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dèdalo ensemble, Brescia, Italy
dèdalo ensemble is a non-profit Association which was set up in Brescia to promote 20th century musical culture and contemporary creativeness. Within the city, the association organizes an annual concert season entitled “Sulle ali del Novecento” (On the Wings of the 20th century), which is sponsored by the Cultural Department of the Lombard Regional Government and the Cultural sectors of the City Council and Provincial Government of Brescia. Actually the association organizes the concert season MUSICANUOVA in cooperation with Gruppo Musica Insieme di Cremona. dèdalo ensemble is the only group in and around Brescia that focuses specifically on the musical aspects of the 20th century and encourages the spread of this knowledge, both through its own specialist ensemble and by inviting high profile guests.
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Contemporary Music Ensembles
175 East (New Zealand)
2e2m (France)
21st Century Consort (Washington, DC)
Accademia Amiata Ensemble
Accessible Contemporary Music (Chicago, IL)
ACME Observatory (Berkely, CA)
Agon Orchestra
Aguava New Music Studio (Bloomington, IN)
Alarm Will Sound (Rochester, NY)
Alea (Republic of Macedonia)
Alea III (Boston University, Boston, MA)
Axelsson & Nilsson Duo (Sweden)
American Composers Orchestra (New York, NY)
American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) (New York, NY)
Analog Arts Ensemble (Australia)
Arditti String Quartet
Argento Chamber Ensemble (New York, NY)
Arraymusic (Toronto, Canada)
ars nova ensemble
Asko Ensemble (Amstredam, The Netherlands)
Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, CO)
Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen
Atlas Ensemble
Augenmusik (Buffalo, NY)
Auger Contemporary Music Ensemble
AURA (the Moores School of Music Contemporary Music Ensemble, University of Houston, TX)
Auros Group for New Music
Aventa (Victoria, Canada)
Avian Music
Axion Ensemble (Julliard School, New York, NY)
Bang on a Can (Brooklyn, NY)
Bent Frequency (Atlanta, GA)
Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players (University of California, Berkeley, CA)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
BIT20 Ensemble - Bergen Ensemble for Contemporary Music
Boston Modern Orchestra Project (Boston, MA)
Boston Musica Viva (Boston, MA)
Brave New Works (Ann Arbor, MI)
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (Santa Cruz, CA)
The California EAR Unit
Callisto Ensemble (Chicago, IL)
Cantus Ansambl (Zagreb, Croatia)
CAPUT
The Center for New Music Ensemble (University of Iowa)
Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago Composers Consortium
Cikada
Cleveland Contemporary Players (Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH)
Collage New Music (Boston, MA)
Concorde - Contemporary Music Ensemble (Dublin, Ireland)
Contempo (University of Chicago Chamber Players)
Contempo String Quartet (Galway, Ireland)
Contemporary Chamber Players (University of Chicago, Chicago, IL)
Contemporary Ensemble (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA)
Contemporary Ensemble (State University of New York at Buffalo, NY)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (Arizona State University)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (Australian National University)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (Cardiff University, UK)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (Columbia State University, Columbus, GA)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, Devon, UK)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (Gettysburg College, Gettysburgh, PA)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (Hawai'i Institute for Contemporary Music)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (Hong Kong Academy for Perfoming Arts)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (Lawrence Conservatory)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (Trinity College of Music, London, UK)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (University of California at Santa Cruz, CA)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (USC - University of Southern California)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music, Los Angeles, CA)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (University of Southhampton, Southhampton, UK)
Contemporary Music Ensemble (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea
Contemporary Music Ensemble of Wales
Contemporary Music Forum (Washington, D.C.) see also CMF
Contemporary Music Group
Contemporary Music Network (UK)
