Ember Choral Arts and American Modern Ensemble join forces to present an evening of music for choir and instrumentalists (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion). This concert features conductor Deborah Simpkin King and features Robert Paterson’s Listen, a new work about climate change, commissioned by Ember Choral Arts, and Look To The Sky, a new work commemorating 9/11, commissioned by the New York Choral Consortium.

Ember Choral Arts and American Modern Ensemble join forces to present an evening of music for choir and instrumentalists (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion). This concert features conductor Deborah Simpkin King and features Robert Paterson’s Listen, a new work about climate change, commissioned by Ember Choral Arts, and Look To The Sky, a new work commemorating 9/11, commissioned by the New York Choral Consortium.

The first half of the program opens with beloved modern arias of the 20th/21st century. After intermission, get ready for The Companion from the opera Three Way, a comic opera set in the future for soprano, baritone, and tenor.

Performance of Sonata for Bassoon and Piano on this American Modern Ensemble program at Mostly Modern Festival.

Festival composers and faculty from all over the United States and abroad, come together for a night of brand-new works and premieres, including a performance of Robert Paterson’s Eating Variations. Featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble.

Mostly Modern Projects & Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival present American Modern Ensemble, with a performance ofThe Companion from Three Way, music by Robert Paterson, libretto by David Cote. Directed by John de los Santos, and conducted by Geoffrey Andrew McDonald. Featuring Ariadne Greif, soprano, Glen Seven Allen, tenor, and Robert Wesley Mason, baritone. Program also includes Victoria Bond’s How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct, and a new work by Hershel Garfein with words by Stanley Kunitz.

Join us in celebrating American Modern Ensemble Executive Director Victoria Paterson’s 50th birthday with Tintinnabuli, with an evening of music inspired by the sounds of bells. Program will include works by Palestrina and Arvo Pärt, and three works by Robert Paterson, including the New York premieres of The Bell, featuring American Modern Ensemble, conducted by David Amado and narrated by famed British actor Christian Coulson, as well as Suite for String Orchestra, and Graffiti Canons, featuring Musica Sacra, conducted by Kent Tritle.

World premiere production of Cocoa Cantata , music by Robert Paterson and libretto by David Cote, and an updated version of J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata, featuring the American Modern Ensemble, Cree Carrico, soprano, Steven Stull, baritone, and David Neal, bass-baritone.

World premiere production of Cocoa Cantata , music by Robert Paterson and libretto by David Cote, and an updated version of J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata, featuring the American Modern Ensemble, Cree Carrico, soprano, Steven Stull, baritone, and David Neal, bass-baritone.

World premiere production of Cocoa Cantata , music by Robert Paterson and libretto by David Cote, and an updated version of J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata, featuring the American Modern Ensemble, Cree Carrico, soprano, Steven Stull, baritone, and David Neal, bass-baritone.

World premiere production of Cocoa Cantata , music by Robert Paterson and libretto by David Cote, and an updated version of J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata, featuring the American Modern Ensemble, Cree Carrico, soprano, Steven Stull, baritone, and David Neal, bass-baritone.

Admission is free. Donations are welcome.

World premiere production of Cocoa Cantata , music by Robert Paterson and libretto by David Cote, and an updated version of J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata, featuring the American Modern Ensemble, Cree Carrico, soprano, Steven Stull, baritone, and David Neal, bass-baritone.

World premiere production of Cocoa Cantata , music by Robert Paterson and libretto by David Cote, and an updated version of J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata, featuring the American Modern Ensemble, Cree Carrico, soprano, Steven Stull, baritone, and David Neal, bass-baritone.

Join Mostly Modern Projects and American Modern Ensemble for an entertaining evening of live music for soprano, violin, and piano, featuring Cree Carrico, soprano, Victoria Paterson on violin, and Blair McMillen on piano, and music by Andrew Gerle, David Lang, Missy Mazzoli, Robert Paterson, and others.

Album release of Paterson’s The Four Seasons, consisting of four song cycles voice and chamber ensemble: Autumn Songs (for mezzo-soprano), Winter Songs (for bass-baritone), Spring Songs (for tenor), and Summer Songs (for soprano).

Performance of Relative Theory by the Exponential Ensemble. Inspo 2 at the Soapbox Gallery in Brooklyn will feature a program by composers inspired by social justice.

Performance of Relative Theory by the Exponential Ensemble. at 75 Morton School in NYC. This performance includes a presentation about the piece for 8th grade, 7th grade and 6th grade students.

Autumn Songs (chamber version) featuring Blythe Gaissert, mezzo-soprano, and Relative Theory will be premiered by American Modern Ensemble and the Exponential Ensemble.

Mostly Modern Festival chamber music program will feature a performance of Sextet, as well as works by MMF Composition Fellows and faculty, performed by members of the American Modern Ensemble.

MMF's inaugural chamber music program will feature a performance of Hell's Kitchen, as well as works by MMF Composition Fellows and faculty, performed by members of the American Modern Ensemble.

Sybarite5 gives the NYC premiere of I See You (string quintet version) at National Sawdust, as part of a joint concert with American Modern Ensemble.

Three playful one-acts uncover some very private behavior with wit, poignance, and sparkling music! (Think Sex and the City meets The Twilight Zone.) THE COMPANION, SAFE WORD, and MASQUERADE explore the future of love, sex, and need with a clever balance of humor and drama. Their contemporary characters collide at the intersection of power and desire to reveal the true longings of the human heart, and the score is beguilingly melodic and every bit as complex as they are. Sexy, funny, and a little bit naughty, THREE WAY is a surprising theatrical experience you won’t want to miss!

Three playful one-acts uncover some very private behavior with wit, poignance, and sparkling music! (Think Sex and the City meets The Twilight Zone.) THE COMPANION, SAFE WORD, and MASQUERADE explore the future of love, sex, and need with a clever balance of humor and drama. Their contemporary characters collide at the intersection of power and desire to reveal the true longings of the human heart, and the score is beguilingly melodic and every bit as complex as they are. Sexy, funny, and a little bit naughty, THREE WAY is a surprising theatrical experience you won’t want to miss!

Three playful one-acts uncover some very private behavior with wit, poignance, and sparkling music! (Think Sex and the City meets The Twilight Zone.) THE COMPANION, SAFE WORD, and MASQUERADE explore the future of love, sex, and need with a clever balance of humor and drama. Their contemporary characters collide at the intersection of power and desire to reveal the true longings of the human heart, and the score is beguilingly melodic and every bit as complex as they are. Sexy, funny, and a little bit naughty, THREE WAY is a surprising theatrical experience you won’t want to miss!

Three playful one-acts uncover some very private behavior with wit, poignance, and sparkling music! (Think Sex and the City meets The Twilight Zone.) THE COMPANION, SAFE WORD, and MASQUERADE explore the future of love, sex, and need with a clever balance of humor and drama. Their contemporary characters collide at the intersection of power and desire to reveal the true longings of the human heart, and the score is beguilingly melodic and every bit as complex as they are. Sexy, funny, and a little bit naughty, THREE WAY is a surprising theatrical experience you won’t want to miss!

American Modern Ensemble performs In Real Life, a song cycle about online dating with text by David Cote, Marnie Breckenridge, soprano, and selected arias from Three Way, a trio of comic operas about craving and connection, libretto by David Cote, to be premiered by Nashville Opera and also performed at BAM, June 15-18, 2017. (Photo Credit: Ricardo Birnbaum)

American Modern Ensemble and Duo Scorpio perform Pegasus and Freya's Tears at The Cell as part of AME's annual Fundraiser.