Mary MacKenzie

Lowell Chamber Orchestra's December Performance to Contemplate Immigration, History And Ellis Island

Like all Lowell Chamber Orchestra concerts, the performance is free and open to the public, and will take place on: Saturday, December 17, 2022, 7:30 p.m., at Middlesex Community College's Richard and Nancy Donahue Academic Arts Center.

Collage New Music to Present The World Premiere Of Eric Nathan's SHORT STORIES

Collage New Music will present the world premiere of composer Eric Nathan's Short Stories. Held at Pickman Concert Hall at the Longy School of Music, the concert will feature the Boston premieres of Talia Amar's When a Dream Becomes Reality and Marjorie Merryman's Four Images, plus Andrew Imbrie's Pilgrimage in honor of Imbrie's 100th birthday.

The Life Group LA Presents Discussion Covid-19 & HIV: An Introduction To Compassionate Non-Violent Communication

A free zoom seminar this Friday, July 24, 2020 from 12:00-2:00pm PT. This week's event covers Covid-19 & HIV: An Introduction to Compassionate Non-Violent Communication.  The event is presented by the Life Group LA.  The events' guest speaker is Lori Delaney, PT, DPT, MHA.

Guerilla Opera to Showcase Five Cutting-Edge Composers at Brandeis University

Guerilla Opera's season starts Saturday, March 14, 2020! Experience a showcase of five world premiere one-act operas written by composers from Guerilla Opera's inaugural Emergence Composer Fellowship in Slosberg Recital Hall at Brandeis University in Waltham. Featured composers and librettists include: Leah Reid, Caroline Louise Miller, Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei (دانیال رضا سبزقبایی) and Mina Salehpour (librettist), Jeremy Rapaport-Stein, and Niko Yamamoto and Athanasia Giannetos (librettist).

Magloire's New Chamber Ballet Comes To City Center Studio 5

Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet continues its series with the world premiere of  Sanctum, set to music by two major composers, Kaija Saariaho and Karin Rehnqvist, with guest singers Charlotte Mundy, Mary Mackenzie, and Elisa Sutherland of Ekmeles joining the resident Magloire ensemble of dancers and musicians.   Also on the program is Magloire's Morning Song, a solo to music by John Cage.   

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Announces its 56th Season

The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, America's longest running festival of new orchestral music, celebrates its 56th season and the second season of its esteemed Music Director and Conductor, Cristian M?celaru, July 29 - August 12, 2018. This year's festival takes audiences around the globe with a series of new works by composers from the US, UK, Canada, Macedonia, Romania, China, Korea, and Sweden.

Periapsis Music and Dance presents IMMINENCE at GK Artscenter 4/1-2

Periapsis Music and Dance presents Imminence, a new work by choreographer Erin Dillon and composer Jonathan Howard Katz, on April 1 at 8:00 pm and April 2 and 3:00 pm and 7:00 pm at GK ArtsCenter (aka Gelsey Kirkland Academy), 29 Jay Street, Brooklyn.  Tickets are $24 advance, $30 at the door, with special pricing for students and artists of $15 advance and $20 at the door, available at http://periapsismusicanddance.org/calendar/.

BWW Review: I Spy Prototype Festival's Chamber Opera, MATA HARI

The life and times of the spy-as-femme-fatale, Mata Hari, has always attracted the interest of film and stage artists. Now we have the Matt Marks-Paul Peers opera MATA HARI—which opened New York's fifth Prototype Festival last week and continues through Saturday the 14th—though I think of it as more of a dance than an opera. Not literally, of course, but dramatically, as a dance of death for the title character and the men (and one woman) who surround her in this compelling, though somewhat messy, work.

PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now Festival Begins This Week

Beth Morrison Projects and HERE's fifth annual PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now festival begins this week, running January 5-15!

MSM Students to Offer Sneak Peek of New Opera THE LEOPARD

Brooklyn's American Opera Projects (AOP) and the Manhattan School of Music (MSM) will present scenes from a new opera The Leopard by composerMichael Dellaira (The Secret Agent) and librettist J. D. McClatchy (Emmeline), an adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's internationally acclaimed 1958 novel.

Princeton Symphony Orchestra Executive Director Marc Uys Perform at March 20th Chamber Concert

Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) Executive Director Marc Uys returns to his musician roots at the PSO's Spring Chamber Concert Sunday, March 20 at 4:30 pm at the Institute for Advanced Study. Mr. Uys, harpist Bridget Kibbey, and soprano Mary Mackenzie will perform works by composer and former Princeton University professor Edward T. Cone, the Institute's Artist-in-Residence Sebastian Currier, Camille Saint-Saens, and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

National Sawdust Kicks Off Winter 2016 Season at New Home in Williamsburg

Composer Paola Prestini, the Creative and Executive Director of the National Sawdust (NS), announces the initial programming for the non-profit's winter 2016 season in its acclaimed new home -- a $16 million, 13,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art chamber hall in the heart of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

National Sawdust Announces Winter 2016 Season at New Home in Williamsburg

Composer Paola Prestini, the Creative and Executive Director of the National Sawdust (NS), announces the initial programming for the non-profit's winter 2016 season in its acclaimed new home -- a $16 million, 13,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art chamber hall in the heart of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Five Boroughs Music Festival to Welcome EKMELES & Friends 6/29 at The DiMenna Center

Five Boroughs Music Festival's 2014-2015 season concludes on Monday, June 29th with the virtuosic vocal ensemble EKMELES, presented at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in Manhattan. These master interpreters of avant garde vocal music, led by director and baritone Jeffrey Gavett, will join with musicians from TILT Brass and the loadbang ensemble in a thrilling program of works for brass and voice.

Tenth Intervention to Present SUBVERSION: MUSIC ABOUT CONFLICTS, POLITICS AND WAR, 11/3

'Subversion: music about conflicts, politics, and war' is a chamber music program presented by TENTH INTERVENTION consisting of four pieces by different, living composers, inspired by the tragedy, the drama, and the irony of conflict. Each work represents a different perspective of the human experience touched by war: a soldier in troubled Vietnam, the melancholy of American civilian life, identities fractured by centuries of intolerance, and the capacity of individuals for aggression and violence.

BWW Reviews: Phoenix Symphony Maestro Tito Muñoz Seals His Triumphal Debut with Breathtaking CARMINA BURANA

On the occasion of his debut as Phoenix Symphony's new Music Director, Tito Muñoz regaled his audience with a rich and robust performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. Among the coterie of young conductors seizing the baton of major metropolitan orchestras, Muñoz will certainly be among the luminaries.

Avant Media Kicks Off First Full Season Tonight

Avant Media Announced its first season, which will be taking place at the Wild Project from September 2014 to May 2015.

'REDBONE', Guest Curator Eric Schmalenberger and More Set for The Wild Project, Now thru Sept 2014

The Wild Project has announced its current and upcoming lineup through September 2014. Details below!

Miller Theatre Announces Four New Pop-Up Concerts, 2/6-5/6

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues the 2013-14 season with four exciting POP-UP CONCERTS. Details below!

American Symphony Orchestra Brings Elliott Carter Tribute to Carnegie Hall Tonight

Carnegie Hall returns to 'Botsteinburg' with ASO's anniversary tribute to Elliott Carter -- 'Elliott Carter: An American Original' -- tonight, November 17, 2013 at 8pm at Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium, Perelman Stage), 57th Street and 7th Avenue.