NEW FOCUS

Violist Georgina Isabel Rossi and pianist Silvie Cheng release "Mobili," an overview of Chilean composition featuring viola. Compiling six works by five composers, including five world-premiere...

Composer Eric Moe draws from a wide well of influences, integrating various elements from across the aesthetic spectrum into music that is rhythmically propulsive and preserves an emphasis on melodic...

Oboist Jacqueline Leclair releases a collection of premiere works for English horn that covers a wide range of stylistic territory and explores the rich, penetrating voice of this beguiling...

Boston based composer Aaron Jay Myers's "Clever Machines" features his eclectic music for a broad range of chamber combinations, including two works for New Focus veterans, the percussion and...

Composer Eric Nathan's releases the ambitious cycle of works "Missing Words", featuring performances by some of new music's most prolific ensembles: International Contemporary Ensemble, Boston Modern...

Composer Ofer Pelz celebrates an eight year collaboration with Israeli based Meitar Ensemble with "Trinit?," a collection of five works that highlight Pelz' intricate hybrid ensemble textures and...

Directed by cellist Kivie Cahn-Lipman, Acronym is devoted to resurrecting music of the past, giving modern premieres of long-lost works by forgotten composers. Johann Christoph Pezel's (1639-1694)...

From the exuberant, singular American composer Forrest Pierce comes a collection of glittering major works for strings and voice. His subjects are the sheen of dragonflies, sacred birch bark scrolls,...

Loadbang's third release on New Focus, "Plays well with others," is a celebration of a community of artists with a shared sensibility. The voice and winds quartet is joined here by string players in...

Composer/guitarist Brendon Randall-Myers, in collaboration with electric guitar quartet Dither, releases "dynamics of vanishing bodies," a 37-minute piece deploying a full gamut of techniques...

Guitarist Daniel Lippel releases a new version of Steve Reich's iconic Electric Counterpoint. In collaboration with South African born ethnomusicologist Martin Scherzinger, Lippel approached the...

Based in the Twin Cities, the 113 Composers Collective was formed in 2012 to create immersive opportunities for new means of musical expression, including through their annual Twin Cities New Music...