Ecstatic Music Festival®

Kaufman Music Center's Ecstatic Music Festival® returns this winter with more than 120 composers and performers from diverse musical backgrounds coming together for 11 utterly unique and highly original collaborative performances. The festival's musicians – soloists, bands, chamber ensembles, orchestras and everything in between – hail from diverse musical backgrounds, representing a contemporary culture in which the incorporation of many different influences is the norm, not the exception. The festival offers the opportunity for some of today's most compelling musicians to work together in exciting new combinations, allowing them to branch out in fresh, unexpected directions and explore the fertile terrain between classical and popular music.

Curator Judd Greenstein introduces the 2013 festival:

    Part 1 (Jan 25 - Feb 6)
    Part 2 (Feb 20 - Feb 27)

Presented by Kaufman Music Center in association with New Amsterdam Presents and curated by Judd Greenstein, the Ecstatic Music Festival will include three New Sounds Live concerts hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer, which will be webcast live on Q2 Music and taped for future broadcast on WNYC. Q2 Music is the media partner and digital venue of the Ecstatic Music Festival.

All festival concerts will be available for on-demand streaming at Q2 Music.

The 2/27 Artist talk with Daniel Wohl has been cancelled.

Click here to sign up for email updates & be sure to check the "Ecstatic Music Festival" box. You can also "like" the Merkin page on Facebook or follow @ecstaticmusic on Twitter.

Read the press release or download hi-res press photos.

Stream last year's Ecstatic Music Festival shows on Q2 Music.

Kaufman Music Center is grateful to the Ecstatic Music Festival's supporters.