OSSIA New Music strives to offer a musical alternative to Eastman and the greater Rochester community through artistic experimentation, performance of cutting-edge works, and active engagement with the world of contemporary music. With Eastman Performing Arts and Medicine, OSSIA seeks to expand its mission by offering a musical alternative in the Flaum Atrium.

The program, which includes Mark Applebaum's Tlön for three conductors and no players and Julie Zhu's stochastic Distraction for four players and video, focuses on alternatives to the modes of music-making we have come to expect in the concert hall. We invite audience participation for Jennie Gottschalk's Here we are; you may choose to bring your instrument, but an instrument is not required to join the performance.

Chicago-based early music collective Schola Antiqua returns to the Memorial Art Gallery for a program highlighting themes in the Memorial Art Gallery’s recent installation of Renaissance stained glass. Wide-ranging expressions from the pre-modern sound world interweave with the provocative chamber music of American minimalist Philip Glass, performed by Eastman School of Music contemporary music ensemble OSSIA.

Concert included with museum admission; half price after 5pm. University of Rochester Students, Faculty, and Staff are free with ID.

With Eastman Performing Arts and Medicine, OSSIA seeks to expand its mission by offering a musical alternative in the Flaum Atrium. Drawing on the aesthetics of ambient and meditative music and the open and mobile form structures of improvised musics, performers will utilize sustained sounds and elegant gestures.

The two cornerstones of Meltdown—Marcos Balter's Meltdown Upshot and 2023–24 International Call for Works winner Anak Baiharn's The night the priest killed Eleanor—display influences of jazz and popular music styles including rock and metal. The other two pieces on the program—Saad Haddad's Aruah and Rodney Sharman's Incantation—are more meditative, and will provide moments of respite from Baiharn's incessant repetitions and Balter's thrumming rhythms.

Out of Breath features works that explore the nature of breath through sound, language, and meaning. Two of the works on the program feature voice: the rarely-heard Parole di San Paolo for voice and 11 instruments by Italian modernist Luigi Dallapiccola and the world premiere of Distant by Ko Muramatsu, which features controlled delay using physical space and electronics. Two other pieces on the program, Saad Haddad's Aruah and Peter S. Shin's Screaming Shapes, also utilize breath and/or vocalization in their instrumental and electronic parts.

With Eastman Performing Arts and Medicine, OSSIA seeks to expand its mission by offering a musical alternative in the Flaum Atrium. Drawing on the aesthetics of ambient and meditative music and the open and mobile form structures of improvised musics, performers will utilize sustained sounds and elegant gestures.

Stitching Time presents a series of compositions that deal with the experience and understanding of time. Through the historical reference to Bach in Brandenburg Interstices (Smith) or the complex and detailed notation of rhythm in Clear Sky, (Levine) the program fragments, colors, and mirrors time in many ways.