An interactive concert series that celebrates music and diversity with special guests that will introduce children and families to the rich global culture in New York and beyond.

February 5, 2023

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Join us as Audiofemme—a music publication that centers writing by women and non-binary journalists—celebrates the work of their Agenda cohorts Medusa and four/four presents in this showcase.

February 3, 2023

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An evening featuring two NationalSawdust+ regulars

February 2, 2023

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Violinists Trina Basu and Arun Ramamurthy bring their transformative debut album "Nakshatra" to National Sawdust in this lush, spiritual album release concert, featuring a timeless musical language of South Indian classical music, Western chamber music, and jazz.

February 1, 2023

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Rescheduled to January 26th, 2023 due to unforeseen circumstances.

January 26, 2023

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Since its founding in 2005, Winter Jazzfest has cemented a reputation as a hotbed of cultural discovery, presenting new and exciting sounds and scenes throughout New York.

January 14, 2023

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Chamber quartet Sandbox Percussion will perform composer and violinist Matt McBane’s Bathymetry in its entirety in this celebratory world premiere performance featuring an opening set by Matt McBane.

December 16, 2022

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Algiers with amani, Big Rube, billy woods, DeForrest Brown Jr., desde, Dreamcrusher, ELUCID, Fatboi Sharif, King Vision Ultra, LaToya Kent, maassai, Mark Cisneros, Nakama, and Patrick Shiroishi.

December 15, 2022

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The Blueprint Bridge Fellowship, in partnership with The Juilliard School, is an annual National Sawdust mentorship and commissioning initiative that connects Juilliard alumni and current student composers with career and project mentorship, culminating in a concert of their commissioned projects.

December 11, 2022

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An interactive concert series that celebrates music and diversity with special guests that will introduce children and families to the rich global culture in New York and beyond.

December 10, 2022

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Brooklyn institution the Reverend Vince Anderson and the Love Choir bring their Dirty Gospel to the Sawdust stage, followed by a DJ set at the intersection of African, Latin-American, and electronic music from Salt Cathedral's Nico Losada.

December 8, 2022

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French pianist Sofiane Pamart, a.k.a. ‘Piano King,’ has made a name for himself by bridging the traditionalist western classical world and the always-innovating realm of hip-hop. Pamart’s collaborations with rappers like Koba LaD, Vald, Joey Starr, and more have helped piano music shed its staid facade and become more accessible to new listeners.

December 5, 2022

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French pianist Sofiane Pamart, a.k.a. ‘Piano King,’ has made a name for himself by bridging the traditionalist western classical world and the always-innovating realm of hip-hop. Pamart’s collaborations with rappers like Koba LaD, Vald, Joey Starr, and more have helped piano music shed its staid facade and become more accessible to new listeners. (sold out)

December 5, 2022

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Renowned Avant-garde pianist Margaret Leng Tan, known as the “Queen of the toy piano” and “the world’s premiere string piano virtuoso,” will present a program honoring the late American composer George Crumb and his late wife Elizabeth May Brown.

December 3, 2022

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An interactive concert series that celebrates music and diversity with special guests that will introduce children and families to the rich global culture in New York and beyond.

November 19, 2022

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Tap dancer and choreographer Michela Marino Lerman and her band Love Movement will present a multidisciplinary musical experience about love, self love, self acceptance and healing.

November 18, 2022

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PUBLIQuartet perform in full for the first time their latest album “What is American,” which highlights our country’s complex histories with the Black and Indigenous roots of contemporary, blues, jazz, free, and rock music. Presented in partnership with the Sphinx Organization.

November 11, 2022

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South Asian-American vocalist, sitarist, composer, and producer Amrita “Ami” Kaur Dang’s experimental ambient music references her upbringing as a first-generation Sikh-American in Baltimore, combining elements of North Indian classical music with noise, dance, and psych music.

