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The Atlanta Opera Reveals 2026-2027 Season
by Stephi Wild - Mar 2, 2026

The Atlanta Opera will present a dynamic 2026-2027 season with seven productions, including classic and contemporary operas and musical theatre, before relocating to a new venue.

Sparks & Wiry Cries To Present SPARKSLIVE SONG Festival In February
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 14, 2026

Sparks & Wiry Cries will present the sparksLIVE Song Festival, featuring notable performances including 'The Invisible Man' with Stephanie Blythe, from February 19-21.

96-Hour Opera Festival Returns To The Atlanta Opera
by Stephi Wild - May 1, 2025

A composition competition that pairs composers and librettists to write ten-minute operas in five teams, the 96-Hour Opera Festival is designed specifically to broaden cultural perspectives in opera.

BOTH EYES OPEN, A Hybrid Opera Theater Production, to Play Zellerbach Playhouse in February
by Blair Ingenthron - Jan 4, 2025

New Performance Traditions will present a new production of Both Eyes Open, an experimental electroacoustic opera by Brooklyn-based composer Max Giteck Duykers and Berkeley-based librettist and playwright Philip Kan Gotanda.

Random Access Music (RAM) to Present the 2023 Queens New Music Festival in May
by Blair Ingenthron - Apr 22, 2023

Random Access Music (RAM) will present the 2023 Queens New Music Festival.  The 2023 festival, under the Artistic Direction of Thomas Piercy, will present concerts from May 4th to May 7th at the Secret Theatre in Woodside, Queens.

World Premiere Of SONGS IN FLIGHT By Shawn Okpebholo & More to be Featured in SparksLIVE Winter 2023 Events
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 7, 2022

Sparks & Wiry Cries will present a week of sparksLIVE events, from January 10 to 13, 2023 in New York, including the world premiere of Songs in Flight, co-presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, plus additional events at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Bare Opera Presents LOVE, RUSSIAN STYLE At The Kosciuszko Foundation
by Stephi Wild - Feb 3, 2020

Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York announces a performance of Love, Russian Style, presented by Bare Opera at The Kosciuszko Foundation at 7:30pm on February 10, 2020. The program will explore poetry-driven Russian masterpieces of opera and song, and the muses who inspired those works, including the music of Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Pruzhansky and Dubuque. A talented group of rising stars headline the evening, including soprano Meryl Dominguez, tenor SungWook Kim, bass Paul An, mezzo soprano Briana Hunter, and pianist Dina Pruzhansky.

PREFORMANCES WITH ALLISON CHARNEY Continues 10th Anniversary Season Dec. 3 at Merkin Concert Hall
by Julie Musbach - Nov 20, 2018

PREFORMANCES WITH ALLISON CHARNEY continues its 10th Anniversary Season Monday December 3 at 7:30 PM. Joining soprano and founder Allison Charney PREFORMANCES' roster of featured guests will include, Augusta Caso, Blair McMillen, Carol Wincenc, Kajsa William-Olsson and Daniel Panner.

PREFORMANCES WITH ALLISON CHARNEY To Launch Tenth Anniversary Season On Monday October 22
by Julie Musbach - Oct 16, 2018

On Monday October 22 at New York City's acoustically renown Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufmann Music Center acclaimed opera singer, curator and host Allison Charney will welcome audiences to "PREFORMANCES WITH ALLISON CHARNEY" Tenth Anniversary Season.

PREformances with Allison Charney to Conclude Season with Concert Featuring Rupei Yeh Carol Wincenc, Reiko Uchida & Pam Goldberg
by Julie Musbach - Apr 13, 2018

PREFORMANCES WITH ALLISON CHARNEY brings its inaugural season at Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center to a close with a concert befitting a sonnet on William Shakespeare's Birthday,  Monday April 23rd at 1PM.

PREformances With Allison Charney To Present Preeminent Classical Musicians; Contemporary American Classical Works
by Stephi Wild - Feb 21, 2018

"PREFORMANCES WITH ALLISON CHARNEY" returns with a dynamic classical music program for the third concert of its 2017-18 Season on Monday March 5th at 7:30PM, Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center, 129 W 67th St, New York, NY 10036

Photo Flash: PREFORMANCES WITH ALISON CHARNEY at Merkin Concert Hall
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 8, 2017

'PREFORMANCES WITH ALLISON CHARNEY' first evening concert of the 2017-18 season will feature preeminent musicians Kajsa William-Olsson, Elizabeth Mann, Donna Weng and the ARK trio (soprano Allison Charney, cellist Kajsa William-Olsson, pianist Reiko Uchida) in exclusive preview 'preformances' - anticipating their upcoming appearances on the world's most prestigious stages. The November 27th concert program taking place at 7:30 pm at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center will present works by master composers of the 20th century - Czech composer Bohuslav Jan Martin? and Russian composer Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev as well as new classical works by American contemporary composer Michael Ching.

