, both real and virtual.
July 24, 2019/by Zan Emerson

JenShyu_PhotoBy_Caterina_Di_Perri_DSC_1128 (1) — John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Jen Shyu
October 30th

rev-44 copy — The Revolution Vol. 44: RINI, Wayne Tucker, & Jill Peacock
November 14th

ben-goldberg-2—photo-by-peak-6afa14ca9930499db7544e890489031ee3865d3b-s800-c85 — John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Ben Goldberg
November 27th

CWP with Claire Chase, 23 May 2018 (1) — The Composing Women Project with Claire Chase
September 29th

banner-222 — NationalSawdust+ presents: Paul Muldoon’s “Against the Grain” featuring Carolyn Forché, Andrey Kurkov and the Knights
November 21st

rev 42 — The Revolution Vol. 42: Niya Levon, Liberation Era, & Ryan Egan
September 21st

unnamed (2) — John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Wendy Eisenberg
September 25th

Crumb-George-Tiff_Z7W0364_ccc9e783-ca0e-bb5b-1db5fa35ec255c7a_0 (1) — A Night with George Crumb
October 28th

ETHEL_byMatthewMurphy_3 (1) — ETHEL
December 18th

Jumping Photo — Canadian Brass 50th Anniversary Holiday Show
December 16th

NS 9_13 graphic revised — Lara Downes presents “Holes in the Sky”
September 13th

joao_gilberto-e1562443687936 — Magos Herrera presents A Tribute to João GIlberto
October 2nd

Screen Shot 2019-07-17 at 11.22.49 AM — Angélica Negrón with Muriel Louveau and Emily Marie Pope: “Isterica”
November 6th

rev 43 — The Revolution Vol. 43: Nickel & Dime OPS, Ziarra Washington, & Juwan Crawley
October 17th

© Deneka Peniston 2015 — Powerful Sounds: Sound Bath with Sara Auster
November 9th at 5pm

moch — John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Patricia Brennan’s MOCH
December 26th

SQUAREPEG_branches — Square Peg Round Hole
November 8th

1_Kinds of Kings (2) — Kinds of Kings
December 13th

0ccdfd-clara-schumann-20160419 (1) — Season 5 Opening – A Night of Women Composers: From Clara Schumann to Meredith Monk
September 27th

sonic — Sonic and Womxyn Amplify
A force of soulful, slow-burning R&B, Sonic is a singer/songwriter with a unique relationship with sound: she’s partially deaf. She will collaborate with her collective Womxyn Amplify, an experiential production house that creates experiences that amplify the voices of LGBTQIA womxyn and non-binary artists, to craft an immersive performance that spotlights the path to self-knowledge and acceptance.
July 24, 2019/by Zan Emerson

161 — Lucy Dhegrae
November 23rd

William Cashion (Future Islands)
September 28th

46501312_2474587379225286_3930668672464453632_n (1) — Black Thought
One of the most incisive, skilled, and prolific rappers of his time, Black Thought is the co-founder and lead MC/singer of The Legendary Roots Crew and a Grammy-winning writer, actor, and artist.
July 24, 2019/by Zan Emerson

Liam_Ricketts_Laraaji_Warp_Records_MG_8574 — Powerful Sounds: Laraaji presents “Sun Piano”
October 27th

161 — Lucy Dhegrae
“Vocal versatility and an omnivorous curiosity” (New York Times) are the hallmarks of vocalist Lucy Dhegrae, a passionate singer with a flexible technique that fits a variety of styles. Among her many accomplishments, Lucy has been featured in the Mostly Mozart Festival and has performed at Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center. She founded and directs the Resonant Bodies Festival, an international presenter of boundary-pushing contemporary music vocalists.
July 24, 2019/by Zan Emerson

against the grain — Against the Grain Theatre
Their stirring reinventions of classic repertoire “smack you in the face like a bracing wake-up call to the spirit” (Globe and Mail). Award-winning Canadian opera collective Against the Grain Theatre, led by Founding Artistic Director Joel Ivany, has gained notoriety for presenting classical work in new and innovative ways, making it relevant and accessible to a new generation.
July 24, 2019/by Zan Emerson

2017_MwensoShakes-SocialMedia_ByElizabethLeitzell_0009 — Mwenso and the Shakes
Mwenso and the Shakes are an artist-collective-turned-family made up of some of the most creative and virtuosic musicians in the world. Driven by their founder’s deep ancestral understanding of the art form, they came together through many late nights exploring music outside of the traditional classroom and celebrating life and their unique international cultures. Their foundational roots, familial trust, and total understanding of the continuum of music create the freedom and fluidity of their spontaneous, communal, and improvised output of joy, thought, and empowerment.
July 24, 2019/by Zan Emerson

Kinds of Kings 2020_photo credit Susanna — Kinds of Kings
Heralded by the New Yorker as “distinguished young creators who work in diverse styles,” Kinds of Kings is a collective of six multifaceted composers. The collective actively advocates for underrepresented voices and is committed to building a positive and supportive community around the creation and experience of new music.
July 24, 2019/by Zan Emerson

outdoor facade — Outdoor Facade Sponsorship
July 23, 2019/by Zan Emerson

venue rental — Venue Rental
July 23, 2019/by Zan Emerson

corporate partnership — Corporate Partnership
July 23, 2019/by Zan Emerson

corporate membership — Corporate Membership
July 23, 2019/by Zan Emerson

aisha-devi-top — Aïsha Devi
September 14th

Sxip Shirey “Latency” — The Gauntlet
October 11th • PHYSICALITY Rev 3: One Woman Show (Club Mix)

JACQUES GREENE (2019) by Mathieu Fortin — Jacques Greene live
October 23rd

unnamed (3) (3) — NYU Sandbox Percussion Showcase
July 27th

2019-ns-banner — Front Porch, Jeff Siegfried, & Hayley Boggs
July 28th

Event Image — Samita Sinha & Grey Mcmurray
July 17th

Apollo #2 Blank — Liquid Light Lab & Ricardo Romaneiro
July 20th

Vagabon_websize — AdHoc presents: Vagabon
October 15th

blueprint — BluePrint Fellowship
The BluePrint Fellowship program is a dual-track career and project mentoring course designed to share a blueprint for success with emerging composers by leveraging the extensive project development knowledge of the National Sawdust team in tandem with hands-on mentorship from leading composers in the field.
June 11, 2019/by Zan Emerson

Reg knit Brruka!_21-fix (1) — Thea Little
July 11th

CR_NS_2 (1) — Takuya Nakamura
June 21st

event photo — Rodes Rollins
June 22nd

Roger banner copy (1) — Julia Adolphe & Stephanie Fleischmann’s “A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears”
June 27th

Event Image — Matt Jaffe & Bill Plympton
June 20th

Elissa Cassini, violin & Ashley Bathgate, cello
June 29th

unnamed (6) — Vitor Araújo
July 26th

unnamed (5) — Sessa
July 24th

unnamed (10) (1) — LATASHÁ
June 8th

the rev — The Revolution Vol. 41: DioMara, Snack Cat, and Vocateurs
July 27th

unnamed (3) — Kendra Foster
June 8th

event image — SOLD OUT – Tamino
September 11th

Next Festival of Emerging Artists at National Sawdust IMG_1656 (002) (1) — The Next Festival of Emerging Artists: Miranda Cuckson
June 2nd

event image el puente — Student CoLab: Forward Music Project
June 11th

Sebastian Main Image 1 — Sebastian Mullaert (Live)
May 24th

Screen Shot 2019-04-17 at 2.10.48 PM — SXIP SHIREY’S HOUR OF CHARM
May 9th

unnamed (16) — Sea Wolf
June 19th

unnamed (16) — Sea Wolf
June 18th

rayna 1 — Gavin Rayna Russom
April 27th • PHYSICALITY Rev 1: One Woman Show (Rough Mix)

Gavin Rayna Russom
May 11th • PHYSICALITY Rev 2: Dance Night

image2 (3) — Gavilán Rayna Russom
November 24th • PHYSICALITY Rev 3: One Woman Show (Club Mix)

bard — Dawn Upshaw

Photo Aug 23, 4 56 45 PM — Linda May Han Oh
May 16th

banner 4 — NationalSawdust+ presents: An Evening with “Blue” and “Between the World and Me”

Screen Shot 2019-03-22 at 11.22.47 AM — The Hum presents Doe Paoro & Little Kruta
May 30th

Event Image — National Sawdust+ presents: An Evening with Moby + John Hodgman

SOLD OUT – Cimafunk
April 17th

Gene Shinozaki

unnamed (4) (1) — Guy Mintus Trio

IMG_8614 (1) — Daniel Bernard Roumain’s DBR Lab

Film Screening: “The Colorado”, A Tribute to Water
April 20th

Banner-no-text-01 — Liquid Light Lab & Ricardo Romaneiro

Tōth
June 7th

rev featured 40 — The Revolution Vol. 40: TANSU, The Side Project, and Miranda Joan

rev featured — The Revolution Vol. 39: Michael Sarian & The Chabones, Natie, & Sami Stevens and The Man I Love

hildegard featured — Hildegard Competition Concert: inti figgis-vizueta, Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh

nsplus — NationalSawdust+ and ARRAY present: “The Burial of Kojo” + Blitz the Ambassador with the Embassy Ensemble

brian chase — John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Brian Chase

56ee0f48_Bilal Image 2 — Bilal
Grammy-Award winning musician Bilal, the neo-soul singer-songwriter who’s worked with the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé, comes to National Sawdust with a new set of songs that are built around radical simplicity.

790354_lauritano_sun_st_lukes_110119_0791 — Music Academy of the West
The winners of the Marilyn Horne Song Competition at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West bring an evocative program of songs as part of an international recital tour. Mezzo-soprano Kelsey Lauritano and pianist Andrew Sun perform Schubert, Ravel, and more.

190117_WALOR_HORNSBY10730 — Bruce Hornsby

190117_WALOR_HORNSBY10730 — Bruce Hornsby

Beat Circus 2019 by Dan Huiting (1) — Beat Circus
April 11th

National Sawdust Event Header 770×475 BETTER — Arcomusical
Projeto Arcomusical returns to National Sawdust, this time to release our second album “Spinning in the Wheel.”

Sunni Colón
July 19th

Satori & BS MAIN colder final low res — SOLD OUT – Satori And the Band From Space

Satori & BS MAIN colder final low res — SOLD OUT – Satori And the Band From Space

Jog Blues

press pic mountian man — SOLD OUT – Mountain Man
June 5th

event image — Felipe Salles
April 11th

John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Simon Hanes & Tredici Bacci

AI3 — Dan Tepfer

Ma*JiD
April 11th

New Music Now — Cornelius Dufallo
May 24th

event photo — Adam O’Farrill Nonet & Aaron Burnett and the Big Machine featuring Peter Evans

SOLD OUT – Andrew Bird

SOLD OUT – Andrew Bird

ChristianLöffler_Press_3_BrianZajak — Christian Loffler

Screen Shot 2019-01-16 at 3.23.26 PM — JG Thirlwell + Ensemble

0EFA872E-2DDE-4FAB-8F8C-A8BC02A7B864 — Ali Sethi and his Lahore band
March 23rd

Sinha by Aram Jibilian — Samita Sinha
March 19th

Works in Progress Sophia Brous, Yuka Honda, Khemia Ensemble — Yuka C Honda’s “No Revenge Necessary”
March 22nd

3 (2) (1) — Joyous Strings
March 23rd

chris cohen 1 — AdHoc presents: Chris Cohen

FaceTheMusic_1 David Andrako — SOLD OUT – Face the Music with Helga Davis, Courtney Bryan, Shelley Washington, and Mazz Swift

combo image — DISRUPT: Eliot Krimsky
July 19th

unnamed (19) — SOLD OUT – Interlochen Arts Academy Presents “Resolve”

Screen Shot 2019-01-16 at 3.23.26 PM — JG Thirlwell + Ensemble

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January 16, 2019/by Zan Emerson

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National Sawdust is more than a music venue, it is music, hand-picked by curators, just for you.
January 16, 2019/by Zan Emerson

curation button — Curation
In an age of unprecedented access to music from every place and time, finding new music you’ll like can be an overwhelming task. Algorithms help a little, but there’s nothing like the expert guidance of a knowledgeable human curator to give you the highest-quality recommendations. We have an entire roster of expert curators who not only help emerging artists find their niche but also help audiences find more of the music you’ll love.
January 16, 2019/by Zan Emerson

artistic support button — Artistic Support
Artists have vision and drive, but to truly make an impact, they need the resources to bring their ideas to fruition. That’s where we come in: By providing artists with rehearsal and performance space, financial support, technical and marketing assistance, we give them the materials they need to hone their work and create music that is changing society for the better.
January 16, 2019/by Zan Emerson

student colab — National Sawdust Student CoLab
National Sawdust Student CoLab, uses the power of music discovery to inspire interdisciplinary art making which reflects engage young peoples' own experience of the world, impacting both their lives and the lives of people within their community.
January 16, 2019/by Zan Emerson

byc button — Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Regularly featured as performers at National Sawdust, the Grammy-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus is a collective of young singers and vocal ensembles re-envisioning choral music performance through artistic innovation, collaboration, and their distinctively beautiful sound.
January 16, 2019/by Zan Emerson

safa button — Sonic Artis for All! (SAFA!)
Sonic Arts For All (SAFA!) — a non-profit offering fun yet rigorous alternatives to the traditional music classroom to students around New York and beyond — proudly presents a monthly workshop at National Sawdust for K-12 students.
January 16, 2019/by Zan Emerson

nonprofit button template — Education
We’re committed to investing today in the artists of tomorrow. We do this by supporting an array of educational initiatives to help cultivate the artistic talent and potential of the next generation.
January 16, 2019/by Zan Emerson

unnamed-2 — SOLD OUT – Yves Tumor (live show featuring full band)
March 25th

unnamed-1 (4) — Sold Out- Yves Tumor (Live A/V set featuring Ezra Miller)

Julia Kent / Photo: Mikiodo — SOLD OUT – Julia Kent

Battle-cropped — Lazer Eyes

Simone 1 — Simone Dinnerstein

bard — Dawn Upshaw

Amanda Gookin

unnamed (18) — SOLD OUT – Karen Akers, Jean Brassard, Kathleen Landis, and Steve Ross

Screen Shot 2019-01-10 at 11.36.17 AM — SOLD OUT – L’Rain
July 19th

eventphoto — Balún & Salt Cathedral

Photo Credit Terrestrial Media (1) — Innov Gnawa

Magos Herrera with Brooklyn Rider: Dreamers

Gemma Peacocke_1 (1) — Gemma Peacocke

Songs for Petra (1) — Petra Haden, Julian Lage, Jorge Roeder, Kenny Wollesen, and Jesse Harris

John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Ava Mendoza – solos and duos with Nels Cline

Screen Shot 2019-01-08 at 3.15.06 PM — John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Malika Zarra

unnamed-6 (1) — John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Ingrid Laubrock, Marc Hannaford, Sam Pluta, & Josh Modney

Screen Shot 2019-01-14 at 11.02.13 AM — Jesús González

port mande 2 — Mark Dover and Jeremy Ajani Jordan as Port Mande

JeremyGill(2) — Jeremy Gill

rev 38 — The Revolution Vol. 38: lotushalves, Sol Liebeskind, & Ohene Cornelius

three year — The Revolution Vol. 37: Three Year Anniversary with SKYES, Aberdeen, Salomon Faye, Sonic, Phase One, & special guest DJL4

combo — The Revolution Vol. 36: Pale Ramon, Yuli, & Phase One

LiquidVerse-(1920-x-1080)-no-text — SOLD OUT – Liquid Light Lab & Ricardo Romaneiro

20181103_Wavefield_MANA_Group4 (2) (1) — Wavefield Ensemble

David Piano Photo (3) — David Greilsammer

rev 35 — The Revolution Vol. 35: Queen Esther, Hornē Electric Band, & Mizan

Print — Planned Parenthood benefit with Banda Magda, Bria Skonberg, & r.O.T.i.
Brooklyn-based multicultural R&B music collective Lady Moon & The Eclipse make “spiritual music in the truest sense: They make pop, R&B, and Afrobeat that feels like a window into a more tranquil, ethereal dimension” (Vents).

ASGEIR Tour Poster, Cropped (No Dates) — Sold Out- Asgeir
April 12th

TIM HECKER — MANDALA TEMPLE 11-2017 — SOLD OUT – Tim Hecker + the Konoyo Ensemble

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA — Hawktail
July 19th

christmas_image — CANCELED – A Christmas Carol & The Night before Christmas Live Scoring

I Am Snow Angel presents Mothership

FINAL-untroddenplaces — BLACK STRING

Cosmic Rhythm Photo (1) — Takuya Nakamura with Rebekah Heller, Laura Ortman, Marton “Juice” Gabor, & azumi O E

Siegel-Mantra-Header image — Aaron Siegel, Mantra Percussion, and Christa Van Alstine
April 12th

kwanzaa fest — Kwanzaa Fest BK
July 19th

Processed with VSCO with fr4 preset — Lady Moon & The Eclipse: Eclipse Season Concert
Brooklyn-based multicultural R&B music collective Lady Moon & The Eclipse make “spiritual music in the truest sense: They make pop, R&B, and Afrobeat that feels like a window into a more tranquil, ethereal dimension” (Vents).

ASGEIR Tour Poster, Cropped (No Dates) — Sold Out – Asgeir
April 12th

bonaventure_01 — CANCELED – Bonaventure

NIGHTGOWNS.NatSawLogo — Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns: New Year’s Eve

NIGHTGOWNS.NatSawLogo — Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns
January 18th

Screen Shot 2018-11-19 at 2.10.44 PM — Baby Dee’s Big Swan Song

Battle-cropped — SOLD OUT – Lazer Eyes

SidSriram-7238_R — Sid Sriram
April 12th

Screen Shot 2018-11-09 at 11.48.14 AM — V Town

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FADER film shoot
In October 2017 FADER rented National Sawdust to shoot a live music video with Canadian singer songwriter Charlotte Cardin. This was part of a series for Atlantic Records artists and it showcased our venue’s amazing capabilities for video content.
October 31, 2018/by Zan Emerson

GCDS fashion shoot
For their September 2018 campaign, Italian streetwear brand GCDS selected National Sawdust as the backdrop to their new photo & video campaign with artists Kali Uchis and Fetty Wap.
October 31, 2018/by Zan Emerson

Mozart in the Jungle
In the summer of 2017, National Sawdust hosted the production crew for the Golden Globe award–winning Amazon Original Series Mozart in the Jungle.
October 30, 2018/by Zan Emerson

5 Seconds of Summer x Tumblr IRL
In June 2018, Tumblr IRL partnered up with Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer and visual artist Signe Pierce to create an immersive one time only visual experience for 300 guests, complete with projections, an elaborate light design from our in-house team, and a holographic photo booth.
October 30, 2018/by Zan Emerson

Yo La Tengo private showcase for Pitchfork
In February 2018, we hosted a private event with the band Yo La Tengo for an intimate Pitchfork video showcase, debuting songs from their upcoming album There’s a Riot Going On. The event received a write-up in the New Yorker, describing National Sawdust as an “intimate, otherworldly space” with “white-panelled walls with jaggedly geometric black laces, ceiling and floor repeating the pattern, the mood of a kind of avant-garde hive.”
October 30, 2018/by Zan Emerson

Sony Lost In Music Series ft. Tinashe
In February 2018, we hosted the latest installment of Sony #LostInMusic: Sessions video series, featuring a special performance by artist Tinashe. Our flexible main hall was utilized to create an unmatched visual and auditory experience, unforgettable for our guests and Facebook live streamers alike.
October 30, 2018/by Zan Emerson

mark. By AVON
In January 2017, AVON hosted a global media launch event for their cosmetics brand mark. Press representatives from around the world were invited to the pop-up showroom to familiarize themselves with the cosmetics, and experience the results of a large-scale projection mapping effort. Promotional videos for the product were projected on all the white tiles in our main hall, transforming our venue into a moving work of art.
October 30, 2018/by Zan Emerson

Billecart-Salmon x (RED)
In September 2016, champagne house Billecart-Salmon celebrated (RED)’s 10 year anniversary and $360 million dollars raised for The Global Fund to fight AIDS by launching a limited edition bottling of their Brut Réserve NV, and donating 10% of profits to (RED)’s cause. As Billecart-Salmon explained on their website, “every purchase can provide 16 days of lifesaving medication which prevents transmission of HIV from moms to their unborn babies.”
October 30, 2018/by Zan Emerson

LG Product Launch
In May 2018, LG arrived at National Sawdust in collaboration with AFROPUNK to launch their latest Bluetooth speaker. But this wasn’t just any product launch. They used our space to create an experience where guests could listen to a live album, from synth-pop artist Twin Shadow, while using all five senses in a custom-made motorcycle helmet.
October 30, 2018/by Zan Emerson

Tone of Arc — Dévotion Live Sessions featuring Tone of Arc

©ralstonsmith.com_19 — FERUS Festival 2019: Jojo Abot
POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN is an interdisciplinary, immersive experience that re-presents the black being as divine and all powerful.

chimera banner 2 — FERUS Festival 2019: Angélica Negrón’s “Chimera”
Written and composed by National Sawdust Artist-in-Residence Angélica Negrón, Chimera plays with ideas of fantasy and illusion, freely traveling from live singing to lip synch performances.

NS_lobby_Photography by Vicente Munoz — Lobby
• Black-tiled, faceted space with 25ft ceilings
• Box office/registration desk
• Cocktail bar
• Restrooms and coatcheck
• Access sliding door to main hall

•••CLICK FOR SPECS•••
October 26, 2018/by Zan Emerson

Main Hall
• 2,200 square foot hall
• Balcony on three sides
• 25 foot ceiling height
• Full size stage: 27’x 11.5’ x 24’ (adjustable to different sizes and heights)
•••CLICK FOR SPECS•••
October 26, 2018/by Zan Emerson

film & photo shoots banner — Film & Photo Shoots
Because of its unique visuals and incredible lighting system, our space is in high demand for film and photo shoots. Our state–of–the–art visual projection system and award–winning interior design offer a dynamic backdrop like no other, leading producers, publications, and fashion companies like Amazon Studios, Fader, and GCDS to chose our space for their latest cutting–edge projects.
October 26, 2018/by Zan Emerson

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Couples who choose to host their wedding at National Sawdust come to us for an out of the box experience. Unlike any other wedding venue, we provide state of the art lighting, staging, sound, onsite technicians, and a lighting designer in our venue rental.
October 26, 2018/by Zan Emerson

private concerts featured — Private Concerts
National Sawdust is a fully equipped music venue designed to provide the highest-quality visual and auditory experience, making it the perfect space to host a private concert. We provide all staging, lighting, sound, and basic music backline for each unique event. The layout of our space allows for theater-style seating, cabaret-style seating, or an open floor plan.
October 26, 2018/by Zan Emerson

NS Corporate featured — Corporate
National Sawdust is the perfect canvas for brands to create a unique visual experience by taking advantage of our in-house a/v equipment and onsite technicians. Located in the cultural heart of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we are easily accessible to Manhattan by subway, taxi or ferry.
October 26, 2018/by Zan Emerson

banner — RVNG Intl. presents: Oliver Coates & Visible Cloaks

20180504-3U3A2061_V1 — SOLD OUT – Neneh Cherry

banner image — The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Live Score

sisseretta — An evening honoring Jessye Norman

Screen Shot 2018-09-27 at 4.39.45 PM — J Hoard
July 19th

Screen Shot 2018-09-27 at 4.03.31 PM — J Hoard
April 12th

Screen Shot 2018-09-27 at 1.45.26 PM — J Hoard
January 18th

Emma OHalloran Photo — Emma O’Halloran
Emma O’Halloran is an Irish composer and musician whose work moves freely between acoustic and electronic forces. Currently at doctoral student at Princeton University, Emma has written for folk musicians, chamber ensembles, turntables, laptop orchestra, and symphony orchestra, along with film and theatre. Her work has been performed at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, and MATA Festival, and she has collaborated with artists such as Crash Ensemble, Contemporaneous, the Refugee Orchestra Project, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.

An advocate for inclusivity in classical music, Emma is one of the founding members of the #HearAllComposers campaign, a social media campaign designed to bring attention to issues of gender, race and socio-economic discrimination in the music world by positively promoting an inclusive array of composers and their work. She is also a member of Kinds of Kings composer collective.

Emma is interested in exploring the human experience in her work, often trying to map real or imagined moments in time to capture complex and powerful emotions. Current and future projects include a song cycle for Iarla Ó Lionáird and Mobius Percussion, and a 30-minute vocal work for Beth Morrison Projects Next Generation.

When not composing, she can be found hiking, traveling, practicing yoga, and playing on aerial hoops and silks.
September 21, 2018/by Zan Emerson

X. Lee
X. Lee, based in Los Angeles, defines their voice by the integration of interaction, electronics, multimedia visuals, gesture/movement performance, spatial design, and the synthesis of acoustic and electronic elements. Their renowned background as a DJ and producer in the techno subculture, juxtaposed with their extensive education and training in classical composition, theory and practice, has given them a unique understanding of the relationship between music, technologies, and the human experience. The fully immersive energy and large-scaled audio-visual interactions of “raves” inspires them to take the abstract concepts and aesthetics of techno into their personal electro-acoustic works. They have participated in summer festivals such as the Conservatoire Americaine de Fontainebleau – under the mentorship of François Paris, Martin Matalon, and Allain Gaussin – and Contemporary Music Creation + Critique at Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), which ran alongside ManiFESTE. Their audio-visual electronic works have won calls for scores both from Ensemble Mise-En for Bushwick Open Studios and from Listening to Ladies for Ensemble Ctrl-Z. Most recently, they were featured on the Eastman School of Music’s radio show featuring trans and gender non-binary contemporary composers. In fall 2018, X. Lee will continue their studies in the Cursus Program at IRCAM.
September 21, 2018/by Zan Emerson

Kayla_headshot — Kayla Cashetta
Kayla Cashetta is a composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Inspired by acoustics, new technologies, and the human experience, she strives to explore the intricacies of inner life and interpret them through sound. Past and current projects include concert works, electronic music, and collaborations with dancers, filmmakers, and songwriters. Her music has been performed at soundSCAPE, the Fontainebleau Summer Sessions, the Loretto Project, the Atlantic Music Festival, and the Center for New Music. Cashetta has worked with ensembles and soloists including the Eco Ensemble, Splinter Reeds, Soo Yeon Lyuh, Matt Ingalls, and Longleash. She is currently a doctoral student at UC Berkeley, where she is studying with Ken Ueno, Franck Bedrossian, Cindy Cox, Myra Melford, and Edmund Campion.
September 21, 2018/by Zan Emerson

Angélica Negrón
Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón writes music for accordions, robotic instruments, toys and electronics as well as chamber ensembles and orchestras. Her music has been described as “wistfully idiosyncratic and contemplative” (WQXR/Q2) and “mesmerizing and affecting” (Feast of Music) while The New York Times noted her “capacity to surprise” and her “quirky approach to scoring”. Her music has been performed at the Bang on a Can Marathon, the Ecstatic Music Festival and the 2016 New York Philharmonic Biennial and she has collaborated with artists like Sō Percussion, loadbang, American Composers Orchestra and Face the Music, among others. Angélica is currently a doctoral candidate at The Graduate Center (CUNY), where she studies composition with Tania León. She’s a teaching artist for New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers Program and Lincoln Center Education working with learners of all ages on creative composition projects. Angélica was the 2014-2015 Van Lier Fellow at American Composers Orchestra and was recently selected as one of the recipients for NYFA’s 2016 Artists’ Fellowship Program.
September 21, 2018/by Zan Emerson

LACOMBE_15059_PRESTINI_PAOLA_15059_O9A2191_A — Paola Prestini
Paola Prestini’s music has been commissioned by and performed at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, BAM, and Barbican Centre, by Brooklyn Rider, LA Philharmonic, NY Philharmonic, Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and others. Her current commissions include a new opera with Robert Wilson and a new opera with Minnesota Opera. She is the founding Artistic Director and co-founder of National Sawdust.
September 21, 2018/by Zan Emerson

Music Technology Youth Workshops with Sonic Arts For All
March 9th • 11am

0073 — Music Technology Youth Workshops with Sonic Arts For All
February 16th • 11am

Music Technology Youth Workshops with Sonic Arts For All
January 12th • 11am

Music Technology Youth Workshops with Sonic Arts For All
December 1st • 11am

0042 — Music Technology Youth Workshops with Sonic Arts For All
November 3rd • 11am

Music Technology Youth Workshops with Sonic Arts For All
October 6th • 10:30am

FERUS Festival 2019: Huang Ruo
The Sonic Great Wall draws inspiration from the Great Wall of China to disrupt the barrier between audience and performer.

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Gabriel-Garzon-Montano-HI-RES-2 — Gabriel Garzón-Montano

dfa banner — Delia Gonzalez & Eric Copeland

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October 8th • 6pm doors • 7pm show

_Monica_Germino_PRESS PHOTO_0134-x3_photo_credit_Anne_Reinke (1) — New York Philharmonic Presents: MUTED
October 9th • 8:30pm doors • 9pm show

_Monica_Germino_PRESS PHOTO_0134-x3_photo_credit_Anne_Reinke (1) — New York Philharmonic Presents: MUTED
October 9th • 6pm doors • 7pm show

_Monica_Germino_PRESS PHOTO_0134-x3_photo_credit_Anne_Reinke (1) — New York Philharmonic Presents: MUTED
October 8th • 8:30pm doors • 9pm show

TIM HECKER — MANDALA TEMPLE 11-2017 — SOLD OUT – Tim Hecker + the Konoyo Ensemble

JOEP BEVING PRESS ©Rahi Rezvani 2017 _1 — SOLD OUT – Joep Beving
November 2nd, 2018 – 6pm doors • 7pm show

split image — Abraham Brody & Contemporaneous

Matthew-Dear-720×720 — AdHoc presents: Matthew Dear (live)
Matthew Dear is a shapeshifter, oscillating seamlessly between DJ, dance-music producer, and experimental pop auteur.

Subhaze cover photo — SUBHAZE: Invisible Dimensions

17_07_14_Met_Opera_Nico_0008 — Nico Muhly & Friends: “Marnie” at the Met

TIM HECKER — MANDALA TEMPLE 11-2017 — SOLD OUT – Tim Hecker + the Konoyo Ensemble

web image — NationalSawdust+ presents: Paul Muldoon’s “Against the Grain” featuring Min Jin Lee, Tracy K. Smith, and Sō Percussion

web banner — Sold Out – NationalSawdust+ presents: Paul Muldoon’s “Against the Grain” featuring Jorie Graham, Colm Tóibín, and Laurie Anderson

61_Local_Peter_Evans_by_Peter_Gannushkin-04 — John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Peter Evans

medeski-by-michael-bloom — CANCELED – John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: John Medeski

ned stone series — John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Ned Rothenberg & John Zorn

sara — John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Sara Serpa

Parkins_Jeff Preiss — John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Zeena Parkins with Jeff Kolar

banner 34 — The Revolution Vol. 34: Salomon Faye, Melissa McMillan, & Zoo Berries

REV33 — The Revolution Vol. 33: Addison Frei, Ryan Peter Scott, & Samira Gibson

rev banner 2 — The Revolution Vol. 32: Ayoinmotion, Apex Sky, & LADYBUG

REV 31 HEADER — The Revolution Vol. 31

unnamed — Glass Handel

unnamed — Glass Handel

Armitage Gone! Dance — Karole Armitage
October 20th • 6:30pm doors • 7:30pm showPunk rock ballerina Karole Armitage performs a new ballet with all new music.

HHH photo — AdHoc presents: Hunter Hunt-Hendrix of Liturgy: Origin of the Alimonies

AMOC

shirley — Listening to Tom-Tom: Lucy Caplan in partnership with AMOC

Madame-Gandhi-Feb2018-9 — Madame Gandhi

zorn — Sylvie Courvoisier & Andrew Cyrille: Duo & Solos

unnamed — Glass Handel

Screen Shot 2018-08-09 at 2.47.10 PM — Mai Khoi and The Dissidents + Paul Tran

Screen Shot 2018-08-22 at 2.29.44 PM — Okzharp & Manthe Ribane, Sho Madjozi, DJ Lag, Phatstoki

banner ns 2 — National Sawdust+ presents: Paul Muldoon’s “Against the Grain” featuring Jennifer Egan, Kevin Young, and Matmos

Screen Shot 2018-08-07 at 1.12.46 PM — FERUS Festival 2019: Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Featuring works by a wide array of young and contemporary composers, the BYC’s Concert and Men’s Ensembles perform music that speaks directly to the most urgent themes of today.

rinde — Rinde Eckert

unnamed-13 (1) — KHORIKOS, Vanguard Reed Quintet, and Jeff Siegfried

Screen-Shot-2018-06-11-at-8.12.39-PM-450×206 — Low
The 25th anniversary show of Low.

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April 22nd

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FERUS Festival 2019: Huang Ruo
The Sonic Great Wall draws inspiration from the Great Wall of China to disrupt the barrier between audience and performer.

FERUS Festival 2019: Miranda Cuckson and Katharina Rosenberger
Intermedia artist Katharina Rosenberger and acclaimed violinist Miranda Cuckson plot a sensory journey from the present to the past.

publiquartet — PUBLIQuartet Play Andy Akiho

Armitage Gone! Dance — Karole Armitage
October 20th • 9:30pm doors • 10pm showPunk rock ballerina Karole Armitage performs a new ballet with all new music.

Credit_MonikaMogi-450×450 — SOLD OUT – AdHoc presents: Stones Throw Records Showcase: Jerry Paper, Kiefer, Stimulator Jones, Prophet

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Lavinia Meijer plays Philip Glass's "Metamorphosis"

miranda-curator-2 — Miranda Cuckson and Michael Hersch

terry_riley_07 — Terry Riley and Julian Wachner
National Sawdust launches their fourth season with a night devoted to new music from celebrated minimalist composer and Founding Artistic Advisory Board member Terry Riley, who has been lauded as a “pioneering American composer” and the “guru of American music” (New York Times).

rayna riley — Terry Riley, Gyan Riley & Gavin Rayna Russom
Minimalism meets punk rock synth as acclaimed American composer Terry Riley joins LCD Soundsystem’s Gavin Rayna Russom in a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration.

VeritePressPhoto-450×300 — An Evening with VÉRITÉ

BMP-NextGen-2018-C1-16-1-1500×630 — BMP: Next Generation
February 20th at 7pm

BMP-NextGen-2018-C1-16-1-1500×630 — BMP: Next Generation
February 21st at 7pm

0207_joan-tower-1000×669-450×450 — Chris Grymes presents: Joan Tower and Friends
A concert with Joan Tower on her 80th birthday.

Resonator Festival

devon-s-2 — Devon Welsh
As the raw, emotionally vulnerable frontman for Majical Cloudz, Devon Welsh toured nationally with Lorde, winning over fans and critics alike, including a show at National Sawdust in 2015. He returns to our venue with his new solo project, stepping beyond the stylistic constraints of his previous work and exploring deep, transcendent themes that cut to the heart of what it means to be alive.

J Hoard
October 12th

Screen Shot 2018-08-13 at 12.03.55 PM — David Greilsammer, piano “The Labyrinth”

Screen Shot 2018-08-07 at 12.00.49 PM — Bill Frisell + Ikue Mori Duet

banner-15 — Summer Labs: Yoon-Ji Lee‘s “Sunday Supper” and Adrianna Aguilar’s TREES

neu kesh — FRKWYS Vol. 14

George-Fitzgerald-PC-Rhodri-Davies-16-300-dpi-450×450 — SOLD OUT – George FitzGerald Live + Full Band

JM_BLAIS-6602_FINALE_NB_WEB-450×450 — Jean-Michel Blais
November 10, 2018 – 6pm doors 7pm show National Sawdust presents the World Premiere of Golden Hornet’s The Sound of Science, an evening-length concert presenting eight brand-new pieces of music by seven celebrated international composers. Written for amplified cello and electronics, all pieces will be performed by world-renowned cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, long time member of Kronos Quartet, cellist for John Zorn, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and many more.

GRR_2017_9-450×450 — Gavilán Rayna Russom
Gavilán Rayna Russom is a New York based multimedia artist and composer of electronic music. Using the analog and digital synthesizer, she has produced a body of extremely influential art and music over the last 15 years. She is perhaps best known as the synthesist in the critically-acclaimed band LCD Soundsystem. Much of her work is informed by her deep relationship with the analog synthesizer, a tool she has applied herself to not only as a composer and player, but also as a designer and builder since 1999.
July 11, 2018/by becki

16148-009-1-450×450 — Tania León
Tania León is a Cuban-born composer, conductor, educator and advisor to arts organizations. In 1969 León became a founding member and the first musical director of Arthur Mitchell's Dance Theater of Harlem, establishing its music department, music school, and orchestra.
July 11, 2018/by becki

ADH_CDY-1-450×450 — Haley Fohr of Circuit des Yeux

img_7527_bw__main_artist_photo-1 — Sumac

Screen-Shot-2018-06-11-at-8.12.39-PM-450×206 — Low

Screen-Shot-2018-06-11-at-8.12.39-PM-450×206 — Low

andy-banner-1500×630 — AdHoc presents: Andy Shauf (Solo)

andy-banner-1500×630 — AdHoc presents: Andy Shauf (Solo)

banner august — The Revolution Vol. 30
August 25th, 2018 — 10pmThe Revolution is a monthly showcase highlighting the best emerging musicians from Brooklyn & Harlem.

rev july — The Revolution Vol. 29
July 28th, 2018 — 10pmThe Revolution is a monthly showcase highlighting the best emerging musicians from Brooklyn & Harlem.

banner — The Revolution Vol. 28
June 23rd, 2018 — 10pmThe Revolution is a monthly showcase highlighting the best emerging musicians from Brooklyn & Harlem.

The Sound of Science WITH TEXT — Golden Hornet’s The Sound of Science featuring Jeffrey Zeigler
November 10, 2018 – 6pm doors 7pm show National Sawdust presents the World Premiere of Golden Hornet’s The Sound of Science, an evening-length concert presenting eight brand-new pieces of music by seven celebrated international composers. Written for amplified cello and electronics, all pieces will be performed by world-renowned cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, long time member of Kronos Quartet, cellist for John Zorn, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and many more.

WebFormat_2014-09-07__0003-3520833970-O (1) — Contemporaneous with Face the Music
June 24th, 3:30 doors • 4pm show Contemporaneous, the 21-piece ensemble lauded as “ferocious” by the New York Times, performs And Flowers Showered, an immersive evening-length exploration of the self through music, movement, and visual art.

TrevorPowers-CreditChrisSchoonover — AdHoc presents: Trevor Powers
October 17th, 2018 - 7pm doors • 8pm show Embracing a combination of noise, beauty, and mercurial avant-pop atmospheres, Trevor Powers molds songs highlighting the intersection of unity and chaos, nightmares, and the invisible forces at war within the human self.

Wolfgang3 — The Wolfgang
June 17th, 2018 — 2pm doors • 3pm show Step into an afternoon with one of the world’s premier rising piano trios. Composed of three incisive and expressive women, The Wolfgang is a collective of three acclaimed soloists who have performed together for the past three years. Their breadth of experience as well as their deep familiarity with one another result in unique performances from the classical repertoire. Piazzola, Rachmaninoff and Fanny Mendelssohn are the composers in tonight’s program.

DSC_6783 (1) — John Zorn Presents: Jon Irabagon
June 27th, 2018 - 6pm doors • 7pm show Composer and revolutionary saxophonist Jon Irabagon premieres After Talk, a new song cycle for classical voice, piano and improvising saxophone. Irabagon's intergenerational collaborations have garnered worldwide rave reviews, and he combines both worlds tonight in a brand new long-form work that depicts a relationship from start to finish and all the love, anger and anguish in between.

COBRA — COBRA
June 30th, 2018 – 6pm doors • 7pm show This evening is a full, woman-led performance of Cobra (1984), a frequently performed John Zorn masterwork hailed by the New York Times for its “tangible, underlying humor.” A piece for improvisers and prompter, it is an essential snapshot of Zorn’s trademark style of unpredictability.

hildegard banner — Women Visionaries: Inspirations from Hildegard von Bingen, Hilma af Klint, and Agnes Martin
June 29th, 2018 – 6pm doors • 7pm show This concert celebrates recent work by John Zorn that draws material from seminal composers Hilma af Klint, Hildegard von Bingen, and Agnes Martin. To complete the immersive experience, specially curated images of the three composers will surround the performers.

film zorn banner — Films by Maya Deren, Marie Menken, and Raha Raissnia
June 29th, 2018 – 9:30m doors • 10pm show Live the magic of watching a film with a John Zorn soundtrack performed live in the same room. The work of three incredible 20th century women filmmakers—Maya Deren, Marie Menken, and Raha Raissnia—will be on display.

Whitney for Banner — NationalSawdust+ and London Review of Books present Regarding Whitney
June 13th, 2018 - 6:30pm doors • 7:30pm show In this special evening created by NationalSawdust+ and the London Review of Books, writers and musicians will reflect on Whitney Houston as artist, actress and icon, and help us consider her anew. Poet, critic, and melomaniac August Kleinzahler and musicians such as Du Yun and Shayna Dunkelman, Carl Hancock Rux, and Esperanza Spalding will share performances and readings inspired by Houston’s sweeping body of work.

static1.squarespace — Jonah Sirota Presents Strong Sad
June 26th, 2018 - 6pm doors • 7pm showViolist Jonah Sirota, currently of the Grammy-nominated Chiara String Quartet, celebrates his newest National Sawdust Tracks album, STRONG SAD, a classical new music commissioning and recording project featuring newly composed elegies by some of today’s most vital composers.

Photo_Alan_Braufman_1974_Bob_Cummins (1) — Alan Braufman featuring Cooper-Moore & James Brandon Lewis
August 3rd, 2018 - 7pm doors • 8pm show Alan and his band will perform his free jazz album Valley of Search live for the first time in over 40 years. Originally released in 1975 by India Navigation, Valley of Search has enjoyed a cult status and captures a unique and very alive historical slice of New York’s creative improvised jazz underground. This show commemorates the first ever reissue of the album on June 29.

HILDEGARD — Hildegard Competition Concert
June 12th, 2018 - 6pm doors • 7pm show This concert celebrates the winning composers of the Hildegard Competition, National Sawdust’s inaugural competition to support emerging women and non-binary composers. Out of 140 submissions, three composers were chosen as winners: Emma O’Halloran (Ireland), X. Lee, (Los Angeles), and Kayla Cashetta (San Francisco/Bay Area)

luna banner — Face the Music: Luna Lab
June 6th, 2018 - 6pm doors • 7pm show The composers of the all-woman Luna Lab music collective will have world premieres on June 6th, performed by the outstanding Face the Music ensemble. The concert will also include music by established female composers, Luna Lab mentors and special guests.

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November 2nd, 2018 – 6pm doors • 7pm show

1-3 (1) — Natti Vogel
July 20th, 2018 — 7pm After two previous sold out album concerts, Vogel returns to National Sawdust for two shows this July, where the full body of his work will be on display.

1 (1) (1) — Natti Vogel
July 28th, 2018 — 7pm After two previous sold out album concerts, Vogel returns to National Sawdust for two shows this July, where the full body of his work will be on display.

New York Philharmonic — Very Young Composers’ El Puente Showcase performed by Face the Music
May 12th, 2018 - 11:30am doors • 12pm show Very Young Composers aims to unlock and empower the natural artistry, musicianship, and creativity inherent in virtually all children, regardless of economic circumstance, race, gender, or nationality. Goals are to build personal confidence and leadership; to cultivate deep understanding of music; and to inspire tomorrow’s composers to bring the music of the future into the concert hall.

banner — National Sawdust+ presents Yo-Yo Ma + Maria Popova
May 18th, 2018 - 6:15pm doors • 7pm talk Yo-Yo Ma's generous spirit and expansive curiosity have led him far beyond music and the arts, fueling explorations into culture, society, and creativity. Maria Popova casts light on essential ideas across philosophy, science, poetry, and more on her indispensable website "Brain Pickings," an “online emporium of ideas” (The New York Times) that helps us deepen our understanding of the world and of ourselves. Now, National Sawdust+ presents these two extraordinary thinkers in a rare conversation.

Banner graphic NEW — NationalSawdust+ presents The Perception of Beauty
May 24th, 2018 - 6:30pm doors • 7:30pm show “National Sawdust+ presents the Lab of Misfits in a mind-expanding evening, The Perception of Beauty, conceived by neuroscientist Beau Lotto and musician Oded Lev-Ari. Join an evening of audience experiments, musical demonstrations, and conversation that reveal the invisible matrix that govern the way we experience sound, investigate notions of beauty, and explore imperfection.

Annie.by.Josh.Gosfield (1) — John Zorn Presents: Annie Gosfield
May 30th, 2018 - 6pm doors • 7pm show This month’s featured artist is Annie Gosfield, a composer who the BBC calls “a one-woman Hadron collider.” A expert walker of the tightrope between electronic and acoustic music, Gosfield specializes in using found sounds such as machines, destroyed pianos, warped records, and jammed radio signals, which led the New York Times to call her a “master of musical feedback.”

2018 Spring Gala

May 10, 2018 The Alhambra Ballroom, Harlem

Screen Shot 2018-08-07 at 11.17.10 AM — Object Collection ‘It’s All True’
August 9th, 2018 – 7pm doors • 8pm show It's All True is an opera-in-suspension from New York ensemble Object Collection based on the complete live archives of iconic underground band Fugazi.

Underground System Press Photo #1 (1) — Sinkane presents Underground System
June 16th, 2018 - 6pm doors • 7pm show Fresh off a sensational appearance at Snarky Puppy’s Ground Up Festival, Underground System brings their female-fronted brand of global dance music to National Sawdust.

Sinkane_photobyMartine_Carlson_1 — Caparundi
July 13th, 2018 – 6pm doors • 7pm show Sinkane (born Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab in London, England) is a Sudanese-American musician who blends krautrock, prog rock, electronica, free jazz and funk rock with Sudanese pop.

JonnyLamPromo — Honeyfingers
July 27th, 2018 – 6pm doors • 7pm show Honeyfingers, the Jonny Lam led band that’s made waves for its brand of “country jazz and western swing,” presents music drawn from Lam’s myriad experiences, including as a Chinese-American.

unnamed — Caravan Gitane presents CONCR3T LIVE
May 5th, 2018 - 10pm doors & show Caravan Gitane will present the worldwide debut of CONCR3T LIVE, a multi-sensory musical journey that combines music, art installations, and video projections.

Beth_Orton_Sugaring_Season_Press_Shot_3_Jo_Metson_Scott_rectangle — Beth Orton
June 18th, 2018 - 7pm doors • 8pm show Beth Orton is one of the most unique and beguiling voices in British music. Over two decades she has proved herself to be a peerless artist able to effortlessly bridge the previously unseen musical gaps between the Chemical Brothers and Bert Jansch.

Beth_Orton_Sugaring_Season_Press_Shot_3_Jo_Metson_Scott_rectangle — Beth Orton
June 17th, 2018 - 7pm doors • 8pm show Beth Orton is one of the most unique and beguiling voices in British music. Over two decades she has proved herself to be a peerless artist able to effortlessly bridge the previously unseen musical gaps between the Chemical Brothers and Bert Jansch.

Screen Shot 2018-05-23 at 12.13.06 PM — The Creative Independent x Northside Festival
June 9th, 2018 - 8:00pm

Irreversible Entanglements (1) — International Anthem x Northside Festival
June 8th, 2018 - 8:00pm

Nightgowns.2018.4.April.Instagram — Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns
April 19th – 7pm & 10:30pm Drag queen Sasha Velour (Winner of Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 9) presents Nightgowns, an evening of short drag performances. Each month features a new lineup of performers, using gender, dance, music, fashion, and visual art in combination to explore both the political and the personal…surprisingly funny, moving, and glamorously queer!

SFR Live (1) — Stephanie Richards – Fullmoon
May 19th, 2018 - 9pm doors • 10pm show “Envelope-shredding” trumpeter and composer Stephanie Richards joins forces with Dawn of Midi’s drummer/composer Qasim Naqvi and pioneering live-sampler J.A. Dino Deane for a sonic exploration of supernatural groove.

Lonnie Holley with Nelson Patton

June 11th, 2018 - 6pm doors • 7pm show Nelson Patton, a boundary-breaking duo of trombone and drums, joins forces with artist/musician Lonnie Holley to present an evening of improvisation, storytelling, and visual art.

