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New and recent works by APNM members from the 2024-2025 Call-for-Scores. Music for clarinet and piano trio by APNM composers Carl Bettendorf, Peter Child, Stephen Dydo, Marjorie Merryman, Todd Tarantino, and Peter Susser.
Unheard-of//Ensemble is a Brooklyn-based clarinet, violin, cello, and piano quartet dedicated to connecting new music to communities in New York and across the United States through the development and performance of adventurous programs using technology and interactive multimedia. Unheard-of is committed to the idea that new music belongs in every community, and implements this mission through concerts and educational workshops throughout New York as well as on tour. Unheard-of has grown since forming in 2014 into a nation-wide community across multiple artistic genres. With an approach that is open and welcoming of all voices, Unheard-of strives to be a vehicle for development and growth for voices novel and experienced, experimental and traditional, uncomfortable and accessible.
Unheard-of Ensemble tours regularly, commissions large-scale multimedia projects, and runs its own summer workshop for emerging composers, the Collaborative Composition Initiative (CCI). Unheard-of'sDialogues series brings together composers, artists, and audiences to explore the creative process behind music creation. Their on the water Cultural Ecologies series with the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, invites audiences to the Gowanus for four multimedia concerts each year utilizing Brooklyn's own Gowanus Canal as our stage.
The 2024–2025 season features the premiere of a new 40-minute multimedia commission Ginger Flavored Bubblegum by composer Vicki Leona Nguyen and video artist Phong Tran on Unheard-of's Dialogues Series, a mini-portrait of Reiko Füting, partnership with San Antonio-based SOLI Chamber Ensemble, and a collaboration with the Association for the Promotion of New Music. The ensemble has residencies and guest artist visits on tour at University of Pittsburgh, Miami University (OH), Denison University, and University of Miami (FL). In past seasons, the ensemble has had residencies and performances at Oberlin, Northwestern, University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, Manhattan School of Music, as well as New York venues National Sawdust, Roulette, Symphony Space, Carnegie, and Merkin Hall.
