Music: Past
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.
Martin Nevin: Scratch at the Same Table
Monday, March 18, 2024. 8:00 pm
The World Premiere of a song cycle based on the poetry of Jonathan C. Creasy.
Chris Cochrane: How Will We Recognize Each Other, Part II
Sunday, March 17, 2024. 8:00 pm
A gathering of musicians from various disciplines and backgrounds improvising together, led by guitarist and composer Chris Cochrane.
JACK Quartet: Beautiful Trouble by Natacha Diels
Friday, March 15, 2024. 8:00 pm
“Beautiful Trouble” is a 5-act live multimedia performance by Natacha Diels and JACK Quartet about simplicity and beauty.
Composer Joseph Daley at 75
Thursday, March 14, 2024. 8:00 pm
New works for antiphonal french horn ensemble and mass tuba ensemble to celebrate Joseph Daley's 75th.
Antonia Jiménez & Inma La Carbonera: A Gaya (To Mother Earth) (RBA)
Saturday, March 9, 2024. 8:00 pm
Flamenco Festival NY 2024: Antonia Jiménez, the famed Spanish guitarist/composer, and Inma La Carbonera, a soulful vocalist from Seville.
Hamza Akram Qawwal & Brothers: Sufi Chants of Pakistan (RBA)
Friday, March 8, 2024. 8:00 pm
Grandsons of revered Munshi Raziuddin return to Roulette after a mesmerizing 2019 performance of the improv Sufi vocal tradition, qawwali.
Interpretations: Yuko Fujiyama / Reggie Nicholson
Thursday, March 7, 2024. 8:00 pm
The 34th Interpretations series kicks off with new work from drummer/composer Reggie Nicholson, and keyboardist/composer Yuko Fujiyama.
JOHN ZORN: NOTHING IS TRUE EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED
Sunday, March 3, 2024. 8:00 pm
John Zorn presents two genre-bending improvisational ensembles: Chaos Magick and Simulacrum.
Contemporaneous: Songs at Night
Tuesday, February 27, 2024. 8:00 pm
An intimate evening focused on a new song cycle by composer Lila Meretzky setting poems by Yiddish-language poet Anna Margolin.
alaara – Tarkovsky: of its own accord
Monday, February 26, 2024. 8:00 pm
Brooklyn-based trio Alaara explores the relationship between their longform improvisations and Andrei Tarkovsky's visual worlds.