“Infinite Staircase” brings together 18 contemporary composers from diverse backgrounds who lend their compelling musical voices to new piano works for Chen, all inspired by the canonic piano etudes of the György Ligeti.

September 24, 2023

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Los Angeles-based composer, vocalist, and producer Julianna Barwick brings her deep, reflective compositions to National Sawdust for an intimate, headlining performance.

September 21, 2023

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Jeremy Dutcher is a Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, activist, and ethnomusicologist from Tobique First Nation in Eastern Canada whose musical style blends the songs of his community with neoclassical, jazz, and pop influences.

September 19, 2023

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Composer John Zorn and lyricist Jesse Harris have created sixteen new songs fashioned in the form of an Off-Broadway musical featuring Petra Haden accompanied by Brian Marsella on piano, Jorge Roeder on bass, and Ches Smith on drums.

September 17, 2023

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Composer John Zorn and lyricist Jesse Harris have created sixteen new songs fashioned in the form of an Off-Broadway musical featuring Petra Haden accompanied by Brian Marsella on piano, Jorge Roeder on bass, and Ches Smith on drums.

September 16, 2023

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Alicia Hall Moran brings an indoor ice-skating show to National Sawdust, featuring a quartet of exceptional performers and dynamic percussionist Jacquelene Acevedo.

September 15, 2023

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Alicia Hall Moran brings an indoor ice-skating show to National Sawdust, featuring a quartet of exceptional performers and dynamic percussionist Jacquelene Acevedo.

September 15, 2023

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7th Jazztopad Festival NYC presents two world premieres: Craig Taborn’s premiere of the 1st part of “Luminous Grid,” written for piano and the Lutosławski Quartet, and a premiere of Don Davis' "Screeming into the Void" written for Lutoslawski Quartet

June 24, 2023

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The French Brooklyn-based duo Cosmic Gardens presents an immersive multi-sensorial show that combines indie electronic music, stunning visuals and tantalizing smells to take you on an introspective exploratory journey.

June 23, 2023

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In 'Home is Here' Felipe focuses on the theme of immigration in the jazz community.

June 22, 2023

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New York Music Month, an initiative of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, presents an essential primer for live performers.

June 20, 2023

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New Latin Wave and National Sawdust present Paraíso, an experimental chamber opera that follows a mother and child from Puebla, Mexico as their lives are shaped by the political and economic factors that govern who gets to cross the U.S.-Mexico border and how.

June 16, 2023

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Donnacha Dennehy writes a startling, powerful piece for piano, performed by Eliza McCarthy; Tonia Ko pens a solo for amplified bubble wrap, an innovative instrument she invented and plays; and Dan Trueman teams up with legendary Irish fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh on a piece for 10-string fiddle that brings the history of Irish traditional music in dialogue with the orchestra.

June 14, 2023

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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.

June 11, 2023

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Brooklyn composer and drummer Chase Elodia presents the world debut of his interdisciplinary project Walking in the City, which illustrates Brooklyn in words and music.

June 10, 2023

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Black Science Fiction welcomes Los-Angeles-based Black music ensemble The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra to National Sawdust for their New York debut with an improvised opening set by multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek.

June 4, 2023

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Moral Injuries of War is an immersive experience forging new ways to contemplate and heal from war through testimony, movement, and public conversation.

June 2, 2023

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Moral Injuries of War is an immersive experience forging new ways to contemplate and heal from war through testimony, movement, and public conversation.

June 1, 2023

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Billboard called Stréliski "one of the foremost new stars in modern classical"

May 27, 2023

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Concert Artists Guild (CAG) is committed to supporting musicians who are ready to launch their careers on the national and international stage. Through their annual Elmaleh Competition, CAG seeks exceptional instrumentalists, ensembles, and singers who are also thoughtful citizen musicians and have a commitment to connecting their music to the greater world.

May 23, 2023

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Student CoLab is National Sawdust’s flagship education program for middle school composers and artists in partnership with El Puente Beacon. This culminating performance closes out a three-month music composition, songwriting, spoken word, and visual art program for young people at El Puente Beacon Leadership Program in Williamsburg.

May 21, 2023

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National Sawdust member presale on sale now - on sale to the public Friday 1/27 at 9am EST

May 20, 2023

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The River is a journey in instrumental virtuosity, song, and storytelling, inspired by Water as the embodiment of Spirit and essential to life on Earth. This program continues an eight-year collaboration between ETHEL and Robert Mirabal, the renowned Native American flutist, instrument builder, and three-time GRAMMY® Award-winner.

May 18, 2023

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JG Thirlwell presents string quartets from his new album Dystonia on the National Sawdust stage performed by Mivos Quartet.

May 16, 2023

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The culminating event of New York Youth Symphony's 2022/23 season, “Composition Date 2023” 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 15, 2023

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Michael Hersch brings the U.S. premiere of his sprawling 11-hour new music cycle sew me into a shroud of leaves to National Sawdust for a powerful exploration of endurance.

May 13, 2023

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With The Mega Lab's Crispin Nakoa

May 10, 2023

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Colombian-born and Berlin-based musician, sound artist, performer, and composer Lucrecia Dalt makes her National Sawdust debut - bringing her distinctive, warm experimental sound that melds musical influences from her varied career.