Mariane Sadovska & Christian Thom — National Sawdust+ Presents “On the Frontlines” with Mariana Sadovska & Daniel Bernard Roumain
April 18th, 2018 - 7pm “On the Frontlines” brings together two creative forces – Mariana Sadovska, known as “Ukrainian Björk,” and the genre-defying Daniel Bernard Roumain – for a night of poetic beauty drawn from war and resistance.

unnamed-5 — AdHoc Presents Smerz w/ MHYSA
May 11th, 2018 - 10:30pm With their unique electronic sound blending deconstructed club music, minimalist R&B and experimental pop and techno, Smerz are also prolific DJs who's DJing style takes a similar route. Mixing live vocals over their own music and interlaced with choice cuts aimed squarely at the dancefloor, this duo DJ hard in a live setting and are thrilling to watch as well as listen.

coriglianofeatured — Corigliano @ 80
May 23rdth - 7:00pm National Sawdust continues its year-long celebration of famed composer John Corigliano’s 80th birthday with a concert highlighting his chamber works.

Emily_Wells_Solo_Tour_Jan_2018 — Emily Wells
May 5th, 2018 — 7pmThe “quietly transfixing” alternative violinist, singer, producer and composer Emily Wells performs a rare solo set, reimagining her latest work.

revolution-01 (1) — The Revolution Vol. 27
May 26th, 2018 — 10pmThe Revolution is a monthly showcase highlighting the best emerging musicians from Brooklyn & Harlem.

unnamed-1 — Northside Festival Presents Liz Phair
June 7th, 2018 - 8:00pm Tickets on sale Friday, March 23rd at 10am.

blue+@+sawdust-1 — Oracle Hysterical
May 13th, 2018 - 8pm Oracle Hysterical is a collective of composers and performers who celebrate the release of their latest album, Hecuba on National Sawdust Tracks.

Kaitlyn-Aurelia-Smith-720×720 — Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
May 22nd, 2018 - 8:00pm Raised on Orcas Island off the coast of Washington state, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's compositions are surreal yet rooted in nature. By combining the organic elements of her upbringing with the technological prowess gained from her studies at Berklee College of Music, Kaitlyn's impact on modern music is distinct and significant.

Kaitlyn-Aurelia-Smith-720×720 — Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
May 21st, 2018 - 8:00pm Raised on Orcas Island off the coast of Washington state, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's compositions are surreal yet rooted in nature. By combining the organic elements of her upbringing with the technological prowess gained from her studies at Berklee College of Music, Kaitlyn's impact on modern music is distinct and significant.

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April 22nd - 4pm OperaComp is proud and excited to be returning for its second season in New York City, with performances of six brand new scenes for the stage at the Juilliard School and National Sawdust in Spring 2018.

artist photo (1) — MaJid
April 14th - 7:00pm Three time Downbeat Rising Jazz violinist Ma*JiD ecstatically celebrates the release of his newest album, Sound of a Flower.

NS uzupis flyer (1) — John Zorn Presents: Uzupis
April 25th, 2018 - 7:00pm For April, Zorn presents Uzupis, a band led by revolutionary musician Kenny Wollesen. An eclectic, shimmering trio of 2 vibraphones and electric drums, Uzupis will create a spectacular experience using with the help of Wollesonics, newly created instruments by Wollesen.

rev26 — The Revolution Vol. 26
April 28, 2018 — 10pmThe Revolution is a monthly showcase highlighting the best emerging musicians from Brooklyn & Harlem.

2017_06_29_PUBLIQuartet12302-Edit_4 — Corigliano @ 80: PUBLIQuartet
April 7th - 7:00pm This performance features PUBLIQuartet, lauded by the New York Times as a “confident step into the future.” The award-winning string quartet gives an invigorating performance of Corigliano’s String Quartet No. 1 alongside works by his protégés: Nico Muhly, Gity Razaz, and Deniz Hughes.

Nightgowns.2018.3.MarchINSTA — Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns
March 14th – 7pm & 10:30pm Drag queen Sasha Velour (Winner of Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 9) presents Nightgowns, an evening of short drag performances. Each month features a new lineup of performers, using gender, dance, music, fashion, and visual art in combination to explore both the political and the personal…surprisingly funny, moving, and glamorously queer!

Screen Shot 2018-03-05 at 3.30.56 PM — Iranian Female Composers Association Launch Concert
April 1st, 2018 – 4pm The Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA) holds their launch concert, presenting the music of Iranian women composers who are active throughout the world.

Artist-Photo-Flat (1) — Lazer Eyes
March 31st, 2018 - 10pm This performance presents one act of Lazer Eyes, a dazzling, one-of-a-kind electronic dance-opera. Originally a fully produced concept album by New York-based creative collaboration Van Broh, Lazer Eyes pays heed to classical form while utilizing a variety of EDM styles.

unnamed-1 (2) — John King Premieres works for cello and piano, featuring Jeffrey Zeigler and Taka Kigawa
March 30th, 2018 - 7:00pm Composer John King, praised by The Paris Review as “extraordinary” for his intimate knowledge of Arabic music and improvisatory brilliance, will present three world premieres of works featuring cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and pianist Taka Kigawa.

rev25 — The Revolution Vol. 25: Two Year Anniversary Showcase
March 24, 2017 — 10pmThe Revolution is a monthly showcase highlighting the best emerging musicians from Brooklyn & Harlem.

Screen Shot 2018-02-13 at 4.25.16 PM — Peter Salett + Michael Arthur: Suite for the Summer Rain / Dance of the Yellow Leaf
March 18, 2018 - 4:00pm Film composer/singer-songwriter Peter Salett, a “downtown folk legend” (Time Out NY) who has opened for the likes of The Swell Season and They Might Be Giants, performs this wistful song cycle backed by strings and percussion and accompanied by artist Michael Arthur’s evocative, improvised ink illustrations, which unfurl live, projected on a big screen, alongside the music.

P00150_Rafiq Bhatia_01_043 R2 — Rafiq Bhatia
April 9th - 8:00pm New York composer and guitarist Rafiq Bhatia seeks to shatter preconceptions about how much can be said without a word—and, for that matter, who can say it. Bhatia’s audacious first album as a producer sets out to challenge existing musical vocabulary with a language of its own.

hsbc — HSBC & Académie du Festival d’Aix present Jakub Jozef Orlinski & Michal Biel
April 4, 2018 Hear opera’s best rising stars as the Académie of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence presents Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński in recital with pianist Michal Biel.

Gyan.credit.Scott.Crowley — GYAN RILEY: Sprig Album Release
March 29, 2018 - 7:00pm Gyan Riley, described by The New Yorker as a “one-man American-music machine,” debuts his fifth album, Sprig. The album will be released on National Sawdust Tracks, the in-house record label formerly known as VIA Records, presenting a carefully curated selection of new music from bold voices.

BMP: Next Generation

March 17th, 2018 - 7pm Led by music directors Lidiya Yankovskaya and David Bloom with stage direction by Luke Leonard, new music ensemble Contemporaneous will provide its orchestral forces for the BMP: Next Generation concert.

Nightgowns.2018.2.Feb.INSTA — Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns
February 26th – 7pm & 10:30pm Drag queen Sasha Velour (Winner of Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 9) presents Nightgowns, an evening of short drag performances. Each month features a new lineup of performers, using gender, dance, music, fashion, and visual art in combination to explore both the political and the personal…surprisingly funny, moving, and glamorously queer!

Nightgowns.2018.2.Feb.INSTA — Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns
February 19th – 7pm & 10:30pm Drag queen Sasha Velour (Winner of Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 9) presents Nightgowns, an evening of short drag performances. Each month features a new lineup of performers, using gender, dance, music, fashion, and visual art in combination to explore both the political and the personal…surprisingly funny, moving, and glamorously queer!

MIND_nationalsawdust_1500x500 — Choral Chameleon: Mind
June 10, 2018 - 7:00pm A showcase of contemporary works for choir themed around the intellectual journey of a singer, one fraught with endless self-questioning, trust issues, and of course, ultra-precise technical training.

unnamed-5 — When the World’s on Fire
March 18th, 2018 - 6pm Today, as myth and fantasy spill out into the political stage, New York icon, guitarist Marc Ribot joins with National Sawdust artist-in-resident, celebrated performer and vocalist Sophia Brous to premiere a new exploration into songs of beauty, disorder and dissent for a new America, where the blurred lines between dream and waking call on a new songbook of lullabies, hymns and songs of resistance to guide us in the days ahead.

M is Black Enough — M IS BLACK ENOUGH
March 19th, 2018 - 6pm Miyamoto is Black Enough is a collaborative exploration of meaning and conversation, based on Ariana Miyamoto, a Japanese national who grew up as a self-described mixed race “hafu,” the child of an African American father and Japanese mother. After winning Miss Universe Japan 2015, many Japanese expressed concern at her lack of “pure” parentage—that she was not Japanese enough.

Screen Shot 2018-02-02 at 1.50.50 PM — The Colorado
March 18th, 2018 - 7:30pm Exploring the Colorado River Basin from social, ecological, and historical perspectives, this groundbreaking, music-driven eco-documentary draws on the combined talents of filmmaker Murat Eyuboglu; composers Paola Prestini, Shara Nova, Bill Brittelle, Glenn Kotche, and Pulitzer Prize laureate John Luther Adams; and Academy Award®–winning narrator Sir Mark Rylance (Best Supporting Actor, Bridge of Spies).

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WebFormat_2014-09-07__0003-3520833970-O (1) — Contemporaneous: And Flowers Showered
February 25th - 4pm & 7pm Contemporaneous, the 21-piece ensemble lauded as “ferocious” by the New York Times, performs And Flowers Showered, an immersive evening-length exploration of the self through music, movement, and visual art.

If You Listen NS Square — Brooklyn Youth Chorus – Silent Voices
April 28th, 2018 - 7pm Silent Voices is a multimedia, multi-composer series of concert works with spoken word conceived, produced and performed by the sensational voices of Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

If You Listen NS Square — Brooklyn Youth Chorus – Silent Voices
April 27th, 2018 - 7pm & 9:30pm Silent Voices is a multimedia, multi-composer series of concert works with spoken word conceived, produced and performed by the sensational voices of Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

DanMcMahon_DSC_1833-2 — Spring Revolution: L’Rain with Nancy Feast
March 2nd, 2018 - 7pm L'Rain, hailed by the New York Times as a “one-woman studio band” and by Tiny Mix Tape as “the best moments of Stereolab or Frank Ocean’s ‘Endless,’” performs a set of spiritual music exploring the complexity of grief and the audacity of joy.

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March 11th, 2018 - 7:30pm The Awaz Trio sculpts sonic landscapes, pointillistic textures, and angular melodies from Indian and American improvised music. The trio has performed across the Northeast, New York, Denver, and Kolkata, India.

PAUCHI-SASAKI-musuk13 — Spring Revolution: Pauchi Sasaki and Claire Chase
March 11th, 2018 - 3pm The duo will perform a variety of deeply haunting works that draw on their decades of expertise and experience, using acoustic instruments, vocals, electronic instruments, and eclectic items like Sasaki’s trademark worn speaker dress.

Screen Shot 2018-01-23 at 2.22.46 PM — Spring Revolution: Two Cellists
March 10th, 2018 - 10pm This performance features works by seminal composer Isang Yun (1917 - 1955), to be performed by two cellists in collaboration with Bhutanese musicians.

Dialog2.0-2 — Spring Revolution: The Shanghai You Don’t Know
March 10th, 2018 - 6pm This event offers a powerful glimpse into Shanghai, and the art created in one of the most vibrant cities in the world with a screening of the documentary Lotus Ferry and more.

Guided Discovery rehearsal — Spring Revolution: Du Yun + Ok Miss
March 9th, 2018 - 10pm Pulitzer Prize winning composer and “indie pop diva” Du Yun (New York Times) takes the stage with OK Miss, her own experimental band, who will debut a slew of new material.

FilipWolak-Met-DOEEvent-598-0431DS — Spring Revolution: Gamelan Dharma Swara
March 9th, 2018 - 7pm The 25-person ensemble will present an evening of works spanning 500 years, exploring the many facets of the Balinese performing arts.

_MG_2801 — Spring Revolution: CuCu Diamantes – Sins of Picasso
March 8th, 2018 - 7pm The Sins of Picasso is a hybrid of music, performance art, cabaret and theater centered around 8-10 music themes written by CuCu Diamantes and performed in collaboration with musicians and artists, led by musical director Alain Perez, to express the vitality of Latin-American and Caribbean-American culture.

unnamed (2) — Spring Revolution: Saint Sister
March 7th, 2018 - 7pm The electro-folk duo comes to the US for a rare concert after a 2017 year filled with sold-out performances across the pond.

G Lacey Pleasure Garden 2 — Spring Revolution: Songlines for a New World : The Sky Above the Roof
March 3rd, 2018 - 7pm Recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey presents "The Sky Above the Roof,” an airy evening of poetic contemplation, using film and music to celebrate Australia’s mother earth.

_The color of hapiness — Spring Revolution: Songlines for a New World – “Where the Sky Meets the Earth”
March 3rd, 2018 - 10pm Emily Wurramara performs with her band, and is accompanied by guest artist Saraima Navara, a Brisbane-based singer who also performs guitar and hand percussion.

MITJ_403_D4_1512.ARW — National Sawdust+ Presents “Mozart in the Jungle” Season Four release party
Feb 13th, 2018 - 7:30pm National Sawdust+ hosts the release party of Season Four of "Mozart in the Jungle!" The festive evening will showcase live music commissioned by the Golden-Globe award-winning series, lively comments from showrunner William Graham, and a sneak peek of clips from the new season, which includes scenes shot inside National Sawdust.

_MG_1359 (1) — Kate Kay Es
February 3rd, 2018 - 9:00pm Kate Kay Es, the pop siren equally obsessed with R&B, the avant-garde, and fifties jazz, performs with her full, seven-piece band.

JENNIFER KOH — Jennifer Koh: Limitless
March. 31st, 2018 - 7:00pm Through duo commissions performed by violinist Jennifer Koh and the composers themselves, Limitless celebrates the collaborative relationship between composer and performer, while also exploring the historical role of the composer as performer.

JENNIFER KOH — Jennifer Koh: Limitless
March. 15th, 2018 - 7:00pm Through duo commissions performed by violinist Jennifer Koh and the composers themselves, Limitless celebrates the collaborative relationship between composer and performer, while also exploring the historical role of the composer as performer.

unnamed — Theo Bleckmann & Uri Caine Present WinterICE
Feb 9th, 2018 - 7:00pm Theo Bleckmann performs Schubert’s song cycle “Die Winterreise” as reimagined by himself and pianist Uri Caine. In a first for National Sawdust, the venue will be turned into an ice skating rink.

Alela Diane — Alela Diane
May 26th, 2018 - 7:00pmDescribed as an artist who creates “softly spooked out folk music,” Diane’s newest album is also her most personal: created in celebration of motherhood, a taboo subject in songwriting circles.

Nora_Plain_highres-28 — Nora Fischer, Ragazze Quartet, and Remco Menting: The Secret Diary of Nora Plain
April 29th, 2018 — 4pm The Secret Diary of Nora Plain is a song cycle that tells the intimate story of a girl who tries to lead her own life in a world that relentlessly encroaches on her innermost thoughts and feelings.

full band bw (1) (1) — The Epichorus “Najara” Album Release Party
February 1st, 2018 - 10pm This performances celebrates Najara, the second studio album from The Epichorus, weavers of Middle-Eastern and Indian roots music.

contactfeatured — New York Philharmonic: CONTACT!
April 2nd, 2018 - 7:30pmCONTACT! returns to National Sawdust — “the sort of place that makes a new-music aficionado want to bring a sleeping bag and move in for a few weeks” (New York magazine) — for another season of “must-hear adventures” (The New York Times).

Liberty Rose Weeping show. Left to right Casarrubios, Rosenbaum, Daggett Smith — Classical Sundays: Ian Rosenbaum Presents Liberty Rose Weeping
Feb. 18th, 2018 — 4pm This edition of Classical Sundays features the unique trio of percussionist Ian Rosenbaum, violinist Emily Daggett Smith and cellist/composer Andrea Casarrubios.

Juilliard_Songfest_Banner_Image_Richard_Termine_Photo_Credit — Juilliard Songfest
Jan. 24th, 2018 - 7:00pm Brian Zeger, the artistic director of the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts, curates and performs a program of art songs by Hindemith, Britten, Moore and Copland set to the poetry of John Keats and Emily Dickinson.

CinnabarZofo2 — ZOFOMOMA
Feb. 23rd, 2018 - 7:00pm ZOFOMOMA is a multimedia concert experience with new music and art from around the world. The performance unfolds as an aurally and visually stunning walking tour through a virtual museum of modern art.

giphy — Ricardo Romaneiro presents SUBHAZE : RESONANT SYMMETRY
Jan. 26th, 2018 - 8:00pmSound artist Ricardo Romaneiro creates a transcendental experience through fog, video projection, surround-sound music, and more.

Screen Shot 2017-12-19 at 10.26.49 AM — John Zorn Presents: The Stone Commissioning Series: Tyshawn Sorey
January 31st, 2018 - 7:00pm As the first of the new year, this special edition of the Stone Series features Tyshawn Sorey front and center

Screen Shot 2017-12-19 at 4.32.46 PM — John Zorn Presents: The Stone Commissioning Series: Craig Taborn
February 28th, 2018 - 7:00pm Listen to Taborn premiere a brand new work on the stage for the first time, along with other repertoire that Taborn personally curates for the evening.

Screen Shot 2017-12-19 at 5.16.52 PM — John Zorn Presents: The Stone Commissioning Series: Pamelia Stickney
March 28th, 2018 - 7:00pm For March, Zorn presents theremin maven Pamelia Stickney, whose playing has been described as “haunting” by People’s World.

SULA1 — The Revolution Vol. 24
Feb 24, 2017 — 10pmThe Revolution is a monthly showcase highlighting the best emerging musicians from Brooklyn & Harlem.

Screen Shot 2018-02-19 at 5.25.43 PM — The Hogstad Brothers: National Stardust
Feb 23rd, 2018 – 10pm DJ/VJ duo The Hogstad Brothers will be spinning the musical web of David Bowie and the artists that he’s influenced (Kraftwerk, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Funkadelic, Chic, Luther Vandross, A Tribe Called Quest, and many more).

Lara_Downes_2018 — Lara Downes: FOR LENNY, with special guest Rhiannon Giddens
Feb. 7th, 2018 - 8:00pm Pianist Lara Downes celebrates the launch of her Sony Classical debut album FOR LENNY, a Leonard Bernstein centennial tribute that spans the landscape of American music from the past, present, and future.

Liza Stepanova
Jan. 6th, 2018 - 7:00pm Pianist Liza Stepanova, praised by The New York Times for her “thoughtful musicality” and “fleet-fingered panache,” celebrates the release of her new album, Tones & Colors (CAG Records), with this concert at National Sawdust.

coriglianofeatured — John Corigliano @ 80
Friday, February 16th – 7pm This celebration, exclusively at National Sawdust, features Contemporaneous, American pianist Molly Morkoski, and soprano Lindsay Kesselman.

The-Revolution-18 — The Revolution Vol. 23
Jan 27, 2017 — 10pmThe Revolution is a monthly showcase highlighting the best emerging musicians from Brooklyn & Harlem.

Zuzanna Flames Big — FERUS Festival: BISHI
Jan. 11, 2018 — 7pm Kick off The FERUS Festival with Bishi as she premieres her newest song cycle chronicling her search for belonging in a multicultural world.

Russian-Renaissance — FERUS Festival: Russian Renaissance
Jan. 16, 2018 — 7pm Hear M-Prize winners Russian Renaissance perform original soundtracks in a screening of iconic Italian film.

Tessellatum_PackShot — FERUS Festival: Nadia Sirota and Liam Byrne
Jan 12, 2018 — 7pm Night Two of the FERUS Festival brings Tessellatum, a film and an album fused into one surreal, total experience.

sxip_webbanner — FERUS Festival: Sxip Shirey
Jan. 15, 2018 — 7pm The third night of FERUS is hosted by Sxip Shirey, as he pulls out all the stops. You’ll hear and see cell phones, puppeteers, and a tunnel of singers.

Nightgowns.2018.Art.1 — Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns: New Year’s Eve 2018

Timbalooloo_Oran_Hiding_Behind_Clarinet_MedRes — Jazz for Kids: Timbalooloo
June 16th - 11:00am In the Timbalooloo concept, all the instruments come to life and talk through their music so that the children conceive of making music as the magical act of making their instrument come to life.

TimbaloolooXyloScreamMedRes — Jazz for Kids: Timbalooloo
May 26th - 11:00am In the Timbalooloo concept, all the instruments come to life and talk through their music so that the children conceive of making music as the magical act of making their instrument come to life.

TimbaloolooTouchedUpMedResDancing — Jazz for Kids: Timbalooloo
April 7th - 11:00am In the Timbalooloo concept, all the instruments come to life and talk through their music so that the children conceive of making music as the magical act of making their instrument come to life.

Timbalooloo_Kids_With_Instruments_Med_Res — Jazz for Kids: Timbalooloo
March 10th - 11:00am In the Timbalooloo concept, all the instruments come to life and talk through their music so that the children conceive of making music as the magical act of making their instrument come to life.

Timbalooloo_Crown_Xylo_Med_Res — Jazz for Kids: Timbalooloo
February 17th - 11:00am In the Timbalooloo concept, all the instruments come to life and talk through their music so that the children conceive of making music as the magical act of making their instrument come to life.

nattifeatured2 — Natti Vogel: Serving Body
Jan. 20, 2018 — 7pmCelebrate the latest release of alt-pop mastermind Natti Vogel, Serving Body, on the date of its release, only at National Sawdust.

Timbalooloo — Jazz for Kids: Timbalooloo
Jan. 20th, 2017 - 11:00am In the Timbalooloo concept, all the instruments come to life and talk through their music so that the children conceive of making music as the magical act of making their instrument come to life.

background — Classical Sundays: Huizi Zhang, Pianist
Jan. 7th, 2018 — 4PMPianist Huizi Zhang explores the evolution of virtuosic piano music, premiering work from today's most exciting living composers.

SSL-pressphoto1 — The Revolution Vol. 22
Dec. 16, 2017 — 10pmThe Revolution is a monthly showcase highlighting the best emerging musicians from Brooklyn & Harlem. Three unique takes on hip-hop + soul grace this special volume.

Screen_Shot_2017-11-12_at_7.24.22_PM — Curiouser & Curiouser
Dec. 11, 2017 — 8pmEric Schmalenberger and The Love Show present an variety show evening featuring a dance company, a contortionist, and a few surprises.

Emily_Wells_Solo_Tour_Jan_2018 — Emily Wells
Jan 27, 2018 — 7pmThe “quietly transfixing” alternative violinist, singer, producer and composer Emily Wells performs a rare solo set, reimagining her latest work.

210019-D116 — Fred Hersch’s Pocket Orchestra
Dec. 16th, 2017 — 7pmThe Fred Hersch Pocket Orchestra comes to National Sawdust to feature the compositions of 10-time Grammy® nominee Fred Hersch, one of jazz's master pianists and composers.

Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns

TanyaTagaq©ShelaghHoward-NY-Jan2015-587web (1) (1) — Winterreise Nights Festival: Tanya Tagaq and Jeffrey Zeigler
Dec 9, 2017 - 7PMBjörk protégé Tanya Tagaq joins forces with former Kronos cellist Jeffrey Zeigler to perform highly unique, punk-esque music.

roundersongsfeatured — New Amsterdam Presents: Rounder Songs Album Release
Nov 30, 2017 - 7:00pm Folk artists Emily Pinkerton, Patrick Burke, and the NOW Ensemble release their newest album: Rounder Songs.

addi-and-jacq-featured — Addi & Jacq In Concert
Nov 10, 2017 - 7:00pm Folk duo and winners of New York Public Radio's The Greene Space Battle of the Boroughs debuts at National Sawdust.

john-coltrane-featured — Interstellar Regions: The Late Music of John Coltrane
Dec 1, 2017 - 10:00pm Celebrate the 50-Year Anniversary of Coltrane’s final album.

john-coltrane-featured — Interstellar Regions: The Late Music of John Coltrane
Dec. 1, 2017 - 7:00pm Celebrate the 50-Year Anniversary of Coltrane’s final album.

Timbalooloo — Jazz for Kids: Timbalooloo
Dec. 2, 2017 - 11:00am In the Timbalooloo concept, all the instruments come to life and talk through their music so that the children conceive of making music as the magical act of making their instrument come to life.

Yellow_Leaf_featured — Peter Salett + Michael Arthur: Suite for the Summer Rain / Dance of the Yellow Leaf
Nov. 19, 20187 - 4:00pm Film composer/singer-songwriter Peter Salett, a “downtown folk legend” (Time Out NY) who has opened for the likes of The Swell Season and They Might Be Giants, performs this wistful song cycle backed by strings and percussion and accompanied by artist Michael Arthur’s evocative, improvised ink illustrations, which unfurl live, projected on a big screen, alongside the music.

fourtetmondayfeatured — Four Tet Live
March 19, 2018 - 8pm doors / 9pm show Four Tet debuts his new live set in Brooklyn for one of his few 2018 U.S. performances.

fourtettuesdayfeatured — Four Tet Live
March 20, 2018 - 8pm doors / 9pm show Four Tet debuts his new live set in Brooklyn for one of his few 2018 U.S. performances.

Timbalooloo — Jazz For Kids: Timbalooloo Duo Workshop
Nov. 4, 2017 - 11:00am Oran Atkin, grammy award-winning clarinetist and performer teaches children music through

Four-Tet-Wednesday-Featured — Four Tet Live
March 21, 2018 - 8pm doors / 9pm show Four Tet debuts his new live set in Brooklyn for one of his few U.S. 2018 performances.

four-tet-featured — Four Tet Live
March 22, 2018 - 8pm doors / 9pm show Four Tet debuts his new live set in Brooklyn for one of his few 2018 U.S. performances.

four-tet-featured — Four Tet Live
March 23, 2018 - 8pm doors / 9pm show Four Tet debuts his new live set in Brooklyn for one of his few 2018 U.S. performances.

crf-header — Sixteenth Annual CRF Awards Ceremony
Nov. 13, 2017 - 7:30pm Presenting the 16th annual awards ceremony for the Classical Recording Foundation. Featuring performances by Lara Downes, Emily Levin, Thomas Sauer and David Bowlin, and the music of Gregg Kallor and Peter Lieberson.

Blue-Piano(recordings — Closed for Recording
National Sawdust will be closed for a recording session.

Blue-Piano(recordings — Closed for Recording
National Sawdust will be closed for a recording session.

jack-featured — Winter solstice show: JACK Quartet performs Haas in the dark
Dec 21, 2017 - 7:00pm JACK turns out the lights in National Sawdust on the Winter Solstice, performing the US premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas's latest string quartet in total darkness.

vickychowfeatured — John Zorn Presents: The Stone Commissioning Series: Vicky Chow
December 27, 2017 - 7:00pm Pianist Vicky Chow performs in trio with longtime John Zorn associates Shanir Blumenkranz and recent MacArthur winner Tyshawn Sorey.

eric-moe-featured — Songs of David Del Tredici and Eric Moe
June 20, 2018 - 7:00pm Songs of Eric Moe and David Del Tredici. Will include Moe's & a Warm Hello From the Alien Ant Farm and selections from Del Tredici's Gay Life, Three Baritone Songs, Penis Poems and others

nightgowns3featured — Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns
Oct. 11, 2017 - 10:30pm Drag queen Sasha Velour (Winner of Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 9) presents NIGHTGOWNS, an evening of short performances dedicated to celebrating the diversity, depth, and wild power of drag. Each month features a new lineup of performers, using gender, dance, music, fashion, and visual art in combination to explore both the political and the personal…surprisingly funny, moving, and glamorously queer!

nightgowns3featured — Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns
October 10, 2017 - 9:00pm Drag queen Sasha Velour (Winner of Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 9) presents NIGHTGOWNS, an evening of short performances dedicated to celebrating the diversity, depth, and wild power of drag. Each month features a new lineup of performers, using gender, dance, music, fashion, and visual art in combination to explore both the political and the personal…surprisingly funny, moving, and glamorously queer!

nightgowns3featured — Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns
Oct. 11, 2017 - 7:00pm Drag queen Sasha Velour (Winner of Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 9) presents NIGHTGOWNS, an evening of short performances dedicated to celebrating the diversity, depth, and wild power of drag. Each month features a new lineup of performers, using gender, dance, music, fashion, and visual art in combination to explore both the political and the personal…surprisingly funny, moving, and glamorously queer!

robyn-featured — CIACCONA: The Bass of Time | Robyn Bollinger, violin
April 8, 2018 - 7:30pm

huble2 — NS Projects: The Hubble Cantata at Ford Theatre
The Ford Theatres, in association with LA Opera, present the West Coast premiere of The Hubble Cantata, an unprecedented live experience that pushes the boundaries of art and science.

cantorifeatured — Cantori New York CHIMES
April 8, 2018 - 2:30pm CHIMES is an evening-length Russian-language work for chorus, soloists, and instruments. The inexorable musical and dramatic momentum of the piece will sweep listeners along and inspire a timely reflection on the seductive yet treacherous appeal of an artfully invoked nationalism and populism.

nelsjulianfeatured — Nels Cline and Julian Lage
October 20, 2017 - 7:00pm Beyond Wilco, Cline performs in a duo project with jazz guitar prodigy Julian Lage in addition to a quartet The Nels Cline Four (that includes Lage plus bassist Scott Colley and drummer Tom Rainey).

Screen Shot 2017-12-06 at 4.30.24 PM — Book of Dreams: Chapter Sand
Dec. 17, 2017 - 4:00pm Hear the world premiere of ‘Book of Dreams’ by David T. Little, Sonja Krefting, and David Adam Moore.

live-late-night-featured — Late Night at National Sawdust: Steven Stucky Portrait
Oct. 20, 2017 - 9:30pm Open G Records and Access Contemporary Music team up for the final Late Night at National Sawdust concert of 2017: an intimate portrait of Pulitzer Prize winning composer Steven Stucky. Stucky was one of the country's most prolific and most performed composers, a talented educator and an indispensible part of twentieth century classical music.

ChoralChameleon — Choral Chameleon: Spirit
Feb. 4, 2018 - 4:00pm This program is the first installment of 3-part 'Mind, Body, Spirit' series in 2018 recognizing the singer as an instrument who is also a whole person. In 'Spirit', Choral Chameleon’s 12-voice Ensemble explores the movement of the palpable, yet unseen musician's spirit. In this unique program, members of the Ensemble will engage in the music selection as a means of autobiography - each of them openly telling the unique story of their musical upbringing.

ChoralChameleon — Choral Chameleon: Spirit
Feb. 2, 2018 - 7:00pm This program is the first installment of 3-part 'Mind, Body, Spirit' series in 2018 recognizing the singer as an instrument who is also a whole person. In 'Spirit', Choral Chameleon’s 12-voice Ensemble explores the movement of the palpable, yet unseen musician's spirit.

abrahambrodyresidencypage — Abraham Brody Residency Rehearsal
Abraham Brody will be rehearsing in the concert hall as part of our Artist in Residence program.

lauraortmanfeatured — Winterreise Nights Festival: Laura Ortman
Dec. 7, 2018 - 7:00pm Tanya Tagaq presents White Mountain Apache violinist Laura Ortman, a Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist who brings her First Nations heritage to her music.

imaginefeatured — 10th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival: Im-migrations
Oct. 14, 2017 - 7:00pm Opening with a live performance by Paris-based artist Rachel Marks exploring the border-crossing migratory monarch butterfly, the program will then move into film for cutting-edge views inside the chrysalis, animal transformations, the migrations of human populations across the globe, and at last, an unusual bird-eyed view of Puerto Rico's Arecibo observatory and our place in the larger cosmos.

dessafeatured — Dessa with special guest MONAKR
Nov. 11, 2017 - 10:00pm Dessa is a rapper, singer and essayist whom the Utne Reader calls, “A one-woman powerhouse…with a literary sensibility and an aversion to genre clichés.” As a musician she tours as a solo artist and as a member of Doomtree, the innovative Minneapolis-based hip-hop collective. On stage she's funny and ferocious, but also tender—her live show includes rapid-fire rap songs, heartbreak ballads, catchy choruses, and some charismatic banter fueled by wit and whiskey.

jenny-hval-featured — Jenny Hval
Dec. 18, 2017 - 8:00pm Jenny Hval has in recent years made a name for herself as a recording artist and writer both in her native Norway and abroad. Multidisciplinary and transgressive are words often employed to describe her art, but Jenny Hval’s polyphonic artistry is in fact seamlessly interwoven between musical, literary, visual and performative modes of expression. Her artistic voice is altogether present, accessible and obscurely complex at the same time.

aid-quilt-featured — 25th Anniversary Concert of the AIDS Quilt Songbook
Dec 3, 2017 - 7:00pm A concert of art songs for voice and piano dealing with the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The project was begun in the early 1990s by baritone William Parker and first performed in Alice Tully Hall in 1993. Following a successful 20th anniversary concert at Cooper Union featuring several of the original performers on the first AQSB, pianist Thomas Bagwell and composer Gordon Beeferman co-curate an evening of selections from the first collection, songs from various regional versions of the songbook, and several new songs written for this evening reflecting the current realities of the HIV/AIDS situation in this country.

heartbeatfeatured — ALL THE WORLD’S A DRAG: Shakespeare in Love…with opera
Oct 31, 2017 - 10:00pm Don thy codpieces, neck ruffs, and farthingales -- Shakespeare cometh! Heartbeat Opera, “one of the most agile and dynamic companies on New York's indie opera scene” (Opera News) proudly presents its fourth annual Drag Extravaganza for two nights of divalicious coloraturas, eye-popping fashion, and Halloween revelries.

adamofeatured — A Night of Mark Adamo
Dec. 2, 2017 - 7:00pm Adamo first attracted national attention with his uniquely celebrated début opera, Little Women, after the Alcott novel. Introduced by Houston Grand Opera in 1998 and revived there in 2000, Little Women is one of the most frequently performed American operas of the last fifteen years, with more than 80 national and international engagements in cities ranging from New York to Minneapolis, Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco, Adelaide, Perth, Mexico City, Brugges, Banff, Calgary, and Tokyo, where it served as the official U.S. cultural entrant to the 2005 World Expo.

JojoAbotFeatured — FYFYA WOTO | “POWER TO THE GOD WITHIN”
July 14th, 2018 - 7:00pm A multi sensory experience inviting the community into a sacred and shared space provoked and stimulated by expressions of identity, community and spirituality. Through moving and still imagery, multi media art installations, sound and performance art, the artist invites you to reimagine your SELF and the world you occupy daily.

Lohai_bio — The Revolution Vol. 21
Nov 18, 2018 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is a performance series highlighting Brooklyn & Harlem based artists + musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture but who currently stand in the breeding ground of evolution within their genre. As a part of VOL. 21, The Revolution will feature three incredible live performances from local artists: Fusilier, Shenna, and Lohai.

jad_bio — The Stone Commissioning Series: Jad Atoui
Nov 29, 2017 - 7:00pm Besides formal musical language and practices, the usage of biological data and behavior analysis as tools to compose, allows not only human beings but also lower life forms, such as plants, to be sonically expressive. In 2015, electronic musician Jad Atoui joined molecular biologist Ivan Marazzi and together, they conceived “Biosonics”, which bestowed plants with the ability to generate compositions performed by musicians on stage in order to monitor biological response and translate it into a performance experience.

timbalooloo — Oran Etkin’s Timbalooloo Duo Workshop
October 7, 2017 - 1:00pm Bring the kids to the Timbalooloo Duo Workshop, where they will make instruments come to life and learn about Jazz for what it is: magic.

brianmarsellafeatured — Stone Commissioning Series: Brian Marsella
Oct 25, 2017 - 7:00pm Gatos do Sul features premieres of compositions by Brian Marsella inspired by classical, jazz, and folkloric Brazilian music. Influenced by composers from Ernesto Nazareth, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Pixinguinha to Baden Powell and Egberto Gismonti, Marsella combines samba, bossa-nova, choro and more and turns it all on its ear.

Ochsfeatured — Nels Cline, Larry Ochs and Gerald Cleaver
Dec 13, 2017 - 7:00pm Within the universe of sound lies the interstellar sound-space called improvised music. And from within this interstellar space comes the interplanetary space where the sonic energies of Cleaver, Cline and Ochs mind-meld for each unique concert by these three unpredictable music-makers. The National Sawdust concert marks the end of a six-city tour. Expect the music to be focused and energized. Know that these sound explorers - veterans of decades of improvised music - will be doing their utmost to raise the bandstand, and you with it.

angelsbonefeatured — VIA Records Presents Du Yun: Angel’s Bone Release Concert
Oct 7, 2017 - 6:30pm The opera follows the plight of two angels whose nostalgia for earthly delights has mysteriously brought them back to Earth. They are found—battered and bruised from their long journey—by a man and his wife who set out to nurse the wounded angels back to health, only to brutally exploit the angels’ feathers, bones, and bodies for their own profit.

slidefeatured — Rinde Eckert in Steve Mackey’s SLIDE
Nov 17, 2017 - 7:00pm Rinde Eckert in Steve Mackey's SLIDE w/ Orchestra 2001, conducted by Jayce Ogren

jogbluesfeatured — Jog Blues
October 6, 2017 - 7:00pm Jog Blues brings together Jazz, Blues and Indian Classical music in a 21st century mix, ranging from deep introspection to joyous romps.

PTC5186608_Coverart — Matt Haimovitz and Christopher O’Riley: TROIKA
Nov 11, 2018 - 7:00pm Acclaimed for their adventurous and wide-ranging recording projects – from Beethoven Sonatas on period instruments to genre-bending arrangements of Radiohead and Arcade Fire – the endlessly inventive duo of cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Christopher O’Riley returns with TROIKA, a new album on the PENTATONE Oxingale series, to explore music of the Slavic soul.

missalsfeatured — MISSALS: Through a PRISM
Sep 27, 2017 - 10:00pm Alternative/Pop/Rock - What happens when 100 people make music together for the first time? We intend to bring our audience inside the PRISM where we will deconstruct and demystify the soundscape by reimagining the individual components of a performance. The room will be the stage. Patrons are the players. The result will be a one-of-a-kind musical experience.

FoundersFeatured — Founders Present Sacred Space: Orchestral songwriting featuring the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe
Oct 12, 2017 - 10:00pm "Sacred Space": A concert of sacred music, but not the kind you’d expect! Featuring the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Sacred Space is an original 7 poem-song cycle contemplating reality, life, death, and the afterlife. This is paired with a re-realized Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen, arguably one of the greatest sacred pieces written in the 20th century.

Screen Shot 2018-09-12 at 10.24.23 AM — Du Yun
Born and raised in Shanghai, China, currently based in NYC, Du Yun * is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and performance artist. Her music exists at an artistic crossroads of orchestral, chamber music, theatre, opera, orchestral, cabaret, storytelling, pop music, visual arts and noise.

Hailed by The New York Times as a leading figure in China’s new generation of composers, Du Yun’s music is championed by some of today’s finest performing artists, ensembles, orchestras and organizations. Selected commissions include the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Mann Center for the Performing Arts, American Composers Orchestra, Berkeley Symphony, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fromm Foundation, Meet the Composer/ Commissioning USA, Chamber Music America, and Shanghai Electronic Music Week. Du Yun’s music has also been presented by Festival d’Avignon (France), Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ (The Netherlands), Musica Nova Helinski (Finland), Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music (Norway), Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt (Germany), Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, BAMNextWave, violinist Hilary Hahn, cellist Matt Haimovitz, and flutist Claire Chase, Trinity Wall Street, Festival of New Trumpet, Ecstatic Music Festival, 21c Liederabend, the San Francisco Contemporary Chamber Players, and many more.
August 28, 2017/by Zan Emerson

krakauerfeatured — David Krakauer’s Ancestral Groove
Nov 2, 2017 - 7:00pm For over two decades, world-renowned clarinetist David Krakauer has been reinventing and remixing the Jewish music of his ancestry with the sensibility of a contemporary musician strongly informed by funk, jazz and hip-hop.

The-Revolution-18 — The Revolution Vol. 20
Oct. 21, 2017 - 10:00pm As a part of VOL. 20, The Revolution will feature three incredible live performances from local artists: Chandanie O, Looms, and Born Relic.

The-Revolution-18 — The Revolution Vol. 19
Sept 30, 2017 - 10:00pm As a part of VOL. 19, The Revolution will feature three incredible live performances from local artists: Hillary Capps, Mary Akpa, and Anbessa Orchestra

AnneFeatured — ICE Presents: The Music of Anna Thorvaldsdottir with Cory Smythe and the International Contemporary Ensemble
May 27, 2018 - 4:00pm The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) present an evening of the keyboard works of Anna Thorvaldsdottir in an intimate and immersive, multimedia setting at National Sawdust.

NicoelMitchellFeatured — ICE Presents: The Music of Nicole Mitchell, Lu Wang, Okkyung Lee, and More!
Jan. 21, 2018 - 4:00pm The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) presents new works by Okkyung Lee, Nicole Mitchell, and Lu Wang in an eclectic set of pairings of ICE musicians.

OpenIceFeatured — ICE Presents: Sabrina Schroeder and Monte Weber
Oct 22, 2017 - 4:00pm ICE makes their debut as National Sawdust Artists-in-Residence

MoonPris-1024×482 — 10th Annual Science Film Festival: HIBRIDOS Screening and Live Score
Oct 14, 2017 - 9:30pm VINCENT MOON is an independent french filmmaker and sound explorer. He has been making films in the past ten years traveling around the world in quest of sounds from stadium rock music to rare shamanic rituals, and from electronic experimentations to acapella village songs.

stephane — Season 3 Opening Weekend: Multiplicidade
Sep. 23, 2017 - 10:00pm Be the first to celebrate the spectacular third season of National Sawdust, "Brooklyn's contemporary music sanctuary" (I Care If You Listen). The final show of our season-opening trifecta focuses on our multicultural theme of the season: Origins, showing off virtuosic talents from Brazil, Mexico, and across the United States in a exhilarating jam session.

dearedvardfeatured — Winterreise Nights Festival: Dear Edvard
Dec 10, 2017 - 4:00pm Dear Edvard is a new music-theatre piece about the life and loves of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Art history biopic, love story, psychological exploration and family drama, Munch is set in the same hospital room at Dr. Jacobsen’s Clinic for Nervous Disorders and Alcoholism, where the artist committed himself in 1908.

GuidedDiscoveryFeatured — Season 3 Opening Weekend: Guided Discovery
Sept 23, 2017 - 7:00pm Be the first to celebrate the spectacular third season of National Sawdust, "Brooklyn's contemporary music sanctuary" (I Care If You Listen). The second show of the season-opening trifecta focuses on our multicultural theme of the season: Origins, and is a singular opportunity to hear three iterations of musical mastery, energy, and passion from sounds that span three continents.

Tiokasin-Ghosthorse — Tiokasin Ghosthorse — From the Continuum
Oct 12, 2017 - 7:00pm A gathering of Original Nations and notions of beings with the elemental evolution of letting the mystery go where it wills music, spoken word and presence.

original — Winterreise Nights Festival: Tanya Tagaq Presents “We Breathe Again” Live Score
Dec 6, 2017 - 7:00pm Tanya Tagaq Performs the Live Scoring of We Breathe Again, a nationally-televised film, scored by Paola Prestini, documenting the struggles of Alaskan Natives.

turingopera — Anathema: The Turing Opera
Oct 3, 2018 - 7:00pm Anonymous Ensemble presents a concert of material from Turing, a new opera by composer William Antoniou and librettist Eamonn Farrell. Turing is the story of Alan Mathison Turing as told by the artificial intelligence that he envisioned. A computer program named MIRA creates the libretto and music and “plays” the human singers, musicians, and dancers.

HereBeSirens3 — Fresh Squeezed Opera Presents: Kate Soper’s Here Be Sirens
Jan 28, 2018 - 4:00pm Mythological sirens roost deep in our collective conscious, ancient forerunners to the femme fatale. In Here Be Sirens; join these singing ciphers as they investigate their own origins, seeking–through the twists & turns of literature & philosophy–a way off the island for good.

heartbeatfeatured — ALL THE WORLD’S A DRAG: Shakespeare in Love…with opera
Oct 31, 2017 - 7:30pm Don thy bejewelled codpieces, thy neck ruffs and farthingales: Shakespeare cometh! Heartbeat Opera proudly presents its fourth annual Drag Extravaganza for two nights of divalicious coloraturas, eye-popping fashion, and Halloween revelries.

Arakawa-Film-Still-featured — Why Not (A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology)
Oct 16, 2017 - 7:00pm Presented by Miwako Tezuka (consulting curator of Reversible Desitny Foundation), Diana Lee (Partner of Dillon + Lee Gallery), Peter Katz (Executive Director of Reversible Destiny), and Jay Sanders (Chief Curator of Artists Space).

mikeblockfeatured — Jeffrey Zeigler presents Mike Block Solo Show
Oct 21, 2017 - 7:00pm Mike Block, GRAMMY-Winning cellist and vocalist, presents a mixture of original compositions and songs, arrangements of folk standards, and short Classical selections that draw inspiration from his diverse collaborations with artists such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, fiddlers Mark O’Connor and Darol Anger, Indian tabla player Sandeep Das, Malian balafon player Balla Kouyate, and pop stars such as Will.i.am, Stevie Wonder, and Bon Iver.

contactfeatured — New York Philharmonic: CONTACT!
Jan 8, 2018 - 7:30pmCONTACT! returns to National Sawdust — “the sort of place that makes a new-music aficionado want to bring a sleeping bag and move in for a few weeks” (New York magazine) — for another season of “must-hear adventures” (The New York Times).

abrahambrodyfeatured — Abraham Brody & Trys Keturiose: ANCESTORS
April 12, 2018 - 7:00pm In our modern society, many of us have lost our roots. Knocked off balance by the speed and immediacy of modern technology, we have lost touch with many of the traditions which both ground us and orientate us to the rhythms of life. First premiered at the Barbican Centre in London, 'Ancestors’ draws from both folk music and ancient rituals of Baltic Culture, exploring the connection to his roots through ritual, gesture, and music.

liviofeatured — National Sawdust+ Talk: Mario Livio + Isabel Behncke + Paola Prestini
Sept 24, 2017 - 4:00pm Renowned astrophysicist Mario Livio, Chilean primatologist Isabel Behncke, and composer Paola Prestini take part in an expansive conversation about curiosity, play, evolution, and creativity.

Gene_Smith_Silhouettes — National Sawdust+ presents Wide Angle with Gene Smith: An evening with Sam Stephenson + The Paris Review
Oct. 26, 2017 - 7:30pm Author and documentarian Sam Stephenson (The Jazz Loft Project) and The Paris Review host an NS+ evening of readings, music, and film inspired by pioneering American photo-essayist W. Eugene Smith, whose beguiling life and legacy are explored in Stephenson’s new book, Gene Smith’s Sink. Jazz musicians and members of Wordless Music Orchestra will perform.

Five_Borough_Songbook_featured — Five Borough Songbook, Volume II
Nov 16, 2018 - 6:30pm The citywide tour of our thrilling Five Borough Songbook, Volume II concludes in November with our final borough premiere in Brooklyn. An expanded cast of artists come together for our grand finale performance of this special project.

jackiefeatured — Season 3 Opening Weekend: Jackie, Live Score
Sept 22, 2017 - 8:00pm In a nod to U.S. President and A Nation of Immigrants author John F. Kennedy’s 100th birthday, Wordless Music Orchestra and National Sawdust co-present a film screening of JACKIE with exhilarating live score accompaniment by the Wordless Music Orchestra.

Aliciavigalsfeatured — Alicia Svigals: The Yellow Ticket
May 19, 2018 - 7:00pm The Yellow Ticket is a multimedia event featuring a rare 1918 silent film and an original score by renowned klezmer violinist/vocalist/composer Alicia Svigals, performed live along with Toronto's virtuoso new-music pianist Marilyn Lerner.

syb5featured — American Modern Ensemble: Music by David Feurzeig, Pierce Gradone, Texu Kim, Robert Paterson and Aaron Mencher
Nov 1, 2017 - 7:00pm Hear the New York premiere of Paterson's I SEE YOU with SYBARITE5. CD release party for David Feurzig, and 3 AME Competition Winners: Gradone, Mencher and Kim.

