Performance

Work by Sofia Gubaidulina

0 upcoming performances in New York

At David Geffen Hall, New York Philharmonic musicians bring Sofia Gubaidulina into a chamber setting, with featured performers including Lisa GiHae Kim, Kyung Ji Min, Anna Rabinova, and Leah Ferguson. Gubaidulina’s music often treats sound as a moral and spiritual argument, using spare materials, extreme contrasts, and ritual-like pacing rather than conventional narrative. In New York, her work entered the mainstream largely through late‑20th‑century festival and orchestra programs that broadened the city’s Soviet-era repertoire. One clear effect in chamber form is how every gesture feels accountable, as if the silence is part of the score.