loadbang

New York City-based new music chamber group loadbang is building a new kind of music for mixed ensemble of trumpet (Andy Kozar), trombone (William Lang), bass clarinet (Adrián Sandí), and baritone voice (Tyler Bouque). Since their founding in 2008, they have been praised as "cultivated’ by The New Yorker, "an extra-cool new music group" and "exhilarating" by the Baltimore Sun, "inventive" by The New York Times and called a "formidable new-music force" by TimeOutNY. Their unique lung-powered instrumentation has provoked diverse responses from composers, resulting in a repertoire comprising an inclusive picture of composition today. In New York City, they have been recently presented by and performed at Miller Theatre at Columbia University, Symphony Space, MATA, and by the Look and Listen Festival; on American tours at Da Camera of Houston, the Rothko Chapel, and the Festival of New American Music at Sacramento State University; and internationally at Ostrava Days (Czech Republic), China-ASEAN Music Week (China), the Xinghai Conservatory of Music (China), Shanghai Symphony Hall (China), Visiones Sonoras Festival (Morelia, Mexico), and the Musikverein (Vienna, Austria). Loadbang has premiered more than 450 works, written by members of the ensemble, emerging artists, and today's leading composers. Their repertoire includes works by Pulitzer Prize winners David Lang and Charles Wuorinen; Rome Prize winners Andy Akiho and Paula Matthusen; and Guggenheim Fellows Chaya Czernowin, George Lewis, and Alex Mincek. They are the ensemble-in-residence at Cornell University through the Steven Stucky Memorial Residency for New Music, and they are on the performance faculty of Divergent Studio, a contemporary music festival for young performers and composers held each summer, through a partnership with the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Boston.