November 10, 2022

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This “Musicians as Activists” panel will feature tap dancer and choreographer Michela Marino Lerman and Love Movement’s music director Russell Hall. Lerman and Hall are two of the founding members of The Blacksmiths, a coalition of artist-activists that formed in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder to use the arts to support direct action and civic engagement in service of Black liberation and equity.

November 7, 2022

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Colin Stetson has developed an utterly unique voice as a soloist, principally on saxophones and clarinets, his intense technical prowess matched by his exhilarating and emotionally gripping skills as a songwriter.

November 3, 2022

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GRAMMY Award-winning composer and violist for Attacca Quartet Nathan Schram will premiere his new album NEARSIDED in this multimedia performance.

October 29, 2022

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Trevor Dunn’s trio-convulsant, birthed in 1997 on the tails of a second Mr. Bungle record, will perform in its third manifestation while maintaining the guitar-trio-core with Mary Halvorson & Ches Smith; South Korean bassist Jeong Lim Yang’s Zodiac Trio will present the music of Mary Lou Williams in a recreation of her Zodiac Suite from 1945.

October 28, 2022

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Japanese guitarist and vocalist Ichiko Aoba brings her heartwarming fantasy world to the National Sawdust stage with an opening set from Charlie Martin.

October 26, 2022

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Japanese guitarist and vocalist Ichiko Aoba brings her heartwarming fantasy world to the National Sawdust stage with an opening set from Charlie Martin.

October 26, 2022

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Experience the most high-tech artist’s playground in New York City, from our acoustically pristine space to our Meyer Sound spatial system, with Founder Kevin Dolan, Director of Sound and Technical Design Garth MacAleavey, and Architect Peter Zuspan in this free panel and spatial sound demonstration as a part of Open House New York.

October 23, 2022

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An interactive concert series that celebrates music and diversity with special guests that will introduce children and families to the rich global culture in New York and beyond.

October 22, 2022

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‘We, The Innumerable’–an opera from Iranian composer and 2019 Hildegard winner Niloufar Nourbakhsh–tells the story of one Iranian woman's fight for the truth in the face of state violence and repression. Presented by National Sawdust and Center for Contemporary Opera.

October 21, 2022

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to present an intimate conversation and performance with Noah Cyrus at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. The conversation will include a discussion about Noah's career, including her new debut album The Hardest Part, her tour, as well as her musical influences and background, creative process, and more. Following the conversation, Noah will perform.

October 18, 2022

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Electronic composers weaves soaring strings and pristine vocals for a web of ethereal otherworldliness.

October 16, 2022

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Double bassist Xavier Foley has revitalized the conversation around the double bass and expanded its profile as a virtuosic instrument, daring to compose for and present the double bass as a solo instrument–a rarity in western classical music. Presented in partnership with the Sphinx Organization.

October 16, 2022

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Composer, producer, and video artist Emily Wells and her band (cellist Topu Lyo, drummer Addie Vogt, and multi-instrumentalist Alec Spiegelman) will perform work from her 2022 album Regards to the End. A loving ode to and dialogue with AIDS activists of the past, Wells' latest album weaves a narrative of radical empathy and hope out of their resiliency.

September 29, 2022

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A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING is an immersive opera in which the human vessel serves as a primary instrument and conduit for sound as a healing pathway to the divine. Incorporating both old and new technologies, woman and machine come together in sacred co-creation. 

September 24, 2022

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A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING is an immersive opera in which the human vessel serves as a primary instrument and conduit for sound as a healing pathway to the divine. Incorporating both old and new technologies, woman and machine come together in sacred co-creation. 

September 23, 2022

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Fast-emerging British singer, songwriter and pianist Reuben James’ virtuoso jazz techniques and soulful, evocative voice have led him to be widely regarded as one of the most exciting and creatively assured artists to have emerged in recent years.

