Events Archive 2014

2014 Gala

2014 Gala

Saturday, December 13, 2014
8:00pm - 10:00pm
The Barrow Mansion - 83 Wayne Street, Jersey City, NJ
VIP Ticket - $150 reserved seating, plus a champagne and bowling afterparty at Barrow Mansion's unique bowling lanes from circa 1897 and a signed copy of our new CD Modern Dances! Reserved Seating - $80 up front seating during our concert General Seating - $40 Online ticket sales are closed now. You can purchase tickets at the door with credit card, check, or cash. Our 2014 Gala fundraiser will be a huge celebration of Con Vivo's first CD release Modern Dances. We will perform selections off our album alongside Prokofiev's Quintet in G minor. Food and wine are included, plus... More info on our event page.

09 Nov

Evening of Art Song

Sunday, November 9, 2014
5:00pm - 6:00pm
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church - 440 Hoboken Ave, Jersey City, NJ
Updated Date! - This concert date has been updated to November 9 FREE! all ages welcome Con Vivo celebrates the art song with an evening of music by Benjamin Britten, Claude Debussy, and more! This program will feature vocalist Sarah Craft and pianist Paul Vasile. Sarah Nelson Craft - mezzo-soprano Paul Vasile - piano Program: Claude Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis Franz Schubert (trans. Franz Liszt): Ständchen von Shakespeare Franz Schubert (trans. Franz Liszt): Du bist die Ruh Franz Schubert (trans. Franz Liszt): Widmung Benjamin Britten: A Charm of Lullabies intermission Sergei Rachmaninoff: Дитя, как цветок ты прекрасна (Child, you are... More info on our event page.

18 Oct

JC Art and Studio Tour

Saturday, October 18, 2014
12:00pm - 1:00pm
JC Artists Studio Tour stage - Jersey Ave and Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ
FREE, all ages welcome We're first up on the JC Art and Studio Tour stage, performing Terry Riley's landmark composition In C. It's going to be outdoors, amplified, and a whole lot of fun! Exact stage location TBA. More at http://thejcast.com/ If individual assistance or assistive technology is needed to attend please email mail@convivomusic.org 2 weeks prior to event. More info on our event page.

28 Sep

Music for Saxophones

Sunday, September 28, 2014
5:00pm - 6:30pm
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church - 440 Hoboken Ave, Jersey City, NJ
FREE! Con Vivo's Zach Herchen and his New Thread Quartet perform a program of music by living composers featuring the premiere of Sunstruck, a newly commissioned piece by Ben Hjertmann. Ben will do a pre-performance chat with NTQ and the audience. The program will feature Ben’s music alongside other composers New Thread Quartet has collaborated with from outside NYC. Program Ben Hjertmann: Sunstruck *world premiere Michael Djupstrom: Test Marcelo Lazcano: Ser Roberto Kalb: Ryden Scenes Founded in 2011, New Thread Quartet is committed to the creation and performance of saxophone quartet repertoire from New York’s burgeoning new music scene. Members... More info on our event page.

20 Sep

2014 All About Downtown Street Fair

Saturday, September 20, 2014
11:00am - 11:30am
All About Downtown Street Fair - Barrow St and Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ
FREE! Con Vivo is excited to perform at our favorite JC street fair: HDSID's 4th Annual All About Downtown Street Fair. We'll play a 30 min set at 11am. Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/200504716826166/ If individual assistance or assistive technology is needed to attend please contact us 2 weeks prior to event. More info on our event page.

23 Jul

Groove on Grove

Wednesday, July 23, 2014
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Grove PATH Plaza - 324 Grove Street, Jersey City, NJ, 07302
FREE! Con Vivo is super excited to bring a 2 hour show to Groove on Grove! We've got an amazing new electric guitar piece, music based on glaciers, and a repeat performance of "Tierkreis". 6-7pm Set Stone Guitars by Richard Carrick - 11 movements of densely layered electric guitars described as nostalgic, raw, direct, meditative, bold, evocative, and micro-tonally dense (available on iTunes) 7-8pm Set Cascades by Erik DeLuca - a meditative piece based on a month-long audio recording of a glacier Tierkreis by Karlheinz Stockhausen - we reprise our performance of this epic semi-improvised piece based on the 12... More info on our event page.

29 Jun

Solo, Duo, Trio

Sunday, June 29, 2014
7:00pm - 8:00pm
The Barrow Mansion - 83 Wayne Street, Jersey City, NJ
FREE! Con Vivo Music wraps up its June mini-festival this Sunday with Solo Duo Trio: a concert of music by Caroline Shaw, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Composition, Con Vivo's 2011 and 2013 Composition Competition Winners Lembit Beecher and Greg Steinke, Caleb Burhans, Iva Bittova, Randall Tompson and Rebecca Clarke. The music on this program is variously theatrical, liturgical, romantic, contemplative, folksy, and insistent. Con Vivo's founding director, violist Amelia Hollander Ames, will return from Boston to play with friends Karisa Werdon on oboe and Nicholas Gallas on clarinet. Amelia Hollander Ames - viola Nick Gallas - clarinet... More info on our event page.

21 Jun

Stockhausen's "Tierkreis"

Saturday, June 21, 2014
7:00pm - 8:30pm
J. Owen Grundy Park – band shell - J. Owen Grundy Park, Jersey City, NJ
FREE! REMINDER: Exchange Place PATH station is closed on weekends. J. Owen Grundy Park is an easy walk from Grove St PATH, Newport, or take the light rail to Exchange Place. From Manhattan, NY Waterway provides a very convenient ferry service. Come celebrate the summer solstice with an outdoor show by Con Vivo on the waterfront! We will be performing Karlheinz Stockhausen's epic work Tierkreis, a 12 movement piece based on the Zodiac signs. At times beautiful, wild, fragile, and adventurous, this is sure to be an event you don't want to miss! Originally for music boxes, Tierkreis is a... More info on our event page.

08 Jun

5th Annual Bach Concert

Sunday, June 8, 2014
7:30pm - 8:30pm
The Barrow Mansion - 83 Wayne Street, Jersey City, NJ
FREE! Con Vivo presents our 5th annual Bach concert. We will perform solo, duo, and chamber pieces by J.S. Bach. For a modern spin, saxophonist Zach Herchen will join in the fun! Program: JS Bach: Ergieße dich reichlich, du göttliche Quelle, from the cantata Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5 JS Bach: Cello Suite No.2 in D minor, BWV 1008 JS Bach: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-flat major, BWV 998 JS Bach: Sonata No. 2 in D major, BWV 1028 JS Bach: Trio Sonata in C major, BWV 1037 Amelia Hollander Ames - viola Jing Li - cello... More info on our event page.

19 Jan

Red Giant

Sunday, January 19, 2014
2:00pm - 3:30pm
The Barrow Mansion - 83 Wayne Street, Jersey City, NJ
Con Vivo, in collaboration with Rhymes With Opera, performs a new production of Adam Matlock's Red Giant! Learn more and buy tickets at: http://www.rhymeswithopera.org/13-14-season/red-giant/ $15 in advance and $20 at the door RWO is an ensemble based in both Baltimore and New York City, and is dedicated to creating and performing contemporary experimental vocal music and chamber opera. Rhymes With Opera expands the repertoire of new vocal music by commissioning and promoting new works, collaborating with a variety of artists, and creating works that forge new connections between music and other disciplines. RWO seeks new audiences for contemporary opera by... More info on our event page.