An immersive theatre experience with Caroga Arts Ensemble and Utica Dance.

27 Steps is an original immersive curated performance piece conceived by Kyle Price and Julian Muller in collaboration with Nancy Long, Utica Dance and CLMF Resident and Guest Artists.

27 Steps is inspired by the concept of starling poetry, invented by Professor Christopher GoGwilt, where all words or scenes can be told and experienced in any order making every performance truly a one-of-a-kind experience for the performer and audience. The story of 27 Steps touches on the journey of love and loss between two individuals who meet in a chance encounter.

Inspired by an original song and lyrics of the late Jonah Poplove, 27 Stepsfeatures original music and libretto by Kyle Price, Julian Muller, Brian Shank, and Josh Henderson. 27 Steps brings the audience into a theatrical immersive experience that blurs the lines of reality and imagination and spurs conversation on love and mental health.

Ariadne sings music for string orchestra and voice by Matt Aucoin and Ottorino Respighi.

An immersive theatre experience with Caroga Arts Ensemble and Utica Dance.

27 Steps is an original immersive curated performance piece conceived by Kyle Price and Julian Muller in collaboration with Nancy Long, Utica Dance and CLMF Resident and Guest Artists.

27 Steps is inspired by the concept of starling poetry, invented by Professor Christopher GoGwilt, where all words or scenes can be told and experienced in any order making every performance truly a one-of-a-kind experience for the performer and audience. The story of 27 Steps touches on the journey of love and loss between two individuals who meet in a chance encounter.

Inspired by an original song and lyrics of the late Jonah Poplove, 27 Stepsfeatures original music and libretto by Kyle Price, Julian Muller, Brian Shank, and Josh Henderson. 27 Steps brings the audience into a theatrical immersive experience that blurs the lines of reality and imagination and spurs conversation on love and mental health.

Ariadne sings music for string orchestra and voice by Matt Aucoin and Ottorino Respighi.

Ariadne sings Matt Aucoin with Caroga Lake Music Festival Resident Artists at Emmanuel Episcopal Church.

Cameo appearance on Lacy Rose’s concert at Pangea in New York.

Support Persecuted Children of Ukrainian Indigenous People and hear opera singer Pavel Suliandziga Perform live, on June 11th from 6:00-7:00 PM at the First Universalist Church, 97 Main Street, Yarmouth Maine. The Benefit concert for Ukrainian Children, organized by Batani Foundation jointly with Katya Fromuth, will include a short speech from a representative of Crimean Tatar Resource Center, (an indigenous group of Ukraine), as well as music from opera singer Pavel Suliandziga.

Ariadne performs Rachmaninov and Fauré songs with the pianist Vladimir Rumyantsev on a concert with violinist Daniel Zinn and friends.

Ensemble Melange returns from maternity/pandemic leave for a concert at the Sarah Belle and Neil November Theatre at Westminster Canterbury in Richmond, VA.

Ariadne Greif joins PhiloSonia Chamber Music series singing Shostakovich.

Ariadne sings Rachmaninov op. 38 with pianist Vladimir Rumyantsev on a program with the violinist Avital Mazor and a delightful surprise performer!

Ariadne continues her deep dive into all songs by Alma Mahler with pianist Vladimir Rumyantsev.

Founded by Israeli violinist and conductor, Daniel Zinn, Fort Greene CMS organizes monthly chamber music concerts in the Church of St Luke and St Matthew. The uniqueness of the series is derived from the variety of instruments and voices that appear in every concert.

The concert are free for any person under 23, which is made possible by the generous support of our community, and our premium ticket buyers.

Doors @ 6:30PM

Concert @ 7:30PM

Join MATA for our 25th Anniversary Benefit Concert in celebration of supporting emerging composers and sound artists for a quarter-of-a-century. MATA is dedicated to expanding our listening where time and sound meet. This concert features Curtis Stewart (violin), Ariadne Greif (voice), and Lester St. Louis (cello), all artists who each engage with new music in their own thoughtful, whimsical, and reflective way. Tonight we dive deep into Generation. Yes, as in generations of human beings and looking to the future of MATA, but more deeply – Generation as in the process of bringing into being.

