Join NYNME, Chinary Ung, and the Asian Cultural Council in our efforts to establish the first ever Nimitta Composers Institute in Cambodia.
April 16, 2013 --7:30 PM --COMPOSER PORTRAIT & CELEBRATION: Chinary Ung
Le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleeker Street lprnyc.com
Tickets: (In Advance) $15 / (At the door) $20 - both reserved table seating and standing room tickets available.
In honor of Chinary Ung’s 70th birthday, NYNME presents a program to be conducted by the distinguished composer. The concert will feature the New York premiere of Ung’s AURA (2005), a 45 minute work for two sopranos, 10 singing instrumentalists, including violist Susan Ung, and singing conductor (Ung). The Cambodian term “Chaw Pean Raingsei” describes thecircular-shaped illumination around the head of the Buddha, or his aura, which radiates infinite compassion. The concert will include Ung's Spiral I (1987) and special guest speaker Professor Chou Wen-chung.
March 18, 2013 -- 8:00 PM -- SEMINAL WORKS FOR PIANO AND PERCUSSION
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Center | 129 W. 67 St. | NYC
Tickets $20 gen. adm/ $10 students Box Office: (212) 501-3330 or visit: http://kaufman-center.org/mch/buy-tickets
READ THE REVIEW: 3/22/13"For Piano and Percussion, Fifty Years Apart" Bruce Hodges (Seen and Heard International)
Chosen as one of this week's Critic's picks by Time Out NY, NYNME will present two of the most important, ground-breaking works for piano and percussion in the new music repertory. Kontakte (1959-60) is perhaps Stockhausen's most famous work, and remains a marvel of sonic complexity. It's trailblazing use of electronics, spectral analysis, spatialization and the combination of acoustic and electronic sounds was a turning point in the history of 20th century music. Metagong (2008) is Charles Wuorinen's contribution to the growing canon of works inspired by Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. This epic, virtuosic work explores the myriad timbral capabilities and possibilities of this unique instrumental combination to stunning effect.
November 12, 2013 -- 7:30 PM - Exploring the World of Jonathan Harvey
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Center | 129 W. 67 St. | NYC
Tickets $20 gen. adm/ $10 students Box Office: (212) 501-3330 or visit: http://kaufman-center.org/mch/buy-tickets
The New York New Music Ensemble honors pre-eminent British composer Jonathan Harvey with a cornucopia of intense chamber
works: his superb sextet, "Concelebration" (1981), the trio for flute,
bass clarinet and piano entitled "The Riot" (1993), his "Piano Trio"
(1971), "Be(com)ing" (1979) for clarinet and piano, and the
American premiere of his new solo clarinet work, "Cirrus Light" (2012). 
A recent documentary of Harvey's life, "Towards and Beyond" by director Barrie Gavin, will be shown in conjunction with the concert. View the 2010 interview between Gavin and Harvey.