Those performing in the New Music Ensemble have a knack for “new classics.”
“New Music Ensemble is a class that we teach as a way for our School of Music students to investigate classical music that has been written within the last 50 years,” said Steven Huang, the New Music Ensemble conductor.
Huang said he has always been passionate about the classics.
“I’ve had a lot of experience working with this music,” Huang said. “I’ve done this ensemble before in previous years so I was assigned this class.”
Huang isn’t the only one digging the classics.
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I got involved with the New Music Ensemble as a class,” said Bobby Luan, graduate assistant of upper strings, in an email. “The best thing about the New Music Ensemble and the concert…is that it allows the public to hear new music being created. Our music may be generally classical in genre, but it is the base of current modern music so it's always an exciting experience to discover what new music is being created by modern day composers.”
Kyle Symons said the ensemble is an experience he didn’t expect to happen until a little later in life.
“I didn’t start music until high school and then when I started, I started playing percussion but I got bored of it,” said Symons. “I heard a recording because my granddad was into classical music and one day I was at his house and heard a flute solo being played and so I asked him what that was and that’s what I wanted to play. So I switched very late…I decided that I wanted to major in music which was nuts because most people who decide to do that have been studying this for 10 years.”
This is Symons second year performing in the New Music Ensemble concert.
“I started performing in this concert when I came here as a first year graduate,” Symons said. “The director then sought out a lot of graduate students because a lot of contemporary music is quite difficult so I think he wanted to have people who were experienced so I was asked to perform in it.”
Audience members can expect nothing but the best from the performance, Luan said.
“The audience that attends this Thursday evening's concert should expect to hear music that is intriguing and thought provoking,” he said.
IYGB:
What: New Music Ensemble concert
When: 7:30 p.m., Thursday
Where: Recital Hall in Glidden Hall
Admission: Free
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