new music

Once a year, we open the floor to you at KPAC and invite musicians both amateur and professional to share their love of new music and performance at our contemporary classical Open Mic Night. Now in its 9th year, this collaboration with SOLI Chamber Ensemble continues to surprise and delight. Hear the performances at the link.

New music performed by the Unheard-of Ensemble will be filling the air at seven venues around San Antonio this month. Hear their surprising sounds at the link!

For their 30th anniversary, SOLI Chamber Ensemble put out a call for new music submissions. This weekend, performances take place celebrating these 30 young composers.

From operas about Steve Jobs and Alice in Wonderland to an orchestral evocation of Detroit and a new concerto for Yo-Yo Ma, the new concert season is flush with premieres.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning American musician, teacher and author was 66 years old. He had been diagnosed with cancer in November.

Christine Lamprea, a Youth Orchestras of San Antonio (YOSA) alum and former student of San Antonio Symphony principal cellist Ken Freudigman, returns to…

Saying that a musical language always includes both rational and irrational parts, Boulez told Fresh Airin 2005, "What I tried to find, that's freedom — but a freedom which is based on discipline."

Electronic sounds have become pretty familiar in pop songs. But electronically-produced sounds are also making their way into classical music, leading to new and interesting works.

Strings and Songs and Solidarity! - a concert featuring compositions by Darian Thomas, will be performed by high school and college musicians this weekend…

For over 15 years, Ethel has been on the edge of chamber music - performing with rockers, on soundtracks, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in the…