
Composers Concordance
An eclectic concert series, ensemble, record label, and presenting organization for music with a 39-year history of premiering good music that is pushing the boundaries of sound and composition.
Directors
Gene Pritsker
Dan Cooper
Associate Directors
Milica Paranosic Peter Jarvis
Seth Boustead Debra Kaye
Founding Directors
Joseph Pehrson
Patrick Hardish
Board of Directors
Advisory Board
Staff
2022 - 2023
Season Website
LINK
Upcoming concerts:
CD Release Concert
Gene Pritsker’s Sound Liberation
Wednesday, Sept. 7th. 7:00pm
Silvana NYC
300 W 116th St, NYC
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Featuring Suzanne Vega'Songs & Poems from the Village'
Wednesday, Sept. 14th, 7:00pm
The Players Theater
115 MacDougal St. NYC
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The Village & Phil Och
Sunday, Sept. 18th 6:00pm
DROM NYC
85 Avenue A, NYC
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Pianos, Poems & Paintings
Saturday, Oct. 8th 7:00pm
Kostabi World
225 W 22nd St, NYC
RECENT & UPCOMING CCR RELEASE
Duets For The End Of The World
The Music Between Us
What We Got Here Now - Sound Liberation
“… I realized that part of what I like is that you and your crew do serious music without taking yourselves too seriously...you sort of break the bubble of pretension that sometimes surrounds new music and allow the earthy grounded-ness of MUSIC to just be....even when you are mad kicking artistic and esthetic ass…"
- Robert Brashear, Pastor at West-Park Presbyterian Church.
“These men and women are creating exciting music with elements of jazz, world music and many experimental techniques blended with equal parts classical tradition and playing techniques.”
- from Music Notes: Classical music evolves By Carlton Wilkinson. (full article)
"For the past 30 years, Composers Concordance has been a booster for local composers, through both its concerts across the city and a record label.”
-The Wall Street Journal.
"Enterprising new music organization"
-The New York Times.
"Composers Concordance in my opinion is an extremely important arts organization and the entire music world is better off because of them. Gene Pritsker, Milica Paranosic and Dan Cooper do fantastic work on what is a never-ending contribution to music".
- Peter Jarvis, percussionist, composer, educator
"There is considerable evidence to show that Composers Concordance may be one of the most exciting labels in American contemporary music."
- Raul da Gama - Aug 1, 2016, JazzdaGama