Upcoming Concerts & Events

Members of the Binghamton University Composition Studio present new compositions. Featuring graduate and undergraduate composers, Music Now!, showcases the cutting edge work created by the studio.

Free Admission.

Ava Portmore, soprano presents Bel Canto to Broadway a performance of familiar favorites from the classical and musical theatre genres. Featuring works by Rossini, Schubert, Price, Copland, Holmes, Guettel, and more. Mikayla Rogers, piano Free admission.

Percussion students will present an eclectic array of repertoire as they bring more percussive sounds to Casadesus Recital Hall. Marimbas, Snare Drums, Steel Drums and more will reverberate throughout the afternoon. Free Admission.

Alejandra Toledo, soprano presents, A Vocal Pilgrimage: Across the Threads of Life. This performance explores repertoire that traces a pilgrimage through the fundamental questions of human experience: where we are going and where we come from. This journey is not measured in miles or languages, but in threads. Each song is a thread— a melody, a poem, a lived moment— that wonders whether we will ever truly find answers about the days ahead.

Mikayla Rogers, piano

Four flute students who have participated in flute studio for four wonderful years present, A Joyous Finale. Please join us as we send them off to begin their next chapters in life. They will feature works from Dvorak to D'Rivera and many in between. Featuring: Emily Dimock, Argelina Jeune, Charlotte Pafk, and Rachel Pitt. with Dr. Bobby Pace, piano Free Admission.

Join the Binghamton University Choirs as they present, The Gentle Light of Night. This concert will be an afternoon of choral explorations of dreams and evocations of the night, featuring works by The Podd Brothers, Bob Dylan, Johannes Brahms, Andrea Ramsey, Rosephany Powell, Moira Smiley, and more! This performance features guest artists from the Binghamton University jazz program.


To view this concert remotely, follow our livestream link


Ticketing information: https://www.binghamton.edu/anderson-center/events-list.html

Students from the Music Department Chamber Music Program present, Spring Soundings, an eclectic and exciting mix of chamber works spanning four centuries.


Free Admission.

The Binghamton University Guitar Ensemble plays, on acoustic guitars, a wide range of repertoire.  This performance will include some original music, some arrangements of traditional folk songs from other countries, and one special selection by Mozart. Free Admission

This performance has been cancelled and will be moved to the Fall 2026 semester Free Admission

Join Salome Lomidze, violin, as she presents her master's thesis recital. An evening full of big variety of music, including world premiere of solo violin work by Amir Sanjari. Recital features pianists: Pej Reitz, Dr. Bobby Pace, and Salome's two great friends from composition and engineering department; Joshua Fowler and David Fayle. Free admission.

Free admission.

In celebration of the Drawing Connections: Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition, the Momenta Quartet presents a genre-defying program of works by Binghamton composers, which were developed in a semester-long collaboration with the quartet — moving from pencil sketches to fully rendered structures. The program also features distinguished composer Shawn Jaeger’s celebration of Appalachian singing traditions, Thy Wondering Eyes.




Free Admission.

ARTIST BIO:

Momenta: the plural of momentum – four individuals in motion towards a common goal. This is the idea behind the Momenta Quartet, whose eclectic vision encompasses contemporary music of all aesthetic backgrounds alongside great music from the recent and distant past. The New York City-based quartet has premiered over 200 works, collaborated with over 250 living composers and was praised by The New York Times for its “diligence, curiosity and excellence.” In the words of The New Yorker’s Alex Ross, “few American players assume Haydn’s idiom with such ease.”
 
The quartet came into being in November 2004, when composer Matthew Greenbaum invited violist Stephanie Griffin to perform Mario Davidovsky’s String Trio for events celebrating Judaism and Culture at New York’s Symphony Space and Temple University in Philadelphia. A residency through the composition department at Temple University ensued, and the rehearsals and performances were so satisfying that the players decided to form a quartet. Through this residency, Momenta gave two annual concerts highlighting the talents of Temple University student composers alongside 20th-century masterworks and works from the classical canon, repeating the programs at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture. From the outset, Momenta treated all music equally, devoting as much time, care and commitment to the student works as to the imposing musical monuments.
 