TIX ON SALE SOON!

Tickets: $75 front row table // $50 ground floor table // $40 balcony 

All proceeds will benefit the 2023 MATA Festival from May 31-June 3, 2023

Attending a chamber music performance can be an amazing experience, particularly for those with an interest in classical music. The Williamsburg Chamber Music Society is hosting its inaugural show at the iconic Brooklyn Brewery, promising an international cast of performers and a selection of beloved chamber music. Alongside the music, there will be personal anecdotes and historical stories about the pieces, making it an excellent way to delve into the world of classical music.

Chamber music is typically performed by a small group of musicians on acoustic instruments, such as violins, cellos, pianos, and woodwinds. If you're looking for a fun and educational way to get into classical music, the Williamsburg Chamber Music Society's inaugural show is not to be missed.

Program

Bach Solo Cello Suite G Major
Schubert Songs for Soprano and String Quartet

Intermission

Danish Folk tunes for String Quartet 
W. A Mozart B flat "The Hunt" quartet

Run time ~100 min. (incl. intermission)

Ariadne performs Ursonate with William Kentridge.

In a personally long-awaited first showing of a multi-year journey of rehearsals, Ariadne Greif and Alex Fortes perform György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments, based on deliciously pithy excerpts from Kafka’s letters and diaries, at Gather NYC.

GatherNYC is a revolutionary weekly concert experience. Held every Sunday morning in downtown Manhattan, Gather evokes the community and spiritual nourishment of a religious service, but the religion here is music, and all are welcome. Guests are served exquisite live classical music by New York’s most celebrated artists, artisanal coffee and pastries, a taste of the spoken word, and a brief celebration of silence. The entire experience lasts one hour. In these unsettling times, GatherNYC provides a place to fortify beauty and peace.

Doors open at 10:30 AM.

Ariadne appears with Present Music in Milwaukee, singing Harrison’s Mirabai songs, a selection of pieces from The Secret Diary of Nora Plain by Morris Kliphuis, whistling with the ensemble in Martland’s “Remix”, and playing toilet paper in Love Story by Francesco Filidei.

If you are watching the LIVESTREAM, keep in mind that the concert starts at 6:30 in LA, 7:30 in Wisconsin, 8:30 in New York!

Ariadne appears with Present Music in Milwaukee.

Ariadne makes a cameo appearance with singer/songwriter Lacy Rose in a show at Pangea.

LACY ROSE AND HER STARLING QUARTET: a sumptuous soirée where Baroque meets cabaret will feature original compositions for voice, piano, harmonium and string quartet. Performers include Masha Polishchuk and Kate Goddard (violin), Nicky Kaynor (viola), Maria Jeffers (cello), Lacy Rose (harmonium, vocals), Isaac Hayward (piano), and surprise musical guests.

Lacy Rose is a NYC-based lyric poet, composer and vocalist who regales listeners with tales of magic, myth, tragic and eternal love. She has opened for and performed with such eclectic artists as Cocorosie, Baby Dee, Dave Malloy, Gelsey Bell, Amanda Palmer, Jason Webley, and Osso String Quartet. With her Starling Quartet, Rose has performed her Baroque Cabaret at venues such as the McKittrick Hotel (home of “Sleep No More”), National Sawdust, the TANK, Owl Music Parlor, HERE Arts Center, the Triad Theater, Rockwood Music Hall, and the Laurie Beechman Theatre. She recently released her singles, “More and More” and “Sure as the Stars,” surrealistic standards that were recorded and produced by John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Kurt Vile). She is currently working on a song cycle/concept album, LISPECTOR, devoted to author Clarice Lispector’s glamorous, complicated, and radical life and works.

All Sales are Final. There is a $20 minimum per person (food or beverage). Tickets at the door are $25 (Cash Only). The house opens at 6:00pm for food and beverage service. Pangea is known for its delicious food. Please join us for dinner. Seating is first come first served. PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY.

Ariadne Greif and Steve Beck perform music of Paul Brantley.

Ariadne Greif and Steve Beck perform music of Paul Brantley.

Ariadne Greif sings Alma Mahler songs with pianist Vladimir Rumyantsev.

