Music: Upcoming
Roulette’s Concert Series for New + Adventurous Music, launched in 1978, presents a wide range of experimental music including avant-jazz, new music, opera, world music, and electronic. This eclectic series features the work of well-known innovators in contemporary music, but a large percentage of the Series is devoted to emerging artists and composers.
FOREIGN EXPERIENCES: An Opera by Robert Ashley (Night 1)
Thursday, May 9, 2024. 8:00 pm
Tickets $30
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A new production of the 1993 opera: Too many broken dreams. Too much vodka. Too many esoteric books. Too much loneliness. Too much California.
FOREIGN EXPERIENCES: An Opera by Robert Ashley (Night 2)
Friday, May 10, 2024. 8:00 pm
Tickets $30
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A new production of the 1993 opera: Too many broken dreams. Too much vodka. Too many esoteric books. Too much loneliness. Too much California.
FOREIGN EXPERIENCES: An Opera by Robert Ashley (Night 3)
Saturday, May 11, 2024. 8:00 pm
Tickets $30
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A new production of the 1993 opera: Too many broken dreams. Too much vodka. Too many esoteric books. Too much loneliness. Too much California.
Vicky Chow performs Philip Glass Etudes Book 2
Sunday, May 12, 2024. 8:00 pm
Tickets $25
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Pianist Vicky Chow performs Philip Glass's Piano Etudes Book 2 in celebration of her upcoming album release.
David Leon: A Divine Echo
Tuesday, May 14, 2024. 8:00 pm
Tickets $25
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For his 2024 Roulette Commission, the saxophonist and composer premiers a hybrid work of chamber music and wordless puppet theatre.
DoYeon Kim: Sun Shower
Wednesday, May 15, 2024. 8:00 pm
Tickets $25
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Van Lier Fellow and gayageum player DoYeon Kim combines jazz and Korean folk music with Tyshawn Sorey and Yoon Ho-Se.
International Contemporary Ensemble and PRiSM: Music, AI, and Co-creation
Thursday, May 16, 2024. 8:00 pm
Tickets $25
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A collaboration between ICE and the Center for Practice and Research in Science and Music (PRiSM) at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Weston Olencki + TAK Ensemble
Tuesday, May 21, 2024. 8:00 pm
Tickets $25
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A new work by Weston Olencki and TAK Ensemble exploring speculative and spiritual histories of electrical power.
Yarn/Wire: Currents 2024
Wednesday, May 22, 2024. 8:00 pm
Tickets $20
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New music quartet Yarn/Wire premieres 3 new works by Jad Atoui, Bryan Jacobs, and Seong Ae Kim.
John Zorn: New Masada Quartet (8pm)
Friday, May 24, 2024. 8:00 pm
Tickets $35
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Zorn’s ensemble w/ Julian Lage, Jorge Roeder, & Kenny Wollesen, returns to Roulette to perform classics from the Masada songbooks.