Festival composers and faculty from across the globe come together for a night of brand-new works and premieres featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble. We are delighted to announce that this performance will include a brand-new work by Manuel Sosa, one of the June 2024 artists-in-residence at the world-famous Yaddo artist retreat in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Festival composers from across the globe come together for a night of brand-new works and premieres featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble.

Festival composers and faculty from all over the United States and abroad come together for a night of brand-new works and premieres featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble.

Festival composers and faculty from all over the United States and abroad come together for a night of brand-new works and premieres featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble.

Join Musica Sacra, Sing for Hope & Mostly Modern for a very special choir program at the Oculus World Trade Center. Lead by Maestro Kent Tritle and featuring Robert Paterson’s Look to the Sky, written in memory of 9/11, commissioned by the New York Choral Society.

Albany Pro Musica will present the New York State premiere of Star Song, a 12-movement work for chorus, chamber orchestra, and soloists. This work by Bradley Ellingboe, APM’s composer-in-residence, incorporates texts drawn from a variety of cultures and through a span of centuries ranging from the 8th century BCE to the present day, and sung in English, Latin, Hebrew, and French. The work examines the idea that we are all made of atoms that are unfathomably old, having been formed at the moment of creation. This performance will feature the American Modern Ensemble.

AME joins On Site Opera at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in New York City, with a production of Amahl & The Night Visitors, opera by G.C. Menotti.

AME joins On Site Opera at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in New York City, with a production of Amahl & The Night Visitors, opera by G.C. Menotti.

AME joins On Site Opera at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in New York City, with a production of Amahl & The Night Visitors, opera by G.C. Menotti.

AME joins On Site Opera at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in New York City, with a production of Amahl & The Night Visitors, opera by G.C. Menotti.

Ember Choral Arts and American Modern Ensemble join forces to present an evening of music for choir and instrumentalists (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion). This concert features conductor Deborah Simpkin King and features Robert Paterson’s Listen, a new work about climate change, commissioned by Ember Choral Arts, and Look To The Sky, a new work commemorating 9/11, commissioned by the New York Choral Consortium.

A New World: intimate music from FINAL FANTASY performs at Javits Center in NYC!

Join us for a special evening at Carnegie Hall featuring music by our very own Artistic Director, Robert Paterson. Oratorio Society of New York, Kent Tritle, conductor, with soloists Susanna Phillips, soprano, and Steven Eddy, baritone.

Ember Choral Arts and American Modern Ensemble join forces to perform composer Michael Shapiro's Voices, a stunning hour-long requiem performed in Bedford NY and New York City's iconic Central Synagogue.

Ember Choral Arts and American Modern Ensemble join forces to perform composer Michael Shapiro's Voices, a stunning hour-long requiem performed in Bedford NY and New York City's iconic Central Synagogue.

Ember Choral Arts and American Modern Ensemble join forces to present an evening of music for choir and instrumentalists (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion). This concert features conductor Deborah Simpkin King and features Robert Paterson’s Listen, a new work about climate change, commissioned by Ember Choral Arts, and Look To The Sky, a new work commemorating 9/11, commissioned by the New York Choral Consortium.

Ember Choral Arts and American Modern Ensemble join forces to present an evening of music for choir and instrumentalists (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion). This concert features conductor Deborah Simpkin King and features Robert Paterson’s Listen, a new work about climate change, commissioned by Ember Choral Arts, and Look To The Sky, a new work commemorating 9/11, commissioned by the New York Choral Consortium.

A New World: intimate music from FINAL FANTASY performs at Irvine Auditorium in Philadelphia, PA!

Festival composers and faculty from all over the United States and abroad, come together for a night of brand-new works and premieres, featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble.

Festival composers and faculty from all over the United States and abroad, come together for a night of brand-new works and premieres, featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble.

Mostly Modern Projects & Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival present American Modern Ensemble, with performances of Victoria Bond’s How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct, Herschel Garfein’s King of the River with text by Stanley Kunitz, and Robert Paterson’s The Companion, libretto by David Cote.

Relatives of the newly-deceased (and very wealthy) Buoso Donati gather to bid farewell to their dear family member – and to learn what they each inherited. When they discover that Buoso’s will doesn’t read exactly as they hoped, the family enlists the help of the morally flexible Gianni Schicchi to help them re-write the will.

Relatives of the newly-deceased (and very wealthy) Buoso Donati gather to bid farewell to their dear family member – and to learn what they each inherited. When they discover that Buoso’s will doesn’t read exactly as they hoped, the family enlists the help of the morally flexible Gianni Schicchi to help them re-write the will.

Relatives of the newly-deceased (and very wealthy) Buoso Donati gather to bid farewell to their dear family member – and to learn what they each inherited. When they discover that Buoso’s will doesn’t read exactly as they hoped, the family enlists the help of the morally flexible Gianni Schicchi to help them re-write the will.

Relatives of the newly-deceased (and very wealthy) Buoso Donati gather to bid farewell to their dear family member – and to learn what they each inherited. When they discover that Buoso’s will doesn’t read exactly as they hoped, the family enlists the help of the morally flexible Gianni Schicchi to help them re-write the will.

Relatives of the newly-deceased (and very wealthy) Buoso Donati gather to bid farewell to their dear family member – and to learn what they each inherited. When they discover that Buoso’s will doesn’t read exactly as they hoped, the family enlists the help of the morally flexible Gianni Schicchi to help them re-write the will.

Join us in celebrating Victoria Paterson’s 50th birthday with Tintinnabuli, an evening of music inspired by the sounds of bells, with works by Palestrina, Arvo Pärt, and Robert Paterson. Buy Tickets Here.

World premiere production of Cocoa Cantata , music by Robert Paterson and libretto by David Cote, and a contemporary adaptation of J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata by Paterson and Cote.