June 20, 2024
Experience the summer solstice in a kaleidoscope of sound and ecstatic music. Featuring Metropolis Ensemble, Sandbox Percussion, and Erik Hall.
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April 2–5, 2024
A genre-bending orchestral collab with singer-songwriter Caroline Rose at Brooklyn Steel in Williamsburg and BOMBYX in Northampton.
February 14, 2023
Join us for the digital premiere of Life Returns, our March 2022 concert at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
May 14, 2022
90+ musicians perform new flexible, open-score pieces at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, inspired by nature’s musicians: birds.
March 24, 2022
An evening-length composition at The Met drawing on African American, South Indian, and European musical practices.
September 18th, 2021
This event, presented for the first time as part of Make Music Autumn, is the grand finale of Metropolis Ensemble’s summer-long project where the orchestra-collective's musicians and composers created their own new music pop-up events across NYC.
Each performance and listener-experience of Biophony at Brooklyn Botanic Garden will be unique, as determined by the unlimited flexibility of instrumentations, the topography of the site, and the freedom given to participants to choose their own musical adventure.
Using the symbology of our shared past to look forward into an uncertain future of climate change, machine sentience, and the ever-expanding cyber universe, this extraordinary collective debuts the first material generated through the Meta Simulacrum, an interdisciplinary, alternate-reality digital platform designed by composer/producer William Brittelle.
METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE DEBUTS AT NATIONAL SAWDUST IN A SPECIAL SCREENING OF THE ICONIC SILENT FILM METROPOLIS SET TO ORIGINAL MUSIC BY RICARDO ROMANEIRO
March 10, 2020
GRAMMY-NOMINATED METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE GATHERS A SUPER-GROUP OF INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED SOLOISTS AND COMPOSER/PERFORMERS FROM BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, COLOMBIA, SPAIN, AND THE UNITED STATES TO SHOWCASE FOLK-INSPIRED NUEVO LATINO MUSIC AS IT INTERMIXES WITH NEW YORK’S CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL SCENE.
January 7, 2020
GUATEMALAN-BORN SINGER-SONGWRITER GABY MORENO IS JOINED BY THE WOMEN OF LATIN ALTERNATIVE QUARTET LADAMA AND THE GRAMMY-NOMINATED CHAMBER ORCHESTRA METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE (ELINOR RUFEIZEN, GUEST CONDUCTOR) TO PERFORM MUSIC FROM ¡SPANGLED!—HER COLLABORATIVE NONESUCH ALBUM WITH AMERICAN MUSICIAN, SONGWRITER, ARRANGER AND PRODUCER VAN DYKE PARKS.
December 2, 2019
A COLLECTION OF SONGS EXPLORING SECULAR SPIRITUALITY, COMPOSED BY WILLIAM BRITTELLE, AT SOUNDS FROM A SAFE HARBOUR FESTIVAL
September 15, 2019
EMILY WELLS, BROOKLYN-BASED SINGER AND MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST, PERFORMS WITH METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE, OPENING FOR LEGENDARY EXPERIMENTAL ROCK BAND TORTOISE
June 22, 2019
EMILY WELLS — THIS WORLD IS TO _____ FOR YOU, NYC PREMIERE AND ALBUM RELEASE SHOW FEATURING METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE
February 28, 2019
WILLIAM BRITTELLE’S SPIRITUAL AMERICA, FEATURING WYE OAK AND METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE, OPENING FOR BON IVER AND TU DANCE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL IN LOS ANGELES, CA
August 5, 2018
IN PARTICIPATION WITH BRYANT PARK
August 5, 2017
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
December 9, 2016
Angel Orensanz Foundation
September 26, 2016
Bowery Ballroom
February 4, 2016
Le Poisson Rouge
October 11, 2015
Music Hall of Williamsburg
April 23, 2015