2025 Festival

March 28-30, 2025 Phoenix, AZ

The 11th Annual Oh My Ears (OME) New Music Festival will take place March 28-30, 2025 at multiple venues in Downtown Phoenix. Applications are due by Friday, December 8th, 2024 at 11:59pm (MST). Applicants from any state in the U.S. as well as international artists are welcome to apply! There is no application fee.

We expect everyone to be responsible and professional. We expect prospective artists to be detailed and honest in completing their applications. We ask our artists to do their best to help promote their participation in our festival and use their social media presence to promote what they’re doing at OME - we will provide social media cards to make this an easy task. We expect artists to respond to communications in a timely manner so that we can keep things running smoothly.

UMN New Music Ensemble

Electronics, fixed media, double bass, percussion, prepared piano, sculpture

Minneapolis, Minnesota

2025 Festival Concert 2

March 29, 2025 1:00 PM

Sessions Recital Hall

Festival Program

soshi so$$$hi by Peter Shin

The Mississippi River by Day Marvel

Folia by Kaija Saariaho

Artist Bio

The University of Minnesota New Music Ensemble (UMN NME) is a student-led ensemble dedicated to providing a space for students to explore the practice and creation of new music. Balancing the diversity of styles and techniques with performers' interests, the NME curates and performs both new and established works by composers across the globe, including our own composition studios at the UMN. Since its inception in Fall 2022, the NME has performed 8 concerts of 44 solo, chamber, and large ensemble works by 36 composers including world and US premieres, with over 50 members.

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