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Moving Sounds Festival 2010


September 2-5, 2010

A 4-day event devoted to sound and its roles in contemporary music, Moving Sounds celebrates multimedia arts and international artistic dialogue. The Festival brings together musicians, composers, sound artists, and scholars, culminating in 7 concerts, 5 world premieres, 4 U.S. premieres, and 1 symposium.

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Argento launches weekly concert series at the Austrian Cultural Forum


Lunar Movements Poster
11 East 52nd Street, New York
4 PM every Sunday, August through December, 2010

Argento New Music Project launches a weekly concert series Lunar Movements: A Constellation of Contemporary Music Orbiting Pierrot Lunaire. Five monthly programs are slated for the superb acoustic space of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York in midtown Manhattan. Each program, anchored by Arnold Schoenberg's Pierre Lunaire, explores one aspect of his composition as manifest in new music.

The September program begins on the 12th, featuring soprano Sharla Nafziger in Pierrot Lunaire Book I, as well as Roberto Sierra's Cancionero Sefardi and Beat Furrer's Invocation VI, with Erin Lesser on bass flute. Pianist Joanna Chao performs solos by Gérard Pesson and Joshua Fineberg; Argento's Pierrot ensemble performs Fabien Levy and Pierre Boulez.

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In the spotlight: Miranda Cuckson performs Ralph Shapey


The New York Times reviews Argento violinist Miranda Cuckson in her concert at Miller Theatre. She led the Argento Chamber Ensemble, New York Woodwind Quintet, and the Talujon Percussion Quartet in a showcase of the unique American voice of Ralph Shapey.

Argento’s in vain: An “exhilarating experience”


Argento’s U.S. premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’s in vain has been hailed in The New York Times as among “2009’s most memorable performances.” This concert also tops Steve Smith’s list of best performances of 2009.


Argento brings in vain to America once again on November 12 and February 18. See Argento's season schedule for details.



The New York Times review of Argento's U.S. premiere.

The Washington Post review of Argento's encore performance.

Three Perspectives on Robert Schumann at the Chelsea Art Museum

West 22nd Street at 11th Avenue
Tuesday, June 22, 7:30 PM


Franz Liszt - piano transcriptions of Widmung and Frühlingsnacht

György Kurtág - Hommage à R. Sch.

Kimmy Szeto - chamber arr. of Schumann's Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61