Word of Momenta’s passionate advocacy for emerging composers spread quickly. Composers started inviting Momenta for similar concerts and residencies at other academic institutions. Today, Momenta’s educational-performing circuit includes Binghamton, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Hawaii Pacific, Michigan State, New York, Temple, Tufts, Washington and Yeshiva Universities; Bard, Barnard, Bates, Haverford, Hunter, Ithaca, Lehman and Williams Colleges; and Boston, Cincinnati, Eastman and Mannes conservatories. Momenta has received commission grants from the Koussevitzky, Barlow, and Jerome Foundations, and a Chamber Music America commission for Alvin Singleton, whose resulting work, “Hallelujah Anyhow” (2019), is featured on their 2022 album of his complete string quartets. Deeply committed to the musical avant-garde of the developing world, Momenta has premiered and championed the works of Tony Prabowo (Indonesia), Cergio Prudencio (Bolivia) and Hana Ajiashvili (Georgia); has collaborated with numerous gamelan ensembles; and in 2018, was brought by the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Embassy La Paz to Cochabamba, Bolivia for new music concerts and a teaching-performing residency at the Instituto Laredo.
 
Momenta has appeared at such prestigious venues as the Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery, Rubin Museum, Miller Theatre at Columbia University, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Chamber Music Cincinnati, and the Louisville and Philadelphia Chamber Music Societies. Festival credits include the renowned Cervantino Festival in Mexico; MATA; Music from Japan; Ostrava Days in the Czech Republic; Red Note New Music; the Smithsonian’s “Performing Indonesia”; the Yellow Barn Artist Residency; and since 2015, the quartet’s own annual member-curated Momenta Festival in New York City, featuring world premieres, guest artists, and samplings from Momenta's unique personal repertoire.
 
Momenta has recorded for the Albany, Bridge, Centaur, Furious Artisans, Innova, Navona, New Focus, New World and PARMA labels; and has been broadcast on WQXR, Q2 Music, Austria’s Oe1 and Vermont Public Radio. The quartet’s latest album “Alvin Singleton: Four String Quartets” was released to critical acclaim in 2022 by New World Records. Their debut album, “Similar Motion,” featuring visionary works by Debussy, Philip Glass and Arthur Kampela, is available on Albany Records. Upcoming recording adventures include a project to record all thirteen string quartets by Mexican microtonal maverick Julián Carrillo (1875-1965) for Naxos, the complete string quartets of Roberto Sierra, and an American album featuring diverse works by Elizabeth Brown, Jason Hwang, Shawn Jaeger, Yusef Lateef, and Matthew Greenbaum.
The Momenta Quartet's 2025-26 season is made possible, in part, through the support of the Amphion Foundation and the Alice M. Ditson Fund.

bingLO, the Binghamton Laptop Orchestra, presents a program of all new works, featuring new electronic instruments for video game controllers, the ensemble rethinks how performers can interact with sounds. The Spring concert will combine electronic sounds with composition and improvisation, and new audio-reactive visuals designed by a member of the ensemble. 

Free Admission.

Free admission.

Free Admission

University Composers premiere pocket sized operas, transforming stories written by local students into new works for the stage, performed by Tri-Cities Opera's resident artists.

Transforming student stories into masterful mini-operas!

The Pocket Opera Project is telling stories with a distinct new voice! Local elementary and middle school students have been selected to have their story submissions transformed into mini-operas — in collaboration with Binghamton University composers.

These incredible “pocket operas” come with big theatrical moments and tell deeply human stories filled with adventure, tragedy, and magic!

K-12 students who would like a chance to see their story transformed into a “pocket opera” in 2027 are encouraged to enter the WSKG Student Writing Competition by May 1, 2026.

Ticketing:
https://www.tricitiesopera.com/pop/