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SNM Prizewinners Concert
Sunday, April 13, 2025, 4:00 PM
Jazz Central, 441 E. Washington St., Syracuse
Tickets: $20 regular, $15 seniors/students, children 18 and under free

The concert will feature music by the 2024 Israel Pellman Prize winners, Sami Seif and Maxim Dybal-Denysenko.


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Shoes: Silent Film with New Music
Sunday, May 18, 2025, 3:00 PM
Everson Museum of Art Plaza, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse
Tickets: Free

An outdoor screening of Shoes, a 1916 silent film directed by Lois Weber and starring Mary MacLaren, with a contemporary score by Olivia Kieffer performed live by SNM musicians.

Presented in conjunction with Syracuse University's Lightworks Urban Video Project.



past concerts

Vision of Sound
Sunday, February 16, 2025, 3:00 PM
Gearan Center for the Performing Arts, Hobart and William Smith campus, Geneva
Tickets: $30 regular, $20 seniors/students, free for students with ID and children

Annual program of new music with modern dance, curated by Mark and Alaina Olivieri.

The program will feature:
Launch by composer Mark Olivieri paired with Conversations between friends by choreographer Amy Walker O'Brien
Blossom by composer Jaclyn Breeze paired with Winter Breeze by choreographers Donna Davenport and Cynthia J. Williams
Miniature Minotaur by composer Jorge Grossmann paired with How many cups of sugar does it take to get to the moon? by choreographer Cat DeAngelis Olson
Is this who we are? by composer Paul Leary paired with Or, what we have become by choreographer Elliot Emadian
Ordinis by composer Andrew Martin Smith paired with choreography by Ruben T. Ornelas
Guernica by composer Octavio Vazquez paired with Casanovas & Sirens by choreographer Aldo Kattón


Vision of Sound
Saturday, February 15, 2025, 5:00 PM
Ford Hall, Ithaca College campus, Ithaca
Tickets: $30 regular, $20 seniors/students, free for students with ID and children

Annual program of new music with modern dance, curated by Mark and Alaina Olivieri.

The program will feature:
Launch by composer Mark Olivieri paired with Conversations between friends by choreographer Amy Walker O'Brien
Blossom by composer Jaclyn Breeze paired with Winter Breeze by choreographers Donna Davenport and Cynthia J. Williams
Miniature Minotaur by composer Jorge Grossmann paired with How many cups of sugar does it take to get to the moon? by choreographer Cat DeAngelis Olson
Is this who we are? by composer Paul Leary paired with Or, what we have become by choreographer Elliot Emadian
Ordinis by composer Andrew Martin Smith paired with choreography by Ruben T. Ornelas
Guernica by composer Octavio Vazquez paired with Casanovas & Sirens by choreographer Aldo Kattón


*POSTPONED* Vision of Sound
Friday, February 14, 2025, 7:00 PM
OCC Recital Hall, Onondaga Community College campus, Syracuse
Tickets: $30 regular, $20 seniors/students, free for students with ID and children

Annual program of new music with modern dance, curated by Mark and Alaina Olivieri.

The program will feature:
Launch by composer Mark Olivieri paired with Conversations between friends by choreographer Amy Walker O'Brien
Blossom by composer Jaclyn Breeze paired with Winter Breeze by choreographers Donna Davenport and Cynthia J. Williams
Miniature Minotaur by composer Jorge Grossmann paired with How many cups of sugar does it take to get to the moon? by choreographer Cat DeAngelis Olson
Is this who we are? by composer Paul Leary paired with Or, what we have become by choreographer Elliot Emadian
Ordinis by composer Andrew Martin Smith paired with choreography by Ruben T. Ornelas
Guernica by composer Octavio Vazquez paired with Casanovas & Sirens by choreographer Aldo Kattón


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.


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.


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.


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