Allison Charney News

Artistic Directors Pam Goldberg and Blair McMillen present the 12th Season of the Rite of Summer Music Festival, taking place Summer 2023 on Governors Island, New York City. Rite of Summer will present six FREE outdoor concerts from June through August.

Rite of Summer Music Festival continues its eleventh stellar season with violinist Curtis Stewart performing two free shows on Saturday, July 16th at 1pm and 3pm.

Pam Goldberg and Blair McMillen will present the 11th Season of the Rite of Summer Music Festival, taking place Summer 2022 on Governors Island, New York City. Rite of Summer will present four free outdoor concerts from May through September.

On March 31 at 7:30 p.m. in Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall in association with Music Kitchen–Food for the Soul w ill present Forgotten Voices, a composite song cycle written by top emerging and established composers with text created by homeless-shelter participants set to music.

The Town Hall and the PREformances Chamber Music Collaborative have teamed up to bring Verdi’s Otello, virtually, to audiences at home as part of The Town Hall’s new Opera at Home series. The virtual series, beginning November 18 at 8pm, presents operas in under an hour, sung by a diverse group of singers.

Rite of Summer Music Festival launches their 10th Anniversary season on Saturday, June 19th with  two free concerts at 1pm and 3pm featuring The Knights. Artistic Directors Pam Goldberg and Blair  McMillen are thrilled to present this very special season in Nolan Park on Governors Island, New  York City.

Tune in tonight at 7pm eastern for an hour of conversation and music with series host, soprano Allison Charney, cellist Peter Seidenberg and pianist Craig Ketter.

The Town Hall has announced the weekly rebroadcast of a full 7-episode season of PREFORMANCES with Allison Charney entitled Season of Hope starting January 7, 2021. This season of virtual performances and conversation includes well-known works by Chopin, Strauss and Joplin to name a few, as well as works by living composers.

Join host of PREFORMANCES acclaimed soprano Allison Charney, as she welcomes pianist Benjamin Loeb, to the historic Town Hall, in Episode One of the seven-part series: SEASON OF HOPE.

A very special episode of PREFORMANCES: Season of Hope - celebrating the centennial of the ratification of the 19th amendment and the 55th anniversary of the signing into law of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 - premieres Tuesday, August 18th @9:00pm EDT.

A very special episode of PREFORMANCES: Season of Hope - celebrating the centennial anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment and the 55th anniversary of the signing into law of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 - premieres Tuesday, August 18th at 9:00pm EDT.

Violin soloist and powerhouse client Kelly Hall-Tompkins, founder and director of Music Kitchen (a feel-good organization that brings the art of classical music to homeless shelters) announces 'Midsummer Night Stream,' the organization's first-ever virtual concert series with virtual meet-n-greets with artists and composers.

Tune in tonight at 9pm eastern to Facebook Live or You Tube Live to watch the premiere episode of Allison Charney's new virtual concert and conversation series, PREFORMANCES: Season of Hope, featuring special guest artist, pianist Benjamin Loeb.

Rite of Summer Music Festival's 2020 Season has been postponed to Summer 2021 as a result of COVID-19 precautions and Federal, State, and Local guidelines. Due to mark its 10th Anniversary this summer on Governors Island, Rite of Summer Music Festival will celebrate this milestone with special extended festivities next year. The safety, health, and happiness of ROS audiences, artists, and crew are of primary concern to Artistic Directors Pam Goldberg and Blair McMillen. 

Come hear Verdi's OTELLO PRE-formed in excerpts by Metropolitan Opera tenor, Errin Duane Brooks and PREFORMANCES host, soprano Allison Charney with pianist Craig Ketter and narration by veteran actor of stage and screen - Jordan Charney. TONIGHT @7pm at Merkin Hall.

For over half a century Jordan Charney has been a forceful presence in the world of entertainment as a performer, writer, director and teacher.

PREFORMANCES with Allison Charney delivered again with its triumphant 'Chamber Music Celebration' Thursday afternoon to a full house at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center. Host and series founder, soprano Allison Charney, hosted the afternoon with disarming charm and a profound love of classical music that cleverly masked her creativity in infusing the expertly-performed concert with lessons in music history, theory and practice - along with her signature 'un-Google-able' insights.

Violinist Miranda Cuckson makes her series debut at PREFORMANCES WITH ALLISON CHARNEY's matinee concert - CHAMBER MUSIC CELEBRATION - this Thursday, January 30th @2pm at New York City's acoustical gem, Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center. Cuckson will play Dave Soldier's 'Hammer and Anvil' for solo violin. Cellist Sophie Shao joins Cuckson for Iannis Xenakis' 'Dhipli Zyia' and violist Daniel Panner will round out the group for Zoltán Kodaly's 'Intermezzo for String Trio' and the finale of Beethoven's 'String Trio, op. 3'.

Preformances With Allison Charney Will Present 'Kaddish' - the final movement of Ghost Brothers, the new song cycle composed by Marianna Rosett, with lyrics by Brooke Bailey Johnson - that examines the often-underlooked plight of the children of Holocaust survivors, as they navigate life surrounded by the ghosts of siblings they never knew.

HER/MUSIC;HER/STORY comes to the National Arts Club Monday, January 13, 2020 at 7:30 PM.