New Music on the Cutting Edge

Celebrating American and French Composers

Argento wishes to thank our audiences and sponsors for a successful 2008 - 2009 season.
Please visit our website in August for details on our Moving Sounds Festival, September 12-14, 2009, at the Austrian Cultural Forum and Le Poisson Rouge.

News

Read the New York Times review of our Olivier Messiaen centennial celebration concert.

Argento's recording of Philippe Hurel's Quartre variations has been released ...more...

Video

Argento and the Stony Brook Contemporary Players celebrate Olivier Messiaen's 100th birthday, 8pm, May 5, 2009 at Merkin Concert Hall. Pierre Boulez, Gil Kalish and Jennifer Undercofler join Argenti Michel Galante and Carol McGonnell in this preview.

Recent reviews

American premiere of Joshua Fineberg's Lolita: an imagine opera in the New York Times (link)

Premiere performances of Haas's in vain in the New York Times (link) and the Washington Post (link)