2024-25 SEASON
Museum of Arts & Design
(2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019)
Concert 11am-12pm
(Doors at 10:30am, with complimentary coffee/pastries)
Tickets: $30 (kids under 12 free)
Season Pass available HERE
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OCT 27 • The Overlook +
Yasmina Spiegelberg (clarinet)
NOV 10 • Sirintip (singer-songwriter)
NOV 24 • The Knights + WQXR: “Play Out”
DEC 8 • W4RP (violin + cello + percussion + piano)
DEC 22 • Excelsis Percussion Quartet
JAN 5 • Emi Ferguson (flute) +
JAN 19 • Gabriel Cabezas (cello)
FEB 2 • ensemble 132
FEB 16 • Sarah Elizabeth Charles (voice) +
MAR 2 • Toomai Quintet + Maria Brea (narrator)
MAR 16 • Daedalus Quartet
MAR 30 • MATA
APR 13 • Deborah Buck (violin) + Orli Shaham (piano)
APR 27 • ETHEL + Layale Chaker (violin)
MAY 11 • Solomiya Ivakhiv (violin) + Friends:
MAY 25 • Rupert Boyd (guitar)
JUN 8 • Orpheus + Boyd Meets Girl
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// PREVIOUS SEASONS
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•2023-24 • 2022-23 • SPRING 2022 • FALL 2021 •
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•SPRING 2021 • FALL 2019 • SPRING 2019 • FALL 2018 •
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•SUMMER 2018 • SPRING 2018 •
OCT 27: The Overlook + Yasmina Spiegelberg (clarinet)
The Overlook quartet with special guest clarinetist Yasmina Spiegelberg with a colorful, probing program of music by living composers each telling a deeply personal story. A highlight is the NYC premiere of “Afilador” for clarinet and string trio by the acclaimed cellist-composer Andrea Casarrubios, who writes about the piece:
“The afilador as a musical idea is intended to appear as a call to come back to presence, to snap out of our mental noise, and from there, perhaps, to be ushered immediately into memory and meaning….. The ending returns to the abundant color of the valley and represents a transformation; turning tragedy and hardship into as much beauty and warmth as possible.”
NOV 10: Sirintip (singer-songwriter)
Praised for her depth of dimension, multimodal artist Sirintip draws inspiration from a range of styles and disciplines. Her works explore unsung intersections of humankind and the natural world — a focus that drives her curiosity and expands her output. Part ethereal, part impassioned, her vocals move nimbly across sophisticated harmony, soar over dense walls of sound, and pulse through rhythmic modulations. For this intimate performance, Sirintip will be performing songs from her most recent album “Carbon” where’s she’s written electro/pop/jazz music as an invitational gesture to a new kind of conversation around climate action. She’ll also be sharing some of her most recent work from “Mycelium”, an interdisciplinary musical suite, born from a five-year artistic and research odyssey, that intertwines the wonders of fungi and plankton with the power of music and storytelling.
NOV 24: The Knights + WQXR: “Play Out”
“Play Out!” is an interactive, intergenerational family program (recommended 5 years old +) that focuses on what it means to feel deeply, and how our big emotions are the foundation for how we relate to ourselves and interact with others. In “Play Out!” we're exploring how music is an incredible outside representation of our emotions inside, through a wide range of music for string quartet performed by members of The Knights. Created and hosted by Knights cellist Caitlin Sullivan, this program includes the performance of original poetry by Jennifer Wynn, and video art by illustrator Jorge Carvajal.
DEC 8: W4RP (violin + cello + percussion + piano)
Described as "A talented group that exemplifies the genre-obliterating direction of contemporary classical music” (Columbia Free Times), W4RP (né Warp Trio) is an Internationally touring cross-genre chamber music experience. Reflecting the combination of Juilliard trained members juxtaposed with members steeped in rock and jazz styles, the one of a kind trio ensemble can be seen performing classical works in prestigious halls on the same tour where they headline a standing room only show at a rock venue.
DEC 22: Excelsis Percussion Quartet
Hailed as "One of the most innovative and exciting percussion ensembles to emerge in the golden age of chamber music" (Jonathan Haas, New York University) for their immersive sound world, this international group of women with a multilingual combination of five languages join together to speak the universal language of rhythm, rooted in their belief that music possesses an ability to unite us all. Excelsis brings vibrancy to its audiences through eclectic programming, innovative storytelling, and embracing their intersectional identities.
JAN 5 • Emi Ferguson (flute) + Dan Tepfer (clavichord)
Two of NYC’s most acclaimed and versatile artists come together for a program of baroque delights by Bach, Bonporti and more. Tepfer is a #1 Billboard-charting keyboards player who is equally at home in classical and jazz realms, while Ferguson is a 2023 recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, known for her performances alongside the likes of Yo-Yo Ma and Paul Simon. The pair brings the spirit of their far-reaching musical practices to breathe new life into ancient music.
JAN 19: Gabriel Cabezas (cello)
Acclaimed cello soloist and chamber musician Gabriel Cabezas shares a creatively constructed solo cello program that explores a wide range of timbral possibilities on the instrument. Bringing his thoughtful virtuosity to music by some of the most important compositional voices of his generation including Jessie Montgomery, Allison Loggins-Hull, Paul Wiancko, Alyssa Weinberg and more, Cabezas masterfully takes listeners on a journey through the world of the cello alone.
