ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE

“a prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” - The Washington Post 

“contemporary chamber trailblazers” - The Boston Globe

Founded in 2013, Hub New Music is one of today’s leading contemporary music ensembles. Hub has expanded the repertoire for its distinct combination of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello with over forty commissions by today’s most celebrated composers. In its dynamic concert programs, Hub New Music strikes notes of contemporary relevance.

Recent and upcoming performances include concerts presented by the John F. Kennedy Center, Miller Theatre, Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Seattle Symphony, the Williams Center for the Arts, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center, King’s Place (London), Thailand International Composer’s Festival (Bangkok), Krannert Center, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, University Musical Society, and Celebrity Series of Boston.

This season Hub launches Converging Voices, a multi-year peer-driven commissioning project that supports early-career composers. The first cycle of Converging Voices features Elijah Daniel Smith, Akshaya Avril Tucker, and Geli Li. In recent seasons, Hub has collaborated on commissions with Angélica Negrón, Nico Muhly, Tyshawn Sorey, Donnacha Dennehy, Christopher Cerrone, Carlos Simon, and Nina C. Young, among others. The group has also developed genre-defying collaborations with the Asia/America New Music Institute, Boston’s Urbanity Dance, Silkroad’s Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi), and trumpeter/spoken word artist MK Zulu.

Hub New Music’s recordings have garnered consistent acclaim. I Care if You Listen called Hub’s 2025 album of Daniel Thomas’ What if We’re Beautiful an “exceptionally well-produced product” that “grasps at the ineffable experiences of queer community.” Hub’s debut album, Soul House (New Amsterdam Records) was called “ingenious and unequivocally gorgeous” by the Boston Globe and “intensely poignant” by Textura. The ensemble’s album with Carlos Simon, Requiem for the Enslaved (Decca Classics), was nominated for a GRAMMY award for Best Classical Composition in 2022.

Hub is sought after for its multifaceted educational residency programs, having been recent guests at Princeton Sound Kitchen, University of Michigan, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, USC, Yale Schwarzman Center, Mizzou New Music Initiative, Boston Conservatory, and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, among many others. In 2021, Hub was a resident ensemble for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Nancy and Barry Sanders Composer Fellowship program for high school aged composers.

Hub New Music is Michael Avitabile (flute), Gleb Kanasevich (clarinet), Magnolia Rohrer (violin), and Jesse Christeson (cello). The ensemble’s name is inspired by its founding city of Boston’s reputation as a hub of innovation. Hub New Music is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

• A NOTE ON OUR NAME •

Please refer to us in print and digital as Hub New Music

(not HUB new music, or Hub New Music Ensemble, etc.)

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