Name: AMOC* Up Close: On the Hinge of Modernity
Start: 2026-04-02T19:30:00
Location: Lincoln Center

Miranda Cuckson

Matthew Aucoin

Coleman Itzkoff

Keir GoGwilt

AMOC / American Modern Opera Company

Hot on the heels of the acclaimed Run AMOC* Festival, presented as part of Lincoln Center’s 2025 Summer for the City, the visionary interdisciplinary ensemble returns for a series of fearless and free performances at the David Rubenstein Atrium. The closing program, curated by The Juilliard School professor and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient Emi Ferguson, spotlights the works of two pioneering Italian composers, Dario Castello (1602–1631) and Luciano Berio (1925–2003). Before dying at 29 to the bubonic plague, Castello was integral to the revitalization of early Baroque music, transforming the Renaissance canzona into the sonata. Berio, beginning with the groundbreaking Sequenzas (1958 to 2002), reimagined the very foundations of performance, form, and sound for the 20th century. Heard together, these trailblazers offer proof of how “new” music continually reinvents tradition. This evening’s Castello and Berio showcase will feature Ferguson on flute, Matthew Aucoin (AMOC* co-founder and MacArthur Fellow) on piano and percussion, and a formidable string trio of AMOC* core ensemble members that includes violinist/violist Miranda Cuckson, violinist Keir GoGwilt, and cellist Coleman Itzkoff.