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New York, NY
Nadia Boulanger’s opera “La Ville Morte”

Viitasaari, Finland
World premiere of Mark Applebaum’s “Venture Capital Punishment”

Listening event & virtual recording premiere of Oscar Bettison’s “La Arqueología del Neón”

Talea celebrates its 10th anniversary season
New York, NY

Works by Marta Gentilucci
Cambridge, MA

To view Talea’s press kit in your browser, hover over the document below to select “full screen”.     To download a PDF copy, please click here.                    

JOB TITLE: Production Coordinator POSITION TYPE: Part-time Permanent SALARY: $10,000 annually APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED: Rolling, until May 15th   PLEASE NOTE: THIS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED Thank you to everyone who applied.   Description Join the Talea team! Talea is hiring a part-time Production Coordinator to begin in June 2018. Applicants should have a background in  Continue Reading »

New Orleans, LA
Solos & Duos

In advance of Karen Kim’s big debut as the newest member of Talea’s roster, we sat down to chat about her background, her preparations for the Nono, and her approach to such a mysterious and beguiling work…. Zach Sheets: Let’s see: first, to get to know you a little better, I’m wondering if you could  Continue Reading »

New York, NY
An evening exploring the music of Fred Lerdahl

Clermont-Ferrand, France
Works by Nordin, Lucier, Jodlowski

We arrived at the Frankfurt International Airport as bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as jet-lagged travelers can be, looking forward to a fantastic week ahead at the International Music Institute Darmstadt. Usually packing for a tour not only involves your traditional travel items- layered clothing, sleeping masks, power outlet converters- we also need to think about concert  Continue Reading »

St. Petersburg: May 2016 Beth Weisser Helgeson At the very end of May, Talea had a whirlwind trip into St. Petersburg to play at the Mariinsky Concert Hall as part of the reMusik Festival. What the trip lacked in length (we were there for just slightly less than 48 hours) was made up for in  Continue Reading »

New Music USA and the Talea Ensemble are thrilled to introduce the inaugural cohort of the NYC New Music Impact Fund. The Impact Fund, a new project of New Music USA, represents the first major effort to aggregate and amplify the voice of the New York new music community online. It supports new residency relationships,  Continue Reading »

As we gear up for Talea’s Russian debut, checkout a preview by Matt Mendez. For nearly a decade now, the Talea Ensemble has been one of the principal American conduits for recent music from the Continent—vital compositional work that remains all too slow in making its way over the Atlantic, even in our age of  Continue Reading »

You know Rane and Matt Gold and David and Steve Beck, Chris Gross, Greg, Beth, Adrian, Yuki Numata Resnick**- But do you recall? The common thread of them all… Alex Lipowski founded it Along with his friend Anthony Cheung And if you ever heard them You’d say it was super fun. All of the great  Continue Reading »

Wondering if Santa’s coming down your chimney? Talea has the inside look at Santa’s list: Gave a compliment? ✔ Nice! Didn’t get your flu shot? ✘ Kinda naughty Listened to a new composer? ✔ Definitely nice! Didn’t try anything new? ✘ Not naughty, but kinda boring. Took a risk on a world premiere? ✔ Very  Continue Reading »

Read what Hannah Duebgen, librettist from Toshio Hosokawa’s Matsukaze, says about Hosokawa’s connection to nature. Re-posted from Talea’s blog from January 2012. “When I first met Toshio Hosokawa, two things about him struck me immediately: On the one hand his life in two cultures, the Japanese and the Western world, and, along with it, his  Continue Reading »

This is one way of learning Brian Ferneyhough’s Incipits- graphed above by Talea violist, Elizabeth Weisser. Come out for June in Buffalo on June 5th to hear Elizabeth and Talea featured at this year’s festival!

In case you missed Talea’s performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Mikrophonie I, you can checkout a recording of the concert here. Happy listening!

Hear an excerpt of Ondřej Adámek’s Ca tourne ca bloque and read what Talea intern, Zach Seely, says about Adámek’s fascinating music. Come hear the US Premiere of Ca tourne ca bloque on September 21st at the Bohemian National Hall. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I am always excited when introduced to a composer’s  Continue Reading »

  Read what Talea violist, Elizabeth Weisser, says about learning and performing Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VI.  Then come hear her shred this Sunday, February 26th at 4 PM, at the Roger Smith Hotel! iNSIDE Out Series Negative Space: Music and Silence for One Viola Works by Ianns Xenakis, J.S. Bach, and Luciano Berio I was  Continue Reading »

We are excited to have the fabulous Donatienne Michel-Dansac joining us from Paris very soon.  Come hear her sing Bernhard Lang’s DW 16: Songbook 1 as a part of the Austrian Cultural Forum’s 10th Anniversary Series at the Bohemian National Hall on February 17th. Get to know her here first!   You joined a chorus  Continue Reading »

In preparation for Saturday’s Inharmonic/ (X)enharmonic concert at Merkin, Rane Moore tells us about mastering Enno Poppe’s clarinet concerto, Holz. Listen Here: Enno Poppe: Holz (excerpt) Klangforum Wien, Stefan Asbury (conductor) “I’ve spent the last month or so engrossed in the music of Enno Poppe. His clarinet concerto Holz, was written for one of my heroes, clarinetist  Continue Reading »

Trombone

Welcome to the Talea Ensemble’s newly revamped website! With this digital makeover we are pleased to announce the 2011-12 season and several new features of the site itself: updated audio/video clips as well as the beginning of a regular blog series that will feature the contributions of performers, composers, and audiences. 2011-12 marks Talea’s fifth  Continue Reading »

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