New Canons at Mannes School of Music

Ray Lustig -- Latency Canons (2013) for chamber orchestra, string quartet, three remote string quartets, 5 laptops, and Google Hangouts (or the like)

Trevor New -- Cohere (2021)

About the composers and performers:
Trevor New is an electro-acoustic violist and composer creating innovative originals. His scored and improvised soundscapes evoke a cinematic journey. He is a Brooklyn-based artist who has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia as a soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist. He has appeared as a soloist performing the Elgar Cello Concerto transcribed for Viola, and premiering the Henderson Viola Concerto with the Chelsea Symphony of New York in 2014. As a chamber musician he has played with the Balkan Chamber Orchestra on a multi-city tour of Japan, Chris McNulty on her Jazz album “Eternal”, Joe Daley’s “Portraits and Virtues”, David Chesky's “Joy and Sorrow”, Feist's “Metals”, Hip-hop Violinist and Emmy award winner Damien Escobar, and in the TV Orchestra of television's first drama about life in a Symphony, “Mozart in the Jungle”. In 2018 Trevor performed a concert series with Academy award winner Joe Hisaishi, playing his film scores, including “Spirited Away” at Carnegie Hall.

Composer-performer Ray Lustig's diverse and evolving work spans symphonic, chamber, electronic, multimedia, and theatrical. His music is presented in venues ranging from New York City clubs and galleries to major concert halls, stages, and festivals around the world. His music-theater work SEMMELWEIS premiered in the 2018-19 season with fourteen performances in Budapest and touring performances throughout Hungary. Pandemic-era performances included charitable and educational online showings of SEMMELWEIS, as well as online performances of orchestral and chamber works created to be played live over the internet. Lustig’s #composagrams series—a diary of fifteen second music videos for Instagram with an intentionally homemade ethos—has spawned a novel genre of miniature works with a “use what you have available to you” spirit, and staked out the internet as an artistic space with its own creative benefits and boundaries. His latest collaborative project Manicburg—an all-composer band—will be unveiled with releases this year. He lives in New York and teaches at the Juilliard School.