Contemporary Youth Orchestra (Cleveland, OH)
Continuum (New York, NY)
Continuum Contemporary Music (Toronto, Canada)
The Corigliano Quartet
Counter)induction (New York, NY)
Curious Chamber Players (Stockholm, Sweden)
Crash Ensemble (Dublin, Ireland)
Creo (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA)
Crossing 32nd Street (X 32nd St) (Phoenix, AR)
CUBE Ensemble (Chicago, IL)
Cygnus Ensemble
Da Capo Chamber Players (New York, NY)
dal niente (Chicago, IL)
dèdalo ensemble (Brescia, Italy)
The DownTown Ensemble (New York, NY)
Duo46 (Phoenix, AR)
E3Q
Earplay (San Fransisco, CA)
East Coast Composers Ensemble
ECCE - East Coast Composers Ensemble
Edinburgh Contemporary Music Ensemble (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Echoi Contemporary Music Ensemble
eighth blackbird (Chicago, IL)
Either/Or Music
Elder New Music Ensemble (Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adalaide (Australia)
Electric Kompany
Elision Ensemble (Queensland, Australia)
Empyrean Ensemble (University of California at Davis, Davis, CA)
Ensemble 10/10 - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Ensemble 21 (New York, NY)
Ensemble Accroche Note
Ensemble Aleph (France)
Ensemble Alternance
Ensemble Cairn
ensemble chronophonie
Ensemble contemporain de Montreal (ECM)
ensemble court-circuit
Ensemble FA (Paris, France)
Ensemble for Contemporary Music (University of California - Santa Barabra, CA)
ensemble fur neue musik Zurich
ensemble]h[iatus
ensemble Ictus
ensemble Integrales (Hamburg, Germany & Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
L'ensemble intercontemporain (Paris, France)
Ensemble KORE
Ensemble MAE
Ensemble MoEns (Prague, Czech Republic)
Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt, Germany)
ensemble mosaik (Berlin, Germany)
Ensemble Offspring
l'Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain (EOC)
Ensemble Phoenix Basel
ensemble prima
ensemble recherche
ENSEMBLE ROBOT
Ensemble Sospeso (New York, NY)
Ensemble SurPlus
Ensemble Syzygy
Ensemble TIMF
Exaudi - Vocal Ensemble (UK)
Ex Novo Ensemble (Italy)
The Fauxharmonic Orchestra
Fifth Tier New Music Ensemble
FIGURA (Copenhagen, Demark)
Firebird Ensemble
The Fires of London (originally the Pierrot Players)
Flexible Music
The Flexible Orchestra (New York, NY)
Fulcrum Point
FLUX Quartet
Frescos Contemporary Music Ensemble (Odessya)
FURT
Gageego (Sweden)
Gamelan Son of Lion (Stony Point, NY)
Generator (Sydney, Australia)
Goldberg Contemporary Ensemble (UK)
Group 180 (Hungary) - no longer in existence
The Group for Contemporary Music - no longer in existence
Harry Partch Ensemble (Monclair State University, Montclair, NJ)
Harvard-Radcliffe Contemporary Music Ensemble
Hebrides Ensemble (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
Hellenic Ensemble of Contemporary Music
ICE - see International Contemporary Ensemble
Icebreaker (UK)
ictus
Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN) CDs on line
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)(NewYork, NY; Chicago, IL)
l'Itineraire
IU New Music Ensemble (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN)
Ives Ensemble (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Ixion Contemporary Music Ensemble
Juventas (Boston, MA)
Karios Quartet
Klangforum Wien
KONVERGENCE Composers Association & Ensemble (Ricany, Czech Republic)
Kronos Quartet
Land's End Chamber Ensemble (Canada)
Lawrence Conservatory Contemporary Music Ensemble
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Libra Ensemble (Melbourne)
Logos Ensemble
londa ensemble (London & Buenos Aires)
London Contemporary Music Group
London Contemporary Opera
LMC - London Musicians Collective
London Sinfonietta
LS TWO (University of Leeds, UK)
Luna Nova New Music Ensemble (Memphis, TN)
Lumen Contemporary Music Ensemble (Harvard College, Boston, MA)
Magnetic Band (Young Musician's Society) (Singapore)
Manhattan Sinfonietta (New York, NY)
Mason Modern Music Ensemble (George Mason University, VA)
MAVerick Ensemble (Chicago, IL)
The McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble (McGill University, Montreal)
The McGill Percussion Ensemble (McGill University, Montreal)
MD7 Contemporary Music Ensemble (Slovenia)
Meridian Arts Ensemble
Messerkvartetten
Metropolis Ensemble (New York, NY)
Michiana New Music Ensemble (South Bend, IN)
Millenium Chamber Players (Chicago, IL)
ModernWorks
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Moscow)
Motion Ensemble (Canada)
Musica Anatolia
Music on the Edge (University of Pittsburgh, PA)
Musica Nova (Eastmand School of Music, Rochester, NY)
Musique 21 (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI)
Musique Vivante - no longer in existence?
