April 3, 2025 8:00pm
Kultbau, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Jessie Cox - Black as a Hack for Cyborgification
Victoria Cheah - Regarding those objects of study
Corie Rose Soumah - States of Intermeshing IV-VI
Simon Kanzler - Stereo for violin and electronics
Hannah Kendall - Processional for solo piano
MASTERCLASS FOR COMPOSERS 2025
Music Biennale Zagreb presents a new edition of its masterclass for composers. The goal is to enable participants to enhance their creative understanding and refine their compositional skills through individual work with distinguished composers and open rehearsals with the festival ensemble.
The new edition of the MBZ Masterclass will take place from April 6 to 10, 2025, in Zagreb, Croatia. The mentor-composers will be some of the most productive and original composers of the 21st century: Liza Lim (Australia), Pierre Jodlowski (France/Poland), Mauro Lanza (Italy/Germany), and George Lewis (USA).
The resident ensemble will be the PinkNoise Ensemble from New York.
The Composers Institute at Lake George Music Festival brings together some of the most promising young composers from across the country for a week of study and creative exchange. Under the mentorship of composer and Institute Director Alyssa Weinberg, students will attend a variety of seminars, masterclasses and private lessons, while being able to participate in the vibrant musical and social life of the Lake George Music Festival. Each selected composer will be asked to write a new work for string quartet, to be workshopped, performed and recorded by our ensemble-in-residence The Rhythm Method.
More information here
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?
Ukrainian Tone Poems
Performers include: PinkNoise, Ukrainian Music Initiative
Leonid HRABOVSKY (1935–), Bucolic Strophes for organ (1975)**
Inspired by “The Eve of Ivan Kupala” by Nikolai (Mykola) Gogol
Adrian MOCANU (1989–), Les chevaux de feu (2022)**
Inspired by Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky
Alla ZAHAYKEVYCH (1966–), TERCET for clarinet, violin, and cello (2010)**
Inspired by Taras Prokhasko’s Necropolis
Alex VOYTENKO (1981–): Homo Fugens (Running Man) (2018)*
After the novel by Stephen King
Renata SOKACHYK (1991–), The Desert Breathes (2024)**
Inspired by Lesia Ukrainka
Alisa ZAIKA (2001–). “he only dreamed of places now…” (2022)**
Inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man And The Sea
Lena SIEROVA (1981–), The Last Leaf (2010-11)**
After the short story by O. Henry
Yurii PIKUSH (1998–), Be a Cycle (2023)**
Inspired by T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
*world premiere
**U.S. premiere
TICKET RESERVATIONS TBA
Join Unheard-of at Greenwich House Music School’s recital hall for a collaboration with the Association for the Promotion of New Music as we perform premieres and recent works from APNM’s call for scores to their membership.
PinkNoise//for PinkNoise
Tobias Fandel - burnishing*
Itzá García - términos*
Victoria Cheah - Regarding those objects of study**
Corie Rose Soumah - States of Intermeshing IV-VI**
*US premiere
**World premiere
free admission
Join us for the opening BQE of our 2025 season on Thursday, 2/27, featuring the multifaceted cellist Iva Casián-Lakoš! Our joint set will also include cellist Najette Swain on a lower strings sextet by Jonathan Bingham, commissioned by Ballet Collective that we premiered in Fall 2024.
Venue: Cutelab, Brooklyn. (RSVP for address)
Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm
Tickets: $15 on eventbrite, $18 at door
TICKET RESERVATIONS TBA
Unheard-of visits University of Miami’s Frost School of Music to perform new premieres by the composition studio, supported by the Society of Composers chapter at UofM.
AD ASTRA…
With Iva Casian-Lakos, Solo Cello with Commentary by Ed Bluie II, Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Feb. 2, 2025, 3:00 p.m.
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
This program weaves together an array of creatively indeterminate works. The centerpiece of the program, ad astra... by Joan La Barbara, vividly depicts the Big Bang and the quantum fluctuations of light particles that governed the early stages of cosmic evolution.
