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
Audrey Morse
Founding Directors
Joseph Pehrson
Patrick Hardish
Board of Directors
Advisory Board
Staff
2025 - 2026
Season Website
Upcoming concerts
Composers Concordance
42nd Season
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Composers Concordance 14th Annual CompCord Festival - Comedy
Four concerts on the theme of Comedy
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Sh*t L*szt
Sunday May 17th, @5pm
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
131 E. 10th St., NYC
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Stand-up / Get Up
May 22nd, @7pm
Jim Kempner Fine Arts
501 W. 23rd St., NYC
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16th Annual Comp-Play-Comp Marathon - Comedy Theme
Sunday May 24th at 5pm
Loft393
393 Broadway (2nd floor), NYC
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CompCord Polka Band
Friday, May 29th at 7pm
Loft393
393 Broadway (2nd floor), NYC
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Missing Link
Sunday, May 3rd, 6pm
Ki Smith Gallery
170 Forsyth St
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Sahara von Hattenberger
- Solo Cello
549 W 52nd St, NYC
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Sunday, June 7th @5pm
477 Main St. , Beacon, NY 12508
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Readings & Reeds
Friday, June 12th @5pm
Jim Kempner Fine Arts
501 W. 23rd St., NYC
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CompCord Chicago Cadence
Wednesday, June 24th at 7pmThe Check Out4116 N. Clark St. in Lake View Chicago,
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Denis Sedov - bass voice \Karina Pogosbekova - piano
Thursday July 2nd at 7pm
The Ellington Room
at Manhattan Plaza
400 W. 43rd St., NYC
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CompCord Ensemble
@
Villa Kostabi
Friday, July 24th at 7pm
Villa Kostabi
Via Alessandro Poerio, 96
Rome, Italy
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RECENT & UPCOMING CCR RELEASE
Songs of Juana Borrero (Canciones de Juana Borrero)
“… 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
Composers Concordance is a presenter partner of Project 142
Composers Concordance is a presenter partner of Composers Now
