Our 39th Season is shaping up to be an incredible year of new music!
2023-2024 Network for New Music Season Dates
Concert 1
Oct 21 (UArts) & Oct 23 (Haverford College)
(note the date change!)
Concert 2
Jan 27 (Germantown Jewish Center)
Concert 3
Feb 17 (ICEBOX Project Space)
Concert 4
April 21 (A Murmur in the Trees, tbd)
Concert 5
May 5 (Settlement Music School)
Our Last Season in Review
Our 38th year was one to remember! One full of discovery: new music, new composers, and new faces in our organization! It featured four concerts with music by many wonderful, world-class composers including Richard Brodhead, Tyshawn Sorey, Lukas Ligeti, Richard Wernick, Eve Beglarian, Brent Michael Davids, Vivian Fung, and Danity Pike, a composer from the Wildflower Composers Festival.
Richard Brodhead’s Idyll in performance at Jaharis Hall at Haverford College
Our DEIA Commitment
Network for New Music is committed to engaging more fully with the rich diversity and cultural history of Philadelphia by fostering an environment that is inclusive, supportive, and welcoming to all. Network believes our cultural differences can be celebrated through music. Network’s mission is to commission and perform a diversity of new musical works of the highest quality by both established and emerging composers that aim to reflect contemporary times, but Network recognizes that we are a work in progress. In working toward our goal to strengthen the new music community in the Philadelphia region, and to build support for new music by engaging in artistic and institutional collaborations, as well as educational activities, we at Network acknowledge systemic factors that have shaped the creative sector and industry. These include barriers to BIPOC representation, both on and off stage. We are particularly invested in developing and celebrating the artistry of composers and performers of color, while also supporting voices of color behind the scenes. We recognize that to remain a culturally relevant and thriving organization, we must listen carefully, learn continually, and evolve fearlessly.
Network for New Music pledges to maintain transparent organizational goals, policies and practices, striving to cultivate a brave, inclusive space for ongoing discussion, growth and work.
Playlist: Complete 2020-21 Season including all digital concerts and pre-concert interviews with Thomas and composers.
Karen Walwyn speaks about "listening more closely" in this introduction to the performance of her work, For Spangled Hearts, featured on our October 2020 broadcast.
Our Mission
The mission of Network for New Music is to commission and perform a diversity of new musical works of the highest quality by both established and emerging composers; to strengthen the new music community in the Philadelphia region; and to build support for new music by engaging in artistic and institutional collaborations, as well as educational activities. Network is recognized for its excellent performances, innovative programming, in-depth education programs and cross-genre collaborations with other art forms – all created with the purpose of enriching the life of the greater cultural community and supporting the important work of musicians and composers.
Our Ensemble
Network for New Music, which The Philadelphia Inquirer has called the city's "premier new music organization" presents passionate, meticulously rehearsed performances of music by emerging and established composers from the United States and abroad. The Network Ensemble is a flexible, 20-member group whose players also perform with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Ballet, and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia.
Commissions
Network for New Music is one of the foremost commissioning organizations in the United States. Now in its 38th year, Network has commissioned 160 works from leading composers including Sebastian Currier, Dai Fujikura, Michael Hersch, Lee Hyla, Steven Mackey, Behzad Ranjbaran, and Chen Yi as well as Pulitzer Prize winners John Harbison, Jennifer Higdon, Bernard Rands, Lewis Spratlan, Melinda Wagner, Richard Wernick, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
“Philadelphia’s premier new music organization”
— Philadelphia Inquirer
Acknowledgments
Network for New Music (NNM) would like to thank the many individuals who generously contribute to the Annual Fund and the Linda Reichert Commissioning Fund, and also, the devoted volunteers (board of directors and other individuals) who work tirelessly to help Network fulfill its mission on an ongoing basis.
In addition, NNM would like to thank the following public and private sources for their critical support: The Aaron Copland Fund, The Amphion Foundation, The Alice M. Ditson Fund, The Daniel W. Dietrich II Foundation, Independence Foundation, Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, The Presser Foundation, Robert Black Foundation Trust, and William Penn Foundation. Additionally, Network acknowledges support provided by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. Network also receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
