NEWS AND EVENTS
TICKETS AND COMPILATION CD
NUMUS is delighted to be participating in the first ever Celebrate Our Artists weekend which will take place from June 6-8, 2008.

NUMUS is presenting two FREE events: On Saturday June 7th at 7pm, NUMUS Artistic Director Jesse Stewart will present an interactive solo percussion workshop at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre in Guelph (located at 358 Gordon St). Audience members will have an opportunity to try out experimental percussion instruments including several of Stewart's own design.

On Sunday June 8 at 1 pm, the Kitchener Waterloo Improvisors Collective, in association with NUMUS, will present the Hutz-McClure Orchestra performing several graphic scores by Earle Brown and Cornelius Cardew. This will take place in the chapel of Conrad Grebel University College (located at the Univ. of Waterloo).

No pre-registration is required for either event and all-ages are welcome. Both events are FREE!
Ticket prices vary from event to event. Head over to our 2007 2008 Season section for more details on ticket prices and events.

If you want to buy tickets, go to our Contact section to order.

If you are interested in String Theory, an exciting new recording of chamber music for strings produced by NUMUS, click here.

MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Dear New Music Fans,

Welcome to the 22nd season of NUMUS, Kitchener-Waterloo’s pre-eminent presenter of new and exploratory musics.

The 2007-2008 season begins with a world premiere collaboration between legendary British percussionist Eddie Prevost and CCMC, Canada’s longest running ensemble dedicated to free improvisation. In November, we will celebrate the music and memory of composer/pianist/theorist/educator, James Tenney, one of the past century’s most original musical voices. Then in January, virtuoso Austrian theremin player Dorit Chrysler will present a solo concert in conjunction with a screening of the extraordinary documentary film Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey.

Building on the tremendous success of last year’s mini-festival of musical improvisation, we will present another three-day festival this season that will explore the turntable as a musical instrument. Featured performers will include Montreal turntablist Martin Tetreault, New York’s DJ Olive, and the hugely accomplished turntablist/conceptual artist/writer DJ Spooky performing with K-W’s own Penderecki String Quartet. The season concludes with the very special premiere of Reaching for Nothing: Water’s Thirst, a full evening interdisciplinary work collaboratively conceived by celebrated local composer Peter Hatch and acclaimed visual artist/architect Dereck Revington. Three years in the making, Reaching for Nothing will be a landmark work in Canadian music and culture that is not to be missed.

The 2007-2008 NUMUS season promises to stimulate, complicate, expand, enrich, and enable new understandings of new music, while continuing to foster a locally-grounded contemporary Canadian music identity and community. We invite you to be a part of that community this season.

Jesse Stewart
Artistic Director
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