2020/2021 Commission Highlights
CHristopher cerrone
Christopher Cerrone is internationally acclaimed for compositions characterized by a subtle handling of timbre and resonance, a deep literary fluency, and a flair for multimedia collaborations. Balancing lushness and austerity, immersive textures and telling details, dramatic impact and interiority, Cerrone’s GRAMMY-nominated music is compelling and uniquely his own. Cerrone writes a new work for HNM’s abtract expressionist inspired program, Phantasmagoria. Cerrone’s new work premieres on a special event with Arizona Friends of Chamber Music (TBA 2020). christophercerrone.com
Carlos Simon
Recent Sphinx Medal of Excellence awardee, Carlos Simon is a native of Atlanta, Georgia whose music ranges from concert music for large and small ensembles to film scores with influences of jazz, gospel, and neo-romanticism. His work for Hub, Requiem for the Enslaved, is inspired by historical documents detailing the sale of 272 slaves sold to pay the debts of Georgetown University, where the composer currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music. HNM performs a reduced version of this 60 minute work this season, before its full premiere in the future. We perform the reduced version with Texas Performing Arts (September 2020), The Williams Center at Lafayette College (October 2020), and Arizona Friends of Chamber Music (October 2020). coliversimon.com
Shaw Pong Liu
Violinist and composer Shaw Pong Liu engages diverse communities through multidisciplinary collaborations, creative music and social dialogue. Her project Code Listen, which she started as City of Boston Artist-in-Residence in 2016, uses songwriting and performances to support healing and dialogue around violence, racism, and police practices, in collaboration with the Boston Police Department, teen artists, family members surviving homicide and local musicians. Liu’s new work for Hub New Music will incorporate audience participation through group singing. Liu’s new work was commissioned by and will premiere with the Celebrity Series of Boston (March 2021). shawpong.com
eric nathan
Eric Nathan’s (b. 1983) music has been called “as diverse as it is arresting” with a “constant vein of ingenuity and expressive depth” (San Francisco Chronicle), “thoughtful and inventive” (The New Yorker), and as “a marvel of musical logic” (Boston Classical Review). Nathan’s new work for HNM builds on his “Missing Words” project - a collection of pieces inspired by Ben Schott’s book Schottenfreude, which offers a diverse collection of new German words explaining phenomena of the contemporary psyche. Co-commissioned with Stony Brooke University, Hub New Music premieres Nathan’s work with the Celebrity Series of Boston (March 2021). ericnathanmusic.com