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Miranda Cuckson, violin

Iva Casian-Lakov, cello

Steven Beck, piano

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Date and Time: May 23, 2026, 7PM Canoe Launch, 7:30PM Music
Join Unheard-of Ensemble, the Dredgers, and special guests video game jazz-funk ensemble Discocactus to open the season! Unheard-of opens the show with new premieres written for them by Annika Socolofsky and Discocactus's own keyboardist Ben Wallace. Unheard-of also performs new video game music arrangements from Ben and Unheard-of's violinist Matheus Souza. Discocactus closes out the night performing some of their hits joined by members of Unheard-of!

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May 10, 2026 

The Blanc, New York

World premieres of commissioned pieces for PinkNoise by:

Sofia Ouyang, Thanakarn Schofield, and Yifan Guo

Liza Lim - Inguz 

Halim El Dabh - It is Dark and Damp on the Front

Date and Time: May 8th, 7:30pm
Concert Location: Hunter College Rehearsal Room

Unheard-of performs the music of hunter college graduate and undergraduate composition students.

One of the experimental double-bassist’s best-known early works is Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, which uses a recorded loop of a homeless man singing an improvised fragment, with rich string harmonies layered on top. A recording of the piece was made in 1993 with Tom Waits. Here, Contemporaneous brings the piece to life again.

Roulette @ 10:30 PM

503 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

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.

PROGRAM:

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.