Featuring Cate Blanchett, this film installation reinterprets artistic manifestos from the past century as poetic monologues for a contemporary audience.

Video artist and sound designer Ryan Trecartin is joined by his principal collaborator Lizzie Fitch to present their buoyant, digitally-inflected scores live for the very first time.

British lyric soprano Kate Royal is equally at home on the recital stage, the “elegant, thoughtful singer” (The New York Times) comes to the Armory to perform an artfully-curated selection of lieder and song by Robert and Clara Schumann, Mahler, and Samuel Barber.

This virtuosic young ensemble perform the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Roger Reynolds’s FLiGHT, an exploration of humankind’s aspirations to fly through musical composition for string quartet, real-time computer-derived sound, readings, and projections.

Multimedia artist Camille Norment and electronic musician Craig Taborn partner for the very first time in a presentation that traces the fringes of sound, perception, and historical memory and perfectly marries with the varying aesthetics of the space.

Kaija Saariaho, designer Jennifer Tipton, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Park Avenue Armory Artistic Director Pierre Audi discuss Circle Map.

The revered New York Philharmonic returns to the Armory for the New York premiere of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho's Circle Map, a new work for orchestra and electronics that builds out from six stanzas by the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi, and D'om la Vrai Sens. The evening also includes the U.S. premiere of Lumiére et Pesanteur as well as Lonh, a work that combines medieval love poetry sung by rising soprano Jennifer Zetlan with an electronic score that manipulates sounds from nature to evoke a distant, luminous landscape.

Having delighted Armory audiences in 2015 with her program of Benjamin Britten’s powerful suites and Sylvia Plath’s haunting poetry, renowned cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton returns to the Board of Officers Room with the North American premiere of a program that boldly re-imagines the radical, sometimes fierce music of Nina Simone.

Lucy Raven comes to the Veterans Room to reimagine her work Tales of Love and Fear, a unique instance of cinema that is as much a film as it is a kinetic sculpture performing the architecture of the space it inhabits.

Artist Taryn Simon discusses the creation of and process behind her latest work with special guests.

Groundbreaking artist Taryn Simon creates an immersive new work unlike any other, in which the subjects themselves become the objects of exhibition. Simon directs and designs both an environment and experience created specifically for the drill hall that defies mediums and the lines between performer and viewer. Experienced after sundown under the cover of darkness, this multifaceted work – at once intensely solitary and somberly communal – blends performance, sound, and architecture.

Born into a musical family in Vienna, clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer dabbled with the piano and cello before taking up the clarinet. The young Austrian prodigy makes his North American recital debut in the Board of Officers Room with a program the perfectly showcases what the clarinet can do in a space that highlights the sheer beauty of chamber music.

Join the Armory’s curatorial assistant for insightful, hour-long conversations with artists, scholars, cultural leaders, and social trailblazers, who offer new points of view and unique perspectives on this inventive British artist and his largest survey to date.

The art of music making gets examined through the lenses of science and technology in this thrilling double bill of music and projection by two percussion pioneers, seminal drummer Milford Graves and musician Deantoni Parks.

Turner Prize-winning, British artist Martin Creed continues his ongoing exploration into rhythm, scale, and order in his largest installation in the U.S. to date, a survey of his work from its most minimal moments to extravagant, larger-than-life installations. Crossing all media including painting, drawing, music, dance, theater, film, sculpture, fashion, and more unclassifiable items such as runners or lights going on and off, his practice transforms the everyday into surprising meditations on existence and the invisible structures that shape our lives.

Andreas Scholl, who possesses one of the most beautiful countertenor voices of his generation, comes to the Board of Officers Room with a program that explores the poetry and artistic expression of the English Renaissance and Baroque at the height of the voice type’s original popularity.

Pianist and composer Conrad Tao is joined by multifaceted percussionist and instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey for solo performances and dynamic dual improvisations that blend their unique talents and unparalleled artistic vision, this unique pairing allows both musicians to step outside their disparate styles to share the same space together for an exciting and rarely-heard musical dialogue.

