Allison Charney News

Of the 50M global visitors who come to NYC each year, an impressive number arrive in search of the best performances classical music has to offer. New York City's celebrated performance spaces -  Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Metropolitan Opera -  are not only household names in many languages, they are also akin to sacred spaces.

JCC Manhattan proudly presents PREformances with Allison Charney featuring violinists Laura Jean Goldberg, Ani Bukujian and Alexandros Martino Petrin, violist Lisa Heffter, cellist Roberta Cooper, pianists Alexei Tartakovsky and Moshe Knoll as well as actor, Jordan Charney, on Monday, April 11th at 12:30pm. The program will feature world premieres by American composers Kim D. Sherman and Moshe S. Knoll, along with Debussy's beautiful 'Arpeggio Etude' and Liszt's thrilling 'Chasse Neige' for virtuoso piano.

JCC Manhattan proudly presents PREformances with Allison Charney featuring special guests from the Orchestra of St. Luke's on Monday, March 7th at 7:30pm. Music will include Beethoven's String Quartet no. 13, opus 130, Bolling's jazzy flute Suite and a collection of some of the greatest French operatic arias, performed by violinists Naoko Tanaka and Elizabeth Derham, violist Daniel Panner, cellist Alberto Parrini, flutist Elizabeth Mann, pianist Craig Ketter and soprano Allison Charney.

JCC Manhattan proudly launches the Winter/Spring segment of Season Seven of PREformances with Allison Charney on Monday, February 8th at 12:30pm with Piano-Palooza! Monday's performance features pianists Blair McMillen, Julia Zilberquit, Joel Fan and Craig Ketter as they join series founder and curator, soprano Allison Charney for an afternoon of music spanning 300 years from Bach-Vivaldi, Bach-Busoni to Puccini, Cilea, Strauss, Bartok, Ginastera and Joan Tower.

JCC Manhattan proudly launches the Winter/Spring segment of Season Seven of PREformances with Allison Charney on Monday, February 8th at 12:30pm with Monday's performance features PREformances with Allison Charney is a unique concert series offering audiences rare opportunities to hear In its first six years, PREformances has presented over 80 of today's most important classical musicians, nearly 30 of whom have appeared on the season multiple times.

JCC Manhattan presents the fall season finale of PREformances with Allison Charney on Monday, December 14th at 12:30pm. In this unique concert series, you will hear celebrated classical musicians just before their performances on the world's most prestigious stages removing traditional barriers between performer and audience.

JCC Manhattan presents PREformances with Allison Charney on Monday, November 23rd at 7:30 p.m.

JCC Manhattan proudly launches the seventh season of PREformances with Allison Charney on Monday, October 19th at 12:30pm. This unique concert series offers audiences rare opportunities to hear celebrated classical musicians before they perform on the world's most prestigious stages, providing a coveted space for engagement and rehearsal whilst dissolving traditional barriers between performer and audience. In its first six years, PREformances has presented over 80 of today's most important classical musicians, nearly 30 of whom have appeared on the season multiple times.

JCC Manhattan presents PREformances with Allison Charney on Monday, April 13th at 7:30pm.

For the first time in the series' history, PREformances with Allison Charney will have a full chamber orchestra on stage on Monday, February 2nd at 12:30pm at JCC Manhattan. The ArtsAhimsa Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Elefant, will play the orchestral version of Moshe Knoll's glorious setting of Psalm 133 that was developed on PREformances.

JCC Manhattan presents PREformances with Allison Charney on Monday, December 15th at 7:30pm.

JCC Manhattan presents PREformances with Allison Charney on Monday, November 17th at 12:30pm.

JCC Manhattan launches the sixth season of PREformances with Allison Charney on Monday, October 20th at 12:30pm.

Pianists & Artistic Directors Blair McMillen and Pam Goldberg are thrilled to present the busiest season yet of the Rite of Summer Music Festival, taking place Summer 2014 at Colonels' Row on Governors Island, New York City.

Pianists & Artistic Directors Blair McMillen and Pam Goldberg are thrilled to present the busiest season yet of the Rite of Summer Music Festival, taking place Summer 2014 at Colonels' Row on Governors Island, New York City.

Blair McMillen and Pam Goldberg are thrilled to present the busiest season yet of the Rite of Summer Music Festival, taking place Summer 2014 at Colonels' Row on Governors Island, New York City. In a locale The New York Times has called a "Playground for the Arts," the aim of the Festival is simple: to present the highest quality live performances, and to bring free contemporary classical music to as many people as possible in a relaxed, fun, outdoor setting. The festival kicked off on Saturday, May 31st, with one of the most hyped and extraordinary bands to emerge in years, Dawn of Midi. Next up, Rite of Summer collaborates with New York Philharmonic's Very Young Composers to present New York: Harbor to the World, an exhilarating afternoon of world premieres, on **Sunday, July 13th.