September 18th-20th, 2025
Thursday, September 18th: 7:00pm at New Marigny Theatre – Concert #1 – Quartetto Obrigado
Friday, September 19th: 6:00pm Hotel Peter and Paul– Pre-concert talk (open to public)
7:30pm – Concert #2 – Call For Scores Part 1 featuring the Versipel Collective
Saturday, September 20th: 2:00pm Dixon Annex Recital Hall at Tulane – Concert #3 – Call For Scores Part 2 featuring the Versipel Collective
Saturday, September 20th: 7:30pm Domino Lounge – Concert #4 – Chris Alford, Composers, and the Versipel Collective.
Batture Contemporary
Batture Contemporary is a three-day new music festival showcasing the diverse array of composers and performers based in Louisiana. The festival includes concerts, workshops, and rehearsals free and open to the public in various venues in the city of New Orleans.
Batture Contemporary was created and is run by Versipel New Music and will feature the Versipel Collective and Quartetto Obrigado performing works by Louisiana-based composers.
For more information about Batture Contemporary, click here.
Sunday, November 2nd: 7:30 pm New Marginy Theatre at the Church of Arts and Sciences
Tickets are $20/$10/$0 (discounts for students & seniors, and hardship consideration)
Our season continues with a program of works by some of today’s leading voices in contemporary music. These works range from the simple to the sublime. Caroline Shaw’s “Thousandth Orange” is built on a simple four-chord progression that slowly reveals deeper layers upon repetition. Andrew Norman’s “Light Screens” is inspired by light-filled patterns of Frank Lloyd Wright’s art glass windows, which he termed “light screens.” Mary Kouyoumdjian’s “A Boy and a Makeshift Toy” is inspired by a portrait of a young boy playing in an abandoned train station, full of Albanian refugees, waiting to be taken to another camp. Yotam Haber’s “Bremner” is an intensely brooding work that was commission by the “Composing in the Wilderness” program. “For Anton Vishio” by Tyshawn Sorey is a boldly ethereal and contemplative work and was composed for composer and theorist Anton Vishio.
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