We’re celebrating 26 years! This year, the festival runs from January 2023 through April 2023 and includes the presentation of music by composers from around the world, many of whom are present to discuss their music for FIU students and audiences.

This year’s festival opens with celebrated composer Augusta Read Thomas, soprano Rachel Calloway, and the acclaimed Amernet String Quartet on January 18. The festival also features FIU’s contemporary chamber ensemble, FIU NODUS Ensemble, performing works by composer Marcos Balter, FIU alumni, and Cintas Foundation winners. Also featuring award-winning ensembles including Loadbang, Guitar-Percussion Duo, Dieter Hennings and Paul Vaillancourt, String Noise Duo, along with performances by our FIU faculty. The closing concert features the music of rising Swiss composer, Jessie Cox, who has roots in Trinidad and Tobago.

Schedule of Events:

Augusta Read Thomas and Amernet String Quartet

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Classical music is ever evolving with new sound worlds and ambitious, experimental composers. This evening is a collection of cutting-edge contemporary classical works including a world premiere by celebrated composer August Read Thomas, performed by the acclaimed Amernet String Quartet and guest soprano, Rachel Calloway.

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Marcos Balter and FIU NODUS Ensemble

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

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.

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FIU Alumni Composers Concert

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

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.

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Loadbang

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

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.

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Jason Calloway, Chen Hui-Jen, and Jacob Sudol

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Enjoy an evening of cutting-edge music for cello, piano, and electronics by some of FIU’s finest faculty artists including cellist Jason Calloway, pianist Chen-Hui Jen, and composer/computer musician Jacob Sudol. Together, they will create and perform exciting new works, play new classics from this repertoire, and revitalize recent classics that are on the threshold of obsolescence.

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Guitarist Dieter Hennings and Percussionist Paul Vaillancourt

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

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.

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Music from North and South America

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

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.

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String Noise Duo

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

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.

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Jessie Cox and Amernet String Quartet

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

The technical prowess of the Amernet meets the experimental music of innovative Swiss composer, Jessie Cox, for the festival closing concert. Praised for their “intelligence” and “immensely satisfying” playing by the New York Times, the Amernet has garnered recognition as one of today’s exceptional string quartets. Jessie Cox makes music about the universe – and our future in it. Through avant-garde classical, experimental jazz, and sound art, he has devised his own strand of musical science fiction, one that asks where we go next. For the last decade, his music has been marked by its freeness; his embrace of otherness has led to a body of work described by the LA Times as ‘some of the most experimental music, not just of the day, but the season.’

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Date: January 18-April 19, 2023

Location: 

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University - 1001 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Exception: January 25th to be held at the Jewish Museum of Florida – FIU
Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU - 301 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139

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