New Music Ensemble & Student Composer Concert

Come and witness the newest contemporary composers of Miami. Students perform their latest creations for Miami audiences from a variety of aesthetics and performance genres along with the FIU New Music Ensemble in this joint concert.

Four Songs, op. 12                               Anton Webern

Der Tag ist vergangen

Die Geheimnisvolle Flöte

Schien mir’s, als ich sah die Sonne

Gleich und Gleich

Gabriella Villalobos, soprano

Melissa Chinnappan, piano

Dream (1948)                                    John Cage

Quest (1935)

Melissa Chinnappan, piano

Voice                                          Melissa Iverson

The FIU New Music Ensemble will present a program of performance art. Founded in Fall 1987, the FIU New Music Ensemble specializes in the performance of contemporary chamber, experimental and electronic music with an emphasis in the music of the last 50 years. The ensemble’s instrumentation changes from semester to semester allowing for the presentation of a variety of repertoire. Performances include those on campus each semester as well as those in the community at galleries, libraries, museums, and other universities/colleges in the region. The ensemble has recently been featured at the Subtropics Music Festival, The Society of Composers National and Regional Conferences, and the National Conference of the College Music Society. To date the ensemble has presented music by a variety of composers representing a wide range of aesthetics, styles, and media from the US and diverse parts of the world including works written for the ensemble as well as works by young and established composers alike. The ensemble is made up of some of the School of Music’s best student performers.

For more information, contact the New Music Director, Jason Calloway, at jason.calloway@fiu.edu.

For more information, contact the Program Coordinator of Music Composition, Orlando J. Garcia, at garciao@fiu.edu.