Fifteen years ago, Eighth Blackbird arrived on the new-music scene, six conservatory graduates with great technical chops and unbounded musical tastes. ❋ Barbara Jepson (2011)
Ms. Sopp is similarly accomplished: In addition to her work with the New York Philharmonic, she's a member of four new-music ensembles, including the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble. ❋ Jim Fusilli (2012)
The concerts are part of Contact!, the orchestra's offsite new-music series curated by Mr. Lindberg. ❋ David Mermelstein (2010)
It was adroitly played by new-music specialist Lisa Moore, who adapted herself without a conductor to the Wesleyan gamelan ensemble. ❋ Unknown (2011)
These are composers who occupy an intriguing space in the new-music world. ❋ Jim Fusilli (2012)
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." ❋ Lizzie Simon (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. ❋ 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. ❋ Andy Battaglia (2011)
For musicians, it's always far better to be too busy than not busy enough, but the members of the New York-based new-music sextet yMusic seem to be working all the time. ❋ Jim Fusilli (2012)
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. ❋ Brett Campbell (2011)
Monday's seven-hour concert features a sprawl of hybrid-happy new-music acts, including So Percussion, the Nebraska-based Chiara String Quartet, violist Nadia Sirota, and Buke and Gass, a Brooklyn duo that plays homemade mutant string instruments. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)
By new-music standards, "Beautiful Mechanical" is a success. ❋ Jim Fusilli (2012)
About 180 musicians will participate in the new-music festival, part of the Armory's first full season as a performing-arts presenter. ❋ Barbara Jepson (2011)
The inaugural event will be the first American staging of the Dutch new-music festival Gaudeamus Muziekweek. ❋ Steve Dollar (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Brett Campbell (2011)
Judd Greenstein, a composer and co-director of the new-music label New Amsterdam, was hired by organizers at Merkin Hall to curate the festival, whose concept he described as a kind of playing outside the box. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)
"On a Wire," a concerto for sextet and orchestra by Ms. Higdon, features the crack new-music ensemble Eighth Blackbird. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For the hard-core new-music folks, there's a triple bill of monodramas by Arnold Schoenberg, John Zorn and Morton Feldman (also economical from a casting standpoint, since each opera requires only a single soprano). ❋ Unknown (2010)
The JACK Quartet, whose name is an acronym of its members 'names, brought its new-music repertory to DC. ❋ Unknown (2010)