New York Composers Circle Presents New Chamber Music on March 15 at Manhattan’s Church of the Transfiguration (“Little Church Around the Corner')

New York Composers Circle will present A Concert of New Chamber Music on Tuesday, March 15 @ 7:00 PM at Manhattan’s Church of the Transfiguration (“Little Church Around the Corner”), 1 East 29th Street in Manhattan.

Works by NYCC members to be performed are Dana Dimitri Richardson’s Sunsongs for soprano & piano, Kevin McCarter’s Under Sun or Stars for mezzo-soprano & piano, Robert S. Cohen’s So You Think I'm Funny? for bassoon & piano, Timothy L. Miller’s String Quartet No. 3, "l'Ode au Vermont" and Carl Kanter’s String Quartet.

The McCarter, Cohen and Kanter pieces will be World Premieres and the Miller will be a New York Premiere.  Information about the NYCC member composers can be found at https://newyorkcomposerscircle.org/composers/member-directory.html.

Performers will be soprano Jacqueline Milena Thompson, mezzo-soprano Jessica Bowers, Principal Bassoon of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Will Short, pianist Craig Ketter and the Klang String Quartet. Performer information at https://newyorkcomposerscircle.org/performers/index.html.

Tickets for the March 15 concert are $20, available beginning March 1 at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nycc-presents-a-concert-of-new-music-tickets-224116377117, or at the door. Seniors are $15 and students are free.

For more information, call 201-675-7096 or visit https://newyorkcomposerscircle.org/. This concert is ADA accessible. For MTA transportation information, visit http://tripplanner.mta.info/MyTrip/ui_web/customplanner/TripPlanner.aspx.

The New York Composers Circle is  a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, artistic and educational organization dedicated to new music — its creation, its performance, and the development of new audiences. Its members and supporters are composers, performers, and music lovers. Its activities include concerts of new music, monthly salons at which composers play and discuss new works and works in progress for fellow members and guests and hear talks by various members of the new-music community, an annual competition open only to nonmembers, and a program of outreach concerts to benefit the broader community and to attract new concert audiences. Much more about them at https://newyorkcomposerscircle.org/.

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