Iarla — Iarla ó Lionáird and Contemporaneous, perform works by Dan Trueman and Donnacha Dennehy Isabelle O’Connell, piano and electronics
October 28, 2017 - 7:30pm The Origins Season continues with an exploration of classical Irish music.

thisishowweflyfeatured — This Is How We Fly In Concert
October 28, 2018 - 3:00pm The Irish Origins: Samhain Festival at National Sawdust will be co-presented by Irish Arts Center. Throughout the weekend we will hear a wealth of talent and music from Irish and American artists and composers.

thisishowweflyfeatured — Irish Arts Center Co-Presentation: This is How We Fly, Album Launch: Foreign Fields
Oct 27, 2017 - 7:00pm The Irish Origins: Samhain Festival at National Sawdust will be co-presented by Irish Arts Center. Throughout the weekend we will hear a wealth of talent and music from Irish and American artists and composers.

pletai — Pletai: Kosmosjam
Oct 5, 2017 - 7:00pm PLETAI (Abraham Brody, Ilya Sharov, Maria Medvedchenkova, Maria Marchenko) formed out of a spontaneous all-night jam session in Moscow in October 2016.

refugeesrusfeatured — Spring Revolution: REFUGEES ORCHESTRA PROJECT
March 4, 2018 - 4:00pm Incorporating themes from their recent video project with Papel&Caneta, Refugee Orchestra Project UNITES by bringing together refugee and non-refugee musicians in a multimedia performance.

heartbeatfeatured — ALL THE WORLD’S A DRAG: Shakespeare in Love…with opera Benefit Performance
Oct 30, 2017 - 7:30pm Don thy bejewelled codpieces, thy neck ruffs and farthingales: Shakespeare cometh! Heartbeat Opera proudly presents its fourth annual Drag Extravaganza for two nights of divalicious coloraturas, eye-popping fashion, and Halloween revelries.

experimentsinoperafeatured — Experiments in Opera: And Here We Are
May 6, 2018 - 7:00pm And Here We Are is a 90-minute work scored for 4 vocal soloists, choir and mixed ensemble. The premiere production will be staged using an updated take on traditional Southeast Asian shadow puppetry.

RefugeeOrchestraCropped — Refugee Orchestra Project
Nov 12, 2017 - 4:00pm Refugee artists across disciplines come together in conversation and performance. Members of Refugee Orchestra Project perform works by refugee composers from the 20th century and today featuring refugee musicians, visual art by refugee artists, and mini-documentaries by refugee filmmaker Tarek Turkey.

Eva_Hesse_in_her_studio — Opera Showcase: Works-in-Progress
May 3, 2018 - 7:00pm Works-in-Progress from National Sawdust Artists-in-Residence

SANDCATCHERSFEATURED — Yoshie Fruchter: Sandcatchers: Album Release
Nov 2, 2017 - 10:00pm This show celebrates the release of the debut album by Sandcatchers (Chant Records/Electric Cowbell). . Featuring oud player and composer Yoshie Fruchter with Myk Freedman (lap steel), Michael Bates (bass),Tim Keiper (percussion, Ngoni) and special guest Erik Friedlander (cello), Sandcatchers plays original and joyous music inspired both by Middle Eastern maqam and the Appalachian trail - a true and beautiful collaboration of sound and souls.

tarek — Kinan Azmeh Presents: Tarek Yamani’s Jazz Conceptions in Classical Arabic
February 1, 2018 - 7:00pm Tarek Yamani's critically acclaimed album "Lisan Al Tarab: Jazz Conceptions in Classical Arabic" is an exploration of classical Arabic music within the frameworks of African-American jazz. The result, a genre often dubbed as "Afro-Tarab" is jazz piano trio performance which will take the audience on a journey from late 1800's Egypt and Iraq to contemporary New York.

FireOrganFeatured — Guerilla Science Presents: Fire Organ Soundscapes
Oct 15, 2017 - 7:00pm Experience music in a new way. Join us for a spectacular showcase of sound and fire where multisensory artists perform new works designed to reveal the interconnectedness between music and the physical nature of sound.

prototypefeatured — Prototype: Secrets US Premiere
Jan 14, 2018 - 5:00pm In Secrets, the soprano Claron McFadden and the Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski jazz trio source hundreds of anonymous testimonies from the general public and audience members to craft a personal and intense experience.

prototypefeatured — Prototype: Secrets US Premiere
Jan 14, 2018 - 12:00pm In Secrets, the soprano Claron McFadden and the Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski jazz trio source hundreds of anonymous testimonies from the general public and audience members to craft a personal and intense experience.

prototypefeatured — Prototype: Secrets US Premiere
January 13, 2018 - 7:00pm In Secrets, the soprano Claron McFadden and the Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski jazz trio source hundreds of anonymous testimonies from the general public and audience members to craft a personal and intense experience. A musical and visual mosaic in which Claron McFadden, singing, whispering and laughing, merges sorrowful, mischievous and cynical passages into one another.

elementsfeatured — National Sawdust+ Elements of Time + Taste: A night of inventive food, mixology, and music
Sep 28, 2017 - 7:30pm NS+ presents Elements of Time + Taste, a creative experience of music, libations, and delectable fare! Patrick Connolly, Rider's award-winning chef, and New York Distilling Company's Allen Katz join forces with an extraordinary group of musicians including Magos Herrera and Yuka C. Honda, led by Oded Lev-Ari.

Blue-Piano(recordings — Building Closed for Recording
August 7, 2017 - 1:00pm National Sawdust will be closed to visitors due to a recording.

Blue-Piano(recordings — Building Closed for Recording
August 6, 2017 - 11:00pm National Sawdust will be closed to visitors due to a recording.

bridget — Siwoo Kim & Bridget Kibbey: Dawn to Dusk With Bach
October 1, 2018 - 4:00pm Harpist Bridget Kibbey and violinist Siwoo Kim join forces to explore the contrapuntal, coloristic, and virtuosic potential of their instruments by showcasing the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach and his influence.

Timeslow-featured — Timeslow Interactive Screening with Live Score
August 31, 2017 - 8:00pm An interactive feature film screening, with live music, foley, performers, and audiences gift boxes of sensory stimulants.

KrisDavisFeaturedCropped — Stone Commissioning Series: Kris Davis
Sept 27, 2017 - 7:00pm John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series premieres a new work or set of works on the last Wednesday of every month by composers who push the envelope of possibility.

EssamRafea2Cropped — Kinan Azmeh Presents Issam Rafea: Ancient Sound
May 31, 2018 - 7:00pmReaching from Middle Eastern roots, up and out to a sound beyond boundaries.

sandbox — NYU Sandbox Percussion Showcase
August 5, 2017 - 1:30pm The NYU Sandbox Percussion Showcase is the culminating concert following a week of intensive chamber music study at the second annual NYU Sandbox Percussion Seminar and it features Sandbox Percussion and Simon Boyar performing alongside an international group of students.

New Asia Chamber Music Society: The Music of Patrick Zimmerli and Max Bruch

August 26, 2017 - 4:00pmThe New Asia Chamber Music Society's first appearance at National Sawdust features the music of Patrick Zimmerli and Max Bruch. New York native Patrick Zimmerli writes gripping, original works that blend world music, classical music and jazz. This concert brings three of his works, The Call, for Viola and Piano; Spectres, for Solo Viola; and the world premiere of his Clarinet Sonata, with Max Bruch's gorgeous pieces for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano.

ResonatorFeatured — Resonator Festival
August 12, 2017 - 2:00pm There is movement in NYC's underground music scene. In fact, it's bigger than NYC, it's global. The sounds of hip-hop, jazz, r&b, soul and rock are crashing upon each other faster than ever before.

The New American Songbook

January 11, 2017 - 7:00pm The quarterly web magazine for experimental music, Sound American, moves from the text to the sonic in order to answer the question: “What does a truly modern American Songbook sound like?”

victorgama — Jeffrey Zeigler Presents: Victor Gama
Feb 25, 2017 - 7:00pm Victor Gama (Angola/Portugal) is a composer whose process begins with the creation of an entirely new instrument, one whose design is steeped in symbolic meaning. Concept design, the selection of materials, fabrication, and scoring are equal partners in Gama's writing method, blending current digital fabrication technologies with ideas and traditions inspired by the natural world.

juliaholter — Tragedy Opera with Julia Holter and wild Up (Night 2)
June 23, 2017 - 7:00pm We are developing an operatic staging of Julia Holter’s album Tragedy, based on Euripides’ Hippolytus, in which the wrath of an angry goddess leads to a series of misunderstandings and deaths. The original recording was inspired by classical imagery—statues and ruins—and was made with the intention of eventually being performed theatrically. Julia is excited to be finally realizing this dream with Yelena Zhelezov and Zoe Aja Moore, who are interested in approaching the visual atmosphere of the opera by considering the various methods in presentation of classical drama over time.

LisaBielawa — Curated by Theo Bleckmann: Lisa Bielawa with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME)
April 6, 2017 - 7:00pm Theo Bleckmann presents a collaboration between the American Contemporary Music Ensemble and celebrated composer and vocalist Lisa Bielawa to perform a selection of her works.

mikel_149_fin_8b_srgb-1 — Mikel Rouse: Hemisphere
April 13, 2017 - 10:00pm A special performance coinciding with the release of the video album ‘Hemisphere’. This solo performance will revisit Rouse’s 2010 avante-roots album ‘Corner Loading’ with a fresh interpretation including ‘Memory Projections’ and special musical guests. Joining Rouse will be NS curator Jeff McErlain, bringing his blues guitar skills to Rouse’s unique take on Americana.

Serious Business (cover art) — Spektral Quartet
April 21, 2017 - 7:00pm Playing Out is a showcase of liberated creativity, defying definition and building new musical lexicons through the intersection of experimental jazz, improvisation, and electroacoustic music.

CarlaDirlikov — Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert: Carla Dirlikov
April 22, 2017 - 7:00pm

Bridgingthegap4 — Bridging the Gap
April 30, 2017 - 7:00pm

burntsugarfeatured — Burnt Sugar Arkestra
August 23, 2017 - 10:00pm “BSA's Groiddest Schizznits” or for those unfamiliar with Greg Tate speak BSA’s Greatest Hits (1999-2017) will include tunes from their latest release "All You Zombies Dig The Luminosity" which in the current issue of The Wire Michael A. Gonzales writes " the multiracial group sound like the big poppas and mommas of baby boogie Childish Gambino as they cosmic slop bop across musical high wires."

nightgowns3featured — Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns
July 5, 2017 - 10:30pm Drag queen Sasha Velour (Winner of Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 9) presents NIGHTGOWNS, an evening of short performances dedicated to celebrating the diversity, depth, and wild power of drag. Each month features a new lineup of performers, using gender, dance, music, fashion, and visual art in combination to explore both the political and the personal…surprisingly funny, moving, and glamorously queer!

nightgowns3featured — Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns
July 5, 2017 - 7:00pm Drag queen Sasha Velour (Winner of Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 9) presents NIGHTGOWNS, an evening of short performances dedicated to celebrating the diversity, depth, and wild power of drag. Each month features a new lineup of performers, using gender, dance, music, fashion, and visual art in combination to explore both the political and the personal…surprisingly funny, moving, and glamorously queer!

facebook-nationalsawdust — Closed for Fliming
We will be closed all day for filming

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs resident Jen Shyu

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs resident Joanna Wallfisch

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs residents Donovan Dorrance and Gregory Richardson

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs residents Donovan Dorrance and Gregory Richardson

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs resident ARIADNE

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs resident Izzy Gliksberg

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs resident Izzy Gliksberg

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for August Labs Resident Found Sound Nation

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs Resident Found Sound Nation

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs resident Found Sound Nation

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs resident Found Sound Nation

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs resident Sugar Vendil

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs resident Book of Dreams

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs resident Book of Dreams

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs resident Book of Dreams

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs resident Book of Dreams

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs resident Book of Dreams

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs resident Book of Dreams

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs Resident Sugar Vendil

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs Resident Anna Roberts-Gevalt

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Labs Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs resident Anna-Roberts Gevalt

summerlabsfeatured — Summer Lab Residency Rehearsal
Rehearsal for Summer Labs resident Izzy Gliksberg

alladream — #LALYTES: All a Dream
August 19, 2017 - 10:00pm It was ALL A DREAM: A multimedia performance art experience from independent Hip Hop recording and performance artist, Latasha Alcindor. ALL A DREAM is a visual and musically-led memoir of Alcindor's deep-rooted upbringing in NYC.

tragedyopera — Tragedy Opera Rehearsal
This is a closed rehearsal of Julia Holter's Tragedy Opera

anthonyfeatured — Anthony Roth Costanzo: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo CLOSED Rehearsal
Closed rehearsal of the upcoming Opera residency. This Rehearsal is closed to the public.

ariadnefeatured — Summer Labs: ARIADNE + Invisible Anatomy + Late Sea
August 6, 2017 - 7:00pm Observance_004 is a multi-sensory, improvisatory, multimedia iteration of the upcoming A/V album by ARIADNE. INVISIBLE ANATOMY (IA) is a composer-performer ensemble that explores the human body as the most fundamental aspect of music creation and performance.

angelsbone — Angel’s Bone Recording with Trinity Wall St. Choir
June 12, 2017 - 8:00am Studio recording of Angel's Bone, Du Yun and Royce Vavrek's opera centered around human trafficking and human nature.

nattifeatured2 — Natti Vogel We All Move to Brooklyn Release
July 26, 2017 - 10:00pm "We All Move to Brooklyn", the latest single from Vogel's forthcoming orchestral pop record "Serving Body" and a longtime, interactive crowd favorite, takes on the disturbing power of money and exile in a way that's funny, fierce, lush, catchy and honest. Join the young piano singer-songwriter on the day of its release as he serenades you with his prolific, diverse body of work and one-of-a-kind, theatrical stage presence.

zemfeatured — Blue Note Jazz Festival and Subrosa present: Zem Audu Album Launch
June 14, 2017 - 7:30pm Nigerian-born, London-raised, and Brooklyn-based Zem Audu is an award winning saxophonist, composer and producer with a fresh sound that blends contemporary jazz, and soulful grooves.

The-Revolution-18 — The Revolution Vol. 18 | Valerie Orth, The Odd Hawk Orchestra, Khemestry
August 26, 2017 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging performance series, highlighting Brooklyn & Harlem based artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2017 but who currently stand in the breeding ground of evolution within their genre. This volume features Valerie Orth, The Odd Hawk Orchestra, and Khemestry.

jenshyu — Summer Labs: Jen Shyu—Nine Doors
June 29, 2017 - 10:00pm Jen Shyu’s Nine evokes at levels both personal and global. The work was inspired by the loss of Shyu’s friend Sri Joko Raharjo “Cilik,” who died with his wife and infant son in an automobile accident at the age of 30. Raharjo was a master of the Javanese art of shadow puppetry called wayang kulit. His 6-year-old daughter, who survived the crash, is the central character in Shyu’s multilingual, ritual music drama.

Muralfeatured — Make Music New York Community Day
June 21, 2017 - 4:00pm In partnership with Make Music New York, National Sawdust offers a full evening of workshops and music discovery open free to the public!

emf7featured — Electroacoustic Music Festival Concert 24: “Peace and Social Justice”
July 15, 2017 - 3:00pm NYCEMF (The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival) 2017 will showcase electroacoustic music and video art from around the world. The second part of NYCEMF 2017 will take place July 14 - 16, with multiple events each day, at NS.

polishinvasionfeatured — Jazztopad Festival Presents: Lutoslawski Quartet with Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier
June 25, 2017 - 4:00pm The American edition of the Jazztopad Festival is presented by the National Forum of Music, the Polish Cultural Institute New York, in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center, National Sawdust, Jazz Gallery, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center, Victoria Jazz Festival and TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival.

nsplusfeatured — National Sawdust+ Who Owns the Story: Artists Speak Out
June 11, 2017 - 4:00pm The program, featuring conversations and performances, will explore the idea of who has the ownership – or the right – to tell which/what stories. Are there limits? And what is the responsibility of the artists telling the stories? Artists will include Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Kauila Kanaka’ole, Morley, Dael Orlandersmith, and Carl Hancock Rux.

aci4 — Aci, Galatea e Polifemo: An NS Co-Production with Anthony Roth Costanzo, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and Cath Brittan
July 20, 2017 - 8:00pm Director Christopher Alden takes on Handel’s rarely staged serenata, Aci, Galatea, e Polifemo. At 90 minutes, it’s a spectacular, streamlined, cliff-notes version of a Handel opera.

aci3 — Aci, Galatea e Polifemo: An NS Co-Production with Anthony Roth Costanzo, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and Cath Brittan
July 19, 2017 - 8:00pm Director Christopher Alden takes on Handel’s rarely staged serenata, Aci, Galatea, e Polifemo. At 90 minutes, it’s a spectacular, streamlined, cliff-notes version of a Handel opera.

emf3featured — Electroacoustic Music Festival Concert 25
July 15, 2017 - 7:00pm NYCEMF (The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival) 2017 will showcase electroacoustic music and video art from around the world. The second part of NYCEMF 2017 will take place July 14 - 16, with multiple events each day, at NS.

newmusicforstringsfeatured — New Music for Strings at National Sawdust
June 28, 2017 - 10pm To kick off the NS summer season, Stony Brook University presents the New Music for Strings festival (June 28), which brings together performers and the work of living American and Scandinavian composers. Featuring violinist and subharmonics founder Mari Kimura, the all-female Parhelion Trio, the Steinem Quartet, and Scandinavian violinist Anne Sophie Andersen, the concert is one of six NMFS performances, and represents the first festival of its kind in the world.

polymath featured — Summer Labs: Found Sound Nation | Polymath Club
August 13, 2017 - 7:00pm FSN presents a new multigenerational seminar/research/work group on music and philosophy called Polymath Club. Participants meet for bi-monthly meetings and discussion, pairing composers with philosophers/writers, working together to produce a series of original texts and compositions. The group will premiere the new work at National Sawdust, along with new texts and scores and everything in between.

emf1featured — Electroacoustic Music Festival: Ancient Voices of the Computer | Curated Concert (APNM)
July 14, 2017 - 5:00pm NYCEMF (The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival) 2017 will showcase electroacoustic music and video art from around the world. The second part of NYCEMF 2017 will take place July 14 - 16, with multiple events each day, at NS.

aci1 — Aci, Galatea e Polifemo: An NS Co-Production with Anthony Roth Costanzo, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and Cath Brittan
July 12, 2017 - 8:00pm Director Christopher Alden takes on Handel’s rarely staged serenata, Aci, Galatea, e Polifemo. At 90 minutes, it’s a spectacular, streamlined, cliff-notes version of a Handel opera.

emf5featured — Electroacoustic Music Festival Concert 27
July 16, 2017 - 3:00pm NYCEMF (The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival) 2017 will showcase electroacoustic music and video art from around the world. The second part of NYCEMF 2017 will take place July 14 - 16, with multiple events each day, at NS.

jenshyu — Summer Labs: Jen Shyu—Nine Doors
June 29, 2017 - 7:00pm The June Lab Showcase (June 29) presents Jen Shyu, the composer, multilingual vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, and producer who was recently recognized with a 2016 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. She looks forward to premiering Nine (working title), a solo ritual music drama that – drawing on her extensive study of the traditional music of Korea, East Timor, Taiwan, and Indonesia – she describes as “reflecting the parallels that exist between life and death, different cultures, and the importance of empathy over destructive assumptions that divide humanity.”

JO_-_HA_-_KYU_II__1_ — Kaoru Watanabe: JO | HA | KYU Part II
July 30, 2017 - 7:00pm The JO | HA | KYU series presents Grammy-nominated composer, taiko drummer, and shinobue bamboo flutist Kaoru Watanabe in collaboration with four artists who represent the Arab world: Syria’s Kinan Azmeh, Lebanon’s Hadi Eldebek, and Kevork Mourad from Syria and Armenia (July 30). The NS concert marks the second installment of Watanabe’s four-part series celebrating Brooklyn’s diverse cultural makeup through music combining traditional Japanese instruments with those of other cultures.

joanna-donovan-featured — Summer Labs: Joanna Wallfisch + Donovan Dorrance & Gregory Richardson
July 29, 2017 - 6:30pm Summer Labs residency featuring Joanna Wallfisch + Donovan Dorrance & Gregory Richardson.

emf6featured — Electroacoustic Music Festival Concert 28
July 16, 2017 - 7:00pm NYCEMF (The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival) 2017 will showcase electroacoustic music and video art from around the world. The second part of NYCEMF 2017 will take place July 14 - 16, with multiple events each day, at NS.

aci2 — Aci, Galatea e Polifemo: An NS Co-Production with Anthony Roth Costanzo, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and Cath Brittan
July 13, 2017 - 8:00pm Director Christopher Alden takes on Handel’s rarely staged serenata, Aci, Galatea, e Polifemo. At 90 minutes, it’s a spectacular, streamlined, cliff-notes version of a Handel opera.

labsfeatured3 — Summer Labs: Sugar Vendil, Anna Roberts-Gevalt, GLMMR (David T. Little + David Adam Moore): Book of Dreams
August 24, 2017 - 7:00pm GLMMR’s Book of Dreams: Chapter Sand; Sugar Vendil’s Islander; and Late Sea’s The Writers Trilogy

burntsugarfeatured — Burnt Sugar Arkestra
August 23, 2017 - 7:00pm “We Insist! Freedom Now” Suite ~ where BSA will "caramelize" the pivotal and still timely 1960's social-justice-seeking songs of Abby Lincoln, Max Roach and Oscar Brown Jr.

emf2featured — Electroacoustic Music Festival Concert 23
July 14, 2017 - 7:00pm NYCEMF (The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival) 2017 will showcase electroacoustic music and video art from around the world. The second part of NYCEMF 2017 will take place July 14 - 16, with multiple events each day, at NS.

vireo-featured — VIREO, a made-for-film opera in 12 episodes
July 7, 2017 - 7:00pm Complete screening of all 12 episodes of Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser, in cooperation with Grand Central Art Center, KCET, and Single Cel. Vireo is a new made-for-TV opera composed by Lisa Bielawa on a libretto by Erik Ehn and directed by Charles Otte. Vireo tears down the set limitations of a staged opera, visiting locations across the country - Alcatraz, a monastery on the Hudson River, an abandoned train station in Oakland, the California Redwoods.

emf4featured — Electroacoustic Music Festival Concert 26: Curated by (Wl(helm|liam)sburg)
July 15, 2017 - 10:00pm NYCEMF (The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival) 2017 will showcase electroacoustic music and video art from around the world. The second part of NYCEMF 2017 will take place July 14 - 16, with multiple events each day, at NS.

Blind-Spot-featured — ECM Series: Vijay Iyer & Teju Cole: Blind Spot
July 8, 2017 - 7:00pm Composer/pianist Vijay Iyer and writer/photographer Teju Cole's powerful new collaboration, Blind Spot, combines photography and Cole's own voice with a live score composed by Iyer and performed with bassist Linda Oh and mallet percussionist Patricia Brennan.

kingbrittemail — KING BRITT | Fhloston Paradigm: An Evening in the After…
July 28, 2017 - 10:00pm King Britt’s future forward project Fhloston Paradigm has been his focus since 2012. Fhloston Paradigm is a manifestation of afro-futurist ideals, based in an electronic music landscape.

Twin_Primes_featured — Twin Primes, FBI Warning, Via App
August 5, 2017 - 10:00pm Twin Primes, FBI Warning, and Via App share a triple bill for a night of synthesis and sample manipulation.

julianlagefeatured — Stone Commissioning Series: Julian Lage’s Studies For One Electric Guitar
June 28, 2017 - 7:00pm At age 27, Julian Lage already boasts a resume that an artist twice his age would be proud to claim. A former child prodigy—he was the subject of the 1997 documentary Jules at Eight—the California- born, now New York–based guitarist has collaborated with such giants as Gary Burton, Jim Hall, David Grisman, Béla Fleck, and Charles Lloyd.

bokante — Bokanté ft. Members of Snarky Puppy
June 25, 2017 - 10:00pm For the newly-formed international music ensemble Bokanté, connection is the foundation upon which all things are built. Rich in the sound of both delta and desert, the unusual but evocative instrumentation on their debut album Strange Circles, out May XX on GroundUP Music, blends musical worlds to convey an urgent message of social awareness against the rising tide of exclusion and human indifference.

wildUpd — wild Up: Future Folk
June 24, 2017 - 7:00pm With future folk wild Up creates a communal concert of sound/noise/experience that celebrates old-world ways of living in the modern era. Together we will explore the music from Ancient India, modern California, post-war New York, and from American composers that envision a future form of music rooted in folk ethos. As moderns, we stand on the shoulders of the ancients. Their music changes us. Compels us to make and unites us in being.

portoflifefeatured — Jean John & The Port Of Life (Album Release Show)
June 16, 2017 - 7:00pm "The Port of Life" is an award winning retrospective compositional work (ASCAP 2017 Johnny Mandel Prize) and a debut album (released by ZKP Ljubljana) by a Slovenian drummer and composer Jean John (Žan Tetičkovič).

shyandmightyfeatured — Timo Andres presents: Shy and Mighty featuring David Kaplan
June 17, 2017 - 7:00pm Shy and Mighty began as a personal compositional sketchbook early in my college years, gradually morphing into a ten-movement, hour-long piece for two pianos and eventually into my first album. David Kaplan and I mark the 10-year anniversary of the work’s premiere with a full performance.

nightgownsfeatured — Sasha Velour’s NIGHTGOWNS
May 17, 2017 - 10:00pm Drag queen Sasha Velour (Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 9) presents NIGHTGOWNS, an evening of short performances dedicated to celebrating the diversity, depth, and wild power of drag. Each month features a new lineup of performers, using gender, dance, music, fashion, and visual art in combination to explore both the political and the personal…surprisingly funny, moving, and glamorously queer!

olivery — Movements in Modular featuring Certain Creatures and Abe Seiferth
June 16, 2017 - 10:00pm Movements in Modular features electronic artists that perform live. From early Daft Punk to Aphex Twin and beyond, electronic musicians have brought out a portion of their studios to play live instead of DJing. Oliver Chapoy is a Brooklyn-based DJ and producer.

Aerial_East_Headshot — Disrupt Series: Aerial East with Julia Crockett & Group: PORTRAITS
May 25, 2017 - 10:00pm Portraits is an original and unreleased work for movement, voice and string quartet by Aerial East, Julia Crockett, and Maxim Moston. In response to the current political and cultural climate, the evening aims to provide refuge from the oppressive onslaught of imagery and sound. The artists intend to create an atmosphere that fosters community and relieves anxiety.

okkyungfeatured — Stone Commissioning Series: Okkyung Lee The Idea of Red and Grey and Yellow
July 26, 2017 - 7:00pm Okkyung Lee, a New York-based artist and South Korea native, has created a body of work blurring genre boundaries through collaborations and compositions while testing the limit of contemporary cello performance techniques. Her music draws inspirations from noise and extended techniques, jazz, Western classical, and Korean traditional and popular music.

thirdmanfeatured — Third Man Books & BHQFU present: Third Man Showcase
May 20, 2017 - 8:00pm Nashville's THIRD MAN BOOKS, the publishing wing of Jack White's Third Man Records, & BHQFU, New York's freest art school, present an unforgettable evening of music, poetry, prose & revelry.

revolution17logo — The Revolution Vol. 17
July 29, 2017 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of an evolution within their genre. This edition will feature live performances from Bridget Perez, beccs, and Cross Culture.

revolutionlogo2 — The Revolution Vol. 16
June 24, 2017 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of an evolution within their genre.

LAPfeatured — L.A. Percussion Quartet: Beyond
June 1, 2017 - 7:00pm The Grammy-nominated LAPQ makes its New York debut with an exciting multimedia program marking the release of its latest surround-sound recording: 'Beyond,' out June 16 on Sono Luminus. Andrew McIntosh's mesmerizing 40-minute opus I Hold the Lion's Paw is the centerpiece, with works by National Sawdust composer-in-residence Ellen Reid, Pulitzer Prize finalist Christopher Cerrone, Anna Thorsvaldsdottir, and others in the mix.

MIVOS_1 — Chamber Music America presents: Edward Simon & Afinidad and Mivos Quartet
May 23, 2017 - 7:00pm Celebrate National Chamber Music Month with this free event, featuring two highly acclaimed and distinctive ensembles: the “daring and ferocious” Mivos Quartet (The Chicago Reader) and Edward Simon’s "dramatically expansive” Afinidad (Downbeat Magazine).

tiguebio — Tigue / Innov Gnawa / Underground System
June 2, 2017 - 10:00pm Dive head first into the colorful, hypnotic elation of syncopations, bass lines and horn stabs. In a near-mystical coalescence of musical sensibilities, three of Brooklyn’s most prolific trance inducers — Tigue, Innov Gnawa and Underground System — link up for a kinetic, bliss instigating night of relentless rhythmic intoxication.

composite — Doug Wieselman, Jane Scarpantoni, and Kenny Wollessen’s Trio S | “Somewhere Glimmer” Album Release show
June 23, 2017 - 10:00pm This is the release show for second album by Trio S - lead by clarinetist Doug Wieselman, with Jane Scarpantoni on ‘cello and Kenny Wollesen on drums and percussion. This ensemble incorporates live looping, invented instruments and compositions based on melodies from water and dreams.

yuka — Yuka C. Honda: Limbs
May 28, 2017 - 4:00pm

chromafeatured — Petros Klampanis: Chroma Album Release
June 15, 2017 - 7:00pm Petros Klampanis celebrates the release of his new album 'CHROMA.' On 'CHROMA' , his third album as a leader and Motéma Music debut, Klampanis explores the colors of human character, inspired by world events and personal experience. 'CHROMA,' the Greek word for “color,” masterfully employs a full spectrum of sonic colors to paint an introspective and emotionally daring artistic statement.

tragedyopera — Tragedy Opera with Julia Holter, Zoe Aja Moore, Yelena Zhelezov, and wildUp
June 23, 2017 - 7:00pmIn his play Hippolytus, written over two thousand years ago, Euripides explored the tragic depths of human shame and self-destruction under oppressive powers, themes which remain relevant today. In 2011, Julia Holter recorded an album called Tragedy inspired by Hippolytos and setting some of its text, and now artists Yelena Zhelezov and Zoe Aja Moore are working with Holter to create a staging of Tragedy at National Sawdust.

tragedyopera — Tragedy Opera with Julia Holter, Zoe Aja Moore, Yelena Zhelezov, and wildUp
June 22, 2017 - 7:00pm In his play Hippolytus, written over two thousand years ago, Euripides explored the tragic depths of human shame and self-destruction under oppressive powers, themes which remain relevant today. In 2011, Julia Holter recorded an album called Tragedy inspired by Hippolytos and setting some of its text, and now artists Yelena Zhelezov and Zoe Aja Moore are working with Holter to create a staging of Tragedy at National Sawdust.

Copy of MH-Option3 — Murray Hidary: Mind Travel
June 11, 2017 - 7:00pm Murray Hidary, composer and pianist, explores the sounds of the universe with his live compositions. His improvisational piano meditations, inspired by mystical traditions and theoretical physics, will leave you in a state of harmony and clarity, with the rhythm to carry it forward into your life.

Theo Bleckmann & Shai Maestro – All Souls in the Dark_0126_.jpg_MR — Theo Bleckmann Presents: Shai Maestro and Ambrose Akinmusire
May 21, 2017 - 7:00pm Theo Bleckmann, Ambrose Akinmusire and Shai Maestro are performing in trio for the first time ever in an evening of original material. All three, boundary-crossing musicians will fuse jazz with modern art song, improvisation with extended techniques and ambient choral spaces in a set of hitherto unheard music.

hour-of-charm-featured — Sxip Shirey’s Hour of Charm
May 12, 2017 - 7:00pm Featuring new electronic music from Shirey's NEXT album "Goodnight Little Machines" and new JANK tunes with sousaphonist John Altieri and drummer Attis Clopton also the debut of a new duet with for extended penny whistle and electronics and drum with Matt Moran of Slavic Soul Party.

weemsfeatured — National Sawdust+ Gentle on my Mind: An Evening with artist Carrie Mae Weems
June 2, 2017 - 7:30pm The singular American artist Carrie Mae Weems, “a superb image maker and a moral force” (New York Times), whose art has investigated topics from cultural identity to politics to the consequences of power, debuts a new program created for NS+. Gentle on my Mind uses narratives, photographs and video, sharing the essential role that music has played in shaping both Weems’s life and work.

Yellow-Barn-NtlSawdust-2017 — Music from Yellow Barn
May 28, 2017 - 7:00pm At the heart of this program is a work by Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff, a fully notated depiction of a woman’s sexual climax titled Sonata Erotica. Certainly not intended for the concert hall at the time of its composition in 1919 (Schulhoff writes, “For Men Only” on the title page), Sonata Erotica would have been a voyeuristic diversion in the nightclub or cabaret, and an example of the musical revolution of art “as the commonality of man” that the composer had embraced.

Madrigal Opera Rehearsal (R.B. Schlather)

R.B. Schlather, Johnny Gandelsman, William Frampton, and Choral Chameleon take to the sky to stage Phillip Glass' Madrigal Opera.

5C5A7065 — Adam Abeshouse Presents: Sophia Subbayya Vastek + Giovanni Piacentini
May 6, 2017 - 7:00pm Pianist Sophia Subbayya Vastek and guitarist/composer Giovanni Piacentini, in a double bill program, will celebrate the release of their forthcoming albums.

madrigalfeatured — Madrigal Opera Rehearsal (R.B. Schlather)
R.B. Schlather, Johnny Gandelsman, William Frampton, and Choral Chameleon take to the sky to stage Phillip Glass' Madrigal Opera.

creative — Northside and The Creative Independent Present: Julia Holter
June 10, 2017 - 8:00pm

bathgatefeatured — Kettle Corn New Music presents Ashley Bathgate, Cello Counterpoint
June 25, 2017 - 7:00pmIn this concert Ashley Bathgate is premiering her own recording of Steve Reich's Cello Counterpoint as well as new works for the same instrumentation by Kettle Corn New Music composers Emily Cooley and Alex Weiser - new works written to be paired with the iconic Reich work in concert, and for an upcoming studio album.

joshuaromanfeatured — Jeffrey Zeigler Presents: Joshua Roman & Derek Bermel, Karen Kim and Conor Hanick
May 19, 2017 - 10:00pm Out of the chamber music written in the 20th Century, no piece is more storied than Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps. Messiaen's musical language is colorful; invented harmonic modes, sounds of birdcalls and extra-musical narratives make his sonic world unforgettable.

marielfeatured — Mariel Roberts: Cartography, works for solo cello+
May 19, 2017 - 7:00pm Trailblazing cellist Mariel Roberts explores the outer limits of her instrument as she celebrates the release of her second solo album, 'Cartography,' out May 19 on New Focus Recordings. In a set of staggeringly virtuosic pieces for solo cello "plus one" by Davi∂ Brynjar Franzson, Cenk Ergün, George Lewis, and Eric Wubbels (who guests on piano) she displays the interpretive depth and élan that have established her as one of New York's most accomplished, fearless, and charismatic performers.

teennightfeatured2 — Latasha Alcindor presents Teen Night at Empire
May 27, 2017 - 7:00pm Teen Nite At Empire (#TNAE), Latasha Alcindor's new EP is a bashment on wax dedicated to Young Girls who would wild out and to the ones who broke out. The EP channels her childhood anecdotes at Brooklyn's infamous Empire Skating Rink which was closed down due to the gentrification of its neighborhood.

zlatkin — Daniel Zlatkin: Glimpse
May 10, 2017 - 9:30pm Daniel Zlatkin's music has been played by the Da Capo Chamber Players, The Orchestra Now, The Brass Project, the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, and members of the New Haven Symphony. His music has been featured at festivals and venues including Music from Angel Fire and the Fisher Center for Performing Arts.

TR.GR.credit.Ray Tarantino — Terry and Gyan Riley
May 18, 2017 - 7:00pm Terry and Gyan Riley share the stage for a special concert sharing their talents.

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SashaVelour — Sasha Velour’s NIGHTGOWNS
April 20, 2017 - 10:00pm Drag queen Sasha Velour (from Rupaul's Drag Race Season 9) presents NIGHTGOWNS, an evening of short performances dedicated to celebrating the diversity, depth, and wild power of drag. Each month features a new lineup of performers, using gender, dance, music, fashion, and visual art in combination to explore both the political and the personal...surprisingly funny, moving, and glamorously queer!

The Revolution Vol. 15

May 27, 2017 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging performance series, highlighting Brooklyn & Harlem based artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2017 but who currently stand in the breeding ground of evolution within their genre.

sosf1featured — Access Contemporary Music presents: Sound of Silent Film Festival
May 12, 2017 - 10:00pm The Sound of Silent Film Festival features newly commissioned scores performed live to modern silent films. This year's program features films by Martin Scorsese, Guy Maddin, Jos Stelling, Martin Pickles and others.

(h)artDrive (1) — (h)artDrive
May 7, 2017 - 2:00pm (h)artDrive, the exciting new electric guitar duo, assimilates the iconic sound of electric guitars into the world of contemporary music. Bringing forth a generous, rich and robust musical landscape by only two musicians and twelve strings, (h)artDrive, explores the entire spectrum of sound available to electric guitars and expounds upon it.

duoscorpio1 — Adam Abeshouse Presents: Duo Scorpio
April 18, 2017 - 7:00pm Renowned for their “telepathic communication,” (Tuxedo Revolt) harp combo Duo Scorpio makes its lone US appearance at National Sawdust on their album-release tour spanning the U.S., Canada, and Hong Kong. The performance will feature tracks from the album, titled Two Bridges, with commissioned works from composition legends Nico Muhly, Andy Akiho, and Paul Patterson.

williambasinskifeatured — Northside Festival Presents: William Basinski
June 9, 2017 - 8:00pm Basinski's Northside Festival performance will be the New York debut of his latest work, "A Shadow in Time (for David Robert Jones)", written in tribute to the late David Bowie and released earlier this year.

laetitiaheader — Northside Festival and France Rocks Summerfest Present: Lætitia Sadier + Emel Mathlouthi+ Un Blonde
June 8, 2017 - 9:30pm As a member of Stereolab, Lætitia Sadier helped to pioneer a certain strain of indie pop from the 1990s into the aughts. Championing analog synthesizers during an era when fetishism for all things digital was on the rise, the British group took cues from Krautrock, lounge music, psychedelic rock and minimalism, still managing to be one of the more progressive bands of their time.

tenthinterventionfeatured — Tenth Intervention: Anxiety. Ecstasy. Fear. Chaos. Sensuality.
May 5, 2017 - 7:00pm Tenth Intervention presents a concert that creates fear, anxiety, ecstasy, chaos, and sensuality with works by innovative composers Kate Soper, Tonia Ko, Dorian Wallace, David Bird and Daniel Felsenfeld. Using the wearable technology headband designed by Muse, the physical response (breathing, blinking, jaw clenching, etc.) of an audience member will be recorded and projected with data mapping designed by Jascha Narveson. With support from the Center for Data Arts at the New School.

outsidejoespub — FOLIO: Eco-Music Big Band plays Earle Brown & more
May 7, 2017 - 7:00pm The Eco-Music Big Band is proud to present FOLIO, an evening of works by cross-genre composers. This dynamic evening that promises to be an aural experience transcending genre, style, and expectation: excerpts from the jazz reimagining of Igor Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale (featuring actor/writer John Palladino); composer/bass trombonist David Taylor's mini-opera, The Banned Bamboozler; and our interpretation of Louis Andreissen's Worker's Union; plus more. Each work provides a complement to the centerpiece and grand finale to the concert, Earle Brown's FOLIO; each work, too, requires virtuosity in both notated and improvised forms.

timeforthree — Time for Three
March 30, 2017 - 10:00pm The groundbreaking, category-shattering trio Time for Three (Tf3) transcends traditional classification, with elements of classical, country western, gypsy and jazz idioms forming a blend all its own. The members — Nicolas (Nick) Kendall, violin; Charles Yang violin; and Ranaan Meyer, double bass — carry a passion for improvisation, composing and arranging, all prime elements of the ensemble’s playing.

LATASHA — Latasha Alcindor presents Women’s Truth
March 25, 2017 - 7:00pm Women's Truth is a raw and honest exploration into the minds and hearts of an array of women's theory and experiences. Curated by Artist in Residence - Latasha Alcindor, Women's Truth allows the audience to feel out the challenges and triumphs of womanhood through women living in different walks of life, finding common grounds for communication to begin, especially generationally and racially.

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DISRUPT (series): Collaboration of David Grubbs, Eli Keszler, Benjamin Lanz and Jan St. Werner

March 16, 2017 - 7:00pmDISRUPT (series) at National Sawdust is about artist + audience taking risk, causing reactions, triggering emotion, and finding the present together. This second show of the series delves deep into the core of this mission, featuring four unparalleled voices of experimental music, also widely known for their many explosive collaborations: David Grubbs (Gastr del Sol, the Red Krayola), Eli Keszler (Tony Conrad, Christian Wolff, Phill Niblock), Benjamin Lanz (Beirut, The National, Sufjan Stevens), and Jan St. Werner (Mouse on Mars, Microstoria). Here they come together in concert for the first time as a quartet.

Lisa-Bielawa-2 — The Music of Composer Lisa Bielawa (Performed by ACME)
April 6, 2017 - 7:00pm A concert of the music of composer-vocalist Lisa Bielawa, performed by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) with Bielawa as vocal soloist. The program, part of National Sawdust’s series curated by composer Theo Bleckmann, will feature Bielawa’s A Collective Cleansing (2000) for solo voice and digital audio, Graffiti Dell’amante (2010) for string quartet and soprano, Genesis Again (1998) for soprano and violin, and two arias from her episodic opera Vireo: “The Bat” and “The Dragon and the Girl.”

sonia-de-los-featured — NS Jazz for Kids: Sonia De Los Santos
June 3, 2017 - 11:00am Sonia De Los Santos was born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico and since 2007 has been touring the world, singing in English and Spanish, playing guitar, mandolin, and jarana, and lighting up the stage with Grammy Award winning group Dan Zanes And Friends. Now with her own multicultural band, she shares songs from her celebrated album, “Mi Viaje: De Nuevo León to the New York Island” (Parents’ Choice Foundation Gold Award Winner) a collection of songs that reflect on her experiences growing up in Mexico, moving to another country, learning about other cultures, and in the process, feeling closer to her own heritage.

saltlandfeatured — Saltland
April 7, 2017 - 10:00pm Cellist and composer Rebecca Foon has been a fixture of the Montréal music community for two decades. She co-founded the Juno Award-winning contemporary chamber group Esmerine in 2002 and was a core member of the celebrated cult post-punk band Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra from 2001-2008 and the experimental instrumental collective Set Fire To Flames. Foon was also a founding member of the instrumental trios The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary and Fifths of Seven.

jack-featured — Winter solstice show: JACK Quartet performs Haas in the dark
Dec 21, 2017 - 9:30pm JACK returns to National Sawdust on the winter solstice to give the US premiere of this mystical exploration of darkness.

djlogicrudresh — Rudresh Mahanthappa and DJ Logic: Alternative Facts
March 25, 2017 - 10:00pm This is a debut of what will hopefully evolve into a long standing collaborative relationship between Rudresh Mahanthappa and DJ Logic. Rudresh and Logic met while playing with Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and were immediately keen to work together. We are very excited to see what happens!

meltzerfeatured — Harold Meltzer @ 50
March 26, 2017 - 7:00pm Mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer and all-star collection of musicians will perform the New York premiere of Harold’s complete song cycle Variations on a Summer Day, for voice and nine instruments, setting the twenty stanzas of the Wallace Stevens poem of the same name

Mikel_149_Fin_8b_sRGB — Jeff McErlain presents Mikel Rouse
April 29, 2017 - 10:00pm Hemisphere is part of an ongoing series of pieces that combine new and old work to create a new perspective on the history of the work itself. Part assemblage and part memory, images and sounds are filtered through live performance to create an alternate reality: the slipperiness of memory.

beansfeatured — Beans Record Release
March 31, 2017 - 10:00pm Accomplished abstract poet. Early architect of electronicinfused beatscapes. Founding member of legendary leftfield rap act AntiPop Consortium. Childhood Kiss fan. So reads the résumé of the estimable Beans, a New York native raised in the suburb of White Plains.

NM by LD_300dpi — Stone Commissioning Series: Nicole Mitchell
March 29, 2017 - 7:00pm Nicole Mitchell, flutist and composer, presents "Maroon Cloud" as part of the Stone Commissioning Series.

thurmanfeatured — Tibet House: Robert Thurman and Philip Glass Talk
March 12, 2017 - 7:00pm

Vital-Signs-Premiere-Poster — Vital Signs Screening
March 9th, 2017 - 7:00pm This is the premiere of Vital Signs - a documentary series about the future of classical music by director J.M. Harper (produced by Lonelyleap). Made over the last four years, it features artists like Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Caroline Shaw, yMusic (The National, Bon Iver, St. Vincent), Son Lux, Nico Muhly, Andrew Norman, Missy Mazzoli, Timo Andres and many more.

bluegrasssituation — Bluegrass Situation: Michael Daves Plays Orchids and Violence
March 23, 2017 - 7:00pm The Bluegrass Situation is thrilled to partner with National Sawdust for a series of intimate performances featuring some of today's best modern roots acts. The first concert in this series will feature Grammy-nominated guitarist and singer Michael Daves.

jakeheggiefeatured — Brooklyn Art Song Society: In Context: Jake Heggie
March 31, 2017 - 7:00pm Brooklyn Art Song Society’s innovative series continues to push the boundaries of what an art song recital can be. This season’s featured composer is Jake Heggie, world renowned for smash-hit operas like Dead Man Walking and Moby Dick. His works are paired with the French masters who inspired him: Claude Debussy, Reynaldo Hahn, and Francis Poulenc.

jadfeatured — NS+ Concert: Jad Abumrad
June 30, 2017 - 7:30pm MacArthur Award-winning radio host Jad Abumrad (Radiolab, More Perfect) reveals his composer side and taps remarkable artists including Eric Whitacre, Missy Mazzoli, and Jeffrey Zeigler for his third NS+ program. He presents work-in-progress excerpts created in collaboration with Whitacre, the Grammy-Award winning composer and pianist. Whitacre performs with the celebrated Young People’s Chorus of New York City and dynamic cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, with Abumrad on electronics. The evening will also feature music by composers who bend Abumrad’s ear, including the daringly inventive Missy Mazzoli, who — joined by violinist Olivia De Prato — will play from her own catalog, and John Zorn, performed by Zeigler.

touch-feel flyer 4 better font — Jeffrey Zeigler Presents: Touch/Feel
March 4, 2017 - 10:00pm TOUCH/FEEL performs experimental pop with a chamber music sensibility. Driving and raw dance rhythms, elegant melodic phrases, and an engaging dynamic move the audience from gentle meditations to head banging emotional workouts.

suphalafeatured — Stone Series: John Zorn Commissioning Series feat. Suphala
April 26, 2017 - 7:00pm John Zorn’s The Stone Series continues at National Sawdust with tabla artist Suphala.

01c0b5_1e65f25976074841bc55fc291358b6a1-mv2_d_2448_2448_s_4_2 — Ultima Festival: The Heart’s Ear Presents: Cikada Ensemble
June 8, 2017 - 7:00pm Inspiried by Ultima Festival, a contemporary musical feast that takes place each Fall in Oslo, Cikada visits National Sawdust with a program consisting of music by three composers the ensemble has worked closely with over the years. Three of the pieces that will be performed on the evening were commissioned for Cikada.

timocropped — Sandbox Percussion: Chris Cerrone & Timo Andres Percussion Music
June 7, 2017 - 7:00pm Ian Rosenbaum and Sandbox Percussion perform Chris Cerrone's Goldbeater’s Skin and Timo Andres' Austerity Measures with Elspeth Davis, mezzo-soprano.

jennykohfeatured — The Next Festival of Emerging Artists: Peter Askim and Jenny Koh
June 4, 2017 - 4:00pm Violinist Jennifer Koh joins the artists of The Next Festival of Emerging Artists in a program of contemporary works for string orchestra. Led by Artistic Director Peter Askim, the performance will include Anna Clyne’s moving Rest These Hands, written for Ms. Koh, as well as the music of living composers.

billyjeanking — Songs for Extraordinary People
May 27, 2017 - 11:00am Author and composer Michael Hearst, along with his five-piece band, presents Songs For Extraordinary People: A highly-geeky A/V presentation of some of the most fascinating individuals in the world. Subjects include Larry Walters, who used 45 helium balloons to carry himself into the sky; and Marie Curie, who discovered radium, and whose notebooks to this day are still too radioactive to handle.

sopercussionsticks — Amid the Noise
May 26, 2017 - 7:00pm Amid the Noise is a set of short pieces exploring many forms of noise framed by drones and consistent yet subtly changing harmonies. They were conceived as small soundtracks for everyday moments in everyday life.

nouveauclassicalproject-julia-comita — The Nouveau Classical Project: Currents
May 25, 2017 - 7:00pm The Nouveau Classical Project, an ensemble hailed for “bringing a refreshing edge to the widely conservative genre” (VICE), will premiere new electro-acoustic works and celebrate the marriage of tradition and technology in Currents.

ritzfeatured — Ritz Chamber Series Vol. 2
May 14, 2017 - 4:00pm THE RITZ CHAMBER PLAYERS are hailed by the Baltimore Sun as “one of the most interesting and dynamic ensembles to emerge in recent years.” Boasting some of the world's most renowned musicians that have African and African-American origins, Ritz brings a fresh energy to the classical music genre by telling the story of African American composers with special nuance and vivid interpretations.

alasdairfeatured — The Bluegrass Situation Presents: Alasdair Fraser + Natalie Haas
May 4, 2017 - 7:00pmThe Bluegrass Situation is thrilled to partner with National Sawdust for a series of intimate performances featuring some of today's best modern roots acts.

kautz-featured — Magos Herrera Presents Brazil Afora with Alex Kautz
Nov 4, 2017 - 7:00pm Magos Herrera curates Brazilian Jazz: Brazil Afora and the Alex Kautz Trio. Saxophonist John Ellis joins as a special guest.

madrigalfeatured — Philip Glass Festival: Madrigal Opera
April 28, 2017 - 7:00pm "Madrigal Opera", written for Dutch theater artist Rob Malasch, is conceived as an artful paradox: a music theatre work with no specific theatrical content.

madrigalfeatured — Philip Glass Festival: Madrigal Opera
April 29, 2017 - 7:00pm "Madrigal Opera", written for Dutch theater artist Rob Malasch, is conceived as an artful paradox: a music theatre work with no specific theatrical content.

