photos by The Otto Lab
Thanks to our friends at the Michigan Arts & Culture Council, the Amphion Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts!
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Strange Beautiful Music 18
Mark your calendars for our 18th annual Strange Beautiful Music festival!
Taking place September 11-13, 2025, this year’s festivities will take place at three unique venues across Detroit
• Thursday, Sept. 11 - The Motown Mansion
• Friday, Sept. 12 - Detroit Institute of the Arts
• Saturday, Sept. 13 - Cadieux Stage
Stay tuned to our Instagram page (CLICK HERE) for the lineup!
Performance of 12 Color Sonnets by
Aliona Yurtsevich
NMD will be performing Aliona Yurtsevich's 12 Color Sonnets at Michigan Technical University’s Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts as part of their 25th Anniversary Season!
12 Color Sonnets is a multimedia work based on twelve original poems by Aliona Yurtsevich, dedicated to twelve individual colors, with the intention to explore correlation and musical property of non-musical media - light, color and word. It is a collection of audio-visual sensorial miniatures that blend and transform the modes of perception within the new emergent form.
Saturday, September 27 at the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts (Houghton, Michigan). See our ‘Events’ page for more info.
NMD performs at Concert of Colors
On July 17 (7:30PM), New Music Detroit takes the stage at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Sosnick Stage for the 34th Annual Concert of Colors.
NMD will be performing by Leith Campbell (special guest and composer), Ayanna Woods, Nina Shekhar, David Lang, and Keiko Devaux.
NEWS
Announcing the SBM 17 lineup! Click here for more!
Justin Snyder presents a solo piano performance on MARCH 2 at Wasserman Projects! Tickets here!
2024: NEW video from ‘Still Life’: Shed Velvet [by Yaz Lancaster]
2024: NEW video from ‘Still Life’: the branches look the same [by Myrtó Nizami]
‘Still Life’ at Wasserman Projects on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023! Tickets here.
9/5/2023 - Read an interview with our Creative Director Justin Snyder on I Care If You Listen as we prepare for SBM 16!
8/23/2023 - NMD appear on Interlochen Public Radio while on their tour Up North. Listen Here.
To prep for SBM, check out I Care if You Listen’s review of last year’s festival!
Thank you MCACA and NEA! ~ Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs and NEA for your operational support!
1/20/2023 - Have a listen to Marcus Elliott on WDET’s CultureShift discussing his NMD commission ‘Fill The Room With Light’
Detroit awash in Light and variety @ SBM15
NMD commissions Marcus Elliot
NMD’s new Creative director, Justin snyder