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Fantastical Stories/Historias Fantasticas
Saturday, October 5, 2024, 7:00 PM
OCC Recital Hall, Onondaga Community College campus, Syracuse
Tickets: $20 individual, $40 family max (sliding scale tickets available at the door)

An exploration of Latin America's rich heritage through works from a multi-national list of composers. The concert features Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra's new commission Sonidos del Tlon, a NYSCA-funded work exploring fantasy and reality, and additional works by Clarice Assad (Brazil), Miguel del Aguila (Uruguay), Angélica Negron (Puerto Rico), Gabriela Lena Frank and inti figgis-vizueta (U.S.).

Intertwined with the musical works will be a presentation by Rochester Poet Henry I Padron-Morales.

This concert in presented in conjunction with Rochester-based fivebyfive, and will be performed by musicians from Society for New Music and fivebyfive.


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Each Moment Radiant
Sunday, October 20, 2024, 4:00 PM
Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University campus, Syracuse
Tickets: Free

This profoundly moving concert features the world premiere of Each Moment Radiant, a newly-commissioned chamber work by composer Kurt Erickson and poet Brian Turner commemorating the Pan Am Flight 103 air disaster. Setnor School of Music faculty and guest musicians will perform Erickson and Turner’s song cycle Here, Bullet and Johannes Brahms’s Piano Trio in C minor.

The event, part of the Malmgren Concert Series of Hendricks Chapel, is co-sponsored by Syracuse Symposium, the D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families, Office of Veteran and Military Affairs, Society for New Music, the Setnor School of Music, and the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars.



past concerts

Shoes: Silent Film with New Music
Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 7:00 PM
Coyne Performing Arts Center, LeMoyne College, Syracuse
Tickets: $20 regular, $15 student/senior, children 18 and under free

Please join us for a screening of Lois Weber's dramatic silent film, Shoes (1916). The film will be accompanied live by an original score composed by Olivia Kieffer and performed by the Society for New Music.

This event is sponsored by the Film Studies program at Le Moyne and the Society for New Music. It is co-sponsored by the Syracuse International Film Festival and by the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies program; Music program; and English department at
Le Moyne.


Young Composers Corner Showcase
Sunday, July 21, 2024, 2:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church, 27 Albany St., Cazenovia
Tickets: Free

Works by young composers, created under guidance of Chris Cresswell, performed by SNM players.


What If We're Beautiful, Chamber Concert II
Saturday, July 20, 2024, 7:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church, 27 Albany St., Cazenovia
Tickets: $20 regular, $15 senior, free for ages 18 and under

Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei Residues, I. Ostinato
Marc Mellits Dune
Chris Cresswell I Find I Have Less To Say
Paul Leary Scepter
Daniel Thomas Davis What If We're Beautiful

Performers: Margaret Leenhouts, violin; Ruth Berry, cello; Lana Stafford, flute; Marcy Bacon, clarinet; Sar-Shalom Strong, piano; Andrea Scheibel, percussion; Chris Cresswell, electric guitar; Paul Leary, electronics


60th Anniversary of Terry Riley’s In C
Tuesday, July 16, 2024, 6:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church, 27 Albany St., Cazenovia
Tickets: Free

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the first piece of minimalist music (1964).

Due to rain, performance will be inside the church.

Performers include Lana Stafford, flute; Katie Garringer Martins, oboe; John Friedrichs, clarinet; Allan Kolsky, clarinet; Jim Spadafore, alto sax; Ron Caravan, soprano sax; Jessica King, bassoon; Chris Cresswell, electric guitar; Julia Ross, percussion; Carole Brzozowski, glockenspiel; Heather Buchman, alto trombone


Music for Trombones and Organ, Chamber Concert I
Saturday, July 13, 2024, 7:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church, 27 Albany St., Cazenovia
Tickets: $20 regular, $15 senior, free for ages 18 and under

Featuring Hohenfels Trombone Quartet and organist Amanda Mole

Works by Charles Ives, Jack Courtwright, Ewa Fabianska-Jelinska, Arvo Pärt, Natalie Draper, Nico Muhly, Salvatore Sciarratta, and Zsolt Gárdonyi


Rising Stars I
Thursday, July 11, 2024, 6:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church, 27 Albany St., Cazenovia
Tickets: Free

The program, curated by Sar-Shalom Strong, features Joanna Ray, flute, a senior at West Genesee High School; Heather Buchanan-Wise, violin, a senior at Holland Patent, now in her third year as a Rising Star; and composer Jaclyn Breeze.


Prize Winners
Sunday, May 5, 2024, 4:00 PM
St. Paul's Syracuse, 310 Montgomery St., Syracuse
Tickets: $20 regular, $15 student/senior, children 18 and under free

Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei Residues: I. Ostinato, for clarinet, violin, cello, and prepared piano (SNM's 2023 Israel/Pellman Prize winner)
Benjamin Rieke Bloom, for string quartet (SNM's 2023 NYS Federation of Music Clubs Prize winner)
Christopher Auerbach-Brown Blue Kaleidoscope, for violin and harp
Armando Bayolo (Unplanned) Obsolescences, Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings (commissioned by the American Chamber Orchestra and the Society for New Music)


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