Saturday, January 11, 2025
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music closes the festival with a concert featuring Christopher Adler’s groovy classic Ecstatic Volutions in a Neon Haze and a world premiere of a newly commissioned work by Sidney Marquez Boquiren.

Friday, January 10, 2025
7:30 PM

In their first concert 25 years ago, NOISE performed a classic of the mid-20th century, Pierre Boulez’s Le Marteau sans maître. On the 10th, they reprise this work, along with a selection of pieces performed by guest artists Duo Entre-Nous, visiting from Arizona.

Thursday, January 9, 2025
7:30 PM

In addition to honoring their longtime collaborator composer Stuart Saunders-Smith with a performance of Notebook for ensemble, NOISE performs solo works by Matthew Burtner, Salina Fisher, and others.

January 9, 10 & 11, 2025
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library present the 2025 soundON Festival, exploring cutting-edge contemporary music from around the world. Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of San Diego New Music and the 25th Anniversary of San Diego New Music's ensemble-in-residence NOISE with all-time favorites alongside brand-new works. Enjoy three nights of concerts in two separate locations in San Diego!

Sunday, January 7, 2024
3 PM

PROGRAM

Adam Greene, Lōtós for electric guitar and ensemble (world premiere)
Adam Greene, Orpheus Dies for solo cello
Judith Ring, Fine Feathers
Franklin Cox, new work for flute and cello (world premiere)
Olivier Messiaen, Cantéyodjayâ for solo piano

Saturday, January 6, 2024
7:30 PM

PROGRAM

Mark Menzies, newly commissioned work (world premiere)
Adam Greene, Persephoneia for bass flute (world premiere)
Jean-Patrick Besingrand, La Ultima Catabasi
Patricia Martinez, Tenuous Brilliance
Jérôme Combier, Dog Eat Dog

Friday, January 5, 2024, 7:30 PM
Saturday, January 6, 2024, 7:30 PM
Sunday, January 7, 2024, 3 PM

San Diego New Music and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library present the 2024 soundON Festival, exploring cutting-edge contemporary music from around the world. This year we celebrate the music of San Diego composer and longtime friend of SDNM and NOISE Adam Greene, and we feature a new work by Mark Menzies commissioned by the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library.

Friday, January 5, 2024
7:30 PM

PROGRAM

Adam Greene, Nostos: Conversations with the Dead for solo electric guitar and live signal processing
Adam Greene, Ogygia for solo electric guitar
Isang Yun, Monolog for solo bass clarinet
Russell Hartenberger, Black Coyote for solo percussion
William Roper, My Head Is Always Down for I No Longer Look for You for solo violin

Saturday, January 7, 2023

7:30 PM

PROGRAM

Adrian Demoč, Kvarteto
Texu Kim, Pali-Pali!!
Miniatures: A Set of Solos Dedicated to Erika Torri

Christopher Adler, For Erika **
Neda Nadim, An Oasis in the Moment
John S. Pratt, (Snare Drum solo
Franklin Cox, Etude

Yu Kuwabara, Five Images - In Nomine

Friday, January 6, 2023

7:30 PM

PROGRAM

Katherine Balch, Musica Spolia
Yan Ee Toh, iridescent shadows
Linda Dusman, Flashpoint
Franklin Cox, new work for flute and cello **
Adam Greene, Memos 5. Multiplicity **
Adam Borecki, S¢ø®¶πo (Scorpio)

Thursday, January 5, 2023

7:30 PM

PROGRAM

Kay He, On the Rime of a Fading Forest
Adam Borecki, Integrations
Christopher Adler, Message to a Distant Star **
Philippe Manoury, Le Livre de Claviers IV. Solo de Vibraphone
Alyssa Aska, Emergence
D. Edward Davis, broad call

January 5–7, 2023

7:30 PM

San Diego New Music and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library present the 2023 soundON Festival, exploring cutting-edge contemporary music from around the world, including rising international voices Yu Kuwabara (Japan), Adrian Demoč (Slovakia), Alyssa Aska (Austria), and D. Edward Davis (United States). Entitled Spolia, this year’s festival explores the traces of the past recast into unique new expressions, just as ancient artifacts are reincorporated into newer architecture to become spolia. Inspired by Katherine Balch’s Musica Spolia, this theme threads through works including Yu Kuwabara’s Five Images-In nomine and Adam Greene’s Memos, and works incorporating recorded sound fragments, like D. Edward Davis’s broad call and Kay He’s On the Rime of the Fading Forest.