NEWS AND EVENTS
TICKETS AND COMPILATION CD
NUMUS's 2008-2009 season lineup is now posted. Click here for details.

Also, a new statement for the upcoming season from Artistic Director Jesse Stewart can be seen below.
Ticket prices vary from event to event. Head over to our 2008 2009 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 23rd exciting season of NUMUS, Kitchener-Waterloo’s pre-eminent presenter of new and exploratory musics!

The 2008-2009 season begins with a rare Canadian performance by the acclaimed Austrian duo the Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien®.. They will be presenting two concerts as part of the Labyrinthmaker platform, an innovative project designed to promote creative musical exchange across national boundaries. In a similar way, our November concert will feature exchange across musical boundaries as we bring together four cellists from widely divergent musical backgrounds—Anne Bourne, Paul Pulford, Matt Brubeck, and Nick Storring. Together, they will perform with percussionist Germaine Liu.

2009 kicks off with three special concerts that will pair Waterloo’s own stars of new music, the Penderecki String Quartet, with autorickshaw, Canada’s leading Indian-jazz fusion group. In February, we will collaborate once again with our friends at the Guelph Jazz Festival to present the third annual Structured Improvisations/ Improvising Structures Creative Music Festival and Symposium. This edition of the festival will feature guitar virtuoso Kevin Breit and me, as well as an evening of composer/performer David Mott’s music. In March we have two exciting international concerts: 1) from the Netherlands, the Ives Ensemble who will be performing with members of Toronto’s Continuum ensemble and 2) the Bugallo-Williams piano duo who will perform rarely heard music by Conlon Nancarrow and others for two pianos. Our 2008-2009 season will conclude with a concert at the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound that will feature the Evergreen Club Gamelan Ensemble performing contemporary works for Indonesian gamelan ensemble, focusing in particular on the work of the late American composer Lou Harrison. This promises to be a remarkable season of music!

It is also a rather bitter-sweet season for me because this will be my last season as NUMUS Artistic Director. I have accepted a professorship in the music department at Carleton University in Ottawa which will, unfortunately, preclude me from continuing as NUMUS AD. I will happily stay on in an advisory capacity as long as I am needed, and I plan to attend as many of the exciting events scheduled for this season as possible.

On a personal note, I would like to say that I am honoured to have been a part of this extraordinary organization and I am proud of the work that we have accomplished together: over the past three years, we have eliminated the organization’s $15,000 deficit entirely! Amazingly, we did this while simultaneously doubling the number of events that NUMUS puts on each season. I am delighted to have been a part of the team effort that made these remarkable accomplishments possible.

I wish everyone at NUMUS—staff members; members of the board; community partners; the many composers, musicians, and creative practitioners whose work we have championed; and, of course, audience members— the very best in all of your future endeavours, musical and otherwise. It is my sincerest wish that we will continue to find new and creative ways to listen to one another.

Jesse Stewart
Artistic Director
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