The Phoenix Concerts

04/09/2019

Preconcert talk with Greg Trupiano, founding director of The Walt Whitman Project right now!
Thrilled for tonight’s Lyric Fest concert!!!

04/02/2019

Join us next week for Carol of Words / Walt Whitman in Song presented in partnership with Lyric Fest!

The Phoenix Concerts presents Lyric Fest commissions by Derek Bermel, Curt Cacioppo, Robert Convery, Melissa Dunphy, Raymond Lustig, Gilda Lyons, Samuel McLaughlin, Isabella Ness, Nkeiru Okoye, James Primosch, Glen Roven, David Shapiro performed by Amy Van Roekel, Kristina Bachrach, Hannah Ludwig, Raehann Bryce, William Burden, James Reese, Keith Phares, Sidney Outlaw; with Tim Ressler, Min-Young Kim, and Doris Hall-Gulati, and Laura Ward.

10/18/2018

THRILLED and GRATEFUL to ALL of the forces who came together for 'uncommon practice' last night. Absolute magic. Celebrating our partnership with--and all of the artists of--The Hartt School.

10/08/2018

uncommon practice / open studio - in partnership with The Hartt School and Downtown Music @ Grace - 10/10 on DTM@G and 10/16 in NYC on The Phoenix Concerts https://mailchi.mp/6b6f2b8859e9/uncommon-practice-10-2018

09/21/2018

http://www.thephoenixconcerts.org/20182019-season/

09/05/2018

05/31/2018

SUCH a pleasure to bring our Folk Tune Project program to Downtown Music at Grace today! Huzzah for ALL of our composers and performers, and big thanks to every single one of you!
Roger Zahab, Robert Frankenberry, David Russell, and Gilda Lyons, with Timothy Lewis, performing music by Juhi Bansal, Robert Carl, Daron Hagen, Katarina Leyman, Gilda Lyons, Jorge Martin, Glen Roven, Daniel Sonenberg, and Frank J. Oteri. Out now on Roven Records.

05/30/2018

So thrilled to celebrate with all of these composers and performers of The Folk Tune Project. Thanks to all for making the music that made this CD, and for helping us launch it tonight!
Frank J. Oteri Roger Zahab Robert Frankenberry David Russell Gilda Lyons Katarina Leyman, Elaine Valby, Robert Carl Daron Hagen, Glen Roven Daniel Sonenberg, Michael Spudic (and Juhi Bansal and Jorge Martin, there in spirit and in their music).

05/16/2018

Happy Tears / a CD release party concert - https://mailchi.mp/0fdd05eb25c9/happy-tears

04/27/2018

The Folk Tune Project! Available for pre-order TODAY! - https://mailchi.mp/c7b24ad2a23a/the-folk-tune-project-available-for-pre-order-today

04/25/2018

NOW. AVAILABLE. FOR. PRE-ORDERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Phoenix Concerts' CD, The Folk Tune Project, will be released next month on Roven Records, and is now available for pre-order on AMAZON!
Huge cheers and thanks to ALL of our COMPOSERS: Juhi Bansal, Robert Carl, Daron Hagen, Katarina Leyman, Gilda Lyons, Jorge Martin, Frank J. Oteri, Glen Roven, & Dan Sonenberg AND to our PERFORMERS: entelechron: Roger Zahab, David Russell, & Robert Frankenberry, with Gilda Lyons & Elaine Valby, voice.
And our special thanks to Roven Records, our Producer/Artist Glen Roven, and our Executive Producers Ira Yuspeh & Mitch Yuspeh, and our friends at M&I Recording Studios in NYC.
We can't wait to CELEBRATE you ALL at next month's CD Release Party Concert in NYC on May 29th at 7pm, at The Church of St Matthew and St Timothy when entelechron crushes some new music and we make some noise in your honor. GO, team, GO!!!

Since 2005, The Phoenix Concerts, New York's intrepid and "plucky Upper West Side new-music series" (The New Yorker), has commissioned, premiered, and presented over one hundred and sixty contemporary composers' works on over fifty concerts in Manhattan, Beijing, Saratoga Springs, and Sea...

03/12/2018

CANCELLED due to IMPENDING STORM: uncommon practice / open studio *
The Phoenix Concerts has CANCELLED tomorrow's concert (previously scheduled for March 13th) due to severe weather that threatens to impact the area North of the city from which our players from The Hartt School would be traveling. Stay safe, everyone!
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CANCELLEDdue toIMPENDING STORM: uncommon practice / open studio The Phoenix Concerts has CANCELLED tomorrow's concert (previously scheduled for March 13th) due to severe weather that threatens to impact the area North of the city from which our players from The Hartt School would be traveling. Stay....

03/08/2018

This ethereal-sound generator stands center stage, along with live voice, for the premiere of Ken Steen's "air is the first of mothers," to be premiered on Uncommon Practice / open studio this Tuesday, March 13 at 7pm. --with Gilda Lyons, voice.

03/07/2018

Voice doubling Saxophone!!!

In rehearsal for Daniel Martin Minogue's "We Had a Choice" for ensemble & soundtrack, winner of the 2018 Hartt School/Phoenix Concerts Score Call, which gets its premiere this Tuesday, March 13th on Uncommon Practice / open studio. --with Kasey Calebaugh, Tobias Haus, Carrie Koffman, Gilda Lyons, Tyson Salinas, Ken Steen

03/07/2018

Next week! With The Hartt School!
uncommon practice / open studio

Exploring artistic partnership from multiple vantage points, uncommon practice / open studio is a project built on the belief that collaboration nourishes creators, expands communities, and has the potential to unfold into new projects, unexpected learning, exceptional growth, and innovative crea...