Panel:
During the 1970s, the federally funded Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) employed 10,000 artists across the United States. This discussion will focus on what can be learned from CETA as a model for devising future strategies for arts funding.
Participants:
• Howard Singerman, Chair of Art & Art History, Hunter College, author of Art Subjects: Making Artists in the American University, and former CETA employee at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
$10
A Dance Workshop Series in Celebration of Black History Month
Sponsored by Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy and Dancewave
Instructor: Fritzlyn
Dress in comfortable attire.
Register Here:https://dancewave.org/ifetayo/
DCINY presents a celebration of contemporary a cappella with singers from around the world. This annual event at Carnegie Hall features arranger, producer, and conductor Deke Sharon along with celebrity guests from “Pitch Perfect” and “The Sing-Off”.
Performers:
Deke Sharon, Conductor and Creative Director
Distinguished Concerts Singers International
Tickets $20-$100!
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Box Office: 57th Street and Seventh Avenue
In celebration of International Women’s Day, DCINY guest conductor Nancy Menk leads an orchestra and all-female choir in various original choral works. DCINY Artistic Director and principal conductor Jonathan Griffith conducts John Rutter’s Magnificat with the Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International.
Performers:
Jonathan Griffith, Conductor
Nancy Menk, Conductor
Claire Leyden, Soprano
Lindsey Anderson, Mezzo-Soprano
DCINY conductor James Meaders leads the Distinguished Concerts Orchestra in Dan Forrest’s LUX: The Dawn from On High. DCINY guest conductor Gary Weidenaar leads the choir and orchestra in Ola Gjeilo’s music with Gjeilo, DCINY’s composer-in-residence, on piano. Doug Martin directs the Langley Band of Nevada.
Performers:
James M. Meaders, Conductor
Gary Weidenaar, Conductor
Ola Gjeilo, Piano
Langley High School Band
Doug Martin, Director
Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International
Program:
DCINY presents the US premiere of Welsh composer and DCINY’s composer-in-residence Sir Karl Jenkins’s Symphonic Adiemus as well as Jenkins’s Stabat Mater. Maestro Jonathan Griffithleads the Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International in a celebration of Sir Karl Jenkins’s 75th birthday.
Performers:
Jonathan Griffith, Conductor
Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International
Program:
All-Sir Karl Jenkins Program
Symphonic Adiemus (US Premiere)
2018 KCC has a Halloween Party on Oct. 27th! Body/ face painting workshops. Horror Movies and food! 10/27th
Art Exhibitions 10/25th -31th
The submission calls for talented artists who are going to exhibit at the event.
Contact us at [email protected]
Eligibility
Accepting art submissions from all level artists.
Accepted Media
Friday, January 18, 2019 – Monday morning, January 21, 2019
MLK Holiday Weekend in NYC
The DCINY Mentoring Program is an ideal workshop for conductors wishing to gain a supervised, interactive experience with orchestral musicians. We have brought together an incredible faculty of conductors and some of New York’s top professional players led by principal clinician, Dr. Doreen Rao.
American composers/conductors Joseph Martin and Mark Hayes bring their original choral music to Carnegie Hall to celebrate the holidays. This performance features the Distinguished Concerts Singers and Orchestra.
Performers:
Mark Hayes, Conductor
Joseph M. Martin, Conductor
Andrea Lynn Cianflones, Soprano
Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International
Program:
Martin: The Winter Rose (NY Premiere)
Hayes: Hodie Christus Natus Est, A Carol Fantasia (World Premiere)
DCINY celebrates the holiday season with the eighth annual presentation of Handel’s Messiah, the Beecham/Goossens 1959 re-orchestration for full symphony orchestra. The performance is led by Maestro Jonathan Griffith, featuring an international choir made up of singers from all over the world.
Performers:
Jonathan Griffith, Conductor
Penelope Shumate, Soprano
Claudia Chapa, Mezzo-Soprano
John McVeigh, Tenor
Christopher Job, Baritone
Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International
Program:
This program features holiday music from composer Randol Bass conducted by DCINY Artistic Director and Co-Founder Maestro Jonathan Griffith. The evening will also include the World Premiere of Christmas Presence conducted by the composer, Pepper Choplin. This concert features the Distinguished Concerts Singers and Orchestra.
Performers:
Pepper Choplin, Conductor
Jonathan Griffith, Conductor
Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International
Program:
Choplin: Christmas Presence (World Premiere)
DCINY presents the US Premiere of Paul Mealor’s Requiem and Patrick Hawes’ The Great War on this Veteran’s Day. Both pieces will be conducted by the composer, respectively, and performed by The Distinguished Concerts Singers and Orchestra.
Performers:
Patrick Hawes, Conductor
Paul Mealor, Conductor
Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International
Program:
Hawes: The Great War Symphony (US Premiere)
Mealor: Requiem: The Souls of the Righteous (US Premiere)
The Rensselaer Orchestra is an ensemble of undergraduate and graduate students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Under the direction of Maestro Nicholas DeMaison, the ensemble will perform Missy Mazzoli’s River Rouge Transfiguration and Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82. This performance will celebrate the launch of Rensselaer’s new Bachelor of Science in Music.
Performers:
The Rensselaer Orchestra
Nicholas DeMaison, Conductor
Program:
Missy Mazzoli: River Rouge Transfiguration
DCINY presents an evening of Mediterranean-inspired music by Greek composer Dinos Constantinides. Constantinides’ works have been performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. In this concert, faculty members from the Louisiana State University School of Music perform his original compositions.
Performers:
TBD
Program:
All Dinos Constantinides Program
OPEN HOUSE
Saturday September 15th, from 10am to 3pm
Explore Church Street School’s acclaimed art and music programs and join the nationwide celebration of the power of the arts! All classes, lessons and performances are FREE! Please visit our website for more information.
