Talea Ensemble

Festival engagements have included performances at Lincoln Center Festival, Donaueschingen Musiktage, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Wien Modern, Vancouver New Music, Time of Music Finland, TIME:SPANS, NY Philharmonic Artist Spotlight Series, and many more. The Ensemble has also partnered with institutions from across disciplines, such as the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the City of Ideas Festival in Mexico, and the Storm King Art Center.

Talea’s recordings have been distributed worldwide on the Kairos, Wergo, Gravina Musica, Tzadik, Innova, and New World Records labels, and been broadcast on ORF (Austria), HRF (Germany), and WQXR-FM’s Q2.
Talea assumes an ongoing role in supporting a new generation of composers, and has undertaken residencies in music departments around the US – Peabody Institute, Columbia University, Queens College, amongst many others. Since 2020, Talea has targeted support to early career composers through the growing Talea Access Project, which includes a commissioning programme, a composer recording workshop, and most recently, an Ambassadors programme, spotlighting early-career composers
of a specific geographic region each season.

Talea is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The Talea Ensemble’s 2024-25 season projects are supported in part by the Alice M. Ditson Fund, Amphion Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung. Talea’s season is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

For their Cyprus concert, Talea Ensemble consists of: David Friend (piano), Karen Kim (violin), Carrie Frey (viola), Chris Gross (cello), Barry Crawford (flute), Rane Moore (clarinet), Adrian Morejon (bassoon), James Baker (conductor)