Season XI Events

Songs from the River

November 3, 2024

7:30 pm

The Marigny Opera House

Season XI opens with a program featuring selections from Eve Beglarian’s BRIM the River Project which was inspired by a human-powered trip down the Mississippi River that the composer undertook in 2009. The collection of pieces serves as a travel journal of places and people she met along the way and paints a picture of modern-day America. The program also features evocative, moving, and timbrally nuanced works by composers Carolyn Chen, Kaija Saariaho, and Marti Epstein.

What you’ll hear:

Eve Beglarian: Selections from BRIM the River Project
Kaija Saariaho: “Nocturne”
Carolyn Chen: “ache bind blind break”
Marti Epstein “Oil and Sugar”
Kaijia Saariaho: “Cendres”

Fog Tropes

December 9, 2024
7:30 PM
Dixon Annex Recital Hall, Tulane University

Join us for a program of chamber music with electronics featuring the Versipel Collective performing Fog Tropes, an evening of meditative, atmospheric works with slowly evolving timbres and textures. Each work embraces a sense of slow yet constant change. These works are uncompromising in their own ways, yet they compliment each other to create a program that invites us to slow down our perception of the world around us.

What You’ll Hear:

Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes
Catherine Lamb: line/shadow
Salvatore Sciarrino: Lo Spazio Inverso
Philip Schuessler: The Prism Sap Harvest
Angélica Negrón: Dust

Versipel + Takae OHnishi

January 31st, 2025

7:30 pm

Dixon Annex Recital Hall, Tulane University

The Versipel Collective is excited to collaborate with harpsichordist Takae Ohnishi on a program featuring works for harpsichord and chamber ensemble, including world premieres by local composers Rick Snow (Tulane University), Kari Besharse (The University of New Orleans), Zach Pine, Erin Demastes,Kevin Mah and much more!

What you’ll hear:

Rick Snow: new work
Kari Besharse: new work
Kevin Mah: new work
Zach Pine: new work
Erin Demastes: new work

Chaos Cultures III

May 18th, 2025

7:30 pm

New Marigny Theatre

For its season finale, Versipel New Music brings you another unpredictable and exciting installment of Chaos Cultures, a concert series that mixes different streams of contemporary chamber music and experimentalism. We present a program of works infused with an environmentally conscience theme along with jazz and rock-inflected works as well as music using graphic notation.

The show includes guest composer/performer cory diane, who will perform their work for zither and electronics. The show also features the world premiere of Stephen Montalvo‘s in Discord for ensemble and electronics. Also on the program is a new graphic-score work by Versipel’s very own Sixto Franco as well as Pascal Le Boeuf‘s Wanderlust (piano trio version). We round out the show with Louis Andriessen‘s 20th century masterwork Workers Union. Additionally, we are very excited to have a guest speaker connected to our environmental themes of the show.