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.
RBA: GAMELAN KUSUMA LARAS with I.M. HARJITO | Music and Dance of Java
Saturday, December 7, 2019. 8:00 pm
Gamelan Kusuma Laras performs traditional Javanese gamelan music under the direction of the renowned I. M. Harjito.
Essential Repertoire: The Music of Sylvano Bussotti
Friday, December 6, 2019. 8:00 pm
An evening-length program focusing on the intricate and poetic graphic scores of composer Sylvano Bussotti.
Interpretations: Frances White | Elizabeth Brown
Thursday, December 5, 2019. 8:00 pm
The Momenta Quartet performs music by composers Elizabeth Brown and Frances White with a video/sculpture installation by Lothar Osterburg.
CANCELED: Hyphen Hub: Visions of the Future Series: How the Light Gets In
Tuesday, December 3, 2019. 8:00 pm
Janet Biggs' How the Light Gets In explores the relationship between humans and technology through shared creative production.
Face the Music: Transformations
Monday, November 25, 2019. 7:00 pm
Face the Music—the country's first youth ensemble dedicated to studying and performing music by living composers—performs alongside […]
RBA: HAMID AL-SAADI with SAFAAFIR | Journey to the Heart of the Iraqi Maqam
Saturday, November 23, 2019. 8:00 pm
Hamid Al-Saadi, the foremost purveyor of the traditional Iraqi maqam, performs with Safaafir.
Val Jeanty and Risha Rox: Ritual Merging
Friday, November 22, 2019. 8:00 pm
Sound artist Val Jeanty and performance artist Risha Rox synchronize their mediums to present the world premiere of Ritual Merging, a dynamic […]
New Firmament Presents Feast of the Epiphany and Nick Podgurski
Wednesday, November 20, 2019. 8:00 pm
New Firmament presents an evening of refreshing dense, distortion-drenched, and vocally-soaring music by soloist Nick Podgurski and his ensemble […]
Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter IV: Memphis
Sunday, November 17, 2019. 8:00 pm
Composer and saxophonist Matana Roberts returns with the fourth chapter of her innovative and profoundly iconoclastic COIN COIN project.
Neil Rolnick: Journey’s End
Tuesday, November 12, 2019. 8:00 pm
Rolnick is joined by pianist Kathleen Supové, dancers/choreographers Julia Bengtsson and Mauricio Vera, violinist Jennifer Choi, and others.