Collage New Music is a classical music ensemble specialising in performance of works by 20th and 21st century composers. It was founded in 1972 by percussionist Frank Epstein who served as its Music Director until 1991. Since that time its Director has been the conductor David Hoose.

The Ensemble

Collage New Music is a Boston

Boston

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 based ensemble. Since 2009, their main performing venue has been the Longy School of Music

Longy School of Music

The Longy School of Music of Bard College is a conservatory located near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1915, it was one of the four independent degree-granting music schools in the Boston region along with the New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, and Boston...

's Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall. Since its inception in 1972, Collage New Music has maintained a reputation for performing works by the great composers of the 20th and 21st century, such as Edgar Varese, John Cage

John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...

, Yehudi Wyner

Yehudi Wyner

Yehudi Wyner is an American composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator.Wyner, who grew up in New York City, was raised in a musical family. His father, Lazar Weiner, was an eminent composer of Yiddish art songs. Wyner attended Juilliard, Yale, and Harvard...

, Olivier Messian, and Joan Tower

Joan Tower

Joan Tower is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist and conductor. Lauded by the New Yorker as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world...

. Collage opened the 2001 Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood

Tanglewood

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 with a concert featuring composers long associated with the ensemble: Gunther Schuller

Gunther Schuller

Gunther Schuller is an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician.- Biography and works :...

, John Harbison

John Harbison

John Harris Harbison is an American composer, best known for his operas and large choral works.-Life:...

, and Donald Sur

Donald Sur

Donald Young Sur was a Korean-American composer and musicologist. Although he is best known for his large-scale oratorio, Slavery Documents, most of his works were composed for small chamber ensembles. Sur was born in Honolulu and moved with his family to Los Angeles after World War II...

. While honoring the music of the earlier 20th century, Collage has a longstanding tradition of commissioning new works by living composers and often providing many Boston premieres.

Collage also host a composer-in-residence each year that allows the ensemble to engage with young Boston composers, and attain a consistent working relationship with the community through various outreach activities. Collage now host annual composer competitions for high school students, fostering the development and progression of music.
Members

• Christopher Krueger, flute
• Jennifer Slowik, oboe
• Robert Annis, clarinet
• Craig McNutt, percussion
• Christopher Oldfather, piano
• Catherine French, violin
• Anne Black, viola
• Joel, Moerschel, cello
• David Hoose, conductor

Commissioned composers

Curtis K. Hughes, Martin Brody, Michael Gandolfi

Michael Gandolfi

Michael James Gandolfi is an American composer of contemporary classical music.Initially a self-taught guitarist, Gandolfi entered the Berklee College of Music before transferring to the New England Conservatory of Music after one year...

, Andy Vores

Andy Vores

Andy Vores is a Welsh classical music and opera composer. He has lived in the United States since 1986 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.-Education:Vores studied composition at Lancaster University in Lancaster, England...

, Richard Cornell, and Lior Navok

Lior Navok

Lior Navok is an Israeli classical composer and conductor. He was born in Tel Aviv. His music has been performed in the United States, Europe, Israel, and Mexico by orchestras and ensembles including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the Tanglewood Festival...

Board of Trustees

• Frank Epstein, President
• Geoffrey Peters, Treasurer
• Susan DeLong Clerk
• Michael Cucurullo
• Phyllis Curtin
• Lenny Goldstein
• Bradley Gorney
• John Kochevar
• Francoise Moros
• Doane Perry
• Ruth Scheer

Honorary Trustees

• Nicholas Anagnostis
• Charles Blyth
• Stephen Senturia

Recordings

• Collage New Music Performs Donald Sur. Label: Albany Records
  Albany Records
  Albany Records is an American classical music record label focusing particularly on contemporary classical music. It was established by Peter Kermani in 1987, and is based in Albany, New York.-External links:**...
  
   (2009)
• Harbison
  John Harbison
  John Harris Harbison is an American composer, best known for his operas and large choral works.-Life:...
  
  : Mottetti Di Montale – David Hoose, conductor; Janice Felty & Margaret Lattimore; Collage New Music. Label: Koch International Classics (2005)
• Joan Tower
  Joan Tower
  Joan Tower is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist and conductor. Lauded by the New Yorker as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world...
  
  (Track 5: Noon Dance performed by Collage New Music). Label: Composers Recordings (1994)

Awards and Nominations

• Nominated for the 48th Annual Grammy Awards: Best Small Ensemble for John Harbison: Mottetti di Montale