In its Carte Blanche series , the MUK regularly invites contemporary composers to develop a concert program together with students. 

Cartes blanche to Pierluigi Billone

Musikverein Wien

A program distinguished by its variety opens with Balanchine’s Divertimento from ‘Le Baiser de la Fée,’ choreographed to a Stravinsky symphonic suite. Kyle Abraham’s When We Fell was originally filmed and streamed during the pandemic, and here makes its live debut. Lynne Taylor-Corbett’s Chiaroscuro, a ballet for six dancers from 1994, evokes the artistic term of its title through the interaction of light and shadow as well as diverging tempos, while Alexei Ratmansky’s Odesa features three couples, their interplay infused with hints of drama, and a corps de ballet, and is set to incidental music from the Russian film Sketches to Sunset that alternates between the ruminative and the rambunctious.

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Eclectic NYCB

Lincoln Center

Tyshawn Sorey’s major new piano work receives its world premiere. Tyshawn Sorey and Sarah Rothenberg’s deep musical relationship grew out of their work together on the DACAMERA-Rothko Chapel commission of Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), and it was during their performances at New York’s Park Avenue Armory that Sorey first conceived of this piece. The intensity and hyper-sensitivity of Sorey’s music corresponds to Rothenberg’s pianism, and this expansive new solo work probes emotional depths and upends our sense of time.

Monday Evening Concerts: Transforming Time

Colburn School

Colburn’s Tap, Modern Dance, Ballet, and Dance Academy students will dazzle in their December performance featuring new choreography and beloved masterworks. This year’s program includes choreography by Balanchine, Benjamin Millepied, Bella Lewitzky, and Colburn faculty members, with compositions by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Hampton Hawes, and more. The performance also includes live percussion played by Colburn accompanist and Grammy winner TJ Troy.

Colburn Winter Dance Celebration

The Academy Manson Ensemble and London Sinfonietta’s players perform SIDE-BY-SIDE at the Southbank Centre. Written shortly before Morton Feldman’s death, For Samuel Beckett is a meditatively shifting work, in which tiny differences between endless rhythmic and harmonic permutations suspend space and time. Feldman’s experiments with scale and entropy led him to an obsession with quietly powerful music: this evocative and mysterious work seems to appear from nowhere and float on elsewhere after its end.

Manson Ensemble Side-by-side With London Sinfonietta

Southbank Centre

Pianist and composer Conrad Tao made his SPCO debut in a program built around Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s monumental Piano Concerto No. 24. A Renaissance madrigal by Carlo Gesualdo, a sunny keyboard concerto by C.P.E. Bach, and a cryptic work for viola and piano by Morton Feldman were like a twisting labyrinth of darkness and light that anticipated the harmonic instability and searching quality of Mozart’s concerto. Ruth Crawford-Seeger’s Music for Small Orchestra framed this journey with a slow, pensive descent into the dark maze and a roguish finale that climbs towards a window of light.

Conrad Tao Plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

From first breath to final memories. Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, composed to celebrate the birth of his son, glows with intimate joy and new life while a new piece by Laura Cetilia will see its first performance. Morton Feldman’s Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety is a hushed farewell to his dear piano teacher. Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, restless and unresolved, stands outside time—at once youthful and haunted.

From the Cradle

Ithaca College

DACAMERA celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of influential American composer Morton Feldman, whose music uniquely suspends time. Feldman broke new ground in musical expression in the 1970’s with his experimental works that strove for the stillness of paintings.

Morton Feldman at 100: “Schubert Leaving Me”

The Menil Collection

We will present two of the most prominent composers of the 20th-century in New York, two friends – John Cage (1912–1992) and Morton Feldman (1926–1987). Their music will be discussed by their friend Petr Kotík at an extra special concert. Kotík will lead an expert discussion about their works as a long-time collaborator of both composers, in particular of John Cage (continuous collaboration in the years 1964–1992).

On 18 December 1950, John Cage wrote in a letter to Pierre Boulez: “Feldman’s music is extremely beautiful now. It changes with each piece, I find him my closest friend now among the composers here.”

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Events

Upcoming events

Feb 14, 2026

From the Cradle · Cayuga Chamber Orchestra

Apr 20, 2026

Morton Feldman at 100: “Schubert Leaving Me” · Dacamera

Jun 4, 2026

Special Concert. Cage, Feldman, Kotík: A New Starting Point · Prague Philharmonia

Past events

Nov 11, 2025

Cartes blanche to Pierluigi Billone · Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna

16 - 24 May, 2025

Eclectic NYCB · New York City Ballet

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