Screen Shot 2017-02-06 at 2.21.40 PM — Live/Late Night at National Sawdust Vol. 2
April 21, 2017 - 9:30pm Podcast and live radio collide in an evening of music inspired by fractals, dynamic systems, feedback loops and nature. Open G Records and Access Contemporary Music present Caroline Mallonee's Butterfly Effect, a string quartet inspired by the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings in Australia could cause a tornado in Texas, Chin Ting Chan's gorgeously abrasive Fractals, Lyudmila German's nod to organic systems Six Fragments, David Glaser's haunting Moonset No. 1 and two world premieres written for acclaimed soprano Sharon Harms and clarinetist Mark Dover of Imani Winds.

nordicaffectfeatured — Nordic Affect
April 19, 2017 - 7:00pm Nordic Affect performs a selection of works that features the intimate and unique music that has emerged from the Icelandic scene in recent years.

Original Music Workshop Spring Gala 2015 Experience In The Ruins Vol. 2 — FLEXN with Reggie Roc Gray, Glenn Kotche, Jeffrey Zeigler, Andy Akiho and Special Guests
April 9, 2017 - 4:00pm Reggie Roc Gray will be composing, creating, and producing a live professional recording with cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, pianist Andy Akiho, percussionist Glenn Kotche, and other special guests to combine FlexN Dance with original music for the first time.

everyothersummer — Solid Sound Film Screening
April 8, 2017 - 10:00pm Directed by Christoph Green and Brendan Canty, Every Other Summer is a documentary about the Solid Sound Festival, Wilco’s three day music and arts gathering that takes place once every two years at MASS MoCA.

New York Philharmonic — Very Young Composers’ El Puente Showcase performed by Face the Music
April 29, 2017 - 12:30pm Very Young Composers aims to unlock and empower the natural artistry, musicianship, and creativity inherent in virtually all children, regardless of economic circumstance, race, gender, or nationality. Goals are to build personal confidence and leadership; to cultivate deep understanding of music; and to inspire tomorrow’s composers to bring the music of the future into the concert hall.

helgafeatured3 — Helga Davis: My Favorite Things Night 3
April 9, 2017 - 8:00pm National Sawdust Artist in Residence Helga Davis returns with a barrage of incredible artists of all mediums showcasing all of Davis’ Favorite Things, culminating in an fantastical dance party with DJ Richard Baretto.

helgafeatured2 — Helga Davis: My Favorite Things Night 2
April 6, 2017 - 10:00pm National Sawdust Artist in Residence Helga Davis returns with a barrage of incredible artists of all mediums showcasing all of Davis’ Favorite Things, culminating in an fantastical dance party with DJ Richard Baretto.

helgafeatured1 — Helga Davis: My Favorite Things Night 1
April 5, 2017 - 10:00pm National Sawdust Artist in Residence Helga Davis returns with a barrage of incredible artists of all mediums showcasing all of Davis’ Favorite Things, culminating in an fantastical dance party with DJ Richard Baretto.

Miranda Cuckson by Beowulf Sheehan — Invisible Colors: Miranda Cuckson Album Release
April 5, 2017 - 7:00pm Violinist Miranda Cuckson celebrates the release of her new Urlicht Audiovisual album. The album features five solo works by three composers who radically rethought how we perceive time, musical space, simultaneity, and continuity.

John-Adams-FINAL-copy(website) — Attacca Quartet: Recently Added
April 2, 2017 - 3:00pm “Recently Added” is an exploration of the complete works of living composers who have made significant additions to the string quartet repertoire. This installment will feature the works of John Adams.

percussionfestivalfeaturedevening — National Sawdust Percussion Festival
April 1, 2017 - 8:00pm The National Sawdust Percussion Festival draws together all groups and genres within the percussion community to give artists a platform to share their latest work and hear works of other trailblazers in the field.

percussionfestivalfeaturedafternoon — National Sawdust Percussion Festival
April 1, 2017 - 2:00pm The National Sawdust Percussion Festival draws together all groups and genres within the percussion community to give artists a platform to share their latest work and hear works of other trailblazers in the field.

michaeladavies — Sxip Shirey Presents: Michaela Davies
May 5, 2017 - 7:00pm Curator Sxip Shirey is very excited to invite innovative artist Michaela Davies to present her work at National Sawdust. Shirey and Davies have collaborated in the past in Sydney, Australia and they are using this opportunity to create a new work.

contactfeatured — New York Philharmonic Presents: CONTACT!
May 22, 2017 - 7:30pmA Co-Presentation of the New York Philharmonic and National SawdustCONTACT! returns to Brooklyn’s National Sawdust — “the sort of place that makes a new-music aficionado want to bring a sleeping bag and move in for a few weeks” (New York magazine) — for another season of “must-hear adventures” (The New York Times). Experience two World Premieres; music by Pulitzer Prize winners Elliott Carter, David Lang, and Jacob Druckman; and much more.

ikue — John Zorn Stone Commissioning Series: Ikue Mori
May 31, 2017 - 7:00pm The piece commissioned for the evening is titled “Seeds among others”. Inspired by the botanical encyclopedia, it is written for electronics and percussion performed by a duo of composer Ikue Mori and percussionist Jim Black.

fabianfeatured — Fabian Almazan
June 7, 2017 - 10:00pm Alcanza (Spanish for “reach”) is a nine movement suite of music that deals with those brief moments in our lives in which within a blink of an eye, everything changes- or at least gives us a remarkable new perception of our condition. It also deals with the process of finding our own path as we go from childhood into adulthood; reflecting the beauty, frustrations and paradoxes of modern-day life and not giving up on reaching for everything in life that brings us joy and love.”

mollysmally — Jeffrey Zeigler Presents: David Lang, Jeffrey Zeigler & Molly Barth
May 13, 2017 - 7:00pm Grammy Award winning flutist Molly Barth and friends play music by composer David Lang from their upcoming CD on Cantaloupe Music. Performers joining Molly Barth are Jeffrey Zeigler, Matt Albert, David Riley and Stuart Gerber.

perichfeatured — Christopher Tignor and Tristan Perich
May 5, 2017 - 10:00pm Christopher Tignor is a composer, violinist, and software engineer. His emotionally charged scores and unique focus on live, performance-based electro-acoustic practice has won acclaim within both the classical and experimental communities across 8 LPs on the Western Vinyl and New Albion record labels.

theoshai — Theo Bleckmann Presents: Ambrose Akinmusire, Shai Maestro, and Theo Bleckmann
May 21, 2017 - 7:00pm Theo Bleckmann, Ambrose Akinmusire and Shai Maestro are performing in trio for the first time ever in an evening of original material. All three, boundary-crossing musicians will fuse jazz with modern art song, improvisation with extended techniques and ambient choral spaces in a set of hitherto unheard music.

THE REVOLUTION general 2 (1) — The Revolution Vol. 14
April 22, 2017 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging performance series, highlighting Brooklyn & Harlem based artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2017 but who currently stand in the breeding ground of evolution within their genre. This edition of The Revolution will feature: Katy Lueck, Elle Winston, & Emily Elbert.

THE-REVOLUTION-general-2 — The Revolution Vol. 13 One Year Anniversary Showcase
March 18, 2017 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging performance series, highlighting Brooklyn & Harlem based artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2017 but who currently stand in the breeding ground of evolution within their genre. This edition of The Revolution features: Marie Davy, Iris Lune, Nikara Warren presents: Black Wall Street, Arthur Moon, Jakk Tha Rhyma, & (U)nity.

OnFillmore_20161206_109 (4) — On Fillmore: Happiness of Living + Every Other Summer Film Screening
April 8, 2017 - 7:00pm On Fillmore’s newest album Happiness of Living moves effortlessly between deep cosmic pockets, celestial vocals and occasional pop tunes to create a glowing mood unlike anything previously released from percussionist Glenn Kotche (Wilco) and bassist Darin Gray (Tweedy).

boraarmen — Bora Yoon + Armen Ra
March 21, 2017 - 10pm Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Bora Yoon Collaborates with theremin virtuoso Armen Ra for a unique and mesmerizing live performance. The evening will feature mesmerizing visuals and music inspired by cultures from around the world and beyond.

jungle-party — Jungle Party
March 10, 2017 - 10:00pm Amy Leon, Bush Tea, and Lylo Omolayo

galafeatured — 2017 Gala
NS's Spring Gala is the single most important fundraising event of the season. Hundreds of arts, business, and community leaders gather to celebrate creativity and artistic innovation, and to honor path-breakers in our field. Tickets include cocktails, dinner, extraordinary performances, and a live auction with all proceeds benefiting NS and its programs and services for artists and audiences.

Disruptfeatured — DISRUPT (series): Collaboration of Jan St. Werner, Sufjan Stevens, Kid Millions and Benjamin Lanz with Special Guests
February 18, 2017 - 7:00pm Jan St. Werner (Mouse On Mars), Sufjan Stevens (The National, Danielson, Sisyphus), Kid Millions (Oneida, Man Forever) and Ben Lanz (Beirut, The National, LNZNDRF) have played together in various configurations, bands, projects and one-offs, but never as all four. This quartet, along with some special guests, will enjoy improvised moments of togetherness, communicating devices, turning knobs, mashing buttons, stomping boxes and dragging horns around a skyscrapered room.

canalesfeatured — Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert: The Canales Project
Founded by mezzo-soprano Carla Dirlikov Canales, The Canales Project’s Between Two Worlds gives voice to issues of identity and culture through a powerful musical message. Canales hosts this event that features music and discussion in three fascinating segments with young activist-artists.

fleckflob — Joe Snape and ACM: Fleck Flob Flop
March 4, 2017 - 7:00pm Exploring new ways to tell musical stories, Snape’s Fleck Flob Flop chronicles the intersections of six lives through the combined powers of chamber ensemble, electronics and live-typed text projection, and comes to National Sawdust after two sell-out European tours with ACM.

uc-band-colson-2 — Jazz For Kids: Songs for Unusual Creatures
March 18, 2017 - 11:00am Michael Hearst takes the audience on a fun, interactive investigation through the kingdom of weird animals with the help of his 5-piece band and a variety of quirky instruments.

tablemusic2 — Table Music Brunch: New Vintage Baroque
March 5, 2017 - 12:00pm Table Music at National Sawdust is a one of a kind music series created and curated by Juilliard graduate and historical oboist Lindsay McIntosh, featuring a fresh and innovative young Baroque ensemble, New Vintage Baroque. Inspired by Café Zimmerman, the largest and most popular Kaffeehaus in Leipzig and a center for the middle classes during the eighteenth century, National Sawdust and James Beard Award-winning chef Patrick Connolly bring you a Sunday brunch series.

singingducksfeatured — National Sawdust Baroque Series: Les Canards Chantants
Les Canards Chantants is an American solo-voice ensemble performing renaissance polyphony. Founded in York, England in 2011, since their debut the ‘Singing Ducks’ have gained a reputation for their daring theatricality, quirky music videos, humor, and for engaging with the most unusual repertoire from the Renaissance.

jogbluesfeatured — Spring Revolution: Jog Blues w/ Jonathan Rose and Jeffrey Zeigler
March 24, 2017 - 7:00pm Jog Blues brings together Jazz, Blues and Indian Classical music in a 21st century mix, ranging from deep introspection to joyous romps

divinityroxx — Divinity Roxx
March 9, 2017 - 10:00pm With limited funds, a heart full of passion and an energy that exudes resilience, she auditioned for Beyoncé and was selected in her all female band and eventually became the assistant Musical Director. While touring and working with the super-star for over 5 years, Divinity appeared on countless television shows including: The Grammy’s, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Saturday Night Live, Good Morning America with personal highlights including a special performance at The White House for President Barack Obama.

mic — Opera Cabal Presents: Ken Ueno’s Aeolus
AEOLUS is a new opera combining throat singing, multiphonics indie-rock and electronics with a concert premiere at National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY) April 7, 2017.

Magos — Magos Herrera: Valentine’s Day Day 2
February 14, 2017 - 7:00pm Join Grammy Nominated Jazz Artist Magos Herrera for an evening of Romantic jazz music at National Sawdust.

Magos — Magos Herrera: Valentine’s Day
February 11, 2017 - 7:00pm Join Grammy Nominated Jazz Artist Magos Herrera for an evening of Romantic jazz music and fine food from Rider.

Jeff McErlain Presents: David Grissom
February 22, 2017 - 10:00pm I’m really excited to bring my unique blend of Texas blues and rock to National Sawdust. I’m especially fired up about the opportunity to collaborate and stretch out with the great Andy Hess on bass and to have Jeff McErlain sit in for a few tunes as well. It should be a great night! -David Grissom

bohemiantriofeatured — Yosvany Terry, Orlando Alonso, and Yves Dharamraj: Bohemian Trio
February 15, 2017 - 9:30pm The Bohemian Trio celebrates the release of their debut album Okónkolo. for Bohemian Trio’s restless mélange of old and new world music. As Larry Blumenfeld of the Wall Street Journal writes, the album “offers welcome liberation from the baggage of expectation ... heritages that blur more than reinforce borders [and] the sweet spot sought by many contemporary composers, especially in New York, grounded more in creativity than genre.”

townhall3 — Town Hall Vol. 3
March 1, 2017 - 8:30pm This evening's TOWN HALL falls on the first day of National Sawdust's Spring Revolution and will share the Revolution's theme of Female Empowerment. Discussion will be guided by NS Creative and Executive Director, Paola Prestini; Elizabeth Cafferty, UN WOMEN; Amanda Gookin, CELLIST, and will be opened to the audience with the intention to spark action within the community.

arrowtargetdarker — Caroline Polachek: Drawing the Target Around the Arrow Night 2
Feb 24, 2017 - 10:30pm For the sole live performance of Drawing The Target Around The Arrow, CEP will be accompanied by NYC interdisciplinary vocal ensemble Choral Chameleon, directed by Vince Peterson.

vgama_acrux_photo_rui_peralta — Victor Gama’s Ocea Mundo
February 25, 2017 - 7:00pm Gama premieres at The National Sawdust a new solo work for acrux and toha, two contemporary musical instruments from his Pangeia Instrumentos series. Both instruments originate from the use of a composition method where concept, design, the construction of the instruments and scoring share the same relevance in the writing process.

EricOwens — Eric Owens Chamber Recital
February 26, 2017 - 4:00pm On his day off from singing in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Rusalka, opera star Eric Owens will travel to Brooklyn to perform an intimate chamber music and vocal recital with special guests. This unique presentation will feature Bach cantatas BWV 82 "Ich habe genug" and BWV 56 "Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen," as well as featuring Eric playing oboe.

arrowtargetdarker — Caroline Polachek: Drawing the Target Around the Arrow Night 1
February 23, 2017 - 10:00pm For the sole live performance of Drawing The Target Around The Arrow, CEP will be accompanied by NYC interdisciplinary vocal ensemble Choral Chameleon, directed by Vince Peterson.

LostSpringside — Lost Spring
March 3, 2017 - 7:00pm One hundred years after the Armenian Genocide, a mother must explain this troubled history to her daughter. But how does one explain inhuman cruelty to innocence itself? Mixing theater, dance, and live music, and further brought to life by the visuals of artist Kevork Mourad, this multi-disciplinary creation is the poetic journey of a woman in quest of her history, in quest of meaning, in quest of a lost spring…

townhallfeatured — Town Hall Vol. 2
February 8, 2017 - 8:30pm This evening's TOWN HALL is guided by James Rhodes, pianist, and Nancy Colier, psychotherapist, and is opened up to the audience with the intention to spark a discussion surrounding mental health, music and well-being.

garrick — The Mentoring Series at National Sawdust: Garrick Ohlsson and Eric Lu
February 15, 2017 - 7:00pm This concert features Garrick Ohlsson and Chopin Competition Finalist Eric Lu.

NYFOSNExt — NYFOS Next: Lauren Worsham, Kyle Jarrow & Sky-Pony
May 10, 2017 - 7:00pm NYFOS Next looks to the future, opening a forum for the next generation of song composers and interpreters. Now in its seventh season, this "invaluable contemporary-music series" (The New Yorker) takes the longstanding NYFOS tradition of presenting new work, and puts it in the hands of the composers themselves.

PAF 2017 flyer FINAL — Persian Arts Festival: 11th Annual Nowruz Celebration
March 19, 2017 - 4:00pm The Persian Arts Festival celebrates 11 years of a showcasing the work of hundreds of Iranian American artists from around the world. The 11th Annual Persian Arts Festival will feature multiple art forms including short films curated by west coast’s Noor Iranian Film Festival, family-friendly performances of Fictionville Studio’s shadow puppet masterpiece, “Zahhak, The Legend of the Serpent King”, a panel discussion featuring Iranian American filmmakers and scholars, Persian fusion cuisine by Rider restaurant’s critically acclaimed chef, Patrick Connolly, and music by Persian tar virtuoso Sahba Motallebi accompanied by Nagmeh Farahmand.

Screen Shot 2017-01-25 at 3.21.55 PM — Persian Arts Festival Presents: Zahhak, The Legend Of The Serpent King
March 19, 2017 - 12:00pm A Persian folk tale from the Shahnahmeh or Book of Kings brought to life through live music, narration and shadow puppets by Hamid Rahmanian, the creator of the critically acclaimed masterpiece, “Feathers of Fire”.

Screen Shot 2017-01-25 at 3.21.55 PM — Persian Arts Festival Presents: Zahhak, The Legend Of The Serpent King
March 19, 2017 - 10:00am A Persian folk tale from the Shahnahmeh or Book of Kings brought to life through live music, narration and shadow puppets by Hamid Rahmanian, the creator of the critically acclaimed masterpiece, “Feathers of Fire”.

blakfeatured — The B(LA)K Experience
February 18, 2017 - 10:00pm The B(LA)K experience is a performative memoir of L.A.’s traumas and shifts growing up in Brooklyn, NY from the early 90’s til present day. The B(LA)K performance will dive deep into LA's personal stories that speaks towards the current climatic variables such as racism, police brutality, crime, gentrification, classim and how the these once implicit issues in NYC, now are at the forefront of changing Brooklyn natives lives forever. B(LA)K is how the surroundings effects the child, and how these effects transfer to the young adult, leaving valleys of issues that follow into adulthood. B(LA)K is for everyone but is dedicated to the stories of Black Womanhood in Brooklyn, NYC.

oh_land — Oh Land w/ support from Raia Was
February 14, 2017 - 10:00pm Danish singer-songwriter and producer Oh Land performs at National Sawdust on Valentine's Day.

Innovafeatured — Inn-fest: Innova Recordings Label Showcase
March 11, 2017 - 10:00pm Inn-fest is a two-act mini-festival curated by innova Recordings and showcasing an all-star cast of composers and performers fro its New York contingent. As the label of the Minnesota-based American Composers Forum, innova is dedicated to expanding the boundaries of new music. Since 1982, innova has produced an ever-growing catalog that currently stands at over 550 albums, and promotes a staggering array of idiosyncratic genres and voices. This micro-marathon will celebrate the variety and vision that is a hallmark of the award-winning label.

Innovafeatured — Inn-fest: Innova Recordings Label Showcase
March 11, 2017 - 7:00pm Inn-fest is a two-act mini-festival curated by innova Recordings and showcasing an all-star cast of composers and performers fro its New York contingent. As the label of the Minnesota-based American Composers Forum, innova is dedicated to expanding the boundaries of new music. Since 1982, innova has produced an ever-growing catalog that currently stands at over 550 albums, and promotes a staggering array of idiosyncratic genres and voices. This micro-marathon will celebrate the variety and vision that is a hallmark of the award-winning label.

nilsfeatured — Nils Økland Band
March 21, 2017 - 7:00pm Hard on the heels of his critically-lauded – and distortion-saturated – collaboration with rock players in Lumen Drones comes the next fine album from Norway’s Hardanger fiddle master. His new band makes a quieter but richly creative musical proposal. All the musicians are well-known in diverse contexts.

joe-mazza-copyright-spektral-quartet-portrait-0428 (screen res) — Spektral Quartet
April 21, 2017 - 7:00pm Playing Out is a showcase of liberated creativity, defying definition and building new musical lexicons through the intersection of experimental jazz, improvisation, and electroacoustic music. The program features the New York premiere of an ecstatic new quartet by George Lewis (Fromm Foundation commission), as well as mesmeric numbers by Katherine Young and Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Mead Composer-in-Residence Samuel Adams. For its National Sawdust debut, Spektral Quartet is joined by flute maven Claire Chase for Anthony Cheung’s jazz-infiltrated “Real Book of Fake Tunes” (also commissioned by Fromm).

SuperbowlLI — Superbowl LI
February 5, 2017 - 6:30pm Join us at National Sawdust to watch the 2017 Superbowl Live on our state of the art 18-foot projection screen. Our viewing experience at National Sawdust will guarantee an exceptional view wherever you are seated. We will also offer food from the award-winning restaurant, Rider. Individuals can RSVP for up to two people online.

mary_halvorson_by_peter_gannushkin-05_medium — Stone Commissioning Series: Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson
Aug 30, 2017 - 7:00pm A long time in the works, tonight's performance will be the debut of brand new music by Mary Halvorson (guitar) and Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet)

Brooklyn Public Library Presents: A Night of Philosophy and Ideas

January 28, 2017 - 7:00pm A NIGHT OF PHILOSOPHY AND IDEAS is an all-night marathon of philosophical debate, performances, screenings, readings, and music.

mattmitchell — Stone Commissioning Series: Matt Mitchell
February 22, 2017 - 7:00pm These compositions are all related and part of a series, and they stem from one bar of music called “A Pouting Grimace’. It represents a desire to consciously integrate a higher amount of my sonic and compositional interests than previously attempted. We will record this music a week after this performance.

TaleaHeader — Written for Talea: New Works by Diaz de Leon, Fineberg, Eckardt
February 17, 2017 - 7:00pm As a part of the Talea Ensemble’s ongoing series, Written for Talea, the ensemble presents an evening of world premieres composed by some of the world’s most exciting living composers. 2017’s edition will include Joshua Fineberg, a Berlin-based American spectralist, whose new work features performers spatialized throughout the venue; Jason Eckardt’s gnarly guitar concerto featuring rising star Nico Couck, and heavy metal hero; Mario Diaz de Leon, combining his Scelsi-inspired harmonies with blood curdling electronics.

cover photo for One Night of Excess (photos by Whitney George) — Opera on Tap and The Curiosity Cabinet Present: One Night of Excess
March 8, 2017 - 10:00pmOne Night of Excess is a sensual one-act opera that explores darkness, sexuality, sensuality, and their co-mingling. The work encourages the audience to abandon self-consciousness and explore their own role as voyeur for an evening of seduction and storytelling. This work marks the first collaboration between composers Whitney George and Daniel Felsenfeld - co-directors of The Curiosity Cabinet.

BWSFeatured — Black Wall Street w/ Rhythm & Stealth
February 2, 2017 - 10:00pm Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Nikara Warren began playing vibraphone at age 14. Though mostly self taught, she studied with her grandfather, Kenny Barron and vibraphonist Stefon Harris. Ms. Warren received a scholarship to Berklee College of Music and graduated in 2010. After after receiving her degree in Music Business/Management, Nikara spent years working at Sony in the copyright department. When she realized she missed playing terribly Nikara began composing again, and was able to become an alumna of Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead class of 2013 and 2014.

NaxosFeatured — Eva Leon: The Soul of the Spanish Violin with Olga Vinokur
May 17, 2017 - 7:00pm The soul of Spanish music resonates in the playing of violinist Eva León. In this concert, Eva teams up with pianist Olga Vinokur to take us on a musical journey across her native land, exploring its many traditions, cultures, and colors. In her most recent album (Naxos), Eva once again gives voice to the Spanish idiom through the timeless compositions of Joaquín Rodrigo supported by Olga Vinokur, who has been described by the New York Times as “exquisite” and by the BBC magazine as “superlative.”

THE REVOLUTION general 1 — The Revolution Vol. 12
February 25, 2017 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of an evolution within their genre. As a part of VOL. 8, The Revolution will feature three incredible live performances from NYC based artists: Rachel Angel, Eda Wolf, & Nuf Said

BlackMeteoricStarFeatured — Movements in Modular featuring Black Meteoric Star and Abe Seiferth
Jan 26, 2017 - 10:00pmA Live Electronic Music Series Curated By Abe Seiferth. While modular synths and drum machines are nothing new, their prominence in modern music creation is. With advancements from a multitude of manufacturers, new sonic possibilities exist. Getting away from computers to create contemporary electronic music has made for innovative ways of performing. Movements in Modular features artists on the front line of electronic music performance.

Into-The-Sun-album — Jeff McErlain Presents: Robben Ford
January 29, 2017 - 8:00pm Guitar virtuoso Robben Ford’s new album Into The Sun shines a bright light on his artful, contemporary songwriting and the stunning playing that’s made him a favorite foil of Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, George Harrison and other legends.

Unity Concert

January 20, 2017 - 11:45am A performance Joel Lambdin's Maitri followed by a new piece titled The Hillary Speeches.

Zornfeatured — Stone Commissioning Series: John Zorn Plays Solo
January 25, 2017 - 9pm In collaboration with The Stone, National Sawdust is proud to present a monthly curatorial series of performances featuring newly commissioned work by some of the most exciting and creative composer/performers in New York. The series kicks off on January 25 with John Zorn on solo saxophone, and continues on February 22 with Matt Mitchell, and on March 29 with Nicole Mitchell.

tablemusic5 — Table Music Brunch: New Vintage Baroque
June 18, 2017 - 12:00pm Table Music at National Sawdust is a one of a kind music series created and curated by Juilliard graduate and historical oboist Lindsay McIntosh, featuring a fresh and innovative young Baroque ensemble, New Vintage Baroque.

tablemusic4 — Table Music Brunch: New Vintage Baroque
May 21, 2017 - 12:00pm Table Music at National Sawdust is a one of a kind music series created and curated by Juilliard graduate and historical oboist Lindsay McIntosh, featuring a fresh and innovative young Baroque ensemble, New Vintage Baroque.

tablemusic3 — Table Music Brunch: New Vintage Baroque
April 23, 2017 - 12:00pm Table Music at National Sawdust is a one of a kind music series created and curated by Juilliard graduate and historical oboist Lindsay McIntosh, featuring a fresh and innovative young Baroque ensemble, New Vintage Baroque.

TableMusic1 — Table Music Brunch: New Vintage Baroque
February 12, 2017 - 12:00pm Table Music at National Sawdust is a one of a kind music series created and curated by Juilliard graduate and historical oboist Lindsay McIntosh, featuring a fresh and innovative young Baroque ensemble, New Vintage Baroque.

We Hear You — Town Hall: My Role in Community is:
January 15, 2017 - 5:30pm Sparked by the incredible dialogue and debate that began two nights after the election, National Sawdust will now dedicate a town hall discussion that focuses on immediate issues of our time. Proceeds from the event will go to an activist organization picked by lead curator or partner co-hosting the event. The event will also be live streamed on Facebook.

harbison — BAG OF TAILS and OCCASIONAL PIECES: Piano Music of John Harbison
January 25, 2017 - 7:00pm

main-photo — The Man Who Laughs
February 1, 2017 - 7:00pm In their re-imagined underscoring of the 1928 iconic silent film “The Man Who Laughs”, Grammy winner Michael Leonhart and critically acclaimed percussionist Mauro Refosco create together a musical environment that is both highly melodic and rhythmically seductive. Produced by Selkie Projects.

katrin-albert-photography-nvb-45 — Table Music Brunch: New Vintage Baroque
January 29, 2017 - 12:00pm Table Music at National Sawdust is a one of a kind music series created and curated by Juilliard graduate and historical oboist Lindsay McIntosh, featuring a fresh and innovative young Baroque ensemble, New Vintage Baroque.

timbalooloo — NS Jazz For Kids: Timbalooloo Duo Workshop
June 17, 2017 - 11:00am Oran Etkin is a critically acclaimed clarinetist and composer who can be heard on major concert stages throughout the world and numerous recordings including a recent Grammy Award Winning compilation. Yet Etkin feels equally at home when he is in New York, surrounded by a gaggle of spellbound children, presenting a riveting story about Herbie Hancock, Tito Puente, or Etkin's musical travels in Indonesia.

timbalooloo — NS Jazz For Kids: Timbalooloo Duo Workshop
April 22, 2017 - 11:00am Oran Etkin is a critically acclaimed clarinetist and composer who can be heard on major concert stages throughout the world and numerous recordings including a recent Grammy Award Winning compilation. Yet Etkin feels equally at home when he is in New York, surrounded by a gaggle of spellbound children, presenting a riveting story about Herbie Hancock, Tito Puente, or Etkin's musical travels in Indonesia.

krychek-ig — The Revolution Vol. 11
January 21, 2017 - 11:00pm As a part of VOL. 11, The Revolution will feature three incredible live performances from local artists; CE, Krychek, and Kala & The Lost Tribe. THE REVOLUTION is an emerging performance series, highlighting Brooklyn & Harlem based artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2017 but who currently stand in the breeding ground of evolution within their genre.

snider_0005_cwilly_somma — Unremembered w/ The Knights
March 16, 2017 - 7:00pm Unremembered is an hour-long, thirteen-part song cycle for seven voices, chamber orchestra, and electronics by composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, inspired by poems and illustrations by writer and visual artist Nathaniel Bellows (W.W. Norton, HarperCollins).

album-cover — NS Jazz for Kids: Paper Canoe
February 4, 2017 - 11:00am Beanstalk Jack is a folk rock opera for the whole family. The show takes you through the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, with a boy meets girl twist, in song form.

NS+email — National Sawdust+ Talk: Rachel Eliza Griffiths + Chris Jackson
January 15, 2017 - 4:00pm Two bold voices come together for a provocative National Sawdust+ conversation: Rachel Eliza Griffiths, whose brave, sobering, and lyrical work spans poetry, photography, and mixed media and pioneering editor Chris Jackson, whose category-defying books have re-shaped the literary narrative at large. The intimate talk, moderated by Jackson, will span subjects such as beauty and resistance, and transforming politics and conflict into art.

fcr173_cover-1 — David Smooke, Loadbang, Karl Larson, and Michael Parker Harley
January 22, 2017 - 7:00pm New Focus Recordings proudly presents Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, the new album from composer David Smooke featuring Loadbang, Karl Larson, Lunar Ensemble, Michael Parker Harley, Peabody Wind Ensemble, Harlan Parker, and David Smooke.

timbalooloo — NS Jazz for Kids: Timbalooloo Duo Workshop
January 21, 2017 - 11:00am Oran Etkin is a critically acclaimed clarinetist and composer who can be heard on major concert stages throughout the world and numerous recordings including a recent Grammy Award Winning compilation. Yet Etkin feels equally at home when he is in New York, surrounded by a gaggle of spellbound children, presenting a riveting story about Herbie Hancock, Tito Puente or his musical travels in Indonesia.

r-b-schlatherfeatured — Make Music New York: Ariodante Open Rehearsal
December 21, 2016 - 12:00pm Open Rehearsal of Handel’s Ariodante. Directed R.B. Schlather; Conducted by Geoffrey McDonald. Composed in 1734 by George Frideric Handel.

PassionateGdelux — The Passionate Pilgrim Deluxe
June 3, 2017 - 7:00pm The Passionate Pilgrim” is a song cycle co-written by composer-performer collective Oracle Hysterical (Elliot Cole, Majel Connery and Doug and Brad Balliett). In this collaboration with baroque period ensemble, New Vintage Baroque, “The Passionate Pilgrim” brings an all-but-forgotten poem cycle back to life, reimagined as tuneful Baroque pop.

28713969 — Anna & Elizabeth
January 20, 2017 - 7:00pm Anna and Elizabeth will play songs they’ve been developing for the last year, as well as sharing the stage in collaboration with Alec Spiegelman and Benjamin Lazar Davis, the producers of their new 7-inch Hop High/Here in the Vinyard. This set takes the minimalist approach of their previous work and moves into the avant-garde, into a present-day space outside the museum where these stories live, breathe, and grow.

sk-invitational — SK Invitational
February 4, 2017 - 10:00pm "GoldenCrown" focuses on hip-hop in its most open-minded form as well as soulful and funky music elements, exploring new paths in music without losing love for the club and party community. Live effected drums team up with strong horn & string parts, generating all organic instrumental beats.

humayun-khan — Turquoise Lake, featuring Humayun Khan and Douglas J. Cuomo
March 12, 2017 - 4:00pm Humayun Khan and Douglas J. Cuomo have formed Turquoise Lake, an eight-piece ensemble of musicians from a variety of improvisational traditions to create music that blends the raga tradition of North India and Afghanistan, Farsi poetry of the great Sufi masters, and Afghan folk melodies and ghazals, with western jazz and rock styles.

lullabyfeatured — POSTPONED: Lullaby Movement
January 10, 2017 - 10:00pm Lullaby Movement is a contemporary performance work incorporating music, movement, and theater exploring lullaby ritual from around the world. It was conceived and created by an impressive team of interdisciplinary musicians: Australian vocalist and composer Sophia Brous with British multi-instrumentalists David Coulter and Leo Abrahams.

photo-by-mitch-weiss — The Thurber Theater: Michael Thurber’s 30th Birthday Concert
January 7, 2017 - 10:00pm Celebrate Michael Thurber's 30th birthday with a concert featuring music by Thurber and guest performers from different musical traditions. The audience will hear performers from the Classical and Jazz worlds as well as the Pop and Broadway worlds.

bridgingthegap3 — Bridging the Gap IV
April 30, 2017 - 7:00pm Composers from the Yale School of Music: William Gardiner, Paul Kerekes, David Lang, Hannah Lash, Daniel Schlosberg, and Christopher Theofanidis.

bridgingthegap5 — Bridging the Gap V
June 04, 2017 - 7:00pm Featuring music by Robert Sirota, Jonathan Bailey Holland, and Angel Lam.

jamesrhodesfeatured — James Rhodes
February 8, 2017 - 7:00pm Immortal piano music by history's finest composers performed in an intimate setting with the lights down low and an opportunity to disappear and escape from the world for an hour and a half. Along with a few jokes. And a bit of historical context.

trinitywallst — Ferus Festival: Mass Reimaginings Showcase
January 8, 2016 - 4:00pm For this special Sunday evening engagement, the renowned Choir of Trinity Wall Street and its companion chamber ensemble NOVUS NY are led by conductor Julian Wachner in an evening of contemporary Mass music.

S02_5x5.125_Sleeve.eps — Josh Green & The Cyborg Orchestra
March 2, 2017 - 10:00pm Josh Green & The Cyborg Orchestra will take on full-blooded human form for the live debut and release of their irreverent album, Telepathy & Bop — a quirky, colorful, approach to melding modern jazz and contemporary classical music.

Jo-Lawry-photo-by-Julie-Skarratt-6 — Tamar Muskal: Of Love and Sobriety (Written for and performed by Jo Lawry)
December 5, 2016 - 7:00pm After years of focusing on writing contemporary music for ensembles and orchestras, Tamar Muskal goes back to her first musical love - pop song writing - and creates a song cycle in which she fuses her contemporary and pop musical languages. Commissioned by ASCAP/Kingsford Fund, Of Love And Sobriety is a song cycle with lyrics by Stavit Alweis for two female vocals, viola, cello, drums, continuum and piano.

shine_logo_black-1 — Table Music Brunch: The Shine
December 11, 2016 - 11:00am The Shine is a variety show with mindfully-curated content that happens pop-up style in Los Angeles and New York about once every 2 months. The event features music from local bands, inspiring short films, group meditation, grassroots philanthropy, delicious food, and storytelling. The Shine's mission is to create a fun and welcoming social environment where attendees can strike up meaningful conversations and make lasting connections that leave them feeling inspired to do more, give more, and be more.

ligeti — Lukas Ligeti Presents: Four Oceans
March 30, 2017 - 7:00pm Four Oceans explores ritualistic forms of interplay in an improvised context. A new group, it combines the talents of Old Time Relijun frontman Arrington De Dionyso, Rupert Huber of the famous Viennese trip-hop duo Tosca, and globetrotting drummer/composer Lukas Ligeti. De Dionyso, who is also a painter, performs on bass clarinet and various Indonesian traditional instruments; Huber, on piano and electronics, and Ligeti, on drums. Together, they explore new sonic spaces, evoking distant or nonexistent traditions, references to forgotten or freely invented cultures, and sounds that transport the listener to fantastic worlds the rest of us will never see. It is a music of sparse determination and internal revolution. They will be joined by a visual artist tbd.

Sxip Shirey presents: Trevor Wishart
March 25, 2017 - 6:30pm Encounters is an 8-channel sound-surround piece based on speaking voices recorded in the North East of England where Trevor Wishart was A.C.E. Composer-in-Residence from October 1st, 2006 to September 2009, based at the University of Durham. The piece is constructed in 4 Acts of approximately 20 minutes each, combining portraits of individual speakers (accompanied by sounds and imaginary instruments derived from the voices themselves) with computer animation of the entire community of voices - speech that waltzes, speech that locks in harmony, clouds of speech that circle the audience, culminating with speech that transforms into song. The piece was finally completed on January 1st 2011.

1899387_10152317956309704_1632700227_o — Timo Andres Presents: Work Songs
March 18, 2017 - 7:00pm "Inspired by old American parlor songs, I've written a set of “Work Songs” on the general subject of artists writing about their work." -Timo Andres

TedHearnePortrait — Ted Hearne: New Songs
March 17, 2017 - 7:00pm Singer-composer Ted Hearne premieres an intimate and ecstatic collection of vocal music, accompanied by a band of longtime friends and new collaborators.

altguitarsummit — Alternative Guitar Summit 2017: Guitars of Heaven, Guitars of Hell
March 15, 2017 - 7:00pmFounded and produced by Joel Harrison and Life Force Arts, The "Summit" is a yearly gathering of some of the most creative guitarists on earth.

ethel1 — ETHEL’s HomeBaked Round III
March 8, 2017 - 7:00pm The musically omnivorous string quartet ETHEL, whom The New York Times has described as “indefatigable and eclectic” and The New Yorker has deemed “vital and brilliant,” returns to National Sawdust to present the third chapter of ETHEL’s HomeBaked project. With its focus on emerging NYC-based composers, the project, which began in 2010, has already produced eight compositions, many of which have entered the quartet’s repertoire.

Bridgingthegap4 — Bridging the Gap III
March 5, 2017 - 7:00pm Featuring music by Philip Glass, Paola Prestini, and John Zorn.

mercedes_sosa_cantando — Women in Music: A Tribute to Mercedes Sosa
March 2, 2017 - 7:00pm Magos Herrera brings together an international line up to celebrate the life and music of the iconic Latin American singer Mercedes Sosa.

amandagookinfeatured — Spring Revolution: Amanda Gookin
March 1, 2017 - 7:00pm The Forward Music Project is driven by social justice for women. We musicians, now more than ever, have an incredible ability to effect change in our communities. The seven FMP composers were commissioned to write pieces based on their personal story or a particular issue that affects women and girls. The compositions are stylistically contrasting and represent the vast definition of what it means to be a woman, ranging from empowerment and issues of the LGBTQ+ community, to reproductive rights, and violence against women. A visceral experience, the composers require that she embodies the spirit of their message mentally, emotionally, and physically. In performance Amanda sings, chants, breathes, and sweats life into these works.

babydeefeatured — Sxip Shirey Presents: Baby Dee
February 23, 2017 - 7:00pm One of the industry's most incredible musical discoveries of the last decade, Baby Dee is an enchanting song writer, classically trained harpist, circus sideshow veteran, and west side street legend Her infectious cackle and extraordinary talent on piano, harp and accordion has caught her many musical admirers including Will Oldham, Matt Sweeney, Maxim Moston, and Andrew WK, all of whom have produced unique and magnificent albums for her.

attaccafeatured — Attacca Quartet: Recently Added
February 19, 2017 - 7:00pm First Prize winners of the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2011, top prizewinners and Listeners’ Choice Award recipients in the 2011 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and winners of the Alice Coleman Grand Prize at the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006, the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet has become one of America’s premier young performing ensembles.

jamesrhodesfeatured — James Rhodes
February 4, 2017 - 7:00pm Immortal piano music by history's finest composers performed in an intimate setting with the lights down low and an opportunity to disappear and escape from the world for an hour and a half. Along with a few jokes. And a bit of historical context.

Sound from the Bench – Album Cover — BMP Presents: Sound from the Bench
February 3, 2017 - 7:00pm A single sentence from the Iraq War Logs, wealth distribution and privilege, the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, and the 2013 case of rape by high school students in Steubenville, Ohio: inspirations all for the music of Ted Hearne.

pussyriotfeatured — NS+ PUSSY RIOT THEATRE: Revolution
March 17, 2016 - 10:00pm Pussy Riot presents its new music-theater project, PUSSY RIOT THEATRE. They will perform the East Coast premiere of a new piece, “Revolution”, based on the book of Maria Alyokhina – one of the leaders of Pussy Riot. This is Maria’s personal story of Pussy Riot, including their legendary protest punk actions in balaclavas, hiding from police, their arrest, time in a Moscow jail and police investigation, trial and sentencing to a remote penal colony. The roster of performers will include Maria Alyokhina herself, Kiryl Kanstantsinau, AWOTT (Asian Women On The Telephone) psycho-punk music duo, and VJ Vasily Bogatov. The hour-long piece about protest art and political activism in a hostile state will be directed by Yury Muravitsky and produced by Alexander Cheparukhin, with video footage by Taisia Krugovykh and video art by Katya Sсheglova. The NS+ evening will end with a conversation with members of the creative team.

ritzfeatured — Ritz Chamber Series Vol. 1
January 29, 2017 - 4:00pm THE RITZ CHAMBER PLAYERS is hailed by thee Baltimore Sun as “one of the most interesting and dynamic ensembles to emerge in recent years.” Boasting some of the world’s preeminent musicians spanning the African diaspora, it brings a fresh, new energy to the classical music genre.

rushes-ensemble3 — Michael Gordon / Rushes Ensemble
January 26, 2017 - 7:00pm Composed for seven bassoons, Rushes takes its place alongside Michael Gordon’s Timber for expanding the boundaries of a single instrument’s repertoire into unknown (and at times, otherworldly) spaces. Like Timber, which maps new percussive territory for the simantra—a simple two-by-four slab of wood, amplified and played in a group of six to yield trance-like sonic textures—Rushes brings out tonal and timbral aspects of the bassoon that are meant to induce a quasi-meditative, almost ecstatic state, in the listener as well as the performer.

yuka — Ferus Festival: Revert to Sea (Yuka C. Honda)
January 6, 2017 - 10:00pm National Sawdust artist-in-residence Yuka C. Honda presents a brand new multimedia work-in-progress based on the writings of Japanese author Ryu Murakami. Murakami, while not well known in the United States, is one of Japan’s most celebrated and iconic living literary figures.

prototype1 — Prototype Presents: Funeral Doom Spiritual
January 13, 2017 - 10:00pm Funeral Doom Spiritual is a song of mourning for what Anthony Paul Farley calls “the motionless movement of death through slavery, segregation, and neo-segregation.” This new monodrama composed by M. Lamar and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix draws on themes of apocalypse, end times, and rapture found in Negro Spirituals, what Lamar calls “Doom Spirituals.”

a-mouth_cover-image — A Mouth is Not for Talking: La voix humaine
March 10, 2017 - 7:00pm In this theatrical concert, Poulenc and Cocteau’s cautionary tale La voix humaine receives a reflective update when paired with world premiere songs from Forrest Pierce’s The Burning Harp, set to texts of Rumi. Soprano Laura Bohn and pianist Mila Henry’s dual conversation forces listeners to ask: in this age of technology, can we connect with others without losing ourselves?

funeral_doom_spiritual_show — Prototype Presents: Funeral Doom Spiritual
January 14, 2017 - 7:00pm Funeral Doom Spiritual is a song of mourning for what Anthony Paul Farley calls “the motionless movement of death through slavery, segregation, and neo-segregation.” This new monodrama composed by M. Lamar and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix draws on themes of apocalypse, end times, and rapture found in Negro Spirituals, what Lamar calls “Doom Spirituals.”

sxipalbum — Ferus Festival: Sxip Shirey’s A Bottle of Whiskey and a Handful of Bees
January 9, 2017 - 7:00pm National Sawdust’s in-house record label VIA Records celebrates its release of the new album by composer, producer, interdisciplinary performer, and NS curator Sxip Shirey.

funeral_doom_spiritual_show — Prototype Presents: Funeral Doom Spiritual
January 14, 2017 - 10:00pm Funeral Doom Spiritual is a song of mourning for what Anthony Paul Farley calls “the motionless movement of death through slavery, segregation, and neo-segregation.” This new monodrama composed by M. Lamar and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix draws on themes of apocalypse, end times, and rapture found in Negro Spirituals, what Lamar calls “Doom Spirituals.”

BridgingTheGap — Bridging the Gap II
January 22, 2017 - 4:00pm Featuring composers from the Yale School of Music: Martin Bresnick, Michael Gilberston, Balint Karosi, and Aaron Jay Kernis.

requiemfeatured — Ferus Festival: Requiem for: A Tuesday
January 7, 2017 - 7:00pm Requiem for: A Tuesday is a theatrical concert that takes the form of a ceremony in which those assembled are invited to overcome fear by looking to each other. In this ceremony, music opens up a space for the audience to witness and thus face collective and individual notions of mortality and fear. By taking part in such an act, the assembled will perhaps understand that these actions are universal and thus fear of the other is not necessary as there is, in fact, no other

rev-_23_show — Prototype Presents: Rev. 23
REV. 23 is the hitherto unpublished last chapter of the Book of Revelation as dictated by St. John the Divine and transcribed by Cerise Lim Jacobs. It narrates the last battle to recapture Paradise-on-Earth and restore the balance of good and evil to our world. Persephone, the only being able to pass freely between Hell and Earth, is recruited by Lucifer in the fight against the rulers of Paradise-on-Earth. No one is exempt from this battle.

contactfeatured — New York Philharmonic Presents: Contact!
January 23, 2017 - 7:30pm Celebrating its 175th Anniversary season and the city that has shaped its history and guides its future, the New York Philharmonic returns to National Sawdust this spring with two programs focusing on composers who have called New York home. From revered figures such as Carter and Druckman, to major voices of today such as David Lang and Steve Mackey, to newer voices such as Zosha di Castri and David Fulmer, the musicians of the New York Philharmonic present a snapshot of New York past, present and future.

seth_boustead_joe_mazza — Late Night at National Sawdust: a Live Radio Broadcast Vol. 1
January 20, 2017 - 10:00pm Returning audiences to the glory days of live radio broadcasts, Late Night at National Sawdust is a collaboration between Open G Records and Access Contemporary Music on a quarterly concert series airing live on Relevant Tones, the world’s only weekly syndicated contemporary music radio program.

np-w-lonnie-national-sawdust — Ferus Festival: The Afield / Nelson Patton with Lonnie Holley
January 6, 2017 - 7:00pm This evening features a split bill of musicians who are expanding the notions of visual and textual storytelling within musical performance.

funeral_doom_spiritual_show — Prototype Presents: Funeral Doom Spiritual
January 13, 2017 - 7:00pm Funeral Doom Spiritual is a song of mourning for what Anthony Paul Farley calls “the motionless movement of death through slavery, segregation, and neo-segregation.” This new monodrama composed by M. Lamar and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix draws on themes of apocalypse, end times, and rapture found in Negro Spirituals, what Lamar calls “Doom Spirituals.”

lullabyfeatured — POSTPONED: Lullaby Movement
January 10, 2017 - 7:30pm Lullaby Movement is a contemporary performance work incorporating music, movement, and theater exploring lullaby ritual from around the world. It was conceived and created by an impressive team of interdisciplinary musicians: Australian vocalist and composer Sophia Brous with British multi-instrumentalists David Coulter and Leo Abrahams.

maki — Philip Glass @ 80 – The Complete Etudes with Maki Namekawa
February 24, 2017 - 7:00pm Following studies at the Kunitachi Music University in Tokyo, Maki Namekawa pursued advanced work under Pierre-Laurent Aimard at the Musikhochschule in Cologne as well as studies with Werner Genuit and Kaya Han at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe and Stefan Litwin in Saarbrücken.

y-musicfeatured — yMusic: Freshly-Minted
February 5, 2017 - 3:00pm Hailed by NPR’s Fred Child as “one of the groups that has really helped to shape the future of classical music,” yMusic is a group of six New York City instrumentalists flourishing in the overlap between the pop and classical worlds. Their virtuosic execution and unique configuration (string trio, flute, clarinet, and trumpet) has attracted the attention of high profile collaborators—from Ben Folds to Dirty Projectors to Jose Gonzalez—and inspired an expanding repertoire of original works by some of today’s foremost composers, including Nico Muhly and Andrew Norman.

entropyfeatured — National Sawdust+ /ˈəntrəpē/ Mickalene Thomas + Terri Lyne Carrington
February 28, 2017 - 7:30pm Acclaimed Brooklyn-based distinguished international artist and filmmaker Mickalene Thomas, a 2015 United States Artists Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz fellow, turns her gaze from her arresting, often glittering and provocative mixed-media work to present /ˈentrəpē/ , a collaboration of music and art with three-time Grammy Award-winning jazz musician, Terri Lyne Carrington.

me-in-small-room — Doug Fitch’s Art Gallery Variety Show
March 3, 2017 - 10:00pm This being the first edition of Doug Fitch’s Art Gallery Variety Show, we begin in the bubble of comfort of our own little room – so nice to come home to – only to find certain outside influences more pernicious and pugnacious than one might have envisioned. The demons of disingenuity are swarming about, filling the void with fallacious authenticity and threatening our exceptionalist contentment. Following a story-esque through-line presented in songful vignettes and other musical vehicles, some of the city’s most talented performers and cultural barometers inhabit National Sawdust, offering uplift in this downful time.

