Links & Resources: New Music: Table of Contents

All of the below links are valid and functional, as of March 20, 2005. I've tried to list various locations and school affiliations when I know them. This list is by no means exhaustive; if you know of any groups, performers, websites, venues, etc., that you feel should be listed, please let me know!

New Music Ensembles

Alarm Will Sound

Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble (Boston, MA)

American Composers Orchestra (Twin Cities, MN)

Anti-Social Music, Inc.

Arditti String Quartet

Arraymusic (Canada)

Auros Group for New Music (Boston, MA)

Baltimore Choral Arts Society (Baltimore, MD)

Bang On A Can All-Stars

Boston Chamber Ensemble (Boston, MA)

Boston Modern Orchestra Project (Boston, MA)

Boston Musica Viva (Boston, MA) (site requires enabling pop-ups)

Chiara String Quartet (NY, NY - Juilliard)

Cleveland Chamber Symphony (Cleveland, OH)

Composers Inc. (San Francisco, CA)

Continuum (NY, NY)

counter)induction (NY, NY)

Dogs of Desire (Albany, NY)

Duo Chiaroscuro (fl. and hp.) (French website)

Duo46 (vln. and gtr.) (Phoenix, AZ)

Eberli Ensemble (NY, NY)

eighth blackbird (NY, NY)

Elm City Ensemble (vln., vc., cl., pno.) (NY, NY - Columbia)

Empyrean Ensemble (University of California at Davis, CA)

Ensemble Intercontemporain (French website)

Ensemble 21 Contemporary Music Performance Group (NY, NY)

Ensemble Sospeso (NY, NY)

Ensemble X (Cornell, NY)

Essential Music (NY, NY)

Fireworks New Music Ensemble (NY, NY)

Flûtée (flute quartet) (Saginaw Valley, MI)

Forecast Music (NY, NY)

Gemini Duo (2 vlns.) (Yale Univ.)

Indiana University New Music Ensemble (Bloomington, IN - Univ. of Indiana)

Jalapeno Duo (pno. and perc.)

Kamellion Duo (fl. and mbm.)

Kronos String Quartet

Laurel Trio

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (San Francisco, CA)

Lester/Roldán Duo (two pianos) (Baltimore, MD - Hood College and Peabody Conservatory respectively)

Manhattan Brass Quintet (NY, NY)

Meridian Arts Ensemble (Brooklyn, NY)

ModernWorks Ensemble (NY, NY)

Nash Ensemble of London (London, UK)

Neo Camerata (pop-classical mixed influences)

Network for New Music (Philadelphia, PA)

New York New Music Ensemble (NY, NY)

Non Sequitur (Boston, MA)

Odd Appetite (vc. and perc.) (Boston, MA)

Opus 21 (NY, NY)

Orchestra 2001 (Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, PA)

Paul Dresher Ensemble (Berkeley, CA)

Peabody Camerata (Baltimore, MD - Peabody)

Present Music (Milwaukee, wI)

Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston (Boston, MA)

Proteus Ensemble (NY, NY)

pulsoptional (Duke Univ.)

Quey Percussion Duo

Red Cedar Chamber Music (fl. and gtr.) (Cedar Rapids, IA)

Relâche Ensemble

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (San Francisco, CA)

S.E.M. Ensemble (Brooklyn, NY)

Skyline Brass (West Texas A&M)

So Percussion (New Haven, CT)

Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players (SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY)

Summit Brass (Boulder, CO - Univ. of Colorado at Boulder)

Talujon Percussion Quartet (NY, NY)

Thelema Trio (pno/synth/perc, saxes/perc, cls/keyb)

Time for Three (2 vlns. and cb.)

TimeTable (percussion ensemble) (NY, NY)

Wet Ink Ensemble (NY, NY)

Yesaroun' Duo (sax. and perc.) (Boston, MA)

Zs (tenor saxophone, el. gtr., drum set) (NY, NY)

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New Music Performers (Soloists)

Manuel Barrueco, guitarist (Baltimore, MD)

Robert Dick, flutist (NY, NY)

Blair McMillen, pianist (NY, NY)

Elizabeth McNutt, flutist

Marilyn Nonken, pianist (NY, NY)

Christine Perea, flutist (NY, NY)

Roger Arve Vigult, clarinetist (Norway)

New Music Venues and Festivals

Bang On A Can

Composers Conference at Wellesley College

Harvestworks (NY, NY)

IRCAM (Paris, France)

June in Buffalo (Buffalo, NY)

The Kitchen (NY, NY)

Music at the Anthology Festival (NY, NY)

Musica Viva (Australia)

soundSCAPE (Pavia, Italy)

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New Music Concert Series

Arts Electric - a calendar of new music events worldwide

BEAP 2004 - Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (Perth, Australia)

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - Double Exposure (NY, NY)

Carnegie Hall Series B: Making Music (NY, NY)

Carnegie Hall Series N: Fast Forward (NY, NY)

Carnegie Hall Series X: John Adams and the Creative Process (NY, NY)

Composers Inc. 21st Season (2004-5) (San Francisco, CA)

Deep Listening Space (Kingston, NY)

EMF 10th Anniversary Festival (NY, NY)

GRM - recherches musicales (French language site - Paris, France)

Interpretations 2004-5 (NY, NY)

The Kitchen (NY, NY)

Résonances 2004: International Conventional on Music Technologies (IRCAM, Paris, France)

Sounds Like Now Festival 2004 (NY, NY)

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Contemporary Composers'
Organizations, Forums & Collectives

American Composers Forum (ACF)

American Music Center (AMC)

Art of the States (new music recordings)

ASCAP (Am. Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers)

BMI

British Music Information Centre

CPCC (Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers)

Compose Music Forums

Composers Bureau Online

ComposersOnline.org

Composer Tools

dalniente composers group [SITE CURRENTLY DOWN]

EMF (Electronic Music Foundation)

EMF Institute

ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music)

Kalvos and Damian's New Music Bazaar

Living Composers Project

Minimum Security composers collective

NACUSA (National Association of Composers, USA)

NewMusicBox.org

NewMusicJukebox.org

Orange Factory Acoustic Arts (Sofia, Bulgaria)

Pauline Oliveros Foundation - Deep Listening

Society for New Music

Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI)

Union of Bulgarian Composers

Wet Ink Composers Collective

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Composers I Admire (more to come soon)

Bruno Amato (Baltimore, MD)

McGregor Boyle (Baltimore, MD)

Nicholas Maw (Baltimore, MD)

Robert Sirota (Baltimore, MD)

Christopher Theofanidis (Baltimore, MD, and NY, NY)

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Many thanks to composer Paul Nelson for his discovery and linking of many of these fine websites.