With hills of snow on the sidewalks after an overnight blizzard, Nunc performed at
Brooklyn venue National Sawdust: a mixed chamber program of works by Michael Jarrell, Iannis Xenakis, Elliott Carter, and premieres by Jonathan Dawe, Diego Tedesco, and David Fulmer, who conducted several works on the program. Soprano Mary Mackenzie sang in the Dawe piece and with June Han in the Jarrell. The Xenakis piece “Aroura” included
students from the Juilliard and Mannes schools of music.

Nunc gave two performances of Michael Hersch’s chamber opera “On the Threshold of Winter” in October, in new productions at Peabody Institute in Baltimore and Blair School of Music in Nashville. The Baltimore Sun named the production one of their Best Classical events of 2015. Performers and composer onstage after performance in Nashville:

Nunc performed at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, to a delighted audience. As part of the music department’s festival celebrating George Crumb, we played his “Eleven Echoes of Autumn”, with guest flutist Mi-Li Chang, and his “Four Nocturnes” for violin and piano, along with trios by Augusta Read Thomas and Sebastian Currier, and Laura Schwendinger’s duo “The Violinists in My Life”. We greatly enjoyed giving masterclasses and also a workshop with the student composers.

Nunc performed two concerts of music by Mario Davidovsky at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We played in the theater’s basement space where they present
experimental music and theater.

Nunc produced and played the world premiere of Michael Hersch’s opera On the Threshold of Winter at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on June 25.  There was a profile of Michael by Vivien Schweitzer in Sunday’s New York Times. The performance was given excellent
reviews in the New York Times and Romanian paper Cotidianul.

Nunc performed at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, at the
invitation of composer-in-residence Sebastian Currier. The program was built around the
trios for horn, violin and piano by Brahms and Ligeti, with Michael Atkinson on horn. Blair McMillen played three etudes by David Rakowski, including a premiere. Miranda gave her first performance of Brian Ferneyhough’s Intermedio alla ciaconna. At Sebastian’s
suggestion, the score was projected large onto a screen at the back of the stage. After the concert, there was a Q&A with the audience. The concert was broadcast on WWFM, with an interview with David Osenberg.

Nunc received these reviews for the concert of Ralph Shapey’s music on the Contempo
series at the University of Chicago.

Chicago Tribune review Contempo, Cuckson go beneath the surface at Logan

Chicago Classical Review UC serves up an engaging tribute to Ralph Shapey