Christopher Foss
Christopher Foss is a bassoonist and teaching artist in Brooklyn, NY who frequents many special niches of musicking. He has performed with WildUp, SEM Ensemble, LCollective, Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, Dog Star Orchestra, and was formerly contrabassoonist with the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra and American Youth Symphony. Appearance highlights include performing with Helga Davis, Kathleen Battle, Joanna Newsom, and with artist Carole Kim in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. He is a student of Kinko-ryu shakuhachi playing and is actively learning traditional repertoire and creating new music with the instrument. He completed his MFA at CalArts and bachelors at the University of New Hampshire, where he was the recipient of an international research grant to study at L’Istituto Superiore Di Studi Musicali Gaetano Donizetti in Bergamo, Italy.
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February 6-7, April 26, 2026
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October 28–31, 2025
Presenting newly commissioned with BalletCollective’s 2025 developing choreographers.
June 7, 2025
Presenting World Premiere works by University of Buffalo artists at Silo City, celebrating the festival’s 50th anniversary.
January 16—19, 2025
Director Mary Birnbaum and music director Andrew Cyr present Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann’s haunting new opera at Prototype Festival.
November 1–2, 2024
Paula Matthusen’s expansive, twenty-four hour, multi-tiered space for sonic engagement and reflection presented at Wesleyan University.
September 27, 2024
Join Ricardo Romaneiro, Andrew Cyr, and Neil Carty to discover how Liquidverse came to life in Shared Reality.
August 31—September 29, 2024
Discover an immersive soundtrack across New York City’s neighborhoods.
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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Composer Ricardo Romaneiro’s immersive audiovisual symphony with Metropolis Ensemble at Cosm, the world’s first 87-foot diameter 12K LED dome in Los Angeles.
April 2–5, 2024
A genre-bending orchestral collab with singer-songwriter Caroline Rose at Brooklyn Steel in Williamsburg and BOMBYX in Northampton.
June 10—24, 2023
New music in new places that celebrate our city’s diverse neighborhoods.
May 6, 2023
Choose your own sonic adventure with Metropolis and Kaufman Music Center’s teen new music program.
February 14, 2023
Join us for the digital premiere of Life Returns, our March 2022 concert at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
February 11-12, 2023
An audiovisual tapestry and lighting installation at Brooklyn Botanic Garden running in sync with plant-generated binaural soundscapes and live musicians.
December 16-17, 2022
Celebrate the holidays with Brooklyn Youth Chorus at the Cathedral of St. Joseph with special appearances by Metropolis.
November 14, 2022
The Mivos Quartet performs new and recent works by Brown, Haven, and Mumford.
October 21, 2022
A Memorial Tribute to late American composer Ingram Marshall featuring Metropolis artists at The Greene Space and live on WNYC.
June 11, 2022
Larger-than-life bird stilt walkers and bird puppets dance to processional music in Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
May 28, 2022
Adrianne Munden-Dixon, violin, and Carrie Frey, viola, team up for a performance of solos and duos.
May 15–June 21, 2022
Discover our five-week series of free pop-up concerts at dozens of plazas, squares, parks, and open-streets.
May 14, 2022
90+ musicians perform new flexible, open-score pieces at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, inspired by nature’s musicians: birds.
March 27, 2022
Musicians from PinkNoise Ensemble explore music that pushes the sound world of each instrument, including two World Premiere performances from Mert Morali and Jen Baker.
March 24, 2022
An evening-length composition at The Met drawing on African American, South Indian, and European musical practices.
February 6th, 2022
Claire Dickson's album release celebration, with Grey Mcmurray and Lesley Mok
Starland is Claire Dickson's debut album as a solo artist and producer, created on a tall ship in the Arctic Circle and in her Brooklyn apartment. With guitarist Grey Mcmurray and drummer Lesley Mok, this music comes alive with added spontaneity and imagination.
January 30th, 2022
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.
December 18th, 2021
Celebrate the holidays with Brooklyn Youth Chorus at the beautiful Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph, with a stirring and dynamic concert of contemporary music and holiday classics, featuring students from our Teen division and acclaimed performing ensembles, with special appearances by members of the Grammy-nominated orchestra collective Metropolis Ensemble.
Join Brooklyn Youth Chorus to start the holidays and leave full of the spirit of the season.
December 14th, 2021
Erika Dohi and Lauren Cauley co-present two intimate sets of reflective, electro-acoustic experimentation. Featuring Dohi performing songs on keyboards and synths from her latest album I, Castorpollux, out now on 37d03d, and new works by Cauley for prepared violin and electronics.
Craft cocktails and other surprises await.