2022-2023 Wunsch New Music Festival, September 25-27, 2022

Every two years, KU Music provides students — and the public — with the opportunity to experience innovative new music from some of today’s leading composers and ensembles during the Wunsch New Music Festival. The festival concerts are free and open to the public.

Guest Artists for the 2022-2023 Festival

Guest Composer-in-Residence: Dr. Marcos Balter - Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition, Columbia University

Guest Ensemble-in-Residence: International Contemporary Ensemble - "America’s foremost new-music group" (The New Yorker)

Dr. Marcos Balter 

Dr. Marcos Balter - Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition, Columbia University

International Contemporary Ensemble 

International Contemporary Ensemble 

Schedule of Events

September 25, 2022, 7:30 p.m. | Swarthout Recital Hall

Kansas Virtuosi Concert: featuring the music of Marcos Balter and KU Composition Faculty.
Free and open to the public.

September 26, 2022, 7:30 p.m. | Swarthout Recital Hall

Contemporary Music Workshop: with Marcos Balter and International Contemporary Ensemble.
Open to all KU music students and faculty.

more events

September 27, 2022, 10:00 a.m | Swarthout Recital Hall

Lecture: Marcos Balter.
Free and open to the public.

September 27, 2022, 7:30 p.m | Swarthout Recital Hall

Ensemble-in-Residence Concert: International Contemporary Ensemble featuring the music of Marcos Balter and others.
Free and open to the public.

Program Notes (pdf): International Contemporary Ensemble, Wunsch New Music Festival – September 27, 2022

Other festival events include masterclasses and readings of student compositions.

Please contact Dr. Ingrid Stölzel, Chair, Wunsch New Music Committee with any questions at: istolzel@ku.edu.

November 10-14, 2019

November 10

Concert | 7:30 p.m. | Swarthout Recital Hall

Kansas Virtuosi performs music of Melinda Wagner

November 11

Concert | 7:30 p.m. | Cider Gallery, 810 Pennsylvania, Lawrence

Music of KU composition faculty

November 12

Open Rehearsal | 10:00 a.m. | Swarthout Recital Hall

Guest ensemble concert featuring Left Coast Chamber Ensemble

Concert | 7:30 p.m. | Swarthout Recital Hall

Guest ensemble concert featuring Left Coast Chamber Ensemble

November 14

Lecture | 10:00 a.m. | Swarthout Recital Hall

Composer-in-Residence Melinda Wagner

February 13-14, 2019

Feb. 13

Guest Composer Portraits | 12 p.m. | Hall Center for the Humanities

Lectures by Amy Beth Kirsten, Tonia Ko, Hannah Lash and Nina Young

Pre-Concert Talk | 6:45 p.m. | Swarthout Recital Hall

with Amy Beth Kirsten, Tonia Ko, Hannah Lash and Nina Young

Kansas Virtuosi | 7:30 p.m. | Swarthout Recital Hall

Presenting music by Amy Beth Kirsten, Tonia Ko, Hannah Lash and Nina Young

Feb. 14   

Panel Discussion | 10 a.m. | Swarthout Recital Hall

with Amy Beth Kirsten, Tonia Ko, Hannah Lash and Nina Young

Salon Concert and Conversation | 7:30 p.m. | Cider Gallery, 810 Pennsylvania St.

Large venues

Medium sized concert hall