Contemporaneous is a New York-based ensemble of twenty-three musicians dedicated to performing and promoting the most exciting music of now. Recognized for its "ferocious, focused performance" (The New York Times) and its "passionate drive...setting a high bar for other ensembles to live up to" (I Care If You Listen), Contemporaneous' concerts, collaborations, recordings, and outreach programs have created a thriving community of artists and audience members united by a shared love for the best music being written in our time.

Founded in 2010 at Bard College, Contemporaneous has to date played over sixty shows at venues including (le) poisson rouge, Merkin Concert Hall, Roulette, St. Ann's Warehouse, Galapagos Art Space, Baryshnikov Arts Center and The Stone and has been featured at the Bang on a Can Marathon, MATA Interval Series, Tribeca New Music Festival, Neighborhood Classics, Music with a View, Make Music New York and in California at the Berkeley Arts Festival. The ensemble's recordings have been featured on many radio programs, including WNYC's "New Sounds" and WRTI's "Now is the Time."

Contemporaneous supports the work of new and established composers, encouraging artists to take risks, challenge expectations, and defy constraints. To date, Contemporaneous has performed more than thirty world premieres by such composers as Albert Behar, Conor Brown, Ryan Chase, Kyle Gann, Yotam Haber, Molly Joyce and Dylan Mattingly. In April, 2012, Innova Recordings released the ensemble's debut album, Stream of Stars — Music of Dylan Mattingly, comprising music written specifically for Contemporaneous by its founding co-artistic director.

Contemporaneous often collaborates with musicians and artists from other fields, among them pop and rock artists Jherek Bishoff, David Byrne, Sondre Lerche, Amanda Palmer, Zac Pennington, Greg Saunier, Mirah Zeitlyn, Zola Jesus, Fifth Veil and Yassou Benedict. Contemporaneous has been in residence at the University of New Orleans and Williams College and has presented educational programs for New York public elementary schools P.S. 142 and P.S. 321, the Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra and the Poughkeepsie Day School.

Contemporaneous is a federally tax-exempt not-for-profit organization, supported by a dedicated community of listeners. Read more at contemporaneous.org.

“Next time [Hub New Music] offers a concert, go, listen, and be changed” - the Boston Globe

“In short, Hub New Music is a group you should pay attention to.” - Classical Dark Arts

Hub New Music is a mixed quartet of “young intrepids” (WQXR, New York) exploring a richly diverse palette of 21st century sounds. With a unique instrumentation of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello, Hub has been praised for "handling tricky ensemble passages with ease" (New Music Box) in performances that are “elegant and exacting” (the Boston Globe) and inspire a  “refreshing sense of pure joy.” (New Classic LA)

Hub New Music’s repertoire reflects the genre-defying fluidity of music today, and includes the works of Mason Bates, Evan Ziporyn, Anna Clyne, Kati Agocs, Daniel Wohl, Nico Muhly, Robert Honstein, Laura Kaminsky, and Kirsten Volness. Projects for the 2017/18 season include a collaboration with the Silk Road Ensemble’s Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi) & the Asia/America New Music Initiative, Soul House - a new program exploring concepts of memory and reflection with a new work by Robert Honstein, a chamber-pop song cycle with composer/harpist Audrey Harrer, a new quartet by Rome-prize winning composer Andrew Rindfleisch and its debut album 2017/18 season highlights include performances and residencies at the Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival (NYC), inaugural Spontaneous Combustion New Music Festival, Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA), Tribeca New Music Festival, and University of Michigan..

As curators and collaborative artists, Hub New Music has brought several large scale initiatives into fruition. These include recent portrait concerts of Andrew Norman and Kati Agócs, both of which garnered critical acclaim from the Boston Globe. For its visionary programming as both a quartet and as collaborative artists, Hub was named one of WQXR's Q2 Music's "10 Cutting-Edge Ensembles That Have Captured the Imagination" in 2016.

The ensemble are also passionate educators whose approach to teaching places contemporary music within the context of a centuries old yet rapidly evolving musical tradition. Working with student performers and composers alike at residencies across the country, Hub trains future generations of contemporary artists and places strong emphasis on arts entrepreneurship as a vital component of a musical education. Hub has held and looks toward residencies at the New England Conservatory, University of Michigan, Northeastern University, Lehigh University, Cleveland State University, Texas State at San Marcos, Clark University, and University of California at Riverside.

