METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS

Tree Lines

EXCEPTET || Quartet121

January 30th, 2022
Event 1: 4:30PM Doors / 5PM Show
Event 2: 6:30PM Doors / 7PM Show

1 Rivington Street
2nd Floor (Buzzer #1)
New York, NY 10011

Proof of Vaccination and Masks required

Tickets
$15 General / $10 Student

Exceptet presents new experimental material, including the World Premiere of a new work by Rome Prize-winning composer Katherine Balch commissioned for Exceptet by the Barlow Endowment. Quartet121 opens up each set.

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS

Featured

Quartet121

Quartet121 is Julia Jung Un Suh (violin), Molly Germer (violin), Lena Vidulich (viola), and Thea Mesirow (cello). Described as “a magnet for world premieres” (New York Music Daily), Quartet121 is passionate about working with emerging composers, promoting equity, and expanding its stylistic range to reach wider audiences. They have performed at venues throughout NYC such as Tenri Cultural Institute, Manhattan School of Music, Central Park Summerstage, and Brooklyn Steel, among others. Recently, they visited Columbia University and Manhattan School of Music to workshop music with young composers, and traveled to Alberta, Canada as part of the Banff Centre’s Evolution of the String Quartet summer festival. In 2020 they held their first Call for Scores and received submissions from countries around the world. The three pieces chosen as winners were recorded and released as an EP with accompanying video in summer ‘21. Quartet121 is supported by the Alice M. Ditson Fund and Chamber Music America’s Ensemble Forward Grant. As part of New Music on the Point’s alumni grant program, they were selected to curate a concert in NYC in spring ‘22.

Exceptet

Exceptet is a seven-piece ensemble that commissions new works from emerging composers. Called “eclectic” and “quirky” (The New Yorker) with "vast emotional range and onomatopoetic charm" (I Care If You Listen), Exceptet has been featured on numerous new music series, including the Johnstone Foundation for New Music in Columbus, OH, Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, the Ecstatic Music Festival, the MATA Interval Series in New York, and has been showcased on WQXR. The septet is currently working with 2020-2021 Rome Prize-winning composer Katherine Balch to record and perform her new piece, Tree Lines, funded by the Barlow Endowment.

Founded by Bang On A Can Summer Festival alumni, members of the group have performed at Radio City Music Hall, Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hollywood Bowl, and more. Recent commissions include Scott Wollschleger, Brendon Randall-Myers, Fay Kueen Wang, and Alex Weiser. Exceptet is a 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Metropolis Ensemble’s COVID PROTOCOLS for Rivington

We’re beyond thrilled to host you in our space after more than a year away. To make sure this in-person experience keeps you, our staff, and our performers safe and healthy, we are requiring all attendees to follow our Covid-19 guidelines. We will be updating our Covid-19 policies to keep in line with official guidance, this version has been updated August 4th 2021. Please contact info@metropolisensemble.org if you have any questions or concerns.

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WHEN YOU ARRIVE

Once doors open a half hour before the performance start time, our front of house staff will check your ticket and proof of vaccination at the exterior door. Once checked in you’ll be able to enter the space.

In addition to having your ticket or QR code ready when you reach the door, you will also be required to provide proof of full Covid-19 vaccination and a photo ID. IN ALIGNMENT WITH CDC GUIDELINES, FULL VACCINATION INCLUDES 2 WEEKS POST FINAL DOSE.

If you do not have either of these pieces of information, we will not be able to admit you. Our front of house staff will issue a full refund for your ticket.

ACCEPTABLE PROOF IS ONE OF:

Excelsior pass, offered by the State of New York here
-A CDC Covid vaccination card
-A clear photo of your CDC card which shows your name and date(s) of vaccination
-Other electronic record of vaccination that includes name and date (e.g., some chain pharmacies have an app with this information)

In all cases the name on the vaccination record must match that on your ID. All staff and performers will also be vaccinated. You are, of course, welcome to continue wearing a mask.

Shows will be running at reduced capacity. Those will be noted in the event descriptions.

WEARING A MASK INDOORS

Because of an increase in Delta breakthrough cases, we are requiring that everyone be masked. We have masks available at the door and inside the venue if you need one!

Performers are encouraged to be masked when backstage or in the house but are not required to wear their masks onstage. All staff will be masked.

OTHER COVID SAFETY MEASURES

Before and after each show, our staff sanitizes chairs, bathrooms, and any other surface our audience or performers come in contact with. We’ve also just installed brand new MERV-13 filters in our air filter system.