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.
Nick Dunston: La Operación: Reverberated
Tuesday, September 28, 2021. 8:00 pm
An answer to his 2019 premiere of "La Operación," Nick Dunston presents "La Operación: Reverberated" for a dynamic sextet of improvisers.
Anna Webber’s Simple Trio // Idiom VI Large Ensemble
Thursday, September 23, 2021. 8:00 pm
Anna Webber celebrates the release of her album Idiom (Pi, 2021) with a concert featuring both her Simple Trio and a new Large Ensemble.
JUNI ONE SET: Boy mother / faceless bloom [in process]
Wednesday, September 22, 2021. 8:00 pm
Boy mother / faceless bloom is an interdisciplinary performance work co-created by yuniya edi kwon, Senga Nengudi, Crow Nishimura & Joshua Kohl.
Lenny Pickett: A Short March into the Future
Saturday, September 18, 2021. 8:00 pm
Lenny Pickett with 12 musicians play elegiac contrapuntal music rooted in rhythm & blues on tubas, saxophones, trumpets, accordion, piano, […]
Quatuor pour la fin du temps 80th Anniversary
Friday, September 17, 2021. 8:00 pm
The Anzû Quartet performs French composer Olivier Messiaen’s (1908-1992) Quatuor pour la fin du temps, the towering masterpiece of the 20th […]
Mary Halvorson: Amaryllis and Belladonna
Thursday, September 9, 2021. 8:00 pm
A world premiere of two interrelated projects for sextet and string quartet by Brooklyn-based guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson.
Mary Halvorson: Amaryllis and Belladonna
Wednesday, September 8, 2021. 8:00 pm
A world premiere of two interrelated projects for sextet and string quartet by Brooklyn-based guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson.
Ganavya: Let’s Go Out and Play
Thursday, July 22, 2021. 8:00 pm
Featuring poetry ranging from 1st millennium CE to the current day, LETS GO OUT AND PLAY is a sonic gathering in love, prayer, and play.
yuniya edi kwon: UMMA-YA
Saturday, June 26, 2021. 8:00 pm
yuniya edi kwon shares a solo, in-process performance of UMMA-YA, a work for violin, viola, voice, and body.
Sonya Belaya: Cognitive Distortions / Ancestral Patterns
Friday, June 25, 2021. 8:00 pm
"Cognitive Distortions / Ancestral Patterns" (for large ensemble) examines cognitive distortions through the stories of immigrant women.