Monday, March 17, 2025
7:30 PM

“How far can we enter into a single moment, such that for that brief speck of time, for an instant, unison is registered?” This is the question that Charles Curtis poses in his liner notes for Tashi Wada’s Duets (2006–2008). Duets, starkly singular in focus and scope, centers around the concept of unison, complicated by issues of very gradual glissando, of descent—a process through which rich acoustical phenomena emerge, inviting the performers and listeners to deepen their perception ever further into a single moment.

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!

Thursday, December 5, 2024
7:30 PM

SDNVW (San Diego New Verbal Workshop) is a contemporary vocal ensemble inspired by the experimental music tradition of the late 20th century. They perform, improvise, and compose as a collective and frequently work with living composers to explore the unique sonic capabilities of the human voice in concert with instruments, electronics, and movement.

Wednesday, August 14, 2024
7:30 PM

On Wednesday, August 14, San Diego New Music will present its Emerging Composers Concert at the Athenaeum Art Center in Logan Heights. Since the inaugural competition in 2018, SDNM has been inviting emerging San Diego/Tijuana/Ensenada–based student composers to apply for the Emerging Composers Commission Competition, an opportunity to submit an original work for an annual concert.

Friday, May 10, 2024
7:30 PM

Join multi-wind player Ellen Weller and friends in an evening of collaborative real-time soundscapes and interactive audience experience.

Wednesday, May 1, 2024
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music welcomes you to a behind-the-scenes look at our newest community partnership program, High School Emerging Composers. High school students from across the San Diego region participated in a free six-week mentorship program, providing them the opportunity to hone their craft and develop new works with teaching artist, Dr. Texu Kim. Join us in our support of young composers from our community, as they present their works and share their experiences in an open discussion forum.

Friday, April 12, 2024
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library partner with the Radical Ensamble [sic] to present a unique transborder production of original theatrical musical works. Vocalists Mariana Flores, Isabella Panagiotou, Israel Rodriguez, and Miguel Zazueta will  perform original music by Kyle Adam Blair and Jonny Stallings.

Friday, February 23, 2024
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library present Labyrinth, a music and dance performance co-created by Kristopher and Dina Apple. Labyrinths have been used throughout history as devices for meditation, metaphors for storytelling, and as a bridge between the physical and metaphysical. Taking inspiration from these mythologies and practices, a cross-disciplinary ensemble weaves sound, movement, and text into a contemplative listening experience—a listening labyrinth. You are invited to the listening labyrinth—to follow the thread of now, gather your senses at each passing moment, and reflect on the potential for transformation. 

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

Thursday, November 9, 2023
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music joins November’s statewide California Festival: A Celebration of New Music with a concert at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Thursday, November 9. The festival celebrates the tremendous stylistic diversity and inventiveness of California composers. All the composers featured on the program are living and creating new music in the state today.

Thursday, August 3, 2023
7:30 PM

Premieres of new works by San Diego's emerging generation of composers, presented at the Athenaeum Art Center in Barrio Logan.

Thursday, June 1, 2023
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music presents a theatrical program of song, poetry, and dance, curated by somatic composer, and performer Jasper Sussman.

Sunday, May 21, 2023
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music presents a program of adventurous chamber music curated by keyboardist Christian Hertzog.

Friday, April 28, 2023
8:00 PM

San Diego New Music invites composers from grades 9–12 to apply for the Emerging Composers Workshop of Spring 2023. In this program, high school students participate in a three-part workshop with San Diego State University music composition and theory professor, Dr. Texu Kim, to compose an original musical work. The workshop will culminate in a public reading session with professional performers on Friday, April 28 at the Athenaeum Art Center at Bread and Salt.

Friday, March 24, 2023
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music presents a program of adventurous chamber music curated by oboist Sarah Skuster with Rose Lombardo, flute, and Ryan Nestor, percussion.

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.

Friday, December 2, 2022
7:30 PM

The Holy Ghost is an improvisation directed by Zane Alexander and interpreted by an ensemble of fourteen outstanding musicians from San Diego. The diverse cast of musicians of all ages and musical backgrounds will come together and be given the tools to make something beautiful and unpredictable.

Wednesday, July 27, 2022
7:30 PM

San Diego New Music’s annual event highlighting young talent in and from San Diego features six world premieres by college-level composers, commissioned by San Diego New Music, at the Athenaeum Art Center at Bread & Salt.