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Season 16, 2008-2009

• 2008 August Press Release — newEar contemporary chamber ensemble celebrates its sixteenth season of challenging and innovative music-making with Crossings, a series of concerts that explores all manner of encounters, intersections, collisions, crossplay and merging of disparate elements.
• 2008 August Press Release — newEar contemporary chamber music ensemble presents Beyond Minimalism, an evening of eclectic new music inspired by 1960s minimalism.
• 2008 October Press Release — newEar contemporary chamber music ensemble presents Kansas City Connections, an evening of challenging and innovative music making celebrating the talent of our great city.

Season 15, 2007-2008

• 2008 April Press Release — newEar contemporary chamber music ensemble presents guest artist Jin Hi Kim in an evening celebrating new music from the Pacific Rim.
• 2008 January Press Release - newEar contemporary chamber music ensemble presents Three English Gentlemen, an evening of eclectic new music from Great Britain, on Friday, February 1, 2008
• 2007 October Press Release - newEar Presents "Climbing Parnassus" on November 2
• 2007 September Press Release 1 - newEar contemporary chamber music ensemble announces Season 15 - Hemispheric Sound Travels
• 2007 September Press Release 2 - newEar Presents "Sounds of the Northwest Hemisphere" on September 22

Season 14, 2006-2007

What do a one-man band, a banjo performer/composer, a New York City cellist and the 2006 Musical America Composer of the Year have in common? The answer can only be newEar contemporary music ensemble. Season 14 promises to be our most exciting season yet, and as always we will bring you Kansas City's most wildly varied and unique music programming.

• 2007 April Press Release - newEar Presents Pocket Full of Symphonies on April 28
• 2007 January Press Release - newEar Presents cellist Madeleine Shapiro on February 3
• 2006 November Press Release - newEar contemporary chamber music ensemble presents Reconciliation, an evening of reflective new music on Saturday, November 18, 2006
• 2006 August Press Release - newEar to Begin Season With a Bang
• 2006 July Press Release - newEar Announces 2006-07 Concert Season

Season 13, 2005-2006

What would Mozart do? That is exactly what composer John Hilliard had to ask himself when he was commissioned to finish a 33-measure fragment for cello and piano that Mozart wrote when he was 26 years old. An opportunity of a lifetime, and as the composer puts it "one of the hardest things" he has ever done. newEar contemporary chamber ensemble kicks off its 13th season with a Free Season Sneak Preview on Friday, September 2...

• 2005 August Press Release - newEar Announces 2005-2006 Concert Season
• 2005 September Press Release - newEar Kicks off Mozarts 250th Birthday celebration with "Action/Reaction" on October 7
• 2005 October Press Release - newEar Presents "Companions" on November 4
  
• 2006 March Press Release - newEar Presents "Ebb/Flow" on March 24
  
• 2006 April Press Release - newEar Presents "On/Off" on May 6
  

Season 12, 2004-2005

The "indefatigable" newEar, ardent advocates of all that is innovative, refreshing and thought provoking in contemporary chamber music, announces its Season Twelve. newEar promises you no more dead-white-man music. This is the music of today and very much alive! Come listen outside the box with newEar this season.

• 2004 August Press Release 1 - newEar Presents Expectations on September 10 and September 12
• 2004 August Press Release 2 - newEar Announces 2004-2005 Concert Season
  
• 2004 October Press Release - newEar Presents The Kiss on November 12 and November 14
  
• 2005 January Press Release - newEar Presents Cellular on February 12 and February 13
  
• 2005 April Press Release - newEar Presents Nuclear on May 5 and May 8
  

Season 11, 2003-2004

newEar contemporary chamber ensemble is pleased to present Mirror, Mirror; the opening concert of their eleventh season! Mirror, Mirror asks the question of whether it is possible for one musical creation to be "mirrored" or reflected by another. And on an even larger scale is it possible for the halves of a concert to mirror one another?

• 2003 September Press Release - newEar is now performing in Lawrence as well as in Kansas City!
  
• 2003 October Press Release - newEar presents Electronica on November 7
  
• 2004 January Press Release - newEar presents Equilibrium on January 23 and January 25
  
• 2004 April Press Release - newEar presents Exotica on April 23 and April 25

newEar receives grant from Aaron Copland Fund for Music!

December 27, 2003 - newEar contemporary music ensemble is pleased to announce the receipt of a $6,000 grant from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music in recognition of our "contribution to furthering public interest in and appreciation of contemporary American music." Read entire press release