Night After Night Watch: The Master List
Keeping tabs on upcoming live music events of interest, in and around New York.
Updated March 19, 2025.
Night After Night Watch rounds up details about upcoming performances of interest to the new-music community: contemporary classical music and jazz, electronic and electroacoustic music, and idioms for which no clever genre name has been coined.
This round-up used to be accessible only to paid subscribers, and maybe one day in the future that could be true again. But it’s not, now.
Events are culled from press releases, venue websites, social-media posts, and other online resources, and details are subject to change; follow links to the original sources before heading out to a show. All concerts are listed in Eastern Standard Time.
These listings are not comprehensive—nor could they be! To submit a forthcoming event for consideration, email information to nightafternight@icloud.com.
All opinions expressed herein are solely my own, and do not express the views of any employer.
March 2025.
Concerts listed in Eastern Standard Time.
NOTAFLOF = no one turned away for lack of funds.
19
Theo Bleckmann
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, March 19–Saturday, March 22 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
Moby-Dick
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center
30 Lincoln Center Plaza; Upper West Side
Wednesday, March 19 at 7:30pm, Saturday, March 22 at 8pm, Tuesday, March 25 at 7:30pm; $42–$400
metopera.org
Karen Kamensek conducts the Met Opera premiere of a 2010 opera by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer, which handily adapts Herman Melville’s classic novel into a lean, effective lyric drama resourcefully staged by Leonard Foglia. As I wrote in The New York Times about the world premiere at Dallas Opera (gift link), you’ll hear echoes of Debussy, Puccini, Britten, Glass, and more, deployed with shrewd dramatic instincts. The solid cast here includes Brandon Jovanovich, Stephen Costello, Peter Mattei, Ryan Speedo Green, and Janai Brugger.
20
Charlotte Mundy
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave.; Midtown East
Thursday, March 20 at 6pm; free admission
gc.cuny.edu
Hard on the heels of releasing The Sea, a sublime recorded collaboration with composer Francisco del Pino, NYC MVP soprano Charlotte Mundy presents a DMA recital with pianist Nathaniel LaNasa. The program includes selections by Tania León, Hannah Kendall, Katherine Balch, Kate Soper, and Gelsey Bell, and if you can’t attend in person, the recital will be streamed live via Zoom, accessible here.
Experiments in Opera
The Tank
312 W. 36th St.; Midtown West
Thursday, March 20—Saturday, March 22 at 7pm; sold out
experimentsinopera.com
Experiments in Opera, a consistently innovative incubator for contemporary opera and music theater, mounts a double bill of single-performer works, “SOLOperas.” Included are The INcomplete Cosmicomics, a riff on Italo Calvino’s mystical entity Qfwfq for vocalizing cellist, created by composer Anna Heflin and performed here by Aaron Wolff; and This is Not About Natalie by Jason Cady, in which singing guitarist Sarah Daniels portrays a singer-songwriter who interacts with a ventriloquist doll. Alas, it appears that all three shows are sold out, but check in for returns and cancellations.
Variations for Dusk
HiFi Provisions
51 35th St., Building 5; Brooklyn
Thursday, March 20 at 8pm; $20
eventbrite.com
Variations for Dusk is an experimental/ambient music series curated by Chet Doxas and Micah Frank—a.k.a. Larum, which has a second volume of gorgeous Hildegard von Bingen interpretations and elaborations due on April 11. Returning from an extended hiatus, the series resumes with a choice program: VONDISY pairs Frank with IDM producer Kodomo (Chris Child), Doxas teams up with BlankFor.ms (Tyler Gilmore) on degraded tapes and analog synths, and UCC Harlo (singing violist Annie Garlid) completes the bill.
