Crossing Boundaries Concert Series


Crossing Boundaries is a concert series dedicated to dissolving boundaries between traditional and new music, performers and audiences, and the local and the global — bringing people together around the awareness that limitless creativity lives inside each of us.

About the series

Crossing Boundaries was conceived and founded in 2018 by CRS Director Christopher Pelham and Korean multi-instrumentalist and curator gamin. Each season, the series invites curators to create unique performance events in collaboration with musical, visual, and movement artists of their choosing — encounters that dissolve genre and open new possibilities for what a concert can be.

The series began as Crossing Boundaries — Echoes of Korea, three concerts focused on Korean and Korean-American artists. Since then it has grown into a wide-ranging annual series with a different curatorial vision each season.

2025Curated by gamin and Jen Shyu
2024Curated by gamin and Rema Hasumi
2023Curated by gamin and Jen Shyu
2022Curated by gamin — theme: Women in Music
2020–21Curated by gamin and Läle Sayoko — presented online due to the pandemic
2019Curated by gamin, JunYi Chow, Läle Sayoko, and Jen Shyu
2018Crossing Boundaries — Echoes of Korea

Support

Crossing Boundaries is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by LMCC. LMCC empowers artists by providing them with networks, resources, and support to create vibrant, sustainable communities in Manhattan and beyond.

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New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

Past concerts