Cellist

Matt Aucoin’s Music for New Bodies, created in collaboration with acclaimed director Peter Sellars, is a bold operatic meditation on our shifting place in the natural world. Fusing poetic texts from Jorie Graham with visceral soundscapes, Aucoin crafts a work that is at once urgent and transcendent, while Sellars’ visionary staging brings the music into striking visual focus. Together, they invite us to imagine new forms of life, connection, and transformation.

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Music for New Bodies

Sarasota Opera House

Hub New Music gives a glimpse into the exciting world of contemporary composition in a program of short works. The program is a musical tasting menu of sorts, in which audiences can sample a variety of styles and influences that make up today's musical palette.

Hub Mixtape (Brainerd)

Lutheran Church of the Cross

Hub New Music gives a glimpse into the exciting world of contemporary composition in a program of short works. The program is a musicatasting menu of sorts, in which audiences can sample a variety of styles and influences that make up today's musical palette.



Hub Mixtape (Minneapolis)

The Woman's Club Of Minneapolis

Michael Avitabile (flutes), Gleb Kanasevich (clarinets), Magnolia Rohrer (violin/viola), and Jesse Christeson (cello) are the members of Hub New Music. Currently based in Detroit, the ensemble’s name is inspired by its founding city of Boston’s reputation as a hub of innovation. Hub New Music will perform works by the following composers: Tyshawn Sorey, Donnacha Dennehy, Angelica Negron, Charles Peck, Amy Williams, and Mathew Rosenblum.

Hub New Music

University of Pittsburgh

From the piano, Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence Carlos Simon leads a small ensemble in Requiem for the Enslaved. The program invokes African American spirituals and the form of a Catholic liturgical mass to tell the story of 272 enslaved people sold in 1838 to pay the debts of Georgetown University, where the composer serves as assistant professor of music.

Requiem for the Enslaved

Kennedy Center

Hub New Music, a “nimble quartet of winds and strings” (NPR), has built a national reputation for commissioning and performing fresh, dazzling, and ambitious contemporary works. Hear the Grammy-nominated group in their hometown for an exciting collaborative program that features an exciting spoken word and electronics collaboration, the world premiere of a work by Marcos Balter, and more.

Cellist

Jesse Christeson

Events

Past events

May 22, 2026

Music for New Bodies · Sarasota Opera

Apr 13, 2025

Hub Mixtape (Brainerd) · Lakes Area Music Festival

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