The Nash Ensemble
neoPhonia New Music Ensemble (Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA)
Network for New Music (Philadelphia, PA)
newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble (Kansas City, MO)
New Ensemble - Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK)
New Juilliard Ensemble (Juilliard School, New York, NY)
New London Chamber Choir (NLCC)
New Millennium Ensemble (New York, NY)
New Music Brandeis (Brandeis University)
New Music Chicago (Chicago, IL)
New Music Collective (Charleston, SC)
New Music Ensemble (Bristol University, Bristol, UK)
New Music Ensemble [dnme] (Duke University, Durham, NC)
New Music Ensemble (FIU - Florida International University, Miami, FL)
New Music Ensemble (Florida State University)
New Music Ensemble (Grand Valley State, Allendale, MI)
New Music Ensemble (Guildhall School of Music & Drama)
New Music Ensemble (Keele University, Keele, UK)
New Music Ensemble (Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON)
New Music Ensemble (NIU - Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL)
New Music Ensemble (Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI)
The New Music Ensemble (Towson University, Baltimore, MD)
New Music Ensemble (University of Birmingham, UK)
New Music Ensemble (University of Calgary, Canada)
New Music Ensemble (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL)
New Music Ensemble (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
New Music Ensemble (University of Manchester, UK)
New Music Ensemble (William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ)
New Music Works (Santa Cruz, CA)
New York New Music Ensemble
New York System (contemporary music ensemble of Rhode Island College, Providence, RI)
NEXUS percussion ensemble (Toronto, Canada)
NODUS Ensemble (Miami, FL)
NOISE (San Diego, CA)
North/South Consonance
Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (University of Montreal, Canada)
NOW Ensemble (New York, NY)
NOW MUSIC Festival (Capital University, Columbus, OH)
NYOS Futures (National Youth Orchestras of Scotland)
NYYD (Estonia)
Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME) (Oberlin, OH)
Odyssea Coro (Lisbon)
OENM (Oesterreichisches Ensemble fuer Neue Musik)
Orchestra 2001 (Philadelphia, PA)
OrchestrUtopica (Portugal)
Oslo Sinfonietta
Ossia (Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY)
Ostrava Center for New Music (Ostrava, Czech Republic)
Pandora's Vox (Boston, MA)
Paragon Ensemble
Paris Instrumental Ensemble for Contemporary Music
Parnassus
Paul Dresher Ensemble (San Fransisco, CA)
Philharmonia Orchestra - Music of Today Series
Philip Glass Ensemble (New York, NY)
Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wein (Vienna, Austria)
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (Pittsburgh, PA)
PLOrk - Princeton Laptop Orchestra
Post-Classical Ensemble (Washington, DC)
PRISM Quartet
Psappha (Manchester, UK)
The Quake Ensemble (Juneau, Alaska)
Quatour Bozzini
Quatuor Hêlios
Quiet Music Ensemble (Cork, Ireland)
Quorum - vocal ensemble
Radius Ensemble (Cambridge, MA)
red fish blue fish (University of California, San Diego)
Red Light New Music (New York, NY)
Relache (Philadelphia, PA)
Reservoir
The Robin Cox Ensemble (Santa Barbara, CA)
Ruckas (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
San Fransisco Composers Chamber Orchestra (San Francisco, CA)
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (San Francisco, CA)
Schonberg Ensemble (Amstredam, The Netherlands)
Seattle Chamber Players
Second Instrumental Unit (SIU)
S.E.M. Ensemble (Brooklyn, NY)
sfSoundGroup (San Fransisco, CA)
Silenzio Ensemble (Christchurch, New Zealand)Louisiana State University Festival of Contemporary Music
SIRIUS (Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin, OH)
Sirius String Quartet
Sitka Sound Ensemble (Juneau, Alaska)
The Smith Quartet (UK)
Société de musique contemporaine du Québec Ensemble
The Society for New Music (Syracuse, NY)
Sonic Lab (University of Victoria, Victoria, BC)
SONOR (Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin, OH)
Sonos Chamber Orchestra (New York, NY)
Soundfield (Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, PA; San Fransisco, CA)
Sounds Electric - International Festival of Contemporary Music
Soundstream Contemporary Music Ensemble (Australia)
SPANK Music Ensemble
Speculum Musicae, new music ensemble (Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, TX)
Standing Wave (Vancouver, Canada)
Steve Reich/ Ensemble/and Musicians
Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players (Stony Brook, NY)
Strictly Ballroom (Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA)
Stroma (Wellington, New Zealand)
Strung Out Trio (Phoenix, AR)
Studio New Music Ensemble (Moscow Conservatory)
Kathleen Supove, pianist
Sychronia (St. Louis, MO)
Syzygy (Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, TX)
Tactus (Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY)
Talea Ensemble
Talujon Percussion Quartet (New York, NY)
Thamyris (Atlanta, GA)
Thelma Trio
thingNY (New York, NY)
Third Angle New Music Ensemble (Portland, OR)
Third Coast Percussion Quartet (Chicago, IL)
ticom (Tyrolean Ensemble for Contemporary Music) (Austria)
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Turning Point Ensemble (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
UBC Contemporary Players (University of British Colombia, Vancouver, BC, Canada)
UH Contemporary Music Ensemble (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
UNM Percussion Ensemble (University of New Mexico)
USC Thornton Contemporary Music Ensemble (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA)
Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble - contemporary repertoire
Verge Ensemble (part of Contemporary Music Forum)
Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble (Fairfax, VT)
Voices of Change, Modern Chamber Music Ensemble (Dallas, TX)
Vox21
Washington Square Contemporary Music Society (New York, NY)
Wet Ink (New York, NY)
Wichita New Music Ensemble (Witchita, KS)
Xanthos Ensemble (Watertown, MA)
Xtet
Zanana
Zargos (Finland)
Zero Gravity (Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY)
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