Merkin Concert Hall Hosts Ecstatic Music Festival

Join us at Merkin Concert Hall as we explore the fertile terrain between classical and popular genres with artists who are redefining the sound of contemporary music!

Merkin Concert Hall's Ecstatic Music Festival brings together composers, songwriters and performers for 14 concerts featuring collaborations by some of today's most compelling musical innovators.

The many collaborations in the festival include:

Composer Nico Muhly and longtime collaborator Valgeir Sigurðsson with the Chiara String Quartet
Pioneer chamber/rock ensemble Clogs with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Electronic iconoclast Dan Deacon with So Percussion
Vijay Iyer writes for Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, while Argue writes for the Newspeak ensemble
Composer/pianist/vocalists Timo Andres and Gabriel Kahane explore the
Charles Ives legacy
Polystylistic octet Roomful of Teeth with rising star composer/vocalists William Brittelle, Caleb Burhans, and Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs)
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JAN 17 Ecstatic Music Festival Marathon
JAN 19 The Chiara String Quartet, Nico Muhly & Valgeir Sigurðsson
JAN 20 So Percussion & Dan Deacon
JAN 22 Craig Wedren, Jefferson Friedman & ACME
JAN 30 Alarm Will Sound & Face the Music
FEB 10 Bang on a Can All-Stars 2011 People's Commissioning Fund Concert
FEB 19 Roomful of Teeth with William Brittelle, Caleb Burhans &
Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs)
FEB 24 Newspeak & Darcy James Argue's Secret Society with Vijay Iyer,
David T. Little and Nicole Lizée
MAR 03 Judd Greenstein (The Yehudim) & Olga Bell (Bell)
MAR 05 Timo Andres & Gabriel Kahane
MAR 09 Nadia Sirota & Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) with Special Guests
MAR 12 Clogs & Brooklyn Youth Chorus
MAR 16 Sarah Kirkland Snider & yMusic with Special Guest
MAR 28 So Percussion & Bobby Previte with John Medeski,
Zeena Parkins, DJ Olive & Jen Shyu

Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center
129 W. 67th St., New York, NY 10023