Hub New Music owes thanks to its supporters including the Cricket Foundation, Boston Cultural Council, the Florence & Joseph Mandel Family Foundation, and New England Conservatory Office of Entrepreneurial Musicianship. The ensemble’s name is inspired by its founding city of Boston and the notion that a hub is a center of innovation.

too funky for the academy. Bang on a Can's post-classical Brooklyn-based label is home to John Luther Adams, Julia Wolfe, Glenn Kotche, Ashley Bathgate, So Percussion, David Lang, Michael Gordon, Bonjour, Steve Reich & many more.
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coming soon:
[CA21152]: David Lang's anatomy theater (Oct 25)
[CA21149]: Meara O'Reilly's Hockets for Two Voices (digital Oct 25, vinyl Nov 15)

new releases in 2019:
[CA21150]: Michael Gordon - Acquanetta
[CA21148]: John Luther Adams – Become Desert
[CA21146]: Jeffrey Brooks – The Passion

"The very model of a modern music chamber band." - The NYTimes

John Bilotta has spent most his life in the San Francisco Bay Area attending UC, Berkeley, and the San Francisco Music & Arts Institute where he studied composition, theory, and orchestration with Frederick Saunders.
 
A recipient of multiple commissions, grants, and awards, John has seen his works performed around the world by such outstanding soloists and ensembles as Rarescale, the Kiev Philharmonic, Earplay, Chamber Mix, the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, the Talea Ensemble, the Avenue Winds, San Francisco Cabaret Opera, Blue Grass Opera, and VocalWorks.
 
In 2005, his Concerto for Wind Quartet and Orchestra was premiered by the Oakland Civic Orchestra under Martha Stoddard and was subsequently recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic under Robert Ian Winstin. More recently, his short comic opera Quantum Mechanic, with libretto by John F. McGrew, won the 2007 Opera-in-a-Month Competition subsequently receiving performances in California, Utah, Oklahoma, and Kentucky to date.
 
By the end of 2009, nearly a dozen of John's chamber, orchestral, and operatic works had been recorded and released on CD. His music appears on several recording labels including Capstone Records, Parma Recordings, New Music North, Vox Novus, ERMMedia, and Beauport Classical Music with distribution through Naxos Records, iTunes, Amazon, and CDBaby among others.
 
Since 2006, John has been Music Director of the San Francisco Chamber Wind Festival held every summer at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; and co-directs with Brian Bice the annual Festival of Contemporary Music. 

John is a member of the American Composers Forum, the American Music Center, NACUSA, BMI, and the Society of Composers, Inc., for which he is the editor of SCION, the SCI's opportunities newsletter, and a member of the organization's Executive Committee. John serves on the Board of Directors of Goat Hall Productions.

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 Recent Works:
 Brain Freeze, for wind quintet
 Komoriuta, for clarinet & piano
 Robby's BFF, for narrator & wind quintet
 This Autumn Day, for voice & piano
 After the Rapture--Just Me and the Cat, for piano
 Riding the Borealis, for Clarinet in A
 Renaissance Songs, for voice & piano
 Conversations in the Graden, for piano 4-hands
 Emergence, for organ
 Trifles, a chamber opera in one act
 Yeats Songs, for baritone & piano
 Sonatina, for piano
 The Poems to Come, for flute, clarinet, viola, cello & piano
 Quantum Mechanic, a comic opera in one act
 First Light, for wind quintet
 Petroushka Dreams, for clarinet, cello & piano
 I Fiori di Seta, for flute, alto flute, and string orchestra
 Heart's Desire, for carinet & piano
 Divertimento for Wind Orchestra
 Concerto for Wind Quartet & Orchestra
 Entr'acte, for solo clarinet
 Fire in Spring, for flute and oboe
 Gen'ei no Mai, for flute & clarinet

composer living in the woods // interested in tiny sounds, leaves, stacks of thirds, and music that jitters // Asst. Prof. of Composition, Yale School of Music

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