Hub New Music gives a glimpse into the exciting world of contemporary composition in a program of short works. The program is a musical tasting menu of sorts, in which audiences can sample a variety of styles and influences that make up today's musical palette.
These concerts follow Hub New Music's week long residency in the Brainerd Public Schools.
Featured Artists
Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is a “prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” (Washington Post). Founded in 2013, the Detroitbased ensemble has commissioned dozens of new works for its distinctive ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello. Hub’s “nimble quartet of winds and strings” (NPR) actively collaborates with today’s most celebrated composers on projects that traverse today’s rich musical landscape.
Recent and upcoming performances include concerts presented by the Kennedy Center, Seattle Symphony, Morgan Library, Suntory Hall (Tokyo), the Williams Center for the Arts, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center, King’s Place (London), Soka Performing Arts Center, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, and the Celebrity Series of Boston.
Upcoming projects include a substantial new electroacoustic piece by Daniel Wohl inspired by UFO-sightings, called Mirage; a work inspired by the history of Black Mountain College by Yaz Lancaster; a new electroacoustic commission by longtime collaborator Christopher Cerrone that samples the sounds of crosswalks from across the world; and a song-cycle collaboration with composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Bora Yoon.
Hub New Music’s recordings have garnered consistent acclaim. The group’s most recent record with Silkroad’s Kojiro Umezaki, a distance, intertwined, features five works for Hub and Shakuhachi which I Care if You Listen called “beautiful, haunting music that presents a clear and authentic dialog between varied cultural paradigms and traditions.” Hub’s debut album, Soul House, released on New Amsterdam Records, was called “ingenious and unequivocally gorgeous” (Boston Globe) and “intensely poignant.” (Textura) In 2022, Hub’s album with Carlos Simon, Requiem for the Enslaved, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Composition.
Hub is dedicated to educating, inspiring and guiding future generations of artists. The ensemble has been a guest at Princeton University, University of Michigan, University of Southern California, Indiana University, among many other institutions. In 2021, Hub was a resident ensemble for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Nancy and Barry Sanders Composer Fellowship program for high school aged composers. As part of its 10th anniversary celebration, Hub designed a fellowship program with the Luna Lab in NYC that was awarded to Luna Lab alumna Sage Shurman.
Hub New Music is Michael Avitabile (flutes), Gleb Kanasevich (clarinets), Meg Rohrer (violin/ viola), and Jesse Christeson (cello). Currently based in Detroit, Hub New Music is exclusively represented by Unfinished Side.
All LAMF activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Five Wings Arts Council and Minnesota State Arts Board thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.