New York New Music Festival

Thursday November 19th, 7:00pm and 9:30pm; Friday November 20 7:00pm and 9:30pm; Saturday November 21, 3pm and 7pm, 2026

Susan Botti (she/her) - voiceAiri Yoshioka (she/her) - violin

Ford Fourqurean, ClarinetSofiya Levchenko, ViolinIva Casian Lakos, Cello

Madeline Hocking, violinAndrea Abel, fluteClara Cho, celloJonathan Collazo, percussionGabe Henkin, clarinet

Madeline Hocking, violinKyle Stalsberg, violaKathryn Vetter, clarinetElizabeth Kate Hall-Keough, celloDaniel Schreiner, pianoMcKenzie Squires, percussionJ Clancy, percussionBrian Ellis, composer

Amber Evans, soprano/violaSamuel Zagnit, double bass/voice

The New York New Music Festival is an annual festival created to celebrate the Contemporary Classical Music community in NYC. This inaugural year of the festival presents 6 concerts by 6 ensembles that are based in and actively contribute to the cultural fabric of music in New York City.

Duo della Luna (Susan Botti and Airi Yoshioka) performs eclectic contemporary chamber music in an unusual combination of voice and violin. The duo’s wide-ranging repertoire includes newly commissioned works (including undiscovered voices), re-imagined existing works, and diverse folk music arrangements.

Unheard-of performs trios by David Bird, Meg Okura, Max Eidinoff, and Ben Wallace, exploring sounds in between worlds from the fantastical to sonic memory and imagined futures. The program opens with Meg Okura’s Phantasmagoria described as a musical odyssey into a world more surreal than even the most fantastical dream. David Bird’s Hysteresis blends electronics, video, and expansive sonic textures that weave through time. Max Eidinoff’s Converging on a Critical Band expands the trio into a processed meta instrument. Ben Wallace’s Crash Out ends the program with persistent 90s rave and a fever dream.

Sixth Degree Sextet is an NYC-based new music ensemble formed by Andrea Abel (flute), Gabriel Henkin (clarinet), Madeline Hocking (violin), Clara Cho (cello), Nacho Ojeda (piano), and Jonathan Collazo (percussion). Hailing from six different countries and united by a shared artistic vision, the ensemble takes its name from the concept of Six Degrees of Separation - the idea that any two people can be connected through a chain of mutual relationships. This program brings that idea of connection into three very different works, each offering its own perspective on relationships between people, places, and ideas. Anuj Bhutani’s Flight Path draws on the composer’s fascination with birds and their migratory journeys, imagining how a shared destination can still allow for an entirely individual path. Erich Barganier’s 91 Hours examines the complicated nature of intimacy, exploring how closeness can exist alongside trauma and how the two can become difficult to separate. Samantha Wolfe’s A Rose Is a Rose Is a Ruse: A Bachelor’s Tale brings the conventions of reality television into the concert hall, comp