our vision for “converging voices”

In 2013, Hub New Music began as a school project at the New England Conservatory with the goal of programming works by our peers. The project was born out of a desire to do something outside the curriculum, and to create an outlet for working with emerging composers across Boston.

Now in our second decade, Hub New Music has commissioned over 40 works for our quartet and with myriad guest artists. Reflecting on our work, we have had the privilege of working with many luminaries in the field of contemporary concert music, including well-established composers who ignited our love for this art form.

Hub - both as an organization and as four individual artists - is looking back to our earliest collaborations with direct peers and the exhilarating joy they brought. The uncharted musical territory, the flurries of rapid-fire messages to decide what exactly we’re doing in each measure, and the resulting undefinable energy always kept us coming back for more.

The kinship we share with these coetaneous composers is something Hub doesn’t take lightly, all of us being a group of scrappy millennials and younger navigating the strange waters of the present. Despite the tumultuous state of the world, we have both the opportunity and responsibility to show the way forward. 

In distilling these thoughts into a concrete initiative, we arrived at the name Converging Voices. We feel it best describes the ethos of the project, in which Hub connects with folks on a similar trajectory and work together toward the common goal of creating impactful new art. Through Convergent Voices, Hub looks forward to fostering continued relationships with these rising composers, and together look ahead to a new era of vibrant musical possibility.