Also featured are recent compositions by Iva Casian-Lakos and David Crowell, whose works expand the program’s exploration of the unknown and the unpredictable.
Singing-cellist Iva Casian-Lakos presents a journey into the unknown and unpredictable. This performance delves into themes of nature, mythology, and human temperament through intricate sonic textures and storytelling. The evening features the world premiere of First Light by UNCW Professor Chelsea Loew, alongside compositions by David Crowell and Casian-Lakos herself.
Join Unheard-of for the first Dialogues show of 2025 on January 18th, 8:00 PM at Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street, New York, NY. In this Dialogues show, we pair newly written movements of Vicki Nguyen's Ginger Flavored Bubblegum and David Crowell's Memories of the Imagined. Nguyen's work explores transcendence from grief by honoring poet, filmmaker, and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha - who was murdered only a few days after the publication of her poetic autobiography, "Dictee." Crowell's Memories of the Imagined looks at memory through a multiplicity of approaches to phrasing and temporal expression, shaping the listener’s sense of passing time and its effect on the act of remembering.
Nguyen's work was supported by a New Music USA Creator Fund grant and by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Crowell's Memories of the Imagined was supported by an Individual Artist Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts and an artist residency at the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation. Unheard-of's Dialogues series is supported by a New York State Council on the Arts Support for Organizations Grant.
Free Admission with Reservation, Pay What You Wish Suggested Donation
On Sunday, Dec. 8, at 8:00 PM, ensemble mise-en will present an hour-long program featuring two recent chamber works and two solo pieces by Louis Karchin at the Tenri Institute, in Manhattan. The concert, conducted by Music Director Moon Young Ha, will include As the Circle Opens to Infinity...., an extended seven-instrument composition inspired by the first part of poet H. D.'s Trilogy, The Walls Do Not Fall. Processions III In Memoriam: Kaija Saariaho, for solo violin, will receive its world premiere, and was written in memory of the dearly-missed composer colleague. A new five-instrument version of Karchin's recent Incantations and Dances, and Fanfare/Pavane, composed for flutist Patricia Spencer in 2000, will round out the program.
Tenri Institute
43a West 13th St.
New York, NY
Iva will perform Haydn’s C Major Cello Concerto with the Vassar College Orchestra, conducted by Eduardo Navega.
Music on the Edge— University of Pittsburgh
The ensemble will perform works by Pittsburgh composers: Ramin Akhavijou, Emmanuel Berrido, Luis Miguel Delgado Grande, Danny Fratina, Aaron Myers-Brooks, Naama Perel-Tzadok, and Jay Rauch.
Tickets can be purchased in advance here:
Unheard-of Concert 2
Unheard-of Ensemble Concert 1
The Department of Music presents a guest artist recital by Unheard-of Ensemble.
Location:
Michael D. Eisner Center for the Performing Arts - Sharon Martin Hall
Ticket Info: Free
BalletCollective’s 2024 season THE ENTRANCE IS THE EXIT will feature two world premiere ballets and a revival of an acclaimed 2023 work, all of which creatively inspect the duality of change and the connections between endings and beginnings as interpreted by leaders in fields ranging from architecture to ballet to contemporary music to visual art.
All performances feature live musical accompaniment and a cast of dancers from the New York City Ballet.
BalletCollective’s 2024 season THE ENTRANCE IS THE EXIT will feature two world premiere ballets and a revival of an acclaimed 2023 work, all of which creatively inspect the duality of change and the connections between endings and beginnings as interpreted by leaders in fields ranging from architecture to ballet to contemporary music to visual art.
All performances feature live musical accompaniment and a cast of dancers from the New York City Ballet.
BalletCollective’s 2024 season THE ENTRANCE IS THE EXIT will feature two world premiere ballets and a revival of an acclaimed 2023 work, all of which creatively inspect the duality of change and the connections between endings and beginnings as interpreted by leaders in fields ranging from architecture to ballet to contemporary music to visual art.
