Two dancers and five musicians lead the audience in various constellations to and through the Great Hall of the Austrian National Library. In their performance, they bring to life the ancient knowledge preserved in the library's books and connect it with new ideas and visions.

Featured artist Cornelia Voglmayr stages the ensemble Synesthetic Project in one of the city's most fascinating locations – a walk-in concert that brings together modern virtues such as trust, compassion, and the relationship between humanity and nature. Justice joins the final virtue: with a view of the whole, which seeks to harmoniously unite the artistic spaces opened up in the performance.

An evening full of overwhelming artistic impressions in the spirit of respect and empathy.

A Jeunesse production

Tickets

Two dancers and five musicians lead the audience in various constellations to and through the Great Hall of the Austrian National Library. In their performance, they bring to life the ancient knowledge preserved in the library's books and connect it with new ideas and visions.

Featured artist Cornelia Voglmayr stages the ensemble Synesthetic Project in one of the city's most fascinating locations – a walk-in concert that brings together modern virtues such as trust, compassion, and the relationship between humanity and nature. Justice joins the final virtue: with a view of the whole, which seeks to harmoniously unite the artistic spaces opened up in the performance.

An evening full of overwhelming artistic impressions in the spirit of respect and empathy.

A Jeunesse production

Tickets

Join Unheard-of for our next Dialogues Concert on April 27th, 7PM at Opera America's Rehearsal Hall, 330 7th Ave 7th Floor. We perform music by Leah Reid, Seare Ahmad Farhat, Nicolas Chuaqui, Meg Okura, and Peter Kramer. In this Dialogues show, we pair two 30x30x30 collaborations from our partnership with Soli, Cloud Burst by Leah Reid and Seare Ahmad Farhat's Muzzahaimat. The two works explore shape and gestural memory with fracturing, cascading effect. We also premiere Turba by Peter Kramer and a new work for clarinet and electronics by Nicolas Chuaqui. Also featured is an honorable mention work from our 2nd Story Initaitive, Meg Okura's Phantasmagoria.

April 3, 2025 8:00pm

Contrapunkt Series

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 

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

​

Tickets

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

Click here to purchase ticket at eventbrite.

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.

Tickets

TICKET RESERVATIONS

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.

Livestream

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: 

https://ci.ovationtix.com/36300/production/1210320

Unheard-of Concert 2

Information

Unheard-of Ensemble Concert 1

Information

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

ARE TRANSITIONS A BEGINNING OR AN ENDING? THEY’RE BOTH. THE ENTRANCE IS THE EXIT.

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.

Tickets

ARE TRANSITIONS A BEGINNING OR AN ENDING? THEY’RE BOTH. THE ENTRANCE IS THE EXIT.

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.

Tickets

ARE TRANSITIONS A BEGINNING OR AN ENDING? THEY’RE BOTH. THE ENTRANCE IS THE EXIT.

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.

Tickets

ARE TRANSITIONS A BEGINNING OR AN ENDING? THEY’RE BOTH. THE ENTRANCE IS THE EXIT.

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.

Tickets

TBA

"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.

Tickets

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!