Season 9

Season 9: 2022-2023

Versipel Collective: Sounds as Written

December 12th, 7:30 pm

Join the Versipel Collective at Cafe Istanbul on December 12th for our season 9 premiere show! This show features works by some of our amazing New Orleans local composers Alexandria Smith, Jeff Albert and James May as well as pieces chosen from our International Call for Scores by JP Lempke, Hakki Cengiz Eren, Chun Ting Pang. We also have a solo vocal work by D. Eddie Davis and a quartet for saxophone and string trio by Paul Haydn. Don’t miss this opportunity to see an amazing cross-section of new music from around the world.

Visiting Ensemble: Chamber Cartel

March 14th, 7:30 pm

University of New Orleans Recital Hall

Guest ensemble Chamber Cartel is a band of gifted musicians dedicated to finding the rare, wonderful, imaginative, and beautiful in Contemporary Chamber Music. Based in Atlanta, they have been hailed as “the darlings of Atlanta’s [New Music] scene” and “contemporary classical heavyweights” by the Goat Farm Arts Center. Having a flexible instrumentation, Chamber Cartel has performed over sixty concerts of unique programming since 2012 and commissioned twenty new works.

Chamber Cartel will perform Morton Feldman’s evening length work “Crippled Symmetry”

The Versipel Collective: Chaos Cultures I

April 4, 2023, 8pm

Rogers Memorial Chapel, Tulane University

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 Lewis,”Heart of Tone” by Pauline Oliveros, “O Yer” by Hakki Cengiz Eren and “Arc Harvester” by Philip Schuessler.

The Versipel Collective + Dance: Different Trains

May 25th-26th, 2023

The Marigny Opera House

Versipel’s season finale features our most epic and visually stunning collaborative project to date. On this show, we are bringing Steve Reich’s 20th century classic “Different Trains” to life with new choreography by New Orleans choreographer Lauren Guynes. Additionally, the program will feature a world premiere electroacoustic work by local composer Mendel Lee entitled “Fast-Paced World” with new choreography by Jakki Kalogridis. Pamela Z’s “Twenty Answers” and Eve Beglarian’s “Island of the Sirens” will also be performed.

Tickets available on Eventbrite!