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Chaos Cultures
tuesday, april 4th @ 8 P.m.rogers memorial chapeltulane universityNew orleans, LA Join the Versipel Collective for an exciting, hybrid evening featuring works performed by the Collective with special guest NOLA improvisers Alexandria Smith and Byron Asher. The concert features works by composers on the edge of composition and improvisation such as “Artificial Life” by George…
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Chamber Cartel performs Crippled Symmetry
Tuesday, March 14th, 2023 7:30 pm University of New Orleans Performing Arts Center Versipel New Music presents Atlanta’s Chamber Cartel in their debut performance in New Orleans. Hailed as “the darlings of Atlanta’s [New Music] scene, Chamber Cartel has performed more than sixty unique concert programs since 2012, including the performance of twenty commissioned works…
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The Versipel Collective: Sounds as Written
Join Versipel New Music for the opening concert of its ninth season. We return to one of our favorite venues, Cafe Istanbul, for an evening of intimate chamber works, many of which are taken from our previous International Calls for Scores. The Versipel Collective performs works by JP Lemke, Hakki Cengiz Eren, Chun Ting Pang,…
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Versipel New Music Season IX
We’ve got a blazing Season IX kicking off in December! Some big, big shows with some big, big ideas are coming your way including a show that combines choreography with a live performance of Steve Reich’s “Different Trains” as well as a Versipel commissioned piece by local composer James May that combines NOLA free improvisers…
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Program Notes for May 15th, 2022
Frederic Anthony Rzewski (/ˈʒɛfski/ZHEF-skee; April 13, 1938 – June 26, 2021) was an American composer and pianist, considered to be one of the most important American composer-pianists of his time.[1][2] His major compositions, which often incorporate social and political themes, include the minimalist Coming Together and the variation set The People United Will Never Be Defeated!,[1] which has been called “a modern classic”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Rzewski…
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Versipel New Music presents “Coming Together” May 15th @7:30 PM
“I think the combination of age and a greater coming together is responsible for the speed of the passing of time…” Samuel Melville, personal journals For our season finale concert, Versipel New Music presents a program of works centered upon the idea of upheaval and fluctuation as a catalyst for positive change. Moving forward demands…
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Versipel New Music presents andPlay!
This event will be rescheduled for Fall 2022!!! April 6th, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. University of New Orleans Performing Arts Center Recital Hall On Wednesday, April 6th, andPlay will perform their program “Translucent Harmonies” at the UNO Recital Hall featuring Catherine Lamb’s “Prisma Interious VIII” and Kristofer Svensson’s “Vid Stenmuren Blir Tanken Blomma” two works…
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Unheard-of//Ensemble: Fire Ecologies, March 13th, 7:30pm @Hotel Peter and Paul
Join Versipel for our second visiting ensemble show of the season on March 13th, 2022 at Hotel Peter and Paul!!! We are bring the phenomenal, boundary breaking Unheard-of//Ensemble to New Orleans for the first time! Fire Ecologies Unheard-of performs Fire Ecologies, a fifty-five minute unique musical and visual experience that explores American landscapes through the…
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The Versipel Collective Presents “In Sound”
Sunday, November 7th, 7pm at The Marigny Opera House On November 7th, Versipel New Music presents “In Sound,” a program designed to immerse the audience in natural, electroacoustic and instrumental sonic landscapes. Electroacoustic works by composers Hildegard Westerkamp and Natasha Barrett showcase the delicate sonic landscapes of melting glaciers and the anthropogenically altered landscape of…
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