Kaufman Music Center – Upcoming Concerts

Broadway stars Sally Wilfert & Michael Winther join Rob Kapilow for a musical tour through Cole Porter’s life & career, taking a fresh look at his complex highbrow/lowbrow sensibility in some of his classic songs.

Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence Conrad Tao illustrates a deeper look into his work in piano, electronics, composition, & improvisation as the program for his May KMC concert comes into focus.

Virtual performance filmed in Merkin Hall in NYC, featuring 7th & 8th grade performers from KMC’s Special Music School.

Teen musicians of Kaufman Music Center's Face the Music youth new music program perform Anthony Braxton’s Composition No. 69b, Mauricio Kagel’s Con Voce, & a brand-new imagining of Seth Parker Woods’ Kazaguruma.

Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence Conrad Tao illustrates a deeper look into his work in piano, electronics, composition, & improvisation as the program for his May KMC concert comes into focus.

Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata No. 1 in G minor for solo violin, BWV 1001 (IV. Presto)
Maurice Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin (VI. Toccata)
François Schubert – L’Abielle ("The Bee"), Op. 13, No. 9
Philippe Gaubert – Madrigal
George Frideric Handel – Sonata in C major, Op. 1, No. 7 (IV. Tempo di Gavotta)
John Corigliano – Sonata for Violin and Piano (I. Allegro)
Frederic Chopin – Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 (I. Grave – Doppio movimento)
Maurice Ravel – Tzigane

Come explore Sondheim's magical art of ambivalence as Nikki Renée Daniels & Michael Winther sing music from A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George, & more.

Host Sean Hartley & a stellar cast of Broadway performers explore the life & music of composer Kay Swift, the first woman to score a successful Broadway musical.

Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center premiere works by 2020-21 Fellows of the Luna Composition Lab, a national mentorship program for teen-age female, non-binary, & gender-nonconforming composers.

Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence Conrad Tao illustrates a deeper look into his work in piano, electronics, composition, & improvisation as the program for his May KMC concert comes into focus.

Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School and Lucy Moses School perform music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, and Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

Chamber ensembles from Kaufman Music Center's Special Music School High School perform movements from piano trios & string quartets; cellist Seth Parker Woods joins for Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1.

Fredrick Gifford – Difficult Grace
Monty Adkins – Winter Tendrils (with film by Zoë McLean)
Nathalie Joachim – The Race: 1915 (with images of Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series)
Freida Abtan – My Heart Is A River
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – asinglewordisnotenough 3 [invariant] (with choreographer/dancer Roderick George)