Yarn/Wire is a New York-based percussion and piano quartet (Sae Hashimoto and Russell Greenberg, percussion; Laura Barger and Julia Den Boer, pianos) dedicated to the promotion of creative, experimental new music. Founded in 2005, the ensemble strives to connect with audiences and build community to help new compositions realize their full creative potential. New York Classical Review states that “Yarn/Wire may well be the most important new music ensemble on the classical scene today.”
Yarn/Wire is known for performances at Lincoln Center and Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York), Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall (China), Dublin SoundLab (Ireland), and Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), in addition to numerous European music festivals including Donaueschingen Musiktage (Germany), Bergen International Festival (Norway), the Edinburgh International Festival (Scotland), Rainy Days (Luxembourg), Ultima (Norway), Transit (Belgium), Contemplus (Prague), and Wien Modern (Austria).
Over the past two decades, Yarn/Wire has championed composers including Annea Lockwood, Enno Poppe, Michael Gordon, George Lewis, Ann Cleare, Catherine Lamb, Tyshawn Sorey, Peter Evans, Alex Mincek, Thomas Meadowcroft, Misato Mochizuki, among others. Their ongoing commissioning series, Yarn/Wire/Currents, serves as an incubator for new experimental music.
Yarn/Wire has recorded for the WERGO, KAIROS, New Amsterdam, Northern Spy, Distributed Objects, Black Truffle, Shelter Press, Populist, and Carrier record labels, in addition to maintaining their own imprint. The 2024-2025 season brings the release of Yarn/Wire Currents 10, a portrait album of the works of Thomas Meadowcroft, and a recording of Michael Gordon’s Material.