New Amsterdam Presents: Vicky Chow
December 11, 2016 - 9:00pm To celebrate the release of her new album, A O R T A, on New Amsterdam Records, acclaimed pianist Vicky Chow will perform a selection of electroacoustic works from the album.

skuli-bw — Theo Bleckmann presents Skúli Sverrisson: Sería
February 2, 2017 - 7:00pm Layers of pulsating strings. Streams of cinematic texture. Expanses of heartfelt melody. These are all aspects of the musical world of Skúli Sverrisson, a twenty-first century virtuoso composer and multi-instrumentalist from Iceland who has united broad swaths of contemporary music into a unique personal language.

keatonhensonposter — Keaton Henson [CANCELLED]
January 19, 2016 - 9:00pm Keaton is a 25-year-old songwriter from the suburbs of London. He spends his days alone, writing, recording and drawing from his bedroom. At least that was the plan. Then Zane Lowe heard his song 'You Don't Know How Lucky You Are' and loved it so much he threatened to play it twice in one show on BBC Radio 1. Now Keaton has released two albums, "Dear..." and "Birthdays," and occasionally, reluctantly, and only in magical spaces, he plays live, always to great acclaim.

natalie — Table Music Brunch: Natalie York
November 27, 2016 - 12:00pm Virginia's own Natalie York presents a special intimate concert for Table Music, presenting new music from her upcoming EP.

attaccafeatured — Attacca Quartet: Recently Added
December 11, 2016 - 5:00pm The acclaimed Attacca Quartet kick off their new project Recently Added, a series exploring the string quartet works of contemporary composers, with this performance of the complete quartet works of Caroline Shaw, who in 2013 became the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for music for her work Partita for 8 voices. In the words of the Attacca: “We became interested in Caroline because of her prolific and amazing string quartet output. Her sense of wonder and joy pours over her works, and we are so delighted to share them with the world."

Election Night Party

November 8, 2016 - 5:30pm National Sawdust welcomes the huddled masses to see who the country will trust with its well-being for the next four years. To break the tension of watching the adventure progress on our 16’x9′ projection screen, Rider (sister restaurant) will be offering Hillary and Trump themed cocktails and food specials.

Classical Recording Foundation 15th Annual Awards

November 7, 2016 - 7:30pm The Classical Recording Foundation presents their 15th annual awards ceremony concert.

bmpresidencypage — Beth Morrison Projects
With National Sawdust, BMP brings the most evocative new opera concert works to an intimate venue. BMP Presents Persona and Saga at Prototype this season.
October 27, 2016/by Zan Emerson

img_8322-1 — Sporting Life
November 3, 2016 - 10:00pmFollowing on from his R&S Records debut '55 5’s', a 10 track mind-bending beat tape that bristled with promise and originality, Eric Adiele aka Sporting Life of NYC rap group Ratking, has returned with a trio of EPs titled 'Slam Dunk Vol. I, II & III'. Comprised of ear-popping instrumentals, illustrious remixes, guest vocalists and even a range of apparel, 'Slam Dunk’ sees Adiele drawing on his love for Takehiko Inoue’s massively popular manga series of the same name, and the stupendous grace, power and agility of the storied basketball greats.

Ellen Reid LA in Brooklyn | Knoxville Recording

November 14, 2016 - 10:00am National Sawdust will be recording the program from Ellen Reid's residency performance on 11/18/2016.

yoarafeatured — YOA RA UKA
December 4, 2016 - 7:00pm four musicians, twin drums, bass, keyboard, circle, not square, site specific, shape, facing, connecting, running, liquid, fluid, fluent, flow, current, tides, psyche, ablution, repeat, four musicians, twin drums, bass, keyboard, circle, not square, site specific, shape, facing, connection, running, liquid, fluid, fluent, flow, current, tides, psyche, ablution, repeat, four musicians, twin drums, bass, keyboard, circle, not square, site specific, shape, facing, connection, running, liquid, fluid, fluent, flow, current, tides, psyche, ablution, repeat, four musicians, twin drums, bass, keyboard, circle, not square, site specific, shape, facing, connection, running, liquid, fluid, fluent, flow, current, tides, psyche, ablution, repeat

ic-album-cover — Winterreise: Iron & Coal
December 6, 2016 - 7:00pm Iron & Coal possesses within its deeply personal roots, the unique ability to bridge a widening gap between the survivor generation, the children of survivors who grew up under the shadows of Auschwitz like myself, and a younger generation for whom the Holocaust is viewed more as 'recent history' than 'personal history'.

matajuniorbigger — MATA Jr. Festival
November 21, 2016 - 6:00pm MATA presents its third annual MATA Jr. Festival in conjunction with the Kaufman Music Center’s teen new-music ensemble Face the Music. As a part of the festival, seven young composers, selected from a free, goobal, call-for-submissions were paired with MATA alumni composer-mentors Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, Sam Pluta, and Alex Weiser and asked to write new works for ensembles ranging from trio to full orchestra.

jacqueline-woodson — National Sawdust+ curated and hosted by Jacqueline Woodson
December 14, 2016 - 9:30pm On the heels of her acclaimed novel, Another Brooklyn, award-winning writer Jacqueline Woodson (Brown Girl Dreaming, Miracle’s Boys) hosts a National Sawdust+ program showcasing two powerful voices from her borough: Carl Hancock Rux and Toshi Reagon. The unusual evening will feature music, readings and conversation in an intimate setting.

maria-popova-credit-elizabeth-lippmangallery — National Sawdust+ curated and hosted by Maria Popova
January 27, 2017 - 7:30pm In this National Sawdust+ evening, Maria Popova curates a celebration of cultural and personal heroes. Musicians perform original compositions paying homage to luminaries, from Amelia Earhart to James Baldwin, and covers of songs by their own greatest musical heroes.

nsfeatured — National Sawdust+ presents The Anat Cohen Tentet and Jon Glaser
October 30, 2016 - 8:00pm Israeli clarinet virtuoso Anat Cohen brings her Tentet to her home borough of Brooklyn featuring a pre-concert conversation with comedian Jon Glaser, moderated by NS+ curator Elena Park.

rememberinghiroshimafeatured — The Hiroshima Panels Project
October 21, 2016 - 12:00pm The Hiroshima Panels Project is a collaboration between musicians Sam Sadigursky (clarinet), Meg Okura (violin), Dan Tepfer (piano) artist Cynthia Madansky, dancer Eiko Otake and educator Kathleen Sullivan who will bring an immersive experience through music, art, dance and testimony to National Sawdust on 21 October 2016 from 12:00 – 2:00 PM.

timbalooloo — NS Jazz for Kids: Timbalooloo Duo Workshop
December 10, 2016 - 11:00am Oran Etkin is a critically acclaimed clarinetist and composer who can be heard on major concert stages throughout the world and numerous recordings including a recent Grammy Award Winning compilation. Yet Etkin feels equally at home when he is in New York, surrounded by a gaggle of spellbound children, presenting a riveting story about Herbie Hancock, Tito Puente or his musical travels in Indonesia.

timbalooloo — NS Jazz for Kids: Timbalooloo Duo Workshop
November 26, 2016 - 11:00am Oran Etkin is a critically acclaimed clarinetist and composer who can be heard on major concert stages throughout the world and numerous recordings including a recent Grammy Award Winning compilation. Yet Etkin feels equally at home when he is in New York, surrounded by a gaggle of spellbound children, presenting a riveting story about Herbie Hancock, Tito Puente or his musical travels in Indonesia.

band-and-moe — counter)induction + Eric Moe: Welcome to Phase Space
November 20, 2016 - 8:00pm counter)induction is playing three newer works by Eric, What Instruments We Have Agree (also written for c)i)), Uncanny Affable Machines (commissioned by our violist Jessica Meyer), and the New York premiere of Welcome to Phase Space.

luke-templefeatured — Luke Temple
December 8, 2016 - 10:00pm A Hand Through the Cellar Door is, in many ways, Temple's most straightforward collection of song-storying tunes to date. There are tales of dysfunctional, broken homes and of dysfunctional, broken people. "Birds of Late December," with its fluttering, nimble fingerpicking, paints an exacting but impressionistic portrait of divorce through the eyes of an exceptionally wistful child.

uc-band-colson-2 — NS Jazz for Kids: Songs For Unusual Creatures
October 29, 2016 - 12:00pm Odd animals like blobfish, elephant shrews, giant Chinese salamanders, and other bizarre beasts slither, hop, swim, and jump in projected images and videos while being portrayed in music by author and composer Michael Hearst. He takes the audience on a fun, interactive investigation through the kingdom of weird animals with the help of his 5-piece band and a variety of quirky instruments.

bodyhead — AdHoc Presents: Body/Head (Kim Gordon & Bill Nace)
November 12, 2016 - 10:00pm Body/Head are an electric guitar duo comprised of Kim Gordon (CKM, Sonic Youth, Free Kitten, etc.) and Bill Nace (X.O.4, Vampire Belt, Ceylon Mange, etc.) The pair began working together in various loose formats a few years ago, but the Body/Head concept evolved more specifically in early 2012.

smallfeature-ondiolineorchestrapresentsatributetojeanjacquesperrey — Ondioline Orchestra Present a tribute to Jean-Jacques Perrey
November 22, 2016 - 10:00pm In their debut performances, Ondioline Orchestra present a tribute to Jean-Jacques Perrey, alternative pop visionary, pioneer of rhythmic tape editing techniques, and virtuoso of the rare French electronic musical instrument, the Ondioline.

jean-jacques-perry — Ondioline Orchestra Present a tribute to Jean-Jacques Perrey
November 22, 2016 - 7:00pm In their debut performances, Ondioline Orchestra present a tribute to Jean-Jacques Perrey, alternative pop visionary, pioneer of rhythmic tape editing techniques, and virtuoso of the rare French electronic musical instrument, the Ondioline.

llanes — Table Music: Ivan Llanes
October 30, 2016 - 11:00am Performing a mix of traditional Cuban and folkloric songs, latin jazz centerpieces, and his own compositions, Ivan bridges the gap between the past and the future of Cuban music. With our Table Music Series, Ivan will be presenting his group in a unique intimate environment.

mountkimbie_pressphoto — Mount Kimbie
November 29, 2016 - 10:00pmThis year, with the release of the duo’s second LP, the perception of what Mount Kimbie is looks set to expand again.

mevfeatured — MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva)
November 13, 2016 - 6:00pm
MEV, whether a Million Electron Volts or Musica Elettronica Viva, means revolution as in turning. Three young Americans with masters degrees in music composition from Yale and Princeton meet by chance on the banks of the Tiber River in Rome in 1965.

THE REVOLUTION general 1 — The Revolution Vol. 10
December 10, 2016 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of an evolution within their genre. As a part of VOL. 10, The Revolution will feature three incredible live performances from NYC based artists

NVB Photo — Table Music Brunch: New Vintage Baroque
November 13, 2016 - 12:00pm Join us Sunday’s at National Sawdust, for our curated series, Table Music, featuring music spanning from the Baroque to today. The menu will feature Rider's normal brunch choices.

dystemporal — Talea Ensemble: Anthony Cheung CD Release
November 11, 2016 - 7:00pm New York’s acclaimed and adventurous Talea Ensemble celebrates the release of music by its co-founder Anthony Cheung. The album, released this past June on the Wergo label, collects together six works written over a seven year period (2005-12). From atmospheric evocations of nature to complex, irregular grooves, to field recordings blending seamlessly with enhanced instrumental colors, Dystemporal covers a wide range of musical and extra-musical ground.

absoluteensemble-credit-peter-adamik — Absolute Ensemble Presents: Lost Tribes
November 2, 2016 - 10:15pm The Absolute Ensemble lead by eclectic Estonian conductor and producer Kristjan Järvi gets together with HAUSCHKA and Folk Music Star Maarja Nuut to revive the Nordic Spirit in a unique Music Show.

jack-quartet — Le Boeuf Brothers + JACK Quartet “imaginist” CD Release
November 16, 2016 - 7:00pmThe Le Boeuf Brothers + JACK Quartet celebrate the release of their latest project, imaginist, on New Focus/Panoramic Recordings.

the house taken over, vasco mendon√ßa & katie mitchell — National Sawdust and Manhattan School of Music Present: The House Taken Over
October 8, 2016 - 8:00pm An opera based on the 1946 short story by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar featuring a score by composer Vasco Mendonça. It tells the story of a brother and sister living together in their ancestral home which is being "taken over" by unknown entities. Directed by Artist-in-Residence R.B. Schlather, The House Taken Over starts in a realist manner, slowly introducing a scene in which natural laws are distorted within a unique 4-D set.

NVB Photo — Table Music Brunch: New Vintage Baroque
October 9, 2016 - 11:00am Join us Sunday’s at National Sawdust, for our curated series, Table Music, featuring music spanning from the Baroque to today. The menu will feature Rider's normal brunch choices.

NVB Photo — Table Music Brunch: New Vintage Baroque
October 23, 2016 - 11:00am Join us Sunday’s at National Sawdust, for our curated series, Table Music, featuring music spanning from the Baroque to today. The menu will feature Rider's normal brunch choices.

gustavocasanave — Gustavo Casenave
November 12, 2016 - 7:00pmMultiple Grammy Nominee and Steinway Artist Gustavo Casenave, embraces us with his eclectic music world, in an adventurous evening of original music, featuring his new quintet blending Classical, Jazz and Tango.

tles-5-1optimized — New Amsterdam Presents The Living Earth Show’s Album Release Concert + XXXtreme Microtonal Shredfest
October 21, 2016 - 10:00pm On October 21, 2016, The Living Earth Show is honored to celebrate the release of Dance Music, the ensemble’s sophomore record, available exclusively through New Amsterdam Records.

silent-voices — Brooklyn Youth Chorus presents: Silent Voices
November 20, 2016 - 3:00pm Brooklyn Youth Chorus’ latest project, Silent Voices, harnesses the power of young people to be instruments of change, giving voice to those who have been silenced or marginalized by social, cultural or religious circumstances. The Chorus has commissioned a diverse group of innovative artists to interpret rich historical narratives and personal stories and create music that explores race and identity, inequity and social disparity—music that matters. Brooklyn Youth Chorus’ Founding Artistic Director, Dianne Berkun Menaker, conceived of the project and is co-curating it with director Kristin Marting.

tamara — Table Music: Tamara Usatova
September 25, 2016 - 12:00pm At Tamara Usatova's show you will hear the tunes you always loved: from Ella Fitzgerald ballads, to Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse hits, and a few original songs as well. They will bring to you good old soul, jazz, r’n’b and pop all in one show.

keigwincompany — Fall Fling: A Benefit Party
November 1, 2016 - 7:00pm Join K+C for a unique, one-night only performance, showcasing the
company’s dancers in intimate portraits and vignettes, including new
work and pieces re-imagined for the evening.

NYFOSFeatured — NYFOS Next: Christopher Cerrone & Friends
December 8, 2016 - 7:00pm Hailed as "a rising star" by The New Yorker and winner of the 2015 Samual Barber Rome Prize, Christopher Cerrone is a Brooklyn-based composer whose compositional voice is characterized by profoundly expressive lyricism, ringing clarity, and deep literary fluency. His opera Invisible Cities, based on Italo Calvino's classic novel was praised by The Los Angeles Times as "a delicate and beautiful opera...[which] could be, and should be, done anywhere."

NYFOS Next, the "invaluable contemporary-music series" (The New Yorker), offers today's song composers an opportunity to curate a program of their work alongside that of their peers, students, and mentors.

xw_by_manolis_mathioudakis_copy(side) — AdHoc Presents: Xylouris White
November 18, 2016 - 10:00pm When Xylouris White recorded their second album, this most intuitive and inquisitive of duos did what comes naturally to them: expanded their horizons. For George Xylouris, the Cretan lute player who partners here with the Dirty Three’s preternaturally fluent Australian drummer Jim White, one aim was to extend a core metaphor of their ruggedly visionary debut album, 2014’s Goats. “Like goats walking in the mountain” is Xylouris’ poetic analogy for their approach: “They may not know the place, but they can walk easily and take risks and feel comfortable. Really, the goats inspired us.”

standing_w — Ian Rosenbaum’s “Memory Palace” Album Release with Brooklyn Rider
November 21, 2016 - 9:00pm Ian Rosenbaum debuts his album "Memory Palace," comprised of newly recorded pieces written for percussion.

hecuba2laughter-1 — New Vintage Baroque: Grimm’s Fairy tales
October 21, 2016 - 7:00pm New Vintage Baroque, opens its fourth season with a concert dedicated to Grimms’ Fairy Tales at National Sawdust on October 21st at 7pm. A collaboration with composer collective, Oracle Hysterical, the concert features a new commission of twelve stories for baroque band and singers.

THE REVOLUTION general 1 — The Revolution Vol. 9
November 26, 2016 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of an evolution within their genre. ft. Jakk The Rhymer, Singularity, & Johnny Uniteus.

vijay-wadada-pressfeatured — ECM Record: Vijay Iyer + Wadada Leo Smith: A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
December 20, 2016 - 7:00pm MacArthur Fellow and award winning composer and pianist, Vijay Iyer and pioneering composer and trumpeter, Doris Duke Performing Artist Award winner, and Pulitzer finalist Wadada Leo Smith join forces once again to present an intimate live performance based around their highly acclaimed duo album A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke.

hayden — hayden everything I long for
November 29, 2016 - 7:00pm Hayden Desser brings his 20th anniversary album release tour to the United States. Performing off of the Gold Certified record, Everything I Long For.

lavinia — Lavinia Meijer
October 19, 2016 - 10:00pm Lavinia Meijer (1983), winner of the Dutch Music Prize 2009, is one of the most diverse harpists of today. After her debut at the Carnegie Hall in New York in 2007, she is invited regularly to perform as a soloist in Europe, Asia and America. She collaborated with famous composers such as Philip Glass (Koyaanisqatsi, The Hours) and Ludovico Einaudi (Untouchables, Black Swan).

slavicsoulparty — Matt Moran: Slavic Soul Party!
October 29, 2016 - 7:00pm Slavic Soul Party! celebrates 50 years since Duke Ellington’s and Billy Strayhorn’s masterpiece, The Far East Suite was released. The band re-imagines the sounds encapsulated in this timeless classic.

NVB Photo — Table Music Brunch: New Vintage Baroque
September 18, 2016 - 12:00pm Join us Sunday’s at National Sawdust, for our curated series, Table Music, featuring music spanning from the Baroque to today. The menu will feature Rider's normal brunch choices.

darcyjamesargue — Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
October 2, 2016 - 7:00pm For a wholly original take on big band’s past, present and future, look to Darcy James Argue” — so says Newsweek’s Seth Colter Walls. The Vancouver-born, Brooklyn-based composer and bandleader has toured nationally and internationally with his 18-piece ensemble, Secret Society, garnering countless awards and nominations and reimagining what a 21st-century big band can sound like.

NVB Photo — Table Music Brunch: New Vintage Baroque
September 11, 2016 - 12:00pm Join us Sunday’s at National Sawdust, for our curated series, Table Music, featuring music spanning from the Baroque to today. The menu will feature Rider's normal brunch choices.

764072879918_frontcover — Record Release: David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s Dog Days
October 16, 2016 - 7:00pm National Sawdust and VIA Records are proud to celebrate the release of the original cast recording of David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s critically acclaimed opera Dog Days.

CorneliusDuffalo — Cornelius Dufallo and Patrick Derivaz present: Bass Violin
October 11, 2016 - 7:00pm Composer/violinist Cornelius Dufallo (ETHEL, Flux Quartet) and composer/bassist Patrick Derivaz (Joe Zawinul, Tom Verlaine) present the release of their second album entitled The Walk.

THE-TELL,-vol13main — The Tell Vol 12
October 23, 2016 - 8:00pm Michael Leviton invites various characters and raconteurs to tell stories.

Artofeatured — Arto Lindsay
October 11, 2016 - 10:00pm The show for NS is an augmented solo. The artist asks the audience to reconcile untuned guitar noise and ballad singing. Placing speakers in and around the audience makes further demands on their intimacy.

FMSuso(portrait) — Glass @ 80: Philip Glass & Foday Musa Suso with Jeffrey Zeigler
March 12, 2017 - 7:00pm Known for his hypnotic performances of traditional Kora (Harp/Lute) music, as well as his cutting edge musical encounters, Kora virtuoso Foday Musa Suso is a direct descendent of Jalimadi Wulen Suso, the inventor of the Kora.

SAMA — THE BEGINNING STAGES presents SAMA: AN AMERICAN REQUIEM — The Libretto
September 26-30, 2016 - 5:00pm The Beginning Stages is National Sawdust's annual musical theater initiative featuring new works while exhibiting the first steps of development in creating a staged musical for Broadway. The five day program consists of open rehearsals, talk-backs, and a final 'dress rehearsal' concert-reading of a selected contemporary musical. The selection for 2016 is TJ Armand's 'Sama: An American Requiem', a new musical which will have its New York City concert debut at Feinstein's 54 Below this fall.

SAMA — THE BEGINNING STAGES presents SAMA: AN AMERICAN REQUIEM — Building a Creative Team
September 26-30, 2016 - 5:00pm The Beginning Stages is National Sawdust's annual musical theater initiative featuring new works while exhibiting the first steps of development in creating a staged musical for Broadway. The five day program consists of open rehearsals, talk-backs, and a final 'dress rehearsal' concert-reading of a selected contemporary musical. The selection for 2016 is TJ Armand's 'Sama: An American Requiem', a new musical which will have its New York City concert debut at Feinstein's 54 Below this fall.

SAMA — THE BEGINNING STAGES presents SAMA: AN AMERICAN REQUIEM — The Producers: The Business of Broadway
September 26-30, 2016 - 5:00pm The Beginning Stages is National Sawdust's annual musical theater initiative featuring new works while exhibiting the first steps of development in creating a staged musical for Broadway. The five day program consists of open rehearsals, talk-backs, and a final 'dress rehearsal' concert-reading of a selected contemporary musical. The selection for 2016 is TJ Armand's 'Sama: An American Requiem', a new musical which will have its New York City concert debut at Feinstein's 54 Below this fall.

SAMA — THE BEGINNING STAGES presents SAMA: AN AMERICAN REQUIEM — Actor’s Perspective & Casting Essentials
September 26-30, 2016 - 5:00pm The Beginning Stages is National Sawdust's annual musical theater initiative featuring new works while exhibiting the first steps of development in creating a staged musical for Broadway. The five day program consists of open rehearsals, talk-backs, and a final 'dress rehearsal' concert-reading of a selected contemporary musical. The selection for 2016 is TJ Armand's 'Sama: An American Requiem', a new musical which will have its New York City concert debut at Feinstein's 54 Below this fall.

SAMA — THE BEGINNING STAGES presents SAMA: AN AMERICAN REQUIEM — Post Mortem
September 26-30, 2016 - 5:00pm The Beginning Stages is National Sawdust's annual musical theater initiative featuring new works while exhibiting the first steps of development in creating a staged musical for Broadway. The five day program consists of open rehearsals, talk-backs, and a final 'dress rehearsal' concert-reading of a selected contemporary musical. The selection for 2016 is TJ Armand's 'Sama: An American Requiem', a new musical which will have its New York City concert debut at Feinstein's 54 Below this fall.

THE REVOLUTION general 1 — The Revolution Vol. 8
October 29, 2016 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of an evolution within their genre. As a part of VOL. 8, The Revolution will feature three incredible live performances from NYC based artists: Kyle Shedrick, Katie Buchanan, and Lady Moon & The Eclipse

openingnightheader — 2016 Fall Season Opening Night
October 1, 2016 - 7:00pm National Sawdust’s second season premiere celebrates its diverse range of programming, from new classical to experimental and improvisation. Its curators and artists in residence exploring a range of themes that underscore the new season from #BlackLivesMatter to opera to lullabies around the world.

Grupo(sidefeatured) — Americas Society and the Mexican Cultural Institute NY present Ónix Ensamble: Furia y silencio
September 9, 2016 - 7:00pm Ónix Ensamble recently celebrated their 20th anniversary as one of Mexico's leading new music ensembles, having performed hundreds of concerts and premiered works by composers from all over the world. This program, entitled "Furia y silencio," highlights gems from the ensemble's extensive repertoire, spanning generations of composers from North America, including Gabriela Ortiz, Juan Pablo Contreras, Armando Luna, Charles Halka, and David Dzubay.

SoliloquyHR(featured) — The Irving M. Klein International String Competition Presents Soliloquy: Ariel Horowitz and Lauren Siess
September 12, 2016 - 7:30pm Soliloquy is a recently formed violin/viola duo featuring two undergraduates from the The Juilliard School. Twenty year-old violinist, Ariel Horowitz, and nineteen year-old violist, Lauren Siess, are both laureates of the prestigious Irving M. Klein International String Competition, which takes place in San Francisco each June. The Klein Competition is proud to be supporting these emerging young musicians in this "mini-tour," which has also included dates in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ashland, OR, and Washington, D.C.

Unknown — The Revolution Vol. 7
September 24, 2016 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of an evolution within their genre.

LauraMvula — Afropunk & Jill Newman Productions Present: LAURA MVULA
August 29, 2016 - 8:00pm Since bursting onto the cultural landscape in 2013, Laura Mvula has become one of the UK’s finest exports. From her Mercury Prize nomination and MOBO wins to her BRIT Awards, Q Awards and Ivor Novello nods, she has found herself at the forefront of the current soul revival.

rs-bridging-the-gap-1-banner-1200×616 — Bridging the Gap I
December 4, 2016 - 4:00pm Featuring composers from the Manhattan School of Music – Richard Danielpour, Yunzhuo Gan, Paolo Marchettini, and Marjorie Merryman – and Manhattan School of Music's premiere ensemble TACTUS

sawdust10-20 — WOMANPRODUCER SERIES: Mirah, Yuka C. Honda, Suzi Analogue, & Val Inc
October 20, 2016 - 10:00pm A night of performances by New York City based sonic innovators Suzi Analogue, Mirah, Yuka C. Honda, and Val-Inc.

sawdust10-25 — WOMANPRODUCER SERIES: Neko Case, Suzi Analogue, Zola Jesus & Miho Hatori
October 25, 2016 - 7:00pm A panel discussion on the topic of music production, with participants Neko Case, Suzi Analogue, Zola Jesus and Miho Hatori, each of whom are artists who self-produce their own recordings.

sawdust10-18 — WOMANPRODUCER SERIES: Pauline Oliveros & The Blow LIVE
October 18, 2016 - 8:00pm Performances by sonic pioneer Pauline Oliveros and NYC electroacoustic band The Blow (also the curators of WOMANPRODUCER), preceded by a conversation between the artists on the topics of sound production, composition, and listening.

HouseTakenOver — National Sawdust and Manhattan School of Music Present: The House Taken Over
October 9, 2016 - 8:00pm An opera based on the 1946 short story by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar featuring a score by composer Vasco Mendonça. It tells the story of a brother and sister living together in their ancestral home which is being "taken over" by unknown entities. Directed by Artist-in-Residence R.B. Schlather, The House Taken Over starts in a realist manner, slowly introducing a scene in which natural laws are distorted within a unique 4-D set.

HouseTakenOver3 — National Sawdust and Manhattan School of Music Present: The House Taken Over
October 7, 2016 - 8:00pm An opera based on the 1946 short story by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar featuring a score by composer Vasco Mendonça. It tells the story of a brother and sister living together in their ancestral home which is being "taken over" by unknown entities. Directed by Artist-in-Residence R.B. Schlather, The House Taken Over starts in a realist manner, slowly introducing a scene in which natural laws are distorted within a unique 4-D set.

TheoShaiDARK — Theo Bleckmann & Shai Maestro: All Souls in the Dark
November 03, 2016 - 7:00pm Vocalist Theo Bleckmann and pianist Shai Maestro are performing “All Souls in the Dark”: turn off your cell phones, lay down, close your eyes and immerse yourself in the sounds, melodies and landscapes of these two master musicians in complete darkness. This is a refuge from the hectic and overstimulation we live in daily; a musical meditation of sorts. Pillows will be provided.

J.Landau — Jodie Landau | You of All Things
November 19, 2016 - 10:00pm Even if, in addition to writing, playing and singing his own material, Jodie Landau had not brought on board an established producer, three other L.A.-based composers, six chamber musicians, and an entire Icelandic women's chorus, you of all things would still be a most unusual debut album.

Heartbeat3 — Queens of the Night: Mozart in Space
October 31, 2016 - 10:00pm Don your fabulous space suits! Heartbeat Opera presents its third annual Benefit Drag Extravaganza for one spectacular night of eye-popping fashion, divalicious coloraturas, and galactic Halloween revelries. Praised as "radical," "fiery," and "boisterous" by The New Yorker, Heartbeat brings opera into the twenty-first century – creating new adaptations and orchestrations and designing visceral encounters between artists and audiences.

Heartbeat3 — Queens of the Night: Mozart in Space
October 31, 2016 - 7:00pm Don your fabulous space suits! Heartbeat Opera presents its third annual Benefit Drag Extravaganza for one spectacular night of eye-popping fashion, divalicious coloraturas, and galactic Halloween revelries.

jz_moonshirt_small — John Zorn’s Ultimate Bagatelles Marathon
October 22, 2016 - 2:00pm 12 Hours—20 Bands—45 Musicians. Performers include Erik Friedlander-Michael Nicolas, The Jamie Saft Trio, Dither, Kris Davis, Sylvie Courvoisier And Mark Feldman, Marty Ehrlich Quartet, Ikue Mori, Jim Black Guitar Quartet, Julian Lage-Gyan Riley, Jon Irabagon, Brian Marsella, Trigger, Mary Halvorson Quartet, Matt Mitchell Trio, Chris Otto-Mark Feldman, The John Medeski Trio, Craig Taborn, Harris Eisenstadt Trio, Uri Caine-John Medeski Duo and Yhe Matt Hollenberg-Nick Millevoi Quartet.

WENDE-sings-WINTERREISE_Digital-press-kit_ENGLISH-1 — A ‘Winterreise’ for the 21st Century Showcase
December 14, 2016 - 7:00pm Original texts by Wilhelm Müller – just as Schubert used. New music by Dutch composer Boudewijn Tarenskeen (who received the most prestigious Dutch Composers’ Prize Matthijs Vermeulen Prijs in 2009)

BirdmanFeatured — Birdman Live Scoring
November 5, 2016 - 7:00pm Experience the explosive Oscar winning FILM BIRDMAN, accompanied LIVE by composer Antonio Sanchez with his Grammy Award winning score that provides the heartbeat of the film. The Oscar winner for Best Picture by maverick director Alejandro Inarritu stars Michael Keaton as a washed-up action star trying to reinvent his career as a credible actor and director on the Broadway stage. For this special performance, the film will be accompanied live by renowned jazz drummer Antonio Sanchez playing his electric, GRAMMY winning score.

A garment factory in Jiaxing, China. (Photo/memn via Flickr) — CCO Presents: Sweat by Juliet Palmer
October 26, 2016 - 8:00pm The Center for Contemporary Opera presents the world premiere ofSweat by the New Zealand-Canadian composer Juliet Palmer created with librettist Anna Chatterton. Sweat is a full-length a cappella opera composed for 5 singers and chorus. The opera is a kaleidoscope of characters and stories collected from factories around the world.

TedHearne — wild Up | Ascension
November 19, 2016 - 7:00pm With John Coltrane as a guide we explore celestial music, religious music, free jazz, and the avant garde in this opening concert of our season as Group in Residence at National Sawdust. Using the seminal 1966 work Ascension as inspiration and architecture we walk into rooms filled with the reverberations of ten or more genres of music, all of which have themselves become what they are, in some part, due to Coltrane’s influence.

A garment factory in Jiaxing, China. (Photo/memn via Flickr) — CCO Presents: Sweat by Juliet Palmer
October 27, 2016 - 7:00pm The Center for Contemporary Opera presents the world premiere ofSweat by the New Zealand-Canadian composer Juliet Palmer created with librettist Anna Chatterton. Sweat is a full-length a cappella opera composed for 5 singers and chorus. The opera is a kaleidoscope of characters and stories collected from factories around the world.

BirdmanFeatured — Birdman Live Scoring
November 5, 2016 - 10:00pm Experience the explosive Oscar winning FILM BIRDMAN, accompanied LIVE by composer Antonio Sanchez with his Grammy Award winning score that provides the heartbeat of the film. The Oscar winner for Best Picture by maverick director Alejandro Inarritu stars Michael Keaton as a washed-up action star trying to reinvent his career as a credible actor and director on the Broadway stage. For this special performance, the film will be accompanied live by renowned jazz drummer Antonio Sanchez playing his electric, GRAMMY winning score.

CeDell-Hi-Res-Cover — Jeff McErlain Presents: A Night Of The Delta Blues With CeDell Davis And His Band
October 20, 2016 - 7:00pm The blues is one of the great American contributions to world. It reaches down to the heart of the human condition in the most direct way and transcends all boundaries. It is the truth and we know it when we hear it. We are lucky enough to have some of these original blues artist still with us to share the music in it’s purest form. CeDell Davis is one of those artists. At 90 years old he is living history. I am very excited to bring CeDell Davis to National Sawdust for this very special performance.

ECMSideimage — ECM Records: Sun of Goldfinger
December 3, 2016 - 7:00pm The mercurial trio comprising saxophonist Tim Berne, drummer Ches Smith and guitarist David Torn explores the edges of the genre, infusing it with perspectives ranging from the minimalist to the cinematic to the metallic. The improvisation-based group effortlessly, seamlessly shifts from atmospheres into shattering mayhem to thrilling effect.

NYFOSHeader — NYFOS Next: Gabriela Lena Frank & Friends
November 2, 2016 - 7:00pm A native Californian of mixed Peruvian, Chinese, Lithuanian, and Jewish descent, Gabriela Lena Frank explores her multicultural heritage ardently through her compositions. Her pieces refract her studies of Latin American folklore, incorporating poetry, mythology, and native musical styles into a western classical framework uniquely her own.

Martin_blowingclouds(optimized) — Bresnick@70
November 6, 2016 - 7:00pm A celebration of Martin Bresnick's 70th birthday. Featuring performances from the Red Clay Saxophone Quartet, Taimur Sullivan, Benjamin Verdery, Lisa Moore, New Morse Code and more.

AndriessenFeatured — CCO Presents: Anaïs Nin and Odysseus’ Women, Louis Andriessen
October 15, 2016 - 8:00pm The desire of the mythical Ulysses and the desire of the legendary Anaïs Nin. Dutch director Jorinde Keesmaat brings in a U.S. premiere two distinctive works by Louis Andriessen together in one direction. The rarely performed Odysseus' Women (1995) for four female voices and synthesizer and the famous Anaïs Nin (2010).

Sxip Squatting — Sxip Shirey’s Hour of Charm
October 3, 2016 - 8:00pm An abundant night of music curated by NYC composer/sound artist Sxip Shirey featuring Basil Twist. Basil is a third generation puppeteer now living in New York. He is the sole American to graduate from the École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mezieres, France.

Ellen-ReidFeatured — Ellen Reid – Memory / Nostalgia / Somesuch Thing
November 18, 2016 - 7:00pm This is a concert about how we find home, hold that feeling within us, and we identify parts of ourselves in the world outside of ourselves. Ellen wonders about the future of her hometown: Knoxville, about Samuel Barber’s time there, and about how folk music plays into the future of classical music.

r-b-schlatherfeatured — R.B. Schlather Presents: Ariodante Workshop Performance
December 21, 2016 - 7:00pm Open workshop of Handel’s Ariodante. Directed R.B. Schlather; Conducted by Geoffrey McDonald. Composed in 1734 by George Frideric Handel.

YevgenyPortrait — Timo Andres & Yevgeny Kutik
October 19, 2016 - 7:00pm Acclaimed composer/pianist Timo Andres will be joined by celebrated violinist Yevgeny Kutik, giving the New York premiere of Andres’ Words Fail and the world premiere of Michael Gandolfi’s Arioso Doloroso/Estatico, both of which Kutik commissioned for his new album, Words Fail (Marquis, October 2016). These premieres will be featured alongside works by Nico Muhly, Mendelssohn, and Stravinsky, each continuing the theme of “songs without words.

YPCFeatured — YPC Presents: Transient Glory
November 4, 2016 - 7:00pm Transient Glory, the groundbreaking new music commissioning series created in 2001 by Artistic Director Francisco J. Núñez for the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, returns with the world premieres of six new works, representing a wide range of perspectives and styles, by six distinguished composers: Mason Bates (Sirens), Michael Gordon (Great Trees of New York City), Joan La Barbara (A Murmuration for Chibok), YPC alumna Jessie Montgomery (Danse Africaine), Robert Xavier Rodriguez (A Surfeit of Similes), and Charles Wuorinen (Exsultet).

POSTER_full — The Sonic Garden Party
August 20, 2016 - 5:00pm
An exploration of sound and community set in the gardens of LongHouse Reserve.

ChristineTobin — Christine Tobin
August 20, 2016 - 7:00pm
Multi-award winning Irish vocalist and composer Christine Tobin now based in New York, sings from her highly acclaimed CD ‘A Thousand Kisses Deep”, new arrangements of Cohen songs.

Joshua-48_edit2 (1) — Joshua Winstead Presents MMXX
October 28, 2016 - 10:00pm Joshua Winstead is an American singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a member of the critically acclaimed rock band Metric.

Psychic-Twin-photo-1(smallest) — Psychic Twin
Sep 24, 2016 - 7:00pm In dreams, we rarely know what we are running from or toward. We only know we must keep running, continue searching. Psychic Twin’s debut album, Strange Diary, lives in that state of surreal urgency. What’s in front of us or behind us can’t be described, but we are sure in our bones that what we are searching for exists just a few steps away.

NVB-Photo(small) — Table Music Brunch Series: New Vintage Baroque
August 14, 2016 - 12:00pm Come experience National Sawdust's second Table Music Brunch Concert. This concert will feature food by Rider and music.

ElizabethPeyton — National Sawdust+ Presented and Curated by Elizabeth Peyton
August 18, 2016 - 7:00pm Since she began exhibiting her paintings in the 1990s, artist Elizabeth Peyton’s work has often featured artists and musicians, including composer-musician Nico Muhly and Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, whose music she will feature on her National Sawdust+ evening on Thursday, August 18 at 7pm.

Copy of _DSC0933 — L.A. presents B(LA)K
August 13, 2016 - 10:00pm In Blak, viral hip-hop artist Latasha Alcindor (L.A.) manipulates both sight and sound in illustrating her story of growing into blackness, womanhood, and gentrification.

Sound Particles (poster) — Sound Particles
August 19, 2016 - 10:00pm National Sawdust invites you to Sound Particles, a pulsating electro-acoustic exploration on granular synthesis, subatomic frequencies, glitched rhythms and time stretched spectral harmonies.

SXSD_posterhighres_withtext — South by South Death Night 2
August 28, 2016 - 7:00pm
By turns campy slasher-comedy, meticulous murder mystery, and vicious pop culture satire, SOUTH BY SOUTH DEATH is an epic rock musical about #ambition, #envy and #Instagram.

SXSD_posterhighres_withtext — South by South Death Night 1
August 26, 2016 - 7:00pm
By turns campy slasher-comedy, meticulous murder mystery, and vicious pop culture satire, SOUTH BY SOUTH DEATH is an epic rock musical about #ambition, #envy and #Instagram.

Selkie 1 (1) — Selkie Series
The Selkie Series is an annual summer series featuring critically-acclaimed female performance artists, musicians, and visual artists all under thirty. An ongoing discussion on sexuality, femininity & an understanding of the self through every medium of performance & visual media.

Alexandra Marzela — Selkie Series: Alexandra Marzella
August 22, 2016 - 10:00pm An honest attempt to illustrate the disposition and struggles of an array of bodies, minds and spirits within a community mobilizing and working together utilizing music, voice and movement.

KellyZutrau — Selkie Series: Wet’s Kelly Zutrau
August 24, 2016 - 10:00pm Kelly Zutrau, the lead singer and songwriter of Wet will perform songs from their debut album, alongside new unreleased songs in her most stripped down performance to date.

KimbraCrop — Selkie Series: Kimbra
August, 31, 2016 - 10:00pm Kimbra presents a unique setup featuring live looping, sampling and musicians Spencer Zahn and Timon Martin to recreate songs from her albums, 'Vows' and 'The Golden Echo' as well as new and unreleased material. This performance will also showcase visuals by Phillip Stearns through a realtime interplay of color, optical patterns, and dynamic lighting of surreal 3D generated landscapes.

ChiaraQuartet_byLisaMarieMazzucco(small) — Chiara String Quartet – Bartók by Heart, Part II
August 31, 2016 - 7:00pm Hungarian composer Béla Bartók sought to capture the essence of folk music in his string quartets, and in his travels across Europe and North Africa, he documented hundreds of hours of folk music, meticulously transcribing it. The quartet hopes that by sharing their performances, Bartók’s remarkable music continues its journey from ear to ear and generation to generation just as the folk music that inspired it.

ChiaraQuartet_byLisaMarieMazzucco(small) — Chiara String Quartet – Bartók by Heart, Part I
August 30, 2016 - 7:00pm Hungarian composer Béla Bartók sought to capture the essence of folk music in his string quartets, and in his travels across Europe and North Africa, he documented hundreds of hours of folk music, meticulously transcribing it. The quartet hopes that by sharing their performances, Bartók’s remarkable music continues its journey from ear to ear and generation to generation just as the folk music that inspired it.

NVB Photo — Table Music Brunch: New Vintage Baroque
August 28, 2016 - 12:00pm Join us Sunday’s at National Sawdust, for our curated series, Table Music, featuring music spanning from the Baroque to today. The menu will feature Rider's normal brunch choices.

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August 7, 2016 - 12:00am Come experience National Sawdust's second Table Music Brunch Concert. This concert will feature food by Rider and music by the band Bridget Davis + the Viking Kings.

TheRevolutionHeader — The Revolution Vol. 6
August 20, 2016 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of an evolution within their genre.

Sandbox Percussion picture — The NYU Sandbox Percussion Showcase
August 6, 2016 - 3:00pm The NYU Sandbox Percussion Showcase is the culminating concert following a week of intensive chamber music study at the inaugural NYU Sandbox Percussion Seminar.

THE TELL 11 — The Tell Vol. 11
August 21, 2016 - 8pm Michael Leviton invites various characters and raconteurs to tell stories.

TTT Birdsnest color — Pavo Pavo, Uni Ika Ai, & Tall Tall Trees
August 4, 2016 - 9:30pm Join us for a night with Pavo Pavo, Uni Ika Ai, and Tall Tall Trees.

web_cover_ligeti_1_mxh — Influences/Confluences: Bauhaus as seen by Lukas Ligeti
August 14, 2016 - 7:00pm An evening of works by Lukas Ligeti as part of Future Present, the Hungarian Cultural Institute & exhibition of works by László Moholy-Nagy currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum.

The Revolution presents WE ARE HERE: A Response Concert in Honor of Black Lives
July 16, 2016 - 10:00pm The Revolution Music Series of National Sawdust will be hosting a late night concert event, in honor & loving memory of Delrawn Small, Alton Sterling, & Philando Castile. All proceeds of the night will go directly to the families of these 3 men for immediate help & assistance.

Alorwoyie-Gideon_F — STEVE REICH CELEBRATION: REPERCUSSION
December 10, 2016 - 7:00pm In celebration of Steve Reich’s 80th birthday year, the Ghanaian master Gideon Alorwoyie will play alongside Mantra Percussion Ensemble, who will perform selections from Drumming to explore this modern music masterpiece and the Ghanaian music by which it was inspired.

Meredith and Ani — Meredith Monk & Ani Choying Drolma Late Show: Co-Presented with World Institute Music
November 17, 2016 - 9:30pm The world premier of Meredith Monk and Nepalese singer Ani Choying Drolma performing an evening of works, each offering an engagement with art as spiritual practice.

Meredith and Ani — Meredith Monk & Ani Choying Drolma Early Show: Co-Presented with World Music Institute
November 17, 2016 - 7:00pm The world premier of Meredith Monk and Nepalese singer Ani Choying Drolma performing an evening of works, each offering an engagement with art as spiritual practice.

BebelGilberto_PhotobyHarperSmith_1 — Bebel Gilberto (Night 3) Co-presented with World Music Institute
October 6, 2016 - 10:00pm World-renowned singer-songwriter Bebel Gilberto has captivated fans and earned critical acclaim worldwide as the torchbearer of Brazil’s Bossa Nova tradition.

BebelGilberto_PhotobyHarperSmith_1 — Bebel Gilberto (Night 2) Co-presented with World Music Institute
October 5, 2016 - 10:00pm World-renowned singer-songwriter Bebel Gilberto has captivated fans and earned critical acclaim worldwide as the torchbearer of Brazil’s Bossa Nova tradition.

BebelGilberto_PhotobyHarperSmith_1 — Bebel Gilberto Co-presented with World Music Institute
October 4, 2016 - 10:00pm World-renowned singer-songwriter Bebel Gilberto has captivated fans and earned critical acclaim worldwide as the torchbearer of Brazil’s Bossa Nova tradition.

Leo_2 — Jon Gibson & Britton Powell
July 29, 2016 - 7:00pm Jon Gibson and Britton Powell are composers based in New York City.

bridgetdavis — Table Music Brunch Series: Bridget Davis
January 15, 2017 - 12:00pm Come experience National Sawdust's second Table Music Brunch Concert. This concert will feature food by Rider and music by the band Bridget Davis + the Viking Kings.

CaraStricker(large) — Selkie Series: PET Presents, Curated by Cara Stricker & Madeline O’Moore
August 11, 2016 - 10:00pm The collective focuses on nurturing the collaborative space for passionate female creative professionals. We release film music art showcase curate events and exhibitions. For their inaugural launch, the first of a six series showcase, features live performance by BEAU, AZUL, MAROT and SONJA, and interactive VR experience with Tilt Brush.

flyeraug19 — Selkie Series: Waverly Mandel
August 25, 2016 - 10:00pm Waverly Mandel will present BODY TECHNIQUE: an evening of music and performance that elaborates on the theme of communication and its relationship to the body. The evening also features performances by SADAF, Molly Lewis, and Elayo.

dewitt_last_samurai_cover_rev — The Last Samurai, An Evening of Music and Reading
July 30, 2016 - 7:30pm Helen DeWitt's first novel, The Last Samurai, was published in 2000 by Talk Miramax Books and subsequently in nineteen other countries. Timo Andres is a composer and pianist who frequently performs with the new music ensemble ACME and is one sixth of the Sleeping Giant composers’ collective.

