Symphony Space News

Larry Keigwin (Artistic Director) is a native New Yorker and graduate from Hofstra University, where he received a BA in Dance. He founded KEIGWIN + COMPANY in 2003 and as Artistic Director, Keigwin has led the company as it has performed at theaters and dance festivals throughout New York City and across the country.

America's foremost Gilbert & Sullivan repertory ensemble, the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players (NYGASP), continues its new spring season with PATIENCE on Sunday, March 11th (5PM) at Peter Norton Symphony Space (2535 Broadway at 95th Street). This is a one performance only event!

Two of the most critically acclaimed bands in the 'kindie' music genre: The Okee Dokee Brothers and Recess Monkey perform at Symphony Space on February 18th and 25th. Tickets are still available for these midwinter family performances.

Jeremy Schonfeld, Scars on 45 and more are set for performances this week at Joe's Pub.

Jeremy Schonfeld will be bringing his exciting hybrid brand of rock/theatrical pianoman storytelling to the Pub for one night only! Featuring music from his just-released, highly-acclaimed new concept album 'Iron & Coal', plus additional new arrangements of favorites from 'Drift', '37 Notebooks', and 'Blue Skies and All', this will be a night you won't want to miss!

A soulful, sweet and smooth-as-molasses show for all ages. Take two outstanding NYC musicians (singer Shawana Kemp and guitarist Jon Heagle) with eclectic musical tastes and influences, combine their unique perspectives, add a backup band, and witness the result: a groove-heavy R&B musical extravaganza in a rock and roll package, capturing the uncertainty and simplicity of youth with their original songs and classics."

As part of Pulitzer Prize nominee Eisa Davis's two-year position as artist-in-residence at Symphony Space, she will present an evening of songs from her most recent recording, Something Else, as well as other original works, and offers a sneak preview from her new music-theater work, Flowers are Sleeping, commissioned by Symphony Space that will receive its world premiere performance in April of 2013 as part of Symphony Space's Harlem Renaissance festival.

The Meeting* hosted by Justin Sayre will present their newest edition on Thursday, February 16 at 9:30 PM.

American Opera Projects (AOP) announces that composer Huang Ruo's The Weeping Camel and composer Gregory Spears's Paul's Case are awarded $10,000 each from the National Endowment of the Arts's ART WORKS initiative to support developmental workshop productions with AOP and producing partners. Both operas will be developed through AOP's First Chance series that presents concert readings of new operas in an intimate format that allows for direct conversation between audience and artist. Operas that receive fully-staged premieres after passing through First Chance include Tarik O'Regan's Heart of Darkness (London's Royal Opera House), Jorge Martín's Before Night Falls (Fort Worth Opera), and Stephen Schwartz's Séance on a Wet Afternoon (New York City Opera, Opera Santa Barbara), among many others.

Singer/songwriter Jeremy Schonfeld returns to Joe's Pub bringing his hybrid brand of rock/theatrical piano man storytelling for one night only - February 6 at 7:30pm.

The Momenta Quartet will perform as a part of the AMPHIBIAN concert series at the HiArt Gallery at Temple University on January 28th. The quartet will perform Dalit Warshaw's Elegy for String Quartet, Rosamunde by Schubert, and new works by Jonathan Gruver and Andrew Taylor.

James William Productions and Stephenie Skyllas will present Kurt Peterson and Victoria Mallory in When Everything Was Possible, A Concert (with comments), for one night only, Sunday April 29th (7:30pm) at New York City Center (131 West 55th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues), as a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. They will be joined by a thirteen-piece band (Michael Rafter, Music Director), playing new orchestrations by Tony Award winner Jonathan Tunick. Larry Moss directs, with musical staging by Joshua Bergasse ("Smash"). Carolyn Wong will provide lighting design, with sound design by Leon Rothenberg and projection design by Telegraphicmedia.

A huge hit at The Joyce in 2010, Camille A. Brown & Dancers return to The Joyce Theater from January 27-29, 2012 with 'The Groove To Nobody's Business' and 'Been There, Done That,' a duet filled with 'Brown's considerable and effortless humor (The Boston Globe),' among other works.

On Sunday, April 1, the hometown of California cuisine hosts a day of "Delicious Fictions" featuring Golden Globe Award-winner Jill Eikenberry and Emmy Award-nominee Michael Tucker.

It's a galactic voyage of musical discovery when Pacific Symphony's Family Musical Mornings, presented by Farmers and Merchants Bank, brings to the stage "Symphony in Space," a fun and humor-filled concert packed with exciting kid-friendly music from "Star Wars," Holst's "The Planets" and more! Assistant Conductor Maxim Eshkenazy launches the orchestra into space with the power of music and assistance from Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra (PSYO) in their annual side-by-side.