FEB 2: ensemble 132
A genre-bending program honoring the expansive legacy of two musical icons for their joint 150th birthday: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Maurice Ravel. Both playing pivotal roles in the early 20th century as they blended styles from all over the globe, this group of all-star chamber musicians drawn from the rosters of the Chamber Music Society of Linciln Center, Marlboro Music Festival, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and more, explores these composers’ influence on other visionaries through the 20th and 21st centuries. To honor Coleridge-Taylor and Ravel in 2025, ensemble132 traces these connections in a program featuring movements from Ravel’s and Coleridge-Taylor’s string quartets, along with special e132 arrangements and a rollicking finale by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson.
FEB 16: Sarah Elizabeth Charles (voice) + Jarrett Cherner (piano)
Vocalist and composer Sarah Elizabeth Charles, hailed as “soulfully articulate” by the New York Times, and acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Jarrett Charles will present music from their debut album as a duo.The album, called Tone, centers its concept on the magical, fleeting and delicate nature of life as well as the need to take care of ourselves and the world around us as best as we possibly can.
MAR 2: Toomai Quintet + Maria Brea (narrator)
Toomai String Quintet, an ensemble dedicated to expanding the Latin American chamber music repertoire, presents this family-friendly concert of music from Cuba, Brazil, and Mexico. The program features Cuban composer Keyla Orozco’s The Song of the Cicada (2024) for narrator and quintet, inspired by Onelio Jorge Cardoso’s vivid children’s story of the same title. Also on the program are Toomai’s original arrangements of works by Hermeto Pascoal, Israel “Cachao” Lopez, Léa Freire, and Manuel Ponce.
MAR 16: Daedalus Quartet
Winners of the highest honor in string quartet playing, the Banff International String Quartet Competition, the Daedalus Quartet will perform the visceral, folk-inspired sixth string quartet by Bela Batrok, alongside the atmospheric, pop-influenced “Space Between” by acclaimed composer and Guggenheim fellow Anna Weesner.
MAR 30: MATA
Music at the Anthology (MATA), an incubator for adventurous emerging artists in the early stages of their careers, we present, support, and commission composers, regardless of their stylistic views or aesthetic inclinations. Founded by Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa in 1996 as a way to address the lack of presentation opportunities for unaffiliated composers, MATA composers have since emanated to include future Rome, Alpert, Takemitsu, Siemens, and Pulitzer Prize-winners, Guggenheim Fellows, and MacArthur “Geniuses.” In 2010 MATA was awarded ASCAP’s prestigious Aaron Copland award in recognition of its work.For its first collaboration with GatherNYC, MATA will showcase highlights from previous festivals as well as selected works from our global Call for Submissions.The New Yorker has hailed MATA as “the most exciting showcase for outstanding young composers from around the world.” The New York Times has called it “nondogmatic, even antidogmatic;” The Wall Street Journal said that it “tells us a lot about how composers are thinking now.”
APR 13 • Deborah Buck (violin) + Orli Shaham (piano)
Violinist Deborah Buck and pianist Orli Shaham present a program to celebrate Clara Schumann's legacy. In addition to works by Robert and Clara Schumann, the program features the couple's circle of friends that includes the music of Amanda Maier.
APR 27: ETHEL + Layale Chaker (violin)
From their beginnings in 1998, the members of ETHEL have prized collaboration. In recent years, the quartet has struck up a particularly fruitful collaboration with the Lebanese-born, Brooklyn-based violinist and composer Layale Chaker. Their album “Vigil” offers a chance to document some of that collective work, with each member of ETHEL contributing a piece and Chaker herself contributing two works, one of which is the remarkable work that gives the project its name.
MAY 11: Solomiya Ivakhiv (violin) + Friends: Music from Ukraine
Acclaimed violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv is known for channeling her award-winning virtuosity as a means of championing worthy music by lesser or unknown composers from her native Ukraine. For her first appearance at GatherNYC, Solomiya is joined by violist William Frampton and cellist Laura Metcalf to present a forgotten masterwork by Fedir Yakymenko, a colorful and rhapsodic piece written around the turn of the 20th century. Ukrainian by birth and spending his life in Russia and France, Yakymenko deftly blends French and Ukrainian sounds and styles into this delightful piece, which deserves to be heard and remembered.
MAY 25: Rupert Boyd (guitar)
GatherNYC artistic director and classical guitar virtuoso Rupert Boyd takes listeners on a journey across centuries and continents on the six strings of his guitar. From Malian kora music to atmospheric sounds from Japan to contemporary music from his home country of Australia to classic works for the Spanish guitar. Boyd’s riveting program has something for everyone.
JUN 8: Orpheus + Boyd Meets Girl
Building on a highly successful collaboration during the 2023-24 season, GatherNYC artistic directors Laura Metcalf and Rupert Boyd in their duo formation of Boyd Meets Girl once again team up with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for an expanded collaborative program featuring classical favorites and creative, virtuosic takes on popular tunes.
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