JeremyGill(2).BW(small) — Winterreise: An die fernen Geliebten: monodramas by Beethoven and Jeremy Gill
December 13, 2016 - 7:00pm Baritone Jonathan Hays, composer/pianist Jeremy Gill, and director/actor Copeland Woodruff present two staged German-language song cycles. Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte, and Gill's Helian.

DavidBroza(small) — David Broza & The Jazz Encounters
August 12, 2016 - 7:00pm Israeli superstar David Broza and the Jazz Encounters have an original and fresh outlook on sound and harmony

Jherek-Bischoff-by-Allan-Amato-02(optimized) (1) — Jherek Bischoff: Cistern Album Release w/ Contemporaneous
August 19, 2016 - 7:00pm Jherek Bischoff is a Los Angeles-based composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist.

Album-Cover-Screenshot(Kenneth-Salters) — Andy Akiho Presents: Kenneth Salters
Aug 4, 2016 - 7:00pm Kenneth Salters Haven is a vehicle for music that is accessible to all and communicates profound emotion, but is also still in the jazz aesthetic, meaning the music tells a story and expresses emotion through improvisation.

TBZSML_NSPoster — In Situ: Tyondai Braxton
July 22, 2016 - 8:00pm Since departing his former band Battles in 2010, Braxton has split his time between composing chamber pieces for other ensembles and writing electronic music of his own -including music for a live multimedia project part architectural installation and part ensemble performance which was premiered at New York's Guggenheim Museum in 2013. The resulting album HIVE was released by Nonesuch Records last year.

StarFace — Hubble Cantata
August 6, 2016 - 8:00m

eurocup — Eurocup Viewing July 10
June 10, 2016 - 2pm We are broadcasting the finals of the UEFA Euro Cup on our state of the art 18-foot projection screen. This game will pin the two countries who have managed to claw their way to the finals. Our viewing experience at National Sawdust will guarantee an exceptional view wherever you are seated.

eurocup — Eurocup Viewing 3pm (Croatia v Portugal)
June 25, 2016 - 3:00pm We are broadcasting the quarterfinals of the UEFA Euro Cup on our state of the art 18-foot projection screen. Croatia v Portugal.

eurocup — Eurocup Viewing 12 pm (Wales v Northern Ireland)
June 25, 2016 - 12:00pm This Sunday, June 25th, we are broadcasting the quarterfinals of the UEFA Euro Cup on our state of the art 18-foot television. Wales v Northern Ireland.

eurocup — Eurocup Viewing 9am (Switzerland v Poland)
June 25, 2016 - 7:00pm We are broadcasting the quarterfinals of the UEFA Euro Cup on our state of the art 18-foot television. Switzerland v Poland

Sacred-Geometry-POSTER-11×17 — Sacred Geometry
July 16, 2016 - 7:00pm National Sawdust invites you to Sacred Geometry, a meditative electro-acoustic improvisation on visual sound patterns generated by resonances of sound waves. Music by Ricardo Romaneiro with live projections by Christian Hannon.

KatieDill — Katie Dill (of Mean Lady)
June 25, 2016 - 10:00pm Katie Dill is singer/songwriter whose genre ranges from folk and rock to jazz and r&b. She has written hundreds of songs and was lead singer and head songwriter of the duo Mean Lady (Fat Possum Records). Her smokey female vocals blend nicely with her lovingly crafted lyrics and timeless melodies.

THE REVOLUTION general 2 — The Revolution Vol. 5
July 23, 2016 - 8:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of the evolution within their genre.

craycray_hess-bill(small) — In Situ: Hess is More + Cray Cray Chalant
June 17, 2016 - 10:00pm Hess is More is back for more! ... a lot more. The Minister of Integration is taking on New York again in a collaboration and double bill with Cray Cray Chalant, Kenny Wollesen's new, super fun drum explosion! An evening not to be missed!

axel_tosca-CD-Cover-Front — Axel Tosca: Live Performance and Album Debut
July 28, 2016 - 7:00pm Axel Tosca has been playing Cuban-inspired piano since childhood. He has performed with Quest Love and the Roots, and his band, (U)nity, has produced two critically acclaimed albums during their 7 years together.

analogvol1 — Analog, Vol. 1: Arthur Moon, Starchild & The New Romantic, and Visuals
July 21, 2016 - 9:00pm Electronic musicians, unplugged. Analog Vol.1 will feature Arthur Moon, Starchild & The New Romantic, and Visuals.

Mary-Akpa — Table Music Brunch Series: Mary Akpa
July 24, 2016 - 11:00am In a world full of voices, Mary Akpa's shouts a whisper that draws any crowd.Her sound defies a singular genre: “Mary is not from this world. Her vocal expression ranges from the demure to the show stopping. The most intriguing thing about Mary’s talents is her uncanny ability to make a track into a song; a pop hit into a club banger; a sleepy jazz lullaby into an intriguing melodic experience.

NVB-Photo(small) — Table Music Brunch Series: New Vintage Baroque
July 17, 2016 - 10:00am Join us Sunday’s at National Sawdust, for our curated series, Table Music, featuring music spanning from the Baroque to today. The menu will feature Rider's normal brunch choices.

ShervinBlack&White&Color — Cuddle Magic & Friends
July 29, 2016 - 10:00pm Cuddle Magic, the Brooklyn band and songwriting collective, welcomes a very special set of musical friends to perform new and recent cowrites and collaborations, as well as music from their extensive catalogue.

NVB-Photo(small) — Table Music Brunch Series: New Vintage Baroque
July 31, 2016 - 12:00pm Come experience National Sawdust's second Table Music Brunch Concert. This concert will feature food by Rider and music.

Mary-Akpa — Table Music Brunch Series: Mary Akpa
July 10, 2016 - 10:00am In a world full of voices, Mary Akpa's shouts a whisper that draws any crowd.Her sound defies a singular genre: “Mary is not from this world. Her vocal expression ranges from the demure to the show stopping. The most intriguing thing about Mary’s talents is her uncanny ability to make a track into a song; a pop hit into a club banger; a sleepy jazz lullaby into an intriguing melodic experience.

JoannaFeatured — In Situ: Joanna Wallfisch Album Release
July 31, 2016 - 7:00pm Critically acclaimed singer and composer Joanna Wallfisch celebrates the release of Gardens In My Mind, her newest recording for Sunnyside Records.

lucerne1 — Found Sound Nation: Street Studio Listening Party
June 23, 2016 - 9:00pm
Harman Street Studios Afterparty, will showcase recordings crafted by teams of producers from 8 cities around the world. The evening will also feature additional music by Brooklyn's DJ Nappy G.

08d88c_ce4fe9fbf8294eff90dcaeff93affec6(small) — Table Music Brunch Series: Song YI Jeon
June 26, 2016 - 10:00am Come experience National Sawdust's Table Music Brunch Concert. This concert will feature food by Rider and music by Song YI Jeon.

SolidJackson — Solid Jackson: Autre Ne Veut
June 28, 2016 - 10:00pm Singers you know. Songs you don't. Unreleased songs by today's most recognizable vocalists in a series of one off performances with the industry's most creative & active musicians.

JHarrison_MissStud-5486_JQuigley-copy(small) — In Situ: Joel Harrison & Infinite Possibility
July 6, 2016 - 7:00pm This new work takes up and expands upon where my first large ensemble cd (Infinite Possibility, 2013) left off, a mixture of jazz, funk, new music, gospel, keening ballads, and corkscrew meters.

AaronRochePoster(small) — In Situ: Aaron Roche
June 15, 2016 - 10:00pm AARON ROCHE is a composer, performer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer. His music effortlessly and unassumingly weaves together threads of songcraft, contemporary composition, American folk traditions, lo-fi drone, and avant garde noise rock.

BROTHER-OUTSIDER-DVD-cover(small) — In Situ: Brother Outsider Screening
June 10, 2016 - 7:00pm Five years in the making and the winner of more than 25 international awards and honors, Brother Outsider illuminates the life and work of Bayard Rustin, a visionary activist and strategist who has been called “the invisible man” and “the unknown hero” of the civil rights movement. A disciple of Gandhi, a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., and chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, Rustin dared to live as an openly gay man during the fiercely homophobic 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. A talented tenor who sang in Josh White’s quartet and appeared on Broadway with Paul Robeson in the 1930s, Rustin used singing as a central element in his lifelong advocacy for social change. In 2013, Rustin received a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom — America’s highest civilian honor — from Barack Obama, who described him as “an unyielding activist for civil rights, dignity, and equality for all who fought tirelessly for marginalized communities at home and abroad… As an openly gay African American, Mr. Rustin stood at the intersection of several of the fights for equal rights.”

image1 (1) — Nikara Warren Presents: Black Wall Street
June 18, 2016 - 10:00pm In the early 1900s America’s most affluent Black neighborhood boasted over 600 Black owned businesses, including schools, markets and hospitals. Although Greenwood, Oklahoma’s population was destroyed by local rioting Whites (including the KKK, police force and National Guard) in one of this country’s largest and most unspoken massacres of our history, Nikara Warren pays tribute to Black Wall Street in attempt to create an open discussion for all people about supporting people of color in business, education and the arts. “Black music is a treasure to be uplifted, not destroyed” Nikara Warren

Album-Cover — Wild Cities / New Focus Label: Francesca Anderegg and Brent Funderburk
July 12, 2016 - 7:00pm Francesca Anderegg and Brent Funderburk are releasing their second album of contemporary music on New Focus Recordings in 2016. Titled "Wild Cities," the album features new works by young American composers: Hannah Lash, Ted Hearne, Ryan Francis, Clint Needham and Reinaldo Moya.

LOLOsmall — Intro to Rock’n’Lolo
Jul 27, 2016 - 10:30am As your child is inspired and motivated through singing and dancing, my program will also be helping to build your child's conﬁdence, self-control, and early Spanish language skills through repetitions and original and engaging melodies, Educating them not only on the language but also in values and good manners.

LOLOsmall — Intro to Rock’n’Lolo
Jul 20, 2016 - 10:30am As your child is inspired and motivated through singing and dancing, my program will also be helping to build your child's conﬁdence, self-control, and early Spanish language skills through repetitions and original and engaging melodies, Educating them not only on the language but also in values and good manners.

LOLOsmall — Intro to Rock’n’Lolo
Jul 13, 2016 - 10:30am As your child is inspired and motivated through singing and dancing, my program will also be helping to build your child's conﬁdence, self-control, and early Spanish language skills through repetitions and original and engaging melodies, Educating them not only on the language but also in values and good manners.

LOLOsmall — Intro to Rock’n’Lolo
Jul 06, 2016 - 10:30am As your child is inspired and motivated through singing and dancing, my program will also be helping to build your child's conﬁdence, self-control, and early Spanish language skills through repetitions and original and engaging melodies, Educating them not only on the language but also in values and good manners.

LOLOsmall — Intro to Rock’n’Lolo
Jun 22, 2016 - 10:30am As your child is inspired and motivated through singing and dancing, my program will also be helping to build your child's conﬁdence, self-control, and early Spanish language skills through repetitions and original and engaging melodies, Educating them not only on the language but also in values and good manners.

LOLOsmall — Rock’n’Lolo’s Spanish Music Class
Jun 15, 2016 - 10:30am As your child is inspired and motivated through singing and dancing, my program will also be helping to build your child's conﬁdence, self-control, and early Spanish language skills through repetitions and original and engaging melodies, Educating them not only on the language but also in values and good manners.

LOLOsmall — Rock’n’Lolo’s Spanish Music Class
Jun 8, 2016 - 10:30am As your child is inspired and motivated through singing and dancing, my program will also be helping to build your child's conﬁdence, self-control, and early Spanish language skills through repetitions and original and engaging melodies, Educating them not only on the language but also in values and good manners.

THE-TELL-10(optimized) — The Tell: Vol. 10
July 17, 2016 - 8:00pm Michael Leviton invites various characters and raconteurs to tell stories.

THE TELL 9 — The Tell Vol. 9
June 19, 2016 - 8:00pm Michael Leviton invites various characters and raconteurs to tell stories.

In Situ: The Revolution Vol. 4
June 29, 2016 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of an evolution within their genre.

Martin-Creed-1-(Hugo-Glendinning)Thumb — In Situ: Martin Creed and His Band
Jun 14, 2016 - 8:00pm Turner Prize winning artist and musician Martin Creed and his band will perform live at National Sawdust previewing songs from Martin's forthcoming album 'Thoughts Lined Up’ out July 8th.

Digital-City-NS-FINAL(small) — In Situ: Digital City
June 04, 2016 - 10pm National Sawdust invites you to DIGITAL CITY, an improvisatory electro-acoustic evening that weaves the listener through layers of pulsating grooves and radiant harmonies. Featuring music by Ricardo Romaneiro in performance with members of Sandbox Percussion, Jacqui Kerrod (harp loops), Vasko Dukovski (bass clarinet), Leo Leite (sound engineer), NoisioN (analog synths) & David Zisa (modular synth). Accompanied by live visual projections by Mau.

HBD-Featured-Image — Found Sound Nation Presents: Hear Be Dragons
Jun 23, 2016 - 7:00pm Found Sound Nation and the Bertha Foundation present Hear Be Dragons, a unique collaborative performance between young artists from South African and Brooklyn. This performance features the works created during a yearlong sonic exploration and exchange between these artists from the township of Nyanga, Cape Town, South Africa and The El Puente Arts Academy in Brooklyn, New York City.

LOLOsmall — Rock’n’Lolo’s Spanish Music Class
Jun 1, 2016 - 10:30am As your child is inspired and motivated through singing and dancing, my program will also be helping to build your child's conﬁdence, self-control, and early Spanish language skills through repetitions and original and engaging melodies, Educating them not only on the language but also in values and good manners.

2016-biennial-lockup-with-dates — NY Phil Biennial
May 23 - June 11The NY PHIL BIENNIAL, launched in 2014, is a flagship project of the New York Philharmonic exploring the music of today by bringing together a wide-ranging array of composers, partners, performers, and curatorial voices for concerts presented both on the Lincoln Center campus and in venues throughout the city.

ACJW Class Shoot — Carnegie Hall Presents: Ensemble ACJW
June 16, 2016 - 7:00pm Created in 2007 by Carnegie Hall's Executive and Artistic Director Clive Gillinson and The Juilliard School's President Joseph W. Polisi, Ensemble ACJW is an inspirational collective of young professional musicians who are fellows in a two-year program that supports them in building careers as top-quality performers, innovative programmers, and dedicated teachers who fully engage with the communities in which they live and work.

katrin-albert-photography-nvb-20 — Table Music: New Vintage Baroque
June 19, 2016 - 11:00am National Sawdusts opens it's doors to Table Music, a newly created series of brunch concerts. Come listen to 18th century Baroque music written specifically for dining and banquets while enjoying a delicious meal from RIDER.

page-photo-544725 — Table Music Brunch Series: California
May 29, 2016 - 11:00am Come experience National Sawdust's second Table Music Brunch Concert. This concert will feature food by Rider and music by the band California.

katrin-albert-photography-nvb-20 — Table Music: New Vintage Baroque
May 22, 2016 - 11:00am On May 8th, National Sawdusts opens it's doors to Table Music, a newly created series of brunch concerts. Come listen to 18th century Baroque music written specifically for dining and banquets while enjoying a delicious meal from RIDER.

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June 20, 2016 - 8:30pm The new Okkervil River album is called Away. I didn’t plan to make it and initially wasn’t sure if it was going to be an Okkervil River album or if I’d ever put it out. I wrote the songs during a confusing time of transition in my personal and professional life and recorded them quickly with a brand new group of musicians.

20160229-IMG_1578-(1) — Magos Herrera Presents: 1st Thursdays with Sergio Krakowski
June 02, 2016 - 7:00pm Groundbreaking Brazilian percussionist and composer Sergio Krakowski celebrates the release of his second CD as a leader, “Pássaros – The Foundation of the Island,” with his trio featuring guitarist Todd Neufeld and pianist Vitor Gonçalves.

Sxip squatting — In Situ: Sxip Shirey’s Hour of Charm
May 29, 2016 - 7:00pm An abundant night of music curated by NYC composer/sound artist Sxip Shirey.
Featuring:Performances of traditional mbira music arranged for Quintet of the Americas and the band Timbila, featuring UK-based Zimbabwean mbira master Chartwell Dutiro.

_MG_0308(small) — Jazztopad Festival Presents: Lutosławski Quartet & Uri Caine
June 26, 2016 - 8:00pm Tonight’s concert creates an opportunity for the audience to meet the extraordinary musical persona of Uri Caine, an American classical/jazz pianist and composer.

DEJONG-G-small — Paul de Jong
June 30, 2016 - 10:30pm Paul de Jong, formerly of the Books presents his new solo performance, with his 2015 debut album ‘IF’ on Temporary Residence Ltd as a musical starting point. De Jong shines new light on his signature musical blend of odd spoken word samplings, mashed studio recordings and live instruments.

Bilal_NPR_Photo — Jill Newman Productions & The Blue Note Jazz Festival Present: BILAL, acoustic Produced By Jill Newman Productions
June 24, 2016 - 8:00pm "Philadelphia born, Soul Singer, Bilal is one of the most dynamic artist of our time. Bilal is an eclectic--drawing from gospel, jazz, soul, blues, and hip-hop. Bilal made his major label debut with 2001’s First Born Second. The cd sold over 300,000 copies and announced that Bilal was an artist to watch. Bilal’s sophomore recording Love For Sale leaked to the internet before its official release and would enjoy over half a million downloads. 2010 saw Air Tight’s Revenge, which yielded the Grammy nominated “Little Ones”. In Feb 2013 Bilal released A Love Surreal, which has already garnered critical acclaim being named as one of “People Magazines” top ten albums of the year.” And in 2015 he released his most celebrated project of his career, “In Another Life” produced entirely by retro soul producer Adrian Young.

LoveCells_1_vib — Leila Adu Record Release
June 29, 2016 - 7:00pm Leila Adu has released four acclaimed albums including, ‘Dark Joan,’ recorded by Steve Albini and ‘Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker’ produced for the Italian National Radio. London’s ‘Time Out’ called her music, ‘Avante-garde pop that recalls Nina Simone and Tim Buckley” and reviewers have placed her in an arena with other female icons such as Joni Mitchell, PJ Harvey, Micachu and Esperanza Spalding.

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AetherPicture — Aether w/ Darren Solomon + Alon Ilsar
June 16, 2016 - 10:00pm Aether is a live motion capture performance designed and choreographed from the ancestral use of sacred geometry and the embodied elements: water, fire, earth and wind. The dancer’s movement is tracked and translated to a 3d model emitting different particle systems in real-time.

Scott-studying-score_byJillSteinberg — Adam Abeshouse Presents: Scott Wheeler Record Release Party feat. Donald Berman, piano
June 15, 2016 - 7:00pm Donald Berman has been on the frontlines of new music scholarship, performance and recording for over 30 years. His newest recording, Scott Wheeler: Portraits & Tributes, has just been released by Bridge Records (BRIDGE 9463). A pianist and scholar of exceptional gifts, he currently serves on the faculties of both Tufts University and the Longy School of Music of Bard College. He has been a Fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, guest lecturer on minimalism at Northeastern University, Director of New England Conservatory's Summer Piano Institute, Advisor to the Boston Jewish Music Festival, and Vice-president/Treasurer of the Charles Ives Society.

John-Paul-White—Approved-Press-Photo — In Situ: John Paul White + The Secret Sisters
June 21, 2016 - 7:00pm John Paul White is a Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter who proudly resides in Florence, Alabama. As one half of the critically acclaimed The Civil Wars, White toured the world and introduced millions to his music. Now, he’s a co-founder of Single Lock Records, an independent record label based in the Shoals.

postcard-4inx6in-h-front — Daniel Felsenfeld Presents: The Nouveau Classical Project
June 01, 2016 - 7:00pm The Nouveau Classical Project will perform the music from their debut album, Potential Energies, composed by Trevor Gureckis and released later this summer by Philip Glass’s label, Orange Mountain Music.

MariKimuraHead — Kaze (The Wind) by Mari Kimura/Harmonic Constellations by Michael Harrison
June 09, 2016 - 7:00pm This event celebrates two world premieres, two CD release launches and a debut of our original wearable motion sensor named µgic (pronounced mu-zik).

THE REVOLUTION general 2 — In Situ: The Revolution Vol. 3
May 18, 2016 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of the evolution within their genre As a part of VOL. 3, The Revolution not only features two live performances from Brooklyn based artists; Bae Bro & (U)nity but also, will premiere a documentary featuring (U)nity’s journey through music, evolution within their genre. friendship & the creative process behind their second album: “(U)nity Is Power”.

Lost-City—Songs-from-a-Changing-Sea — Jeffrey Zeigler Presents: Carla Kihlstedt
May 18, 2016 - 7:00pm The songs of Rabbit Rabbit are raw and beautiful, sparse and rich, lighthearted and full of pathos. Drawing on their love of art song, folk song, industrial music, improvised music and heart-wrenching balladry, they will make you dance and cry alternately, and sometimes in quick succession.

ESOPUS_23_COVER — Esopus: Close Calls
Jun 8, 2016 - 8:00pm Each issue of ESOPUS features an audio CD with brand-new music inspired by a particular theme. The CD compilation in Esopus 23 (now on newsstands) explores the subject of "Close Calls". For it, Esopus invited 13 musical acts to pick a close-call moment from their lives — ranging from near-death experiences to romantic misfires — that they've never been able to shake, then write a song inspired by the experience.

13103361_1100594353358790_4107599997073739603_n — In Situ: FOUR w/ Jefferson909 & We In Cloudz
May 06, 2016 - 10:00pm An audio-visual dance experience in four movements at Williamburg’s newest and most stunning performance art space. Let us take you on a nightlife journey as FOUR celebrates the eternal circle of Birth, Life, Decay and Afterlife brought to life and reimagined through immersive projections and performance art, paired with conceptual music programming by Jefferson909 and We In Cloudz.

unnamed (1) — In Situ: Salute Flying w/Yuan Liu & Kalmia Traver
Apr 30, 2016 - 11:00pm Yuan Liu is a filmmaker, technology and art researcher and curator. She has been a resident researcher and artist at Waag Society in Amsterdam and Museum of Human Achievement in Austin Texas. She has also been the official video journalist for The Last Weekend, The Internet Week NYC and Eyebeam Art and Technology.

ii_153f7c349de23512 — Rinde Eckert Presents: Jerry Granelli’s Sandhills Reunion
May 25, 2016 - 7:00pm An album released November 1, 2004, Sandhills Reunion includes music by Jerry Granelli and text written and performed by Rinde Eckert. It is a multi-layered interweaving of words and music that Granelli calls an audio movie or play. The video featured at right was shot by Mark DeChiazza and Mark Andrews during a three day excursion to Nebraska.

katrin-albert-photography-nvb-20 — Table Music: Mother’s Day Brunch
May 8, 2016 - 10:00am On May 8th, National Sawdusts opens it's doors to Table Music, a newly created series of brunch concerts. Come listen to 18th century Baroque music written specifically for dining and banquets while enjoying a delicious meal from RIDER.

JourneyLive — In Situ: Journey LIVE
Jul 08, 2016 - 8:00pm The Chicago-based Fifth House Ensemble teams up with composer Austin Wintory to present an original, interactive live performance of his Grammy-nominated score to the video game Journey.

1B1 Contemporary Nordic — 1B1 String Orchestra
Two weeks of performances by NS Group in Residence, 1B1 Youth String Orchestra. May 4th-14th

NY PHIL BIENNIAL: New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival Concert 7

June 07, 2016 - 8:00pm Concert 7

NY PHIL BIENNIAL: New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival Concert 6

June 07, 2016 - 5:00pm Concert 6

NY PHIL BIENNIAL: New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival Concert 5

June 06, 2016 - 8:00pm Concert 5

NY PHIL BIENNIAL: New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival Concert 4

June 6, 2016 - 5:00pm Concert 4

NY PHIL BIENNIAL: New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival Concert 3

June 5, 2016 - 10:00pm Concert 3

NY PHIL BIENNIAL: New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival Concert 2

June 5, 2016 - 7:00pm Concert 2

ladama_paco_do_frevo_encontro_musical-0795 — Found Sound Nation: LADAMA and El Puente Showcase
May 20, 2016 • 7:00pm LADAMA is a music ensemble comprised of five female multi-instrumentalists (guitarists, percussionists, singer/songwriters) from across the Americas who strive to engage youth and other women in their respective communities in the process of music-making, sound design, composition and audio production. LADAMA aims to address gender inequality and unequal representation of women and encourage all to express their humanity by building community through music. A week long residency in partnership with Found Sound Nation and National Sawdust, LaDama will work with young people and women from the El Puente Leaders for Peace and Justice and co-create a new performance piece for a live audience, in addition to leading a performance by LADAMA themselves.

LADAMA-Press-Photo-2 — Found Sound Nation: LADAMA
May 20, 2016 - 8:00pm LADAMA is an ensemble comprised of four incredible musicians from across the Americas who create and perform original music, and strive to inspire and engage women and youth in their respective communities to engage in music-making, sound design, composition, and audio production.

NY PHIL BIENNIAL: New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival Concert 1

June 5, 2016 - 3:00pm Concert 1

Self-Portrait between Death and Sister — Chris Grymes and Open G Records present: Michael Hersch’s “Zwischen Leben und Tod” (NEW YORK PREMIERE)
June 28, 2016 - 7:00pm The most recent in a series of several program-length works Michael Hersch has written over the past decade, Zwischen Leben und Tod is one of only three Hersch works to co-exist and engage exclusively with visual art. Arranged in twenty-two sections, each part pairs with a painting or drawing by Peter Weiss (1916-1982).

ICEPROJECT — Alicia Hall Moran: The Ice Project, the Battle of the Carmens
May 19, 2016 - 7:00pm Inspired by Debi Thomas, the first black American to win elite National and World titles, Alicia Hall Moran joined "The Shadows," a precision figure skating team in Fairfield County, Connecticut. As Debi Thomas refined her Carmen-themed long program for the 1988 Olympics, it came to light that her East German competitor, Katerina Witt, would also skate to music from Bizet's famous opera.

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Untitled-1 — Meredith Monk with Theo Bleckmann and Katie Geissinger in Concert
May 19, 2016 - 9:30pm The iconic composer/performer Meredith Monk offers one of her rare, more intimate concerts in her premiere at National Sawdust, with two of her esteemed colleagues, Theo Bleckmann and Katie Geissinger, both highly acclaimed singers in the New Music world.

THE TELL Vol. 8 — The Tell Vol. 8
May 15, 2016 • 8pm A monthly storytelling series hosted and curated by raconteur Michael Leviton.

erlend skomsvoll — 1B1 Presents: A Night of Grieg
May 05, 2016 - 7:00pm Erlend Skomsvoll is an acclaimed Norwegian composer and a prominent name on the international jazz scene, having worked with names like Chick Corea and Pat Metheny. His "Recomprimprovariations" of Grieg’s Holberg Suite won him and 1B1 a Norwegian Grammy in 2015.

xl_artist_243_20160405113608_0a0149fa — Northside Festival: Bing & Ruth
June 12, 2016 - 8:30pm Led by composer and pianist David Moore, Brooklyn instrumental collective Bing & Ruth are a delicate yet formidable melodic force. Combining horns, strings, piano, wordless vocals, and manipulated tape loops, the band builds from still moments to grand cathartic swells. Their latest album, 2014's critically acclaimed Tomorrow Was the Golden Age, took the organic sounds of live performance in trippier directions, playing with tape delay to achieve a deep well of shimmering sound.

unnamed — Northside Festival: Grouper Late Show
June 11, 2016 - 10:00pm Liz Harris lives and works on the Oregon Coast. She has been recording, performing, and releasing solo material under the name Grouper since 2005 on various imprints including Kranky, Type, and her own YELLOWELECTRIC. Grouper first gained wide acclaim for her masterful 2005 album, Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, which mixed folk, ambient, and psychedelic pop to the mesmerizing effect that's characterized her career.

unnamed — Northside Festival: Grouper Early Show
June 11, 2016 - 7:00pm Liz Harris lives and works on the Oregon Coast. She has been recording, performing, and releasing solo material under the name Grouper since 2005 on various imprints including Kranky, Type, and her own YELLOWELECTRIC. Grouper first gained wide acclaim for her masterful 2005 album, Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, which mixed folk, ambient, and psychedelic pop to the mesmerizing effect that's characterized her career.

ACJW Class Shoot — Carnegie Hall Presents: Ensemble ACJW: Turning Point
May 3, 2016 - 7:00pm Created in 2007 by Carnegie Hall's Executive and Artistic Director Clive Gillinson and The Juilliard School's President Joseph W. Polisi, Ensemble ACJW is an inspirational collective of young professional musicians who are fellows in a two-year program that supports them in building careers as top-quality performers, innovative programmers, and dedicated teachers who fully engage with the communities in which they live and work.

#25 — National Sawdust and Rider Community Day
Apr 30, 2016 - 10am-2pmYou're invited to the National Sawdust and Rider Community Open House. This free celebration of our whole building being officially open will feature live music from local musicians and NS groups in residence, as well as tasty treats prepared by Rider's executive chef, Patrick Connolly.

Benjamin Schmid+Stian Carstensen — Playground with 1B1, Benjamin Schmid, and Stian Carstensen
May 4, 2016 - 10:00pm A playful meeting between two highly original musicians and the young, Norwegian string orchestra 1B1.

1B1 — 1B1 Featuring Gity Razaz, Damien Bassman, And Benjamin Schmid
May 04, 2016 - 7:00pm On her way becoming one of the major forces in contemporary music, Iranian composer Gity Razaz's will perform the world premiere of her newest composition written specially for Norwegian Grammy award-winning string ensemble, 1B1.

About-us_Photos-2 — 1B1 Presents: Simax Evening featuring Martin Kuuskman
May 10, 2016 - 7:00pm This is an evening celebrating the leading Norwegian label for classical music, with two leading instrumentalists and a young, progressive sting orchestra.

1B1 Contemporary Nordic — NYU Contemporary Ensemble & 1B1 Present: Music By Arvo Pärt And Kaija Saariaho
May 14, 2016 - 3:00pm National Sawdust group-in-residence 1B1 partners up with the NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble for the performance of two iconic pieces of Northern European music: Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s Graal Theatre, and Arvo Pärt’s renowned Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten. While Cantus is an early example of Pärt’s typical tintinnabulli style, Graal Theatre, on the other hand, is an exception in Kaja Saariaho’s long body of work combining acoustic instruments with some kind of electronic extentions.

simone-dinnerstein_photo-Lisa-Marie-Mazzucco- — 1B1 in concert with Simone Dinnerstein
May 13, 2016 - 7:00pm The best-selling and celebrated pianist Simone Dinnerstein teams up with the young and energetic string orchestra 1B1, as a part of their ongoing residency at National Sawdust. Dinnerstein rose to prominence through a string of extraordinary Bach releases.

david lang youth2 — David Lang’s YOUTH with 1B1 and Special Guests
May 08, 2016 - 8:00pm National Sawdust honors composer David Lang by featuring a reimagination of Paolo Sorrentino’s critically acclaimed film, YOUTH, with works by David Lang, including his Oscar-nominated song, Simple Song No. 3, and NS Group in Residency, 1B1, a Grammy award winning Norwegian string orchestra, plus special guests.

1B1 Presents: Percussion Evening with Glenn Kotche
May 12, 2016 - 7:00pm Glenn Kotche, NS artist-in-residence and rhythmic anchor in Wilco – one of the most beloved rock bands on the planet – premiers his NS commission for percussion and string ensemble featuring Norwegian Grammy-award winning NS group-in-residence, 1B1.

Dan Laurin+1B1 — 1B1 Presents: Vivaldi with Dan Laurin
May 07, 2016 - 7:00pm A night devoted to very fresh sounding baroque music, while also offering contemporary work written for the new instrument, the Eagle Recorder.

On A Sphere — In Situ: On a Sphere
Apr 16, 2016 - 7:00pm National Sawdust invites you to ON A SPHERE, an ambient exploration of sound worlds by composer Ricardo Romaneiro with live projections. On A Sphere draws inspiration of an ancient philosophical concept of the Music of the Spheres, where it incorporates the metaphysical principle that mathematical relationships express qualities or"tones" of energy which manifest in numbers, visual angles, shapes and sounds – all connected within a pattern of proportion.

Website-Event-Photo — Chamber Music America Presents: Jen Shyu + Jade Tongue, Del Sol Quartet, and Organ Monk
May 02, 2016 - 7:00pm Celebrate National Chamber Music Month with this free kick-off party, featuring performances by three highly acclaimed and distinctive small ensembles: the “lyrical and wildly adventurous” Jen Shyu, Jade Tongue (The Nation); San Francisco’s “high spirited” and “dynamic” Del Sol Quartet (NYTimes); and the ecstatic jazz organ of the Greg Lewis Organ Monk Quintet. Hear selections from recent CMA commissions—including a new work by Mason Bates, Shyu’s lauded Song of Silver Geese, and Lewis’s stirring and revelatory tribute to Michael Brown and Eric Garner—and stay for drinks and celebration.

StringNoise_square_cover-2 — In Situ: STRING NOISE with Greg Saunier | WORLD PREMIERE of Superintendent for the Destruction of the Gods
Apr 23, 2016 - 7:00pm New York’s “most daring violin duo” STRING NOISE performs works from their debut album “The Book of Strange Positions” released on Northern Spy Records with DEERHOOF drummer Greg Saunier and projection of artwork by Jad Fair of Half Japanese. Tiny Mix Tapes describes this collection of original works and arrangements by Eric Lyon of punk covers to include Bad Brains, Violent Femmes, Deerhoof, Radiohead, Half Japanese and Black Flag as a “mix of classic punk covers and ZERO APOLOGIES.” Melding composed music and improvisation, STRING NOISE entraps listeners in string alchemy.

VYC_El Puente_Pic 01 — 1B1 & El Puente Arts present: Very Young Composers Showcase
May 07, 2016 - 12pm For this new exciting partnership between Very Young Composers, National Sawdust and El Puente, the students worked with teaching artists and composers Angélica Negrón and Anna Clyne to compose new pieces for the young and progressive Norwegian string ensemble 1B1.

Aerial East by Mark Peckmezian — In Situ: Aerial East Record Release
May 10, 2016 - 10:00pm May 10th will be the celebration of the long anticipated release of Rooms and the first and only concert dedicated to performing the record as close to the original as possible with a full band including strings and clarinet.

wepa fest pic — In Situ: BombaYo
Apr 09, 2016 - 7:00pm Bomba was developed in Puerto Rico over 300 years ago by enslaved Africans from parts of West Africa and the Kongo region and also includes influences from the Spanish colonizers and native Taino people. Bomba is more of an experiencethan a show. It's where singing, dancing and drumming come together in a community celebration of life. Boricuas on the island and stateside are reviving this tradition and in turn uncovering part of their cultural heritage.

yumi_zouma_-_yoncalla_2 — Billy Jones Presents: Yumi Zouma & Maria Usbeck Release Show
May 28, 2016 - 10:00pm Since the release of their debut EP in 2014, Yumi Zouma’s evolution has been brisk and organic ‐ a shoreline reflecting the changing tides of its ocean. The band sold‐out their first EP twice‐over before its release and before having ever played live, but each member’s disparate living arrangements meant that live shows or even further releases were unexpected. 2015 saw the launch of their EP II, alongside multiple tours of Europe, North America, Australia and Asia, before a deluxe EP Collection 12” was released at the end of the year. These dizzying days on the road finally enabled the band to write together in the same place at the same time, and during a three‐week pause in Paris, they set to work on their debut album.

Carrie+Promo+#3 — In Situ: Carrie Rodriguez
May 01, 2016 - 8:00pm With her new release Lola (out February 19 on her Luz Records label), Austin-based Chicana singer/songwriter Carrie Rodriguez realizes her dream of presenting her deeply personal take on Tex-Mex music. The fan-funded album, which features an all-star band that includes Bill Frisell, Viktor Krauss, and Raul Malo among others, pairs her ranchera-inspired original tunes sung in English and “Spanglish” alongside contemporary interpretations of songs by her favorite Mexican composers delivered in Spanish.

DaveHarringtonGroupBrandedToKill_v2 — In Situ: The Dave Harrington Group Live Improvised Scoring of “Branded to Kill”
Apr 14, 2016 - 9:00pm The Dave Harrington Group perform a live, improvised score of Seijun Suzuki's "Branded to Kill".

fineberg_nytimes1_highres — Martha Mooke: Dreaming In Sound
May 05, 2016 - 10:00pm Dreaming in Sound is an immersive large scale work by electro-acoustic violist/composer Martha Mooke. Scored for electric viola and electronic processing in multi-channel audio distribution with interactive video (created by pioneering software artist Scott Draves). Dreaming in Sound is inspired by the sleep stage REM and the concept of lucid dreaming which evokes the chaotic state vs. orderliness of the dream realm.

TERRACETUX — Terrace Martin: Produced by Jill Newman Productions
Apr 15, 2016 - 8:00pm Terrace Martin. Two time Grammy winner. Musician, producer, larger than life character with an eye and ear on changing the world. His father, Curly Martin, is a notable jazz drummer and his mother a gospel singer.

ACME-9964 — In Situ: ACME with special guest Greg Fox in Charlemagne Palestine’s Strumming Music
Apr 24, 2016 - 4:00pm ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble) has been performing and interpreting new music for over 10 years, and at National Sawdust will begin exploring the world of creating original music as well. A number of musicians in ACME also identify as composers, and an equal number identify as primarily performers. During their National Sawdust residency, ACME members will work together in making new music – individually and collaboratively, those who compose for public performance, those who compose privately, and those who have never composed – and will then present their new works and works-in-progress to the public on April 24.

AME Awards Concert Composite — In Situ: American Modern Ensemble Awards Night
Apr 29, 2016 - 7:00pm Each season, American Modern Ensemble is proud to hold three annual competitions for composers of ALL ages. Winners receive performances, with recordings, videos, and cash awards. Join us at National Sawdust for our “Awards Night” concert, featuring an evening of works by composers who won AME's Ninth Annual composition competitions.

THE REVOLUTION 2 — In Situ: The Revolution Vol.2
Apr 23, 2016 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of the evolution within their genre. The Revolution Vol. 2 brings you three Brooklyn based artists; J. Hoard, Hailey Niswanger, and Arthur Moon.

Pablo-Sainz-Villegas-by-Lisa-Mazzucco-7263 — In Situ: Pablo Villegas
Jun 2, 2016 - 10:00pm The soul of the Spanish guitar runs in Pablo Villegas’s blood. A native of La Rioja, Spain, Pablo is praised for performances as charismatic as they are intimate. His “virtuosic playing characterized by its vividly shaded colors and irresistible exuberance” (The New York Times), have made him one of the most sought-after soloists by today’s foremost stages.

kindess (1) — IT’S WARM. LET’S DANCE.
Mar 25, 2016 - 10:00pm Kindness (DJ Set), Kitty Cash, Pariguayo b2b Philosophy

fall-promo-2-w-border — Darren Solomon Presents: Jean Rohe | Songs from “The Odysseus Agreement”
Apr 27, 2016 - 10:00pm “The Odysseus Agreement” is an in-progress performance memoir in song that tells the story of a young woman on a single-minded quest to learn about the life and tragic death of her grandmother and namesake.

poster for 0420 LTB at NS — Le Train Bleu: Dark Flower
Apr 20, 2016 - 7:00pm Le Train Bleu is a unique musical collective formed by conductor and flutist Ransom Wilson, with a mission to explore new and interesting music. They will also perform a series at the New York Botanical Garden, and at the Ocean Reef Festival in Florida.

Third-Sound-(2)–photo-credit–Tristan-Cook — In Situ: Third Sound
May 03, 2016 - 9:30pm In November 2015, newly formed chamber ensemble Third Sound made its debut with a residency at the Festival de Música Contemporánea de La Habana (Havana, Cuba), presenting a program of contemporary American music in partnership with the American Composers Forum (ACF). ACF and Third Sound held a national call for scores to select the music to be presented and received over 400 submissions; ten works were chosen, and all ten composers traveled to Havana as part of the artist delegation.

Corinne-Bailey-Rae__Press-photo_7633_fin-1(resize) — In Situ: Corinne Bailey Rae
August 2, 2016 - 10:00pm Originally the front-woman of an indie band, Corinne Bailey Rae's music spans indie, electronic, soul and experimental. Bailey Rae has just completed her highly anticipated third studio album and she recently performed in Los Angeles for The Grammys’ MusiCares Foundation with Pharrell, The Roots and Leon Bridges just prior to the first track launch and album announcement.

Kinan Azmeh CityBand press photo — Global Week for Syria: Kinan Azmeh and CityBand
Apr 17, 2016 - 9:00pm Formed in 2006 in New York City, the Kinan Azmeh CityBand immediately gained recognition for their virtuosic and high energy performance, receiving praise from critics and audiences alike. With this New York ensemble, Azmeh strives to reach a balance between classical music, jazz, and the music of his homeland, Syria. Azmeh's expressive clarinet meets Kyle Sanna’s rustic guitar, soaring at times over the dynamic and volatile backdrop of John Hadfield’s percussion and Petros Klampanis’ double bass.

2016-YANY-National-Sawdust-cover-photo — YoungArts New York 2016: Winners in Jazz, Theater, Music and Voice
Apr 17, 2016 - 2:00pm The National YoungArts Foundation continues its 35th anniversary season with YoungArts New York on April 12-17, offering life-changing experiences, guidance and support to YoungArts winners from the region through interdisciplinary workshops, seminars and master classes with renowned leaders in their fields. YoungArts New York is one of three regional programs that expose local audiences to emerging artists in their community.

bharris-orchestra-show — In Situ: Roosevelt Dime and the Bruce Harris Orchestra (ft. Master of Ceremonies Kevin “DotCom” Brown of “30 Rock”)
May 29, 2016 - 10:00pm Brooklyn-based Roosevelt Dime will be joined by NYC jazz stalwart Bruce Harris and his orchestra for a special musical celebration and collaboration that reflects the diversity of the city itself by combining Rhythm & Blues, Jazz, Americana, Bluegrass, and Folk. The partnership was literally formed on the city streets, as they began playing together in the parks and subways while Harris was a full time member of the band for several years.

No Regular Play_1200x800_HighRes_AdelaLoconte — NS & Gigwax Present: No Regular Play
Apr 22, 2016 - 10:00pm No Regular Play are a duo equally at home in the rehearsal rooms of Julliard as in the main room of Fabric. Emotive and unapologetically organic, their fluid approach unites more than a lifetime of influences. Their impressive live show, which features Paulus’ inimitable trumpet and vocals alongside DeBruyn’s masterful manipulation of the rhythm and soundscapes bridges the gap between the indie arena and the heartbeat of the dancefloor.

_MG_8344-4divulg — Magos Herrera Presents: 1st Thursdays feat. Chico Pinheiro Quartet
Apr 7th - 7:00pm At this special evening, Pinheiro presents some of the brand new Music specially composed for his upcoming album, along with an extrardinary Quartet that features Helio Alves on Piano, Edward Perez on Bass and Alex Kautz on Drums. The Concert will be pretty much as an "Avant Prèmiere" of Chico's New Album, to be released in 2016.

CoverImage2 — DÜNYA Presents: Othello in the Seraglio
Apr 08, 2016 - 10:00pm Othello in the Seraglio, a uniquely powerful "coffeehouse opera," tells an age-old story of passionate love and murderous jealousy, of a black eunuch at the 17th century Ottoman Court who rises to power and riches, only to come to a tragic end.

PIC_4504 — Theo Bleckmann Presents: Becca Stevens Band
Apr 21, 2016 - 7:00pm The word "Regina" (Latin for Queen) served as a springboard for each of the songs in this performance. For example; "Queen Mab" is my setting of Mercutio’s famous rant about a naughty fairy in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, the lyrics of "Mercury" are made up entirely of quotes by Freddie Mercury (the lead singer of "Queen"), and "Harbor Hawk" is a special dedication to my grandmother and is named after my grandfather's boat that I used to sail in as a child.

mata2016_3 — Mata Festival: Ensemble Linea: Chaos Terrain and Lines of Fortune
Apr 13, 2016 - 8:00pm The “superb” (Time Out New York) Ensemble Linea, under the direction of Jean-Philippe Wurtz, travels from Strasbourg to make its MATA Festival debut with an evening that celebrates transcendence. Highlighting the night will be two MATA-commissions.

Brooklyn-RiderAlmanac-SarahSmall — Brooklyn Rider Presents: The Brooklyn Rider Almanac
Apr 12, 2016 - 7:00pm Ensemble-in-Residence Brooklyn Rider

Hess Is More Live at Sound Of Copenhagen – Photo by Per Lange — In Situ: Hess is More
Apr 03, 2016 - 10:00pm 7 musicians, with their unique instrumentation and unorthodox arrangements create a very danceable yet at times puzzling concert. Catchy melodies and chant like lyrics can haunt you for days... Hess Is More started out as an electronic solo project for Danish musician Mikkel Hess. Through 6 albums and various tours and collaborations the project has developed into a full blown Transatlantic Live Music Ensemble, working with a more collective approach.

Photo by Sophie Zhai — In Situ: Francesca dePasquale
Apr 06, 2016 - 7:00pm Francesca dePasquale’s self-titled debut album encompasses works that scope from Bach to a new commission from composer Paola Prestini for violin and electronics, showing a wide range of artistic expression.

Scene 8 — Danny Felsenfeld Presents: Curiosity Cabinet
Apr 6, 2016 • 9:30pmThe Wild Called Maxx, the story of a progressive young-adult who leaves her job and journeys to the unknown jungle of metropolitan New York, is told through music, narration, and illustrations.

EricAndersen_6903_cPaoloBrillo — In Situ: Eric Andersen sings Albert Camus
Apr 16, 2016 - 9:30pm Eric Andersen’s concert will be a highlight of the upcoming NYC retrospective “CAMUS: A STRANGER IN THE CITY” a series of events from March 26 - April 19 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the French writer's one and only trip to the U.S.A in 1946.

David Torn: 05-08-15 SubCulture — The Alternative Guitar Summit Presents: Beauty and Noise
May 9, 2016 - 7:00pm The Alternative Guitar Summit, founded in 2010, is a yearly summit of daring, inventive players who emphasize new and unusual approaches to the guitar. The music we present celebrates the guitar's enormous range, beyond style or genre.

RYX_cover1_3000_300 — In Situ: RY X
Apr 20, 2016 - 10:00pm “Want to listen to something quite beautiful? Well you should get a load of RY X and the track ‘Berlin’ which will ripple across you like a hybrid Bon Iver & Matt Corby track. It’s not just good. It’s exquisite audio silk. Get it into your ears now.” -Your Music Radar (Australia)

New York Philharmonic — NY Phil Biennial: Very Young Composers
June 4, 2016 - 11:00am As it did in the inaugural NY PHIL BIENNIAL, the Philharmonic will highlight some of today’s youngest composers inVery Young Composers of the New York Philharmonic: The Continuum at National Sawdust. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers program, the performance will feature Philharmonic musicians and Teaching Artists performing the World Premieres of chamber works composed by Very Young Composers and Teaching Artists from the United States, Venezuela, South Korea, and Finland.

Brooklyn-RiderAlmanac-SarahSmall — NY Phil Biennial: Brooklyn Rider
June 3, 2016 - 7:00pm Brooklyn Rider will perform new and recent works written for them by American composers paying homage to New York City’s storied and experimental downtown music scene, past and present. Touching rock, electronic, and jazz, the program includes a World Premiere by founding member Colin Jacobsen (United States, b. 1978), a New York Premiere by Tyondai Braxton (United States, b. 1978), and a work by John Zorn (United States, b. 1953).

JENNIFER KOH — NY Phil Biennial: Jenny Koh
May 31, 2016 - 7:00pm Violinist Jennifer Koh will curate and perform in Shared Madness, featuring short works for solo violin from more than 30 composers who have gifted their music for the project. The works will be premiered over the course of two programs at National Sawdust.

JENNIFER KOH — NY Phil Biennial: Jenny Koh
May 24, 2016 - 7:00pm Violinist Jennifer Koh will curate and perform in Shared Madness, featuring short works for solo violin from more than 30 composers who have gifted their music for the project. The works will be premiered over the course of two programs at National Sawdust.

SpringRevolutionLayered — Spring Revolution
Join National Sawdust this March devoted to Rite, Ritual and Revolution in our first annual Spring Revolution series lasting the entire month. Using Stravinsky’s "Rite of Spring" as its anchor, NS artists re-imagine sounds through opera maverick composer Gluck, washing machines, a Stravinsky dance party, and a two-day Persian spring celebration, and much more.

