new-music

Fifteen years ago, Eighth Blackbird arrived on the new-music scene, six conservatory graduates with great technical chops and unbounded musical tastes.

Blackbird Singing in the City Night Barbara Jepson 2011

"Tell the Way" will be performed here by Mr. Muhly in collaboration with the 75-member Brooklyn Youth Chorus, the new-music string group ACME, banjoist Sam Amidon, sitar player Bishi and guitarist Bryce Dessner of the National.

Avant Bards Onstage Andy Battaglia 2011

Here, paired with music by György Kurtág as part of the Tully Scope Festival, the work will be performed by the new-music group Axiom and the Clarion Choir.

Symphonic Swells and a Six-String Slinger Andy Battaglia 2011

About 180 musicians will participate in the new-music festival, part of the Armory's first full season as a performing-arts presenter.

Blackbird Singing in the City Night Barbara Jepson 2011

The entrepreneurial newcomers are building on groundwork laid over the past 20 years by the busy new-music ensembles FearNoMusic and Third Angle, which have shown listeners that "art music has re-established its claim to beauty," says Third Angle director and Oregon Symphony violinist Ron Blessinger.

Alt-Classical Surge Hits the Northwest Brett Campbell 2011

The inaugural event will be the first American staging of the Dutch new-music festival Gaudeamus Muziekweek.

Raising a New Issue in Downtown Brooklyn Steve Dollar 2011

The concerts are part of Contact!, the orchestra's offsite new-music series curated by Mr. Lindberg.

Lindberg Makes His Mark on the N.Y. Philharmonic David Mermelstein 2010

She embraces new audiences and stressed that she made her selections not simply to stimulate the new-music cognoscenti, but for an imagined "thoughtful listener."

Mixing Sound and Vision in TriBeCa Lizzie Simon 2011

Filling in for regular host Sirota is Argentinean composer, conductor, and new-music devotee Sebastián Zubieta, whose insights help guide listeners through the series.

Harlem String Quartet at the Greenspace « 2010

Two more new-music groups launched this year, and this fall three different organizations presented programs dominated by new music by women composers—electronic, choral and contemporary classical—most from the Pacific Northwest.

Alt-Classical Surge Hits the Northwest Brett Campbell 2011