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Tuesday

Jan 29

2019

CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS

Carnegie Hall Citywide: Lorraine Klaasen

7 PM Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Carnegie Hall Citywide: Lorraine Klaasen

Please note that this event, originally scheduled to take place on Monday, February 18, has been rescheduled for Tuesday, January 29.

Lorraine Klaasen is South African music royalty. The daughter of renowned jazz singer Thandi Klaasen, she honors the vibrant musical traditions that were born in the townships: the poor, racially segregated urban areas of South Africa’s apartheid era. Influenced by such South African legends as Miriam Makeba—the inspiration for her 2013 JUNO Award–winning tribute album—Klaasen makes the music her own with her impassioned singing and dynamic stage presence.

Performers

Lorraine Klaasen

Free Event

Friday

Feb 22

2019

CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS

Carnegie Hall Citywide: Alphonso Horne and The Gotham Kings

Mardi Gras Dance Party

8 PM Flushing Town Hall

Carnegie Hall Citywide: Alphonso Horne and The Gotham Kings

Alphonso Horne honors the legacy and continues the rich traditions of such iconic trumpet masters as King Oliver and Louis Armstrong. Horne and the band have the sizzling chops to capture the classic sound of New Orleans jazz and the innovative vision to put their own contemporary stamp on the music. Horne has performed with such stars as Wynton Marsalis (who included him in a list of 16 young jazz musicians entitled “Wynton’s Picks: Who’s Got Next”), Dianne Reeves, Jane Monheit, and Rihanna.

Performers

Alphonso Horne and The Gotham Kings

Free Event

Wednesday

Mar 6

2019

CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS

Carnegie Hall Citywide: Mantra Percussion

7 PM Pregones Theater

Carnegie Hall Citywide: Mantra Percussion

Mantra Percussion’s mission is to honor the past and expand the future of percussion music. “Forward thinking” (Time Out New York) and “a fresh source of energy” (The New York Times), Mantra Percussion has headlined internationally with notable appearances at BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Bang on a Can Marathon, Ecstatic Music Festival, and Right Now Music in South Korea. Passionately devoted to music by living composers, the ensemble has commissioned and premiered more than 40 new works in the past eight years.

Performers

Mantra Percussion

Free Event

Sunday

Mar 10

2019

CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS

Carnegie Hall Citywide: Ensemble Connect

5 PM Our Saviour's Atonement Lutheran Church

Carnegie Hall Citywide: Ensemble Connect

Ensemble Connect’s daring, versatility, and virtuosity is limitless. Whether these musicians are drawing an audience into the Russian soul of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio or exploring the visionary works of Steve Reich, they show why they have been called “the new face of classical music” (The New York Times). Each a stellar artist, these exciting young musicians are members of a fellowship program that prepares them for careers as innovative performers, teachers, and advocates for music in the 21st century.

Performers

Ensemble Connect
·· Noemi Sallai, Clarinet
·· Tomer Gewirtzman, Piano
·· Christopher Goodpasture, Piano
·· Gergana Haralampieva, Violin
·· Brian Hong, Violin
·· Suliman Tekalli, Violin
·· Meagan Turner, Viola
·· Ari Evan, Cello

Program

PRICE String Quartet in G Major

BARTÓK Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano

MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49

Free Event

Saturday

Mar 16

2019

CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS

Carnegie Hall Citywide: Soh Daiko

3 PM LaGuardia Performing Arts Center

Carnegie Hall Citywide: Soh Daiko

Soh Daiko shatters the boundaries of traditional taiko drumming. This New York–based Japanese drumming collective’s shows are high-energy displays of sensational choreography and amazing athleticism. In a great visual spectacle, Soh Daiko’s impeccable musicians perform traditional Japanese Shinto and taiko music, as well as daring new compositions by ensemble members. The members play a vast array of drums, complemented by bamboo flutes, brass bells, conch shells, and gongs. Exhilarating, breathtaking, and always captivating, Soh Daiko keeps your pulse racing.