September 17, 2022

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This fall our neighbors at Disco Tacos bring the party next door to National Sawdust in a special monthly edition of their hallmark dance party Spin Days. Get down in Sawdust’s state-of-the-art venue home with special guest DJs while sipping natural wines and mezcal from partner brands.

September 16, 2022

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Yeule is a project from London-based painter, musician, performance artist, and cyborg entity Nat Ćmiel which invites us to transcend into a post-human world where expression is no longer bound by identity, but rather we are free to assemble ourselves along lines of affinity.

July 29, 2022

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Responsible for “changing the face of opera” (The Wall Street Journal), BMP: NEXT GEN returns for the final round of its second ever cycle as Beth Morrison Projects’ leaders set out to discover the next generation of boundary-pushing composers.

June 24, 2022

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Responsible for “changing the face of opera” (The Wall Street Journal), BMP: NEXT GEN returns for the final round of its second ever cycle as Beth Morrison Projects’ leaders set out to discover the next generation of boundary-pushing composers.

June 23, 2022

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Contemporary pianist Alex Peh explores the piano as a hybrid global instrument in a program of new work by Ne Myo Aung, Anna Clyne, Hafez Modirzadeh, Nikos Ordoulidis, and Susie Ibarra.

June 18, 2022

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A part of the The Future Is… Festival: Celebrated American soprano Karen Slack’s dynamic opera and recital performances combined with her passionate advocacy for racial justice and women composers make her a sought-after artist on many fronts. For her performance at National Sawdust, Slack performs Of Thee I Sing, her incredibly moving program conceived during the turmoil in the summer of 2020, when the country was forced into a long-overdue racial awakening.

June 16, 2022

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Two weeks of memorable performances, engaged sharing, open-to-the-public sound installations, and deep listening.

June 16, 2022

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FREE WITH RSVP: A collaborative space for all to explore tools, skills, and rituals for improving our listening and achieving expansive futures... featuring Adji Cissoko, Val Jeanty, Molly Joyce, Laurel Lawson, Jihye Lee, Aditi Mangaldas, Marisa Michelson, MIMS, Miriam Parker, Tiffany Rea-Fisher, Alice Sheppard, Emily Wells, and Kara Wilkes with Additional Contributions from eddy kwon and Lynne Procope

June 15, 2022

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FREE WITH RSVP: A collaborative space for all to explore tools, skills, and rituals for improving our listening and achieving expansive futures... featuring Adji Cissoko, Val Jeanty, Molly Joyce, Laurel Lawson, Jihye Lee, Aditi Mangaldas, Marisa Michelson, MIMS, Miriam Parker, Tiffany Rea-Fisher, Alice Sheppard, Emily Wells, and Kara Wilkes with Additional Contributions from eddy kwon and Lynne Procope

June 14, 2022

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A part of the The Future Is… Festival: The June 12 performance of ChamberQUEER's Pride Festival highlights Gay Guerrilla by iconoclastic queer composer Julius Eastman, in a new arrangement for string septet by Jessie Montgomery, and featuring the arranger on violin.

June 12, 2022

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A part of the The Future Is… Festival: Irreversible Entanglements cultivate the liberation technologies of jazz and associated Black music in root, stem, and branch.

June 11, 2022

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A part of the The Future Is… Festival: Open G Records presents Music in The Constellation: An In-Person Immersive Audio Experience, an invitation to our community to engage with National Sawdust’s performance space and to explore the possibilities and nuance of our state-of-the-art sound technology.

June 11, 2022

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A part of the The Future Is… Festival: ChamberQUEER 2022 opens their two-show engagement at National Sawdust on June 10 by drawing centuries of music into conversation – juxtaposing boundary-breaking Renaissance nuns with the voices of three fantastic emerging composers drawn from their 2020 Call for Scores.

