NYU Paulson Building 570

Date and Time: April 27, 8pm
Unheard-of performs new music by NYU composition students from their undergraduate program written for the clarinet, violin, cello or Dahl instrumentation. Works explore everything from extended techniques to electronics.

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Iva’s duo with saxophonist, guitarist, and composer David Crowell comes to Columbus, Ohio for the first time, performing original works.

Eco|Tonal: “Mythologies”7:00 pm at the Short North Stage's Green Room
1187 N High St, Columbus, OH 43201

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Music by Iva Casian-Lakos, David Crowell, and Rob McClure

April 11, 2026 3:30pm

​Overdrive Festival

Elebash Hall at The Graduate Center, New York, NY

Michael Beil - Caravan

Itzá García - dynamic air density

Cathy Van Eck - Words, Words, Words​

Unheard-of performs music by Liliya Ugay, Christian Quiñones, Jesse Jones, and Susanna Hancock on tour across Florida as well as student works by FSU and University of Florida composers. We also offer career workshops, instrumental workshops and chamber music coachings at UCF and FSU.

Guest Artist Recital | Opperman Music Hall

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Unheard-of performs music by Liliya Ugay, Christian Quiñones, Jesse Jones, and Susanna Hancock on tour across Florida as well as student works by FSU and University of Florida composers. We also offer career workshops, instrumental workshops and chamber music coachings at UCF and FSU.

UCF Music, Guest Artist: Unheard-of

Sunday, March 8, 2026 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Unheard-of performs music by Liliya Ugay, Christian Quiñones, Jesse Jones, and Susanna Hancock on tour across Florida as well as student works by FSU and University of Florida composers. We also offer career workshops, instrumental workshops and chamber music coachings at UCF and FSU.

Free event. No registration required. 

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Students from the UMKC Conservatory Composers’ Guild present original works in the fifth concert of their season, featuring the Unheard-of Ensemble.

Film with Live Score / Music 

Live film score performed by Ensemble Contemporaneous

David Lang and Bill Morrison have collaborated for nearly 25 years and darker is their tenth collaboration.

Lang and Morrison drew inspiration from a minimal score to create a film that, like the music, can exist both before and under the viewer’s eyelids: a slowly, lilting depiction of the sublime, where actors, dancers and acrobats reappear and then disappear back into a bubbling morass of time. 

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Featuring performances by Unheard-of Ensemble

Alan Hankers, Assistant Professor; Celeste Oram, Adjunct Assistant Professor; Department of Music students

Celebrate the creativity and stylistic breadth of Vassar’s emerging composers. This interactive event offers audiences a unique opportunity to engage directly with the compositional process, from first sparks to finished scores, featuring live performances and open discussion in a collaborative workshop. Attendees will hear original student compositions performed by professional musicians and be invited to participate in conversations about inspiration, process, and artistic motivation. The symposium fosters an open exchange between composers, performers, and listeners, highlighting the visionary potential of the next generation of musical voices.

Date and Time: February 6, 2026, 8PM
Concert Location: Mise-en_Place, Harlem

Unheard-of explore a brief history of trios for clarinet, violin, and cello from first major works like Messiaen’s “Intermède” from Quartet for the End of Time and Ingolf Dahl’s Concerto a Tre, to recently written works including Meg Okura’s Phantasmagoria and Du Yun’s dreams – bend. Unheard-of is joined by Sputter Box, performing a set of their own trios and recent premieres by Onche Rajesh Ugbabe, Jane Kozhevnikova, and Brendan Sweeney.

Richard & Dee Wilson Honorary Concert

Alan Hankers: String Quartet (premiere)

Jeffrey Mumford:To find in the glimmering air….. a buoyant continuity of layering blue (2010) for solo cello

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program

• Works by Luigi Boccherini, Franz Schubert, Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, Manuel de Falla, Giovanni Sollima, Oscar Antolí and traditional music from Lower Austria

performers

Synesthetic Project Ensemble

• Nika Bauman , flute, artistic director

• Iva Casián-Lakoš cello

• Tomaž Zevnik, clarinet

• Marko Ferlan , guitar, double bass

• Anna Bárbara Bonatto Dance

• Samuel Adam Dance

Recommended for ages 10 and up

 Inspired by Austrian and German fairy tales and myths, the music theatre ensemble Synesthetic Project transports audiences to a magical world of fantasy. Music, dance, and video intertwine in "Once Upon a Time" to create a story about diversity, tolerance, and understanding.

Duration approx. 60 minutes

supported by Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne

performers

• Synesthetic Project Ensemble

• Nika Bauman , flute, artistic director

• Iva Casián-Lakoš cello

• Tomaž Zevnik, clarinet

• Marko Ferlan , guitar, double bass

Length of time

0h 45min, no break

Recommended for parents with babies

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Attention parents who don't want to miss out on attending a classical concert! The "With Baby to the Concert" series allows parents with babies to enjoy music at the highest level – in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.

December 7, 2025​​​​​, 7pm

yuniya edi kwon//PinkNoise

World premiere of a new commissioned work by yuniya edi kwon

​Zürcher Gallery

New York, NY

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tickets: $20, sold at the door

Unheard-of teams up with Tribeca New Music to premiere a NYSCA commission from Leila Adu and “best in score” work entwining by Paul Novak

Free admission, no tickets required

Brooklyn-based new music group Unheard-of//Ensemble will be in residency at the Oberlin Conservatory from November 13th through the 14th. A clarinet, violin, cello, and piano quartet specializing in programs that fuse music, multimedia, and interactivity on a number of levels, Unheard-of champions works by contemporary composers, presenting lectures and shows throughout the United States. Their residency will include a workshop and recording sessions of student compositions, a lecture spanning topics from working with composers to integrating technologies into performance, as well as this guest artist recital in Stull Recital Hall that will feature a world premiere by Oberlin composition faculty member Jesse Jones.