Founded by Israeli violinist and conductor, Daniel Zinn, Fort Greene CMS organizes monthly chamber music concerts in the Church of St Lukey and St Matthew. The uniqueness of the series is derived from the variety of instruments and voices that appear in every concert.

The concert are free for any person under 23, which is made possible by the generous support of our community, and our premium ticket buyers.

More information and tickets HERE.

LACY ROSE AND HER STARLING QUARTET: a sumptuous soirée where Baroque meets cabaret will feature original compositions for voice, piano, harmonium and string quartet.

Performers include Masha Polishchuk and Kate Goddard (violin), Nicky Kaynor (viola), Maria Jeffers (cello), Lacy Rose (harmonium, vocals), Isaac Hayward (piano), and surprise musical guests.

Lacy Rose is a NYC-based lyric poet, composer and vocalist who regales listeners with tales of magic, myth, tragic and eternal love. She has opened for and performed with such eclectic artists as Cocorosie, Baby Dee, Dave Malloy, Gelsey Bell, Amanda Palmer, Jason Webley, and Osso String Quartet. With her Starling Quartet, Rose has performed her Baroque Cabaret at venues such as the McKittrick Hotel (home of “Sleep No More”), National Sawdust, the TANK, Owl Music Parlor, HERE Arts Center, the Triad Theater, Rockwood Music Hall, and the Laurie Beechman Theatre. She recently released her singles, “More and More” and “Sure as the Stars,” surrealistic standards that were recorded and produced by John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Kurt Vile). She is currently working on a song cycle/concept album, LISPECTOR, devoted to author Clarice Lispector’s glamorous, complicated, and radical life and works.

All Sales are Final.

Proof of Vaccination required to enter.

There is a $20 minimum per person (food or beverage).

Tickets at the door are $25 (Cash Only).

The house opens at 6:00pm for food and beverage service. Pangea is known for its delicious food. Please join us for dinner.

Seating is first come first served.

PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY.

Founded by Israeli violinist and conductor, Daniel Zinn, Fort Greene CMS organizes monthly chamber music concerts in the Church of St Luke and St Matthew. The uniqueness of the series is derived from the variety of instruments and voices that appear in every concert.

The concert are free for any person under 23, which is made possible by the generous support of our community, and our premium ticket buyers.

More information and tickets HERE.

COMPOSED BY ALYSSA WEINBERG
LIBRETTO BY J. MAE BARIZO
DIRECTED BY ASHLEY TATA

FEATURING

ARIADNE GREIF, SOPRANO
MIHO SAEGUSA, VIOLIN
JENNIFER LIU, VIOLIN
GABRIEL CABEZAS, CELLO

ISOLA is a prismatic meditation on time, mental health, and isolation, a collaborative project undertaken by OPERA AMERICA grantees Alyssa Weinberg and J. Mae Barizo. The title is taken from the word ISOLA, at turns meaning isolation, an island, or the archipelago in the Pacific Ocean where Barizo’s parents emigrated from the year before her birth.

Written by hand by Barizo in the Appalachians in 2020, the text hinges on the idea of distorted perception, both internal and external, viewed through the lens of isolation. In the summer of 2020, cut off from collaboration in the previously understood sense of the word, Weinberg’s
process of composing ISOLA included recording her own voice and manipulating samples of her own music. The libretto was pieced together collaboratively, a synaesthetic practice of giving voice and colors to various emotional realms largely associated with mental health and instability. Deep blue for the color of dreams; pink noise for anxiety and the chaotic inner voices that cannot be silenced; toxic green of a depressive fog; and finally, orange light, a shining moment of clarity and resilience.

Ariadne Greif and Peter Stewart perform scenes from Lisa Bielawa’s opera La Ballonniste.

Celebration of the Installation of Franz von Lenbach’s Portrait of Katia Pringsheim: Conversation with E. Randol Schoenberg, Robert Schoenhofer & Joan Weinstein. Musical Performance by the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra

Shorts: The Opera We Made

Thursday, Sept. 29, 6:00 p.m.

Philadelphia Film Center

Part of Opera on Film

Part of Festival O22

An evening of short films commissioned and produced for streaming on the Opera Philadelphia Channel in 2021, making their theatrical debuts in Festival O22.

