Thursday, March 26, 2026
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library present an evening of contemporary music featuring Principal Flute of the San Diego Symphony, Rose Lombardo. The program includes works by Claude Debussy, Eva-Maria Houben, Edgard Varèse, Matthias Pintscher, Jürg Frey, and Anastassis Philippakopoulos.

Saturday, November 15, 2025
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library present Ten Million Flowers, an evening of immersive contemporary works curated by violinist and composer Andrew McIntosh. Music will include works by Takemitsu, Miller, McIntosh, and Von Schweinitz, performed by McIntosh on violin, Vicki Ray on piano, and Matt Kline on double bass.

Monday, August 11, 2025
7:30 PM

Each year, the Emerging Composers Competition (hosted by San Diego New Music) solicits musical scores from college-age composition students across the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area. They select the most promising young composers to write a brand-new work for their annual concert dedicated to the music of local students.

Thursday, May 29, 2025
7:30 PM

in^set is a flexible chamber ensemble founded in 2018 by David Aguila (trumpet), Teresa Díaz de Cossio (flute), and Ilana Waniuk (violin), dedicated to creation, improvisation, and experimentation. Committed to expanding instrumental practice beyond the confines of contemporary classical music, in^set explores the sonic and visual possibilities of everyday objects, hacked electronics, graphic notation, and hybrid media.

Wednesday, May 7, 2025
7:30 PM

Join us for an exciting evening of musical premieres and celebrate the next generation of musical talent at San Diego New Music’s Emerging Composers Workshop concert. High school composers from across the San Diego area will showcase original new works developed through the annual workshop under the mentorship of Dr. Texu Kim, professor of music composition and theory at SDSU.

Monday, March 17, 2025
7:30 PM

“How far can we enter into a single moment, such that for that brief speck of time, for an instant, unison is registered?” This is the question that Charles Curtis poses in his liner notes for Tashi Wada’s Duets (2006–2008). Duets, starkly singular in focus and scope, centers around the concept of unison, complicated by issues of very gradual glissando, of descent—a process through which rich acoustical phenomena emerge, inviting the performers and listeners to deepen their perception ever further into a single moment.

Thursday, December 5, 2024
7:30 PM

SDNVW (San Diego New Verbal Workshop) is a contemporary vocal ensemble inspired by the experimental music tradition of the late 20th century. They perform, improvise, and compose as a collective and frequently work with living composers to explore the unique sonic capabilities of the human voice in concert with instruments, electronics, and movement.

Wednesday, August 14, 2024
7:30 PM

On Wednesday, August 14, San Diego New Music will present its Emerging Composers Concert at the Athenaeum Art Center in Logan Heights. Since the inaugural competition in 2018, SDNM has been inviting emerging San Diego/Tijuana/Ensenada–based student composers to apply for the Emerging Composers Commission Competition, an opportunity to submit an original work for an annual concert.

Friday, May 10, 2024
7:30 PM

Join multi-wind player Ellen Weller and friends in an evening of collaborative real-time soundscapes and interactive audience experience.

Wednesday, May 1, 2024
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music welcomes you to a behind-the-scenes look at our newest community partnership program, High School Emerging Composers. High school students from across the San Diego region participated in a free six-week mentorship program, providing them the opportunity to hone their craft and develop new works with teaching artist, Dr. Texu Kim. Join us in our support of young composers from our community, as they present their works and share their experiences in an open discussion forum.

Friday, April 12, 2024
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library partner with the Radical Ensamble [sic] to present a unique transborder production of original theatrical musical works. Vocalists Mariana Flores, Isabella Panagiotou, Israel Rodriguez, and Miguel Zazueta will  perform original music by Kyle Adam Blair and Jonny Stallings.

Friday, February 23, 2024
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library present Labyrinth, a music and dance performance co-created by Kristopher and Dina Apple. Labyrinths have been used throughout history as devices for meditation, metaphors for storytelling, and as a bridge between the physical and metaphysical. Taking inspiration from these mythologies and practices, a cross-disciplinary ensemble weaves sound, movement, and text into a contemplative listening experience—a listening labyrinth. You are invited to the listening labyrinth—to follow the thread of now, gather your senses at each passing moment, and reflect on the potential for transformation. 

Thursday, November 9, 2023
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music joins November’s statewide California Festival: A Celebration of New Music with a concert at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Thursday, November 9. The festival celebrates the tremendous stylistic diversity and inventiveness of California composers. All the composers featured on the program are living and creating new music in the state today.

Thursday, August 3, 2023
7:30 PM

Premieres of new works by San Diego's emerging generation of composers, presented at the Athenaeum Art Center in Barrio Logan.

Thursday, June 1, 2023
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music presents a theatrical program of song, poetry, and dance, curated by somatic composer, and performer Jasper Sussman.

Sunday, May 21, 2023
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music presents a program of adventurous chamber music curated by keyboardist Christian Hertzog.

Friday, April 28, 2023
8:00 PM

San Diego New Music invites composers from grades 9–12 to apply for the Emerging Composers Workshop of Spring 2023. In this program, high school students participate in a three-part workshop with San Diego State University music composition and theory professor, Dr. Texu Kim, to compose an original musical work. The workshop will culminate in a public reading session with professional performers on Friday, April 28 at the Athenaeum Art Center at Bread and Salt.

Friday, March 24, 2023
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music presents a program of adventurous chamber music curated by oboist Sarah Skuster with Rose Lombardo, flute, and Ryan Nestor, percussion.

Friday, December 2, 2022
7:30 PM

The Holy Ghost is an improvisation directed by Zane Alexander and interpreted by an ensemble of fourteen outstanding musicians from San Diego. The diverse cast of musicians of all ages and musical backgrounds will come together and be given the tools to make something beautiful and unpredictable.

Wednesday, July 27, 2022
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music’s annual event highlighting young talent in and from San Diego features six world premieres by college-level composers, commissioned by San Diego New Music, at the Athenaeum Art Center at Bread & Salt.

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

7:30 PM

Clarinetist Ariana Warren brings together a group of friends to re-connect, to each other, to music and to the audience, with an eclectic program highlighted by her "bucket list" piece, the minimalist masterpiece Les Moutons des Panurge by Frederic Rzewski, that celebrates the inevitability of imperfection.

Saturday, March 19, 2022

7:30 PM

Join us for a program curated by percussionist and composer Nathan Hubbard featuring original works performed by an ensemble of collaborators.

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

7:30 PM

San Diego New Music and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library resume in-person performances in a season entitled Surreality. The season kicks off with a concert, Déjà Vu, curated by trombonist and San Diego New Music Executive Director Eric Starr. Joined by acclaimed pianist Sonya Schumann and a power-house brass ensemble, Starr presents a thought-provoking program that pits musical expectations against reality. He says about the program, “Déjà Vu approaches listeners from an altered state of mind. They may find themselves wondering - What am I hearing? Have I heard this piece before? Is that a normal thing to do with a musical instrument? What are these unknown sounds?”