Latest News and Events

Tribeca New Music Festival and innova Recordings feature Contemporaneous

Contemporaneous is incredibly excited to announce that our debut album, Stream of Stars — Music of Dylan Mattingly will be released in April of 2012 on innova Recordings! The album will include world premiere recordings of three pieces that Dylan wrote specifically for us. This album will be released when we perform Dylan's Atlas of Somewhere on the Way to Howland Island as a part of the spring 2012 Tribeca New Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall! Look out for more information on these exciting, new engagements!

Contemporaneous 2012 Call for Scores due February 15, 2012

Last year, we received submissions from an astonishing 112 composers for our first annual Call for Scores, from which we chose three fantastic pieces that we will perform this spring! For more information on our 2012 Call for Scores click here, and send it to all of your composer friends!



Latest Features

Contemporaneous featured on Susan Scheid's blog Prufrock's Dilemma

In her new post Blessed Be the Music Makers, Sue ranked three of our performances from this fall at the top of her list of "Memorable Live Performances" in 2011! To read more of what she has written about us this fall, see her wonderful entries Contemporaneous Rising!, Terry Riley's In C, in School and Finnegan's Hat.


Latest Sights and Sounds

To the left below is the very beginning of the world premiere performance of Dylan Mattingly's Atlas of Somewhere on the Way to Howland Island at Bard College in September of 2011. Look out for the recording coming soon on innova Recordings!

And on the right, you'll see members of Contemporaneous playing Terry Riley's In C with some very bright and talented kids, faculty members, and parents at the Poughkeepsie Day School in November of 2011. We had a blast!



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