Talea Ensemble

Today! All events are free and open to the public, at the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew (520 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn, NY):

3pm: Musicians’ panel discussion with Laura C***s and Greg Chudzik on rehearsal / collaborative best practices, score preparation, and more.

4pm: Grant writing workshop for composers with Talea Director of Development Stephanie Liu

7:30pm: FREE concert of works by , .by.sibelius, , , . Kindly RSVP for the concert on our website at: https://www.taleaensemble.org/events

Join us for three free, public professional development events and a concert this week as part of Talea’s Composer Recording Workshop! All events take place at the Church of St.
Luke and St. Matthew (520 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn, NY).

🗓️ Wednesday, 6/10 at 4pm: Composer talk with Chaya Czernowin & Steven Takasugi

🗓️ Thursday, 6/11 at 3pm: Musicians’ panel discussion with Laura C***s and Greg Chudzik on rehearsal / collaborative best practices, score preparation, and more.

🗓️ Thursday, 6/11 at 4pm: Grant writing workshop for composers with Talea Director of Development Stephanie Liu

🎶 Thursday, 6/11 at 7:30pm: FREE concert of works by , .by.sibelius, , , . Please RSVP for the concert on our website at: https://www.taleaensemble.org/events

Join us for three free, public professional development events and a concert this week as part of Talea’s Composer Recording Workshop! All events take place at the Church of St.
Luke and St. Matthew (520 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn, NY).

🗓️ Wednesday, 6/10 at 4pm: Composer talk with Chaya Czernowin & Steven Takasugi

🗓️ Thursday, 6/11 at 3pm: Musicians’ panel discussion with Laura C***s and Greg Chudzik on rehearsal / collaborative best practices, score preparation, and more.

🗓️ Thursday, 6/11 at 4pm: Grant writing workshop for composers with Talea Director of Development Stephanie Liu

🎶 Thursday, 6/11 at 7:30pm: FREE concert of works by , .by.sibelius, , , . Please RSVP for the concert on our website at: https://www.taleaensemble.org/events

We are always asking ourselves: what music captures the here and now, and what comes next? Engaging the creativity and imaginations of artists is at the very core of this question, and Talea’s work. This season, we’ve had the privilege of working with 97 performing and production artists and featuring music by 42 living composers, at our Brooklyn space and beyond. Thank you for being part of it! 🎉

As we enter the final month of our fiscal year, we hope you will consider supporting Talea with a donation. As a musician-run nonprofit, ticket sales cover only a fraction of what it takes to produce our programs. Your gift will help us to present concerts, commission and premiere new works, support early-career composers through recordings and professional development opportunities, and build fulfilling artistic collaborations. Thank you for your support! https://www.taleaensemble.org/support

Celebrating our long-time collaborator and friend Felipe Lara this Wednesday at National Sawdust! Tickets available at https://www.nationalsawdust.org/event/felipe-lara-talea-ensemble-mazes-and-portals-ny-premiere

FELIPE LARA / TALEA ENSEMBLE / CONRAD TAO: MAZES AND PORTALS (NY PREMIERE) // ONE MONTH AWAY // WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3

This concert spotlights five thrilling works by Brazilian-American composer Felipe Lara, offering a vivid journey through more than a decade of his distinctive musical voice. Spanning intimate solo writing to expansive large-ensemble works, the program reveals Lara’s fascination with structures and ideas drawn from musical fractals, mirrors, mosaics, and labyrinths. Influences from electronic music are translated into purely instrumental contexts, creatively expanding the expressive and sonic possibilities of acoustic forces. Together, these works trace Lara’s evolving artistic vision that is at once rigorously constructed and richly immersive.

// This performance is made possible thanks to the generous support of The Wescustogo Foundation.

Tickets on-sale now! // Learn more via the link in our bio!

📣 Introducing the 2026 Recording Workshop Fellows: Logan Barrett , Luis Miguel Delgado Grande , Fong .by.sibelius, Jaebong Rho , and Bahar Royaee

We look forward to recording and sharing their music next month! Join us on Thursday, June 11th at 7:30 pm at the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew for a FREE concert of their pieces. RSVP at www.taleaensemble.org/event-details/recordingconcert2026

Additionally, stay tuned for professional development sessions we are hosting as part of the workshop on June 10 and 11 that are open to all interested composers and performers.

Next Tuesday at 7:30! Karen Kim, and curated the fourth and final edition of Talea Sequenze, which features Berio’s Sequenzas for solo violin, cello, and bass + Kaija Saariaho’s “Aure” and Greg Chudzik’s “Silo.”

Tickets: https://www.taleaensemble.org/event-details/talea-sequenze-iv

Two more days to apply to join us for the 2026 Recoding Workshop!

UPDATE: Deadline extended to April 8, 2026

Applications are open for Talea’s Early Career Composer Recording Workshop, taking place in NYC between June 7-14, 2026! There’s no fee to apply. The week includes rehearsals and a high-quality recording of a recently composed chamber work, professional development events (which will be open to the public as well), and a public concert featuring the workshop composers. Selected composers receive travel reimbursement up to $800 to join us in NYC for the workshop.

Music creators based in the US who identify as early-career (aged 18+) are welcome to apply. The program is especially geared towards composers who have not yet had opportunities for recordings by professional chamber ensembles. We’re looking for pieces up to 15 minutes for 3-11 musicians, and the available instrumentation this year is: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello, bass, and conductor.

We look forward to getting to know your work! Visit www.taleaensemble.org/recording-workshop for the application.

Thanks for partnering on this program and offering recording space!

Thanks Ben Gambuzza and The Brooklyn Rail for this feature on our Clinton Hill venue at the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew and our efforts to turn this beautiful space into a growing hub for musical creativity!

“Talea is an ensemble of record, insofar as they guide and ride the tide of the latest innovations in composition, they keep an account of the history of music while it’s happening. Talea has a lot of other meanings, too. One of them comes from agriculture: a small branch that one plants in the soil to grow a tree.”

A New Music Tree Grows in Brooklyn | The Brooklyn Rail The Talea Ensemble, one of the most exacting and serious new music ensembles in New York, has been bouncing around from venue to venue since pianist-composer Anthony Cheung and percussionist Alex Lipowski founded the group in 2007.

Please join us in welcoming Talea’s newest member 📯: Nicolee Kuester!
You can catch Nicolee playing with Talea on tour at the Twin Cities New Music Festival on May 7th and at National Sawdust on June 3rd.

Brooklyn-based horn player and performer Nicolee Kuester enjoys splitting her time between experimental sounds and music from the Western canon. In addition to Talea, she’s a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, and appears with a variety of other groups in NYC, including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, The Knights, Illinoise on Broadway, and the New York Pops. Elsewhere, she’s performed with Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris, A Far Cry in Boston, and the San Diego Symphony, and in 2026 she won a GRAMMY award for Best Small Ensemble Performance with Alarm Will Sound. She is co-founder of MEANINGLESS WORK, a performance series that happily meanders between sounds, performance art, text, and movement theater.