Join multi-wind player Ellen Weller and friends in an evening of collaborative real-time soundscapes and interactive audience experience.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Premieres of new works by San Diego's emerging generation of composers, presented at the Athenaeum Art Center in Barrio Logan.
San Diego New Music presents a theatrical program of song, poetry, and dance, curated by somatic composer, and performer Jasper Sussman.
San Diego New Music presents a program of adventurous chamber music curated by keyboardist Christian Hertzog.
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.
San Diego New Music presents a program of adventurous chamber music curated by oboist Sarah Skuster with Rose Lombardo, flute, and Ryan Nestor, percussion.
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.
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.
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.
Join us for a program curated by percussionist and composer Nathan Hubbard featuring original works performed by an ensemble of collaborators.
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?”