June 10, 2022

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A part of the The Future Is… Festival: Featuring contributions from Brandon Kazen-Maddox, Max Greyson and Austin Regan with an opening performance by Tiffany Rea-Fisher (2022 Toulmin Fellow at National Sawdust and Center for Ballet and the Arts) and a talkback with Kevin Gotkin

June 9, 2022

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With Mauro Refosco, Musical Director for David Byrne’s American Utopia Featuring Davi Vieira (percussion) and Felipe Hostins (accordion), curated by Karen Wong

June 7, 2022

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El Puente Beacon @ MS50 183 S3rd Street - (between Roebling Ave and Driggs Ave.) Brooklyn, NY 11237

May 28, 2022

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Variant 6 is a virtuosic vocal sextet that explores and advances the art of chamber music in the twenty-first century. For this performance, they celebrate the release of their first full-length album, New Suns.

May 20, 2022

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The culminating event of New York Youth Symphony's 2021/22 season, “Composition Date 2022” will include sixteen world premieres, performed by members of the NYYS Orchestra, Chamber Music, Jazz, and Robert L. Poster Conducting programs, with direction by Dr. Kyle Blaha.

May 19, 2022

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A special night celebrating the release of Amaryllis and Belladonna, two new, modular, and interlocking projects by Brooklyn-based guitarist, composer and MacArthur fellow Mary Halvorson.

May 18, 2022

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Alfa Mist is one of the most dynamic and consistent talents to emerge from London’s widely celebrated jazz reformation.

May 12, 2022

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Check back week of show for ticket releases.

May 11, 2022

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Critically acclaimed and broadly respected, The New Yorker has hailed MATA as "the most exciting showcase for outstanding young composers from around the world." The performances at National Sawdust will be curated by and feature their season artist-in-residence Darius Jones and ensemble-in-residence International Contemporary Ensemble.

May 7, 2022

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National Sawdust partners with Music at the Anthology (MATA) to present their celebrated annual spring festival. Critically acclaimed and broadly respected, The New Yorker has hailed MATA as "the most exciting showcase for outstanding young composers from around the world." The performances at National Sawdust will be curated by Darius Jones and feature their season ensemble-in-residence International Contemporary Ensemble.

May 6, 2022

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with Anthony Roth Costanzo, Sean Gandini + Kati Ylä-Hokkala (Gandini Juggling), Magos Herrera, Raquel Acevedo Klein, Nico Muhly, Paola Prestini, Carl Hancock Rux, and Jeffrey Zeigler, hosted by NS+ series curator Elena Park

May 2, 2022

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For Anand Wilder’s solo debut ’I Don’t Know My Words’, he was determined to press on creatively despite pandemic’s isolation. Now, he brings the stunning result – braided strands of English folk revival, Topanga Canyon jangle, and desert blues licks – to the National Sawdust stage.

April 30, 2022

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Chris Grymes and Open G Series present composer, performer, and 2019 Miss America Nia Imani Franklin in a concert featuring works from her debut EP, Extended, as well as new and recent music by American women composers.

April 28, 2022

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Daniel Bernard Roumain and DBR Lab return to National Sawdust to present cross-disciplinary talent by emerging artists from Arizona State University. Original projects explore interactive digital media, music, spoken word and film. This event features special guest performances by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Paola Prestini and New Jersey Symphony players, plus a special performance by co-facilitators Daniel Bernard Roumain and Jeff McMahon.

April 19, 2022

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For the Trees is an immersive, multi-media show centered on a new string quartet by Colorado composer Jeffrey Nytch and performed by Tesla Quartet. The show, which features components of live music, sound installation, spoken word, and visual images, both emotionally and creatively engages the destructive impact of deforestation and strikes out to motivate action to combat it.

April 14, 2022

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For this exclusive concert at National Sawdust, Stephane Wrembel will treat the audience to an intimate solo performance of 17 Django Reinhardt guitar preludes.