Touring across Ohio performing Jesse Jones – Quartet for Ye Olde of Tyme, Susanna Hancock, Aliayta Foon Dancoes – Cloud 9 ½, Andrew Burke, Robert McClure – contours snared in warp and weft, Meg Okura – Phantasmagoria, Christian Quiñones – My Eyes Devour the Internet, and Chris Stark’s Fire Ecologies as well as workshopping and recording works by students at Ohio University, Ohio State, and Oberlin.

Unheard-of: “Ohio Premieres”
7:00 pm at the Short North Stage's Green Room
1187 N High St, Columbus, OH 43201

Touring across Ohio performing Jesse Jones – Quartet for Ye Olde of Tyme, Susanna Hancock, Aliayta Foon Dancoes – Cloud 9 ½, Andrew Burke, Robert McClure – contours snared in warp and weft, Meg Okura – Phantasmagoria, Christian Quiñones – My Eyes Devour the Internet, and Chris Stark’s Fire Ecologies as well as workshopping and recording works by students at Ohio University, Ohio State, and Oberlin.

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Jesse Jones  – Johnstone Fund Premiere
Susanna Hancock – Johnstone Fund  premiere
Aliayta Foon Dancoes – 2nd Story Premiere, Cloud 9 ½
Andrew Burke – 2nd Story Premiere

West Coast Premiere
Directed by Peter Sellars
Composed & Conducted by Matthew Aucoin
Texts by Jorie Graham

If you are captivated by the grandeur of orchestral music or the powerful storytelling of opera, Music for New Bodies is an unmissable event. This ambitious work by Matthew Aucoin, with poetry by Jorie Graham and directed by the visionary Peter Sellars, features the American Modern Opera Company creating a dramatic musical experience in the tradition of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.

A “song of the earth” for the present day, Music for New Bodies confronts the most pressing questions of our era: What is the future of humanity? How have we altered our planet? And, in an age dominated by disembodied AI, how can we reclaim the value of a life lived in a mortal, embodied human form? With its stirring symphonic intensity and thought-provoking lyrics, this piece offers a deep and urgent meditation on the challenges we face as a species.

Date: September 27th, 2025, 6:30PM Music, 6PM Canoe Launch
Location: Gowanus Dredgers Bunker, 2 19th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232

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Join Unheard-of Ensemble, the Dredgers, and Christopher Stark for our Fire Ecologies album release party. The ensemble performs the entire album live followed by an afterparty featuring food and drink from some of our favorite Brooklyn breweries and distilleries.

Fire Ecologies is an album length Chamber Music America commission from Rome Prize-winning composer Christopher Stark, exploring America's changing landscapes in the face of climate change. The work incorporates field recordings of the 2020 California wildfires and sounds from Chris's travel across Montana, Oregon, and California as well as parts of Colorado as well as explorations of nature from America’s heartland surrounding Missouri. The album will be released on New Focus Recordings and available in-person at the show.

8:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.: Welcome Concert

Location: Martel Recital Hall

Presented by members of the music department faculty.

American Modern Opera Company (AMOC)
Matthew Aucoin, conductor
Staged by Peter Sellars
Meryl Dominguez, soprano 
Taylor Raven, mezzo-soprano
Paul Appleby, tenor 

Matthew AUCOIN Music for New Bodies 
(Libretto based on poetry by Jorie Graham, selected by Matthew Aucoin and Peter Sellars) 

Matthew Aucoin’s Music for New Bodies (2024) is an uncategorizable work of music-theater: part opera, part song cycle, part vocal symphony. Based on poetry by Jorie Graham, the piece is a portrait of our moment in history as seen through the eyes of a cancer patient undergoing a drastic medical procedure. As the patient experiences the transformation of her own body, she meditates on questions that range from the personal to the cosmic: in a time when life is more and more virtual, what does it mean to have a body? And above all, after our species has poisoned the planet with uncountable toxins, can we still listen to what the earth has to tell us?

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System Architecture: Quiñones and Van Zandt Lane

Date: August 1st, 2025, 8PM Music, 7:30PM Boat Launch

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System Architecture features the premiere of Eyecandy, a multimedia song-cycle by Christian Quiñones for chamber ensemble and virtual singer (Vocaloid Synthesizer), exploring themes of virtual excess, internet fatigue, and digital humor, drawing from personal experiences with mental health and the online world. Christian Quiñones is a Puerto Rican composer who explores personal and vulnerable stories through the lens of cultural identity. From sampling to auto-tune, interactive multimedia, Christian is interested in interacting with existing music to create intertextual narratives.

We also feature a premiere by Peter Van Zandt Lane for ensemble, electronics, and video triangulating ecological changes and sea level rise. This event takes place at Anable Basin in collaboration with Long Island City Community Boathouse and the Dredgers.

18/7/2025 at 21:00
Trg sv. Ivana/St. John’s square
ENSEMBLE ILLYRICA
MATIEGKA, PIAZZOLLA, VILLA LOBOS, JANJANIN, BAUMAN, CASIAN-LAKOS, TADIĆ

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10 euro
RESERVATION
lovran.classic@gmail.com

In case of bad weather the concerts will take place at the Laurus Art Gallery

Free improvisation with Ensemble Illyrica (Nika Bauman-flute, Marko Ferlan-guitar, and Iva Casian-Lakos-cello/voice)