In Situ: The Revolution
Mar 26, 2016 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of the evolution within their genre. For our debut, The Revolution brings you three Brooklyn based artists; FLOW STATE, Nikara Warren & L.atasha A.lcindor.

A012_C029_0919JX — David Krakauer’s Ancestral Groove Record Launch Night 2
Apr 08, 2016 - 7:00pmKrakauer’s band Ancestral Groove represents the next step in this unique musical evolution. Here’s Krakauer remixing Krakauer, hitting the road with his unmistakable sound, new arrangements of his signature repertoire and an electrifying 4-piece band.

Fonema Consort Photo1 — Miranda Cuckson Presents: Fonema Consort
May 01, 2016 - 1:00pm Fonema Consort examines contemporary approaches to the voice, revealing that phonology and semantics are powerful tools to develop expressive musical possibilities. The Chicago-based group is joined by violist Miranda Cuckson.

A012_C029_0919JX — David Krakauer’s Ancestral Groove Record Launch Night 1
Apr 07, 2016 - 9:30pm Krakauer’s band Ancestral Groove represents the next step in this unique musical evolution. Here’s Krakauer remixing Krakauer, hitting the road with his unmistakable sound, new arrangements of his signature repertoire and an electrifying 4-piece band.

NSdeckTEMv1 — NS+ Talk: Meredith Monk + Yuval Sharon
May 08, 2016 - 4:00pm This NS+ Talk brings together two mavericks in the world of music and art. Meredith Monk, whom Björk calls “one of the most important composers alive,” has created enthralling opera, music-theater, film, and installations over more than five decades. Fluidly creating new vocabularies of contemporary performance, this singular composer, singer, and director/choreographer has “mapped a world that never quite existed in the history of the arts” (The New Yorker).

Laurie-Anderson — NS+ Talk: Marina Abramovic + Laurie Anderson
May 01, 2016 - 1:00pm Merely mention their names, and indelible images, sounds, and experiences spring forth. These pioneering artists have blazed unexpected, highly individualistic paths, transforming artists and audiences in their wake.

NS+ Talk: Waltraud Meier + Patti Smith

Apr 17, 2016 • 5:00pm What does rock icon, writer, and visual artist Patti Smith do when she has a night off? Often, she seeks out the opera－especially if German soprano Waltraud Meier is on the stage. The two women share an incredible expressivity, a searching intellect, and a passionate commitment to their craft －inspiring in their fans an almost cult‐like fascination and devotion.

Nyro — NS+ Concert: Laura Nyro
Apr 22, 2016 - 7:30pm The music of Laura Nyro has been a touchstone for a generation of artists whose work fills our world, including director Michael Mayer, who fell hard for the singer-songwriter when he first heard her in college. The Tony-award winning director of stage, screen, and opera curates and hosts a National Sawdust+ evening that explores her influence.

Jad-Main — NS+ Concert: Jad Abumrad ft. Glenn Kotche, Caroline Shaw, and Nick Hakim
May 14, 2016 - 8:00pm What is MacArthur “Genius” award-winner Jad Abumrad listening to? The sometime composer and “co-host of the on-air amazingness that is ‘RadioLab’” (Wired) takes a break from entertaining his fans －who listen to him on 600 stations across the country and through the 8 million podcasts downloaded each month－ to host an evening that showcases his intriguing musical interests. Details to come soon!

AdamGopnik+Mellissa-Errico — NS+ Concert: Adam Gopnik
Mar 18, 2016 - 7:00pm For National Sawdust+, Gopnik hosts a program featuring Broadway star and close collaborator Melissa Errico (My Fair Lady, Amour), who will perform songs, new and old, that he has hand-picked. Selections will include songs from the one-woman show, Sing the Silence, which they co-wrote, as well as an eclectic mix of standards and original material co-written with Shire, Scott Frankel, and Peter Mills.

Spring Revolution: Revolutionary Songs Featuring Emel Mathlouthi and Jeffrey Zeigler
Mar 19th - 7:00pm Emel Mathlouthi presents a collection of the most virulent ones among songs from her first album, Kelmti Horra, written during the dictatorship years in Tunisia, calling for hope and Revolution, freedom and faith in truth and popular power.

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Mar 10, 2016 - 7:00pm Brooklyn-based composer-bandleader Darcy James Argue and his innovative 18-piece big band Secret Society set will be 40-minute piece "Tensile Curves," which was was written in honor of, and performed at, Newport's 60th anniversary in 2014.

Decoda by Caroline Bittencourt 003_bw — Carnegie Hall Presents: Neighborhood Concert: Decoda Cello Quartet
Apr 3, 2016 - 2:00pm Decoda is made up of virtuoso musicians, entrepreneurs, and passionate advocates for the arts. This performance features four Decoda cellists performing works by composers who include Ravel and Tina Davidson.

In Situ: Exo-Tech
Mar 2nd - 9:00pm Traversing fields somewhere between Liquid Liquid, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Plastic Ono Band and Talking Heads, EXO-TECH is a new age improvising ensemble pulling together some of New York and beyond’s most talented music luminaries.

Steven Stucky — Chris Grymes and Open G Records Present: In Celebration of Steven Stucky
Mar 2, 2016 - 7:00pm Chris Grymes presents an evening of works in celebration of the life of Steven Stucky. The program will include performances of music that inspired, and was inspired by the composer.

In Situ: Festival of Colors Warm Up
Mar 5, 2016 • 10:00pm Festival of Colors: Holi NYC celebrates the coming of spring with a diverse line up, art, and tons of vibrant colors.

Lesley Flanigan – Portrait (courtesy Lesley Flanigan) 1 – BW 3000×2400 — Spring Revolution: Jeffrey Zeigler Presents: Lesley Flanigan
Apr 01, 2016 - 7:00pm To celebrate her EP release of Hedera (for solo voice and electronics), Lesley Flanigan presents a special concert of music for voice, spanning early to modern approaches for the human instrument.

PitchBlak — Spring Revolution: PitchBlak Brass Band
Mar 30, 2016 - 9:00pm PitchBlak Brass Band uses the epic sounds of tubas, trombones, saxophones and other typically non-hip hop instruments in the spirit of The Roots and some of rap’s iconic live bands, to deliver an energy that samples, loops and breakbeats can’t always capture. Their blend of soundscapes and lyrical exuberance creates a grand adventure in listening, one that can hold the attention of music fans from across a fairly wide spectrum.

kontraband-flux-in_action — In Situ: Ljova and the Kontraband
Mar 06, 2016 - 5:00pm Moscow-born, New York-based composer, arranger and violist Lev ‘Ljova’ Zhurbin writes and plays music that evokes forgotten memories of things you think you’ve heard before but haven’t, while dreaming of Bartok and Piazzolla trundling through an early-morning Hungarian mist in a three-legged race to the village dance at the end of time. The ensemble features his close collaborators on accordion, bass and percussion, as well as the vocal of Inna Barmash.

Daughter_FJAllen1 — In Situ: Daughter
Apr 04, 2016 -9:00pm Question: just how do you go about trying to match an album as peerless, wholly immersive, and as widely acclaimed and adored as Daughter's 2013 debut 'If You Leave?' Simple: up the ante on every level. Building on that record's gloriously dark intensity, wracked emotion and come-hither diaphanous textures, 'Not To Disappear,' the new full-length release from the London-based trio -- singer/guitarist Elena Tonra, guitarist/producer Igor Haefeli and drummer Remi Aguilella -- is a mighty declaration of intent.

v2 Persian Arts Festival 10 Year Image-4 — Persian Arts Festival : : 10th Anniversary Celebration
Mar 18, 2016 - 9:00pm The Persian Arts Festival celebrates 10 years of showcasing the work of hundreds of Iranian American artists from around the world.

In Situ: Norman Krieger
Mar 20, 2016 - 12:00pm Krieger’s recital is a celebration of the virtuosic pianist/composers who, for the last two centuries, have written influential music for the piano. Through their work, Beethoven, Chopin, Gershwin and Lazarof celebrate the infinite myriads of dynamics, color, passion and what is often called the universal language.

Fellow Travelers illustration — In Situ: Fellow Travelers
Mar 20, 2016 - 4:00pm National Sawdust will host a piano-vocal showcase of scenes from Fellow Travelers, the first full-length opera by composer Gregory Spears and librettist Greg Pierce. Fellow Travelers premieres at Cincinnati Opera on June 17 with eight performances through July 10, directed by Kevin Newbury (Bel Canto, Kansas City Choir Boy, Doubt). At National Sawdust, a cast of five singers headed by tenor Aaron Blake and baritone Joseph Lattanzi will perform nearly an hour of excerpts from the eagerly awaited two-act work

Flesh Format Spiegelman-4997 copy — i.e. global Presents: Sahra Motalebi: Flesh, Format
Feb 25, 2016 - 10:00pm Sahra Motalebi is a visual artist, composer and vocalist based in New York who has shown her work internationally at MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, New Museum, Sculpture Center and has recorded 5 studio albums.

Matmos by Josh Sisk (1) — Spring Revolution: Billy Jones Presents: Matmos
Mar 19, 2016 - 10:00pm Currently based in Baltimore, the duo formed in San Francisco in the mid 1990s. Marrying the conceptual tactics and noisy textures of object-based musique concrete to a rhythmic matrix rooted in electronic pop music, the two quickly became known for their highly unusual sound sources.

ACJW Class Shoot — Carnegie Hall Presents: Ensemble ACJW
Mar 29, 2016 - 7:00pm Ensemble ACJW is made up of some of the finest young professional classical musicians from the United States and around the world who take part in a two-year fellowship program created in 2007 by Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education.

Experiential Orchestra Branding — Spring Revolution: Rite of Spring Dance Party
Mar 28, 2016 - 8:00pm The Experiential Orchestra invites the audience to dance to Stravinsky’s revolutionary Rite of Spring, conducted by James Blachly. Feel the power of the music as you engage physically with the raw energy and intensity of this famously riot-inducing ballet.

strangerformsposter-01 — In Situ: Son Lux Night 2
June 1, 2016 - 10:00pm Founded by producer-composer Ryan Lott in 2007, Son Lux “works at the nexus of several rarely-overlapping Venn Diagrams” (Pitchfork). With the recent additions to the band of guitarist-composer Rafiq Bhatia and drummer Ian Chang, Son Lux is now a ferocious trio both live and on record. Bones (June 23, 2015) is the first album documenting this new formation, and it draws from the three members’ unique and omnivorous musical vernaculars.

strangerformsposter-01 — In Situ: Son Lux Night 1
May 31, 2016 - 10:00pm Founded by producer-composer Ryan Lott in 2007, Son Lux “works at the nexus of several rarely-overlapping Venn Diagrams” (Pitchfork). With the recent additions to the band of guitarist-composer Rafiq Bhatia and drummer Ian Chang, Son Lux is now a ferocious trio both live and on record. Bones (June 23, 2015) is the first album documenting this new formation, and it draws from the three members’ unique and omnivorous musical vernaculars.

Theo Bleckmann presents: Sheila Jordan
Mar 17, 2016 - 7:00pm This performance will be a CD Release concert for the new/old release of a live recording from 1991, which was recorded at Kimball's Jazz Club in San Francisco. An evening of Jazz Classics, the performance will also feature some other original and standard compositions.

IMG_0481_cSashaArutyunova2013 — Mason Jar Music Presents: The Long Arc
Feb 26, 2016 - 8:00pm Featuring The Mason Jar Music Collective, Julia Easterlin, Flora Lichtman and Katherine Wells, Jon Tyson, Matt Porter and more.

crying-eye(small) — In Situ: Radical Face Night 1
May 26, 2016 - 9:30pmBen Cooper, AKA Radical Face, has spent over a decade crafting a trilogy of albums that is tied together in the theme of a fictitious family spanning over a century. The third installment of the album Trilogy, "The Family Tree: The Leaves" will be released on March 25th, 2016, and in celebration Radical Face will be doing a series of intimate concerts inspired and themed around characters and stories from The Family Tree.

crying-eye(small) — In Situ: Radical Face Night 2
May 27, 2016 - 9:30pm Ben Cooper, AKA Radical Face, has spent over a decade crafting a trilogy of albums that is tied together in the theme of a fictitious family spanning over a century. The third installment of the album Trilogy, "The The Family Tree: The Leaves" will be released on March 25th, 2016, and in celebration Radical Face will be doing a series of intimate concerts inspired and themed around characters and stories from The Family Tree.

Alpenglowhires1byEduardoSantana (1) (1) — In Situ: Alpenglow
Apr 1, 2016 - 10:00pm Alpenglow creates an experience of sound and light for the audience. They have translated their record into a visual display of light by using reverse projections through particulate matter.. The light environment is intended to visually represent the band’s sound, and to transform any performance space into a zone of dual-sensory immersion. After losing control of a few too many crowds in rock venues, Alpenglow’s Elori Saxl-Kramer created this homemade light show with the intention of bringing audience members further into the heads of the performers. In today’s world of the ubiquitous image, it can almost seem as though people can fully enjoy something that only appeals to one of their senses.

Sequence-076 — The Dave Harrington Group Live Improvised Scoring of “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”
Feb 5, 2016 - 10:00pmThe Dave Harrington Group embars on a sonic odyssey with the great classic, THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI. Bringing free jazz, drone, ambient, and film music to bear on this iconic classic of the silent era, the DHG will re-construct a sonic world for this night only - a singular experience of the film that lives and breathes.

Magos Herrera 1st Thursdays presents: Aaron Goldberg with Leon Parker
Feb 4, 2016 - 9:30pm
Described by the New York Times as a "post-bop pianist of exemplary taste and range," Aaron Goldberg has made his name as one of jazz’s most compelling pianists, both as a bandleader and frequent collaborator with Joshua Redman, Wynton Marsalis, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Guillermo Klein, among others.

Angelica-Negron_Press-Pic-01 — ACO Composers OutFront! presents: Angélica Negrón
Feb 3, 2016 - 7pm
Preview of the new song cycle "El Colapso" by composer & multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón. A collection of ambient influenced songs about escapism, delusion, longing and mortality written for voice, electronics, custom made instruments and Latin American folk instruments. This evening will mark the premiere performance of this collection of songs as a whole and will feature performances by the composer accompanied by Bayoán Ríos on Andean instruments, Shayna Dunkelman on xylosynth and percussion, robotic instruments designed by Nick Yulman, and other surprise collaborators.

THE TELL VOL. 7 — The Tell Vol. 7
Apr 10, 2016 • 8pm
A monthly storytelling series hosted and curated by raconteur Michael Leviton.

The Tell Vol.6 — The Tell Vol. 6
Mar 20, 2015 • 8:00pm A monthly storytelling series hosted and curated by raconteur Michael Leviton.

Spring Revolution: House of Waters
Mar 12, 2016 - 10:00pm House of Waters brings its radical and ambitious music to National Sawdust for the first time. Virtuosos Max ZT (hammered dulcimer), and Moto Fukushima (6-string electric bass) partner with drummer Richie Barshay (Herbie Hancock) for a collaboration not to be missed. Performing all original music based on their studies in West Africa, India, and Japan, House of Waters has been called “One of most original bands on the planet.”

Orphic Moments Main Image — Spring Revolution: Anthony Roth Costanzo Presents: Orphic Moments Day 2
Mar 24, 2016 - 7:00pm An immersive and interdisciplinary evening presented by National Sawdust and Manhattan School of Music, Orphic Moments is a pioneering collaboration that will be one of the largest performance events at National Sawdust to date. Conductor and composer Orphic Moment, a surreal banquet by Fitch and James Beard award-winning chef , and a full-scale presentation of C.W. Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice.

ZachBrock_Katz_D8C0023a_V1-edit — Martha Redbone Presents: Zach Brock
Mar 13, 2016 - 7:00pm Curated by songwriting team Martha Redbone and Aaron Whitby, the Descendants will present music by musicians with deeply anchored roots, visceral connections to the past in their music and a forward thinking approach to creating art.

Zach Brock is heralded as “the pre-eminent improvising violinist of his generation,” Zach Brock is an award-winning jazz violinist and composer whose music draws on the traditions of jazz, classical, world, and popular music. Downbeat Magazine’s 61st Annual Critics Poll named Zach it’s “Rising Star” Violinist of 2013. His reputation as a sideman has spread through collaborations with legendary bassist Stanley Clarke, Grammy-award-winning super-group Snarky Puppy, Phil Markowitz, Dave Liebman, and more recently the Martha Redbone Roots Project!

Ivan Melon Lewis 02 — Magos Herrera Presents: 1st Thursdays feat. Ivan Melon Lewis
Mar 3th - 9:30pm Ivan “Melon” Lewis quartet is a cuban band that combine the very traditional and most contemporary cuban music. Performing well-known songs as well as original compositions, the group travel through different sounds and harmonies while keep a strong link with their cuban roots. Boleroes, cha-cha-chá or danzones are some of the genres that we can hear from the group, being its very fine performing one of the most remarkable aspects of the quartet.

Timbalooloo — Jazz for Kids: Timbalooloo
Feb 6th, 2016 - 12pm
Oran Etkin is a critically acclaimed clarinetist and composer who can be heard on major concert stages around the world and numerous recordings including a recent Grammy Award Winning compilation. In this special Mardi-Gras themed concert, Etkin will take the children on a journey, discovering the music and culture of New Orleans and creating a big second-line parade!

Kaoru2 — In Situ: Kaoru Watanabe
Feb 29, 2016 - 8:00pm On his new album Neó (pronounced neh-o), composer, taiko and shinobue player Kaoru Watanabe artfully blends the sounds of old Japan- of the matsuri festival and the fantastical worlds of noh and kabuki theaters- with complex rhythmic and improvisational elements of jazz. Featuring the taiko drums, shinobue bamboo flutes, various Japanese percussion and voice, Watanabe and his ensemble, also called Neó, will perform mostly original works that re-imagine traditional music, explore the concept of yuugen (an ephemeral dream state) as well as deal with personal history and contemporary society.

The characters for Neó ?? can be interpreted as the "beginning of sound" or even "unified sound". Appropriately, Neó also sounds like neo, suggesting an innovative approach to these ancient instruments.

With special guest Alicia Hall Moran.

Anderson&Roe-edit — Spring Revolution: Rite of Spring with Anderson & Roe
Mar 9, 2016 - 7:00pm The balletic interplay of four hands on a single keyboard is showcased in this program of stylistic, choreographic, and sonic variety. Stravinsky’s own four-hand arrangement of The Rite of Spring features the powerhouse Anderson & Roe Piano Duo intertwined in visceral struggle and communion (reflective of the work’s ballet origins), while dances by Gluck and Piazzolla (in Anderson & Roe’s own imaginative arrangements, inflected with extended techniques) reveal the intimacy and eroticism of duet playing. With adventurous vision and astounding physicality, Anderson & Roe capture the thrill of the dance.

David Amram — Martha Redbone Presents: David Amram
Mar 11, 2016 - 7:00pm This concert will introduce new material with featured performance by legendary David Amram, a pioneer of jazz French Horn and the NY Philharmonic's First Composer in Residence (1966). Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, written many scores for Broadway theater and film, including the scores for the films Splendor in the Grass and The Manchurian Candidate; two operas, including the Holocaust opera The Final Ingredient, a comic opera Twelfth Night with a libretto by Joseph Papp; and the score for the 1959 film Pull My Daisy, narrated by novelist Jack Kerouac. He is also the author of three books: Vibrations, an autobiography; Offbeat: Collaborating With Kerouac, a memoir; and Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat, all published by Paradigm Publishers. He is currently writing his fourth book, "David Amram: The Next 80 Years." He also plays piano, numerous flutes and whistles, percussion, and dozens of folkloric instruments from 25 countries, as well as being an improvisational lyricist. He is one of BMI's twenty most performed composers of concert music of the last thirty years.

Martha and Aaron met David in 2004 when they shared the stage at the Fillmore West in San Francisco in support for America Indian Movement leader/co-founder Dennis Banks’ Annual Sacred Run Aniishinabe Great Canoe Race fundraiser for Native American causes. They reconnected with David through Grammy-winning John McEuen, producer of Martha Redbone Roots Project CD “The Garden of Love – Songs of William Blake’ in which David was a featured guest on “A Dream” playing a beautiful flute solo.

Martha_Redbone-edit — Martha Redbone Presents: Martha Redbone
Mar 12, 2016 - 7:00pm First in a series of weekends curated by songwriting team Martha Redbone and Aaron Whitby, the Descendants will present music by musicians with deeply anchored roots, visceral connections to the past in their music and a forward thinking approach to creating art.

AnnieSherman-edit — Kai Kight Presents: Annie Sherman
Mar 25th - 7:00pm Soprano-actress Annie Sherman brings together contemporary chamber music by New Yorker's own Christopher Cerrone and Weimar Cabaret by Kurt Weill in an evening exploring love in two pivotal generations. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as perky sensational and finalist in the Kurt Weill Foundation's international Lotte Lenya Competition (2015), Annie employs her cross-genre versatility and a knack for story-telling to bring to life Cerrone and Weill's characters as they grapple with identity and love in their own rapidly changing worlds. Featuring the National Sawdust premiere of Christopher Cerrone's I will learn to love a person (2013) with poetry by Tao Lin, Annie will be joined by Douglas Sumi on piano, Ian Rosenbaum on percussion, and Isabel Kim on clarinet.

ii_1528af37a5d7263b — New Amsterdam Presents: Michael Mizrahi Album Release Show
Mar 26, 2016 - 7:00pm Revered pianist Michael Mizrahi will release his sophomore album of solo piano works, Currents, on March 25th via New Amsterdam Records. The album brings together six impeccably performed and recorded new American piano works, almost all written specifically with Mizrahi’s singular sound and approach in mind, and featuring composers Sarah Kirkland Snider, Troy Herion, Mark Dancigers, Asha Srinivasan, Missy Mazzoli, and Patrick Burke. As with Mizrahi’s widely acclaimed New Amsterdam debut The Bright Motion (2012), Currents showcases the continued vitality of the piano’s exceptionally rich musical heritage while exploring its capability to express the most contemporary of musical ideas. The result is a significant addition to the solo piano repertory of the 21st century that, as the title suggests, embodies movement forward -- building on the great piano works of the past while propelling the solo piano repertoire ahead in a new and energized direction.

Orphic Moments Main Image — Spring Revolution: Anthony Roth Costanzo Presents: Orphic Moments Day 1
Mar 23, 2016 - 7:00pm An immersive and interdisciplinary evening presented by National Sawdust and Manhattan School of Music, Orphic Moments is a pioneering collaboration that will be one of the largest performance events at National Sawdust to date. Conductor and composer Orphic Moment, a surreal banquet by Fitch and James Beard award-winning chef , and a full-scale presentation of C.W. Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice.

HOWL Q wk1 — Ian Rosenbaum Presents: HOWL
Feb 28, 2016 - 7pm HOWL's world premiere production of ARABY for cello and voice, explores the connection between music, language, and theatre. This time James Joyce's short story "Araby" is front and center - a compelling and universal tale about first love and the loss of innocence.

IMG_0493_cSashaArutyunova2013 — Mason Jar Music Presents: The Long Arc Pt. 3
Feb 27, 2016 - 8pm Session Three: Watching the Watchmen - Reflections of the Evolution of Race, and Justice.
Featuring The Mason Jar Music Collective, Ernest Baker, Jonathan Seale, Matthew Harder, Gabriel Dance and more.

TSIB_NHIF_Jason_cSashaArutyunova — Mason Jar Music Presents: The Long Arc Pt.2
Feb 27, 2016 - 4pm Session Two: The Media and the Message - Reflections on the Evolution of Image, Sound, and Technology. Featuring The Mason Jar Music Collective, Russell Durham, Bianca Giaever, Bob Sacha and more.

IMG_0481_cSashaArutyunova2013 — Mason Jar Music Presents: The Long Arc Pt.1
Feb 26, 2016 - 8:00pm Session One: The Warp and the Woof - Reflections on the Evolution of Science, Art and Faith

Featuring The Mason Jar Music Collective, Julia Easterlin, Flora Lichtman and Katherine Wells, Jon Tyson, Matt Porter and more.

Andy Akiho Presents: Avaloch Farm Music Institute

Feb 23, 2016 - 7pm Curator Andy Akiho found himself at Avaloch Farm Music Institute last year. There, he discovered a deep well of collaboration, creative risks, and community among contemporary and classical musicians alike. Bringing musicians together from this residency - New Morse Code, Aizuri Quartet, aTonal Hits, loadbang, Longleash, Marika Hughes, and the Sebastians - with compositions by Schumann, Corelli, Vivaldi, Robert Honstein, Reiko Fueting, John Adams, Caroline Shaw, and Andy Akiho, will give audience members a glimpse into the fruitful artistic process.

Gity_137 — NS Composer In Residence: Music of Gity Razaz
Feb 22, 2016 - 7pm
“The Call Across the Valley of Not-Knowing” is a dramatic song cycle, illuminating the mystical and otherworldly union of man and woman in the context of a distorted love poem. The text, by the award-winning American poet Galway Kinnell, conjures a distorted image of love and the idea of soulmates, and together, the poems tell a non-linear story about finding and inevitably losing one’s soul mate, against the backdrop of a rooted, current relationship. The concert also features “Shadow Lines,” a work for solo cello and electronics exploring looping and multi-layered textures, as well as “Duo for Violin and Piano.” All works are composed by New York-based composer Gity Razaz who is one of four artists-in-residence during the inaugural year of National Sawdust.

The Tell Vol. 5 — The Tell Vol. 5
Feb 21, 2015 • 8pm
A monthly storytelling series hosted and curated by raconteur Michael Leviton.

percussion-festival — Ian Rosenbaum/Andy Akiho Present: Percussion Festival
Feb 20, 2016 - 5pm
Time Travelers is a percussion quartet composed of Ian Rosenbaum and 3 of the worlds leading percussionists: Svet Stoyanov, Ayano Kataoka, and Ji Hye Jung. Join for the world premiere of Andy Akiho's Pillar IV. Also performing Paul Lansky's Threads and Thierry de Mey's Musique de Tables.

3_Wet_Ink_by_Alexander_Perrelli — In Situ: Wet Ink Ensemble
Jan 20, 2016 - 9:30pm
The next installment of Wet Ink's ongoing Portrait Concerts series celebrates the work of Anthony Braxton for his 70th birthday. Showcasing the extraordinary breadth & scope of Braxton's output, from the early Stockhausen-influenced chamber works to mid-career quartet works, as well as the development of his “Ghost Trance Music” series through the large ensemble brings together an incredible lineup of interpreters and improvisers for the evening.

thrilwell — Jeffrey Zeigler Presents: JG Thirlwell and Sarah Lipstate
Feb 14, 2016 - 10pm
The new duo collaboration JG Thirlwell and Sarah Lipstate was inaugurated with a performance at John Zorn's club The Stone for a series in honor of William S. Burroiughs centenary. They were subsequently invited to play at the NMASS Festival in Austin, Texas, a benefit for the David Lynch Foundation and the Klipschorn Nights fest in Ridgewood, Queens. In this project Thirlwell plays synthesizers and sequencers and Lipstate plays guitar through a myriad of effects. The busy pair are slowly in the process of recording an album for 2016 release, to be followed by a European tour.

1220bfede8a01821e0c7c0027dd74 — Theo Bleckmann Presents: Shai Maestro
Feb 18, 2016 - 9:30pm After touring for the last 5 years with his trio and collaborating with the A-list of jazz musicians in the world, Israel born pianist Shai Maestro presents a first solo concert in NYC. Exploring and deconstructing his original music.

Trio-34_v3.1[7] — Daniel Felsenfeld Presents: The Parhelion Trio
Feb 18, 2016 - 7pm The Parhelion Trio – Sarah Carrier (flute), Ashleé Miller (clarinet), and Andrea Christie (piano) – Parhelion regularly collaborates with living composers to create new works that explore the ensemble’s unique potential while incorporating original arrangements from the canonical repertoire.

Ekmeles-Performing-1 — Miranda Cuckson Presents: An Evening of Luigi Nono feat. Ekmeles
Feb 17, 2016 - 7pm A program of works relating to Luigi Nono, featuring music by Italian composers as well as Nono’s aesthetic forebears in the Franco-Flemish school. With eight voices, it will showcase the virtuosity of the Ekmeles vocalists in a range from the highest soprano to basso profundo.

SONYC-1-7×350[1] — Jeffrey Zeigler Presents: SONYC
Feb 12, 2016 - 8pm SONYC – String Orchestra of New York City, New York's leading conductor less string orchestra, comes to National Sawdust with works by four East–Coast composers: Aaron Jay Kernis'- "Sarabanda in Memoriam" for a Brooklyn premiere. This piece showcases the lyricism and melodic gifts that has earned Kernis so much praise. From Joel Friedmann, we have the New York premiere of"Movable Home" – an energetic and virtuosic work that juxtaposes the intimacy of the string quartet with power of the orchestra. This work was co-commissioned by SONYC. Reena Esmail is drawing on her Indian roots in "Teen Murti" – a sonic response to the famous sculpture in front of Nehru's residence – a New York premiere. Finally, "Blues for Black Hoodies" by Randy Woolf is a SONYC commission through a Meet the Composer grant. This work uses the poetry of Wordisbon alongside urban rhythms to make a powerful political statement.

NSplaceholderimages15a — Rinde Eckert presents: Seven Natural Phenomena
Feb 10, 2016 - 7pm
A music work in seven parts based on seven
different texts for five musicians: Rinde Eckert on
vocals and various instruments and things, Will Bernard on guitar
and keyboard and other things, Kenny Wollesen on drums and
percussion and things, Don Falzone on bass and other things,
and Jeffrey Zeigler on cello and other things.

Magos Herrera 1st Thursdays presents: Aaron Goldberg with Leon Parker
Feb 4, 2016 - 9:30pm
Described by the New York Times as a "post-bop pianist of exemplary taste and range," Aaron Goldberg has made his name as one of jazz’s most compelling pianists, both as a bandleader and frequent collaborator with Joshua Redman, Wynton Marsalis, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Guillermo Klein, among others.

Angelica-Negron_Press-Pic-01 — ACO Composers OutFront! presents: Angélica Negrón
Feb 3, 2016 - 7pm
Preview of the new song cycle "El Colapso" by composer & multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón. A collection of ambient influenced songs about escapism, delusion, longing and mortality written for voice, electronics, custom made instruments and Latin American folk instruments. This evening will mark the premiere performance of this collection of songs as a whole.

MATTE Showcase Flyer | Jan 27th — National Sawdust & MATTE Present: Dream Koala, Oyinda, & Kissey
Jan 27, 2016 - 8pm
Starting January 27th, MATTE presents a six part year-long showcase series at the National Sawdust. For the first showcase we are excited to host British-Nigerian electronic R&B artist / producer Oyinda. Accompanying her will be ethereal Parisian heartthrob Dream Koala as well as an opening and closing set from the Swedish multitalented Kissey.

Natalia Schwien
Natalia Schwien is writer, producer, & vocalist. Curator & Producer at National Sawdust. Director of VIA Records, a multimedia driven record label, which she launched under non-profit performance company VisionIntoArt.

The-Tell-Vol.-4 — The Tell Vol. 4
Jan 17, 2015 • 8pm
A monthly storytelling series hosted and curated by raconteur Michael Leviton.

Richard_Eyre_bette_2609119a — Richard Eyre’s NS+ Concert: Nico Muhly, Alicia Hall Moran, and Magos Herrera + Gyan Riley
Jan 22, 2016 • 7:00pm
Distinguished director Richard Eyre hosts the second National Sawdust+ concert on Friday, January 22 at 7pm. The wonderfully eclectic program, curated by the award-winning British auteur, will explore his musical passions, from classical to contemporary to flamenco-influenced jazz.

In Situ: Alison Buchanan with David Berry & The Ritz Chamber Players

Jan 18, 2016 - 4pm - FREE
Known for a ‘luscious voice with incredible richness and clarity’ soprano, Alison Buchanan has been regaling audiences around the world with her versatility, ‘great dramatic flair’, musicality and ‘depth of emotion’.

Timbalooloo — Jazz for Kids: Timbalooloo
Jan 18, 2016 - 12pm
Learning about the history of Jazz through song and play.

jar_fshanahan_10-2015_2402 — New Amsterdam Presents: Finnegan Shanahan & Contemporaneous’ Album Release
Mar 21, 2016 - 7:00pm
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Finnegan Shanahan wrote his song cycle The Two Halves for the powerhouse ensemble Contemporaneous. Based on a map ca.1852 of the Hudson River Railroad, The Two Halves exists in a world somewhere between memory and imagination. It is divided into six songs, each one its own small piece of a dream-like narrative — beginning along the Hudson River and gradually moving out over the Catskills, hurtling across the country to the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, and eventually leaving the planet. Join Shanahan and Contemporaneous to celebrate the release of their new album on New Amsterdam Records.

IA-Banner,-bigger — Jeffrey Zeigler Presents: Invisible Anatomy
Jan 28, 2016 - 7:00pm
DISSECTIONS features six interconnected pieces written and performed by Invisible Anatomy that probe the destruction, transformation, and intimacy inherent in peeling away our surfaces. Derived from a collaboratively generated text and presented with dramatic visuals, these newly composed works trace a line from ornate to bare, taking the scalpel to instruments, gestures, and language.

image001.png@01D15534.FFB6B780 — New York Philharmonic Presents: CONTACT!
Mar 7, 2016 • 7:30pm
Join the New York Philharmonic in Brooklyn for this season’s last CONTACT! concert at National Sawdust, “the sort of place that makes a new-music aficionado want to bring a sleeping bag and move in for a few weeks” (New York magazine). Hosted and curated by Esa-Pekka Salonen, “The Messiaen Connection” explores Messiaen’s singular voice and its impact on generations of composers to follow.

HSBenjaminSuomela — New York Philharmonic Presents: CONTACT!
Feb 1, 2016 • 7:30pm
Join the New York Philharmonic for a peek inside their Composer-in-Residence Esa-Pekka Salonen’s notebook of influences. You’ll hear his own Floof, plus music by his mentors Donatoni and Castiglioni as well as Lutosławski, “for years the most central influence of my life.”

Sybarite5_Credit_Brian-David-Braun — Ljova and Simone Dinnerstein presents: SYBARITE 5
Feb 11, 2016 - 9:30pm
Sybarite5 always moves forward, even when looking back to their classical roots. Inspired by J.S. Bach's solo suites, Look Back / Move Forward assembles new suites for today. The centerpiece is a suite pulsing with energy and life commissioned by Sybarite5 from six composers: Kenji Bunch, Eric Byers, Mohammed Fairouz, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Michi Wiancko, & Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin, each asked to contribute one movement. The group’s favorite custom made suites – Radiohead transcriptions, Piazzolla Tangos and Dan Visconti’s Hitchhiker’s Tales – round out this eclectic mix. The Arizona Daily Star declared that Sybarite5 audiences should “expect an experience that will satisfy your inner rock star...” We’ll leave it at that.

banner-01 — Wikitongues Presents: International Mother Language Day
Feb 21, 2016 - 1:00pm This event is in celebration of the UNESCO observation for language rights, the International Mother Language day. Join us for a day celebrating multiculturalism as experienced through music and poetry from around the world.

InsightALT-no-text-square — ALT Alumni: Composers & Librettists in Concert
Feb 7, 2016 - 2:30pm
ALT Alumni: Composers & Librettists in Concert features work of alumni of American Lyric Theater’s Composer Librettist Development Program (CLDP), the only full time training program for emerging operatic writers in the country. The CLDP has been the nucleus of ALT’s mission to bring “New opera to new audiences” since its inception in 2007, and has gone on to cultivate the success of American opera’s most innovative and exciting contemporary voices. Join us on February 7th to experience excerpts from five powerful operas:

Kinan Azmeh Alone — VIA Ferus Festival: “Home Within” with Kinan Azmeh & Kevork Mourad
Jan 17, 2016 • 1:00pm
A 60-minute audio-visual performance, Home Within is the newest project of Syrian composer and clarinetist, Kinan Azmeh, and Syrian-Armenian visual artist, Kevork Mourad. In this work, art and music develop in counterpoint to each other, creating an impressionistic reflection on the Syrian revolution and its aftermath. Rather than following a narrative, the artists document specific moments in Syria's recent history and reach into their emotional content in a semi-abstract way. The cornerstone of the project was the single sound-image piece, "a sad morning, every morning," released in March 2012.

Epiphany Alone Jan.14 — VIA Ferus Festival: VIA Showcase “Epiphany” & “Lullaby Movement”
Jan 15, 2016 • 7:00pm
Paola Prestini's Epiphany: The Cycle of Life with the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, directed by Francisco Nunez & featuring Ian Rosenbaum, and Sophia Brous' Lullaby Movement, featuring David Coulter and Leo Abrahams (Aus/UK), a contemporary project exploring lullaby rituals from around the world, which was commissioned by Urbantheatre Projects for the Sydney Festival 2015.

Jan 16 alone — VIA Ferus Festival: Kelsey Lu & Shamar Watt
Jan 16, 2016 • 8:00pm
In anticipation of the upcoming release of her first solo EP, composer, vocalist & cellist Kelsey Lu invites the audience into "River Blues" - an immersive exploration of the meaning of home through voice, cello, and guitar.

She is joined by choreographer/dancer Shamar Watt, with dance curated by award-winning choreographer Zimbabwean nora chipaumire, in an extended reimagining of "Blue" off her upcoming release. Watt then performs a solo first look into a new dance project.

Hafez Alone — VIA Ferus Festival: Hafez Modirzadeh’s “Pulsivity Works 2”
Jan 14, 2016 • 9:30pm
"Pulsivity Works 2" features solo saxophone (Modirzadeh) with piano (Leo Genovese), violin (Cornelius Dufallo) and cello (Jeffrey Zeigler), unfolding a selection of recent works, several of which are premieres illuminating Modirzadeh's most current concepts of Pulsivity and Cyclic Refraction. In addition to excerpts from his last Ferus premiere of "Resonance IVI", for this performance, Modirzadeh has arranged a special quartet of "Two Friends in Ankara" in dedication to Ertugrul Bayraktar, the eminent Turkish composer, who originally wrote the duet to celebrate their musical friendship.

Agata FF Alone — VIA Ferus Festival: Agata Zubel’s “Between”
Jan 14, 2016 - 7:00pm
Named by The New York Times as one of Europe’s most accomplished and internationally successful contemporary classical composers and vocalists, this evening pairs Polish vocalist/composer Agata Zubel with cellist Jeffrey Zeigler & choreographer/dancer Ashley Robicheaux.

Road-Maps — Irving M. Klein International String Competition Winners: A California Road Trip
Jan 13 - 8pm
This concert features past winners of the acclaimed Irving M. Klein International String Competition which, since 1986, has helped to launch the careers of aspiring young string players, including many of today's most prominent soloists and orchestral players. Based in San Francisco, the Klein Competition is held each June at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

David K Alone — VIA Ferus Festival: “Breath & Hammer” with David Krakauer and Kathleen Tagg
Jan 17, 2016 • 3:00pm
David Krakauer & Kathleen Tagg’s arrangements of ‘simple songs’ - “Breath & Hammer” - by composers such as New York-based visionary John Zorn, Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, Cuban percussionist Roberto Rodriguez, as well as original compositions by Krakauer and Tagg, traditional South African music, and klezmer - creating a bridge of traditional sounds and the ever intermingling cross-cultural music of the future.

Chairlift_Studio_Shoot11171-small — Billy Jones Presents: CHAIRLIFT
Jan 26, 2016 - 9pm
Critically acclaimed pop duo Chairlift has released new music in the form of the infinitely danceable “Ch-Ching.” The R&B laced, vibrating drum infused pop track serves as the first musical offering from their forthcoming album Moth, which will be released in January 2016 via Columbia Records. Although the single is the first work to be released from Chairlift in three years, the duo – comprised of writer/producers and multi-instrumentalists Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly – has hardly been quiet. They collaborated with Beyoncé on her groundbreaking self-titled album via the track “No Angel,” which was written and produced by Caroline and co-produced by Patrick. Caroline released and toured Arcadia, a self-produced solo album under the alias Ramona Lisa and collaborated with SBTRKT, Blood Orange and others, while Patrick produced and collaborated with artists such as Solange Knowles, Wet, Kelela, and Tei Shi.

cover — Kai Kight with Patrick Belaga
Jan 30, 2016 - 9:00pm
As a classical violinist turned innovative composer, Kai Kight uses music as a metaphor to inspire individuals and organizations across the world to compose paths of imagination and fulfillment. A product of Stanford University’s design and engineering program, the d. School, Kai remains fascinated by the leaders, artists, and companies who dare to be different. As both a Mayfield Fellow and Kleiner Perkins Design Fellow, Kai has proven himself as a leader of the next generation of innovative and entrepreneurial talent. His mesmerizing and original violin performance beautifully becomes a sonic metaphor for the core of his message: to inspire people to compose unique ideas in a world that celebrates conformity. He joins forces with cellist Patrick Belaga in an evening of original works with a taste for improvisations.

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Jan 29, 2016 - 7:00pm
The "Mentoring Recital Series" at National Sawdust gives established artists the chance to share their talent and experience with a younger artist of their choosing. By presenting them in a format that also includes a discussion with the artists, we break down the wall between audience and performers, while enhancing the experience on many levels. The young artist gains prestige by being associated with the "Named Recognized" artist, and the audience gets insight to the music and performance technique. I am thrilled that Leon Fleisher has agreed to kick off this series because not only is he the consummate artist, educator and performer, his wit and knowledge are legendary. Please join us for what will be a fantastic evening of music and talk.

black-wall-street — Alicia Hall Moran: Black Wall Street
Jan 11, 2016 - 8:00pm
Black Wall Street is a staged concert depicting a story about Money and the lesser-told story of Black-American Finance in New York City--and beyond. Pulling memory from her own childhood with her own Wall Street father, and adding to that events drawn from documents on 18th century New York found in The Schomburg Center's The Black New Yorkers, writings on Oklahoma's Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 which plundered the wealthy Black neighborhood known as Black Wall Street, issues of Black Enterprise Magazine from the 1980's, books by and about Black financiers, and articles from The Wall Street Journal in the 21st century, Ms. Moran will re-create "the office" of the past, and perhaps even, the future.

People’s-Champs-Photo-1.1 — Found Sound Nation Presents: People’s Champs & BCAM
Feb 13, 2016 - 8:00pm
People's Champs & BCAM's performance is the culmination of a two-week music, production & songwriting workshop. In this very special collaboration, students from Bedford Stuyvesant's BCAM High School will be led by experimental-dance-soul-funk collective People's Champs and trombonist / OneBeat exchange alum Alex Asher in the creation of new, original music.

Fiction-Issue-cover — Brooklyn Rider Presents: Music from The Fiction Issue and more with Gabriel Kahane
Feb 7, 2016 - 7:00pmEnsemble-in-Residence Brooklyn Rider is joined by composer/pianist/singer/songwriter Gabriel Kahane, and will play selections from their new collaborative album, The Fiction Issue. The performance will feature excerpts from Kahane's Come On All You Ghosts with the composer on vocals, as well as Bradbury Studies, a new quartet-only composition he wrote for Brooklyn Rider based on “Bradbury (304 Broadway)” from his album The Ambassador, and other songs from The Ambassador.

Matt_Parker_Present_Time_Album_Cover-Photo_by_Javier_Oddo — Anna Clyne Presents: Matt Parker Present Time
Feb 11, 2016 - 7:00pm
The past, present, and future of jazz brilliantly coexist on “Present Time”, the second album by tenor and soprano saxophone virtuoso & visionary composer Matt Parker. Parker and his fellow travelers – bassist Alan Hampton & drummer Reggie Quinerly – constantly shift the listener’s awareness of time through music, from the march rhythms of New Orleans to the stark freedom of group improvisation.Special Guests include Michael Arthur, live drawings, and Emily Braden, vocals.

invoke—photo-credit-Jonathan-Timmes-3 — Kai Kight Presents: invoke
Jan 31, 2016 - 7:00pm
Invoke presents original tunes for multi-instrumental string quartet - written by and for the group - including works from their debut recording “Souls in the Mud”, and upcoming release “Furious Creek”. Presented by violinist & entrepreneur Kai Kight.

Trip-4 — Adam Abeshouse Presents: David Starobin & Robert Belinic
Jan 31, 2016 - 2:00pm
This program features two of today's leading classical guitar virtuosi- the American, David Starobin, and the Croatian, Robert Belinic. Starobin opens with music by the shadowy early 19th century Czech composer, Wenzeslaus Matiegka, performed on a Viennese guitar. Robert Belinic then presents the New York premiere of Nikita Koshkin's Sonata No. 1 (1998), Russia's leading composer for guitar. Staying with the Russian theme, Belinic and Starobin close the concert with Fernando Sor's final work- his guitar duo, "Souvenir de Russie, op. 63".

Jo-Lawry-photo-by-Julie-Skarratt-6 — Theo Bleckmann Presents: Jo Lawry
Jan 29, 2016 - 10:00pm
Heartbreak meets humor in Jo’s sparkling original songs, and for this performance she will be joined by Alan Hampton (bass/vocals), Will Vinson (saxophone/keyboards) and Nate Wood (vocals/drums). In praise of Taking Pictures, the New York Times called Jo a “singer of dazzling self-possession”, The Sydney Morning Herald described her as “effervescent and riveting” and Time Out New York called her “one of our favorite discoveries of the past year.”

nunc — Miranda Cuckson Presents: NUNC
Jan 24, 2016 - 8:00pm
Nunc, directed by NS Curator Miranda Cuckson, performs an evening of chamber works, including two world premieres - a sextet by Diego Tedesco and a work for voice and string trio by Jonathan Dawe, featuring soprano Mary Mackenzie. Also featured will be the New York premiere of an octet for strings by David Fulmer, Elliott Carter’s “Four Lauds” played by Cuckson, and Michael Jarrell’s “Eco III” for soprano and harp. Closing the program will be Iannis Xenakis’ “Aroura” for 12 strings (1971), featuring a new mashup of NY artists.

Axel Dupeux — Jeffrey Zeigler Presents: Only Breath
Feb 05, 2016 - 7:00pm
Jeffrey Zeigler returns to National Sawdust with a program of new works for solo cello which will include two World Premiers by Brooklyn based composers JG Thirlwell and The National’s Bryce Dessner. Zeigler will also give the New York Premier of Tangled in Plastic Currents by Derek Charke as well as new arrangements of works by David T. Little and Douglas J. Cuomo.

04_Knells_Michael_Yu — David T Little Presents: The Knells
Jan 21, 2016 - 8:00pm
Software artist Joshue Ott brings graphic animation into “The Knells” with Andrew McKenna Lee in search of one's perception of the passage of time, the illusive nature of progress, the power of perspective in deriving meaning from one's own life experience employing an armada of instruments and sounds to explore a wide variety of musical spaces, with the constant of a female vocal trio that delivers beautiful, unearthly, and hypnotic incantations.

Gity_004-8×10 — NS Composer In Residence: Music of Gity Razaz
Feb 19, 2016 - 7pm
Hailed by the New York Times as “ravishing and engulfing”, Gity Razaz’s music ranges from concert solo pieces to large symphonic works. She is an active collaborator involved in projects across disciplines from modern dance to electro-acoustic sonic landscapes. Ms. Razaz’s music has been commissioned and performed by VisionIntoArt, Metropolis Ensemble, National Ballet School of Canada, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Music from Copland House, Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, former cellist of Kronos Quartet Jeffrey Zeigler, New York Choreographic Institute, American Festival for the Arts, Amsterdam Cello Biennale, and cellist Inbal Segev among others.

Mous2 — Beth Morrison Projects and HERE’s PROTOTYPE Present: SAGA
Jan 9, 2016 - 7:00pm
Referring to the epics composed in Iceland and Greenland between the 12th -14th centuries, and to Sága, the Norse goddess of history & storytelling, this evening stands midway between a modern opera & a song cycle. Dez Mona tells stories about the soul, and goes in search of their love for the land, a home, and the world in which they live.

Mous2 — Beth Morrison Projects and HERE’s PROTOTYPE Present: SAGA
Jan 9, 2016 - 7:00pm
Referring to the epics composed in Iceland and Greenland between the 12th -14th centuries, and to Sága, the Norse goddess of history & storytelling, this evening stands midway between a modern opera & a song cycle. Dez Mona tells stories about the soul, and goes in search of their love for the land, a home, and the world in which they live.

Mous2 — Beth Morrison Projects and HERE’s PROTOTYPE Present: SAGA
Jan 9, 2016 - 10:00pm
Referring to the epics composed in Iceland and Greenland between the 12th -14th centuries, and to Sága, the Norse goddess of history & storytelling, this evening stands midway between a modern opera & a song cycle. Dez Mona tells stories about the soul, and goes in search of their love for the land, a home, and the world in which they live.