With Womens Work
Issue Project Room
22 Boerum Pl.; Brooklyn
Thursday, March 20–Saturday, March 22 at 8pm; $20
issueprojectroom.org
Issue Project Room returns to its stately Boerum Place HQ for With Womens Work, a series of concerts and other events honoring Womens Work, a magazine edited and self-published by composers Alison Knowles and Annea Lockwood in 1975, and also building on Issue’s previous With Womens Work Series, a 2021 virtual festival that offered fresh realizations of scores from the 1975 magazine. Thursday’s program features new works by Sydney Spann and Audrey Chen. Friday’s event includes a performance by Annabelle Playe and a panel discussion involving Lockwood, Chen, and crys cole. Beth Anderson hosts a free composition workshop on Saturday afternoon at 2pm, and on Saturday evening cole and Maayan Tsadka will present new works.
21
Wild Up
92NY
1395 Lexington Ave., Upper East Side
Friday, March 21 & Saturday, March 22 at 7:30pm, Sunday, March 23 at 2pm; $40 and up
92ny.org
The eclectic, persuasive West Coast (mostly) supergroup Wild Up brings its intriguing Darkness Sounding series, a winter celebration of deep, contemplative listening, to New York City for the first time. Friday’s program offers a world premiere by Sarah Davachi, a local premiere by Andrew McIntosh, and McIntosh’s arrangement of Four Violins, Tony Conrad’s milestone of frictive minimalism. Saturday’s concert includes pieces by Scott Walker (yes, the “Pop Idol Turned Avant Auteur”), Leilehua Lanzilotti, James Tenney, and Claude Vivier; for Sunday’s finale, McIntosh plays Baroque maverick Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s 15 extraordinary Rosary Sonatas, replicating a California event Alex Ross named one of 2023’s most memorable.
22
International Contemporary Ensemble
NYU Skirball Center
566 LaGuardia Place, Greenwich Village
Saturday, March 22 at 7:30pm; $39–$50
nyuskirball.org
The latest offering from the vital International Contemporary Ensemble, part of a series titled “Composing While Black,” finds the group collaborating with the New York chapter of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). The program features works by Adegoke Steve Colson and Iqua Colson, Thurman Barker, and Reggie Nicholson.
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Ave.; Upper East Side
Saturday, March 22 at 7 & 9pm; $45
armoryonpark.org
Opening the newest season of the consistently probing Artists Studio series Jason Moran curates for the Park Avenue Armory’s handsome Veterans Room, composer, improviser, and sound artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe presents the premiere of The Unbearable Comedy of a Caterwaul in 4 Parts, a new work for modular synthesizer, voice, and bowed and struck objects.
23
The Rhythm Method
JACK
20 Putnam Ave.; Brooklyn
Sunday, March 23 at 4pm; free admission
therhythmmethod.nyc
Groundbreaking string quartet The Rhythm Method hosts its sixth-annual Broad Statements mini-festival, a one-day celebration of creative music making by women and other gender-marginalized artists—and yes, I’m choosing to cite the group’s own words to accurately encapsulate a worldview that embraces improvising drummer and composer Lesley Mok, klezmer fiddler and folkways explorer Zoë Aqua, and Latinx composer and vocal improviser isabel crespo pardo. The quartet opens its show at 4pm and also plays the closing set at 6pm.
24
Juilliard at Zankel Hall
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Ave.; Midtown West
Monday, March 24 at 7:30pm; sold out
carnegiehall.org
Accomplished student musicians from The Juilliard School come to Carnegie Hall’s subterranean den for an evening of compositions by three of the school’s Arnhold Creative Associates: Matthew Aucoin, Jessie Montgomery, and Caroline Shaw. The stylistically wide-roaming program includes world premieres by Aucoin and Shaw, and all three composers will be on hand to discuss their work with Juilliard President Damian Woetzel. The show’s officially sold out, but it never hurts to check on returns and cancellations.
