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Acclaimed sextet chamber ensemble yMusic, who eschews boundaries by performing the vanguard of American Contemporary Music and imbuing their own unique sound to popular music, makes its debut in an outdoor program at the Domo. The program includes a work composed for the ensemble by contemporary composer Judd Greenstein and a Tippet Rise Co-Commission written by rising young composer Gabriella Smith. Inspired by ocean ecosystems, Smith’s new work Aquatic Ecology provides a point of dialogue for audiences on climate change.

yMusic

The Domo

Our 2024 summer finale features pianist Joyce Yang, silver medalist at the Van Cliburn Piano Competition in 2005, when she was only 19! Joyce will perform solo Preludes by Rachmaninov and Dvorak’s rollicking “Dumky” Piano Trio. Efe Baltacıgil returns for 2024 composer-in-residence Paul Wiancko’s inventive new work for solo cello, piano quartet, and glockenspiel: Closed Universe.

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Music on the Strait Festival Finale: Joyce Yang and Friends

Field Arts & Events Hall

This performance is free with no tickets required. Free parking is available in the church parking lots.

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Oakland University

Following its wildly creative video presentation as part of the Spring 2021 Cal Performances at Home season, the adventurous new-music ensemble yMusic—all members of Generation Y—returns with an exciting program of new and recent works for its in-person Berkeley debut.

Comprising “six contemporary classical polymaths who playfully overstep the boundaries of musical genres” (The New Yorker), yMusic is committed to working closely with living composers, from pop stars like Paul Simon, Regina Spektor, and Ben Folds to leading lights of the classical music world.

The centerpiece of the concert is the West Coast premiere of Difference, a Cal Performances co-commission by the Grammy-nominated and Grawemeyer Award-winning composer Andrew Norman, hailed as “the leading American composer of his generation” by the Los Angeles Times. The program also includes Missy Mazzoli’s meditative Ecstatic Science; Berkeley-born composer Gabriella Smith’s Tessellations; Together, a new work Judd Greenstein wrote for the group during quarantine; and several new pieces co-composed by the ensemble during the past year’s hiatus from live performance.

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Judd Greenstein

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Past events

Aug 23, 2025

yMusic · Tippet Rise Art Center

Aug 10, 2024

Music on the Strait Festival Finale: Joyce Yang and Friends · Field Arts & Events Hall

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