April 8, 2022

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New York Baroque Incorporated brings together a program of two double concertos, one by Bach and one by Vivaldi, for pairs of harpsichords, violins, violas (da braccio and da gamba), and cellos. This concert features Aya Hamada and Avi Stein on harpsichord, Shelby Yamin and Isabelle Seula Lee on violin, Stephen Goist and Nicole Divall on viola, and Ezra Seltzer and Matt Zucker on cello.

April 7, 2022

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Germán López is one of the world's most brilliant and prolific Canary Island “timple” virtuosos – an emblematic diminutive guitar. López embraces Canary Island tradition, as well as Flamenco, West African music, and the spirit of jazz and folk.

April 2, 2022

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Violinist Miranda Cuckson and composer Rand Steiger collaborate on three works for violin and spatialized electronics, exploring the dazzling, immersive sonic potential of National Sawdust’s 102-loudspeaker Meyer Sound Constellation system.

March 31, 2022

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In 2020, Lee "Scratch" Perry joined with electronic duo Mouse on Mars for a bold final experiment: a journey into immersive audio realized via the hyper-fidelity of next-generation Spatial Sound. Mixed by MOM and mapped exclusively to National Sawdust's custom Meyer Sound System, this premiere listening event offers intimate access into the creative process of a true musical giant.

March 19, 2022

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Lawyer, trailblazing corporate executive, writer, and speaker Chinwe Esimai's new book Brilliance Beyond Borders celebrates "immigrace": the genius and unique power of women immigrants making their mark in America.

March 18, 2022

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In 2020, Lee "Scratch" Perry joined with electronic duo Mouse on Mars for a bold final experiment: a journey into immersive audio realized via the hyper-fidelity of next-generation Spatial Sound. Mixed by MOM and mapped exclusively to National Sawdust's custom Meyer Sound System, this premiere listening event offers intimate access into the creative process of a true musical giant.

March 12, 2022

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In 2020, Lee "Scratch" Perry joined with electronic duo Mouse on Mars for a bold final experiment: a journey into immersive audio realized via the hyper-fidelity of next-generation Spatial Sound. Mixed by MOM and mapped exclusively to National Sawdust's custom Meyer Sound System, this premiere listening event offers intimate access into the creative process of a true musical giant.

March 12, 2022

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Continuing a proud tradition of showcasing the iconic artists of our time, National Sawdust proudly presents Duet Behavior 2022, an intimate evening featuring Meredith Monk and John Hollenbeck.

March 6, 2022

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Norwegian electronic duo Smerz present material from their critically acclaimed debut album, Believer, alongside unreleased work in process, with an opening set from producer, DJ, and composer Ouri.

March 4, 2022

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Don't miss the chance to hear the drummer/musical director/producer/dj/composer Pauli The PSM’s upcoming spatial sound album, OFFAIR: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind Vol. I: SPACE, on National Sawdust’s famous Meyer Spacemap and Constellation sound system.

February 25, 2022

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In her return to the National Sawdust stage, Magos Herrera Quartet – as well as a string quartet comprised of members of the orchestral collective The Knights – will present "Remanso" with music that Herrera produced during the COVID-19 isolation.

February 17, 2022

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The Juilliard Blueprint Fellowship is an annual National Sawdust mentorship and commissioning initiative that connects Juilliard student composers with career and project mentorship, culminating in a concert of their commissioned projects.

February 13, 2022

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Electroacoustic composers/performers Lesley Flanigan, Christopher Tignor, and Tristan Perich present their own unique visions for combining the human and bespoke electromagnetic instruments.

February 12, 2022

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Filmed over the course of two years, Rosehardt: Live at National Sawdust chronicles the rising creator’s artistic and emotional journey before and throughout the COVID-19 era. This concert film and music documentary hybrid offers audiences a raw and unfiltered look into the experience of what it means to be an artist – and, more importantly, human – in our new world.

