Graphic Content: Feldman & Brown at 100 (St. Michael's Concerts)

Graphic Content: Feldman & Brown at 100 is a citywide festival, consisting of 17 concerts across 6 venues, celebrating the centennial birthdays of New York School pioneers Morton Feldman and Earle Brown.

Friday, September 11

Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM

Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet with new choreography by Annie Nikunen

St. Michael's Church, New York, NY

Orange Road Quartet and Matt Schultheis perform one of Feldman's most haunting late masterpieces, Piano and String Quartet is paired with new choreography by Annie Nikunen.

Saturday, September 12

Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM

Morton Feldman: Trio

St. Michael's Church, New York, NY

Often regarded as one of the towering achievements of twentieth-century chamber music, Trio immerses listeners in Feldman's expanded sense of time and form. Slowly evolving textures move beyond narrative towards fleeting sensations of memories, moments of deja vu, and misremembering.

Saturday, October 24

Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM

Numerous Voices and Apmonia String Quartet

St. Michael's Church, New York, NY

A conversation across generations, this program pairs Negar Soley's Numerous Voices—a meditation on multiplicity, memory, and the expressive possibilities of the human voice—with Earle Brown's groundbreaking String Quartet, a work that reimagines the quartet through openness, spontaneity, and performer agency.

Thursday, November 5

Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM

Three Voices by Morton Feldman

St. Michael's Church, New York, NY

Nina Guo performs Feldman's hypnotic masterpiece for three sopranos transforms repetition into a subtly shifting monumentality. Dedicated to the memory of painter Philip Guston, the work reflects Feldman's lifelong dialogue with the Abstract Expressionists.

Friday, November 6

Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM

BlackBox Ensemble and WIMIN perform Feldman'sViola in My Life I-III and György Kurtág's Hommage à R. Sch.

St. Michael's Church, New York, NY

Besides celebrating the centennials of Morton Feldman and Earle Brown, this festival also marks the 100th birthday of György Kurtág. This program pairs Feldman's deeply personal series, Viola in My Life I-III with Kurtág's haunting Hommage à R. Sch., bringing together two composers who transformed the smallest of musical gestures into expansive worlds.

Saturday, November 7

Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM

Chamber works by Earle Brown, Christian Wolff, and Steven Swartz

St. Michael's Church, New York, NY

Celebrating three generations of experimental music, this program highlights Earle Brown's pioneering open-form compositions alongside works by Christian Wolff and Steven Swartz.

Thursday, November 12

Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM

For John Cage by Morton Feldman performed by Bennardo-Larson Duo

St. Michael's Church, New York, NY

Composed as a tribute to his lifelong friend, For John Cage is among Feldman's final and most expansive works. Its vast musical canvas honors a friendship that fundamentally reshaped twentieth-century music through its interrogation of sound, silence, and its relationship to the world.

Friday, November 13

Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM

Morton Feldman & Kurt Weill

St. Michael's Church, New York, NY

Anthony Coleman brings together two seemingly distant musical worlds, revealing unexpected connections between Weill's theatrical immediacy and Feldman's luminous restraint. The result is a program that reframes both composers through fresh and surprising perspectives.

Friday, November 20

Doors 7:00 PM • Music 7:30 PM

BlackBox Ensemble performs chamber works by Morton Feldman and Earle Brown

St. Michael's Church, New York, NY

Closing the festival, this program celebrates the enduring friendship between Feldman and Brown through chamber works that reveal two distinct yet deeply connected artistic voices. Together they embody the spirit of experimentation that defined the New York School.

Saturday, November 21

Doors TBD • Music TBD

Flux Quartet, program TBD

St. Michael's Church, New York, NY

Additional performances and special events take place throughout New York City. Explore the complete festival schedule through these links:

• Roerich Museum
• Columbia University: Oct. 20 & Oct. 22
• Mise-en-Place
• Loove Annex
• Yamaha Artist Services