Monarch Butterfly by rocío sánchez (2026 AIR) features Melissa Almaguer (tap dance and percussion) and Kenneth Jiménez (double bass). Together, the trio explores the elusive monarch’s migratory journey through sound and movement, with each instrument articulating distinct states of motion.
Isabella Thorpe-Woods presents "Envelop/e," her second program as ISSUE’s 2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Bringing together choreographers Jade Manns and Ella Dawn W-S for site-specific duets, they navigate presence and absence, repetition and rupture, and the tension between inherited geometries and shifting landscapes.
"Spiriting Off" is a new solo work by luthier Webb Crawford (2026 AIR) for electric guitar, tenor banjo, and five-string banjo.
ISSUE closes the summer season with the return of Matana Roberts (2009 AIR). Opening the evening, Ben Vida (2013 AIR) will perform music from his 2026 release, "Oblivion Seekers" with vocalist Sara Magenheimer.
Founded in 1976, Gamelan Son of Lion is a repertory ensemble based in downtown New York specializing in contemporary music written for the instruments of the Javanese gamelan. The ensemble performs founding member Barbara Benary's "Braid Pieces" and other works.
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Iktus Percussion perform Karlheinz Stockhausen's 1975 music-theatre work Musik Im Bauch for six percussionists, at the Naumberg Bandshell in Central Park. Preceding the Stockhausen, New York Virtuoso Singers, directed by Harold Rosenbaum perform Danish choral composers.
Kaufman Center’s Face the Music is an “alt-classical” ensemble of more than seventy unusually talented teenagers from in and around New York City. Face The Music performs works by Osvaldo Golijov and Angélica Negrón, followed by electro-acoustic pop outfit, Balún.
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Composer and visual artist Tristan Perich will present an introductory workshop on hardware programming, providing a basic understanding of Assembly, a low-level programming language that drives most hardware at the lowest level.
The final evening of this festival includes a solo and duo performances by Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson, a performance by Tara Hugo, and the music of Ryan Sawyer and Ben Vida.
The second night of this three day festival includes solo and duo performances by Philip Glass and Jon Gibson, and a special presentation of Tristan Perich's "Momentary Expanse" and "What's thought of as a boundless, continuous, expanse..."
This first evening of the three day festival includes a solo performance by Philip Glass, a special presentation of Nate Wooley’s seven part 7 Storey Mountain, a solo performance by Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields, and a special duo performance by Glass and Merritt.