We at Church Street School believe that artistic expression builds bridges between the individual and the community and is our best hope for the future.
Make More Music! Make More Art!
Strategies for Young Artist Citizens Information
Dates: Tuesday, August 28th & Wednesday, August 29th @9am-4pm
Location: South Oxford Space, 138 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Registration fee: $300 | Discount for NYC DOE Educators
*Includes workshop, movement master class samples, materials, snacks
Featuring the Distinguished Concerts Singers and Orchestra, Composer/Conductor Pepper Choplin leads his work Our Father: A Journey through the Lord’s Prayer. Co-Conductors Kevin McBethand Andy Waggoner lead choir and orchestra in a new world premiere by American composer Mark Hayes, Spirit Suite 1 & 2.
PERFORMERS:
Pepper Choplin, Conductor
Kevin McBeth Conductor
Andy Waggoner, Conductor
Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International
PROGRAM:
Please join us on 6/15 at SIBL! Organizations present information about their resources during kickoff presentations. Attend our LinkedIn workshop to learn more about what you need to do to get noticed. Get a free photo during our Linked in “Picture Yourself” session. Consult a career coach during SIBL's Coaching Café. Register Now on Eventbrite as tickets are going fast at https://on.nypl.org/BIZART
This Memorial Day, join DCINY Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Jonathan Griffith and the Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Singers International in an unforgettable performance experience of Carl Orff's 1937 composition, Carmina Burana, one of the most popular pieces of the classical music repertoire. William Powell conducts composer Rosephanye Powell’s soulful and uplifting vocal masterwork “Gospel Trinity”. This event will be recorded and live streamed on Facebook.
PERFORMERS:
Jonathan Griffith, Conductor
William Powell, Conductor
The Clemente Open Studio Event, May 17th & 18th, 2018
The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center is hosting its annual Building-Wide Visual & Performing Arts Open Studios Event on Thursday, May 17th, from 6-9pm and Friday, May 18th, from 6-9pm and will feature performance, dance and musical events. All events are FREE and open to the public.
Professor Anna Pegler-Gordan discusses the role of photography in shaping immigration policy ahead of a panel discussion with Carl Takei, senior staff attorney at ACLU’s Trone Center for Justice and Equality; Muzzaffar Chishti, director of the Migration Policy Institute’s office at NYU School of Law; and Bitta Mostofi, an immigrant rights advocate and human rights organizer.
More information can be found on the event page.
How does artistic production shape our understanding of America’s carceral state and render its crisis visible? Join us for a conversation with Ruby Tapia, Nicole Fleetwood, and Moliere Dimanche on issues of aesthetics, visibility, and photography vis-a-vis American prisons.
More information can be found at https://www.icp.org/events/carceral-aesthetics-vision-and-imprisonment
Pulitzer Prize– and Bancroft Prize–winning historian Heather Ann Thompson discusses civil liberties in our heavily surveilled and incarcerated society.
This is a free event, but please register in advance. ICP Members have access to the best seats at ICP public programs in the reserved members’ section.
The ICP Museum–public program combination ticket grants $10 entry starting at 4:30 PM to those attending the program. Tickets are only available online when you register for the program.
This evening celebrates the 50th anniversary of The King’s Singers with a reunion concert featuring past and present members of the noted British a cappella ensemble and the Distinguished Concerts Singers International. The program features works by Eric Whitacre, Billy Joel, and an anniversary commission by Nico Muhly conducted by King’s Singers alumni Simon Carrington and Bob Chilcott.
PERFORMERS:
The King's Singers
Distinguished Concerts Singers International
Bob Chilcott and Simon Carrington, Conductors
PROGRAM:
Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo’s soaring Dreamweaver and inspirational Song of the Universal is performed and conducted by James M. Meaders, DCINY conductor. Meaders also leads the choir and orchestra in composer Dan Forrest’s Jubilate Deo. Croatian conductor Miran Vaupotić leads the Distinguished Concerts Orchestrain a variety of pieces including Danube Rhapsody.
PERFORMERS:
Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International
James M. Meaders and Miran Vaupotić, Conductors
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and Yale School of Music (2017 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient), Warren Lee has performed in four continents, on stages of all sizes and in collaboration with international artists and orchestras. The acclaimed Steinway Artist’s discography includes From Bach to Gershwin, Ebony and Ivory, and most recently, a solo album, Touches and Traces.
PERFORMERS:
Warren Lee, Piano
PROGRAM:
Bernstein: Anniversaries (Selection with reading of letters)
Performer Gio Mielle and theater director Debora Balardini are back for a new season of Bother Line, an original one-woman show produced by Nettles Artists Collective and presented by The Tank.
DCINY presents Total Vocal, the fourth annual celebration of contemporary a cappella music featuring arrangements from Pitch Perfect, The Sing-Off, Pitch Battle, and the American pop lexicon. The performance includes surprise celebrity guests, hosted and conducted by Deke Sharon, a pioneer of the contemporary a cappella genre. This performance will be streamed live via the DCINY Facebook Page.
PROGRAM: Contemporary all a cappella music featuring arrangements from Pitch Perfect, The Sing-Off, Pitch Battle, and the American pop lexicon.
PERFORMERS:
Conductor Laureate Hilary Apfelstadt (University of Toronto) leads the Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International in Italian composer Luigi Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor. The evening also includes a world premiere Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra by Greek composer Dinos Constantinides featuring DCINY General Director Iris Derke on flute, Kirsten Agresta Copely on harp under the direction of Maestro Jonathan Griffith, DCINY Artistic Director.
“Modern Kazakhstan Culture in the Global World,” a project of the Republic of Kazakhstan Ministry of Culture and Sport.
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