Founded in 1970 by Petr Kotik, S.E.M. Ensemble is dedicated to the performance and advancement of new music. Over the past ten years the ensemble's repertoire has included compositions by Cage, Feldman, Kotik, Phil Niblock - much of it written specifically for the ensemble - representing the group's artistic pursuits.

John McDonough and Kurt Gottschalk present a night of John Cage’s music, in preparation for their upcoming CD of Cage’s compositions for radio, to be released in 2009 on Mode Recordings.

This evening Ensemble One presents new music utilizing both improvised and predetermined elements. Providing support is Brooklyn-based harpist, Shelley Burgon.

VERGE ensemble hails from Washington, DC where it is the new music ensemble in residence at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Tonight's program features author Nick Antosca and cellist Collin Oldham, premiering his electronic instrument inventions, the Cellomobo and Radio Tape Knife.

Working as performers, educators, improvisers, scholars, composers, and song-writers — Till by Turning performs new chamber music by established and emerging artists and develops creative educational programs.

Tonight’s program focuses on so-called “silent music,” dramatically reductive chamber music that hovers on the edge of audibility. With strong roots in Cageian aesthetics, the principal exponents of this music are the members of the multi-national collective of composer/performer known as the Wandelweiser Group.

Together with very special guest Wolter Wierbos from Holland, Gerry Hemingway and Alex Waterman present a set of trio music. Coming out of work in the larger Quintet setting, tonight’s music will be more conversational and languid without holding back the virtuosic energy of these three musicians.

The New York City-based gamelan ensemble performs works by Laura Andel, David Demnitz, Miguel Frasconi and others.

The Transfiguration Ensemble will mark Good Friday with Joseph Haydn’s string quartet version of The Seven Last Words of Christ, with reflections by seven wide-ranging scholars and writers selected by Sam Haselby. The evening will also feature an original video work by the Canadian artist John Gurrin.

A night of great classical and contemporary chamber music with duets, trios, quartets and quintets. Works by Music by Boccherini, Cage, Henze, Krenek, Stravinsky, and more.

Composer/performer Elizabeth Brown and visual artist Lothar Osterburg join forces for two evenings of chamber music and art.

ISSUE Project Room presents an evening of performances by Xu Fengxia, Min Xiao-Fen and Ned Rothenberg.