a concept-based,
new music//new media
performing ensemble
Fuse Ensemble is a unique electroacoustic chamber ensemble. Each season a concept is presented, giving voice to new music composers and creating musical happenings with visual elements of live or interactive video, electronics, or kinetic installations. They joyfully collaborate with sculptors, visual artists, instrument makers, poets; with analog and digital artists of all types.
Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC photo credit Max Taylor
St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church, Washington, DC
American University Abramson Recital Hall Washington, DC
Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC photo credit Max Taylor
Filming Concert for the Trees, Shenandoah Mountains, Virginia
Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Washington, DC
University of Indiana IUPUI Intermedia Festival
Indiana University IUPUI Intermedia Festival
Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC photo credit Max Taylor
Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC photo credit Max Taylor
Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC photo credit Max Taylor
Catholic University, Rome School of Music, Washington, DC
American University Abramson Recital Hall, Washington, DC
American University Abramson Recital Hall, Washington, DC
Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC photo credit Max Taylor
University of Maryland Baltimore County UMBC LiveWire4 Festival
Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Washington, DC
St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church, Washington, DC
The Firehouse Space, Brooklyn, New York
Catholic University Rome School of Music, Washington, DC
Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Washington, DC
Filming for Concert for the Trees, Shenandoah Mountains, Virginia
Abrons Arts Center, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival NYCEMF
Andrea Clearfield Salon, Philadelphia, PA
Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Washington, DC
Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC photo credit Max Taylor
Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC photo credit Max Taylor
Spacebomb House Concert, Richmond, VA, photo credit Peter McElhinney
Atlas PAC Washington, DC Intersections Festival 2024, photo by Max Taylor
Intersections Festival 2024 at Atlas PAC DC, photo credit Max Taylor
Intersections Festival 2024, Washington, DC photo credit Max Taylor
“a sizable impression in the area of chamber music.”
— Take Effect Reviews
Upcoming Season
Speech and Silence, Fuse Ensemble’s 2024/2025 concert season, brings to the fore two ways of listening. In an alternating series of live music works (many with spoken word) and meditative videos of artist Edgar Endress, we gather in these two realms and explore the deep possibilities that lie within and outside of our auditory sphere. The audience contemplates a visual world in front of them, a quiet, direct experience of the mind as it is; until their listening is reawakened, drawn outwards by the live music piece that follows until the cycle begins anew. It has been said that while speech may divide us, silence can connect us – not only to each other, but to our deeper selves. Two ways of listening explored in succession, a push-pull, inside-out encounter between two worlds; Fuse Ensemble’s Speech and Silence holds much for the audience to discover.
Speech and Silence includes works by Pamela Z, Caroline Shaw, Brittany J. Green and Gina Biver, and a premiere of a solo work for bass by Ethan Foote. Select concerts also include works by Marc Mellits, Kevin Puts and Matteo dal Maso.
The ensemble is excited to be performing live in New York along with Pamela Z on her Ways of Looking in 2025! Stay tuned for details!!
Included this season are several original short films by new media artist Edgar Endress.
This season is partially supported by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and the Allan and Margot Blank Foundation.
“it’s just so much fun to listen to”
— I Care If You Listen
Recordings
Fuse Ensemble has recorded on Neuma Records and Ravello Recordings. Click on the album covers below to listen or purchase.
“awarding the album a perfect score for both the recording and performance”
— Cinemusical Online
Fuse Ensemble performs Fauna of Mirrors III by Juan Carlos Vasquez Gomez at Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington DC 3/3/2024. Animation by Michael J. Edwards
Scott Deal performs improvisation with Avatar AI system at Firehouse Theatre, Richmnd VA 2/26/2024
For more videos, please visit (and subscribe to!) our Fuse Ensemble YouTube Channel
Performance Videos
the dark, the light, and everything in between, by Sophia Jani, performed by Fuse Ensemble at Shockoe Sessions Live in Richmond, VA May 9, 2023
Fuse Ensemble performs The Unwinding by Nicole Mitchell with special guest Peter Greydanus, cello.
GASP, for fixed multi-channel audio live choir and film. Composed by Gina Biver, original film by Edgar Endress. Ashley Larson, soprano, Jon Carr, baritone, Elise Steenburgh, soprano, Frankie Lugiano and Gina Biver alto voices. Performed live at Spacebomb Studios, Richmond, VA; March 11, 2023
Caroline Shaw’s Limestone and Felt, performed by Fuse Ensemble at Georgetown University Friday Music Series. Erin Snedecor, cello, Greg Hiser, viola April 2019
Concert for the Trees (2022) for soprano and baritone voices, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, bass and piano by Gina Biver. Performed live in the woods of Shenandoah by Fuse Ensemble. Video by Steven Biver
Jung in the Desert, by composer Fernando Benadon, premiered by Fuse Ensemble at the Firehouse Space in Brooklyn NY.Jennifer Lapple flute; Angela Murakami clarinet, Ina Mirtcheva piano, Greg Hiser, violin, Pam Clem, cello, Marshall Maley, percussion. Saturday, June 16, 2012
Fuse Ensemble performs Likeness by Gina Biver at Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington DC 3/3/2024 Film by AlsoSisters
Fuse Ensemble at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, performing works by Eve Beglarian, Patrick Burke, Adam Kendall, Ian Boddy/Norbert Attard and Gina Biver
Will There Be Jazz in Hell? by Ethan Foote; performed by Fuse Ensemble at Shockoe Sessions Live in Richmond, VA May 9, 2023
