John Zorn Live Concert Series: New Masada Quartet

This event is in high-demand! If your plans have changed and you are no longer able to attend, please email us at info@drawingcenter.org so we are able to release more tickets.

The Drawing Center's exhibition John Zorn: Hermetic Cartography will be accompanied by a series of musical performances curated by Zorn that will be held in the exhibition. For this performance by New Masada Quartet, Zorn will be joined by Julian Lage (guitar), Jorge Roeder (bass) and Kenny Wollesen (drums).

Known predominantly as a groundbreaking figure in New York’s avant-garde and experimental music scenes, John Zorn has long been celebrated for his radical innovations in music. However, his abstract drawings—a private language of symbols and notations—have remained a closely guarded secret. Offering profound insight into Zorn’s creative mind, Hermetic Cartography reveals a new dimension of his artistic practice by showcasing works on paper that span seven decades of his visionary engagement with mark-making, improvisation, and the esoteric.

Additional performances will take place at 7:30pm on the first Saturday of each month (March - May, 2025) and are free and open to the public.