Briana Elyse Hunter has been hailed by Opera News as “a mesmerizing mezzo-soprano with a fiery theatrical presence and dynamic vocalism.” Her 2021-22 season began with two major New York City debuts: first at the Metropolitan Opera as Ruby/Woman Sinner in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, followed by her Carnegie Hall debut with The Orchestra Now in a performance of Julia Perry’s Stabat Mater, under the auspices of the Bard Musical Festival. In January of 2022, she sang the title role in Carmen with Opera Idaho and reprised her critically acclaimed portrayal of Mother in Jeanine Tesori’s Blue in February at Seattle Opera and with Pittsburgh Opera in April. On the concert stage she debuted at the Madison Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, as well as the Charlotte Symphony for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Other recent engagements include the title role in Carmen with Opera Orlando; Tanya in Is This America? with Santa Fe Opera; and Constance Fletcher in The Mother of Us All with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.

For this recital, Russian mezzo soprano Yana Mann premieres works by minimalist composer Julián De La Chica, including cycle Op. 12, Poemas de Bar, recently released in her debut studio album and the song cycle, Op. 15, Arias Florentinas composed during Summer 2021 in Florence. The dark and pensive music captures moments of intimate confessions. Mann will be accompanied by De La Chica.

On January 31, the hypnotic music of Julia Wolfe, Philip Glass, Hannah Lash and Julián De La Chica becomes a vehicle for deep inward exploration in this special one-hour event combining guided meditation and live music. The performer is Lisa Moore, whose playing was singled out by the New York Times for its “life and freshness” and “fragility and tenderness.” Lisa is joined by the Colombian composer and sound artist Julián De La Chica, “an extraordinarily deep thinker … able to take a listener into mysterious by-ways using very slender means.” (Stephen Mould) Join in a simple mindfulness practice to clear mental static, then allow the sounds of Lisa’s piano transport you on a sonic journey.

Hosted and moderated by New York Times contributing critic Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim. + Info here.

Composer & pianist Julian De La Chica returns to the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York City, to premier his new ambient/minimal Piano Cycle Op. 10 "Scenes of a Silent Movie".

In this intimate, solo recital, De la Chica explores raw scenes from watching people's every day life from a friend's apartment window in Soho, NY. De La Chica, a post minimalist, takes on the challenge of exploring different ways of listening to the world.

The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) will feature pianist Lisa Moore in a Great Performances concert Sunday, Nov. 3 at 3 p.m. in the Great Gallery. Moore will perform a program of contemporary solo works, including Metamorphosis III by Philip Glass. This concert is presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Everything is Rhythm”: Mid-Century Art and Music in which Moore’s performance of Glass’s work for solo piano is paired with And Then There Were Three, a painting by Julian Stanczak (American, born Poland,1928-2017).

The Opera Collective is a group of Opera singers throughout New York City, seeking to make opera accessible to the general public by presenting educational programs and free public performances of vocal music including opera, art song, operetta and musical theater in New York’s thriving subway stations. This group of singers performs with MTA’s Music Under New York program, bringing Bizet, Gershwin, and Puccini to subway riders. Members of Opera Collective enjoy diverse careers in many of the nation’s great opera houses, including their own New York City Opera and The Metropolitan Opera.

La primera grabación mundial de la quinta meditación “Fragile” (Pt. 1 & 2), es realizada por Tomás “Automata” de Camino-Beck para este proyecto, Automata finito (2019). En este nuevo álbum, Camino-Beck reúne por primera vez las cinco Meditaciones butō, proponiendo una nueva y radical realización electrónica.

Curated by: Simonetta Moro

Music from Lisa Moore’s album Preludes Op. 8, music composed by Julian De La Chica.

Participating Artists: Javier Barrer, Nicole Cohen, Rebecca Hackemann, Brian Miller, Simonetta Moro, Aga Ousseinov, Cibele Vieira and Jeannie Weissglass

The videos presented in 8 Attempts to exhaust [the poetics of] a place do not necessarily adhere to a strict theme, but rather deal with the concept of place in a variety of ways. Taking as the starting point the Manhattan Bridge as the place of engagement, the bridge as material space is also the metaphor for the act of crossing over multiple spaces: we see images of other places (Venice, the moon, a garden in Vermont, protest sites, etc.), places that live in the imagination only, or places that translate the bridge into other media (the bridge as canvas). Multiple signs of signification overlap and intersect, where the one constant is the intention to use the video medium not as a work in itself, but as a language that exists fully only when considered in its interaction with the environment.