TRM — Jeremy Flower Presents: The Real Me
Jan 8, 2016 - 7pm
Debut record release of composer & multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Flowers's "The Real Me". A catalog of realizations made while getting older, like reading diary entries from someone that finally understands all the axioms preached by an older generation are full of truth featuring vocalist Carla Kihlstedt with a core group of Guitar, Bass, Drums and Electronics which live within a chamber ensemble of winds, brass, and strings.

NSplaceholderimages15d — Ljova Presents: Reimaging Brahms with Dan Tepfer
Jan 7, 2016 - 9:30pm
Jazz pianist Dan Tepfer and classical violinist & fadolin player NS Curator Ljova reimagine the music of Johannes Brahms alongside original compositions with tuneful, cross-stitched with gossamer counterpoint & luminescent harmonies.

Jen-Lott3 — Darren Solomon Presents: Come Wander With Me
Jan 7, 2016 - 7:00pm
A hybrid DJ set/live instrumental performance piece by NS curator Darren Solomon, featuring choreography by Jennifer McQuiston Lott and video projections by Owen O'Neill, incorporating the repurposed & transformed music of Charles Ives, Beethoven, Kelly Clarkson, and Kanye West, among others, through improvisation, spoken word, minimalism & electronic ambient music.

NSplaceholderimages15f — Le Train Bleu Presents: The Light Within
Jan 6, 2016 - 7:00pm
Named after Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Luther Adams’ “The Light Within”, this evening features music with live painting & other visual arts. Huang Ruo with watercolorist Rebecca Allan; Indian-American composer Reena Esmail’s “Perhaps”, for solo cello with a film by Heather McCalden. Dutch composer Jacob TV (Jacob ter Veldhuis) “Grab It!”, for boombox with guitarist Jordan Dodson; then a saxophone quartet to top it all off.

nova2 — Jeffrey Zeigler Presents: concert: nova
Jan 5, 2016 - 7:00pm
concert:nova & the Mitchells - world-class chamber musicians & Cincinnati indie-popsters - take on love and alienation, exploring the themes and text in ten original songs inspired by 19th century songster Franz Schubert’s The Miller's Daughter and a Winter Journey.

mata — MATA Festival Presents: Radical Pairings
Dec 13, 2015 • 12:00pm
MATA presents Radical Pairings: a mix of baroque and gallant-inspired works by Greg Spears and Doug Balliett performed by New Vintage Baroque, together with Emily Hall’s expressive, very much contemporary, song-cycle, Life Cycle, performed by soprano Eliza Bagg, accompanied by Vicky Chow and Ashley Bathgate.

A moving meditation on the joys and fears of motherhood, Emily Hall’s Life Cycle sets text by the acclaimed British author Toby Litt. Of its premiere, Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of London’s Southbank Centre, wrote: “Life Cycle was touching, sometimes searing in its delicate exposure of the pain and loss that can surround child birth. Both the music and the libretto left the audience feeling they’d had an important shared experience.”

HIGHER — An Evening with Renée Fleming and Patricia Barber
Dec 18, 2015 - 8:30pm

Higher: Renée Fleming and Patricia Barber Perform the Music of Patricia Barber

Working outside her traditional genre, world-renowned soprano Renée Fleming joins American jazz and blues artist Patricia Barber for a program of songs written by Ms. Barber. The evening will also include Fleming and Barber performing an assortment of holiday favorites.

Renée Fleming said, “I’m thrilled to be performing with Patricia Barber. When I was introduced to her work years ago, I was immediately struck by her uniquely sophisticated lyrics, her musical vocabulary, which, though idiomatically jazz, evokes art songs for me, and the intimacy she conveys in performance.”

“When Renée sings my music, I am thrilled to discover that a musical ideal can be realized. She inspires me to reach higher," reflects Ms. Barber, of whom TIME Magazine says, “Cross Diana Krall with Susan Sontag, and you get Patricia Barber, whose throaty, come-hither vocals and coolly incisive piano are displayed to devastating effect.”

Alicia Hall Moran Presents Heavy Blue

Dec 6, 2015 • 7pm

NS Artist in Residence performs selections from her critically acclaimed album HEAVY BLUE in a live concert on Sunday, December 6 at 7 pm. Featuring special guests with a live video shoot of her first track, BELIEVE ME.

ACME — ACME: American Contemporary Music Ensemble
Dec 20, 2015 • 6pm
ACME, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, a National Sawdust Group-in-Residence, will have its first residency in the space from December 14-20, 2015. The week will culminate with an open-to-the public concert at 6pm on Sunday, December 20, 2015.

ACME has been performing and interpreting new music for over 10 years, and at National Sawdust will begin exploring the world of creating original music as well. A number of musicians in ACME also identify as composers, and an equal number identify as primarily performers. During their National Sawdust residency, ACME members will work together in making new music – individually and collaboratively, those who compose for public performance, those who compose privately, and those who have never composed. On December 20, they will present their new works and works-in-progress – a mix of composition and improvisation incorporating percussion, electric guitar, bass, and electronics – to the public for the first time.

Players include Timo Andres, piano/keys; Chris Thompson, electronics/percussion; Yuki Numata Resnick, violin; ACME artistic director Clarice Jensen, cello/bass; Aaron Roche, guitar/electronics/synths; and Grey Mcmurray, guitar. The group returns for another residency at National Sawdust from April 19-23, 2016.
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benline2 — Winterreise Festival: Founders
Dec 9, 2015 • 9:30pm
In the same way that Schubert's Winterreise song cycle was written for tenor voice as the disheartened lover, Founders will be featuring tenor Ben Russell in this evenings song cycle about the cold bitter loss of sanity and love. In addition to pieces from Founders debut album, which range from Appalachian Folk originals to classically modernized Radiohead covers, the program will also include a premiere from the ensemble, which utilizes text from a poem by Wilhelm Müller also found in Winterreise.

fivebeasts — Rinde Eckert Presents: Five Beasts
Dec 2, 2015 • 7pm

Completed last spring at Les Substances in Lyon, France, Five Beasts is a brief epic: a tour of five different stages of man from the awakening of the self to the contemplation of the stars. It is man as seen by the animal—his words just another beast’s call, another noise in the dark.

Jason Lindner_Breeding_Ground — Magos Herrera Presents: Jason Lindner – Breeding Ground
Dec 3, 2015 • 9:30pmBreeding Ground combines the two most successful projects of New York-bred pianist Jason Lindner: Now Vs. Now, his propulsive groove trio with bassist Panagiotis Andreou and drummer Mark Guiliana; and his big band, which started at the Greenwich Village basement club Smalls twenty years ago. For this new 11-piece band, Andreou and Guiliana sit in the engine room, while Lindner himself plays more piano than synths, leaving room for a string section, a horn section, and the eclectic singer-songwriter Jeff Taylor as the featured vocalist. Electro-acoustic, poly-rhythmic, cross-pollinated, dirty and mixed up, improvised and composed, multi-formatted and ever shifting, Breeding Ground is the epitome of liquid modernity.

LACOMBE_15059_STRAUSS_IMOGENE_15059_E2A9887_B — After Hours with Imogene & Justin Strauss
Nov 7, 2015 • 10:30pm / doors 10pm

Co-founder of the Brooklyn-based management company, Cool Managers, Imogene Strauss is a native New Yorker, child of the music industry, curator at MoMA PS1's Warm Up Series, and has put in hours at DFA, Roc Nation, and MoMA proper. Where did she learn all these chops? Growing up with legendary NY DJ / cool father Justin Strauss definitely helped - but beyond those early DJ lessons Imogene, has carved out a real name for herself through working with Blood Orange, Majical Cloudz, Dubbel Dutch, and others.

10:30-1am: Imogene Strauss Featuring Justin Strauss
1am-2am: Grier Newlin

triochimera2 — David T Little Presents Trio Chimera
Fresh off of concerts at Princeton University and the Peabody Conservatory, Trio Chimera, presents its New York debut with a concert including works by David T. Little, Donnacha Dennehy, Jacob ter Veldhuis, and Steven Mackey. Trio Chimera was formed in 2015 by violinist Courtney Orlando, cellist Brian Snow, and pianist James Johnston -- all active members of New York’s new music scene -- with the intention of presenting an eclectic variety of pieces for trio with an emphasis on recent works that represent a mix of current styles.

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New Amsterdam/New Works Benefit

Ted-Hearne—(c)-Nathan-Lee-Bush-5 — New Amsterdam Presents: Ted Hearne’s The Source
Nov 1, 2015 • 4:00pm/doors 3:30

Join Ted Hearne to celebrate the album release of his density-driven oratorio The Source on New Amsterdam Records. Hailed as a "masterpiece" by The Nation and a "beautiful, sad, altogether crucial reflection of our time" by The New York Times, The Source explores the life and story of U.S. Army Private Chelsea Manning, and the content and implications of the hundreds of thousands of classified military documents she infamously leaked to WikiLeaks. Like Hearne's previous release for New Amsterdam, the widely hailed Katrina Ballads, The Source draws on a litany of primary source texts (stitched together by librettist Mark Doten) – including Twitter feeds, cable news interviews, chat transcripts and declassified military reports.

The Tell Kaya suit — The Tell Vol. 3
Dec 20, 2015 • 9pm
A monthly storytelling series hosted and curated by raconteur Michael Leviton.

The Tell vol 2 — The Tell Vol. 2
Nov 8, 2015 • 9pm
A monthly storytelling series hosted and curated by raconteur Michael Leviton.

Julie-Taymor-(by-Marco-Grob) — NS+ Concert: MADE IN BROOKLYN
Nov 6, 2015 • 7:30pmVisionary director Julie Taymor curates and hosts the first NS+ Concert, MADE IN BROOKLYN, an evening inspired by that artistically fertile corner of New York City, will feature music by Brooklyn-born composers including the great George Gershwin and Oscar-winners Aaron Copland, John Corigliano and Elliot Goldenthal. The concert will feature the world concert premiere of Goldenthal’s String Quartet No. 1 “The Stone Cutters”; the “Chaconne” from Corigliano’s Academy-Award winning score for The Red Violin, performed by Tim Fain & Stephen Gosling; and much more!

american-modern-ensemble — American Modern Ensemble Presents: Moon Music
American Modern Ensemble's partnership with National Sawdust kicks off with Moon Music, an evening of American music by five of today's leading composers celebrating all things lunar, featuring special guests The Claremont Trio. The program includes Claude Baker's Tableaux Funebres, Daniel Godfrey's Luna Rugosa, Robert Paterson's Moon Trio, Judith Shatin's Spring Tides, and George Tsontakis's Eclipse. All five composers will be in attendance.

CanticorumVirtuosi_Inc._NewYorkVirtuosoSingers_NanMelville — Adam Abeshouse Presents: The New York Virtuoso Singers
ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards Concert

The New York Virtuoso Singers featuring Brent Funderburk, Piano with The Canticum Novum Youth Choir, Edie Rosenbaum, Director

Featuring 10 world premieres by 10 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award winners: Katherine Balch,Matthew Browne, Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Jaehyuck Choi, Takuma Itoh, John Liberatore, Loren Loiacono, Sky Macklay,Gity Razaz, and Kathryn Salfelder. These 10 world premieres are all commissioned by New York Virtuoso Singers and led by Harold Rosenbaum.

InsightALT-no-text-square — American Lyric Theater Alumni: Composers & Librettists in Concert
ALT Alumni: Composers & Librettists in Concert features work of alumni of ALT’s Composer Librettist Development Program, who have gone on to lead successful careers. The concert-style programs will feature excerpts from recently premiered and upcoming works for the stage, performed by 6 singers accompanied by piano.

Connan_Mockasin_cararobbins_4 — Billy Jones Presents: Connan Mockasin
Connan Mockasin remains what Clash Music called “a true cosmonaut of inner space” but his new album Caramel explores different regions of his galaxy, not just soul but a liquefied brew of blues, funk, ambient and folk with pronounced Oriental and Gallic timbres, all laced with an uncanny air of bliss.

4A862FD7-C227-4ABB-B6BA-B0304B454324@nyc.rr.com — Darren Solomon Presents: New Music & New Tech — 5 Ableton Artists Live
Nov 7, 2015 • 7:30pmHow do the possibilities and limitations of an instrument inform the music written for that instrument? And when the instrument is a piece of software, how does that expand the composer/performer's palette?

Ableton Live is a powerful and flexible piece of software popular with dance music producers, remixers and new music artists alike. Hear five live performances from different artists, each highlighting their unique take on making music with this creative tool.

jad+caroline — NS+ Talks: Jad Abumrad & Caroline Shaw
Dec 13, 2015 • 4:00pm

This pair of highly curious minds – “co-host of the on-air amazingness that is RadioLab” (Wired) and the inventive, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and performer – explore little corners of mutual interest that often play out in their enlivening, distinctive work. During this hour-long conversation, wormhole topics could possibly include the sound of speaking, the vowel, pacing – and perhaps how they each approach the creation of music.

terry-talk — NS+ Talks: Terry Riley & François Girard
Oct 4, 2015 • 5pm

The legendary composer and the distinguished director of opera, film, and theater – long-time fans of each other’s work – launch National Sawdust+ Talks on Sunday, October 4 at 5pm during the venue’s inaugural week of programming. Riley sits down for an intimate, hour-long conversation with Girard (The Red Violin, Silk, the Metropolitan Opera’s recent Parsifal) as part of National Sawdust’s Terry Riley 80th birthday celebration from October 3-5.

Red Bull Music Academy DREAM — The D.R.E.A.M. Project & Red Bull Music Academy Co-Present
Oct 13, 2015 • 9pm

Red Bull Music Academy DJs Nire, Octo Octa, and Jimi Nxir featuring Reggie "Reg Roc" Gray and members of the Flex Community.

A00748DE-BCB7-48DC-9DE3-1D6FB70C0A80@fios-router.home — The Tinnitus Music Series Presents: Stephen O’Malley, Reg Bloor, Andrew Hock
Oct 25, 2015 • 9:30pm / Doors 9:00pm
The Tinnitus Music Series, created by NS Curator Brandon Stosuy and Adam Shore, presents three wholly unique extreme guitar players. Stephen O’Malley is a towering figure in drone metal, involved with several of the genre’s key bands including Sunn O))), Burning Witch, Khanate and KTL. Reg Bloor’s experimental guitar has been described as “part black metal, part no wave, and part nuclear holocaust.” She performs in Glenn Branca’s Ensemble. Andrew Hock, of genre-defying experimental metal bands Psalm Zero and Castevet, performs patient, haunting and hypnotic long-form compositions.

C3115CDE-6ACC-4087-BF3B-8405FDDBE692 — In Situ: Chris Pattishall Quintet
Nov 4, 2015 • 9pm
Emerging pianist Chris Pattishall re-imagines Mary Lou Williams' kaleidoscopic "Zodiac Suite" in crisp yet fluid arrangements for quintet. The suite, an ambitious study of character and mood, interprets the 12 astrological signs in music spanning boogie-woogie, swing era jazz, as well as European impressionism. Curated by Meera Dugal.

Miranda Cuckson presents Counter)Induction
On December 12, counter)induction celebrates the life and music of American composer Lee Hyla (1952-2014). Hyla was a founding board member of c)i and a guiding and supportive presence. His deeply cherished voice -- bold, tender, explosive, and profound, with a sly wit -- leaves a lasting influence on an array of composers and performers. The program will feature music from throughout his career, including the New York premiere of his penultimate work, "Wave".

SHURA-APPROVED-1000 — Billy Jones Presents: Shura
Nov 6, 2015 • 11:30pmQuickly being hailed as one of the break-out new talents of the year, Shura is a singer, producer, remixer and video editor from Shepherds Bush. She was born in Moscow to a Russian actress (who made a cameo in ‘Mission Impossible’) and an English documentary filmmaker. Keen to impress her brother, who’d DJ drum-and-bass at the weekends, Shura began building her own songs, immersing herself in the textured sounds of Janet Jackson, Blood Orange, and early-Madonna. Her songwriting found its focus in South America, where Shura worked for a period after her studies – contemplating past relationships, future music, and walking pumas round The Amazon.

MCIV-at-Sawdust — Billy Jones Presents: Martin Courtney
Album Release Performance of "Many Moons" By Martin Courtney

After the 2014 release of Atlas, the third LP from Ridgewood, New Jersey’s Real Estate, Courtney started quietly chipping away at some new songs while he was waiting to head back on the road with his band.

fd-accueil — International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) Presents: New Dialogues III
Nov 19, 2015 • 9:30pm
Boulez’s sonic experiments, musical language, and mentorship opened the doors for many younger composers. This concert features new works by composers who are forging new paths emerging from the research of the musical spectrum that Boulez set in motion.
Works by Boulez, Franck Bedrossian, Mario Diaz de Leon and world premieres by Sabrina Schroeder and Olga Neuwirth. Featuring Pascal Gallois, Rebekah Heller, and Joshua Rubin.

Screen Shot 2015-11-13 at 11.37.19 AM — Winterreise Festival: Anne-Marie McDermott
Dec 9, 2015 • 7pm
The classical pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, a NS curator, presents Chiaroscuro: Franz Schubert, in which she and the flutist Ransom Wilson of Le Train Bleu will perform Schubert works including Trockne Blumen and Sonata in B-flat Major.

1B1_pressemelding-8 — 1b1 Presents: Holberg Variations & Album Release
Nov 12, 2015 • 7:00pm/Doors 6:30

1B1 – a National Sawdust group-in-residence – perform works from their recording of Edvard Grieg’s “Holberg Variations,” which recently won a Norwegian Grammy. The program includes an improvised version of Grieg’s Holberg Variations - Part 2, “Recomprimprovariations,” and "Romanian Folk Dances" by Béla Bartók. Performed by 1B1 and pianist Erlend Skomsvoll.

385C3AB1-F3FA-42B4-8D06-DFAF0ED1ED11 — Beth Morrison Projects Presents: Music by Keeril Makan
Oct 23, 2015 • 10pm
Works By Keeril Makan
"The Noise Between Thoughts"
"Return"
"Washed by Fire"

Performed by the Aeolus Quartet (Nicholas Tavini, Violin; Rachel Shapiro, Violin; Gregory Luce, Viola; Alan Richardson, Cello)

This concert, offering the New York premieres of three works by Rome Prize-winner Keeril Makan, is presented in conjunction with the world premiere of Makan and director/librettist Jay Scheib's new work "Persona," co-commissioned by National Sawdust and Beth Morrison Projects.

The New Yorker writes that "Makan moves blocks of jagged sound around with the pitiless determination of a brutalist architect (“The Noise Between Thoughts”) and crafts the most humble chords and scraps of melody into a lulling whole (“Washed by Fire”),” and the Boston Globe remarks about “Return", "There are delicately drawn harmonics and crushed, violent chords. Even in just one hearing, a distilled quality of thought emerges from this score, and an intensely honed sense of solitude."

Makan's works will be performed by the Aeolus Quartet, winners of the 2011 Plowman Chamber Music Competition.

Evan_clarinet4PhotoByAndyRyan — Beth Morrison Projects Presents: In My Mind & In My Car
Oct 24, 2015 • 10pm
Created and performed by Evan Ziporyn and Christine Southworth.
Co-created by composers Evan Ziporyn and Christine Southworth, "In My Mind & In My Car" is an audio-visual extravaganza of live bass clarinet, videos, and electronics. This performance is presented by Beth Morrison Projects in conjunction with the world premiere of composer Keeril Makan and librettist/director Jay Scheib's new work "Persona," with music direction by Ziporyn. Persona is co-commissioned by National Sawdust and Beth Morrison Projects.

unnamed — i.e. global presents: Majical Cloudz Are You Alone? Release Show
Oct 21, 2015 • 8pmIn 2013, the Canadian musical-performance art project Majical Cloudz released Impersonator via touchstone indie label, Matador, garnering praise from tastemaker and mainstream media as one of the year’s best and most notable albums. Since then, principal writer and vocalist Devon Welsh has been fastidiously crafting the band’s second studio album, while simultaneously touring the world with producer Matthew Otto.

cole- — In Situ: Cole Ramstad & Chinatown ft. Nicky Paul & Friends
Oct 16, 2015 • 10pmA fixture of the New York underground music scene and frontman of the band Chinatown, Cole Ramstad has made his mark with energetic performances that often feature a range of unique guest artists. In 2009, he created Happy Mondays at Apotheke, one of NYC’s longest-running weekly parties where he and his band play a mixture of soul, R&B, and jazz. Joining him will be his friend Nick Paul, whose group St. Lucia wowed audiences at the Coachella music festival this year.

yuka — In Situ: Yuka Honda and Nels Cline
Oct 16, 2015 • 8pmTriggering electronics with a bonsai tree, all the featured music is freshly composed with accompanying visuals, and no regards to genre - hence Yuka Honda teaming up with Nels Cline, a guitar player with no adherence to confinements.

Opening Night: Discover The Space Vol. 1
At 7:30pm, members of the National Sawdust family of artists join forces for an evening that explores the acoustics of the new hall. Curator Theo Bleckmann will be joined by ACME, one of the venue’s groups-in-residence, in a new work commissioned by National Sawdust. Other collaborations will include National Sawdust curator Jeffrey Zeigler with Gyan Riley (guitar) and Eve Gigliotti (mezzo-soprano) performing Paola Prestini’s OLIVIA. Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly, a National Sawdust advisory board member, perform with Tanya Tagaq and Jeffrey Zeigler. Stephen Gosling will perform music by Paola Prestini. Chris Thile will perform solo.

Theo-Bleckmann-[by-AmandaStockwell] — Winterreise Festival: Theo Bleckmann
Dec 17, 2015 • 7pm
Five concerts, NS talk, community outreach on the theme of Schubert’s “Winterreise” (winter’s journey). NS approaches this seminal work by exploring the juxtaposition between isolation and community through 21st century sounds and visuals.

Theo Bleckmann and Uri Caine join forces in their own take of Winterreise featuring voice, toys, piano and electronica, along with new lyrics and harmonies in French, German, Yiddish, and English.

low city — In Situ: Low City & Hess Is More
Oct 17, 2015 • 11:55pmLow City is the brainchild of producer/engineer Abe Seiferth (Yeasayer, Turing Machine) and Jeremy Turner (cellist and composer) inspired by a lost future, the 1939 World's Fair, films like Metropolis and Gattaca, and the writings of J.G. Ballard. It features friends from Bon Iver and Dirty Projectors.

Rinde Eckert Presents: Big Farm
Big Farm features four of today's most revered and vital composers/performers: Grammy-winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist, vocalist-lyricist Rinde Eckert; in-demand electric bassist Lek Darger; Grammy-winner and pioneering composer/guitarist Steven Mackey; and celebrated percussionist Jason Treuting (So Percussion).

contact — New York Philharmonic Presents: CONTACT! Young Americans
Young Americans, the season’s first of three CONTACT! programs at National Sawdust in
Brooklyn, will feature chamber music by the next generation of American composers proposed by musicians of the New York Philharmonic, representing a wide range of styles. The program will include Adam Schoenberg’s Fleeting (2008), Nathan Heidelberger’s Halve Time (quartet after Zeno) (2012), Caroline Mallonée’s Unless Acted Upon: Manifestations of Newton’s First Law (2011), and Kate Soper’s Into That World Inverted (2006, rev. 2010).

12249908_995663387146954_7194779415674656146_n — International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) Presents: PERSPECTIVES: Pierre Boulez at 90
Hot on the heels of their Paris tour, ICE teams up with legendary bassoonist, conductor, and curator Pascal Gallois to celebrate Pierre Boulez’s 90th birthday at National Sawdust. These four extraordinary concerts explore Boulez’s tremendous work through the most colorful prisms: his well-known masterpieces, his close creative dialogue with his peers, and his incalculable influence on younger composers.

event_chasedelancey — International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) Presents: New Dialogues II
Nov 18, 2015 • 9:30pm
A dialogue between the idiosyncratic musical voices of Pierre Boulez and Elliott Carter, plus a world premiere by Olga Neuwirth. Featuring Pascal Gallois, Rebekah Heller, and guest pianist Dimitri Vassilakis.

BradleyRosen — International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) Presents: New Dialogues I
Nov 17, 2015 • 7pm
Exploring works with instruments and electronics by Pierre Boulez and George Lewis, plus a world premiere by Olga Neuwirth. Featuring Pascal Gallois, Rebekah Heller, Joshua Rubin, and Claire Chase.

TIGUE-(1) — New Amsterdam Presents: TIGUE
One part new music ensemble and one part avant-pop band, TIGUE has drawn praise for its energetic and focused performances. The group's debut album Peaks will be released November 13th on New Amsterdam Records and features contributions from John Colpitts (Oneida, Man Forever) and members of Yo La Tengo. To celebrate the release of Peaks, TIGUE will perform selected works from the album with help from a roster of special guests.

great-beauty — The Great Beauty: Live Score with 1B1 and Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Nov 13, 2015 • 8pmThe string orchestra 1B1, a NS group-in-residence, collaborates with soloists of the highest quality. This Norwegian Grammy-winning ensemble explores a variety of musical genres. Taking the lead from rock, jazz, and world music, the ensemble continues to break the barrier between performers and audience. For this evening’s program, they draw inspiration from the critically acclaimed soundtrack of the Oscar-winning film “The Great Beauty,” performing works by Pärt, Tavener and Martynov with NS partner the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, under the direction of Julian Wachner.

ns-portrait — Carnegie Hall’s Neighborhood Concerts Presents: NOW Ensemble
Nov 8, 2015 • 5pmOne of NOW Ensemble's main goals has been to create a musical paradigm where there is continuous collaboration between composers and performers. NOW Ensemble's performances have been featured on NPR's “All Things Considered” and WNYC. Its sophomore album Awake charted first place in Amazon's Classical Chamber Music Charts. NOW's collaboration with filmmaker Joshua Frankel, Plan of the City, was praised in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and New Yorker critic Alex Ross's blog, where it was hailed as "gorgeous."

ns-landscape — Jeffrey Zeigler Presents: John Korsrud and The Eco-Music Big Band
Nov 6, 2015 • 10pmNS curator Jeffrey Zeigler (cellist) presents jazz trumpeter John Korsrud and the Eco-Music Big Band, led by Marie Incontrera.

ns-portrait — Ian Rosenbaum Presents: Kristin Lee & Jakub Ciupinski
Nov 5, 2015 • 7pmNS curator Ian Rosenbaum (percussionist) presents Korean-American violinist and winner of 2015 Avery Fisher Career grant Kristin Lee - praised by The Strad for her “rare stylistic aptness” and “mastery of tone and rare mood in a performer of any age.”

Newspeak — David T Little Presents: Newspeak with Choir of Trinity Wall Street & Tim Brady
Oct 29, 2015 • 7pm
US Premiere of Tim Brady's Symphony No. 3: Atacama new music

0F866D2D-2C43-4BE2-8BAB-A229C9D8B87F — Jeffrey Zeigler Presents: HKZ
Oct 28, 2015 • 9pmThis new trio comprises three celebrated experimentalists: pianist Hauschka (aka Volker Bertelmann), percussionist Samuli Kosminen, and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, a National Sawdust curator.

ns-landscape — Anna Clyne presents: Keir GoGwilt and Matthew Aucoin
Where is the border between language and music? How does sound harden into signification, and how does language break down into song?

ns-landscape — Open G Records Presents: A Modern Classical Mixtape
Oct 27, 2015 • 7pmOpen G Records, founded by the clarinetist Chris Grymes, is committed to producing music that is rooted in the classical tradition, but brings artists and their fans together in new and innovative ways.

ns-landscape — Open G Records Presents: A Modern Classical Mixtape
Oct 26, 2015 • 7pm
Open G Records, founded by the clarinetist Chris Grymes, is committed to producing music that is rooted in the classical tradition, but brings artists and their fans together in new and innovative ways.

Freeman_30146671A_periodinstruments115 — Brooklyn Rider Presents: Johnny Gandelsman plays Bach
Oct 25, 2015 • 7pmViolinist Johnny Gandelsman of the National Sawdust group-in-residence Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble continues his exploration of JS Bach's solo works of Sonatas & Partitas for violin ("genial freshness and unaffected sincerity" - Boston Globe).

YW1 — Miranda Cuckson Presents: Yarn/Wire
Virtuoso violinist Miranda Cuckson joins percussion and piano quartet Yarn/Wire for the world premiere of a work from polymath composer, improvisor, and trombonist George Lewis.

Theo Bleckmann Presents: Kate McGarry & The Tough Get Growing
Kate McGarry and The Tough Get Growing are a Durham, NC based collective featuring Kate’s husband, guitarist Keith Ganz,trumpeter Al Strong, with bassist Todd Sickafoose (Ani DiFranco) and drummer Allison Miller (Natalie Merchant, Ani DiFranco) in collaboration with James Shipp on vibes, percussion, and arrangements.

afripedia-(1) — In Situ: Afripedia
Five short films and live musicians exploring contemporary culture from Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, Kenya, and Angola, presented by the Dillon Gallery with special thanks to New Museum’s New Inc.

Afripedia is a new platform to discover and promote creativity in an evolving Africa. First to launch from Afripedia is a five-part documentary series portraying the burgeoning art scene in Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, Kenya, and Angola. Afripedia shares the stories of a new generation of creatives who are participating in contemporary culture. These films are part of a transmedia project that will expand into a global platform for Africa and the African diaspora to inform, connect, follow, and showcase their artistic practices.

About Afripedia x GHANA
The whispers among connoiseurs talk about Accra as the next big hotspot for African cultural production, and ‘Afripedia, Ghana’ suggest they’re not wrong. Meet outspoken and andogynous music star Wiyaala, exciting trickbikers Bikelordz whose BMX skills and flamboyant style have taken neighbourhoods by storm. Artist Serge Attukwei Clottey highlights environmental issues through street performances as his alter ego, Afrogallonism, the modern water warrior

Musical Perforamance by Jojo Abot

Creating across continents and dividing her time between Accra, Copenhagen & New York City, Jojo Abot's emergence onto the global music scene marks the genesis of an exciting new talent and sound.

Elio-Villafranca2 — Magos Herrera Presents: The Elio Villafranca Quintet
Nov 5, 2015 • 9:30pmIn May 2013, pianist and composer Elio Villafranca was among six artists hand-selected by Chick Corea to be part of that year’s Chick Corea Festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

ET_The-Met_Erin-Patrice-O’Brien — In Situ: ETHEL
Nov 4, 2015 • 7pmThe pioneering quartet ETHEL will perform Blue Dress, a new evening-length program that pays special homage to women who are making their musical mark on the 21st century, including Pulitzer-winner Julia Wolfe, Missy Mazzoli, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Lainie Fefferman, Mary Ellen Childs, Anna Clyne, Pamela Z, Paola Prestini and ETHEL’s own Dorothy Lawson. The concert features a visual montage by projection designer Grant MacDonald (Esperanza Spalding’s D+ Evolutionworld tour, Black Mountain Songs at BAM and the Barbican). The centerpiece of Blue Dress is a quartet of the same name, composed for ETHEL by Julia Wolfe. The piece, which makes its world premiere here, delves into the passion and energy of bluegrass.

SIMULACRUM — John Zorn Festival: Simulacrum
Oct 31, 2015 • 10pm
Simulacrum performed by John Medeski (organ), Matt Hollenberg, (guitar) and Kenny Grohowski (drums).

magick chamber — John Zorn Festival: Magickal Chamber
Oct 31, 2015 • 8pm
Magickal Chamber music featuring Chris Otto (violin), Kyle Armbrust (viola), Jay Campbell (cello), Steve Gosling (piano), William Winant (percussion) performing Walpurgisnacht, Gri Gri, All Hallows Eve, Hexentarot, Ghosts and a world premiere.

john zorn 2 — John Zorn Festival: Virtuosos, Vol 2: Music for Cello
Oct 30, 2015 • 10pm
Complete Music for Solo Piano featuring Steve Gosling (solo piano) performing Dead Ringer, Carny, Fay Ce Que Vouldras, Novalis, A Prayer for Nossis, Nijinsky and a world premiere.

john zorn 7 — John Zorn Festival: Virtuosos with Steve Gosling
Oct 30, 2015 • 8pm
Complete Music for Solo Piano featuring Steve Gosling (solo piano) performing Dead Ringer, Carny, Fay Ce Que Vouldras, Novalis, A Prayer for Nossis, Nijinsky and a world premiere.

Persona-press-photo — Beth Morrison Projects Presents: Persona by Keeril Makan & Jay Scheib
Oct 24, 2015 • 8pmBeth Morrison Projects (National Sawdust group-in-residence) is the producer of this new work, which it co-commissioned with the venue. Composed by Rome Prize-winner Keeril Makan, with music direction by Evan Ziporyn and a libretto and direction by Jay Scheib, one of American Theater’s “Top 25 Directors Likely to Shape American Performance Over the Next 25 Years,” Persona is a provocative, highly cerebral, and artistically complex depiction of human frailty, cruelty, and identity.

Persona-press-photo — Beth Morrison Projects Presents: Persona by Keeril Makan & Jay Scheib
Oct 23, 2015 • 8pmBeth Morrison Projects (National Sawdust group-in-residence) is the producer of this new work, which it co-commissioned with the venue. Composed by Rome Prize-winner Keeril Makan, with music direction by Evan Ziporyn and a libretto and direction by Jay Scheib, one of American Theater’s “Top 25 Directors Likely to Shape American Performance Over the Next 25 Years,” Persona is a provocative, highly cerebral, and artistically complex depiction of human frailty, cruelty, and identity.

Theo-Bleckmann-[by-Ann-Hamilton] — Theo Bleckmann Presents: John Hollenbeck
Oct 22, 2015 • 8pmGrammy-nominated vocalist and National Sawdust curator Theo Bleckmann joins the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble for an evening of experimental jazz.

In Situ: Emel Mathlouthi
Firebrand Tunisian composer and singer-songwriter Emel Mathlouthi is one of the great voices of the Arab world.

five-fans — Alicia Hall Moran Presents: The Five Fans
Oct 19, 2015 • 8pmThe Five Fans, a new work by National Sawdust artist-in-residence Alicia Hall Moran (Porgy and Bess), blends classical and pop, world music and Americana, and will unfold over the course of five concerts at the venue. The series begins October 19 with Flower Face, featuring the Japanese drum uchiwa daiko, followed by Black Wall Street, a collaboration with classical Indian musicians, on January 11, 2016.

The Tell – Dom smoke2 — The Tell Vol. 1
Oct 18, 2015 • 9pm
A monthly storytelling series hosted and curated by raconteur Michael Leviton.

Timbalooloo — Magos Herrera Presents: Jazz for Kids
Oct 18, 2015 • 12pmDeveloped by internationally acclaimed musician and composer Oran Etkin, Timbaloolo is a revolutionary new approach of teaching music to young children. Etkin’s award-winning children’s album Wake Up, Clarinet! and Timbaloolo live concerts educate children to bring their instruments to life rather than just playing notes as instructed. Timbaloolo’s fans include Naomi Watts & Liev Schreiber, Edie Falco, Ken Burns, and Harvey Keitel, all of whom have enrolled their children in weekly Timbaloolo classes.

Bora-Yoon__WB_hires4 — SONiC Festival AfterHours- Visualizing Music: Composers & Video Artists
Oct 17, 2015 • 10pmIts inaugural edition in 2011 heralded as “a brilliant and unpretentious showcase for music in the new millennium” (The Guardian), SONiC (Sounds of a New Century), produced by National Sawdust partner American Composers Orchestra, is a festival of 21st century music by composers aged 40 and under. SONiC returns with concerts in venues across the city October 15 – 23.

009-roomful-teeth-Credit—BONICA-AYALA — SONiC Festival: Roomful of Teeth
Oct 17, 2015 • 7:30pmIts inaugural edition in 2011 heralded as “a brilliant and unpretentious showcase for music in the new millennium” (The Guardian), SONiC (Sounds of a New Century), produced by National Sawdust partner American Composers Orchestra, is a festival of 21st century music by composers aged 40 and under. SONiC returns with concerts in venues across the city October 15 – 23.

Magos-&-Limon-with-Gregoire-Maret — Magos Herrera Presents: Magos Herrera & Javier Limón
Oct 15, 2015 - 9pm Magos & Limón is a new collaboration between Grammy nominee Mexican-born jazz singer and National Sawdust curator Magos Herrera and celebrated Spanish guitarist-producer Javier Limón. In this CD release evening to support “He for She,” the United Nations campaign for gender equality, they will perform with an extraordinary group of musicians including Swiss jazz harmonica player Grégoire Maret, Israeli composer-clarinetist Oran Etkin, New York-based jazz singer Sachal Vasandani, Brazilian percussionist Rogerio Boccato, and other international guests TBC.

BIRDHEART-A-Work–In-Progress_0090_ — Birdheart with Friends
Oct 14, 2015 - 7pmAn intimate and stunning chamber piece of animated theatre and live music, with two cellos, a sheet of brown paper, and a box of sand. A show about transformation, loneliness, and the urge to fly, BIRDHEART holds a hand-mirror up to humanity and offers it a chair. Through a series of animated images built in front of the audiences' eyes BIRDHEART creates something achingly beautiful from the humblest of beginnings. For its world premier at National Sawdust, Crouch and Lane are joined on stage by extraordinary musicians Mark Stewart and Jeffrey Zeigler.

Commissioned by VisionIntoArt and National Sawdust's Curator in Residence program. BIRDHEART was part of the 2013-14 New Victory Labworks Artist Residency and Watermill Artists Residency, with additional support from the St Anne’s Warehouse Puppet Lab, the Henson Foundation and in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council. Special thanks to the Dillon Gallery.

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Oct 11, 2015 - 7pmAn intimate and stunning chamber piece of animated theatre and live music, with two cellos, a sheet of brown paper, and a box of sand. A show about transformation, loneliness, and the urge to fly, BIRDHEART holds a hand-mirror up to humanity and offers it a chair. Through a series of animated images built in front of the audiences' eyes BIRDHEART creates something achingly beautiful from the humblest of beginnings. For its world premier at National Sawdust, Crouch and Lane are joined on stage by extraordinary musicians Mark Stewart and Jeffrey Zeigler.

Commissioned by VisionIntoArt and National Sawdust's Curator in Residence program. BIRDHEART was part of the 2013-14 New Victory Labworks Artist Residency and Watermill Artists Residency, with additional support from the St Anne’s Warehouse Puppet Lab, the Henson Foundation and in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council. Special thanks to the Dillon Gallery.

john zorn 3 — John Zorn Festival: Cobra
Cobra, featuring Mark Feldman (violin), Okkyung Lee (cello), Jeffrey Zeigler (cello), Ikue Mori (electronics), Sylvie Courvoisier (piano), Brian Marsella (keyboards), Eyal Maoz (guitar), Marc Ribot (guitar), Trevor Dunn (bass), Cyro Baptista (percussion), Ches Smith (drums/vibes), Kenny Wollesen (drums/vibes), and John Zorn (prompter)

john zorn 5 — John Zorn Festival: Improvisation
Improvisation featuring John Zorn (saxophone), Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet), and Milford Graves (drums)

asmodeus — John Zorn Festival: Asmodeus
Asmodeus, featuring Marc Ribot (guitar), Trevor Dunn (bass), and Tyshawn Sorey (drums)

terry — Terry Riley Festival: Vol 5
Oct 5, 2015 • 9pm

For the National Sawdust opening weekend, in celebration of National Sawdust advisory board member Terry Riley’s 80th birthday, Matmos, John Zorn, and Roomful of Teeth, along with Riley’s son, the virtuoso guitarist Gyan Riley, will perform a range of the iconic composer’s music.

Terry and Gyan Riley perform with John Zorn.

roomful of teeth — Terry Riley Festival: Vol 4
Oct 5, 2015 • 7pm

For the National Sawdust opening weekend, in celebration of National Sawdust advisory board member Terry Riley’s 80th birthday, Matmos, John Zorn, and Roomful of Teeth, along with Riley’s son, the virtuoso guitarist Gyan Riley, will perform a range of the iconic composer’s music.

Remember This, Oh Mind (World Premiere) and a new world premiere for Roomful of Teeth: Roomful of Teeth and a cello octet led by National Sawdust curator Jeffrey Zeigler will perform a new work by Riley, along with the composer’s seminal ArchAngels.

5E2C214B-891A-4A32-8901-4D1AFD493203 — Terry Riley Festival: Vol 3
Oct 4, 2015 • 9pm

For the National Sawdust opening weekend, in celebration of National Sawdust advisory board member Terry Riley’s 80th birthday, Matmos, John Zorn, and Roomful of Teeth, along with Riley’s son, the virtuoso guitarist Gyan Riley, will perform a range of the iconic composer’s music.

Terry Riley’s Abbeyozzud and Beyond with Gyan Riley, Zach Brock (violin), David Cossin (percussion), Travis Laplante (saxophone), Matmos (electronics), and Evan Ziporyn (saxophone) will perform Thanks Isn’t Enough, Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band, Tread on the Trail, and Hashish Master.

869A843E-2F80-4FCA-BEB2-93696229D8F6 — Terry Riley Festival: Vol 2
Oct 4, 2015 • 7pm

For the National Sawdust opening weekend, in celebration of National Sawdust advisory board member Terry Riley’s 80th birthday, Matmos, John Zorn, and Roomful of Teeth, along with Riley’s son, the virtuoso guitarist Gyan Riley, will perform a range of the iconic composer’s music.

Terry Riley’s Abbeyozzud and Beyond with Gyan Riley, Zach Brock (violin), David Cossin (percussion), Travis Laplante (saxophone), Matmos (electronics), Benjamin Verdery and Guitarists from The Yale School of Music, and Evan Ziporyn (saxophone).

8848 — Terry Riley Festival: Vol 1
Oct 3, 2015 • 10pm

For the National Sawdust opening weekend, in celebration of National Sawdust advisory board member Terry Riley’s 80th birthday, Matmos, John Zorn, and Roomful of Teeth, along with Riley’s son, the virtuoso guitarist Gyan Riley, will perform a range of the iconic composer’s music.

Terry Riley, on vocals, piano, and synthesizer, performs with Gyan Riley on classical and electric guitars.

JZF Madrigals — John Zorn Festival: Madrigals Books I-II
Madrigals Books I-II (World Premiere)
Vocalists Lisa Bielawa, Jane Sheldon, Sarah Brailey, Mellissa Hughes, Rachel Calloway, and Kirsten Sollek perform this world premiere.

493A123F-A06B-4C14-BBBC-49D7C9985383 — Simone Dinnerstein Presents: Works by Phillip Lasser
“Lasser’s Circle” is a concert conceived & curated by pianist Simone Dinnerstein, exploring the connections between Philip Lasser and the composers who most influenced him. Dinnerstein and violinist Tim Fain will join forces in presenting two pairings: Schumann’s Kinderszenen with Lasser’s recent “Bruegel Suite," a 5 movement set on the paintings of Pieter Bruegel and Bach’s D minor violin Chaconne with Lasser’s “Chaconne Variations” for violin and piano. Both Lasser works on the concert were commissioned and performed by Dinnerstein.

57_63566668810055375019049527_10_MUSWOR_20150507_SFZ_191 — The D.R.E.A.M. Project: Reggie “Regg Roc” Gray featuring Helga Davis
East New York-born choreographer Reggie “Regg Roc” Gray—pioneer of the flex form and creator, with Peter Sellars, of the acclaimed work Flexn, recently seen at the Park Avenue Armory—collaborates with fellow National Sawdust curator, vocalist, and performance artist Helga Davis (Einstein on the Beach) on a new edition of D.R.E.A.M (Dance Rules Everything Around Me), the dance competition Gray founded.

824E908B-0A52-4960-8388-4E46CF3DD18E@home-f_projects_great_fences14L — In Situ: Strings & Borders
Late Night Violin and Dj’s featuring experimental violinists Mari Kimura & Jon Rose with vocalist Olga Bell (One Little Indian new Bell record release) and DJ’s Brandon Stosuy (Pitchfork) and Robin Carolan (Tri Angle)

Punch Brothers — In Situ: Punch Brothers
Punch Brothers are the acoustic quintet of mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny and violinist Gabe Witcher. The Washington Post says, “With enthusiasm and experimentation, Punch Brothers take bluegrass to its next evolutionary stage, drawing equal inspiration from the brain and the heart.” The group’s latest album, The Phosphorescent Blues, was produced by T Bone Burnett and released in January 2015 by Nonesuch Records.

BIRDHEART-A-Work–In-Progress_0090_ — Birdheart with Friends
Oct 8, 2015 - 7pmAn intimate and stunning chamber piece of animated theatre and live music, with two cellos, a sheet of brown paper, and a box of sand. A show about transformation, loneliness, and the urge to fly, BIRDHEART holds a hand-mirror up to humanity and offers it a chair. Through a series of animated images built in front of the audiences' eyes BIRDHEART creates something achingly beautiful from the humblest of beginnings. For its world premier at National Sawdust, Crouch and Lane are joined on stage by extraordinary musicians Mark Stewart and Jeffrey Zeigler.

BIRDHEART was part of the 2013-14 New Victory Labworks Artist Residency and Watermill Artists Residency, with additional support from the St Anne’s Warehouse Puppet Lab, the Henson Foundation and in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council. Special thanks to the Dillon Gallery.

ii_14ff6ce9aaed0ed1 — In Situ: Brooklyn Youth Chorus & Friends
Brooklyn Youth Chorus presents a curated evening of music featuring some of today's most sought-after contemporary composers. Accompanied by American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), the Chorus performs excerpts from National Sawdust director Paola Prestini's newest musical theatre piece Aging Magician. The evening also features works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, National Sawdust curator and Arcade Fire core band member Richard Reed Parry plus world premieres by San Fermin bandleader Ellis Ludwig-Leone and Sarah Small of The Delirium Constructions. Joining the Chorus will be Bulgarian a cappella trio Black Sea Hotel (Small, Shelley Thomas, Willa Roberts).

Community-Day-Invitation-No-Text — Community Day
Oct 4, 2015 • 11am-6pm

The day begins with the exquisite puppet show for families, Birdheart (ages 6 years and up), by Julian Crouch and Saskia Lane. This is followed by experimental Australian violinist Jon Rose "Sonic Ball"--where he engages the public with a ten-foot-tall, interactive electronic musical instrument. Via sensors and radio transmission, the movements and speed of the ball determine the sonic results. The National Sawdust Inaugural Parade will feature Julian Crouch’s large scale processional puppets with the Asphalt Orchestra for a neighborhood walk and celebration. National Sawdust group-in-residence Found Sound Nation, a collective of musicians and artists who leverage the unique power of creative sound-making to help build strong, just, healthy communities, will hold mobile studios throughout the parade for the public.

8848 — Terry Riley Festival: Vol 1
Oct 3, 2015 • 8pm

For the National Sawdust opening weekend, in celebration of National Sawdust advisory board member Terry Riley’s 80th birthday, Matmos, John Zorn, and Roomful of Teeth, along with Riley’s son, the virtuoso guitarist Gyan Riley, will perform a range of the iconic composer’s music.

Terry Riley, on vocals, piano, and synthesizer, performs with Gyan Riley on classical and electric guitars.

tanya-tagaq-by-ivan-otis — In Situ: Tanya Tagaq in Nanook of the North
Oct 2, 2015 • 8pm
The award-winning Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq, named one of Rolling Stone’s “Artists You Need to Know in 2015,” performs a live score, created with composer Derek Charke, to the 1922 silent film Nanook of the North.

leo — In Situ: Leo Genovese’s Legal Aliens
Oct 2 - 10pm
Pianist and keyboardist Leo Genovese will present Legal Aliens, a new set of compositions for a large ensemble comprised of musicians from around the world, modeled after the rich melodic and rhythmic traditions that Genovese has studied in his world travels, including the Balkans, Brazil, Morocco, and his native Argentina.

Screen Shot 2015-11-13 at 11.45.13 AM — Winterreise Festival: David Adam Moore
Dec 16, 2015 • 7pm
This multimedia version of "Winterreise" draws the audience into the emotional journey of the poet.

The projection-mapped environment acts as a metaphor for consciousness, a self-contained landscape that transforms completely from song to song - sometimes guiding the narrative by suggesting time, and place, and at other times immersing the audience in the more abstract, symbolic world of the poet's imagination.

The projection content consists entirely of moving images that have been created for the show by GLMMR."

3363 — In Situ: Pictures in the Making with Alessio Bax and Doug Fitch
Oct 18, 2015 • 3pmPianist Alessio Bax Plays Mussorgsky’s iconic "Pictures at an Exhibition" while American visual artist and director Doug Fitch creates spontaneous drawings to augment the soundscape created by the Italian pianist.

Alicia Hall Moran — #sawdustsecrets