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GNE founder Armando Bayolo contributes to Anne Midgette’s article about the up-and-coming new music scene.

[ January 31, 2010; 7:30 pm; ] Great Noise Ensemble presents:
Colorfield Passions And Vespers
Sunday, January 31, 2010, 6:30pm
The National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC

Great Noise Ensemble returns to the National Gallery of Art for Colorfield Passions, a program of world premiere works inspired by the paintings of Mark Rothko (Armando Bayolo’s Kaddish:Passio:Rothko) and the music of Claudio Monteverdi (Carlos Carrillo’s Motets from Vespro [...]

[ December 5, 2009; 7:30 pm; ] Great Noise Ensemble presents:
Illusions & Hallucinations
Saturday, December 5, 2009, 7:30pm
Ward Recital Hall, The Benjamin T. Rome School of Music
The Catholic University of America
General $25 / Students & Seniors $15
CUA Students, Faculty & Staff Free with CUA ID

Inspiration can come from a myriad of places, and not all of them exist in the realm of the [...]

[ October 30, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] The Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring hosts GNE on October 30, 2009 for Twilight Music, a program of works by David Smooke, John Harbison, Roberto Sierra, Masatoshi Mitsumoto and Blair Goins inspired by light, poetry and musical intervals.

[ September 25, 2009; 7:30 pm; ] Great Noise Ensemble’s fifth season opens with Urban Saloon, a program highlighting works inspired by scenes from evocative locales such as the Deep South and the historic American West, as well as music from the Balkans, India, jazz and John Cage.

Saturday, May 30, 2009 7:30 pm
The Terrace Theater, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
On Saturday, May 30, Great Noise Ensemble makes its official Kennedy Center debut, performing with one of D.C.’s best-loved choral groups, the Congressional Chorus! This concert features the world premiere of part of Revolutions of Ruin by Daniel Felsenfeld, co-commissioned [...]

On Tuesday, April 21st, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Mark Sylvester will be performing his newest compositions for banjo and small ensembles from his 2009 CD, New Music for Banjo at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts on their Spring Fling Free On the Plaza series. Sylvester will be joined by Matan Mintz on cello, [...]

Windows shape the way we view the world, whether through the subjects they frame looking out or looking in, the images they depict in lead and glass and color, or in the materials with which those images and frames are constructed. On March 27th, Great Noise Ensemble presents a concert showcasing the views afforded and colored by these prismatic portals.