The Village Trip presents new or recent works by four New York-based composers: Samuel Adler, Cheng Jin Koh, Eli Greenhoe, and the world premiere of Karchin’s 4th String Quartet.
The Ellington Room at Manhattan Plaza, 400 West 43rd Street, Second Floor, Manhattan, NY
Tenth Annual New American Art Song Recital
Jessica Bowers and Oren Fader present music by Richard Derby, Kevin Germain, Robert Morris, Paul Salerni and the live-concert premiere of Karchin's Three Songs of Poems of Emily Dickinson for mezzo-soprano and guitar.
Ateneo Veneto, Venice, Italy
A homage to Luciano Berio: "Remembering the Future."
Plurimo presents new works by Letizia Michielon, Fabio Grasso, Reiko Fueting, and a retrospective of Luciano Berio’s work (marking the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth), along with the world premiere of Karchin's On Waves, written for the occasion.
Kitt Recital Hall, Kitt School of Music, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
Ensemble Flageolet, with Paul Hostetter, conductor
Music of Katherine Balch, Bruce Reiprich, and Kaija Saariaho, alongside Karchin's most recent chamber ensemble work.
Pianist Se-Hee Jin presents three works: Ballade (NY premiere), Curved Space (world premiere), and Three Epigrams on a chamber music series hosted by Tim and Maggie Mukherjee. The concert will also include song cycles by longtime colleagues, Paul Salerni and Tim himself.
Se-Hee Jin presents a lecture-recital on Three Epigrams, Ballade, and Curved Space, entitled American Expressionism: Artistic Synthesis in Louis Karchin's Piano Music. This is a part of the College Music Society's Central Regional Conference.
In a celebratory collaboration with The Mount, Edith Wharton's ancestral home and Grace Church in Manhattan, where Wharton was baptised, excerpts from Mr. Karchin's third opera, Roman Fever, based on the Wharton short story, will be performed, interspersed with commentary by the creators in a discussion moderated by Natalie Johnsonius Neubert, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Opera. A reception will follow. The event is free, and tickets may be reserved at this link:
Washington Square Contemporary Music Society presents a concert honoring Czech musicologist Lenka Hlavkova, in collaboration with Michael Beckerman, Dean of the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA, Seven premieres, written for this event, link music of the past with contemporary musical thought, re-creating an idea proposed and carried out by Professor Hlavkova before her untimely death in a random shooting at Charles University in 2023. Mr. Karchin's work, The Past as Present, will premiere along with music by David Sanford, Nina C. Young, Yoon-Ji Lee, Vasiliki Krimitza, Michael Beckerman, and Jacob Beranek.
Admission free
Reprising their 10th Annual New American Art Song Concert from the fall, Jessica Bowers and Oren Fader will perform new works for mezzo-soprano and guitar, written especially for them. The program will include Karchin's Three Songs on Poems of Emily Dickinson performed alongside works by Paul Salerni, Robert Morris, Richard Derby, and others.
Note: June 21st event location is:
Scholes Street Studio, 375 Lorimer St., Brooklyn, NY