Noise News

Help GNE Fund Its First CD!

Monday, May 16th, 2011

          As Great Noise Ensemble enters its seventh season, we need your help more than ever to make progress in fighting for the performance of new music and making sure the voices of new composers and performers are heard. One of the major campaigns we're pursuing for our 2011-2012 season is the completion of our [...]

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Cloudscape

Saturday, March 5th, 2011

On April 22, 2011, Great Noise Ensemble and The Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring present a program in celebration of Earth Day, featuring John Luther Adams’s Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing.

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Self Portrait

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

Great Noise Ensemble looks inward to celebrate the composers within its own ranks in its March 4th concert at The Catholic University of America’s Ward Recital Hall.

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Blank Canvas I & II: GNE at the New Voices @ CUA Festival

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Great Noise Ensemble is proud to be performing as part of the inaugural New Voices @ CUA festival on September 10th & 11th at the Catholic University of America: the festival will showcase exciting new works by seventeen composers from across the United States and Paris, who were selected by a panel from over 100 entries for their ingenuity and significance to the contemporary repertoire.

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The Road To De Materie

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Great Noise Ensemble’s founder and Artistic Director, Armando Bayolo, has been blogging over at Sequenza 21, where he’s now in the process of chronicling GNE’s upcoming production of Louis Andriessen’s opera masterwork De Materie, which will be presented at The National Gallery of Art on October 24, 2010. This is a truly epic undertaking for [...]

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Missed The 41st Rudiment?

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

As we close out our fifth season and prepare for our blockbuster sixth year performing together, we’d like to share one of the highlights of our season from our final concert: the world premiere performance of D.J. Sparr’s incredible percussion concerto, The 41st Rudiment. For those of you who couldn’t make it out to the [...]

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GNE Featured on NextNik.com

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

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Vote for Great Noise Ensemble on Chase Community Giving!

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

If you’re on Facebook, vote for Great Noise Ensemble in the Chase Community Giving program: the top 100 charities will receive $25,000 each, with a chance to receive even bigger awards such as the $1 million payout for the charity with the most votes, and $100,000 for five runners-up!!

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Washington Post: Roll Over, Beethoven: By Reimagining Format, Alt-Classical Musicians Are Going Mainstream

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

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

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Colorfield Passions And Vespers

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

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 [...]

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