“If you haven’t heard of Ear Heart Music yet, you haven’t been living in New York. This monthly series continues to bring varied musical performances to the city’s ebullient and hungry multi-media landscape. Each evening touches upon different tastes or artistic interests, attracting familiar audience faces but always reaching yet another branch of the creative scene.” - Seen and Heard International, 5/28/2014
“On Tuesday, April 22, Ear Heart Music, in partnership with American Modern Ensemble and American Opera Projects, added its name to the list of companies repaving the landscape for new opera in New York City.” - Opera News, 4/22/14
“The New, in Context, for Ear, Heart and Brain… Wednesday evening’s program of new chamber cantatas by Jeremy Gill and Shulamit Ran, alongside instrumental works by Roussel, Messiaen and Daniel Catán, was both sonically seductive and thought-provoking as it explored the fluid border between the lyric and the dramatic.” - The New York Times, 12/10/2013
“Ear Heart Music has arrived as a major cultural resource in the City, and we can only be grateful for their effort and imagination… The range and contrast of the program, balancing variety with a more extensive presentation of a single composer provided a solid base for satisfaction… Even though the lights were low and theatrical and I was sitting towards the back of the hall, I could feel an intimate rapport with the individual players, even in a large group. Again the audience was plentiful, knowledgeable, and keen, as far as I could see." - New York Arts, 11/12/2013
“Embracing a landscape where cross-genre collaboration is not the exception or a special occasion but the rule and standard operating procedure, this contemporary chamber music series, organized by the flutist Amelia Lukas, keeps up its high ambitions with a season at Roulette full of new and recent compositions.” - The New York Times, 9/7/2013
“The creative combination of musicians, composers, and dancers reflected a unique aspect of the New York new music scene… The results make a rich fabric, and generally attract a fuller and more extensive audience to embrace it, exuberantly.” - Seen and Heard International, 3/30/2013
“Overall, this was another home run program for Ear Heart Music. Its focus on the visual arts provided a compelling narrative, without diluting or dumbing down the musical content. If anything, it gave the experience of listening to chamber music — so often a pedestrian, formal exercise — a fresh coat of paint.” - Feast of Music, 1/26/2013
“There’s no missing the arrival of a new season this week: The Metropolitan Opera and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center open Monday, and the New York Philharmonic hosts a gala Thursday. Not to be overlooked, though, is Ear Heart Music, a feisty contemporary-classical concert series organized by the flutist Amelia Lukas, which opens Wednesday at Roulette in Brooklyn. While in Manhattan, Ms. Lukas piloted impressive events on a shoestring budget. Roulette offers greater resources, and Ms. Lukas is taking advantage in an ambitious season filled with premieres and cross-disciplinary collaborations”
- The New York Times, 9/23/2012
Since September 2009, Ear Heart Music has produced over 75 unique concerts with over 50 world premieres. Past artists include ACME, JACK Quartet, members of ICE, Aventa Ensemble, Claremont Trio, Yarn/Wire, Flexible Music, Columbia Composers, Build, On Structure, the Staves, Mivos Quartet, Elliott Sharp, Amp, Mantra, Voxare Quartet, LAE8, Andie Springer and James Moore, Red Light New Music, Found Objects Music, Arthur's Landing, The M6, Robert Stillman, Noise-Bridge Duo, PUBLIQuartet, Rupert Boyd, Gareth Flowers, loadbang, Seth Woods, Ryan Muncy, Lunatics at Large, Dither, Émilie Girard-Charest, Payton MacDonald, Tigerlilies, William Frampton, Blues in Space, Kontraphonix, ClaɹəMix, Long Island Composers Alliance, members of RedShift, Trevor Exter, Janel and Anthony, David Ryther, ekmeles, (just)music duo, Industries of the Blind, the North Sky Ensemble, Flotilla, and The Curiosity Cabinet.
Shows are once or twice monthly All tickets $15/10 students
Thoughtfully designed programs highlighting recent masterworks stimulate creative thought and instill new avenues of perspective in the listener. The consistent level of intelligent and inspiring music-making resonates in the mind and body. Shows include electronic processing, performance art, visual art, film, and dance, providing deeper context for the music. Unique artist pairings, diverse programming, and the integral incorporation new work all contribute to Ear Heart Music playing a major role in reshaping the chamber music landscape for the 21st century.
“scintillating”
“phenomenal programming”
“impeccably curated”
“truly original”
“one of our favorite new music series”
"Amelia Lukas' innovative Ear Heart Music series has become a staple in the New York new-music soundscape."
- Time Out NY
