Music at the Anthology (MATA) – Past Concerts
Music at the Anthology (MATA) is an incubator for adventurous emerging artists experimenting with composition, multi-media, collaborative performance art, and every imaginable sound in between. We present, support, and commission the music of early-career 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 has since developed into the world’s most sought-after performance opportunity for young and emerging composers.
MATA Festival 2024 Closing Night: Open Waters
Wenbin Lyu — Duke's Fantasy I
Mariel Teran — Manos de Tierra
Philip Glass — Águas da Amazônia (arr. Olivier Glissant / world premiere)
$45
MATA Festival 2024 Evening 3: Earthing
Henryk Golden — Sprechen Sie Musik? (NY premiere; for reader & mezzo-soprano)
Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh — Permeating Through the Pores of Shifting Planes (NY premiere; for percussion & electronics)
Marco-Adrián Ramos — Altar with pines and bread from Acámbaro (Music with my grandma) (for alto flute, percussion, & electronics)
Qiujiang Levi Lu — Before it Gets Too Late (NY premiere; for solo percussion & laptop)
Bobby Ge — Doppelgänger Streets (NY premiere; for violin & electronics)
Jane Sheldon — I am a tree, I am a mouth (world premiere; for 2 voices & gong drone)
$45
MATA Festival 2024 Evening 2: Changing Voices
$45
MATA Festival 2024 Evening 1: Automation – Featuring the Double Cello Concerto for Human & AI Cellists
Adonis Gonzalez — Nrtya (world premiere)
Cristina Spinei — Missed Deadline (world premiere)
Adam Schoenberg — Automaton (NY premiere)
$45
MATA Festival 2023 – Evening 4: Mosaic: Memories & Mosaic: Dreams
This evening is a special event curated by Ensemble-in-Residence Found Sound Nation.
Mosaic: Memories – an experiential and performative myt…
Free
MATA Festival 2023 – Evening 4: Mosaic: Memories & Mosaic: Dreams
This evening is a special event curated by Ensemble-in-Residence Found Sound Nation.
Mosaic: Memories – an experiential and performative myt…
$20 advance, $25 at the door
MATA Festival 2023 – Evening 3: Voice, Lineage, Humanness
$20 advance, $25 at the door
MATA Festival 2023 – Evening 3: Voice, Lineage, Humanness
Free
MATA Festival 2023 – Evening 2: Plug In, Turn Up
Free
MATA Festival 2023 – Evening 2: Plug In, Turn Up
$20 advance, $25 at the door
MATA Festival 2023 – Evening 1: Sound, Space, Ritual
Che Buford — I have been here before
Isabel Crespo Pardo — la línea será
Kristofer Svensson — av hav
Yiheng Yvonne Wu — Sound-Body/Sound-Space
Maja Linderoth — Mouthpiece
$20 advance, $25 at the door
MATA Festival 2023 – Evening 1: Sound, Space, Ritual
Che Buford — I have been here before
Isabel Crespo Pardo — la línea será
Kristofer Svensson — av hav
Yiheng Yvonne Wu — Sound-Body/Sound-Space
Maja Linderoth — Mouthpiece
Free
Generation: Celebrating 25 Years at MATA
Eve Beglarian — Selected works (arr. Ariadne Greif)
Paul Pinto — Selected works (arr. Ariadne Greif)
Various — Selected works (pieces by Lester St. Louis & Found Sound Nation's 'Mosaic: Daydreams')
$40-$75
MATA Festival: Darius Jones & International Contemporary Ensemble
$25
MATA Festival: International Contemporary Ensemble
Francisco del Pino — Un pez dorado (for clarinet quartet; world premiere)
Shuyu Lin — In the Station of the Metro (for alto, alto flute, & viola; NY premiere)
John Aulich — Green, or beautiful in green (for trombone & percussion; US premiere)
Travis Laplante — The Obvious Place (for solo tenor saxophone; NY premiere)
Piyawat Louilarpprasert — Double Shuttering Sprinters (for violin & cello; NY premiere)
Wajdi Abou Diab — a tune for Amer's Horn (for French horn, piano, & double bass; world premiere)
$25
Roulette: 2022 MATA Festival Night 2
Vicente Hansen Atria — Beauchamp-Feuillet N.2
Cameron Graham — Life in Pink
Jess Rowland — Music for Cell Phone and Piano
Naftali Schindler — Chants, Pastorals, and Antiphons of the New Moon
Mengmeng Wang — The sounds I can hear when I miss you
June Young (Will) Kim — Black, Emerald
Online: Free | In person: $20 advance, $25 at the door
Roulette: 2022 MATA Festival Night 1
Free (Online: Free | In person: $20 advance, $25 at the door)
MATA Benefit concert
$10-$40
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