Works in Development

Hub New Music is developing substantial new works with composers Elijah Daniel Smith, Angélica Negrón, Bora Yoon, and Eric Nathan. Building on our first decade of commissions, Hub looks toward ambitious projects that engage with technology, reach across genre divides, and speak to broader social topics.

projects

2026/27 season

Elijah Daniel Smith, Systems of Similitude

Elijah Daniel Smith’s music has been described as “gnashing and relentless” (Chicago Tribune), “seductive” (Gramophone), and “an ingenious study in clarity and distortion” (San Francisco Classical Voice). His second work for Hub New Music, Systems of Similitude, is a 20-minute electroacoustic work responding to the fictional dystopias of Lois Lowry’s The Giver , Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, and George Orwell’s 1984. 

Pre-recorded samples of Hub New Music are juxtaposed with the live ensemble, which is eventually subsumed by the unchanging looming presence of the electronics. Over the course of the piece, each instrument slowly assimilates into the fixed electronics, eventually becoming indistinguishable from the pre-recorded samples.

Bora Yoon, Casual Miracles II

Casual Miracles II (working title) is the second installment in the Casual Miracles song cycle project by Korean American composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Bora Yoon. The cycle features narrated vignettes, tracing the intersection and entanglements between life, death and birth. Co-commissioned by and written for Hub New Music, Casual Miracles II is an empathy-driven chamber work, exploring female experiences of mortal and corporeal drudgery, in conjunction with divine and celestial purpose. (Watch “Casual Miracles I” here)

2027/28 & 2028/29 season

Angélica Negrón, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Angélica Negrón is writing a new score to the classic film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, to be performed live by Hub New Music. Negrón is known for playing with the unexpected intersection of classical and electronic music, unusual instruments, and found sounds. This project with Hub New Music builds on her growing body of film scores, which includes scores for the HBO docuseries Menudo: Forever Young and Cecilia Aldarondo’s You Were My First Boyfriend.

Eric Nathan, Rising

Rising is a new 30-minute song cycle by composer Eric Nathan for soprano Lindsay Kesselman and Hub New Music. Spanning several movements, the piece sets poetry and texts spanning multiple centuries and cultures. Each movement offers a distinct way of seeing water: as something that gives life, takes it away, divides people, brings them together, heals, transforms, erases, and renews. Nathan’s music is marked by its clarity, emotional intensity, and a finely-tuned dramatic sense. In Rising, he will trace a series of encounters with water—as element, metaphor, and memory—shaping a musical landscape that is historical yet fluid, grounded yet always shifting, always returning.

composers & Collaborators