All performances feature live musical accompaniment and a cast of dancers from the New York City Ballet.
BalletCollective’s 2024 season THE ENTRANCE IS THE EXIT will feature two world premiere ballets and a revival of an acclaimed 2023 work, all of which creatively inspect the duality of change and the connections between endings and beginnings as interpreted by leaders in fields ranging from architecture to ballet to contemporary music to visual art.
All performances feature live musical accompaniment and a cast of dancers from the New York City Ballet.
"There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago." - The Power of Babel by John McWhorter
John McWhorter teaches linguistics, philosophy, and music history at Columbia University, and writes for the New York Times on language and race issues. His book The Power of Babel is the first book written for the layperson about the history of language.
In this live taping of the award-winning podcast Relevant Tones we'll talk with McWhorter about the development of language and perform several new pieces of music inspired by and incorporating language and created especially for this evening.
Produced by Access Contemporary Music in association with Esopus Foundation, Ltd. Featuring new music by Noah and Rosie K, Will Rowe, David Crowell and Seth Boustead.
SHIFTING HAZE – September 28, 2024
The last performance of the 2024 Cultural Ecologies season features emerging composers at the cutting edge of music and technology from composers Erich Barganier, Han Geul Lee, Catherine Phang, Alyssa Wixson, Andrew Harlan, and Annie Nikunen, each developing new multimedia works for the ensemble. This performance takes place during climate week. Come for the open paddle beforehand and join in to hear these premieres!
Charlotte Munn-Wood Violin Recital
Program
"Constellation Hartig" - Aleksandra Vrebalov (with Melinda Faylor, piano)
"write & wither" - Joshua Mastel
Selections from "Signs of the Apocalypse" - Icli Zitella
"Music Painted from Memory" - Lisa Rene Coons (with Iva Casian-Lakos, cello)
"Hart Island" - Scott Wollschleger
"When Was the Last Time" - Julie Kim (with fiber art triptych by Charlotte Munn-Wood)
"The Whisper of Phoenix" - Alexander Khubeev
"Menu I" - Zae Munn (with Caitlin Cawley, percussion)
Now entering its 5th season, the Composers Institute brings together some of the most promising young composers from across the country for a week of study and creative exchange. Each selected composer will be asked to write a new work for string quartet, to be workshopped, performed and recorded by LGMF’s ensemble-in-residence The Rhythm Method.
Ginger Flavored Bubblegum – August 10, 2024
Ginger Flavored Bubblegum explores transcendence from grief by honoring poet, filmmaker, and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha - who was murdered only a few days after the publication of her poetic autobiography, "Dictee." Using selections of poetry from Dictee, this expanded version explores grief using Unheard-of Ensemble, electronics, and videography by Phong Tran (who some might recognize from his electronic set last season).
Special Guest MIZU
Performers: Nika Bauman (flute), Marko Ferlan (guitar), Hiwote Tadesse (viola), Iva Casián-Lakoš (cello)
Program: Hoffman; Janjanin; Casian Lakoš; Bauman; Crowell
The program is interspersed with covers of traditional Croatian, Mexican and Slovenian songs.
The current program of the chamber music ensemble Illyrica combines contemporary and traditional music. It consists of new pieces composed or arranged for the Ensemble Illyrica and influenced by various folk music traditions. The contemporary compositions are contrasted with folk songs from different countries. Since its founding in 2017, the ensemble has performed throughout Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, the Czech Republic and Ireland. Her debut album (2022) is celebrated as “fresh and youthful, unburdened and brilliant”.
Nika Bauman – flute
Hiwote Tadesse – viola
Marko Ferlan – guitar
Iva Casián-Lakoš – cello
Free choice of seats € 20.00
Youth tickets € 15 for everyone between 14 and 21 years old. Up to 14 years free.
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