February 4, 2022

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Two interactive evenings of art and song to bring you on a dazzling journey of the senses (Night 2)

December 16, 2021

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Two interactive evenings of art and song to bring you on a dazzling journey of the senses (Night 1)

December 15, 2021

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This project with the string quartet Seme explores the tradition of the accordion – a relatively modern instrument (c. 1820) that moved across the globe, often in an emigrant’s suitcase, from Europe to America and Africa, and informing new traditional music in Argentina, Brazil, USA, Canada, Madagascar, and Kenya, and beyond. In pairing an accordion with a string quartet, Claudio Prima and Seme create a rich and complex musical environment that investigates the expressive possibilities of traditional music, in its continuous flow and dialogue with modernity.

November 12, 2021

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Ashni; Death Is A Business' Celebrating Death and Rebirth; Fear Not Ourselves Alone

October 28, 2021

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Yoojin Park Quartet; Ryan McBride Trio; James Kennedy's And Then He Painted the Sky

October 27, 2021

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Zhenni Li-Cohen; Miolina's Tête-à-Tête; Friedrich Heinrich Kern's Alone Together

October 26, 2021

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Jennifer Cendaña Armas; Lavender Suarez's Sound Bath

October 25, 2021

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Bryant Park Picnic Performances' season of free, live performances continues on Friday, September 17 at 7pm with the live premiere of Allison Loggins-Hull's Diametrically Composed, exploring the duality of being a mother and an artist.

September 17, 2021

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Come join us for a spiritual journey through love, loss, trauma and healing with some of NYC's most potent creative forces.

September 9, 2021

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Since 2015, National Sawdust has pushed the boundaries of the artistic sonic experience. This six-episode retrospective series, curated by composer and co-founder Paola Prestini, presents an overview of National Sawdust’s past, present and future.

August 1, 2021

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Featuring Interviews with Renée Fleming, Beth Morrison, Paola Prestini and new music by Holland Andrews, Amyra León, Lido Pimienta, Paola Prestini with Eve Gigliotti, Theodosia Roussos and Diana Syrse

June 27, 2021

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Join the artistic leadership trio of Kamilah Forbes, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and Paola Prestini on the #ActiveHopePodcast, an engaging public conversation in the pursuit of inspiration for all.

June 24, 2021

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Lynne will be joined by Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboist and activist of Imani Winds, discusses Baldwin's legacy and its potential for profound impact on Western classical music.

June 22, 2021

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National Sawdust’s flagship educational program for middle school performing artists and composers, Student CoLab, seeks to engage young creatives through artistic expression to lead students into creating works of their very own. For this live event along the Domino Park waterfront, our students composed works for a subset of a marching band, engaging in a long and passionate history of protest music.

June 16, 2021

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Fire This Time is a new series from poet and musician Lynne Procope in partnership with National Sawdust inspired by the intellectual and artistic legacy of James Baldwin.

June 9, 2021

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Discover the most exciting new voices in opera and music-theatre.

May 27, 2021

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Join the artistic leadership trio of Kamilah Forbes, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and Paola Prestini on the #ActiveHopePodcast, an engaging public conversation in the pursuit of inspiration for all.

May 27, 2021

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The Blueprint Fellowship is an annual National Sawdust mentorship and commissioning initiative that connects Juilliard student composers with career and project mentorship, culminating in a concert of their commissioned projects.

May 20, 2021

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Dancer and choreographer Loni Landon will share the workings of life behind the scenes, and on stage.

May 18, 2021

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Opera director Yuval Sharon joins our co-founder Paola Prestini to discuss arts leadership in times of change, the future of performance and the operatic form.

May 11, 2021

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Take a look behind the scenes of Alicia Hall Moran's Mother's Day performance.

May 10, 2021

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For Mother’s Day, National Sawdust shares an offering from the heart: a piece composed by mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran and performed with flutist Allison Loggins-Hull and pianist Kris Davis, exploring the duality of being a mother and an artist.

May 9, 2021

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Join a conversation hosted by songwriter/vocalist Martha Redbone featuring composer/performer Raven Chacon.

May 4, 2021

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