Performers

Soh Daiko
·· Jane Conrad
·· Anna Croteau
·· MacConnell Evans
·· Sarah Gilbert
·· Nicholas Loh
·· Tamiko Ooka
·· Yue Qui
·· Miyuki Takahashi
·· Julianna Hessel

Free Event

CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS

Carnegie Hall Citywide: iLe

4 PM El Museo del Barrio

Carnegie Hall Citywide: iLe

Classic Latin boleros, mambos, and danzóns burn hotter with iLe’s sultry voice. Before she went solo and took her current stage name, Ileana Cabra was a singer and rapper under the name PG-13, performing with the popular rap group Calle 13 that features her half-brothers known as Residente and Visitante. Her most recent album, the breakthrough iLevitable, features Latin favorites along with songs written by her family members and backed by a host of Puerto Rican music superstars.

Performers

iLe

Free Event

Saturday

Mar 23

2019

CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS

Carnegie Hall Citywide:
Siena Licht Miller, Mezzo-Soprano
Cameron Richardson-Eames, Piano

3 PM St. Michael's Church

Carnegie Hall Citywide:
Siena Licht Miller, Mezzo-Soprano
Cameron Richardson-Eames, Piano

Mezzo-soprano Siena Licht Miller’s versatile operatic career—she has sung roles by John Adams, Britten, Ravel, Mozart, and Puccini—is coupled with noteworthy performances on concert and recital stages. A 2016 Marilyn Horne Rubin Scholar, she has sung in master classes led by Ms. Horne, Renée Fleming, and Plácido Domingo. She is joined by Cameron Richardson-Eames, an award-winning chamber musician and collaborative pianist who has accompanied master classes led by such singers as Dame Felicity Lott and Dame Sarah Connolly.

Performers

Siena Licht Miller, Mezzo-Soprano
Cameron Richardson-Eames, Piano

Free Event

Sunday

Mar 24

2019

CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS

Carnegie Hall Citywide: The Itty Biddies

2 PM New York Hall of Science

Carnegie Hall Citywide: The Itty Biddies

The Itty Biddies’ foot-tapping tunes, crystal-clear vocals, and instrumental skills inspire audiences of all ages to sing and dance along with the band. The musicians’ soaring vocals are buoyed by sweet ukulele, melodic piano, groovy bass, and fat drums for an irresistibly joyous sound that will lift your spirits, and get your fingers snapping and your toes tapping.

Performers

The Itty Biddies
·· Lee Ann Westover, Vocals and Ukulele
·· Deidre Rodman Struck, Vocals, Keys, and Melodica
·· Saskia Lane, Vocals, Bass

Free Event

Saturday

Apr 6

2019

CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS

Carnegie Hall Citywide: Devony Smith, Soprano
Nikolay Verevkin, Piano

3 PM St. Michael's Church

Carnegie Hall Citywide: Devony Smith, Soprano
Nikolay Verevkin, Piano

Soprano Devony Smith has been praised by The New York Times for her “sensuous” and “strong” voice. A winner of the MIMF Art Song Competition and participant in The Song Continues, she is equally at home on the operatic stage and in the recital hall. Her performances of Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with The Bronx Opera Company and OperaRox Productions were called “utterly alive, natural, and beautifully sung” by Opera News. She is joined by collaborative pianist Nikolay Verevkin, who has worked with a host of vocal stars, such as Danielle de Niese, Matthew Polenzani, and Michelle DeYoung.

Performers

Devony Smith, Soprano
Nikolay Verevkin, Piano

Free Event

Sunday

Apr 7

2019

CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS

Carnegie Hall Citywide: Spektral Quartet

4 PM Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library

Carnegie Hall Citywide: Spektral Quartet

“Unlike anything its intended audience—or anyone else—has ever heard” (Gramophone), the Spektral Quartet reveals the hidden nuances of the classic string quartet repertoire while opening the door to the visionary music of our day. The ensemble has been praised by The New York Times for its “supreme technical command that seems to come easily” and its “capacity to make complicated music clear.” Among its many unique initiatives is Mobile Miniatures, a project for which the quartet commissioned more than 40 composers to write ringtone-length pieces that were made available for download to mobile devices.

Performers

Spektral Quartet
·· Clara Lyon, Violin
·· Maeve Feinberg, Violin
·· Doyle Armbrust, Viola
·· Russell Rolen, Cello

Free Event

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Nikolay Verevkin, Piano