NEW MUSIC

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Since our very first season, 5BMF has been committed to the creation of new works, commissioning and co-commissioning more than 70 composers to date. We have presented World Premieres of these works in every borough of NYC.

Five Borough Songbook, Vol III

Arianne Abela, Raquel Acevedo Klein, Kinan Azmeh, Colin Britt, Majel Connery, Laura Jobin-Acosta, Will Healy, Brian Lawlor, Jessica Meyer, Angélica Negrón, Nkeiru Okoye, Juri Seo, Aaron Siegel, Darian Thomas, Jonathan Woody

Co-commissioned by On Site Opera

World Premiere: April 21, 2022 | Brooklyn Public Library
Staten Island Premiere: April 24, 2022 | Trinity Lutheran Church
Queens Premiere: October 21, 2022 | Flushing Town Hall
Bronx Premiere: October 22, 2022 | Bronx Music Heritage Center
Manhattan Premiere: October 23, 2022 | Hebrew Union College

The third volume of 5BMF’s celebrated Songbook, comprised of 15 new songs by 15 composers.

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Terra Nova

Oracle Hysterical (Brad Balliett, Doug Balliett, Elliot Cooper Cole, Majel Connery, Dylan Greene)

Co-commissioned by Hub New Music

New York Premiere: May 15, 2021 | Brooklyn Public Library
Digital World Premiere: June 17, 2021 | Filmed at Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island

Concert-length song cycle composed by the members of Oracle Hysterical and performed in partnership with mixed-instrument quartet Hub New Music, comprised of works inspired by a range of ambitious, gritty (and sometimes naive, cruel, and myopic) explorers.

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$Beautee and Bountee: An Arthurian Refraction by Elliot Cole$

Beautee & Bountee: An Arthurian Refraction

Elliot Cole

Co-commissioned by Alkemie

World Premiere: Nov 23, 2019 | The Noble Maritime Collection, Staten Island
Encore Performance: Nov 24, 2019 | Areté Venue & Gallery, Brooklyn

Concert-length work for voices and medieval instruments, comprised of an original setting of the fourteenth-century stanzaic romance, the Morte Arthur, presented via spoken word, monophonic songs, motets, and instrumental commentary and interludes.

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free – whereof – wherefore

Reiko Füting

Co-commissioned by Longleash

World Premiere: Jan 10, 2020 | Flushing Town Hall, Queens
Encore Performance: Jan 12, 2020 | Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan

Work for piano trio based on the second movement of Beethoven’s Piano Trio Op. 1, No. 3 in c-minor.

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After Stonewall

Kayla Cashetta, Jennifer Higdon, Laura Kaminsky, Laura Karpman, Paula M. Kimper, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum

Co-commissioned by New York Festival of Song

World Premiere: June 11, 2019 | The LGBT Center, Manhattan

Six-song cycle on poetry by Elaine Sexton, commissioned as part of New York Festival of Song’s NYFOSNext composer-curated series.

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Five Borough Songbook Vol II Queens Premiere

Five Borough Songbook, Volume II

Matthew Aucoin, Lembit Beecher, Conrad Cummings, Jonathan Dawe, Evan Fein, Daniel Felsenfeld, Herschel Garfein, Whitney George, Marie Incontrera, Laura Kaminsky, Libby Larsen, Hannah Lash, Missy Mazzoli, Jessie Montgomery, Robert Paterson, Paola Prestini, Kevin Puts, Kamala Sankaram, Gregory Spears, Bora Yoon

World Premiere: Feb 11, 2017 | Baryshnikov Arts Center, Manhattan
Encore Performances:
Feb 12, 2017 | Flushing Town Hall, Queens
Sep 26, 2017 | Trinity Lutheran Church, Staten Island
Sep 27, 2017 | Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, Bronx
Nov 16, 2017 | National Sawdust, Brooklyn

The second volume of 5BMF’s celebrated Songbook, comprised of 20 new songs by 20 composers.

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5×5

Timo Andres, Caleb Burhans, Clarice Jensen, Caroline Shaw, Ben Russell

World Premiere: Sep 11, 2015 | National Opera Center, Manhattan

Five instrumental works, each no more 5 minutes in duration, composed and performed by five members of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME).

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Five Borough Songbook

Christopher Berg, Lisa Bielawa, Tom Cipullo, Christina Courtin, Mohammed Fairouz, Renee Favand-See, John Glover, Ricky Ian Gordon, Yotam Haber, Daron Hagen, Martin Hennessy, Gabriel Kahane, Gilda Lyons, Jorge Martín, Russell Platt, Glen Roven, Matt Schickele, Richard Pearson Thomas, Christopher Tignor, Scott Wheeler

World Premiere: Oct 6, 2011 | Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn
Encore Performances:
Nov 12, 2011 | Flushing Town Hall, Queens
Jan 12, 2012 | Baruch Performing Arts Center, Manhattan
May 31, 2012 | The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx
June 2, 2012 | The Staten Island Museum, Staten Island

5BMF’s acclaimed original collection of 20 songs by 20 composers, all about New York City.