PREformances with Allison Charney to Feature Mezzo Soprano Hyona Kim
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 17, 2017

Mezzo soprano Hyona Kim will join PREformances with Allison Charney classical concert series on November 27th for the second concert of its 2017-18 debut Season at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center. Ms. Kim joins host and founder soprano Allison Charney in a program which will feature preformances by Royal Stockholm Philharmonic cellist Kajsa William-Olsson who will play Martinu's Cello Concerto, No. 1 as she prepares to perform it with full orchestra later this season; Orchestra of St. Luke's principal flutist Elizabeth Mann who will play Prokofiev's Flute Sonata with pianist Donna Weng in advance of their upcoming concert at Princeton and the ARK trio, who will perform Michael Ching's reimagining's of five of Schubert's classic songs in his cycle Arrangements and Derangements: Interpretations of Schubert.

PREFORMANCES WITH ALISON CHARNEY to Feature Kajsa William-Olsson, Elizabeth Mann, and More
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 8, 2017

PREFORMANCES WITH ALLISON CHARNEY first evening concert of the 2017-18 season will feature preeminent musicians Kajsa William-Olsson, Elizabeth Mann, Donna Weng and the ARK trio (soprano Allison Charney, cellist Kajsa William-Olsson, pianist Reiko Uchida) in exclusive preview preformances - anticipating their upcoming appearances on the world's most prestigious stages. The November 27th concert program taking place at 7:30 pm at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center will present works by master composers of the 20th century - Czech composer Bohuslav Jan Martin? and Russian composer Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev as well as new classical works by American contemporary composer Michael Ching.

Photo Flash: PREformances with Allison Charney Launches Season Nine
by Julie Musbach - Oct 23, 2017

'PREformances with Allison Charney' launches its 2017-2018 Concert Series Season in its new home at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center. Both intimate and stately the 450-seat Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center is located within the world-renown epicenter of classical music on Manhattan's West Side.

PREformances with Allison Charney Launches Season Nine at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center
by Julie Musbach - Sep 17, 2017

PREformances with Allison Charney launches its 2017-2018 Concert Series Season in its new home at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center.

Resounding Love for Love Resounding: The ARK Trio Shines at Symphony Space
by BWW News Desk - Feb 21, 2017

The ARK Trio (soprano Allison Charney, cellist Kajsa William-Olsson and pianist Reiko Uchida) had an auspicious debut presenting six world premieres of new classical compositions in front of a surprisingly packed and enthusiastic audience at Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia this past Valentine's Day.

The ARK Trio to Present Six World Premieres in New York City Concert Debut LOVE RESOUNDING
by BWW News Desk - Feb 14, 2017

The ARK Trio, whose members include noted musicians soprano Allison Charney, cellist Kajsa William-Olsson and pianist Reiko Uchida, will make their New York City debut on February 14th 7PM at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Peter Norton Symphony Space.  The ARK trio's concert 'Love Resounding' will present six world premieres of compositions written for them by American composers Kim D. Sherman (THE WEDDING SONG, THE LAODAMIAD: A MYTHIC JOURNEY, PRAIRIE DIARY) and Michael Ching (ARRANGEMENTS AND DERANGEMENTS: INTERPRETATIONS OF SCHUBERT); Russian-born composer Dina Pruzhansky (ON LOVE AND LAND) and Israeli composer/pianist Moshe Knoll (SIMPLICITY). 

The ARK Trio to present World Premieres in NYC 2/14
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 14, 2017

The ARK trio's inaugural concert taking place this Valentine's Day in New York City celebrates the art song and champions four noted international classical composers who collectively share a love of the poetic and draw inspiration from the ARK trio's unique sound of voice, cello and piano. In their intrepid debut as the ARK trio - soprano Allison Charney, cellist Kajsa William-Olsson and pianist Reiko Uchida -  will perform six world premieres by American composer Michael Ching -"Arrangements and Derangements: Interpretations of Schubert", Israeli composer/pianist Moshe Knoll - "Simplicity," Russian-born, Israeli raised composer Dina Pruzhansky - "On Love and Land" and three works by American composer Kim D. Sherman "The Wedding Song," "The Laodamiad: A Mythic Journey" and "Prairie Diary" at NYC's  Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre at Symphony Space on Tuesday February 14 at 7PM.

Photo Flash: PREformances with Allison Charney to Feature Navah Perlman, the ARK Trio and Dina Pruzhansky
by BWW News Desk - Feb 10, 2017

PREformances with Allison Charney' classical concert series featured superstar pianist Navah Perlman and the ARK trio in new works by noted composers Kim Sherman and Dina Pruzhansky at JCC Manhattan's intimate Goldman Sonnenfeltd Auditorium on February 6th.