Save the Boys, Tyshawn Sorey's world premiere inspired by an 1887 poem by abolitionist, writer, and Black women’s rights activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, performed by countertenor John Holiday and pianist Grant Loehnig.(21:02)

Blessed, composer Courtney Bryan’s multi-layered exploration of darkness and light, hope and love, created as a response to the milestone events of 2020, in collaboration with filmmaker Tiona Nekkia McClodden, soprano Janinah Burnett, vocalist Damian Norfleet, and sound designer Rob Kaplowitz. (22:02)

We Need to Talk, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw and director Maureen Towey create an environment filled with tension and energy in this short film based on a poem by Anne Carson. Soprano Ariadne Greif stars as a young woman in conversation with herself, reminiscent of our isolated days of quarantine: days of frustration, joy, and grief.(10:44)

TakTakShoo, composer Rene Orth’s fusion of opera and K-pop, marimba, electronics, and dance, that creates an eclectic sound and movement world. With a libretto by playwright Kanika Ambrose, the film stars mezzo-soprano Kristen Choi as an energizing life force inviting people to come into the world anew, and is directed by Emmy Award-nominated director and choreographer Jeffrey L. Page (11:58)

Three pieces combining dreams, childhood memories and the rich imagination of children.

Sofia Jernberg Dreams of Our Future (2022, WP)

Cory Smythe Circulate Susanna (2018)

Ariadne Greif New work (2022, WP)

A fairytale ensemble of pan-American and Scandinavian genre-crossing contemporary musicians and improvisors collaborate in this unique concert experience in a special staging.

Vocal

Sofia Jernberg

Soprano

Ariadne Greif

Violin

Anna Lindal

Viola

Bendik Foss

Piano

Cory Smythe

Percussion

Raymond Strid

Saxophone

Mette Rasmussen

Trumpet

Eivind Lønning

Guitar

Dan Lippel

Bass

Ole Morten Vågan

Children´s ensemble coordination

Esther Gjermundnes

Choreography

Ingrid Cecilie Bertran de Lis

Sunset Opera.

Listen to an operatic evening,

as the sun sets into the water…

An exciting evening in three parts. Opening the evening for us is So&So’s string quartet playing famous string quartets, building our appetite for the main meal — Opera!

In the second, and main part of the evening, we will hear some of the most beloved arias and intermezzi in opera, as well as some other symphonic desserts. Featuring young New York City talent, and our symphony orchestra.

Wrapping up the evening, we have one of the best salsa bands in the city to send us into the night.

*In case of rain, the performance will be canceled. Ticket buyers will have an option to get a refund, or use the tickets for any future So&So or Fort Greene Chamber Music Society production.

Featuring:

SO&SO Orchestra

Pavel Suliandziga

Ariadne Greif

Daniel Zinn

SO&SO String Quartet

Sonido Costeno

Tickets for the whole event are $10-$45 and available HERE!

Brooklyn Army Terminal has a pier right by the water. 12 minutes away from Wall Street by the NYC Ferry, BAT is the perfect mix of urban brutalism and a beautiful view of the water.

Situated on the waterfront, BAT is easily accessible—by train, bus, car, and NYC Ferry—to Manhattan and the other boroughs, major highways, and metro-area airports.

Getting here

Brooklyn Army Terminal
140 58th Street,
Brooklyn, NY 11220

Public Transportation

NYC Ferry: Take NYC Ferry’s South Brooklyn or Rockaway routes to Sunset Park.

Subway: N and R lines to 59th Street in Brooklyn. Exit the subway on 58th Street. Walk west on 58th Street one block toward the elevated expressway and the waterfront. Continue down 58th Street until you arrive at the waterfront.

Bus: The B11 stops at 58th Street and 1st Avenue. The waterfront is just a couple minutes walk from there. The B37 Bus stops at 58th Street and 3rd Avenue. Walk west on 58th Street three blocks toward the elevated expressway and the waterfront.

Parking

There is free public parking available on Pier 4 for BAT visitors and Ferry riders. Parking may be occasionally limited due to special events. Please check back here for special pier closures.