Próximo sábado 23 de FEBRERO a las 18.30, último concierto del primer ciclo WINTERJAZZ organizado por DURO VINO. La soprano Estela Vicente y la pianista Carmen Morales AKA Dode Carmenismo estrenarán la obra minimalista para voz y piano del compositor Julián De La Chica. En sus manos nos adentraremos en un viaje auditivo a través de atmósferas sonoras creadas a partir del piano y sintetizadores, que servirán de soporte para un gran despliegue de habilidades vocales por parte de la cantante malagueña.

IGM collaborator, pianist Lisa Moore, will playing in the the Sydney Symphony Orchestra with David Robertson conducting, the premiere of the co-commissioned Steve Reich work Music for Ensemble.

On February 1, 2019, Americas Society will feature rarely heard music by Costa Rican composers. This concert, curated by Carlos José Castro Mora and Edmundo Ramírez, displays the variety of influences and expression of the country's contemporary musicians. The program includes acoustic and mixed-media pieces by Susan Campos-Fonseca, Rocío Sanz Quirós, Pilar Aguilar, Valeria Bregón, and Carlos José Castro Mora, performed by Ramírez, the Bleecker String Quartet, and SoundArt.NYC.

On December 22nd (2:30 pm) and 30th (7:30 pm), at the Riverside Theater in New York City, Amore Opera will present Puccini’s La Bohème. The cast includes, the IGM Collaborators, Soprano Rachel Hippert as “Mimi" Jose Heredia as “Rodolfo”. Co-directed by Nathan Hull and Iris Karlin, conducted by Scott Jackson Wiley, featuring set design by Richard Cerullo and costumes by Cynthia Psoras.

A dramatic 80th birthday concert of music by American legend composer Frederic Rzewski (b.1938)
Tickets $15/10 @ door and

An elderly woman who decides to burn all of her possessions (i.e., her memories) and to start all over. A girl who is kidnapped and murdered. A cyborg or robot who is subject to sexual and domestic slavery, becomes aware of herself and then rebels through pain as her weapon for freedom. These are the three main characters of this oratorium, which concludes with a requiem in memory of composer Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016).

Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 8:00 PM @ The DiMenna Center in New York City, Lisa Moore will World Premiere her new CD: Julián De La Chica's Preludes Op. 8 (For piano and synthesizer) produced and published by Brooklyn based, independent record label, Irreverence Group Music (IGM).

On 16 August 2018 (Thu), at 8:15 pm, Composer and pianist Julián de la Chica will release his second solo album "Psychosis" a cycle for piano, synth and electronic at Brooklyn's ShapeShifter Lab. In this work, De La Chica will play for the first time a set of electronic music ranging from Modern Classical to Ambient and Minimal electronic music.

16 July, 19:00 pm, New York Based, Colombian composer and pianist Julián De La Chica, will perform in an intimate evening at Palácio Foz - Hall of the Mirrors in Lisbon, playing some of his latest works for piano.

20 June, 8:00 PM @ DiMenna Center, New York, Irreverence Group Music proudly presents Soprano Rachel Hippert's New York premier of Julian De La Chica's work: Experimentelle und unbestimmte Lieder Op. 9. This will be the first performance in the USA after its world premier in Colombia in 2017 and after the album's release also in 2017. In the second part of the concert, Ms. Rachel Hippert and Mezzo Soprano Hannah Kramer will also premier De La Chica's latest ouevre Gowanus a duet based on original poems by Susan Campos-Fonseca.

Charismatic and talented soprano Rachel Hippert returns to Amore Opera for her debut as Violetta, in Verdi's tragic La Traviata. Fellow IGM artist José Heredia will perform Alfredo, and the production will be conducted by Douglas Martin, directed by Nathan Hull.

IGM celebrates the Worldwide Release of the new album of Radmila Lolly. The concert premieres  works by New York based, Colombian composer Julián De La Chica: String Quartet No.1 Op. 7 performed by Scorchio Quartet and IV Short Stories at the Standard Hotel Op. 6 performed by Tenor Jose Heredia. De La Chica, a post minimalist, takes on the challenge of exploring different ways of listening to the world.