Ensemble Modern Contemporary Chamber Music at Carnegie Hall

Ensemble Modern is one of the world’s leading and most active contemporary chamber orchestras. They are keeping classical music alive!

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Ensemble Modern (Wonge Bergmann/Carnegie Hall)

Tania León Curates Cuban, Italian, Mexican, and South African Contemporary Chamber Music

Ensemble Modern, the Frankfurt-based contemporary chamber ensemble, plays international composers curated by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tania León including her seminal works “Indígena” and “Rítmicas,” American Mexican composer Conlon Nancarrow’s “Studies for Player Piano,” and new work by South African composer Andile Khumalo, and American Italian composer Christopher Trapani; in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $54. carnegiehall.org 🇩🇪 ~ 🇨🇺 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇿🇦

This is part of Pulitzer Prize-winner Tania León’s curation as the 2023-2024 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall.

Ensemble Modern

Ensemble Modern’s reel is very emotional, dramatic, and international

This new music chamber ensemble was founded in 1980 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It’s one of the world’s leading contemporary chamber orchestras. Their home stage is the Alte Oper Frankfurt (Old Frankfurt Opera).

It brings together musicians from Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, India, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States. It has an unusual management structure similar to a corporation where a group of people get together on a task, and share the planning, the work, and the benefits of the work. When people from different backgrounds work together, the results can be spectacular.

The orchestra performs around 70 new compositions every year, including some of its own commissions. They also founded the International Ensemble Modern Academy, an educational institution that includes a Masters program.

Ensemble Modern is one of the preeminent orchestras making new classical music now.