25
أحمد [Ahmed]
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
Tuesday, March 25 at 8pm; $30, advance $25, seniors and students $20
roulette.org
Maybe you’ve heard of أحمد [Ahmed], the idiosyncratic, extraordinary quartet that sprang forth fully formed in 2017. Since that time, pianist Pat Thomas, saxophonist Seymour Wright, bassist Joel Grip, and drummer Antonin Gerbal have released four albums, a single, and a 5CD box set, transforming the music of Black American bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik into epic-length disquisitions on timbre, rhythm, spontaneity, and the inheritance of tradition. Or maybe the band is new to you. Either way, a prediction: you’re unlikely to find a more singular experience than this band’s U.S. debut anywhere in town this week. If you can’t attend in person, the show will be streamed live and archived for on-demand viewing on the Roulette website and YouTube.
Rebekah Heller
Miller Theatre, Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Upper West Side
Tuesday, March 25 at 6pm; free admission
millertheatre.com
The dynamic bassoonist, conductor, and International Contemporary Ensemble core member Rebekah Heller appears as part of Miller Theatre’s generous series of intimate, casual free Pop-Up Concerts, which invite audience members onstage to surround the featured attraction, Her program pairs a world premiere, Righteous Rage by Brittany J. Green, with a bassoon-choir arrangement of Julius Eastman’s The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc, plus further works by Fay Victor, Jessie Cox, and Joy Guidry.
26
Kate Gentile
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, March 26–Saturday, March 29 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
31
David Murray Quartet
Blue Note Jazz Club
131 W. 3rd St.; Greenwich Village
Monday, March 31 at 8 & 10pm; table seating $45, bar $30
bluenotejazz.com
Following two exuberant Monday night engagements featuring his Octet, saxophonist, composer, and bandleader David Murray shifts focus to the potent quartet featured on his widely praised 2024 Intakt release, Francesca: pianist Marta Sánchez, bassist Luke Stewart, and drummer Russell Carter. That same band takes flight again on Birdly Serenade, Murray’s forthcoming debut for the storied Impulse! label. Due April 25, the album is an extension of The Birdsong Project, a recording series and 20LP box set benefitting The National Audubon Society. Appropriately songful and buoyant, it includes guest spots by Ekep Nkwelle, a soulful Cameroonian-American singer, and Francesca Cinelli, Murray’s manager and wife; WRTI has more.
April 2025.
2
Zoh Amba
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Apr. 2–Saturday, Apr. 5 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
9
Annie Gosfield
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Apr. 9–Saturday, Apr. 12 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
12
Tim Berne Warped Ensemble
The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway, 5th floor; Midtown East
Saturday, Apr. 12 at 7:30 & 9:30pm; $35–$45, livestream $20
jazzgallery.org
Lately a prolific maven of the neighborhood hang in Brooklyn, saxophonist and composer Tim Berne is encountered far too infrequently in Manhattan venues now. That’s part of what makes this evening with his Warped Ensemble – trumpeter Ralph Alessi, pianist Matt Mitchell, bassist Sean Conly, and drummer Tim Angulo, players from his working units and his hang-time orbit – such a rare and special deal; the other part is that Berne reliably mixes a signature sound with surprise at every outing. (If you can’t make it in person, livestream tickets are available.)
14
David Murray Quartet
Blue Note Jazz Club
131 W. 3rd St.; Greenwich Village
Monday, Apr. 14 at 8 & 10pm; table seating $45, bar $30
bluenotejazz.com
See above, March 31.
16
William Parker
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Apr. 16–Saturday, Apr. 19 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
21
New York New Music Ensemble
Americas Society
680 Park Ave.; Upper West Side
Monday, Apr. 21 at 7pm; price TBA
nynme.org
The New York New Music Ensemble presents a world premiere by Brazilian composer Marcos Balter, co-commissioned by NYNME and the Koussevitzky Music Foundation. Also on the program are George Lewis’s Thistledown, Tonia Ko’s Evermore Everyday, and Martine Matalon’s La Rueda.
23
Jad Atoui
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Apr. 23–Saturday, Apr. 26 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
30
Fay Victor
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Apr. 30–Saturday, May 3 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
May 2025.
