past guests and featured artists
Quince's residency at Alia Musica (2016–17) included their premiere of Curtis Rumrill's The Passion of the Wilt-Mold Mothers, David Lang's love fail, and the joint performance of Berio's Laborintus II.
Photo credit: Aleksandr Karjaka
Ken was composer in residence in 2015–16, appearing with Alia Musica's orchestra in his Concerto for Overtone Singer, and writing Sawdust in Ararat for premiere by the ensemble at the 2016 Pittsburgh Festival of New Music.
World-touring new music soprano Tony Arnold was featured with Alia Musica and as a soloist in the Pittsburgh Festival of New Music in 2016. In 2014, she sang in the tour of Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon's Comala with Alia Musica and the Eastman Broadband.
Photo credit: Claudia Hansen.
American visionary pianist and composer Frederic Rzewski has performed as a guest of Alia Musica's at the 2014 Pittsburgh Festival of New Music, in April of 2015 (The People United), and in October of 2016 (War Songs, then in progress). Photo credit: Fabio Lugaro.
Cliff Colnot (Chicago Civic Orchestra) led Alia Musica's inaugural Conductors Festival in 2011. Photo credit: Nic Lockerman.
Composer and sound artist Pamela Z was featured at the Shadow Lounge, as part of Alia Musica's Hear/Now Festival of New Sounds in April 2012. Photo Credit: Swearingen.
Legendary flutist-composer Robert Dick was featured in a solo recital and in the ensemble concert in the Spring of 2013. Photo credit: Composer Concordance Festival.
Alia Musica premiered Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon's "Yo Tú/Sí No/Yo Sí/Tú No" in the Spring of 2011, and participated in the January 2014 tour of his Pulitzer Prize finalist opera "Comala" in January of 2014. Photo credit: Eastman School of Music.
watch & listen
Canzonetta from Berio's Laborintus II (May 2017)
G.F. Haas: Nach-Ruf... ent-gleitend (March, 2015)
Ueno: Concerto (excerpt; November, 2015)
Flashmob: Stravinsky's Firebird at Market Square (May, 2016). Illustration: Tomas Ives
Highlights: Winter 2017 Concert (January, 2017)
Garcia De Castro: Memoria (excerpt; February, 2016)