The FIU NODUS Ensemble performs the music of award-winning composer, Marcos Balter. Praised by The Chicago Tribune as “minutely crafted” and “utterly lovely,” the music of composer Marcos Balteris at once emotionally visceral and intellectually complex, primarily rooted in experimental manipulations of timbre and hyper-dramatization of live performance.

Celebrate Panther Alumni Week with us! FIU’s professional contemporary chamber music ensemble, FIU NODUS Ensemble, performs works by School of Music graduates. Our alumni have pursued careers in a variety of fields: acoustic and electronic composition, musicology, theory, audio production, conducting, education, concert management, performance, and others.

New York City-based new music chamber group loadbang is building a new kind of music for mixed ensemble of trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice. Since their founding in 2008, they have been praised as ‘cultivated’ by The New Yorker, ‘an extra-cool new music group’ and ‘exhilarating’ by the Baltimore Sun, ‘inventive’ by the New York Times and called a ‘formidable new-music force’ by TimeOutNY. Creating ‘a sonic world unlike any other’ (The Boston Musical Intelligencer), their unique lung-powered instrumentation has provoked diverse responses from composers, resulting in a repertoire comprising an inclusive picture of composition today.

This guitar percussion duo performs several world premieres. The duo is made up of Dieter Hennings and Paul Vaillancourt, and together, they are focused on broadening the cutting-edge body of repertoire for guitar and percussion from North and South America.

The FIU NODUS Ensemble performs the New Music Miami ISCM Festival annual concert of music from North and South America including the music of Cuban composers and Cintas Foundation winners.

The String Noise Duo performs the premieres of works by Paula Matthusen, Jacob Sudol, and Orlando Jacinto Garcia. String Noise, New York’s most daring violin duo, is composed of violinists Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris. Recognized for their distinct blend of disparate genres, from arrangements of songs by punk legends to conceptual minimalist treatises by Alvin Lucier, they have expanded their repertoire with over 50 new works since their debut at Ostrava New Music Days in 2011.