7
Kweku Sumbry
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, May 7–Saturday, May 10 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
14
Ned Rothenberg
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, May 14–Saturday, May 17 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
21
Fred Frith
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, May 21–Saturday, May 24 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
25
Ekmeles
DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W. 37th St.; Midtown West
Sunday, May 25 at 7:30pm; $20, seniors and students $15
ekmeles.simpletix.com
The extraordinary Ekmeles, a vocal ensemble devoted to exploring the outer reaches of tuning and pitch in unaccompanied singing, presents a program titled “moveable frames,” which shares its title with a work by Catherine Lamb heard here in its world premiere. The concert also brings the first local performances of works based on notions of religious ceremony or memorial by Joël-François Durand, William Dougherty, and Huck Hodge.
28
Ben Goldberg
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, May 28–Saturday, May 31 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
June 2025.
4
Makigami Koichi
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, June 4–Saturday, June 7 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
11
Louis Belogenis
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, June 11–Saturday, June 14 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
4
Trigger
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, June 18–Saturday, June 21 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
25
Vernon Reid
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, June 25–Saturday, June 28 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
July 2025.
2
Sean Ono Lennon
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, June 2, Thursday, July 3, and Saturday, July 5 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
9
Matana Roberts
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, July 9–Saturday, July 12 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
16
Matt Mitchell
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, July 16–Saturday, July 19 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
23
Lisa Mezzacappa
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, July 23–Saturday, July 26 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
30
Nicole Mitchell
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, July 30–Saturday, Aug. 2 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
August 2025.
6
Immanuel Wilkins
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Aug. 6–Saturday, Aug. 9 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
13
Rob Burger
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Aug. 13–Saturday, Aug. 16 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
20
Kenny Wollesen
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Aug. 20–Saturday, Aug. 23 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
27
Trevor Dunn
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Aug. 27–Saturday, Aug. 30 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
September 2025.
3
Caroline Davis
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Sept. 3–Saturday, Sept. 6 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
10
Brian Marsella
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Sept. 10–Saturday, Sept. 13 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
17
Dan Weiss
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Sept. 17–Saturday, Sept. 20 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
24
Anna Webber
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Sept. 24–Saturday, Sept. 27 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
October 2025.
1
Tomeka Reid
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Oct. 1–Saturday, Oct. 4 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
8
Erik Friedlander
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Oct. 8–Saturday, Oct. 11 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
15
Henry Fraser
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Oct. 15–Saturday, Oct. 18 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
22
John Medeski
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Oct. 22–Saturday, Oct. 25 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
29
Mark Dresser
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Oct. 29–Saturday, Nov. 1 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
November 2025.
5
Susie Ibarra
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Nov. 5–Saturday, Nov. 8 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
12
Patricia Brennan
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Nov. 12–Saturday, Nov. 15 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
19
Daniel Zamir
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Nov. 19–Saturday, Nov. 22 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
December 2025.
3
William Winant
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Dec. 3–Saturday, Dec. 6 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
10
Ikue Mori
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Dec. 10–Saturday, Dec. 13 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
2026.
January 2026.
2
Thurston Moore
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Friday, Jan. 2 and Saturday, Jan. 3 at 8:30pm; $30 cash only
thestonenyc.com
7
Ches Smith
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Jan. 7–Saturday, Jan. 10 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
14
Ches Smith
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Jan. 14–Saturday, Jan. 17 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
21
Marta Sanchez
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Jan. 21–Saturday, Jan. 24 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
28
Kalia Vandever
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Jan. 28–Saturday, Jan. 31 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
February 2026.
4
Sally Gates
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Feb. 4–Saturday, Feb. 7 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
11
Tomas Fujiwara
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Feb. 11–Saturday, Feb. 14 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
18
Sylvie Courvoisier
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Feb. 18–Saturday, Feb. 21 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
25
Jon Irabagon
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, Feb. 25–Saturday, Feb. 28 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
Thank you.