New Music Concerts
2003-2004 Profile

New Music Concerts’ mandate is to bring the best contemporary musical art forms from around the world and across the country to Toronto. To this end we bring internationally renowned composers to work with local musicians to develop the skills of these players.  

Our 2003-2004 Season began in September with music of Melnyk, Sorabji and Brégent in a Piano Marathon Weekend. A long-awaited appearance by Helmut Lachenmann will take place on November 3. The complete string quartets of R. Murray Schafer will be heard in two concerts by Quatuor Molinari on November 30.  On January 11, Artistic Director Robert Aitken joins Quarteto Latinoamericano to present a program of string quartets and flute quintets. The eminent Argentine/German composer Mauricio Kagel conducts the Canadian premieres of new choral works with the Elmer Iseler Singers on February 1. Live electroacoustic music is featured with the Basel Electric Art Messengers on February 22. Our last two concerts on March 7 and May 16 (co-presented with Two New Hours on CBC Radio Two) are devoted to music by Canadian composers, including several world premieres.