Past Events

  • Recital Series

    Alarm Will Sound

    April 14, 2022 - April 15, 2022

    New music ensemble Alarm Will Sound will take over the Armory’s Wade Thompson Drill Hall to perform Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams’ Ten Thousand Birds. Exploring the connections between nature and music, the work is based on the songs of birds that are native to or migrate through the American Northeast and Midwest and features new staging created specifically for the Armory’s Wade Thompson Drill Hall.

    Conceived, designed, and directed by Alan Pierson, with staging and assistant direction by Peter Ferry, this 70-minute interpretation follows the cycle of a day, following birdsongs from morning to afternoon, then evening, night, and returning to morning. It also uses the vast expanse of the Drill Hall by moving the performers around as they play and encouraging the audience to walk around to experience the music from many perspectives.

  • Recital Series

    Ensemble Correspondances

    May 18, 2022

    The “musically exquisite” (The New York Times) Ensemble Correspondances brings together under the direction of the harpsichordist and organist Sébastien Daucé a collective of singers and instrumentalists, specialists in the music of the Grand Siècle. The ensemble has become a major force in the 17th-century French repertory and in period compositions of the early music canon. They will present a program of period music from the Plaisirs du Louvre, Music for the Chamber of Louis XIII.

  • Recital Series

    Justin Austin & Howard Watkins

    May 24, 2022

    Praised in Opera News as “a gentle actor and elegant musician,” Justin Austin brings his “mellifluous baritone” (The Wall Street Journal) to the Armory. Austin has worked with international opera companies such as Washington National Opera, The Metropolitan Opera, and Bayerische Staatsoper. Alongside Juilliard pianist, Howard Watkins, he will perform an intimate program in the Board of Officers Room featuring a series of art songs by Ricky Ian Gordon set to the poems of Langston Hughes as well as works by American composers including Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Weill, Damien Sneed, and more.

  • Recital Series

    Michael Spyres & Mathieu Pordoy

    September 7, 2022 - September 9, 2022

    One of the most sought-after tenors of his generation, Michael Spyres has been seen on stages across Europe and the United States including La Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, Aix-en-Provence Festival, and The Metropolitan Opera. He makes his North American solo recital debut in the intimate Board of Officers Room with pianist Mathieu Pordoy in a program of including Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte, Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, and Liszt’s Tre sonetti di Petrarca.

  • Recital Series

    Emily D'Angelo

    September 16, 2022 - September 18, 2022

    Internationally recognized Emily D’Angelo has made a name for herself as a trailblazing artist with her ongoing collaborations with some of today’s most prolific contemporary composers. A recipient of a 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, the Birgit Nilsson Prize, and the Monini Prize from the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, D’Angelo makes her North American solo recital debut with pianist Sophia Muñoz in a program of highlighted pieces from her debut album enargeia on Deutsche Grammophon, including songs by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Missy Mazzoli, and Hildegard von Bingen. The program also features works by other noted female composers Cecilia Livingston, Florence Price, Rebecca Clarke, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Clara Schumann as well excerpts from Aaron Copland’s Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson and two songs by Schönberg.

  • Recital Series

    Ying Fang & Ken Noda

    November 19, 2022 - November 20, 2022

    “Star in the making” (The New York Times) soprano Ying Fang is cultivating a burgeoning international career on some of the world’s most important opera stages. The New York Times praised her performance at The Metropolitan Opera as “a source of pure joy and light…sung with a soprano of succulent sweetness.” She has appeared with the country’s top orchestras, including the San Francisco and Houston Symphonies, the Cleveland Orchestra, and more.