Kronos Quartet is in New York City for two performances this weekend. The Quartet joins Jherek Bischoff, Amanda Palmer, and Anna Calvi for the second of two sold-out memorial concerts celebrating the music of David Bowie, at Radio City Music Hall tonight. The Music of David Bowie, which includes from Mumford & Sons, Blondie, Pixies, Michael Stipe, The Flaming Lips, Esperanza Spalding, , and more, will stream live via musicofdavidbowie.com. (Laurie Anderson performed at last night’s concert at Carnegie Hall.) All proceeds from the events and tonight’s live stream will go to support music and arts education in schools.

Kronos heads to Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall on Saturday for a concert of premieres, including the world premieres of new works by Aleksandra Vrebalov and Yotam Haber and the New York premieres of works by Wu Man and Fodé Lassana Diabaté. All four pieces were composed for Kronos’s Fifty for the Future project, which, over five years, will commission fifty new works designed expressly for the training of students and emerging professionals. Kronos will lead a weeklong workshop for three such quartets at Carnegie Hall culminating in a performance of new works in Zankel Hall on April 15.

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The Big Ears Festival continues in Knoxville, Tennessee, this weekend, with performances having kicked off yesterday, including a set by Olivia Chaney at the Bijou Theatre. Bombino, whose album Nomad was released on Nonesuch in 2013, plays at The Meek & Mill tonight. After midnight, Laurie Anderson hosts a late-night jam with DRONES, a sound installation designed by her late husband, Lou Reed. Attendees are invited to bring an instrument and join in well into the night.

Not too many hours later, Anderson begins a full day of programming at the Tennessee Theatre, participating in a Q&A following a free 11 AM screening of her new film, Heart of a Dog, the soundtrack to which was released by Nonesuch late last year. Later that afternoon, she joins Philip Glass for the North American debut of the collaboration they first unveiled at the Ravello Festival in Italy last summer.

Sam Amidon and Nico Muhly pair up twice on Saturday night, first with violist Nadia Sirota at the Bijou Theatre, and then with Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman) for an installment of his Burgundy Stain sessions, joined by Chaney and Bryce Dessner, at The Square Room.

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Timo Andres kicks off a five-night run with composer and songwriter Gabriel Kahane, with two performances at the Newman Center in Denver on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. The concerts, which juxtapose solo piano music and songs for piano and voice, feature the world premieres of works the composers wrote for one another along with works by Bach, Schubert, Schumann, Thomas Adès, Jerome Kern, and more.

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Ry Cooder, Sharon White, and Ricky Skaggs, have resumed their Cooder-White-Skaggs tour, performing at the Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, tonight, the Straz Center at Ferguson Hall in Tampa tomorrow, and the Center Stage Theater in Atlanta on Sunday. The New York Times, reviewing the trio’s show at Carnegie Hall last fall, said they convey “a sense of rare, joyous occasion.”

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Jeremy Denk gives a solo piano recital at the New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in Boston, as part of the Celebrity Series of Boston, on Saturday, performing works by Bach, Byrd, Bolcom, Joplin, Stravinsky, Ives, and more.

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Joshua Redman concludes a run of European dates as a special guest of the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra at Cultural Cordón in Burgos, Spain, tonight. Later this month, he returns to the US for a month-long tour with The Bad Plus.

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St Germain launches a three-week North American tour at Webster Hall in New York City tomorrow night. Additional dates include stops in Boston, Montreal, Detroit, Chicago, and Denver, culminating in a set at the Coachalla Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California. In a four-star review of a recent London concert, the Times wrote: "[St Germain] filled the hall with an ocean of sound. Western instruments mingled with African strings … it took flight, unfurling into life-affirming polyrhythmic jams."

St Germain’s self-titled album, released on Nonesuch last year, has received critical acclaim, with NPR calling it “spellbinding” and All About Jazz praising its “unequivocally brilliant palette of sounds and styles."