SHOWS
Spring 2026
Unheard-of Dialogues X NYU Composers
NYU Paulson Building 570
Date and Time: April 27, 8pm
Unheard-of performs new music by NYU composition students from their undergraduate program written for the clarinet, violin, cello or Dahl instrumentation. Works explore everything from extended techniques to electronics. Premieres written by Xavier Klish, Hinata Nakamura, Nilakash Roy-Faderman, Honglin Gu, and more!
Unheard-of Performs Hunter College Composers
Date and Time: May 8th, 7:30pm
Concert Location: Hunter College Rehearsal Room
Unheard-of performs the music of hunter college graduate and undergraduate composition students. Premieres by Abedin Subashi, Danielle Wu, Keoni Sailer, Albert Melgar, Evan Cartwright, and more!
Cultural Ecologies Series 2026: Unheard-of and the Gowanus Dredgers present Discocactus
Dredgers Bunker, 2 19th Street, NY 11232
Date and Time: May 23, 2026, 7PM Canoe Launch, 7:30PM Music
Join Unheard-of Ensemble, the Dredgers, and special guests video game jazz-funk ensemble Discocactus to open the season! Unheard-of opens the show with new premieres written for them by Annika Socolofsky and Discocactus's own keyboardist Ben Wallace. Unheard-of also performs new video game music arrangements from Ben and Unheard-of's violinist Matheus Souza. Discocactus closes out the night performing some of their hits joined by members of Unheard-of!
PAST: FALL 2025 AND WINTER 2026
Unheard-of Dialogues//Second Story
Date and Time: 11/09/2025, 6PM
Concert Location: South Oxford Space, Brooklyn
PROGRAM:
Jesse Jones – Johnstone Fund Premiere
Susanna Hancock – Johnstone Fund premiere
Aliayta Foon Dancoes – 2nd Story Premiere, Cloud 9 ½
Andrew Burke – 2nd Story Premiere
Ohio Tour
NOV 10 – Ohio University
NOV 11 – Johnstone Fund
NOV 12 – Ohio State University
NOV 13 & 14 – Oberlin
Touring across Ohio performing Jesse Jones – Quartet for Ye Olde of Tyme, Susanna Hancock, Aliayta Foon Dancoes – Cloud 9 ½, Andrew Burke, Christian Quiñones – My Eyes Devour the Internet, and Chris Stark’s Fire Ecologies as well as workshopping and recording works by students at Ohio University, Ohio State, and Oberlin.
Tribeca New Music x Dialogues
Dates and Times: 12/05/2025, 7:30PM
Concert Location: DiMenna Center Benzaquen Hall
Unheard-of teams up with Tribeca New Music perform Christopher Stark’s Fire Ecologies with video art by Zlatko Ćosić, Christian Quiñones’s my eyes devour the internet, and TNM “best in score” work entwining by Paul Novak. Unheard-of also premieres a workshop version of Leila Adu-Gilmore’s NYSCA Support for Artists Commission, Transcending-Oh.
Leila Adu-Gilmore’s Transcending-Oh is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Unheard-of Dialogues//Trios
Featuring Special Guests Sputterbox
($20, reach out to us via email if you would like to request pay-what-you-can tickets)
Date and Time:February 6, 2026, 8PM
Concert Location: Mise-en_Place, Harlem
Unheard-of explore a brief history of trios for clarinet, violin, and cello from first major works like Messiaen’s “Intermède” from Quartet for the End of Time and Ingolf Dahl’s Concerto a Tre, to recently written works including Meg Okura’s Phantasmagoria and Du Yun’s dreams – bend. Unheard-of is joined by Sputter Box, performing a set of their own trios and recent premieres by Onche Rajesh Ugbabe, Jane Kozhevnikova, and Brendan Sweeney.
Unheard-of Florida Tour
March 8th, 7:30 PM, University of Central Florida, Rehearsal Hall
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March 11th, 7:30 PM, Florida State University, Opperman Music Hall (OMH)
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March 13th, 5 PM, University of Florida, MUB 101
Unheard-of performs music by Liliya Ugay, Christian Quiñones, Jesse Jones, and Susanna Hancock on tour across Florida as well as student works by FSU and University of Florida composers. We also offer career workshops, instrumental workshops and chamber music coachings at UCF and FSU.