PRESENT MUSIC INC
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Mission Statement
Present Music is one of the nation’s leading ensembles specializing in the commissioning and performance of new music. Its mission is to engage artists and audience members in imaginative and provocative experiences with new music through ensemble performance and education. Founded in 1982 and based in Milwaukee, Present Music has worked closely with many of the nation's most exciting and important composers, and has firmly established one of the largest audiences for new music in the country.
About This Cause
Audiences “can almost always expect Present Music to bring on the unexpected” (The Shepherd Express) with programming that introduces innovative concert formats, embraces a broad diversity of repertoire, and makes the music of our time accessible to audiences with deep expression and serious fun. The Present Music ensemble ranges from a core group of seven musicians to an ensemble of twenty or more, expanding and contracting to perform the broadest possible range of music, often in unusual spaces. In 2019, violinist/composer Eric Segnitz and conductor David Bloom became Present Music’s Co-Artistic Directors, bringing “breathtaking and inspired programming” (The Shepherd Express) to the ensemble’s stages. Their tenure follows conductor and musical community builder Kevin' Stalheim’s 37 years of service as founder and Artistic Director. The ensemble has made a significant contribution to contemporary classical music, having commissioned and premiered over 80 significant new works from composers around the world and recorded many of them for the Argo, Albany, Aoede, Northeastern, Naxos, and Innova labels. Composers who have worked in residence or have been commissioned by Present Music include Pulitzer Prize-winning composers John Adams, Henry Brant, David Lang, Caroline Shaw, and Du Yun along with such luminaries as Elena Kats-Chernin, Annie Gosfield, Kamran Ince, Jerome Kitzke, Ingram Marshall, Missy Mazzoli, Bright Sheng, Roberto Sierra, and Michael Torke. Present Music also works with many of today’s most exciting emerging composers. Raven Chacon’s Voiceless Mass, commissioned and premiered by Present Music, won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Present Music shows the world that Milwaukee is a center for creativity, having toured extensively throughout the United States and participated in major international music festivals in Japan, New York City, Turkey, and China. Present Music is also the unprecedented, six-time winner of ASCAP/Chamber Music America’s Adventurous Programming Award. The ensemble nurtures the next generation of composers through its education program, the Creation Project, in which students in Milwaukee public schools have the opportunity to learn how to compose and to hear their works performed by professional musicians.