Park Avenue Armory and Red Bull Music Academy are proud to present the world premiere of Anohni’s live show for her new album Hopelessness. Featuring original films co-directed by Anohni and Australian artist Lynette Wallworth, the celebrated singer, composer, and visual artist will bring her politically charged masterpiece to audiences in an environment unlike any other.

Kathleen Hanna of the band The Julie Ruin, formerly of Bikini Kill, emcees an afternoon of comedy sets headlined by Hari Kondabolu, featuring Negin Farsad and Leighann Lord, followed by a conversation focused on the power of humor to confront stereotypes and engage audiences around uncomfortable topics.

Having received rave reviews for their recording of Beethoven sonatas, celebrated duo Kristóf Baráti and Klára Würtz arrive at the Armory to interpret a selection of these wondrous works.

American composer and accordionist Pauline Oliveros is joined by noted author, director, and dream specialist IONE to present a Deep Listening Intensive, exploring the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary, selective nature of listening through movement and sonic, interactive meditations.

Having been heralded as “blazing a new trail” in choral music by The New Yorker, Roomful of Teeth perform a program of works that include Elliot Cole’s Hanuman’s Leap and others that redefine vocal music for the 21st century.

Composer Louis Andriessen, director Heiner Goebbels, conductor Peter Rundel, and Park Avenue Armory Artistic Director Pierre Audi discuss the creation of DE MATERIE with dramaturg Cori Ellison.

Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe, composer Nathan Michel, and Princeton University Professor of Music Donnacha Dennehy join John Schaefer to discuss the wide-ranging impact composer Louis Andriessen has made on contemporary music.

WNYC personality John Schaefer engages director Heiner Goebbels, Columbia University Professor of Music George E. Lewis, and composer Missy Mazzoli in a conversation about the complexities of themes in DE MATERIE.

Dutch contemporary composer Louis Andriessen is joined by pianist Jason Moran for an evening spotlighting these jazz influences as well as other improvisations. This artfully-curated set for two pianos gives a contemporary context to musical improvisation, moving this extemporaneous art form from its origins in the time of Bach and Beethoven to the modern age.

Visionary director Heiner Goebbels stages this monumental work in a highly-imaginative production that infuses the work's journey through a sequence of non-narrative tableaus with stunning visual imagery to help convey its meaning, with references to Mondrian and Madame Curie as well as floating zeppelins and a flock of sheep. The International Contemporary Ensemble takes on the sonically varied score.

Hear a preview of three of these soon-to-be opera greats from the program – soprano Clarissa Lyons, mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb, and tenor Kang Wang – in intimate evenings of song in the Board of Officers Room.

Having released nine of his own albums in addition to over 30 recordings with others, Moran has garnered international acclaim including a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Album in 2014. He inaugurates the Veterans Room with a performance of works for solo piano, commemorating the auspicious occasion with a live recording for future release.

In collaboration with the Aspen Institute Arts Program, the Park Avenue Armory has gathered artists, writers and cultural commentators to share their unique, ongoing, and evolving engagements with African American history. Moderated by writer and podcast host Stacia Brown, participants include vocalist and composer Imani Uzuri, multi-media artist Jasmine Murrell, novelist and playwright Darryl Pinckney, photographer and professor Deborah Willis, and writer Carl Hancock Rux.

Baritone Roderick Williams makes his North American recital debut with a performance of Schubert’s 'Swan Song,' elucidating the songs with interspersed poetry and readings by Jenny Agutter for a poignant and heartfelt evening that could only be felt in the perfectly intimate setting of the Board of Officers Room.

Lisette Oropesa has been taking the opera world by storm. She performs a program of Spanish art songs as well as works by Schubert and Schumann, offering audiences the chance to get to know this star on the rise in one of the only spaces that could provide such an intimate encounter – the Board of Officers Room.