Works in Development
Hub New Music is developing substantial new works with composers Bora Yoon, Eric Nathan, Elijah Daniel Smith, and Angélica Negrón. Building on our first decade of commissions, Hub looks toward ambitious projects that engage with technology, intersect with multiple musical practices, speak to larger social topics, and tell sweeping stories. Our goal is to bring each of these projects to life by our 20th anniversary in 2033.
Hub New Music x Bora Yoon
Hub New Music collaborates with Korean-American composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Bora Yoon on a new 20-minute work. Scored for Hub and Ms. Yoon, the piece builds on Ms. Yoon's growing collection of work that conjures audiovisual soundscapes using digital devices, voice and found objects, and instruments from a variety of historical periods. Ms. Yoon is fascinated by the intersection of space and audio, and looks forward to exploring these themes and their resonance in society with Hub New Music.
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 from a thousand years and many 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, 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.
Angélica Negrón
Angélica Negrón is a Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist. She writes music for voices, orchestras, ensembles and film as well as robots, toys, and plants. Angélica is known for playing with the unexpected intersection of classical and electronic music, unusual instruments, and found sounds.he way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
elijah Daniel smith
Elijah Daniel Smith is an American contemporary composer whose music has been described as “gnashing and relentless” (Chicago Tribune), “Seductive” (Gramophone), and as “an ingenious study in clarity and distortion” (San Francisco Classical Voice). His music ranges from orchestral compositions to multimedia and interdisciplinary collaborations and his affinity for dense and complex textures, rhythmic ambiguity and fluidity, and rich gravitational harmonies shines through in all of his creations.
Bora yoon
Korean-American composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Bora Yoon is an interdisciplinary artist who conjures audiovisual soundscapes using digital devices, voice and found objects and instruments from a variety of cultures and historical centuries – to formulate an audiovisual storytelling through music, movement and sound.
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New Work by Elijah Daniel Smith
Elijah Daniel Smith’s music had been described as “gnashing and relentless” (Chicago Tribune), “Seductive” (Gramophone), and as “an ingenious study in clarity and distortion” (San Francisco Classical Voice). Smith and Hub build on their creative relationship with a second work, a 20-minute electroacoustic composition responding to banned books in 21st century America.