The Kaufman Music Center announced its programming for the 2023-24 season. Slated are concerts, educational programs, and events as part of their signature series presented at Kaufman’s Merkin Hall. This season’s theme is “Listen Different,” which “spotlights the unique and transformative performance experiences offered by Kaufman Music Center: Audiences experience a direct connection with artists in a welcoming space and {…}
The Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival will return to the Kaufman Music Center in New York City from Mar. 17 to 19, 2023. The festival will honor Borys Liatoshynsky (1895 -1968), regarded as the “father” of Ukrainian contemporary music. Featured works include those of his students and contemporary composers influenced by him. The festival aims to preserve Ukraine’s musical history and {…}
The Kaufman Music Center in New York has announced its 2022-23 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances: VOCES8 perform Choral Dances: Wm. Byrd to V. Morrison. Performance Date: Oct. 13, 2022 VOCES8 will showcase “Underneath the Stars,” which includes music by Byrd, Britten, Gibbons, Smith, Schütz, Rheinberger, and Alfvén, among others. Performance Date: Oct. 14, 2022 Briana {…}
The Kaufman Music Center has launched a campaign to double its endowment from $10 million to $20 million. The organization announced that its campaign kicked off with a $5 million donation from the Henry and Elaine Kaufman Foundation and was followed by additional $2.5 million gifts from other donors as the campaign makes its way to $10 million. “I can {…}
Kaufman Music Center is set to publish “Who is Florence Price?” a children’s book created by students with the goal of telling the story of Price’s life for lower school readers. Price is the first Black woman composer to have her music performed by a major orchestra. The piece in question was her Symphony in E minor, which was premiered {…}
On May 27, 2021, Kaufman Music Center will present an exclusive, work-in-progress performance of composer and producer Lisa Bielawa’s upcoming opera “Centuries in the Hours.” The work culminates Bielawa’s 2020-21 KMC Artist-in-Residence appointment. “Centuries in the Hours” sets to music excerpts from women’s diaries which span three centuries; Bielawa found these excerpts during her time as a William Randolph Hearst {…}
Kaufman Music Center (KMC) has announced its 2021 gala honoring Devorah Rose and David Krieger. The event will stream on June 7, 2021, and raise funds for KMC’s music education programs. KMC’s education initiatives serve 3000 children and teens, with the organization investing $6 million annually to support the Special Music School, a New York City-based grades K-12 school where {…}
Audiences will have the opportunity to hear the award-winning composer, vocalist, and producer, Lisa Bielawa’s “Broadcast from Home” song cycle in its entirety during a two-part listening event on Thursday, August 20 at 2:00 p.m. EDT and Friday, August 21 at 2:00 p.m. EDT. The program is presented by Kaufman Music Center. Bielawa began “Broadcast from Home” on April 9, {…}