May 9, 2023

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A musical performance & nightlife celebration of Cavafy featuring Juliana Huxtable and her band Tongue in the Mind.

May 6, 2023

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A multimedia performance that meditates collaboratively on the sensuality of C.P. Cavafy.

May 4, 2023

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A multimedia performance that meditates collaboratively on the sensuality of C.P. Cavafy.

May 3, 2023

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A public mural on the north-facing wall of National Sawdust

April 29, 2023

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April 30, 2024

Communally-read hand-made art-books accompanied by a live-score inspired by the poet C.P. Cavafy’s journal as his family fled Alexandria to sail to Constantinople.

April 28, 2023

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Experience 2022 Hildegard Commission composers' Andrea Guterres, Hannah Ishizaki, Yaz Lancaster, DM R, Kelley Sheehan and Foteini Tryferopoulou works at Rockefeller Center.

April 17, 2023

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May 6, 2023

D. A. Mekonnen's new experimental jazz project dragonchild brings the debut performance of BLACK to National Sawdust in this immersive, multimedia spatial sound performance.

April 15, 2023

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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.

April 9, 2023

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caroline brings together their shared influences, including Midwestern emo, Appalachian folk, minimalist classical and various forms of electronic music on their eponymous debut album, mixed by John ‘Spud’ Murphy (black midi, Lankum).

April 7, 2023

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Japanese sound artist Fuji|||||||||||ta and ambient musician claire rousay bring their textural sound art to the National Sawdust stage, performing contemplative works that take inspiration from our surroundings.

April 6, 2023

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Kalia Vandever and Joy Guidry, two rising stars in New York City’s jazz scene, unite on this double bill.

April 5, 2023

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Original works by emerging artists from Arizona State University

April 2, 2023

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Shirey tests the edge of music using his vast imagination to create playful and mischievous songs using familiar objects, mutant instruments, electronics and reconfigured sounds.

April 1, 2023

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Catalan folk duo Tarta Relena make their New York premiere at National Sawdust, performing work from the award-winning 2019 album Ora Pro Nobis. Started in 2016 as an acapella project between Helena Ros and Marta Torrella, Tarta Relena’s electronic-accented folk reimagines the traditional music of the Mediterranean as a growing form unbound by precedent. Presented in partnership with World Music Institute. 

March 30, 2023

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Hosted by writer Maria Popova and featuring cellist and composer Zoë Keating, Space & Time explores the fundamental dimensions of our world and our conscious experience through the twin portals of truth and beauty: music, poetry, and science.

March 25, 2023

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With Billion Oyster Project's Danielle Bissett

March 23, 2023

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Join MATA for their 25th Anniversary Benefit Concert in celebration of supporting emerging composers and sound artists for a quarter-of-a-century.

March 17, 2023

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Palaver Strings celebrates the joy and catharsis of music in a program featuring bassist Kebra-Seyoun Charles, winner of the 2022 Sphinx Competition. In a mashup of musical styles and eras, the ensemble combines string orchestra classics by Grieg and Bartók with fiddle tunes and “Feeling Good,” a song made famous by Nina Simone.

March 15, 2023

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The Berklee Indian Ensemble is bringing its genre-bending sound to Brooklyn for the first time since 2018. Fresh off the release of their grammy-nominated debut album, Shuruaat, the Ensemble is on the road with a slate of originals, new arrangements, songs from the album, and crowd-favorite classics.

March 12, 2023

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SUBHAZE : Sacred Geometry a live audiovisual meditative journey on visual sound patterns generated by resonances of sound waves created by composer Ricardo Romaneiro & new media artist NONVISUALS featuring Mélanie Genin (harp), Justin Abrams (cello), & Yuma Uesaka (clarinet)

March 11, 2023

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Join us in celebration of the winners of this year’s Hildegard Commission, National Sawdust’s mentorship initiative that highlights outstanding women and other marginalized genders in the early stages of their careers.

March 9, 2023

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Flutist and advocate Jennifer Grim shares music from her recent Afro-Modernist and post-minimalist release "Through Broken Time" (New Focus) with pianist Michael Sheppard.

March 7, 2023

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to present an intimate conversation and performance with Gogol Bordello

March 6, 2023

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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.

March 5, 2023

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Tickets on sale Friday 11/18 at 10am

March 1, 2023

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Brooklyn-based composer, musician, and producer Faten Kanaan brings her modern minimalism counterpoint to the National Sawdust stage with an opening improvised set from JJJJJerome Ellis on hammered dulcimer, tenor saxophone, piano, electronics, and voice.

February 24, 2023

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Pheelz is a Nigerian producer and artist who has collaborated with some of the biggest music artists in Africa to produce chart-topping songs and albums.

February 23, 2023

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In 'Soundscapes,' multi-disciplinary sound artist, saxophonist, DJ, and producer Eli Fola explores the healing potential of techno. Already well-known for pioneering the "Yoruba Tech Soul," Fola will expand on the live-hybrid set with National Sawdust's Meyer Sound spatial sound system.

February 18, 2023

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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.

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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